Rebirth in the 50s: The Couple with the Hidden Space novel Chapter 177

Chapter 177: Chapter 131: Interrogation

Zhou Xiaozheng’s gaze darkened upon hearing, coldly staring at him, his dark eyes showing no trace of emotion.

Old Sir Zhou felt uneasy under his stare and shifted his body.

Zhou Xiaozheng sneered a few times and slowly said, "Yeah, she shouldn’t resist. That child is foolish, should’ve been set up by Huang Zhaodi to marry into the Huang Family, raising children for Old Zhang, and deserved to be so thin that even the wind could blow her away. Deserved to wear patched-up clothes, watching eagerly as the cashmere coat from the Lin Family is worn by Zhou Xue, enduring her verbal humiliation and oppression. Deserved to stay indoors in the cold winter, while everyone in the family, including distant relatives, wore military coats and thick boots, and she stayed beside her grandma on the kang, not daring to step outside.

Deserved to see herself starve or freeze while the family stole her things to aid their relatives. She’s foolish, her grandparents have pensions but she has not a penny on her. She’s foolish, her mother wired her money each month, yet she didn’t dare even enter a restaurant.

So yeah, I’ve said my Jiao Jiao is foolish. Being cursed at the doorstep by some blonde girl, should’ve sliced these scumbags with a knife, whipped these dog things to death. Who left her alive, to make noise? Drinking my daughter’s stuff, eating my daughter’s stuff, wearing my daughter’s stuff, stealing everything from my daughter, where does she get the nerve? Where does she get the courage, who backs her up? Who raised her to dare arrogantly curse at Old Zhang’s house?

Your dear eldest son, your most excellent Old Zhang, yeah, he’s indeed a smart man. Never did he hit or curse my daughter, I should thank him properly. Turns out not hitting and cursing is the grace Old Zhou Family granted us father and daughter.

The smart eldest watching his wife, his son, his daughter taking advantage of, secretly letting my daughter suffer, secretly gloating. Every time at the post office, he must be giddy, isn’t he? Unexpectedly, receiving watches, radios, bicycles, isn’t that delightful?

Old man, have you ever considered me as your son? I don’t ask for fairness, just ask you to speak with some conscience, be a bit reasonable. That is your granddaughter, your only son’s sole foundation. Don’t you consider, if I’m gone from this world, it’s just you and mom who are her closest kin? Before coming, I thought even if you were biased, you wouldn’t invert right from wrong. Tell me what you see us father and daughter as? In forty years, have you never felt a pang of conscience?

I left this house before turning 16, would rather die outside than stay with Old Zhou Family. Never considered why I’d leave this house? Never considered why I don’t want a penny from Old Zhou Family? I believe I’ve done right by Old Zhou Family, by you. Now, tell me, where did I fail, for you to treat me like this? To treat my Jiao Jiao like this? Obviously didn’t want to raise her, why take her back? Do I owe you, does my Jiao Jiao owe you?"

Old Sir Zhou’s face turned livid from his words, his fingers pointed straight at him, mouth agape, but unable to retort, only glaring at him intensely. After Zhou Xiaozheng finished speaking, after a moment, he barely uttered a sentence: "Did you come back deliberately to settle accounts with me?"