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Chapter 771 Contempt Chain

At this time, Zheng Juan was just an eighteen-year-old girl. Before Zheng Juan had officially adapted to life in the Zhou family, Suning was not going to let her become a woman so hastily. This was also for Suning to respect his wife to the greatest extent. In fact, the model of marriage first and then love is still very interesting.

After a busy day of hard work, Suning and Zheng Juan were now lying on the bed in the outer room to catch up on their nap. Zheng Juan thought that she was not very clear about the situation in her husband's family, and she was always trying to guess a lot of things from the conversation between Suning and Li Suhua, so she couldn't help but ask Suning.

"Bingkun, can you tell me about our family?" Turning sideways to look at the man lying in front of her, Zheng Juan once again had a deep understanding of "Big Head".

"Well, there are six people in our family now, including you. My father is an eighth-level bricklayer and a skilled craftsman. He is often away from home building super projects in the "Third Line" and earns about fifty or sixty yuan a month. My mother is a housewife at home all year round and doesn't have much income. My brother Zhou Bingyi has been smart and studious since he was young. He is definitely an intellectual with ideals. He is now working as an educated youth officer in the Jiangliao Construction Unit. The specific salary is unknown. My sister Zhou Rong is beautiful, smart, and good at studying. She just suddenly fell in love with a poet in Beijing. The poet has now been exiled to Guizhou for labor reform, so my sister went to Guizhou to pursue the poet and became a volunteer teacher. I think she earns about thirty-eight yuan a month, and they send living expenses home every month, so our family's life pressure is actually not that great."

"Bingkun, from what our mother said and your tone, it seems that you have a lot of opinions about our sister Zhou Rong?" Zheng Juan didn't care too much about the money, but asked about Zhou Rong out of curiosity.

"Oh! It can be said that people with different ideologies cannot work together. She and I just have different ideas. Anyway, my dad doesn't want me to interfere in their affairs, so I am naturally happy to be alone." When Su Ning thought about a beautiful girl falling in love with an old man who had nothing, it was a very scary thing.

"Bingkun, she is our sister after all, we can't just ignore her affairs." As the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, she naturally hopes for harmony and happiness, so Zheng Juan has already begun to fulfill her responsibilities as a wife.

"Silly wife, my brother and sister are good at studying and have ideals and aspirations. In fact, in their eyes, I am the most hopeless street urchin. I need their care now and in the future. They even worry that I will become a burden to them in the future." Suning has always known his position in this family. These family members have arranged the responsibility of guarding the house for him.

"Ah?" Zheng Juan, who had never thought about this problem, was shocked. After all, their Zheng family needed to work hard to make a living every day and did not need to think about these meaningless questions.

"Juan'er, the three of us siblings have completely different personalities. My brother and sister can still talk to each other in private, but as for me, it will be impossible for me to fit in with them, and I don't want to get too close to them." Thinking that Zhou Bingyi was the only one who knew everything about Zhou Rong, Su Ning knew that Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Rong were the siblings who could talk about anything.

"Bingkun, we are siblings from the same parents, why do we have to compete with each other like this!" Zheng Juan shook her head in confusion at this time, feeling that it was meaningless to compete between siblings.

"You don't understand! People live their whole lives just for this. Brothers and sisters, friends, and even neighbors are constantly competing with each other, otherwise they will not feel the meaning of life." The more worlds Su Ning experiences, the more he feels the darkness of human nature, and he has a deep understanding of the human society that despises and competes with each other.

"Uh." To be honest, Zheng Juan really couldn't understand what Suning said.

Because Zheng Juan's family situation is very special, she has always depended on her mother and brother. Her family has always been struggling to make a living, so she finds it difficult to understand the complicated relationship between the three siblings of the Zhou family. She even more does not understand Zhou Rong, who "wants sex when she is well fed and well clothed". She thinks that if the Zhou family is also living a precarious life, they will definitely not be in the mood to think about romantic things.

The Zhou family's life was originally plain and happy, and there was no need for any extra embellishments of grandeur. Its fifty-year journey was itself a precious history, so the members of the Zhou family all had different pursuits in life. Zhou Zhigang pursued a glorious working-class life all his life, and unknowingly neglected his family. Li Suhua did not have such big ideals and revenge, and only wanted her own small family to be happy and her children to be healthy and safe. Zhou Bingyi wanted to make a career in his official career, and then he did very well with the support of his family and beliefs. Zhou Rong lived for herself from beginning to end. When she was young, she gave up her loved ones for the so-called love. In middle age, she abandoned her daughter in pursuit of personal extravagance and debauchery. Instead, she has always been consistent in her pursuit.

