Chapter 1011
Stay or Go
Chapter 1011 Stay or Go
The thought of living with a talented but ill-fated poet like Feng Huacheng completely satisfied Zhou Rong's ultimate imagination of romance.
Actually, what should we say about Feng Huacheng?
Strictly speaking, he's not a bad guy, but he's not a good guy either?
How can someone who has been flirting with other girls outside for several years be a good person?
Life was not easy after marrying Zhou Rong, so he could tolerate her dominance.
But after returning to the city, his living environment became more relaxed. Although he wanted to live a good life for a while, he could not stand Zhou Rong's dominance and selfishness, and chose to cheat with his book fan.
Anyway, Lin Hao doesn't have any good feelings towards these two people at all.
Looking at Zhou Rong who was full of longing, Lin Hao said calmly:
"Why can't I go? Leaving you at home is to protect you. Otherwise, who do you think would be willing to suffer?"
"Who cares?" Zhou Rong had something to hide, but still said in a tough manner:
"You'd better take care of yourself. You've only read a few books, but you really think you're an intellectual!"
"Zhou Rong!" Zhou Bingyi felt that Zhou Rong was going too far, so he stopped her from talking.
Zhou Bingyi felt a little helpless. When children in other families quarrel, they all try their best to be the one to stay at home. But the two in his family were different. They were vying to go out.
"Okay, stop arguing between the two of you. In the end, we still have to listen to our parents' opinions on who goes and who stays."
Lin Hao didn't care. He thought it would be better if Zhou Rong scolded him a few more times so that he could become tougher.
"Hmph!" Zhou Rong snorted and walked towards the inner room.
"Your kindness is taken for granted!" Lin Hao said lazily.
Zhou Bingyi shook his head helplessly, then pulled Lin Hao aside, handed him a military coat and said:
"By the way, Bingkun, my dad gave me this coat. Haven't you been thinking about it for a long time? Here you go!"
"Give it to me? Is that true?" Lin Hao said pretending to be happy.
"Really?"
"No, brother, then give it to me, what will you do?"
"My corps will send more!"
"Okay, thank you brother!" Lin Hao said with a smile, while putting the coat on himself and trying it on.
Compared to Zhou Rong, Zhou Bingyi looks much more pleasing to the eye.
Although the coat was a bit old, it was washed cleanly. Lin Hao did not think of refusing it, because Zhou Bingyi gave him this military coat as a gift, which represented his concern for Zhou Bingkun.
In another room, Li Suhua was packing the luggage of Zhou Zhigang and Zhou Bingyi.
Li Suhua, Zhou Zhigang's wife and the mother of three siblings, is an ordinary housewife who has no job and is illiterate.
Like most housewives, she is hardworking, capable, thrifty and has many excellent qualities.
In other words, a girl starts working as a slave in her parents' home. When she grows up and marries a husband, she works like a slave. When she has children, she works like a slave for them until the end of her life.
Of course, things have improved a lot since the founding of the People's Republic of China, but backward traditions cannot be completely changed in a short period of time. But at least compared with the past, people now live like human beings.
In fact, even after the new century, women are not allowed to sit at the table in most rural areas of the country.
For example, in some places, a son wanted to celebrate his mother's 60th birthday, but on the day of the birthday, the mother would just meet everyone briefly but would not sit at the table. Instead, after listening to everyone's festive words, she would have to go back to the kitchen to eat with other female family members.
This is getting off topic. Although Zhou Zhigang is a bit chauvinistic, he is still nice to Li Suhua.
Especially since he is busy with work on weekdays, Li Suhua can manage the family well and educate her three children well. She is a great mother and very amazing.
"Kun'er's mother!" someone shouted outside, and then a short and fat woman pushed the door open and walked into the room.
The visitor was Aunt Qiao, an old neighbor of the Zhou family and the mother of Zhou's mother Qiao Chunyan.
Obviously she is very familiar with the Zhou family and is Li Suhua's elder sister. She has no name in the original novel or the TV series, and everyone calls her Aunt Qiao.
She is a street clerk and a shrewd middle-aged woman.
"Hey, Auntie!" Zhou Rong was absent-mindedly cleaning the stove at the door. When she heard the voice, she knew it was Aunt Qiao coming in, so she quickly responded.
"Rong'er, where is your mother?" Aunt Qiao came in and asked with a smile.
"My mother is in the inner room!" Zhou Rong said with a smile.
"Auntie!" Zhou Bingyi greeted in the room.
"Hey!" Aunt Qiao responded, and continued to walk into the inner room, saying to Li Suhua, "Kun'er's mother!"
"His aunt! Come, come, come, sit down, sit down!" Li Suhua stood up and greeted.
"Busy?" Aunt Qiao walked into the inner room and said with a smile.
