Seeing little Gu Huai slipping down in the boy's arms, Mother Wu was frightened and broke into a cold sweat. She opened the door and got out before the car stopped completely.

"Auntie Wu!" Xiao Zhou and Lu Nong both exclaimed.

Mother Wu quickly walked up to Pei Zheng and stretched out her hand to hug Gu Huai from Pei Zheng's arms.

Unexpectedly, he missed the target. Pei Zheng dodged Wu Ma's hand swiftly, and little Gu Huai started to slide down again because of the two people's grabbing and dodging movements.

"Hehe~" Gu Huai thought his brother was playing a game with him, and he kicked his two short legs to show that he really liked the game.

"! You can't hold the child like this." Mother Wu was shocked. She was afraid of hurting the child, so she was afraid to make any big movements.

The three young men behind Pei Zheng stopped in their tracks when they saw this. They saw that Mother Wu had gotten off a military jeep and they were very familiar with the license plate, so they stood silently behind Pei Zheng without saying a word.

I really don't dare to be presumptuous.

Pei Zheng looked at Mother Wu, then casually pulled up little Gu Huai and said, "Who are you?"

As he spoke, his eyes looked towards the jeep that had just been turned off, and he happened to catch a glimpse of his own father staring at him expressionlessly in the back seat.

Pei Zheng: "..." His scalp tightened, and he pulled the kid into his arms again, this time his movements were much gentler.

"Hehe, goose, goose..." Little Gu Huai laughed even more happily, and was so happy that he even made a goose sound.

"This child is our cousin's son. Who are you?"

Mother Wu asked doubtfully. She didn't think the boy was a bad person, she just couldn't understand the relationship between him and her cousin. Why did he come in and out of her cousin's house freely and hold Gu Huai in his arms?

"Cousin?" Pei Zheng looked strange. "...If I'm not mistaken, your cousin is my stepmother."

Mother Wu's expression froze instantly. Stepmother? ?

Captain Gu seems to be such an upright person, but he is actually a double-faced person?

Were you already married and had children before marrying your cousin?

Mother Wu swallowed her saliva and asked, "Are you the eldest son of Captain Gu?"

Pei Zheng thought for a moment and said, "Captain Gu? Did my father change his last name? But I didn't. I still have the same last name as my grandfather, Pei."

Mother Wu was confused. Why was there another incident involving the surname Pei?

By the way, what was the last name of the chief who sent my cousin home? It seemed to be... Pei?

Mother Wu was stunned with shock.

The teenagers beside him looked at each other and laughed secretly, but they didn't expect that the joy would turn into sorrow, as they suddenly felt a cold gaze.

When he reacted, he immediately fell silent after seeing Pei Jinan's gaze.

But it was obviously too late. For a moment, everyone could only hang their heads and ears like quails in their nests.

The four of them were well-known ruffians in the compound. They were fearless and sometimes even dared to pinch their fathers' whiskers. But when they were in front of Pei Ji'an, they became silent and no one dared to say a word.

When Pei Ji'an glared at him, the guy was so scared that his legs went limp.

Zhang Kaiping, one of the gangsters, was the first to give up. He patted Pei Zheng on the shoulder and said, "Ouch, I suddenly feel a stomachache. I can't hold on any longer. I'll leave first."

Pei Zheng was speechless. What a lame excuse.

"Me too, uh... I have a headache. I'm going home to take some medicine and I'll come back to see you."

Jiang Yu covered his head and tried to run away. Halfway through, he suddenly thought of something, stepped back a few steps, and snatched the basketball from Pei Zheng's hand, "Lend me the basketball first."

After saying that, he ran away quickly.

In just a breath of time, two idiots left in succession. Pei Zheng took a deep breath, turned around and asked Shen Jiming, the only one who didn't run away, "Why don't you run?"

He didn't believe that Shen Jiming had any brotherhood.

Shen Jiming, under great pressure, whispered in Pei Zheng's ear: "I mainly want to see how your stepmother defeated your biological mother, my aunt, and she even let you take care of her baby."

“…”

Pei Zheng couldn't help but roll his eyes, "What's the relationship between this kid and his mother?"

"." Shen Jiming touched Pei Zheng's head, "That's the problem."

Pei Zheng irritably shook off Shen Jiming's hand.

In the car, Lu Nong covered his head and felt a headache. Pei Zheng, the bad boy, obviously saw that Mother Wu knew nothing about the inside story and was teasing her on purpose.

She looked at Pei Ji'an with a reproachful look: Look at your son who has betrayed his father.

Pei Ji'an said calmly: "Get out of the car."

"Okay, okay," Xiao Zhou pushed open the car door after hearing the order, greeted Pei Zheng and Shen Jiming first, then opened the passenger door, took out the wicker box and Mother Wu's big bag, and trotted into the little red building.

There were only Lu Nong and Pei Ji'an left in the car. She had forgotten the previous embarrassment, snorted at Pei Ji'an, and prepared to explain to Mother Wu the little misunderstanding that had arisen due to her hesitation.

Pei Ji'an and Lu Nong both got out of the car.

The moment Lu Nong got out of the car was exactly the moment Shen Jiming and Pei Zheng looked up after whispering.

The evening breeze was gentle and caressing, lifting the hair that had fallen on one person's shoulders. A gardenia tree at the door of the next-door neighbor's house swayed slightly in the wind, and a clear and strong fragrance filled the air.

