Chapter 1023
A family reunion
Chapter 1023 Family Reunion
Zhou Bingyi's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he looked at Yao Lisong and asked, "What do you have in mind?"
"I can help you analyze it first!" Although Yao Lisong wanted to help, he still wanted to test it out to see how determined Zhou Bingyi was.
"You say!" Zhou Bingyi immediately became excited after hearing that.
Yao Lisong asked solemnly: "Bingyi, tell me honestly, is it that difficult to break up with Hao Dongmei?"
"I'm sure you know about Dongmei's family affairs. I am everything to her now. At this time and under this situation, breaking up with her is tantamount to asking for her life!" Zhou Bingyi said heavily.
"Tsk~!" Thinking of Hao Dongmei's family, Yao Lisong also said with emotion: "It's really pitiful!"
"It's not because of pity!" Zhou Bingyi immediately retorted when he heard it.
"Is it still because of love?" Yao Lisong said expressionlessly.
"Yes!" Zhou Bingyi said without hesitation and in a loud voice.
Seeing Zhou Bingyi's determined eyes, Yao Lisong began to believe that Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei were truly in love.
Zhou Bingyi then slowly recounted his past with Hao Dongmei, from their first acquaintance to meeting Hao Dongmei's father. After seeing the situation of the photon film, he promised to help them solve their housing problem.
Yao Lisong was moved when he heard this and said, "A good official, upright, sober, conscientious, and responsible!"
"How many people take it for granted!"
"Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it. This is the truth, and everyone knows it. But when the truth is said too often, it becomes slang, and not many people take it to heart!"
After sighing, Yao Lisong asked again: "Then~, uh, did he finally fulfill his promise?"
"It's been a month since he came to our house, so he is also~, powerless~!"
After listening to Zhou Bingyi's words, Yao Lisong thought of his own experience back then, and then said with some emotion:
"If you go, you will be at the deputy regimental commander level, and I have been a soldier for 20 years, and I am only a deputy regimental commander now!"
"Of course, you are definitely more talented than me, but I can make up for my shortcomings with hard work! When I was still in the local area, I always did my best in the things I was responsible for!"
"As for the extra work, like sweeping the yard, cleaning the toilet, I'm always in the lead, no one can beat me!"
"I have been a soldier for 20 years and have only taken eight vacations. My wife and children have always lived in my hometown in the south. The reason I didn't let them follow the army was because I was afraid they would suffer!"
"To be honest with you, I went home to visit my family several times, and my own son called me uncle when he saw me!" Yao Lisong said this with tears in his eyes.
Zhou Bingyi looked at Yao Lisong in shock. He didn't expect that Yao Lisong, who seemed a little slick in his eyes, also had these unknown sad stories.
"Of course, we've strayed off topic!" Yao Lisong sighed, then said solemnly:
"Bingyi, success requires talent, hard work, but also luck!"
"For example, if it wasn't Deputy Political Commissar Ming who was in charge of the reception last time he came to inspect the division, or if it wasn't you who was in charge of the reception!"
"Do you know what will happen?" Yao Lisong asked solemnly, answering his own questions:
Then you are still you. No matter how hard you work or how talented you are, you have to stay here. In the future, you can only endure day by day and climb up step by step. This road is not easy!
"But you are lucky, a big pie fell directly from the sky!"
"That's a good metaphor!" Zhou Bingyi folded his arms and said with a wry smile:
"If you don't consider the air factor, a pie falling from the sky is considered a free fall. One times ten times a thousand equals ten thousand, which means that if you want to catch this pie, you have to withstand a force of ten thousand kilograms!"
"Haha, if he doesn't die, he will be seriously injured, or even torn to pieces!" Yao Lisong said with a smile.
Yao Lisong then pondered for a moment before asking, "Is Hao Dongmei so important?"
"Ok!"
Looking at Zhou Bingyi's determined eyes, I immediately understood his determination.
Yao Lisong then gave up the hesitation and handed the newspaper to Zhou Bingyi and said:
"Here's a way to have the best of both worlds, but whether it can succeed or not, that depends on fate!"
"What? Where?" Zhou Bingyi said excitedly, then looked at the newspaper, but did not see any useful solutions.
"Look carefully, it says here, curing illnesses and saving lives..."
"Especially the veteran cadres!" Yao Lisong then said with a smile:
"Does your Hao Dongmei's father meet the above requirements?"
