Chapter 167 If it doesn't work, then...

Zhuang Chaoying has had a hard time recently. He has traveled to such a far place as Zhejiang, and when most schools have already been on vacation, how easy is it to go to the local education department to ask for the college entrance examination papers and answers?

He also spent a lot of effort and went to several units before he collected enough test papers for all his homework. However, when he went to buy a boat ticket, he found that it was close to the New Year and many people wanted to go home, so it was really difficult to buy a ticket.

Finally, he managed to get a cabin ticket and got on the train. He endured a whole day in the small and cramped cabin and returned home late at night. He was originally full of joy, thinking that when he got home, he would see a full family sitting around the dinner table, celebrating the New Year lively. Unexpectedly, he was scolded by his own father as soon as he entered the door.

"Come back? You still want to come back? You can't even take care of your wife, and you have the nerve to come back for the New Year? I've raised you for nothing all these years!"

"Dad, what's going on? Where's Huang Ling? Where's Tunan? Where's Ganmei and her whole family?" Zhuang Chaoying was stunned when he saw the empty room with only his father and mother.

"It's all because of your failure to discipline him. It's ok that you're away on a business trip, but your wife and children didn't even come to our house to pay New Year's greetings during the Chinese New Year. Is this justice? Is this law?" Lao Deng has been so angry for days that he had no place to vent. Now that Zhuang Chaoying is back, he finally has the opportunity.

The old woman also added fuel to the fire, "Your wife is living a good life now. She has gone back to her parents' home to celebrate the New Year. She is eating delicious food and drinking delicious drinks in Changzhou. Who would have thought that we two old guys were starving? Oh, why am I so miserable to have such a useless son?"

"Even if she goes back to her parents' home, she should come back for the New Year, right? No, I have to call her back!" Zhuang Chaoying prepared to go out in a hurry.

"Come back, don't you see what time it is? You went to Changzhou and came back. Do you want to starve us two old guys to death?" Lao Deng was so angry that he couldn't help but say the word death on New Year's Day.

"Pfft, don't say such unlucky words." The old woman was anxious when she heard it. When Lao Deng was here, she could control the two children. If he left, she couldn't control these guys. How could she live a good life? "She has the ability to never come back? You, a grown man, have to go to her parents' home to pick her up? If it gets out, will we, the Zhuang family, still have shame? Don't worry about her, just let her go. Even if there are only three of us at home now, we have to celebrate this New Year well!" Lao Deng thought about it and thought that this might not be a bad thing. If he took the opportunity to occupy the house and drove Huang Ling and her mother out of the house, life at home would be much easier.

Zhuang Chaoying had lost his wife and children, but he was able to hand over all of his monthly salary of 70 yuan, and he also got such a big house. When the time comes, he can let Zhendong and Zhenbei live there, and his current residence will be much more spacious.

He had no attachment to Huang Ling and Zhuang Xiaoting. The only person he was reluctant to part with was probably his eldest grandson Zhuang Tunan. But he had more than one grandson, he also had Zhendong and Zhenbei. When they grew up, they could still provide for him in his old age.

"What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and cook." The old woman thought the same thing as Lao Deng and urged him.

"Oh, I'll go right away!" Zhuang Chaoying had been on the boat all night. When he got home, he didn't even have a sip of water before he was rushed to the kitchen to work. As soon as he entered, he came out again. "Mom and Dad, why is there only so much food for the New Year at home?"

"How dare you ask! Your wife took all the things back to her parents' home, and these are all we have left!" Lao Deng was so angry that he slammed the table again, but he still didn't say that this was just a guess, and his beautiful wife really took the things away.

"I'll go back and check." Zhuang Chaoying took the bicycle key and went out without saying a word. He pedaled all the way back to the courtyard. When he entered the house, he saw that only the lantern under the eaves was lit. It was pitch black inside and there was no sign of anyone there.

I walked in, turned on the light, and went straight to the place where vegetables and grain were usually stored. I saw rice, flour and oil were all there, but there was no celery, meat or hairtail distributed by the factory and school. Could it be that Huang Ling really took them home?

Lin Wufeng, who was eating New Year's Eve dinner, heard the noise next door and came over to check the situation. When he saw Zhuang Chaoying, he invited him, "Brother Zhuang? Are you back from your business trip? Come and have something to fill your stomach!"

"No, no, my dad's New Year's Eve dinner is ready. I'll come back to get something and then go over to eat." Zhuang Chaoying didn't want others to know his embarrassing side, so he could only lie to save face.

"Oh, is that so? Then come in and have a drink of water." It is not known whether Lin Wufeng believed it or not, but at least he did not expose him on the surface.

"You guys eat your food and don't worry about me." Zhuang Chaoying didn't find anything and became more and more annoyed.

Song Ying knew what he was looking for right away. "Brother Zhuang, are you looking for the hairtail fish and meat that the school distributed? Sister Ling left them with me when she came back, and told me to freeze them in my refrigerator first to prevent them from going bad."

Zhuang Chaoying went to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. Sure enough, the things were there. Huang Ling had only brought some New Year's goods given to her by the factory when she went to Changzhou. The things given to Zhuang Chaoying by the school were not touched at all.

He took his things and left. Lin Wufeng looked at the lanterns and spring couplets at the door of the Zhuang family, shook his head and went back to the house. He had helped to paste and hang these up with his own hands, but Zhuang Chaoying didn't even ask a question.

With these things, the three of them were able to barely get through the New Year. Zhuang Chaoying also stayed here at noon on the first, second, and third day of the New Year, cooking for the old couple every day and letting them insult and vent their anger.

It was not until the afternoon of the third day of the New Year that he was ready to go home. Because according to the current regulations, the New Year holidays were just a few days, and he had to go back to work on the fourth day. Huang Ling had to come back tonight at the latest, and he had to talk to Huang Ling about what had happened in the past few days.

Changzhou, Huang Ling and the other two had indeed packed up and were ready to return to Suzhou. Zhuang Xiaoting held her grandmother's hand and refused to let go, "Grandma, I like you here, I don't want to go back to Suzhou."

From childhood to adulthood, she has never had such a comfortable year as the one she has now. When she thinks about being bullied by Zhendong and Zhenbei again when she goes back, she wishes she could stay in Changzhou.

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Grandma and grandpa were reluctant to let her go, so they looked at their daughter and asked, "Can't you let the children stay with me for a few more days? We can send them back when school starts soon?"

"Mom and Dad, it's New Year after all. We have to ask them to wish Chaoying and Grandpa and Grandma a happy new year." Huang Ling was also helpless, but in life, there are always some things that you don't want to do but have to do.

"Huang Ling, come here, I want to talk to you." Grandpa called Huang Ling aside and whispered, "When we get back, if it doesn't work, you can..."

(End of this chapter)