C116 It's not as simple as you think it is

Although Yan Tong and Lu Shiping favored Zhou Hao and Wang Xijun, the two children were still young.

As parents, they did not want to reveal it so early, hence Zhou Hao and Wang Xijun just let it happen.

Zhou Hao saw through everything, of course he would realise that Yan Tong had already seen through her relationship with Wang Xijun, but since they did not reveal it, then there was no need for him to be honest.

As a result, only the innocent Wang Xijun was unaware. She thought that since his mother did not notice, she would normally be extremely careful when it came to making love to Zhou Hao.

The two families enjoyed a intimate New Year meal, while Zhou Hao also heard the sounds of bamboo popping coming from outside.

At this time, the government had yet to implement the ban on firecrackers, and every household was used to firecrackers on New Year's Eve, which was very lively.

Yan Tong passed a row of firecrackers to Zhou Hao, "Look, you're the only boy left in our family, so I'll leave this to you."

At the same time, Lu Shiping also gave the firecrackers to their Wang Family's only male, King Zhongcai. Regarding this, Zhou Hao and Wang Zhongcai were not too against it.

They each took a lighter and stood in front of their respective houses. After lighting the firecrackers, they threw them out onto the stairs.

Suddenly, a crackling sound of crackling bamboo was heard, and the atmosphere of the New Year began to fill the air.

"Alright, we were all used to sending red packets to our families on New Year's Eve. Come here, Xiao Hao, Xijun, Zhongcai, I hope you all have improved in your studies."

Yan Tong distributed the red packets to Zhou Hao and the other two, and Lu Shiping followed suit.

Since both families were getting rich, each red packet had a thousand yuan in cash, which was much richer than the previous years.

Zhou Hao did not care much, but Wang Zhong Cai was extremely happy, and thought to buy a GameBoy "to play with.

Following that, the two families gathered together to watch the live TV Spring Festival Gala.

Nowadays, the Spring Festival Gala at CCTV is quite popular and has become a tradition of the Chinese people.

And because Hong Kong is returning this year, many Hong Kong singers have been invited to sing at CCTV.

"Xiao Hao, Xijun and the others are going to pay respects to their grandmother tomorrow, so let's also pay our respects to your uncle." Yan Tong said to Zhou Hao.

Wang Xijun's grandmother was in a county city in northern Guangdong province, so it would take her two days to get here and there.

But in the previous year's Spring Festival, Zhou Hao and the others all went to Zhou Lichang's home to pay their respects on the second day of the new year.

Thinking of Zhou Lichang, Zhou Hao was still a little gloating, because he had previously invested more than a million points into the stock market, and by the end of the year, he didn't even have the time to pull himself out.

Now, his stocks were a pile of scrap paper. The losses were extremely heavy.

But Zhou Hao did not have any sympathy for him, since it was more than a million, he would not go bankrupt, so he thought it was better to just buy a lesson.

As for paying a new year visit to his family, that was just to express his goodwill, but towards his family, Zhou Hao did not have much of a good impression of them.

He then heard Yan Tong say, "On the second day of the new year, we will pay our respects to your mother-in-law, okay?"

Zhou Hao nodded his head. His grandmother's family lived in a village outside of Xiang City called "Huayu Village".

Other than his own mother, Zhou Hao had two other uncles. When he thought of this, Zhou Hao immediately thought of his cousin Yan Qing.

Yan Qing was Second Uncle's only daughter, and was older than Zhou Hao by two years.

In Zhou Hao's impression, his cousin was a very gentle and kind girl. She was one of those gentle and elegant jade-like girls, and she was also very beautiful.

When he was young, he spent the summer at his grandma's house, often playing with Yan Qingqing. Yan Qingqing was also very fond of this cousin of hers. If there was anything good, she would give it to him first.

Zhou Hao often slept in the same bed as Yan Qing, and even now, Zhou Hao still remembered the faint, delicate, female scent that Yan Qing carried.

However, in her previous life, Yan Qing had married a man from the same village named Wei Kangshou.

Later on, he heard that the man was both gambling and drinking wine, so he casually beat Yan Qingqing up after losing the money. Furthermore, Yan Qingqing's family didn't like her either, so Yan Qingqing lived in that man's house with great hardship.

In his previous life, Zhou Hao went to the Huayu Village when Yan Tong passed away, and also saw the married Yan Qing.

At that time, Yan Qing was only twenty-four years old, and had been tortured to the point that she looked like a forty year old middle-aged woman.

Currently, Yan Qing was only seventeen years old and still hadn't married that Wei Kangzhi.

Since Zhou Hao had sufficient strength now, he definitely could not let his cousin who loved him dearly walk the same old path as he did in his previous life.

Zhou Hao clenched his fists, and said to Yan Tong: "Alright, then we'll go visit Grandma and the others on our junior high."

The Spring Festival Gala was about to end, and New Year's Eve was about to arrive. Zhou Hao, Wang Xijun and the others followed the hosts on TV to count.

"Five, four, three, two, one!" Happy New Year! " Zhou Hao and Wang Xijun congratulated each other.

The new year had begun. During this year, Zhou Hao was confident that he would be able to obtain an even more abundant amount of wealth from the coming Asian financial crisis.

The next day, Lu Shiping's family left the Xiang City. Since it was the Spring Festival, they didn't take the train and drove there directly.

