Chapter 768: Poor Man Too



Su Ziyu was lucky, as he happened to meet a family moving when he went there.

They were all young people and didn't have many thoughts, so they agreed on the rent in no time.

Su Ziyu was also straightforward and paid a year's rent to the landlord.

Because the landlord was about to get married, all the furniture in the new house was replaced with new ones, and the old beds, wardrobes, tables, etc. in the slum were left untouched.

This saved Su Ziyu a lot of trouble.

The landlord has cleaned the house.

Su Ziyu took the key and went to the supply and marketing cooperative.

Pots, bowls, ladles, basins, rice, noodles, oil, salt...

All the necessary additions to the house have been purchased.

Early the next morning, Yu Jingyan brought the person to the courtyard.

Shen Zhihuan was still lying in bed. When she heard that the person had been brought back, she quickly got dressed and got out of bed.

In the next yard, Zhang Fengxia was smiling as she picked up her apron, wiped her hands, and invited several people who had just entered the yard to come in and sit down.

Compared to Yu Jingyan who shouted that he was hungry as soon as he entered the courtyard, the mother and son who were standing at the gate of the courtyard with their clothes tugged at seemed much more nervous and uneasy.

Although the woman's face was tanned by the sun, it still couldn't hide her beauty. She was wearing a coarse cloth dress covered with patches, and there were even patches on top of patches on her shoulders. Her black and gray pants were obviously a little short, and even after being patched up, half of her ankle was still exposed.

The little boy curled up at her feet was not tall and was very thin. His little face looked even smaller than a woman's palm.

Su Ziyu, who was washing in this yard, heard the noise in the next yard and quickened his washing pace.

When Su Ziyu and Shen Zhihuan arrived, the skinny mother and son had already been dragged to the living room by Zhang Fengxia.

The woman sat on the sofa, at a loss. Perhaps she was too nervous, she lowered her head and didn't even dare to raise it.

As soon as the little boy entered the living room, his attention was attracted by the brightly colored apples and oranges on the coffee table.

Perhaps she noticed her son's gaze, she secretly pulled her son and signaled him not to look around.

Zhang Fengxia was busy pouring water for several people and did not notice the child's gaze at first. But when the woman did this, Zhang Fengxia noticed it immediately.

She smiled and took an apple and put it into the little boy's hand. "Take whatever you want to eat. When you come to Grandma Zhang's place, it's like being at home, ah!"

"Auntie, no need, he doesn't want to eat it." The woman looked panicked and quickly snatched the apple from the little boy's hand and put it back in the fruit bowl.

The little boy lowered his head pitifully and didn't dare to look at the fruit plate on the coffee table.

"It's good for the child to eat fruit, let him eat it."

Zhang Fengxia stuffed the apple into the little boy's hand again, "Be good, take what you want to eat, don't listen to your mother."

The little boy looked at the apple in his hand, swallowed, and didn't dare to eat it. He looked at the woman pitifully.

"Eat." Seeing that her son was really greedy, the woman sighed secretly.

The little boy was delighted and put the apple to the woman's mouth, "Mom, you eat first."

The woman shook her head at her son and said, "Mom doesn't like this, you eat it..."

Before the woman could finish her words, Zhang Fengxia had already stuffed the apple into her hand.

"Auntie, I really don't like it..." The woman hurriedly refused.

"Don't be polite to your aunt!" Zhang Fengxia stuffed the apple into the woman's hand.

"Mrs. Peng, just eat it if your aunt tells you to. Your aunt's daughter-in-law makes a lot of money. Not to mention the apples that cost a few cents a pound, even the Ganoderma lucidum that costs hundreds of yuan a piece, she eats them without blinking an eye." Yu Jingyan also picked up an apple and started to bite it.

"Political Commissar Yu, can't such a big apple shut your mouth?" Shen Zhihuan heard Yu Jingyan talking nonsense as soon as he stepped into the yard.

"I was only talking about my aunt's daughter-in-law, not you. Why are you confessing?" Yu Jingyan chuckled.

Shen Zhihuan was too lazy to argue with him and just rolled his eyes at him.

Yu Jingyan, who thought he had won the argument, laughed out loud.

The woman stood up with an awkward look on her face.

Maybe she was too nervous, the tips of her fingers holding the apple turned white.

The little boy shrank behind the woman with the apple in his hand.

"Mrs. Peng, my name is Shen Zhihuan. You can call me Zhihuan from now on." Shen Zhihuan smiled politely at the woman.

The woman looked at Shen Zhihuan's face, which was as white and tender as a white radish, and nodded shyly.

"Little guy, what's your name?" Shen Zhihuan bent down and rubbed the little boy's head.

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There was a hint of coaxing in the soft and gentle voice.

"My name is Shao Haifeng." The little boy looked up at Shen Zhihuan and said in a low voice.

"Shao Haifeng, the highest peak in the ocean, so beautiful!" Shen Zhihuan smiled and took out a red envelope from his pocket and stuffed it into Shao Haifeng's hand.

The little boy stared at the red envelope in his hand and forgot to react for a moment.

"Zhihuan, this... won't work..."

The woman wanted to refuse, but Shen Zhihuan was pregnant and worried about hurting her, so she quickly retracted her hand.

“Zhihuan, this… really won’t work… You guys have already done a great favor for my mother and me by helping me find a job…” the woman said anxiously.

Living under someone else's roof for years, being looked down upon...

If it weren't for her son, she would have tied herself up with a rope long ago.

"Mrs. Peng, this red envelope is a gift from me to my little nephew. You can't refuse it!" Shen Zhihuan held the woman's hand.

"Mrs. Peng, just take it if she gives it to you. Don't be polite to her. Don't underestimate this little girl because she is very rich. Among us, she is one of the richest people." Yu Jingyan said with a smile.

The woman's uneasiness was clearly written on her face, especially when her hands, which were calloused and rough like dead tree bark, were placed together with Shen Zhihuan's delicate, white and soft hands. She felt so inferior that she felt ashamed.

At the dinner table, she didn't even dare to pick up food with her chopsticks.

Ever since her family suffered a disaster and had to live under someone else's roof, she hasn't had a meal at the table since.

Every time she cooked a meal, her aunt would either give her a steamed bun made of mixed grains or a bowl of wild vegetable porridge...

She almost forgot when was the last time she had rice porridge?

The woman chewed the sweet and soft rice porridge in her mouth, and there seemed to be moisture rising in her eyes.

"Mrs. Peng, don't just eat rice, eat some vegetables!" Shen Zhihuan had just scooped two spoonfuls of egg custard into the little guy's bowl. When he raised his eyes, he saw the woman lowering her head and shoveling the porridge in the bowl.

As she spoke, she scooped two more spoonfuls of egg custard into the woman's bowl.

The woman looked at the egg custard in her bowl, and the moisture in her eyes instantly condensed into substance.

Worried that Zhang Fengxia, Shen Zhihuan and others would think she was unlucky, she secretly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

In her entire life, she had only eaten eggs when she gave birth to her son.


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