Chapter 158: The Hongmen Banquet
The reason why the Hongmen Banquet is the Hongmen Banquet is that you know that there are traps, but you still have to go to the tragedy. Even, I didn't have the courage to make a phone call to Pei Shaobei before going to the Hongmen banquet. It's not that I don't dare, but I feel that if I turn to Pei Shaobei for help in this matter, it will show the cowardice I gave birth to when I treated Pei Shaobei's mother, and I don't want Pei Shaobei to see this.
I got into the car and said hello, but the other party only looked at me and directly ordered the driver to drive.
Her place is upscale and private, and it is a private club. Obviously, she was a regular customer, and the front desk didn't ask anything when they saw her, and led her directly to the private room. I followed all the way, and my heart went up and down, and under the luxurious environment around me, I was even more embarrassed.
The other party ordered tea but asked me for a cup of coffee.
I didn't refute, I accepted it silently, and waited for the other party's questioning and trouble. I thought in my heart that as a mother, when I learned that my best son had fallen in love with a mediocre university teacher who was very different from the family, she should be angry and disdainful, and then she would make an appointment alone, using both soft and hard, and beating the mandarin ducks.
Isn't it all like this in TV dramas, and even every sentence and plot can be found in the original.
Thinking of this, I no longer have sincere fear in my heart, because I believe that Pei Shaobei, a calm, self-controlled, independent and free man, it is impossible to be bound by the will of his elders. I hypnotized myself, and a smile quickly appeared on my lips.
"You seem to know the purpose of my visit to you today?" Pei Shaobei's mother said lightly.
I smiled and replied, "Well, how many points can I guess!"
"Oh?" Pei Shaobei's mother's tone rose slightly, and her disdain and sarcasm naturally revealed, and that face with delicate makeup really didn't show any clues. "Tell me about it?"
I'm a little confused, shouldn't the other party ask questions at this time? Why would they pull the conversation on me and ask me to say something, say those thoughts in my heart, and say the TV series I imagined?
I looked at the noble and cold face opposite, and I only felt a chill in my heart, and I couldn't even hang the smile on the corner of my mouth with a weak heart, and I was defeated in an instant.
"Auntie, you came to me and asked me to tell me my conjectures, in fact, you should know what I guessed, so why do you have to say it! I don't like to go around the old world!" I took a deep breath, but I was desperately supporting my back, and my words were sonorous and powerful, and the momentum was like a rainbow.
Pei Shaobei's mother stared at me twice, and the cold sweat on my forehead was about to come down, and I hurriedly continued to drink coffee and made a demonstration, and I was finally not too embarrassed.
"I just want to see how exquisite and clear the daughter-in-law Shaobei is looking for, guessing people's hearts. Since you want to be the daughter-in-law of the Pei family, you have to come up with something to convince me, an old woman, you say, isn't it?"
I was even more confused by what she said, what did this mean? Did it agree that we were married? I looked up, hoping to find the slightest slack in the other's eyes, but there was nothing but a cold stare. I instantly felt that I was innocent, how could I agree, this is just a disadvantage.
I tugged at the corners of my mouth and retorted, "There is no guessing between me and Pei Shaobei, we are fair and honest in communication, I don't think there is anything worth calculating." Auntie, I know that you are not satisfied with me, and I don't know how to win your favor, I can only say that I will take good care of Pei Shaobei, and the rest ......" I paused, but I also brought some dissatisfaction, "Others, I can't be the master!"
"Hmph, I already knew what kind of person you were! I knew it as early as when Shaobei brought you back, I just wanted to see how reckless he could be, and how long he could play?" Pei Shaobei's mother curled the corners of her mouth, and when she laughed, she was a little similar to Pei Zile, making that face that was too serious and indifferent show a bit of the taste of fireworks in the world.
"Play?" Maybe it was because of the smell of fireworks in the world that I suddenly had the courage, "Auntie, I don't agree with your statement. Pei Shaobei is already thirty, and he has his own independent thoughts. I can't say how well I know him, but I don't agree with your statement that you're joking!"
"You mean, you and he are both serious?"
"Of course!" I raised my hand to my stomach, and my momentum was a little stronger, "We are all adults who are responsible for marriage and children, not young and ignorant teenagers!"
Pei Shaobei's mother seemed to agree with my idea, and nodded with a rare smile. I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, although it was a bit shameful for the kid to say things at this time, but it always gave me great courage, so that I could sit squarely opposite this person, and not be slaughtered without any hole cards.
