Chapter five hundred and forty seventh: each has a scheming
The Zhou family lives in Guangzipian, which is composed of five alleys: Guangren, Guangyi, Guangli, Guangzhi, and Guangxin. As far as the eye can see, there are dilapidated shacks with no order at all.
The muddy paths and messy garbage are everywhere. To describe this place as "dirty, messy, and poor" is not an exaggeration.
The Zhou family's house is not big, barely two and a half rooms, two of which are occupied by people, and half of which is the kitchen.
There are five people living in the two rooms. Brothers Zhou Bingkun and Zhou Bingyi usually live in the outside room, while Zhou Zhigang, Li Suhua, and their daughter Zhou Rong live in the back room.
Five people living in two rooms are naturally enough to live in, but compared to all Zhou Chen's previous houses, it is far behind.
But such an inconspicuous house is already considered pretty good in this area of Guangzipian.
As a famous poor place in Jichun City, Guangzipi is not a small place, but it has more people. Many families have several people. A family of five like the Zhou family is already considered small. A family with more people can have more than a dozen people.
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A dozen people living in two rooms is a scene that is unimaginable. Living with a dozen people in the same dormitory is completely different.
It has been three days since he traveled back in time, and Zhou Chen is still not used to the living environment here, not anywhere.
Everything else can be overcome, but going to the toilet is really too much trouble. The Zhou family lives in the first household on this street, and there is a public toilet not far from their house.
Speaking of public toilets, Zhou Chen was speechless and choked up.
It's not that he has never been to public toilets. When he was a child in the real world, his family was not rich, so he often went to public toilets, but compared with the public toilets here, they really pale into insignificance.
Anyway, Zhou Chen felt that even if he found an open space, it would be cleaner than a public toilet. He had to step on his feet when going there, otherwise, he didn't know what he would step on...
As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
You must know that even Shamao Alley in the 1980s was many times better than here.
Although he is very dissatisfied with the environment here, Zhou Chen is already working hard to overcome it, just to experience the poor life of this era.
In fact, it is temporarily unable to change.
Lying on the bed in the outer room, Zhou Chen started communicating with the system.
"System, what's going on with Zhou Rong? Don't I have Voldemort's skill? Why does it feel like it's not working?"
Zhou Rong's attitude just now made him feel strange. You must know that he is a man with the passive skill Voldemort. This skill is definitely a magic skill when he has a sister.
But Zhou Rong's reaction just now was sarcastic and not like Voldemort, so he wondered if the skill didn't work.
The system responded quickly, but this reply surprised him.
"It's not effective? What do you mean it's not effective? Isn't Voldemort's passive skill effective? Can his passive skill be effective?"
The system responded quickly, saying that passive skills may not necessarily succeed. Just like playing games, if you have a passive, you may have skills that invalidate it.
Such a reply made Zhou Chen yell, "Fuck you, Voldemort's skills are clearly marked 'definitely', so why don't they take effect when needed?"
Taking games as an example, is this what the system should do?
Perhaps because of dissatisfaction, the system took the initiative to answer.
It is said that the reason why Voldemort's skills were unsuccessful is because Zhou Rong is already an adult and an extremely selfish person. People like her live for themselves and do not consider others at all, so when Voldemort's skills are used on
It didn't take effect until it was applied to her body.
But how could Zhou Chen believe this? You are a system. You can even travel across the world. How powerful is this? Can't you even change a person's personality?
But the system stopped responding now. No matter how he complained, the system seemed to be frozen and unresponsive.
This made Zhou Chen angry. Having watched the series, he understood what kind of person Zhou Rong was.
He had thought before that if he could turn Zhou Rong into Voldemort, it would definitely make his life much better in the future and prevent him from having all the bad things that happened in the series.
But now it seems that this is because he is being sentimental. This dog system is really unreliable and will not work at all at the critical moment.
Anyone who has seen the human world knows how capable Zhou Rong is. He has reason to suspect that the system is deliberately disgusting him and creating difficulties for him.
The time he is traveling through now is when Zhou Zhigang, Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong have not left home. Now Zhou Bingkun is only seventeen years old, which means that Zheng Juan must not be with Tu Zhiqiang yet.
Thinking of this, Zhou Chen felt much better.
His mission is to change the miserable life of 'Zhou Bingkun' and at the same time give Zheng Juan a better life.
So he had to stop the bad things that happened to Zheng Juan, and the best way was to capture Zheng Juan before she got involved with Tu Zhiqiang.
Zhou Chen still pities Zheng Juan very much. Although she has no education, she is countless times better than Zhou Rong, a college student from a prestigious university. She is the absolute representative of a good wife and loving mother.
