Zhou Xiang felt relieved when he saw a smile on his mother's face. Things at home had to be arranged properly. There were six people in the family, and it would be unreasonable to have to deal with so many people.
When I arrived at my grandfather's house, I heard my eldest cousin scolding my eldest brother.
"Why are you so stupid? I told you to scoop hot water, but you scooped cold water instead."
Zhou Xiang quickly ran in, grabbed his older brother who was standing nearby and didn't dare to speak, and said to his cousin, "Are you not stupid? If you're not stupid, why are you asking Lengzi to work?"
Seeing that her little cousin dared to confront her, Zhou Ying reached out to slap her. Zhou Niao immediately picked up her sister and said, "Don't hit me, don't hit me."
Zhou Ying's slap landed on Zhou Niao's back. Zhou wanted to slide down from his brother's arms, grabbed the rolling pin next to him, and slapped Zhou Ying randomly.
"I told you not to hit people at every turn. I told you not to bully my eldest brother all day long. You are a thing your mother sent here to be a maid. If you dare to hit someone, I will beat you to death. I will beat you to death."
Zhou wanted to vent all his hatred for his cousins on this eldest cousin.
Then he threw the rolling pin and shouted, "Grandpa, my eldest cousin is bullying my eldest brother again. My family gives me food money, but I'm still being bullied by someone who eats for free. If you don't come and teach my eldest cousin a lesson, I'll go outside the gate and tell everyone in the coal construction company. Do you believe it?"
Old Master Zhou walked into the kitchen on crutches. "What's going on again? What's going on again? Can't you just let me rest and recuperate?"
Zhou Xiang walked up to the old man and whispered, "Who knows if he's sick or not? Anyway, the company reimburses you for a bunch of invoices every month. What if I go to the office and tell them about it? Those invoices...?"
Zhou Xiang's mouth was covered by the old man. The old man quickly threw away his crutch and covered Zhou Xiang's mouth with nimble movements.
"Zhou Ying, have you bullied Zhou Niao again? I'll punish you by not letting you have lunch! How dare you, as a younger sister, bully your brother? You're so disrespectful! What a disgrace! If you don't want to work, go back home.
Hurry up and make lunch, and ask Zhou Xing and Zhou Li to come out and help. Are you hiding in your room like a lady from a wealthy family? Those who don't go out of the front door or the back door should go home and farm."
After he finished speaking, he released the hand that was covering Zhou Xiang's mouth. Zhou Xiang wiped his mouth vigorously, and there was a smell of tobacco leaves. He must have been smoking his pipe again.
Go under the running water, turn on the tap and rinse your mouth.
"Do you dislike grandpa's dirty hands?" Zhou Ying provoked.
"None of your business, you illiterate bastard. Grandpa's hands smell like tobacco leaves. Tobacco and alcohol are both stimulating to the brain. I got full marks on all four subjects on the final exam, and I'm going to represent the school in a city competition in April. What do you know? If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense."
Then, like a magic trick, he pulled out the report card from his pocket and handed it to the old man. "Grandpa, look, this is my report card. My dad stuck the two certificates on the wall and I can't tear them off. I can only bring the report card to show you."
The old man took the report card and couldn't see it clearly. Zhou wanted to push his eldest brother and said, "Brother, go get grandpa's reading glasses."
"Oh." Zhou Niao went to the old man's room and quickly took out his reading glasses.
The old man put on his glasses, looked carefully, and then smiled.
"Not bad, not bad, just 0.5 points away from 400 points. Well, our Zhou family has produced a top scholar."
Zhou Ying curled her lips. "Didn't you say you'd get a perfect score? Why is it still 0.5 points short?"
Zhou didn't want to bother with the illiterate, but the old man couldn't stand ignorant people.
"Needless to say, these 0.5 points were deducted from your essay. Everyone says there's no such thing as a perfect essay, so the teacher had to at least deduct 0.5 points just to make it look like something you don't understand. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. It would be embarrassing if others heard you. Your mother only cared about saving money, and she made all three of you sisters illiterate."
Zhou Ying didn't dare to say anything and obediently went into the house to call her two sisters out to help cook.
Zhou Xiang handed the old man's walking stick to him. The old man leaned on the walking stick again and walked back slowly. Zhou Xiang accompanied him.
"You little girl, you always make a scene every time you come here. How has grandpa ever let you down?"
"Humph! You raised three illiterate people, but you can't tolerate my eldest brother? My mother paid five dollars a month! People's hearts are biased, but you can't be too biased! This time I want to take my eldest brother away. Those people have grown up, and you can't keep an eye on them. They bully my brother behind his back, and you don't know. My brother is stupid, but he can't be bullied by his own family!"
The old man looked down at his tearful granddaughter. The little granddaughter spoke differently now. She spoke with reason and evidence, but also with a touch of unreasonableness.
He sighed and said, "Take them away. They've suffered a lot of injustice here, and I can't be too protective of them. The more I protect them, the more they'll bully me."
"Humph, they've become accustomed to it. If you send them back to farming, they won't be jealous anymore."
"Then you will serve here, Grandpa?"
"I'll serve you? I'm a top scholar. Serving you is something only illiterate people can do. If you say you'll leave one of them, the three of them will stop ganging up on my eldest brother and start fighting each other."
"You little girl, you're holding a grudge against them for bullying you, right?"
"Grandpa, you know it clearly, but you still let them bully me. Humph, greed is like a snake swallowing an elephant. If you indulge my bad habits, they and my aunt will ask for more in the future."
After saying that, Zhou Xiang left the old man behind and turned to go into the main room.
The old man sighed and looked at the photo of his wife. "The second son's family, whom you don't like, is about to produce a talented person, but it's the girl you dislike the most. What a pity! It would be great if it was a boy."
The second child has it tough too. One of the two boys is dumb and the other is dull. The eldest daughter always repeats a grade. The youngest daughter got full marks on the test this time and I heard she's going to compete. Our Zhou family is going to have a talent. It's a pity you won't be able to see it."
In the main room, Zhou's father and Zhou Yu were sitting and watching TV. It was a small black and white TV, about the size of a shoe box. What could they see clearly?
Because Zhou wanted to go to the kitchen to make trouble, Zhou's mother quickly hid in and pretended not to know. Her father-in-law often pretended to be deaf and dumb, but unfortunately her daughter did not give him a chance to escape and embarrassed him.
I give my daughter a thumbs up in my heart, well done.
In the kitchen, Zhou Xing and Zhou Li were dissatisfied. "Why do we need to serve our second uncle and his family? We are here to serve Grandpa."
Zhou Ying looked outside the house and saw no one, then he turned around and glared at his sister.
"Keep your voice down. Think about it, that girl got full marks in the exam this time and said she's going to the city to participate in a competition. Grandpa values studying the most.
My father is incompetent and he just farms at home without any education. My grandfather, second uncle and younger uncle are all educated people and have all left our hometown. Our mother didn't let us go to school, and my older brother and younger brother can't read, so the whole family is illiterate.
If Grandpa hadn't felt a little guilty towards our father, would he have let our mother coax money out of us and let the three of us live and eat here? Now that I think about it, it's really serious. If you make Grandpa unhappy, he can send you back to farm."
"Are we just going to let that damn girl step on us?" Zhou Xing was still not convinced.
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