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Although Wu Shanshan loves her son very much, raising a child at home alone for three years is indeed a bit worrying for a smart and motivated woman.

So when Xiaojie was about to go to kindergarten, she decided to start working and pursue her career, but she didn't want to give up completely, and was very conflicted.

Zhou Chen already had a plan in mind, and seeing that Wu Shanshan was in such a dilemma, he just gave her a small suggestion.

"Shanshan, you like reading, don't you? I happen to have connections in publishing houses, so why don't you open a big bookstore? We can choose a location near a middle school and sell textbooks and study materials as well as some literary magazines and other books. Such a bookstore is not tiring, and being the boss gives you more free time. It's also your hobby, so it should be easier."

"Open a bookstore?"

Wu Shanshan's eyes lit up. She studied radio and television journalism, but reading has always been her hobby. If she could read while working, she would definitely be willing to do so.

"Can it really work?"

"Of course. I have connections, so it's convenient for me to get books. As long as I open it near a school, I won't have to worry about not being able to sell books. When the time comes, I can make it a little more spacious, have more books, provide better services, and negotiate cooperation with the school. Business will definitely be good."

But Zhou Chen remembered that in the real world, when he was in school, the parents of one of his classmates opened a bookstore opposite the school. Relying on good relationships with school leaders and teachers, they opened a bookstore of more than 100 square meters and made more than one million yuan a year.

You have to know that their place is just a small county town. A school with primary, middle and high schools nearby can earn more than one million yuan a year, which is amazing even in the best economic times.

Wu Shanshan was very moved by what Zhou Chen said: "Then let's give it a try?"

"Okay, let's give it a try. During this time, I'll take you to see the surrounding schools."

"Um."

After Zhuang Xiaoting and Lin Dongzhe got engaged, they became much more open and aboveboard. Zhou Chen gave Zhuang Xiaoting a house, and they got together whenever they had holidays to talk to each other.

After the New Year, Wu Shanshan also started her own actions. She looked at many places with Zhou Chen and finally found a place with a very suitable storefront. There were two schools nearby. After negotiating, she rented it and started to decorate it. As for the source of goods, it was a small matter for Zhou Chen.

As for establishing good relations with the school, it was relatively easy for Zhou Chen, as a Fudan teacher, with his connections with the school and his status as a great writer, to do so.

In September of 1995, Wu Jianguo and Wu Jun finally reached a consensus with Wu Shanshan. Because Zhang A-mei did not want Wu Jun to live at home after marriage, and the woman insisted that Wu Jun buy a house before getting married, they argued for half a year before finally making a decision.

Wu Jun bought two bungalows in Suzhou for a total of more than 6,000 yuan. Wu Jianguo paid half and Wu Shanshan paid the other half. After paying half of the money, Wu Jun refused to run away, so Wu Shanshan had no choice but to pay.

In the end, after paying a total of several thousand yuan, Wu Jianguo and Wu Jun finally agreed with Wu Shanshan that they would not ask her for money again.

Wu Jun also got married successfully in December after buying the house. As his elder sister, Wu Shanshan naturally went back to attend the wedding.

When Wu Shanshan returned home, the Wu family was very surprised to see the changes in her, especially Wu Jun's wife's family. When they saw Wu Shanshan, they were immediately stunned by her noble and graceful temperament.

Human greed is endless. Wu Jianguo saw that his daughter was living a good life and seemed rich, so after Wu Jun got married, he actually wanted to ask Wu Shanshan for money. But this time Wu Shanshan hung up the phone rudely.

After so many years, she has long been tired of being urged for money. There is no family affection, only interests. How could she possibly tolerate it?

Zhuang Xiaoting and Lin Dongzhe officially got married in 1996. However, Zhuang Tunan is already 30 years old and still single, but now he is no longer opposed to blind dates.

It would be fine if only Zhou Chen got married and had children, but now even his sister Zhuang Xiaoting is married, and he, as the eldest brother, doesn't even have a partner, so of course he is anxious.

Zhuang Tunan has very good conditions. He is a graduate student at Fudan University and a team leader of a design institute. He has an above-average appearance and height. Even though he is 30 years old, he is still a hot commodity. Even Shanghai locals are happy to find such a son-in-law.

So after only a few blind dates, he fell in love with a local female college student from Shanghai. She was three years younger than him, had a gentle personality, and was not bad looking. Most importantly, Zhuang Tuanan could chat with her and felt good about her, so they started to get along well.

