As the Chinese New Year is approaching, there are a lot of cars on the highway. I originally planned to arrive home at two o'clock in the afternoon, but seeing the endless queue of cars in front of me, I guess it will be four or five o'clock.

Fortunately, the few people were not in a hurry and rushed home while chatting. During this period, Li Shiqi talked very little and basically sat quietly in the back seat. Su Qing talked a lot. She actually talked to Zhou Yuwen

: "Hey, Zhou Yuwen, your family is having a gathering tonight, can you take me with you?"

Zhou Yuwen said you are not beautiful, but you still think you are beautiful?

"Why should I take you with me?"

"Let me go see your interesting cousin again?" Su Qing said funny.

After all, the two have been married for two years, and Su Qing knows all about Zhou Yuwen's family situation.

Zhou Yuwen's family can be considered a big family in the local area. His grandfather was the director of the Public Security Bureau transferred from Huai'an, and then spread out in the Xuhuai area and gave birth to six daughters and one son.

Zhou Yuwen's father was the third eldest son and the only male. When he was young, he was quite stubborn and suffered hardships outside for two years. Later, he was ridiculed by his grandfather. After gritting his teeth, he was admitted to the Procuratorate with the first score in the city.

Now, more than 20 years have passed, and he is considered a prominent figure in the city.

As for Zhou Yuwen's several aunts, because of their grandfather's help, they are doing pretty well. They are all in public institutions, and the harvest is guaranteed during droughts and floods. Some of them, who are better off in marriage, go to other cities.

The only person who is doing poorly is probably my eldest aunt. She also had a conflict with her grandfather and married a workshop worker. Then as the times progressed, everyone was steadily rising, and only her family was still standing still.

The eldest aunt is actually quite stubborn. At the beginning, she was unwilling to ask for help. She just thought that having backbone was enough. But practice brings true knowledge. Reality tells everyone that backbone is useless. If you don’t have a good foundation, everything

Everything is in vain.

My eldest aunt only wants to prove one thing in her life, that is, it is useless for you to have a good life. My children are well educated!

Therefore, Zhou Yuwen's cousin Peng Xiaoyong has always been the first in the class since he was a child.

But to be honest, Zhou Yuwen doesn't envy Peng Xiaoyong at all.

Because Zhou Yuwen was deeply impressed. When he was a child, all the children could go out to play. Only Peng Xiaoyong basically had endless homework every day. He wore those thick black-rimmed glasses and lived in the two rooms assigned by the factory at his aunt's house.

In the dilapidated small building, on a simple desk, there are piles of endless test papers.

Because there is indeed a gap in the class of each family, relatives really cannot play together, especially the eldest aunt's family, who have no common language at all. Even if they get together to eat, they don't know what to talk about.

The younger generation of children don’t understand this at all, but the eldest aunt will tell her children that they don’t play with us just because our family has no money.

So Xiaoyong, you have to speak up!

You have to study hard!

You have to get ahead!

My cousin is also very impressive and has received a full scholarship since he was a child.

After graduating from high school, I even studied abroad.

Of course, each family pooled their money to go abroad.

That was also the first time that my eldest aunt lowered her head to ask for help.

However, she was very stubborn when asking for help. She said that she had never asked for help from anyone in her life, but she had to bow her head for the sake of her son's future.

"I've been like this all my life, but I can't let my son stay here. Since my son is capable, he deserves the best!"

This sentence impressed Zhou Yuwen deeply, because Zhou Yuwen was in high school at that time.

The eldest aunt came to her home and said this to her father through gritted teeth.

Zhou Yuwen didn't know how much other families seemed to have given him, but Zhou Yuwen's family gave him 100,000 yuan.

Because Zhou Yuwen's father, Zhou Guobin, still hoped that his nephew would be successful, and his father was very kind to his cousin at that time.

It's a pity that we had some conflicts later because of the demolition of our home, and we stopped contacting him later.

Demolition is another big issue.

Grandpa was considered a well-established person at that time. He had a large house with three upper floors and three lower floors in the center of the city. It was located on the roadside. The self-built house could not be called luxurious, but it was really big.

Anyway, Zhou Yuwen's impression was that when he was a child, many people rented their own houses. At most, there were seven or eight households. There were young couples who came to the city to work hard, and there were also parents who brought their children to study in the city.

Zhou Yuwen was quite happy during that time.

Because he is the son of a landlord, the children who rent a house basically surround him. Although children do not know what it means to please, the situation at that time was vaguely like this.

