Chapter 19: Meeting Your Parents
Sitting on the plane looking down at the white clouds below, the whole person was in a bad mood. The brain is also like a complete tofu brain being stirred back and forth and finally becoming a bowl of tofu flowers, confused and unconscious.
"Brother?" Zhao Lei patted me on the shoulder, saw that I was in a daze, and also poked his head to look at me, "What's wrong?" What are you looking at? ”
I rubbed my dry eyes, "It's nothing, I just didn't sleep well last night." When I smiled at him, it must have been ugly, and then I quickly turned my head away, afraid that he would see something in my nervous expression.
It is getting closer and closer to Guangzhou Airport, and the white clouds make the terminal not very clear, and the flashing yellow points of light are getting closer and closer to us. And this light was like the poisonous light of Hades, which made me tremble, and the fingers on the handle were tightly clasped.
"Brother, don't be afraid, it's okay. With me with you, I will definitely convince my parents that we can definitely be together. Zhao Lei pulled my hand off the handle and soothed the tense pores on the back of my hand back and forth.
Coming out of the closet is not a trivial matter, and the huge psychological pressure makes his brows tighter and tighter. Although he comforted me in his mouth, he was just as nervous in his heart...
After getting off the plane, almost everyone on the plane stepped on the ground of the airport with a spring breeze on their faces, and when they saw their family and friends, the joy in their hearts also turned into excited shouts that burst out of their mouths. Seeing them all so happy, I couldn't be happier.
According to Zhao Lei, their family is in the real estate business. In Guangzhou, this place is second to none, as long as you do this business, you basically know his father's name. And he came back this time just in time for the Chinese New Year, and in order to make him happy, his father seems to have invited many friends from the industry to his house.
"So many people, are you sure you want to say it? Do you want to tell your parents alone after a while? I flinched, but Zhao Lei strengthened his hand holding me more and more, like a child holding his beloved doll.
The taxi driver looked at us through the perspective mirror and didn't speak, seeing that he was concentrating on driving, but when Zhao Lei talked to me, he also peeked at the movements of the two of us again and again.
I was uncomfortable with the driver's eyes, so I deliberately moved to the side, "It's okay, sooner or later they all have to know, sooner or later." "The more I moved to the side, the more he leaned over, like a dog skin plaster that couldn't be shaken off.
I was already leaning against the door and I had no room to dodge, but the driver's seat was just enough to block the two of us, and the driver would not be watching through the mirror.
"What are you going to tell your dad? I'll retell it first. I tugged at his ear and whispered in his ear. Just as he opened his mouth to speak, I immediately covered his mouth again, "Just be quiet, just tell me alone." ”
After my reminder, Zhao Lei noticed the movement of the driver in front of him. Unfortunately, when he went to see the driver, the driver also happened to be looking at Zhao Lei, and after the two looked at each other, the driver was also hit by Zhao Lei's "eyes", and his face became red.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to eavesdrop on you." The driver's Cantonese Mandarin made people feel awkward to listen to, as if you were eating rice balls and suddenly bit into a piece of crispy bone, and the original soft filling became stiff. "Are you?"
He wasn't polite, and just called us by this title, "yes, what's wrong?" Zhao Lei replied to him dryly, and his slightly raised chin seemed to provoke the driver.
"Something, something, I won't discriminate against you~" The last two trilled words ended the conversation between Zhao Lei and him, and at the same time eased my slightly nervous mood.
"Okay, let's talk about it now." Zhao Lei turned his head and smiled at me, "I'll tell him that I like you, I want to be with you, I don't like women, I'm not interested in women, I just want to be with you for the rest of my life, and grow old with you." ”
This is simply a confession to me on the spot to a third person! Not to mention his father, even when I heard it just now, I was covered with goosebumps, especially with his bright but a little mischievous gaze, no one would believe his words.
I pushed him away from me and straightened up his messy clothes, "You're a showdown?" I'm really convinced. I threw up my head and sighed, "I'll tell you, you just listen." ”
The advantage of being older is that you can make a younger person listen to you. When I proposed that I tell his father, Zhao Lei, who was on the side, was also a little excited, and the legs that were flat just now were now cocked and began to shake, looking leisurely. "Done! Listen to you! ”
has come to this point, I have come to Guangzhou with Zhao Lei, and I will meet Zhao Lei's parents in another hour or two. After meeting, whether we agree or not, the rest of our lives are equivalent to being tied together, and I have no chance to push him away.
