Chapter 31 Of course I’m on guard against you
Old Mrs. Shen put the money away, looked at the second son's wife with admiration, and took out fifty cents from her other pocket and gave it to her, "Here, this is for you, buy whatever you need."
"Thank you, Mom." Li Caixia was happier with the fifty cents than with thirty yuan.
Thirty yuan must be handed over, and the fifty cents is your own pocket money.
When Zhang Cuicui saw the fifty cents in her second brother's wife's hand, she began to regret it. If she had also asked Zhou Zhiqing to pay back the money, she would have had fifty cents too.
The mother-in-law is the head of the family. If the family needs something, they can ask her for money and she will give it to them, but it is not much. It is difficult for them to save some money privately.
Liu Pandi didn't know how upset she felt. Her daughter brought guests back, but her mother-in-law didn't take out the key to cook for her. She even let Li Caixia ask her to pay back the money.
He trampled on her daughter's face without giving her any respect at all. He is so mean.
She was full of resentment, but she didn't dare to complain to her mother-in-law, so she lowered her head and went back to the house.
Li Caixia snorted, "Who are you showing off your sad face to?"
Zhang Cuicui sat next to her mother-in-law and talked to her about Zhou Jingchen. "Mom, this Zhou Zhiqing doesn't seem to be very good. After all, our family saved his life, but he didn't show any gratitude. If it weren't for my second brother's wife asking him to pay back the money, he probably wouldn't even pay it back, and would just say thank you.
He came at dinner time. I have never seen such a person before, and he is from Kyoto, but he has no manners at all."
They saved your life, so you should bring expensive gifts, but you can't come empty-handed. It would be fine if you came empty-handed, but you came at dinner time, which made it obvious that you were here to get a free meal. You just said a few words of gratitude to them, but there was no sincerity at all.
It’s not that Zhang Cuicui really wanted to accept the gift, but Zhou Zhiqing’s behavior made her very uncomfortable.
Of course, her stupid niece was also stupid. As soon as she saw the other person, she asked him to come for dinner.
Shen Xue, who was called stupid by Zhang Cuicui, was apologizing to Zhou Jingchen at the educated youth point.
"Jingchen, I'm sorry, I didn't know my second aunt would be like that. She's a country woman who doesn't know anything. Don't bother with her."
"Shen Xue, stop talking. I'm a little tired now. You should go back first."
Zhou Jingchen didn't want to talk to her any more. He was still feeling bad about the thirty yuan. He was not favored at home, his parents didn't care about him as a son, and they didn't give him much money when he went to the countryside.
He only had 60 yuan on him, and he gave away 30 yuan at once, which left him with more than half the money. Life in the countryside was so hard, and he couldn't imagine how difficult his future would be.
Of course he knew that the family sent him to the hospital and paid him thirty yuan for the hospitalization fee.
When he was discharged from the hospital, the hospital refunded him 10 yuan, but he never thought of paying it back.
Since they want to be good people, the Shen family sent him to the hospital, so they should save him to the end. Isn't it their duty to pay for the medical expenses?
I didn't expect this family to be so shameless. When they knew it was him, they directly asked him for money.
If he hadn't gone to the countryside and the team leader was a relative of their family, Zhou Jingchen would never have paid the money.
"Jing Chen, are you blaming me in your heart? I sincerely invited you to my house for dinner.
It’s just that my family… some… some are not good at expressing themselves. Actually, they still welcome you. This time I didn’t tell them in advance. Next time you come, my parents will cook a table of dishes to entertain you.”
Zhou Jingchen was not a fool, how could he not see that the Shen family disliked him? Shen Xue was simply lying with her eyes open. Thinking that the captain was her second grandfather and there would be many things he could do with her in the future, he smiled gently.
"Xue'er, what are you thinking? I don't mean to blame you. I blame you for not thinking carefully enough. It was indeed a bit abrupt to come to your house so suddenly.
Xue'er, it's getting dark, you should go back quickly. It's not safe for you to go back too late."
Shen Xue didn't want to go back. She wanted to talk more with Zhou Jingchen to develop their relationship.
Seeing the educated youths at the educated youth center walking back and forth in the yard one by one pretending to have something to do, and always glancing at the two of them out of the corner of their eyes, Shen Xue still cared about her reputation.
"Jingchen, I'm going back first. I'll come to see you tomorrow. You just came to the countryside, so you must be unfamiliar with this place. I'll show you around."
When Shen Xue left the educated youth center, Zhao Chunhua asked the old educated youth Zhou Li, "Who is that? She seems to be very familiar with Zhou Zhiqing."
Zhou Li wrung out the clothes, swung them and hung them on the bamboo pole. She glanced at the two people not far away and said, "Her name is Shen Xue. She is the niece of the team leader. I don't know how she knows Zhou Zhiqing."
"It must be this Shen Xue who saw that Zhou Zhiqing was good-looking and came up to him to get to know him."
It was obvious at first glance that Shen Xue was not a quiet person and she wanted to snatch Zhou Zhiqing from her right away.
She was the one who fell in love with Zhao Zhiqing first, and she would not let a village girl compete with her for a man.
Zhou Li didn't reply to her at this time, and went back to the house with the basin.
Zhou Jingchen didn't have any strength after not eating enough in the morning and at noon, and didn't have dinner either. He wanted to go back to the house to find something to eat, but Zhao Chunfeng came over and said,
"Zhou Zhiqing, you haven't eaten yet, right? I have two pieces of egg cakes here, would you like some?"
Of course Zhou Jingchen wanted to eat it, but he didn't take it right away. He asked her with concern, "Thank you, Zhao Zhiqing, have you eaten?"
Zhao Chunhua bought these two egg cakes at the supply and marketing cooperative today. She didn’t eat any of them. She was afraid that he wouldn’t eat them. Zhao Chunhua smiled and said, “I ate them. I bought too much. I can’t finish them.”
Zhou Jingchen was very hungry now, so he didn't bother to be polite. He took the egg cake and said, "Zhao Zhiqing, I'll treat you to a meal at the state-owned restaurant later."
"We are all comrades. When we go to the countryside, we should help each other. There is no need to be so polite."
The old educated youth Zhou Taozi and Chen Hong were lying on the kang and rolling their eyes. "She still can't finish it. She refused to share a small piece of egg cake when we asked her to.
She has just arrived in the countryside and doesn’t know how to be sensible. If she has any problems in the future and asks us old educated youth for help, we won’t help her.”
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Shen Xue returned home. Shen Shuyu and the others had just returned from outside and had moved the remaining food back home.
Gu Jiandong's food was kept in his room. Shen Shuyu gave him a key and told him to remember to lock the door when he was not in the room.
Shen Xue felt uncomfortable after hearing this, "Sister, we are all family. Who are you trying to protect by asking him to lock the door?"
Shen Shuyu was lying leisurely on the recliner, and said nonchalantly, "Of course I'm on guard against you. Who knows if you will steal food to subsidize your Zhou Zhiqing."
Shen Xue was furious, "Shen Shuyu...you!"
"What? Are you angry? Come and hit me if you're angry!"
Gu Jiandong thought Shen Xue was really going to hit Shen Shuyu, so he stepped forward and pushed Shen Xue away, "Ugly woman, don't try to bully Shuyu."
Although Gu Jiandong was dumbfounded, he was still an adult and a martial artist after all, so he was quite strong.
"Ah!" Shen Xue fell flat on her face. You could tell from her screaming that it was very painful.