Transmigration: On the Gossip Front
Chapter 264 True or False First Love 64_1

Chapter 264: Chapter 264 True or False First Love 64_1

Zhou Dajiang did not rest well all night; when he scolded Zhou Yong, he felt a sense of relief.

But in truth, he felt truly awful on the inside and really wanted to vent to someone.

Looking around, he realized he didn’t know whom to talk to; many past incidents had already created a rift between his family and Zhou Dahai’s.

Talking to his parents about it would surely lead to a lecture on how useless he was, how Zhou Yong was spoiled because of him.

Ever since Zhang Shifen and her family started living better and better, Zhou Dajiang could clearly feel his parents’ dissatisfaction with him growing.

After a long thought, he was horrified to discover that there seemed to be nobody to listen to his complaints but Zhang Shifen.

Zhang Shifen really felt like cursing when she was woken up early in the morning by Zhou Dajiang knocking on the door.

"Yesterday it was your son and daughter-in-law, today it’s you; what’s up? Your daughter-in-law volunteers to give up work."

"And you even think of asking me to help her find a job."

"What, I owe you? "

"First it was your niece, now it’s your daughter-in-law; why don’t you think about finding her the job?

"Really!"

"And Zhou Dajiang, I’ve already told Luo Lili that after she has the baby, I won’t take care of it."

Zhang Shifen vented her discontent fiercely once again, "Please, from now on, don’t think of me whenever you encounter problems."

"I don’t have time to deal with these things." Zhang Shifen glanced at the time and decided to handle it just like Li Na did yesterday.

"You must have had breakfast." She glared at Zhou Dajiang fiercely, clearly not open to contrary opinions.

What? Zhou Dajiang wanted to say he hadn’t eaten, recalling Zhou Yong’s experience here yesterday.

"I’ll go back and eat later." Zhou Dajiang wanted to know what Zhang Shifen would do.

"Oh, then go back and eat." Zhang Shifen replied offhandedly.

"You know what Zhou Yong and his wife are like; just think about it yourself."

"Take care of yourself, eat and rest well." Zhang Shifen began to make breakfast; although none of them did manual labor, it was still mentally taxing work, and breakfast had to be made well.

Zhou Dajiang saw Zhang Shifen frying eggs. "Just eggs for breakfast?"

In his own house, he never knew how many eggs they would eat in a week, yet here, for just one breakfast, Zhang Shifen was frying two eggs.

"Yeah," Zhang Shifen said nonchalantly. "Don’t worry, it won’t cost you."

Zhou Dajiang felt a bit sheepish, "That’s not what I meant."

"No matter what you mean, I don’t care."

"If you can tolerate a son like Zhou Yong, my matters aren’t even worth mentioning."

Zhang Shifen efficiently transferred the fried eggs to a bowl, then spread the pancake, and prepared three glasses of milk.

With eggs, milk powder, and pancakes, Zhou Dajiang gasped in surprise, "You eat so well."

Zhang Shifen hummed in acknowledgment, "Eating well is the key to good health."

"I think it’s very good."

"At least with a good health, I don’t have to worry about someone eating heartily and then complaining non-stop about squandering."

Zhang Shifen finished preparing breakfast, and both Li Na and Zhou Xuan emerged from their room.

Although Li Na hadn’t shown up, her voice could still be heard from the room, "Uncle Zhou."

"Dad."

"Mom, good morning," then she laid out the already prepared breakfast outside.

Then she got ready to wash up, Zhou Dajiang watched their movements, even though they had only moved out not long ago, they already seemed so estranged.

Zhou Dajiang watched the three of them eating, Zhou Xuan glanced at him, Zhang Shifen signaled him to eat on his own.

"Your dad will go eat by himself."

"Right, aren’t you going back?"

"I have to go to work soon, you’re going to be late," Zhang Shifen certainly wouldn’t invite Zhou Dajiang.

Zhou Dajiang looked at the indifferent Zhang Shifen, feeling a chill in his heart, "Shifen, we, we..."

"Is there something you want?" Zhang Shifen knew Zhou Dajiang must be having regrets.

But what of it? Zhang Shifen knew there were some things from which you simply cannot shrink back.

Zhou Dajiang wanted to say, wife, can we go back to how things were before, but seeing her cold expression,

"Xiao Xuan, listen more to your mom and your sister."

"Xiao Na, take good care of your mom." That was all Zhou Dajiang could do, to admonish his children.

"Don’t worry, I know, I will take good care of Mom," Zhou Lina would certainly take good care of Zhang Shifen.

Zhou Dajiang took a deep breath, alright, this place really wasn’t for him.

Watching someone’s lonely figure, "Mom?"

Zhang Shifen didn’t continue staring, "Let it be, eat up, it’s getting late."

There would come a day like this sooner or later. Don’t look at how much Zhou Dajiang appears to dislike Zhou Yong now, but once there is an opportunity, he would still fight for some advantages for this son.

"Being here for so long and talking so much about Zhou Yong and his wife’s problems, about all kinds of worries and unease for Zhou Yong,"

"yet not once asking about Xiao Xuan’s condition," Zhang Shifen said indifferently, in the past, she might have reminded him, but now she didn’t have the mind for it.

If one cared, they wouldn’t need a reminder to bring it up on their own. It becomes meaningless if they have to be prompted by someone else.

Zhou Lina wasn’t worried in the least about Zhou Xuan being uncomfortable. Indeed, just as she expected, he continued to eat quietly.

"Dad has my older brother, that’s enough."

"That’s good, I can take care of Mom with my sister," Zhou Xuan might have been sad before, but not anymore.

Most importantly, "The more he shows concern for me, the more I worry about whether he’s scheming some benefit for my brother."

Zhang Shifen saw that Zhou Xuan was fine and didn’t pay more attention. It wasn’t that she was careless, but she knew if there was a problem, Zhou Lina would surely offer comfort.

"At the Zhou Family place, there’s bound to be trouble. Zhou Yong fell out with Luo Lili yesterday, or perhaps she went back to her parent’s home. Zhou Yong, priding himself on his dignity, wouldn’t go to fetch her."

Zhang Shifen worried the prideful Luo Lili wouldn’t want to go back to the Zhou Family in shame, appearing lowly in others’ eyes. It was very likely she’d come knocking, hoping for Zhou Lina and the others to help.

"I’m busy." Zhou Lina was truly busy; she didn’t know what was going on recently, but the data’s margin of error had been increasing significantly.

It felt like the loss in raw materials had hit a new high. Of course, the production department and warehouse had very formal explanations for it.

On the surface, there seemed to be absolutely no problem, but Zhou Lina thought these people might have sensed something amiss, likely engaged in a last act of madness.

She simply couldn’t understand it. Since spotting the issue, two or three months had passed, yet there was still no follow-up. What was the situation?

Zhou Lina sometimes worried that their actions or arrangements had been discovered by the factory rats?

If not, then based on their prior methods, they would have indeed taken it slowly, step by step, aiming to stay careful and low-key.

Zhou Lina couldn’t figure it out and didn’t want to worry about it any longer, since she had written all the necessary explanations and analysis she was supposed to do.

She was just a newly hired junior finance employee, and she would follow through with whatever the leaders arranged.