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"Brother, I heard that during the Chinese New Year, you lent your house to Guoqing's family to live in for a while?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chen instantly understood Qiao Chunyan's purpose. No wonder she told him so much, it turned out that she was planning to take his house.

"Yes, during the Chinese New Year and National Day, his two sisters and brother-in-law came back. Their house was too small and they had no place to live, so they came to me for help. I let them stay for a while."

Qiao Chunyan gave Zhou Chen a thumbs up and said, "Brother, you are worthy of being my brother. Look at this friendship. Debao, you should learn from my brother."

Cao Debao nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, I have long known that Bingkun is the most generous and loyal person."

"I'm not as good as you say. The reason I'm willing to lend the house to Guoqing and his family is because they helped me a lot. When I got married, Guoqing was always there to help me."

Qiao Chunyan said: "Yes, we are all good people who are willing to help others. Brother, I have something I want to discuss with you. Please help me."

Zhou Chen's eyes gleamed, and he said calmly, "Tell me, I'll see if I can help."

"Yes, brother, you can definitely help. It's just a matter of a word from you."

Qiao Chunyan directly praised Zhou Chen, but Zhou Chen didn't buy it and didn't respond at all.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 573: Borrowing a House, 1976, the Zhou family is about to reunite

Qiao Chunyan and Cao Debao came here today for two purposes. One was to see Zheng Juan and the child, and the other and main purpose was for the house.

The conditions of Qiao Chunyan's family are actually not much different from those of the Zhou family. Their house is two and a half rooms.

But Cao Debao's family situation was much worse. He lived in the same room with his parents. So when they got married, Qiao Chunyan didn't ask for anything. Instead, Cao Debao lived with Qiao Chunyan in the Qiao family.

In today's era, this situation is equivalent to a live-in son-in-law.

When they got married, Cao Debao didn't say anything, but after marriage, he felt unbalanced. He felt that he was not a live-in son-in-law and wanted to leave the Qiao family, but he had no ability, so he could only live in the Qiao family "unfairly".

Not long ago, he heard that Xiao Guoqing and his wife moved into the Zhou family's house and would move out after the New Year. This immediately made him think.

Since Xiao Guoqing can borrow a house from Zhou Chen, can they also borrow a house from Zhou Chen?

So he instigated Qiao Chunyan to borrow a house from Zhou Chen.

Qiao Chunyan didn't want to come at first, but Cao Debao was really good at talking and coaxing people, and he convinced Qiao Chunyan with just a few words.

Although they lived at home, living with their parents was not as comfortable as living on their own. The house was so small, and if they could move into the Zhou family's house, she and Cao Debao would have much more freedom.

Therefore, Qiao Chunyan was tempted, but she was smarter than Cao Debao and knew that if she went to find Zhou Chen rashly, it would probably be difficult to explain, so she waited.

Finally, after learning that Zheng Juan had given birth to a boy, she took action.

She thought that Zhou Chen must be in a very good mood now that he had a son. If she brought up this matter at this time, Zhou Chen might agree if he was so happy.

"Brother, you know my dad is a smoker and a drinker. I heard that smoking and drinking have an impact on children, especially newborn babies, so I think it's best not to live with my dad for a while after I give birth. Brother, I want to ask you, can you lend us your house to stay for a while?"

Zhou Chen looked at Qiao Chunyan and Cao Debao with a half-smile and asked, "Do you want to borrow a house too?"

Cao Debao was a little embarrassed, but Qiao Chunyan smiled and said, "Yes, brother, we also want to do it for the good of the child, so please help us."

Zhou Chen asked calmly: "Oh, how long do you want to stay?"

After hearing Zhou Chen's words, Qiao Chunyan and Cao Debao's eyes lit up. Cao Debao wanted to speak immediately, but was glared back by Qiao Chunyan.

Qiao Chunyan asked tentatively: "Brother, we want to wait until the child is a little older before moving back. What do you think about a year?"

"One year?"

Zhou Chen sighed in his heart, Qiao Chunyan was really bold, she said a year right away.

