Zhou Cong, although he is not as smart as his brother Zhou Nan, he has inherited a lot of excellent qualities from Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan.
He re-invested in filial piety, gave up the idea of going out and wandering after graduation, and stayed by Zheng Juan's side, waiting for his father Zhou Bingkun to get out of prison. He is full of compassion and love, like Zhou Bingkun, he is as affectionate and righteous, and he has no dislike for sun chaochao, Xiao Guoqing and other fathers' "poor friends" who have watched him grow up, only from the heartache and care.
He is down-to-earth and steady, and he will also be conscientious and determined to be a good journalist for his work that he does not like so much. He knows how to be grateful, not only knows how to feel sorry for his parents, but also appreciates the help of his uncle, uncle and other family members, and tries his best to give back.
Such Zhou Cong made Zheng Juan and Zhou Bingkun very pleased, but the only thing that made Zhou Bingkun dissatisfied was Zhou Cong's view of mate selection. In the original work, he married a woman who had "insulted" Zhou Bingkun.
First time I saw my daughter-in-law
Zhou Bingkun never thought that he would meet his daughter-in-law in that way.
That was after Zhou Bingkun was released from prison. Zhou Bingkun, who has not found a suitable job, "pulls his feet" on the street with Chao Chao and others to take on odd jobs, and Zhou Bingkun was over fifty years old at that time.
That winter, Zhou Cong's newspaper office built a new building, and it was necessary to move the contents of the old building into it as soon as possible. Since it was the eve of the Spring Festival, it was difficult for the newspaper to contact enough trucks for a while, and tricycles became their first choice.
In order to take on this big job, a group of tricycle drivers spontaneously organized together, Zhou Bingkun and Chao Chao and others were also among them, and Zhou Bingkun was even elected as the leader.
In fact, Zhou Bingkun did not want to be the head, he knew that this was the newspaper where his son worked, and he was worried about running into his son. But he couldn't stand everyone's request, so he agreed with a straight face.
Zhou Bingkun is a serious and responsible person, it doesn't matter if he doesn't agree, he will do a good job of this temporary "head" if he agrees.
The handling process is very confusing. On a snowy day, the drivers and newspaper staff were crowded in and out of the newspaper's compound. During this time, a coachman accidentally pushed down a cardboard box from the car, and the box contained a pot of Junzilan. The pot had been broken, but junzi orchid had lost only a few leaves.
Looking at Junzilan who had fallen to the ground, the coachman was embarrassed to apologize to junzilan's owner. However, a female reporter about the same age as Zhou Cong was not ready to accept the coachman's apology, and still pulled the coachman to ask for an explanation.
In this way, a quarrel occurred on both sides.
Several young men of the newspaper rushed up in an instant, supporting the female reporters, and asked the leaders of the coachmen to apologize and give compensation.
In order to calm things down, Zhou Bingkun said all the good things, and constantly bowed to the other party to apologize, and at the same time took out his wallet to prepare compensation.
The female reporter first said how valuable the pot of Junzilan was, and then said how much effort she had put in, and then reported an unacceptable amount.
When the honest and generous Zhou Bingkun heard the amount of money, he exploded in an instant, and he felt that the other party was deceiving people too much:
Hearing Zhou Bingkun's shouts, the young people behind the female reporters were ready to fight one by one. Seeing this situation, Chao Chao and a group of drivers all surrounded Zhou Bingkun at once.
However, Zhou Bingkun is not a reckless man, although he does not like the attitude of those people, he is really angry, but he is not ready to fight, just shouting:
Looking at the striking coachmen, the young men in the newspaper panicked. If this continues, the progress of the move will be delayed, and the leader will definitely blame it.
At this time, Zhou Cong, who was behind the crowd, came out to mediate.
At this time, Zhou Bingkun's face was angry, and due to the cold weather, a thin layer of frost had formed on his face. He did not want to pay attention to his son, but he could not stand his advice, and he was worried that his son would be affected by this, so he reluctantly went down the steps. After Zhou Cong apologized on behalf of his newspaper colleagues, the work of moving was able to continue.
After returning home, Zhou Bingkun was still angry in his heart, but it was not because he was looked down upon by the number of people during the day, but he learned from Zhou Cong's mouth that the female reporter who was unreasonable was actually his son's girlfriend.
Bingkun's concerns
Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan, in dealing with Zhou Cong's personal problems, have always been willing to let their sons choose independently.
But when he learns that his son's girlfriend is a person of that kind of character, pretentious, without basic empathy, and not kind enough, it makes it really difficult for him to accept:
For Zhou Bingkun, his ideal daughter-in-law is a woman like Zheng Juan, even if it is not comparable, it cannot be too far behind. Now his son's choice not only made him doubt his son's vision, but even began to worry.
On the one hand, he is well aware of the importance of a woman to the family. In other words, the wife largely determines the happiness index of the family. It was because of Zheng Juan that he made the Zhou family and himself feel happy and warm in the ordinary. He worried about what would happen if his son married such a person and the marriage was not happy.
