"Have you had dinner yet?"

"I'm eating right now. I called back from the hotel phone."

After a pause, Pei Yang continued, "I'm with Chen Yi. He's familiar with this place and has a wide network of contacts. With his help, I have a better chance of getting the provincial representative position."

Shen Mingzhu sneered: "Is he willing to help?"

"He dared not to help, he was still thinking about my sister."

Shen Mingzhu laughed, "You are so shameless. You beat someone up last time, and now you are asking for help again."

"Let's put things in perspective. He helped me, so I'll remember his kindness. But if he dares to bully my sister again, I'll beat him up."

Shen Mingzhu was too lazy to say more, "Go eat, eat well and rest early."

"Um."

After hanging up the phone, Shen Mingzhu sat on the sofa and thought for a while, then got up and went upstairs.

In the study.

Pei Ziheng was sitting at the desk reading a book.

Guoguo was lying on the small sofa against the wall, covered with a small floral quilt, and had fallen asleep.

"Mother."

Seeing her come in, Pei Ziheng put down the book and stood up.

Shen Mingzhu made a hushing gesture, bent down and carried her daughter to the room diagonally opposite the study.

It used to be a baby room. It was redecorated before last Spring Festival and is now my daughter’s private room.

In order to prevent Guoguo from climbing up out of play, guardrails were installed on all the windows on the second floor, including the terrace.

Coming out of her daughter's room, Shen Mingzhu saw her son standing in the aisle and walked towards him with a smile.

"Your father has arrived safely in Shanghai."

Pei Ziheng nodded, his face was cool and handsome.

Shen Mingzhu touched his head and asked, "Are you sleepy?"

Pei Ziheng shook his head.

Shen Mingzhu took him in her arms and walked towards the room, "Talk to mom for a while. We haven't talked for a long time."

"good."

Pei Ziheng's room was just like everyone else's, clean and beautiful. There was not a trace of dirt anywhere he looked.

Every item is neatly placed in its proper place.

Shen Mingzhu had seen Zhao Yun's room, and it was really no different from a pigsty.

It is said that there are two types of children: one is there to collect debts, and the other is there to repay favors.

Obviously, Pei Ziheng belongs to the latter.

Shen Mingzhu picked up the winter vacation homework on the desk and flipped through it. Regardless of whether the answers were correct or not, the smooth handwriting alone was pleasing to the eye.

"It's your birthday soon, what birthday present would you like?"

Pei Ziheng thought for a moment and said, "I want a birthday cake made by my mother."

Shen Mingzhu smiled, "This is easy, what else?"

Pei Ziheng shook his head.

I am happy enough to eat the birthday cake made by my mother every year on my birthday.

He is not greedy.

Shen Mingzhu suddenly stopped smiling and looked at him seriously, "Ziheng, you have grown up now. There are some things that mommy doesn't want to hide from you."

"Some relatives and elders think that you are not my biological child, and that I should have another biological son with your father. Whether you have heard these voices or not, mom wants to tell you that in mom and dad's hearts, you are our biological son."

"We will not have any more children. In this life, we have only you as our son."

Pei Ziheng couldn't tell what he was feeling. It felt like there was a fire burning in his chest, making his eyes hot and swollen.

"Mother."

He couldn't help choking.

But he is not, he has no way to change his birth and parents.

He wished he could take a knife and cut off the tongues of those who encouraged his mother to have another child.

At the same time, I am very scared.

I was afraid that my mother would listen to those people, give birth to a new son with my father, and no longer love him.

At this moment, his mother's assurance gently soothed all the anxiety and uneasiness in his heart.

"Mom, if you and Dad want to have another child, that's fine. I'm the older brother, and I will love my younger brother as much as I love Guoguo."

Shen Mingzhu touched his head and said, "I will keep my word. If I say I won't have another child, I won't. I have limited energy. Loving you and your sister is enough. I don't have the energy to love other children."

Pei Ziheng's dark eyes seemed to have fallen stars, and there were tiny bits of light.

…

"Xiao Zhou, you are a city person, educated and skilled, you should be at home with a stable job, how could you be so carefree as to come here and suffer with a bunch of illiterate people like us?"

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Facing the teasing of his coworkers, Zhou Shuhuan smiled and explained, "I just want to go out and try my luck. I've lived half my life and have never even left my home. It would be embarrassing to tell others about it."

His fellow workers could not understand his ambition and passion. "Xiao Zhou, you don't know how to appreciate what you have. Our families are so poor that we have to work outside to earn money. If we didn't have money to spend, who would be willing to come here? Staying at home with a wife and children is the way to live."

Zhou Shuhuan just smiled and said nothing.

The workers chatted about everything under the sun while drinking.

The wine was the cheapest bulk liquor, which made my throat burn immediately after taking a sip. The side dishes were peanuts and pickles, which were brought by the workers from their hometowns.

Although his life was so hard, Zhou Shuhuan felt indescribably happy and satisfied, as if his soul had been liberated.

More importantly, he is full of confidence and hope for the future.

He traveled thousands of miles to Dongguan City and worked as a general worker in an electronics factory that produced Subor game consoles and learning machines. It was not just for the hard work, but because he knew from a dream that this industry would make a lot of money in the next few years.

…

After finishing the work at hand, Shen Mingzhu took her passbook to the bank, ready to transfer all the money in the account to Pei Yang in case of emergency.

But when he checked at the bank, he found that there was an extra 60,000 yuan in the account.

She asked the staff to help check and found that it was a foreign exchange transaction and the remittance destination was Australia City.

Because she was unclear about the source of the funds, Shen Mingzhu did not dare to touch the 60,000 yuan.

After transferring the money from the bank, she found a public phone that could make international calls and called Pei Ke to ask if it was the money that Pei Ke transferred.

I called twice but no one answered.

Shen Mingzhu had no choice but to go back to the factory and prepare to fight again in the evening.

Pei Ke works as a security guard in an office building, working in morning and evening shifts, so today might be the day shift.

…

"It's fifty cents in total. Come back next time."

When Shen Baolan finished her business, Liu Cuihua took the opportunity to ask in a low voice: "How much can you earn in a day?"

Shen Baolan looked around and whispered something in Liu Cuihua's ear.

"Master Duo?"

Liu Cuihua widened her eyes.

Shen Baolan disagreed, "What's the big deal? There are many people who earn more than me."

Liu Cuihua said with a burning heart, "Baolan, I'm thinking of asking your brother and sister-in-law to come to the city and set up stalls like you. Farming in the countryside doesn't make any money. Half of the people in the village have gone out to work."

"You didn't see that rotten golden lotus. Some time ago, she wore a silver bracelet on her hand and wandered around the village all day long, as if she was afraid that others wouldn't notice her."

"To be honest, it was that bitch Shen Mingzhu who had foresight. She sent the two brothers to the city to make money early on. If you were half as smart as she was, our family would have become rich a long time ago."

Liu Cuihua praised Shen Mingzhu implicitly and implicitly, which made Shen Baolan unhappy.

"Why rush? Good things come late. Good days are yet to come for our family!"

"I've heard you say this at least eighty times since you got married!" Liu Cuihua said disdainfully.

(End of this chapter)