Hold on, the system and I have never been angry

Zhou Hongyuan chased after the old lady and pulled her away: "Mom, it's New Year's Day, don't make the atmosphere too awkward!"

Old Madam Zhou cursed: "It's just a New Year's Eve, what's the big deal! I just don't like these two unlucky stars! If Zhou Xuan hadn't taken up the only child quota, her mother wouldn't have to hide from the police when she was pregnant with Zhou Chen, fearing that she would be forced to have an abortion! In the end, they were fined tens of thousands of yuan, which directly emptied their family's savings! It's all because of Zhou Xuan, the unlucky star! If I had known, I should have strangled her to death when she was born!"

"And your brother picked up this useless thing. If he hadn't been sick every other day, would our family be so poor?! I think he's a jinx! Since he came, your brother's business has never been good. Now he's in debt. He's asked to go out to work to help pay off the debts, but he's thinking about going to college somewhere else so that he can leave us all behind and leave! Don't think I don't know what he's thinking! Your brother listened to me and tied him up at home. At least he can still send money to our family every month. Otherwise, I wouldn't even bother to let him come back for the New Year's Eve dinner!"

After much persuasion, Zhou Hongyuan finally helped Old Lady Zhou leave.

Lu Jinchao turned a deaf ear to Mrs. Zhou's abuse. He squatted down and held up Zhou Xuan's red, frozen hands. He took out a tissue to wipe the water stains, put her hands into her cotton coat pocket, and then took out a starry sky lollipop like a magic trick, coaxing a child: "Don't cry, it's not worth it."

Zhou Xuan took the candy and burst into laughter: "Brother, this lollipop is so beautiful, why do you carry candy with you? Do you have a girlfriend outside?"

"No." Lu Jinzhao rolled up his sleeves and began to wash the bacon.

He has recently developed the habit of carrying candy with him. Sometimes when he feels like eating something or has a craving for cigarettes, a lollipop is very convenient. The starry sky lollipop made of maltose does not have any industrial saccharin taste, nor is it too sweet, making it suitable for coaxing children or giving as a gift.

Lu Jinchao made the New Year's Eve dinner. The transportation in the village was not convenient, with only one bus a day, so it was almost impossible to go back and forth on the same day. There were only hotels in the town, so no matter how unwilling Lu Jinchao was, he had to sleep there for a night before leaving. When making dinner, Mrs. Zhou's attitude was very clear. If he didn't cook, Zhou Xuan would cook. He could be disobedient, but Zhou Xuan was easy to control.

I don't know how a group of middle-aged and elderly people who are over 300 years old can order a little girl who is less than 14 years old around. Lu Jinchao almost wanted to laugh. It's not a big deal to cook a meal anyway, so he just did it and inadvertently threw some laxatives in it.

The dishes were served. In addition to Mrs. Zhou, Zhou Hongda's family of four, and Zhou Hongyuan's family of three, there was also a person who had not appeared in the original owner's memory. Zhou Hongda introduced them with a smile, but his eyes fell on the stranger from time to time: "This is Mr. Liu from the town. He held you when you were a child. Come on, call him Uncle Liu."

Zhou Xuan called out politely, "Hello, Uncle Liu."

Boss Liu smiled so much that his face was wrinkled: "Hey, hello to you too."

Zhou Chen and Zhou Wei called people reluctantly, but Lu Jinchao pretended not to hear. He took off his apron, filled a bowl of rice for himself and Zhou Xuan, and pulled Zhou Xuan to sit down opposite Zhou Hongda.

Before they could even sit down, Zhou Hongda said, "Get up! You don't deserve to eat at the table!"

Zhou Xuan jumped up immediately in shock and stepped back. Lu Jinchao had heard that some rural areas did not allow women to sit at the table to eat, but he did not expect that the Zhou family had inherited this bad habit. He looked at the old lady Zhou who was sitting at the first seat, and Zhou Hongda's mother Wang Fangfang, and became more and more puzzled. They were all women, but the old lady and Zhou's mother could sit and eat, but Zhou Xuan could not?

Lu Jinzhao glanced at everyone present with a cold look: "Don't make trouble, or you all won't eat."

