Mrs. Liu opened her mouth to refuse, but saw Zhou Hui pointing at Shen Mingzhu who was surrounded by parents, "Mingzhu and Ziheng will also be here. You may not know this, but Ziheng and my stepson have had a good relationship since childhood, and they are even sworn brothers. Xiaoyun was able to get into junior high school thanks to Ziheng."

Sure enough, when Mrs. Liu learned about the relationship between Zhou Hui and Shen Mingzhu, she immediately agreed with a smile.

…

When Shen Mingzhu got home from get off work, the first thing she did was go upstairs.

In the study, the daughter was sitting on the floor mat playing with toys while the son was doing his homework on the coffee table next to her.

"Brother, look."

Guoguo was playing with her favorite snowflake building blocks. Whenever she built a model she liked, she would hold it up high for her brother to admire.

Even though the model his sister had made was ugly and grotesque, Pei Ziheng praised her without blinking, "It looks good, Guoguo is great."

“Hehehe~”

Guoguo was very happy to get the praise from his brother. He grabbed a piece of snowflake with his little paw and stuck it on the model with a grunt.

Pei Ziheng looked at his sister playing with toys with a gentle expression. When he raised his eyes and noticed Shen Mingzhu by the window, his black eyes suddenly lit up.

"Mother."

Hearing him shouting, Guoguo also looked towards the window. When he saw his mother, the toy in his hand was no longer interesting to him. He opened his snow-white little arms and asked for a hug.

Shen Mingzhu bent down, picked up her daughter, kissed her habitually, then sat next to her son and rubbed his head with her hands.

"How do you feel about your first day of class today? Can you understand the teacher's lectures?"

Pei Ziheng nodded, "Yeah, I understand."

Shen Mingzhu asked a lot of questions about every detail, such as whether she sat in the front or the back, whether her deskmate was a boy or a girl, what courses she took, and whether she could do her homework.

Pei Ziheng answered one by one, looking at her with his black eyes shining like a newborn calf, obviously in a very good mood.

In this state, Shen Mingzhu felt relieved that she must have had a good day at school.

Pei Ziheng suddenly reached out and hugged her, "Thank you, Mom."

Shen Mingzhu was still holding her daughter in her arms, so she could only use one hand to hug her son.

She asked gently, "Why do you feel so touched all of a sudden? Did something happen at school? Can you tell mom about it?"

Pei Ziheng rubbed his little head against her shoulder and said softly, "Mom, when I grow up, I will protect you, just like you protected me today."

"You are my child, and it is my duty to protect you. Even when I am old and can't walk anymore, I will still love you."

"Um."

In his previous life, his uncle took him to Gangcheng and arranged for him to go to junior high school, but he didn't pay much attention to him.

He was allowed to be bullied, beaten and scolded at school.

At that time, he lived like a lonely stray dog, and anyone could kick him.

Fortunately, he has a mother in this life.

That’s great, his mother is really nice, he loves her so much.

"Mom, hug me~"

Guoguo is at the age of learning. Seeing his brother hugging his mother, he also learns to hug her.

Shen Mingzhu held the two children in her arms, one in her left hand and one in her right hand, and kissed them on the left and then on the right.

"Ah~ cluck~"

Guoguo's cheerful laughter rang out in the study.

…

"Miss Zhuang, why are you here?"

Zhuang Xueqi snorted, "Why, you're not welcome?"

Although it is autumn, the power of the autumn tiger has not diminished. The heat waves are still rolling during the day, so hot that it makes people suffocate.

On the way to the office, Zhuang Xueqi looked around as she walked, "The environment of the new factory is pretty good."

Shen Mingzhu smiled and replied: "It's OK, it's much more spacious than the old factory."

Shen Mingzhu made a cup of hand-brewed coffee for Zhuang Xueqi.

The coffee beans were given by Yan Su. Neither she nor Pei Yang liked drinking coffee, so they simply left them in the office to entertain guests.

"I didn't realize you could make coffee."

Although Zhuang Xueqi did not directly praise the coffee for being delicious, the words "know how to make it" were a form of affirmation.

Shen Mingzhu said jokingly, "I learned this specially so that Miss Zhuang could drink the coffee I brewed."

Zhuang Xueqi rolled her eyes, but it was obvious that she was in a good mood.

"I'm getting married next month."

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Shen Mingzhu was a little surprised, "Congratulations, um, is it to Mr. Ning?"

After asking, Zhuang Xueqi rolled her eyes again, "Nonsense."

The wealthy families marry for profit, and it is not uncommon to replace the bride and groom.

However, Shen Mingzhu only dared to think about this in her heart.

Zhuang Xueqi came to Shen Mingzhu specifically because she hoped that she could design her makeup for her wedding.

In return, all the candies and snacks needed for the wedding banquet were provided by Shen Mingzhu's food factory.

Shen Mingzhu naturally would not refuse such a good business, and took out a style album of wedding candy packaging boxes on the spot for Zhuang Xueqi to choose from.

Although customized wedding candies are not the main business of the food factory, Shen Mingzhu often uses her spare time to fill in the album.

Over the past year, she has accumulated thirty or forty styles of wedding candy gift boxes in her album.

Zhuang Xueqi selected five styles and asked Shen Mingzhu to make samples for her review within a week.

Time was tight, so Shen Mingzhu rode her motorcycle around during the day, looking for materials and manufacturers for making gift boxes, and studied bridal makeup at home at night.

To this end, she specially found a model with similar facial features to Zhuang Xueqi and designed the makeup on her face.

Every time she put makeup on the model's face, Pei Yang and her two children would sit and watch.

After she has done her makeup for the model, Pei Yang would sigh: You call this makeup? It's more like disguise.

…

On Friday night, after dinner, Shen Mingzhu was thinking about new makeup ideas while taking her daughter for a walk in the yard to digest the food. When she heard someone knocking on the door, she thought it was a model, but it turned out to be Zhou Hui who opened the door.

"Mingzhu, my Xiaowen is having a birthday party tomorrow, please bring the child over early."

This tone showed that he didn't consider whether Shen Mingzhu had time or not at all.

"Sister Zhou, I'm so sorry. I have something to do tomorrow, but I will let Ziheng go."

Hearing this, Zhou Hui advised: "You should come too. I have invited other people to introduce you to me. They are all wives with money. If you get to know more people, it will be helpful for your business, right?"

"Thank you for your kindness, Sister Zhou, but I really have something to do tomorrow."

Zhou Hui seemed to not understand what was being said, "Oh, it's settled anyway. You must come tomorrow. I'll wait for you."

After saying that, he turned and left without giving Shen Mingzhu a chance to refuse.

Shen Mingzhu was speechless.

…

The next day, after breakfast, Shen Mingzhu put on some simple makeup, changed into some decent clothes, and then picked up her bag and went out. (End of this chapter)