The Beautiful Stepmother from the Eighties: Marrying a Factory Director to Raise Kids

Chapter 426

Da Huang had been happily sunbathing. Startled by the shout, he stood up feeling wronged and retreated into his little house.This was the small wooden doghouse Zhou Yueshen had built over the past few days.

Because people kept bringing their dogs over, they were afraid of dogfights. That was why it was built.

Seeing Da Huang's figure, which was even larger than her own, the woman was completely stunned.

She had never seen such a huge dog.

Evidently, in the news reports, she had only seen Da Huang's bravery and handsomeness.

Only now did she realize that her Pomeranian and Da Huang were not a match at all.

For others, it might be a height difference, but for them, it was the difference between an adult and a nursing baby.

Thinking about how Si Nian had kept refusing, her face flushed with embarrassment, and she hurriedly picked up her dog and left.

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Miao Chunhua followed her in and asked, What happened here?

Da Huang has become famous, and many people are asking to use him for breeding.

Oh, isn't that great? Has spring arrived for Da Huang? Miao Chunhua had visited once before, so she wasn't afraid of the dog.

If it hadn't been for Da Huang, her limited-edition bag and ID documents would have been stolen.

At the time, she thought Da Huang was incredibly handsome.

Seeing Da Huang so popular now, she actually felt quite proud.

Si Nian said helplessly, Sister Miao, what brings you here?

Miao Chunhua put away her teasing smile and said, I just finished my work and heard about what happened over here. I didn't expect things to turn out like this. It must have scared you, right?

She had heard everything; the murderer was right next door to Si Nian's house.

Originally, Lao Chen thought that since the house was in a good location, even though there had been a murder in the alley, it wasn't very close, so it wouldn't matter.

That was why he sold this house to them.

But who could have imagined that, by some twist of fate, they ended up living right next door to the actual murderer.

Anyone else would have been scared out of their wits upon finding out.

It was already a blessing that they hadn't gone looking for trouble with Lao Chen.

Naturally, she had to come over and check on them.

Holding several bags in her hands, she passed them to Si Nian. These are some things I picked up for you when I came back from Hong Kong. It's a bag, see if you like it. Consider it an apology gift for Lao Chen's improper handling of things.

Looking at the bag, Si Nian immediately recognized it as a Chanel.

She immediately refused, We were the ones who made the request. This location is very convenient for studying and working. We don't think there's anything bad about it. Besides, Boss Chen didn't know the inside story of this matter, so how could we blame him?

Back when they bought these dozen or so courtyard houses, Boss Chen had even sold them at a loss because of his relationship with Zhou Yueshen.

He had lost quite a bit of money himself.

Moreover, Si Nian knew the future market trends. For such a good deal, she was secretly laughing with joy.

How could she have the nerve to accept their gifts?

Miao Chunhua said, You're still being polite with me. Given our relationship, and the fact that your Da Huang helped me catch that thief last time, I haven't even had the chance to repay you yet. If you don't accept it, I'll be too embarrassed to visit your house in the future.

After saying that, she rummaged through the bags again. Oh right, I also bought a piece of clothing for Da Huang. I don't know if it will fit.

She unfolded the clothes and handed them to Si Nian. Si Nian took one look... it was Louis Vuitton.

...

To be honest, even in the future, she wouldn't be able to afford this brand.

Of course, she wouldn't be willing to splurge on wearing it now either.

Who would have thought that her dog would be wearing something she couldn't even afford herself.

...

Miao Chunhua knew the Zhou family had a few children, so she didn't just buy things for Da Huang. Since she didn't know the children very well, she just bought them some toys.

The two went into the house to chat.

Drinking the floral tea Si Nian had brewed, Miao Chunhua said composedly, Lao Chen is very happy. He said that since that house over there isn't a haunted murder house, it can finally be sold. I only just realized he still had such a house on his hands. Fortunately, he had some conscience and didn't sell that house to you guys too, keeping it for himself.

Maybe it can be demolished or something in the future, and he can recoup some of the costs.

But I was thinking, since the case is solved, can this house be put to use? Even though people can't live in it, it could be used for something else. I wanted to ask for your advice. What do you think would be good to do with it?

Si Nian thought for a moment. Although the rumors were gone, a house where someone had died definitely couldn't be lived in. It would indeed be a waste to just leave it there, so she said, I actually think you could build a temple. I've noticed people around here are quite superstitious. Building a temple to suppress the bad luck and burning some incense might stop people from being afraid.

Miao Chunhua was already quite superstitious herself. Hearing this, her eyes immediately lit up. Oh, why didn't I think of that? That's a great idea! Then I won't have to travel far to other temples in the future.

Whenever Miao Chunhua had an idea, she couldn't sit still. She downed her tea in one gulp and hurriedly took her leave to research how to build a temple.

Si Nian originally thought that Da Huang wouldn't be able to fit into the LV clothes.

Who knew that not long after, Da Huang would actually get a skin disease from the heat.

Si Nian took him to the vet. Because Da Huang's fur was too thick, making it difficult to apply the spray medication, the vet shaved him completely clean.

