Chapter 348: Protecting Her Brother's Love

Shen Yun looked in the direction her mother was pointing, and sure enough, she saw her brother.

It was just that there didn't seem to be anyone else behind him; he was all alone, and he looked rather dejected.

"Brother! Whose house are we going to stay at?"

Shen Lan snapped, "We aren't going to anyone's house! Let's just stay on the street!"

It was truly too much!

Friends who used to be able to talk to him very well now avoided him like the plague upon hearing that he had cancelled his wedding with the Si Family.

Even that person surnamed Qin dared to slight him in his words.

Truly, they look down on people!

Once he makes a name for himself, he will absolutely never have anything to do with these rotten people again!

Shen Mu was shocked, "Son, what is going on?"

How could staying on the street be an option?

"Could it be that those people aren't willing to let us stay in their homes?" Shen Yun was also very puzzled.

In the past, when those buddies of her brother came to the house to eat and drink, they seemed even more enthusiastic than his own brothers!

Now that no one is extending a helping hand, the world is truly fickle!

But they couldn't really stay on the street, so Shen Lan thought of Li Xuan.

Li Xuan rented a small house with only two rooms.

She was a bit surprised to see Shen Lan and his family.

She even glanced outside the door, "Why did you come?"

Shen Lan pulled her to the side and told her about how Si Rong had brought people to kick his family out of the house today.

"What? She actually acted so ruthlessly!"

While Li Xuan was shocked, she also had a feeling that Si Rong probably wouldn't eat this "revisited grass" of Shen Lan's again.

"Yeah! She took things too far. Now my mother and little sister both hate her, and I'm the one in the middle who has it the hardest."

"Then you... coming to me, is it?" Li Xuan was speechless. Since Shen Lan still wanted to seek Si Rong's forgiveness, what would happen if Si Rong found out he had dragged his whole family to her place?

"What do you mean? Do you want to watch our whole family stay on the street to be happy??"

Li Xuan:...

"What if Si Rong finds out?"

"We'll just be careful, won't we?" It wasn't the first time Shen Lan had come here, so he sat on the bed to rest, familiar with the routine, "Hurry up and make something to eat; we're all hungry."

Over there, Shen Mu was not very satisfied with this new dwelling, "It's too small. If it's too crowded when sleeping at night, I won't be able to sleep."

"Yeah, we'll just have to make do for now." Shen Yun was naturally not satisfied with this house either, but it was still better than the street.

Li Xuan inexplicably felt that something was not quite right; in short, things were now completely contrary to what she had originally planned.

She naturally liked Shen Lan and was willing to take care of him, but having Shen Mu and Shen Yun move in as well, and with so many complaints and grumbles, it gave her a headache.

There was only some rice and sweet potatoes in the house. After Li Xuan finished cooking, the mother and daughter of the Shen family began to show their disdain again.

"Are there no vegetables?"

"How are we supposed to eat this rice with just sweet potatoes?"

Shen Lan shoveled rice in silence, not saying a word; he couldn't really eat it either.

After all, for a long time before this, Si Rong would send them food from her home.

Chicken, fish, meat, and vegetables—they had tasted all kinds of delicacies, which was why they felt these ordinary home-cooked meals were tasteless.

But they forgot that if it weren't for Si Rong, they would have only been able to eat this kind of plain fare to begin with.

Li Xuan didn't say anything; she was just waiting to see how Shen Lan would arrange for them to sleep on this one bed at night.

As the sky darkened, Shen Lan pointed to the bed and said, "Li Xuan, let my mother and little sister sleep on the bed, and the two of us will sleep on the floor!"

Li Xuan: "..."

She hadn't expected this man to be quite filial; it seemed her judgment was correct and he was worth entrusting herself to.

But once she was actually lying on the floor, she felt she hoped Shen Lan wouldn't be so filial; she wasn't used to sleeping on the ground.

"Shen Lan?"

She called out softly.

Shen Lan leaned close to her and whispered, "I can't give it to you today; my mother and little sister are still here."

Li Xuan:...

"I haven't long given birth, and the floor is really too hard. You should let your sister come down and sleep instead!"

Otherwise, she was afraid she would be left with postpartum illnesses.

"No," Shen Lan unexpectedly refused sternly, "My little sister is still young. If you can't stand it, she definitely can't stand it even more. Besides, haven't you already finished your postpartum recovery? It's fine, sleep!"

"Once my salary comes in, we'll just add another bed."

Li Xuan:...

In short, this was a night destined to be filled with backaches.

Shen Lan was also suffering from backaches, and he realized that things couldn't go on like this.

After getting off work, he endured his hunger and prepared to find Si Rong, hoping to get things done quickly so he could reconcile with her.

His whole family couldn't really stand this kind of life at Li Xuan's place.

It wasn't until after lunch that he saw Si Rong and Ming Zi walking side by side out of the Si Family, and then they headed toward the shopping mall.

He followed them the whole way.

"How is this fabric?" Ming Zi picked out a piece of orange plaid cotton cloth, "It can be used for bed sheets or curtains."

"It's quite pretty," Si Rong touched it, "I have a sewing machine at home. Later, take it to my place and have Wang Ma fix it up for you. She even knows how to make lace; the lace on the curtains in my room was made by her for me."

"Good!"

Ming Zi bought a few more meters of fabric, "Let Wang Ma make two identical bed sheets, one for each of us."

"Good!" Si Rong liked using matching items with her best friend Ming Zi.

Next, they bought some things for cooking.

Jiang Yu had come to the mall today to buy yarn for his mother, never expecting to run into his sister-in-law.

He had been prepared to go over and say hello, but he didn't expect that a sneaky, sleazy-looking man was following behind his sister-in-law.

It must be a pervert.

He felt alert and immediately followed quietly behind that man, preparing to see what he was up to.

His brother wasn't home, so he would be the one to guard his brother's love.

This pervert wouldn't be allowed to hurt his sister-in-law today!

After shopping for over an hour and getting tired, Si Rong and Ming Zi sat on the first floor of the mall drinking Arctic Ocean soda together.

Shen Lan appeared at this very moment.

"What a coincidence! Si Rong, you're out shopping too?" He shamelessly sat down beside Si Rong.

Seeing him, Si Rong lost all interest in shopping.

"What coincidence? Isn't it that you've been following us the whole time?" Ming Zi retorted at him.

"Shut your mouth!" Shen Lan detested Ming Zi; he even felt that Si Rong had been led astray by a friend like Ming Zi.

If only she could make more gentle friends like Li Xuan, perhaps her personality would improve as well.

"The one who should shut their mouth is you!" Si Rong didn't even want to look at him and turned to leave.

Shen Lan seized the opportunity, took the soda she had been drinking from, and quickly sprinkled the medicinal powder in his hand into it, "Si Rong, I know you don't want to see me, but you paid for this soda, so you should take it with you!"

In order to get rid of him as quickly as possible, Si Rong took the soda.