"Chunyan, if you want to stay for ten days or half a month, I can decide to lend it to you, but if you want to stay for a year, I can't make the decision. You also know that my father built the house. Before the National Day, he wanted to live there, and I asked my father before agreeing to let him live there. Now you want to live there for a year, I still say that, you have to ask my parents first."

Qiao Chunyan said: "Is this necessary, brother? Can't you just make the decision directly?"

Zhou Chen said: "I don't have that much power. This house belongs to my father, and I'm not the eldest son in the family. In the future, this house will definitely be left to my eldest brother. Do you think I have the power to dispose of it? If I really had this power, I would definitely lend it to you to live in. Unfortunately, I don't have this power."

Qiao Chunyan and Cao Debao looked at each other, and Qiao Chunyan asked, "How about asking godmother?"

Zhou Chen said directly: "It's useless to ask her. My father has always been the one who makes the decisions in our family."

Cao Debao suddenly said, "Bingkun, how about this? We don't live in your house for free, we pay the rent, how about that?"

Qiao Chunyan agreed, "Yes, brother, we can rent it out, and we will treat your house like our own, so you don't have to worry about that."

Zhou Chen's face turned serious, and he said in a deep voice: "If you say so, then I can tell you with certainty that the house will not be rented to you."

"Why?" Cao Debao couldn't understand.

Zhou Chen said calmly: "If you say borrowing, my dad might agree, but if you say renting, my dad will definitely not agree. He has said this before."

He had never thought of renting out the Zhou family's old house. If he accepted money from Qiao Chunyan and Cao Debao, given their personalities, who knows what they would say about him behind his back, and they might even not cherish their house at all.

On the contrary, if you don't charge money and just lend it to them, they will definitely be cautious, and even if they accidentally damage the house, they will find a way to repair it.

"Then, shall we wait for godfather's reply?" Qiao Chunyan asked tentatively.

Zhou Chen could only nod. This kind of thing happened every day and he was already very annoyed. He just wanted to get rid of Cao Debao and Qiao Chunyan as soon as possible.

If he hadn't been worried about making his mother Li Suhua sad, he would have wanted to reject Qiao Chunyan directly. But after thinking about it, he held back. After all, they had been neighbors for many years, and Chunyan's mother had indeed taken good care of Li Suhua in the past. There was no need to fall out over such a small matter.

At the same time, Chunyan's mother in the room also mentioned the house to Li Suhua.

When Li Suhua learned that Qiao Chunyan and Cao Debao wanted to borrow a house, she was not very willing. She was also not very willing when Xiao Guoqing borrowed a house last time.

It’s not that she was stingy, but the house meant a lot to their family. She also thought that if she couldn’t get used to staying with her youngest son, she would go back to live in Guangzi for a few days.

But if she rented out her house, she wouldn't be able to go back even if she wanted to.

With the experience from last time, although Li Suhua did not agree, she did not refuse either. She gave Zhou Chen the same reason and temporarily rejected Chunyan's mother.

Winter goes and spring comes, spring goes and winter comes...

Time flies, and it is the eve of the Spring Festival in 1976.

"Rui Rui, come here, come to mommy."

In the small courtyard in front of the Zhou family's house, Zheng Juan pointed at the snowman made by Zhou Chen and waved vigorously to Zhou Rui who was standing at the door.

Zhou Rui is now twenty months old and will be three years old during the Chinese New Year. He is less than one meter tall and looks like a little penguin in a cotton-padded jacket. He is chubby and very cute.

Zhou Rui looks more like Zheng Juan, more delicate, with fair and tender skin, like a little porcelain doll, but the weather was a bit cold and his face turned red.

Hearing his mother's call, Zhou Rui carefully walked out of the door, stepped on the snow, and walked slowly towards Zheng Juan step by step. When he was almost in front of Zheng Juan, he suddenly pounced on her, and Zheng Juan hugged him in her arms.

"Be careful, kid. Come and see the snowman your dad made. Is it nice?"

More than a year has passed, and Zheng Juan has recovered from giving birth that year. She has become slimmer, more mature, and looks more attractive.

"Good-looking, good-looking."

Zhou Rui clapped his hands and shouted happily.

