Chapter 401: Unrepentant

"Everyone eat, don't look at me, I'm quite good. Little Yan just gave me a massage, it's very comfortable."

The whole family was at two tables, one on the *kang* and one off. Zhou Zhigang looked at everyone eating with little appetite, and then looked at Feng Yue, who was sitting on the *kang* eating: "Yueyue, eat more, the matter between me and your mom doesn't affect you."

Feng Yue nodded: "I know, Grandpa, I'm not like my mom."

Wang Yan smiled happily: "Shall I send you back after you finish eating?"

This child is not bad. Being like this now is all thanks to Feng Huacheng's education. As for Zhou Rong, she has a pile of problems herself, so maybe it's a good thing she didn't teach the child. Otherwise, if Feng Yue learned that way, it would truly be ruined.

Li Suhua waved her hand: "Why go back, just stay here."

Feng Yue shook her head: "I can't, Grandma, I came over right after school, and I haven't finished my homework yet."

Zhou Bingyi looked quite good, raised his glass and clinked it with his father's: "Dad, Zhou Rong isn't..."

"Bingyi, you're an official, you've seen the situation in Guangzipian, solve it. This is your duty, right? Isn't it all about attracting investment now? You have the power, and Bingkun and Little Yan are each richer than the other, is there no way?"

Knowing his father didn't want to hear it, but hearing his father's way of putting it, Zhou Bingyi shook his head and smiled: "Dad, this matter is not easy to handle. Not to mention that my current position isn't high enough, even if it were, if I really were to cooperate with Bingkun and Little Yan, I would have to be extremely cautious."

Hao Jinlong died two years later, which had a huge impact on Zhou Bingyi. Compared to before, Zhou Bingyi now had much more power than in the same period, and his official career was much smoother.

"Isn't this a great thing that benefits the common people of our Guangzipian, what other problems are there?"

Wang Yan smiled: "The problems are huge, Great-uncle. What we think of is naturally a good thing, but what about others? Relocating Guangzipian, the largest urban village, is a great achievement for an official. What will other officials think? Will people who don't know the truth think that Bingyi is seeking personal gain? After all, so many people know the relationship between Bingkun, me, and Bingyi."

"And if you want to relocate Guangzipian, you have to build buildings, right? Everyone wants good houses, and everyone wants more houses. If this isn't handled properly, and there are those who aren't taken care of, it's not impossible that someone will write a letter to report it, or even go to petition. There are many things involved here. If it's not handled well, it will turn a good thing into a bad thing, and the old Zhou family will have to bear the bad name."

Zhou Bingkun had a deep understanding of human nature in recent years and nodded repeatedly: "Isn't that so, Dad? People are never satisfied. If we really say we're going to demolish Guangzipian, the first one to come looking for us would be the Qiao family, do you believe it? We wouldn't have a single day of peace."

Zhou Bingyi said "Hmm": "Dad, now is not the time. In my opinion, if Guangzipian is to be relocated, it will take at least five or six years. However, Dad, I promise you, I will definitely solve the poverty of Guangzipian. You just enjoy your life at home with peace of mind, and wait for that day to come."

"Hey, I was just saying. I know what kind of people they are. They can be poor together, but they can't watch others get rich. Just say that after Bingkun got rich all these years, although they say good things when they meet, what do they say about us behind our backs? They say the old Zhou family is rich and doesn't recognize poor neighbors, they say they look down on them, there isn't a single good word. And this is still many families in Guangzipian who work in Bingkun's factory. If it weren't for this, who knows how they would talk."

"Great-uncle sees it clearly." Wang Yan shook his head and smiled, raised his glass and drank with Zhou Zhigang: "They all think they are helping Bingkun work, not working to earn money, so their mindset is different. This is also why Bingkun and I don't manage those state-owned factories, even if they were given to us for free, we wouldn't want them. Those are all masters, we can't afford to raise them. In the past, they ate from the big pot, and they were all lazy and slippery, always earning that much money. Now it's different, it's a market economy, there's no state to guarantee the bottom line. If they are lazy and slippery, it's our money that's lost. If this mindset doesn't change, no one can help them."

