On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhou Zhigang also returned to the old Zhou family of Guangzipian.
It was a rare reunion for the family, and Zhou Rong, who had always been cold-faced towards Wang Zhong, also had a rare smile on her face.
Of course, this smile was only for Zhou Zhigang, Li Suhua and Zhou Bingyi. Even when facing Zheng Juan and the children, Zhou Rong's face was cold and expressionless.
Even Yueyue was implicated.
After more than a year in Yanjing, Yueyue and Zhou Rong are still not close. When she sees Zhou Rong, she is like a mouse seeing a cat. She doesn't dare to say anything or breathe out of fear.
This time Wang Zhong and Zheng Juan brought their children back to live in Taiping Hutong. They originally wanted to take Yueyue with them, but Li Suhua disagreed and said that Yueyue should live with her parents.
Wang Zhong and Zheng Juan could only follow Li Suhua's wishes.
Fortunately, although Zhou Rong is unreliable, Feng Huacheng still has the responsibility of a father when it comes to treating his daughter. He can bear to communicate with Yue Yue in kind words, instead of being like Zhou Rong, if Yue Yue If you make some mistakes, you will be scolded and cursed hysterically.
On the night of the 29th, Taiping Hutong, Zheng’s house.
On the kang, Wang Zhong and Zheng Juan hugged each other and slept, but Wang Zhong couldn't fall asleep under the quilt.
"Juan'er, let me tell you something."
Zheng Juan raised her head slightly and looked at Wang Zhong's profile: "What's the matter?"
Wang Zhong said: "We will definitely go back to Jichun in the future. The children are getting older day by day. Now there are so many people in the family, men and women, and it is not a problem to always be crowded together like this."
Zheng Juan understood Wang Zhong's meaning instantly: "Do you want to buy a house?"
Wang Zhong shook his head: "Why buy a house? Buying a building is too small, and private housing is too troublesome. If there is another dispute, we will lose both people and money, and we have no place to reason. go."
"Ah? How could it be possible that both people and money were lost?" Zheng Juan didn't react.
Wang Zhongdao: "There are so many twists and turns here. Let's not talk about anything else. Let's talk about the courtyard where we live in Yanjing. It's thanks to the original landlord's connections that he took the house back early. , otherwise it wouldn’t be our turn.”
"What do you mean?" Zheng Juan asked.
"Isn't there a large population in our family now? It's time to allocate the household registration first, and then apply for a homestead. I'll design it myself, hire a few skilled craftsmen, and build a courtyard like Yanjing's. It has two floors. The first floor is all made into a living room, the second floor is divided into rooms, and then there are two rows of wing rooms for the children to live in. All of them are heated, and there are two terraces above the wing rooms. Even if the children grow up and get married in the future, they will start a family. Now, if you bring your grandson back, you won’t have to worry about not being able to live there.”
Zheng Juan was shocked by Wang Zhong's words: "How much will it cost to build such a big house?"
Wang Zhong's eyes were bright, he looked down at Zheng Juan and said with a smile: "It's not like our family doesn't have the money."
Zheng Juan thought for a while and said: "In the folders where we save your manuscript fees, plus the ones sent by the publishing house years ago, there are a total of 13,623 yuan and 65 cents, which is the discount for daily expenses." There are still 632 yuan and 12 cents left, and I still have more than 200 yuan in cash here."
Wang Zhong's manuscript fees have always been kept by Zheng Juan. Every time newspapers, publishing houses, and magazines send manuscript fees, Zheng Juan takes the receipt to the post office to collect it.
The biggest portion of the royalties of more than 10,000 yuan is provided by the publishing house. For every book sold, Wang Zhong gets a 10% bonus. In the past few years, several of Wang Zhong's books have been very popular.
In addition to these, Wang Zhong's space also contains some extra money he earned in the past, which is not much, only a few hundred yuan.