Zhou Bingyi felt his eyes light up, and all the fog dissipated before his eyes. Then he said excitedly:
"There is always a way out, there is always a way out!"
Yao Lisong smiled and said, "I'll help you find the director!"
"Well, what the director says doesn't count!" Zhou Bingyi said after a moment of hesitation.
Yao Lisong said angrily: "You are stupid. Let the director take this so that he can communicate and coordinate with his superiors!"
"Even if we don't succeed, it's better than just staying here!"
"Thanks, Lao Yao!" Zhou Bingyi said gratefully.
Seeing Zhou Bingyi's attitude, Yao Lisong then said with deep emotion:
"Bingyi, don't believe in the bullshit that gold will always shine. Based on my more than 30 years of life experience, this gold will never shine even if it is covered by a rag, and no one will see it!"
"To sum it up in one sentence, when the opportunity comes, seize it firmly!"
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Not long after, the director brought good news that Hao Dongmei's father could be saved, and the matter between Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei was naturally no longer an obstacle.
Zhou Bingyi will report directly to the military district after the new year and serve as secretary to Deputy Political Commissar Ming.
Afterwards, Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei immediately submitted a marriage application and quickly completed the wedding in the Corps.
After the two got married, Hao Dongmei applied to join the army in the name of a family member, and after a year, she followed Zhou Bingyi to the military region.
After everything was settled, the two applied to return home to visit their relatives, and there were still six days before the Chinese New Year.
Fortunately, Jiangliao is not far away, and a train ride only takes more than a day.
When Zhou Bingyi, full of high spirits, walked out of the station carrying the luggage in one hand and holding Hao Dongmei in the other, he immediately saw Zhou Bingkun not far away.
"Bingkun!" Zhou Bingyi waved his hands and shouted, showing a hearty smile.
"Brother, sister-in-law!"
Lin Hao saw Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei from a distance, and then hurried forward to help them carry their luggage.
"Bingkun, long time no see!"
"Here we are!" Lin Hao greeted with a smile.
"You've grown up. You've matured a lot after not seeing you for so many years!" Zhou Bingyi said with emotion. Looking at his younger brother, who inadvertently exuded the aura of being in the system, Zhou Bingyi laughed. He didn't expect that the least talented younger brother in the family would be more promising than Zhou Rong.
Thinking of this, Zhou Bingyi wanted to go home more urgently to see his relatives.
"People have to grow up eventually, and you're going to be a father soon. You can't act like a child and be out of tune all day long!" Lin Hao explained with a smile.
As if seeing his anxious mood, Lin Hao said:
"Let's go. I'll take you home together!" Then Lin Hao said, "Originally, Mom and Dad wanted to come pick you up, as well as Zhou Rong and Chunyan. But if they all come, we won't be able to take you back..."
As he said this, he led the two of them to the outside of the station, where a car had already been parked.
Looking at the car, Zhou Bingyi was somewhat shocked, so he said in a daze:
"Bingkun, you are getting better and better now. What's your current rank? The factory even gave you a car?"
Lin Hao smiled and said, "The factory was going to give me a car, but I refused because it would have a bad influence!"
"But it's not a problem to borrow it occasionally to drive around and pick someone up!"
"As for my rank, I'll be a deputy section chief after the new year. I'm definitely not as good as your deputy regiment commander, but the factory is planning to make me a regular employee after the new year..."
Then Lin Hao talked about some interesting things and achievements in the tractor factory over the years.
Zhou Bingyi had received Lin Hao's letter, so he naturally knew that he had joined the tractor factory and worked as a technician.
Initially he was a little bit unconvinced. After all, who could have thought that someone who had not even finished the second year of junior high school could become a technician? Isn't this nonsense!
But three years have passed. Even if I don’t believe it, I have to believe it when the facts are in front of me.
I just didn't expect that my younger brother would be so successful and has already become an associate professor. He is catching up in my footsteps!
Back at Photon Film, Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei looked at the somewhat unfamiliar house and felt a little emotional. The Zhou family had really changed a lot.
Hao Dongmei had been to Zhou's house before. Not only Hao Dongmei, but also her father had come to Zhou's house for inspection when he came to inspect Photon Film.
But at that time he came as a leader, and Hao Dongmei came as Zhou Bingyi's classmate.
Lin Hao asked someone to drive the car back, and the Zhou family was waiting at the door to welcome Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei.
"Mom and Dad, this is your daughter-in-law Dongmei!"
"Mom and Dad~!"
