"When did I stop talking to you? In the Spring Festival of 1981, when you came back, didn't we have a fight? The reason why I didn't talk to you today is because we never talk to each other. It's better not to talk, not to talk.
It's just that I don't want to quarrel with you. Don't blame me for not contacting me. Didn't you also contact me? You write to Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong every month, but you never send one more to me?
"
Zhou Bingkun definitely did not accept Zhou Zhigang's accusation, and he did not want to ease the relationship with Lao Zhou.
No matter what Lao Zhou thinks, Zhou Bingkun thinks it is appropriate for the two of them to have a rigid relationship and not disturb each other.
"Zhou Bingkun, I am your father!" After being unreasonable, he wanted to use his identity to suppress others. Zhou Zhigang's shouting was a bit hysterical.
Zhou Zhigang's mentality was a bit too fragile. Zhou Bingkun just treated the old man differently, and the old man's mentality exploded.
Zhou Bingkun had been treated differently by Zhou Zhigang for so many years, and his mentality collapsed without any explanation.
"Don't argue with me about whether I'm a father or not. We are here to reason, and it has nothing to do with identity. Even if we talk about identity, what's the matter with being a father? My son makes me angry every day, when have I ever been like you?
, just ignore it."
"Dad, why do I make you angry every day?"
Zhou Zhou heard directly from the side and interrupted.
"You're just making me angry now."
Zhou Bingkun glared at his son and said, it was a good opportunity to reprimand Zhou Zhigang. The old Zhou was speechless and the atmosphere was ruined by his son.
"My father, Bingkun, why are you two quarreling again? Old Zhou, you said how old you are, why are you still so angry? Zhou Bingkun, you are in your thirties, why are you still so angry?
You are having trouble with your father, now you two should be quiet and stop talking."
Seeing that Lao Zhou was going to suffer, Li Suhua acted as peacemaker again. Although he nagged two people, Lao Zhou was the most embarrassed now, so he helped Lao Zhou out of the situation.
Lao Zhou couldn't hold back his identity and couldn't reason with him, so of course he acquiesced to Li Suhua's mediation and remained silent.
Zhou Bingkun also didn't continue talking, thinking about quarreling with Lao Zhou in front of such an eldest daughter and son.
This role model was not very good, so Zhou Bingkun gave up to the Zhou family this time.
The family took a minivan in silence and arrived at the busiest area of the city.
I found a restaurant that looked good and had a good flow of people, and had a small reunion dinner that was both happy and embarrassing.
Most people are happy to have three generations living under one roof. Zhou Bingkun is not embarrassed either. The only one who is embarrassed is Zhou Zhigang.
After dinner, Zhou Bingkun took the old couple back to the Zhou family's old house.
Li Suhua wanted to stay with her granddaughter and grandson for a while. When Zhou Bingkun returned to Jichun, he came to Lao Zhou's house to watch the fun and was not in a hurry to leave.
If you can stay at Zhou's house for a while, you can stay as long as you want. Even if you don't gain much, you can at least see how little Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong's family care about the couple.
It was quite boring to stay at Lao Zhou's house. At a time when color TVs were almost becoming common in the city, Lao Zhou's house didn't even have a black and white TV.
The three major items in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Lao Zhou's family now only has a washing machine, which is a single-cylinder one that can only wash clothes without a spin dryer.
It is also the cheapest among the three major items. It does not have a black and white TV. The most expensive refrigerator among the three major items is even missing from the old Zhou family. A domestic refrigerator costs seven to eight hundred yuan, and an imported one costs two. Three thousand yuan.
Zhou Rong and Feng Huacheng spent all their money on themselves. They lived a very bourgeois life and didn't care whether their family was trembling or not.
Zheng Juan and her two children chatted lively with Li Suhua in the back room.
Zhou Zhigang was sitting in the corner smoking and was very high.
Neither party could participate, so Zhou Bingkun found a copy of Jiangliao Daily in the outer room to read to pass the boring time.
When it was almost late in the evening, Zhou Bingyi, the son of the Hao family, finally remembered that he still had his "natal family" and that he should come over to take a look during the holidays, so he came to the Zhou family with some gifts.
"Deputy Director Zhou is here?"
After seeing Zhou Bingyi enter the house, Zhou Bingkun shouted.
Zhou Bingyi is just forty years old, and he is dressing more and more like an old cadre.
In the past few years, my stay in No. 1 Courtyard has not been in vain, and my mother-in-law has not served me in vain.
After entering the agency, Zhou Bingyi can be said to have risen steadily, one step at a time every two years, and he was promoted at the right time, and his career was very steady.
When I was transferred, I was a deputy director, and now I am a deputy director.
