Chapter 1368 Broken Engagement 17
Shen Lin glared at him gloomily, then went to the gate, squatted there, took out a notebook and wrote down the contents of the meeting.
Shen Yuandong is the publicity officer of the food factory. This time he came here to learn from the experience of his colleagues and seniors. He stared at Shen Lin coldly for a long time before he went to the group of interns from other factories to learn from their experience.
After the meeting, Shen Yuandong followed the director of the food factory back to the food factory, but all afternoon he was recalling the intimate scene of Shen Lin and Hong Shanshan standing together.
After get off work in the afternoon, Shen Yuandong ran to the machinery factory to find a classmate he had a good relationship with to inquire about the Shen family. He unexpectedly found out that the Shen family had been robbed a few days ago and the thieves had emptied the house.
Shen Yuandong gloated and spat, "Serves you right."
His classmate asked him, "Yuan Dong, do you have a grudge against the Shen family?"
Shen Yuandong gritted his teeth and talked about the relationship between the two families, and then said, "After my father died, my sister and I returned to the countryside. My sister and Shen Lin are not compatible in status. He proposed to cancel the engagement. I understand. After all, he is a high school graduate, his family is well-off, and he is a formal employee of the machinery factory. It is understandable that he would look down on my sister. But his family is too bullying. They have canceled the engagement and still won't return my sister's dowry. They just think that my sister and I have lost our parents and have no one to rely on, so they can bully us at will."
Shen Yuandong knew that this classmate's mother was a gossip, so he deliberately spoke loudly so that the classmate's mother in the main room could hear him.
After leaving his classmate's house, Shen Yuandong spat in the direction of the Shen family, "Shen Guoan, Shen Lin, you bully my sister and no one backs you up. I will back my sister up."
But then he thought again, the Shen family had everything emptied out by thieves, not even a single chopstick was left, so his sister's dowry must have been stolen by the thieves as well.
Shen Yuandong felt distressed because that was the only thought his mother left for his sister.
It was also the only dowry his parents left for his sister.
It’s all the Shen family’s fault. If they had returned the bracelet to his sister when they broke off the engagement, it wouldn’t have been stolen by a thief.
In his heart, Shen Yuandong completely resented the Shen family.
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When Shen Lin returned home, he told Shen Guoan and Liu Hongyan about meeting Shen Yuandong outside the municipal meeting venue.
Liu Hongyan curled her lips and said, "Xiao Lin, our family and Yuanchun and her brother are no longer the same kind of people. They are now peasants in the countryside, and we are city dwellers, eating state-funded food."
"It is said that you should marry someone of equal status to have a successful marriage. In the past, your parents would arrange a marriage between you and Yuanchun because your two families were of equal status. Now Yuanchun is just a country girl who has not even finished high school. She is no longer worthy of you. Don't bother with her anymore. You should coax Shanshan more in the future. Only then will Shanshan be your wife."
"I understand, Mom." Shen Lin agreed with his mother's words, but if the issue of the token of love was not resolved, Shen Yuanchun's sister and brother would definitely come back to bother him in the future.
He said solemnly, "Dad, Mom, Shen Yuandong told us to return the bracelet to Yuanchun, otherwise he will call the department and ask dad's former boss to come forward."
Shen Guoan's face darkened, "Did he really say that?"
"Say, Dad, what are we going to do?"
Shen Lin was worried that Shen Yuandong would really go to the leader of the department. After all, a higher-ranking official can crush a person. Although his father's former leader can't control his father now, he has many relatives who are officials. It would be easy for him to find a connection to suppress his father.
Moreover, when they were in the department, Yuanchun's father had a much closer relationship with his leader than his father did.