Family Meeting

Zhou Zhengtao moved the fastest, arriving around evening.

The couple had also brought the two sisters, Zhou Yilian and Zhou Chenglong, arriving right at dinnertime. Naturally, though, he had not come for dinner, but rather to "congratulate" them.

Zhou Zhengtao was pot-bellied, quite tall, and dressed in a sharp suit. Aunt An was also somewhat plump, yet she insisted on wearing a beige, tight-fitting cheongsam paired with a pearl necklace, looking as though she were headed to some high-class banquet, though people would only notice the rolls of fat exaggeratedly accentuated by her tight clothes.

As the two of them walked through the narrow and somewhat dated living room, they truly looked entirely out of place.

Zhou Mingyard clearly did not see it that way, however. He first nodded to An Yang and Xiao Qian upon approaching, then greeted An Guoshu with a smile, his attitude far better than before.

"Guoshu, come, I noticed your lumbar vertebrae haven't been doing so well lately, so I brought you some supplements. I'll just leave them on the table!"

"Huh? My lumbar vertebrae are just fine!"

"Ahem, ahem!" Zhou Zhengtao coughed twice. "You usually have to sit while grading papers, and I figured doing that long-term is bound to damage your lower back, so I brought you a few things."

"Oh, my lower back really wasn't very good before, but for some reason, it's gotten better again now." Oblivious to social subtleties, An Guoshu remained clueless. Though he had no idea why Zhou Zhengtao had brought gifts to see him, he still chatted away with him anyway.

Eventually, Xie Yunqing could not stand to watch any longer and said, "Just take the supplements your brother-in-law bought you. We're all family here, why so much fuss? You're just like Teacher Ji!"

After a brief