Not only was there a dowry of three turns and one ring, which was a very impressive gift in a rural wedding, but even the house where Shen Xiangnan lived had been renovated inside and out.

The walls were painted white, the floor was paved with smooth stone tiles, and even the wardrobe and dressing table were replaced with new ones.

From Jia Yuemei's perspective, Shen Mingzhu could also understand.

After all, she is a virgin, and it would be a disadvantage for her to marry an older, divorced man. He even asks her to use her ex's old things. No woman would feel comfortable with this.

But these have nothing to do with Shen Mingzhu.

As the sister-in-law, she sat in the new house for a while, gave the silver bracelet to Jia Yuemei, and then left with an excuse.

As soon as she left, the relatives of the Jia and Shen families all commented on the gifts she had given.

The relatives from the Shen family naturally stood on Shen Mingzhu's side, and kept praising the silver bracelet as a good gift and Shen Mingzhu for being generous.

The relatives from the Jia family were just the opposite. Shen Mingzhu gave two large pieces of new furniture to her eldest aunt's husband's brother-in-law, especially the big wardrobe, which cost at least seventy or eighty yuan.

Jia Yuemei is my dear second sister-in-law, but she only gave her a pair of silver bracelets. This is really disrespectful and she doesn't distinguish between relatives and strangers.

The relatives of the Shen family spoke to Shen Mingzhu, "Not only did they give us a silver bracelet, they also gave us 20 kilograms of wedding candy. This candy costs five yuan per kilogram in the city."

The relatives from the Jia family disagreed, thinking that the candy was produced by Shen Mingzhu's own factory, and she had the final say on whether to sell it at a high or low price.

The relatives on both sides were arguing over the gift from Shen Mingzhu, but the recipient, Jia Yuemei, happily put a pair of silver bracelets on her wrists.

Long before she got married, she had found out the ins and outs of Shen Xiangnan and Yang Lizhen's divorce.

If you ask her, Yang Lizhen is just a fool.

Instead of trying to curry favor with Shen Mingzhu, a sister-in-law who is rich and capable, he acts like a tyrant in her husband's family every day. Isn't this simply insane?

She would not follow Yang Lizhen's old path. As long as she lived peacefully with Shen Xiangnan and followed the will of her sister-in-law Shen Mingzhu, would she still worry about not having a good life in the future? ...

After coming out of the new house, Shen Mingzhu thought about looking for Pei Yang and his son, worried that they seldom came to the countryside and would not be used to it.

After looking around, I found that Pei Yang was surrounded by the young and strong men in the group, bragging and chatting, looking very happy.

Pei Ziheng and a few half-grown children from the village were climbing a crooked jujube tree at the entrance of the village.

Although the name of sour jujube contains the word "jujube", it is very different from jujube.

The dates are crisp, sweet and juicy, with delicate flesh and small and thin seeds.

The sour jujube is just the opposite. Not only does it have a thick skin, a large core and little flesh, it is also so sour that it makes your teeth ache. Even when it is ripe, it still tastes sour.

There are wild jujube trees everywhere in Shenjiagou. The jujubes that are ripe and translucent are one of the wild fruits that the village children especially love in autumn and winter.

"Son, be careful."

Shen Mingzhu walked to the jujube tree worriedly and gave instructions to Pei Ziheng who was on the branch.

When Pei Ziheng saw her, he stretched out his thin arms, broke off a bunch of branches full of sour jujubes, and threw them at her feet.

Shen Mingzhu picked up a branch, picked a ripe-looking sour date and put it in her mouth.

The moment you bite through the date skin, a sweet and sour juice bursts in your mouth, followed by endless sourness that makes you frown.

Shen Mingzhu reluctantly ate two and didn't want to eat any more.

After a while, Pei Ziheng came down from the jujube tree, took out two handfuls of yellow jujubes from his coat and trouser pockets and handed them to her.

"Mom, here's some food for you."

Shen Mingzhu looked at the sour dates and suddenly realized that her son had picked them specially for her.

