Chapter 76

After breakfast, Zhou Andong moved a stool and sat under the eaves basking in the sun and smoking.

"Brother, brother!" Zhou Anning rushed out of the house in a swish, didn't brake, turned a corner, and threw herself into Zhou Andong's arms.

Zhou Andong hugged her: "Slow down, what if you fall."

Zhou Anning laughed out loud: "I want to watch TV."

"Watch it then!" Zhou Andong said: "No one is stopping you."

"Good!" The little girl ran into the house like a gust of wind again, "Second brother, turn on the TV for me, big brother said so, hurry up."

Listening to the little girl's shouting while taking a chicken feather as an arrow, he shook his head helplessly. This girl is grown up, and her head is harder to shave.

Zhou Anqin carried a slop bucket into the courtyard, saw Zhou Andong sitting under the eaves smoking, walked over quickly, and then glanced at Zhou Xiaoxin, who was pretending to sleep on the quilt roll inside the house, and asked in a low voice.

"Brother, was Zhou Anbin beaten by you?"

Zhou Andong smiled: "Yes!"

Zhou Anqin giggled, got up and carried the bucket into the house, still singing, looking very happy.

"Where are you going again?" Zhao Gui-fen's shout came from the east courtyard.

"Going out for a stroll." This was Zhou Anbin's voice.

"Big brother, heard you were beaten last night?" Zhou Andong looked over the wall and saw Zhou Anbin's whole face was swollen, blue and purple, one eye couldn't even open, and there was a large area of black and blue around the eye socket.

Zhou Andong couldn't help laughing out loud: "I've told you more than once, leave a line in life and work, don't do things to the extreme, and leave a way out for yourself. You didn't listen, now it's good, you were beaten with a club. I tell you, if you continue like this, doing things that make your son have no asshole, you will still be beaten, and even heavier than this."

"Zhou Andong, was it you, was it you who put a sack over me?" Zhou Anbin was furious, pointing at Zhou Andong and roaring, and then because he pulled the wound on the corner of his mouth, he screamed in pain.

Zhou Andong laughed cheaply: "Auntie, you can't talk nonsense without evidence. Did you see me beat him?"

"Exactly!" At this time, Zhou Anqin also came out, "Auntie, you can't wrongly accuse people."

Zhou Andong snorted coldly: "A few days ago, the factory received quite a few letters reporting me. I even suspected that Zhou Anbin and Zhou Anlei wrote them."

Zhao Gui-fen was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, jumping and scolding: "Zhou Andong, you little bastard, how can you talk nonsense? Our Anbin and Anlei didn't even finish elementary school; how could they write whistleblowing letters."

Zhou Andong threw the chicken leg bone he had finished gnawing onto the ground and wiped his oily mouth with his sleeve: "So, although I suspected, I didn't look for them, right?"

Zhao Gui-fen snorted guiltily: "Considering you're young, I won't argue with you." After speaking, she turned and returned to the house.

Zhou Andong chuckled, jumped off the wall, and put his arm around Zhou Anqin's shoulder: "Go back to the house, it's too cold."

January 28th, morning, Zhuhai City, the revolving restaurant at the highest point of Yuehai Building. An old man was dining, and a middle-aged soldier carrying two stars and four bars (a rank) walked over, bent his waist, stood beside the old man, and whispered.

"This is today's People's Daily. There is a report on it; take a look."

"Good, let me see." The old man raised his head, nodded with a smile, and took the newspaper in front of him, "Socialist core values."

The middle-aged soldier said: "Yes, that's this report."

The old man continued to look down: "Advocating prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony... my Chinese dream... the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation..."

The old man's eyes grew brighter the more he looked, and he spent more than half an hour reading the report of less than two thousand words.

"This little guy named Zhou Andong is amazing. Being so young, he has such strong strategic and forward-looking qualities. If there is a chance, I really want to see him."

The middle-aged soldier was stunned. When he retreated, he took out a small notebook from his pocket, wrote down Zhou Andong's name, and then thought for a moment, and drew a star after the name.

"This is who!"

"I saw her come a few days ago. I heard she is the object Zhou Andong is newly dating."

"Does his wife agree with the object he is newly dating?"

"What are you talking about? He's divorced."

"I really didn't know that."

"This kid is capable. Dating objects one more beautiful than the other. Why don't I have this good fate?"

"If you were a university student, you would definitely be able to find such a beautiful object."

"Zhou Andong!" Seeing Jian Qiu stood at the gate and shouted.

Zhou Andong muttered in his heart, why did this woman run over? But he didn't dare to say it: "Oh my, Director Jian, what wind blew you here?"

Seeing Jian Qiu rolled her eyes at Zhou Andong: "I'm going back to the capital tomorrow, and I'll probably be back in... so I'm telling you, and by the way, bringing you some New Year goods."

"Sister-in-law!" A small figure rushed over like a whirlwind and threw herself into Seeing Jian Qiu's arms, "I miss you so much."

This 'sister-in-law' made Zhou Andong stumble, and the smile on his face froze: "Ningning, don't call her that, how can you..."

"Shut up!" Seeing Jian Qiu pointed at Zhou Andong domineeringly, and then picked up the little girl, "A child, let her call whatever she wants. I don't say anything, why are you in such a hurry?"

"Uh!" Zhou Andong swallowed the following words. Looking at Zhou Anning, someone must have taught her to call her that, and he knew who it was without thinking—it was that dead girl Zhou Anqin.

Zhou Anqin and Zhou Anbei also ran out of the house, followed by Yuan Liying.

"Sister Qiu!"

"Sister Qiu!"

Seeing Jian Qiu greeted them with a smile, and then called out affectionately, "Auntie, I wanted to come see you a few days ago, but there were too many things, and I was busy until now to have time to come over."

Yuan Liying said happily: "It's good that you came, it's good that you came, eat here at noon."

"Good!" Seeing Jian Qiu agreed readily, "I brought some New Year goods. Xiao Bei, hurry up and take them in with your brother."

Next, those neighbors widened their eyes. They saw Zhou Anbei take out a skinned sheep from the car, and Zhou Andong hugged a whole big beef leg with his teeth bared.

Then box after box of drinks were moved down, more than ten boxes of Coke and Jianlibao, and more than ten boxes of canned beer. In this era, canned beer was definitely a high-end product.

Zhao Gui-fen's family all came out, looking at so many things being moved into the house one by one, their eyes turning green.

Zhou Anbin's eyes rolled around, pulling Zhou Anlei to the side, whispering something he didn't know.

"My god, how much money are these things worth?"

"Zhou Andong's life is really good. The previous wife's family was rich. It is said that the father-in-law was a bank president. This one doesn't seem to be bad either."

"I know the previous wife, the family is indeed rich, but they looked down on Zhou Andong. Don't talk about meat and wine, they wouldn't even let a cup of water into the house."

"This one is good now. She takes care of this place before getting married. It definitely won't be bad after getting married."