A hundred flavors of life

Chapter 1210 Isn't this just cheap? (Please follow me!)

After Hua Shier finished reciting Socrates' famous saying in English, the Zhou family looked at him in disbelief. Although Zhou Zhigang and Li Suhua didn't know who Socrates was, they knew that their youngest son had just spoken a foreign language.

Zhou Bingyi studied Russian at school and was not familiar with English. He asked his sister in surprise:

"Zhou Rong, Bingkun is speaking English?"

Zhou Rong's face was burning:

"It's English, but there are a few words I haven't learned yet. I don't know if what he said is right. I guess he heard it from others. He's sticking a green onion in a pig's nose."

Hua Twelve laughed and was too lazy to explain. Zhou Bingyi asked him:
"Bingkun, who did you learn English from?"

Hua Shier glanced at Zhou Bingyi and said something in a foreign language without explaining:
"Учиться, учитьсяиещёразучиться!"

This time even Zhou Rong couldn't understand it, but she could tell it sounded like Russian.

Zhou Zhigang asked:
"Kun'er, what are you talking about?"

Zhou Bingyi's face was filled with shock:
"Dad, Bingkun speaks Russian. We learned it in school. It's Li Ning's famous saying: Study, study, and study again!"

"Bingkuner wants to tell me that his English is acquired through hard work!"

Zhou Zhigang was stunned:
"Bingkun, your school was closed in the first grade of junior high school. Where did you learn Maozi language?"

Zhou Bingyi smiled bitterly and said:

"Dad, the middle school we attended switched to teaching English when Zhou Rong was in school. Even if classes were not suspended, Bingkun would not be able to learn Russian in school!"

Facing the puzzled looks of his family, Hua Twelve explained calmly:

"When classes were suspended two years ago, I was sometimes bored and studied on my own using Zhou Bingyi's old textbooks!"

Zhou Bingyi did not pursue the issue of Hua Twelve calling him by his first name. He still had some questions that he did not understand:
"What about pronunciation? You can't learn pronunciation just by reading a textbook!"

Hua Twelve chuckled:
"When you were learning Russian in the early years, you just kept repeating it at home all day. You learned it after listening to it a few times. Is it that difficult?"

Zhou Bingyi's face turned dark. It's not difficult, but I haven't figured it out yet. Why are you talking so irritatingly?
Li Suhua touched Hua Twelve's head with his hand and said lovingly:
"Before Bingkun'er studied poorly, others said he wasn't smart enough. I said, our eldest son and daughter are both smart, so how could he not be smart when he came to my place? He was just naughty before and didn't focus on studying. Look how smart he is now."

Zhou Zhigang came back to his senses from his shock and nodded when he heard this. This was the only explanation. He then sighed. In the current situation, no matter how smart you are, it will be useless if you don't learn.

Zhou Rong did not believe Hua Twelve's statement and sneered at him:
"You're the only one who still has this brain?"

Hua Twelve glanced at the other party and said, "I can't tell you that!"

Zhou Rong was irritated by his attitude. In addition to the fact that she had been slapped in the face by her brother before, she said to Zhou Zhigang with a hint of grievance in her stubbornness:

"Dad, look at my brother's attitude!"

Zhou Zhigang was a daughter slave. He loved Zhou Rong the most among his three children. He immediately stood up for his daughter and gave Hua Twelve a symbolic slap on the head:
"How do you talk to your sister?!"

Hua Twelve leaned back slightly to avoid the slap. Zhou Zhigang felt that his authority was challenged and glared at him:
"You still dare to hide, brat?"

Hua Twelve said helplessly: "We have already agreed that we will talk about reason and not use force!"

Zhou Zhigang glared and said, "Being reasonable doesn't mean you can be impolite. I wanted to say something to you just now. What did you call your brother?"

"Zhou Bingyi, isn't that his name?"

Zhou Zhigang scolded:

"You called me Zhou Bingyi too? You should call me brother, you are disrespectful!"

