Chapter 30: The World of Hypocrisy
"Mom, why are you laughing when you're obviously unhappy?"
In order to ask friends to help them tide over the difficulties, Ai Mo's father specially invited some friends to eat at home on the grounds that Ai Mo was about to go to elementary school, and Ai Mo's mother cooked a lot of delicious food, and at this time a family of three was standing at the door of the house to greet one guest after another.
These guests are Ai's father's hope, although he usually doesn't pay much attention to communication, and his relationship with these people is not iron, but he is an old-school and rigorous person, and people can't find fault. Although these people invited this time may not all have the purpose of helping, a few of them still have a lot of weight in the circle, and if they can use a little force in words, the pressure on Ai's father can be much less.
After this period of hard work, Ai's father has slowly seen a turnaround in the project, but it still needs time to plan and wait. It's just that the company and the customer don't give too much time to a project, and every more time you wait, there is less profit and more cost. The pressure from both the company and the customer made Ai's father a little stretched, so he had to find a reason to try to get some relationship.
In addition to the difficulties at work, things at home also made Ai's father very unhappy. During this time, Ai Mo's behavior has been a little abnormal, not only can she not see her smile, but she is not as well-behaved as before, and often makes Ai's father, who has always been reluctant to murder children, copy rattan. But Ai Mo's parents' discipline doesn't seem to have half an effect, and Ai Mo seems to have entered a rebellious period overnight, often facing people.
On a day like today, moxa could have been a good regulator, but now it's a ticking time bomb. In order to let Ai Mo be a foil at the dinner table quietly, Ai Mo's mother told Ai Mo for a long time in advance, asking Ai Mo to be more obedient and not to make trouble in front of the guests. Ai Mo nodded, she also knew her father's solemn mood at the moment, but the boredom in her heart could not be reduced at all, with the self-control of a six-year-old child, restraint was simply impossible, Ai Mo only felt extremely irritable, a small face was wrinkled, and there was no trace of innocence at all.
Early in the morning, Ai Mo dragged the little Ai Mo to wait in the living room, maybe because she was tired of waiting, or maybe she couldn't stand the strange atmosphere at home, especially the anxiety and boredom of her mother, so that Ai Mo couldn't help it, and said what she had been holding back for a long time. At her age, she couldn't understand the meaning of those smirks, let alone why her mother pretended to be enthusiastic to meet these strangers.
Ai Mo's sudden questioning made Ai Mu, who was greeting people and saying polite words, very embarrassed. Fortunately, Ai Mu has always known how to handle it when dealing with people, and secretly lowered her head to glare at Ai Mo, but gently touched Ai Mo's head, and explained to the guest with a little apology.
"Actually, it's not that you're unhappy, kid! She felt sorry for me, thinking that I had been worried about Lao Ai's affairs recently, this child was sensible, and he was depressed every day. ”
After all, everyone who came here today knows that it is a celebration on the surface, but in fact it is such a small thing as a child going to school.
After sending the guests in, Ai Mu drove Ai Mo to her room, and told her again, but she was still not at ease, and waited until she had eaten before calling her out.
Ai Mo, who grew up in a honey pot since she was a child, has suffered any grievances, and when she comes out of the room, she is even more sullen than in the morning, pouting, and she doesn't answer when others talk to her, which makes Ai Mu anxious and embarrassed.
Fortunately, after the banquet, everyone was happy, a child was just awkward, and no one cared about it.
Just as Ai Mo was about to get into today's topic, Ai Mo suddenly jumped up, stood on a stool and pointed at a table of people and shouted.
"Fake! Fake! You're all pretending to be happy, obviously you're all annoyed, why do you want to look happy? The teacher said that children can't lie, so why can't adults! You're all fake! ”
Ai Mo's actions made Ai's mother's eyes widen in surprise, Ai's father's face was red and white, and the prepared words were stuck in his throat.
Ai Mu pulled Ai Mo off the stool, pinched her thigh, and the painful Ai Mo immediately cried, at this time, Ai Mu quickly hugged Ai Mo, patted her back and said to everyone and left the table with Ai Mo.
Ai Mo's sudden loss of emotional control was like a farce, which suddenly appeared and came to an abrupt end. Ai's father was a little embarrassed and toasted everyone, and then sat down dejectedly to explain the current predicament, and his eyes were red when he talked about the abnormality of the child during this time.
In the eyes of these guests, children are the most unpretentious, and a child is so miserable, let alone this family? I don't know how much the problem of the project has brought to such a young mind, but at the end of the meal, I really ate some true feelings.
Ai's father didn't expect that these real emotions were even better than the set of rhetoric he had prepared, and some people were either out of sincerity, or out of interests, or out of pity for their children, and somewhat showed some meaning of helping.
A month later, Ai's father's crisis was miraculously resolved, and both the company and the client expressed their understanding of the slowdown in the project, and invested more attention and support. As the project gradually improved, Ai's father's reputation in the company has also been greatly improved, and the company's senior management also saw Ai's father's connections and crisis handling ability from this incident.
Only Ai Mo, her world was completely turned upside down.