A few steps after entering the department store is the counter selling women's clothing. Hanging inside are fashionable items that cannot be bought outside. I originally thought that Shen Mingzhu would stop and look at it. After all, she loved buying clothes in her previous life. She went shopping every few days and soon used up all the cloth coupons in the house.

However, to Pei Ziheng's surprise, Shen Mingzhu only glanced at the women's clothing counter and then carried him over.

After the women's clothing counter, there was a children's clothing counter, and Shen Mingzhu stopped.

The salesperson greeted them tactfully, "Girls, are you buying clothes for your brother? Come and have a look. They are all new styles this year, including summer and autumn clothes."

Shen Mingzhu put her stepson on the ground, and asked the salesperson while swinging her sore arms, "Is there a stool? The child is tired from walking, let him sit down and rest for a while, I'll take a look."

The salesperson enthusiastically led the two people into the counter, and moved out his own stool for Pei Ziheng to sit on, while praising their good looks.

"You two are really handsome, with fair skin."

Shen Mingzhu glanced at Pei Ziheng and asked with a smile, "Do we look alike?"

The salesperson lied with his eyes open, "It looks exactly like him. It looks exactly like him."

"He is my son."

"What?" The saleswoman's face showed genuine shock. "Oh, sister, I didn't realize you were married. You look only about 17 or 18 years old. Your child is this big? No wonder you look so alike. Of course, they are my own children."

Who wouldn't be happy to be praised for being young and beautiful? Shen Mingzhu was secretly happy and didn't expose the salesperson's compliment.

Who is your son, you hypocritical woman! Pei Ziheng complained in his heart, but he didn't say anything, not because he wanted to give Shen Mingzhu face, but because he was too tired to talk.

Shen Mingzhu picked out five or six sets of boys' clothes in one go. After asking Pei Ziheng for his opinion, she finally ordered three sets.

Afterwards, I bought him a coat, shoes, underwear and socks. It can be said that I thought of everything very carefully.

After shopping, not only was Pei Ziheng, a four-year-old child, extremely tired, but even Shen Mingzhu had sore feet. As soon as they walked out of the mall, they hailed a rickshaw.

As I walked into the gate of the family compound, I saw a few older women gathered together chatting and laughing. When they saw the mother and son coming back with lots of bags, someone greeted them.

"Pei Yang's family, you bought so many things? Do you need help?"

Shen Mingzhu smiled and replied, "No, they are all children's clothes and shoes, they are not heavy."

A middle-aged lady who was unfamiliar to her came towards Shen Mingzhu with a smile, "I happened to meet you here, so I won't go upstairs. Here, this is for you. It doesn't matter if your Pei Yang is not at home, but you have to bring your children to drink."

You can tell it's a wedding invitation by looking at the cover. Shen Mingzhu wanted to accept it, but her hands were busy. The middle-aged sister gave the invitation to Pei Ziheng and teased him a few words, as if they were very familiar with each other.

When they got home, both mother and son collapsed on the sofa and didn't want to move.

"Xiao Heng, help me get the water cup out of the bedroom."

Pei Ziheng glared at Shen Mingzhu and sneered.

Finally, she showed her true colors. She actually asked a four-year-old to hold a water cup for her! Shen Mingzhu said confidently, "I held you for so long while shopping in the mall that my hands are sore. What's wrong with you helping me hold the water cup?"

She has a point...

Forget it, just consider it as repaying her for hugging him, this way everyone will be even.

Shen Mingzhu secretly laughed as she watched her stepson walking with his short legs to the bedroom to get a cup of water.

After drinking some water, Shen Mingzhu took the wedding invitation from the coffee table, opened it and saw, Wow, is this going to happen?

The bride's name on the wedding invitation was Shen Baolan.

As Shen Baolan married into the Zhou family and became Zhou Hao's stepmother, the competition between her and Shen Baolan, the two stepmother control groups, officially began.

I feel a little excited when I think about it.