He wasn't talking about everyone, or every factory, but people are sometimes involuntary, and sometimes their stance isn't firm. In those factories that are declining and have no way out, it's very easy to be swayed by a few people and follow them to make trouble.

So he wouldn't take over those factories and find trouble for himself. His factories were developing so fast that it couldn't even be described. The number of employees he needed was even greater. The recruitment standards were there, and the benefits were there. Those who really wanted to work would have work. So, if the state-owned factories collapsed, they collapsed. The only ones affected were the leaders of those factories. Whether they were really for the good of the factory and the workers, or to jump out of the state-owned factory to other places, it had nothing to do with him, it didn't matter.

Zhou Bingkun hadn't been idle these years either. However, he followed his good brother's example and didn't take over the factories.

"Alright, alright, let's not talk about those, eat, everyone eat."

Deliberately ignoring Zhou Rong's matter, no one mentioned it again, no one talked about it, and everyone was chatting and laughing, and the atmosphere was quite joyful. But even if it was joyful, it wasn't as lively as the reunion in the past. The meal was eaten quickly, the wine was drunk in a hurry, and before long, Zhou Zhigang was dizzy, and coupled with the fatigue of the journey, he lay on the *kang* and didn't speak.

Wang Yan and the others didn't stay either, returning to their own homes, letting Zhou Zhigang soothe his anger himself.

"We're here, Auntie Chen, it's right in front." Sitting in the passenger seat of the Santana, Feng Yue pointed to the entrance of a residential area and looked at Chen Jing, who was driving the car beside her.

"I'll drive in and send you downstairs."

"No need, it's not far, just go in, just stop here." After the car stopped steadily, Feng Yue turned her head to look at the grandfather and grandson in the back: "Uncle Wang, Jianye, I'm leaving, thank you Uncle Wang, Auntie Chen."

Wang Yan nodded with a smile: "Alright, be safe."

Watching Chen Jing open the car door, get out, and walk away, Chen Jing sighed: "This child is quite good, it's just that she ended up with a mother like Zhou Rong..."

"Alright, stop worrying about others, let's go home."

Chen Jing curled her lips, shifted gears skillfully, and left the Jiangda University residential building...

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Cai Xiaoguang greeted: "You're back, Yueyue."

"Yeah, Uncle Wang sent me back." Feng Yue changed her shoes at the door and glanced at her mother, who was sitting on the sofa.

"Yueyue, you ate there, what did your grandpa and the others say later?"

"They didn't say anything, just talked about the changes over the years, and talked about the demolition of Guangzipian, they didn't mention the two words 'Zhou Rong' even once. Uncle Xiaoguang, I'm going to do my homework."

"Go ahead, don't stay up too late, go to bed early."

"I know."

Watching Feng Yue shuffle away in her slippers to her room, Cai Xiaoguang sighed and sat down beside Zhou Rong again: "It seems your dad is really angry this time."

"I'm angry too. You say I'm already so big, why can't I make my own decisions? Besides, I'm heavily pregnant, why is my dad so heartless?"

Cai Xiaoguang looked at her helplessly: "If you had talked properly, how could it have developed to this point."

Zhou Rong glared, she was very innocent: "Didn't I talk properly? Then what is called talking properly?"

"Is that called talking properly? You only said a few words in total, and you clashed with your dad. Zhou Rong, it's not that you apologized, and others should forgive you, even if that person is your dad."

"I did that to make my dad approve of you, whose side are you on?"

Cai Xiaoguang shook his head speechlessly: "Zhou Rong, your dad is angry because he can't get over it. Why? Divorce is one point, but you marrying me without telling them in advance is another point. Now that we're married, in your dad's eyes, it's the same thing as when you ran to find Feng Huacheng back then."

"Then why didn't you say so earlier?"

