1982 Started from Hong Kong

Chapter 21 My name is Haimei, Zhou Haimei
Sau Mau Ping Estate, 16th floor, at Zhai Yuan’s home.

An old film from Great Wall Film Company, "The White-Haired Witch", was playing on TV. Paw Hee Ching and Fang Ping played Lian Nishang and Zhuo Yihang, loving and hating each other on the screen.

"Did you know that these two actors fell in love during filming and got married a while ago?"

Auntie Mei, who sells soy milk at the entrance of the housing estate, holds a plastic flower in her hand and shares the news she heard on the radio with people around her in a gossipy tone.

"Of course I know! They have acted in many dramas together. It's normal for a single man and a single woman to fall in love with each other after spending a long time together."

Not to be outdone, another woman expressed her own opinion.

Besides Aunt Mei, there were several other housewives who came to Zhai Yuan's house to watch TV today. When they sat together, they just talked about the gossips of the Zhang and Li families.

Their work was not in vain. When Zhao Meizhen received a handmade order, she helped each other and became much more efficient than before.

"Alas! Same person, different fate. When my damn husband married me, we only met twice. If I had known that he was a gambler, I would never have married him."

Some people started complaining about their fate, which drew waves of comfort. As to how much of it was sincere and how much was gloating, that depends on one's opinion.

"Ah Zhen, why are you so quiet today?"

After chatting about gossip, Aunt Mei noticed that Zhao Meizhen was not in high spirits today and asked her something.

"You don't want to have a second spring, do you? To be honest, you've been a widow for more than a decade. Do you want us to introduce you to a man?"

"Kule is strong. Everyone can see that he is interested in Zhen. Besides, he is tall and strong, so he must be very good at that."

When the middle-aged women chat, they mainly talk about eating both meat and vegetables, and it is normal for them to drive on the highway.

"Monster! Don't say such disgusting things. Be careful, my master will come to find you tonight."

Zhao Meizhen pointed to the portrait of Zhai Xiaokang hanging on the wall and ended the topic.

She paused, then said calmly, "Actually, I'm worried about my friend's son. I heard that he's only in his early twenties, but I've never seen him interact with girls. Instead, he plays with boys all day long, and they cuddle with him. Do you think he's gay?"

"What does gay mean?"

"I just don't like women, I'm only interested in men's shit."

"Ah~ so sour!"

Several housewives chattered, but no one answered Zhao Meizhen's question.

Aunt Mei, who was the closest to Zhao Meizhen, looked thoughtful and suddenly asked, "Are you talking about Ayuan?"

Zhao Meizhen was stunned: "How did you know?"

As soon as I said this I felt something was wrong, but it was too late.

The room was dead silent. The women all had strange expressions on their faces and sat upright as if waiting to hear gossip.

"How could I not know? We've been sisters for so many years, and you rarely even go out of the estate. How could your friend's son come from?"

Aunt Mei's smile was a little unnatural. She swallowed and asked with embarrassment, "Ayuan is really... that?"

Before Zhao Meizhen could speak, another woman murmured, "Oh my god, no wonder I often see him hanging out with the boy from the next door village recently, and his personality has become much more cheerful. Now that you mention it, it does seem strange."

……

"Bullshit! How can you slander someone's innocence out of thin air?"

Zhai Yuan stood at the door of the video room, listening to Zhai Yao explain everything that happened at home, and he was so angry that he started cursing.

After cursing, he pointed at Liang Zhichao and said, "Even if I'm gay, I can't look down on people like him, right? You can question my sexual orientation, but who have the right to question my vision!"

Liang Zhichao didn't take it seriously at first and was watching the show happily, but when he heard Zhai Yuan's words, his face suddenly fell.

"Anyway, my mother called my store and briefly told me the situation. She told me that I must take you back today."

Zhai Yao was the only one among the three who was not affected, and she laughed with gloating eyes.

"Then why don't you explain it to her clearly on the phone?" Zhai Yuan felt that she was deliberately making trouble.

"It was you who didn't let me tell you about your video hall business." Zhai Yao answered confidently.

"Well done."

Zhai Yuan took out two stacks of banknotes from his schoolbag and put them in his arms. This was the turnover of the past two days.

