Chapter 356 Girl's Thoughts
On the Lantern Festival, Zhang Yunqi stayed at Chu Jian's house.

Since Chu Dapeng passed away, Chu Jian and his family of three moved to Zhang Yunqi's residential area. The house is not big, but it is cozy and far away from all the bad things in the past. The family is well organized and happy.

Chu Jian's mother Jiang Feng is an ordinary hardworking woman. In recent years, she has been working with Zhang Yunqi's mother in Zhang's Fish Noodle Shop at the No. 1 Middle School in the city, washing dishes and doing odd jobs. The salary is pretty good, and together with the money left by Chu Dapeng from the lottery, it is enough to support a family of three and pay for Chu Jian's schooling.

The only shortcoming of this family is probably the original intention.

Chu Xin is already eight years old, only one year younger than Zhang Xiaoxiao. She has slow intellectual development and always looks stupid. Last year, Zhang Yunqi took her to the hospital for a checkup. The doctor said that she has moderate intellectual disability and her IQ should be above 50 when she grows up. She has incomplete social adaptability and self-care ability, but her reading and environment discrimination abilities are very poor. She needs to be educated to develop her hands-on and brain-power abilities, which can be cured to a certain extent.

In fact, a long time ago, Chu Jian would teach Chu Xin to speak, tell simple stories, and do simple housework every day after school to strengthen her conditioned reflexes and her ability to recognize people, objects, and the environment. Now Chu Xin can basically speak, but her speech is slurred, her language is unclear, her movements are slow, and her facial expressions are sometimes dull.

As Chu Xin gets older, Chu Jian wants her sister to go to school. She hopes that her sister can live like a normal person one day, know how to love, and feel the beauty of life.

This was probably one of the few wishes this girl had. She really didn't want to see her sister live like this. But in Chu Xin's situation, ordinary schools nearby were unwilling to accept her.

After hesitating for a long time when they first met, she finally found Zhang Yunqi.

It was a cold winter morning, the ground was covered with white frost, the grass and trees were withered and yellow, and the birds had disappeared. Chu Jian was reading the news and the latest news in school in front of the newspaper stand. At 6:30, she came to the football field as usual and gave warm milk to Zhang Yunqi who had just finished running. Zhang Yunqi breathed out hot air to warm the hands of Chu Jian, who was always prone to frostbite.

Many times, when being together has become a habit for two people, other things will seem natural, such as the warm milk prepared every day, the way to school walked together, the tacit understanding of not disturbing each other during morning reading, the hot water filled in two thermos cups before class, and a girl's thoughts that can be seen with just one look.

In fact, in Zhang Yunqi's memory, since he and Chu Jian met, Chu Jian had only come to him for two things. One was to borrow money from him because she couldn't pay the tuition, and the other was about her sister Chu Xin's schooling.

There was no reason for Zhang Yunqi not to do it, but he didn't even consider letting Chu Xin go to an ordinary school, as that would definitely make him be bullied by other kids. He initially wanted to find a professional special education school, but after searching for many days, he discovered that there was no such school in Jiangchuan City. Later, through his eldest sister-in-law Zhang Xiaonan's second uncle, the Education Bureau Director Zhang Guoxiang, he found out that Jiejing Primary School had opened a supplementary class for mentally retarded children, so he arranged for Chu Xin to go to school. After the Lantern Festival, he officially went to school on the 16th day of the first lunar month.

The whole family was very happy to meet for the first time.

Zhang Yunqi spent most of the New Year in Yunxi Village. On the Lantern Festival, he brought a lot of things to Chu Jian's house. He wanted to do some work to show his ability, but Chu Jian's mother looked at him with the kind smile of a mother-in-law and didn't let him do any work. She even asked Chu Jian to boil water for him and make tea. He just crossed his legs and lay on the sofa, eating melon seeds and watching TV, and teasing Chu Xin who was very happy with his new schoolbag.

At that time, the DVD player was playing "The Shawshank Redemption", a movie that was released last year and was obtained by Zhang Yunqi.

I looked at it very seriously at first sight.

The TV was showing the scene where Andy spent twenty years digging a tunnel that Red thought could not be dug even in six hundred years. When he finally crawled out of the 500-yard smelly sewage pipe and stood in the pouring rain, his belief seemed to pierce through the darkness and created a dazzling thunderbolt in the dark night.

Chu Jian pursed his lips and said, "There is one thing I don't quite understand. Why did Brooks want to stay in prison by hurting his cellmates in order to avoid being released on parole? Freedom should be something that people yearn for and pursue, just like Andy."

Zhang Yunqi thought for a moment and said, "That's not right. Often, the pursuit of freedom means breaking rules and order. But this old man has lived in prison for more than 50 years and has long been trapped by the prison's rules. So he needs these rules and order to survive."

At first glance, he looked thoughtful.

Zhang Yunqi smiled and looked at Chu Jian, saying, "But some birds cannot be trapped, because every feather of hers shines with the brilliance of freedom."

Chu Jian turned his head to look at Zhang Yunqi and smiled at him.

At this time, the phone at Chu Jian's home rang. It was Chunlan calling, saying that her sister, brother-in-law, eldest brother and sister-in-law were all over, and asked her second brother Zhang Yunqi to go back for dinner.