I turned my head slightly to look at this young man, although he is a little younger and his mind is not mature, but he is really good to me, if I can't leave him, it is a good choice to be with him...
The car drove to the door of Zhao Lei's house, and I paid special attention to the surrounding scenery before getting out of the car. "Worthy of being a rich man...", I couldn't help but sigh.
Their house is a three-storey villa, and it seems that it is not a commercial house, but a worker's own construction. Compared to the houses of the neighbors, the walls of their house painted with gold yellow accentuate the opulence.
Zhao Lei pulled me to the gate, and when I passed by the door, a special fragrance of flowers wafted in, which made me a little uneasy for some reason.
The closer you go, the more solemn the feeling becomes, and the surrounding tones become a little colder. "Ding Dong~" Zhao Lei pressed the doorbell on the door, and the crisp sound spread to the house little by little, reaching the ears of the people in the house.
"Click," the handle outside the door turned, and when the door was opened, a middle-aged woman dressed as a maid stood in front of us with a red face, "You can come back, your parents are waiting for you in the house!" ”
Looking at her enthusiastic appearance, I guessed that this was the maid of their family, although she was a little older, but looking at the vicissitudes on the back of her hand, she must also be a capable woman.
As she was talking, she hurriedly took the luggage from Zhao Lei's hand, turned around and took his pair of jujube red exclusive cotton slippers from the shoe cabinet. At first, she also enthusiastically took a pair of cotton slippers for me, but when she saw my face and looked at it for a while, the smile on her face became a little stiff, and she forgot to put down the luggage she was carrying.
Seeing that the woman was a little surprised, Zhao Lei also enthusiastically introduced me to her, "Aunt Liu, this is my friend, Chen Rui, he is going to stay in our house for a few days." ”
After listening to Zhao Lei's introduction, the expression on Aunt Liu's face eased slightly. "Oh, then I'll clean up another room." Saying that, she also carried me and Zhao Lei's luggage down the stairs and walked up, not long after she went upstairs, I inadvertently glanced up and found that she was peeking at me in a corner upstairs.
That maid was a little weird, and Zhao Lei's home also surprised me a little.
When I was in the United States, the place where I lived was naturally no worse than here, and I had seen a lot of mansions. But this is in China, in a country with a population of 1.3 billion, it is indeed rare to have such gorgeous decorations and such a European-American style layout.
From the moment I entered the door, there was a constant noise coming from the living room, but the entrance was a little long, and I didn't know what was going on there for the first time. When Zhao Lei took my hand and walked towards the living room, the noisy sound was also increasing.
After a bend, I walked into the living room. Before I could fix my eyes on someone in the living room, a pillow flew in and hit me in the face.
The momentary suffocation almost made me fall, but fortunately, Zhao Lei pulled me to keep standing. "Don't make a fuss! It's all smashed! "Zhao Lei reprimanded the man, and when I came to my senses, I realized that the man was just a child...
Naturally, where there can be trouble, children are definitely indispensable. Although the living room is big, it is a little crowded with three or four children, and there are some elders in Zhao Lei's family sitting on the sofa.
"Stinky boy, how did you talk to your cousin?" The man who spoke looked a little older, and his hair was not covered with gray hair, but it was about the same. Listening to the tone of his voice, he must also be Zhao Lei's father.
His health was not very good, and when he stood up, he had to rely on a cane and the support of a middle-aged woman next to him. "Slow down, what's the matter with sitting and saying no?"
"That's it." Zhao Lei also catered to the woman, and walked over quickly to hold his father's arm.
"Humph!" He shook his hand away disdainfully, "Do you know to come back for the New Year?" I went out and fooled around during the holidays! ”
Their family doesn't have the crappy Mandarin pronunciation of Cantonese people, and they look like people who moved from other places, and his father looks like a tiger's back, and his temper is a little arrogant, but he also has the meaning of some Northeasterners.
When the people in the living room saw Zhao Lei, they were all smiling, and many elders also got up to see him. "The young man has grown up, but he has lost a lot of weight."
He is already a young man in his 20s, and seeing him surrounded by those elders, his age seems to be getting younger, and the smile on his face is more childlike and cute...
"By the way, Dad, I'll introduce you to someone."