From the deputy director of the Policy Research Office, he became the deputy director. He has been the deputy director for two years and has accumulated enough qualifications for further promotion.
With a starting point like the Zhou family, Zhou Bingyi became the youngest department-level cadre in Jiangliao Province and a rising political star in Jiangliao Province.
How could the relationship be possible without living in No. 1 Courtyard? If Zhou Bingyi lived in Guangzipian, it would be good if Zhou Bingyi could find a solution.
This is because the old Hao family didn't exert any force, but because of the Hao family's reputation, no one suppressed Zhou Bingyi's promotion.
It's just that the Hao family didn't come forward and no one allowed Zhou Bingyi to take real power.
"Bingkun, you are back, why didn't you call in advance to let us prepare."
Zhou Bingyi said with enthusiasm on his face, after staying in the agency for a long time, he has become better at handling the human world on the surface.
"During such a big holiday, I can't think of anywhere else for you to go except at home. I thought there was no need to make an extra phone call, so I came back without notifying you. Who knew what I would see when I came back was a big holiday? You guys left the old couple deserted and alone at home."
Zhou Bingkun still had a bit of yin and yang aura when he spoke.
Although Zhou Bingyi has never done anything to make Zhou Bingkun angry in the past few years.
But after coming back, I saw that Zhou Bingyi completely regarded himself as the son of the Hao family, and I couldn't help but want to give Zhou Bingyi a few words.
It's normal to fawn over a mother-in-law like that, but there's no need to completely ignore your mother-in-law.
"Bingkun, what are you talking about? Isn't your brother back now?" Li Suhua was quite satisfied with Zhou Bingyi's late return home. Because of the status of the Hao family, Li Suhua had no objection at all to Zhou Bingyi not coming home. .
The snobbish Zhou Zhigang would not have any objection to Zhou Bingyi's choice to celebrate the festival at his mother-in-law's house. On the contrary, he would like to express his concern for his in-laws:
"Bingyi, your mother-in-law is in good health now, and is she in a good mental state, right?"
"Dongmei's mother is in good health, and Dongmei's spirit has been much better recently."
After the happy old couple finished greeting Zhou Bingyi, Zhou Bingyi approached Zhou Bingkun who was reading the newspaper in the outer room: "Bingkun, don't read this newspaper yet. This was many days ago, and these news are no longer new. , we two brothers can chat for a while?"
"I work and don't have time to read newspapers. I don't usually see the Jiangliao Daily. These news that I don't know are all news to me."
Zhou Bingyi's government job is the kind that many people envy. When he arrives at the workplace in the morning, he can have a cup of tea and a newspaper and wait until he gets off work.
After mocking Zhou Bingyi for a while, after doing nothing serious in the past few years, Zhou Bingkun took his eyes off the newspaper, looked at Zhou Bingyi, and motioned for Zhou Bingyi to continue:
"I mentioned the idea of letting my parents come to live at your house with my parents, but they were unwilling to go." Zhou Bingyi said this, which was not surprising to Zhou Bingkun at all.
"Look, I've already told you, how could the old man live in my house? He is a shameless person."
He said this, but in his heart, Zhou Bingkun still believed that Zhou Zhigang was shameless when facing Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong.
To make Zhou Zhigang disregard his shame, Zhou Bingyi relied on his father-in-law and mother-in-law's status, and Zhou Rong relied on his preference.
Maybe it's because these two children have lost face.
On the contrary, it made Zhou Zhigang even more shameless with Zhou Bingkun, not wanting to become a completely shameless person in front of his children.
"What I'm thinking about is that our dad can't get rid of this face. Can you take the initiative to give him some face and invite them to stay at your house?"
Zhou Bingyi is not stupid, of course he can see the crux of the problem.
"Zhou Bingyi, what are you thinking? He can't live here if he doesn't want to. He's a shameless person, so why don't I have no shame? He doesn't even look down on me and doesn't want to talk to me. I even begged him to live in my house.
.Zhou Bingyi, do you think I, Zhou Bingkun, look cheap?"
It was not in vain that Zhou Bingyi was valued by Zhou Zhigang, and his words were still very biased towards Zhou Zhigang.
"Bingkun, that's not what I meant."
"Zhou Bingyi, let me tell you, otherwise you ask your work unit for a house so that the two of them can live in it."
At Zhou Bingyi's level, in a prefecture-level city, he should be assigned to live in a compound.
Although Zhou Bingyi is not yet a big boss in the provincial capital, his level is really not low.
Regardless of whether it was based on academic qualifications, seniority, or rank, Zhou Bingyi was already qualified to be assigned a house of his own.
