Zhou Zhigang looked at his wife in surprise: "How can you, an uneducated old woman, say such things? Who did you learn this from?"

Li Suhua said proudly: "Of course, my father is now a famous poet and writer. As his mother, of course I have to learn from him."

"Hey, I praise you a few words, and you are excited."

Zhou Bingyi smiled and said, "Dad, our mom is like a red bird that lives near a red bird."

Zhou Zhigang laughed loudly twice, and suddenly asked Zhou Chen sternly: "Bingkun, let me ask you, are you really the poet with the pen name Zhou Chen? Are you deliberately impersonating someone else?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of several people in the family changed, and Zhou Chen put down his chopsticks silently.

"Dad, in your eyes, am I this kind of person?"

Zhou Zhigang also put down his chopsticks, and said with a serious expression: "I, as a father, know very well what kind of person you are. Just two years after we left, you have changed from a student who didn't finish the first year of junior high school to a national student. Famous great poet and great writer, do you think I should not doubt you?"

Zhou Chen asked again: "If it was Big Brother and Zhou Rong, would you still doubt it?"

This question made Zhou Zhigang angry and embarrassed: "Now I am asking you, just tell me, are you pretending to be someone else?"

Zhou Chen showed disappointment. Although he had never had much hope for this strict father, he had been suspicious of him and targeted him in various ways since Zhou Zhigang came back, which really disappointed him to the core.

"I told you, but you didn't believe me. Now you want me to tell you again. Do you think you will believe me this time?"

Zhou Zhigang slapped the table angrily: "What's your attitude? That's how you talk to me. I haven't seen you for a few years. Do you still see me as a father in your eyes?"

"Wow!"

Suddenly, Zhou Rui was frightened and burst into tears.

Looking at Zhou Rui crying, Zhou Zhigang suddenly felt regretful, but when he saw his younger son's look, he still kept silent.

Li Suhua angrily scolded: "Dad, what are you doing? It's a good New Year's Eve dinner, why are you so angry? Look how scared the child is."

Zhou Zhigang still kept a straight face and said nothing, Zhou Bingyi wanted to speak, but Hao Dongmei stretched out his hand to pull him, motioning him to stop talking.

Zhou Chen was also annoyed. He whispered to Zheng Juan, "Take Ruirui and Guangming back to their room to play first."

Zheng Juan was a little scared: "Bingkun..."

"It's okay, go ahead."

Zheng Juan had no choice but to obey Zhou Chen's words, apologized to Zhou Zhigang and others, and took Zheng Guangming and Zhou Rui back to the room.

After the younger ones left, Zhou Chen looked at Zhou Zhigang expressionlessly.

"Dad, I don't know why you're so angry. Just because I married Zheng Juan without your consent? But I remember that Zhou Rong ran all the way to your province for Feng Huacheng without telling you. She even said she wanted to cut off ties with her family. Her behavior is much more serious than what I did. Isn't it more embarrassing for you?"

When Zhou Chen mentioned Zhou Rong, Zhou Zhigang's face turned pale and he said angrily, "I'm talking about you now, why are you talking about your sister?"

Zhou Chen: "Why am I talking about her? Don't you understand? Zhou Rong did something like that, and as a father, you disregarded your dignity and principles, and went to your province in person to reconcile with Zhou Rong. Why is it that when you come to me, you only have blame and anger?"

"I just don't understand, why? Why can you forgive Zhou Rong but not me? What else did Zhou Rong do besides making you angry and making my mother almost cry blind?"

"As for me, I stayed at home to accompany my mother, accompanying her every day for seven years. To put it bluntly, am I not more filial than Zhou Rong? Am I not more sensible than her? Why do you treat me like this when you come to me? Tell me, why?"

Zhou Chen's series of questions made Zhou Zhigang's chest heaving with anger. He looked at Zhou Chen with trembling lips. Li Suhua was so scared that she kept patting his back to relieve him.

Zhou Bingyi had already seen Zhou Chen's powerful tongue, so he didn't dare to persuade him at this moment, for fear that Zhou Chen would implicate him.

As for Hao Dongmei, she lowered her head like a quail, not daring to make any movement.

"Are you questioning me? Am I your father, or are you my father? When is it your turn to teach me a lesson?"

Zhou Zhigang became furious and yelled at Zhou Chen.

"You are you, your sister is your sister, why do you want to compare yourself with your sister? What kind of suffering is your sister going through out there? You don't feel sorry for her, and you still say such things. She is your own sister, where is your conscience?"

Zhou Chen's expression became one of disbelief. Even though he was an old fox who had lived for many years, he was still shocked by Zhou Zhigang's words.

Not to mention him, even Zhou Bingyi swallowed his saliva. He knew that his father favored Zhou Rong, but he didn't expect it to be to this extent.

Zhou Rong is his biological sister, but he also agrees with Zhou Chen's words and thinks that Zhou Rong has gone too far. She did such a thing, and Zhou Zhigang actually let his family feel sorry for her?