However, Zhuang Tunan is a slow-warm person, and since they have just started to get along, it will probably take some time before Zhuang Chaoying and Huang Ling can get married as they wish.

Speaking of grandchildren, Zhuang Chaoying felt depressed. Why is it so difficult to have a grandson with his own surname?

Originally he was hoping that Zhou Chen could have a second child, but Zhou Chen and Wu Shanshan had no intention of doing so, so he could only pin his hopes on Zhuang Tunan. However, Zhuang Tunan was thirty years old and still not in a relationship, which really made him so anxious that he couldn't sleep at night.

As for his daughter, there is even less hope. Is it possible for Zhuang Xiaoting to give birth to a child with his surname?

Then Lin Wufeng and Song Ying would really fight with him. Although they liked and respected Xiao Ting, it was impossible for them to agree to such an impolite request.

Compared to Zhuang Chaoying, Huang Ling was much calmer. She had an eldest grandson with her surname. As for her eldest son's dating and getting married, she also urged him to do so, but she was not as anxious as Zhuang Chaoying.

The bookstore that Zhou Chen helped Wu Shanshan open was doing really good business because there were two schools and many residential areas nearby. They hired quite a few employees, so Wu Shanshan, as the boss, was not so busy and had time to take care of Xiaojie.

Zhou Chen teaches and writes at the same time, and his income remains high as always. The family of three lives a more comfortable life than most families.

It has been almost twenty years since I came to this world, and I have completed almost all the tasks that should be completed, except for the main task, which the system has not yet prompted me to complete.

But he was not in a hurry, because the main mission this time was not a right or wrong mission, but a relatively open one. There would be no problem in completing it. It just depended on the evaluation and reward given by the system. He would have to wait for the system to prompt him that the mission was completed, and then he could temporarily leave this world.

So now Zhou Chen lives a comfortable life, waiting patiently, enjoying the warmth of his wife and children, and his life is very comfortable.

At the end of 1997, Zhuang Xiaoting gave birth to a daughter. Song Ying and Lin Wufeng were very happy. They had no intention of favoring boys over girls and loved their granddaughter very much. Song Ying didn't even have time to take care of the canteen. After finding someone to take over her shift, she went straight to Shanghai to help Lin Dongzhe and Zhuang Xiaoting take care of the child.

In 1997, Zhou Chen once again experienced the grand event of Hong Kong's return to China and gradually witnessed the development and strength of the motherland.

Zhuang Tunan has been dating his girlfriend for more than a year and is slowly moving towards marriage.

On this day, Zhuang Tunan brought his girlfriend to Zhou Chen's house for dinner. After dinner, his girlfriend went upstairs to play with Wu Shanshan, while Zhou Chen and Zhuang Tunan drank tea downstairs.

Zhuang Tunan took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Zhou Chen.

"What's this?"

"A letter from Li Jia."

Zhou Chen took it and looked puzzled: "Why did she write to me?"

He hadn't seen Li Jia for a long time and had no intention of going to look for her. Fate is something that sometimes, if you miss it, you'll miss it for a lifetime. Although Wu Shanshan had said some things that were contrary to her will, he didn't do anything out of the ordinary and never saw Li Jia again since then.

After several years, he was naturally very surprised that Zhuang Tunan suddenly sent him a letter.

Zhuang Tunan looked at Zhou Chen and sighed with a complicated expression.

"Li Jia went abroad."

"ah?"

Zhou Chen was even more surprised. Li Jia going abroad was indeed something he had never thought of.

"What's going on?"

"I don't know much about it either. I just know that she was admitted to a graduate school in a foreign university. I was surprised that she was able to be admitted to a graduate school abroad after so many years of graduation. She told me only after she was admitted and said goodbye to me at the same time."

Zhuang Tunan looked lonely. He and Li Jia had been classmates in college for several years, and later worked together in a design institute for several years. They had a deep friendship with each other. Li Jia suddenly wanted to go abroad, and he was really reluctant to let her go, but he had no right to block her way.

"She has gone abroad. Before she left, she specifically asked me not to tell you, so I didn't tell you. This letter is what she asked me to pass on to you before she left."

"Now that I think about it, Tusi, you and she really are not meant to be together. I feel sorry for you both."

