Chapter 44: The Darkness of the Night
After listening to Bian Xu's words, I was angry.
I already knew that this kid was disobedient, but I didn't expect her to come to such an outrageous point now, openly inviting a male scoob older than me to hang out with her? Fortunately, it was Bian Xu, because he was familiar, so he also knew to tell me; if this was a strange boy, the two of them went out to play like this, and we parents were still kept in the dark! What if something happened? I can't imagine the result......
Seeing me sitting there with a blushing face, Bian Xu comforted me and said, "Aunt Haichao, don't be too anxious, maybe Hopping didn't treat me as an outsider because she was more familiar with me, just talk to me like that." I'm telling you about this, just to remind you, usually persuade Hop Hop more, so that she doesn't trust the people on it casually, after all, there are everyone on it now, Hop Hop is still so small, she doesn't have the ability to distinguish right from wrong, if she really goes out on a date with a friend casually, it will definitely make you very worried. β
Listening to Bian Xu's willing and understanding words, I looked at him blankly, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional, I muttered to him: "Bian Xu, you are also an only child, why are you so sensible?"
Looking back at my own daughter's jump, I couldn't help but let out a long sigh, frowning and muttering, "Look at my jump again, compare it to you...... Hey, it's really a heaven and an earth!"
Hearing me praise him like this, Bian Xu was a little embarrassed, and he said to me a little shyly: "Aunt Haichao, don't praise me like this, I'm an adult after all, I'm still young, and when I'm as old as her, I'm as naughty as her." β
I listened to Bian Xu's words and nodded thoughtfully, but still sighed helplessly: "Alas, when I divorced her father, I just refused to follow me, at that time, out of respect for the child's opinion, I followed her heart, if she had been following me and I was watching her, she would not have become what she is now." Now she's fine, there's really no tiger in the mountains, and the monkey is the king! Her father is busy with work and has no time to take care of her, and her grandparents dote on her, and now she wants to do something, secretly using her mobile phone at night, and actually dating friends? Hey, I'm really angry!"
As I spoke, I slapped my hand on the sofa helplessly and anxiously.
Seeing Guan Dian's anxious look, Bian Xu hurriedly comforted me and said: "Aunt Haichao, in my experience, I think that jumping at this stage is a necessary stage for everyone, and it is the time when you are both curious and rebellious about the outside world, so I think you should still persuade and enlighten her more, and don't force herself with her, so that she can slowly accept your opinion." β
Listening to Bian Xu's sensible words, I nodded helplessly and said in a low voice: "I know, I'll talk to her when I go back." β
That day, Bian Xu sat at my house for a while and left.
I went to Xu Minghui and Jumping there that day, because it was a big week, Jumping at home, when I went in, she was lying on the sofa in the living room watching TV, watching me suddenly break into the door, this little girl felt a little surprised.
She got off the couch with a pillow, looked at me and muttered, "Mom, why are you here?"
I frowned and reprimanded her, "Stand up! The little girl wants to stand and sit, look at you on the sofa, what do you look like?"
Hopping pouted and looked at me unconvinced.
Looking at her like that, I let out a long sigh, then looked around and asked her, "Where's your dad?"
Jumping muttered back to me, "I'm out on errands, I'll be back in a while." β
I thought to myself, isn't this going out on a date with Xia Yan?
But I came here this time for my daughter, and I wasn't going to pay attention to Xu Minghui first, so I looked at Hopping and asked her seriously: "You and Brother Bian Xu said that you wanted to go to the bar with him, and you also said that you had met friends alone before, is this true?"
Listening to my stern tone, Jumping was stunned for a moment, and then she asked me aggrieved loudly: "Mom, who did you listen to? Did Brother Bian Xu tell you?"
I replied sternly, "So what? I'll ask you if it's true?"
Hearing me say this, Jumping looked even more aggrieved, and there was some annoyance in addition to the grievances, she stomped her little feet and complained to herself: "This Brother Bian Xu is too! I just said it so casually to him, and he actually found my mother to complain! What a stingy man!"
Listening to Jumping there complaining about Bian Xu, I was even more angry, I couldn't help but reach out and tap her head, and asked her angrily: "Don't find fault with other people's people first, first talk about your own problems! Let me ask you, how old are you? Are you an adult? You have to learn to go out with other adults and date friends! You have grown wings, right? I dare not listen to my words, right?"
Jumping was suddenly nodded on my head by me, and avoided it in some pain, and while avoiding her, she wrung her eyebrows and complained: "Ouch, Mom, don't stab me!
I got even more angry when I heard her say it hurt, so I went up and grabbed her, twisted her arm again, and said to her fiercely: "Now I know it hurts? If you dare to go out to see your friends alone, believe it or not, I'll break your legs? Don't think that I can't control you if I divorce your father! I can still take care of you! Because I'm still your mother!"
Jumping back with his teeth bared in pain, and protested loudly to me: "It was a long time ago to see your friends! I went to meet the three of us with Xiao Pill and Yan Yan, I didn't believe you can ask them! I just said this to him for the sake of Qi Bian Xu! He was too sentimental, right? Thinking I had a crush on him, I really wanted to date him? Mom, you don't have a problem, do you? You actually believe his words and don't believe me?"
Listening to my daughter's superficial, naΓ―ve and self-righteous words, I couldn't help but nod her head with my hand again, and said to her with a stiff face: "It's you who are amorous, right? How beautiful do you think you are? Everyone will fall in love with you? Bian Xu told me this with all good intentions, he was afraid that you would go out with your friends casually, what if someone cheated you?"
Unexpectedly, when Jumping heard this, she was not angry at all, she shook her head triumphantly, squinted her eyes and said to me: "I'm not beautiful or don't I follow you?"