"I didn't think of it earlier either. I only knew after hearing your dad speak today. Sigh, we were too rash back then."

Zhou Rong looked at him unhappily: "What do you mean? Regret it?"

Cai Xiaoguang clicked his tongue: "No, I mean we should have told your mom and dad first, and then got married, that would have been fine. It was also because we were impulsive at the time and didn't think so much, just went to register."

To tell the truth, he did indeed feel it was rash. At first, it was indeed very good, but after a long time, although he had known Zhou Rong's character for a long time, he was still a bit unhappy, a bit unable to take it, and couldn't hold on.

Originally, it didn't matter that they were together late, but now it was different. Now it was a small action by Wang Yan that changed Zhou Rong's original life trajectory. She had been arguing with Feng Huacheng for seven years, which caused Zhou Rong's resentment to be relatively heavy. This thing also had a habit; once it started, it was set. And the problems of adults, unlike the plasticity of growing children, were harder to change.

So Cai Xiaoguang was with Zhou Rong, it was fine at first, after all, he had licked for many years and finally got what he wanted, so he cherished it. But now that more than a year had passed, he understood her thoroughly, and Zhou Rong's true colors were revealed without doubt. She couldn't cook, she was self-centered and didn't accommodate others, she was selfish and didn't consider others' feelings, she always thought of discussing things only after doing them, her ideas were always naive, she was always ignorant of the world, she always held herself high and aloof, and always stood on high ground to accuse others...

Sighing, he said: "Alright, there can't be such big resentment between parents and children, wait for a while until the anger passes, and we'll go back and admit our mistakes properly. The most urgent thing now is the child in your belly. I'll accompany you to the hospital for a check-up tomorrow, it wouldn't be good if the child is hurt."

"You say my dad is really something, it's been so many years, why is he still holding a grudge and not forgetting, and can't get over it."

"Old people are like that." Cai Xiaoguang said: "Haven't eaten a mouthful of rice all evening, what do you want to eat? Shall I make you something?"

"No appetite, don't want to eat anything, I'm already full from anger."

"Then I'll peel you an apple, at least pad your stomach, if you don't eat, the child has to eat..."

Everyone was gone. Li Suhua locked the door, saw her old partner lying on the *kang* squinting, she sighed and said: "Why were you in such a big temper today? Didn't we talk about it well before? Zhou Rong is still pregnant, what if something happens if you say that?"

"What could happen? Isn't Little Yan watching there?" Zhou Zhigang didn't even open his eyes, lying there and humming: "I was thinking of not saying it, but you saw it too, what kind of words did she say? I was thinking, back then she ran to find Feng Huacheng, that was enough, why didn't she learn her lesson? Does she have you as a mom and me as a dad in her eyes? It's too outrageous."

"Now that it's like this, she's six months pregnant, what can we do if it's outrageous? Can we really not recognize her? A pair of old bones, don't know how long we can live, why manage so much?"

"This heart can't get over it. You don't know, Huacheng visited me before, he told me quite a bit, from beginning to end, the one who was wrong was Zhou Rong..."

"He visited you? When did he go? What did he say?"

Zhou Zhigang sighed: "It was '85, not long after Zhou Rong and they divorced. At that time, his phone call came to me, I didn't know how to look at him. Later, I gritted my teeth and went to the hotel he was in. As soon as he saw me, he knelt down to me. He said all these years, ever since Yueyue went to Beijing... Zhou Rong looked down on him, couldn't stand him sending gifts and begging people, but she didn't do anything herself... complaining about Huacheng all day, saying he was this and that..."

After listening to Zhou Zhigang's retelling, Li Suhua frowned: "Could it be that Huacheng was biased?"

"I'm not stupid, besides, Zhou Rong wrote me a letter before, that old thick stack of paper, it was all about how Feng Huacheng was wrong, she didn't have many faults of her own. Feng Huacheng said it clearly, he didn't have ability, I could distinguish whether that was true or false, right? In Huacheng's words, isn't that fake aloofness and true hypocrisy? Suhua, she was such a good child, why did she become like this?"

