Chapter 98: The Husband Returned

Shen Chuning’s heart skipped a beat, she had felt someone following her for a long time after work.

But she didn’t tell Lin Shulan, there was no need to worry her elders.

Hearing that she hadn’t felt anything unusual, Lin Shulan breathed a sigh of relief, “Ningning, be careful these days, I heard that several girls and women in the nearby brigades were stopped by hooligans on the road.

Those hooligans didn’t do anything illegal, but they were disgusting. Make sure you carry the self-defense items your father prepared for you.”

“Mother, I know, don’t worry!” Shen Chuning responded readily.

“Go quickly, don’t be late for your first day of work.”

“Okay, Mother, goodbye!” After saying goodbye to Lin Shulan, Shen Chuning rode away.

Halfway there, she suddenly felt something was wrong, she felt like someone was watching her.

Before, she only had this feeling in the afternoon when she went home from work.

Now she had this feeling in the morning too.

Shen Chuning’s heart was in her throat, her eyes reddening, she wanted to cry.

But there was no one on the road, she could only calm herself down.

Propping up her bicycle with one foot, she took the pepper powder and chili water her father gave her, holding a steel pipe in the other hand, she shouted, “Come out, I’ve seen you.”

After waiting for a while, there was no movement.

Soon, the feeling of being watched disappeared.

Seeing that she was running out of time, she couldn’t stay to deal with it, she pedaled her bicycle to the commune.

The rest of the way was smooth.

At the commune, she first took care of her grain and oil rations, then Peng Kaiyuan took her to go through the work handover procedures.

The commune accountant’s job paid thirty-two kuai a month, plus twenty jin of grain coupons, half a jin of meat coupons, and three chi of cloth coupons.

This was a very good job with good benefits.

Shen Chuning had already told Peng Kaiyuan that she would find someone to build a house for him.

Before Peng Kaiyuan’s house was rebuilt, he would continue to live in his old house in the commune staff dormitory.

At lunchtime, Peng Kaiyuan called Shen Chuning to eat with him.

The old man bought tofu and meat, made minced meat tofu, and stir-fried two vegetarian dishes for Shen Chuning.

After dinner, Peng Kaiyuan took out an iron tin from the only wooden box in his room.

Opening the tin, there was a stack of money and coupons.

“Ning girl, this is what the teacher has saved over the years, it’s all for you.” Peng Kaiyuan directly gave the tin to Shen Chuning.

Shen Chuning quickly wanted to refuse.

Before she could speak, Peng Kaiyuan’s face darkened, “Girl, you said you would take care of this old man in his old age.

Now you don’t even want to take this little thing, do you not want to keep your word?”

Shen Chuning quickly explained, “Teacher, that’s not what I meant. Taking care of you is my responsibility, if I take your money and then take care of you, it would be unfilial.”

Peng Kaiyuan said seriously, “Taking care of me is one thing, but buying things and building a house cost money, I can’t take advantage of you. Take it!”

Shen Chuning couldn’t persuade the old man and had to take the things.

On the way home from work, Shen Chuning felt someone following her again.

Noticing something was wrong, while holding the handlebars to control the direction, she also held the bamboo tube with pepper powder and chili powder that her father gave her, speeding up.

But before she rode far, four or five figures suddenly jumped out of the grove beside the road.

Although Shen Chuning was prepared, when it came to it, she couldn’t control her instinctive reaction.

She let go of the handlebars, crying and jumping off the bicycle.

Those hooligans looked at each other in astonishment, before they could react, they saw Shen Chuning holding a bamboo tube like a machine gun, spraying powder at them.

“Cough cough cough…”

“Damn!”

“Stinky bitch…”

…

When they reacted, not only were their eyes burning, but they were also coughing.

Shen Chuning was both surprised and scared, crying uncontrollably, spraying pepper powder and chili powder without stopping.

Soon, the chili powder in the bamboo tube ran out.

Crying, Shen Chuning threw away the bamboo tube and picked up the long-handled sickle tied to the bicycle.

“You… you don’t come closer, I… I’m very fierce…” Shen Chuning cried, clutching the long-handled sickle.

Those people couldn’t open their eyes because of the chili powder, and they kept coughing and sneezing.

Hearing Shen Chuning’s words, they reacted.

“Her chili powder is gone, brothers, go!”

Seeing those hooligans charging at her without even opening their eyes, Shen Chuning cried even louder.

She didn’t dare to use the sickle to cut people, she could only hold the sickle and take two steps back, crying and threatening weakly, “You… you don’t come closer, I… I have a knife, I’m very fierce, woohoo…”

“Little girl, you want to cut people, show us!”

One of the hooligans who had been hiding in the back could barely open his eyes.

He viciously tried to grab Shen Chuning.

“Ah—”

Shen Chuning screamed, closing her eyes and swinging the sickle desperately.

“Bang!”

At this moment, she heard a heavy object hitting the ground.

Then a wail came.

“Bang bang bang!”

Several more heavy objects hitting the ground.

Along with a series of wails.

“Comrade Shen, are you alright!”

A familiar voice came.

Shen Chuning opened her eyes and saw Yin Linjiang’s anxious and worried face.

She sniffed, controlling herself from crying, she sobbed, “I’m fine, Comrade Yin, thank you, if it weren’t for you today, I…”

Yin Linjiang smiled awkwardly, “Comrade Shen, I didn’t help much, it was those soldiers…”

Since he heard that women were often harassed by hooligans on this road, he had been secretly following Shen Chuning to escort her home every day.

But today, when he followed Shen Chuning out of the commune, he was stopped by another colleague and talked to him for a while, and he arrived a little late.

When he caught up, he saw the hooligans trying to attack Shen Chuning.

He was about to rush forward and fight those hooligans, when a soldier got off a passing military vehicle and quickly knocked down those hooligans.

After Zhou Yubai stepped on those hooligans, he turned to see Shen Chuning wiping her tears in front of another man, his already cold face instantly darkened.