At that moment, Secretary Zhou had no idea the system was already preparing to assign him a side quest.
Following their arrangements, he first returned to Liaoyang and waited with Jian Shuyue for his parents to join them. Then they flew from Liaoyang to Ganquan and took a coach to their destination-his uncle's home in Changtian City.
Guo Donglin's family had just finished lunch when the doorbell rang.
Guo Siwei immediately darted over and opened the door.
"Yi! Auntie, Uncle... come in, come in!"
Looking excitedly at the people standing outside, Guo Siwei greeted them one by one, then turned and called, "Dad, Mom, Auntie and the others are here!"
Guo Donglin and Liu Guixiang hurried over. At the sight of his younger sister and her husband, whom they had not seen in over two years, their faces filled with genuine joy and excitement.
Family ties ran deep, bonds that could never truly be broken.
The relationship between Zhou Yi and Guo Siwei was proof enough of that.
As children, the two cousins had practically shared a pair of trousers. They had caught fish in the river, raided birds' nests in trees, and sneaked peeks together.
Back then, Guo Siwei and the other neighborhood children had all been little followers of General Zhou Yi.
After giving Zhou Yi an enthusiastic hug, Guo Siwei turned an astonished gaze on Jian Shuyue beside him and greeted her with great formality.
"Well, Xiaoming must have earned some serious blessings in his past life to find such a beautiful girlfriend!"
Guo Donglin and Liu Guixiang studied the girl with her exquisite looks and bearing, praising her effusively to his sister and brother-in-law.
Old Zhou and Teacher Guo gave deliberately restrained smiles. Exactly. This was precisely the reaction they wanted. They wanted to indulge