"They've all grown up, they all have their own ways of living, how can we manage it..."

"Grown up..." Zhou Zhigang muttered to himself, suddenly laughed out loud: "Speaking of which, it's really interesting. You say the one who was the least worry-free, Bingkun, is now the most worry-free and successful. The remaining two, one grew up in the mother-in-law's house, and the grandson and granddaughter aren't close to us, and the other has changed completely, can't manage it, this is really..."

Li Suhua also laughed, and after laughing, she said: "Then what do you plan to do about Zhou Rong?"

"Hmph, nothing. Isn't she capable? Just let her clash with me, I'll see how long she can clash. She's nearly forty, and she's not as sensible as Yueyue. Don't talk about it, I get angry when I talk about it. Sleep!"

"Oh my, sleep..."

Li Suhua still couldn't help but sigh. She naturally had opinions about Zhou Rong, but after all, she was her own daughter, what else could she do? She knew that Zhou Bingkun had an even bigger opinion of Zhou Rong, but she and Zhou Zhigang were still alive, so this family couldn't fall apart. If they died, then it wouldn't be their business, children and grandchildren have their own blessings, let it be whatever it will be...

Zhou Zhigang's body was indeed hurt by the anger, and he was sick for half a month before he was considered well. As for being angry, Wang Yan gave him a massage to recuperate. And during this period, Zhou Rong didn't come back again. Cai Xiaoguang came twice, but Zhou Zhigang's old face drooped, and he was treated coldly.

But after all, he was a son-in-law, and besides, Cai Xiaoguang was a clever person, not feeling anything, still talking and laughing as usual. He didn't leave, and Zhou Zhigang couldn't drive him away, so it was quite good.

Zhou Rong was a very typical person who knew her mistakes but didn't change, or rather, she didn't know what she was wrong about, or it could be said that she was just like that, and even if she knew, she would follow her own temper and act according to her own heart. What was expressed was that she was such a big person, didn't understand anything, and still thought she was a little girl.

Zhou Bingkun didn't speak, Zhou Bingyi felt like an eldest brother, found Zhou Rong and talked to her. But he couldn't say anything impressive, nothing more than criticizing and pointing out Zhou Rong's mistakes, so how could Zhou Rong listen? Her unrepentance also made Zhou Bingyi have some opinions.

Just this one thing made Zhou Rong drift away from the old Zhou family. Cai Xiaoguang saw it clearly, and he was trying his best to save it. In November, after the first two probes, he brought Zhou Rong back to the old Zhou family.

His thinking was naturally not bad, which was to let Zhou Rong bow her head and admit her mistake, and the matter would pass. But before they came, they had promised well, but after seeing Zhou Zhigang, they clashed after three sentences, and it was another mutual destruction. Zhou Zhigang was angry again, and Zhou Rong was even more hurt in her pregnancy, almost having a premature birth.

This argument could be considered a real injury to the father-daughter relationship. It was fortunate that Zhou Bingkun wasn't at home, otherwise he would have clashed with Zhou Rong. Once was enough, how could they clash a second time? How could there be such a daughter?

Zhou Bingyi watched the whole process, and he couldn't say anything, still the same, comforting his father on one side and advising Zhou Rong on the other. After fulfilling his obligations, he didn't care anymore, managing it only brought resentment, why bother?

Li Suhua, although also angry, still asked Wang Yan to see Zhou Rong and prescribe medicine to stabilize the fetus.

Wang Yan didn't care, besides, he couldn't refuse to see a patient, and the problem wasn't big, it wouldn't matter if he didn't see it. It was Zhou Zhigang who needed careful recuperation. Now he didn't need to speculate maliciously, he could say for sure that Zhou Zhigang was angered to death by Zhou Rong...

At the end of November, the weather was freezing cold. Zhou Bingkun, who had just returned from the south, ran to find his good brother at the hospital at noon.

"Brother, why did Zhou Rong become like this?"

