Zhou Quan followed with his handbag, leaving his cousin's dissatisfied murmurs behind.
As soon as he entered the village, he was discovered and soon everyone surrounded him as if he were a monkey.
"Grandpa, didn't you go to the county town to look for Er Chaobo? How's it going? Did you find him?"
"Yes! Great Grandpa, where is Uncle Erchao?"
"Grandpa, Uncle Erchao has grown too powerful and no longer takes you, his father, seriously."
"That's right, he dared to run away! I'll break his legs when I get back."
Haha, these people just enjoy watching the fun and stirring up trouble all day long.
Zhou Xiang stopped and looked at these gossipers with a cold face, "Get lost!"
"Hey! Who are you, little girl? How can you curse at me?"
"That's right, you're standing on our Zhoujia Village territory, and you dare to chase us away?"
Zhou Quan didn't expect that Zhoujia Village had completely changed in the past 20 years. The villagers were ignorant, cold-blooded, and arrogant.
In the past, I would leave when the work was done and never come back when I had free time.
It turns out that when they have free time, they just stir up trouble and then watch the fun.
"From Shuanzi's family, this is your fifth cousin from my family." Zhou Quan said coldly.
"You, you are the tenth grandfather of the town? Why don't you look like him? You look much more Western."
"Yeah! Uncle Shi, if you didn't say anything, I would have thought you were from a big city!"
Seeing that his father was a little carried away by the praise, Zhou Xiang said coldly, "Dad!"
Zhou Quan woke up immediately.
"Everyone, go home! Stop stirring up trouble. Although Erchao is not of Zhou Village bloodline, he changed his last name, so he is a member of Zhou Village. You are going too far."
The women who were stirring up trouble originally saw two fashionable city dwellers coming and thought they were someone from my great-grandfather's family!
Who knew it was the father and daughter of the Tenth Grandfather's family in Xu Town? And that Fifth Aunt had a cold expression and looked difficult to approach. It was better to get out of here quickly! She just called her a little girl.
After the onlookers left, Zhou Xiang glared at his father and said, "Find your place."
Then he looked at Zhou Yiwen and said, "Uncle, a fool like this could instigate an educated man like you to beat and scold your own wife and abuse your own stepson, just to be a laughing stock for others."
Zhou Yiwen had never been so clear-headed before. If the villagers had said this in the past, he would have been furious and continued to beat them up.
But just now, when I listened to what those people said, I could clearly hear that they were trying to sow discord.
Looking at the smiles on those people's faces, it was clear that they were mocking them.
Now, after hearing Zhou Xiang's words, he felt ashamed. For more than twenty years, he had been provoked by these ignorant village women.
Why haven’t I been so awake before?
Looking at the cold Zhou Xiang beside him, he realized that Quandi was brought back to life by that cold shout just now.
"You've completely disgraced our great-grandfather's family. You found gold, and someone, out of jealousy, called it a brick, and you believed it. How foolish!"
Ignoring the dark face of my great uncle, I continued walking holding my great aunt's wife's hand.
"Dad, let's go straight to Great Grandpa."
Follow carefully.
Zhou Yiwen's face turned pale, half of him was angry with Zhou Xiang, and half of him was angry with himself.
My father kept telling me to live a good life and not to listen to the villagers' nonsense saying that I had gotten a great bargain.
Now Zhou Xiang also means this, is he referring to Zhao Hedi?
Zhou Yong was frightened by Zhou Xiang's cold and angry look just now. He was so cold and cruel that he was even scarier than his grandfather.
Zhou Yue followed behind his eldest brother. He was also frightened by his cousin's appearance just now, so he pulled his eldest brother and walked behind him.
"Brother, what should I do? I stole something in the county."
In the past, Zhou Yong would have shared the dirt with a smile, but now, it is like a hot potato.
"What did you take?"
"A pen."
Zhou Yong slapped him on the head and said, "You can't read, why did you steal the pen?"
"The pen is valuable."
Zhou Yong felt his scalp tingle. "Fountain pen? What kind?"
"Look."
Zhou Yue had an extra pen in his hand. Zhou Yong took it and knew it was a good thing the moment he touched it. Just by the feel!
Open the pen cap and you will see the golden nib, which proves the value of this pen.
"It's over. We can't escape grandfather's family rules."
"Why?"
"You came out later than Dad. She glanced at you at the time, and I thought it was strange. Then she went in and came out with her backpack, and she didn't say anything."
"So I threw it away?"
"If Grandpa believes her and keeps enforcing family rules on you, can you bear it?"
Zhou Yue shook his head.
"Then if you deliberately threw away this pen, your crime will be even more serious."
"What should I do? This has become a hot potato that I can't even throw away."
"Cold salad, I told you to do it!"
"Or, I'll go give it back to her and apologize to her!"
"That's all we can do."
Zhou Yue immediately caught up with Zhou Xiang who was in the front, "Um, cousin, I have something to tell you."
Zhou Xiang glanced at him and said, "Go ahead!"
"Can we talk privately?"
"Can't!"
Zhou Yue was choked, but he couldn't get angry. He had to hurry as he was about to reach his grandfather's house.
"Um, um, I got a pen from your room."
"Take it? That's quite a polite word."
"I, I, I'm sorry. I'll give the pen back to you. Please don't tell Grandpa, okay?"
"not good!"
"you!"
"Me, what's wrong with me? Do you think that just returning it will be enough? You only returned it because you knew you couldn't escape. What if you could escape? Haha, you don't even know your mistakes, why should I protect you? If you forgive easily and don't get punished, you will continue to make mistakes!"
"I, I threw the pen away. It's no use for you to complain."
"Go ahead and throw it! Why didn't you throw it before? Your threats are ridiculous."
Zhou Yue looked at her cold eyes and lowered his head unconsciously.
Zhao Hedi looked at her son in disappointment, without saying a word. This son had been led astray by his elder brother, and it was useless for her to say anything.
Zhou Quan was also extremely disappointed. What had become of Zhoujia Village?
A foolish woman who stirs up trouble, villagers who don't know right from wrong, and nephews who steal things.
If we want to restore the glory of our ancestors, what can we rely on? Even if a capable person emerges, he will be dragged down by these people who are dragging his feet.
This bunch of scum shouldn't be my little girl's responsibility.
The entire village is divided into north and south by a lake. The south side of the lake is inhabited by the older generation, while the north side of the lake is inhabited by the younger generation.
At a glance, whether in South Lake or North Lake, most of the houses are adobe houses, with occasionally one or two mixed walls of adobe and bricks.
There are more than 60 households in Nanhu, and the scattered houses form four rows. There are six rows in Beihu, with about 100 households.
I heard that my great-grandfather's father was a branch of the Zhou family who migrated from the eastern province. He had three brothers, so my great-grandfather had 16 cousins, my grandfather had 42 cousins, and my father had 120 cousins.
There are so many brothers that it is impossible to rank them, so they can only be ranked according to their branches. My father is ranked among my grandfather's brothers, and I am ranked among my father's brothers.
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