Chapter 0010 Legendary History of Zhou Family ()

Zhou Ming made the three old ladies in the room happy with just one sentence. The wrinkles on their faces were squeezed by their smiles, like three blooming chrysanthemums.

Lao Genzi smiled and said, "Oh, look, look, Grandma Six, your baby grandson is really good at speaking!"

The old Ren family also smiled and said, "This child Zhou Ming is so sweet, so I'm looking forward to enjoying his blessings."

Grandma Six was even more happy. Zhou Ming's words were mentioned to her. Who else did not expect to enjoy the blessings of her own grandchildren or even her great-grandchild?

After a while, Grandma Six stopped her smile and stared at one of her grandsons and granddaughters. She seemed to remember the past, sighed and said, "How happy would it be if your grandfather was still alive!"

After hearing this, the old Ren family sighed and said, "Oh, Grandpa Six is ​​not that fate. He suffered such a great injustice at a young age, and he couldn't stand it even if he was angry or sick. After all, you have survived it, so don't think about the past." After that, he sighed.

Zhou Ming's expression moved when he heard this. He had never seen his grandfather since he was born. He didn't even know when his grandfather died, but only knew that he died very early.

When he was ten years old and just sensible, his father passed away and his family changed drastically. He became taciturn, indifferent to everything, and even more lazy to ask about the past things of the family.

Now Zhou Ming is not really ten years old, but the heart of an adult in his thirty years old. When he heard his grandmother talk about his grandfather, he naturally didn't want to miss it. He immediately asked: "Grandma, what kind of injustice did my grandfather suffer? What's going on in our family? Why are they poorer than others?"

When Grandma Sixth heard her grandson ask, she was sad and raised her hand to wipe her tears. Then she recalled the memories and choked up and talked about the past.

It turned out that Zhou Ming's ancestor was a peddler who walked alleys in the Qing Dynasty. Once he went out to sell goods, he accidentally picked up a cloth bag. His ancestor was honest and worried that the person who lost his food was anxious, so he waited for two days and two nights where he picked up the cloth bag, but found that no one was looking for it.

In desperation, he returned home with the cloth on his back. He opened the cloth and poured it out. Something surprising happened. A pile of golden gold ingots rolled out of the cloth!

The ancestor was a very honest man. Seeing that there were such precious gold and silver treasures in the cloth, the person who thought that the things were lost must be extremely anxious, so he put the gold ingots back, prepared enough dry food, and carried the cloth to return to the place where he was picking it up.

But I waited for ten days this time, let alone someone came to find a cloth bag, but he hadn't seen anyone in the place where he stood for ten days.

Later, after eating the dry food he brought, no one came. Only then did he realize that it was a fortune from heaven and that it was the wealth given to him by God.

The honest but not stupid person of the ancestors, after returning home, he used the gold ingots in this bag as capital and started to do business.

It doesn’t matter if you do business this way, it’s going smoothly, getting better and better, and gradually gaining fame. As the population grows, the family also grows.

The Zhou family has been the richest man in a radius of hundreds of miles until the generation of Zhou Ming’s grandfather Zhou Xiu!

Zhou Xiu did not forget his ancestors and knew that his ancestors had made their homes by picking up a cloth and having the capital to do business. He built bridges and roads, did good deeds, applied cotton in winter and singles in summer, and was called Zhou Da charity by his neighbors around him.

Zhou Xiu has done a lot of good deeds, but when he reached his grandson's generation, Zhou Ming's grandfather's generation, he had several prodigal sons.

As the saying goes, "We are rich for three generations." Zhou Ming's grandfather had nine brothers in his generation, and he ranked sixth and was considered the number one figure in this generation.

But no matter how capable he is and how hard he manages, he can't compare to the speed of the other eight playboy brothers' food, drink, whore and gambling. So his family fell into trouble.

However, the lean camel is bigger than a horse. By the time Zhou Ming's uncle Zhou Zhenguang was born, the old Zhou family still had some family backgrounds, which was second to none in the ten miles away.

At this time, it was nearly 1940. Although the old Zhou family had a decline in their family, in terms of wealth, only the Wei family in the town could compete with their old Zhou family.

Therefore, the two families also married Zhou Ming's uncle and a girl from the Wei family.

The difference between the Wei family and the Zhou family is that the Wei family is a scholarly family. The males in the family recognize their own characters and have their own school. They can see the changes in the country clearly; while the Zhou family is self-proclaimed and is a typical landlord and rich man.

By 1949, the Wei family followed GMD to Taiwan Province, but no one in the Zhou family could see the domestic form clearly. They could only guard the only old house in their home and sit in the empty house.

After the Wei family moved away, Zhou Ming's uncle Zhou Zhenguang's engagement naturally turned into a bubble. Therefore, Zhou Zhenguang's marriage was delayed.

The founding of the Republic was followed by a surging and vigorous land reform.

Before Zhou Ming's grandfather could think about it, he was offended by several villagers who had made enemies and reported it to him and was classified as landlords.

Thousands of acres of fertile land were confiscated overnight, all the property was confiscated, the Zhou family courtyard was moved clean, and Zhou Ming's grandfather was criticized by people every day with the landlord's sign.

Zhou Ming's grandfather became penniless from a pampered and famous landlord Laocai and became a revolutionary target for everyone to fight.

Such a change made Zhou Ming's grandfather unable to bear it. After two years, he couldn't get sick and returned home. He couldn't close his eyes even before he died.

After that, Zhou Ming's grandmother, with her three sons and a daughter, built a thatched hut in the vegetable field east of the village, and lived on begging for food.

Zhou Ming's father and brothers were naturally discriminated against and bullied as "landlords". He could not even ask for food in the village, so he had to go to other villages to ask for it.

I can’t even ask for food, let alone reading and reading.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Ming’s uncle Zhou Zhenguang never married for life, and his father Zhou Zhenliang got married at the age of 36!

This is a typical history of the rise and fall of a family.

Zhou Ming heard his grandmother talk about the past with tears and complaining. When he talked about the sadness, he couldn't cry.

The other two old ladies have experienced the past forty years since they got married. They also wiped their tears while listening, and occasionally added a few words about something that Grandma Six forgot to say.

Because, they are the branches and veins separated by a family of the Zhou family!

Uncle Zhou, who was thirty years old, was silent and didn't know how to comfort the three old men in the house.

The times are surging, and I can’t understand the changes in the world and the general trend of the country. So what if I have a wealthy family? Isn’t it gone into nothing in the blink of an eye?

Grandma's explanation is what she said as an experienced person who recalls the past, so she will naturally focus on and protect her own family, but Zhou Ming found the key point.

To put it bluntly, it means that you have no vision and cannot keep up with the changes of the times. A big family was completely submerged by the torrent of the times in an era of changing times!

Zhou Ming did not shed tears or sigh. After his grandmother finished speaking, he just sighed secretly and said to himself: "So that's it!"

Zhou Ming quietly said, obediently handing a hand towel to wipe his grandmother's tears, and he secretly swore in his heart:

"Do you have the Zhou family? I, Zhou Ming, have to rely on my own efforts to make these four words resound throughout China!"
Chapter completed!