When Zhou Xiaolu was born, Zhou Lin's mother did not agree with Zhou Xiaolu's registration in her household registration book. Zhou Lin could only admit that she was unlucky to have such a mother who had intermittent convulsions and was extremely strong and unreasonable. In desperation, Zhou Lin could only contact Feng Decheng's parents.
Although Feng's father and Feng's mother hated the Zhou family deeply, after learning the news, they agreed to add Zhou Xiaolu's name to their household registration book without saying a word. They didn't mind Zhou Xiaolu's surname at all.
Feng Decheng's parents tried to communicate with Zhou Lin and asked if Zhou Xiaolu could be brought up by them. At that time, Zhou Lin had just given birth to Zhou Xiaolu. Her mother's instinct to protect her cubs was still there, and she had not yet realized that Zhou Xiaolu would have an impact on her remarriage. In a rage, she scolded Feng Decheng's parents.
Of course, registering the children and communicating with Zhou Lin were all done behind Zhou Lin's parents' back.
Feng Decheng's parents considered that the Zhou family's family conditions were better. Zhou Lin and her parents were both government workers and received higher education, which should provide Zhou Xiaolu with better living, education and growth conditions. In addition, Zhou Lin's performance Due to his attitude, after comprehensive consideration, he had to reluctantly part ways with Zhou Lin and cut off contact with Zhou Lin.
It is estimated that they never dreamed that Zhou Lin's family, who in their eyes had a decent life and job, would let Zhou Xiaolu live like a wild dog. This is completely different from their imagination and original intention.
More than ten years later, Feng Decheng’s parents’ hometown was demolished. In accordance with the demolition policy, Feng Decheng's parents received several sets of compensation and resettlement houses. After looking at the household registration book, the couple decided to put one of the sets under the name "Zhou Xiaolu" after discussion, and planned to wait until she becomes an adult before contacting her and giving this gift to her.
Zhou Lin and her parents both work in government agencies, and slowly they heard the news. This news has been confirmed by many parties to be true.
This is the scene where Zhou Xiaolu’s stepfather takes the house gift agreement and coaxes Zhou Xiaolu to sign it.
Zhou Xiaolu was young at the time and had average academic performance, but that did not mean she was a fool.
Zhou Xiaolu decisively refused to sign.
My stepfather continued to persecute me by refusing to pay my tuition fees.
Zhou Xiaolu decided to go find her grandparents. She firmly believes that her grandparents will be kind to her and will definitely provide for her to go to school.
This time, fate smiled on Zhou Xiaolu. Zhou Xiaolu was very grateful to herself for making this bold and correct decision for a long time. She finally walked out of the dark, wet, muddy, and bumpy forest path, where several wild beasts suddenly appeared at all times, and embarked on a path. The flat road with flowers in full bloom and sunshine on the ground has completed the transformation from a wild dog to a princess. She can return to the right track and start a simple, ordinary and happy life.
At that time, Zhou Xiaolu's grandmother had passed away.
Feng Decheng's suicide was mainly caused by the pressure put on him by three women, Zhou Lin, his mother and his son, and Feng's mother. In the eyes of others, Zhou Lin and her son are the culprits and should bear the main responsibility. But Bong's mother has always placed the main blame on herself. After Feng Decheng's death, Feng's mother's health deteriorated. Zhou Xiaolu's sudden appearance brought a brief sunshine to her gloomy life, but it ultimately failed to heal her knot.
Not long after the resettlement house was demolished and compensated for demolition, Feng's mother passed away.
Zhou Lin and her son are really strange. Not only did they suffer from intermittent convulsions, but they also seemed to suffer from schizophrenia. On the one hand, they disliked Zhou Xiaolu and often used words to force Zhou Xiaolu to find her grandparents. On the other hand, she never revealed any information about her father and grandparents to Zhou Xiaolu, nor did she tell her their grandparents’ residential addresses.
Perhaps they themselves are avoiding looking directly at the ugly behavior of the past. After all, a real warrior dares to look directly at the bleak life, and a real warrior dares to look directly at the ugly human nature. Especially looking directly at one's own faults and ugliness is beyond the reach of others.
Rather than saying that they disliked Zhou Xiaolu's appearance for ruining Zhou Lin's life, it is better to say that just seeing Zhou Xiaolu would remind them and their son of Feng Decheng, making them aware of their own ugliness, which made them sleepless.
In the Zhou family, it is taboo for Zhou Xiaolu to mention these three titles, grandparents and father, as well as any nouns related to them.
Therefore, Zhou Xiaolu did not know any information about her grandparents until her stepfather took out the house gift agreement. But after that, she knew how to find her grandparents.
The house donation agreement contained the detailed address of the resettlement house, and Zhou Xiaolu quickly remembered the address.
Then, Zhou Xiaolu found this place and squatted near the resettlement house. Whenever she saw someone, she asked if the owner of the house here was named Feng.
Since her grandparents gave her a resettlement house, her grandparents' own resettlement house must be together with hers. This is the simplest but most useful method Zhou Xiaolu can think of.
