Zhou Xiaozheng and his children left the Cheng family's house and passed by the Lin family's house not far away. Li Jianjun happened to be pushing a cart home with his wife in front.
Hearing Ping'an's voice, Li Jianjun turned around and saw the family. He stopped and greeted them with a smile. He didn't ask where they were from - he didn't think twice about the Cheng family.
Zhou Xiaozheng nodded at him and continued moving forward.
Zhou Jiao glanced at Lin Liying, whose expression remained unchanged beside him, and smiled and nodded to Li Jianjun. In the past, she would have greeted this aunt, but since she was not happy with her, she was too lazy to speak.
Ping An was such a clever kid. When he saw that the adults didn't let him say hello, he pointed in the direction of home and said, "Dad, I'm sleepy. Let's go home quickly."
Zhang Guoqing had a good impression of his uncle-in-law. Seeing that no one was talking, the atmosphere was a little awkward. When his son said this, he smiled and said, "Okay, we'll be home soon. Take care, uncle-in-law."
Zhou Jiao smiled playfully. It seemed that when the Lin family besieged Zhang Guoqing that day, this uncle-in-law didn't take action. Of course, he certainly didn't favor him, otherwise, Zhang Guoqing would have invited them to come to his house.
"Okay, take the kids back home quickly. Come over to our house when you have time. Your two cousins keep nagging you."
Zhang Guoqing smiled and nodded, then turned around, holding his son, and followed his wife and the others. Since they were outside, he couldn't ask. He was still very curious about what had happened tonight.
When I entered the house, Lin Lishan was staring at the newspaper in her hand in a daze in the living room. She woke up when she heard the voice and said with a smile, "You're back. I wanted to go to my aunt's house, but it was late, so I thought you were already home."
Seeing her father ignored her, Zhou Jiao's face turned even worse. She sighed inwardly and quickly replied to her mother, "Why don't you rest first after you come back? You must be hungry. Do you want to have some midnight snack?"
Lin Lishan stood up and hung up the family's coats, then shook her head and said, "I'm not hungry. Ask Aunt Chen to make some dumplings for your dad. He didn't eat much tonight."
Ping An complained, "My grandpa loves the shrimp dumplings Mom made. It's all because Uncle Xiaoyu is such a good eater. He ate my grandpa's portion."
Zhou Xiaozheng was amused by him and smiled, waving at him. Looking at his grandson in his arms, he smiled and said, "Don't you love your uncle Xiaoyu the most? Are you feeling sorry for him?"
Ping An hesitated for a moment and shook his head, "I don't like him to take it away after eating it."
Zhou Jiao smiled and shook her head. How petty!
"Don't worry, your mother packed a lot, enough for our family." Zhang Guoqing, the filial father, saw his son pouting and hurried to comfort him.
Ping An imitated Zhang's mother's tone and said, "Oh my God, Jiaojiao is eating things again."
The child's baby voice made the whole family laugh.
Zhang Guoqing saw Zhou Jiao heading to the kitchen and quietly followed her, refusing Aunt Chen's offer of help. He still had something to ask his wife, so how could he allow an outsider to be around?
In the kitchen, Zhou Jiao saw Aunt Chen leave and smiled at Zhang Guoqing.
"Is the Lin family causing trouble again? Is someone sick, or has someone returned to Beijing? Why do they always have so much trouble as soon as they return to the compound? Why don't they know when to quit?"
Zhou Jiao scoffed. It wasn't that they were causing too much trouble, it was just that someone had spoiled them. Let's see if they come back again.
"Wife, please tell me, what happened?"
Zhou Jiao didn't want to hide it from him, so she told him the story while boiling water.
Tonight, except for Zhang Guoqing, their family accompanied Old Mrs. Cheng and her grandchildren to have dinner. Not long after that, Zhou Jiao's aunt Lin Liying came to the door first.
Since Aunt Chen had received instructions before, she stopped the other party directly outside the door.
After being stopped like this, Lin Liying pointed at Aunt Chen and started to curse her so loudly that everyone in the living room could hear it. At that time, Zhou Jiao and her father's faces darkened.