Now he only had fur left on his head and the tip of his tail, looking like a lion.

But he also looked very funny.

Feeling incredibly heartbroken for him, Si Nian put the LV clothes on him.

Da Huang was now a dog wearing designer brands.

Time flew by, and it was over a month later when Da Huang's fur grew back.

The weather had finally cooled down considerably.

Autumn in Jing City was exceptionally beautiful. The autumn wind rustled, and the yellowing maple leaves were as big as washbasins. The leaves blew all over the ground, setting off the old alleyways, looking as beautiful as a painting.

The widow's house from before had already been demolished, and a temple was currently being built there.

Miao Chunhua was the kind of person who acted immediately on what she said.

In the past, during the crackdown on feudal superstitions, doing something like this definitely wouldn't have been approved.

But now, after the reform and opening up, things had loosened up in all aspects. People wouldn't be so afraid that they didn't even dare to burn incense.

Of course, the most important thing was still the power of money and authority.

As long as these conditions were met, nothing was impossible.

Zhou Yueshen's current work involved a lot of contract negotiations, meetings, and social engagements.

It was then that Si Nian thought of a problem. Generally, for social engagements or attending banquets, one had to bring a female companion.

At least in the future, her colleagues, even if they didn't have one, would rent a companion to keep up appearances.

But Zhou Yueshen had never mentioned this matter.

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When Zhou Yueshen returned, he inexplicably asked her if she wanted to dance.

Si Nian didn't have much interest in dancing, but she suddenly remembered how, during an intimate moment last month, this man had asked her if she knew how to dance.

She couldn't help but feel a bit more intrigued: Why do you ask?

Zhou Yueshen paused and said, There's a banquet. If you want to dance, I can take you.

He had attended seven or eight banquets this past month.

People often asked him why he didn't bring a female companion.

At first, because it was his first time dealing with such things, Zhou Yueshen didn't take it to heart.

Later, after learning that Si Nian knew how to dance, he did think about it, but then he considered that she still had to go to school and would be tired if she had to socialize with him at night.

So he didn't bring it up.

Today, Lao Chen and his wife had specifically asked him to bring Si Nian over to have fun.

That was why he thought to ask her if she wanted to go dancing.

"Oh, you're only asking me now? Who did you dance with before?"

Si Nian looked at him thoughtfully.

Zhou Yueshen paused and said in a low voice, "No one."

Si Nian: "No one what?"

Zhou Yueshen: "I haven't danced with anyone else."

Si Nian raised an eyebrow. "So at the banquets you attended before, no one asked you?"

Zhou Yueshen nodded, then shook his head.

Si Nian was puzzled. "What does that mean?"

Zhou Yueshen said, "I didn't know them, so I refused."

Si Nian stroked her chin. "Oh, so that means you would dance with them if you knew them?"

Zhou Yueshen: "..."

He had the feeling that whatever he said would be wrong.

Seeing him speechless, Si Nian stopped teasing him and asked curiously, "You asked me to dance, but do you even know how?"

She was actually a bit surprised. Although Zhou Yueshen was quite attentive, he had grown up in the countryside after all, so he shouldn't know how to do these things.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yueshen replied, "I do."

Si Nian was surprised. "When did you learn?"

Zhou Yueshen thought about it for a moment and frowned, as if it wasn't a very pleasant memory. He said quietly, "In the past, when the army was running literacy campaigns, they often held social parties, and a lot of people would go dancing."

Hearing this, Si Nian suddenly felt a sour twinge of jealousy in her heart.

Oh, he said he rejected others, but in reality, he had already tasted better.

Fine, fine, fine, she had underestimated him.

"Oh~" she dragged out the syllable.

"So you learned it a long time ago. I was about to say that if you didn't know how, I would teach you."

Zhou Yueshen said honestly, "Yu Dong wasn't a good teacher. I can learn it again."

Si Nian thought she had misheard and asked uncertainly, "Yu Dong taught you? You specifically asked him to teach you? Were you trying to show off in front of some girl?"

Zhou Yueshen looked at her helplessly. "Of course not."

Si Nian curled her lips. "Then what was it?"

Zhou Yueshen pursed his lips, paused for a moment, and then said, "Yu Dong begged me on his knees to learn."

He had been very reluctant at the time, but Yu Dong had cried and begged him. Plus, the money offered was good, and Zhou Yueshen was indeed quite poor back then, so when he heard about it, he was naturally willing to help out.

Besides, his reputation was already pretty bad at the time, so he didn't care about these things.

Yu Dong was being pestered by a woman back then. It seemed he had run off to the army to escape a forced marriage by his family, but who knew the woman would chase him all the way there.

At that time, because Zhou Yueshen rarely interacted with women, there were some unsavory rumors about him, such as his roommates saying they were afraid of him, which resulted in him being assigned to a single dorm room.

This led many people to believe that his sexual orientation was different.

So, in order to make that so-called fiancée give up, Yu Dong begged him to help out by dancing with him.

Afterwards, the woman thought Yu Dong swung that way too and ran off in anger.

Yu Dong's feet were stomped on so badly by him that they swelled up, and it took two weeks of rest to recover.