However, others told her that most of the owners of the houses here were named Feng.
This made Zhou Xiaolu, who was originally confident, feel cold in her heart. She only thought of screening the owner of the resettlement house through her paternal surname to identify her grandfather. But I never thought that my grandparents’ hometown was called Fengjia Village.
The resettlement housing here has just been handed over, and almost no one has moved in yet. After walking around the large resettlement community for a whole day, little Zhou Xiaolu was tired and hungry, but still found nothing.
She wanted to find something to eat, but she had no money. After walking out of the resettlement community aimlessly, she didn't know where to go. But in the centralized transitional room not far away, someone was holding a funeral, and the noisy mourning music and firecrackers attracted her attention.
After Zhou Xiaolu hesitated for a moment, she decided to blend in with the crowd attending the funeral and sit on the flowing water mat.
Destiny is like a big invisible hand that always appears when people least expect it, leading people to take one or two crucial steps that determine the direction and path of life. There are many roads to take in a person's life, but there are often only one or two steps that determine the direction and path of life, and they are always taken inadvertently.
Feng's father saw a person in a trance at his late wife's funeral.
It was a little girl in school uniform, and he didn’t know whose child she belonged to. Her eyebrows looked very familiar to him, especially the way she was devouring her food. She was sweating profusely while grabbing her rice bowl, and there was nothing girlish about her. The elegance of every family is very much like the deceased Feng Decheng.
If you have a cold body, no matter in spring, summer, autumn or winter, no matter whether there are chili peppers in the dishes, you will sweat profusely when eating. Especially in winter, steam will rise from the top of your head, making you look like you have been hit by an ice palm. The master is using his energy to drive away the cold.
Father Feng shook his head to dispel these messy thoughts.
After rubbing his eyes, he found that the little girl was missing.
Maybe it’s because of old age that I’ve seen things wrongly. Feng Decheng thought.
But when he turned around, he found the little girl standing in front of him again.
"Grandpa, can I ask you something?" the little girl asked.
"What's the matter with you?" Feng's father said with a smile.
"Your surname is Feng, right? Do you know that there is a family named Feng nearby. She has a granddaughter named Zhou, but she is raised in someone else's house?" Zhou Xiaolu decided to change her name after knowing that most of the people nearby were surnamed Feng. A form of questioning in which one does not ask the person's last name, but directly asks if the person knows something about the situation. She just wanted to try her luck.
The old man's heart skipped a beat and asked, "My child, what is your name?"
"Zhou Xiaolu..."
At this moment, Feng's father burst into tears.
After calming down, the old man asked a few more questions and finally confirmed that this was his granddaughter. Then, the old man, who was filled with sorrow and joy, pulled Zhou Xiaolu to kowtow in front of her grandmother's mourning hall.
Then, Zhou Xiaolu lived with her grandfather.
This year, Zhou Xiaolu is about to face the high school entrance examination. Grandpa went through the transfer procedures for her, paid a large "school establishment fee" and sent her to the best junior high school in the county. There are also pick-ups and drop-offs on motorcycles every day.
Grandpa never asked about Zhou Xiaolu's academic performance. He only asked her if she was tired at school, if she encountered anything interesting, and if she was bullied.
Zhou Xiaolu asked her grandfather: "Why don't you care about my academic performance?"
Grandpa said: "I can write my own name, and I can add, subtract, multiply and divide. I don't understand what you are asking, so I won't ask."
Zhou Xiaolu thought for a while and said, "How about I come back and teach you what I learned every day?"
Grandpa also thought about it and said, "If you use your brain more, you will be less prone to Alzheimer's disease?"
Zhou Xiaolu nodded and said yes with great certainty.
Through this method, Zhou Xiaolu's academic performance increased in a straight line, and she was admitted to a key high school in the county, and then admitted to Bonan University as she wished.
Zhou Xiaolu was immersed in the joy of learning and teaching, and had no idea what kind of umbrella her grandfather held up for her in order to protect her little world.
In the eyes of Zhou Lin and her mother, even if it is a dog, it has been raised for more than ten years, and a lot of effort and price have been paid. Zhou Xiaolu just walked away without saying a word. What's going on?
Therefore, after a long discussion, they found Zhou Xiaolu's grandfather and demanded compensation for their expenses in raising Zhou Xiaolu for more than ten years. At this time, Zhou Xiaolu was already boarding in high school and only came back once a month. She was completely unaware of this unreasonable request from Zhou Lin and her grandmother.
The old man was surprised. He thought Zhou Lin would come to compete with him for custody of Zhou Xiaolu. Ever since he heard Zhou Xiaolu talk about his living conditions in the Zhou family, the old man secretly made up his mind that even if he went bankrupt, he would not be able to let Zhou Xiaolu return to the Zhou family again. Therefore, the request put forward by Zhou Lin's family seemed a bit unreasonable to others, but in the eyes of the old man, he was a bit overjoyed.
Of course, the old man is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He has been in business all his life and knows not to expose his bottom line casually. Therefore, on the issue of whether to compensate the Zhou family, the old man was ready to fight a protracted war.
