Became a powerful person after divorce

Chapter 429 Zhou Ying

Zhoujia Village is located in Tuying Town, more than 40 kilometers away from the southern suburbs of Fu City. It is one of the most remote villages in Fu District, east of Fu Fu City.

The village is located in a large ravine, with more than 40 households and less than 200 people. Since most young people go out to work, only the elderly and children remain in the village, so there are less than 100 people.

Due to the rapid development of urbanization, there are more and more villages like that. Normally, Zhoujia Village is like a dead and abandoned village. It is only during weddings and funerals that the village becomes more lively.

As the New Year approaches, several elderly people leave the village. Almost every day, we can hear the sound of suona and see the funeral procession.

In the early morning, in a courtyard at the back of the village, a few strong laborers were setting up a funeral shed outside the house. Through the old-fashioned glass windows, you could see several elderly rural women "breaking filial piety" (a kind of mourning ceremony).

The funeral custom in northern rural areas is to use red cloth as mourning clothes for those attending the funeral).

In the main room outside, two benches were used to support a coffin board, on which the body of the old lady of the Zhou family was covered with a red cloth. In the middle of the red cloth, there was a green tile pressed down.

A chipped earthen basin was filled with unburned paper ashes. Several women in mourning clothes were burning the paper while crying.

"Ying'er, don't cry. Call my cousin and ask them where they are." Outside the door, a middle-aged man in his fifties walked in. He was also wearing filial piety, only red.

His filial piety clothes had been covered with many dust stains early in the morning. He was tall and thin, as if there were only a handful of bones left. His skin was rough and dark, and his high and bulging eyeballs were filled with bloodshot eyes.

He looked very tired.

Zhou Ying, who was kneeling in the main room to burn paper, stood up after hearing her father's words, wiped her tears and said, "I know, Dad, I'll go have some food quickly. There is porridge and pickles that were just fried yesterday on the table in the west room."

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"I don't care about him. He's not hungry. After I made the call, I went to the canteen at the entrance of the village to get two cigarettes. The cashier said that there were not enough preparations. It was a bit awkward."

"He knows, dad, let him call first." Zhou Ying said, took out the phone and walked out of the main room, passed through the newly built funeral shed, came to the open space in the yard, and dialed her cousin Zhou Na's phone number

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After the phone rang a few times, Zhou Na's voice came.

"Hello? Zhou Ying, my third uncle and I said they are packing up and will drive over in a moment."

"Oh, okay, Sister Na, his dad told us to come over early and salute grandma at noon. Don't miss the time." Zhou Ying reminded in a careful tone.

"Okay, I got it. If it's okay, he'll hang up first."

Listening to Zhou Na's words without any hint of sadness on the other end of the phone, Zhou Ying felt both angry and helpless. She looked back at her grandma who was lying in the main room, and there was a hint of sadness in her eyes.

"How's it going? Ying'er, have my third uncle and the others come out of the house?" Zhou Ying's father, Zhou Linge, walked out of the main room and turned to ask while helping the people setting up the funeral shed.

"I was beaten. They said they didn't come out yet and were packing their things." Zhou Ying said with a hint of anger in her tone.

Dad's phone call was made very early, but the third uncle's family has not moved yet. Zhou Ying feels even more uncomfortable thinking about grandma's death and killing them.

During the years when my grandma was bedridden, she lived in her house and relied on her father and two people to take care of her. She went to work in the city, and most of the care work was done by her mother, but even then,

In addition, Uncle Nao's family visited him several times throughout the year, and they often took out not-so-valuable things.

Of course, Zhou Ying knew what was going on. Her third uncle's confinement period was the best in Bu Nao. Her third uncle had been a deputy director, her third aunt was also a retired teacher, and her cousin Zhou Na was also working in her workplace in the city.

She works in class and has a guaranteed job. In comparison, her father Zhou Linge works at a construction site, and her mother works as a farmer at home. The family's income is low and her confinement life is difficult and miserable, which makes people look down upon her.

It’s okay to look down upon outsiders, even relatives at home. Every time during the New Year and festivals, the people talking loudly at the wine table will always deny that my third uncle, who was a deputy director, has made a fortune by raising pigs.

Her second uncle. Although her father, Li Wenge, was not the eldest son in the family, he was always smiling and cheering at the wine table. He was often teased and drunk by them. What was even more hateful was that every time those two uncles saw their father,

Even though he drank too much, everyone made fun of him, and he talked about it as a joke for a long time afterwards.

This is especially true for her cousin. According to the customs of her hometown, women are not allowed to sit at the main table, which is where men drink. But every time the family has a dinner during the Spring Festival, she is the only exception, and can sit with the elder men.

Just because she was the only "promising" person in the Zhou family's room who was working in the city.

Zhou Ying remembers very well that during the Spring Festival last year, Zhou Na came to their home. It was the most arrogant time for her, driving a big Mercedes, wearing brand-name clothes, and talking about her husband who was engaged in real estate in the city.

Zhou Ying has also heard of a person named Zhou Jinping. Even though he has the same surname as Zhou, he is a famous real estate boss in the city! Zhou Na married such a person, so naturally she was very famous at home.

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As for Nao, Zhou Ying despised Zhou Jinping from the bottom of her heart and felt that she was far different from her previous brother-in-law. Although Zhou Na kept claiming that she divorced her brother-in-law Xu Fuhai because she was tired of being with him, Zhou Ying was clearly blushing. She

After all, someone who has gone to college has a lot of vision and knowledge. Is her ex-brother-in-law Xu Fuhai now much better developed than Zhou Jinping? And she has long heard that her cousin lives in something like that.

, I was unclear with other men outside, maybe my brother-in-law found out about it, and the two got divorced.

When she thought of that, Zhou Ying felt a little aggrieved for her brother-in-law Xu Fuhai. Although she didn't have much contact with Xu Fuhai during the week, they had family gatherings for so many years and met several times every year. She was arrogant and superior to her cousin Zhou Na.

Differently, Xu Fuhai always gave her the impression that he was always so polite and modest, and he was also very patient and cruel when he mistreated children. She still remembered that when she was a child, he took herself and several other children to the rivers and fields in the village.

Playing, the warm scenes were deeply imprinted in her heart, and they often appear in her mind even now.

"Ying'er, why am I dazed over there? You asked me to buy cigarettes, have you bought them?"

Her father Zhou Linge's voice came from behind, pulling her thoughts back from her memories.

"Oh, no, he'll go buy it then." Zhou Ying Dudong said and walked quickly outside. As he walked, he began to take off his mourning clothes.

It is an old custom in the village that people who wear filial piety are not allowed to enter their homes casually, because it will bring them bad luck. Zhou Ying has been taught this since she was a child, so she is very conscious.

Watching Zhou Ying's figure disappear at the door, several middle-aged men who were setting up a funeral shed also started chatting with Zhou Linge.

"Old Zhou, Zhou Ying will be twenty-four or five next year, right? Have you found something wrong?" Lu Dachun held a ten-yuan pack of low-quality food in his mouth while fixing the support of the memorial shed fixed on the ground.

Driving a wooden stake, he asked casually.

"What misunderstanding are you looking for? That child is so stubborn that he is studying at home every day instead of studying for graduate school." Zhou Linge snorted, but Ye Chang's pride and showoff could not be concealed in his voice.

"What are you studying for graduate school? Didn't you read what the Internet is talking about? Nowadays, college students and graduate students are everywhere, and academic qualifications are worthless. I beg him to tell me whether he can take the civil service examination, hold an iron rice bowl, and be stable, and he has a lot of face outside.

." Lu Dachun said, throwing aside the hammer in his leg, and took out a cigarette to refill himself.

"Please tell him not to be my own boss! What's the point of being a civil servant? What can I do if I earn several thousand yuan a month? I don't even know how to buy a house in the city!" Zhou Lincai, the second eldest son of the Zhou family, walked out of the main room.

, took out a box of hard Chinese from his pocket, took out one and smoked it by himself, saying as he smoked.

"It's good to be a big boss when you're in a hurry. Boss Zhou must have made a lot of money from his pig farm last year." A villager in the crowd who came to help joked.

"It's just so-so, just one hundred and eighty. The market was good last year, but not next year. The price of pork has dropped so much that I'm not making any money, I'm just losing money." Zhou Lincai waved his legs and said, his face full of red but full of contentment.

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"Please tell him, there is nothing better than finding a rich man, just get it right in one step. I saw the girl from the old Zheng family in our village, they found a big boss in the imperial capital. I heard that the family has hundreds of millions.

