Chapter 36 The Fourth Son of the Zhou Family
Zhou Yi turned around and saw a middle-aged man standing behind him. He was wearing a fashionable plaid suit and sunglasses, holding a box of Life No. 1 in his left hand and a bag of fruit in his right hand.
"Third Uncle?" Zhou Yi was shocked. "Why are you back?"
This person is Zhou Yi's third uncle, Zhou Jianye.
He is called the third uncle, but he is actually only one generation older than Zhou Yi. When Zhou Yi was a naked kid, he followed Zhou Jianye around and got into trouble everywhere.
The four members of Zhou Yi's father's generation all have different personalities.
My father, Zhou Jianguo, is an honest, hardworking and down-to-earth person.
My second uncle, Zhou Jianjun, is idle and lazy.
My aunt Zhou Aihua is a smart and capable woman.
The only exception is this third uncle, who has been extremely bold since he was a child and there is nothing he dares not do.
In prefecture-level cities like Baicheng, most parents will inherit their grandparents' jobs and continue to live and work steadily under established rules.
Because in people's subconscious, it is natural to follow the old path.
Only Zhou Jianye, after graduating from high school, flatly rejected Zhou Yi's grandfather's arrangement, saying that he would never go to work in a steel mill like his brothers and sisters.
The old man was so angry that he jumped up and down, saying that if he didn't go to work at the steel factory, he would go on a hunger strike and starve himself to death.
Unexpectedly, the youngest son was even more ruthless. He said, "If you insist on letting me work in the steel plant, I will jump into the steelmaking furnace on the first day and cause a major safety accident, so that you, Zhou Asi, will become the biggest sinner of the entire steel plant!"
In the end, the idea of going to work in the steel mill was naturally abandoned.
The old man was so angry that he threatened that he didn't have this son and if he died outside, don't notify him to collect the body.
But no matter how much you curse, blood ties are like broken bones that still connect the tendons.
In Zhou Yi's memory, his third uncle did many things that his father thought were inappropriate, such as reselling food coupons, selling tapes of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers, opening a wonton shop, and running an underground video hall.
Anyway, just do whatever you want to do.
He was even reported and almost arrested by the police on charges of "speculation and profiteering".
Anyway, since childhood, the name Zhou Jianye has been used as a negative example and told to children like Zhou Yi.
In the words of Zhou Yi's father: You can learn to be like a dog, but you can't learn to be like your third uncle. Sooner or later, you will starve to death outside.
In the late 1980s, when Zhou Yi was just in junior high school, his third uncle, who was sure to starve to death outside sooner or later, packed a tattered backpack and took all his belongings, saying he was going to the south to make a living.
But Zhou Yi was still young and didn't understand anything. Only later did he realize how courageous and far-sighted his third uncle was.
With the wave of reform and opening up and the development of the market economy, my third uncle, who had been working alone in the south for decades, finally became the most promising person in the Zhou family.
He has a house and a car, two children, and his own factory and business.
Zhou Yi remembered that before his rebirth, when his father passed away and his well-off third uncle brought his family back to Baicheng to attend the funeral, all his relatives and friends praised him for his promising future, saying that he had been different from others since he was a child and was the pride of the Zhou family.
However, Zhou Yi saw his third uncle kneeling in front of his father's spirit and sighing.
He asked his mother what happened to his third uncle?
My mother said: Your grandfather didn't see your third uncle's later achievements, which is a lifelong regret in your third uncle's heart.
Zhou Yi's grandmother passed away early, and the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother. Zhou Yi's mother knows her younger brother-in-law very well.
After his rebirth, Zhou Yi began to think about how to deal with the wave of layoffs that his parents and tens of thousands of other workers would soon face.
Although he has an understanding of the future direction of social development, he has been a criminal policeman for most of his life and is not good at business.
So the first helper he thought of was his third uncle, Zhou Jianye.
I didn't expect that my third uncle would come back.
"Your second uncle called me the night before yesterday and said that the old man was dying. So I took the train back overnight." Zhou Jianye said as he walked into the house with his things.
He put the things on the table, picked up the kettle on the table and drank it.
"Oh my god, I'm so thirsty. How's the old man?"
Zhou Yi quickly recounted what happened the night before, but omitted the details about his second uncle's will. However, he did not hide his speculation that his grandfather might not have fallen on his own initiative.
"Damn it, Zhou Jianjun and Wang Cui'e, these bastards. I won't let them off today. I must break their legs." Zhou Jianye said, rolling up his arms and sleeves and rushing out.
Zhou Yi stopped him.
"Uncle San, don't be impulsive. Hitting people is against the law."
"If he breaks the law, then he breaks the law. I'll make him confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. It's worth the jail time!"
Zhou Yi remembered that when he was a child, his third uncle was a well-known street urchin with a hot temper.
I didn't expect that after so many years of working outside, my temper is still so bad.
No wonder the old saying goes that you can tell a child’s future at the age of three and his character’s future at the age of seven.
A person's personality really won't change throughout his life.
"Uncle San, don't forget, I'm a policeman. I don't want to put you in jail myself."
Zhou Yi's words made Zhou Jianye calm down immediately.
But he still said angrily: "Zhou Yi, Third Uncle is supporting your work, otherwise!"
As he said this, he made a fist-pumping gesture.
"I know, I know. Thank you, Uncle San, for supporting my work."
"By the way, do you think being a police officer has a future? Why don't you just come with me to the South? I tell you, the South is a great place to develop right now. I promise I can earn much more than you do now."
Zhou Yi smiled and shook his head: "Forget about the South. I'm about to be transferred to the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Bureau."
Zhou Jianye looked at his nephew in disbelief. "So fast? Haven't you only been working here for a little over six months? Is it so easy to get by in the system now?"
"Hey, it can't be that your eldest nephew is capable."
Zhou Jianye looked at Zhou Yi doubtfully and said, "Is this true? Don't lie to your Third Uncle. Your Third Uncle is much smarter than your father."
Zhou Yi replied calmly: "Really."
Zhou Jianye was stunned for three seconds, then he patted Zhou Yi's shoulder vigorously and laughed, "You're really good, kid. You've made it big."
"Uncle San, let's go to the hospital to see Grandpa first. I'm also very angry about Uncle Er, but I think it depends on Grandpa's opinion. After all, even if Uncle Er is a piece of shit, he's still surnamed Zhou."
"And listen to me, even if Grandpa doesn't pursue Second Uncle's words at that time, I still have a way to deal with them."
"real?"
"Of course it's true. Don't forget, I'm a policeman."
"Okay, then Third Uncle will trust you this time. Let's go to the hospital and see the old man first."
As they were talking, the two of them went out. A neighbor saw them along the way and greeted them in surprise: Jianye is back.
On the way, Third Uncle suddenly asked, "Zhou Yi, do you remember when we last met?"
"It seemed like it was last summer. I had just graduated then, and you came back with your third aunt and your younger brother."
"I feel like you're completely different from six months ago. You're practically a completely different person. Is being a police officer such a training exercise?"
"No, I have to let your brother go to the police academy and become a policeman in the future!"
Zhou Yi was instantly at a loss whether to laugh or cry. Wasn’t his younger brother only four years old?
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