Hua Twelve shook his head and said:

"I won't call him that. What he did today was wrong. He didn't consider our family. Does he act like a brother? When he does something that I admire, I will call him brother!"

"Besides, a name is for people to call you. You are not the emperor of the past. How can you not call me by my name?"

Zhou Zhigang's face turned red with anger, and he was about to get off the kang to teach Hua Twelve a lesson, but Li Suhua pulled him back:
"Dad, you're leaving tomorrow, and we don't know when you'll be back. Let's have a harmonious meal together. A harmonious family brings prosperity!"

Zhou Zhigang said angrily: "I want to be friendly, but do you think what this little kid said is human language?"

Although Zhou Bingyi was a bit selfish, he still had to save face, so he stopped Zhou Zhigang at this time:
"Dad, I think what Bingkun said makes sense. I am the eldest son of the Zhou family, so I should set an example. It is true that I did not think things through today and Bingkun looked down on me. Tomorrow I will go to the Construction Corps to contribute to the Guo family. When I do something that impresses him, Bingkun will be convinced and call me brother again!"

Zhou Zhigang's anger subsided a lot after being persuaded by his wife and eldest son. He has always been proud of this sensible eldest son. Hearing his eldest son admit his mistakes and correct them, and still have such ambition, he was very relieved and patted Zhou Bingyi on the shoulder and said:
"Well said, you have great ambition. Okay, Dad will wait for you to make achievements and show this little calf!"

As he said this, he snorted coldly at Hua Twelve, as if to say that you are lucky.

But he has not completely let Hua Twelve go:
"Your brother's matter should be handled according to your brother's agreement. What about your sister? How do you talk to her?"

When Zhou Rong heard her father speak up for her, she immediately raised her chin and glanced at Hua Twelve proudly: "That's right, he doesn't respect me at all!"

Hua Twelve glanced at her and said calmly:
"Respect is mutual. She doesn't respect me, so why should I respect her? Just because she is two years older than me?"

Zhou Zhigang was about to get angry again, but Hua Twelve spoke first:

"Dad, we have to be reasonable. Please judge for yourself. Zhou Rong often calls me stupid and ridicules me, right?"

"Just now, Zhou Bingyi admitted her mistake about the books, but she still said that it was because I didn't have much education, didn't like to study, was unlearned, and was narrow-minded that I didn't protect those books. Aren't these words hard to hear?"

"I refuted her with Mencius' words, letting her know that I am not unlearned and that learning requires humility. But you said that those were dross and that the Western knowledge Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong learned was advanced!"

"Zhou Rong picked up on your words at that time and mocked me for not knowing English and not being able to read English books!"

"Then I can speak English and Russian, so you can see that I understand these things. But Zhou Rong still won't give in, saying that I'm 'sticking a green onion in a pig's nose'. Is this what a sister should do and say?"

"As a sister, she ridiculed me, attacked me, and questioned me in front of the whole family. Did she give me any respect?"

"I'm not a mean person, can't I have a little temper?"

Zhou Rong had nothing to refute, her face turned pale with anger.

Zhou Zhigang felt distressed when he saw his daughter being so angry with her youngest son. He slammed the table, making the dishes and chopsticks clatter, and scolded Hua Twelve:
"Your sister has always been the most sensible one since she was little. What's wrong with her saying a few words to you? Even if her words are harsh, they are for your own good!"

Hua Twelve laughed: "You said Zhou Rong is the most sensible? That was in front of you. How about I tell you something that neither you nor my mother know?"

As he spoke, he looked at Zhou Rong with a half-smile. The latter felt a little guilty and her eyes were flustered:

"Zhou Bingkun, don't talk nonsense. How can there be anything about me that our parents don't know?"

Zhou Zhigang pointed at Zhou Bingkun:
"Let him talk. Let me see what he can come up with!"

"If you can't tell, I'll have to give this kid a good beating before I leave so that he can learn his lesson, so that I, as a father, won't have to wait in the third line of the university and not know when I can come back. This kid lacks education, and I don't know what he will become!"

