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Zhou Bingyi said, "After Dongmei and I got married, we didn't get pregnant for a long time. We both found it strange, so we went to the hospital for a check-up, and the result was that it was my problem. I didn't tell you before because Dongmei didn't want to embarrass me, and my self-esteem was at work, so I kept it a secret from you and mom. I'm sorry, Dad, I was wrong."

Zhou Zhigang's hands were shaking. He happily returned home to celebrate the New Year, but he never expected to receive such a heavy blow before he even entered the house.

"Bingyi, Bingyi, you, what can I say about you, Bingyi..."

At this moment, Zhou Zhigang seemed to have aged several years. For their older generation, continuing the family line was the most important thing. Now he learned that his eldest son was infertile, which meant that he would have no descendants. This was a heavy blow.

"Dad, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry, Dad."

Zhou Bingyi shed tears, partly because he could not have his own child, and partly because he felt extremely guilty for lying to his father again.

What else could Zhou Zhigang do? He patted Zhou Bingyi's shoulder heavily and sighed, "You haven't done anything wrong to me. What is there to be sorry about? This is fate, fate."

He felt that his eldest son's infertility was natural, which made him feel guilty as a father.

Zhou Bingyi choked up and said, "It's my fault that I can't give you and mom a grandson, but fortunately Bingkun worked hard and gave you two grandsons, which makes me feel much better."

Zhou Zhigang, who was feeling sad, suddenly had an idea when he heard Zhou Bingyi talking about his two grandsons.

"Let's go home. Don't tell your mother about this yet. Let her have a good Spring Festival. After the Spring Festival, I will tell her in person."

"I understand, Dad. Thank you."

"What are you thanking me for? I'm your father."

When Zhou Zhigang returned home, Li Suhua was extremely excited. The old couple hugged each other happily in front of their children.

Such a scene moved Zhou Chen and other adults very much. Only those who have experienced separation can understand how happy reunion is.

"Old man, you are old."

"Suhua, you are still the same as you were two years ago. You haven't changed at all."

Li Suhua really didn't change much, because Zhou Chen was an excellent doctor and he would regularly provide Li Suhua with nutritional supplements and physical conditioning.

So compared to Zhou Zhigang, who has been doing physical work outside all year round, Li Suhua looks a lot younger and has a rosy complexion.

"Ruirui, Congcong, come and call grandpa."

Zhou Zhigang was so happy when he saw Zhou Rui and Zhou Cong that he couldn't stop smiling. He especially stared at Zhou Rui: "Rui Rui, do you still remember grandpa?"

Zhou Rui nodded his head: "Remember, you are my grandfather, and I once pulled out your beard. Your beard can prick people."

"Ha ha……"

Zhou Zhigang laughed happily, feeling very happy that his eldest grandson still remembered him.

Then he looked at Zhou Cong again. Compared with Zhou Rui, Zhou Cong was much more shy. He looked at him timidly. At Zheng Juan's urging, he just called him "Grandpa" in a low voice, and then there was no further words.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 585: The New Year is not peaceful, Zhou Rong returns home and makes a scene as soon as she enters the door

New Year's Eve.

The Zhou family gathered together again. The difference from 76 was that there was one more member at the table today, that was the one-year-old little Congcong.

Zhou Rong and Feng Huacheng will not arrive until tomorrow, so they will not be able to have the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve.

Perhaps because the family was able to get together and have a reunion dinner, Zhou Zhigang felt much better and no longer thought about his eldest son's infertility.

"Come on, Bingyi, Bingkun, let's have a drink together."

Zhou Chen and Zhou Bingyi both raised their glasses and drank with Zhou Zhigang.

"Bingyi, Bingkun, you are all great. I have been a worker all my life, but I was able to train three of you to be college students. My life is a complete success."

Zhou Zhigang said with deep emotion, a college student, and at a prestigious university in the capital, he would never have dared to think about this before.

But the three children worked very hard and all of them passed the exam.

When he was working in the mountain city, his co-workers were envious when they learned that his three children had all been admitted to prestigious universities.

He is a person who likes to be respectable and good-looking, and he enjoys being praised by others to satisfy his vanity.

Therefore, even though he was not very satisfied with and liked his youngest son before, he was very happy when he learned that he had been admitted to the university, and he felt as happy as if his youngest son had returned to prodigal son.

Zhou Chen has been taking care of the family and his mother for nine years, but he did not feel that his youngest son had achieved much. Instead, he felt happy and proud when he was admitted to university.

It is conceivable that to Zhou Chen, he is an incompetent father.

It seemed as if no matter how well Zhou Chen took care of his family and his mother, it was his due and he didn't know how to praise him.

Zhou Bingyi seemed very happy in response to Zhou Zhigang's praise, but Zhou Chen was not interested.

