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Shen Mo’s hand, which was hanging outside where Jiang Ning couldn’t see, clenched tightly.
But the heat rising in him just wouldn’t subside.
After what felt like an eternity, the weight on him finally shifted, and Jiang Ning turned over, facing inward, intending to continue sleeping.
Having just experienced a man’s morning arousal firsthand, she couldn’t bring herself to casually step over Shen Mo to get out of bed.
Unknowingly, Jiang Ning fell asleep again.
The moment Shen Mo felt her breathing steady, he abruptly sat up, a drop of sweat sliding down his forehead into his undershirt.
When Jiang Ning woke up, she heard sounds from the courtyard.
She walked to the window and looked out, seeing Shen Mo teaching Zhiqi how to box, hand in hand.
Zhiqi, with his small arms and legs, was throwing punches with quite a bit of flair.
As he punched, he occasionally glanced at Shen Mo, his eyes brimming with admiration.
In just a couple of days, the child had visibly become more cheerful.
Jiang Ning quickly changed her clothes and tied her hair into a neat ponytail before walking out.
Shen Mo was still adjusting Zhiqi’s arm when he saw his wife come out of the house, lazily stretching.
Her stretch revealed a small section of her fair waist.
Instinctively, he covered Zhiqi’s eyes with his hand.
Zhiqi, suddenly in the dark, was confused: “?”
“Good morning,” Jiang Ning greeted as she walked towards the courtyard.
Shen Mo, seeing her getting closer, felt his face inexplicably redden.
Jiang Ning noticed it too, thinking they had gotten warm from practicing boxing early in the morning.
While the two men in the house were boxing, Jiang Ning began her Ba Duan Jin exercises, facing the refreshing air.
Her movements were slow and graceful.
By the time she was halfway through her routine, she noticed that the two of them were staring at her.
Feeling embarrassed under their gaze, Jiang Ning asked, “Why are you looking at me?”
“Wife, what kind of exercise are you doing?”
Jiang Ning thought that he was getting more comfortable calling her “wife.”
Oh well, let him call her that.
“It’s called Ba Duan Jin, used for strengthening the body,” Jiang Ning explained, glancing at his shoulder. “It’s different from your training, which often leads to injuries.”
She briefly considered teaching Shen Mo but quickly dismissed the idea. Judging from the man’s physical condition this morning, he didn’t need it.
Jiang Ning then shifted her attention to Zhiqi.
She asked him, “Zhiqi, would you like to learn this Ba Duan Jin?”
Zhiqi nodded, indicating that he wanted to learn whatever Jiang Ning was willing to teach.
Jiang Ning taught Zhiqi step by step, occasionally laughing at the child’s uncoordinated limbs.
When Zhiqi finally managed to perform the Ba Duan Jin routine with proper form, Jiang Ning clapped her hands happily and then patted his head, saying, “You’re really smart.”
Zhiqi looked up at her, and Jiang Ning felt like a beam of light breaking through the clouds in his heart, shining down on him.
His mother had passed away early, and his father was not by his side. When he finally reunited with his father, his father passed away due to an accident.
Growing up, he had always felt inferior and lacked love. When he was bullied, there was no father to stand up for him, and no mother to offer comforting words. For years, he had lived like a wild grass, drifting with the wind, enduring a lot of hardship.
He had thought that his life would always be this way, filled with misfortune. But Uncle Shen told him that if anyone ever bullied him again, he should use the boxing techniques he taught to protect himself. And if he couldn’t protect himself, he should tell Uncle Shen, who would stand up for him.
Jiang Ning would praise him for everything he did, whether it was washing the dishes or learning something quickly. No one had ever praised and affirmed him like this before.
After experiencing so much misfortune, he thought that perhaps it was all for the sake of meeting Uncle Shen and Jiang Ning at this moment.
*
At that moment, Lin Yufei appeared at a town inn. He knocked on the inn door, and it opened quickly.