Although Zhou Rui was less than two years old, Zhou Chen, who had rich experience in parenting, began teaching him from a very young age, so Zhou Rui was able to speak in small sentences at the age of twenty months and could understand a lot of words.

Zhou Chen looked at his wife and children, feeling very satisfied. In this world, he could be said to have a very relaxed life. He read books, wrote, and accompanied his wife and children every day. He had a very leisurely life.

A lot of things have happened in the past year or so, both good and bad.

Before, Qiao Chunyan and Cao Debao came to borrow the house, and Zhou Zhigang finally agreed. However, he also said that they could live there for a maximum of six months. If they were willing, they could live there, but if they were not willing, forget it. He did not explain further.

However, Qiao Chunyan and Cao Debao naturally agreed. After moving in, they lived there for half a year, and then procrastinated for another month before moving out.

It was only because Li Suhua said she wanted to go back and stay for a few days that they had to move out. Later, Li Suhua did go back and live there for two months. Before the Chinese New Year, she returned to Zhou Chen's place to help Zheng Juan take care of the children.

During the Spring Festival of 75, Qiao Chunyan and Xiao Guoqing came to the house at the same time, wanting to borrow the house temporarily, because each of them had two older sisters who would come back for the New Year.

Zhou Chen was annoyed that the two families came together to borrow a house. This time he did not give in. He directly called the two families together and rejected them in person.

Because of this, the scene at that time became a bit ugly. Xiao Guoqing was okay, but Wu Qian, Qiao Chunyan and Cao Debao all looked very unhappy.

Wu Qian and Xiao Guoqing were watching, but Qiao Chunyan's words were a bit aggressive at the time. She even wanted to ask Li Suhua for mercy, but was scolded by Zhou Chen. Qiao Chunyan and Cao Debao were so angry that they slammed the door and walked out.

After that incident, neither Qiao Chunyan nor Cao Debao came to visit again for the next year, let alone contacted Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen not only didn't care about this situation, but felt relieved. He never wanted to have close friends with them in the first place, and now that they could retreat when they saw the difficulty, that would be the best.

As for Xiao Guoqing, they were not unfamiliar with each other. It was just that Wu Qian was quite unhappy every time she saw him, but Zhou Chen was too lazy to pay attention to her.

If there is one bad thing to say, it is that Zheng Juan's mother, Aunt Zheng, died last summer.

However, Aunt Zheng passed away relatively peacefully. Her daughter married into a good family, and her son-in-law also promised her that he would take good care of her daughter and son in the future.

Although Zheng Juan and Zheng Guangming were not her biological children, they were closer to her than her own children. So when she saw that they had someone to rely on, she had no regrets when she left.

Zhou Chen was the one who organized Aunt Zheng's funeral. During that time, Zheng Juan and Zheng Guangming cried their hearts out and were in low spirits for a while. Fortunately, Zhou Chen was there to comfort them, and with her son Zhou Rui, Zheng Juan became strong and recovered quickly.

After Aunt Zheng left, Zheng Juan was worried about Zheng Guangming, so Zhou Chen followed her wishes and took Guangming in. Now he has been living with their family for half a year.

Although Guangming cannot see clearly, he is a very sensible child. He gets along well with Li Suhua and often plays with Zhou Rui.

Just last year, Sun Ganchao, one of Guangzi’s childhood friends, also got married. His spouse was introduced by Qiao Chunyan. The person also works in a public bathhouse and is Qiao Chunyan’s apprentice, Yu Hong.

However, Xiao Guoqing and Wu Qian are not having a good time, not only in life, but also in terms of children. They both don't know what's going on. They have been married for several years, but they still haven't gotten pregnant. They have been talked about countless times behind their backs.

On several occasions when Xiao Guoqing was drinking with Zhou Chen, he said that he felt very aggrieved and that people were gossiping about him behind his back. He also said that Wu Qian asked him to go to the hospital for a check-up, and that the couple had fought many times over this matter.

Even Zhou Chen, who had watched the TV series, didn't know much about Xiao Guoqing and Wu Qian's child.