What's this? Beating a dog depends on its owner!
Zhou Xiaozheng immediately ordered everyone to get out and told Aunt Chen to close the door! He also threatened that if Lin Liying made trouble again, he would put her in solitary confinement to see if she dared to act arrogantly in the Zhou family.
Being treated coldly by Zhou Xiaozheng, Lin Liying ran away crying.
Soon after, Lin Aiguo came over. As for the Lin family man, he went to Zhou's house, but he was not stopped outside the Zhou's house by Aunt Chen who was watching him eagerly.
After entering the living room, Lin Aiguo did not mention Lin Liying, but instead talked about how Grandpa Lin asked Zhou Xiaozheng and his family to go to the Lin family.
Zhou Xiaozheng had no problem speaking to his subordinate. He first pointed out Lin Liying's unreasonable behavior and asked Lin Aiguo to go back and persuade her not to interfere in the Zhou family's affairs for no reason. Even if the Zhou family was a small family, it was not their place for outsiders to act recklessly.
Lin Aiguo smiled awkwardly and mentioned Mr. Lin's invitation again.
Zhou Xiaozheng doubted his own judgment. Why had he always thought his men were not stupid? He had made it so obvious, so why did he even need to personally reject it?
Lin Lishan asked from the side - what on earth did the old man want to see them? The children had just returned, and the family hadn't had time to say a few words, so why was the old man so anxious?
Seeing this, Lin Aiguo finally mentioned that Lin Liying had come to invite her eldest brother-in-law and his family to reunite. By the way, the old man hadn't seen them for a long time and wanted to meet Zhou Jiao and his wife.
Zhou Jiao said this with a cold smile. She was just a peasant girl, so why would she go to the high threshold of the Lin family to seek humiliation?
"What happened next? Why did Mom go there again?"
Later... hehe... Zhou Jiao didn't even bother to speak. If Zhang Guoqing hadn't wanted to know, she wouldn't have bothered to say it again. It would be good for the two families to live their own lives, wouldn't it? Why always tease her?
Seeing that his eldest sister, this fool, was also against going back to her parents' home, Lin Aiguo could not blame her in front of Zhou Xiaozheng, so he could only patiently invite Zhou Xiaozheng again.
Zhou Jiao was troubled by the scene and asked him if the old man had something important to discuss with them or if it was just a simple gathering.
Lin Aiguo did not hide it and said that in addition to a family gathering, the old man also wanted to discuss Lin Laoer's discharge from the army with them.
Without waiting for Zhou Xiaozheng's opinion, Zhou Jiao bluntly told Lin Aiguo: "It's not the Zhou family's place to interfere in the Lin family's affairs, especially when it comes to their personal future."
Zhou Xiaozheng even agreed with his daughter's words, and reminded Lin Aiguo not to do thankless tasks all the time, and it would be better to seek his own opinions.
The father and daughter talked and sang for a few sentences, which made Lin Aiguo a little dazed.
In fact, everyone present, except Ping An and Wen Chengyu who were too young to understand, knew it all. Elder Lin went to the Zhou family because he wanted Zhou Xiaozheng to help the Second Elder Lin.
What do you mean it's been a while since I last saw them? Zhou Lin's family lives only a few steps away from each other. Why didn't they visit their son-in-law's family when they returned from the retirement home?
Old Lady Cheng, listening in on the situation, was filled with disdain—the words were even more beautiful than the songs. She wondered why the children didn't come to the Lins themselves, but instead had to send her nephew's family to the Lins'. She hadn't expected Old Man Lin to be so arrogant and push the children to come. But who would tolerate that?
Lin Aiguo refused to leave, so Zhou Xiaozheng had no choice but to let his wife go with him. Once they left, they took Zhou Jiao, the child, and the old lady and grandson to the Cheng family.
Zhang Guoqing burst out laughing. This family is really terrible! He actually thought that this idea was probably another bad idea from that old witch of the Lin family.
He didn't say a word: the Lin family's threshold was, as his godfather Zhao Chuangguang had said, too high. After the previous conflict, both sides had torn their relations apart, and Zhang Guoqing had given up the idea of visiting them.
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