When she was pregnant with Guoguo, her taste was particularly sour, but after giving birth, she no longer liked sour food. In order not to disappoint her son's kindness, Shen Mingzhu said happily: "Let's go back and find a bag to pack it up and take it home to make sour jujube cake for you."

Pei Ziheng nodded with his dark eyes sparkling.

Due to the limitations of the environment and conditions, the children in the village were all dirty, and some had snot on their faces, but the smiles on their faces were pure and clean, and their eyes were full of curiosity and envy when they looked at Shen Mingzhu.

After Shen Mingzhu married and moved to the city, she took the college entrance examination, opened a factory and became a boss. She also helped the villagers make money together and had long since become a legend in the village.

Shen Mingzhu felt a little sad when she saw these country kids.

If they do not receive a good education and cannot leave Shenjiagou, in a few years they will become like the older generation in Shenjiagou, facing the loess and back to the sky, and working as farmers digging for food in the soil all their lives. Even if they have the opportunity to work in the city in the future, they can only do the hardest and most tiring work and earn the meager wages.

The fate of most of them seems to have been determined since birth.

"Everyone, go pick some sour jujubes. Pick the yellow, ripe ones. Bring them back and exchange them for pencils and new exercise books."

“Okay!”

"Let's go pick sour jujubes!"

Watching the children running away happily like wild rabbits, Shen Mingzhu had a faint smile on her face.

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The Jiuyi program has not yet been implemented, and tuition fees, book fees, pens and exercise books are all considerable expenses for these rural children.

When he returned to the Shen family, Shen Chaobei heard that Shen Mingzhu wanted to pick sour dates. He immediately took a hatchet to the back mountain to cut two fresh bamboos, cleaned the bamboo branches, tied them up with a net bag, and went to help her pick the sour dates.

Pei Yang also went with them and used the net bag on the bamboo pole to scoop up the branches full of sour jujubes. With a gentle shake, all the ripe sour jujubes fell into the net bag.

In this way, the bamboo basket was filled up in a short while.

Shen Mingzhu was feeling happy when suddenly she heard a child crying from the hillside not far away.

A child climbed up a tree to pick sour jujubes and accidentally fell down! …

"Mingzhu, my dog ​​fell down while helping you pick sour dates. You must take responsibility for it!"

"If you hadn't instigated me, my dog ​​wouldn't have run up the hill to climb the tree."

Faced with the questioning from Shen Goudan's family, Shen Mingzhu did not give any extra explanation, but just answered yes, and waited attentively for the village barefoot doctor to treat Shen Goudan's injuries.

Upon hearing that Shen Mingzhu was in trouble, Shen Baolan didn't care that she was still in confinement, and ran to the Shen family with her son in her arms to watch the fun.

Just as he heard Shen Mingzhu promise that Shen Goudan's family would be responsible, he went up to Goudan's mother and whispered to her.

While muttering, he glanced at Shen Mingzhu with a gloating look, and it was obvious that he had bad intentions.

"The bones are fine, just some skin injuries. Apply some herbal medicine and it will be healed in two days."

The barefoot doctor's words made Shen Mingzhu and everyone else present feel relieved.

The country kid was tough and lucky, so when he fell he landed on a haystack made of corn stalks.

Otherwise, if you fall from a tree seven or eight meters high, you will inevitably suffer fractures or internal injuries.

After hearing Shen Baolan's instigation, Goudan's mother asked Shen Mingzhu to pay her fifty yuan in compensation.

In a place like Shenjiagou, fifty yuan is not a small amount of money.

However, Shen Mingzhu didn't want to say any more nonsense and just wanted to pay the money to settle the matter.

After all, it was her fault for not thinking it through and not anticipating the risks, so she just thought of it as paying for a lesson.

Unexpectedly, the village chief stood up and scolded Shen Goudan's family.

"The kid just had a few scrapes on his skin. You can just chew some herbs and apply them on him. But you're asking for fifty dollars in compensation. Do you expect to get rich from this?"

(End of this chapter)