"Bingkun, everyone in our unit knows that I live in Courtyard No. 1. There are still many people in the agency who don't have houses yet. The government has allocated a villa as big as Dongmei's family to live in. How can I have the nerve to go to the hospital again?
The work unit needs a house."
What he said was very noble. There must be thousands of reasons for what Zhou Bingyi didn't want to do.
"Since you can't solve it yourself, don't worry about where to let the couple live. It's not like they don't have a house to live in. If not, just let them continue to live in one house for men and one for women. Others from Wako Films
Comparing the residents, five people live in two rooms, and the conditions are not bad."
The Zhou Rong family should obviously be the most worried about this matter. Zhou Bingkun didn't even know what Zhou Bingyi had been doing here.
Zhou Bingkun thought about it again and again, and all he could think of was that for Zhou Bingyi, a high-ranking cadre, his parents lived in a slum, and the squeezed couple couldn't sleep on the same bed for fear of being accused of being unfilial.
"Grandma, is the meal ready? I'm hungry!"
At this time, a burst of shouting came from outside. Although Zhou Bingkun was not familiar with this voice, Feng Yue was the only one who could shout like this.
Hearing Feng Yue's shout, Zhou Bingkun ended the topic, "Okay, let's not talk about this matter. Old Feng's family is back."
Li Suhua came out and said, "Yueyue, you are back. Grandma and your younger brothers and sisters are chatting so happily that they haven't cooked yet. Your uncle has brought pastries, fruits, and canned food at home. Look,
Let’s see what we can eat first to make up for it.”
"Uncle, uncle." Feng Yue also noticed Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Bingkun sitting in the outer room and said hello.
"Yueyue, you have really grown up. You are already a big girl. When your mother was your age, she had already talked about a partner with your father. You are as beautiful as your mother when you were in junior high school. Do you have a partner?
"
Seeing Feng Yue, Zhou Bingkun also praised him. Before he knew it, this child had entered junior high school and it was time to know a little more about his parents.
Zhou Bingkun is very fond of this child. He is very beautiful and his personality is similar to Zhou Rong. It can be said that he is completely a smaller version of Zhou Rong.
How Zhou Rong tormented the Zhou family, this child is fully capable of tossing Zhou Rong and Feng Huacheng.
"Feng Yue, your uncle is joking with you. Your main task now is to study, but you must not have any messy thoughts like puppy love." Zhou Bingyi hurriedly followed.
"Brother-in-law, was my mother so romantic when she was in junior high school?"
Feng Yue did not disappoint Zhou Bingkun, and asked with great anticipation. Regarding the matter of falling in love in junior high school, she had a completely different view from adults.
"This is nothing. Your mother has done a lot of romantic things, so this is nothing."
Both Zhou Rong and Feng Huacheng started writing letters and engaging in online dating in the 1960s.
Or Zhou Rong went all the way to Beijing to find Feng Huacheng.
Later, they traveled thousands of miles and eloped to the countryside to find Feng Huacheng.
These things that make adults angry to death are all romantic to such a big child.
"Really, uncle, tell me about it?" Zhou Bingkun has successfully aroused Feng Yue's interest.
"This is a long story. Hasn't your mother ever told you about her past?"
"I have told some stories. My mother told me that she went to teach in rural areas of Guizhou for eight years."
Zhou Rong was really good at showing off her face. She obviously eloped, but she could also say that she went to teach.
"Feng Yue, how about we start from the first time I met you..."
Zhou Bingkun didn't insist that Feng Yue learn from Zhou Rong's puppy love or anything, he just wanted Feng Yue to know the dark history of his parents.
How cool Zhou Rong and Feng Huacheng were when they did these things, now that their children have grown up, these two people should be so embarrassed.
"Zhou Bingkun, why are you telling your children this? Come here and help me cook together. I'll bake pancakes for you tonight. Don't you all like this very much?"
Li Suhua stopped Zhou Bingkun's idea to continue speaking. The presence of so many people really affected Zhou Bingkun's performance.
At least Zhou Bingkun should be allowed to tell Feng Yue how Feng Yue was abandoned in the first place and why he, his uncle, traveled thousands of miles to help Feng Yue find his mother.
I would like to express my own contribution. Although the two of you are not familiar with each other, Zhou Bingkun, your uncle, has also made great contributions to you, Feng Yue.
"Mom, you want pancakes? Pancakes are so tiring, why don't you let Zhou Bingyi bake them?" Zhou Bingkun is also very caring.
"Why, Zhou Bingkun, you now dislike your mother for being old and think that I can't do your mother's job. Let me tell you, your mother and I can do all the work at home."
Li Suhua can do most of the work, Zhou Bingkun still believes in it, and Zhou Rong doesn't help, so of course Li Suhua has to do it by herself.