The breakfast that Pei Zheng and the other four bought together was indeed very rich, including fried dough sticks, soy milk, tofu pudding, rice porridge, tea eggs, and pickled vegetable dumplings.

Mother Wu made a cup of milk powder for the baby. Lu Nong liked salty tofu pudding, so he ate several scallion fried cakes with it. Pei Jinan preferred lighter taste, so he drank porridge and salted vegetables. Mother Wu liked to drink soy milk and eat tea eggs. Pei Zheng liked to eat everything and could eat everything, so in the end, all the leftovers belonged to him.

Everyone has their own taste preferences, so the meal was harmonious and not wasteful.

After breakfast, Lu Nong and Pei Zheng were going to school. Pei Ji'an put down his chopsticks and said, "I'll take you there."

Lu Nong suddenly realized what she had forgotten yesterday... She forgot to tell Pei Jianan that she had quit her job and returned to work at the school.

Although she and Pei Jinan were at most a nominal couple living together, it was a bit too much that she forgot to tell her husband about even the most basic career change.

Lu Nong looked at Pei Ji'an's expression. His face was as calm as ever. In fact, she had never seen Pei Ji'an really lose his temper since she got married. However, Xiao Zhou and Pei Zheng always behaved well in front of her and were afraid of Pei Ji'an, which meant that Pei Ji'an had lost his temper in front of them.

Sometimes Pei Jinan had a blank expression on his face, and they would tremble, obviously realizing that Pei Jinan was in a bad mood. It would be useless for Lu Nong to make the judgment on his own.

For example, now, she really couldn't tell whether Pei Ji'an really didn't care or just kept his emotions to himself. He was keeping a record of the accounts in his mind, and would settle the accounts with her in the future when he had saved enough money.

Lu Nong sighed and hoped it wasn't the latter.

Originally Pei Ji'an planned to drive the car himself, but Pei Zheng was afraid of hurting his wound, so he called and tricked Xiao Zhou into driving the car under the pretext that Wu Ma had made a delicious breakfast.

After a while, Xiao Zhou came. He rubbed his hands, patted Pei Zheng on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Zheng, I love you for a reason. You really thought of me when you had something delicious. Where is the food?"

Xiao Zhou leaned over and glanced at Pei Zheng's hands behind him.

Pei Zheng: “No.”

"???" Xiao Zhou held on to his last glimmer of hope and asked, "Where are the snacks?"

Pei Zheng: “No.”

Xiao Zhou: “…”

"Pei Zheng! You lied to me again and again. Tell me how many times you lied to me every day. Do you think you are worthy of me?"

Pei Zheng was only sixteen years old, but he was already almost taller than Xiao Zhou. He put his arm around Xiao Zhou's shoulders and walked to the jeep. He took out the car key from his pocket and said, "Brother, don't be angry. I'll treat you to a good meal at the state-owned hotel later. Can you take me to school first?"

Xiao Zhou: “…” I don’t believe you at all.

At this time, Pei Ji'an and Lu Nong walked out of the small red building one after the other. Pei Ji'an opened the car door and said calmly, "Stop talking nonsense. Get in the car and send them to school."

As soon as these words were spoken, Xiao Zhou and Pei Zheng immediately stopped arguing. One drove the car obediently, and the other opened the passenger door and got in obediently. They couldn't be more obedient.

"Tsk." Lu Nong felt that she was still not imposing enough towards the four guards. Look at the real boss. Within three seconds of him speaking, Xiao Zhou and Pei Ji'an were already ready. No, it seemed that she, as the temporary leader, had to be more strict.

After Lu Nong made up his mind, he also got on the car. Pei Zheng in the car didn't know that in an instant, his future academic and life tasks would become heavier.

This time, without Aunt Wu and a pile of luggage in the car, Lu Nong and Pei Jianan seemed to have more than enough space even if they both sat in the back seat, and their arms and legs no longer rubbed against each other from time to time.

The car sped all the way to the school gate.

As soon as he stopped the car, Pei Zheng opened the door coolly and walked into the school without looking back... After taking two steps, he suddenly stopped, hesitated for a few seconds, gritted his teeth, turned around and walked to the rear door of the jeep.

...Imitating the way Xiao Zhou sometimes opened the door for his father, he opened the car door and waited for Lu Nong to get out.

Lu Nong got out of the car, nodded to Pei Zheng, and said meaningfully, "Not bad, Comrade Pei. Fortunately, you stopped in time, otherwise you would have become the first guard comrade to receive the black cross."

