Chapter 464

"You can't completely blame her; people move to higher places, water flows to lower places. She has a university diploma now.

The hospital also intends to let her move up a level; it's a matter of the right time, place, and people.

If it were me, I might not have done better than her."

Although Shen Man felt a little unhappy and uncomfortable—after all, they were colleagues with a good relationship back then.

But what caused the current situation wasn't just Zhou Hongyu's own thoughts and ideas; there were also considerations from the hospital's upper management.

So she didn't make any comments on it; she would see what her sister-in-law thought and did, and she would just follow along.

Her sister-in-law was her own family; she would take her as an example.

"Alright, let's stop talking about such unhappy things. Have you decided? If we're going to the Northeast, I'll ask for leave as soon as possible to accompany you."

Two months ago, the couple had communicated about whether they should take the children out to play after summer vacation started.

Where should they go? They had discussed it.

Taking advantage of this time, since his wife had a vacation, they should take the children out to have a good time and relax.

"Mm, I've decided, let's go to the Northeast. Don't you have a small mission that requires you to go there too?

Then the three of us can follow behind and go to the Northeast to take a look. I heard there are Northeast tigers there; I'm planning to bring Tangyuan along. If there isn't a suitable one, that's fine too; anyway, it's just for fun."

Shen Man didn't know why, but even though they were an old married couple and the children were so big, when their gazes met, they would still collide with sparks, and she was incredibly happy.

Perhaps this was the physiological attraction that the senior student Liu Zi had mentioned back then.

She wanted to bite him, to nibble on him gently.

Jiang Ye wasn't a dead man; naturally, he could feel his wife's burning gaze.

Perhaps because they were an old married couple, his way of expressing love was no longer limited to hugging and cuddling.

Instead, he would intentionally or unintentionally jump around the points his wife liked, such as unbuttoning two buttons on his shirt to reveal his looming chest muscles.

Or, for example, when he was washing his hands and face after returning home, he would use a towel to wipe his waist, revealing his abs for his wife to see.

Or perhaps when they were in the room, he would become less proactive and instead silently exude his pheromones and the charm of a mature man, attracting his wife to touch him all over; once he had played enough, he would then take the initiative.

Although he didn't need to train anymore, occasionally he would deliberately reveal a trace left by his wife on his body, silently showing off how much his wife liked him.

Some people said he was a closet pervert; humph, that was just jealousy.

He couldn't explain why he had suddenly become like this, but he discovered that his wife's frequency of touching him all over was increasing, so he just let her behavior be.

Until one day, his wife suddenly asked him how long "he" hadn't appeared, and he suddenly realized.

That guy had automatically integrated into his body, completing the soul fragment he was missing.

Now he lived more like a person of flesh and blood, and had also become the "male demon" in his wife's words.

Fine, let's say "he" did a good deed.

Otherwise, with his psychological state that was upright to the point of being evil, it would be hard to break his lower limit.

In short, their marital relationship and life remained very harmonious.

Unless he went on a mission and didn't come home for a few days, he would do it every night...

It was just that the duration of this time was hard to say.

The Northeast—

Railway Bureau.

It was currently June, the weather was hot, and the Northeast hadn't yet welcomed the cold winter.

The train drove over the tracks, making a rumbling sound.

After the train went far away, a group of children carrying worn-out baskets started picking up coal on the tracks.

The group of people wearing railway police uniforms drove them away to no avail, so they just let them be.

Among them was a scruffy man with hollow eyes, his whole body filled with hostility.

"I told you to get lost, did you hear me? How dangerous is it here? If you get crushed to death by a train, your parents will come to our Railway Bureau to demand compensation..."

The middle-aged man's tone was harsh, and his intent to drive them away was clear.

Other colleagues saw this and frowned, signaling the little brats to go further away while reprimanding him:

"Gu Tingchen, is your brain filled with shit? Is it necessary to scold these children so seriously? How old are these children?"

"Last time, someone specifically came to the Railway Bureau to report you, saying your words were too vicious and that you scared a little brat so much that he went home and had a high fever for two days. Are you ever going to stop?"

"Get your status straight; you're just an ordinary railway policeman now, not the Bureau Chief you were in the Capital, throwing your weight around!"

"Ah, have some self-awareness; don't go around every day talking official jargon and acting like you're so awesome!"

"Exactly, exactly! An ordinary railway policeman, always saying inappropriate things; if you want to drag us down, we won't be polite!"

Clearly, these police comrades had been deeply poisoned by Gu Tingchen and were very dissatisfied with him.

Gu Tingchen acted as if he couldn't hear the mockery and stubbornly drove the children away.

If he hadn't been dismissed from his post for investigation, how could he have returned to his hometown?

It was all Wang Ma's fault, all those spies and agents, for ruining his future!

If he were still the Railway Bureau Chief in the Capital, how would these ordinary police dare to talk to him like that?

A tiger falling to the plains is bullied by dogs; he just had bad luck!

If he were given another chance, no, if he had another chance, he would definitely be able to...

"Dad, my summer camp tuition needs to be paid. When will you get your salary? When will you pay for me?"

When he dragged his exhausted body home, he didn't hear his family understandingly coaxing him, but instead complaining and urging him to pay the fees.

Gu Tingchen's mind was blank for a moment; what had he forgotten?

"Dad, did you hear me?"

Gu Yun Lan glared at her father angrily; how was her father becoming more and more senile, not looking smart at all!

If it weren't for her mother telling her she must keep her father steady, she would want to run away from home right now and never come back!

"In two days, in two days I'll get my salary, and I'll pay it for you. Where's your mother? Why hasn't she come home yet?"

Gu Tingchen used to have no concept of money, but after being dismissed and returning to his hometown, his treatment was worlds apart from the Capital, and he finally knew how important money was.

And now, he couldn't even come up with his daughter's summer camp fee.

Suddenly, he felt embarrassed, self-reproachful, and ashamed.

"Mom went to borrow money; there's no rice at home."

Gu Yun Lan said, looking at her father with disdain.

Among her classmates, it was always the fathers who supported the family and earned money for the children to spend, but in her home, ever since she could remember, her father was always destitute and had to rely on her mother to earn money to maintain their livelihood, so she looked down on her father from the bottom of her heart!

"She went to borrow money? Who did she go to borrow money from?"

Facing his daughter's disdainful gaze, Gu Tingchen's self-esteem shattered into pieces.

Before he could continue to ask, his daughter had already returned to her room impatiently, locked the door, and ignored him...