Li Suhua insisted on going to the stop to pick someone up, but Zhou Bingkun couldn't care less and went back to the house directly:
"Juan'er, get me something to eat. I just have to pick up people. I didn't even eat lunch."
"You didn't bring dad back? The meals mom prepared for you are all heating up on the stove."
"The people followed and came back soon." Then Zhou Bingkun opened the lid of the pot on the stove and looked at the rice prepared by Li Suhua, a bowl of braised pork, a bowl of dried tofu, and two rice dishes, all of which Zhou Zhigang loved to eat.
Li Suhua was really kind to Zhou Zhigang: "This is the meal mom cooked for dad. How dare I touch it? Give me something else to eat."
"Hurry up the scrambled eggs. Can I scramble an egg for you?"
Whose husband is the one who cares? Zheng Juan also picked out the dishes and cooked them for Zhou Bingkun.
"Okay." Zhou Bingkun responded and went to the back room to see his daughter.
After touching and hugging her, she woke up her daughter. Zheng Juan also made scrambled eggs: "Bingkun, aren't you hungry? You're out to eat."
"Okay." Zhou Bingkun came out with his daughter in his arms and sat at the kitchen table to eat.
There will probably be more quarrels after Zhou Zhigang comes back, so Zhou Bingkun finishes his meal first.
Zheng Juan also sat down, took the child from Zhou Bingkun, then looked at Zhou Bingkun and asked: "Bingkun, do you think dad won't like me?"
Zhou Bingkun was putting rice into his mouth and thinking about it for a long time. Zheng Juan has never been the father of the provincial number two, has never gone to college, and cannot write poetry. It will not bring any face to the old Zhou parents, and it is really impossible.
Will make Zhou Zhigang like it,
"You are living with me. It doesn't matter whether Dad likes you or not. He only goes home to visit relatives once every three years and stays for more than ten days at a time. Even if he really doesn't like you and always treats you with a cold face,
Just be patient and it will pass."
It is better to tell the truth so that Zheng Juan can be mentally prepared.
From Zhou Bingkun's younger brother's position at home, to the fact that the two of them got married without Zhou Zhigang's approval.
From Zheng Juan's background as an abandoned baby in Taiping Hutong to Zhou Bingkun and Zhou Zhigang's quarrel, Zhou Zhigang has no reason to be satisfied with Zheng Juan as his daughter-in-law.
After listening to Zhou Bingkun's words, Zheng Juan felt even more uneasy: "Then what will happen when dad comes back?"
"It's better when we come back. When dad comes back, mom will have a companion. We don't have to stay at home to take care of mom. We can move out."
Zhou Bingkun originally had the idea of building a house, but he didn't know about it until he went to a wood processing factory.
The wood processing factory simply does not have the ability to build family buildings for its employees.
The factory is not that profitable, so all the wood processing workers can’t even think of getting a house from their unit.
"We don't have a house if we move out, right?"
"We can rent a house to live in..."
…
"Bingkun, Bingkun, come out and help your dad!" Zhou Bingkun finished his meal, and not long after, Li Suhua's shout came from outside.
When Zhou Bingkun went out, he saw Li Suhua carrying Zhou Zhigang to the door: "What's wrong, what's wrong?"
Li Suhua said angrily: "Your father's legs and feet are swollen. Don't you, the son, know that? You are asked to pick someone up at the train station, but you pick him up and come back alone?"
"I don't know, my dad insists on taking the tram."
Wearing thick cotton shoes, thick woolen trousers, and cotton trousers, Zhou Bingkun could tell that Zhou Zhigang's legs and feet were not swollen.
It's not polite to say so, but since Zhou Zhigang was already like this, Zhou Bingkun still helped Zhou Zhigang into the room instead of Li Suhua.
It's hard to say that it was support. It was basically Zhou Bingkun who carried Zhou Zhigang back to the house with one arm.
Without stopping in the outhouse of the kitchen, Zhou Bingkun sent Zhou Zhigang directly to the kang in Li Suhua's room.
"You sit down first, and I will bring you the hot meal outside. You can rest after eating." In order to make Zhou Zhigang sit more comfortable, Li Suhua also put up two mattresses.
But when Li Suhua said that, Zheng Juan had already brought the rice hot on the stove into the back room.
"Let me introduce you. This is your youngest daughter-in-law Zheng Juan. I wrote to you about it." After Zheng Juan brought the dishes and rice to the Kang table, Zhou Bingkun introduced her and looked at Zhou Zhigang and Zheng Juan.
With a cold face and no words, Zhou Bingkun decided to take a preemptive strike:
"Zheng Juan, this is our dad. We have been married for three or four years and you have just met our dad for the first time. Don't blame him. After all, we are not a college student or a famous poet. It is not worthy of our dad coming back to see us."
