Shen Baolan was angry but dared not speak out, and could only find Zhou Shuhuan to confide her grievances before going to bed at night.

What can Zhou Shuhuan do?

One is his biological mother, and the other is his wife who is pregnant with his child. He is caught in the middle and feels very awkward. He simply doesn't like to go home. He spends the whole day drinking and playing cards with friends outside. He doesn't go home until eleven or twelve o'clock. When he gets home, he falls asleep immediately and can't be woken up even by thunder. This makes Shen Baolan so angry that her heart aches, and she also hates Shen Mingzhu to the core.

She believed that Pei Ziheng said those words because he was instigated by Shen Mingzhu.

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Pei Ziheng won first place in the class activity. Shen Mingzhu was naturally happy, but she was also curious about where Pei Ziheng learned English.

Pei Ziheng explained that he learned it from the radio, and Shen Mingzhu did not doubt it.

Pei Ziheng is indeed different from other children.

While other kids like to play with toys like cars and guns, he likes Rubik's Cube, number filling and chessboard.

While other kids only watch cartoons and martial arts films on TV, Pei Ziheng likes to watch current affairs news and listen to English radio.

Shen Mingzhu posted Pei Ziheng's award certificate for class activities on the wall in a prominent position in the living room. While she was posting it, Pei Ziheng stood silently in the living room and watched, without moving his eyes for a long time.

Of course, you should reward the first place well, but you can't always get first place.

Thinking that Pei Ziheng always stayed in his room and didn't like to play with others, Shen Mingzhu planned to give him a walkman with a radio.

Walkmans were still a rare commodity in those days and one needed a quota to buy one. Shen Mingzhu had to work very hard to get the ticket, spending more than 200 yuan.

She felt a little pain when she paid the money, but when she looked at her stepson's pretty face and imagined the stunning scene of him standing on the stage in the future and shocking the audience with his fluent English, she felt it was worth it.

That night, Pei Ziheng stared blankly at the Walkman for a long time, because he knew very well that the woman did not spend his father's money to buy this Walkman, but used the money she saved from making cakes.

What a stupid woman! She saved up some money with great difficulty and squandered it all.

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In a blink of an eye, it was the day of Shen Mingzhu's exam.

The weather was getting colder, and the snow on the road was thicker than bricks. Shen Mingzhu was worried about Pei Ziheng going to school alone, and didn't want to trouble others, so she simply asked for two days off for him and let him stay at home and play.

Shen Mingzhu was a graduate student before she traveled through time, and the test questions of that era were simply too easy compared to those forty years later.

There were two subjects in total, and Shen Mingzhu finished both half an hour in advance.

After finishing the self-study exam, the kindergarten started its winter vacation a few days later.

Shen Mingzhu could clearly feel her stepson's happiness. Although his fair and tender face remained expressionless, her excitement could be seen from his small movements and details.

So happy to see dad? Shen Mingzhu felt sour, but at the same time, she was inexplicably curious about Pei Ziheng's biological mother.

She must have been a remarkable woman, bearing a child for a man before getting married in this feudal and backward era.

In fact, she occasionally heard people in the family compound say that Pei Ziheng's biological mother died after giving birth to Pei Ziheng, and that Pei Yang hid this woman very well, and even people in the family compound had never seen her. It was precisely because of this that there were various versions of rumors about Pei Ziheng's biological mother in the family compound.

It is said that Pei Ziheng’s biological mother was a female soldier who fought on the same battlefield as Pei Yang. The female soldier died accidentally, leaving behind her one-month-old baby and Pei Yang.

It was said that Pei Ziheng’s biological mother came from a bad family, and in order not to drag Pei Yang down, she left home after giving birth to the baby.

There are also reports that Pei Ziheng's biological mother abandoned her husband and children and ran away abroad with a rich man.

In short, no matter which version, Pei Ziheng is undoubtedly a poor little guy.

Pei Yang lost his biological mother when he was just one month old. He had been away from home for many years and had to live with his grandparents since he was a child. Now his grandparents have passed away one after another, and he has been reduced to relying on his stepmother, a woman with a different surname. It's no wonder that he is solitary and unsociable.

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It was noon when they arrived. Shen Mingzhu carried the luggage in one hand and held Pei Ziheng's hand with the other, and asked for directions along the way to find the Yuanyang staff dormitory.

With her household registration booklet and letter of introduction, Shen Mingzhu successfully got the key to Pei Yang's dormitory.

Pei Yang was a middle-level employee in Sino-Ocean Company and was assigned a single dormitory.

The dormitory is not big, about 20 square meters, with a small balcony. The only downside is that there is no private bathroom.

The room had not been occupied and had no ventilation for several months. Also, as it was close to the sea, the air in the room smelled bad. There was a musty smell mixed with a fishy smell from the sea and a strange smell from furniture getting damp.

However, Xicheng Port belongs to the temperate zone, with an average winter temperature of 5-10 degrees, which is much warmer than Fengcheng.

Shen Mingzhu closed the door and started cleaning.

It’s not that she was diligent, she just wanted to lie down and have a good sleep, but the dormitory was covered with a thick layer of dust, the bed was not made, and there was no place to sit.

Fortunately, the dormitory was not big and there were few furnitures, so it was cleaned up in no time.

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After taking a breath, Shen Mingzhu began to pack her luggage.

There is a one-meter-wide vertical wardrobe in the dormitory. The style of the wardrobe is very old-fashioned and the paint on the surface has fallen off, but the inside of the wardrobe is very pleasing to the eye.

On the left is a cubicle where men's shirts and trousers folded into squares are arranged in different categories. Even small items like socks and underwear are folded very neatly.

On the right side, there are several men's coats of different styles and textures hanging in the hanging area.

Just because the man's wardrobe was clean and tidy, Shen Mingzhu's favorable impression of him increased by two points.

After putting away the luggage, Shen Mingzhu took Pei Ziheng out to have a simple meal and bought some daily necessities, and then returned to the dormitory to rest.

Sleep till dawn.

In the morning, Shen Mingzhu woke up to the sound of a train whistle. She stretched comfortably and walked to the balcony. She was immediately amazed by the bright weather and pleasant sea view.

The warm breeze blew over from the blue sea, carrying a slight smell of the sea but not cold at all.

Cotton-like white clouds floated in the blue sky. In the distance, the sea and the sky merged into one. A few seabirds whose names could not be told were flying freely between the sea and the sky against the wind.

Although the city where Shen Mingzhu used to live was also close to the sea, it was not so close that she could see the sea from the balcony. She couldn't help but be fascinated by it for a moment.

Until I heard my stepson's depressed voice behind me, "I'm hungry."

Shen Mingzhu turned around happily and said, "Let's go out and see what delicious breakfasts are available here."

Pei Ziheng touched his hungry belly and said nothing.

I had the most famous local pot stickers and sesame cakes for breakfast, fish balls and beef pot for lunch, and fried skewers from the night market in the evening.

Shen Mingzhu is a food lover herself. She eats a variety of delicious foods three times a day and is simply very happy.

The next day, when she was about to take Pei Ziheng out to eat delicious food, a guest came to the dormitory.

Wang Huizhen and Wang Xiuzhu.

Knowing that Wang Hui was Pei Yang's teacher's wife, Shen Mingzhu treated her with courtesy. Unfortunately, she searched the dormitory for a long time but couldn't find any tea leaves, so she could only pour two glasses of boiled water for the two of them.

"You rural people always use boiled water when entertaining guests, right?"

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