Zhou Hongda immediately stood up, pointed at Lu Jinzhao's nose and started to curse: "You fucking bastard..."

At this time, Boss Liu, who was sitting in the guest seat, raised his hand and said with a smile: "Hey, Lao Zhou, what are you doing on New Year's Day? Just let the children sit down and eat normally!"

Zhou Hongda then shut up.

Lu Jinchao pulled Zhou Xuan to sit down, took the remaining chicken leg from the plate and put it in Zhou Xuan's bowl. Zhou Xuan was flattered, as she had never had a share of chicken leg before.

Just as she was about to take a bite, Zhou's mother clicked her tongue and directly stretched out her chopsticks to pick up the chicken leg and put it into Zhou Chen's bowl. She also picked up a large piece of greasy fat meat into Zhou Xuan's bowl and said, "Eat this. Your brother is still growing and needs nutrition."

Zhou Xuan felt very aggrieved, but dared not say a word.

Zhou Chen happily grabbed the chicken leg and took a big bite: "It's delicious!"

Lu Jinchao glanced at Zhou Chen, who was 150cm tall and weighed 150kg, and whose bowl was piled high with chicken wings. He stretched out his long arm and put both chicken wings into Zhou Xuan's bowl. "Xiao Xuan is only fourteen years old, and it's the right age for growth."

Zhou Chen’s chicken wings were taken away from him. He gave up eating the half-eaten chicken leg, threw the bowl and yelled, “Give me back the chicken wings! I was going to eat them!”

Zhou Xuan habitually wanted to give up the chicken wings to his brother, but Lu Jinchao stopped him and said, "These are for you. Eat whenever you want in the future. No need to give in."

Zhou Chen howled even louder and louder. Just as his mother was about to get angry, the guest man said, "Hey, it's just a pair of chicken wings. Let the girl eat it. She needs to have a healthy body so that she can have children."

After he finished speaking, he squinted his eyes as if glued to Zhou Xuan, which made Qiansui on Lu Jinzhao's shoulder shudder: "Ahhh, this person's eyes are so disgusting! The host seems to have bad intentions towards your sister!"

The gaze was so explicit that even Zhou Xuan, who was standing beside her, noticed it. She lowered her head and ate her food uncomfortably, pretending that she knew nothing.

In order to ease the awkwardness at the dinner, Zhou Hongyuan spoke first: "My nephew's cooking skills are getting better and better."

Several men began to talk loudly, and the women would only interject from time to time when they talked about gossip. The children did not like this atmosphere and quickly finished their meal and went into the TV room.

The middle-aged man at the guest table had almost finished his meal. He put down his chopsticks, took out several stacks of hundred-dollar bills from his bag, and piled them on the table: "My dear relatives, this is my sincerity."

When Mrs. Zhou saw the pile of money, she was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling. "Okay, okay, we'll be a family from now on!"

Lu Jinchao frowned slightly. Zhou Xuan would only be fourteen after the Chinese New Year. These guys were really worthless.

Zhou Hongyuan smiled and patted Zhou Xuan on the shoulder: "Niece, Boss Liu has taken a liking to you. When you go to the Liu family in the future, you must serve Boss Liu well, understand?"

Zhou Xuan was so anxious that tears were streaming down her face. She wanted to say something, but couldn't bear the gazes of the elders present, so she stopped herself several times.

Zhou Hongda changed the subject: "Sleep in the old house tonight, and go back to town with Boss Liu tomorrow!"

Zhou Hongyuan nodded repeatedly: "Yes, you are fourteen years old, it's time to plan for the future."

Old Mrs. Zhou echoed: "It's your blessing that Boss Liu likes you!"

After piling the money on the table, the middle-aged man stood up from his seat and walked to Zhou Xuan to sit down, his hands restlessly trying to touch Zhou Xuan's back. Lu Jinzhao seemed to have eyes on his back, and quickly stretched out his chopsticks to clamp his dirty hands, with his thumb on the top of the chopsticks, and the other four fingers holding the cross part of the chopsticks, and raised his hand to insert it into the table.

"Ka--" The chopsticks didn't break, but the table was pierced by them, and Boss Liu's hand was trapped in the crossed chopsticks. The chopsticks were halfway inserted into the table, and he couldn't get free for a while.