Li Suhua saw Zhou Zhigang getting angry, and saw her daughter's face turned pale with anger, so she quickly advised Hua Twelve:

"You kid, Rong'er is your biological sister. Why do you take it to heart when she says something to you?"

"Hurry up and apologize to your father and sister. Rong'er rushed to go to the countryside today. Who did she do that for? It's because she loves you, her brother. How can you be so heartless? Look how angry your sister is!"

Hua Twelve said calmly:

"There are some things you really don't know. Zhou Rong didn't go to the countryside for me, she did it for herself!"

"I also discovered this by accident. Zhou Rong has been corresponding with a Beijing poet named Feng Huacheng since she was in the second grade of junior high school. He is 17 years older than her. Now they are in a romantic relationship. Feng Huacheng was beaten and FGM and is now being sent to Guizhou for re-education. Zhou Rong rushed to go to the countryside today, but it was not for me. She just wanted to go to Guizhou to live with Feng Huacheng!"

His voice was neither hurried nor slow, but his words were like throwing a grenade into a calm lake. With a bang, it not only created huge waves, but also killed two fish!

"What did you say?"

Zhou Zhigang's voice was trembling, and he turned to look at his daughter in disbelief.

Zhou Rong's face turned pale as paper in an instant, her lips trembling but she couldn't speak. She subconsciously stood up and took two steps back, then said to Hua Twelve in a trembling voice:
"You, you're talking nonsense!"

Hua Twelve laughed:
"I'm talking nonsense? You're targeting me today because I stole your quota to go to the countryside. The letter Feng Huacheng wrote to you is still in the drawer of your desk, right?"

Zhou Rong was struck by lightning, her slender fingers tightly grasped the corner of her clothes, her knuckles turned blue-white. Her lips trembled, but she could not make a sound, only her chest rose and fell violently.

Zhou Zhigang got off the kang and walked towards the north room in his slippers. When he reached the small room, he pulled open the drawer and found several letters in the mezzanine.

He took them out and read them carefully, then returned to the main house, threw the letters on the table, and angrily said to Zhou Rong:

"Zhou Rong, explain to me what is going on!"

When he swung the envelope, he didn't expect that a six-inch photo would fall out of it. The photo showed a thin man wearing glasses, and it was Feng Huacheng.

Hua Twelve took a look and pretended not to know and asked:
"Who is this uncle? He looks about the same age as our dad!"

After hearing this, Zhou Zhigang felt a tightness in his chest, his vision went dark, and his body was shaking. Li Suhua quickly supported him:
"His father, calm down and don't let your body get hurt by anger!"

Zhou Bingyi complained to Hua Twelve, "Bingkun, stop talking!" Zhou Zhigang recovered a little and kicked Hua Twelve:

"You know about your sister, why didn't you tell me earlier!"

Hua Twelve dodged to the side and supported Zhou Zhigang, who had lost his balance after missing a step, so that he would not fall.

"Let's be reasonable. I just saw it when I was helping Zhou Bingyi pack his things these past two days. I just found out about it, but since you were going to the Third Front, I didn't want you to worry on the way, so I didn't tell you right away!"

Zhou Zhigang shook off Hua Twelve: "I think you want to piss me off to death!"

He now understood that Hua Twelve was not to blame, and said to Zhou Rong:
"Tell me, how did you get to know this Feng Huacheng?"

Hua Twelve curled his lips and said, "This is really biased. Why don't you kick Zhou Rong first before asking?"

Zhou Rong rubbed the corner of her clothes with her hands, but raised her head, her eyes sparkling:

"I read Feng Huacheng's poems in the newspaper. His writings are full of ideals and passion, which is different from all the people I know... Later I wrote him a letter, and he wrote back. A few years ago, I went to Beijing to connect with him and met him in person. He was very sincere and warm."

