Best friends transmigrate into a book! They marry a high-ranking official! If you run, I run too!

Shen Tingci returned to his office after the meeting, and before he could even take a sip of water, someone knocked on the door.

"Enter!"

The other person came in and said, "Minister Shen, there is a woman named Wu outside who is looking for you. She says she is your friend."

"Wu?" Shen Tingci took a sip of tea, shook his head, and indicated that he did not have any friends with the surname Wu.

Secretary Zhang Guang had no choice but to say, "She said her name is Wu Xinyi."

Shen Tingci's eyes flickered slightly. "I don't know him," he said, taking another sip of tea.

"Oh, by the way, bring the food to my office," he said, pinching the bridge of his nose, looking exhausted. "I'm a little tired!"

“Okay,” Zhang Guang said, closing the door and leaving.

As soon as Zhang Guang left, Shen Tingci closed her eyes to rest.

He was really tired.

But not to the point of being too tired to eat.

But Wu Xinyi actually came back?

He thought this person would stay in the countryside for the rest of his life.

She came back, fine, but why did she come looking for him?

This is really a headache.

Although he didn't understand Wu Xinyi's thought process, he decided to keep himself innocent.

As for meeting Wu Xinyi, this "friend," Shen Tingci had no interest.

Shen Tingci had no interest in meeting Wu Xinyi, his "friend," but Wu Xinyi was very eager to meet Shen Tingci, her "friend."

So when the person in the gatehouse returned, looking speechless, and said to Wu Xinyi, "This lady, why are you playing games with me?"

"Our Minister Shen said he doesn't know you at all," the people in the reception room said with a look of dismay.

It's a shame he went in to relay messages several times, needlessly annoying the leader.

After saying that, the people in the gatehouse chased Wu Xinyi away, saying, "If there's nothing else, hurry up and leave, don't delay my work."

Wu Xinyi was driven out of the gatehouse and stood in the sun, feeling the cold wind. Undeterred, she tried to knock on the gatehouse door, but the gatekeeper closed it, saying he was going to eat.

I've been delayed by this person for so long that I haven't even had a meal.

"Comrade, comrade, are you sure you didn't say the wrong name?"

"My name is Wu Xinyi, Wu~Xin~Yi..."

The master just turned around and gave her a big eye roll, then wrapped his military overcoat tighter and walked away quickly.

Wu Xinyi was left standing alone in the cold wind, "How could this be, how..."

She couldn't understand where things had gone wrong; how could Shen Tingci say he didn't know her?

impossible!

Is it because she insisted on leaving him to go to the countryside that he hates her?

Wu Xinyi thinks this is possible.

Having accepted this possibility, Wu Xinyi decided to wait for Shen Tingci to get off work.

She first went to a nearby state-run restaurant and ate a bowl of noodles, then carried her things and began to wait outside the county committee building.

Today was the last day of work for the county committee, and Shen Tingzhi, who had been conscripted, had already slipped away early, pushing her bicycle out at just two o'clock.

She had just reached the courtyard gate when someone called out to her, "Tingzhi!"

Hearing someone call her name, Shen Tingzhi stopped the car and looked around.

Soon she saw a woman carrying something walking towards her from the right.

Shen Tingzhi looked at the woman and felt that she was somewhat familiar, but she couldn't remember who she was for a moment.

As the other person approached, she introduced herself warmly, "Tingzhi, it's me, I'm Sister Xinyi."

Shen Tingzhi looked at it again and then realized, "Oh, I remember now."

She instinctively turned around to look, then frowned and asked, "You're here to see my older brother?"

“My older brother is already married,” Shen Tingzhi said first, without asking a single question about when Wu Xinyi would return.

Wu Xinyi almost lost her friendly expression, but she gripped what she was holding tightly and tried her best to maintain it. "I know, I'm just here to see him as a friend."

Upon hearing this, Shen Tingzhi relaxed her brows slightly and then kindly advised her, "My older brother is quite busy today, you probably won't see him."

Upon hearing this, Wu Xinyi grabbed Shen Tingzhi's bicycle handle. "Tingzhi, look, I've already come all this way," she said, showing Shen Tingzhi her hands, which were red from the cold and she was carrying some things. "I've been waiting here for quite a while, but they won't let me in, and they didn't even pass on my message. Could you please lead me inside?"

As she spoke, she raised her hand holding the things, "I promise, I'll go in, put the things down, and leave."

“I haven’t been back for so many years. I have no other thoughts than to see you, my older brother, as an old friend.”

After Wu Xinyi finished speaking, Shen Tingzhi did think about it for a moment, but she shook her head. "It's not that I don't want to help you, but my older brother's temper..." Shen Tingzhi paused here, "You probably don't know this, but my older brother's temper is really bad these days. When he's busy with work, I don't dare to bother him."

As Shen Tingzhi spoke, she glanced at what Wu Xinyi was holding and said with a slightly sarcastic expression, "Actually, so many years have passed, and my older brother has started a family. You don't need to bother him anymore."

When their wedding was approaching, Wu Xinyi abandoned Shen Tingci and went to the countryside, leaving Shen Tingci without a marriage partner. For the next few years, Shen Tingci refused to have any contact with potential marriage partners, which caused a lot of gossip about their family. Shen Tingzhi harbored some resentment towards Wu Xinyi.

So her words were tinged with resentment.

The little bit of friendliness on Wu Xinyi's face completely disappeared, and she said with a stern face, "Tingzhi, I think I need to explain to you that I didn't abandon your older brother on purpose. I... I just wanted to develop myself first, and I was thinking of getting married a few years later."

“I also invited my older brother to come with me to the countryside so we could work hard together there and then come back, but he didn’t want to!”

Shen Tingzhi snatched back her handlebars, her face full of displeasure. "Why did my older brother have to go to the countryside with you?"

"You wanted to develop yourself, why didn't you say so sooner?"

"Do you really have to wait until you're about to get married to tell me?"

"Since you want to develop yourself, then just continue developing yourself. Why are you coming to find my older brother now?"

"Is my older brother here hindering your development in the countryside?"

"Tsk, how interesting!" Shen Tingzhi finished her sarcastic remark, then pedaled away on her bicycle.

Wu Xinyi was so angry that her face turned ashen. She wanted to smash the things she was carrying, but considering that she would have to buy more if she did, she had no choice but to give up.

Unable to vent her anger, Wu Xinyi felt a pain in her chest from the anger.

Shen Tingzhi rode her bicycle home quickly, the pedals clanging along the way.

Upon arriving home and entering the yard, Shen Tingzhi pushed her bicycle towards the bike shed, calling out, "Mommy, Mommy..."

Chen Ying was sitting with Gu Shuhe at the entrance of the main room, sewing a pair of cotton trousers. Upon hearing this, she said irritably, "Are you trying to call back my soul?!"

Shen Tingzhi parked her bicycle and immediately ran towards Chen Ying.

"Mom, guess who I saw today?"

"Who?" Chen Ying didn't even look up.

Gu Shuhe, on the other hand, looked at her with a curious expression.

Seeing her sister-in-law's curious eyes and her pregnant belly, Shen Tingzhi thought for a moment and then shook her head, "It's no one, just a classmate I haven't seen in a long time."

She glanced at the cotton-padded trousers in Chen Ying's hand. "These cotton-padded trousers were sewn for my nephew?"

"Yeah, it's cold, so sew on two extra stitches so we don't run out of things to change if we pee," Chen Ying replied without even looking up.