Back then, Aunt Zhou spoiled Qiu Ze'an rotten. When he was fourteen or fifteen, she encouraged him to date, fight, and teach all sorts of shady friends.
Qiu Ze'an would accept money from anyone who offered it, but he would constantly ask for money and receipts, which angered his father so much that he often beat him with a rolling pin.
Of course, at times like this, Aunt Zhou would naturally step forward to curry favor, and Qiu Ze'an would also take the opportunity to hide behind Aunt Zhou.
Aunt Zhou used her methods to get Qiu Ze'an to associate with petty thugs, and Qiu Ze'an accepted them all without question.
These teenagers weren't from the compound yet. Aunt Zhou was afraid they'd make friends with high-ranking officials, or even spoiled brats, but that wouldn't do.
Following Aunt Zhou's methods, Qiu Ze'an actually became friends with some petty thugs in society.
Aunt Zhou looked down on this kind of person and didn't understand the difficulties of poor families.
Many petty thugs in society are not bad people at all. They are just poor and have no jobs to take over, so they can only hang out in the black market or steal things to sell.
Over time, people saw that they were idle and yet managed to bring things home, so they started making wild guesses, which led to their bad reputation.
Although Qiu Zean was young at the time, he was quite intelligent.
To get these thugs to cover for him, Qiu Ze'an would cause trouble and make a scene, or use his father's connections to arrange jobs for them.
In Aunt Zhou's view, this further confirmed that Qiu Ze'an was ignorant and incompetent, and she felt that Qiu Ze'an was completely beyond saving.
After two years of this uproar, when Qiu Zean was 16, he secretly enlisted in the army without going through his father's approval!
All the thugs that Qiu Zean had previously planted were put to use.
When these petty thugs were being arranged, Qiu Ze'an had already memorized the details: some were from the neighborhood committee, some from the police station, and one of them was arranged for him to be his father's bodyguard.
These people cooperated so that his father and Aunt Zhou didn't find out until a week after he joined the army.
Of course, Qiu Ze'an didn't forget his petty hoodlum friend, the one who worked as a bodyguard for Qiu's father. Three days before he left, he staged a fight with him.
To quell the matter and prevent the two from seeing each other again, Qiu's father specially transferred the guard to a faraway place.
After Qiu Zean joined the army, Aunt Zhou still thought that Qiu Zean was messing around with that half-closed door guy and was dreaming at home that the guy would kick out his son and come to force Qiu Zean to marry him!
As a result, Qiu Zean had long since escaped her control!
When Aunt Zhou learned that Qiu Ze'an had joined the army, she assumed that Qiu's father had used his connections to arrange it, and she even got into a fight with him.
Later, an investigation revealed that it was done by a mere 16-year-old brat, and he had been tricked by this kid.
It was only after serving in the army for six years that Qiu Ze'an became a company commander at the age of 22 due to his repeated merits, and his father finally recognized his value.
Only after Qiu's father softened his tone did he allow Qiu Ze'an to step into the Qiu family home again.
Even if Qiu's father doesn't talk to him, Qiu Ze'an will still come back, but certainly not so soon.
In Qiu Ze'an's view, he could give up everything in the Qiu family, but he was unwilling to let the two children born to Aunt Zhou benefit from it.
His mother was driven away by this woman, so how could he just stand by and watch this woman take over his place and live a good life?
After Qiu Zean returned to the Qiu family, Aunt Zhou's strategy was naturally different from before.
Having already experienced Qiu Zean's prowess firsthand, how could they not improve at all?
Especially after Qiu Zean was promoted to battalion commander, Aunt Zhou not only became wary of him, but also began to try to win him over.
Qiu Zean was really working too hard. Given his age and experience, he shouldn't have been promoted so quickly.
Unfortunately, this kid was reckless and, being a high-ranking official, no one would steal his credit.
Moreover, after it was learned that he was Qiu's father's son, his other identities were also revealed.
Qiu Zean's maternal uncle, Min Jianxing, was an underground worker who helped many pioneering units.
These people were very grateful to Min Jianxing, so after Qiu Zean made meritorious contributions, he was exceptionally promoted two ranks to become a battalion commander.
Back then, if the situation hadn't been so dire, the Min family hadn't been reported, and Qiu's mother hadn't been so worried about her parents going abroad.
In addition, she discovered Qiu's father's affair with Aunt Zhou, which left her heartbroken and unwilling to go abroad with Qiu Ze'an's maternal grandparents.
Since Qiu Zean returned home, Aunt Zhou has been causing even more trouble, and she's always trying to interfere with his marriage.
In the past two years, she mainly introduced her nieces and grandnieces to Qiu Zean.
Qiu Zean didn't refuse, and immediately introduced these girls to his gangster friends.
Although his former gangster friends have all gotten stable jobs in recent years, their families were already in dire straits, so finding a partner is really difficult for them.
With Qiu Ze'an's help, three of them actually got together with Aunt Zhou's niece and nephew, which made Aunt Zhou furious.
She thought her family had gotten the better deal, but in the end, they lost both their wife and their army.
Before the Lunar New Year, Qiu Ze'an was promoted again. Aunt Zhou wanted to introduce her relatives to him again, but Qiu's father disagreed.
Mr. Qiu recognized the value of his eldest son and warned Aunt Zhou to stop trying so hard to help her family.
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