Chapter 195 Master, We Want to Go Home with You
Zhou Laosan drove back.
Old man Zhou met an old acquaintance in the town. After chatting for a while, he learned that his son had gone to study at Dayuan Academy in Dayuan County, and that he was specially invited to study there for free. He was very envious.
He also learned that Mrs. Zhou and her family had also gone there and opened a tofu shop in the county town. He was showered with compliments and expressed envy.
My son is well-educated and my daughter-in-law is capable. Just because he passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, he brought his whole family to live in the city. When he becomes an official in the future, the whole family will surely enjoy a great life.
Who wouldn’t be envious of this?
Having so many children is all about providing hope for the future, but how many of them can live up to the hope?
It would be good enough if I could provide you with a normal care and see you to the end of your life.
Things like children bringing honor to the family and enjoying great blessings with the children are plots that only exist in storybooks.
Old man Zhou smiled bitterly, "Old Fourth and his wife are doing their best, but some of them are embarrassing."
He said that the matter between the first and second wives should not be spread, but it still got out.
Good news doesn’t travel far, but bad news travels far and wide.
To be honest, the Zhou family's reputation is now mixed. While people are congratulating him, they are actually making fun of him.
"Hey, every family has its own problems."
As they were talking, the sound of children playing could be faintly heard from the street corner.
"You two shameless brothers, your mother killed someone and is a pimp. You two should get out of here right now! Get out of our Wang family, or we will be embarrassed by you."
"That's right. We don't have much food at home. If you eat ours, we won't have any left."
"Get out of here, get out of our street, and tell your mother not to walk past my house anymore. She makes the ground in front of our house dirty when she passes by."
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Two half-grown boys were surrounded and beaten by the kids in the alley.
That direction was exactly the alley where Wang's parents lived.
Wang's family lived in the town and made a small living repairing shoes and umbrellas...
The two guys who were beaten black and blue were Zhou Erlang and Zhou Sanlang.
The two men were actually not short and were considered tall among the group of kids, but they didn't dare to fight back. It was not known whether they were afraid to fight back because they were unfamiliar with the place or they were too ashamed to fight back.
He was beaten black and blue.
Old man Zhou walked over quickly, rescued them, and drove the children who were beating them away.
"Erlang, Sanlang? What's going on?"
When Zhou Erlang and Sanlang saw that it was Old Man Zhou, they felt sad and aggrieved and felt ashamed to see him again.
“Master… wuwuwu…”
With a howl, he started crying.
Zhou Sanlang cried and said, "Master, we are so hungry. We haven't had a full meal for a few days. Can you buy us a big steamed bun? Wuuwuwu..."
When Old Man Zhou saw how miserable the two of them were, he felt very distressed.
I was also annoyed that they left with Wang a few days ago, but after all, this is the bloodline of the Zhou family.
I bought two big meat buns for each of them.
The two boys devoured it ravenously.
It's like a starving ghost being reincarnated.
Old Man Zhou looked at the two of them. It had been such a long time since they last saw each other, and it was visibly apparent that the two boys had lost a lot of weight.
After they finished eating, the two of them cried and explained the situation.
"Master, we want to go home with you, do you still want us?"
"Wow, my brother said he would send us to live with Lao Wang for a while, and he would go to the city to find a house and come back to pick us up. But, he didn't come back for such a long time, and then, Lao Wang's family wanted to kick us out every day and didn't even give us food..."
"My mother cooks and washes clothes for Lao Wang every day. She is exhausted and has a backache. If she stops working, Lao Wang will kick us out. My mother says that if we go out, we will be beaten to death, so we dare not go out..."
"We were beaten every day when we went out. Not only did the Wang cousins beat us, but the neighbors also beat us. The Wang family's reputation was ruined. They said that the recent bad business was all due to mother. They stole all of mother's private money, which was dozens of taels. They also scolded her for not using the money to honor the elders..."
"Let the two of us live in the pig shed..."
"The Wang family said that if my brother doesn't come back in a few days, they will sell my mother to an old widower and sell us to a dark cave as well..."
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When Old Man Zhou heard this, his face turned pale.
Wang deserved to be put to death, and the woman who was divorced also deserved it.
But Erlang and Sanlang are still the blood of the Zhou family. They are suffering like this outside...
However, they had easily left the Zhou family for Wang's sake, without letting them suffer any hardship. So agreeing to take them back would be too easy for these two guys.
The most important thing is that if Mrs. Zhou knew about it, she would definitely scold him.
Also, Old Man Zhou actually still hopes that his three grandsons can return to the Zhou family together.
It would be best if Zhou Qinan came to apologize to him.
"We are a family that abides by rules. You were determined to leave before, and you chose to go with your stepmother. That was easy, but if you want to come back, it depends on your performance. You must obtain forgiveness from all the elders in the family. You are already grown up, and I don't need to explain the reasons. The family is very disappointed with your behavior, especially your grandmother, who has watched you grow up and placed high hopes on you. In the end, you two abandoned our entire family and went with your stepmother. You even didn't want your biological father. Our Zhou family doesn't want such disloyal and unfilial ungrateful people..."
Old man Zhou gritted his teeth and taught them a lesson.
Gone home.
The two boys felt too embarrassed to chase after him and lowered their heads in shame.
When they returned to Old Wang's house, Wang smelled the odor of meat buns on the two of them and asked them viciously where they had stolen the meat buns and why they didn't bring one back for her, their mother?
Call them little bastards, just like their father, only caring about themselves and being selfish...
Erlang Saburo didn't even say a word of explanation.
Wang scolded him again.
I felt even more disheartened.
The mother in their hearts who spoke gently and smiled at them seemed to be gone forever and became more and more a stranger to them.
"Mom, if big brother doesn't come back, we will go back to the Zhou family. Our last name is not Wang, so it's reasonable that the Wang family can't tolerate us..."
Wang was like being set on fire. "Okay, okay, get out of here! Who is to blame for our current situation? It's all the Zhou family's fault. How dare you mention the Zhou family in front of me? You are exactly the same as your father. If I had known this would happen, I shouldn't have given birth to you!"
Erlang and Saburo hung their heads, looking very confused.
The Zhou family can’t go back because their grandparents won’t take them in.
I can no longer stay at Lao Wang's house. My mother is becoming more and more mean and irritable.
There is only one way out for the two of them, to find their eldest brother...
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