Chapter 1046: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black

"What can't I handle?" Zhou Chengwen straightened his back. "Your grandpa's body is still sturdy. Think back to when I was young, in order to ambush the little devils, lying in the snow for a whole day was nothing."

Zhou Qianyi said firmly, "No, you can go now, but when winter comes, I must pick you up. If Second Grandpa doesn't have anything going on at home, pick him up too, and have them stay at our hotel, so you two old brothers can be together every day."

"We'll see when the time comes."

Zhou Chengwen wouldn't compromise, and Zhou Qianyi couldn't do anything about it. When the time came, if Grandpa wouldn't come back, she could only call Grandma. In this family, only Grandma could control Grandpa.

As soon as they left the room, Zhou Yu walked stealthily in the opposite direction, then flashed into a room with the door open.

A cleaning lady in her forties was tidying the room. Seeing Zhou Yu enter, she was about to speak.

"Shh!" Zhou Yu held up a finger and gently closed the door.

Seeing Zhou Yu close the door and walk toward her on tiptoe, the cleaning lady suddenly became a bit nervous, her heart pounding wildly.

"General Manager... General Manager Zhou, I... I..."

Zhou Yu asked, not understanding. "What's wrong with you?"

The cleaning lady's face was a bit hot. "My... my husband has been dead for many years, but I have a son about your age. If you don't mind, I... I..."

Zhou Yu blinked, then looked at the cleaning lady's face, his body couldn't help but shudder, and he turned and ran.

"General Manager Zhou, don't go." The cleaning lady shouted urgently. "If you don't like my son, I can let him go live with his grandpa."

Zhou Yu opened the door, heard the cleaning lady's words, stumbled, and almost fell to the ground.

"Sigh!"

Watching Zhou Yu run out of the room, the cleaning lady sighed in disappointment.

"Young people are just shy. If you like me, just be direct. You came and then ran, what kind of thing is that?"

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"Third Uncle!" Yuan Liying opened the door. Seeing it was Zhou Chengwen, she turned back and shouted, "Dad, Third Uncle is here."

"You're here!" Zhou Banghua said. "Even if you didn't come, I was going to call you."

Zhou Chengwen greeted Zheng Guixiang. "Sister-in-law!"

Zheng Guixiang pointed to the sofa. "Old Three, don't stand, sit down and talk."

"Second Grandpa, Second Grandma!"

Zhou Qianyi called out, and Zhou Banghua and Zheng Guixiang answered with smiles.

Zhou Chengwen asked, "Is the in-law not here?"

Yuan Liying poured a cup of tea for Zhou Chengwen. "Went for a stroll in the park, should be back soon."

Zhou Chengwen nodded. "Second Brother, you said you were going to call me just now, is something up?"

"Right!" Zhou Banghua said. "It's already mid-October, the corn at home should be harvested, I have to go back."

Zhou Chengwen smiled. "I came today to tell you that I'm going back to Jiangzhou with you to take a look and stay for a while."

"Great!" Zhou Banghua was very happy. "I'll burn the kang until it's nice and warm for you."

Zhou Chengwen had a look of nostalgia. "In the past, I often thought, when can I find you and lie on the heated kang for a few days again."

"Second Grandpa, you don't know." Zhou Qianyi chuckled. "My grandpa built a heated kang at home, stayed on it for a few days, said it didn't feel right, and tore it down again."

Zhou Banghua laughed heartily. "Why are you living on a heated kang over there, don't you find it hot?"

Zhou Chengwen laughed along. "If you don't burn the kang, it's a bit damp; if you burn the kang, it's too hot, you can't lie on it at all."

Zheng Guixiang said, "Then we'll leave together tomorrow."

"Fine!" Zhou Banghua agreed. "I'll pack my luggage tonight when I go back."

"You can go." Zhou Banghua said. "If that unpromising eldest son of mine makes any demands of you, you must not agree."

Zhou Chengwen was stunned. These past two days, Zhou Banghua had told him about the situation at home.

The youngest son and the two daughters, Dongzi had already arranged everything for them, but he hadn't mentioned the eldest son.

He thought the eldest son had met with an accident and was no longer around, so he didn't dare ask for fear of hurting his Second Brother.

He didn't expect that it wasn't that the eldest son was gone, but that he had been selectively forgotten by his Second Brother.

"Second Brother, what's going on?"

"Sigh!"

Zhou Banghua sighed. "Family misfortune, to have given birth to such a thing."

The old man talked about the eldest son's family, including the matter of Zhou Anbin selling fake liquor and being sentenced to prison.

"I don't know what evil I did in my past life."

Zhou Chengwen suddenly laughed. "Second Brother, the youngest one in my family, I didn't even dare tell you, for fear you'd say I didn't know how to teach my children. Now, we're even."

Zhou Banghua said strangely, "Your youngest son's business is so big, isn't that quite good?"

"Good my foot!" Zhou Chengwen couldn't help but curse. "Except for having some talent in business, he doesn't even count as a human being."

Zhou Chengwen cursed as he spoke, telling all the rotten things his youngest son had done.

Zhou Banghua said, "Don't you think my eldest son and your youngest son have personalities very similar to our eldest brother?"

"It really is." Zhou Chengwen was stunned, then sighed helplessly. "Why couldn't they take after someone else, they had to take after their big uncle."

"Let's not talk about these infuriating things." Zhou Banghua changed the subject. "This year is the last year for the autumn harvest; next year, the land won't be farmed."

"Should have stopped farming long ago." Zhou Chengwen nodded in agreement. "How old are you, you don't lack clothes or food, why are you still farming?"

Zhou Banghua said with a smile, "It's not that I don't want to farm, but Dongzi set up an agricultural company, raising pigs, raising cows, and also setting up off-season greenhouses to grow vegetables.

We villagers use our land as shares, so the land won't be ours in the future; it will be the company's. By then, whatever the company wants to plant has nothing to do with us."

Zhou Chengwen said, "The first time I came into contact with Dongzi, I could see that this child has lofty aspirations, and his future achievements will be limitless."

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Zhou Andong didn't know that the two old men were praising him, praising him until he was blooming.

If he were there to hear it, he would definitely float away. Even if he were tied with a rope and pulled by a dozen big men, it's estimated they wouldn't be able to pull him down.

"Come, Dazhen, drink this cup of wine, and then we'll leave. You and Xiaoman go shopping, buy her a few pieces of clothing, and I'll take you to the airport tomorrow."

Gao Zhen raised his glass and clinked it with Zhou Andong's, then tilted his head and drank the wine in the cup.

"Brother Dong!" Gao Zhen took a deep breath. "Thank you."

Zhou Andong patted him on the shoulder. "We're brothers, what's there to thank."

Gao Zhen didn't say much more and went to pay the bill; Zhou Andong and Jian Qiu didn't stop him.

The four of them left the restaurant, and Gao Zhen asked, "Aren't you two going shopping?"

"Right!" He Xiaoman held Jian Qiu's hand. "Sister-in-law, come with us."

Zhou Andong didn't want to shop anymore. "We shopped all day yesterday, you guys go."

"Then we're leaving." Gao Zhen said.

"Go!" Zhou Andong waved his hand.

Watching Gao Zhen and He Xiaoman leave, Zhou Andong said, "Let's go too."

The two took a taxi back to the hotel. As soon as they entered, they saw the lobby on the first floor was full of reporters, carrying long guns and short cannons, talking to the hotel manager about something. ===== CHAPTER 1047 =====