The two Zhou brothers were shocked and rushed forward to rescue Boss Liu, and they also scolded him: "What are you doing? Are you trying to turn the tables?"

Lu Jinzhao covered Zhou Xuan's eyes and sent her to the next room. After closing the door, he turned around and looked around coldly: "What did you say just now?"

Zhou Hongda was so choked up that he couldn't even begin to curse. It was Zhou Hongyuan who came to his senses first, cleared his throat, and said, "Nephew, your father is talking to you about your sister's marriage. You know that our family's financial situation is not good. Now Boss Liu has taken a fancy to your sister and is willing to pay a betrothal gift of 150,000 yuan. Your father and I both think that Boss Liu is very sincere, and your sister won't suffer any loss if she marries him..."

After hearing this nonsense, Lu Jinzhao slapped the table with his palm. With a few "cracks", the wooden tabletop broke into several pieces along the two chopstick holes. The bowls and chopsticks on it slid down and fell to the ground, leaving leftovers all over the floor.

His face turned cold, and he exuded an aura that he was not easy to mess with: "Try to say one more word?"

The table top was five centimeters thick and was easily broken into pieces by Lu Jinzhao with one palm.

"Ah!——" Someone screamed.

The sawdust flew onto Boss Liu's face, and a lot of soup splashed all over his body. Boss Liu was so scared that he was afraid that Lu Jinzhao would slap him too, so he begged for mercy: "No, no, we didn't say anything!"

Qiansui quickly stretched out his cat claws and patted Lu Jinzhao's face: "Brother Chao, don't use your internal energy recklessly. This is not a martial arts game for you to play! Be careful not to be captured by the country for research!"

Lu Jinzhao glanced at them and said, "Take your money and get out."

Zhou Hongyuan was so frightened that he was shaking. Boss Liu broke the chopsticks, pulled his hand out, and fled. He didn't even notice that the back of his hand was scratched, but he didn't forget to take the stacks of money with him before leaving.

Zhou Hongda came back to his senses and tried to suppress Lu Jinchao by posing as a father. He pointed at Lu Jinchao's nose and said angrily, "You are rebellious! We are doing this for your sister's good! Do you know that Boss Liu promised that as long as your sister marries him and gives him a child, he will pay off our debts! Your brother will also be able to live a good life in the future! How can you be so selfish! Don't you think about the Zhou family at all!"

"Why are you so reluctant to spend that little money?" Lu Jinzhao bent down and pulled out the half-broken chopsticks from the table, then threw them at Zhou Hongda with his backhand: "You can marry him yourself."

The chopsticks brushed past Zhou Hongda's ear, hit the cement wall, and bounced to the ground, leaving only a round hole on the cement wall. Fortunately, he didn't use much force, otherwise the chopsticks would have penetrated the cement wall directly. Even so, it would only cause minor injuries.

Zhou Hongda's pupils trembled and he was speechless for a long time. Old Mrs. Zhou even fainted. Several people hurriedly tried to help her and no one cared about him for a while.

Lu Jinchao was too lazy to pay attention to them. He coaxed Zhou Xuan into falling asleep and bought her a lot of gadgets from the system mall. After coaxing her to sleep, he directly requisitioned Zhou Wei's room.

His room had long been converted into a mahjong room by Old Lady Zhou. There were melon seed shells and candy wrappers all over the floor, and no bedding on the bed. He had seen that when he took the gold lock just now.

Zhou Wei was dissatisfied, but his father Zhou Hongyuan did not dare to raise any objection. No one supported Zhou Wei, so he could only run to Zhou Chen's room to squeeze in.

Wang Fangfang kept complaining: "I told you not to call him back! You didn't listen to me, and now Zhou Xuan's marriage is ruined! If you hadn't insisted on calling him back, how could this have happened!"

Zhou Hongda choked and said angrily: "What are you fussing about! I called him back because I wanted some money, who knew it would be like this!"

Old Mrs. Zhou groaned a few times: "You two stop fighting! Hurry up and call the second son out, so he doesn't occupy the toilet anymore, I can't hold it any longer!"