The tone sounded a bit regretful.

Pei Zheng: “…”

In the car, Pei Ji'an called Lu Nongpei, "I'll pick you up in the evening, don't miss it."

"Oh, OK," Lu Nong nodded sensibly, "Thank you for coming to see us off, Chief Pei."

There is nothing to say, I was just moved. She misunderstood Pei Ji'an.

Lu Nong thought, it seems that he does not care about his only son. The reason why he did not accompany Pei Zheng to register last time was probably because he was busy with work. Now that he has time, he personally sends his son to and from school even though he is injured.

She herself also benefited from Pei Zheng's favor, as she was picked up and dropped off by car. Nowadays, having a bicycle can be a big deal, not to mention being picked up and dropped off by car. Although Lu Nong didn't think he could brag about it, it was convenient as he didn't have to walk to the bus stop by himself.

Pei Ji'an looked at her strangely and asked Xiao Zhou to drive home.

After the jeep left, Lu Nong looked at Pei Zheng with relief. You are really a good son of your stepmother. Don't worry, your sister will definitely take you to death.

…

Ten meters away, a well-dressed, elegant-looking woman in her thirties stood at the school gate, staring at everything that had just happened, her expression complicated and embarrassed.

Not far from the woman stood a young girl of about eighteen or nineteen, who was also glaring at Lu Nong and Pei Zheng who had just gotten out of the car. However, compared to the woman's complex expression, her expression was more straightforward - naked jealousy and the ambition to replace them.

If you observe carefully, you can find that the older woman not only glanced at Pei Zheng a few times, but also kept looking into the car with an anxious and excited look, as if she was peeking at her lover. The mentality of the little girl was clearly revealed.

As for when she glanced at Lu Nong, the woman seemed to be wondering who she was. She frowned slightly when her eyes fell on her, and it seemed that she didn't like the closeness between her and Pei Zheng.

The younger girl, Qian Yu, does not have as many complicated thoughts as other women.

Qian Yu deliberately waited here for Pei Zheng. After she returned home that day, the more she thought about it, the more upset she felt.

She has obstructed Lu Nong's future many times, but Lu Nong is still doing better than her and is getting better and better. She hates God for being unfair. How is she worse than Lu Nong?

Qian Yu was unwilling and had no choice.

She knew that her biological mother, who only knew how to serve others, had a good relationship with Lu Nong. Logically, if Lu Nong married into a powerful family, she would definitely bring some food and daily necessities to visit her, not to mention taking her mother to enjoy a good life. So Qian Yu went to Li Garden with the intention of finding out about Lu Nong.

Who would have thought that Li Yuan had locked the door and the old man was not at home. Qian Yu went there for three days in a row before she was sure that her mother was really taken away by Lu Nong.

Qian Yu's first reaction was ecstasy. She was not short-sighted. The old man could only be taken to the Pei family by Lu Nong. What did this mean?

This means that Qian Yu can also be related to the Pei family. After all, she has such a relationship with her biological mother and Lu Nong. As long as she has this relationship, with her looks and scheming, I don't believe that she will be worse off than Lu Nong.

After her joy, Qian Yu began to worry again, because she didn't know where the Pei family was or where Lu Nong lived, and she guessed that even if she knew where Lu Nong lived, it would not be easy to get into that place.

She definitely couldn't get in by herself, but these were secondary. The most important thing was to know where they lived first. As for the rest, she would think about it in detail later.

So Qian Yu thought of the last time she met Lu Nong at Peking University. She didn't think that Lu Nong's return to school was a coincidence. After guessing for a long time, she felt that Lu Nong might want to go back to school to continue his college studies, so she went out early and came back late these days to wait for Lu Nong at the school gate.

As expected, she really caught him. Qian Yu looked at Lu Nong, who was wearing fashionable clothes and looked stylish and beautiful, and felt jealous. Pei Zheng personally opened the car door for her, so how could she be so bold?

On what basis? We are the same kind of people, so why is it that wherever Lu Nong goes, people like and love her?

Even Pei Zheng, who usually doesn't like to talk to others, was won over by her. Was it just because of her vixen-like face?

After feeling sour for a long time, Qian Yu made a new discovery. From where she was standing, she could clearly see a man sitting in the back seat of the jeep. Although she couldn't see his face clearly, she could see that the man's posture was as straight as a pine tree, and his movements were steady but not slow, not like an old man who was frail and frail.

Qian Yu's heart was pounding. Is this the man Lu Nong was marrying for the second time, Pei Zheng's father?