Wang Yan looked at him with a smile: "What's wrong, don't even call her sister now?"

Zhou Bingkun was angry: "Speaking of it, I get angry. You say she did that thing, why should I still call her sister? Such a big person, doesn't understand anything? Yes, she's pregnant, her temper is strange, but she can't be like that, what kind of thing is that."

"Regardless of why she became like this, it's already like this, what's the use of saying those things? Let's see later." Wang Yan shook his head: "You came to find me, it's not just to talk about Zhou Rong's faults, right?"

"Of course not, Brother, I have good news to tell you." Zhou Bingkun changed his face instantly, and said somewhat smugly to his good brother who was looking at him inquisitively: "I acquired 20% of Luoshui's shares."

This Luoshui was because in the original drama, Luo Shibin did it himself, and Shui Ziliu came later, called the Luoshi Group. Now the two of them were doing it together, so it was called such a name, which was quite good. Wang Yan knew this situation, after all, he encouraged Zhou Bingkun to study them, so he had to understand.

Wang Yan nodded: "Hmm, tell me what happened."

"I didn't tell you before, it's like this, in June, they had a batch of goods piled up because they didn't sign a contract before production, but there was a war over there, so it was stuck in their hands. I had someone set up another company, found someone to go talk to them for a while, although their goods were sold later, they wanted to switch to electronic products, and they wanted to do big things but were short of money, so I had someone invest a sum, occupying 20% of the shares. Wait for me to study it slowly, striving to kick Luo Shibin out.

And Brother, I tell you. Before, wasn't Shui Ziliu the big brother? Just because of this batch of goods being pressed, now Shui Ziliu has been kicked out of the company by Luo Shibin. It hasn't been long, and the two of them are already infighting. Tsk tsk, how interesting."

"He has shares in his hands, study him. I heard that we are also going to open a stock market, just like those listed companies in America, according to what you told me before, Luo Shibin is so ambitious, he definitely wants to go public. Now the shares are definitely held by Luo Shibin, he can't release too many, he can't be kicked out in the short term. Now the market is so good, everything makes money, so it needs to be studied, you're happy too early."

"It's the feeling of secretly dealing with him while he's in the dark that's cool." Zhou Bingkun laughed for a while, then nodded: "But you're right, hmm... wait for me to open an electronic product business to compete with Luo Shibin, left hand hitting right hand, I win either way. By the way, Brother, don't you have a computer business? Why don't I build a factory to do OEM for you?"

"It hasn't been researched yet, you wait. However, I have a VCD technology here, your factory can be my technical share, and you can produce this later."

"What is VCD?"

"You'll know when the time comes, go find the general manager of my company, I'll tell him later, let him connect with you specifically."

"Okay, Brother, I won't thank you." Zhou Bingkun responded straightforwardly. He knew quite a bit about his good brother's affairs. Compared to his company's small play, his good brother's company was basically all key research projects, and most of the projects were in cooperation with national scientific research departments, rockets, satellites, everything, and the security guards were soldiers, very scary. Since he said this technology was to be produced by him, it must be profitable.

Wang Yan shook his head and smiled: "I'd kick you if you thanked me."

Now Luo Shibin and Shui Ziliu were really not his opponents, Zhou Bingkun was playing quite well, basically he didn't need to worry. However, speaking of which, Zhou Jianhua was fifteen this year, children are harder to recognize as they get older, and Zhou Bingkun was so rich and powerful, Luo Shibin should be very anxious, not even sleeping well.

Originally, after Shui Ziliu was kicked out of the company, he studied the child's matter, now that he was kicked out, I don't know if he would contact him first to probe his attitude.

Luo Shibin had a bit of adventurous spirit, he had achieved small success in business, maybe he would get hot-headed and come to the door. After all, according to his statement, without the child, what was the meaning of his life?

However, Wang Yan didn't wait for Shui Ziliu and Luo Shibin to come looking, but waited for Zhou Rong's death-seeking...

---Author's Note---

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