Fast-paced era: a warm and leisurely life

Chapter 246 The Weak Girl of the Age 53

Shen Bowen used the hoe as a crutch to stand up straight, and raised the corner of his mouth sarcastically: "If you have the guts, then you don't want me to support you in your old age!"

Niu Ru moved his mouth. People always say that raising a son is a way to prepare for old age...

Niu Ru was really afraid that Shen Bowen would not support her when she was old, so she didn't dare to say anything at this moment.

Shen Bowen snorted coldly and continued to work with his hoe.

Now the mother and daughter each work and share their own food.

Niu Ru looked at Shen Bowen's back, feeling bitter in her heart, this is the son she raised!!!

Two days later, Shen Pengzu appeared at the entrance of the brigade with dishevelled hair and dirty face.

The aunties who were sitting under the big banyan tree mending clothes saw a dishevelled and dirty man, and immediately picked up branches from the ground and waved at him: "Hey, where did you come from, beggar? Go away, go somewhere else!"

Shen Pengzu was unable to dodge and was hit twice on the legs and waist.

"Ah!! I'm not a beggar, I'm Shen Pengzu!!!"

When the aunts heard this, they looked at each other and said, "Shen Pengzu? Why doesn't he look like him..."

Shen Pengzu was afraid that the aunts would hit him with branches again, so he quickly lifted his long hair that was covering his face and said, "I really am Shen Pengzu!!!"

A brave aunt came closer and looked at Shen Pengzu's eyebrows carefully: "It seems to be true, how did you become like this?"

Being stared at like this, Shen Pengzu felt a little uncomfortable and let down his long hair, lowered his head and hunched his back: "I... Can I go in now?"

"Come in. I didn't expect you to look like this after not seeing you for two years."

Shen Pengzu's back was bent even more, and his head was almost touching his feet.

The aunts rolled their eyes, and one of them said loudly: "Shen Pengzu, you have been away for so long, and several major events have happened in the brigade. The first one is that Gu Nuanyi's heart disease has been cured. I don't know who looked down on her so much in the first place."

Shen Pengzu paused, then hurried home.

"Dong Dong Dong!" Shen Pengzu looked at the gate of his own house nervously, tugged at the hem of his clothes and adjusted his hair.

"Who is it?" Niu Ru opened the gate and took a look, then slammed the gate shut: "Where did this beggar come from..."

Shen Pengzu pursed his lips and made an excuse for Niu Ru: I was too sloppy, so it was normal that Niu Ru didn't recognize me.

Shen Pengzu raised his hand and knocked on the door again.

This time, Niu Ru didn't even open the door, but said loudly: "We don't have any extra food at home, go ask other families."

"I'm not a beggar, I'm Shen Pengzu!"

"What? Shen Pengzu?" Niu Ru opened the gate and looked around for a while, then turned and shouted into the house, "Shen Bowen, come out and see if this man is your father."

"Niu Ru, don't you even recognize what my father looks like?" Ever since the last quarrel, Shen Bowen refused to call Niu Ru "mother" anymore.

Niu Ru turned sideways and said, "Then go and have a look for yourself."

"Oh, how could I not recognize my father?" Shen Bowen turned his head and looked at Shen Pengzu after mocking him: "This...this..."

Niu Ru curled his lips: "You...did you recognize me after all this time?"

Shen Bowen looked carefully, then hugged Shen Pengzu excitedly: "Dad, you are finally back!!!"

Shen Pengzu was also very excited and hugged Shen Bowen back: "Son, I'm back"

With his father back, Shen Bowen seemed to have found a backer, and he told all the grievances he had suffered in the past two years: "Dad, I should have followed you to the farm for reform..."

After hearing this, Shen Pengzu looked at Niu Ru angrily: "Niu Ru, is this how you take care of your son?"

"Oh, look around the team, who has such a grown-up son who still needs his mother to take care of him? I work so hard in the fields all day and come back home with nothing to drink." Niu Ru felt more and more aggrieved, so she just sat on the ground and slapped the ground and cried loudly: "You left for two years, leaving us an orphan and a widow at home. Now that you finally came back, you started to blame me. Oh, why is my life so hard..."

Niu Ru's cries called back all the neighbors next door, and Shen Pengzu felt their gazes on him.

He quickly pushed Shen Bowen away and rushed into the house

"Son, go boil some water for Dad. He wants to take a bath."

The father and son paid no attention to Niu Ru who was crying on the ground.

Neighbor next door: "Hey, Niu Ru, why are you bringing a beggar home..."

Niu Ru's hands froze as she clapped her hands on the ground. She quickly got up from the ground, put her hands on her waist and shouted to the neighbor next door: "What do you mean by Huazi? That's my man!"

Neighbor next door: "Hey! Shen Pengzu is back from labor reform! From now on, just work hard in the fields and stop thinking about those crooked things..."

Niu Ru closed the gate and spat in the direction of the neighbors: "Bah, do I need you to remind me?!"

Shen Pengzu took three baths to clean himself, and a bowl of corn porridge tasted like delicacies from the mountains and the sea.

After eating and drinking, Shen Pengzu simply pulled up his clothes and wiped his mouth.

Then he slumped down in a chair like a master and ordered Shen Bowen to pour him some water.

Shen Pengzu took a sip of hot water and squinted his eyes comfortably: "Son, I heard from the women at the entrance of the brigade that Gu Nuanyi has recovered from her illness?"

Shen Bowen nodded: "Yes, Dad, why are you mentioning her? The marriage has already been cancelled."

"Son, Dad has been away for two years, and you still haven't found a partner? Don't be so picky..."

Shen Bowen lowered his head. The current situation was that the girls in the team didn't like him at all...

Shen Pengzu didn't look at Shen Bowen, and continued to talk to himself: "You are 20 years old now, don't be picky, your father wants to hold his grandson, now that Gu Nuanyi's disease has been cured, you can go and talk to him again."

Shen Bowen touched the remaining scar on his face and shook his head in horror: "No, no, no, I won't go!!"

Niu Ru curled her lips and said, "Your son is not popular now, why would Gu Nuanyi want to talk to your son?"

Shen Pengzu glared at Niu Ru in dissatisfaction: "What's wrong with my son..."

Niu Ru said sarcastically: "Well, your son is not bad, he just has scars all over his face and a lame leg. Oh, and he has a father who has been to a labor camp!"

When Shen Pengzu returned home, he no longer had the inferiority complex he had when he first came back.

Seeing Niu Ru talking to him in a sarcastic tone, the male chauvinism that had been suppressed during the two years of labor reform came back to him.

Shen Pengzu stood up and stared at Niu Ru fiercely: "Say it again?"

Niu Ru was so frightened that he dared not say a word.

Shen Bowen had never seen Shen Pengzu like this before, and was also shocked: "Dad..."

Shen Pengzu looked at Shen Bowen: "Then tell me what kind of person you want to find!"

Shen Bowen whispered, "Dad, I can't find whoever I want now. The girls in the team don't like me, and the ones who like me, I don't like them..."

"If we can't find it in our brigade, won't we go to other brigades?"

Shen Bowen muttered even more quietly: "My reputation is spreading throughout the surrounding area. Who would be willing to marry their daughter to me..."