Listening to the noise of the Zhou family members wailing and scrambling for the toilet, Lu Jinzhao lay on Zhou Wei's bed and raised his hand to put [Take Zhou Xuan away from the Zhou family] on the to-do list.

Qiansui stopped licking his fur and said, "Brother Chao, are you feeling compassionate...?"

Lu Jinchao responded in a low voice. Judging from the situation in just a few hours, Zhou Xuan's status in the Zhou family is similar to that of the original owner Zhou Ye, or even lower. I'm afraid it won't be long before Zhou Xuan will be sold by the Zhou family for money.

It was easy for him to take Zhou Xuan away, and he could also take out the money, but how to place her...

Thinking about it, I closed my eyes and fell asleep.

On New Year's Day, at five or six in the morning, before dawn, the sound of firecrackers could be heard outside, and Lu Jinchao couldn't fall asleep no matter what. Although in most cases he could subjectively decide when his soul would return to his body, there were times when he was forcibly awakened by the outside world. For example, extreme noise.

When he got up, he found Zhou Xuan was already preparing breakfast, so he went over to help. Zhou Xuan chattered with him about her interesting experiences at school, only talking about happy things. Lu Jinzhao listened carefully, replying from time to time.

After a long silence, he suddenly said, "Do you want to leave the Zhou family?"

Zhou Xuan was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Brother, what are you talking about? Why should I leave home? It's great here!"

Chitose yawned, "She's lying."

Lu Jinchao did not say anything. Staying in such a native family, he did not believe that Zhou Xuan would have no intention of escaping. What should she be worried about?

After making breakfast, Lu Jinzhao picked up some food for himself and went to Zhou Wei's room to eat alone. During this time, he kept thinking that it was easy for Zhou Xuan to live a good life with his assets, but he needed a legal identity that could make money quickly and in the open to make Zhou Xuan believe that he could support her, so that she would feel at ease to follow him.

Moreover, she also needs to be completely disillusioned with the Zhou family.

Lu Jinzhao suddenly remembered something and stroked Qiansui's cat's head: "It's almost the tenth anniversary of the General Seal, right?"

Chitose's cat head bobbed up and down, "Yes. What do you think, Chao-nii?"

Lu Jinzhao narrowed his beautiful phoenix eyes and said, "Please bring out my full picture book account for the prize draw."

"Huh??? What account with a complete illustrated book?"

"I typed this out in the practice room last night."

"You spent ten years playing this game in the practice room?" The system didn't understand. The system really didn't understand.

Although the practice room can simulate everything in reality and realize the freedom of the entire illustrated account, it is just a virtual account after all and is different from the real world.

But it does whatever the host says.

It's just a small deduction of points.

After breakfast, Lu Jinzhao asked Zhou Xuan again if he wanted to leave together, but was rejected again. He left a few hundred yuan in cash for Zhou Xuan, and told her not to let other people in the Zhou family find out. Then he took the earliest bus and left the Zhou family's old house directly.

He would have vomited if he stayed a minute longer.

*

Time flies. In a blink of an eye, Lu Jinzhao has been working part-time in the Internet cafe for a month and a half, and the Chinese New Year is less than ten days away.

At that time, he had successfully resigned from the milk tea shop and received the salary and commission he deserved. However, he was disgusted by his manager, who had replied to messages in the company group within seconds, but deliberately delayed his resignation process for half a month. No wonder those male colleagues could do whatever they wanted in the store.

Lu Jinzhao would not tolerate him, and before leaving, he did the same thing and let the gang of thugs beat up several people separately. He did not forget to throw the evidence of their dereliction of duty and taking the initiative to cause trouble to the company's group. Wang Zelinkai was fired, and the others were demoted or had their salaries cut.

As the Chinese New Year approached, the debt collectors came more aggressively. Zhou Hongda couldn't pay, so he told them to come to Lu Jinchao. In a short period of time, Lu Jinchao beat up more than a dozen people until they dared not come to collect the debt again. They couldn't afford to offend Lu Jinchao, so they went back to Zhou Hongda to settle the score and directly broke one of Zhou Hongda's legs.

Qiansui let out a long sigh: "That feels good."