Chapter 3: Mother and Son Fall in Love
"The new clothes my son bought for me, famous brands, are so expensive."
"What's so good about things, my son brought back a daughter-in-law, and we'll go to the mall together tomorrow."
"Hahaha, our family came home late, but the tickets have been booked, and I was sent two big red envelopes just now."
Gu's mother squeezed out a bleak smile, "Okay, good, they're all good sons." β
"Sister Yuqiu, isn't your family Tianbai also working outside, what did you buy for the New Year?"
"Yes, it's time to come back this year, no matter how bad the mix is, you have to go home for the New Year."
"Your family is almost thirty, it's time to get married, now there are few girls, it's hard to find."
"Then whose son is thirty years old, can't find a daughter-in-law, committed suicide by drinking medicine a few days ago, and is still lying in the hospital, I don't know if I can survive until the New Year."
"Don't talk nonsense, people are not deeply poisoned, and they don't have the face to see people in the hospital."
Gu's mother's voice was light and floating, soft and spiritless, "Well, okay, come back, come back-steamed buns are steamed at home, I'll go back and see, you guys play." β
Gu Yuqiu fled from the square and breathed a long sigh of relief, tomorrow Laba, a year has passed in a blink of an eye, I don't know if my son will go home for the New Year this year.
Gu Yuqiu rubbed his face with his hands, took out his mobile phone, and dialed Gu Tianbai's number.
"Hey, son, are you busy...... Let's eat, it's cold or not, work well outside, don't worry about me, I'm fine...... Don't be reluctant to spend money outside, it's not enough for your mother to give you ......"
Gu Yuqiu chatted about family life, and when she heard her son's voice, she smiled very happily, she didn't care what others thought of her son, in her eyes, Gu Tianbai was always the best.
In order to be able to say a few more words to Gu Tianbai, she didn't take the elevator and climbed up the stairs.
"Me, I'm home now, watch TV with the heating on, don't worry about my ......"
Gu Yuqiu climbed to the tenth floor, kept the mobile phone away from her mouth and nose, and held on to the railing of the corridor and gasped.
"Mom-"
Strange and familiar voices echoed in the hallway.
Gu Yuqiu raised his head, and his son Gu Tianbai stood alive at the door.
She couldn't believe her eyes, and subconsciously put her phone to her mouth, "Son, are you home?" β
Gu Tianbai stepped down the steps in three steps and hugged the slightly old woman into his arms, "Mom, I'm back." β
The warm body temperature, the familiar smell, and the strong arms all proved that it was not a dream, Gu Yuqiu's eyes suddenly moistened, and he hugged this piece of heart, "It's good to come back, it's good to come back." β
"Mom, why don't you take the elevator?"
"I exercise, and I don't feel comfortable sitting every day."
In order to prevent more lies from being exposed, Gu Yuqiu pulled Gu Tianbai into the house.
Brother-in-law Jiang Cancan came over with a fruit plate, politely polite, she didn't mention what happened just now, and Gu Tianbai didn't say anything.
Gu Yuqiu pulled her son to ask questions, but she didn't ask about work and marriage, she knew that Gu Tianbai was not the kind of ignorant and bad child, if it wasn't for the great difficulties, it would be impossible to hide for three years and not go home for the New Year.
It didn't take long for Ji Liping and Ji Tianchuan to go home with large bags of food, most of which were cooked food and did not need to be processed, but Gu Yuqiu still stir-fried a dish - scrambled eggs with tomatoes, Gu Tianbai's favorite dish.
Stepfather Ji Liping is kind and polite, he doesn't like to argue with others, even if he quarrels, he is the kind of person who waits for others to vent and sit down and reason well, although he is dissatisfied with Gu Tianbai, the son who married outside, he is also polite on the surface.
Milk brother Ji Tianchuan is five years younger than Gu Tianbai, 23 this year, young and vigorous, does not know how to be tactful, and the brothers are not deeply emotional, they show their dissatisfaction to the fullest, and when they go home, they shrink into their own house, and they can't come out.
After the dishes were ready, Gu Yuqiu pulled Ji Tianchuan and Jiang Cancan out of the house, and the family sat down to eat together.
Gu Yuqiu gave Gu Tianbai a dish, Ji Liping gave Ji Tianchuan a dish, and then some didn't say a few words to maintain the harmony on the surface, while Ji Tianchuan and Jiang Cancan ate with a calm face throughout the whole process, without saying a word.
"Tianbai, I heard your mother say that you are married outside?" Ji Liping asked.
"Dead old man, I said to play, you believe it." Gu Yuqiu's face was unnatural, Gu Tianbai only told her about this matter, and asked her to keep it secret.
"It turned out to be a fake." Ji Liping straightened up, "Also, I don't even have a serious job outside, how can I have a partner, it's better to mix at home in college." β
Ji Tianchuan understood in his heart, this is praising himself, "Dad, eat vegetables, don't blame the big brother, people will be confused, you see those who are brainwashed by pyramid schemes, every year, memory and IQ are two different things, I watched a news on TV, an idiot, can recite 50,000 decimal places of pi, you say magic is not magical." β
Jiang Cancan also lit the gun, "It's also luck whether it's good or not, but the most important thing is character, unlike some old bachelors, who can't stand loneliness and peek at others taking a bath." β
"Do you want to eat this meal?" Gu Yuqiu put down the dishes and chopsticks, her face dark.
