“Okay, let’s go buy some daily necessities then,” Shen Mingzhi said.
"Wait here for a bit, I'll drive back first and then have a guard come over. It'll be more convenient for you to go shopping by car," Jiang Shaozhen said to Shen Mingzhi.
Shen Mingzhi thought he was quite thoughtful.
After Jiang Shaochen left, Shen Mingzhi led Wang Xinian into the house and explained the layout of the home to him.
The house was actually in pretty bad shape; the paint was peeling off, and it looked old and worn, but it had large windows, so it was bright overall.
With a little tidying up, it's still habitable.
After Wang Xinian finished reading, he looked at Shen Mingzhi and asked in a very soft tone, "The Jiang family's house is so nice, don't you like it?"
"I like it, but we can only live in it when we earn enough money to buy one," Shen Mingzhi said with a smile. Who wouldn't like a beautiful big house? But there's no other way, is there?
It took two days to move here.
As soon as Shen Mingzhi and Wang Xinian moved in, Jiang Shaochen went straight to work because of a situation at the construction site.
Jiang Yinyin only learned that Jiang Shaochen had become a worker on his second day of work.
The summer sun is scorching.
Song Wanyin followed Jiang Yinyin to the place where Jiang Shaochen was working. From a distance, they saw him wearing a yellow helmet, a blue work uniform, and covered in cement dust as he pushed a brick cart.
Seeing his face covered in dirt and sweat, Song Wanyin's eyes reddened. She walked over and stopped the two-wheeled brick cart. "So, to be with Shen Mingzhi, you're willing to give up your family, give up everything, and work as a bricklayer in this kind of place?!"
Jiang Shaozhen stopped.
His canvas shoes were covered in cement spots, and he looked dirty and tired.
But his face was still as handsome as ever.
"Isn't this what your Song family wanted to see? The country supports me in starting my own business and in becoming a worker. My resignation has been approved and stamped. Is your Song family satisfied now?" Jiang Shaozhen said coldly, his tone devoid of any warmth.
"Brother, you really can't think straight! This place is so dirty, look at your clothes, your face... Is this even a human life?!" Jiang Yinyin's eyes reddened. Even though she had argued and fought with Jiang Shaochen, seeing her bright and promising brother like this still made her sad.
“If you treat your sister-in-law well, I’ll feel like this is a decent life,” Jiang Shaozhen said. Although he helps with these things, he’s actually a foreman in this area.
This was also something Jiang Guofu helped him secure, allowing him to lead an engineering team.
Most of the revenue from these houses still went to the state, and the right to reside in the houses was prioritized for workers in state-owned factories.
To put it bluntly, I'm just trying to make a living right now.
"You keep saying 'sister-in-law' all the time! You tricked me into going to her new house and made me clean for her for two days for nothing. Did I even settle accounts with you?! Brother, come home. Even if you don't do anything, our family can support you. At worst, I'll give you half of the money I earn after I graduate!" Jiang Yinyin really couldn't stand it anymore.
How could her amazing second brother have turned out like this?!
Jiang Shao Chen looked at her calmly and said, "I wanted to do it myself. I have to support my wife and children, don't I? Besides, you said yourself that I can't stand how you treat your sister-in-law. You could have just moved out. Now that I've done what you wanted, why are you still crying?"
Jiang Yinyin choked up and said, "That was just something I said in anger. I didn't really kick you out!"
"Shaochen, we've run out of bricks!" a worker shouted.
"Here they are!" Jiang Shaozhen stopped talking to them and pushed his bike away.
Song Wanyin watched his figure slowly walk towards the ruins of the building, feeling extremely sad.
Dust swirled, the sun was scorching, and the men who passed by smelled particularly foul of sweat.
“He would rather have nothing, rather be here carrying bricks and cement, than… compromise,” Song Wanyin murmured to herself.
Jiang Yinyin also blamed her at this moment, "Don't you Song family think you've gone too far? It's one thing to mess with Shen Mingzhi, but why do you have to mess with my brother too? He's already resigned from his job and is now just an ordinary bricklayer!"
Song Wanyin did not speak.
She's sad, but aren't I sad too?
Jiang Shao Chen doesn't want anything else; he wants to be with Shen Ming Zhi...
His military rank paid him around 1,500 yuan a year, plus other benefits. Here, he only gets a maximum of 600 yuan a year, and he works from morning till night, with even life-threatening risks.
Song Wanyin was extremely vulnerable.
With red eyes, Song Wanyin came out of the construction site, walked to the roadside, squatted down, and asked Jiang Yinyin in a low voice, "Am I really that worthless? So he won't even look at me?"
Jiang Yinyin kicked a stone at her feet. "How would I know... I think your Song family should do something to make amends. My brother has fallen to this state because your Song family pressured him too much, hasn't he?"
Song Wanyin remained silent, but Jiang Yinyin grew anxious. "You said Shen Mingzhi had his child, but that's not his fault. He was having an attack at the time. Even if you were there, it would have been you who caused the problem. Why are you causing him trouble? Shouldn't you blame Shen Mingzhi?"
"I'll go back and talk to my dad to see if we can get him transferred back." Song Wanyin stood up, her tone somewhat dejected.
She didn't intend to push Jiang Shaozhen to this point.
The Song family was just trying to scare him.
How could he be so heartless? He'd rather give up all his achievements and work as a laborer in a place like this than compromise even once?
After she returned home, Jiang Yinyin went to Shen Mingzhi's residence.
As soon as she entered, she saw Shen Mingzhi sitting at the door pushing a cradle, so she went up to her and raised her hand to slap her across the face.
Shen Mingzhi immediately grabbed her hand, "What are you doing?!"
"What am I doing? My second brother is forced to work on the construction site because of you, doing inhuman work, while you're enjoying yourself here. If it weren't for you, would all his achievements have just vanished?! You jinx, you followed Zhang Ping, Zhang Ping died, and then he entrusted you to my eldest brother, and my eldest brother died too. Now my second brother is stuck on the construction site. If anything happens to him, you couldn't pay for it even if you had a hundred lives!" Jiang Yinyin's voice was deafening.
People upstairs all came out to see what was going on.
Seeing a crowd gathered, Jiang Yinyin immediately shouted, "You'd better stay away from her! She's a slutty widow, seducing men everywhere. She's already had about three men, oh, and a gigolo too! She only seduces rich people, takes their money, and then doesn't care anymore! Anyone who gets close to her will be in big trouble!"
Shen Mingzhi pushed her away, her expression cold. "How do you know that going to a construction site is a bad thing? That's not human work; isn't it done by a bunch of people?"
“How can those people compare to my brother!” Jiang Yinyin immediately retorted.
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