Hao Dongmei was also speechless. She had known Zhou Bingyi for many years and also knew a little about Zhou Rong.

As a woman, she admires Zhou Rong's courage in pursuing love, but psychologically she does not agree with Zhou Rong's approach because it is wrong.

On the contrary, she had more contact with Zhou Chen and Zheng Juan in the past two days. She felt that Zhou Chen was very sensible, clear-headed, and polite to her.

Not to mention Zheng Juan, she is definitely a woman with a good temper.

At this moment, she realized how biased this father-in-law was.

Zhou Chen was tired. What else could he say to such a daughter-slave?

He was actually quite confused. Although Zhou Zhigang in the TV series was partial to Zhou Rong, he was not to the extent of not being able to distinguish right from wrong. Why did he become like this at this moment?

Could it be that because he said something bad about Zhou Rong, he touched his inverse scale?

"Dad, since you said that, then maybe I really have no conscience, but Zheng Juan and I have already done this, if you are still not happy, you can do whatever you want, even if you beat me up."

Zhou Zhigang was so angry when he saw Zhou Chen like this that he was shaking. He yelled at Li Suhua beside him: "Look at your son. How did he become like this?"

Li Suhua's complexion was also very bad, she gave Zhou Chen a reproachful look, and then comforted Zhou Zhigang.

"Okay, dad, they are your own children, why are you so angry? It's been seven years, and the family finally has a reunion dinner, do you have to mess it up?"

"Kun'er, apologize to your father quickly."

Zhou Chen apologized obediently: "Dad, I'm sorry, I was wrong, it's all my fault, beat and scold you as you like, I promise not to resist."

Zhou Zhigang was so angry about this mistake that he couldn't vent his anger. However, considering that he only came back once every seven years, he suppressed his anger and didn't vent it.

"Hmph, you can't even have a reunion dinner at your own home. What's the point of living this year?"

Seeing that Zhou Zhigang was still looking for this, Zhou Chen suddenly shouted into the room: "Zheng Juan, bring the property certificate over?"

"deed?"

Zhou Chen's words made several people, including Zhou Zhigang, look shocked.

Zhou Zhigang looked at Li Suhua, but Li Suhua also looked confused.

Zheng Juan quickly came out of the room with a small notebook in her hand and handed it to Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen handed the thing to Li Suhua again. Li Suhua took it and looked at it, and suddenly realized that he could not read at all, so he handed the property certificate to Zhou Zhigang.

Zhou Zhigang didn't care about being angry. He picked up the property certificate and started to look at it. When he saw the three big words "Zhou Bingkun" clearly written on the property certificate, he was dumbfounded.

Zhou Bingyi was also very curious and stretched his head over. Then he asked in surprise: "Bingkun, is this property certificate for this house? Isn't this house rented? How can it be in your name?"

Zhou Chen slowly explained the details.

“I bought this house last year.”

Although it is not easy to trade houses nowadays, as long as there are people, there are ways. It just so happened that the owner of this house was a retired head of a publishing house. After Zhou Chen spent money, the house was smoothly transferred to his name.

All of this has gone through layers of procedures, and the transaction is legitimate. There will never be a situation like Zhou Bingkun being deceived in the TV series.

"you buy it?"

Zhou Bingyi's face was filled with shock, and so were everyone else.

This house is much better than the one they had in Guangzi Film. It is big and in a good location. They were shocked that Zhou Chen could actually afford such a house.

"Bingkun, how much did you pay for this house?" Li Suhua asked eagerly.

Zhou Chen replied: "The owner of this house is also retired from the publishing house. He and I are in the same unit. He didn't ask for much. The house, the land, and some furniture, the total cost of buying this house was 1,400 yuan."

"Fourteen thousand?"

Upon hearing this number, Li Suhua and Zhou Bingyi were both secretly amazed.

Li Suhua turned to Zhou Zhigang and asked, "Dad, did you lose money by buying this house for 1,400 yuan?"

Zhou Zhigang was silent for a while, his eyes still on the property certificate, and finally told the truth.

"Not expensive."

He had just come all the way here, so he knew that the location was very good. He also just looked around the house and it was definitely a good house. Fourteen hundred was a lot, but it was definitely worth it to buy this house, not to mention that there was a land certificate, which was definitely a bargain.

But he still felt uncomfortable in his heart. He had just said that this was not home, but now he was slapped in the face in an instant, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

But when Li Suhua received this reply, her face was full of joy. She snatched the property certificate from Zhou Zhigang and kept stroking it with her hands.

"That's great, that's great, this is our own house, this is our own house, it's not rented anymore."

After living here for a few years, she really fell in love with this place and even fantasized that this was her own house. However, she was still relatively rational and knew that this place did not belong to her after all.

Now Zhou Chen suddenly dropped this big bomb, which made her extremely excited. How could a rented house be comparable to her own house?

"Bingkun, Mom knows you have the best future."

Zhou Chen smiled and said, "Mom, this house is ours now. You don't have to worry about it anymore. You can decorate it however you want."