"Look, help them pack up their things before leaving!" Li Suhua smiled helplessly.
She was reluctant to let her husband and eldest son leave, but she could not stop the policy from above.
Zhou Rong poured some water for Aunt Qiao and brought it in, then came out to continue cleaning up.
Aunt Qiao came to talk about going to the countryside. Zhou Rong, Lin Hao, Zhou Bingyi, and even Li Suhua all knew about it.
Lin Hao went in, greeted Aunt Qiao, and made the fire in the iron stove burn a little brighter.
Before Lin Hao could say anything, Zhou Rong said excitedly: "Auntie, are you here to talk about going to the countryside?"
"That's right!" Aunt Qiao sat on the warm kang familiarly, withdrew her gaze from Zhou Rong, and then praised Li Suhua:
"Old sister, look at your Zhou Rong, she is indeed a top student, and she can predict the future like a god."
Zhou Rong raised her head high and glared at Lin Hao in a protesting manner, but Lin Hao was too lazy to pay attention to her and just quietly found a place to sit down.
When Li Suhua saw her youngest son enter the house, he looked calm and composed. As a mother, she felt uncomfortable.
The one she loved the most was this old son, who was also the closest to her, but was not liked by her husband. Whenever Li Zhigang encountered something unpleasant, he would take it out on this youngest son.
Thinking that his most beloved son was about to leave, Li Suhua sighed slightly:
"His aunt, our Bingyi is about to leave for the Construction Corps."
"Bingyi has a promising future!" Aunt Qiao looked back and forth between Zhou Rong and Lin Hao, and interrupted Li Suhua before she could finish her words:
"Now the regulations have come down. In a family with many children, only one person can stay in the city. The rest are to go to the countryside. No matter sooner or later, they have to go. This is the path that all young people must take now!"
"Well, we also have three children in our family, and now only our oldest daughter, Chunyan, is left at home!"
When Li Suhua heard this, she looked even more worried. She didn't know which one to let go or which one to keep.
"Kun'er, Rong'er!" Li Suhua hesitated for a moment, called Lin Hao and Zhou Rong over and said:
"What your Aunt Qiao said is also related to you. What do you think?"
After hearing her mother's words, Zhou Rong immediately raised her hand impatiently: "I'm willing to go!" "I'm willing to go too." Lin Hao also spoke directly. It doesn't matter whether to go or not, maintaining one's personal image is very important.
If he is really asked to go to the countryside, there are naturally other ways to change the Zhou family, but will Zhou Rong give up looking for Feng Huacheng?
"Hmph! I'm older than you!" Zhou Rong snorted heavily and said with a proud look on her face.
"I'm still a man!" Lin Hao retorted.
Anyway, they have no decision-making power, so just mess around. In the end, the head of the Zhou family will have to make the final decision.
Besides, even if she decided to settle down, Zhou Rong would still go to Cai Xiaoguang and ask him to help her find a way to go to Guizhou and marry Feng Huacheng.
"What era is this? Men and women are the same!" Zhou Rong retorted angrily.
She looked down on the boys of the same age in the photon film. The only one she admired was her elder brother Zhou Bingyi. She couldn't like her younger brother Zhou Bingkun.
But this old jerk actually snatched the opportunity from her to go to the countryside. Of course Zhou Rong refused!
No one can stop her from pursuing noble love!
"Suhua, your two children are really great. Other people's children are all vying not to go, but yours is vying to go." Aunt Qiao said with a smile.
"It would be great if everyone didn't have to go!" Li Suhua said dejectedly, with reluctance in her eyes.
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"That won't do. This is a state requirement and it must be enforced. You have three children, so only one can stay. Even if he refuses to leave, he won't have a job and will just sit there idle. Won't he become a useless person?" Aunt Qiao was afraid that Li Suhua would regret it, so she quickly advised.
Li Suhua was in a dilemma. She was reluctant to let Zhou Bingyi go, but he was the eldest son and not young anymore, so he had to leave.
Now that one of Zhou Rong and Zhou Bingkun is going to leave, she feels even more reluctant and is extremely conflicted, not knowing who to let go.
"Kun'er's mother, please give us your opinion on who should go?" Aunt Qiao asked.
"Sister, who do you think is suitable to go?" Li Suhua asked awkwardly: "If you stretch out these ten fingers, which one can you bite without hurting?"
"Well, if you ask me, it's better for Bingkun to go. The boy will be safer!" Aunt Qiao thought about it and couldn't help but suggest.
Logically speaking, no matter what advice she gave, it would be inappropriate, after all, it was the Zhou family's business, but when she saw the beautiful Zhou Rong, she couldn't help but give some advice.
It is easy for girls to suffer disadvantages when going to the countryside, and Zhou Rong is so pretty, so it would be easy for something to go wrong.
