Five years after my wife's death, she came back!

Shi Ying gave him a meaningful look: "I knew it. I remember wearing this outfit the day before yesterday. How come it was gone when I woke up yesterday?"

Shang Chenyan sat down beside her and took her hand: "I was afraid I wouldn't be able to sleep at night, so I brought it with me."

Shi Ying asked suspiciously, "Shang Chenyan, did you do anything indecent to it?"

She looked at him suspiciously, because she was really impressed by what Shang Chenyan had done to her photo that day.

Shang Chenyan's earlobes felt slightly hot. He pulled away his clothes and took her fingers in his other hand: "Now that you're here, it won't happen again."

Shi Ying was furious. That was something that had been there before she arrived.

She shoved him down, straddled him, and angrily pinched his cheek: "From now on, you're not allowed to hide anything of mine, including photos and clothes!"

Shang Chenyan chuckled and held her wrist, gently kissing her wrist bone: "Then Yingying will have to stay by my side and keep an eye on me at all times."

Shi Ying snorted, rolled off him, and lay down on the inside.

Shang Chenyan also lifted the covers and lay down, pulling her into his arms and inhaling the faint fragrance from the top of the girl's hair.

After all that commotion, Shi Ying wasn't very sleepy anymore, and she started talking about what happened on the way:

"It's really far from here. I took the high-speed train at around 10 a.m., which took four hours, and then another four hours on a slow train. After getting off the train, I still had to take a bus."

Shi Ying couldn't help but complain, "My back is aching from sitting so hard..."

Upon hearing this, Shang Chenyan reached out and stroked her waist, gently kneading her lower back. Shi Ying felt so comfortable that she slightly squinted her eyes, just like when Qiuqiu was being patted on the head.

Qiuqiu is the kitten we keep at home.

Shang Nian said it was chubby and looked like a little round ball, so she named it that.

"The transportation here is not very convenient, and the security is not very good either." Luckily, Shi Ying knew to ask Pei Yanchuan for help. If she had really come alone, she would have been scared to death if something had happened on the way.

"Shang Chenyan, how much longer until you finish your business?" Shi Ying asked, her eyes closed, nuzzling her head against his chest. "If you stay too long, Niannian will be unhappy."

She spends her days navigating between an older child and a younger child.

Shi Ying sighed.

"It'll be soon. The person in charge of this factory construction is called Meng Kang. He's the one who instigated others to cause trouble, hoping to take advantage of this opportunity to extort some compensation."

Shang Chenyan wasn't stingy with money, because those who were injured in the rain should be compensated as they should be. However, Meng Kang wasn't even there that day, yet he was now inciting those who weren't injured to also take the opportunity to demand compensation.

"A bunch of unreasonable people, I plan to meet with the village secretary of Meng Kang's village tomorrow and ask them to mediate."

Shang Chenyan was too lazy to waste any more time here, but half of the main equipment for the Shang Group's medical sector came from the factory in Linxian County. If things weren't done well here, the subsequent instruments wouldn't be able to be launched on time, and the losses would be huge.

Shi Ying mumbled, still half-asleep, "Are you sure you can reason with the village chief? What if they're all in cahoots?"

"When I was little, I lived with my parents in a small alley. Almost everyone in the alley knew each other. Once, a neighbor's child smashed someone's car. When the person came to demand an explanation, everyone in the alley turned around and helped the child, driving the car owner away."

Recalling the past, Shi Ying still felt somewhat indignant: "They all sided with their relatives and ignored the truth; the car owner was just unlucky."

Shi Ying's words reminded Shang Chenyan that Meng Kang dared to make such a fuss because he was far away from the emperor and thought he wouldn't waste time arguing with him. He might just agree to it if they couldn't reach an agreement.

Secondly, there might actually be someone backing him up.

Not hearing Shang Chenyan speak, Shi Ying opened her eyes: "Are there many villages in Lin County?"

Shang Chenyan hummed in agreement: "It's far from the county seat; there are only a few villages and towns nearby."

"So all your workers are from the same village?"

Shang Chenyan shook his head: "No, every village has them. The young and middle-aged people here usually earn money by doing manual labor. The factories under the Shang Group offer relatively better benefits, so many people want to come here every year."

Shi Ying rolled her eyes and came up with a wicked idea: "Since it was that Meng Kang who started the trouble, let's not be polite to him."

"Although everyone in this county might be related, what does a little bit of kinship matter when it comes to personal gain? Don't people from other villages want to be consuls?"

Shang Chenyan quickly understood what Shi Ying meant. It seemed that the relationship between the villages in Lin County was harmonious, but the government provided different subsidies to each village and town every year based on their respective circumstances, so there was competition between each village.

If Meng Kang causes such a ruckus, and their village doesn't take any action, people from other villages might not want to sit idly by and wait to be brought down; they might have already tried to remove him from power.

Thinking of this, Shang Chenyan sent a message to Jiang Wen, telling him not to contact the leaders of Meng Kang's village anymore, but to meet with the leaders of other villages tomorrow.

After he finished sending the message, he looked down and saw that Shi Ying had already fallen asleep.

She was exhausted after a long day and must have been scared being alone in the car. Now that she had relaxed, she slept soundly.

Shang Chenyan turned off the light. In the darkness, unable to see, his sense of smell and hearing became even more acute.

The girl's faint fragrance lingered around his nose, and with her gentle breathing, he managed to get a good night's sleep, something he rarely experienced.

*

the next day.

The weather was clear, and the long-awaited sun swept away the gloom of the past few days.

Shang Chenyan had to leave early. When he came out after washing up, Shi Ying was still asleep under the covers.

"Yingying, I have to go now." The man bent down and whispered in her ear, "I've asked someone to prepare lunch. Call them when you wake up and have them bring it up. Remember to eat."

Shi Ying felt a buzzing in her ears, and she impatiently pulled the blanket over her head.

Shang Chenyan smiled silently, wrote a note, and stuck it on the headboard.

Last night I had that conversation with Shi Ying, and since he was in a good mood, his mind was even sharper.

Things went smoothly, and Shang Chenyan returned to the hotel around 3 p.m.

He went into the room, but it was very quiet inside.

Shang Chenyan hurried into the bedroom, and only when he saw the small bulge on the bed did his heart settle down.

"Yingying?" He walked to the bedside and gently called Shi Ying's name a few times. "It's afternoon, aren't you getting up?"

Upon hearing the sound, Shi Ying opened her eyes with difficulty, her cheeks flushed slightly.

Shang Chenyan frowned and hurriedly reached out to touch her forehead; the touch in his palm was very hot.

Shi Ying said weakly in a muffled voice, "I don't feel well..."

"You have a fever." There was no private doctor here, so Shang Chenyan could only help her up. "Come on, change your clothes, I'll take you to the hospital."

"Have I caused you any trouble?"

Shi Ying said sullenly, "I wanted to take care of you, but now you're the one taking care of me instead."