Zhuang Tunan was very optimistic about Zhou Chen and Li Jia at first, but unfortunately, he still doesn't understand what happened between them. Neither Zhou Chen nor Li Jia told him anything, so he can only feel sorry for them.

Zhou Chen looked at the letter in his hand with a strange expression. Li Jia's ending was really completely changed by him. She actually chose to go abroad.

Without caring that Zhuang Tunan was still there, he directly opened the envelope, took out the letter inside, and read it carefully.

It took Zhou Chen two minutes to finish reading the letter. There was not much content in the letter, just two pages in total.

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After reading it, he sighed softly, then put the letter away without saying anything.

Zhuang Tunan took a quick look but didn't ask any further questions. He was rather glad that he wasn't as indecisive as Zhou Chen, as emotional debts are the hardest to repay.

In fact, there was nothing much in the letter. Li Jia just said that she had bought a house, and her younger brother was living in it now. In the future, when her parents retired and came back, they would also have a place to live. She had achieved her goal, and now she would live for herself.

But she no longer had the chance to get what she wanted most, so she decided to study abroad. In the end, she left a message to Zhou Chen: See you again if we’re lucky.

Although this letter caused ripples in Zhou Chen's heart, he quickly let it go. People cannot always be trapped in the past. After living for so many years, he knows how to relax himself.

…………

In 1998, Zhuang Tuanan married his girlfriend whom he had been in love with for more than two years. He was very lucky to marry a local girl, and an only child. The girl had already prepared the wedding house for him, so he became a husband who could move in with just his luggage.

Before he got married, Zhou Chen gave him a house, which was one of the two houses he had bought before. One of them had been given to Zhuang Xiaoting, and this was the remaining one.

In this way, the three siblings will all settle down and start their own families in Shanghai, and will most likely never return to Suzhou in the future.

Such a result made Huang Ling and Zhuang Chaoying both relieved and lonely. After all, they would rather live in Suzhou, and they would feel lost without any of their three children around them. Fortunately, the two places are not far apart, and it only takes about two hours to drive back and forth.

After Song Ying raised her child in Shanghai until he was one year old, she returned to Suzhou. However, she did not return alone. She took her granddaughter back with her. Because Lin Dongzhe and Zhuang Xiaoting were both very busy and had no time to take care of the child at home every day, they agreed to bring the child back to Shanghai when he was old enough to go to kindergarten.

Song Ying is now taking care of the children while managing the small canteen with Huang Ling. The canteen is doing better and better, but they have not expanded. Taking care of twenty or thirty children is already their limit. They are all old and don't have such big ambitions. They are already satisfied to maintain this.

Xiang Pengfei found a girl from Suzhou and married her, a year earlier than Zhuang Tunan. They also have a boy who is a few months old.

After learning that her grandson was born, Zhuang Hualin returned directly to Suzhou from Guizhou Province to take care of the child. Now the policies have changed a lot, and she doesn't care about the job there at all, so she retired early. However, Xiang Pengfei's father will have to wait another two or three years before he can retire.

Their family had already agreed to settle down in Suzhou in the future. Xiang Pengfei had made a lot of money over the years and had already bought a three-bedroom, two-living-room apartment in Suzhou. His transportation company was also developing well and he had more than a dozen vehicles to run.

Compared to the lives of their two families, the three siblings of the previous generation of the Zhuang family and the remaining Zhuang Ganmei family did not have such a good life.

It's been 1998, but the two brothers Zhuang Zhendong and Zhuang Zhenbei are still not married. Zhuang Zhenbei is almost 30 years old this year. He has dated several people, but before they could have a deep communication, the other person would run away as soon as he found out about their family situation.

There are two brothers in the family. My father is the only parent who works as a worker in a machinery factory that is about to go bankrupt. I also have a pair of grandparents. Although they have pensions, these two old people don’t contribute much now and they hold on to their money tightly.

Zhuang Zhendong's current job is still for Zhuang's father and grandmother, as well as Zhuang Ganmei and his wife. They cried and begged Zhuang Chaoying and Zhuang Hualin, which left Xiang Pengfei with no choice but to let Zhuang Zhendong work as a driver in his transportation company.

As a result, he had a car accident less than two months after driving. Fortunately, it was not a serious accident, but Xiang Pengfei didn't dare to let him drive again. He let him work as a porter in a transportation company, as long as he didn't cause trouble.

