Rebirth in the 50s: The Couple with the Hidden Space novel Chapter 1143

Chapter 1143: Chapter 1016: My Buddy Is a Bit On Edge

On the Zhou Family’s first floor, ever since Zhang Guoqing’s circle of friends kept expanding, Zhou Xiaozheng had added another study next to his own for him to use.

In his father-in-law’s words, he had truly stepped into the workplace now; paperwork he could still take upstairs, but some visitors really weren’t suitable to receive there.

So the adjacent study became the reception room where he usually discussed important matters with people. As for handling key documents and official business, he still chose the second-floor bedroom of his own.

Of course, in a way, Zhang Guoqing was different from his workaholic father-in-law; he really disliked bringing work home, so this study-cum-reception-room was basically idle most of the time.

But on this day, it actually fulfilled its purpose for once. As the saying goes, ginger gets hotter as it gets older.

Right now, a brief silence hung in the study; the springlike room temperature still couldn’t drive away the chill in people’s hearts.

As soon as Yi Jiefang finished speaking, Zhang Guoqing fell silent.

It’s here. It still came in the end...

"Uncle Yi Ming even came to my place last night and stayed in the study with my old man for more than three hours. Xiao Wu, I’m really on edge here."

It wasn’t just him who was jittery. Zhang Guoqing could easily imagine how Old Man Yi had been bombarded one round after another; the kind of hard days the Yi Family must be going through lately were obvious.

If his father-in-law was still the perennial "young man," then Old Yi was a tumbler that never fell. Not only was he old and cunning, he was slick and crafty, and behind him there was also a strategist son, that Yi Fox.

Now even he had become a target the other side was desperate to strike at; one could imagine how severe the situation had become, and whether their own family might be next.

"I asked my old man, but he wouldn’t let a single word slip. He either tells me to mind my own business, or that the sky isn’t going to fall. Analyze this for me—does this mean my grand-uncle’s side has already decided which camp to stand in?"

"But is it that easy to dock safely? Right now that crowd basically has one hand over the sky; one wrong move and it’s total annihilation. The one I’m most worried about is my old man. Damn it... Isn’t being a soldier just about defending the country, isn’t that enough?"

Listening to his rambling, Zhang Guoqing silently sighed along. He agreed with that sentiment, of course. Put bluntly, the army existed to protect the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity from infringement.

In that sense, as long as it was an internal contradiction among the people or the country’s sovereignty hadn’t been violated, a soldier shouldn’t have his own political stance.

Because he served only the state; in other words, no matter what political changes took place in the country, soldiers only needed to protect the country, and that was it.

But now not only was party and government blurred, even law and order had been completely wrecked. With the lessons left behind by the older generation who had passed away, who would willingly sit and wait to be slaughtered just to protect themselves?

For the Yi Family, no matter what decision they made, it wouldn’t be surprising.

What really worried him, though, was that this rising storm was very likely to implicate his father-in-law; the alliance Yi Fox had wanted to form with their family back then—its critical moment had finally arrived.

After Yi Jiefang finished, he stood up irritably, one hand shoved in his pocket, pacing back and forth in front of the sofa. It wasn’t that he expected Zhang Guoqing to come up with some plan—besides him, he simply had no one else he could open up to about his worries.

Though the two branches of the Yi Family shared the same roots, he didn’t trust Old Man Yi. There were plenty of people who would marry off their own children to achieve their ends; even sacrificing pawns to save the king wasn’t unheard of.

His old man was too straightforward by nature; he’d already been fed up with the people up top for years. Now that a fuse had been handed to their door, there was a real chance he’d be turned into a front-line pawn.

Zhang Guoqing’s eyes were going blurry from watching him pace. He straightened up and grabbed him. "Sit first."

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