"It's time to cut back. By the way, what do you mean by having someone take your second sister to and from get off work in the future?"

"I found a potential partner for my second sister."

"Who? What is a potential stock?"

Zhou Yu paused for a moment with his hand covering the cold towel, and listened with his ear tilted.

"He's the one who saved my second sister today."

"Ah?" Zhou's mother covered her mouth and shouted.

The cold towel on Zhou Yu's eyelids also slipped down, and he quickly grabbed it.

Zhou's mother lowered her voice and said, "How can that be? He, he's a gangster!"

"Why not? Zhang Lian is not a gangster, what he did is worse than a gangster!

Besides, they had all made the changes and had been making barbecue for half a year, earning more than 10,000 yuan, with each of them getting more than 2,000 yuan.

It’s not like Zhang Lian who has younger siblings to burden him and parents to support in their old age.

His parents are gone, his elder and second brothers have started their own families, and he was adopted by his parents. He has no blood relationship with his elder and second brothers, and they will not have any contact in the future.

I hope he can marry into the family and help take care of the family with my second sister. My third brother still needs a few years to grow up, and there is no one at home who can take care of things. Can I leave when I start junior high school next year? What about high school and college in the future?

The family can’t always rely on me, I also need my second sister to stand up for herself, but, look at how cowardly she is! If she finds a gangster brother-in-law, others may laugh at her, but no one in the family will dare to mess with her!

"I agree!" Zhou Yu took off the towel from his eyelids.

"Second daughter, you have to think it through!" Although Zhou's mother felt sorry for her younger daughter's hard work, she was unwilling to sacrifice her older daughter's lifelong happiness.

Zhou Yu shook his head. "Don't think about it. My sister is right. I'm useless. But I also want to do something for my family."

My younger brother is only twelve years old, and it will take him another five or six years to become an adult. I can't rely solely on my younger sister for these five or six years. Since that man is alone, it's perfect for me to let him marry into the family and take care of our family."

"Are you really not going to consider it anymore?" Zhou's mother tried to persuade him again.

"No, I agree. Just make the arrangements."

"I agree."

Zhou's father's voice was heard outside.

"Dad?" Zhou Yu and Zhou Xiang asked in unison. Dad was actually outside the door.

Zhou's father and Zhou Niao walked in, Zhou Niao's face full of tears.

"What's wrong, brother?" Zhou Xiang walked to his brother and grabbed his hand.

"I, I'm stupid, I'm useless. I'm the eldest, but my younger sister has to worry about the family. Now I want my older sister to marry a bad guy. I didn't realize that my older sister was dragged away by that bad guy Zhang Lian tonight."

"Okay, stop crying and listen to me. First, that bad guy Zhang Lian has evil intentions, and he will always find an opportunity. So, it has nothing to do with you, and you don't need to feel guilty.

Second, you're not useless. You usually protect us and help us with things, so how can you be useless? If my second sister didn't have you, would her business be able to succeed? Your salary is still too low. Ask her to give you a raise next year.

Third, that person isn't a bad person. There are bad people among good people, like Zhang Lian. If a bad person changes for the better, he's no longer a bad person. We can't always dwell on his past, right?

Zhou Niao stopped crying, "Really? Am I really useful? Is that person really changed?"

Zhou Xiang nodded vigorously. "Really? My eldest brother is amazing! He even gets paid. Also, bad people aren't born bad. Sometimes, there are other reasons why they're bad."

Father Zhou said, "I agreed because Zhu Hang helped me before. I went to the countryside to collect pigs. When I collected too many pigs and drove them back, the pigs ran around everywhere. He brought a few children to help me drive them back to the town.

I know he was forced to become a gangster. He would steal and rob to avoid starvation. After becoming a gangster, he couldn't make any money, so our family's wealth became his target. I thought he probably didn't remember this, so he had his men punch me that night."

Zhou Xiang smiled and said, "Don't worry, when he becomes your son-in-law, I'll ask him to kowtow to you and admit his mistakes."

"Yes! It's necessary, otherwise, I will feel depressed."

"Okay, okay. Since you all agree, I feel relieved. Let's go to bed quickly!" Zhou's mother said.

Father Zhou shook his head. "It's already two o'clock. Why are you still sleeping? I'm going straight to the processing room to boil some water."

"Brother, go to sleep! When that guy comes tomorrow, you should teach him a lesson and make him behave himself."

Zhou Niao nodded, "Okay, if he doesn't treat my eldest sister well, I'll beat him up."

"Yes, it's right for the brother-in-law to beat his brother-in-law."

Zhou Yu scolded her, "You are teaching big brother bad things."

"I don't. I teach you how to deal with it normally."

"Okay, you're right, go to sleep!"

"You sleep alone! Dad is out doing something, so I'll sleep with Mom."

Zhou Yu waved his hand casually, closed the door, and lay down in bed.

Thinking about everything that happened tonight, it seemed like a dream, so unreal and yet so dramatic.

I hadn't expected my sister to actually let me date the man tonight. However, thinking back to the time when I was first embraced by her, and the words "Are you okay?", I let my guard down. I felt at ease staying in his arms, venting my emotions, and letting him take me back.

Maybe that man isn't as bad as he appears to be? Otherwise, my sister wouldn't...

Zhou Xiang and her mother lay in the same bed, and her mother gently touched her forehead.

"Tell me! What is a potential stock? Your second sister forgot, but I haven't forgotten."

Zhou wanted to drop a bomb in his mother's ear, "Potential stock, that's a term used in the future. In a few years, when his biological father is promoted to mayor of Hangzhou, he will come to find him."

Zhou's mother was indeed stunned by the bomb. This was even more shocking than hearing that she wanted to make that man her eldest son-in-law.

"You silly girl, if you knew that, how could you still let your second sister date him? What if he finds her in the future? Can your second sister match his future family conditions?

If your biological father disagrees, will he ask your second sister to divorce? What if he has other ideas by then?"

"Oh! Mom, don't ask so many questions. Let me analyze it for you. His name is Zhu Hang. He was brought back from Hangzhou by his adoptive parents. He is 27 years old this year. Nine years later, his biological parents came. He is already 36 years old. Let's not talk about whether he is willing to go back.

He said his father might have other children. Would his brothers and sisters be happy if he went back? He was 36 years old and had only spent a few years in school. Why would he go back? His brothers and sisters wouldn't want to share the family property with him, and he couldn't follow his father's political path.

So it would be better for him to run his own business here steadily, have money, a wife and children, and no one will look down on him for being uneducated.

It would be better to just treat them as relatives.

If his father has no other children, it would be even easier. She could send the future nephew back to be raised by an old man. Then the second sister would be honored for her life because of her son!

Most importantly, nine years from now, our family's conditions might not be any worse than that of my biological father's family."