"You" Zhou Zhigang was so angry that he was shaking. He raised his hand to hit her, but his hand was raised high. In the end, he couldn't bear to hit Zhou Rong, so he slammed it heavily on the table.

Hua Twelve asked Zhou Rong with a smile:
"This uncle is so sincere, has he ever told you that he is married?"

Zhou Rong was stunned: "Impossible, don't talk nonsense if you don't know the situation"

Zhou Zhigang looked at Hua Twelve: "Tell me, what's going on?"

Hua Twelve coughed lightly and said, "I forgot which year it was, but I read in the newspaper that Feng Huacheng had a lover. It seemed that his lover was a G-daughter."

He certainly hadn't read the newspaper, but he knew that Feng Huacheng in the original novel was indeed married before he married Zhou Rong, and the situation was similar to what he said.

Even if the drama version is different from the original novel, what is a poet? He is a scholar, how can such people be without women around them, especially in the capital.

The girls in Beijing are famous for being bold in love and hate. There is no need to think about it, it is just like that.

That's why he dared to say that.

Zhou Rong was like crazy, a little hysterical: "You are talking nonsense, you are slandering Huacheng..."

Hua Twelve retorted:
"Only a love-brained person like you who only sees love and not family would not trust your own family, but trust a cannon, um, trust a pen pal."

He almost said the wrong thing in his haste, but he corrected himself in time and continued:
"You have a good relationship with Cai Xiaoguang, right? His family has connections. Ask him to find out in Beijing. Feng Huacheng is so famous, you can find out if he is married or not by asking!"

Zhou Rong shouted:

"Of course I will ask. I want to prove that Huacheng is innocent. It was you who slandered Huacheng. When the truth comes out, I'll see how you can face up to what you said!"

Hua Twelve said with a smile: "I'm not friends with my uncle, why should I be embarrassed to face it!"

Seeing that his father's face was getting worse and worse, Zhou Bingyi quickly advised:

"Bingkun, Zhou Rong, stop arguing!"

Zhou Zhigang glared at Hua Twelve fiercely:
"What are you talking about? No matter what, she is still your sister. How can you talk to her like that?"

He turned to Zhou Rong and asked:

"Let me ask you, do you want to go to Guizhou to find Feng Huacheng as Bingkun said?"

After saying this, he was afraid that Zhou Rong was still hiding something, so he emphasized: "Tell the truth!"

Li Suhua's tears were already falling: "Hurry up and tell me, little girl!"

Zhou Rong also cried and nodded, confirming what Hua Twelve said.

Zhou Zhigang asked again: "What if I don't let you go?"

Zhou Rong didn't say anything, but her eyes showed stubbornness and determination.

After a while, Zhou Zhigang sighed heavily and sat down on the kang.

Hua Shier added lines in his mind: What a sin!
Zhou Zhigang lit a cigarette, took two puffs, and then slowly said:
"Zhou Rong, you are my daughter. As a father, I know you best. You are usually obedient and well-behaved, but in fact you have your own ideas. When you want to do something, even three cows can't pull you back. How can you let me go like this!"

Zhou Rong still didn't speak.

Zhou Zhigang added: "If what Bingkun said is true, what will you do? Do you still want to find an old man who has cheated on you and married you?"

Zhou Rong wiped her tears and said, "If it's true, I will never contact him again!"

Zhou Zhigang took a deep breath:

"Okay, let me make it clear as a father. No matter what the truth is, I don't agree with you being friends with this person, but I'm your father, and I need to help my daughter recognize the truth. I can't let anyone deceive you!"

"So I won't leave tomorrow. Let Bingyi go first. I'll go with you to see Cai Xiaoguang and ask him to help me figure out what this Feng Huacheng is!"

That night, Zhou Zhigang asked Li Suhua to sleep in the small room with Zhou Rong, and the three of them slept on the kang in the big room.

Zhou Bingyi is a heartless guy. He fell asleep as soon as he lay down and started snoring after a while.

After Zhou Zhigang lay down, he sighed and called out after a long while:
"Bingkun'er?"

