She forced out a smile that she thought was kind, "Xiao Heng, are you awake?"

However, in Pei Ziheng's opinion, her smile was as malicious as that of the witch.

Before Shen Mingzhu traveled through the book, she had been single for twenty-two years and had never even been in a relationship, let alone raising a child.

Facing her stepson's indifference, she said with a smile, "You just woke up, so you probably don't recognize me. My last name is Shen, and I will take care of you from now on. You can call me Aunt Shen."

Pei Ziheng closed his eyes and turned his back to her, obviously not wanting to pay any attention to her.

Shen Mingzhu didn't force it and prepared to go out with the iron box in her arms, but she heard a childish and hoarse voice asking from behind.

"What day is it today?"

Before Shen Mingzhu could answer, Pei Ziheng suddenly turned over, got out of bed and ran out the door without even wearing shoes. His bare feet made a clacking sound on the tiled floor.

When Shen Mingzhu chased out, she saw Pei Ziheng standing in front of the hand-tear calendar table, staring blankly at the days on the calendar.

"Xiao Heng, what's wrong with you?"

Pei Ziheng turned to look at her, his little face full of anxiety, "Where's my dad?"

"He's gone..."

Without waiting for Shen Mingzhu to finish her words, Pei Ziheng turned around, opened the door and ran out.

Shen Mingzhu reacted a little slowly and caught up. When she reached the door, she remembered something and stuffed the iron box in her hand under the sofa, then picked up the key from the shoe cabinet in the entrance and chased after him.

"Xiao Heng, where are you going? Why aren't you wearing shoes?"

Shen Mingzhu ran to the second floor and saw Pei Ziheng being pulled by a woman in her fifties. She couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Xiao Heng."

Pei Ziheng and the old lady both looked at her.

"You must be Pei Yang's new wife, right? You are so pretty. Pei Yang is so lucky."

The old lady looked at her curiously and smiled ambiguously.

Shen Mingzhu smiled awkwardly and reached out to take the child from the old lady, but Pei Ziheng turned around and squeezed into the old lady's arms, obviously rejecting her approach.

"Pei Yang's family, don't worry too much. It's inevitable that the child will be shy when he is young."

The old lady comforted her while handing Pei Ziheng to her.

Shen Mingzhu opened her arms to receive it.

However, Pei Ziheng just refused to let her hug him. Even though his lower body was already embraced by her, his two arms were still tightly wrapped around the old lady's neck like an octopus, and he was still shouting "No, no".

"Xiao Heng, be obedient. This is the new mother your dad found for you."

"I don't want it! I don't want her to be my mother! I want my father!"

Although Pei Ziheng struggled desperately, he was only a four-year-old child and was still weak from a serious illness. Aunt Yang coaxed and persuaded him to go back to the Pei family.

"It's normal for a young child to be shy. He will get close to you after a while."

It can be seen that Aunt Yang is a kind-hearted person. She repeatedly comforted Shen Mingzhu before leaving.

Shen Mingzhu naturally would not bother with a four-year-old child. She glanced at Pei Ziheng who was sitting barefoot on the sofa, and bent down to find a pair of shoes from the shoe cabinet.

“Get lost!”

Shen Mingzhu covered her nose and took great effort to suppress the urge to beat the naughty child.

"Okay, if you don't recognize me as your stepmother, and I don't want you as my cheap son, don't you want to go find your father? Wait for him to call me in a few days, and I'll ask him to find someone to take you over, and you can go live with him!"

After having a tantrum, Shen Mingzhu threw her shoes on the ground and turned away.

After taking two steps, she stopped and turned back.

Pei Ziheng lying on the sofa instinctively hugged his little head.

The imagined pain did not come. He put down his hand and found Shen Mingzhu smiling at him playfully.

"Don't worry, I won't hit you. You're not my biological child, so I don't care about you."

Shen Mingzhu said this with some anger.

The child was young but very strong, and he almost broke her nose with his kick.

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Taking out the iron box hidden under the sofa, Shen Mingzhu turned around and went back to the master bedroom, slamming the door.

Staring at the tightly closed door, Pei Ziheng's dark eyes were filled with surging hatred.

In his previous life, this vicious woman was quite restrained when she first married him, and didn't dare to be too harsh on him. But after his father died in an accident, this woman immediately showed her true colors. Not only did she beat and scold him, she also tortured and abused him in every way, made him eat dog food, drove him out of the house on snowy days, and even wanted to sell him for money! God had a good eye and let him be reborn.

Shen Mingzhu, this life will be your hell! I will make your life worse than death!

However, before taking revenge on this vicious woman, he must first find a way to save his father Pei Yang.

Unfortunately, he woke up too late, and Pei Yang was already on the train. He could only wait until Pei Yang arrived at Xicheng Port before calling him to remind him.

In the master bedroom, Shen Mingzhu sat cross-legged on the bed, enthusiastically counting the "property" that Pei Yang had given her.

Although there was only fifty yuan in cash, the balance on the passbook was quite a bit, more than twenty-three hundred yuan.

You have to know that the average urban wage at that time was only around 50 or 60 yuan, and a family with a savings of more than 2,000 yuan was considered quite wealthy.

In addition to cash deposits, there were countless bills in the iron box.

There were 300 kilograms of grain coupons, 50 kilograms of meat coupons, 500 feet of cloth coupons, and the remaining sugar coupons, tobacco coupons, and vegetable coupons were also in considerable quantities, which made Shen Mingzhu exclaimed.

These things were accumulated by the old couple of the Pei family for half their lives in order to use them for their son Pei Yang to marry a wife. Although they looked like a lot, they were actually used up in just one wedding.

Don't let thieves steal so much money and tickets.

Shen Mingzhu made a prompt decision and planned to buy a safe tomorrow.

After hiding the iron box containing the money and tickets, Shen Mingzhu packed up the clothes she brought and hung them in the closet, while thinking about her future.

Although she couldn't understand how she could have encountered such a bizarre thing as time travel, she was open-minded about everything.

Anyway, the villain stepson is still young and hasn't started to follow the plot in the book yet, so she still has plenty of opportunities to make him right.

To put it another way, even if she couldn't make it right, she wouldn't abuse and torture him like the original owner. As long as Pei Ziheng didn't hate her, he naturally wouldn't have the evil idea of ​​burning her alive.

At this moment, Shen Mingzhu would never have thought that Pei Ziheng would be a reborn person, let alone that he was bent on settling accounts with her, his vicious stepmother!

(End of this chapter)