"The purchase of land, materials, labor, and the decoration at the back all add up to a total of two to three thousand yuan. Our yard in Yanjing only cost more than two thousand yuan when we bought it."
Zheng Juan looked at the smile on Wang Zhong's face and the anticipation in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth rose unconsciously, and the small dimples on both sides of his cheeks quietly appeared: "Okay, I listen to you. If you say build a house, then we will build it." .”
Wang Zhong said: "There is no hurry about this matter. After the New Year, I will first find someone to finalize the matter of the homestead. Let's prepare the steel bars, sand and other durable materials first, and wait until the summer vacation. Construction has officially started, and I will come back to watch it personally."
Wang Zhong can be regarded as a man of two generations, and he studied architecture. Now that he can finally design his own house, how can he not be excited.
Although Wang Zhong had a falling out with Zhou Rong and was not close to Zhou Bingyi, he really developed a certain affection for Li Suhua, the 'mother' whom he got to know day and night.
And the original body seems to have left some obsessions.
I want to impress Zhou Zhigang and be proud of him.
Wang Zhong was thoughtful and could vaguely feel that if he could fulfill these obsessions, it would be of great benefit to him. Unfortunately, the system seemed to be down. If Wang Zhong could not bring up his attribute panel at any time, he could Using points and adding points, Wang Zhong even thought that the system had disappeared.
On New Year's Eve, the sound of firecrackers, the cheers of children, and the laughter of family members mingled together, one after another. Starting at noon, Li Suhua and her two daughters-in-law began to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner.
At the New Year's Eve dinner, dumplings and fish are essential on the dining table of every Jichun household.
Zheng Juan and Wang Zhong were busy in the kitchen. Li Suhua and Zhou Zhigang were surrounded by four children, with kind and happy smiles on their faces. Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong were also surrounding them. The family ate peanuts and melon seeds and chatted. about the past.
Although the memory of the original body has been integrated, it is Wang Zhong who is dominant after all. He usually calls his parents, brothers and sisters, but at times like this, Wang Zhong still feels out of place.
After a while, Feng Huacheng and Hao Dongmei also came out. They couldn't get a word in, so they just came out to help with the beating, which was better than just sitting and laughing.
After New Year's Eve, Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei returned to Hao's house. They returned to Hao's house every morning, had lunch, and went directly back to Hao's house to have dinner with Hao Dongmei's parents.
In Zhou Bingyi's words, there are Zhou Rong and Wang Zhong in the old Zhou family, as well as so many grandchildren, but Hao Dongmei's parents only have one daughter, Hao Dongmei. If he and Hao Dongmei don't stay with them, what will happen to these two old people? It would be too lonely to live in the new year.
Zhou Zhigang raised his hands to express support and praised Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei for being sensible and filial.
It was approaching noon that day. Wang Zhong and Zheng Juan had just returned to Lao Zhou's house in Guangzipi from Taiping Hutong with their children. They heard Lao Zhou's excited voice while standing in the courtyard.
"What's going on?" Wang Zhong asked as he pushed open the door and looked at the family gathered around the back room and Zhou Zhigang, who was in high spirits and excitement.
"Bingkun came back just in time!"
"You can clean up the toilet outside later." Zhou Zhigang pointed excitedly in the direction of the public toilet outside the window, his hands shaking a little.
"bathroom?"
"Isn't the toilet at home very clean? Mom cleans it every day." Wang Zhong hugged Lingling and sat on the kang.
A few years ago, Wang Zhong built a toilet in his yard. It was not big, two square meters, and a three-stage septic tank. It only had to be drained once a year.
Zhou Zhigang emphasized: "I'm talking about the public toilets outside."
"Why am I cleaning that thing when I have nothing to do? It's a public toilet, not our own toilet." Wang Zhong put Lingling on the kang, took Mingming from Zheng Juan's hand, and took off her shoes. He was also carried to the kang.
"Go if you are told, there is so much nonsense!" Zhou Zhigang immediately straightened his face and gave serious instructions.
