Rebirth in the 50s: The Couple with the Hidden Space novel Chapter 934

Chapter 934: Chapter 807: Deliberate Instigation

"Little brother..."

Zhou Jiao saw the little girl nod and point at the East Wing, squeezed her tiny hand, and said, "The little brothers are asleep. How about we go drink milk?"

"No need, she just ate a small bowl of noodles." Yi Shumin pointed at the west wing. "How about Mom takes you to play with the big brothers?"

"No... little brother... want meat wu-yi..."

Zhang Guoqing looked amused at the little girl who still couldn’t speak clearly. He nodded at Yi Shumin in greeting, then went off to the west wing first.

"Liu Yi and May 1st have fallen asleep."

Zhou Jiao took the child and led the mother and daughter into the East Wing. "It’s fine, they’re in the bedroom. We’ll go to the study. Yueya’er, when your little brothers wake up, you can all play together, okay?"

"Play."

"Good, Auntie will give the baby some fruit."

"Wow, I want wow..."

Zhou Jiao couldn’t understand her, so she put the child on the heated brick bed, then turned her head to look at the child’s mother.

Yi Shumin laughed. "She’s saying ’doll.’ Little brothers are boys, they don’t play with dolls."

And funny enough, Zhou Jiao really did have dolls. Yi Jiefang and the others loved to fool around. A few days ago, seeing May 1st look more and more like Zhou Jiao, they jokingly gave two dolls as a present.

Zhou Jiao went into the inner room, took a doll for the child, and only after coaxing her did she pour tea.

Sitting on the brick bed in the study, Yi Shumin looked enviously at the doors between the two bedrooms that had been knocked through. "You two really move fast. Say you’ll move and you’re moved."

"Can’t help it. Now if they’re even a little unhappy, they howl at the top of their lungs. My parents can’t rest at all at night, and during the day we can’t host guests in peace."

"This is pretty good. It’s convenient for Auntie to go in and out too."

Zhou Jiao smiled and nodded.

That was true. It didn’t matter so much in winter, but once summer came, it really wouldn’t be suitable for Auntie to be going in and out of the main house all the time. When the new term started she would be interning, no need to live on campus, so she’d have more time at night to be with the kids.

After a bit of small talk, Yi Shumin glanced at her hesitantly and asked in a low voice, "I heard Liang Family sent you a basket of seafood the day before yesterday?"

"A whole basket, who’s exaggerating like that? Just some yellow croaker and prawns. Why? You want some? The prawns are gone, but I can still split you a yellow croaker."

"No need, we still have some at home. I didn’t mean the seafood."

Of course Zhou Jiao understood what she was getting at, but she had no intention of talking much about that with outsiders. Ever since Liang Family packed Liang Jiajun off to the countryside, they’d kept up the old-family social courtesies. Was her family supposed to tear up the relationship completely?

When soldiers come, you send generals; when water floods, you pile up earth. Isn’t that how everyone plays it? Since the power behind Liang Family hasn’t toppled, what’s the point of taking down a few small fry?

Zhou Jiao looked at her with amusement. "All the better if you don’t want any. I don’t have enough to go around as it is."

"What exactly is going on between your two families? We thought that this time, even if you didn’t become enemies, you’d at least cut off contact."

At that, Zhou Jiao put on a face of surprise. "How could that be? Liang Jiajun is Liang Jiajun, Liang Family is Liang Family. Grandpa Liang already came by and made things very clear. Where’s the grudge?"

"That kind of talk can only fool kids. You actually believe it?"

"And what if I don’t? If you can go around something, then go around it. The old gentleman’s already at that age; it’s not easy for him."

Thinking of what her father had said, Yi Shumin smiled and shook her head. "True enough. If it were an ordinary family, they would’ve been thoroughly investigated long ago. They’re just too powerful."

That was something Zhou Jiao wasn’t about to pick up on. Seeing the little girl trying to climb down, she quickly went over and picked her up. "Our Yueya’er, do you want to eat some fruit?"

Yi Shumin casually stuffed a piece of frozen pear from the plate into the child’s hand. "You’re not worried people will look down on you, think your family is an easy target?"

With her back to her, a sharp glint flashed through Zhou Jiao’s eyes. Then she lowered her lids and smiled. "Then what do you think I should do?"

Yi Shumin was speechless on the spot.

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