"According to what you said, I asked you to choose first. Since I made you and Zhou Shuhuan come together, shouldn't you also give me a thank you gift?"

Shen Baolan laughed dryly, "It was just a joke, but you took it seriously."

"Oh, if you're joking, then I'm joking too."

Shen Baolan didn't care about Shen Mingzhu's attitude. After all, the two of them had always had a hostile relationship since childhood.

"Where's Pei Yang?"

Shen Mingzhu was a little unhappy.

It’s not because the original owner had a bad relationship with Shen Baolan, but because Shen Baolan addressed Pei Yang too casually and familiarly, as if Pei Yang was her, Shen Baolan’s man.

"My husband is away at work. If you have anything to say, you can tell me. I am the head of the family now."

After saying that, Shen Mingzhu saw Shen Baolan and Liu Cuihua, mother and daughter, looking at each other, with strange expressions that she couldn't understand.

Before she could think about it, she heard Liu Cuihua ask, "When did your Pei Yang leave?"

"The afternoon before yesterday."

"Oh my, this is so great!!!"

Shen Mingzhu: ???

However, no one answered her question, and Shen Baolan went to the balcony as if she was familiar with the place.

"Mom, come and see how well the camellias are planted."

Liu Cuihua immediately ran over happily, and when she saw a pot of pink camellia flowers on the balcony, she couldn't stop smiling.

"It's true. The camellia is blooming beautifully!"

The mother and daughter came suddenly and left quickly. To Shen Mingzhu, it felt like they came specifically to ask about Pei Yang's schedule and to see the camellia on the balcony.

Although the camellia of the Pei family is indeed well-groomed, Shen Baolan and Liu Cuihua are not refined people, and they would not run into the city just to see a camellia.

Shen Mingzhu was puzzled and picked up the kettle to water the camellia flowers on the balcony.

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"Mom, what's up? Am I right?"

"Yeah! That's right, it's really right! The layout of Pei Yang's house is the same as you said, and the number of flowers in the pink camellia on the balcony is the same as you said!"

Liu Cuihua was so happy that it felt like she had picked up a big gold ingot.

Isn't it like picking up a gold ingot? If her daughter's dream is true, Zhou Shuhuan will become rich in a few years and become a multi-millionaire, and her daughter will become a rich wife! This is really a great event that will make the ancestors' graves smoke!

She wanted to buy some firecrackers to set off at home.

After watering the plants, Shen Mingzhu took her keys and wallet and went out to buy groceries.

As soon as Shen Mingzhu walked out, Pei Ziheng came out of his room.

According to the trajectory of the previous life, Pei Yang will call back today.

Xicheng Port, dormitory building for ocean-going employees.

Pei Yang had just entered the dormitory building with his luggage when a middle-aged man in his 50s came towards him. "Xiao Pei, you're back. Have you taken care of your family affairs?"

Pei Yang nodded, "It's ready, thank you for your concern, Master."

Lin Guofu patted him on the shoulder and sighed, "Isn't it right for me to worry about you? Among the disciples, you are the only one who hasn't got married yet, and the old man and the old lady have passed away one after another. Look at you, you are not very old, but you have become a lonely person first."

Pei Yang smiled.

After chatting for a while, Lin Guofu talked about Pei Yang's life event again, "Remember the niece of your master's wife that I told you about some time ago? She happened to come over here to play a few days ago. Come to my house for dinner tonight, and you two can meet each other. If it's a good match, you can get along first."

"No need, Master..."

"Okay, it's settled. Be here on time at 7pm! If you don't come, I'll cut you!"

Lin Guofu threw down his words and strode away, not giving Pei Yang a chance to explain.

Walking into the dormitory gate and passing by the message room, Pei Yang paused when he saw the landline phone placed on the window of the message room.

"Ding-ling-ling."

Just when Pei Ziheng was about to doze off, the landline phone on the corner table finally rang.

"dad!"

Shen Mingzhu, who was cooking in the kitchen, heard Pei Ziheng calling "Dad". She put down the dishes in her hands, washed her hands and went to the living room.

On the phone, Pei Yang asked Pei Ziheng as usual whether he had been obedient and good. In the past, Pei Ziheng would answer honestly, but today he burst into tears uncontrollably.

"Dad, please come back soon, I miss you!"

"Dad will be back soon, just listen to Aunt Mingzhu..."

"I don't want it. She is a bad woman. She beats me, doesn't give me food, and locks me up at home..."

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Shen Mingzhu who just walked out of the kitchen: ???

Brat, do you want to hear what you are saying? She walked over and covered the microphone, "When did I hit you? When did I stop giving you food?"

Pei Ziheng stared at her with tears in his eyes, pursed his lips and said nothing, but he thought in his heart, not only did you beat me and didn't give me food, you also burned me with red-hot chopsticks, locked me in the closet, and drove me out of the house on a snowy day to freeze me to death! Although these things haven't happened in this life, they will definitely happen in the future! "Bad woman! You are a bad woman, I don't want you to be my mother!"

Knowing that Pei Yang on the other end of the phone could hear him, Pei Ziheng deliberately cried and made a fuss, trying to lure Pei Yang back in this way.

Pei Yang on the other end of the phone had a headache. Although he did not expect the mother to be loving and the son to be filial, he did not expect that they would become irreconcilable.

Shen Mingzhu was furious.

She thought she had been very kind to her stepson in the past two days and did not expect him to respect her as an elder, but she did not expect that he hated her so much that he would frame her in person.

My emotions surged and tears started to flow.

"Pei Yang, let me tell you, I never touched your son, and I never let him go hungry for three meals a day!"

Hearing her choked voice, Pei Yang on the other end of the phone felt an even greater headache.

He didn't say anything, why was he crying?

"Okay, stop crying. I believe you didn't do those things. Xiao Heng may not have accepted my father's death. He has been ill for a long time and I am not by his side. It is inevitable that he will have resistance to you. I'm sorry, I didn't handle it well."

Shen Mingzhu was originally very angry, but when she heard the man's gentle words of comfort and apology on the phone, she suddenly felt very wronged. She had become a married woman inexplicably and was also someone's stepmother. She cried even harder, whimpering while crying, just like a child.

Pretend to cry. She knows how to do this.

Pei Ziheng was stunned.

"Okay Mingzhu, stop crying. Can I scold Xiaoheng?" He was so upset because of her crying.

"Well, you scold me and I'll give him the phone."

Shen Mingzhu wiped her tears, but did not hand the microphone to Pei Ziheng. Instead, she pressed the speakerphone button.

Pei Yang's stern voice came from the phone, "Xiao Heng, have you forgotten what I taught you? You should respect your elders and be polite. Have you forgotten?"

Pei Ziheng pursed his lips angrily.

"say!"

Even through the telephone line, Pei Yang's majesty remained undiminished.

Pei Ziheng reluctantly uttered two words, "I haven't forgotten."

"Now, apologize to Aunt Mingzhu immediately."

Ask him to apologize to the bad woman? Absolutely impossible! 　Shen Mingzhu: Who is not a baby? Please call me Jewel.

Dear little cuties, if possible, please move your fingers to vote for our jewelry~ 　　 　 (End of this chapter)