When leaving, Zhang Yunqi asked Chu Jian if he wanted to go to his house for dinner.

When we first met, she blushed and said let’s do it another day.

Chu Jian's home was only about ten meters away from his. When Zhang Yunqi got home, the hot meals were already on the table. The whole family was waiting for him. Zhang's mother nagged, "Old Third, it's New Year's Day, why did you run to Chu Jian's home when you had nothing to do?" Chunlan, who was standing next to him, immediately sold out her cheap brother, "Because that's Chu Jian's home."

Many people in the family were laughing.

Some things are actually obvious.

The actions and looks of the two young people when they were together have already explained everything, and the matter of Zhang Yunqi and Chu Jian had spread around the school at the end of last year. Zhang Xiaonan and Zhang Chunlan already knew about it. Now only the older generation, Zhang's father and mother, can't see it clearly. But what can they say? The third child in the family has now built such a big business, allowing the whole family to live a wealthy life. His academic performance is also good, so what's wrong with having a relationship?
To be honest, except for Chunlan and the naughty Xiaoxiao who go against Zhang Yunqi every day, the rest of the brothers, sisters and brother-in-law are usually scolded by the third brother Zhang Yunqi in the company. It was Zhang Yunqi who taught the eldest brother Zhang Yunfeng and Zhang Xiaonan how to fall in love. It is impossible to educate Zhang Yunqi in terms of love, and there is no way to say a word.

Of course, if we analyze this matter rationally, with the conditions of their third son, his future partner will not be simple. It is not easy to find someone who is well-matched. It is indeed too early to say this now. However, in the eyes of the Zhang family, the most suitable person at the moment is probably the girl Ji Ling.

The third child and Ji Ling grew up together, and they were childhood sweethearts, with a deep affection. Moreover, from a practical perspective, the Ji family is very powerful in the southern part of Hunan. At a young age, Ji Zhong is already the deputy mayor of the provincial government and the municipal bureau. His career path is full of momentum, and it is foreseeable that he will become a high-ranking official.

At present, the Zhang family's industries are all in the southern Hunan area, and in the future they will surely expand to the whole country with Lijin City, the capital of southern Hunan Province, as the center. The two older brothers and sisters of the Zhang family were placed by Zhang Yunqi in charge of several industries of the Zhang family. Over the years, they have grown a lot, especially as the level of business objects they come into contact with becomes higher and higher, they can realize the importance of background.

Government and business, without government, business cannot get off the ground.

Of course, they were not clear about such sensitive matters, but sometimes they could not help but think that in the past few years, from the time when the third son Zhang Yunqi started his own business to the current prosperity of the Zhang family's various industries, there was Ji Zhong's shadow behind them. In the eyes of outsiders, Ji Zhong was also the biggest support of their Zhang family.

Even if we put aside those vague rumors, if the third child in the family can really get together with Ji Ling, it would be a match made in heaven. The Zhang family's many industries will have a stabilizing force in the development of the next ten years.

Of course, they only kept such thoughts in their minds and thought occasionally. No one dared to tell the third brother Zhang Yunqi who had a strong personality. If anyone wanted to tell him, it would only be Zhang's father and mother who didn't know what was going on. But at the moment, Zhang's father and mother seemed to like this girl more.

Chu Jian has grown up under the watchful eyes of the Zhang family in the past two years. Although the family conditions were very difficult before, it was entirely thanks to the unremitting efforts of the third son of the family that the miserable situation was reversed in the past two years. In some aspects, she may not be worthy of the third son, but her character, appearance, grades and talents are all top-notch, and she is not competitive. Her personality is not as strong as Ji Ling. If they can really get together in the future, they will still like the third son's wife.

The eldest sister Zhang Qiulan smiled and said, "I think our family is almost all together for this Lantern Festival."

Zhang Xiaoxiao, who was gnawing on a chicken leg, immediately said, "Second brother, can I go and ask Sister Chu Jian to come over for dinner?"

Zhang Yunqi patted his little head and said, "They've already prepared their own meals and are eating them." He smiled, picked up the Maotai and said, "Come on, come on, it's rare for the family to get together, let's have a drink."

The matter was just left unsolved.

No one asked any more questions. The eldest sister Zhang Qiulan tactfully changed the topic to Zhang Xiaonan's pregnancy, and the atmosphere at home was extremely festive. After dinner, Zhang Yunqi talked to Zhang Yunfeng about the idea of ​​contracting the old side area of ​​Longjingyuan to run a night market.

Only Zhang Xiaoxiao was thinking about her second sister-in-law.

Once, the little fellow hugged Zhang Yunqi's arm and said, "Second brother, second brother, can I call Chu Jian sister "Second sister-in-law" from now on?"

Zhang Yunqi said no.

Xiaoxiao covered her mouth and smiled: "Then I will call Ji Ling sister-in-law."

Zhang Yunqi almost vomited blood and died.

Xiaoxiao is 9 years old this year. She has the best food, clothing and daily necessities in school. She dresses beautifully every day and has a cheerful and lively personality. She is especially favored by the children in school. Zhang Yunqi heard from Chunlan that a boy in Xiaoxiao's class likes her and plays with her every day. She already vaguely knows what it means for someone to be with someone.

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