In Chongqing, the "Third Front," Guo Cheng, beaming with joy, ran towards Zhou Zhigang with a letter in his hand, shouting, "Master, another letter for you?"

"Oh? Was it sent from the Jiangliao Construction Unit this time, or from Guizhou?" Zhou Zhigang looked at Guo Cheng happily and asked,

"Huh? It's still Yoshiharu."

"Oh?" Zhou Zhigang took the letter from Guo Cheng in surprise. Seeing that the handwriting on the envelope was still the same beautiful regular script, he quickly opened the letter with a puzzled look on his face. The photo inside was directly revealed. After reading the contents of the letter, Zhou Zhigang was a little angry. "Asshole, you're only seventeen and you're already thinking about getting married."

"Master, who is getting married? Could it be your youngest son Zhou Bingkun?" Guo Cheng on the side immediately looked at Zhou Zhigang with surprise and curiosity.

"Yes! It's him! I've only been away from home for more than three months, and he found a partner so quickly. He didn't even bother to tell me about his work. It really makes me worry too much." The depressed Zhou Zhigang complained a lot. He felt that this youngest son had never given him peace of mind.

"Master, this is a great thing! No matter how you look at it, it's a happy event." Guo Cheng on the side had a different opinion. He felt that his master was too strict with his children.

"Hey! The current legal marriage age is 20 for men and 18 for women, but Zhou Bingkun is only 17 this year. It will take three years to register for marriage." Zhou Zhigang did not have Guo Cheng's optimistic attitude. Instead, he explained with a gloomy face.

"Master, nowadays, marriages all start with a wedding and a banquet. There are also many people who don't register their marriages."

"Guo Cheng, I can only go back once every three years. The next time I go back will be the Spring Festival of 1972."

"That's perfect! Then Master, you can help Bingkun preside over the wedding."

"Yeah! What a coincidence." Zhou Zhigang sighed helplessly at this time, but others did not know the meaning of "what a coincidence".

Zhou Zhigang's annual leave is very rare. This is the sadness of the "Third Line" workers. So he originally planned to go to Guizhou to visit his daughter. After all, he would not feel at ease if he did not see his daughter's situation in Guizhou with his own eyes. However, Suning's sudden magical operation made Zhou Zhigang a little embarrassed. Fortunately, there are still two or three years to consider it slowly, but the choice is not easy to make. This time Zhou Zhigang's choice also indirectly and directly affected many things.

Looking at the photo of his wife and son, as well as the inexplicably appearing new daughter-in-law in his hands, Zhou Zhigang couldn't help but smile with relief. The last letter from home made Zhou Zhigang feel guilty towards his wife Li Suhua. Today, when he saw another personal photo of Li Suhua in his hand, Zhou Zhigang couldn't help but smile bitterly again. The letter from home had unknowingly become his spiritual pillar.

"Master, why are the photos Bingkun sent this time in color? And they are much clearer than the previous ones." Guo Cheng on the side noticed the abnormality of the photos again. After all, color photos are still rare in this era.

"Yeah! After hearing what you said, I just realized that Jichun's photo studio might have bought new cameras." Although Zhou Zhigang saw that the background of the photo was his home, he still explained it casually to Guo Cheng because he didn't know what the specific situation was.

Meanwhile, Zhou Bingyi, working at a construction company in Jiangliao, received another letter from home, mailed from Jichun Photon Film. However, he still didn't get the answer he was looking for. It was as if Su Ning deliberately didn't want him to know about his work, which led the clever Zhou Bingyi to suspect something was wrong. Looking at the three-person photo and his mother Li Suhua's personal photo, Zhou Bingyi fell into deep confusion again. His unreliable younger brother actually had a girlfriend, and it seemed like they were already living together. He couldn't understand what was going on in Su Ning's mind day in and day out, considering he was only seventeen years old.

"Bingyi, have you received another letter from home?" Hao Dongmei came over with curiosity on her face. She immediately saw the photo in Zhou Bingyi's hand and looked at him in surprise. "Bingyi, it's a color photo. Is camera technology that advanced now?"

