At eight o'clock in the evening, Qin Xingzhou closed the shop and went home. When he got home, he found that everyone else had finished their meal, and there were only some leftovers on the table.
His face obviously didn't look good, but he still greeted Old Lady Zhan and Zhan Baoku, saying that he was not hungry. Then he went back to the house and closed the door behind him.
Zhan Baoku was displeased to see Qin Xingzhou, who always greeted him with a smile, change his expression faster than the weather. He pointed at the closed door and asked Zhan Tiehua, "No, Third Sister, what does my brother-in-law mean?
If it weren't for our family's connections protecting his delicatessen, how could he have been so successful? Now that our family has fallen on hard times, he has this attitude. Who is he trying to show his disdain to?
Old Lady Zhan also agreed with her youngest son's statement, thinking that Qin Xingzhou was deliberately making trouble for her. However, she also knew her current situation. Even if she was living in her own daughter's home, she was still living under someone else's roof. So she could no longer expect her son-in-law to treat her like an old Buddha as before.
Zhan Tiehua's face turned a bit ugly when Zhan Baoku complained about her. It wasn't because his brother was a little ungrateful, but because he was angry that Qin Xingzhou didn't save face for his family.
She was about to go back to the house to argue with Qin Xingzhou, but was stopped by Old Lady Zhan.
The old lady shook her head at her third daughter and sighed, "Forget it, don't get angry with Xingzhou because of this. Your brother and I have nowhere to go right now, and we have to stay here for a while. It's okay for us to be upset a little. What's important for you now is to protect the family and keep them together."
After Zhan Tiehua was stabilized by the old lady, he sat back on the sofa and said with a look of heartache and apology, "Mom, little brother, I'm sorry for putting you through this.
The house is really a mess now, with all these kids and that old man, I really can’t take care of it all. There’s a lot of noise at home every day, and he’s upset too, so don’t take it to heart…”
Old Lady Zhan lowered her voice and said, "The old man from the Qin family is ninety years old, right? You say his mind is muddled, but how come he's still so strong? I think he could live to be a hundred."
Speaking of Qin Xingzhou's grandfather, Mrs. Zhan disliked him very much. When they arrived, the old man was sleeping in the house. When he woke up and saw the mother and son of the Zhan family, he insisted that they were bad guys who wanted to steal his treasure and drove them out.
Zhan Baoku and Mrs. Zhan scolded the old man. Although the old man was confused, he still knew how to bully the weak and fear the strong. Seeing how arrogant the Zhan mother and son were, he suddenly became obedient and went back into the house.
Now, Qin Xingzhou lives in the same room with the old man at night. After he enters the room and closes the door, the old man starts to cry to him: "Son, you are back. Today, someone came to the house, beat me and scolded me, and didn't give me food to eat, and didn't let me poop or pee..."
The old man was confused and often treated his grandson Qin Xingzhou as his son. He was completely confused, and he would even make up lies to gain sympathy.
Qin Xingzhou said that there was a strong smell of feces when he entered the house. The old man started crying and complained. He thought his grandfather was confused again.
As soon as the old man told him not to poop or pee, he knew what that pungent strange smell was.
He was tired after a day out and just came back from outside. He didn't take off his clothes and lay down on the bed directly. As a result, he got up to find where the old man had pooped. Before he got out of bed, he touched a sticky puddle when he touched the bed.
He raised his hand and took a look. What else could it be but the old man's excrement? This made Qin Xingzhou so disgusted that he retched on the spot.
Looking at the bed again, the side where the old man slept was wet. It seemed that he not only pooped on the bed, but also urinated.
While the Zhan mother and her two sons were talking, they heard the door of Qin Xingzhou's room being suddenly opened, and the door panel hit the wall with a loud bang.
Then, Qin Xingzhou ran into the bathroom like a gust of wind, turned on the faucet and frantically washed the filth off his hands.
I took off all my clothes in the bathroom and threw them into the dirty clothes basket, leaving only my underwear.
Zhan Tiehua hurried over to see what happened: "Xingzhou, what's going on?"
Qin Xingzhou was too lazy to talk to Zhan Tiehua. Without even looking at her, he slammed the bathroom door shut.
Zhan Baoku was already angry at Qin Xingzhou's cold attitude after he came in. Now, when he heard Qin Xingzhou and his sister slamming the door, he couldn't sit still anymore. He followed and asked loudly, "Third brother-in-law, you're throwing things around as soon as you come back. What do you mean? You don't welcome me and mom to come over, right? If you have something to say, just say it directly. There's no need to beat around the bush. Who are you trying to show off to?"
Zhan Tiehua grabbed Zhan Baoku and signaled him to stop talking. Zhan Baoku became even angrier when he saw how timid his third sister was in front of Qin Xingzhou and wanted to continue talking.
At this moment, Qin Xingzhou angrily opened the door and confronted Zhan Baoku head-on: "Yes, that's right, I just don't welcome you.
"Living under someone else's roof requires a sense of belonging. Who do you think you are now? You can't even afford to eat, right? You beat and scold my grandfather as soon as you walk in. I want to ask you what's the reason for this?"
It was true that Zhan Baoku scolded Old Man Qin, but to say that he hit someone was really unfair to him.
When facing Qin Xingzhou, the Zhan family always felt that he was almost like a son-in-law who married into the family. He originally sold cooked food in a very small stall. Although he later moved to a store, the store was also very small.
It was after Zhan Tiehua fell in love with Qin Xingzhou and married him that she opened a decent-sized store in the best location in the downtown area with the help of the Zhan family.
The Zhan family has connections and can protect Qin Xingzhou, which is why no one dared to disrupt his business over the past few years.
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