Born into a wealthy family, what good food had General Zhou not tasted? During times of war, the harsh conditions meant General Zhou could stomach anything. After peace and prosperity, General Zhou no longer valued money or status, but only loved food. In his own words, savoring a delicious meal he loved was life's greatest enjoyment.
General Zhou loves good food, and Aunt Wang, the Zhou family's cook, has also steadily improved her cooking skills. Over the years, when Zhao Yunxiang and her family returned to the old house to eat with General Zhou, they always ate Aunt Wang's ready-made meals. General Zhou hadn't realized Zhao Yunxiang had such good cooking skills. Now that he knows, he definitely has to try it!
"Okay, Grandpa," Zhao Yunxiang replied, and hurried off to make egg custard. It was rare for General Zhou to like it, and as his grandson's wife, it was no big deal for her to offer him some filial respect.
After Zhao Yunxiang left, General Zhou quickly rushed to Zhou Yuanyuan's side. His nimble legs and feet didn't look like a man in his sixties at all.
"My dear granddaughter, can you let your great-grandfather have a taste first?" General Zhou looked at the bowl in Zhou Yuanyuan's hand, his mouth watering.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier that you've finished eating? Where's that?" Zhou Yuanyuan swallowed the egg custard in her mouth and turned the bowl over to show General Zhou. It was clean, there was really no egg left.
While General Zhou and Zhao Yunxiang were talking, Zhou Yuanyuan, thinking she couldn't keep General Zhou waiting, devoured the egg custard in her bowl in just a few bites. If she had known her great-grandfather wouldn't mind her having eaten it, she would have kept it.
"Ahem..." General Zhou felt his face flushed before he even got the food he'd been asking for. But it didn't matter; they were family, so it was okay even if he knew about his gluttony. He blinked, bracing himself mentally, and finally regained his composure.
"Grandpa, don't you have anything to ask?" Zhou Yuanyuan saw General Zhou's expression and quickly brought a ladder for him to climb down. Her great-grandfather! He was like a child in front of these younger people, not caring about his status at all.
"Can you tell me? Can you tell me?" With that, General Zhou completely forgot about his embarrassing incident. Clairvoyance! And that sweet little great-granddaughter, who could transmit secret messages, was a true master! He wondered if he could learn from her. General Zhou was filled with hope.
"Ahem...ah..." Zhou Yuanyuan faced General Zhou's hopeful gaze, cleared her throat, and reminded him, "Grandpa Zeng, there's nothing to hide. Didn't you see me setting a fire last time?"
Yes! Last time, Xiaoguai's great-granddaughter insisted on going on a mission with Ah Xi, but he was worried about her and refused to let her go. Then, Xiaoguai's great-granddaughter conjured a flame out of thin air, burning his mahogany coffee table to ash in seconds. The flames dissipated with the wind. General Zhou was curious, but to accommodate Zhou Xi's mission, he couldn't let Zhou Yuanyuan go too late, so he suppressed his curiosity. Oh, and Xiaoguai's great-granddaughter said before she left that she would explain the flames to him when she returned.
Zhou Yuanyuan's reminder finally brought General Zhou back to reality. Ever since she'd detoxified him, Zhou Yuanyuan had done several unusual things. Even her arson skills were more powerful than Zhang Qiang, the most skilled arsonist in the special operations team. Did this mean that Xiaoguai's great-granddaughter was far more powerful than Zhang Qiang's?
General Zhou thought of this and sat in a chair with excitement, waiting to hear gossip.
"Great-grandfather, when I was six years old, I inherited my grandfather's heirloom - a book of immortal cultivation techniques, and thus embarked on the path of cultivation. Great-grandfather, do you know about cultivators? I, your great-granddaughter Zhou Yuanyuan, am a real cultivator, and an accomplished cultivator at that." Zhou Yuanyuan said playfully to General Zhou. Zhou Yuanyuan did not exaggerate. A cultivator in the Jindan stage has strength comparable to nuclear weapons. He can use a powerful move to raze a city to the ground in an instant, and Zhou Yuanyuan can do it.
Zhou Yuanyuan specifically mentioned Zhao Qingshan's heirloom to General Zhou, hoping to impress upon him the Zhao family's friendship. Truthfully, the Zhou and Zhao families were more than a fraction apart in status. To outsiders, Zhao Yunxiang was just a lucky bastard who'd become General Zhou's granddaughter-in-law by sheer luck. In reality, the Zhao family's ancestors had even included cultivators, making them no less distinguished than the Zhou family. Furthermore, in Chinese tradition, heirlooms were typically passed down to sons, not daughters. The Zhao family's heirloom being passed down to Zhou's granddaughter was a truly profound gesture of friendship.
"Well, Brother Zhao is a man of great generosity. You should show more respect to him in the future." Sure enough, General Zhou was deeply impressed by Zhao Qingshan's generosity after hearing what Zhou Yuanyuan said. He would not say unnecessary words like "repaying Zhao Qingshan" to Zhou Yuanyuan. He remembered Zhao Qingshan's kindness in his heart.
"Yeah," Zhou Yuanyuan nodded, inwardly giving herself a thumbs-up. Don't blame Zhou Yuanyuan for calculating General Zhou's affection for Zhao Qingshan. In China, General Zhou is like a towering mountain. With General Zhou's care, Zhao Guohui and his children's future paths will be much smoother than those of ordinary people. Furthermore, Yu Meiru's business empire is now thriving. Without General Zhou's protection, it's a piece of fat meat that anyone can rush to take a bite of.
Zhou Yuanyuan and Zhao Qingshan have always had a close relationship. When Zhao Yunxiang and her son were in their most difficult times, it was Zhao Qingshan and his family who stood by them. Zhou Yuanyuan is grateful, believing that it's natural for relatives to support each other. Now that Zhou Zhixin has risen in status, Zhou Yuanyuan naturally hopes to repay the Zhao family.
Besides, Zhou Yuanyuan only wanted General Zhou to take care of Zhao Guohui within a certain range, and she wouldn't force General Zhou to do anything that was against his will. Only if General Zhou had a good impression of the Zhao family could Zhao Guohui and Yu Meiru go further.
After Zhou Yuanyuan revealed her strength to General Zhou, General Zhou felt much more at ease.
What is a monk? General Zhou certainly knows.
Unlike the superstitions of ordinary people, someone at General Zhou's level had seen cultivators before. Throughout China's history, there were many disciples from hidden sects who served the emperor's orders in secular homes. When the Chinese nation was first established, there were Xuanmen disciples among the special operations team members. It wasn't until a dozen or twenty years ago that Xuanmen disciples resigned from all positions in the special operations team and retired to the mountains.
General Zhou felt really good about having such a powerful great-granddaughter. The issue that had been bothering him just now, He Shumin, was no longer a problem in Zhou Yuanyuan's hands.
General Zhou decided to eat a bowl of egg custard made by his granddaughter-in-law first, and then watch Ouyang Xin abuse the two little fools. For everything else, he had his own cute great-granddaughter with him!
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