Thousands of miles away, Yu Dong sneezed twice.

A sudden feeling of unease welled up inside him.

He had just packed up a lovely bento box and was about to ride his bicycle to deliver his newly developed lunch to Fu Qianqian.

But the moment he stepped out the door, he was blocked by a woman.

She glared at him furiously. "Yu Dong, you liar! Didn't you say you liked men?!"

Yu Dong: "..."

Back in Beijing.

When Si Nian heard that Yu Dong and Zhou Yueshen actually had such a past, she laughed until tears came to her eyes.

"You were actually that kind of person in the past? Throwing away your dignity for money?"

Zhou Yueshen used to think nothing of it, but recalling it now, he found it rather embarrassing.

Seeing Si Nian laughing so happily, a trace of awkwardness flashed across his face.

This was completely a dark chapter of his history.

If it wasn't to explain his innocence to Si Nian, he wouldn't have wanted to bring this up at all.

And yet Si Nian was laughing so joyfully.

Zhou Yueshen pinched her waist, his voice carrying a hint of danger. "Is it funny?"

Si Nian wiped away her tears of laughter while saying, "Not funny, not funny."

Zhou Yueshen: "..."

"I'll deal with you tonight."

Since he already knew how to dance, there was naturally no need to learn.

Si Nian thought that since it was her first time attending a banquet with her man, she naturally had to dress up a bit so as not to embarrass him.

When she used to work, her company also frequently held banquets.

However, she didn't like dancing back then, though she did know a little about it.

Now, she went upstairs to rummage through her dresses. She needed something that wasn't too flashy, but also not too childish.

In the end, she chose a qipao with a slit.

The color was light, and the form-fitting design wasn't too tight, making it very comfortable to wear.

It wasn't too revealing either, making her look gentle and elegant.

Si Nian put it on and pinned her hair up.

With the addition of pearl earrings and a pearl necklace, the outfit looked exquisite and beautiful.

She rarely wore high heels, but this occasion required them to pull the look together.

She chose a pair of light-colored high heels to match.

Although she looked a bit more mature, she didn't look old.

Her aura, on the contrary, was very gentle and moving.

Si Nian also applied some light makeup.

With light makeup, the lipstick color needed to be darker to make her skin look good and glowing, without making people feel she was heavily painted.

When Si Nian carried her bag downstairs, the children were all stunned.

"Mom, are you going out?"

"Mom, you look so beautiful today!"

Si Nian smiled and pinched the children's cheeks. "I look beautiful today, but not on other days?"

"You look beautiful on other days too, but today is a different kind of beautiful."

The second child struggled to describe it.

Si Nian burst into laughter.

Zhou Yueshen had also changed into a suit, carrying his jacket over his arm.

A few buttons at his collar were undone, revealing a patch of bronze skin.

Standing next to him, Si Nian looked even more radiantly fair.

Si Nian felt that one should find a partner like this, someone darker than oneself, to make oneself look fairer.

Whenever she stood next to Zhou Yueshen, she felt her skin was incredibly tender.

Seeing Zhou Yueshen staring at her, a flash of amazement in his eyes, she playfully spun around and asked, "How is it? Can I hold my own?"

Zhou Yueshen had actually been quite worried that Si Nian would wear one of her brightly stunning and sexy dresses.

Because on such occasions, many people's eyes would always linger on women.

It was repulsive.

So while he was worried, he didn't dare to suggest anything.

Now, seeing her dressed so gently yet elegantly.

The worry in his heart instantly eased.

"Very beautiful, Niannian. It suits you very well."

Si Nian raised a smile and reached out her hand to him. "Then Mr. Zhou, after you."

Zhou Yueshen raised his hand and intertwined his fingers with hers.

This banquet was held at the largest hotel in Beijing.

It was considered a top luxury hotel of this era.

By the time the two of them arrived, there were already many people.

Chen Nan and Miao Chunhua were at the door receiving guests.

Si Nian only then realized that today was the one-year anniversary of Chen Nan's company.

Seeing her arrive, Miao Chunhua immediately greeted her.

"Sister, come quick! I was worried you wouldn't come. Little Zhou said you don't like these kinds of occasions."

Si Nian smiled awkwardly. Little Zhou hadn't told her about this at all.

She turned her head to look at the man beside her. "Yes, my Little Zhou was worried that I'm too busy with my studies, so he didn't mention it much."

Zhou Yueshen, who had just been called Little Zhou: "......"

At this moment, a secretary wearing a red evening gown with her hair styled in large, bouncy curls walked over.

"Mr. Zhou, you're here." As she spoke, she reached out to take his coat for him.

Si Nian cast a brief glance over.

Zhou Yueshen gave a slight nod but did not hand it to her. "We are off the clock now, Secretary Chen. You are free to do as you please; you don't need to attend to me."

Secretary Chen paused, only then noticing Si Nian, who was talking with Miao Chunhua.

She did not look embarrassed at all. Giving a polite nod as a greeting, she took her leave first.

Si Nian withdrew her gaze.

Miao Chunhua, however, could not help but speak up.