Wang Zhong had no intention of getting up and looked at Zhou Zhigang: "If you want to go, you can go by yourself. I won't go anyway."
"Dad, how about I go?" Seeing Zhou Zhigang's face as dark as the bottom of a pot, Zheng Juan immediately stood up and recommended herself.
"You're not allowed to go!" Before Zhou Zhigang could say anything, Wang Zhong glared at Zheng Juan, pretending to be stern.
"Zhou Bingkun!" Zhou Zhigang was so angry that he blew his beard and glared: "Your wings are stiff and you want to rebel!"
Wang Zhong was not afraid of Zhou Zhigang's sharp, knife-like gaze: "Then you have to give me a reason to convince me to go!"
Zhou Zhigang said angrily: "Your sister-in-law's parents are coming to our house. Is this a good enough reason?"
"not enough!"
"you······"
"Are you sincerely angry with me?" Zhou Zhigang pointed at Wang Zhong, his chest rising and falling.
Wang Zhong said: "My sister-in-law's parents are coming to our house, so just let them come. Let's clean the house and tidy up the front and back of the house. This can show our sincerity. "
"Is it possible that you are planning to clean up our entire photo album?"
"What kind of attitude do you have!" Zhou Zhigang immediately became angry and rushed forward, raising his leg to kick. Fortunately, Li Suhua on the side was well prepared and grabbed Zhou Zhigang immediately.
"What are you doing!"
"What am I doing? Didn't you listen to what this kid said?" Zhou Zhigang said angrily.
At this time, Zhou Bingyi also stood up: "Dad, don't be angry. In fact, what Bingkun said is not unreasonable."
Hao Dongmei also stood up and tried to persuade her: "Dad, there's really no need to get into such a big fight. My parents came here just to meet you and my mother, and to meet the in-laws. There's no other meaning."
Zhou Zhigang said, "Dongmei, don't speak for this bastard. It's our family's honor for your parents to come to our house. We have a lot of people in our family. If by chance we happen to meet each other, then we have no choice but to go." There’s a public restroom outside.”
"What does the public toilet look like? You don't know what it looks like? If Dongmei's parents saw it, how could it be better?"
Zhou Zhigang pointed at Wang Zhong and said sternly.
Wang Zhong shook his head and said, "Do you think it's still the old society? Don't say that my sister-in-law's parents just come to our house for a visit. Even if they really come to inspect, we can't deliberately do a general cleaning just because of this. .”
"The leaders came all the way down to inspect. They wanted to see the real situation at the grassroots level, and they wanted to see the most realistic current situation of our optical film. It would be better for you to just do a general cleaning and ask us to clean the public toilets as well. .”
"If the leader originally saw the situation in our public toilets and planned to ask the relevant departments to make rectifications and improve the conditions of the public toilets, but you did this, then that would be good. The public toilets were clean when the leaders came down, and when the leaders left, they would It’s smelly, dirty and messy.”
"Are you fooling the leaders or are you torturing our ordinary people?"
"you you you·····"
Zhou Zhigang pointed at Wang Zhong, his words were interrupted, and he couldn't get out of his breath. Li Suhua hurriedly patted his back and gently stroked his chest to calm his breathing.
"Strong words!" Zhou Zhigang glared: "Are you going or not?"
Wang Chongfeng said calmly: "I won't go!"
"If you don't want to go, get out! Don't enter my old Zhou's house!"
Wang Zhong didn't answer, and directly took the two children off the kang who had just been put on the kang, put on his shoes, and said to Zheng Juan: "You take the children back first, I will come back later."
"Bingkun!" Zheng Juan frowned slightly, looked at the furious Zhou Zhigang, and then at Wang Zhong, with a troubled look on her face.
But Wang Zhong insisted, and she had no choice but to listen to Wang Zhong.
"Don't leave!"