With all the necessary documents and 1,400 yuan, he did get a great bargain. However, he paid more than just money. He just didn't think it necessary to say it.

Li Suhua's face was full of smiles: "You are the only child who can say nice things. Now Mom can live in peace. This house is so big that even if Xiaorong and the others come back, it will definitely be enough for them to live in."

Although Zhou Bingyi was shocked, he also sincerely congratulated Zhou Chen: "Bingkun, congratulations. Among the three of us, you are the most successful one. You have only worked for a few years and you have bought your own house. You are much better than me."

Zhou Chen saw that Zhou Bingyi's congratulations were sincere and without any hypocrisy, so he also said sincerely: "Brother, you are different from me. You serve the country and the people, and I am just a pen holder. You can't compare like this."

Zhou Zhigang had been silent at this time. The moment he saw the real estate certificate, he suddenly realized that his youngest son was no longer the troublemaker who would make mistakes easily and be beaten and scolded by him. His youngest son has been working, married, has a son, and has bought his own house.

From any aspect, this youngest son can be considered excellent, at least much better than when he was about the same age.

His impression of his youngest son was still seven years ago, so as long as his youngest son said a bad word, he would have nameless anger. When he was angry, he was completely unaware of the change in his youngest son.

Looking back, the reason why he opposed his younger son's marriage to Zheng Juan was not because he wanted to go against his younger son, but because he felt that his younger son would have a difficult and unhappy life in the future if he married Zheng Juan.

But looking at it now, not only did the youngest son not experience hardships and unhappiness, but he lived a very good life. Zheng Juan is also very filial and sensible, and is a qualified wife.

So at this moment, he suddenly understood why his youngest son had this attitude, because he had never given him a good look since the moment he met him.

After realizing his own problem, Zhou Zhigang fell silent. However, as a strict father, he could not possibly say an apology.

On the contrary, he stubbornly believed that even if he was at fault, Zhou Chen shouldn't treat him like this, and he didn't take his father seriously at all.

Everyone else was happy except Zhou Zhigang who was eating in silence. He originally wanted to scold Zhou Chen but could no longer say the words.

The first New Year’s Eve dinner after seven years ended so abruptly.

After packing up everything, Zheng Juan returned to the room and saw Zhou Chen lying on the bed reading a book, and Guangming was playing with Zhou Rui on the camp bed. She sat next to Zhou Chen.

"Bingkun, you shouldn't have treated Dad like that today. Dad looks really sad."

Zhou Chen put down the book and said, "Then what should I do? Just let him talk and scold me?"

"He is your father, so it doesn't matter if you scold him a few words. Why are you so stubborn and can't be subdued? Why do you have to confront his old man? How much enmity can there be between father and son?"

Having been with Zhou Chen for several years, Zheng Juan has always gone along with Zhou Chen and never disobeyed him. But today, she still spoke up because she knew it was not easy for Zhou Zhigang to come back, and she didn't want to see the conflict between them.

Zhou Chen also knew his wife's kindness, but he still felt uncomfortable, so he dealt with it casually: "Okay, I get it, the big deal starts tomorrow, I'll just follow him."

"So you're going to do what you say?"

"I know. I'm so annoyed. Go to bed quickly."

Li Suhua and Zhou Zhigang were also in the room and not sleeping at this time.

Zhou Zhigang sat on the bed, his eyes constantly scanning the room, and suddenly he sighed: "This place is indeed much better than the light text film."

Li Suhua laughed out loud and said angrily, "You know it yourself. Seeing Kun'er is so successful, you must be very happy in your heart, but you act like you don't care. You can fool the children, but you can't fool me."

Zhou Zhigang argued: "How can I be happy? Buying a house means I am successful. If that's the case, there are many successful people in the world."

"Still pretending. Let's not talk about the distant past. Let's just say that in Guangzi, is there any child who is more promising than our Kun'er? Who can afford this house?"

"That's really not the case."

Zhou Zhigang had to admit, "But when I saw that guy, I got angry. I'm his father. Look at his attitude towards me."

Li Suhua: "Bingkun's attitude is not good, but your attitude is good? Since you came home, have you ever given Bingkun a good look?"

"I'm his father." Zhou Zhigang emphasized with his neck stiff.

Li Suhua: "I know you are his father, but you don't know that Kun'er and Juan'er knew you were coming back, and they started preparing at home early. The meat, vegetables, and New Year's goods in the house were all bought by the two of them. They bought a lot, saying that they would take them with you when you leave. If Bingkun didn't have you in his heart, would he do this?"

Zhou Zhigang was a little unconvinced: "Really? That kid can remember me?"

"If you don't believe me, I'll take you to see it now. Those things are in Bingyi's room."

"Forget it, forget it. What are you going to see at this late hour? I just believe it."

"Believe it, you still have this attitude."

Zhou Zhigang said dissatisfiedly: "Can this be blamed entirely on me? It's all because of that stinky boy. He hid his marriage from me and didn't take me seriously. He didn't even think about it. If I knew Zheng Juan was so good, would I have stopped his happiness?"

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