When paying the bill, Qin Jinlian was amazed.

"Why is it so expensive to eat in this city? You are so stupid. We can just go home and cook something for ourselves. Why spend this money?"

Shen Mingzhu replied with a half-smile, "If you really feel sorry for me, don't come to me if you have nothing to do in the future. I can save money and worry."

Qin Jinlian said nothing.

After dinner, Shen Mingzhu did not take Qin Jinlian back to the family compound, but instead booked a hotel room next to the family compound.

Shen Mingzhu led Qin Jinlian to the door of the room. She was too lazy to go in, so she stood at the door and talked to Qin Jinlian: "Go to bed early at night, and go back early tomorrow morning when you wake up. I'm leaving."

"Mingzhu." Qin Jinlian pulled her, her face full of nervousness and uneasiness about the unfamiliar environment, and her voice was pitiful, "I don't want to sleep here."

Shen Mingzhu calmly replied: "If you don't sleep here, you can only sleep on the street. It's your choice."

Qin Jinlian burst into tears and begged, "Mingzhu, I was wrong. I promise I won't touch your things anymore. Please take me home."

"Go to bed early and remember to lock the door."

After saying that, Shen Mingzhu withdrew her hand, took Pei Ziheng's hand and walked away without looking back.

Qin Jinlian followed her for a few steps, sobbing and shouting several times, but seeing that she showed no sign of softening her heart, she stopped dejectedly and watched the mother and son disappear around the corner.

"Wuwuwu, you heartless girl, how can you be so cruel, leaving your own mother here and not caring about her anymore, wuwuwu..."

Qin Jinlian sat on the single bed in the hotel, crying very sadly.

But she felt more afraid than sad.

The eldest son left the village with his family, and his daughter no longer cared about her. How would she live in the future? Qin Jinlian cried and wondered how she had ended up like this.

It is obvious that the eldest child was the most obedient and filial. Although the daughter is a little lazy, she is still willing to listen to her mother.

How did everything change? After thinking about it for a whole night, Qin Jinlian still couldn't figure it out.

However, when Shen Mingzhu came in the morning, she was shocked by the two big dark circles under her eyes.

I couldn't help but tease, "Were you a thief last night?"

Qin Jinlian looked at Shen Mingzhu's radiant face and cursed weakly, "You damn girl, I've been scolding you all night, don't you feel anything?"

Shen Mingzhu was speechless.

As I walked out of the hotel, a rich and tempting aroma wafted over from the bread shop opposite.

Qin Jinlian swallowed hard, "Mingzhu, I'm hungry."

“Bear with it!”

Qin Jinlian's eyes turned red and she opened her mouth to curse, but was stopped by Shen Mingzhu's words.

"When we get to big brother's place, I'll let you have a good meal."

Qin Jinlian no longer cared about being hungry and asked Shen Mingzhu about Shen Chaobei's recent situation.

After getting off the bus, Shen Mingzhu walked about two miles, and beads of sweat appeared on her forehead and back. However, Qin Jinlian, who had not slept well the night before and had not eaten breakfast, actually walked more vigorously than her.

"Well, that's it."

Qin Jinlian looked in the direction of Shen Mingzhu's finger.

The couple’s stall is a modified handcart with a foldable bracket at the rear.

When setting up the stall, put down the bracket and the cart becomes a simple small table. When closing the stall, fold up the bracket to make it convenient to push the cart home.

It was 9 o'clock in the morning, and a few young men in work clothes were buying pancakes at a snack stand.

"I want a piece of fruit, an egg, and a bag of soy milk. How much is it?"

"Fruit is 15 cents, plus an egg is 10 cents, and a bag of soy milk is given, totaling 25 cents."

In a short while, the snack stand had sold several orders of business and earned about 70 or 80 cents, which made Qin Jinlian amazed.

"How can business be so good for people in this city? How much do you sell in a day?"

Shen Mingzhu glanced at Qin Jinlian and said, "This fruit is originally sold in the morning and evening. If there is no business now, then there is no need to do this business."

After standing for a while and seeing that the couple were not so busy, Shen Mingzhu led Qin Jinlian over.

