Not to mention that Zhou Zecheng ran away from the clever Gu Changning in the yard. Gu Caiwei entered the house alone into the spacious living room and greeted loudly from a distance:
"Grandma, I'm here to see you!"
The old lady of the Zhou family, about seventy years old, was lying on a bamboo chair, the kind that Gu Caiwei had seen in the countryside during the Spring Festival. It was incompatible with the grand decoration of the house.
She sat up when she heard the sound, holding a cattail leaf fan in her hand. When she smiled, her eyes narrowed into slits, looking very kind:
"Xiaowei is here."
Gu Caiwei went over and squatted beside her bamboo chair, took her hand and said with concern:
"Grandma, how are you doing lately?"
"It's very good. I can eat and sleep." The old lady was very happy and held her granddaughter with her thin, calloused hands.
At this time, a little boy with a round head and a childish look appeared out of nowhere. He looked about the same as Gu Zixuan, about ten years old.
He looked at Gu Caiwei and hesitated for a moment, then remembered his father's previous instructions and timidly called him "sister".
Gu Caiwei smiled at him, relieving his nervousness.
"I haven't seen you for a long time, little Ruolin. He has grown so tall, haha, his head is still so round." Gu Caiwei said and touched his head. It felt good.
Zhou Ruolin and this sister have actually never met each other a few times since they were young. They are quite strange, and they seem to want to hide but dare not.
Gu Caiwei didn't mind and asked him with a smile: "Ruolin, where were you just now? Why didn't I see you?"
He pointed to a small table not far away: "I'm doing my homework."
Gu Caiwei looked in that direction, and it happened to be blocked by the tall chair back. Her brother was squatting there doing homework, which was very inconspicuous. No wonder she didn't notice it.
That's right, the summer vacation is about to be over again, and I haven't done much with my homework. It seems that during the evening self-study the day before school starts, I have to copy Lin Yi's homework again until my hands hurt.
We'll see Lin Yi soon.
The old lady looked at this scene with great relief and touched her grandson's head: "If you have anything you don't know about, just ask your sister. She is a top student at Lin'an Middle School."
Gu Caiwei was a little embarrassed to be called a top student, thinking that everyone in school regarded me as a poor student.
Fortunately, Zhou Ruolin was only in the third grade. She was still very confident about the questions at this age, so she waved her hand boldly: "Yes, you can ask me any questions you have."
Zhou Ruolin didn't actually want to ask for advice, but he didn't seem to know how to refuse, so he took the exercise book he was working on just now:
"Sister, I didn't think of this question just now."
"let me see."
Gu Caiwei took it confidently and her expression changed after reading the question. It turned out to be the math question she hated most.
But why was there this kind of math problem when I was in the third grade of elementary school? I knew every word, but I couldn’t read them together. What was going on?
Was it a fake primary school I went to in Lin'an?
She had serious self-doubt, pretending to be thinking, she secretly turned to the front and glanced at the cover of the book:
"Hua Luogeng Gold Cup Youth Mathematics Invitational Competition..."
Why does primary school mathematics have such a thing?
Her eyes lit up, she immediately dropped the book, stood up, and shouted for the rest of her life:
"dad!"
Zhou Zecheng thought his daughter was so happy to see him, so he asked curiously:
"What were you talking about just now?"
"Sister is teaching me my homework." Zhou Ruolin answered naturally.
Gu Caiwei had never thought that her younger brother was so cute, and her liking for him increased rapidly.
My dear brother, from now on you will be covered by your sister.
Zhou Zecheng went over and took a look and found that it was an exercise question for the China Cup. He looked at Gu Caiwei's expression and was already laughing to himself.
He is very clear about his daughter's abilities, and she is definitely bad at math.
But he didn't expose it: "It's rare for my sister to come back once. Ruolin, don't do your homework. Let's go out and play together for a while."
Zhou Ruolin actually thinks that going out to play is less interesting than doing math problems, but since his father said so, he will do it.
After Gu Caiwei took her brother out, the old lady asked her son: "Why didn't you come in with Xiaowei just now?"
"Gu Changning came and said a few words in the yard."
"Are you here to help me again? For someone as strong as Chang Ge, these two younger brothers are too incompetent."
The last matter was also discussed in this house, so the old lady knew.
Zhou Zecheng shook his head: "Not this time. He came to remind me that Xiaowei was in love with a poor boy and wanted to get me to intervene, but I scolded him back."
"You don't care about Xiaowei's affairs?"
"I believe in Chang Ge. She always does things in a measured way. If she didn't stop him, it means that the boy is not a bad person."
The old lady nodded. She also cared about her granddaughter, but her son could make up his own mind about this matter.
What she wanted to say was another thing: "When you went out just now, Ruolin secretly asked me why his sister's surname was Gu?"
"He is still closer to you, Mom."
Zhou Zecheng lamented that his son was a little afraid of him and would not say such things.
There was no way, he was usually very busy with business and would go out early and come back late. Zhou Ruolin actually grew up with his grandma.
"If you don't find him a mother, of course he will have to kiss my grandma."
The old lady brought up the old story again: "I know you are still thinking about Chang Ge. You have such a daughter-in-law. I really don't like it even if you have other people."
"I heard that she hasn't remarried in these years, and there is Xiaowei in the middle. Who says you two can't get back together?"
"In this case, you have to prepare your own snacks. I asked you to take Ruolin to Lin'an, but you still haven't made any move. Although I am an uneducated old woman, I also know that Lin'an is the capital city of the province, and business is not as good as that of Yuezhou.
Does it have to be big?”
"Mom, that's not the problem."
Zhou Zecheng smiled bitterly. His unwillingness to go to Lin'an was indeed "shunning" Gu Changge.
Gu Changge did not remarry after his divorce. He had previously imagined that it was because of his unresolved love, but after a quick trip during the Spring Festival, he realized that he was probably just being sentimental.
He had been avoiding this topic before, thinking that the old lady might forget it after a while, but it seemed that she had always kept it in mind.
"Mom, now that we've talked about this today, let me tell you something from my heart. I really have no intention of marrying anyone else, but I won't bother Changge. It's fine as it is now."
He did not say that he had met Gu Changge during the Spring Festival. At that time, he knew that Gu Changge was still as determined as when he divorced.
The old lady shook her head: "You can't just think about yourself. It doesn't matter at your age, but Ruolin is still young."
"Although he asked about my sister today, I actually heard that he wanted to ask about his mother. Where is his mother?"
Zhou Zecheng closed his eyes in pain. This is the problem: