Chapter 927: Chapter 800: Your Mom, That Unlucky One

In Beijing, a thousand miles away, Zhou Jiao was unaware of the uproar back home.

Since the new school term started, she and six others were recognized again in the school auditorium. For her, that was the end of it.

Zhou Jiao was very busy with her studies. Before the first snowfall, she still had the energy to take the small train and then bike back and forth between the two places every day.

But with the arrival of winter, Zhang Guoqing returned to the army for an internship, and school activities increased. Especially the ideological classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings, which prevented her from going home.

To ensure her son was not deprived of breast milk, Zhou Jiao had to hurry back and forth on those evenings. Fortunately, academics were very easy for her.

Zhou Xiaozheng caught his daughter again, "Sweetheart, the child isn’t lacking formula. Just listen to your dad and don’t tire yourself out. Otherwise, I’ll really have Xiao Wang pick you up every day."

Zhou Jiao giggled foolishly.

"If not, I won’t keep it a secret from Xiao Wu for you. Stay at school with peace of mind, he comes home at night to be with the child. You don’t trust your father, but you don’t trust him either?"

Zhou Jiao knew this time she couldn’t avoid it. She hugged her dad’s arm and played coy, "Dad, if I can’t trust you and myself, how can I trust him? I love my dad the most, there’s no comparison."

"You little rascal, keep fooling your dad!" Zhou Xiaozheng enjoyed his daughter’s coquettishness and tapped her forehead happily, "Stop deviating, choose one of the two."

"I’ll listen to you, I won’t come back on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, is that okay? Besides the child, I also miss you, dad. I’m not used to being alone at school." 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Zhou Xiaozheng frowned painfully: "How about requesting sick leave?"

"Forget it, it’s almost vacation time, such a hassle!" Zhou Jiao wrinkled her nose, then smiled, "I asked my teacher, next term I’ll intern at the electric machinery factory for two months. Then I can go home every day."

Next to them, Lin Lishan handed her a cup of malted milk, "I’ve already talked it over with Aunt Chen. Starting tomorrow, after lunch, she will go to school every day, you give her the bottle."

"Huh?"

"I checked, and after these few months, Aunt Sun is decent. Without Aunt Chen, even if your aunt comes every day, she also dares not mess up."

Zhou Jiao had considered this issue too. But she worried if Aunt Chen was not home, the children might suffer grievances. At night she wasn’t worried, but during the day her parents go to work, and Old Mrs. Cheng couldn’t always be home either.

Is the person’s character trustworthy? She glanced at her dad.

Zhou Xiaozheng nodded: "When employing someone, we shouldn’t doubt them; if in doubt, don’t use them."

Thinking of how the person had been taking care of the children for almost five months, Zhou Jiao finally nodded as well, "Alright, let’s try it for a few days first."

With the matter settled in a sentence, Zhou Jiao looked at the time, hurriedly said goodbye to her parents, and rushed to school.

Lin Lishan looked at her husband, "You and Xiao Wu really won’t tell Jiao Jiao?"

"Who says so? We’ll tell her when she has some free time. Look at how she’s flying back and forth every day now; if she finds out she could pick up money just by carrying the twins around, wouldn’t she worry herself sick?"

Lin Lishan sighed a long sigh.

Zhou Xiaozheng gave her an unsatisfied glance, "Isn’t it good that our grandson has such great fortune? Look at how much good you’ve done during this period."

Lin Lishan chuckled and lightly slapped him.

"Not to mention anything else, any day you go out without money, just take them out, and you won’t have to worry about going hungry." Saying this, Zhou Xiaozheng also found it amusing.

"Brother Zheng, Aunt Sun is afraid of you. Remember to remind her not to take the children out on cold days. Even if they want to bask in the sun, they should stay in the courtyard and not go out."

Zhou Xiaozheng nodded. Even without his wife’s reminder, he would have cautioned the other.

