“Alright, I’ll publish a public notice to sever family ties,” Shen Wei said. In truth, she already had the same plan in mind.
“Enough talk! Move out quickly!” Tian Yu urged.
He looked at his nephew standing straight beside him, then at how the boy kept staring at the young girl, and immediately understood.
“You like her, don’t you?”
Based on what he knew about his nephew, if he wasn’t interested in the girl, why would he bother coming all this way with him?
Unlike Tian Yu’s unruly personality, this nephew had been serious and composed since childhood everything he did was methodical and proper. Even though he was only three years younger, he was as steady as an old man.
Everyone in the family thought someone like him wouldn’t know how to pursue a girl but clearly he did. He had even chased her all the way to her home.
“Uncle, focus on your work,” Fu Xiao said lightly, clearing his throat.
Tian Yu: “……”
He instinctively replied, “Alright.”
Wait who exactly was the uncle here?
Because they were intimidated by this group of people, Shen Jianguo and Yu Li had no choice but to hurry and pack. It took them over an hour to gather everything.
By the end, the house was practically emptied.
Meanwhile, Lu Cheng could no longer hold back and finally came over to “help.”
But he discovered the Shen family had already stopped arguing, and Shen Wei was standing at the door talking to his childhood friend, Fu Xiao.
Strange Fu Xiao was never someone who liked to meddle in other people’s affairs.
Damn it… because of his mother, he didn’t even get a chance for a “hero saves beauty” moment.
Lu Cheng straightened his collar and walked over.
“Fu Xiao, when did you get back?” he said, casually draping his arm over Fu Xiao’s shoulder but it was immediately brushed off coldly.
Still, Fu Xiao had always been distant; the group of them often joked that he was suited to become a monk.
“Shen Wei, do you need any help?” Lu Cheng turned to ask Shen Wei when Fu Xiao ignored him.
Looking at the man who had betrayed and deceived her in her previous life, Shen Wei didn’t say a single word. She turned and left.
In this life, there should be no more entanglements between them at all.
Seeing her cold attitude, Lu Cheng let out a sigh.
Behind him, however, Fu Xiao’s lips curved slightly upward.
He didn’t know exactly why Shen Wei and Lu Cheng hadn’t succeeded in their blind date, but he was genuinely happy for himself.
This time, he would protect her for a lifetime.
“Brother,” Lu Cheng followed Fu Xiao like a persistent shadow, “do me a favor.”
“What favor?”
“Lend me some money, and some ration tickets,” Lu Cheng calculated. “I’m planning to get married to that Shen Wei you just spoke to. What do you think?”
She looked like a hardworking, capable woman.
Especially since she had the ability to argue her way through and even take back and sell the house from her uncle and aunt it showed she had ideas and wasn’t afraid of trouble.
If he married a wife like that, she could handle things at home in the future, and his honest parents wouldn’t have to work so hard anymore.
Fu Xiao frowned deeply.
“Weren’t you already rejected in that blind date?”
“That was only temporary,” Lu Cheng said, still very confident in himself. “She misunderstood my relationship with Qingqing. Once I explain it to her properly, it’ll be fine.”
“I’m planning to give her a bride price of 300 yuan,” he added. “Lend me 200, help your brother out.”
“I’m not lending it. Since she has already rejected you, then she has nothing to do with you anymore. Stop constantly talking about marriage you’re just being a scumbag!”
Seeing Fu Xiao turn and leave, Lu Cheng cursed him inwardly for being stingy. Just because he came from a military family, now he looked down on him?
Even lecturing him what a joke.
As expected, people with power and status always look down on others. But one day, Lu Cheng would climb to the top himself.
Unlike Fu Xiao, who was born into it, he had to plan everything step by step on his own. The most important thing right now was to marry Shen Wei.
His sickly parents and younger siblings had taken up too much of his time, causing him to miss many good opportunities.
Once he married Shen Wei, he would no longer have to worry about family matters and could focus entirely on building his career. More importantly, he would also be able to make use of the Fu family’s connections in the future.
He had heard that Shen Wei’s parents had a very good relationship with Fu Changzheng back in the day, and there had even been talk of arranging a childhood marriage between the two families’ children.
And today, when Shen Wei had a conflict with her family, both Tian Yu and Fu Xiao showed up it was probably also at Fu Changzheng’s instruction.
After experiencing more of society, Lu Cheng understood one thing more and more clearly: sometimes, all your scheming couldn’t compare to a single word from someone else. Connections mattered a lot.
……
After moving into the dilapidated old house, Shen Jianguo and Yu Li started arguing again.
“How are we supposed to live here?” Yu Li looked at the broken roof. “Shen Jianguo, you useless man! Marrying into the Shen family was the worst misfortune of my life!”
When Shen Jianming’s couple died, they had moved into the old house and never imagined they would one day be forced back here.
That damn Shen Wei was just too much!
“If you don’t like it, then go back to your parents’ house!” Shen Jianguo squatted in the corner, smoking gloomily.
The old couple of the Shen family silently sorted their things on the side, too afraid to speak, only daring to complain inwardly about their unfilial granddaughter.
The two younger children looked at everyone’s expressions and asked pitifully, “Grandma, why do we have to move from our home to such a broken place?”
“I don’t want to live here… sob sob…”
Yu Li was already full of anger and slapped her daughter hard. “Cry? What right do you have to cry! Remember this it’s that little bitch Shen Wei who kicked us out!”
After venting her anger, she still found the whole situation strange. “Why would that girl suddenly want to sell the house? If she sold it, where is she going to live?”
Shen Jianguo also became puzzled. Right, he had only been angry earlier and hadn’t thought of this.
“Could it be that old Fu guy meddled again?”
Yu Li’s eyes flashed with hatred. “If he really interfered, I’ll curse his whole family to death! That bastard just because he’s a commander, he bullies ordinary people. Tch!”
“Stop running your mouth,” Shen Jianguo said. “Hurry up and pack. I’m going to see where that girl went.”
“She already wants to cut ties with us why are you still bothering with her?” Yu Li said angrily.
“I just need to figure things out,” Shen Jianguo replied. He wasn’t worried about Shen Wei he was worried about the 1,800 yuan they had just given her. He couldn’t let it fall into someone else’s hands.
Since things had already been torn apart, there was no need to pretend to be a good uncle anymore.
After returning to her rental room and briefly tidying up, Shen Wei took the money and went to the department store.
The winds of reform and opening-up had just reached Yuncheng. Unlike the later bustling years, there were still not many street stalls.
Aside from some tightly controlled goods that required ration coupons, many daily necessities could already be bought with cash.
Shen Wei planned to buy some essentials for herself.