In the evening, Liu Xingchen received a call from the squad leader Song Linlin, asking him when he was free to participate in the group tour organized by the class.

Song Linlin said: "Okay, then it's set for next week, today is Thursday, I will call everyone before Saturday, don't evaporate when the time comes." ”

Liu Xingchen stood on the balcony of the bedroom and said with a smile: "No, then it's decided." By the way, who will go on this tour? ”

"Well......" Song Linlin temporarily took out the contact book and picked out the names of a few representative classmates among the names of the circle hooks. But Liu Xingchen didn't hear Ai Mengmeng's name, he simply asked directly: "Ai Mengmeng, is she going?" ”

Song Linlin suddenly said "ah": "You didn't say that I forgot about her, I haven't asked her yet." Why, you hate her too? In that case, I won't sue her. ”

"......" Liu Xingchen wanted to speak and stopped, trying his best to hold back, because he knew that this kind of ambiguous relationship spread the fastest among classmates, and everyone's sense of smell was more intelligent than a puppy in this regard.

Song Linlin said again: "Let's see when the time comes, if there are not enough people, ask her to fill the number, there are too few people to play, after all, everyone is very busy now, and there are only a few unemployed vagrants." ”

It can be seen that in the eyes of her classmates, Ai Mengmeng has always been the kind of social gangster who has no serious career. The word "jobless vagrant" also stimulated Liu Xingchen, but he knew that Song Linlin had always spoken like this, and there may be a deep-rooted difference between "good students" and "bad students" in her heart.

Song Linlin asked, "Is Wu Jiao going?" ”

Liu Xingchen thought of Wu Jiao's pregnancy, and speculated: "She shouldn't go, I don't know." ”

Song Linlin asked strangely, "How could you not know?" Aren't you all together every day? I've called her several times before, and she hasn't said no. ”

Liu Xingchen said "oh", and his eyes drifted involuntarily: "She said she was going too?" ”

"What's the matter, haven't you two discussed? I'm all stunned by you, why don't you help me ask her, make sure, I want to count the number of people, as much as possible! ”

Liu Xingchen was just about to shirk it, but Song Linlin couldn't help but ask: "To be honest, this trip is the task given to me by Teacher Chang, in fact, it is to welcome the two of you back to China, I know why the teachers are all towards you, I am the hardest in the middle, so you have to be considerate of me, you must help me do a good job of Wu Jiao, okay!" ”

Liu Xingchen put the phone away from his ear, and after listening to her set of feelings/affairs, he reluctantly agreed: "Okay then." ”

As soon as he hung up the phone, Liu Xingchen looked back and saw that the chairman's wife was eavesdropping on the crack of the door, as if she had been fascinated by it. As soon as he hung up the phone coldly, his mother couldn't avoid it a little and froze outside the door in embarrassment. She slowly pushed open the door and said with a dry smile, "Hehe, Mom happened to be passing by, were you on the phone just now?" ”

Liu Xingchen rubbed his temples funny, pulled the poor mother into the house, and said in a long voice: "Mom-don't pretend, okay?" He shook his mother's shoulder coquettishly.

The chairman's wife said embarrassedly, "I really didn't hear anything just now, son." ”

Liu Xingchen said with a smile: "If you hear it, you can hear it, it's nothing, she was the class president of my high school, and she wanted to organize a trip for her classmates, and asked me if I was going to go, so that's it." ”

The chairman's wife was still embarrassed to say, "Mom didn't want to spy on you*." ”

"It's not *ah, besides, my *you know everything, I really don't have anything for you*."

Looking at her son with a smirk on his face, the chairman's wife asked herself thousands of times in her heart, should she debunk him, or should she help him hide it? If you demolish him, it may affect the relationship between mother and son, but it may save a happy marriage, if you help him hide the past, the relationship between mother and son is good, but the consequences of letting him indulge like this may lead to a breakup, in that way, the family's emotional and economic investment in Wu Jiao's seven years is all in vain.