Now, watching the three children daily, with one surprise after another, he wondered if these two little ones could be as precocious as their brother. If they were like Ping’an, Aunt Sun could not stay either.

Rushing back to school, Zhou Jiao was unaware her two little sons had stirred up more trouble. By her calculations with Ping’an, she figured she would have more time to be with them in seven months.

Even though Aunt Chen came and went with breast milk, Zhou Jiao would still run home whenever she had free time. However, compared to her previous hectic spins, there was now some buffer space, and she wouldn’t be as worn out.

With the school term about to end and exams approaching, Zhang Guoqing also returned to school. There was no time for lengthy exchanges; as soon as the exams ended, Zhou Jiao rushed home first.

As for the man? Hehe... Zhou Jiao was very angry! She couldn’t punish her dad, but couldn’t she punish her husband? Did he think keeping things from her was for her own good?

Since when did Zhou Jiao not have a sense of proportion?

If the secret about her two little sons was discovered by outsiders, would they be stolen away with malice, or labeled as monsters? At that point, never mind Aunt Sun, even Aunt Chen would be untrustworthy!

Returning home, Zhou Jiao protested to her father. He said he loved her the most, yet didn’t trust his precious daughter’s intellect, making her very angry now!

Without hesitation, Zhou Xiaozheng immediately shifted the blame to his son-in-law.

After all, a son-in-law is half a son — if the father doesn’t shoulder it, who does? Anyway, that silly boy had already taken the blame; adding one more wouldn’t matter.

The father and daughter immediately embraced the twins in their arms and hid in the study to discuss. Discuss what? Hehe, of course not taking the kids out to pick up money!

"Dad, have you considered one problem? Is it Liu Yi or May 1st?" Zhou Jiao asked, blinking, "Surely it doesn’t have to be a combination of the two?"

Now, that was a question Zhou Xiaozheng hadn’t tried before. The key was the weather factor. With such young children, he’d be crazy to let them out.

"How about, when the weather gets better one day, we take the kids out and test it?"

Zhou Xiaozheng shook his head: "No need! Regular people don’t make these connections easily. If not for Xiao Wu speaking about some ’birds flocking to a phoenix,’ I’d think it’s just a coincidence. When the kids grow up, mentioning it to them more will make them naturally cautious."

"Then how did mom find out?"

At her words, Zhou Xiaozheng burst into laughter, tears coming out from laughing.

Zhou Jiao looked at him in confusion. Could there be another hidden story?

Zhou Xiaozheng finally controlled his laughter and said in a low voice, "Your mom, that unlucky one, she never found good stuff on the road. If anything, she often lost things."

"She said that when she was little, while playing with her friends, things would somehow appear ahead of her but the friends would find them first. Imagine her carrying the twins to your grandaunt’s place, walking along when suddenly stepping on something to find money underneath; what do you think her reaction was? Three times in a row, your mom was overjoyed, thinking she’d hit a fortune streak."

Zhou Jiao could imagine her mom boasting in front of her dad, indeed thrilled to bits! The time had finally turned.

"The funniest part is, she didn’t believe in such luck. After that day, every time she walked, she paid extra attention to the ground. One day, she even said it might not seem magical once she told us about it. Within days of saying that, pushing the twins outside for some sun, she found money again, totally thrilled."

Zhou Xiaozheng shook his head. Had his wife not been advised by the son-in-law, she might have kept causing a scene.

"She kept muttering a few words; saying too much would draw suspicion from outsiders. Xiao Wu reminded her of this a few times; otherwise, you think your mom would’ve known?"

Zhou Jiao thought about her mom and didn’t quite know what to say.

"Alright, don’t cause a fuss with Xiao Wu about this either. It’s not easy for him, worrying every day ensuring Aunt Chen and others don’t take the children outside the courtyard, speaking of kidnappers and chloroform being used."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Jiao laughed happily. Since when is it okay to not correct her husband? Thinking that concealing things out of goodwill is okay, would it become a habit in the future?