Shen Banxia looked at Madam Zhou, who looked uneasy, and said, "Well, why don't you sit down?"
Madam Zhou sat down, as if she couldn't get enough of looking at him.
"Do you...do you still remember your mother?" Mrs. Zhou thought of her daughter who had passed away before she even saw her again. If it weren't for her granddaughter, she probably wouldn't be able to muster any energy right now.
Shen Banxia shook her head. At that time, she had not yet awakened her memories of her past life. She only vaguely felt that her mother was very gentle.
"Xiaxia, can I call you that? I'm sorry, it's all my fault. If I hadn't lost your mother, she wouldn't have died so young..." Her voice choked with emotion.
“I think if my mom knew that you guys were always thinking about her, she wouldn’t feel any regret,” Shen Banxia guessed.
Mrs. Zhou couldn't hold back any longer.
Looking at Madam Zhou, who was silently shedding tears, Shen Banxia awkwardly comforted her, "You, you don't need to cry. Your body was stiff not long ago, and you just had surgery."
Madam Zhou didn't want the pregnant Shen Banxia to worry.
"Xiaxia, can you call me Grandma?" Mrs. Zhou looked at Shen Banxia expectantly.
"grandmother".
"Oh," Mrs. Zhou's eyes reddened again.
Everyone says there are no secrets in the village. The arrival of Old Zhou, the leader, immediately made everyone in Zhoujiazhuang aware that he had come to recognize his granddaughter.
This incident was the most devastating for Zhou Mingjiao, who muttered to herself, "How could this be? Why is it like this again? Is there something wrong with those two? Why do they always have to take everything from me?"
Looking at Zhou Mingjiao, who was still lying in bed, Zhou's mother said, "Jiaojiao, get up quickly."
Zhou Mingjiao looked utterly dejected. "Mom, do you think Shen Banxia and I are just natural enemies? Why does she always try to take everything I want from me?"
Zhou's mother had no idea why her daughter said that, but she still reminded her, "Jiaojiao, don't offend your sister-in-law again in the future. Her grandfather is very capable."
Zhou's mother could see the situation clearly. She had never been able to control her eldest son's daughter-in-law in the past, let alone now.
Zhou Mingjiao protested, "Why should I? Those should all have been mine."
Zhou's mother was stunned. "Jiaojiao, you can't talk nonsense like that. You are my own daughter and have nothing to do with them. Even if it was before, he was your uncle's former boss and had nothing to do with our family."
She plans to enjoy a comfortable life with her daughter in the future; what would happen if she recognized someone else?
Zhou Mingjiao covered her face with the blanket, not wanting to listen to her mother at all.
Why? It's different from my dream.
Is it really true that only if Shen Banxia is gone will the things in the dream not change?
Thinking of this, Zhou Mingjiao jumped up and said, "Mom, I have something to do, I'll go out for a bit."
“What are you doing out there? If you don’t take this opportunity to curry favor with your sister-in-law, you won’t have another chance like this in the future.”
In Zhou's mother's view, if they could build a good relationship, they wouldn't have to worry about either the fourth son or Mingjiao in the future.
Zhou Mingjiao hated hearing such words the most, so she ran away as fast as she could.
Zhou's mother: ...
After Zhou Mingjiao was out of sight, he looked at his second wife standing in the middle of the yard and felt a surge of anger. "What are you still standing there for? Have you cooked? Have you swept the floor? Have you washed the clothes?"
The second son's wife, who was about to go out to see the excitement, froze in her tracks and said meekly, "I know, Mother."
Seeing that she couldn't utter a word even after being hit three times, Zhou's mother got angry. "You barren old mother, you're just occupying the latrine without doing anything. Do you want your second son to die out? My Zhou family is really unlucky to have married a plague goddess like you as a wife."
Li Erya lowered her head in shame. It was her fault; she was incompetent.
"I'm sorry, Mother."
Zhou's mother got even angrier, "Alright, alright, just looking at you makes me angry, get out, get out!"
Zhao Di returned carrying firewood and witnessed this scene. She was furious. "Grandma, how dare you say that about my mother? She didn't do anything wrong."
Li Erya was terrified. While pulling Zhaodi, she explained, "Mother, the child is still young and doesn't understand. Please don't blame her."
"Good, good, Li Erya, this is the good daughter you raised! My Zhou family is truly a misfortune! I'll beat you to death, you little brat!" She picked up a stick and started hitting her.
Li Erya's eyes were bloodshot, and her actions were faster than her thoughts.
Zhao Di was completely stunned as she watched the blood flow down her mother's head.
They reacted and tried to catch it, but they couldn't catch it at all, and the two of them fell to the ground together.
Zhou's mother was stunned, and dropped the stick as if she had been electrocuted. "It wasn't me, it wasn't me, she had to run over."
He ran away after saying that.
Shen Banxia had no idea about the Zhou family's affairs.
At this moment, looking at the newly born grandparents, the two of them kept stuffing the savings book into their hands.
No matter how much Shen Banxia tried to refuse, Madam Zhou insisted, "This is for the baby, you can't refuse it."
Old Zhou's boss also said, "Banxia, listen to me. Your grandparents don't have anything else. We're getting old. Anyway, these are all for you. It's the same whether we give them to you sooner or later."
Madam Zhou chimed in, "Yes, Banxia, if you don't accept it, we, we..." As she spoke, tears began to fall.
Shen Banxia looked at them helplessly and sighed, "I have some."
“What you have is yours, but what your maternal grandparents gave you is different.”
Shen Banxia had no choice but to accept it, thinking that she could ask Zhou Mingqian to keep an eye on her grandparents, whose health was not good and who needed to take good care of themselves.
Having already made up her mind, Shen Banxia accepted the gift without hesitation, much to the delight of her grandparents.
The people from Zhoujiazhuang who came to watch the spectacle never expected that they would be given bankbooks so easily.
Although I don't know the exact amount, he's a cadre, so his salary must be quite high.
Oh dear, why don't they have relatives like that?
Listen to this, now all they have is their granddaughter Shen Banxia, and everything in the house will belong to her in the future. In other words, it will all belong to Zhou Mingqian.
Good heavens! They used to think that Zhou Mingqian would be a bachelor for life, but after marrying a educated youth who couldn't work, they thought the two of them would starve to death.
Who would have thought that the two of them would become so successful, one after the other, and now they've even climbed up to high-ranking officials. Wow, that's incredible!
Some people were gloating, saying that the Zhou family's relationship with Mingqian and his wife hadn't been very good lately.
However, this caused those who had harbored some ulterior motives to abandon those thoughts.
Shen Banxia looked at the two elderly people and knew their intentions perfectly well. Don't be fooled by the simplicity of rural people; there are bad people among them.
After all, the maternal grandfather still holds a certain status. With such a grand and public display of kinship, even those who are short-sighted will think twice.
Shen Banxia felt the deep love and care from her maternal grandparents.
Immersed in her world of family affection, Shen Banxia failed to notice the resentful gazes from the crowd.
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