Zhou Yuwen still remembers that the side house was rented to a single mother at that time. What impressed me most was that she kept changing boyfriends, and her daughter was about the same size as Zhou Yuwen. She pestered Zhou Yuwen every day, and secretly kissed Zhou Yuwen, saying that she would be Zhou Yuwen's pawn when she grew up.

Wife.

At that time, she told Zhou Yuwen that this was..., and then she pointed at her and said some nonsense.

Anyway, Zhou Yuwen didn't understand anything at that time, and he didn't want to understand anything.

At that time, Zhou Yuwen's mind was filled with Contra, Super Mario, and MapleStory. Zhou Yuwen felt that these women were really annoying!

This single mother rented her home for three months, then left with her daughter and a man.

Then later on, Zhou Yuwen actually met this person, she was her childhood sweetheart's little sister.

At that time, Zhou Yuwen was in high school and went shopping with his classmates.

Then a woman running a stall kept staring at me.

Zhou Yuwen didn't take it seriously at first.

Until the girl grabbed her and asked: "Are you Zhou Yuwen?"

Zhou Yuwen was stunned for a moment, and it took him a long time to think of her.

At that time, it was a balloon stall. Zhou Yuwen was surprised to see her and asked her why she came here.

Then she smiled sheepishly and said, "Isn't this a waste of money? It's hard work for me to come out with my man."

This incident left a deep impression on Zhou Yuwen at the time, because the girl was the same age as Zhou Yuwen. As a result, if she didn't say hello to Zhou Yuwen, Zhou Yuwen could call her aunt.

We also talked about it later.

She was quite enthusiastic towards Zhou Yuwen and asked Zhou Yuwen: "Where do you work from?"

Zhou Yuwen felt very superior at that time and said, "Oh, I'm still studying."

When Zhou Yuwen finished saying this, the other party was obviously stunned, and the old friend's repeated look in his eyes dimmed, and he said "Oh" after a long time.

Then she said nothing more. When Zhou Yuwen was playing balloons with his friends, she hadn't asked him for any money, but he still gave it to her.

Zhou Yuwen's home has always had tenants, and many people played around him when he was in elementary school.

Then when I was in high school, a group of sisters who came to work in the city kept teasing me.

This kind of thing continued until Zhou Yuwen left his hometown in college.

Later, Zhou Yuwen's home was demolished.

In 2016, the real estate market was at its peak.

Zhou Yuwen didn't know how much he lost, because his parents never said anything about it. Anyway, his family owned seven or eight properties later on, as well as the large flat in Jinling.

Because of this incident, Zhou Yuwen was often criticized by several cousins.

This means that the house belongs to grandpa. Logically speaking, he should take it out and get a share of it.

But my uncle’s family didn’t do this very well.

I don’t get any share of the demolition money, I keep it all to myself.

Zhou Yuwen didn't know what to say to this kind of words, because that was the fact.

Zhou Yuwen was so thin-skinned that he even discussed this issue with his mother, asking, if our house is to be demolished, how about giving it to the aunts?

As a result, my mother scolded me before I finished speaking.

Mother said, what does this have to do with you?

I was young and ignorant at that time.

Looking back now, I realize that it is the same. What does this have to do with myself? It is better to be an ostrich honestly than anything else.

However, because of this incident, the relationship between Zhou Yuwen's family and their relatives has become somewhat estranged. The most estranged family is definitely the eldest aunt's family. The eldest aunt pointed out this incident many times at the dinner table, which made everyone look ugly.

Of course, this will have to be 16 years later.

It's only 14 years now, and the relationship in the family is still very harmonious.

This year, Zhou Yuwen's cousin had just returned from the other side of the ocean. He had a master's degree, wore gold-rimmed glasses, and was well-dressed in a suit. He was considered a talented person.

That was the first time Zhou Yuwen took Amelia Su home. It was really fun at the time. In Peng Xiaoyong’s speech, Chinese was mixed with English. Two of the three sentences were: Regarding this, I think the country is doing very poorly.

, how about abroad.

Then Zhou Yuwen's father asked him what he thought about work.

Peng Xiaoyong is also lucky.

He graduated in 2014 with a master's degree.

There is news from Zhou's father that there happens to be a vacancy in the municipal party committee office, and Peng Xiaoyong happens to meet the requirements, so he doesn't need to take the exam.

However, Peng Xiaoyong was very arrogant at that time. He chuckled and said no, he had already received offers from many companies.

