At the age of twenty-seven, Zhang Tao's life completely changed. His carbon fiber company was fully acquired by the military industry, his account increased by 220 million, and he became a deputy department-level cadre. But the bigger shock comes from love - his girlfriend Kong Lingjun, the eldest daughter of the Kong family in Qufu, named Ling.
It was the first time that Zhang Tao went to Qufu to meet his parents. Only then did Zhang Tao truly see what "seniority suppresses people" means. The gray-haired old man in the village calls his girlfriend "aunt", the woman holding the child is called "aunt", and the baby who has just learned to walk has to be called "aunt". His prospective son-in-law took advantage of the opportunity and was toasted by a group of "great-nephews" and "great-nephews".
Proposal, engagement, and wedding are carried out according to ancient rituals. Life was quiet after the marriage. Zhang Tao worked as his chief engineer in Xi'an, and Kong Lingjun followed him back to Xi'an. But whenever something big happened to the Kong family, they would always go back to Qufu - when Dai Xiao was buried, she was the eldest daughter, and when they were having wedding banquets, she was the highest-ranking "aunt". Seeing his daughter-in-law in her early twenties being respectfully called aunt by all the young and old in the village, Zhang Tao often felt that she was more prestigious than his deputy director.
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