"Aunt, Bingkun is still young, let me go!" Zhou Rong said hurriedly.
The reason why she wanted to go to the countryside was because she had someone she liked outside. She wanted to travel thousands of miles to pursue love.
"You're a girl, so let Bingkun go." Aunt Qiao shook her head. She knew more. A beautiful girl like Zhou Rong would be harmed sooner or later after going to the countryside.
"Aunt, Chunyan's two sisters are not boys either, right?" Zhou Rong said unhappily.
"That's different. My family has no choice. I'm worried about my two daughters, but they can't stay. They have to go." Aunt Qiao said helplessly.
The reason why she is so enthusiastic about doing these things is that she wants to get some care and find a better way out for the children.
"Aunt, I'd better go to the countryside." Zhou Rong still insisted:
"You were worried about the two sisters Chunyan, so you let them go, didn't you?"
Aunt Qiao looked at Zhou Rong and said to her earnestly:
"If I put you and my two girls together, I would trust my two girls, but I would not trust you!"
Aunt Qiao simply said it all, and said bluntly:
"You are so attractive and beautiful. Do you know how many people in our Photon Film are thinking about you?"
"So, isn't it just right for me to leave the photon sheet?" Zhou Rong said more confidently after hearing this.
Aunt Qiao quickly shook her head and advised:
"Normally there's nothing to do in our Photon Film. We're all neighbors, so just watch it! It won't cost you a thing!"
"But you can't be sure what will happen after you go out. There are all kinds of people out there. When you go to the countryside, you don't know anyone there, and it's still not safe for a girl!"
"Rongrong, what your Aunt Qiao said makes sense!" Li Suhua was somewhat moved by what she heard, so she couldn't help but say:
"Rongrong, why don't you stay here? After all, a girl's good life only lasts a few years!"
Auntie, Mom! Zhou Bingyi, who was reading a book, listened to the conversation in the inner room. After thinking for a long time, he walked out and said:
"My suggestion is that Zhou Rong stay and Bing Kun go!"
"Brother~!" Zhou Rong shouted anxiously.
"Although Bingkun is the youngest in our family, he has graduated from junior high school and is qualified to go to the countryside. I believe others can do it, and he can do it too!"
"How do you know I can't do it?" Zhou Rong said angrily.
"Do you want me to repeat what Aunt Qiao said?" Zhou Bingyi said angrily.
"Mom~!" Zhou Rong was extremely anxious and wanted to say something.
"Let's do this, Rong'er. Wait for your dad to come back and discuss it together!" Li Suhua said at a loss.
"I'm back!" Zhou Zhi's voice came from outside.
Zhou Zhigang is of medium build and a little overweight, which is rare in this era. However, his face shows signs of fatigue, and one can vaguely tell that he was a handsome man in the past.
Their family took a family photo during the Chinese New Year, and he went to pick it up early this morning. He just came back from Dongsheng Photo Studio.
He is about to leave for Chongqing to participate in the construction of the Third Front. He is an eighth-level technical worker and an indispensable talent.
"Look, speak of the devil and he'll appear!" Aunt Qiao stood up and said with a smile.
"Hey, his aunt, she's here, please sit down." Zhou Zhigang walked into the inner room and greeted Aunt Qiao.
In fact, he also knew what Aunt Qiao was here for, and he was worried about this too!
"No, I have to go!" Aunt Qiao stood up and said with a smile:
"I still need to mobilize other people. You guys, hurry up and discuss it. Let me know when you have any results so I can report to the director."
She walked out while talking.
"I'll see you off!" Li Suhua escorted Aunt Qiao out.
After Aunt Qiao left, Zhou Zhigang took off his scarf and gloves, and sat on the edge of the kang.
The family of five gathered together, with Zhou's father and mother sitting on the kang and the three children standing in front of them.
"Did you get the group photo back?" Zhou Rong asked with a smile.
"Well, I developed five photos, one for each person!" Zhou Zhigang said, taking out the freshly developed photos from his pocket and giving one to each person.
Finally, he handed the white paper envelope containing the negative to Li Suhua, and said:
"This is the negative. Keep it at home. You must preserve it well!"
Everyone took this precious black-and-white photo and took a group photo, looking at it carefully.
Lin Hao also took the photos and sat on the edge of the kang side by side with Zhou Zhigang, thinking about the order in which Zhou Zhigang had just sent the photos, which were: Li Suhua, Zhou Rong, Zhou Bingyi and him.
The order in which the photos were posted might have been something Zhou Zhigang did casually, but from childhood to adulthood, he always encouraged and educated his eldest and second oldest children, who were both good in character and academic performance, while he always used the stick to educate his youngest son.
No matter whether the youngest son does well or not, it is difficult for him to get recognition from his father.