Chapter 16: Undercurrents

Since Liu Cai called Liu Cai, his heart has been greatly refreshed, and he walks with the wind every day, with a smile on his face, and he laughs at everyone he sees. Wang Qin naturally thought that Liu was pretending, but Wang Ma felt that she was stimulated and a little abnormal, so she was a little cautious about her. Liu is just ignoring so much and doing whatever he has to do.

The mother lived here with Liu, and naturally knew the causes and consequences of her daughter's marriage from those gossip, of course, there were many elements of romance, but the mother went to her heart word for word. She watched her daughter happily go about every day, but this time she didn't dare to say a word.

The demolition and relocation activities finally began in full swing, and the town leaders, neighborhood offices, and department heads at all levels took separate actions, and each household did their work, asking for support for the country's four modernizations. Liu is watching, some express support, some express absolute dissupport, and there are also two-faced centrists like her. But she is not worried at all, this house was bought two years ago, the price is already cheap, even according to the minimum compensation standard, she has made a little profit.

"Liu, your house is occupied, where are you going to live?"

"Just rent a house and live there!" Liu was not worried at all.

"Otherwise, you go to live in the city, there is an empty house anyway!" said the old mother, "You rent a storefront in the city, and when you have money, you can buy a small house!

"There's no hurry!" Ryu refused with a smile.

Cheng Lin felt that he was very unlucky, since he was explicitly rejected by Wang Juan that day, the stock fell a lot, and his mother made a harassing phone call every day, and he vowed not to give up until he reached his goal. For the sake of a quiet life in the future, Cheng Lin had no choice but to give in and agreed to the so-called light meal proposed by his mother.

Cheng Lin knew that this meal was a Hongmen banquet with his knees, and his mother was watching from the side, and Zhou Yu was tired of it. He couldn't think of a good way to refuse.

My mother picked a Western restaurant, and Zhou Yu was already there when Cheng Lin went, talking to my mother with a spring breeze on her face. Seeing Cheng Lin coming, the corners of his eyes and eyebrows were full of affection, and his mother couldn't help nodding.

Cheng Lin sat down, asked for a glass of boiled water, kept smiling, and only listened without speaking.

"Doesn't Cheng Lin like to drink coffee?" Zhou Yu took the initiative.

Cheng Lin nodded and said, "Boiled water is better!"

Aunt Wu looked at her son's listlessness, and taught her son a hard lesson under the table, saying, "You young people, you have a common language, and it's not easy for me, an old woman, to be caught in the middle." I happened to ask a friend to wash his face, so let's eat first!"

"Mom, you haven't eaten yet, have you?" Cheng Lin said lightly.

Aunt Wu suddenly said, "Yes, but you can go to the beauty salon to eat!"

"I really don't know which beauty salon provides lunch!" Cheng Lin said, "If Dad is not at home, you can go around, and when Dad comes back, I will have a good talk with him." Cheng Lin said lightly, but his mother was so angry. Professor Cheng is a person who strictly abides by academic theorems, does not have much demand for life, and is even more opposed to extravagance and waste. He resolutely supports Aunt Wu's legitimate life requirements, and he also resolutely opposes some improper requirements such as beauty and clothing. Aunt Wu is still a little taboo about her husband's dead temper.

Aunt Wu sat back in her seat and said angrily: "Stinky boy, have you learned to use your father to press me?"

Cheng Lin said with a smile: "Look at this, it's noon, is it good to say that my son doesn't let my mother eat!

Zhou Yu smiled reluctantly and said, "Auntie, let's eat together, I'll wash my face later, why don't you go together?"

"Okay!" Aunt Wu was happy and beckoned the waiter to order.

Zhou Yu smiled: "No wonder Auntie looks so young and does such a good job of maintenance!"

Cheng Lin teased: "This face is all baked by money." ”

Aunt Wu said proudly: "Then you have to have a good foundation!"

Cheng Lin remembered that Liu is clear water face, and he didn't see her wear makeup on weekdays, but she looked young and beautiful. Zhou Yu saw Cheng Lin with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and was a little happy in his heart, it seemed that he was not very repulsive to himself now, so he wanted to appear sensible in front of Aunt Wu, and said: "Aunt Wu must be a beauty, otherwise where would Cheng Lin grow well?"