Li Suhua was completely focused on Zhou Zhigang and didn't care about what Zhou Bingkun said: "My dad, hurry up and eat. You haven't tasted my cooking for seven or eight years. I know you won't be able to eat well on the train, so I'll be there early
I’ll prepare a meal for you at home.”
"Dad, the child is still in the outer room. I will go and bring the child to you for a look."
Zheng Juan said hello and went out to pick up the child.
"Zhou Bingkun, don't be so arrogant with me. Can you and your sister be in the same situation?"
Li Suhua didn't listen, but because Zhou Zhigang was carried into the house by Zhou Bingkun's arm, he was surprised by Zhou Bingkun's strength and kept looking at Zhou Bingkun and listening to Zhou Bingkun's words.
"Of course it's different. She just ran away with someone, and I'm marrying a matchmaker. It's not a hassle, so we deserve not to be taken seriously."
"Bingkun, why are you talking to your dad?" While talking, Li Suhua also hit Zhou Bingkun hard: "Your dad didn't buy a ticket. He came back after standing on the train for two days and two nights. His legs and feet
It's swollen when I stand, and it hurts when I walk. You asked your dad to come back in the car by himself, but I haven't settled the score with you yet, and you still talk to your dad like this."
Li Suhua had developed a habit of hitting Zhou Bingkun. Normally, if he didn't hit him hard, it would be considered a fake hit. Now when he was really angry, he would hit him hard.
"Look, this means that you don't come back when it's time to visit relatives, and you don't have the experience to buy tickets. If you have the experience of coming back, you should know that you should buy train tickets early when you go home before the Spring Festival."
"Who told you to talk sarcastically here? Get out of here." Li Suhua pointed at the door and said.
"I'm feeling aggrieved on your behalf. If you don't want me to say it, I won't say it. You can just feel aggrieved by yourself."
After saying that, Zhou Bingkun walked out of Li Suhua's back room and stopped Zheng Juan who was about to go in with her child. "There is no need to show him his granddaughter. Let him see his granddaughter."
"boom!"
After going out, Zhou Bingkun heard a sound of banging on the table.
"Bingkun, dad is back after a long time, please don't quarrel with him." After returning to the room, Zheng Juan advised.
"Didn't he see that he was sullen towards you, the daughter-in-law whom we met for the first time? He was not targeting you, he was targeting me. His attitude towards me, Zhou Bing, Kunming's matchmaker, who is marrying a daughter-in-law, is even worse than that towards an old man who is in the fifth category.
If your attitude is not as good as it is, what does this mean?”
Zhou Bingkun also deliberately raised the tone by two, so that Zhou Zhigang would listen to what he said.
"Okay, you just told me to bear with it, and you even got into a fight with Dad."
"Yes, be patient. If you can't afford to offend him, we can afford to hide. Come on, take the kids, and we'll go to your house."
Zhou Bingkun found out that he couldn't see Zhou Zhigang, and he was a bit resentful. When he saw him, he wanted to quarrel with him.
"Isn't this bad?" Although she was a little moved, Zheng Juan still felt that it was not good for the two of them to run out just after Zhou Zhi came back.
"There's nothing wrong with it. The New Year is coming soon. Let's go over and see how they are preparing their New Year's goods?"
"Okay, I'll pack the children's things."
"I'll decorate it with peanuts and melon seeds and bring them over."
Zhou Bingkun still has quite a lot of peanuts and melon seeds in reserve. If you plant them once, you won’t be able to finish them all in several years.
It is much more comfortable to stay in the Zheng family. Although the three members of the Zheng family are not related to each other by blood, the relationship between the family and the family is much more sincere than that of an ordinary family.
While other families are partly formed by blood, the Zheng family has no blood ties, it's all about emotions.
Aunt Zheng can treat her two children equally, and there are no selfish children in the Zheng family. The whole family can consider each other, and the atmosphere is much more harmonious than that of the Zhou family.
After dinner at Zheng's house, Zhou Bingkun took his children and Zheng Juan back.
"Hahaha (hehehe)."
Before entering the door, I heard laughter and laughter in the house. After Zhou Bingkun left, the Zhou family was much happier, and Zhou Bingkun could be regarded as an atmosphere spoiler.
"Bingkun, Juan'er, are you back?" It was probably when Zhou Bingkun pushed the door open that Li Suhua heard a sound on the door.
"It's us who are back." Zhou Bingkun responded.
At this time, a person jumped out from the back room, saw Zhou Bingkun and shouted: "Bingkun."
"Brother Zhou Bingyi, you are back. Didn't you write a letter saying that you won't be back until twenty-nine?"
Regarding Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Bingkun, they don't have any big opinions for the time being. But it will be hard to say in the future, so Zhou Bingkun's reaction is relatively dull.
"You wrote and said that dad would be coming back today, so I adjusted my vacation and came back two days earlier, thinking I could spend two more days with dad at home." Zhou Bingyi explained.
"Brother, let me introduce to you my daughter-in-law Zheng Juan and my daughter Zhou Miaomiao."