He had already seen through the "true face" of this adoptive father, and now he was just maintaining superficial respect. In fact, in his heart, the impression Zhou Zhigang left on him was not as good as that of Zhou Bingyi.

No matter how selfish Zhou Bingyi is, or how much he tries to please his father-in-law and mother-in-law, that is his own business.

But he is really filial to his parents, and they are very polite to him.

Let’s not talk about anything else, let’s just talk about letter writing. In nine years, how many letters did Zhou Zhigang and Zhou Rong write to their family?

All together, they were less than half of what Zhou Bingyi wrote, and Zhou Rong wrote only a few. As for Zhou Zhigang's letters, most of them were written by Zhou Chen after Li Suhua asked him to write them, and he would then reply. The number of times he took the initiative to write letters was also very few.

So Zhou Chen sometimes couldn't stand Zhou Bingyi, but in fact he still agreed with him, at least more than he agreed with Zhou Zhigang.

There is also Hao Dongmei, who often writes to Zheng Juan to ask Zhou Rui and Zhou Cong. No matter what her intentions are, she does put her heart into it, and Zhou Chen is grateful.

At least she is many times better than that ungrateful person like Zhou Rong.

Feng Yue has been with him for two years. During these two years, Zhou Rong has only written two letters, one of which was to announce the good news that she had been admitted to university.

The other letter only briefly mentioned Feng Yue, saying that her mother and her brother had worked hard to take care of her daughter, etc.

They talk nicely but never take any real action.

The father and his two sons were drinking, while the three women were each holding a child. Zheng Juan was holding the youngest Zhou Cong, Li Suhua was holding Feng Yue, and Hao Dongmei was holding Zhou Rui.

Hao Dongmei liked Zhou Rui very much because of his intelligence and cuteness. She held him close to her during dinner and kept picking up delicious food for him.

Guangming was also at the dinner table, but he felt a little out of place and remained silent.

Zheng Juan looked at her brother with heartache. For the Zhou family, today was a reunion, but for Zheng Guangming, it was no different from usual, or even worse than usual.

Although she knew that Guangming was feeling uncomfortable, she still couldn't let him leave. After all, he was her only relative, and she would not feel at ease if he was not around.

After dinner, everyone sat in the living room and talked. Zhou Zhigang wanted to hug Zhou Cong, but Zhou Cong smelled the smell of cigarettes and alcohol on him, and was so scared that he ran directly to Guangming's room to play with his uncle Guangming.

This made Zhou Zhigang laugh out loud, and he wanted to hug Zhou Rui again, but Zhou Rui stayed close to Hao Dongmei and refused to go. He also didn't like the smell of cigarettes and alcohol.

After resting for a while, Zhou Bingyi took Hao Dongmei and said, "Dongmei, let's go back first and come back tomorrow."

Hao Dongmei was playing Go with Zhou Rui and was having a great time. She didn't react at all and asked in confusion, "Where are you going back to?"

Zhou Bingyi said, "Go back to your house. Didn't I tell your parents this morning that I would sleep at your house tonight and eat dumplings together tomorrow morning?"

Although his voice was not loud, Zhou Zhigang, who was sitting not far away, heard it clearly, and his face changed immediately.

Li Suhua didn't have any ulterior motives. After hearing what her eldest son said, she said, "It's so late, why are you still running back and forth? It's not like there's no place to sleep at home. Dongmei, let's sleep at home. If that doesn't work, we can go to your parents' place early tomorrow morning. Is that okay with you?"

"I don't think so..."

Hao Dongmei was about to answer, but Zhou Bingyi pulled her again, shook his head at her, and then explained to his mother.

"Mom, Dongmei is the only daughter in her family. This year they finally have a family reunion, and her parents want us to stay up with them."

Li Suhua suddenly fell silent. On New Year's Eve, her son returned home, but instead of staying up with his biological parents, he went to his father-in-law and mother-in-law's house to stay up. What kind of thing was that?

Zhou Zhigang frowned, but soon relaxed.

"Okay, Bingyi is right. Dongmei is the only child of the couple. She should go over and stay up with them. The child is being filial. Why are you being so sullen?"

Li Suhua rolled her eyes at him, thinking that you had said all the good things.

Zhou Chen shook his head. Zhou Bingyi's becoming a filial son of the Hao family in the future is also related to Zhou Zhigang.

It is said that Zhou Bingyi was cautious and tried hard to please the Hao family. How was Zhou Zhigang any different?

He also deliberately flattered the relatives of provincial high-ranking officials. It was precisely because of his permission that Zhou Bingyi felt it was natural when he did these things and made these decisions.

If Zhou Zhigang had been a little tougher and educated Zhou Bingyi properly, Zhou Bingyi, the filial son, might not have been as excessive as in the TV drama.

How does the saying go, like father, like son, what goes up must follow...

In the end, under Hao Dongmei's reluctant gaze, Zhou Bingyi took her away from the Zhou family.

