Side Story Chapter 3: Daughter 3
Around noon, Zhou Mingyang and his family of three arrived.
As soon as Zhou Songran arrived, he went to find his younger sister.
He ran to the toy room and saw Zhou Zhihui sitting there. He paused for a moment, then smiled and ran over.
"Are you building Lego?" He sat cross-legged next to them.
Zhou Yunhui didn't even look up and said, "Brother, there are still many Lego boxes on the cabinet. You can play with them yourself."
"Okay, I'll play by myself."
When my younger sister is building Lego, she doesn't like anyone to help her. If he tries to interrupt, I'll definitely yell at him.
Unless she actively seeks help, she generally doesn't like to ask him for help; she'll either ask her second aunt or her second uncle.
Zhou Zhihui was also working on her Lego set and remained silent when she heard the two talking.
Zhou Yunhui felt that this older sister was very quiet and wouldn't bother her, which she liked very much.
Lin Yi'an and Zhou Mingshi chose Lego sets that were suitable for their daughter, as they were easier for her to assemble, when buying Lego sets for her. They also bought some sets suitable for children around ten years old, considering that Zhou Songran would come over during his vacation.
Zhou Songran found his favorite Lego set and sat down to build his own.
The three children weren't too rowdy; they played by themselves.
Zhou Mingshi and Zhou Mingyang were discussing business in the tea room, while Lin Yi'an was talking to her sister-in-law and Zhou Jia.
Zhou Kanghui came back from his stroll outside and saw that they were all there, so he asked, "Where are Yunyun and Songran?"
Lin Yi'an smiled and said, "It's in the toy room."
Zhou Kanghui turned and headed towards the toy room. He was taken aback when he saw several children inside.
Zhou Zhihui felt uneasy when she saw the stranger who suddenly appeared.
Zhou Yunhui looked up at her grandfather at the door and said, "This is my grandfather. Don't be afraid, sister. He won't be mean to you."
Zhou Songran looked at his two younger sisters, then at his grandfather, and hesitated before saying, "Our grandfather should also be Zhihui's biological grandfather, right?"
Zhou Zhihui looked at them blankly.
Zhou Yunhui tilted her head and asked, "Is Grandpa also my sister's grandpa?"
Zhou Kanghui walked in, sat down next to her, and patted her fluffy little head: "Your sister's father is your third uncle, who is also my son. I am also your sister's grandfather."
Zhou Zhihui secretly watched the man who claimed to be her grandfather, her heart filled with curiosity.
Zhou Yunhui couldn't understand why her grandfather, who was everyone's grandfather, had never seen her sister before. And who was her third uncle?
She was full of questions, but seeing that her older sister was a little afraid of her grandfather, she didn't ask. She decided to go back and ask her parents instead, and then she put her Lego to work again.
Seeing that she was looking for the module seriously and hadn't found it after a while, Zhou Kanghui reached out to help her find it.
"It's this one."
Zhou Yunhui looked at the module in front of him but didn't take it. She grabbed his hands with both of them and pulled him up, saying, "Grandpa, get up."
Zhou Kanghui said with a smile, "Okay, Grandpa, get up."
Zhou Yunhui pulled him to the sofa and made him sit down.
Zhou Kanghui sat down with a smile.
Seeing that he sat down obediently, Zhou Yunhui ran to the cabinet and took out a Lego box and handed it to him.
"Grandpa, if you like building Lego, build it yourself. Just build it here and don't talk."
Zhou Yunhui's small face was serious.
Zhou Kanghui: "......"
He reached out, his movements stiff.
Zhou Songran stood to the side, shaking his shoulders and chuckling.
Zhou Zhihui smiled and looked at them.
Zhou Yunhui: "We shouldn't disturb others from doing their work."
Her little face hardened, and her tone of voice was quite similar to her father's. What could Zhou Kanghui do? He could only honestly say, "Okay, Grandpa was wrong. I won't disturb you while you're doing your work."
His granddaughter asked him to build Lego, but he couldn't run away, otherwise she might complain that he couldn't even build Lego properly.
He looked at the box in his hand and was glad that his granddaughter had picked the simple one, otherwise how long would he have had to work on it?
Zhou Yunhui was satisfied to see him sitting there obediently building Lego, so she ran back to build her own Lego.
After finishing her Lego set, she went to look at her sister. Seeing that her sister had also finished her Lego set, she happily exclaimed, "Sister, let's go see my dolls..."
Zhou Zhihui looked at the Lego set in her hand: "Where should we put this?"
Zhou Yunhui: "This is for you. You pieced it together. Take it home and keep it."
Zhou Zhihui said shyly, "I didn't give you a gift."
Zhou Yunhui: "It's okay, I have a lot of gifts. My great-grandparents, parents, maternal grandparents, paternal grandparents, uncles, aunts, uncles and aunts all like to buy me gifts."
When Zhou Zhihui heard her call out a long list of people, she exclaimed in surprise, "You have so many people in your family!"
“There are so many people in my family.” Zhou Yunhui spread her arms to show her family: “A lot.”
Zhou Zhihui: "I only have my father and grandmother at home. My mother and father do not live together. She has her own home and sometimes comes to visit me."
Zhou Yunhui felt sorry for her older sister. She thought that if her mother didn't live with her, she would be very, very sad, so sad that she would cry. She couldn't bear to be separated from her mother...
The older brother's parents are together, and so are her parents. Why aren't the older sister's parents together?
Zhou Songran whispered from the side, "Third Uncle and Third Aunt are divorced. They can't live together after the divorce."
Zhou Zhihui nodded: "My parents are divorced, and my mother has found a boyfriend."
She didn't seem sad at all when she spoke of it; in her memory, her parents had always been separated.
Zhou Yunhui asked, "Can't we live together after a divorce?"
Zhou Songran said, "Divorce means separation. We're no longer a family, so of course we can't live together."
Zhou Yunhui: "Why do you want a divorce?"
Zhou Songran was stumped by the question. He thought for a moment and said, "My parents argued and fought every day. They would hit each other until they were bruised and battered. They couldn't stand each other anymore, so they got divorced."
Zhou Yunhui and Zhou Zhihui both gaped open.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Zhou Kanghui said as soon as he came to his senses and heard his grandson's words.
Zhou Songran immediately shut up.
Zhou Yunhui frowned, wondering to herself, "Do my parents fight? I've never seen them." And if they did, her father was so tall, could her mother possibly beat him?
Zhou Zhihui was also thinking, so that's why her parents often fought and got divorced?
After lunch, when Zhou Zhihui returned home with gifts and her aunt, Zhou Yunhui sat cross-legged on her parents' bed, cupped her face in her hands, and asked her mother, "Mom, will you divorce Dad?"
"impossible."
Lin Yi'an was still wondering why her daughter suddenly asked this question when Zhou Mingshi's voice sounded from behind her.
The mother and daughter turned around at the same time. Zhou Mingshi came in from outside, closed the door, and looked at his daughter with a stern face: "Where did you hear that?"
Seeing that her father was angry, Zhou Yunhui said, "My sister's parents got divorced because they fought. My brother said that if they get divorced, they can't live together anymore. My sister is so pitiful. She can't even see her mother. I don't want my parents to get divorced. I want to stay with my parents forever."
Lin Yi'an hugged her and said, "Mom and Dad won't get a divorce."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Mingshi's expression softened, and he patted her head, saying, "Mom and Dad will always be together."
Zhou Yunhui was satisfied. Sleepiness came over her, and she lay in her mother's arms, closed her eyes, and took a nap.
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