Halfway through the walk, Zhou Tingsheng suggested that they stay in his car. The female clerk couldn't resist and let him go.

Sitting in the pickup truck, Zhou Tingsheng opened the exquisite lunch box, and the tempting aroma hit him in the face!

However, his hot tears fell drop by drop and landed in the lunch box.

He wished his mother would show some concern for him once more and ask him, "Tingsheng, don't work yourself up. You're going to grow up big. Mom will make you your favorite hairy crabs. You're a kid, you need to get enough nutrition!"

"Tingsheng, my dear, your schoolbag is so heavy, don't try to be brave, it will only make you stop growing!"

"mom……"

As the past events came to his mind, Zhou Tingsheng couldn't help but shout out.

What was taken for granted in the past is now so precious!

He lost the person who loved him the most.

Especially when he found his biological mother Yin Cuizhu, and her attitude towards him, at that moment, he felt that the person who truly loved him was his adoptive mother, and the grace of raising him is greater than the grace of giving birth to him!

Even though his adoptive mother had left resolutely and the meal was not specially prepared for him, Zhou Tingsheng still ate it with great relish.

The box of fried rice cakes from the street stall was junk that neither he nor Qian Lina would eat, but he ate it all up, and even licked the greasy layer at the bottom of the box clean.

The uncertain future makes the father and son feel very insecure.

Ever since he and Qian Lina divorced, his mother-in-law has been asking for the 20 yuan.

But Qian's mother did not tell him that the 20 yuan was Qian Lina's money.

When he saw money being transferred into an account and received it, he preconceivedly thought it was from his father-in-law and mother-in-law.

In fact, the 20 yuan was transferred from my brother-in-law Qingjun's account.

For the sake of the Zhou family's dignity, Zhou Tingsheng and his son have to pay back the money.

Now that new stores have been completed, those who open them need to stay open for a while. If the business is not good right away, it is common for it to take several to half a year.

But Qian's mother called him every few days to urge him to pay back the money. When she lent him the money, she said that he must pay it back within two years.

Now forced into a corner, Zhou Tingsheng asked Qian's mother for the 130,000 yuan that was originally used to treat Qian's father's illness.

Qian's mother scolded her harshly, saying that it was all her daughter's money.

It is only natural for a daughter to spend money to treat her father's illness. Now that he and her daughter are divorced, he is just an outsider. The 20 yuan cannot be reduced by a single cent. If he doesn't give it to her, she will have plenty of time to go to his store and make trouble.

She pestered Zhou Tingsheng so much that he lost his temper. Qian Lina more or less inherited this from her mother.

It was always like this before, always making a fuss.

Sitting in the cab of the pickup truck, Zhou Tingsheng thought a lot.

Life has destroyed this spoiled man to the point of being half dead.

When you are a child, your parents will take care of you, but when you grow up, you will have to endure the beatings of society!

Zhou Tingsheng experienced firsthand that no one around him spoiled him except his parents.

At that time, Cui Huizhu felt that the child was not her biological child and could not be beaten or scolded, so she spoiled him a little. Sometimes she also wanted to control him, but Zhou Dake would go against her.

When Zhou Tingsheng was old enough to understand, he had heard from others that he was picked up on the roadside, and he was a little sensitive. Cui Huizhu also felt this, so she couldn't beat or scold him.

Especially the fat neighbor Ju, who always stirs up trouble behind my back.

Zhou Tingsheng was thinking about many things. He looked at the Chengxin chain supermarket in front of him with complicated feelings. When he came to work here, he had inquired about it. There were more than 30 chain stores across the country. It was a joint venture and had expanded its scale.

The boss's wife has been in charge of this place. The boss no longer interferes in the business. He is now the mayor of Yichuan.

When he saw his mother again, he hardly recognized her and was stunned for more than ten seconds!

The mother's every move exudes the aura of a wealthy woman.

No matter how you look at it, it has nothing to do with the previous image.

My mother is no longer the simple cleaner she used to be.

When the brand new Rolls-Royce disappeared from his sight, Zhou Tingsheng had an indescribable feeling. He felt the impermanence of the world, the severed family affection, and the feeling that he and his mother were no longer from the same world.

He also felt that his mother was getting farther and farther away from him!

Zhou Tingsheng ate very full during this meal.

In the following days, he came to work as usual, but he never met his mother Cui Huizhu again.

Zhou Tingsheng wandered around the store door several times, but the figure did not appear. Seeing that he was absent-minded, Hong Yingzhen asked him some questions.

Seeing how miserable his half-brother was, he offered to lend him some money, but he refused. He was afraid of losing this brotherly love, so as long as he could maintain the status quo, it would be great!

It would be bad if one day you can’t pay it back and the relationship between the two parties breaks down because of the loan.

The current environment is dominated by maintaining the status quo. Risky entrepreneurship has a high chance of failure. Sometimes, changing stores will make the business even bleaker.

If he really couldn't keep the business going this time, he wouldn't have thought of moving to another shop.

People in the same industry all understand this principle. Printing shops with stable customer bases have been in business for more than ten years, some even longer, and there is no reason for them to move away easily.

Originally, his printing shop was quite stable, but now that the landlord refused to rent the room, he had no choice.

Now he is waiting for other stores near the college to be transferred so that he can take them over.

I waited for a long time but there was no result. Usually, stores in such locations are very stable.

I couldn't afford the extra time, so I had to find another one.

Time passed quickly and almost a month had passed without me noticing.

During this time, my mother-in-law called several times to urge him to pay back the money. One time, she asked around and found his new store. The two customers who had come in were driven away. She threatened to move his things if he didn't pay back the money.

Zhou Tingsheng had no choice but to appease her. If he ruined the store, he would not be able to pay her back!

That mother-in-law is honest.

It's been quiet for a week.

Of course, he didn't know that after the storm had passed, Qian Lina went back to her parents' home for a couple of days.

She always felt like an outsider at her aunt's house. Although the housing conditions were very good, her aunt's son would occasionally come back to live with her and always treat her coldly and felt that she was taking advantage of his family.

After the divorce, she couldn't go back to her wedding house and often dreamed that she was back in that home.

She missed that home very much, every brick and tile of that home, her bed, her wardrobe, and her dressing table.

But when she opened her eyes, the cold reality told her that she was divorced and that place would no longer belong to her, nor to that man.

My aunt often heard faint sobbing in her room in the middle of the night, and she really didn't know how to comfort her.

When her cousin came back to live with her, he would occasionally make indirect accusations, saying that she had moved his things or that something was missing. This made her very uncomfortable, and he didn't even consider that she was a pregnant woman about to give birth.

During pregnancy, women's hearts are usually fragile and what they need is care and companionship. However, Qian Lina is now living under someone else's roof and has lost her husband. The mother-in-law who once treated her like a princess has become a stranger to her.

She had never been so desperate, facing this unknown world alone.

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