Pei Yang lay on his side and felt something cold against his butt. He took it out and saw that it was the passbook he had thrown aside.

Shen Mingzhu was drowsy and felt something scratching the tip of her nose. She waved her hand to open it impatiently.

"Stop it, I'm going to sleep."

Seeing that she was really sleepy, Pei Yang stopped joking, leaned over to put the passbook into the bedside table, turned off the desk lamp, and hugged her to fall asleep sweetly.

…

the next day.

Today is the day to play games.

Early in the morning.

Guoguo ran into the bedroom, climbed onto the bed with his little butt sticking out, and sat on Shen Mingzhu's body. He touched Shen Mingzhu's face with his soft little hands and shouted in a baby voice, "Mommy, get up."

Shen Mingzhu opened her eyes reluctantly, grabbed her daughter's two naughty little paws and put them to her mouth, pretending to eat them.

"You little rascal, you disturbed your mother's sleep. I will eat your hand."

Guoguo felt itchy from being rubbed by her teeth and kept giggling.

“Ouch~”

Pei Yang wore a big bad wolf's mask and walked like a big bad wolf, swaying towards the mother and daughter.

"Ah, here comes the big bad wolf!"

Guoguo screamed and crawled into Shen Mingzhu's bed.

Shen Mingzhu cooperated by pulling up the quilt, and after her daughter got in, she covered her with the quilt and said, "Hide well, don't come out."

Guoguo arched his back under the quilt and called her in a muffled voice, "Mom, hide in here."

"Mom won't hide. She will fight with the big bad wolf and drive it away."

“Ouch.”

Pei Yang imitated the howl of a wolf, but took off the hood with his hands, bent down and kissed Shen Mingzhu on the lips.

"You want to duel? Let's make an appointment."

"Go away~"

Shen Mingzhu replied to him softly, turned over and prepared to take another nap.

"I'll sleep for another ten minutes. Remember to call me."

Pei Yang pinched her earlobe and asked, "What do you want for breakfast?"

Shen Mingzhu pulled up the quilt to hide her ears, "Whatever."

Pei Yang was touched by her cuteness and turned away with a smile on his face.

Hearing the door closing, Guoguo slowly emerged from the quilt and poked out half of his round little head, "Mom, where's the Big Bad Wolf?"

"I beat him away."

"Will it come back then?"

"Not coming back."

"What if, you come back?"

"Then I'll chase it away again."

"What about it coming back again?"

Shen Mingzhu reached out and pressed the person into her arms, hugging her tightly, "Stop talking, stay with mom and sleep for a while."

"Mom, are you scared?"

My brother is afraid to sleep alone, so he always asks her to sleep with him.

"Um."

"Oh well."

No wonder dad always has to sleep with mom, it turns out mom is also afraid of sleeping alone.

She nestled obediently in her mother's arms, smelling the sweet scent of her mother, and soon fell asleep.

…

After breakfast and changing clothes, Shen Mingzhu bent down and kissed her sleeping daughter on the face, then picked up her bag and went out to work.

It snowed last night and the road was a bit slippery. Shen Mingzhu didn't drive herself, but took Pei Yang's car.

Pei Yang's car is equipped with anti-skid tires, which makes it safer to drive.

Along the way, Shen Mingzhu slowly put on makeup with powder and lipstick.

Pei Yang looked at her from time to time and found her very interesting.

After this year, Pei Yang will officially resign from the food factory to start his own business.

There is 100,000 yuan in the passbook, which is almost all the family savings.

Shen Mingzhu used her fingers to blend the lipstick to make it look more natural and fit.

I replied to him casually: "If you lose, then you lose. If you lose, you can come back and work for me to pay off the debt."

Pei Yang smiled.

Shen Mingzhu looked in the mirror, closed the lid of her powder puff with satisfaction, and turned to ask him, "Have you decided on the person who will take over your job?"

Pei Yang knocked on the steering wheel and said, "Let's go with Chen Cheng. After all, he's one of us. I feel more at ease."

Shen Mingzhu nodded: "Then Chen Cheng will be in charge of the market for the time being, and Guan Qiang will be his deputy. After the new year, we will add a few new people to the marketing department. I have a feeling that next year's sales will definitely be even better. I have to find a way to reserve more talents."

Pei Yang glanced at her and seemed to have something to say.

Shen Mingzhu was busy putting on her earrings and didn't notice his emotions.

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"Don't you smell anything?"

Shen Mingzhu sniffed, "No, what's the smell?"

“Sour.”

Shen Mingzhu's first reaction was to look at the back seat of the car, wanting to see if a drunk relative had vomited in the car yesterday. As a result, she heard the man say, "Are you too nice to Guan Qiang?"

Shen Mingzhu was speechless, "You are already a 30-year-old man, and you are still jealous of a young man?"

"Who told you to be so nice to him?"

"How have I been good to him?"

"He resigned, but you didn't let him go. Now you're promoting him like this. You don't even care about Chen Cheng that much."

Shen Mingzhu rolled her eyes at him and explained, "Guan Qiang's family is not well off. His mother has to take medicine all year round, and he has a sister who is born with a disability. The family is burdened with such a heavy burden. With his meager salary at the grain station, I'm afraid the family won't have enough to eat."

"Although his work ability is not as good as others, he is a down-to-earth person and I can trust him to work for me."

Another point is that according to the understanding of Shen Mingzhu's descendants, the grain station will be optimized or even abolished in a few years and gradually withdraw from the stage of history.

"Although young men can endure more hardships, it is not enough to have only young men. We still have to hire two female employees to balance the yin and yang."

Shen Mingzhu squinted at him and said, "If you are so worried, don't leave."

"I'm not worried."

"You know whether there is or not."

Seeing that they were almost at the food factory, Shen Mingzhu took out the gift money that had been counted last night and placed it on his lap along with the passbook.

"Take some time to go to the bank to deposit the money, and change it to 500 yuan in new bills, some of each denomination, for me to use for making red envelopes during the Chinese New Year."

Pei Yang parked the car at the factory gate, picked up the thick stack of gift money on his lap, shook it, and said jokingly: "After hosting this banquet, I actually made a profit."

"You think you can only take in money and never spend it? You will have to pay back all this money in the future."

When it comes to human relations, there is give and take.

…

I've been busy with birthday parties these days and a lot of work has piled up.

After the morning meeting, Shen Mingzhu sat down and got down to work.

We were busy until about ten o'clock when Qin Jinlian arrived.

"Call your eldest brother and ask him if they will be coming back for the New Year this year."

"No."

Shen Mingzhu didn't even raise her head.

Qin Jinlian glared at her, "You didn't even ask, how do you know she won't reply?"

"Brother said so last month."

Qin Jinlian's face fell, "He didn't come back last year, and he won't come back this year either. I almost don't remember what Chaobei looks like."

Shen Mingzhu glanced at her, lowered her head and continued to work, "It's your fault for not coming back. Otherwise, your sister-in-law will snatch you away again. It won't be good for your brother to help anyone. So why not come back? Out of sight, out of mind."

"I am willing to help them take care of the baby so that they can earn money outside with peace of mind. Am I doing anything wrong?"

Seeing that Shen Mingzhu ignored her, she lowered her head sadly and began to wipe her tears.

Shen Mingzhu was completely immersed in her work.

It was half an hour later when she looked up again. Seeing that Qin Jinlian was still sitting there, she couldn't help but ask, "Anything else?"

Qin Jinlian choked up and spoke: (End of this chapter)