"Dongmei, Dongmei, come out for a moment." Zhou Bingyi first shouted towards the back room, and then said: "Why did I call you sister Dongmei out? Let's go to the back room to chat together."
After saying that, Zhou Bingyi pulled Zhou Bingkun to the back room. It seemed that he didn't know about the quarrel between Zhou Bingkun and Zhou Zhigang.
To give Zhou Bingyi some face, it was still necessary for the sisters-in-law Hao Dongmei and Zheng Juan to meet and get to know each other. Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan held their children and followed them into the back room.
"Dongmei, this is Zheng Juan, our sister-in-law, and this is Miaomiao, our niece."
When Hao Dongmei met Zheng Juan, she was quite enthusiastic. This was a normal reaction to meeting Zheng Juan for the first time: "Juan'er, you are so beautiful. I only heard about you in letters from Bing Kun before, but now I finally meet you."
"Sister-in-law, I've heard a lot about you, and I finally met you."
"Juan'er, come let my sister-in-law hug my niece."
After a few words of greeting, Zhou Zhigang began to glare at Zhou Bingkun with dissatisfaction: "You still know how to come back and don't even come back for dinner. I thought you would never come back?"
When Zhou Zhigang faced Zhou Bingkun, he was never one to take advantage of his words. If Zhou Bingkun quarreled at noon, Zhou Zhigang would return it now.
"Bingkun, have you eaten? If you haven't eaten the noodles I made tonight, will mom go make some noodles for you?" Li Suhua asked with concern. It seemed that she was not really angry with Zhou Bingkun.
"I went out for an afternoon and never came back? What do some people mean if they don't come back for seven years?" Zhou Bingkun looked at Zhou Zhigang and said.
"Can you two stop arguing? It's been seven years since our family reunited."
Li Suhua was angry with both of them. After an afternoon of excitement, Li Suhua finally stopped supporting Zhou Zhigang unprincipledly.
Li Suhua got angry, but Zhou Zhigang still knew that he was sorry for Li Suhua, so he glared at Zhou Bingkun and said no more.
"We just came back after eating at Zheng Juan's house. There's no need to cook noodles for us." Zhou Bingkun replied to what Li Suhua had just said.
"Both of you, stop talking." Li Suhua first looked at Zhou Bingkun and Zhou Zhigang and said, then looked at Zhou Bingyi and said, "Bingyi, continue talking."
"Let me tell you, Dongmei's parents were rehabilitated, and now Dongmei is the women's director of their educated youth center."
"You guys talk, let's go back to the house and tidy up the kids."
Zhou Bingkun was not interested in what Zhou Bingyi said about his time in the Corps.
Zhou Bingkun never interfered with Zhou Bingyi, so Zhou Bingkun knew everything Zhou Bingyi went through in the Corps.
Zhou Bingyi's major event in the Corps, to put it simply, was that he missed two opportunities.
An opportunity comes when I am appreciated by a big boss and can be transferred to work as a secretary to a big boss.
However, because of the involvement of Hao Dongmei's parents, Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei were dating, so their background was not clean.
Only by breaking up with Hao Dongmei could Zhou Bingyi be transferred.
Unwilling to break up, Zhou Bingyi gave up this opportunity for Hao Dongmei, which would save him twenty years of struggle.
The second time was when he was recommended to go to college by the Corps. Again for Hao Dongmei and for the sake of justice in his heart, Zhou Bingyi missed the opportunity to be recommended to go to college.
"Bingkun, you can't leave yet. There are so many of us, how can we sleep at night?" Li Suhua stopped Zhou Bingkun who was about to go out.
"How else can I sleep? There are only two beds in the house, one for men and one for women."
"Mom, I haven't seen your dad and your brother for a long time." Li Suhua was obviously dissatisfied with this arrangement.
"I understand. You want to sleep with my dad and my brother and have a chat at night, right? Then let my sister-in-law and Juan'er and their sisters-in-law sleep in the same room, and the rest of us four sleep in the same room."
"I think this is OK." After Li Suhua responded with a smile, she then decided to separate Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei and ask them for their opinions: "Bingyi..."
Because of the status of Hao Dongmei's parents, it is impossible for the old couple of the Zhou family to ignore Hao Dongmei.
Before Hao Dongmei's parents resumed work, Hao Dongmei's status was already much higher than Zheng Juan's.
Because of her parents' status, it is normal for Hao Dongmei to be looked down upon.
But someone like Zhou Zhigang, who looks up to Hao Dongmei but looks down on Zheng Juan, is a snobbery.
At night, Zhou Zhigang slept at the head of the kang, and Zhou Bingkun slept at the end of the kang. The two consciously and tacitly chose the farthest place from each other, without any communication at all.
Li Suhua and Zhou Bingyi slept in the middle, lying on the kang, chatting until midnight before going to bed. The contrast in their relationship was obvious.