As soon as Zhou Bingyi and the others left, Li Suhua's face suddenly darkened.

"It's all your fault. Bingyi finally came home, but you didn't let him stay home to celebrate the New Year. You insisted on going to his in-laws' place. What's that? Bingyi is not a live-in son-in-law."

Zhou Zhigang: "Hey, you little old lady, how can you say such a thing? Don't say it in front of Bingyi again."

Li Suhua replied angrily: "I am uneducated, but I am not stupid. I just feel bad when I think that such a proud person like Bingyi can't even stay at home to celebrate the New Year."

"Okay, why are you talking so much nonsense?"

Zhou Zhigang scolded impatiently, although he also felt that it was not a good idea to do so as it might make his eldest son humble himself too much.

But compared with his son's future, he still cares about which is more important.

He is a high-ranking official in the province, a big shot in charge of a province. If he just gives his eldest son a little help, won't he be able to rise to great heights in the future?

For the sake of their future prospects, it's okay to suffer a little injustice now. Their family has all come through a time of hardship. Could it be that life was still as hard as it was in their time?

Zhou Zhigang felt that there was nothing wrong with his idea. He was doing it for the sake of his son. It might not be great, but it was also a decision made by a father after careful consideration.

If Zhou Chen knew that he had such thoughts, he would definitely despise him even more. That was his own son. It was really outrageous to push his own son away.

Seeing that something was wrong between Zhou Zhigang and Li Suhua, Zheng Juan asked Li Suhua in a low voice: "Dad, Mom, are we still staying up tonight?"

Zhou Zhigang wanted to get angry, but facing Zheng Juan, he suppressed his anger.

"I won't keep guarding. I've been sitting on the train for such a long time, my back and waist are sore. I'm going to rest first."

Li Suhua snorted, "It's better without an old man like you. We got through the past few years like this anyway."

"you……"

Zhou Zhigang left angrily, slammed the door, and hid in the room to sulk.

Zheng Juan said worriedly, "Mom, Dad is angry, go and try to persuade him."

Li Suhua said angrily: "Why should I persuade him? He asked for it. It was the same last time he came back. It's the same this time. He can't even eat a meal in peace."

The old lady was really angry. As a good wife and mother like her, she was actually very tolerant of her husband. Under normal circumstances, no matter what Zhou Zhigang did, she would not be angry, but would rather coax him.

But today she was really dissatisfied. Her eldest son finally came back, but he went straight to his parents-in-law's house yesterday. After the reunion dinner today, he was still the same.

Is this a reunion of the Zhou family or a reunion of the Hao family?

It's not that she is stingy, it's just that this incident made her feel aggrieved for her eldest son and for the Zhou family.

Logically speaking, Zhou Zhigang should be the one who is most dissatisfied with this matter, but Zhou Zhigang not only did not stop it, but agreed with it. This made the good-tempered Li Suhua no longer indulge her.

In fact, she felt more aggrieved. In nine years, she only saw her husband and eldest son twice, and both times she met unpleasantly because of her husband.

Last time it was because of the younger son, and this time it was because of the older son.

She also discovered that there were problems between her husband and her youngest son. After her husband came back, they had only a few direct conversations. Is this the way a normal father and son should get along?

She understood her man, but also her younger son. She had tried to persuade him, but in the end, it was of no use.

Over the years, if it weren't for her younger son and daughter-in-law, as well as her two older grandsons and granddaughter, she wouldn't have lived so comfortably.

So she was very unhappy that her husband turned his back on her as soon as he came back.

In the past, she loved her eldest son and daughter the most, but now, she prefers her youngest son.

Filial piety is not something that can be expressed with words, but must be shown with actions. The youngest son does particularly well in this regard, and the youngest daughter-in-law is an exemplary daughter-in-law.

On the contrary, the eldest daughter-in-law, even though she was the daughter of a high-ranking official, was not as flattering as the younger daughter-in-law in her eyes. As for the son-in-law whom she had never met, she had no good impression of him at all.

Zhou Chen didn’t know that the old lady was thinking so much. Seeing that she was unhappy, he walked over and hugged her.

"Mom, it's New Year's Day, why are you so angry? Let's spend the New Year together happily. Look, when you got angry, Ruirui and Yueyue didn't dare to talk."

Li Suhua glared at him and poked his head with her finger.

"You still have the nerve to say that. I told you to talk to your dad properly, but what did you do?"

Zhou Chen laughed awkwardly twice and said aggrievedly: "Mom, you can't blame me for this. You saw Dad's attitude. I was just afraid that if I said a few more words, he would get choked up. Wouldn't it be even more embarrassing? Would it make you even more sad?"

"They are all excuses. I think you are still dissatisfied with your father. You said you are a father too, so why can't you understand your father? It's not easy for him either. It's all his credit to raise you three. He has been traveling outside for these years and can't even go home. The person you three children should be most grateful to is your father."

"I know."