Rebirth in the 50s: The Couple with the Hidden Space novel Chapter 46

Chapter 46: Chapter 36: Family Interactions (4)

Zhang Guoqing rubbed his chin and said, "Just tell her that she saw Jiao Jiao crying after giving birth, missing her parents. Second sister-in-law didn’t believe it and kept asking her, so Jiao Jiao told her that the new cotton-padded jacket and pants her mom made for her nephew were taken by her uncle to give to Zhou Xue. All the dowry her mom gave for the wedding was given away to the Huang Family. She always knew but didn’t want to upset her grandparents. However, all 28 packages sent over while she was pregnant this year from her mom and grandpa for the children were also hidden away. She didn’t even see a thread of them, which shows they bully her because they know she’s afraid of worrying her grandparents and won’t dare tell her grandma’s family.

That’s basically the gist of it. Regardless of what Second Sister-in-law says, the more exaggerated, the better. The focus is to clear Old Sir Zhou and Grandma Zhou’s names, by highlighting her uncle’s signature at the post office for military mail. The bond with grandparents can’t be severed; they raised Jiao Jiao. But the bond with the main family must be severed; that’s the root of the problem. As for Old Sir Zhou, he’s even worse, downright shameless. Keep him for future use.

Once rumors spread, someone above Old Sir Zhou can question him—whose grandmother has the ability to stomp her foot in Beijing and cause it to shake three times? What does that mean? Is she trying to start a monarch restoration chaos? Who gave her the guts, and who thought of it for her?

After this, we’ll cut ties. If they send things over, refuse them all, and consider it buying off the relationship with money. These people only have eyes for material things. Dad, do you have anything to add?"

Mr. Zhang nodded after listening, "Second, your wife should make things as serious as possible, for instance, talk about how their cousin got a wristwatch, a bicycle. Anyway, whatever things the Zhou family got from relatives, say it all. The Zhou family wouldn’t have been able to afford them anyway; the more valuable the items mentioned, the better. Once everyone gets envious, it’ll stir things up. Just fear the Zhou family won’t stir things up, the more, the better.

When those people come to plead tomorrow, I won’t say much. I’ll just ask whose grandmother can stomp her foot in Beijing and shake it three times? What does that mean? Is she causing a monarch restoration disturbance? Who gave her such courage, and who gave her the idea? Guess nobody will clarify it for him."

Everyone nodded, and Zhang Guoqing joked, "Second Brother, make sure Second Sister-in-law works hard. Then I’ll arrange an easy, chatty job for her in the county, a first-ever in Zhang Family Village."

"You’re bragging again. Would you die if you didn’t boast? Fine, there’s really nothing in these matters. She enjoys this stuff; I don’t even need to say it. Just by talking about what the Zhou Family does, I guess she’ll stir things up at work tomorrow."

Mr. Zhang looked at the second son and shook his head. He seemed smart usually, but he’s stunned now, just showing off some small smarts. Look, the eldest already figured it out quietly and never stopped watching Xiao Wu.

"Dad, let’s keep gathering in the evenings to chat and have a little drink. Haha," Zhang Guoqing said with a smile to his dad.

Mr. Zhang agreed with a nod, "Alright, as long as you supply the wine, your brothers and I will keep you company. Ha ha, plus, you handle your mom. It’s getting late. We have to work tomorrow. Let’s rest early. There’s another battle tomorrow. Xiao Wu, who do you think might come?"

"Zhou Xue," the three brothers said in unison, "Good, everyone finds their wife and rests."

When the three brothers reached the west wing, they could still hear the laughter and playful sounds of the daughters-in-law and the mother-in-law. The eldest brother noticed everyone was silent, so he interrupted, "Mom, Dad said let’s rest early because there’s business tomorrow."

Mother Zhang looked at the time and let them go back, "Okay, everyone go back. Juhua, don’t tidy up, just continue later. You haven’t stopped all night; rest early, and remember to take the kids to pee at night. Cui Lan, tomorrow morning, let’s have white rice porridge for the whole family with red jujubes, and fry some sweet potato pancakes. Let’s have a good meal."

The eldest and second sister-in-law were quite happy; rare was a year they could have white rice porridge. Mai Sui was too young to understand, but Mai Miao was overjoyed and hurriedly pulled Mai Sui inside, "Aunt, we’re having white rice porridge tomorrow. You should wake up early. Aunt, you’re not going to work tomorrow, so can we come and play?"

Zhou Jiao called them over, "Open the drawer on the far left of aunt’s drawer and see if you can pull it open."

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