After closing the wedding invitation and looking up, Shen Mingzhu saw her stepson staring at her. She raised the corners of her lips and said, "How about we go shopping in the mall after dinner this afternoon?"

After strolling around for a whole morning, even she was too tired to move, let alone a four-year-old child.

Just get enough rest first, there are still several days left.

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At the Zhou family's dinner table, Ma Sufen was feeding her grandson while she said to her husband and son, "I met Pei Yang's wife today."

Zhou Shuhuan didn't say anything, but his eyes were full of doubt.

Father Zhou spoke in a hoarse voice, "What's the big deal if we met? We all live in the same family compound, it would be strange if we didn't see each other."

Ma Sufen curled her lips, "You didn't see the huge bags. Tsk tsk, I heard that she has been going out every day to buy things these days since she got married. She spends money every day. She really doesn't treat money as money. I think Pei Yang's family assets will be used up by her sooner or later!"

After saying that, she looked at her son with a thankful face, "Fortunately you didn't find her. She's so delicate and irritable, and you can tell at a glance that she's not the material for managing a household. If you marry her, I'll probably have to serve her, and I won't be able to take care of Xiao Hao."

Zhou Shuhuan didn't respond.

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He did run into Shen Mingzhu once when he went out these two days. He didn't know whether Shen Mingzhu didn't recognize him or was trying to avoid suspicion, but she didn't even look at him. However, he couldn't help but look back at Shen Mingzhu several times.

She was prettier than in the photo, with very fair skin. She was half a head shorter than Shen Baolan. She wore a floral shirt with the hem tucked into her trousers, which made her waist look slender. Her hair was casually tied behind her head. She had an indescribable temperament and didn't look like someone from the countryside at all.

In the blink of an eye, it was the day for the Zhou family’s wedding.

Although it was a second marriage, the Zhou family still held a lively wedding. They specially borrowed the senior citizen activity center in the family compound to decorate the venue and also borrowed a Santana as a wedding car. Just after ten o'clock, the bride, Shen Baolan, was taken to the family compound.

According to custom, firecrackers are set off when the bride arrives.

There were no anti-smoking regulations in that era, and more than a dozen firecrackers were set off at the same time, and the crackling sound was so loud that it hurt my ears.

After setting off the firecrackers, the children rushed forward.

Shen Mingzhu glanced at Pei Ziheng beside her and saw that he was staring at the children who were lying on the ground picking up firecrackers to play with, so she said, "This is not safe, don't pick them up. If you get hurt by the explosion, you will become disabled in the future and need others to feed you. It will be miserable."

Pei Ziheng glanced at her and seemed to sneer at her words.

Shen Mingzhu added, "If you listen to me, I will buy you fireworks during the Chinese New Year."

As he was speaking, someone not far away called Shen Mingzhu over.

This person was a relative of the Zhou family. Knowing that Shen Mingzhu and Shen Baolan were from the same village, he wanted Shen Mingzhu to go to the new house to talk to Shen Baolan and relieve her boredom.

Shen Mingzhu couldn't refuse, but it was not convenient to bring Pei Ziheng into the new house, so she had to let him play with other children.

"Pei Ziheng, why are your clothes the same as the ones you wore in Zhou Hao?!"

Pei Ziheng said nothing, just looked at Zhou Hao silently.

Zhou Hao was also looking at him, with surprise in his eyes, "Ziheng, you are wearing the same clothes as me."

Pei Ziheng curled the corners of his mouth, feeling bored and uninterested. Originally, he didn't want to come to the banquet, but the bad woman insisted on bringing him out and threw him to play with other children just like in his previous life.

But he was not a child anymore, and he didn't want to stay with these children at all. He just felt irritated and disgusted.

"Who bought it for you?"

Pei Ziheng didn't want to answer Zhou Hao's question, but unexpectedly other children rushed to answer for him, "I know! Pei Ziheng's stepmother bought it for him!"

(End of this chapter)