"Regarding this, I feel that China is doing very poorly. I feel that people in China place too much emphasis on dead wages and always think about stability. It is better to go abroad."

"oh."

Having said this, Father Zhou did not continue.

Peng Xiaoyong struggled in a big city for six years, and finally bought his first house in a big city in 2019.

It turns out that in the context of the great era, everyone is just tiny dust.

In 2019, both Zhou Yuwen and Su Qing divorced, and Peng Xiaoyong was not even married.

Alas, the past is like smoke, everything happened vividly in front of Zhou Yuwen's eyes, as if it happened yesterday.

Su Qing was still very impressed by Peng Xiaoyong, and this time she asked Zhou Yuwen to take her to see it again.

That's because she remembered when Peng Xiaoyong saw Zhou Yuwen bring Amelia Su home for the first time, and Peng Xiaoyong's glasses almost fell off.

He was not surprised by how beautiful Su Qing was.

But he was shocked that a man like his cousin could find a girlfriend!

yes.

In his opinion, besides himself, he is talented!

People like Zhou Yuwen are nothing but good parents.

Why does he have a girlfriend?

What impressed Zhou Yuwen the most at that time was that cousin Peng Xiaoyong asked three times in a row: "Is this your girlfriend?"

This made Su Qing laugh to death. At night, while she was lying on Zhou Yuwen's waist while playing with her mobile phone, she said, "You see, your cousin even thinks you are not good enough for me."

A few people chatted and left at eleven o'clock in the afternoon. At two o'clock in the afternoon, they were not halfway through the journey.

I rested for a while in the service area and went to the toilet.

The service area today was quite crowded.

The two girls took a long time to go to the bathroom.

Liu Shuo took advantage of this time to smoke a cigarette outside the car and handed one to Zhou Yuwen. Zhou Yuwen shook his head and said he would not smoke.

Asked him if he was tired from driving?

Liu Shuo grinned and said he was not tired.

Zhou Yuwen said: "Come on, I'll drive later."

"Brother, I'm really not tired."

Liu Shuo said.

Zhou Yuwen said, OK, OK, I know.

Many students in this service area studied in Jinling, and then found a part-time job in Jinling after the final exam, so three or five students knew Liu Shuo.

When they saw Liu Shuo, they couldn't believe their own eyes and hurried over to say hello.

And a mouthful of Shuoge!

Before he finished speaking, the cigarette was already handed to Liu Shuo.

Liu Shuo naturally greeted them carelessly, and then introduced Zhou Yuwen to them.

"Are you Brother Zhou?"

At their level, knowing Liu Shuo is a blessing.

However, they had heard a lot of Zhou Yuwen's legends.

So after learning that the person in front of them was Zhou Yuwen, the founder of Xu Huaihui, who also benefited college students with his own efforts, their eyes immediately lit up, and they felt as if they were seeing an idol.

Zhou Yuwen's performance was quite bland. He nodded slightly and asked, "Go home?"

"right!"

"Where is home?"

After asking, I found out that they were all from the same county.

Later, we talked about which middle school we went to high school.

Zhou Yuwen and Liu Shuo both went to No. 1 Middle School in the county, and they all went to township middle schools, so they couldn't continue their studies.

But Zhou Yuwen discovered that Liu Shuo's Xuhuai Society was really big. At first, he thought there were only a few, but later on, as we chatted, more than thirty people came. Of course, there were very few in a county, but they were all assigned to

After seeing Zhou Yuwen and Liu Shuo, people from all areas of Xu Huai came over to say hello respectfully.

Liu Shuo thought this was a very majestic thing.

Zhou Yuwen always felt strange.

After coming out of the service area, it was Zhou Yuwen who drove the car.

Su Qing asked Zhou Yuwen: "Zhou Yuwen, who are those people who greeted you just now?"

Zhou Yuwen said: "I don't know him."

"Don't you know me to say hello to you?"

"Sister-in-law, don't you understand this? These are all my brother's men! How about it? It's awesome." Liu Shuo said with a grin.

Zhou Yuwen asked him to stop talking nonsense.

Liu Shuo said this was true.

He said: "Brother, although you are not in Xuhuaihui, our brothers admire you very much! Hey, brother, but then again, I found that there are quite a lot of brothers in our county. Do you want to call them all during the Chinese New Year?

Come out and get together?"

When Liu Shuo was talking, he was actually already chatting in the group.

Zhou Yuwen asked him how many there were.

Liu Shuo said a few hundred.

Zhou Yuwen said: "Don't mess around."
Chapter completed!