The conversation did not seem to be as deadlocked as imagined, and there was no scene where the evil mother-in-law humiliated her daughter-in-law. Pei Shaobei's mother suddenly changed the topic, and talked to me in an extremely flat tone about the shortcomings of parents, my work, my parents' work, and the daily life of the child in the belly.
I gradually let down my vigilance, feeling that this woman who seemed too serious and indifferent was not as difficult to communicate as it seemed on the surface, and I even felt that Pei Zile and Pei Shaobei's evaluation of their mother was one-sided and personal.
Halfway through the coffee, I thought the conversation was going to end with a pleasant scene. Who knew that after the blandness, Pei Shaobei's mother suddenly opened her mouth again, and the questions she asked were still normal, so that my nerves, which had been relaxed, were not too vigilant, and the answer was natural.
"I heard that Zile moved to live in Shaobei?"
"Yes, I eat at home in the morning and evening!"
After Pei Shaobei's mother heard this, she suddenly stopped talking. Sipping the tea one by one, the atmosphere instantly solidified. I didn't think there was anything wrong after thinking about it, the only possible reason was that the other party was worried about Pei Zile's studies, thinking of this, he took the initiative to explain, "Auntie, you don't have to worry, Zile is a very well-behaved kid and takes classes very seriously." Although it is a little inconvenient to go to school, Shaobei drives him, and it is not too hard!"
Pei Shaobei's mother still didn't reply, but she stopped drinking tea and looked at me coldly.
I was so uncomfortable staring at her that even the smile froze on my face.
"Ah, Auntie, you, do you have something to say?"
"I thought that someone as smart as Teacher Gu would be able to guess the real purpose of my coming to you. Now that I've been talking for a long time, I realize that you're not as smart as I thought you were, or are you better at acting than I thought?"
I didn't know how to answer for a while, and such sharp words seemed very abrupt under the peaceful atmosphere laid down in front of me, so that my originally relaxed thoughts could not be condensed in an instant, and I could not react accordingly.
I froze and looked at each other.
Pei Shaobei's mother opened her mouth again, "Am I not right? How can a divorced woman get the favor of my two sons? Is it with intelligence or superb acting skills? I originally planned to believe in the former, after all, I know better than you what kind of personality Pei Shaobei has." It can't be a woman like you who doesn't have a few taels of calculations in her head, if you tempt him with sex, you are not qualified enough, the only possibility is that you can act!"
"Auntie, what do you mean by that?"
"What do you mean? It doesn't mean anything, I'm just stating the facts. A woman who has been married for five years and has not conceived and had a child has a child in a short time with Pei Shaobei. Either your ex-husband can't do it, or you're too good at designing! As for the former, I'll find someone to check it. Facts have proved that your ex-husband is indeed not good, no wonder you climbed into Pei Shaobei's bed on the day of the divorce, yes, a deep and lonely woman, if she has the opportunity to climb another man, no one will let go, I understand, this kind of inferior nature of human nature is understandable!"
"Auntie, is it appropriate for you to say such things as an elder?" I was angry, got up directly from the stool, and shouted excitedly, "You can insult me, I think you don't understand, I have nothing to say." But Pei Shaobei is your son, is it appropriate for you to say that about him? Could it be that your son is a man in your heart who casually lets other women climb into bed?"
I know that I shouldn't shout at the person opposite, but I can't bear this kind of humiliation, not only me, but also Pei Shaobei, who can't accept such humiliation.
"Annoyed?" Pei Shaobei's mother smiled lightly, not seeing any discoloration, "I have always thought so, what is your opinion." When a man is confused by his desires, that is also the root of human inferiority, and there is nothing wrong with it! If you use this to shout at me, it will not only show that you are stupid, but also that you want to cover up and make your heart empty. Maybe that's what I said, do you dare to pat my chest and promise me that you fell in love with my son the first time I had sex with him?"
I was so bluntly questioned by the other party on the spot, and I remembered the first time with Pei Shaobei in my mind. That time, I was in a bad mood because I was going to get a divorce, so I got drunk and ran to his house and pressed the person directly to the bed. What can be explained if it is stimulated by alcohol, where will it be love, not desire?
I suddenly found that I was a clown, thinking that with a flawless mask, I could cover all the ugliness, so that I had the courage to sit opposite the Pei family, and I had the courage to fight and defend this already disparity of love. However, when that bloody reality was brutally torn apart again, what was revealed to me was a fact that I had never dared or wanted to admit.
How noble can a love that begins with desire be? If you can't even deceive yourself, what can you use to deceive others?
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