The hometown of the young lad who stayed in the Mrs Zhou Restaurant was also there, so she decided to go back with Lu Shiping and the others and act as their driver.

On the first day of the new year, the streets were filled with a joyous festive atmosphere. Zhou Hao also saw many children playing around with fireworks in their hands.

At this time, Yan Tong had already gotten his driver's license, and was extremely proficient at it. Carrying Zhou Hao, she drove the newly bought "Audi" car out of the Lakeview Manor.

Since he was going to pay a visit to the New Year, he naturally couldn't come here empty-handed. Zhou Hao had bought two Chinese cigarettes and a bottle of "Louis XIV", which cost less than ten thousand yuan.

However, all of these things were just "gifts", and did not mean anything, because Zhou Hao did not have any good intentions towards Zhou Lichang's family.

As he drove to the Zhou Family Village, Zhou Lichang's independent house was at the east side of the village.

As the Zhou Family Village was very close to the Xiang City Region, its development was very fast. Many villagers had to take off their mud houses and build bungalows.

The individual also built six or seven stories high, and rented rooms to the workers working in the south. The monthly rent was also several thousand dollars.

There were many cars parked in Zhou Lichang's courtyard. It was obvious that there were quite a few guests in his house today.

After parking the car in front of his house, Zhou Hao and Yan Tong walked in with cigarettes and wine. The one who opened the door was Zhou Lichang's wife, Xu Yongwei.

When she saw Zhou Hao and her son, she curled her lips and said, "It's you, haha. Happy New Year." The expression on his face was a fake smile.

However, when she looked at Zhou Hao who was wearing a proper suit, her eyes lit up.

Zhou Hao was not interested in bickering with her, and said: "Happy New Year."

"Come in." Xu Yongwei welcomed Zhou Hao and his mother inside, and saw that there were a lot of people seated in the hall.

It should be Xu Yongwei's relatives and friends. There were a few people at the table playing poker or mahjong.

Seeing Zhou Hao and Yan Tong, everyone in the hall stopped chatting and turned their gazes to the two of them.

Xu Yongwei introduced him to the others: "This is our nephew, as well as our sister-in-law."

Those people lightly nodded their heads before continuing their conversation, while Xu Yongwei said to Zhou Hao and the others: "You guys can sit." Then she walked away.

Zhou Hao knew that his mother and son were not in the same group as these people. He looked around, but the nanny who was related to Zhou Lichang previously had disappeared without a trace.

Maybe Xu Yongwei found out and chased them away.

"Bro, you came. I bought a new GameBoy. I'll let you play with it."

Zhou Lichang's son, Zhou Zhihao, pulled him back the moment he saw Zhou Hao, and even waved the game console in his hand in a flaunting manner.

Zhou Hao shook his hand off, "Go and play by yourself, I'm not interested in these kids."

"Tsk, aren't you a child? What are you pretending to be an adult for? Have you played on this game console before?" Zhou Zhihao said scornfully.

Zhou Hao did not lower himself to the same level as him, and only brought Yan Tong to sit on a chair in the corner of the hall.

He said to Yan Tong: "Mom, just tell Zhou Lichang and let him go. This place isn't suitable for us."

Just then, Zhou Lichang walked down from the second floor.

After seeing Zhou Hao, he followed him while laughing, "Xiao Hao, happy new year. Here, I'll give you a red packet, try your best to study."

"Thank you." Zhou Hao said indifferently.

Xu Yongwei deliberately asked: "Eh? Didn't your father come back? "Seriously, you're not going home after the new year?"

"Whether he comes back or not has nothing to do with us." Zhou Hao glanced at Xu Yongwei indifferently.

"Why are you talking to your elders?" When Xu Yongwei saw the look in Zhou Hao's eyes, she became a little angry.

Yan Tong immediately stood up, "Sister-in-law, don't blame him. Xiao Hao is still young, don't blame him. "Come, this is my red packet for Zhihao and Xin Xin. Help me hand it over to them."

With that, he handed two red packets over to Xu Yongwei.

"Eh? "Ah Tong, we haven't seen each other for a while. You seem much younger." Noticing that Yan Tong's complexion and clothes were much better than before, Xu Yongwei asked.

Moreover, the red packet Yan Tong gave her was also very thick.

So she said, "I heard that you guys had made a lot of money from selling your stocks earlier. Sigh, stocks are things that fall every time you talk about it.

Fortunately, we were smart enough to draw it back and made a lot of money, or else we would have been called 'crabs', as the people of Hong Kong said. "

Hearing her words, Zhou Hao sneered in his heart.

In fact, he knew that Zhou Lichang would never be able to withdraw in time. He had lost more than a million yuan this time, but Xu Yongwei and the others wouldn't say it if they lost face.

"A-Tong, I saw the news earlier. I think you guys opened a fast food restaurant. How is it? Is the business doing alright?" Zhou Lichang asked.

Before Yan Tong could say anything, Xu Yongwei said: "Aiyah, Chang Chang Chang, you don't understand anymore. For a fast food restaurant, not only do you work hard, you also earn a lot of money.

"However, it seems like A-Tong and the others can also maintain their lives. At the very least, they'll be able to save a lot of energy before dinner."

They had only seen the opening of the first restaurant in Mrs Zhou before. Although it was on TV, they did not think that a fast food restaurant could earn that much money.

Therefore, Xu Yongwei did her best to mock Zhou Hao and her son.