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Chapter 209 Zhou Family Reunion

It was only temporarily that Wu Zhong knew that someone from the capital came to take the Zhou family back to Beijing. He came in a hurry and did not prepare the gift in advance. But this was an opportunity for him to resolve the grudges between him and Wei Hong, so he must not let it go. He immediately turned his eyes, gritted his teeth, quietly took off the jade pendant hanging around his waist, and stuffed it into Zhou Wang's hand with a smile: "If you don't have respect, you won't have respect, please accept it."

Several neighbors hiding behind the door, peeking at the gift in Zhou Wang's hand, thrust their mouths, and sighed: "Did you see it? The jade pendant that Master Wu just picked was bought from a down-and-out businessman two years ago, worth more than 500 taels of silver. Master Wu liked it the most. Now he actually gave it to the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhou family. Tsk tsk, plus the gifts given by Mr. Li and Mr. Lei, it costs at least 700 taels of taels. Alas, there is a powerful man at home. Just the gifts given by others can be converted into money, and you will never spend them in your life."

In fact, not only the neighbors envied, but even the Zhou family seemed to be dreaming. After getting off the carriage by the servants of the Li family and saying goodbye to Li Ye and others, they headed towards the capital with excitement and uneasiness.

When the Zhou family came to the capital, Wei Hong's factory wall had been built and internal construction began. Wei Hong was not idle either. When he had nothing to do, he went to the construction site to supervise the work. When he was at home, he and Li Xiehe were studying and discussing wheat planting after opening the chun. Every day, Wei Hong and Zhou Dali were sitting in the shed built by the construction site, leaning against the brazier to discuss the subsequent construction. Suddenly, a servant ran over and stood in front of Wei Hong and Zhou Dali, with a red face and panting, "Sir, Manager Zhou, be very happy!"

Upon hearing this, Wei Hong didn't react much, but just put his hands on the brazier and rubbed them absent-mindedly: "What's the happy event?"

The servant took a deep breath, looked at Zhou Dali, and said, "Manager Zhou's family has entered the city gate. In another half an hour, they can reach the home!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Dali stood up suddenly. He stepped forward in front of the servant two steps, stretched out his big hand like a tiger claw, grabbed the servant's arms, and said happily: "Seriously?"

The servant was frightened by Zhou Dali, who was overreacting, and stuttered: "Precaution... take it seriously."

Zhou Dali let go of his servant, turned to look at Wei Hong with a smile, and the golden beans fell off. Since Zhou Dali followed Wei Hong, Wei Hong had only seen Zhou Dali crying once, that time when Wei Hong was kidnapped by bandits in Hangzhou. Now Zhou Dali cried again, Wei Hong knew very well that Zhou Dali was crying because he could finally meet his family again. Seeing Zhou Dali crying with tears in tears, Wei Hong just smiled slightly and said nothing. After all, few people can handle such a happy event calmly, and they would cry. If it were other trivial matters, Zhou Dali would have dared to cry as a virtue, Wei Hong would have kicked him up long ago.

Wei Hong slowly stood up, patted Zhou Dali on the shoulder, and smiled and said, "Why are you still standing there? Let's go! Go home!"

"Yeah!" Zhou Dali wiped the tears from his face and nodded like pounding garlic.

The construction site is not far from Hongyuan Trading, and it arrives in a short while in a carriage. When Wei Hong and Zhou Dali arrived, they found that the Zhou family had not arrived yet, so they waited at the door. Zhou Dali is very steady on weekdays, but this time, he is like a child, walking around the door, constantly looking towards the direction where his family may appear.

Li Xiehe and Li Zongren stood by the door for a while before going back. Wei Hong, the three ladies of the Li family and Wan Niang stood by Zhou Dali. The weather was cold, Wan Niang found a velvet coat to put on Wei Hong. Wei Hong stretched his arms around Wan Niang's shoulders, looked at Zhou Dali who was walking around, and smiled and said, "This kid has been with me for so long. This is the first time he has been like this. It seems so happy."

Wan Niang in her arms nodded and echoed: "Yeah, Dali and his family have been separated for so long, and now he can finally be reunited, so it is inevitable that he will be happy."

Li Qiulan had a cold recently, sneezed, rubbed her nose and said, "I know that the Zhou family is here today. My eldest sister and second sister ran several streets in the morning before I bought the gift. The legs hurt because of the running. I don't know if they like it."

Just as the few people were talking, a sound of wheels came from the north of the road. When he looked closely, he saw a carriage at the end of the road, which was a carriage sent to Hangzhou to welcome the Zhou family. Seeing the carriage, Zhou Dali, who was anxious just now, suddenly stopped moving, and just watched the carriage gradually enter. When the carriage reached the door, a child's crisp shout sounded, Zhou Dali cried out. It was strange that a man cried like this.

The curtain of the car door was lifted, and two stubborn boys jumped out of the car and rushed straight towards Zhou Dali. One of them held one of Zhou Dali's thighs and shouted ecstaticly: "Uncle San! You want us to die."

Zhou Dali squatted down, hugged Zhou Jian and Zhou Gui in his arms, wiped away the tears from his face, and grinned, "Uncle San misses you too."

At this time, Zhou Wang, Zhou Wu and the two elders also walked out of the carriage, came to Zhou Dali, and hugged Zhou Dali and cried. The four girls standing at the door were all moved, their eyes were red, and Li Qiulan, the little girl, even secretly cried.

Wei Hong couldn't stand this kind of scene the most. He rubbed his slightly sour nose and shouted at Zhou Dali: "It's cold outside, so take two sisters-in-law and two old people into the house to warm up!"

After entering the main hall, Li Xiehe was having tea. Seeing that the Zhou family had come, he put down the teacup, stood up and greeted the Zhou family amiably. After the Zhou family met Li Xiehe, they took a seat under Wei Hong's arrangement. Zhou Dali held a nephew in one hand and stood behind the two elders, while his two sisters-in-law accompanied him one on the left and one on the right.

Before Wei Hong could speak, Wanniang and Li Ruohua walked forward with a bamboo basket, took out two coins made of pure gold from the basket, and stuffed them into the hands of the two elders. They said softly: "I've been greeting the two elders, but the small gift is not respectful."

The two elders wanted to refuse, but Zhou Dali dissuaded him behind him: "My father and mother, you can accept it. This is the teacher's wish."

After delivering the second elder, Wanniang carried the basket and walked to her two sisters-in-law, took out two good hairpins from it, and handed them to her: "Wan Niang gave her two sisters-in-law a greeting."

Zhou Wang and Zhou Wu hurriedly took the hairpin, followed the etiquette of wealthy families, and bowed to Wan Niang: "Thank you, my wife."
Chapter completed!
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