“Have you ever ridden one of those bikes, little aunt?”
“Hmm?”
Shen Shan followed his line of sight.
“You mean a booster bike? Yes, but that one requires a card, and it’s rechargeable, so if you run out of power halfway down the road, it can be a pain.”
Shen Shanshan didn’t know why this nephew was suddenly interested in this mode of transport, and she patiently explained it to him.
Only to see that, after she finished, a hint of disappointment actually showed in the teenager’s vision.
“Oh ……”
“Huh?”
Oh?
What did that mean?
Shen Shanshan didn’t see to understand, but, being in a hurry to take him back, there was no time to think about it.
When the two of them arrived at the flat, Shen Tianhao did not come back for dinner this day because he had late studies at school, and after Shen Shanshan made it, it was just the two aunts and nephews sitting at the dinner table to eat.
“Little aunt, I heard that all college students go out to work outside while they are still in school?”
The curious baby started asking questions again.
Shen Shan Shan smiled and gave him a big piece of crispy and crunchy ribs in his bowl and replied, “Yes, because some people’s families are not that rich and they go out to find some work to do for tuition fees and to make ends meet.”
“And what do they usually do?”
“Well, some do tutoring and some just go to work for companies, they’re all hourly jobs.”
Of course Shen Shanshan wouldn’t tell the teenager that she herself had come from the same place.
Their family, in Shu Jing Zai, didn’t really live as well as people on the outside thought they did, for one thing, because Mr and Mrs Shen Rong weren’t the kind of people who liked to live off of Kuan Hai Tai.
And for another, it was because Shen Rong wanted their siblings to be independent sooner.
It was rather as if he had been preparing for this in case something happened to him one day and the family would come tumbling down, and he was in fact proved right.
Now the two siblings are doing well.
Huo Yin fell back into contemplation.
He was too much of a pampered teenager to appreciate this kind of life.
“So what do you say, I let Cen Yu An go and work for me, okay?”
“What do you mean?”
As soon as the words came out, Shen Shanshan, who was sitting opposite him eating, finally choked and coughed for a long time before calming down.
Cen Yu’an?
The girl who said she had been scolded by him last time?
Why so suddenly? This progress, seems to be even faster than that Ning Xin’er, that girl used a method again, huh? How could she make this teenager make such a decision all of a sudden?
Shen Shanshan didn’t let up.
She planned to check out this girl called Cen Youan before she arrived at school the next day.
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The next day.
When the two of them arrived at school, Huo Yin went to cla*s, while Shen Shanshan came to the finance department and began to inquire about Cen Yu’an with the people here.
As a result, by coincidence, she ran into the group secretary.
“You said Cen Youan, she is a very good girl, excellent in all subjects, however, because of her personality, very few people get close to her, a solitary person.”
The group secretary listened and showed a bitter smile.
Shen Shanshan: “Right, so where is she from? I heard that she even goes out to work and study a lot?”
Group secretary: “Well, her family is rather difficult, she is from the West Country, I don’t know the details, I just saw that she applied for a bursary at our school once she arrived.”
This group secretary also did not hide, detailed Cen Yu’an’s family said a little.
Xixiang?
Shen Shanshan’s face changed.
She didn’t ask anything else, turned around and hurried away.
She was not really ignorant of what was going on at home, she was too smart, so smart that sometimes she could spot clues about her father, but his father was oblivious.
For example, when she had just graduated from high school at the age of eighteen, she had come home two days early in her excitement when she saw a man hurrying out of their house.
Not a moment later, when she went inside, she saw her father very angrily tearing a piece of paper to shreds and throwing it into the wastepaper basket.
“It was inhumane!”
Her father cursed then!
Later, when her father had gone, she went to the wastepaper basket and turned the shredded paper out, and after piecing it together, she found that on it was a list of names.
And the people on the list were all not very old, born no more than a few years younger than she was, and many of their places of origin were even from the West Country.
Shen Shanshan returned to her cla*sroom in a state of disorientation.
After that, all day long, she was lost in thought, not listening to half of the lesson.
“Shanshan, what have you been doing all day? You’re always distracted in cla*s, what are you thinking about?”
“Nothing.” Shen Shanshan said casually and perfunctorily.
When the girl saw this, she came over and hugged her affectionately, “Let’s go out and play then, it’s Friday and tomorrow is the weekend, so finally we don’t have to go to cla*s.”
Shen Shanshan: “……”
Suddenly, as if she had thought of something, she immediately stood up from her desk.
“Sorry, I have something to do, I’ll leave first.”
Then she hurriedly left the cla*sroom and darted towards the finance department.
If it was really what she guessed, then she mustn’t let that girl get close to Huo Yin again, and when she got here, she, Shen Shanshan, would never let anything happen to him.
Shen Shanshan ran as fast as she could.
However, when she reached the Finance Department, she still saw a very pretty and tall girl, already riding a booster bike, arrive in front of the teenager.
“Huo Yin, let’s go, go over to the place where you work now and take a look.”
“……”