So at this moment, the expression of the chairman's wife looked a little tangled. Liu Xingchen felt strange: "Mom, what do you want to say?" ”

"Son." Mrs. Chairman stroked his back and said with a smile, "You have grown up and completed your studies greatly." Mom and Dad's years of hard work have finally been in vain. Mom is old, and now I only hope that you are well, you and Wu Jiao are also well, and our family can enjoy family fun together for a few years. ”

Liu Xingchen said: "Hehe, you are not old at all, and there is basically no change compared to when I was in high school!" ”

“…… But age is not forgiving. Mom knows that you have gone around outside, you have seen all kinds of people and things, and the outside world is very open, but you must know that family is the foundation for a person to settle down and develop his career, for example, your father, no matter how high his social status is, he always has a strong sense of responsibility for the family, and he has always been wholeheartedly devoted to his family, so that he will be respected by everyone. ”

Liu Xingchen felt that her mother had something to say, and she was going to be dizzy after such a big circle, what did she want to say? Could it be that after so many years of not being at home, my mother has defected to my father's side, impossible, my mother has always been her best friend, and just now she blocked the gun for herself, even if the whole world betrayed her, it is impossible for my mother to turn against the water, this is human nature.

If Liu Xingchen knew that Wu Jiao had made a phone call at noon, then with his emotional intelligence, he would definitely be able to understand his mother's meaning, but a wise man must make a mistake, and it was the first time in his life that he was dizzy by his mother, and suddenly found that his mother was quite profound, hehe.

Because the chairman of the board of directors had been resting at home all day today, the mother and son wanted to hide out in the afternoon - shopping. This may be the happiest moment for my mother in seven or eight years, Liu Xingchen is ready to give himself up in order to fulfill his filial piety. Mom made a dense shopping list, some of which were daily necessities and the other was luxury, and the luxury goods did not need to be asked, they must have been bought for the in-laws. In addition, Liu Xingchen also wants to buy some miscellaneous things necessary for travel. In the car, my mother said that the first stop was to go to the commercial street in the city center, first get the gifts for seeing the in-laws, buy a few beautiful clothes for myself by the way, wear them when I go to Wu Jiao's house, and then go to the supermarket to buy daily necessities. Originally, Liu Xingchen was not in a hurry at all, and let his mother make such an arrangement, feeling that the afternoon time was still tight.

Liu Xingchen was dressed neatly and beautifully, following behind his mother who deliberately pretended to be young, and when he walked in the mall, no one would think in the direction of the mother-son relationship. The waiter didn't know how to position the title, but fortunately, the mother always held her son and asked this and that, "Son, how do you look at this", "Son, how do you look at that", and then Liu Xingchen was surprised to find that 80% of the shopkeepers in the mall are very familiar with their mothers.

In a big-name storefront, my mother stayed in front of a flesh-pink dress skirt, looking left and right, reluctant to leave.

Liu Xingchen walked over: "This one is too tender and not suitable for you." ”

Mom pulled the hem of the skirt and asked him, "Do you think this dress is suitable for Wu Jiao?" ”

Liu Xingchen thought about it with his chin on his chin: "Wu Jiao seems to like to wear plain colors. ”

Mom said, "We're getting married, let's wear some pretty colors." I think she must look good in this one! yes, why did I forget to call her out today. ”

"Aren't you going to buy something for her parents? If you call her out, do you ask her for advice? Liu Xingchen Tang Sai said.

Mom nodded: "That's right, it's not very convenient." ”

My mother asked the waiter about the size, and the waiter said: "165 cm tall, if you are fat and thin, it is just right to wear M size." ”

Liu Xingchen flipped through the price tag and handed his mother a look: "It's more expensive than I imagined." ”

Mom stood there refusing to move: "But I like this." ”

"Wu Jiao doesn't necessarily like it."

"I, as a mother-in-law, haven't given her anything valuable, so I think it's a gift for her when I meet my in-laws."