! When he returned to the village two days ago, what was the name of the car he drove? He didn’t even remember the name of the car he was told. It was said that he asked for more than two million!" Lu Dachun said while smoking a cigarette, and his eyes closed when he shut up.

From time to time, Li glanced at Zhou Lincai.

Seeing that there was a hint of displeasure on his face, Lu Dachun continued: "As for that girl from the old Zheng family, she looks like a firewood stick. How can she compare with our Zhou Ying? But she can't compare with me in the nearby villages.

I went to ask around. In terms of looks and body, Zhou Ying said she ranked second. Who of them dared to say that she ranked first? Lao Zhou said I should also worry about the girl. Don’t just think about working day in and day out. Why do you have children?

Do you want to seek the most important thing in your life? No."

Did Lu Dachun's words seem to have found a suitable topic for everyone at the scene? For a moment, even a few rural women who were helping were gathered around, talking and arguing.

Let’s introduce the misunderstanding to Zhou Ying.

"His third brother, he knows a young man who works for the government in the town. His family is also rich. I heard that there are two houses in the city."

"Dachengzi, the farmhouse owner next door to our village, I heard that he just got divorced some time ago. He has a lot of money!"

"He knows someone..."

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Zhou Linge felt a little upset as he listened to those people talking. His daughter was already twenty-four, and whether he wanted to marry or not was always a big problem in his heart. Every time he asked her, she would not give an accurate answer.

She said that she was very young and didn't want to think about it now. But she wasn't in a hurry, Zhou Linge was. In his opinion, although his girl was good-looking and handsome, she couldn't stand the age of growing up year by year. People in the village were like her.

The older one has given birth to several children, how can he not be anxious?

But it's useless to be anxious. That girl has listened to them on everything since she was a child. She is so stubborn that no one can tell her what to do. She has her own ideas.

Zhou Linge listened to them chatting for a while, found an excuse to break off the conversation, and went back to work in the house.

The old mother lived for more than eighty years before leaving, so it can be regarded as the end of her life. After serving the bed for so many years, all the efforts she should have done have been done. When that day came, although Zhou Linge felt sad in his heart, he still felt sad.

At that age, he had already seen through those things.

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"Xiao Na, I called Fu Hai and informed him of the death of my grandma. When my grandma was alive, she always praised him for doing well and doing well, and he was also good when he was wrong. He felt that he wanted to know.

That news must come here. Remember what dad told me, I have to temper my temper and play more emotional cards with Fuhai!" said Zhou Lin, who gave birth to his daughter Zhou Na by mistake.

When he received the news that his old mother had died of illness, there was no sadness on his face. After living in the city for so many years, he only saw her a few times every year during the holidays. As his mother became increasingly old and frail,

It has gradually become a symbol in his mind.

In Lao Zhou's house, he had the best confinement life in the house. Living in the city, he was not a big or small leader. Everything about him gave him an inexplicable sense of superiority. Look,

Looking at my two brothers and my old mother who were very much in the village, I couldn't help but feel like I was looking down on them.

Although he had received the call a long time ago, Zhou Linsheng was not in a hurry. When he thought of the dilapidated yard at the boss's house, he really didn't want to go, so he counted the time, whether he could delay it for a while, it was best to wait until he went.

, everything is almost gone. When the time comes, he can put incense sticks and burn some paper for the old lady to express her feelings.

At this moment, what he was thinking about the most was not how to repair the relationship between his daughter and Xu Fuhai as soon as possible, but whether it would be related to the great success of their old Zhou family!

It turns out that after thinking about it, Zhou Linsheng connected those two things.

Having been with that uncle for so many years, Zhou Linsheng knew him very well, and he also knew in his heart that his family had wronged him for so many years. He must have resentment in his heart. But if there is one person in the entire old Zhou family who can make him feel

If she cares, she probably doesn't care about her own old lady.

Every time he went to a gathering in the village, the old lady was full of praise for him, complimented him whenever she met, and was especially willing to chat with him. Zhou Linyan was sure that Xu Fuhai would not remain indifferent after learning the news.

After hearing her father's words, Zhou Na felt a little reluctant, but she still took out her hand and passed it to Xu Fuhai.

"Hello? Xu Fuhai, please tell me something. His milk is gone. They are now asking to go to Zhoujia Village for a funeral. Can I go?"

(End of chapter)