Zhuang Zhenbei was not so lucky. A few years ago, he was deceived by his classmates and went to work in the south. As a result, he did not make any money, but instead his leg was broken. Now he has a lame leg and can't find a good job. He hangs out at home every day and does odd jobs.

The biggest conflict in their family is between two brothers, but there is only one house and six people have to live in it, so for the sake of this house, the two brothers have become enemies, and when they meet they either curse or fight.

The two sons were almost thirty years old, but neither of them had achieved anything and one of them had a lame leg. Zhuang Ganmei and his wife did not have a deep relationship, so quarrels were inevitable and the family atmosphere was extremely bad.

In order to make room for their son to get married, they set their sights on Father and Mother Zhuang, and tried every means to drive them away. However, the old couple were not to be trifled with, and refused to leave. The two sides engaged in a battle of wits and courage, and there were constant quarrels in the house every day, with the insults being particularly harsh.

Because Zhuang Hualin also came back, the old couple often went to Zhuang Chaoying and Zhuang Hualin to cry, but Zhuang Hualin had been heartbroken by them a long time ago. No matter how pitiful they said, she just ignored them. Letting her son provide a job for Zhuang Zhendong was already her biggest concession. It was impossible for her to care about them anymore.

Zhuang Chaoying wanted to take care of it, but his ability was limited. He said several times that he wanted to bring the old couple back to live with them, but Huang Ling was very determined.

She said that they were divorced now and she had no obligation to support them, let alone bring them to her own house. If Zhuang Chaoying wanted to support them, she should do it herself.

Because Huang Ling has no intention of remarrying until now, and seeing the current situation of his parents, he thought that if Huang Ling turned against him, his fate might not be better than that of his parents, so he did not dare to offend Huang Ling at all.

As for going to Shanghai to live with his children, Zhuang Chaoying had no such idea at all. Not to mention whether they would accept him, he himself could not bring himself to go.

Therefore, the only thing he could provide for his parents was some of his retirement salary. He was powerless to provide more. Even if the old couple came to his house and cried, he could not help.

Zhou Chen had also heard Xiang Pengfei mention the situation of the Zhuang old couple and Zhuang Ganmei's family during the Chinese New Year, and he just treated it as a joke.

Their family was messed up by these people at the beginning. Although he did not suffer any loss, he did not retaliate against them with worse means. Instead, he simply ignored them. For such people, ignoring them was a kind of revenge, because he was sure that these people would not have a good life in the future.

Now their results have confirmed his guess.

You reap what you sow!

Living in such an environment all day long, the already sick Father and Grandma Zhuang did not last long. On the eve of the millennium, Father Zhuang was thrown to the ground during a dispute between the two brothers Zhuang Zhendong and Zhuang Zhenbei over a house, and he never stood up again.

After the death of Grandma Zhuang's father, life became even more difficult for Grandma Zhuang. She was directly kicked out of the house by her daughter-in-law Zhuang Ganmei. However, Zhuang Chaoying felt sorry for her and rented a house outside to take care of her. However, Zhuang Chaoying herself was not in good health and was not good at serving others.

In 2002, Grandma Zhuang's back was covered with abscesses and she died in pain. Her whole body stunk when she died. Zhuang Chaoying, who had taken care of her for two years, was exhausted. At the age of 60, he looked like he was in his 70s.

Zhuang Ganmei and his wife were not pleasing to the family. They spent a lot of effort to find a wife for Zhuang Zhendong, but who knew that his wife gave birth to a daughter. She couldn't stand their family and ran away.

Zhuang Zhenbei was even more miserable. Because he had a lame leg and was still a bachelor in his thirties, he stayed at home all day. Zhuang Ganmei and his wife were so angry at these two brothers that they were hospitalized several times.

Speaking of bad people, the old couple from the Zhuang family and Zhuang Ganmei and others are not considered to be very evil, but they are selfish and the things they have done have led to their own downfall.

Over the years, Zhou Chen has been living very well with Wu Shanshan. With his help, Zhuang Xiaoting and Zhuang Tunan are also living very well. Living together in Shanghai, they often get together for dinner. Their relationship is completely different from that of the previous generation of Zhuang Chaoying and his three siblings.

Zhou Chen stayed in this world until 2008. In this year, the system's main task was finally completed, so he no longer hesitated and chose to return.