Pei Ziheng's words were like a sharp thorn, piercing Ma Sufen's heart, making her suspicious of Shen Baolan, her daughter-in-law, and guarding against Shen Baolan like a thief every day, refusing to let Shen Baolan stay alone with Zhou Hao without saying anything, and no longer serving Shen Baolan carefully as before.

Shen Baolan dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak, so she could only talk to Zhou Shuhuan when she slept at night to confide in her grievances.

What can Zhou Shuhuan do.

One is his own mother, the other is his daughter-in-law who is pregnant with his baby, caught in the middle of the dilemma, and simply doesn't like to go back, drinking and playing cards with friends all day long, and refuses to go home until eleven or twelve o'clock.

She decided that Pei Ziheng said those words because she was instigated by Shen Mingzhu.

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Pei Ziheng won the first place in the class activity, Shen Mingzhu was naturally happy, but he also wondered where Pei Ziheng learned English.

Pei Ziheng explained that he learned it from the radio, and Shen Mingzhu did not doubt it.

Pei Ziheng is indeed different from other children.

While other children like to play with toys like car pistols, he likes the Rubik's Cube, the number filler and the chessboard.

Other children only watch cartoons and martial arts movies when they watch TV, but Pei Ziheng likes to watch current political news and listen to radio English.

Shen Mingzhu pasted the award certificate of Pei Ziheng's class activities on the wall in a conspicuous position in the living room, and when she pasted it, Pei Ziheng stood silently in the living room and watched, without moving his eyes for a long time.

If you win the first place, you naturally have to reward it, and you can't get the first place every time.

Thinking that Pei Ziheng was always bored in the room and didn't like to play with people, Shen Mingzhu planned to give him a Walkman with a radio.

In these years, the Walkman is still a rarity, and it takes an index to buy it, and Shen Mingzhu took a lot of effort to get the ticket, which cost more than two hundred yuan.

She was a little sore when she paid for it, but looking at her stepson's beautiful face and imagining the amazing scene of him standing on the stage in the future and shocking the four seats with fluent English, she felt that it was worth it again.

That night, Pei Ziheng held the Walkman for a long time, because he knew very well that when he bought this Walkman, the woman did not spend her father's money, but used the money she saved by making pastries by herself.

What a stupid woman, she managed to save some money and was so lost.

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In a blink of an eye, it was the day of Shen Mingzhu's exam.

The weather was colder, and the snow on the road was thicker than bricks, Shen Mingzhu was not worried that Pei Ziheng would go to school alone, and he didn't want to trouble others, so he simply asked him for two days off and let him stay at home to play.

Shen Mingzhu was a graduate student before the crossing, and the test questions in this era are simply too simple compared to forty years later.

There are two doors in total, and Shen Mingzhu finished them half an hour in advance.

After the self-examination, the kindergarten will have its winter vacation in a few days.

Shen Mingzhu could clearly feel the happiness of his stepson, although his white and tender little face was still expressionless, but his excitement could be seen from the small movements and small details.

So happy to see Dad?

While Shen Mingzhu was sour, he inexplicably had a trace of curiosity about Pei Ziheng's mother.

I guess it's a strange woman, in this era of feudal and backward thinking, she gave birth to a man without getting married.

In fact, she occasionally heard people in the family home talk about it, saying that Pei Ziheng's own mother died after giving birth to Pei Ziheng, saying that Pei Yang hid this woman very deeply, and even the people in the family home had never seen it, and it was precisely because of this that there were various versions of rumors about Pei Ziheng's mother in the family home.

It is said that Pei Ziheng's mother is a female soldier on the same battlefield as Pei Yang, and the female soldier accidentally sacrificed, leaving behind the baby and Pei Yang who had just completed the moon.

It is said that Pei Ziheng's mother's family composition is not good, so in order not to drag Pei Yang down, she gave birth to a baby and left the country.

