Chapter 41: Fighting wits and courage
This time, Lu Hao didn't dwell on it anymore. When he left school, he didn't have the cool of sunglasses, he didn't have a proud and confident demeanor, and his back looked far less confident and proud, but it added to his loneliness.
After work, Mu Liang came to pick me up, and I told him that I had told my family that I had a boyfriend.
Mu Liang smiled sweetly and a little shyly.
"Why am I feeling a little excited?" Mu Liang patted his chest with one hand, as if trying to calm himself down.
"Really? You may have a lot of trials to face. I pursed my lips and nodded.
"This step always has to be taken, and I must also let my aunt approve it, so that you can be happy." Mu Liang looked ahead, squeezing my hand as he spoke, "Don't worry, I'm here." ”
Along the way, Mu Liang kept asking about his mother's preferences, what he usually likes to do, and what he likes to eat. Only I know that Mom's level is not something that can be successfully overcome by grasping her preferences. Her emotions are unpredictable, and if she doesn't do it right once, she may lose everything. Looking at Mu Liang's smiling face, full of expectation and confidence, I was worried.
When I got home, my mother was reading the newspaper in the living room with an iron face, and when I entered the door, she threw down the newspaper and entered the room.
"Mom, I'm back." Seeing my mother's face, I shouted weakly.
At dinner, the phone rang at home.
I only heard my mother greet with a smile: "Hello, hello...... We're all old colleagues...... Next time I'll have a treat......"
Listening to the tone like a phone call from Lu Hao's family, I picked up the rice in the bowl, pricked up my ears and tried to hear clearly, and my eyes peeked at my mother's expression when I picked up the dishes.
I saw my mother frowning, her smile gradually stiffened, and she scratched her hair vigorously, if this was in the past, this must have been a prelude to a big rage, but at this time, the mother who was answering the phone said in a softer tone, and said: "Oh, if he doesn't have time, forget it, it's okay." We're still old colleagues. ”
My mother fiddled with the pen on the coffee table with one hand, and sometimes raised her head to look at me, her eyes were full of anger, but she still tried to suppress her anger, pretending to respond to the person on the other side of the phone easily, "Yes, yes, okay, okay, we will notify each other if there is good news......"
As soon as the phone left my ear, my mother put away her smile, put down the phone and glared at me a few times.
I pretended not to know, and God knows that the drums were already beating in my heart. After a few bites of rice, I felt the stinging sensation of rice grains cutting through my throat as I swallowed it. After so many years, I still haven't learned to get used to it, and I haven't been able to adapt to my mother's unpredictable emotions. Aunt Shen's words are right, "You just go and quarrel!" If you can quarrel, he will be afraid of you. "I used this sentence for my father, but now it has an effect on me?
"Humph! Now you're satisfied, right?! Lu Hao is busy with work and doesn't have time to meet, this is exactly what you want, right?! Mom scoffed.
"If he doesn't see him, he won't see him, can I catch up with myself?"
I picked out the rice in the bowl, and my mother's storm was coming, and I couldn't even swallow a bite at the moment.
"I'm by you! The previous doctor, you said that you are old, this Lu Hao is suitable in all aspects, why can't it?! "Mom was pacing up and down behind me.
I felt like I was on my back.
"You see there's a bit of a problem with the faucet at home, and the light isn't very bright. Lu Hao is still very positive, let him do something about this, I don't believe people won't come! Now it's good! Where do you put your face?! My mother walked up to me again, patted her face, and said angrily, "You have lost all my old face!" ”
"But...... That's not what I said I wanted to see him, did I? It's not that I'm going to arrange a meeting, and you're going to contact someone else without asking. "Every now and then, I still haven't suppressed the words in my heart.
"You still say?!"
I can hear the sound of my mother gritting her teeth standing next to me.
"You did it on purpose! I'll tell you, I don't agree with what you said yourself! I know you're definitely looking for a wage earner, I'm not like you, I'm going to be embarrassed to die! What's the use of a hairy boy with no social experience?! ”
"So what can we do now? Lu Hao doesn't plan to talk anymore, is it possible that we will catch up with ourselves? When I said this, I actually had some joy in my heart.
Mom snorted a few times, "I don't agree!" I don't think you can talk about it! Then he went to the room in a rage.
There is no doubt that the atmosphere at home became more tense in the next few days. Mom stared more closely, except for work, there was no chance to go out. Even on the way home, I pinched my stopwatch, and I would always call after ten minutes. Mom wants me and Mu Liang to cut off the sprouts.
This month's salary has just arrived, in addition to the living expenses handed in, my mother pinched the few money I had left, how much to eat, how much to pay for the phone bill.
Even when I was alone in my room, my mother used the excuse to take things in and out and watch my every move.
This protracted war has turned into a stealthy spy war with wits and courage.
On this day, my mother came to my room like a detective and talked about the character with a background that Aunt Shen's daughter was looking for, and she bought this and that for her to do housework. As she said this, she flipped through the stacks of books on my desk, but when she found nothing, my mother pursed her lips and turned her gaze to the bag I had placed on the chair.
"Eh, what do you put in your bag every day? Is it that heavy? Before I could respond, my mother's hand had already reached into my bag and looked through it, and now my mother had begun to rummage through the bag in front of me.
My heart is up and down, my heart almost jumps to my throat, and the ring is still in the innermost layer!
"Eh, if you don't say it, I forgot! I'll see if I brought back the USB flash drive. As I spoke, I took the bag from my mother's hand, and in my left hand I held the report book, and put it on my right hand, which was pretending to be rummaging through the USB flash drive, but was actually looking for a ring.
This action just blocked my mother's sight, and she quickly hid the ring under the score book, but her right hand also turned out the USB flash drive. I actually practiced it, stealing dragons and phoenixes under my mother's nose.
"You flip this for half a day?!" The old mother dragged the bag over, looked suspicious, and continued to look through it.
Xu didn't find anything, but my mother still didn't give up and paced around my room.
"How much are you paying for your phone this month?" I remember you paid a lot! You call me the call record and take a look! Mom came over and pointed to my computer.
I was shocked, although Mu Liang and I usually use social software to communicate, but there will be a phone call every night. Check the records! It's really going to see the light of day!
"Hurry up!" When my mother saw me struggling, she couldn't help but urge me.
I'm pretending to be calm, let's take one step at a time!