"What will happen?"

Zhou Cong walked to the kang and sat down, and asked directly.

Zhou Ming immediately lowered his head and did not dare to say anything more.

Zhou Cong looked at him and said loudly, "What are you afraid of? Just say whatever you think. What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that I will eat you?"

Zhou Ming looked confused, "Brother, I..."

Even his eyes were a little evasive, and he was hesitant in his heart.

"Say it!" Zhou Cong's voice was low, but it gave Zhou Ming an irresistible majesty. "We are a family. If you have anything to say, just say it openly. Let's discuss it together. Don't keep it in your heart."

The Zhou family has always been like this. Even if there is any conflict, it is broken down and discussed.

Zhou Ming looked at Wang Zhong, then at Zhou Ling, and said extremely uneasily, "I want to say, is it a little too much for dad to do this? After all, he is our grandfather."

Zhou Cong nodded slightly, Zhou Cong's consideration was not unreasonable, before he could say anything.

But Zhou Ling next to her had already exploded. She bounced up, pointed at Zhou Ming's nose and scolded, "Zhou Ming, okay! You big traitor, it's a shame that our dad is so good to you, why are you elbowing..."

"..." He looked so excited, as if he was about to take action if he disagreed.

"Zhou Ling!" Zhou Cong glanced at her directly, "What are you doing! Tell me what you have to say."

Zhou Ling pointed at Zhou Ming with an angry look on her face, "Brother, Zhou Ming..."

"Okay, okay! Why, Zhou Ming is not targeting our dad."

Zhou Ming also quickly explained, "I'm just worried that if this matter gets out, others will say bad things about our dad."

"Who dares?" Zhou Ling's eyes widened, as if she was going to turn into minions and transform into a little tigress at the next moment.

"We have other people's mouths, and we can't control what others say!" Zhou Ming said worriedly.

Zhou Cong is quite pleased. Zhou Ming can think so, which shows that he has really matured a lot.

"Whoever dares to talk nonsense, I will smash his windows every day and bully his children to see if he still dares to speak ill of our father!" Zhou Ling said angrily.

Now Zhou Ling has become a crazy person who protects her father.

"Zhou Ling!" Zhou Cong heard the black line and scolded him with a straight face.

"Can you look like a big girl?"

"That's all I do!" Zhou Ling raised her head with an angry and arrogant look on her face.

Zhou Cong frowned and his face suddenly darkened, "Huh?"

Zhou Ling changed her face in a second, took Zhou Cong's hand, and said angrily, "Brother, I am also complaining for my father!"

"Okay, I don't blame you, big brother!" Zhou Cong is the kind of person who takes the soft side rather than the hard side.

Looking at Zhou Ling, she looked helpless and said, "What Zhou Ming said is not completely unreasonable. Rumors are like invisible knives, which are always the most hurtful. This matter has already happened, and we all must be mentally prepared."

No matter how grandpa treats our dad, he is our grandpa after all. He and grandma gave birth to our dad and raised our dad. In the eyes of outsiders, our dad's behavior is unfilial."

Zhou Ling's face drooped and she looked unhappy, "What kind of world is this! Don't you even know the difference between right and wrong?"

"The grace of having a child is beyond heaven. We can be angry with him, we can oppose his behavior, we can dislike him, but we can't hate him." Zhou Cong said sincerely.

"Actually, there is a reason why our dad made such a decision this time. It's not all because grandpa hit him this time. But you don't know these things, so it's no wonder Zhou Ming has this idea."

As he spoke, Zhou Cong sighed, his expression full of sadness.

"What's going on?" Zhou Ling blinked her bright eyes, frowning slightly, a little confused.

Little Tail was also sleepy and crawled to Zhou Cong, pricking up his ears and listening carefully.

Zhou Cong didn't say it directly, but asked, "Did you hear what grandma said today?"

"Grandma said it's like this again, and you're like this again. It's like this every time. Are you happy that our family has to be broken up?" Zhou Ling immediately learned the lesson.

"Did he treat our dad like this before?" Zhou Ling suddenly felt sorry for her father.

Zhou Mingren is not stupid, he just didn't think of this incident just now, and his expression changed accordingly.

"Bad grandpa, he only knows how to bully daddy." Little Tail also looked angry.

"Hey!" Zhou Cong sighed and said, "Actually, I shouldn't have told you about this, but since something like this happened today, there is no need to hide it, lest you have any trouble with our dad because of this.

What a misunderstanding."

As he spoke, he glanced at Zhou Ming.

"Brother, please tell me what's going on!" Zhou Ling grabbed Zhou Chong's arm anxiously and shook it.

Zhou Ming and Little Tail also looked at Zhou Cong seriously.

"I was still young at that time, it was 1978 or 1979, and my little tail was not born yet. You two were just a little bit older, and you had just learned to talk and walk not long ago."

Zhou Cong didn't see it with his own eyes at the time, but he heard it clearly outside the house. Afterwards, he quietly asked Li Suhua about it and got a rough idea of ​​what happened that day.

"Grandpa also had a disagreement, so he attacked our dad and kicked him far away. I remember that my mother just applied medicine to our dad for three days.

It was also from that day that we moved out of Guangzhou. Our house hadn't been built yet, so we had to live in my uncle's house, with the whole family crowded on the same kang.

I heard it clearly outside the house at that time. Although I can’t remember the specifics, I still remember the general situation. My father was so angry that he told my grandfather and uncle about the separation of the family on the spot. Grandpa seemed to be very angry too, and directly

Just tell our dad to go away and never look back at the photograms again.