One sentence praised two people, but Cheng Lin secretly said in his heart, he is another woman with heavy skin! I don't know him at all, so I desperately want to get up!

"This stinky boy has been lawless outside with a face since he was a child, and now that he is older, the family naturally hopes that he can settle down. Aunt Wu looked at Zhou Yu's face as she spoke, her own son understood by herself, if she wanted to say that this kid didn't have any deeds outside, she didn't believe it, so let's take a look at it first, see how Zhou Yu behaved, don't wait for things to be decided and then make trouble, then it's not good-looking.

There was a slight smile around, who didn't have a few peach blossom incidents? It's herself, she also had a few boyfriends in college, and after graduation, she also dumped a few because of her good job, and she never paid attention to these little things. All she wants is someone worthy of her, she has confidence in herself, and the more difficult the man to overcome, the more fulfillment she has. Zhou Yu's eyes flickered, and he said: "Who didn't have a few bosom friends when he was young? As long as he puts his family and relatives first, it is the best! Now there are so many temptations outside, it is impossible to ask people to be saints!"

Aunt Wu smiled, but the taste of pondering this was a little wrong, she put away her smile, watched her son play with the cup of boiled water, and said: "Cheng Lin, there is no serious job yet, and his father and I are also worried that he will delay things by dangling like this, you are all young people, but you have to help me persuade him!"

Due to his work, Zhou Yu naturally knew the identity of Chenglin's investment agent, and said with a smile: "Auntie, what is popular now is the SOHO family, who work freely and have a low income!"

"We are all old, and we can't keep up with the times!" Aunt Wu sighed while giving her son a look, Cheng Lin pretended not to see it, only felt that the more he sitted, the more tasteless he felt, and it was really better to lie on the bed of Liu is house to sleep. He felt that his life had been depressed for the past few months, and it seemed that he had to find a place to stay and relax.

"Cheng Lin, is the investment work challenging?" Zhou Yu continued to stir up the topic.

Cheng Lin let go of the cup in his hand, just as the waiter delivered the meal, Cheng Lin reached out and took it, cut off a big steak and stuffed it in his mouth, chewed it slowly for a while before saying, "It's boring!"

Zhou Yu felt a little angry in her heart, today it was obviously Cheng Lin's mother who took the initiative to ask her out, she had already taken the initiative to give countless hot faces, but Cheng Lin was still like that, could she really make him so disdainful? Zhou Yu was angry, slowly cut the steak, and did not speak.

Aunt Wu saw that Zhou Yu's face had changed, and she knew that Cheng Lin had messed up this matter today, and the fire in her heart naturally didn't hit one place, but she still did her best to accompany the smiling face, and said: "He is also a person who turns day and night upside down, and he is sleeping at this time in the past!"

Zhou Yu snorted twice.

Cheng Lin finished eating a few bites, took a big sip of water, and said, "Mom, it's not very delicious!"

Aunt Wu grabbed the knife and fork in her hand and wanted to stick it on her son's indifferent face, but she was worried about Zhou Yu on the side, gritted her teeth and said: "It's not delicious, right! If you think the things outside are not delicious, you will move back to live with your mother, and let you eat delicious food every day!"

Cheng Lin smiled: "Mom, your cooking skills are half as good as Liu's, and I will drive home every day!"

Aunt Wu suddenly felt that her face was gloomy, this son kept demolishing her platform, which was really unpleasant.

Zhou Yu remembered the woman from Tianhe Town, and said, "Liu, is it Cheng Lin's sister?"

"What sister? It's the neighbor's sister next door!" Aunt Wu said lightly.

"It's beautiful!" Zhou Yu also said lightly.

"Yes! a rare beauty!" Cheng Lin also said lightly.

Aunt Wu saw that the two of them were not very enthusiastic, and she was a little suspicious that Liu was telling herself that these two people looked very affectionate, and she felt a little resentful in her heart. Then he said to Zhou Yu: "You also know Liu Shi?"

"I also went to her house to sit down! What a warm person, I was originally invited to dinner, but I left first when I had a job! Didn't Cheng Lin have dinner there that day?" Zhou Yu smiled, "Want to come to this beautiful woman who is proficient in cooking?"

Aunt Wu's eyes looked at her son vigilantly, this stinky boy ran to someone's house for no reason to do something, and said, "You just run to disturb Liu Shi, how bad?"