"Huh? I guess it might be that Jichun's photo studio bought new equipment, but Zhou Bingkun just likes to spend money recklessly." Only then did Zhou Bingyi wake up from his shock and confusion, and then expressed his guess with a helpless smile.

"Bingyi, this photo is so clear! Is this girl your sister Zhou Rong? Although she is also very beautiful, why don't they look alike?" Hao Dongmei picked up the photo of three people and looked at it with curiosity, then looked at Zhou Bingyi with a puzzled look and asked.

"No! This girl is my brother's wife, her name seems to be Zheng Juan." Zhou Bingyi showed a ridiculous expression again, and his younger brother became more and more unreliable.

"What? Isn't Zhou Bingkun only seventeen years old this year? How come he has a wife so early?" As expected, Hao Dongmei widened her eyes in shock, thinking that she was hallucinating.

"I don't know the specific situation, but I always feel that a lot of changes have happened at home in the past three months. I can't let go of my worries about my family. It's really because my younger brother is too unreasonable." Zhou Bingyi couldn't help but worry at this time, and he became more and more worried that Suning would do something extraordinary.

"Bingyi, before you came to work in our company, was your brother already in a relationship with this girl?"

"Impossible! I'm sure he was fine at that time. It must have happened after my dad and I left Jichun."

"Bingyi, I'm suddenly curious about your brother. He does things that are really confusing."

"Humph! He always likes to be secretive about things and didn't even tell me about his work situation."

"Idiot! Don't you have a friend in Jichun? Why didn't you give him a call?"

"Cai Xiaoguang? Why didn't I think of that?" Zhou Bingyi immediately revealed an enlightened expression, then smiled at Hao Dongmei in front of him and said, "Dongmei, it seems you are still smart."

"Come on! Stop flattering me and call Cai Xiaoguang to ask him!"

"Yes! Yes! I'll call Cai Xiaoguang now." Zhou Bingyi hurriedly ran to the desk beside him, picked up the phone, and then directly dialed a number that he was not familiar with.

The call was quickly connected, and Zhou Bingyi said directly to the other end of the phone, "Hello! Is this Cai Xiaoguang? I'm Zhou Bingyi."

"Bingyi? Why did you think of calling me?" Cai Xiaoguang on the other end of the phone couldn't help but ask in confusion.

"Xiaoguang, let's cut to the chase. Do you know where my brother Zhou Bingkun has been assigned to work?"

"Bingkun? He's not working right now! It seems he applied for a personal business license from your street office and opened a bun shop on Hongqi Street in Jichun. I heard the buns are delicious."

"What? This is impossible? The current policy does not allow self-employed individuals!" It was the first time that Zhou Bingyi heard such a statement, and he couldn't help but feel confused.

"Bingyi, nothing is absolute! Some people who have lost their ability to work can neither work in factories nor go to the countryside to farm, so the neighborhood committee will also allow disabled people to run small businesses."

"Disabled person?" Zhou Bingyi was so surprised that he almost bit his tongue. He knew Suning's situation best.

"Oh! Bingyi, I later specifically looked into the situation. The street office initially arranged for Bingkun to work at the Red Star Timber Processing Factory. However, Bingkun produced a medical record stating that he had a minor lung problem and couldn't adapt to the factory environment, so he applied for this business license."

"Xiaoguang, is this still possible?"

"Hehe, everything depends on human effort!" Cai Xiaoguang couldn't help but laugh at this moment, but he didn't tell Zhou Bingyi too much. Instead, he stopped there and said, "Bingyi, I heard from my neighbors that Bingkun's buns are delicious. They pre-order Bingkun's buns the night before, and Bingkun delivers them to their door the next morning."

"Oh! If my dad knew about Bingkun's situation, he would be so angry that he would die." Zhou Bingyi on the other end of the phone once again showed a ridiculous expression. His brother's behavior was really puzzling.

"Huh? Then just keep it a secret from him. He can only come back once every three years anyway."

"Alas! This is the only way now." Zhou Bingyi sighed helplessly at this moment. He finally understood why Suning was always so secretive. Then he said to Cai Xiaoguang on the other end of the phone, "Xiaoguang, you must do your best to take care of Bingkun. He is always concerned about the beginning and not the end. I'm really worried that he will cause some big trouble."

"Bingyi, don't worry! Given the relationship between our two families, I will definitely not turn a blind eye to him."

"Thank you, Xiaoguang."

(End of this chapter)