"Those are my grandson and granddaughter. If you want to go away, go away yourself. My grandson and granddaughter must stay." Zhou Zhigang was like an angry lion, showing off his majesty in front of Wang Zhong.
Zheng Juan hesitated for a moment, but looking at Wang Zhong's firm eyes, she sighed and led her two younger brothers out. Guangming and Zhou Cong also walked outside the door. Yueyue held Zhou Cong's hand tightly and held on. He also walked out.
Wang Zhong stood up from the kang, facing Zhou Zhigang, and said loudly: "We have many children in our family, and parents cannot drink a bowl of water. I understand, and I have long accepted this reality, but as children, we , but I cannot blindly obey my parents. If it makes sense, I can obey it unconditionally. If it makes sense, can’t I object?"
"Or do you always think that this is still the old society, and you are always the emperor sitting on the throne?"
Zhou Zhigang's face turned red when Wang Zhong said that.
Wang Zhong hasn't finished speaking yet: "I have long been used to it and have looked away. But Congcong, Yueyue, Mingming and Lingling have all grown up day by day. Last time Congcong asked me why Grandpa speaks so kindly and kindly to his uncle, but he is so cruel to dad."
Wang Zhong laughed at himself: "A son never talks about his father's fault, let alone in front of the children. I don't know how to answer."
"Children will grow up, become sensible, and learn to distinguish right from wrong."
"I know you have looked down on me since you were a child and thought I was not as good as my eldest brother and Zhou Rong. Even when I was admitted to Shuimu, the first thing that came to your mind was probably whether I cheated or just got lucky. , you just passed the exam!"
"Look how kind you are to your elder brother and Zhou Rong. You can forgive Zhou Rong like a normal person if she did something like that. If it were me, I would have broken my legs long ago."
"If you despise my son, there is nothing I can do about it. Anyway, we will have to separate our families sooner or later. In this case, let's take advantage of it now! I don't want the house or the family's savings. You can give it to your eldest brother or to Zhou. Rong or Rong, I have no objection."
Zhou Zhigang's face was as dark as water, and his face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. He stared straight at Wang Zhong. Li Suhua's face had already been covered with two lines of clear tears, and the tears were still falling down.
"Kun'er, what are you doing? Why did you end up breaking up the family?" Li Suhua stopped holding Zhou Zhigang's hand and held Wang Zhong's hand tightly. He was at a loss and asked excitedly.
Wang Zhong patted the back of Li Suhua's hand, "Mom! It's only a matter of time before we separate. Our family only has so much land, and now there are so many children in the family. Every New Year, Juan'er and I have to live in Taiping Hutong. It's fine for one or two years, but it would be too troublesome if it happened every year."
"Then there's no need to separate the families!" Li Suhua said with tears in her eyes.
Zhou Rong and Wang Zhong have been estranged from each other for a long time. If it weren't for Li Suhua and Zhou Zhigang, she wouldn't even bother to see Wang Zhong's face.
Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei looked at each other, and Zhou Bingyi said: "Bingkun, even if you have been wronged over the years, it will not lead to a family separation!"
Wang Zhong did not answer.
Zhou Zhigang, however, slammed the table angrily, pointed at Wang Zhong and shouted loudly: "Divide! Let him divide!"
"Since you don't want this house, then don't come back again. I, Zhou Zhigang, will pretend that I never gave birth to your son."
Ah! Wang Zhongcai was too lazy to get used to this stubborn temper.
"That's right, your son is the son-in-law of a high-ranking official, and I am just a commoner. How can I reach such a high position?"
Zhou Zhigang was so angry that he stepped forward, raised his foot and kicked Wang Zhong in the stomach. The speed was so fast that no one in the room could react. Zhou Zhigang had already kicked Wang Zhong in the stomach.
Wang Zhong was kicked and took three steps back. He sat down on the kang, holding on to the wall with one hand and the kang with the other. He didn't fall down, but there was a sharp pain in his lower abdomen.
