Transmigration: On the Gossip Front
Chapter 492 - 493 Sister Flowers Educated Youth 10_1

Chapter 492: Chapter 493 Sister Flowers Educated Youth 10_1

Shen Jianshe had always thought that his relationship with the Shen family relatives was pretty good. However, he never expected that now, the old lady would drop such a bombshell.

"Mom, how is it, how do I not know about this?" Clearly, he should have been a concerned party, but he genuinely had no memory of it.

Looking at Shen Jianshe, who knew nothing, Lady Shen Li tapped his forehead in annoyance, "If I had told you, you would definitely have gone to settle accounts with them."

"Do you think we could have fought against them at that time?"

"It’s better to live our lives peacefully; there’s no need to make trouble with them," Lady Shen Li had made up her mind back then.

Even if it meant borrowing money, she wanted to support Shen Jianshe fully and show the Shen family that even a child without a father could have just as much potential as his male cousins.

Shen Jianshe did not disappoint the old lady; he wasn’t necessarily the most promising child of the Shen family, but he was definitely among the top three.

"From that time, I understood one thing: crying and fussing was useless. It was better to learn something. Knowledge is one’s own, even if everything else is taken away."

"Don’t look at Shen Jiansheng and his brothers; although our relationship with them is good now, they caused quite a stir back in the day."

"There was no choice, I swore in front of the Shen family clansmen that I would never remarry in my lifetime."

"Of course, I also had no intention of remarrying."

Lady Shen Li had no thoughts of remarrying; after all, how many stepfathers could treat stepchildren well?

If she didn’t live with Shen Jianshe but left him to be raised by other members of the Shen family, Lady Shen Li dared not wager that they would treat him well.

Shen Jianshe had never thought that Lady Shen Li’s decision not to remarry was influenced by the Shen family members’ meddling, "They really went too far."

Shen Jianshe was never against the idea of Lady Shen Li remarrying; the two of them had supported each other through thick and thin.

He knew all too well that raising a son alone wasn’t easy, "How could they not allow you to remarry?"

"I never thought about remarrying," Lady Shen Li sighed helplessly, "They were actually worried that if I took the money and left, what would you do?"

"Forget it, it’s all in the past now."

"I’m telling you these things today because I’ve realized that some people, even if they have changed over the years, have something etched deep in their bones that isn’t so easily altered."

"You need to manage the extent of your engagement with them carefully." The children were grown up, and as long as they were aware of the past events and understood the nature of some people, what to do next was up to them.

"We can say they were excessive, but there were many instances back then where a family’s men died, and the husband’s family would make various demands on the widow."

"They even demanded I provide what they called a ’security deposit.’

"They said they would return the money to us once you grew up, got married, and had children." Lady Shen Li stood up, walked into the room, and took out a long-kept receipt from a small box.

"Here, this receipt is for you."

"I’ve long stopped expecting to get this money back; take it, and if they ever borrow money from you, you’ll know what to do."

Lady Shen Li left Shen Jianshe to handle these issues, "Ask your wife what she thinks."

"I understand," Shen Jianshe took a deep breath and looked down at the receipt, "Mom, you actually gave them gold?"

Before liberation, female workers in textile factories actually earned quite a bit, and many would buy Gold to reward themselves.

Shen Jianshe knew that many retired workers from the factory owned Gold, but his old lady did not have much Gold.

Shen Jianshe thought it was because they had no money to support the old lady’s purchase of Gold, not realizing that she used to have Gold.

It’s just that this Gold had changed hands to varying degrees, each family didn’t take much Gold, but when added up, the quantity was already significant.

Shen Jie peeked at it and took a sharp breath, "That’s a lot."

Shen Xiaohui also glanced over, "So much."

Zhang Yamei did not look, with the old lady still present, she peered over to see whether the old lady might think she had designs on it.

"Gran, are we really just going to let it go? Everything was noted down here," Shen Jie grew increasingly disgusted with the Shen family members.

The Shen family, who bullied the widow and the orphan, later acted arrogantly as if they were better than others—such behavior was not that hard to comprehend.

Shen Xiaohui looked up at the old lady, not understanding why she just didn’t want it.

The old lady shook her head, "They won’t give it. Before Jian She got married, I brought it up with them, and they all cried poor one by one."

"They said the household burden was great, arguing that raising one child wasn’t a big deal for me, so there was no need to be so harsh."

Even though her eldest grandson was already over 20 years old, the old lady still remembered those people’s faces from back then.

"Shameless."

"Despicable."

The siblings chimed in together, "No wonder there’s someone like Sister Xiao Yuan."

It seems it wasn’t only after Shen Yuan took a fancy to Gao Jian that such behavior started, but rather, some things were the result of being influenced from a young age.

"Xiao Jie, after you get to the Northeast, even if Shen Yuan says you can write an IOU, don’t listen to her, even if it’s in their own handwriting, they could still deny it."

"I know, I don’t have money anyway."

"I have money, but I can’t spend it on good food and drinks for myself."

"I’d be an idiot to help her," Shen Jie kept assuring, "Right, Xiao Hui, once you start working, if they come to borrow money from you..."

"I don’t have money; my salary goes to dad and mom." Shen Xiaohui has been physically weak since childhood, occasionally seeing a few relatives of the Shen family who would speak highly of him to his face, yet the words they spoke behind his back were truly malicious.

"Those relatives of the Shen family, they sneer at you without envy for what you have."

Shen Xiaohui’s view of the Shen family was always low.

Wow, Shen Jie hadn’t expected Shen Xiaohui to have such an accurate grasp of the Shen family’s nature; she gave him a thumbs-up, "Exactly."

When Shen Jie lay down on the bed, there were hardly any houses left in the family area with lights still on.

She yawned, preparing to rest, when Lady Shen Li fumbled around and handed her something.

"Granny?" As she took the object and felt it, she realized it was a hard, irregular thing; it was clear it wasn’t money.

If it wasn’t money, and considering it was quite weighty, she was just about to turn on the light when the old lady stopped her, "Don’t turn on the light."

"Look at the thing tomorrow morning."

"Tomorrow during the day, I will hide the thing inside your cotton-padded clothes."

"Keep the thing."

"Granny, I’m also getting old," Lady Shen Li, guided by the moonlight outside the window, touched Shen Jie’s hair, "Granny doesn’t know if she can wait until Xiao Jie comes back."

Finding a job now is truly difficult; it’s uncertain whether such good luck will come.

As for waiting until Zhang Yamei retires, it would take another eight or nine years, and the old lady didn’t know if she could hold on until then.

"She will, she will." When the old lady had heard the news of the original owner’s death, she became seriously ill.

After Shen Jianshe and the others brought the original owner’s remains back from the Northeast, the old lady had passed away shortly after.

This time she wouldn’t have an accident; Shen Jie believed the old lady would definitely live until she returned.