"This is Bingkun's wife, Chunyan, your sister-in-law!"
"Brother and sister!"
"Sister-in-law!"
“This is...!” Then the family members got to know each other.
Well, it always feels a bit weird that the whole family still needs to get to know each other. Although strictly speaking, everyone has actually met each other before, it is indeed a bit weird.
But there is nothing that can be done about it. The family is separated by thousands of miles and the children are married, so it is normal that they don't know each other.
Strictly speaking, the only people who didn't know the Zhou family at all were Hao Dongmei and Qiao Chunyan. They both knew the Zhou family members individually but had never met them.
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Under the warm light, Zhou's father and son sat around a table with food. Zhou Rong, Qiao Chunyan, and Hao Dongmei, several sisters-in-law, were busy preparing dinner.
Seeing this heartwarming scene, Zhou Zhigang smiled. This was the day he liked. He then said with emotion:
"It's great that everyone can come back this year. The family is finally reunited!"
Lin Hao smiled and said: "Not only are we reunited, but we also have a new baby!"
"Yes, yes, the Zhou family will soon have a third generation!" Then he looked at Lin Hao and asked, "When is Chunyan's due date?"
Lin Hao looked at Qiao Chunyan, who was chatting with her sister-in-law in the kitchen, and said with a smile: "After the New Year, if you calculate the time, there is still about half a month left!"
"There's still more than half a month left!" Zhou Zhigang thought that he still had more than half a month left for his family visit, but he had to go back four days in advance, so he probably wouldn't be able to make it. So he couldn't help but sigh:
"I really want to see my grandson being born before returning to the mountain city!"
At this time, the three sisters-in-law, under the leadership of the mother-in-law Li Suhua, brought the last few dishes to the table.
Then everyone couldn't help but smile, and Lin Hao immediately called out, "Come on, come on, stop busying yourself, everyone sit down and eat!"
Li Suhua supported Qiao Chunyan and said, "Come, sit here, it's warm here!"
After Qiao Chunyan sat down, she pulled Hao Dongmei to sit next to Zhou Bingyi, then said with a smile:
"Don't bother yourself. Your task today is to sit here and eat!"
Zhou Bingyi also smiled and joked:
"Come, take a seat too. You are lucky to be born in New China. In the past, you wouldn't even be allowed to sit at the table with your status!"
Although she knew that Zhou Bingyi was joking, Hao Dongmei felt uncomfortable and then stood up and pretended to leave.
Zhou Zhigang quickly pulled Zhou Bingyi, and Li Suhua also pulled Hao Dongmei to sit down, and at the same time scolded Zhou Bingyi:
"What nonsense are you talking about! Feudal superstition!"
"This is floating!" Lin Hao thought to himself.
Lin Hao had previously placed a mental mark on Zhou Bingyi and had been keeping an eye on him. After discovering his opportunity for promotion, he had been secretly helping him.
For example, with the help of Yao Lisong, and the report submitted, which described Hao Dongmei's father as an old comrade who could be saved, if it had not been for Lin Hao's secret help, Zhou Bingyi would not have encountered such a good thing this time, which not only allowed him to be successfully promoted, but also got the beauty, and saved Hao Dongmei from suffering.
Therefore, Zhou Bingyi did not, as in the original drama, try to get close to the Hao family in order to be with Hao Dongmei, and thus lost this hard-earned opportunity for promotion.
He was probably thinking that after the new year he would be able to go to the military district and become the secretary of Deputy Political Commissar Ming, so he acted in a carefree and unrestrained manner, losing his usual caution.
So Lin Hao pretended to be angry and said:
"It's been more than 20 years since the founding of the country, and you're still the deputy regiment commander. How come your ideological awareness is still so low?"
Zhou Bingyi is not a fool. Although everyone seems to be persuading him and speaking in a joking tone, how could he not know that he said the wrong thing?
So Zhou Bingyi immediately pulled Hao Dongmei and said:
"I'm just kidding you, you're not taking it seriously, are you? How can you not let us have it on the table during Chinese New Year?"
"Listen to your mother-in-law and sit down to eat."
After Zhou Bingyi's persuasion, Hao Dongmei's expression remained unchanged, but she felt better and sat down.
Only Zhou Rong seemed like a transparent person in this family, completely losing her former spirit.
Fortunately, Li Suhua had not forgotten her daughter. She pulled Zhou Rong to sit next to her, and then the family happily ate the reunion dinner.