Hua Twelve responded: "If you're not sleeping, what are you doing?"

Zhou Zhigang sighed: "You kid, you deserve a beating!"

The next morning, the family went to the train station to see Zhou Bingyi off.

Zhou Bingyi said goodbye to his parents and told Hua Twelve:

"I'm leaving now. Bingkun, you have to take care of my filial piety at home."

Hua Twelve rolled his eyes and said, "No, I'm just doing my part. I've never heard of anyone taking over filial piety? Then you are unfilial!"

Zhou Bingyi opened his mouth:
"Why are you talking so harshly? All right, as long as you are filial, I, as your eldest brother, will definitely do things that will make you admire me and be willing to call me brother!"

Hua Twelve sneered and wanted to ask, "You want me to admire you, so what? You want to run naked?" After thinking about it, I decided to forget it. Don't make trouble for no reason!
After seeing Zhou Bingyi off, Zhou Zhigang called Hua Shier and Zhou Rong to go directly to Cai Xiaoguang for help.

Cai Xiaoguang was the son of an official. His parents had old comrades and old connections in Beijing. He made a phone call and asked an uncle who worked in Beijing to help him find out about Feng Huacheng. In the afternoon, he got the result: Feng Huacheng was indeed married.

However, this marriage broke down after Feng Huacheng was classified as an "F-animated poet" a year ago, and his ex-wife chose to divorce under pressure.

After getting the accurate information, Zhou Rong stood there, her lips trembling and her hands shaking. Cai Xiaoguang, who liked her, wanted to comfort her but didn't know what to say.

Zhou Zhigang thanked Cai Xiaoguang, then took Zhou Rong away.

Hua Twelve deliberately dawdled for a while, then whispered to Cai Xiaoguang from behind:

"I know you like Zhou Rong, but she wants you to help her get a letter of introduction to Guizhou. You can't help her, otherwise you will harm her. Don't blame me for being rude when the time comes!"

Cai Xiaoguang was both angry and amused:
"Do I need you to tell me? Besides, can you beat me?"

Hua Shier smiled, said nothing more, and quickly caught up with Zhou Zhigang.

When they got home, Zhou Rong squatted on the ground and cried, which made Li Suhua feel very distressed. Zhou Zhigang asked Zhou Rong:
“Do you still want to go to Guizhou now?”

Zhou Rong cried and shook her head: "Mom and Dad, I was wrong. I'm not going anywhere. I'll stay at home with you!"

Li Suhua burst into tears of joy: "Rong'er, it's right that you think so!"

Zhou Zhigang also smiled. Now he could finally go to the third-tier universities with peace of mind.

Two days later, Zhou Zhigang was sent on a train by his family.

Before getting in the car, Zhou Zhigang told Hua Shier to obey the instructions and work hard after going to the countryside, and also told Zhou Rong to take good care of her mother at home.

Two days later, Li Suhua took Hua Shier to the street office to inquire about going to the countryside. Unexpectedly, when they returned home, they saw a letter on the table, and Zhou Rong's luggage was gone.

Li Suhua said in a trembling voice:
"Bingkun, hurry up and take a look at what your sister said in the letter."

Hua Twelve didn't expect that Zhou Rong would leave after the truth was revealed to her. He immediately opened the letter and read it:
"She said she wanted to go to Guizhou to ask Feng Huacheng in person why he lied to her and whether he ever really loved her!"

After saying this, Hua Twelve couldn't help but complain in his heart: Isn't this just cheap!
Li Suhua held Hua Shier's hand and said, "What should we do, Bingkun? What should we do?"

Hua Twelve comforted him, "Don't worry, I have a way. Zhou Rong will come back by herself soon!"

He searched the cabin and found the letters Feng Huacheng wrote to Zhou Rong. The latter only took away the one with the address. He took the other letters and went straight to the police station.

Feng Huacheng is still not honest during his labor reform and he deceived the little girl. It is obvious that he has not been educated well. We need to make him more strict!
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