Chapter 84: Can’t You Just Like Someone Else?

When Shen Chuning returned home, she happened to see Shen Zhengliang looking preoccupied as he came from the educated youth point.

Shen Chuning stood at her courtyard gate and waited for a while.

Shen Zhengliang walked past her without noticing her.

She called out, “Second Brother.”

Shen Zhengliang came to his senses, “Ningning, you’re back?”

Shen Chuning didn’t beat around the bush and went straight to the point, “Didn’t you talk it over with Wang Yumeng?”

Shen Zhengliang frowned, sighed, and looked at Shen Chuning hesitantly.

Shen Chuning instantly understood, he was still eyeing her jade pendant!

While Second Brother was still hesitating, Shen Chuning anxiously said, frowning, “She doesn’t even want ‘three turns and one ring’? What if we add five hundred kuai?”

After Shen Chuning finished speaking, before Shen Zhengliang could speak, she gritted her teeth, looking determined, “Second Brother, go talk to Wang Yumeng again, we’ll give ‘three turns and one ring’ plus eight hundred kuai as a betrothal gift.”

Shen Zhengliang was shocked by this number.

‘Three turns and one ring’ would cost about six hundred kuai, plus eight hundred kuai, that’s fourteen hundred kuai.

No one in the city would spend that much money to marry a wife, let alone in the countryside.

“Second Brother, don’t worry about the money. Brother Yubai gave me all his savings before returning to the army, I’ll give it to you first.”

Shen Zhengliang also felt that his sister’s proposed betrothal gift was already generous enough.

In their village, a betrothal gift was usually fifty kuai, and one hundred kuai was enough to have a decent wedding.

Moreover, his sister was willing to use her brother-in-law’s savings to pay for the betrothal gift, he was truly grateful and moved.

“Okay, I’ll go talk to Yumeng again.”

As soon as Shen Zhengliang turned around, he saw Wang Yumeng standing behind him, looking angry and wronged.

“Yumeng…”

Before he could speak, Wang Yumeng interrupted angrily, “Comrade Shen, what do you mean? Do you think I’m the kind of woman who cares about material things, enjoys pleasure, and marries whoever gives more betrothal gifts?”

“I’ve said, I don’t care about material things, I don’t want a betrothal gift, I only want your family’s recognition, woohoo…”

Wang Yumeng seemed to get angrier and angrier, finally crying.

Seeing her cry, Shen Zhengliang panicked, “Mengmeng, that’s not what I meant…”

Shen Chuning: …

She sighed and asked Wang Yumeng, “Wang Yumeng, since you’re already discussing marriage with my second brother, and our family has shown our utmost sincerity.

Don’t you think about my second brother, why do you have to have the jade pendant my mother left me, making my second brother so difficult?”

Shen Chuning said, her eyes also reddening, tears welling up, questioning Wang Yumeng, “I’ve never seen my mother since I was born, that’s the only memory my mother left me. As my future second sister-in-law, you want to take my things before you’ve even entered the door, do you think that’s appropriate?”

Shen Chuning said, wiping her tears constantly.

Although she didn’t cry out loud like Wang Yumeng, her heartbroken look, trying to control herself from crying but still shedding tears, was even more heartbreaking.

“Ningning…” Shen Zhengliang looked at Wang Yumeng and then at Shen Chuning, not knowing who to comfort.

Wang Yumeng rolled her eyes and said angrily, “Fine, Comrade Zhengliang, since my request makes your family so difficult, let’s break up.”

Wang Yumeng said, wiping her tears and running to the educated youth point.

“Yumeng…” Shen Zhengliang quickly chased after her.

Shen Chuning shook her head, what should she do with her second brother’s infatuation?

She felt that her second brother’s state towards Wang Yumeng was similar to her state towards Chen Ziyun before she had the dream.

He didn’t even know what he liked about her, but he was hopelessly infatuated.

She had to find a way to make her second brother completely sober up.

Seeing Second Brother chase after Wang Yumeng into the educated youth point.

She didn’t go into the house, but sat on the doorstep, waiting for Second Brother to return.

After a while, Shen Zhengliang returned dejectedly.

Seeing Shen Chuning still sitting on the doorstep with tears in her eyes, like a wronged puppy waiting for him, he felt heartbroken and helpless.

Shen Chuning sniffed aggrievedly and asked Shen Zhengliang in a muffled voice, “Second Brother, did you get the cold shoulder again?”

Shen Zhengliang’s nose was still red, obviously hit by the door when Wang Yumeng closed it.

Shen Zhengliang didn’t speak.

Shen Chuning’s eyes reddened even more, tears rolling down her cheeks, “Second Brother, do you like her that much?

Can’t you just like someone else? I suspect she’s deliberately targeting me, why doesn’t she want ‘three turns and one ring’ and hundreds of kuai as a betrothal gift, but she has to take the jade pendant my mother left me…”

Shen Chuning said, silently wiping her tears.

Shen Zhengliang sat down on the doorstep with Shen Chuning.

He gently wiped Shen Chuning’s tears, looking helpless, “Little sister, actually, I don’t want to…”

Shen Zhengliang scratched his hair in frustration and pain, “I don’t know why, I just like her, I just want to give her everything. I’ve tried not thinking about her, not seeing her.

But when I can’t see her, I feel my life is meaningless…”

In the few days after he returned from the hospital, he did feel that Wang Yumeng asking for the jade pendant his mother left Shen Chuning was inappropriate.

He thought that since he couldn’t persuade Wang Yumeng, he could at least break up while their relationship wasn’t deep.

But he tried, and it was all in vain.

Shen Zhengliang finished speaking, looking at Shen Chuning with hope, “Little sister, if we really can’t talk it over with Yumeng, can you… help Second Brother?”

Shen Chuning pursed her lips tightly, she naturally didn’t want to help Second Brother.

Even if Wang Yumeng was willing to accept other betrothal gifts to marry Second Brother, she didn’t want such a malicious second sister-in-law.

But looking at Second Brother’s painful expression, she felt that the most important thing now was to stabilize Second Brother.

She sniffed, nodded with tears in her eyes, “Second Brother, talk to Wang Yumeng first. If she really doesn’t accept other betrothal gifts, and you must marry her, we’ll talk again, okay?”

The light in Shen Zhengliang’s eyes instantly brightened, “Little sister, you’re willing to talk?”

Shen Chuning looked helpless, “Can I just watch my second brother suffer like this?”

Shen Zhengliang excitedly grabbed Shen Chuning’s hand, “Little sister, thank you! Second Brother is really grateful.”

“Second Brother, we’re siblings, helping each other is what we should do, why say these things?

It’s getting late, go back first.

I need to go back and eat something and rest, I have to go to the commune early tomorrow!”

Back in her room, Shen Chuning was worried.

She shouldn’t have sent Chen Ziyun to labor reform so early.

If Chen Ziyun was still here, with his ambiguous relationship with Wang Yumeng, she could create a coincidence, letting Second Brother accidentally see them…

But now Chen Ziyun had been sent to labor reform.

How could she make Second Brother see Wang Yumeng’s true face and give up on her?

As Shen Chuning was worrying, she heard a knock on the door.

She was puzzled, it was already dark, who would come to look for her?