Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

My mother-in-law stood up immediately, her eyebrows raised, and she angrily scolded: "You damn girl, are you uncomfortable if you don't get beaten every day? Come here and sit down obediently!"

"Mom, I just want to help your son-in-law serve the food, what's wrong with that?"

Shen Yulin pouted and reluctantly sat back down next to her mother.

"You're still asking what happened? Don't you think about the dangerous action you just did? If it weren't for Xiaotian's quick reaction, all the food on the plate would have fallen to the ground. How dare you talk back!!"

Li Yuling glared at her daughter fiercely, stretched out her hand and twisted her arm hard, causing Shen Yulin to scream in pain.

"Okay, Mom, it's okay, don't blame Yulin, I was just careless!"

When Zhou Tian saw his wife's painful and pitiful look, his heart softened immediately. He put the dishes aside and hurriedly tried to persuade her.

"Humph!"

Li Yuling watched her son-in-law protecting her daughter again. She snorted coldly at Zhou Tian with a helpless look on her face, but also let go of her hand and said no more.

The people standing by looking at Zhou Tian and Shen Yulin's situation all smiled like aunties.

"Okay, Xiaotian, where are Xiaoyu and Xiaoting? They haven't come out yet. Go call them down as well!"

After all the food was served, grandma realized that Zhou Yu and Zhou Ting had not come down yet, so she called out to Zhou Tian.

"Okay grandma, I'll go right away!"

No wonder he always felt that something was missing in the room just now. It turned out that he had forgotten about Zhou Yu and Zhou Ting. After saying that, he quickly turned around and left the main room, pushed open the door of the west wing and shouted upwards: "Xiao Yu, Xiao Ting, it's time to eat!"

"I know, brother!"

Zhou Yu and Zhou Ting on the second floor had been waiting for their eldest brother to call them. Upon hearing this, a burst of hurried calls came, and the two of them went downstairs together, walked out of the west wing, and came to the main house to find two seats to sit down.

Soon, the dinner started, and everyone couldn't wait to pick up their chopsticks. Although they had tasted Zhou Tian's food many times, for some reason, they always felt unsatisfied and could never eat enough.

The dinner lasted nearly half an hour. Zhou Tian originally planned to take out the wine in the space to treat his second uncle, but seeing how happily his second uncle was eating, he swallowed the wine back.

After dinner, Zhou Yu and Zhou Ting continued to clean up and wash the dishes.

However, Zhou Tian sat together with his father-in-law, second uncle and grandfather and started smoking.

"Xiaotian, are you serious about what you said this afternoon?"

Father-in-law Shen Jie smoked a cigarette and was silent for a while, then suddenly asked. After he came back from get off work, his wife had told him the whole conversation between his son-in-law and his second uncle in the afternoon.

As a staunch member of the organization, to be honest, it is very taboo for a son-in-law to talk about this, but after all, Zhou Tian is his son-in-law, and he only has Shen Yulin, so in the end he still wants to confirm his son-in-law's thoughts.

"Yeah, it's true, Dad!"

Zhou Tian nodded seriously without hesitation, blew out a smoke ring, and calmly met the inquiring gazes of the three people.

"Dad, I know what you want to say, but please listen to me first. In fact, we all understand why each feudal dynasty has a cycle of change after hundreds of years. To put it simply, it is because the lives of the lower-class people are unsustainable; to put it more thoroughly, it is because of the uneven distribution of social resources. I think you three should be the most understanding of this point!

Shen Jie, the old man and the second uncle nodded when they heard this. Shen Jie and the old man had seen a lot, and they were far superior to the second uncle in terms of culture and knowledge. They understood the meaning of Zhou Tian's words very well.

Only the second uncle, although he didn't understand very much, could still hear some twists and turns in his nephew's words.

"No matter which dynasty it is, in the early days of a nation, there is always a period of prosperity and prosperity. But why do natural disasters and man-made calamities occur in the later period, turning it into a chaotic world? Have you ever thought about this question?"

Except for the father-in-law who looked thoughtful, the old man and the second uncle all looked confused. They didn't understand why Xiaotian, who was just talking about the allocation of social resources, suddenly talked about the change of dynasties.

Zhou Tian smiled slightly and did not explain too much to the two people. Instead, he continued, "The reason is very simple. It is still a problem of social resource allocation. At the end of each dynasty, we can always see such a sentence in history books: the people are living in poverty and the officials are corrupt. This seems to be a microcosm of the end of each dynasty. It exists in any dynasty, just like a closed cycle."

"When the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and even a small number of people occupy most of the social resources, there will be very few resources left for the lower-class people. And these few resources will eventually be controlled by the rich and powerful. When people can't see the hope of moving forward, they will only be numb and tolerant. If even this is lost, then the change of dynasties will become inevitable."

"Xiaotian, what you mean is..."

Grandpa and second uncle were still confused, but Shen Jie's heart was shocked and his eyes widened.

"No! No! No! Dad, I didn't say anything. I was just stating a fact! Of course, this question is also an eternal question! Isn't it?"

Zhou Tian smiled and shook his head, interrupting his father-in-law.

After all, there are many things that cannot be said openly, otherwise it would not only be a taboo, but also a way to seek death.

"No, no, that won't happen. I believe that day will never come!"

Shen Jie looked at his son-in-law in disbelief and shook his head. As someone who had come all the way from the old society, he naturally had extraordinary confidence in the country. He did not believe that such a thing would happen in the country.

And just as he had a firm belief in the organization, he didn't think the situation his son-in-law described would happen in the future.

"Dad, I didn't say that our country will face that kind of situation in the future. It's just that we must know that with the development of the country, especially the economic development, the uneven distribution of social resources will definitely appear. So this is why I want to unite the Zhou family! After all, no matter what, the power of the family is still greater than the power of the individual, right?"

Will it happen? Even if Zhou Tian didn't think about this question, he knew that it was an inevitable part of social development. How could it not happen? He was just preparing for a rainy day and making arrangements in advance.

His experiences in his previous life told him that no matter how the country developed, this was an inevitable phenomenon. It was not so bad in China, at least there were still state-owned enterprises, but abroad, it was a country where money devoured people.

He is not a saint, and he does not have the courage to stop the wheel of history, so he can only plan ahead.

After all, he is still an ordinary person, he is not that great. He does this just to prevent his descendants from living as miserably as he did in his previous life.

Perhaps Zhou Tian’s words shocked his father-in-law so much that the four of them didn’t chat for long. When the children began to sleep, Zhou Tian and Shen Yulin left the main room and went back to rest.

Lying on the bed, Shen Yulin recalled the way her parents looked at her when she left. She leaned into her husband's arms and asked, "Boss, what did you say to my parents tonight? Why do I feel like my parents are looking at us so strangely?"