Chapter 504: Calculation
In the afternoon of this day, Jian Yi was reading in the study and was reading with relish, when there was a knock on the door of the study. It was the aunt who came up, and Jian Yi thought she was sending food, but just as she wanted to say that she was not hungry, the aunt said, "Ah Yi, the lady from the Zhou house is here."
The old house is where Zhou Jining lives, and in order to distinguish it, Zhou Zhengtao's side is called Zhou Zhai. The lady in the aunt's mouth is naturally Li Su.
Jian Yi didn't expect Li Su to come over, so she couldn't help but be stunned and asked, "What is she doing here?"
Where does the aunt know, I can't tell.
Jian Yi was not in a hurry, put the book aside, nodded and went downstairs with her aunt. Although her belly is not yet pregnant, her clothes are very loose, and she can't tell that she is pregnant at all.
Li Su has always been very good at winning people's hearts, and he has no shelf at all, and he is chatting with Aunt Qing eagerly. Hearing the footsteps, she looked up at Jian Yi and greeted her politely.
Jian Yi didn't know what she was here for, and she didn't ask, so she asked her aunt to serve snacks and fruits, and then simply greeted Li Su.
The two actually don't have much to talk about, but Li Su has always been tactful, and the atmosphere is not embarrassing at all. After chatting for a few words, she finally got into the topic and said, "Ah Yi, this weekend is Lao Zhou's birthday, I hope you and Ah Qi can come over and have a light meal together."
Jian Yi is not a competent daughter-in-law at all, she doesn't know Zhou Zhengtao's birthday at all. Hearing Li Su's words, she couldn't help but be stunned, Zhou Zhengtao's birthday had never called them in the past, and she didn't know why she came to invite her in person this year. But people came over specially, and she couldn't refuse, so she said that she didn't know if Zhou Qi would be free by then, but she would take the little guy over to celebrate her grandfather's birthday.
Li Su relieved himself when he heard her say this, and said a few simple words of greeting, and then got up to say goodbye.
Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow will be the weekend, and since it's the weekend, you have to prepare a birthday gift. Jian Yi didn't know what to prepare, so she called Zhou Qi and said that Li Su had come over.
Zhou Qi was noncommittal after hearing this, so that she didn't have to bother, he would make people ready.
When Zhou Qi came back in the evening, Jian Yi was quite puzzled by this birthday banquet, so he asked why he suddenly let them go over to celebrate his birthday.
Zhou Qi didn't know either, but he never bothered about these things, so he took a sip of tea from his teacup and said, "What do you want to do so much, you won't know it in the past."
The weekend came soon, and I was going to take the little one with me, but when I went out, the snow was falling heavily, so I left him at home, and only the couple went to Zhou's house.
There was a lot of traffic jam in the afternoon, and it was unhurried all the way since last week. I don't know if I'm in a hurry or what, I called Zhou Qi once on the way, and he replied that he was on the way.
Along the way, the sky was already dark when I arrived at Zhou's house. The car drove into the yard, and Li Su greeted him. I didn't see the little guy and asked why I didn't bring it.
Zhou Zhengtao was sitting in the living room, nodded when he saw his son and daughter-in-law coming, and said simply.
Jian Yi thought that she was the only one who got up the same week, but not long after the two of them sat down, they heard another car coming from the yard. It didn't take long for Zhou Jining and Jiang Luoyao to be led in by Li Su.
Jian Yi was a little surprised, Jiang Luoyao was very happy to see her, and sat down beside her after saying hello.
Seeing the two of them, Jian Yi knew that today was probably not just a birthday party. I don't know what happened to Zhou Zhengtao.
The meal had already been prepared, and a few people moved to the dining room later. Probably because it is Zhou Zhengtao's birthday, Zhou Qi'er gets along with him happily today, and he only nods his head when he says anything, and no longer-for-tat.
The three men at the dinner table all drank, and Jiang Luoyao didn't drink under the pretext of driving, so he drank juice with Jian Yi. After this meal was eaten, Zhou Zhengtao finally said the purpose of eating this meal, saying that the roof of the ancestral house in the countryside collapsed this winter, and let us discuss what to do.
What he meant was that the ancestral house was so old that it was better to renovate it. Zhou Qi and Zhou Jining can't spare time for more things, so they can be handed over to him, and he will supervise the work.
Zhou Jining has already learned to get along with his second uncle
I didn't know what he wanted to do for a while, so he simply kept silent and left it to Zhou Qi to deal with.
Zhou Qi didn't come down, picked up the cup and drank slowly, saying that this was not a trivial matter, and he had to find someone to take a look at it first.
On the way back, Jian Yi drove the car, and she went to the living room with Jiang Luo Yao, I don't know what the three of them talked about. At this moment, he was very curious, and asked, "Do you really want to rebuild that old mansion?"
Zhou Qi didn't know what he was thinking, but when he heard this, he sneered and asked, "Do you think his purpose is really to rebuild the house?"
In fact, Zhou Zhengtao has always been careless, he has very little time in the ancestral house in the past, and Zhou Qi has always taken care of it, when has he ever taken care of it? This time, he was well informed, and the people watching the courtyard over there had not even informed him, so he knew the news first.
Jian Yi shook his head and said he didn't know. But her intuition told her that it shouldn't be, Zhou Zhengtao rarely took care of himself, which was not his style.
The couple didn't speak for a while, and the car drove forward for a while, and saw the car of Zhou Jining and his wife, who left first, parked in front. Jian Yi slowed down, and when he arrived at the car, the window was lowered, and Zhou Jining's handsome face was revealed, and he asked, "Find a place to sit?"
They were obviously waiting here, Zhou nodded, agreed, and let them find a place.
Jiang Luoyao was quite familiar with this place, so he stopped the car after a while, and several people entered a tea room. Jian Yi went to the bathroom with Jiang Luoyao, while Zhou Qi and Zhou Jining entered the private room.
After the tea came up, Zhou Jining picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, then glanced at Zhou Qi and asked, "What has the second uncle been doing lately?"
Zhou Qi glanced at him and said, "How do I know what he's doing?"
Zhou Jining didn't go around in circles with him, and asked, "What do you think about the fact that he asked him to rebuild the house?" Neither of them responded at the time and changed the subject. At this time, Zhou Jining naturally wanted to explore Zhou Qi's tone. The most important thing is that Zhou Zhengtao's proposal to rebuild the house was a bit sudden, and he did not agree. It was the place where the old man had lived for many years, and he didn't intend to destroy it.
Zhou Qi didn't speak, took out a cigarette and took a puff, and said casually, "I'll let people check first."
Zhou Jining asked him to sit and sit not only about the affairs of the ancestral house, but also about official affairs to be discussed with Zhou. But they didn't stay long, they had to pick up the children, and they left in less than half an hour.