The sky becomes gray after winter.

In the courtyard house of the Zhang family on Dongzhi Street, Minister Zhang stood with his hands behind his back beside the flower bed in the yard, looking up at the leafless branches and the empty bird's nest on the tree.

"Yuzhi, what are you looking at?"

Feng Yingying came out of the kitchen, took off her apron, stood on the porch and called him gently.

Minister Zhang seemed to have just come to his senses and withdrew his gaze from the tree.

"I'm looking at the bird's nest in the tree."

"All the leaves on the tree have fallen off, and the birds that used to live in the tree are gone, too. Only a single bird's nest is left."

"A snowstorm is coming!"

After Minister Zhang sighed, he moved to the corridor.

"Why do you make such an exclamation?"

Feng Yingying smiled, holding her apron in her hand: "After a snowstorm, the ice and snow will melt in the spring of next year, and the flowers will bloom. Leaves will grow again, and the birds that have gone south for the winter will fly back again."

"Then this small courtyard will be full of life again."

Minister Zhang squeezed his wife's shoulders and asked, "Will it?"

Feng Yingying thought her husband was very strange and had become sentimental.

In spring, summer, autumn and winter, birds fly south for the winter. Isn’t this the law of nature?

She nodded affirmatively: "Of course."

"Then I will accept Madam's good words."

Minister Zhang's heavy expression softened a little, and he spoke softly, "Is breakfast ready?"

"Okay, I fried your favorite omelette."

"There are some pickled vegetables that Gui Ma prepared for the porridge, and she also made a nourishing soup for you to clear away heat and moisten your lungs."

After the couple sat down at the dining table, Gui Ma put breakfast on the table.

Feng Yingying spoke to Minister Zhang: "Yuzhi, there has been something wrong with you these past few days."

"Is it because of the trouble Yu Lan caused at the Zhou family's full moon banquet?"

Minister Zhang scooped a spoonful of soup to his mouth and paused when he heard this.

Feng Yingying drank a mouthful of porridge with pickled vegetables and said, "Yu Lan embarrassed the He family's granddaughter-in-law at the Zhou family's full moon banquet. Tell me the truth, what exactly is going on?"

"It's been rumored that Yu Lan has been causing trouble for the granddaughter-in-law of the He family time and time again."

"In order to embarrass the granddaughter-in-law of the He family, they even found two beggars and brought them to the Zhou family's full-month banquet, saying that they were the stepmother and younger brother of the family in the countryside."

"As a result, at the Zhou family's full-month banquet, several uncles of the He family's granddaughter-in-law were present, and they all said they didn't know these two people."

"Not only did the uncle say he didn't know them, but several people who went to the countryside with the He family's grandson also said they didn't know the woman and her son."

When Zhang Bu met Feng Yingying's gaze, a bitter smile appeared on his face.

His reaction surprised Feng Yingying.

"So these things are true?"

"Yu Lan is so ignorant that she has a conflict with the granddaughter-in-law of the He family and wants to disrupt the Zhou family's full moon banquet?"

Feng Yingying heard about her husband's sister doing some unbelievable things from other people, and she felt a little uncomfortable.

Zhang Yulan had been living at the Zhang family for so many days, but her sister-in-law knew nothing about it.

Now Minister Zhang's bitter smile undoubtedly confirmed that all the rumors she had heard were true.

"It's being rumored that the granddaughter-in-law of the He family is Lu Yuanze's biological daughter, and that Lu Yuanze had a girlfriend before the plane crash. Is this true?"

"They said that Yu Lan took advantage of the situation and broke up the couple?"

"Also, it is said that the kid from the Gu family who had been treating Lu Yuanze at the Zhou family's full moon banquet had a falling out with Yu Lan."

In Feng Yingying's heart, Minister Zhang Yuzhi is very family-oriented and has been loving her the same way for ten years.

Zhang Yulan, the sister-in-law, is gentle in front of outsiders, but willful and capricious in front of herself and her husband, which is not a big problem.

Now that she knows what her sister-in-law did back then, Feng Yingying wants to know whether her perfect husband knows about it?

To her disappointment, Minister Zhang was apparently fully aware of what his sister Zhang Yulan had done.

A smart person should just talk to the point and stop there. If you continue to ask questions to get to the bottom of things, both of them will look unhappy.

Feng Yingying got what she wanted to know and was silent for a moment.

Her silence made Minister Zhang a little flustered.

"Yingying, I didn't mean to hide these things from you."

"I only have this one sister."

"Yu Lan is stubborn. She only has Lu Yuanze in her eyes. She will not marry anyone else but Lu Yuanze. Otherwise, she said she would rather cut her hair and become a nun in a temple."

"It's not that Yu Lan intentionally interfered. When Lu Yuanze had the plane crash and forgot some things, Yu Lan, that silly girl, ran to the Lu family wholeheartedly to help take care of Lu Yuanze and arranged for famous doctors for her. The Lu family owed her this favor."

"Then, the two families later married."

Feng Yingying could tell that Minister Zhang's words were clearly biased towards her sister, as if he was trying to whitewash the situation and find an excuse for his sister to interfere.

As a descendant of an old revolutionary, Feng Yingying remained skeptical about these words.

"What about the Gu family?"

"The Gu family kid said in front of so many leaders at the Zhou family's full moon banquet that our family controlled Jishidiang, and used the medical records kept by Jishidiang to do some shady things."

"My brother called to ask about this matter."

Minister Zhang put down his chopsticks unhappily and told Feng Yingying: "Yingying, this is the Gu family kid talking nonsense."

"When the Gu family got into trouble, it was Yu Lan who used my relationship with Lu Yuanze to help him behind the scenes. I didn't expect that she would raise an ungrateful person who would bite Yu Lan and me back."

Minister Zhang knew very well that what he had done using Jishidiang's medical records had obviously angered the public.

If this matter is not handled properly, his future will be over.

The only one who can help him at the moment is his wife Feng Yingying.

His wife's family loves her as their younger sister the most.

Whether he can pass this hurdle depends entirely on whether his wife Feng Yingying can help him.

Minister Zhang sighed: "Yulan, please explain this matter clearly to my brother-in-law."

"After the government took over a portion of Jishidiang's shares, the medical records did indeed change, but that was a necessary procedure for the comrades in charge to investigate the relevant situation of Jishidiang."

"It's not like what the Gu family kid said, using medical records to achieve ulterior motives."

"We have been married for so many years, you know what kind of person I am and how I dedicate myself to my country and my people."

"As the saying goes, a barking dog never bites. Yu Lan was wrong. She put so much effort into supporting the kid from the Gu family, but she never thought that he would one day jump up and bite our Zhang family back."

"Not only has the Lu family and our Zhang family become enemies, but the leaders have also come to talk to me in the past few days."

Minister Zhang held his wife's hand across the dining table and said, "Yingying, we are husband and wife and we will rise and fall together."

"You can't deny my character because of an outsider."