At the very end of the plot, it was mentioned that their son seemed to have become a senior executive in the business world and was doing very well in Pengcheng. In the end, the old couple planned to go to Pengcheng to live with their son.

As for what their son's name was, how old he was, and when he was born, Zhou Chen really had no idea.

The family of three played in the snow for a while. Zhou Rui was sweating. Zheng Juan was afraid that he would get sick, so she took him into the house.

"Bingkun, go check on Guangming and see if he's feeling better." Zheng Juan said to Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen said: "I'll go check it out now."

When I arrived at Guangming's room, I saw Guangming lying on the bed. Hearing the voice, Guangming immediately sat up and asked, "Is it my brother-in-law?"

"Yeah, it's me, Guangming. How are you feeling now? Are you feeling better?"

Zhou Chen sat on the edge of the bed and asked with concern, "Zheng Guangming took Zhou Rui out to play two days ago and caught a cold. He has been running a fever for the past two days."

Guangming smiled and said, "Brother-in-law, the medicine you gave me is really effective. I feel much better now. I am not hot anymore and I am even sweating a little. I think I am almost well now."

Zhou Chen touched Guangming's forehead and found that his body temperature was indeed normal. He then touched his chest and palms and found that they were a little hot, but not a big problem.

"You are indeed much better. Just rest for one more day today and you will be back to health tomorrow. Ask your sister to make you some delicious food tomorrow to replenish your body."

"No need, brother-in-law, I'm in good health, so I'll just give Ruirui some nourishment."

Zhou Chen smiled and said, "Don't be polite to your brother-in-law. Ruirui is as healthy as a calf. You are the one who needs help now. When you recover, I will take you to the capital to treat your eyes in a few years. If the capital doesn't work, your brother-in-law will take you abroad and I will definitely cure your eyes."

Zheng Guangming quickly said, "Brother-in-law, you don't have to worry about me. I haven't been able to see for so many years. Even if I can't see in the future, I'm fine. You don't have to do so much for me."

"Silly boy, what nonsense are you talking about."

Zhou Chen touched Zheng Guangming's forehead. Although Guangming was already an uncle, he was actually only thirteen years old this year and still a child. How could he not be curious about the world? He just didn't want to cause trouble for them.

"You don't have to think so much. Brother-in-law will arrange everything. Just do whatever brother-in-law asks you to do. Got it?"

"Oh."

Zheng Guangming responded. He had lived with Zhou Chen for so long and knew Zhou Chen's character.

Let Guangming continue to sleep and Zhou Chen came to the kitchen. Li Suhua was making cakes, Zheng Juan was helping, and Zhou Rui was making trouble nearby.

"Mom, there's still more than a month until the Chinese New Year. Isn't it too early for you to start making cookies?"

"Not early, not early."

Li Suhua was beaming with joy, and was particularly happy: "This year your father, your elder brother, and your sister will all be back. Since 69, your father went to Shancheng, your elder brother went to the Corps, and your sister went to your province. It has been seven years this year, and we can finally be reunited. I have to make good preparations."

Listening to Li Suhua's words, Zhou Chen knew the pain in the old lady's heart. She hadn't seen her husband, eldest son and daughter for seven years, and she missed them so much.

They will meet again in more than a month, and she is so excited that she can't rest for a moment. She just wants to do something for them and for the family.

"Okay, then you prepare it. If you need anything else, just tell me and I'll buy it. If I can't find it, I'll ask someone to buy it for me."

Li Suhua glared at him and scolded him with a smile: "I know you are capable. Look at what you can do, Kun'er, I warn you in advance, your father is back, you can't quarrel with him, if he scolds you or hits you, just let him scold and hit you, don't talk back, do you hear me?"

Zhou Chen looked helpless: "Just do as you say. Even if I am beaten to death, I will never fight back."

"What are you talking about, kid? Ruirui is still here. Can you act like a father?"

Zhou Chen laughed loudly, walked up to Zhou Rui, and picked him up: "Come on, Ruirui, Daddy will take you to the room and tell you a story."

"Dad is awesome. Dad, I want to listen to Boonie Bears. I want to listen to Big Bear and Little Bear."

"Okay, Dad will tell you."