She bit her lip and made a certain decision, but the timing was not right. Qian Yu decided to come again at night and then secretly follow Lu Nong to find out where the Pei family was.

Lu Nong and Pei Zheng walked towards the school. Along the way, Pei Zheng stole glances at Lu Nong from time to time, making Lu Nong almost think that he had fallen in love with her.

When Pei Zheng looked at her again, Lu Nong seized the opportunity to meet his gaze and said solemnly, "Tell me, why are you looking at me? Do you think the homework is too little? How about I assign you some?"

Pei Zheng was shocked: "?? The homework you are talking about can't be a real homework?"

"How could it be fake?" Lu Nong laughed. She just used this as an excuse to get Pei Zheng to join her in the fun.

Pei Zheng strongly objected after hearing this, "Even if I am your guard temporarily, you have no right to assign me homework! Besides, I am a college student. Do you have to assign me homework just because you understand my major?"

Lu Nong: "Yes, as the temporary leader, there is no reason for me to assign you homework..."

Pei Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, "That's right."

"...But as your stepmother, I'm giving you homework, so this is reasonable, right?" Lu Nong continued, panting. "You don't have to worry that I don't understand your profession. You look down on me again, don't you? Do you remember what I said to you last time?"

Pei Zheng: “…”

"Don't underestimate anyone." Pei Zheng said this with despair on his face. He felt that it was very tiring to talk to Lu Nong. You never know if you said something wrong and fell into her trap again.

If Lu Nong knew what he was thinking, he would definitely say: Young man, I will try my best to make you understand that from now on the longest journey you will take is to follow your stepmother's tricks.

"Oh, that's right. Look at you, you forgot this sentence again after you didn't get your lesson. It means you still haven't suffered enough." Lu Nong shook his head.

Pei Zheng gritted his teeth and spoke out word by word, "I really...thank you! Thank you!" to his heartbroken stepmother.

Lu Nong: "You're welcome. By the way, wait for me in the cafeteria during lunch time. Bring me your class schedule so I can figure out how to assign you homework."

Lu Nong felt that since he was going to take Pei Zheng with him, it was necessary to know his class schedule, which could prevent him from skipping classes and effectively increase his study time.

"Oh." Pei Zheng replied weakly with a droopy face.

"By the way, why were you looking at me just now?" Lu Nong finally remembered that Pei Zheng had been glancing at her.

"It's nothing, I deserve it..." Pei Zheng almost cried. Didn't he just want to ask if Lu Nong was tired of living with his father, who was like an ice block on the Tianshan Mountain?

Lu Nong narrowed his eyes, "Comrade Xiao Pei, I'm a little unhappy if you don't tell me the truth. When I'm unhappy, I want to assign more homework to others..."

“…”

Pei Zheng: "... Aunt, I should have been curious about your and my father's love life. I was wrong. I will never ask again. Let me go."

So that's how it is. Lu Nong thought to herself, what kind of emotional life do your father and I have? It's a big deal. Of course, this kind of thing is not worth telling Pei Zheng. She smiled mysteriously.

Pei Zheng was stunned by what he saw. Just when he was about to say something, his eyes accidentally swept to a certain place. His expression suddenly froze and he became tense.

Lu Nong was puzzled and looked in the direction he could see. He saw a woman with elegant clothes and a scholarly look walking towards them a few steps away.

Lu Nong was guessing in his heart about the relationship between the woman and Pei Zheng.

When the woman stopped in front of them, Pei Zheng pursed his lips and spoke first, "Why are you here?"

The woman frowned and said in a slightly annoyed tone, "You kid, I'm your mother, shouldn't I come to your first day of school today?"

The woman turned out to be Pei Zheng's biological mother, Shen Yimei. Lu Nong had heard her name no less than three times before.

Shen Jiming heard Shen Jiming mention her at Pei's house. Pei Mingxia was weird to him and said that this woman was Pei Ji'an's white moonlight and the mole on his heart, so she shouldn't waste her time and shouldn't think that everything would be fine if she married Pei Ji'an. She implied that Shen Yimei would come back to kill her in the future.

...To be honest, on the one hand, she had no further plans for Pei Ji'an and was very satisfied with their current casual married life, so she didn't care at all whether Pei Ji'an had a white moonlight or a cinnabar mole.

Secondly, based on her experience as a scumbag sea king, what is a white moonlight? It is the one that can only be looked at but not eaten, and is hanging in the sky but cannot be obtained.