The two video halls show an average of ten movies a day. Although not every show is full, the revenue for two days is still over 1,700 yuan.

"You're so stupid! You need to move out of the housing estate immediately and keep your mother away from those gossipy women. Otherwise, I don't know what big trouble they will cause next time!"

Zhai Yuan muttered to himself, planning to take the money back to clear his name. Liang Zhichao volunteered: "Brother Yuan, do you want me to go back with you and explain the matter to Aunt Zhen?"

"Get out of here! Are you coming back with me to meet my parents? Why are you cuddling with me downstairs of my house? Why are there so many things going on?"

Zhai Yuan glared at him, then lowered his head and counted out a few Hong Kong dollars: "Hey! This is your and your cousin's salary. If my mom doesn't allow me to play with you, you don't have to come over anymore."

"Brother Yuan, don't abandon me!" Liang Zhichao wailed.

"roll!"

Zhai Yuan took his sister home and said a word to him without even turning his head.

Speechless all the way.

When he arrived downstairs at his own housing estate, Zhai Yuan vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

The middle-aged ladies who were eating melon seeds and chatting around fell silent when they saw him appear, and their eyes remained on him vaguely.

Zhai Yuan could already imagine the content and scene of their conversation a second ago.

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"If I don't move out this year, I will be that one." Zhai Yuan said in a low voice.

Zhai Yao clapped her hands: "Great! I want to live in an apartment with an elevator."

Ever since she saw the profits of the video hall, she felt that life was becoming more and more promising, and her attitude towards Zhai Yuan became much more intimate.

The brother and sister went up to the sixteenth floor.

Zhai Yuan pushed the door open with a bang, looking worried. He wanted to see who was fanning the flames.

"I am back!"

In the room, mother Zhao Meizhen was sitting at the table, and on the chairs with their backs to the door sat a mother and daughter, dressed in ordinary clothes.

Zhao Meizhen had a smile on her face, and it was obvious that she had a good chat with the mother and daughter opposite. But when she saw Zhai Yuan appear at the door, her smile immediately faded.

When the mother and daughter heard the door open, they turned around and looked.

The older mother looked at Zhai Yuan with a smile, while the younger daughter had a hint of curiosity in her eyes.

"Boss, isn't mom going to arrange a blind date for you?" Zhai Yao said in a low voice, standing behind Zhai Yuan.

Zhai Yuan felt that Zhao Meizhen still lacked common sense. Some things are bent and cannot be straightened no matter how hard you try.

He glanced at the mother and daughter opposite him and felt vaguely that they looked familiar.

"Why are you standing there like a log at the door? Why don't you call anyone?"

While I was thinking, Zhao Meizhen's stern voice rang out.

Zhao Meizhen glared at Zhai Yuan, then stood up and introduced him, "This is Aunt Ling, your uncle's in-law's sister-in-law who lives in Changzhou. She held you in her arms when you were a child. Her daughter Haimei is your cousin."

"Aunt Ling, cousin." Zhai Yuan greeted her but was thinking in his mind.

The sister-in-law of my uncle's parents-in-law is the wife of the younger brother of my dead dad's brother's wife.

What a confusing relationship.

Auntie Ling Luo Huiling also stood up with her daughter, and said to Zhai Yuan with a smile: "Ayuan, you have grown up so much in the blink of an eye, and you are getting more and more handsome. The one behind is Ayao, right? You are two years younger than Haimei, and this is the first time I see you."

After that, he called his daughter, "Call your cousins quickly."

Luo Huiling's daughter looks very well behaved and sensible, and speaks softly:

"Hello, cousin Ayuan and cousin Yaoyao. My name is Haimei, Zhou Haimei."

"Huh?" Zhai Yuan's eyes suddenly widened.

Looking at Zhou Haimei's eyebrows and eyes carefully again, he finally understood where that familiar feeling came from.

Wait a minute, I'll calculate it again.

The dead dad’s elder brother’s wife’s younger brother’s wife…

Zhai Yuan, who grew up in an orphanage in his previous life, felt that his CPU was about to burn out, and couldn't help but shout in his heart:

So is this relationship of kinship close or distant? Is it beyond the five degrees of mourning?

Brothers, waiting online is urgent!

(End of this chapter)