"You ......" I was angry for a while, this little rabbit is getting more and more choked, my appearance is at most a top grade, jumping and the appearance characteristics of me and Xu Minghui, I can't be called very beautiful, just a very cute little girl, but her mouth is completely with me, I was so angry that I retorted directly to her, "Little rabbit, your ability is how to deal with your mother, right?"
Seeing that I was really angry, Jumping frowned and said to me loudly: "Oh Mom, don't your useless heart, I'm not so stupid, go to meet someone you don't know, besides, with the brains of your daughter, the elf, if you really meet a liar, the two of us don't know who is lying to whom?"
I was so angry that I said: "You little man, don't be so my mouth here! If you really encounter human traffickers, a pair of drugs can stun you, and then you will be abducted and sold to the deep mountains and old forests, and you will be wives to those blind and deaf people in their forties and fifties, and you will be chained every day, and you will give birth to children at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and you will have to do farm work every day! You don't believe it! There are many such examples! You don't need to be hard-mouthed with me, and then you will know the feeling of calling the heavens and the earth to be ineffective!"
Hearing what I said, the smugness on Jumpy's face disappeared, and she frowned at me with big eyes and shouted angrily, "Mom, you know that these extreme examples can scare me!" and then turned and ran to her room, saying as she ran, "I'm going to do my homework, ignore you!"
With that, she ran back to her room and locked the door with a "click".
I was so angry that I wanted to catch up, and at this time Xu Minghui came back.
Seeing Xu Minghui coming back with a big bag of fish, meat, and shrimp, I asked him angrily, "Yo, is this going to make a Sunday dinner?" and then looked at the vegetables and meat in his hand, and sneered, "It's quite well prepared! What are you going to do with the shrimp?
When he used to go with me, Xu Minghui didn't go to the kitchen much, so at this time, I really doubt how he bought these things to get cooked, could it be that Xia Yan came to help him get them?
Xu Minghui looked at me and replied lukewarmly: "Since you want to eat, you must have a way to do it! As he spoke, he also gave me a sentence in a slightly yin and yang tone, "You can't say that you can't do it, we won't live, right?"
Saying that, Xu Minghui walked to the kitchen and put the fish, meat, and shrimp in the refrigerator, and I looked at his figure and sneered.
Xu Minghui put the things away, then stood up straight and asked me, "What's the matter today?"
I was a little stunned, and almost forgot about the business I came to today, and then roughly told Xu Minghui how Bian Xu said to me about today's coming, jumping out to meet friends, and so on.
Xu Minghui nodded his head, walked to the sink to wash his hands, and then walked back to the living room, pointing to the sofa and motioning for me to sit down.
I had no choice but to sit down on the couch first.
Xu Minghui lit a cigarette, and then said to me casually: "I know about meeting friends before Hop, that was when I was busy before, she went to meet with her two friends, the other party is a student who has just entered college, I have educated her for this, and then I have never heard of her going out to see any friends." As for what she said to Bian Xu right now, I don't think you need to take it too seriously, it's just a little girl's joke," he said, knocking the cigarette butt in the ashtray and squinting at me, "Now, I'm not too busy with work, I see that she is very close, she usually picks up and sends her in the morning and evening, and she doesn't have a chance to go out to meet any messy people, if she lives with my parents, I will also ask the two old people to keep an eye on her." β
Hearing him say this, I felt a little more hearted, but I couldn't get used to Xu Minghui's appearance of swallowing clouds and spitting fog in the house, so I frowned and waved the smoke in front of me, and whispered to him: "Smoke less in the house in the future, do you want your daughter to be a second-hand smoker?"
Xu Minghui was stunned for a moment, then he smiled helplessly and snuffed out the half-smoked cigarette butt.
Later, I talked to Xu Minghui again, mainly for his daughter's education, it can be seen that now Xu Minghui is still more concerned about his daughter's education, I feel a little relieved about this, but I still told him for a long time, after all, being a father, some places can't be as careful as me, and Jumping is the child of a very ghost elf, so if any step is not in place, it may create a loophole for this little ghost.
Xu Minghui and I talked about our daughter for nearly an hour, and when I was about to get up to say goodbye, Xu Minghui leaned on the sofa and asked me casually, "I heard that you have been on a blind date recently?"
I don't know who Xu Minghui listened to? I already got up, took my bag, and replied to him absentmindedly: "Are you quite well-informed?"
Xu Minghui smiled bitterly at me, and then asked me lightly, "Have you met any suitable people?"
I smiled coldly at him, and then replied softly, "I don't need Mr. Xu to care about this." β
Xu Minghui stared at me, smiled meaningfully, and then said to me: "You have to hurry, if you don't hurry, I may have to get married before you?"
Hearing this, my body paused, but soon I covered up my gaffe, smiled faintly at Xu Minghui, and then waved at him and walked towards the door.
Seeing that when I walked to the door and held the door with my hand, Xu Minghui said behind me again: "If you regret it now, this family is still yours, and our family of three is still the same as before." If you still don't want to turn back now, you may never have a chance again. β
Hearing Xu Minghui's words, my body paused again, I stood there for a moment, then slowly turned my head and said to Xu Minghui in a dumb voice: "From the moment I walked through this house, I never thought about regretting it." β
With that, I opened the door and strode out.
I don't know if my current insistence is correct, I have never doubted my choice as I do today, can the darkness of the night wipe out all the vows of the day?
I don't know, I really don't know.
I walked forward slowly, with a wry smile on my face, and at this time, I saw a familiar figure at the door of a luxurious restaurant on the corner of the street, he was Zhou Yaze.