Is there any obstacle between Shen Yimei and Pei Jian that prevents them from being together despite loving each other?

No, if there really was, they would never have gotten married in the first place. Since there was no obstacle, it was impossible for a man or a woman to suppress themselves and not get close to the person they loved for more than ten years when they were in love, unless they didn't love them.

What made her understand most clearly was Pei Jinan's attitude. When Pei Jinan heard Pei Mingxia mention Shen Yimei, even she, who couldn't read Pei Jinan's expression, could see some impatience and boredom. There was not a trace of tenderness, tenderness or complexity. Lu Nong couldn't understand how they could tell that Pei Jinan had Shen Yimei in his heart.

Maybe she doesn't understand love in this era? The love stories in TV dramas in this era are all very melodramatic, with silent misunderstandings, love that is hard to express, and loving someone but marrying someone else.

If that's the case...it doesn't matter, it has nothing to do with her anyway, what's more important is to survive and cross the world.

After much analysis, Lu Nong and Shen Yimei had no conflict of interest at all, so she was particularly calm when facing Shen Yimei.

But no matter how calm she was, Shen Yimei was obviously coming for Pei Zheng. Wasn't it a bit inappropriate for her to stand in the middle?

Just when Lu Nong was thinking whether he should say goodbye and leave, Pei Zheng's tone did not soften as his mother had come to see him. He still said in a cold voice, "You've finished. What next?"

"Xiao Zheng!" Shen Yimei also frowned and glanced at Lu Nong beside Pei Zheng, blaming him for not giving face to his biological mother in front of outsiders. "Is this how you talk to your mother? Where is your tutor?"

Pei Zheng took a deep breath, "Mom, thank you for coming to see me. I have to hurry to attend the opening ceremony. I will come to see you in a few days, okay?"

"Okay," Shen Yimei pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, lifted her hair by her cheeks and tucked it behind her ears, and said casually, "I heard that your father was injured. Is his injury serious? How is he being taken care of at home? His newly married wife..."

When his mother tried to find out about him, Pei Zheng had no expression on his face and even spoke in a mechanical voice. "My dad is fine. He's married and he has a stepmother who cares about him. He's fine. You don't have to worry, mom."

Shen Yimei's face was distorted for a moment, but she returned to normal when she saw the beautiful Lu Nong who looked like a fairy out of the corner of her eye. However, the previous topic was not suitable to be continued.

"Xiao Zheng, is this your classmate? Why don't you introduce him to your mother?" Shen Yimei thought she was very friendly, but in fact she spoke in a condescending manner.

Pei Zheng wanted to cover his face: "..." I'm afraid you'll be scared to death if I tell you this. This is the person you're trying to find out about in every possible way.

Lu Nong wondered, should she reveal her identity or not?

She had figured out something now. On her son's first day of school, she went to find out about her ex-husband. The person who still had feelings for him was probably Shen Yimei. This was a bit of a dilemma.

Lu Nong was not a hesitant person. Since she had met him, there was no need to hide her identity. She was not someone to be ashamed of, so she simply said to Shen Yimei generously, "Hello, Ms. Shen. My name is Lu Nong, and I am Pei Ji'an's wife."

Shen Yimei: “…”

Pei Zheng: “…” Judging from his calm mentality, who is more cruel is the stepmother.

Silence and awkwardness.

"Who, who are you?" After a long time, Shen Yimei almost broke her voice and stared at Lu Nong as if she had seen a ghost.

Lu Nong repeated patiently, "I am Lu Nong, Pei Ji'an's current wife."

"You, you you..." Shen Yimei kept saying "you you you" for a long time but couldn't utter a word. She felt dizzy when she recalled how she had asked about something in front of her love rival. She had been elegant all her life and had never felt so embarrassed as today. She was angry and annoyed, angry at herself and annoyed at Pei Zheng and Lu Nong.

As expected, he was a bad-intentioned person. He waited for her to make a fool of herself before revealing her identity and making fun of her. Shen Yimei used all her restraint not to scream. She swallowed her anger, maintained her composure and said, "Sorry, I have something else to do. We can talk again some other time." Then they fought again.

"Pei Zheng, Mom is leaving first. You have to study hard, okay?" After saying that, she left in a hurry without waiting for Pei Zheng to reply.

Lu Nong looked at Pei Zheng, and Pei Zheng spread his hands. His mother was just that kind of person. She always thought she was very powerful, but in fact, she would be easily exposed. However, judging from her expression, there would be trouble when she returned.

As for who is making trouble, it is naturally those who pamper her.