"And what about her sister, do you have to give a gift too? You can't be too obviously biased towards Wu Jiao. ”

"That's right, let's buy two. How tall is Wu Jiao's sister? Fat or not? ”

"They're not twins, so why buy two of the same?"

Mom nodded in embarrassment: "Yes, yes." Looking at my son, he is thoughtful, and even his sister-in-law follows her sister. ”

Liu Xingchen felt that his mother's psychology at the moment was very complicated and difficult to handle, obviously she wanted to spend some money on her daughter-in-law, but she was not so willing, maybe this is the so-called delicate relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

The waiter said, "There's another powder blue here, ma'am." ”

"Ah, is it?" When my mother found a similar one hanging on the shelf next to her, she asked, "How much does that cost?" ”

As soon as the waiter quoted, this one was more expensive than the flesh-pink one, and my mother was struggling, in order to buy a small gift for Wu Jiao, should she bring her sister to buy a more expensive one?

Hehe, black-hearted businessmen always have a way to empty a woman's purse - Liu Xingchen thought, he sneaked outside, flipped through the color printed magazines on the counter, there were foreign models on the pictures to make patterns, and the actual effect was really average, but he was not ready to stop his mother anymore, it was better for her to make her own ideas about this kind of thing, he turned two pages at random, and saw a foreign model with a long figure wearing a black dress that was good, and it happened that the model's demeanor was very breezy and calm, like a person. He took the magazine and asked the waiter, "Is this one still available?" ”

The waiter smiled and pointed to the model in the window: "Is that the one?" ”

He walked over and walked around the model twice, and the more he looked at it, the more he admired the design, and felt that Ai Mengmeng would definitely be sexy when she wore it, and intuitively Ai Mengmeng would like it too. But he found that this one was more expensive than the two combined, of course, the thing he fancied must be the best, or how to be displayed in the window by the shopkeeper, he looked back at his mother who was swiping the card, and really wanted to tell her that your real daughter-in-law is suitable for wearing this one.

"Mom."

He walked over with his hands behind his back, clutching the magazine.

The mother let out a long breath, and her tone was like a chivalrous woman: "I finally decided to buy it, anyway, swiping the card is the feeling of a knife, my son has been married like this once in his life, and a mother will never be stingy with such a little money." ”

"That's what Mom said." He hurriedly brought the magazine behind him to his mother: "Then help me buy this, even if I borrow this money from you." ”

Mom stared at the long-legged mantis-like female model in the magazine and opened her mouth in surprise: "This is ...... Who are you going to buy it for? ”

"Don't ask, hurry up and swipe your card." Liu Xingchen grabbed his mother's hand with a hippie smile and put it on the credit card machine.

"Wait a minute!" Mom found out about the price of the dress, my God, she felt her blood pressure rise instantly: "Is this price for gold?!" ”

The waiter smiled and explained, "Because this is the latest model from Milan Fashion Week this season, and it is the main design of Mr. Karl Lagerfeld, ma'am." ”

"Really? Don't buy it! ”

Mom didn't know what Mr. Karl De was, and she was about to stuff it into her bag with her change card. At this time, Liu Xingchen pulled her hand out of her bag and said pleadingly: "Mom, I beg you, just help me buy this, I'll be useful." ”

"What's the use?" Mom looked at him with a look that seemed to mean a lot.

Liu Xingchen's eyes drifted to the magazine, and after thinking about it quickly, he couldn't say that he wanted to wear it, so he could only say: "I want to give it away." ”

"To whom?" Mom asked in surprise.

"To a good friend, the best friend, a very special friend. Mom, just brush it again! Liu Xingchen put his mother's hand on the credit card machine, but his mother's hand and the change card are like binding, the credit card machine is not as sensitive as abroad, no matter how hard he tries, he can't swipe the account, their mother and son can calculate the ocean today, the waiter can't hold back the joy, the air conditioner is very big, but the mother is sweating and shouting: "Xingchen!" ”

Liu Xingchen was very unhappy and let go of his mother's hand and walked out of the store.

