Chapter 13

Lu Zhengguo’s face darkened, “Lu Hongmei, shut up!”

She’s not a little girl anymore, yet she’s still so immature, I don’t know what she’s learned all day, she doesn’t even have basic respect.

Lu Mu pulled Lu Hongmei over, “Hongmei, what are you saying, how can you say such things?”

What kind of younger sister would interfere in her brother and sister-in-law’s affairs like this, it seems she’s spoiled her.

Lu Hongmei’s tears fell drop by drop, she cried and threw herself into Lu Mu’s arms.

“What do you want me to do, if I can’t find a job, I’ll have to go to the countryside, I’ll have to work in the fields, and I might never even come back…”

“Mom, help me… I don’t want to go to the countryside…”

Her cries made Lu Mu’s heart ache, she hugged her daughter tightly.

“Hongmei, don’t worry, Mom won’t let you go to the countryside.”

She said, Lu Mu begged Shen Man, her voice choked, “Manman, Mom begs you, sell the job to Hongmei.”

“She’s still so young, so young, you’re her sister-in-law, you can’t just watch her go to the countryside.”

Hongmei lost her job and had to go to the countryside, Shen Man lost her job, it wouldn’t have much impact.

Shen Man stood quietly by the doorframe, smiling faintly.

“Mom, what are you doing, it’s not like I’m the only one with a job in this family, why do you insist on making me give up my job?”

Lu Hongmei cried even more pitifully, she knelt down in front of Shen Man and hugged her leg.

“Sister-in-law, please help me, I really don’t want to go to the countryside, I shouldn’t have been so rude to you, please help me…”

Lu Zhengguo’s face instantly turned black, he strode forward and pulled her up from the ground.

“Lu Hongmei, begging your sister-in-law is useless, even if she agrees, I won’t agree.”

“Mom, don’t meddle, Shen Man’s job was bought for her by her Mom, you’ve already misunderstood her, now you’re doing this again, isn’t this forcing her to give up her job?”

Lu Mu’s tears couldn’t stop falling, “Zhengguo, Hongmei is your own sister, can you really bear to let her go to the countryside?”

Over the years, many people in the courtyard have gone to the countryside, but those who wrote back were almost all unable to bear it, they wanted their families to find connections to bring them back.

Hongmei has been spoiled by the family since she was a child, how could she bear such hardship.

Lu Zhengguo frowned slightly, “I’ll find another way to solve Hongmei’s job problem, don’t target Shen Man.”

He looked down at the time on his watch, “It’s getting late, you guys go back to rest.”

Shen Man stood aside, quietly watching Lu Zhengguo comfort his parents and then his sister.

Soon, the Lu family went back to their rooms to rest one after another.

Lu Zhengguo walked up to her and pursed his lips, “Today’s matter, it was indeed their fault, I didn’t get the facts straight and went to question you, I was also wrong.”

“I apologize to you.”

Shen Man casually leaned against the door frame, she played with her fingers, as if she hadn’t heard, she didn’t say anything.

Lu Zhengguo suddenly remembered what she said, that a verbal apology was useless.

So he thought carefully for a moment, “Tomorrow I’ll take you to pick out a bicycle.”

He happened to have a bicycle ticket.

Shen Man finally reacted, she raised her eyebrows.

“Besides the bicycle, you also need to explain to everyone in the courtyard, so that when I go out, I won’t be scolded for taking your sister’s job.”

Although her reputation was already bad, it wasn’t something she did, she really didn’t want to take the blame.

Lu Zhengguo nodded, “Of course.”

He took out a bicycle ticket from his pocket and handed it to her, “Take this first, tomorrow morning I’ll take you to the supply and marketing cooperative to pick out a bicycle, and in the evening, Dongzi asked me to take you to his house for dinner.”

Shen Man looked at the bicycle ticket in the man’s hand, she didn’t reach out to take it.

“I have to go to work tomorrow morning, you can just pick one yourself.”

Actually, she didn’t really want a bicycle.

But it’s free, if he’s willing to give it to her, she’ll take it.

She said, she turned and went back to her room.

She was tired after a day, she should rest.

Lu Zhengguo turned around and closed the door, he followed her.

The night outside the window grew darker, a bright moon hung in the night sky.

Four years ago, on their wedding night, Lu Zhengguo left without even entering the new house, tonight, it was the first night they spent alone together.

“Turn your back, I’m going to change my pajamas.” Shen Man had just taken out her pajamas from the closet, she turned her head and saw the man in the room.

Lu Zhengguo nodded, he turned around consciously.

The sound of the clothes rubbing against each other as she took them off, echoed in the quiet, cramped room.

For some reason, the man’s mind suddenly flashed the image of her half-exposed, white waist and those watery peach blossom eyes.

A slight heat surged through him, Lu Zhengguo frowned slightly, he quickly threw these thoughts out of his mind.

He probably understood why so many men fell for Shen Man.

But a woman’s appearance didn’t matter to him.

Even if Shen Man was beautiful, it couldn’t hide her cunning and restless nature.

This kind of woman wasn’t suitable to be a wife, if it wasn’t for that incident, the person he would have married now would have been her sister, Shen Ping.

“Okay, I’m done changing, you can turn around.” Shen Man changed her clothes and sat in front of the dressing table to take a look, she didn’t find anything wrong.

Then, she took out the face cream she usually used to apply her face.

This face cream was brought back from Shanghai by her mother through connections, a small jar, but it wasn’t cheap.