"Mom, I'm working very hard! I was called up early in the morning to see the project site, and I was tired from listening to those people's long reports. I can't find a clean hotel to rest, so I have to go to my sister!" Cheng Lin said extremely innocently, "People have helped you take care of your baby son!"

Aunt Wu patted her son on the shoulder and stopped talking, but she was a little wary of Liu is in her heart, that woman is not a simple character, it is better to guard against it.

The three of them sat down for a while, and there was nothing to say, Aunt Wu used the excuse of washing her face, and Zhou Yu hurriedly followed. Cheng Lin wandered around the street alone, trying to call someone to come out for a drink to relieve his boredom, and looked through all the phone numbers, but almost all of them were friends in business, and there was no confidant.

Cheng Lin once again deeply realized his failure, his wife didn't have it, and he didn't have friends, and his life was really incomplete.

Cheng Lin went home and changed into a set of loose clothes, and wanted to continue to sleep, but the noise of traffic on the street outside made people feel upset and couldn't sleep, and suddenly missed the old-fashioned big bed at home.

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Professor Cheng was about to go home after work, so he called Wang Juan and asked Wang Juan to book a table in the hotel to welcome him, because he wanted to bring Wang Juan back with great news. Wang Juan coquettishly wanted to ask, but she still didn't ask, so she had to go to the hotel obediently and book a private room.

Seeing that Wang Juan didn't prepare for Liu is and her mother-in-law's position at all, Wang's mother thought to herself why this daughter was so ignorant, so she scolded: "You don't invite your sister and mother-in-law back?"

Wang Juan said heartlessly: "They are busy with the demolition of Tianhe, so I won't bother her!"

"Dead girl, it's your affection to call and ask, it's their affection whether they come or not, why don't you understand anything at all?" Wang's mother really has no words for this daughter, and she feels that Liu Cai, the son-in-law, is good, and she has never seen Liu Cai complain about her daughter's badness.

"Okay, okay!" Wang Juan played extremely reluctantly, in fact, it was not that she was ignorant, she maintained the relationship between colleagues and friends very well, she just didn't like that aunt and mother-in-law in her heart, and she didn't like it in her heart to be lazy in terms of action.

Liu Shi answered Wang Juan's invitation call and asked her mother if she wanted to go, but her mother refused, saying, "This is a matter of starting a family, what does it matter to us?"

Liu is anger when he heard it, "Mom, Professor Cheng said that he wanted to bring good news to Wang Juan, it must be about Liu Cai, you are really ignorant!"

"As far as you are sensible, you have messed up the marriage in vain. You can't get that little girl who is too thin, and you're embarrassed to talk about me?"

The mother complained while picking vegetables, this daughter usually knows how to show her ability, and she is silent at a critical time.

Liu is so angry that she closed the door with a "bang", whether she loves to go or not, anyway, the bad relationship between her mother and mother-in-law has nothing to do with her, don't blame her for being ruthless in the future. Liu was a person who was bored for a long time, so he was lazy to eat and open a restaurant.

On the day Professor Cheng came back, Liu opened the store early, but Wang Juan drove in person. Liu was very strange, Wang Juan said: "Mom has lived here for so long, I came to pick her up today, and we went to eat together by the way." ”

The mother was overjoyed, and she didn't talk to her daughter much, so she packed up her things and got into Wang Juan's car alone, and gave her daughter a smug look before getting in the car. Liu is secretly laughing at her mother's childishness, so a little favor made her surrender.

Wang Juan asked in a low voice, "Sister, did you quarrel with your mother?"

"Yes, this old mother can't even get along with her daughter, let alone her daughter-in-law! Wang Juan, if you want a good husband, you have to put up with a bad mother-in-law, it's really hard for you!" Liu teased.

Wang Juan didn't dare to speak, who knew if her sister was talking to test her, and asked her to pick up and complain by the way, this is the evidence of disrespecting her mother-in-law in the future, it is better to say less.

"Sister, let's eat together!" Wang Juan invited.

"No, I'm going to hurry up and finish the goods and move the place!" Liu is sigh, she is only one person, and the lonely family can't afford that time and energy, so she can only sign early to get the compensation and a set of resettlement houses and leave.

Wang Juan didn't say much, picked up her mother and left.