Chapter 278: They Are Doing Better Than Anything Else
The trucks, carts, and tractors from the county going to aid in the disaster relief moved imposingly toward the disaster area. The red slogans on the vehicles were exceedingly conspicuous, and everyone who passed by knew about Ning County’s disaster relief efforts to the Southern Region. When they passed through the national highway of the Provincial City, the news also spread.
Shen Meng wasn’t involved in the subsequent events as she was now busy with the wedding preparations of Shen Xiaobin and Lu Xiangxiang. The two families had been preparing for the young couple’s wedding for months and wanted to get it done before Zhenping’s leave ended.
Shen Xiaobin’s new room was the most spacious in the Shen Family household, outfitted with two brand new mahogany bed cabinets stacked on top of each other and a new kang table next to them, the thirty-six-legged furniture making the room exceptionally cozy.
Every day, Shen Fugui and Wang Guizhi would go to the room to check and think about what additional items might be needed to make their youngest son’s wedding beautiful.
Shen Meng had already helped purchase a bicycle, a watch, and a radio, and now she added a sewing machine. The dowry, all three items, had now been moved to Lu Xiangxiang’s family home.
Aunt Juying looked at the home filled with dowry gifts and was so happy that she couldn’t stop smiling, and she started putting quilts together with other aunts on the straw mats at her home.
Lu Xiangxiang wasn’t working either and was sewing soles at the front door of the main hall.
"Did you hear? The family that your Xiangxiang mentioned earlier is in total chaos now. I heard that the mother-in-law is kind-hearted but makes life harsh. The poor girl who married into their family got so tormented that the people in the village didn’t believe it at first. Oh dear, the poor girl almost jumped into the river."