Mom doesn't want to dispel her son's enthusiasm to accompany his mother to go shopping, because Mom really likes this feeling, but Mom always thinks that her son is weird these days, Tong Guò last night's incident plus today's incident, Mom has guessed that he has other women, to be honest, people at this age can't understand what they see, but Mom thinks that her son is a seven-year itch, which should have been experienced in middle age, because of the relationship between her son's early love, he was only twenty-five years old and had a seven-year itch, so it must be enthusiastic, But the mother considered that a few days after her son returned to China, the woman who hooked up in such a short period of time would not be a serious person, and she could afford to buy her such expensive clothes.

The mother chased him out and explained to him: "Son, you misunderstood your mother, it's not a matter of money. ”

Liu Xingchen said unhappily: "If you don't buy it for me, forget it, don't say it's not a matter of money, I hate my mother's coaxing wording, I'm not a child anymore!" ”

"Son...... The son ...... "Mom always wants to find an angle to look at his face.

He dodged left and right, just ignoring her.

Mom remembered that when he was a child, he took him to the mall, he took a fancy to a small piano, the price was quite expensive at that time, his mother hesitated and did not buy it for him, and then asked him to use his spare time to learn some musical instruments, he resolutely did not learn, and his mother regretted it. Now that he has grown up, his mother really can't imagine that the mother and son will have to quarrel about shopping, and my mother is sad that even if he is for Wu Jiao and his wife, my mother thinks that this quarrel is worth it, just for a wild woman who is not indiscriminate, as for this?

Looking at her son's cold little face, his mother began to waver, how long has it been since his son went shopping with his mother, in fact, there are not many things that his son can fancy him, such a small request can't satisfy him, can he sleep tonight?

Just when Liu Xingchen was unhappy, he suddenly saw two people walking out of the counter opposite, a man and a woman, the figure of that woman was very familiar, and he seemed to know the back of that man, but he couldn't remember who it was for a while. He hurriedly put his arm around his mother's shoulders, carried her body on his back, and pushed him into the store just now, pretending to be joking with her: "Hehe, since it's not a matter of money, then buy it for me, oh roar - mom is so good!" I love you! ”

The waiter couldn't help but stand in front of the window with a smile and introduced: "Madam, your son's vision is really unique, this dress is definitely worth the money, just with this design, as well as this tailor, they are all world-class, and the fabric is very comfortable to wear, you can take a look......"

Mom can't see where this skirt looks good, the model is like a wild boy on her body, there is only a piece of fabric on the front chest, and a few silk threads are connected at the back, revealing a big back, and the buttocks are barely wrapped in it, but the skirt is asymmetrical, and there is an evil wind...... Mom couldn't believe that a beggar-like skirt would dare to bid such a high price, that Mr. Karl was a robber leader, right?

That's right. Liu Xingchen used to think so, but when he saw this skirt and imagined how Ai Mengmeng would wear it, he immediately changed his prejudice against the Fashionaster, it was a complete change, and even had a kind of sympathy for the hero.

Liu Xingchen lay on his mother's ear and said, "Mom, don't be stingy with such a little money, can't I beat your back when I go home?" ”

"Yes, ma'am, it's much cheaper than the cheongsam you wear."

"Besides, I said I borrowed this money from you."

"......" There was a waiter's warm smile in front of him, and a pleading with his son's dead face in the back, and the chairman of the board of directors, who was forced to be helpless, was stabbed again with great reluctance.

The waiter was busy changing the model's clothes, and the chairman's wife twisted the thin fabric and smacked her lips in pain. When she got to the car, she took out this black skirt again and found that her son chose L size, which was so long and long, the kind that ordinary women couldn't wear. The chairman's wife imagined her son's lover with this skirt, although she was very curious, she couldn't ask.

After that, they went to the supermarket to buy a lot of daily necessities and small items necessary for travel. After arriving home, the chairman's wife saw her son carrying the black handbag upstairs, and completely threw the matter of beating his mother's back out of the clouds. Imagine the scene where the son uses it to please his lover, and the mother feels a little uncomfortable.