Chapter 31 My heart can no longer find peace.
Chapter 31 My heart can no longer find peace.
Wenrou, unaware of the situation, looked at Huo Yanchuan and asked, "Is there something you need?"
Huo Yanchuan shifted his gaze slightly, unable to help but think of that night when, although he was pinned down and unable to move, the sensations on his body were still very clear.
At that time, he didn't know that the person inside him was Wenrou, but now that he knows that person is her, he can no longer remain calm.
Huo Yanchuan handed the drawing he had just made to Wenrou. There was no place to take a shower at home. It was fine for him, a grown man, but it was inconvenient for Wenrou, a woman.
So he drew a design based on the bathtub and wanted to find someone to make a bathtub based on that design.
Since this bathtub will be used gently in the future, I wanted to ask for her opinion.
I just didn't expect her to take off her clothes and prepare to take a shower so quickly.
In her past life, Wenrou was reluctant to stay in nice hotels when she drove a big truck. Although she had heard that the best hotels in the city had a large bathtub in every room and that the people who drove with her had bragged about it to her, she never went there in order to save money.
In the end, all the money she had left went into the pockets of the Zhou family.
She had previously vowed that in this life she would experience everything she hadn't enjoyed in her previous life, but she didn't expect Huo Yanchuan to draw the bathtub so quickly.
"Is this a bathtub?"
Huo Yanchuan nodded. "Take a look and see if anything needs to be changed. I'll have someone make one for me tomorrow."
Wenrou looked at it; she didn't understand these things either, but it seemed to be about right.
"It's fine, there's nothing to change."
She looked at Huo Yanchuan, surprised that this man was quite thoughtful.
Huo Yanchuan nodded, his face calm, but his ears were tinged with a thin blush.
"You can continue washing, I'm leaving now." After saying that, he didn't wait for Wenrou to speak, and strode out with the drawings in his hand.
Seeing this, Wenrou closed the door, wet a towel with hot water, and wiped herself down perfunctorily.
Water is scarce here, and she dared not waste it.
Some people here don't even take a bath more than a few times a year, but she couldn't stand it, so she had to find a solution.
Her gaze fell on her relatively smooth and delicate skin. In her previous life, when she was driving a sports car, her skin was exposed to the wind and sun all day long, making it dry and rough.
Fortunately, her skin hasn't started to suffer yet, but she needs to take good care of it.
After taking a shower, Wenrou felt completely relaxed.
After she finished dressing and came out, the Zhou family was already in an uproar.
"Zhou Dayong, what did you promise me when we got married? I'm not going to live with your family. If you don't kick them out, I'm leaving."
Shen Qingshuang picked up her luggage and headed out.
"Qing Shuang, what are you doing?" Zhou Dayong quickly chased after her.
Seeing this, He Cuihua looked at him with a disappointed expression.
"This is infuriating! Dayong is a man, how can he be controlled by a woman?"
In He Cuihua's mind, women should listen to men, respect their parents-in-law, and know their place.
"Mom, how are we going to get along with my sister-in-law in this state?" Zhou Chunmei was also a little troubled.
She wasn't like this when she was with them.
At that time, she was not only able to earn money, but also take care of her parents and two younger brothers, and even spend all the money she earned on them.
In Zhou Chunmei's view, if she wanted to marry into their family, she needed to be gentle and kind to be a good daughter-in-law.
Soon, Shen Qingshuang was coaxed back by Zhou Dayong.
As soon as Zhou Dayong entered the door, he said to He Cuihua and Zhou Chunmei, "Mom, Chunmei, if you have nothing else to do, you can go back."
"You... what did you say? Say it again!" He Cuihua never expected that Zhou Dayong would forget his mother after marrying a wife and actually want to send her back.
"You unfilial son! I'm your own mother, how dare you kick me out? I've raised you for nothing! I'll beat you to death, you ungrateful wretch!" He Cuihua cried out in anger and raised her hand to hit Zhou Dayong.
Zhou Dayong stood there, not daring to move. He knew it wasn't easy for his parents to raise him, but now, he had no choice.
"Big brother, how did you become like this? You used to be so filial. How could you treat Mom like this?" Zhou Chunmei said with a pained expression.
The two men's back-and-forth banter made Zhou Dayong feel even worse, so he reached out and slapped himself hard.
"I'm sorry, Mom, I'm being unfilial."
He didn't want them to go back either, but if he didn't do that, Qing Shuang would keep clamoring to go back to Beijing. What was he supposed to do?
Seeing this, Zhou Dayong had no choice but to turn around, take Shen Qingshuang's hand, and coax her in a low voice, "Wife, please, for my sake, let Mom and Chunmei stay here a little longer, okay? They are my family. If you ask me to kick them out now, wouldn't that make me unfilial?"
Seeing Zhou Dayong like this, Shen Qingshuang thought of how he had saved her, and her heart softened a little.
"Alright then, but they can't stay for free. We've been allocated land, so let them work in the fields. They also have to do the housework."
This was Shen Qingshuang's final compromise; otherwise, she really couldn't find a reason to keep He Cuihua and Zhou Chunmei here.
He Cuihua was so angry when she heard Shen Qingshuang's words that she was about to argue with her, but Zhou Dayong stopped her.
"Dayong, give me your allowance for this month." He Cuihua asked, taking the opportunity to remember that Zhou Dayong hadn't sent money home this month.
Zhou Dayong lowered his head and said, "The money is all with Qing Shuang."
"You...are you trying to anger me to death? I'm not dead yet, how can it be my daughter-in-law's turn to manage the money?" He Cuihua's face turned pale with anger when she heard his words.
She asked Zhou Dayong to ask Shen Qingshuang for money to buy groceries, and then she heard Shen Qingshuang's voice from inside the room, "Your little bit of money isn't even enough for me, where would you get money for them?"
Shen Qingshuang used all that money to buy delicious food and clothes.
Upon hearing that Zhou Dayong's money had been squandered by Shen Qingshuang, He Cuihua fainted from anger.
"Mom...Mom, what's wrong?" Zhou Chunmei hurriedly stepped forward and called out.
Soon, Zhou Dayong took He Cuihua to the medical station again.
Even if Wenrou didn't want to know what happened at the Zhou family's place, she couldn't help but find out. He Cuihua argued all afternoon and eventually fainted from anger.
Wenrou had already guessed these things. He Cuihua and Zhou Chunmei were already difficult to deal with, and Shen Qingshuang was not someone to be trifled with. Zhou Dayong was definitely in a difficult position, caught in the middle.
They were used to ordering her around at home, so they thought they could still boss around Miss Shen Qingshuang here.
The people in the compound all treated the Zhou family's affairs as amusement. Wenrou ignored it. Now that she had broken away from the Zhou family, no matter what they did in the future, it had nothing to do with her.
She had nothing to do in the afternoon, so she took out all the clothes in the house and washed them.
Seeing the clothes hanging in Huo Yanchuan's closet, I decided to wash them all for him.
She was busy until the afternoon and was getting hungry. Just as she was thinking about what to cook for dinner, Huo Yanchuan came back carrying a piece of meat.
"You bought meat?" Wenrou's eyes lit up when she saw the meat.
She'd been locked up inside for the past few days, eating only corn porridge. Now that she'd finally gotten out, of course she wanted a good meal.
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