My mother is getting married, Xiao Wei is so handsome

Chapter 254 Zhou Zihang's Story

"Who's looking pale? It's because I have the wrong foundation shade."

As Wang Chenchen spoke, she calmed her nervous heartbeat. She secretly glanced at her husband and daughter, and was relieved to see that neither of them had exposed her.

Seeing this, Youyou and Fang Jing looked at each other and both laughed.

Wei Shuqing was a person who couldn't sit still, so she rolled up her sleeves and went into the kitchen with Wang Chenchen to help.

Her sister-in-law is a real kitchen killer.

According to Wang's mother, before Wang Chenchen got married, she fried eggs and they turned into charcoal.

After becoming a mother, her cooking skills improved a little and the food she made was edible, but it was just edible.

This is the first time that the future son-in-law is visiting. Wang Chenchen, the future mother-in-law, should restrain herself and not make the new son-in-law feel sick again.

Wei Shuqing has been doing research and development in the kitchen these days. She got started right away and is very familiar with cooking.

Wang Chenan was not idle either. He brought Tuantuan Yuanyuan and his elder brother Niu Niu to help Fang Jing with all the running around.

Zhou Yanran held little Yansi in her arms and smiled: "You know what, seeing you guys all so busy, it really feels like Chinese New Year."

"Youyou's boyfriend is called Zhou Zihang. Come to think of it, he's actually from your family!"

Fang Jing's face was full of smiles, and he was busy showing off his new son-in-law, "He's also a doctoral supervisor and a cultured person. We in the Fang family like cultured people."

"Zhou Zihang." Zhou Yanran frowned, "This name sounds familiar."

She did know a Zhou Zihang, but she didn't know if he was the same person as Youyou's boyfriend.

Niu Niu smiled and tried to smooth things over: "There are many people with the same name in this world. This may not be the Zhou Zihang you know."

"That's true."

Zhou Yanran agreed and teased Xiao Yansi, but she felt a little uneasy in her heart.

Wei Shuqing is different because she comes from a professional background. With the help of Sister Zhang and Wang Chenchen, a large table of dishes was served in no time.

The dishes were quite good, including steamed king crab, fried lobster, spicy fried flower crab, golden soup fish maw and sea cucumber, pepper and salt spare ribs, garlic vegetables, broccoli with shrimp, four-happiness meatballs, stir-fried amaranth, cold bamboo shoots, mixed vegetables, sesame oil pig ears, braised pig trotters, and wild mushroom pot. The table was filled with them.

Yuanyuan, the little foodie, was so happy that her eyes lit up: "Oh my god, it really is Chinese New Year!"

As she said this, she was about to reach out to grab a piece of pig's ear.

"Don't move!" Zhou Yanran quickly grabbed her and said, "The guests haven't arrived yet, my little aunt."

"Okay, okay, I'll eat later. Why hasn't my cousin-in-law come yet?"

Yuanyuan's saliva was almost dripping.

Seeing this, Youyou couldn't help but smile and said, "Okay, my little greedy cat, you can eat more later."

As soon as he finished speaking, the doorbell rang. Sister Zhang went to open the door and saw Zhou Zihang standing outside with a gift in his hand.

She is tall and graceful, with an elegant temperament.

His appearance was not particularly striking, but rather handsome and well-proportioned. He wore silver-rimmed glasses, a simple and neat white shirt, and well-ironed trousers.

You can tell at first glance that he is a cultured person.

"You came."

Youyou walked forward with a smile and held Zhou Zihang's hand.

Zhou Zihang shook Youyou's hand openly and looked at the people in the room without any stage fright: "This is my first time visiting, so I brought a small gift for my uncle and aunt. It's not a big deal, but I hope you don't mind."

He has participated in many academic seminars and is already familiar with dealing with such situations.

He handed the tea, silk scarf, wine and fruit he brought to Sister Zhang and looked at Youyou with a smile.

"Xiaoyou, won't you introduce me?"

Youyou nodded: "This is my father, mother, uncle, aunt, my brother Niuniu, and my sister-in-law Yanran..."

Zhou Zihang greeted everyone one by one, but his expression changed when he saw Zhou Yanran.

"Zhou Yanran?"

He obviously didn't expect that the world is so small that he could meet acquaintances in this place.

Zhou Yanran sneered: "I didn't expect it was really you, Zhou Zihang."

"What's wrong, Yanran?"

Youyou noticed something was wrong with the two of them and subconsciously stood in front of Zhou Zihang.

Zhou Yanran pointed at Zhou Zihang with a cold face and said, "You don't know, Youyou, his original surname wasn't Zhou. His name was Zhao Zihang. He was married once, and Zhou is the surname he took from his wife's family."

When a woman marries into her husband's family, her children take her surname. Sometimes, even the man has to change his surname to his wife's. This is not uncommon in rural areas.

Many families without sons invite a son-in-law to continue the family line.

There are also many young people who come from poor families and have nowhere else to go. In order to survive, they become sons-in-law in other people's homes.

Zhou Zihang was Zhou Yanran's cousin and Zhou Anran's son-in-law.

Zhou Zihang lives in a small mountain village. His family is poor. His parents work as farmers and support nine children. After arranging the marriage for the eldest son, the family has spent all its money and can no longer provide any help to the remaining five sons.

Zhou Zihang is smart, good at studying, and handsome, but his family is too poor, so he can't continue his studies or get married.

Coincidentally, Zhou Yanran's sister, Zhou Anran, came from a relatively wealthy family and had only one daughter, who was a mute.

In order to continue the family line, Uncle Zhou spent five hundred yuan and arranged for Zhou Anran to marry Zhao Zihang from Zhaojiagou ten years ago.

Uncle Zhou was quite traditional and insisted that Zhao Zihang change his surname to Zhou. He had only one wish, which was that the son-in-law he found could give birth to a boy with the surname Zhou and take good care of his mute daughter.

At the beginning, Zhou Zihang was honest and hardworking. He didn't talk much, but he picked up the farm work quickly and worked efficiently. He was diligent and clean, respected the two elders of the Zhou family, and was also good to Zhou Anran.

Although Zhou Anran cannot speak, she is pretty and gentle, honest and family-oriented. She can cook delicious meals and keeps the house in order.

The young couple lived in harmony for a while. Zhou Anran soon became pregnant and gave birth to a son named Zhou Jiye.

The Zhou family elders were content with having a grandson, so they agreed to Zhou Zihang's request to go abroad to study and provided him with travel expenses and tuition fees.

They believed that having a son was like having a kite string. Where could Zhou Zihang fly to?

What father doesn't care about his son?

However, they were wrong. Zhou Zihang never returned. For more than ten years, there was no news from him and he never came home again.

Zhou Anran was anxious and went to Soochow University with his father, but found that there was no one named Zhou Zihang at Soochow University.

It was only then that the Zhou family realized that they had been cheated.

Zhou Anran was devastated and fell ill from then on and died soon after.

The two elders of the Zhou family were left behind and are still struggling to raise Zhou Jiye. Even at an old age, they still work in the fields and tend to the fruit trees.