It is also said that Pei Ziheng's mother abandoned her husband and children and ran abroad with rich people.

In short, no matter which version, Pei Ziheng is undoubtedly pitiful.

There was no real mother just after the full moon, Pei Yang has been away for a long time, and he can only live with his grandparents since he was a child, and now his grandparents have passed away one after another, and he has been reduced to being able to rely on her stepmother with a foreign surname, and it is no wonder that he is withdrawn and unsociable.

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Shen Mingzhu, who is accustomed to airplanes and high-speed rail, is very uncomfortable with the green train of this era, but fortunately, Fengcheng is not too far from Xicheng Port, and it will arrive in one day.

When he arrived, it was noon, Shen Mingzhu was carrying luggage in one hand and Pei Ziheng in the other, and inquired all the way to find the ocean staff dormitory.

Shen Mingzhu held the household registration book and a letter of introduction, and successfully got the key to Pei Yang's dormitory.

Pei Yang is a middle-level employee in Sino-Ocean Company, and he is assigned a single dormitory.

The dormitory area is not large, about 20 square meters, with a small balcony, the only bad thing is that there is no independent bathroom.

There was no room for several months, and the air in the room was very unpleasant, mixed with a smell of sea and a strange smell of furniture after being damp.

However, Xicheng Port belongs to the temperate zone, and the average temperature in winter is 5-10 degrees, which is much warmer than Fengcheng.

Shen Mingzhu closed the door and began to do hygiene.

It's not that she's diligent, she wants to lie down and sleep well, but the dormitory is full of a thick layer of dust, and the bed is not made, so she can't even find a place to sit.

Fortunately, the dormitory is not big and the furniture is small, so it was cleaned up in a few clicks.

After taking a breath, Shen Mingzhu began to pack his luggage.

There is a one-meter-wide vertical wardrobe in the dormitory, the wardrobe style is very old-fashioned, the paint on the surface has fallen off, but the inside of the wardrobe is very pleasing to the eye.

On the left is the cubicle, where men's shirts and pants are folded into squares, and even small clothes such as socks and underwear are neatly folded.

The hanger area on the right hangs several men's coats of different styles and textures.

Just because the man's wardrobe is clean and tidy, Shen Mingzhu's good impression of him has risen by two points.

After putting away the luggage, Shen Mingzhu took Pei Ziheng outside to eat something and buy some daily necessities, and then went back to the dormitory to rest.

Sleep till dawn.

In the morning, Shen Mingzhu woke up to the sound of the whistle, stretched comfortably and walked to the balcony, and was immediately amazed by the bright weather and pleasant sea view.

The warm wind blows from the blue sea, with a slight smell of sea, but it is not cold at all.

The blue sky was covered with snow and white clouds like cotton wool, and in the distance, the sea and the sky were connected, and a few unnamed seabirds were flying between the sea and the sky in the wind.

Although the city where Shen Mingzhu lived before was also close to the sea, he was not close enough to see the sea from the balcony of the station, and he couldn't help but be fascinated for a while.

Until the depressed voice of the stepson came from behind him, "I'm hungry." ”

Shen Mingzhu turned her head happily, "Let's go out to eat and see what delicious breakfast is available here." ”

Pei Ziheng touched his hungry little belly and was noncommittal.

For breakfast, I ate the most famous local pot stickers and yakiniku cakes, at noon I had fish balls and beef claypot, and in the evening I ate fried skewers from the night market.

Shen Mingzhu himself is a food lover, and he eats all kinds of delicacies three times a day, and he is so happy that he flies.

The next day, she was about to continue to take Pei Ziheng out to eat food, but guests came to the dormitory.

Wang Huizhen and Wang Xiuzhu.

Knowing that Wang Hui was really Pei Yang's wife, Shen Mingzhu treated herself with courtesy, but unfortunately she couldn't find tea in the dormitory for a long time, so she had to pour two cups of boiled water for the two.

"You rural people use boiled water to entertain guests?"