On the other hand, it can be seen from that incident that the son and girlfriend are not good people to get along with. If the daughter-in-law is difficult to serve, it is not only the son who suffers, but also the mother-in-law Zheng Juan. He did not want Zheng Juan, who had suffered all her life, to see the face of her daughter-in-law in her later years, or to follow her son to the fire.
Therefore, for his son's choice, Zhou Bingkun expressed his firm opposition.
However, Zheng Juan's attitude on this matter is very optimistic. She was very happy to learn that her son had a girlfriend, after all, Zhou Cong was over 25 years old at that time and should have started a family a long time ago. Zheng Juan's only request is:
For this reason, Zheng Juan repeatedly told Zhou Cong, as long as you are both good.
Zheng Juan has suffered almost a lifetime, but this suffering is all the suffering of life, in the emotional and marriage, she and Zhou Bingkun have always loved each other and never abandoned.
In her eyes, this is the result of her and Zhou Bingkun's independent love together, so she is willing to let her son Zhou Cong also find someone she really likes, as long as her son and daughter-in-law are compatible and have good feelings, then she is willing to put down her posture as an elder to get along with her daughter-in-law.
Although Zheng Juan did not pay attention to Zhou Bingkun's worries, the attitude of the rest of the Zhou family was very profound.
When the Zhou family got together for the New Year, Zhou Rong cared about Zhou Cong's personal problems, and Zhou Cong said:
After Zhou Bingkun described the conflict and explained why he did not agree, Zhou Rong, Zhou Bingyi and Hao Dongmei did not make a clear statement, and after looking at each other, there was a long silence, and the topic was then diverted.
In fact, the silence of the rest of the Zhou family has shown that they agree with Zhou Bingkun's view, and they do not have much expectation and good feelings for people with such a personality. But after all, it is not their own child, some things, see through can not say broken, silent moment, represent opposition.
After marriage
With Zheng Juan's acquiescence and Zhou Bingkun's reluctance, Zhou Cong still married the female reporter.
But what Zheng Juan did not expect was that not all independent marriages would be happy. Although Zhou Bingkun's worries are not completely real, Zhou Cong's married life is indeed not as harmonious and happy as his parents.
At first, Zhou Cong's married life was relatively stable, and the two were renting a house in the city when they got married.
Not long after getting married, contradictions began to erupt. Zhou Bingkun had to act like a fire extinguisher, and often rushed to his son's house to extinguish the fire and mediate. About a year after marriage, Zhou Cong upgraded to become a father, in order to give the child a better growth environment, Zhou Cong loaned to buy a set of more than ninety square meters of hardcover second-hand house.
Watching her grandson land on the ground, Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan were also relieved, especially Zheng Juan, looking at the white and fat grandson, she could not close her mouth happily.
But the joy and stability of this new population did not last long.
Although Zhou Cong did not live with his parents, his marital status Zheng Juan and Zhou Bingkun have always known. Once Zheng Juan learned that her daughter-in-law had a quarrel with Zhou Cong because she was not satisfied with the style of the balcony window of the new house, she asked Zhou Bingkun worriedly what to do, and at that time, Zhou Bingkun no longer wanted to participate in her son's affairs:
Zhou Bingkun's non-participation is right.
Sometimes contradictions in marriage are inevitable, and there are few marriages where there are no disagreements and quarrels. As a parent, it is not suitable to participate excessively, so it is easy to upgrade the problems and contradictions that belong to the internal to the internal plus external, which is more detrimental to the solution of the problems of both parties in the marriage.
Zhou Bingkun carried this very clearly. However, not participating does not mean not worrying.
In their later years, Zhou Bingkun and Zheng Juan lived in a flat life and never experienced hardships and hardships again. They are grateful for life, grateful for all their families, grateful for each other's company, only Zhou Cong's marriage has become the most heart-wrenching thing in their later years, he does not know how long the marriage of his son and daughter-in-law can last.
Zhou Bingkun sighed in his heart for this:
I have to say that Zhou Cong's vision of choosing a mate is indeed inferior to his father Zhou Bingkun. Or to put it another way, he wasn't as lucky as Zhou Bingkun to meet a woman like Zheng Juan, and of course, it was undeniable that a "perfect" woman like Zheng Juan was indeed rare.
For real-life marital love, some of its truths need to be understood clearly.
On the one hand, no matter how beautiful love is, it cannot be immutable. Some are consumed by the trivialities of life, and some are sublimated in twists and turns. But even if it changes, don't erase its former beauty.
On the other hand, the happiness of marriage requires the joint efforts of both parties, and the results of this effort are mostly worthwhile.
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The long and huge volume shows the earth-shaking vicissitudes that China has experienced in the past 50 years.
The novel recounts the vicissitudes of an era, the ups and downs of a family. While completing their respective life missions, the family is also writing an epic poem of the lives of contemporary Chinese people.
"The World of Man" is divided into three volumes, taking a civilian area in a provincial capital city in the north as the background, taking the life trajectory of a commoner surnamed Zhou as a clue, from the 1960s to the 21st century 1010s after the reform and opening up, describing the great changes in Chinese society and the ups and downs of the people's lives in multiple angles, in multiple directions and at multiple levels.
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