For a moment Shen Jiming couldn't tell whether the fragrance was the flowers invading him, or the person infecting the flowers. But after he came to his senses and figured it out, he felt a little confused and enlightened in his heart.

"So this is what the gardenia smells like."

Pei Zheng bumped into Shen Jiming, "What are you mumbling about? Didn't you say you wanted to see my stepmother? You're talking nonsense. Isn't the gardenia smelling like this? You've been smelling it for years."

At this time, little Gu Huai became excited when he saw his mother. He stretched out his hands towards Lu Nong and tried to hug her, "Mom! Mom..."

Mother Wu was still in the midst of a mental earthquake until this moment, and when she first saw Lu Nong, it was like she saw a savior.

Lu Nong came over.

"...Is your stepmother older than you?" Shen Jiming asked a key question.

Pei Zheng: “…” Although he didn’t have time to ask Lu Nong, the answer to this question must be very bad.

"She's about ten years older than me, right? What right do you have to control her?" It was impossible for him to admit defeat. Pei Zheng insisted that his stepmother and father were of the same age.

"Oh, oh, oh," Shen Jiming chuckled helplessly, "I just didn't expect that someone like your dad would be fascinated by beauty one day. That's right, heroes have always been tempted by beauties since ancient times, let alone beauties of this level. Your mother and my aunt didn't deserve to lose."

"But you have to be careful. There is a kind of beauty called a serpent beauty. Be careful that you may have a stepmother and your father will become a stepfather too."

"Are you really not afraid of death?"

Pei Zheng looked at Shen Jiming with admiration, not knowing what had gone wrong with the usually stable Shen Jiming. Seeing that his father's expression had changed, he moved a few steps to the side, indicating that he had nothing to do with this man.

Then he saved himself very loudly, using all his acting skills to interpret the idea that a friend who dies is not a friend who dies, and said, "My dad is definitely not that kind of person!"

Lu Nong: “…” Okay, this is just fake brotherhood.

Shen Jiming's voice was quite loud when he spoke, and Lu Nong who happened to walk in heard it, or it could be said that he was speaking to Lu Nong.

Mother Wu, who heard the same thing, glared at her, feeling very sorry for her cousin. No matter how stupid she was, she came to her senses now. Her cousin might have remarried to a man named Pei.

One of the two children is the son of Mr. Pei, and the other is from the son's mother's side.

It has always been difficult to be a stepmother, let alone a grown-up child whom she cannot even raise well. If someone from her biological mother's side stirs things up from time to time, the life of this poor young lady will be soaked in misery.

Mother Wu sighed and said, no wonder the cousin came to see her. How could the cousin who couldn’t even lift her luggage fight with these people?

It won't work without her.

Lu Nong took little Gu Huai from Pei Zheng and said to him with a gloating look, "Your father is calling you."

"..." Pei Zheng gritted his teeth: "...What did you say to the old man?"

After a pause, he pointed at Shen Jiming and said, "It was Shen Jiming who called you a scorpion beauty, but I didn't say anything."

"I didn't say anything." Lu Nong said innocently.

But isn’t he Shen Jiming, the second male lead in the novel?

So the two who just ran away are Pei Zheng’s other two good brothers in the novel?

What's it called? Never mind. It doesn't matter.

Lu Nong glanced at him casually. Unlike Pei Zheng's heroic face, Shen Jiming was a gentle and handsome man. If this guy wore glasses, he would definitely look like a gentleman.

The novel says that he appears kind on the outside but is actually a black-hearted person. People are often deceived by his deliberate display of kindness and fall into his traps, and some even sell them out and still have to count the money for him.

When he and Pei Zheng were in cahoots, no one could escape if they plotted against anyone.

But as the saying goes, the person who knows you best is always your enemy.

Lu Nong lowered his head and touched Zizi's head. It was this adorable, fair and tender little baby who almost caused the male protagonist Pei Zheng to part ways with his good brother.

To this she could only say: Well done, son, you avenged your mother.

Lu Nong retracted her gaze and ignored Pei Zheng. This boy first teased Mother Wu and then his thinking was not progressive. She just heard him say loudly that his father was not that kind of person, but in the end he didn't mention her at all.

Everyone is guilty!

As for Shen Jiming, brother has a bit of paranoia, so we should keep our kids away from him from now on.

Haha, but based on the kid’s IQ, it’s not certain who will cheat whom.

Lu Nong gave Pei Zheng a look that told him to take care, then took Mother Wu and walked home.

As soon as they entered the house, Lu Nong said to Mother Wu solemnly, "Mother Wu, it is just as you see. The Chief Pei in the car and I have formed a second marriage family. The boy who just held Xiao Huai is called Pei Zheng, and he is Chief Pei's only son."

"What about Captain Gu?" Mother Wu asked cautiously.

Lu Nong was silent, and then said softly, "He died from a relapse of an old injury while on the battlefield."

"Ah," Aunt Wu covered her mouth, "What a good person, not even forty years old... My poor young lady, you've become someone else's stepmother at the age of twenty-two. If your aunt knew that you were a stepmother and was scolded in front of her as a stepfather and a femme fatale, she would never feel at ease even if she left."

"I have no connection with him..."

Just as he said this, Lu Nong suddenly caught a glimpse of Pei Jinan and the other two standing at the door. Pei Jinan had an unclear expression, while Pei Zheng and Shen Jiming looked embarrassed.

Especially Pei Zheng, who almost broke apart.

Lu Nong: “…”