After the divorce, I became a rich girl

Chapter 644: Cooking raw rice into cooked rice

Zhou's mother smiled and shook her head, refusing, "What's the point of having a big meal so late at night? Your father has high blood pressure and high blood lipids, and the doctor specifically told him to eat light meals. By the way, why did you come back so early today?"

Zhou Dan sat on a chair, poured himself a glass of warm water, and said casually: "I'm taking a leave today."

"Why did you suddenly ask for leave?" Zhou's father paused holding the soup spoon and looked up at his daughter.

He couldn't understand his daughter any better. She was simply a workaholic. Since she started working, she almost never missed work unless it was necessary. She even seldom took her annual leave. It was really unusual for her to suddenly ask for leave.

Zhou Dan raised his head and drank two glasses of warm water. As his Adam's apple rolled, he took out the marriage certificate from his pocket with his fingertips and put it on the dining table nonchalantly: "Shiwen and I will go get the marriage certificate today."

Zhou Dan held the teacup and continued to sip the water, but the air around her seemed to have been drained of all sound, and it was so quiet that she felt scared.

She pretended to drink water, but in fact she was secretly observing her parents' reactions through the rim of the cup. She saw that both of them were staring at the marriage certificate on the table for a long time without coming back to their senses, as if they could stare at the marriage certificate to the point of making it blurry.

She quietly put down the teacup, her voice as soft as a mosquito's hum: "Dad, Mom..." But just as she opened her mouth and before she finished her words, Zhou's mother suddenly reached out and grabbed the marriage certificate like a robot that had been started, and opened it with trembling hands. In the photo, her daughter's smile was clearly visible, and the two words "Zhou Dan" in the name column made her eyes hot.

Mother Zhou sighed heavily, and the marriage certificate in her hand trembled slightly.

Father Zhou took the red book from his wife and looked at the marriage certificate for a minute behind his glasses. Then, when he raised his eyes, a light flashed across his glasses: "Did you get this marriage certificate today?"

Zhou Dan was holding the teacup. She felt a little guilty when her father saw her, but she had to stay calm. She nodded and said, "Well, isn't there a date on it?" The end of her voice trembled, like cotton soaked in water.

Just as Zhou's father was about to speak, Zhou's mother suddenly covered her mouth, and sobs leaked out through her fingers.

Seeing her mother crying, Zhou Dan panicked instantly. She hurriedly pulled out tissues, almost knocking the tissue box over. She came close to her mother and wiped away her mother's tears with her fingertips in a panic: "Mom, don't cry... I, I know I'm wrong, isn't that enough?"

Zhou's mother suddenly reached out and took the tissue from her daughter's hand. She wiped her tears with the tissue pinched on her fingertips and said in a sobbing voice: "Is it because the Li family looks down on you that they forced you and Shiwen to secretly get a marriage certificate?"

After Zhou Dan and Li Shiwen started dating, Zhou Dan told her parents the truth about Li Shiwen's family background.

Before Zhou's father retired, he was at least a mid-level leader in the unit. Both the old couple were civil servants and considered their family to be respectable. But when they heard their daughter talk about the background of the Li family, they felt that such a family was out of their reach even if they stood on tiptoe.

Therefore, regarding the relationship between Zhou Dan and Li Shiwen, they both felt like there was a heavy weight hanging in their hearts.

The mood of Zhou's mother and father is undoubtedly complicated. They hope that their daughter and Li Shiwen can be together until the end, but they are also afraid that she will be together with Li Shiwen until the end. After all, there is a big difference in their family backgrounds. If their daughter is wronged in the future, they want to support her but they don't know where to go to support her.

After all, "Once you enter a wealthy family, it's like entering a deep sea" is not just an idiom. The class of a family has not been easy to cross since ancient times.

So now when Zhou's mother saw the marriage certificate Zhou Dan suddenly took out, she instantly misunderstood, and all her worries turned into tears of heartache for Zhou Dan: "Their family does not agree with your marriage, and now you have secretly obtained the certificate.

Your father and I only have you as our daughter. We raised you from childhood with our arms and legs held high. Mom is afraid that you will suffer injustice in such a family in the future..."

Zhou Dan felt a sour nose and wanted to laugh when she heard her mother's guesses in a tearful voice. She reached out and held her mother's trembling hand: "Mom, have you been watching soap operas about mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fighting again recently? Why do you always think about nonsense?"

Mother Zhou looked up at her daughter, tears still stained the fine lines at the end of her eyes, and her fingertips unconsciously stroked the photo on the marriage certificate: "Don't change the subject, and don't try to coax me. If you are really valued by their family, how could the elders let you get the marriage certificate secretly without even showing their faces?"

She suddenly grabbed her daughter's hand, the warmth in her palm trembling, "Dandan, we don't want his wealth, we just want his sincerity.

You were raised by your parents with love and care. If your in-laws look down on you, you can never jump into the fire pit no matter what."

As Zhou's mother spoke, tears began to well up in her eyes again, but she stubbornly refused to let them fall.

Zhou Dan felt sore at the touch of her mother's words. Her eyes were hot but she couldn't help laughing. She simply put her arms around her mother's thin shoulders and rested her forehead on her hair: "Mom, what are you thinking! Even Shiwen's father was kept in the dark about the marriage certificate between me and Shiwen.

I didn’t tell you and Dad, and he didn’t tell his dad either.”

Father Zhou sighed, his eyes darkened behind his glasses, and he said, "So you two want to make it a done deal first and report later?"

Zhou Dan slumped down on the dining chair next to her mother, her legs scraping against the floor. "It's just... when we were dating yesterday, we passed by the Civil Affairs Bureau, and he was about to take up his new post, so we got the certificate today!"

When Zhou's father heard his daughter say this, he sighed again. The ancients said, "If you have a son, you will be full of energy; if you don't have a son, you won't be full of energy." It turns out that raising a daughter is also a cause for worry.

He sat back in the dining chair, the porcelain spoon creating tiny ripples in the soup bowl, "You two should have some rules by now, right? You can't just live your life in a muddle after getting the marriage certificate."

Zhou Dan leaned over and hugged his father's shoulders, his eyes curved into crescents: "Shiwen's father asked me to ask you and mom if you are free tomorrow. His family wants to come and propose marriage."

Zhou's father and mother looked at each other. They knew the identity of Li Shiwen's father, Li Hongxing, but they didn't expect that he would come to propose marriage in person?

Mother Zhou's fingertips unconsciously grasped the tablecloth, and she suddenly became a little restless: "Your father and I naturally have time, but his father is such a big leader, how can he have time to come to our house to propose marriage?"

Zhou Dan smiled and said, "Mom, no matter how big a leader he is, he is still Shiwen's father. Shiwen and I are going to get married, so naturally he will come to propose marriage."

Mother Zhou threw the used tissue into the trash can, held Zhou Dan's wrist and asked, "Shiwen's father...really wants to come in person?"

Zhou Dan's wrist was so painful from being squeezed by his mother, but he smiled and shook her arm: "He only has Shiwen as his precious son, so of course he has to come in person for such an important matter as proposing marriage. I heard from Shiwen that he will probably arrive in Xishi tonight."