Ji Liping and Ji Tianchuan were silent, Gu Tianbai was Gu Yuqiu's heart, and he would explode when he touched it.
"If you don't eat, you won't eat, you can't let you suffocate to death." Jiang Cancan is not a member of the Ji family, she is a foreign daughter-in-law, she doesn't care about any rules and regulations, she just wants to live freely.
"What's your grievance?" Gu Yuqiu frowned.
Jiang Cancan squinted his eyes and glanced around, and finally his gaze stayed on Gu Tianbai, "He, peek at me taking a bath." β
Peeking in the bath?!
This is not a trivial matter, and if it is passed out, someone will be poked in the back.
Not only is his face disgraced, but this Ji family will be implicated.
Ji Liping was the first to jump up, "Gu Tianbai, what's going on, tell me clearly!" β
Gu Yuqiu was powerless at this time, and he needed an explanation for whether it was good or bad, "Don't be afraid, say it well." β
Gu Tianbai explained lightly, "Those who are clear are self-purifying, and those who are turbid are self-turbid, and that's how it is." β
"Fart, you did it on purpose." Jiang Cancan didn't want to hear any explanation at all, she was determined to drive Gu Tianbai away, "If you are an upright person, you should go out by yourself at that time, and use me to drive you away?" β
Gu Tianbai, "This is my home." β
Jiang Cancan, "You don't have a daughter-in-law, you don't have a family, where did you come from, now this is my home and Tianchuan's home, the Ji family's home, not your surname Gu's home." β
"Alright, stop arguing." Ji Liping slapped the table, "Don't care what your surname is, Gu Tianbai is the Ji family, this is something that the old man wrote into the family tree by hand, and no one can change it." β
"Dad, Cancan's mouth is fast, and her words are a bit heavy, it's her who is wrong, but her words are not crooked." Ji Tianchuan and Jiang Cancan planned in the house, one singing red face and the other white face.
Gu Tianbai coughed dryly, "Say what you want to say directly, grinding and chirping is like a girl." β
Speaking of which, Jiang Cancan didn't beat around the bush anymore, "Leave here, we don't welcome you." β
Gu Yuqiu was so angry that he threw his chopsticks on the table, his face pale.
Her heart is not good and she can't stand much stimulation.
Gu Tianbai helped her mother to the sofa, and then fed her a bottle of medicine before she returned to normal.
"Mom, you lie down, you can't be so angry with them." Gu Tianbai was unexpectedly calm, as if what he said just now was not him, but an irrelevant passerby.
"I'm not angry, I'm worried about you." Gu Yuqiu had tears in her eyes, and grabbed Gu Tianbai's hand, "No one wants to, they all complain that my mother is incompetent, Tianbai, you also know that I am not in good health, I can survive until now, I just want to watch you get married and have children, and have a home of your own, even if I die, I will be at ease." β
"Mom, you won't die, I came back this time to bring you a miracle medicine." Gu Tianbai took out three brown vials, "Drink it once a week, and it will heal in a month." β
"Mom, don't drink it." Ji Tianchuan walked to his side, "This medicine doesn't even have a trademark, it's definitely not safe, I heard that he has engaged in pyramid schemes, and I don't know who he was brainwashed again." β
"He's my son, can he hurt me?" Gu Yuqiu said reproachfully.
"A person in a pyramid scheme specializes in targeting relatives and friends, and whoever is good to him, he will deceive him." What Ji Tianchuan said was the Tao, which coincided with the community's anti-pyramid scheme knowledge propaganda, which sounded very credible.
If it was an ordinary person, he would have scolded his mother angrily at this time, but Gu Tianbai's face still did not change, and his emotions were as stable as an old dog.
Jiang Cancan frowned slightly, after scolding for so long, people would be angry, but Gu Tianbai didn't react at all, could it be that he scolded lightly, then he would be a little more fierce.
"Gu Tianbaiβ"
"Shut up." Gu Tianbai suddenly spoke, stunned and glared back at Jiang Cancan's words, she didn't know why, she always felt that Gu Tianbai had a domineering spirit.
Gu Tianbai looked at his mother, then at the home, thought for a while, and said clearly, "First, I don't live here rarely, I came because my mother is here; Second, I am not a bachelor, my fiancΓ©e is Du Jingxue; Third, there is a limit to my patience, and I will warn you only once, don't take an inch. β
Ji Tianchuan and Jiang Cancan glanced at each other and laughed, "Don't you brag about drafts, don't say anything else, just say where your fiancΓ©e is, take it out and let me see." β
Cancan echoed, "Yes, where are you, an old bachelor like you, you can't find a chicken." β
Gu Tianbai said faintly, "You are not qualified to see her." β
Ji Tianchuan smiled with a wrinkled face, "Blow, keep blowing, if you really have a daughter-in-law, I will change my surname to Gu." β
The corners of Gu Tianbai's mouth turned up, "Very good, I wrote it down." β