Mu Xiaowan had fried liver in her mouth. She didn't expect Zhou Luancheng to suddenly ask her this question. She puffed her cheeks and shook her head.
She was also feeling strange. Her aunt had been unusually quiet recently and had never come to the yard to make trouble.
Zhou Luancheng nodded: "It's good that they didn't come looking for you. I've already talked to them before. If they come looking for you again, you can call the police. They are trespassing and disturbing your safety."
Mu Xiaowan felt angry. It's not like she hadn't called the police before, but every time the police came to mediate, their attitude became more and more perfunctory. In the end, they obviously sided with her uncle and aunt, simply because they thought she was an orphan and easy to bully.
Also, those people must have received benefits from them.
Zhou Luancheng looked at Mu Xiaowan's drooping eyelashes and could guess what she was thinking. He said in a gentle voice, "Don't worry, I've already said hello. No one will cover up for me."
Mu Xiaowan looked up in surprise: "Then are you protecting me?"
This slightly ambiguous question made Zhou Luancheng stunned for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure and smiled gently: "I'm not covering up for you, because you are right in this matter, so you shouldn't be bullied."
After he finished speaking, he paused and said, "Before your grandfather passed away, he told me to find you and take good care of you."
Mu Xiaowan said "oh" and continued to drink the fried liver in a unhappy mood.
However, Zhou Luancheng could sense her unhappiness. When she was happy eating, her eyebrows were raised and there was light in her eyes, showing satisfaction and joy.
When she was unhappy, her eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of dust, and they became dim in an instant.
Suddenly I remembered that he mentioned Mu Lao several times, but Mu Xiaowan never asked, where is my grandfather? Is he okay? How did he die?
Not even once!
Suddenly I felt the meat pie in my mouth became bland.
After finishing breakfast in silence, Mu Xiaowan rushed to pay the bill: "I'll treat you to breakfast as a thank you for helping me get rid of my aunts and uncles."
Zhou Luancheng didn't think so. After coming out of the breakfast shop, he asked, "Chinese New Year is in five days. I heard from my sister-in-law that you will come to my house for the New Year?"
Mu Xiaowan hesitated for a moment: "When An Ning and Chao Yang invited me, I agreed, but in the end I thought it was not a good idea, so I decided not to go."
Zhou Luancheng didn't say anything else. He said goodbye to Mu Xiaowan and left.
Mu Xiaowan watched Zhou Luancheng walk away, then she scratched her head, a little confused. So why did Zhou Luancheng look for her?
During the New Year holidays, the Zhou family was very lively, especially on the first day of the new year when they celebrated the first birthday of their three children.
Sheng Mingyuan's family of three and Sheng Cheng'an came, even Cheng Mingzhong and Wang Da came, and the house was particularly lively for a while.
Zhou Zhou and Mo Mo could also take a few steps unsteadily. With so many people at home, the two brothers were extremely happy. They followed Zhou Hongyun's example and bowed to everyone to wish them a happy new year.
The adults all smiled and stuffed New Year's money into people's pockets.
Sheng An Ning looked at her forehead and couldn't help but whisper to Zhou Shixun: "If I had known earlier, I would have made their pockets bigger. I feel like there's no room for money."
Nowadays, wages are not high, so the New Year's money given to children is very little, basically just a symbolic amount, but some new money is saved in advance.
Generally, 25 cents is given, and one dollar is the most.
But Sheng An Ning secretly looked at Zhou Zhou's pocket and found three or four ten-yuan bills in it, which meant that Mo Mo and An An also had such large-denomination lucky money in their pockets.
The main thing is that I haven’t even seen clearly who gave it to me, but I’m already feeling a bit overwhelmed, and it’s not easy to return the gift.
Zhou Chaoyang watched Sheng An Ning secretly looking at Zhou Zhou's New Year's money, and laughed at the side: "I found that having three children also has its advantages. I can get three portions of New Year's money."
Sheng An Ning whispered: "The problem is that someone gave ten yuan, and three children is thirty, which is equivalent to a month's salary. I don't even know who gave it, how can I return the favor?"
Zhou Chaoyang didn't pay much attention, but he saw Wang Da stuff five pieces into each child's mouth.
Sheng An Ning frowned even more after hearing this. Three children make a total of fifteen years old, but Cheng Mingzhong is the only one earning a salary in the family, so their life must be very tight.
I was thinking of returning the gift when I come back to pay New Year’s greetings.
On the other side, Wang Da and Lin Wanyin were chatting happily. She even wore a red sweater today and looked very happy.
The main reason was that they didn't expect that the Zhou family would actually invite them to the child's first birthday, so they gave more New Year's money. It wasn't because they wanted to ask the Zhou family to do anything for them, but they didn't want to give too little and let the Zhou family look down on them.
Seeing Lin Wanyin, who looked a bit like Cheng Mingyue, Wang Da couldn't help but start gossiping: "Before, I heard that An Ning had a godmother who said that the two looked alike, but I didn't quite believe it. Now that I see you, you two really look alike. And when you came to our courtyard before, my husband ran into you and said that you looked especially like their missing sister."
Lin Wanyin thought, isn't this a coincidence? The Sheng family actually has a missing sister.
Wang Da sighed, "It's a pity. His little sister was already 17 or 18 years old when she disappeared. She was pretty and had a good personality. It's a pity that she disappeared."
Lin Wanyin was very curious: "Why did he disappear?"
Wang Da shook his head: "I don't know either, because he disappeared when I got married, and my husband refused to say more."
Cheng Mingzhong's personality is just like that. He never talks about family matters and doesn't like her to talk nonsense outside.
The one-year-old birthday party naturally requires the "Zhuazhou" ceremony. To Sheng An Ning's surprise, Zhou Zhou and Mo Mo ended up fighting over an abacus. The two brothers each grabbed one side and neither was willing to give in.
They didn't even look at the small wooden guns that boys liked, and just scrambled for the abacus.
An An crawled over and picked up a brush, threw it away, and then picked up a book. In short, she took everything she liked and no one could stop her.
Sheng Chengan laughed happily at the side: "It seems that Momo and Zhouzhou will do business in the future."
Zhou Nanguang and Zhou Shixun all felt that it didn't matter and that the ceremony was just for fun. They were so young and had such a long road ahead, how could there be no changes?
Zhou Hongyun was a little superstitious and couldn't help but mutter in a low voice: "Doing business is not good, our Zhou Zhou and Mo Mo want to be high officials."
Zhong Wenqing didn't care, and smiled as he watched the two brothers fight over the abacus: "It's nothing, and being an official doesn't necessarily mean much, as long as they are safe and sound, that's all that matters."
It was not until Zhou Zhou saw that Mo Mo refused to let go and glared in anger and started scratching Mo Mo's face that Sheng Anning and Zhou Chaoyang quickly carried the two away.
At night, Sheng An Ning couldn't sleep. Thinking about the performance of her two sons, she pushed Zhou Shixun who was already asleep and said, "Changsuo, Zhou Changsuo, do you think Zhou Zhou and Mo Mo will have a quarrel in the future?"
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