The Stepmother’s Counterattack: Raising a Child in a Bygone Era

Although Zhao Yun was young, Shen Mingzhu still offered the courtesy due to a guest and asked what he would like to eat.

Zhao Yun wasn’t shy and specifically requested Coca-Cola chicken wings.

Shen Mingzhu went to the market and bought two jin of chicken wings. Not far from the market, she ran into an old farmer selling river delicacies who beckoned her over to do business.

Shen Mingzhu hadn’t planned on buying anything since Pei Yang bought groceries every day, and she had already purchased chicken wings, which was enough for dinner that night.

But looking at the old farmer’s weathered, dark face, she simply couldn’t bear to refuse.

In the old wooden barrel, there were various kinds of wild river delicacies including two carp, over ten loaches, and several wild crabs of varying sizes, their pincers bound with straw.

After a brief chat and learning that the old farmer still had to travel twenty miles back to his rural home, Shen Mingzhu decided to buy all the river delicacies in the barrel, so he could head home earlier.

The old farmer, having received the money, thanked her profusely with a thousand gratitudes before picking up his burden and leaving.

Zhao Yun looked several times at the old farmer’s stooped figure before turning back to Shen Mingzhu’s gentle and graceful face, and couldn’t help saying, "Auntie Mingzhu, you are really kind-hearted."

Shen Mingzhu smiled at him, "Have you heard the saying, ’Give someone a rose, the fragrance remains in your hand’?"