As soon as the door opened, Jiang Ting excitedly asked, “Yufei, did the application go through?”
“Yes,” Lin Yufei nodded. “My military rank isn’t high enough to bring someone along with me, but the higher-ups said my military merits qualify me for a temporary housing allocation. However, it’s only when housing isn’t in high demand. If more people need to move in later, we’ll have to give up the house.”
Jiang Ting said excitedly, “It’s great that we got the approval. At least we won’t have to spend unnecessary money on rent.”
She knew that Lin Yufei would continue to get promoted in the future, so she wasn’t worried about losing the house.
With the housing issue resolved, Jiang Ting was very happy. She suddenly reached out, took Lin Yufei’s hand, and placed it on her chest, giving him a coquettish look. “Yufei… do you want to?”
Lin Yufei, led by Jiang Ting into the room, sweated as he reached out and grabbed her waist, but his large hands barely managed to encircle it.
Looking at Jiang Ting’s face, Lin Yufei’s mind inexplicably conjured up another face that bore a five-point resemblance to Jiang Ting, along with a slender waist that he could almost encircle with his fingers.
Men are visual creatures, and when faced with similar items, they instinctively tend to compare.
Jiang Ting’s waist wasn’t as slender as her sister’s, and her skin wasn’t as fair, but she had one thing that surpassed her sister—her impressive… ‘assets.’
“Yufei…” Jiang Ting cooed, “Can you give me some money? I want to buy a new dress.”
Lin Yufei looked up, furrowed his brow, and said, “Didn’t you bring some clothes from your hometown?”
Jiang Ting tried her best to act coquettish, saying, “I just want to buy a new dress.”
In reality, she had her eye on the pale yellow dress that Jiang Ning wore the last time they met. Later, she went shopping and finally found the same style in a store.
She thought that if Jiang Ning looked good in it, she would look even better in it, but she didn’t have enough money on her at the time.
Lin Yufei thought for a moment and said, “Alright, I’ll give you ten yuan tomorrow to buy it.”
“Can you give me an extra five yuan?” Jiang Ting pleaded.
Lin Yufei knew that clothes weren’t expensive nowadays, and as long as they weren’t very high-end, they would be sufficient. He originally wanted to ask what kind of dress would cost so much, but at that moment, he didn’t want to spoil the mood.
He agreed, saying, “Alright, I’ll give you an extra five yuan tomorrow.”
—
Jiang Ning stared at the savings book in her hand, feeling dazed, and even found it a bit too hot to hold.
Especially when she saw the number in the savings book, she was completely shocked.
There was nearly ten thousand yuan.
Jiang Ning was so astonished that her jaw almost dropped.
According to the current prices, Shen Mo was a solid “ten-thousand-yuan household.” If you converted it to the money in her previous life, ten thousand yuan here was equivalent to being a millionaire there.
Although she had been a bit of a wealthy woman in her previous life, in this era, she was penniless, with pockets cleaner than her face. In this male-dominated era, the norm was for men to handle external affairs and women to manage the household, so it was rare for a man to hand over financial control to a woman.
Even in her previous life, it was rare to find such a generous man.
Shen Mo gazed at Jiang Ning, and when he saw her eyes light up as she looked at the savings book, he knew he had made the right decision.
His wife looked the best when she smiled.
Jiang Ning looked at the hefty number on the savings book and teased, “You’re giving me all this money. Aren’t you afraid I’ll spend it all?”
“Spend it however you like. I’ll give you my entire monthly salary.”
In fact, he used to have much more money, but when his family was reported and sent down, most of their assets were confiscated.
However, in the past two years since the reform and opening up, the higher-ups have been conducting a thorough purge, and it is expected that the family’s assets will be returned in the future.
When that happens, his share will also be handed over to his wife.
Jiang Ning looked at the savings book in her hand. If Shen Mo had given her the savings book when they first met, she would have definitely refused and returned it to him.
But now… she felt a little reluctant to return it.
This man was too good, so good that she couldn’t find any fault with him.