When Shen Chaobei saw Qin Jinlian, he was surprised and happy. He learned that Qin Jinlian had not had breakfast yet, so the couple started making pancakes and getting soy milk.

As neglected as Qin Jinlian was in front of Shen Mingzhu, she was treated warmly and enthusiastically by the couple.

She felt mixed emotions and looked at the eldest brother with red eyes, "I thought you didn't recognize me as your mother anymore."

Shen Chaobei was a loyal and kind person. All the grievances and heartbreaks he had experienced in the past disappeared in the joy of reunion after a long separation.

"Mom, what nonsense are you talking about? You gave birth to me, how could I not recognize you?"

Qin Jinlian looked at Du Juan and her daughter again.

Daya grabbed the corner of Du Juan's clothes with one hand and held a flowered rag doll in the other, staring at Qin Jinlian with her big dark eyes without blinking.

Qin Jinlian couldn't help but feel sad when she saw her granddaughter who had grown taller and fatter.

In the past, Daya loved to follow her around and would call her “Grandma, grandma” every time she saw her.

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After the family split up, she seemed to have never heard Daya call her grandma again.

"Daya, come here, let grandma hug you."

Daya’s first reaction was not to walk towards Qin Jinlian, but to hide behind Du Juan.

Qin Jinlian was stunned by her granddaughter's rejection.

Du Juan lowered her head and touched her daughter's face, "Daya, call me grandma."

"grandmother."

Daya shouted obediently, but still refused to go to Qin Jinlian, and even turned her back and refused to look at Qin Jinlian.

Qin Jinlian moved her lips and could only eat pancakes to hide her embarrassment, loss and sadness.

While Qin Jinlian was eating pancakes, Shen Mingzhu talked to Shen Chaobei and Du Juan about things in her hometown.

Upon learning that the egg cake business was ruined by the Yang family, the couple couldn't help but sigh with regret.

"Mom, what do you think about what I told you yesterday?"

After Qin Jinlian finished eating the pancakes, Shen Mingzhu got straight to the point.

Qin Jinlian wanted to play dumb, but when she met Shen Mingzhu's cool almond eyes, she had to speak her mind, "Your second brother finally got married, but now he's divorced, what will he do if he can't get married again in the future?"

"As long as Second Brother divorces Yang Lizhen, let Second Brother take over the job that Pei Yang previously assigned to Yang Bo. Now that he has a job, are you still worried that Second Brother won't be able to find a wife?"

Hearing this, Qin Jinlian and Shen Chaobei were both stunned.

Shen Chaobei said hurriedly: "Little sister, it is better to destroy ten temples than to destroy a marriage. Li Zhen is indeed wrong, but there is no need to get to the point of divorce, right?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Du Juan pulled him back and said, "Listen to Mingzhu, she won't harm Xiangnan."

Upon hearing this, Shen Chaobei remained silent.

Qin Jinlian did not say anything. Her mind was full of thoughts. If the second son got a job in the city and had the help of his daughter and eldest son, he would have no worries about not being able to find a new wife.

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"Lizhen, listen to your mother's advice and go back to the Shen family as soon as possible. You were wrong in the first place. What if Xiangnan gets angry and doesn't want to live with you?"

Yang Lizhen disagreed, "How is that possible? The Shen family emptied out their family wealth to marry me. Without me, Shen Xiangnan will be a bachelor for the rest of his life!"

"Don't worry, Mom. Qin Jinlian is still counting on me to give her a grandson. She will definitely ask Xiangnan to pick me up in a few days."

As she spoke, Yang Lizhen picked up a half-burnt matchstick on the windowsill and drew her eyebrows in front of the mirror. After drawing her eyebrows, she picked up the red paper torn from the Spring Festival couplets and painted her lips red.

After dressing up, Yang Lizhen asked her mother, "Mom, who do you think is prettier, me or Shen Mingzhu?"

Mother Yang asked in a tone that was not even necessary, "If you had her looks, I would marry you to a city family."

Yang Lizhen was very unconvinced, "She just has whiter skin and dresses better than me. If I dress like her, I will be as pretty as her."