Our family was divided like this, and my father didn’t want anything, not the house, the savings, nothing else, so he and our mother took a few of us and moved to my uncle’s house.”

"After we went there, our dad never went back to the old house."

"Even when I visited my grandparents during the Chinese New Year, they just dropped us off at the door and left."

When Zhou Cong said this, several children suddenly realized that Wang Zhong always used the excuse that something was wrong, but he never said what it was. They didn't ask, so they just believed it. They didn't expect that there was such a thing here.

out.

"Hmph!" Zhou Ling snorted, her smile turned red because she was angry.

The little tail smiled and almost stopped crying, "Our dad must be in pain!"

"It must hurt!" Zhou Ling said indignantly, "My dad has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and his body is as strong as an ox. In 1978, 1979, my dad was only 27 or 28 at that time. He was still in his prime, and he was as strong as an ox.

After taking medicine for three days, you can see how serious my grandfather is."

Zhou Ming had a stern look on his face, and he had already begun to regret that he had just stood up for Zhou Zhigang. "I'm sorry, brother, I shouldn't have said that without knowing the facts."

"It's okay!" Zhou Cong smiled lightly, imitating Wang Zhong, raising his hand and rubbing Zhou Cong's head, "You didn't mean it either."

"Hmph!" Zhou Ling curled her lips, glanced at Zhou Ming, and cursed "traitor."

Zhou Ming lowered his head in shame, his expression gloomy.

"Zhou Ling! That's it!"

"Hmph!" Zhou Ling snorted again, turned away, and finally stopped talking about Zhou Ming.

But Zhou Ming was already full of guilt at this moment.

Zhou Cong was quite helpless when he saw this, shook his head, raised his eyes with a look of recollection, and continued, "I was not as big as a little tail at that time. Although the impression was very deep, I can't remember many details clearly, and

At that time, our father asked our mother to take me and you Yueyue outside the house, probably because he didn’t want me and Yueyue to see grandpa beating him."

"Then why did grandpa beat our dad that time?" Zhou Ming asked impatiently.

Zhou Cong frowned and recalled, "Just because grandpa asked our dad to clean the public toilets, my dad refused to go, so he was beaten by grandpa."

"Why did grandpa ask our dad to clean public toilets? Is it because our dad did something wrong?" Zhou Ling asked.

"I was still young at that time, so I just went there because of my fear and didn't think much about it."

Zhou Cong shook his head, "Later, when I got a little older and started to understand things, I only found out the reason by asking around from my grandma and my mother."

"Brother! Can you speak without gasping and finish it in one breath?" Zhou Ling couldn't help stamping her feet anxiously, "I'm going to scare you to death."

Zhou Cong continued, "The reason was because my aunt's parents wanted to visit our house. At that time, my aunt's father was the top leader in our Jiangliao Province. My aunt's mother, the one we fought against last time, retired.

He was also a big leader in the province before. Grandma said that after grandpa knew that they were coming, he immediately asked the family to clean up the old house inside and outside, even the streets near the old house.

Let our dad clean the public toilets."

"Isn't this making a fuss out of a molehill?" Zhou Ling was very unhappy.

Zhou Cong said, "That's why my father is not happy. He said that there is no toilet at home, so there is no need to clean the public toilet. He also said that although my mother-in-law's parents are big leaders in the province, they are here to visit, not to inspect downstairs, so there is no need."

For all the superficial work, just keep the house clean and tidy."

"Grandpa was not happy and had a few arguments with our dad, and then he beat our dad."

"Is it because of this?" Zhou Ming and Zhou Ling asked at the same time, even their surprised expressions were exactly the same.

"Yes!" Zhou Cong said, "This is what grandma and mother said personally. One person may remember it wrong, but it is impossible for both of them to remember it wrong. And I am not completely ignorant of this matter."

Zhou Cong just can't remember the whole process of that day, but it's not that he has completely forgotten it.

"Just because of such a trivial matter, the old man beat our dad up and drugged him for three days?" Zhou Ling changed her name directly. She stopped calling her grandpa and became the old man.

If it was a minor injury, just apply some medicinal wine and some ointment and it would be fine. Even with Wang Zhong's physique, he had to take medicine for three days. One can imagine how heavy Zhou Zhigang's attack was at that time.

"Yeah!" Zhou Cong nodded and said, "Actually, it's much more than that. If grandpa just had a bad temper and liked to beat people up, with my father's temper, he wouldn't have ended up like what happened later."

"Why?" Zhou Ming asked curiously, which was also the doubt in Zhou Ling and Little Tail's mind.

Zhou Cong said just now that it was after that incident that his family moved out of the optical film, separated from Zhou Zhigang and Zhou Bingyi, and they didn't want anything. They went directly back to Zheng Juan's natal family and their uncle.

Squeezed into a house in Taiping Hutong.

You know, there were already Zhou Ming and Zhou Ling at that time. Their family of five, including Uncle Guangming, made a total of six people, living in one house.

Let’s think about their aunt, who has a family of three and lives in one room. She thought the place was small, so she left her daughter in their house for more than ten years.

Zhou Cong sighed, his tone full of sighs, "At first, I thought it was because my grandfather had a bad temper and an old-fashioned personality, and he was strict with our father and others. But later I found out that from the time our father was a child until we were born, my grandfather beat us."

There will always be only our dad."

"Why? Is it because our dad is naughty and disobedient?" The more this happened, the more Zhou Ming wanted to know.
To be continued...