Taiping Hutong is difficult to find, but Zheng Juan's mother sells popsicles and often goes to the cinema to sell them, so it is relatively easy to find them.
"Squeak!"
The wooden door was pushed open. Zhou Chen turned around and took a look. The person who came in was his current eldest brother, Zhou Bingyi.
In the human world, Zhou Bingyi was a good man and a good official, but to the Zhou family, he was neither a competent son nor a competent elder brother.
Of course, it also depends on who you compare with. At least compared to Zhou Rong, Zhou Bingyi is undoubtedly much better.
Zhou Bingyi walked to the bed and sat down, patting Zhou Chen's thigh: "Bingkun, what's wrong with you? Dad will be leaving in a few days. You must be angry with him at this time."
Zhou Chen didn't even raise his eyelids: "Why, it's all my fault? I obviously didn't do anything, and yet I got reprimanded, and I haven't dealt with it yet."
"Where are you going to reason with me? That's our dad. Who told you to be out of tune and fool around all day long?"
"Oh, when I go out to play, it's called fooling around. When you go out to play, it's called learning and gaining knowledge?"
Zhou Bingyi looked at his younger brother strangely, wondering why he was so angry today. Zhou Zhigang had said this kind of thing a lot before, and Bingkun had been perfunctory before, so why was he so angry today?
"That's not what I mean. What I mean is that dad is leaving, so don't make him angry at this time. It will take three years for him to come back after he leaves. We want him to leave happily.
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Zhou Chen sat up with a strange look in his eyes: "Brother, why do you sound so weird? What do you mean by leaving happily?"
Zhou Bin angrily hit Zhou Chen: "You brat, if you can't speak, just say less."
"Okay, don't say so much. I understand. I won't make my dad angry anymore before he leaves, okay."
Zhou Chen didn't like the way Zhou Bingyi spoke, as if he was the boss and should listen to him.
He didn't care how messed up Zhou Bingkun was in the past, but now he was Zhou Bingkun. He knew how to live better than anyone else, so he didn't like Zhou Bingyi teaching him the pretense of being an eldest brother.
If he wanted to preach to him, Zhou Bingyi was still far away.
"Look at how impatient you are. By the way, you just said you wanted to go to college. Don't say it again after you go out. The current situation is not very good. You have to control your mouth. What can you say and what can't be said? You have to
I know it well."
Zhou Chen has not experienced this special era and does not understand how sensitive people in this era are, but he also knows that in this era, we should talk less and do more.
Some words that you think are fine may lead to catastrophe if they fall into the ears of someone with bad intentions.
"Well, I understand. You will go to Jiangliao Construction Corps in a few days. You go and pack your things."
After the meal, Zhou Zhigang didn't look good on Zhou Chen until the evening.
If it was Zhou Bingkun in the past, he might still be worried and scared, but Zhou Chen didn't care at all. Even if he inherited everything from Zhou Bingkun, it was really difficult to have much affection for Zhou Zhigang in a short period of time.
Zhou Rong did say something to Zhou Chen, but Zhou Chen just dealt with it casually, and then Zhou Rong lost interest in talking to him anymore.
The next day, Zhou Zhigang went to the photo studio early in the morning to pick up photos.
Zhou Bingyi had almost packed all his things. At this time, he was carefully putting books one by one into a large wooden box, while Zhou Chen sat aside and watched.
"Bingkun, there are a total of sixty-one books here, but no one can see them. These are rare books. Most of them belong to others, including teachers, classmates, and friends. There are still several books here.
They all belong to Hao Dongmei."
"Because our family is a working-class family, it is relatively safe, so everyone put the books here with me. After I leave, you have to take care of them. I suggest you read them when you have time. It will be good for you.
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Zhou Chen picked up a book casually. The book was very old and he could tell it had been used for a long time. He had never heard of the title, but at a glance, he could guess what kind of book it belonged to.
He prefers reading, because he has lived for a long time and has been in many film and television worlds. He has relatively free time, and reading has become one of his pleasures.
Not to mention, he is really interested in this book with great characteristics of the era.
After putting the book away, Zhou Bingyi picked up a military coat next to him.
"Bingkun, haven't you been thinking about this coat that dad gave me for a long time? I'll give it to you now."
Zhou Chen just glanced at it and lost interest: "No, you should keep it for yourself."
Zhou Bingyi asked in surprise: "What's wrong? You don't want it anymore?"
"No, wait until I make money later and buy a new one myself."
Zhou Chen flipped through the book and casually said that Zhou Bingkun used to treat this coat as a treasure because he wanted it but couldn't get it, but he really didn't want it.
Zhou Bingyi looked at Zhou Chen who was flipping through the book, and he was confused. He always felt that his naive brother had changed a lot in the past few days. Could it be that he had grown up?
"I'll leave it to you. Our Corps will send it out when the time comes."
As he said that, seeing that Zhou Chen had no intention of answering, he put his coat aside.
The wooden door outside was pushed open, and a short and fat woman walked in. When she saw Zhou Rong washing pots in the kitchen, she immediately asked: "Rong'er, where is your mother?"
Zhou Rong: "Auntie, my mother is in the back room."
Zhou Bingyi called the person "Auntie", Zhou Chen turned his head and looked at it, and also called out.
He recognized that this woman was their old neighbor, his mother Li Suhua's old sister, Aunt Qiao, and Qiao Chunyan's mother.
Aunt Qiao walked into the back room with a smile and sat down on the kang. Zhou Rong poured a cup of tea and took it over.
"Oh, Kun'er, your kids are here, I don't even know what to say."
Zhou Rong asked with a smile: "Auntie, are you here to mobilize us to go to the countryside?"
Mother Qiao immediately praised: "Look at this Zhou Rong, she is indeed a top student. She is very smart and can guess things like a god."
But as soon as Li Suhua heard this, the smile on her face quickly disappeared, and her face became full of sadness.
"His aunt, Bingyi, is about to leave to build a corps."
Qiao's mother said: "Kun'er mother, according to the current policy, a family can only keep one child. Our family also has three children. No, now only my old girl Chunyan is left."
"oh."
Li Suhua was not in a high mood, but she also knew that this was a policy that she could not change, so even though she was reluctant, she still shouted: "Rong'er, Kun'er, you two come here."
Zhou Rong immediately put down her work and walked into the back room. Zhou Chen also put down his book and walked over.
Looking at the pair of children standing in front of him, Li Suhua said: "Rong'er, Kun'er, what your aunt said has something to do with you two. You two should listen carefully."
Mother Qiao said: "In fact, everyone already knows what I want to say. The above policy has been implemented. For families with many children, only one person per household can stay in the city. The rest are all candidates for going to the mountains and countryside. No matter sooner or later, Everyone has to go, this is the only way for all young people."
As soon as Qiao's mother finished speaking, Zhou Rong volunteered and said: "Aunt, no need to say anything, I understand. I will tell you now that I'm leaving."
When Zhou Rong said she was leaving, everyone in the room was stunned, especially Li Suhua, whose eyes were red.
"Rong, the good life of this girl's family is only for a few years. What do you know, you have to leave."
Zhou Rong said: "Mom, Bingkun and I are going to leave anyway. I am the elder sister and is older than him, so I should go."
"Good boy, good boy."
Qiao's mother and Li Suhua were both moved and felt that Zhou Rong was too sensible.
Only Zhou Chen curled up his lips with disdain in his heart. He said it was so righteous and awe-inspiring, and the love between brother and sister was deep, but in reality.
The reason why Zhou Rong wanted to leave was not because of this at all, but because she wanted to go to Guizhou to pursue her 'love'.
But except for him, no one else knew about her, and they all thought she was sensible and a good child.
Qiao's mother asked Zhou Chen: "Bingkun, what's your attitude?"
Immediately, Li Suhua and Zhou Rong, including Zhou Bingyi who walked to the door, all looked at Zhou Chen.
Zhou Chen shrugged and said: "I don't care, Mom, I think you are right, the good life of the girl's family is only for a few years. My sister will stay and I will go."
Although he didn't want to go, because it would take at least several years for him to go, so his plan to find Zheng Juan would not be completed.
It's just that Zhou Rongdu expressed his stance so "righteously and awe-inspiring". If he didn't say anything, what would his family think of him?
Although he is the youngest son, he knows very well that in this family and at this time, his status is not as good as Zhou Rong. This can be seen from the TV series, his parents and elder brothers all want him to go.
"You kid."
Li Suhua's eyes turned redder. Although she wanted her daughter to stay, Zhou Chen was also her old trouble, so how could she let her go.
Zhou Chen pretended to smile casually and said: "Mom, it doesn't matter. I'm a boy with a strong skin. If you let me go, maybe I can bring you a smart and beautiful female educated youth daughter-in-law in a few years." "
Li Suhua laughed and scolded: "You kid, you know how to make your mother happy. How old are you, you don't even think about these things."
Zhou Chen chuckled and said, "I'm not afraid that you won't be able to let go. Don't worry, Mom. At worst, I can ask my aunt to find a nearby countryside for me. I can come back to see you after a while. It won't be a problem."