Chapter 16: Friction
"And what do you do now?" Su Tao said worriedly.
"I'm going to call my mom right now and tell her not to go home. You can also see Zhou Xiaobei's energy, and he still looks like this to me, let alone my mother. And my mom doesn't have a good temper, and if the two of them meet, I don't know what will happen. If they have a conflict, Zheng Huaihai will definitely put pressure on my father's business. Although he is now retired, he still has a lot of connections within the government, and if he makes any moves, the M&A business that my dad has been thinking about this year may be affected. When the time comes, he can't blame Zhou Xiaobei, and he will definitely anger my mother and me. Zhou Xiaonan's expression was solemn, and even Su Tao was tired for him, "My mother doesn't know the severity, I can't let her go back and talk nonsense." As he spoke, Zhou Xiaonan took out his mobile phone, dialed a few numbers, and then put the mobile phone to his ear. As a result, the mobile phone rang for a long time, but no one answered. Zhou Xiaonan reluctantly dialed again, but no one answered. Su Tao said, "You try again, if no one answers, don't call first, she may have something." Zhou Xiaonan shook her head, what was wrong with her, she was just having fun and was too lazy to pay attention to me. I dialed a third time, and after a long ring, the phone was finally answered. A delicate female voice came from the other end, but her tone was full of impatience. "Hey~ Xiaonan, what's the matter with you? That's a lot of calls. ”
"Mom, don't go home for the next two days......"
Zhou Xiaonan was interrupted before he finished speaking, and his mother said quite dissatisfied, "Why? Oh, if you don't ask me to reply, I won't reply. Don't go too far, Zhou Xiaonan. You said you were going to bring your friends back and let me make room for you, and I agreed. You're telling me not to come back now, you're going to have to make an inch. What are you going to do at home? You're going to rebel. ”
Su Tao was secretly amused in her heart, and finally knew who Zhou Xiaonan learned from when she ran the train with her mouth. However, his mother had a southern accent when she heard it, but Zhou Xiaonan had a Beijing accent, and he didn't know who he learned it from. Zhou Xiaonan's timbre is as soft as his mother's, but his accent is crisp and neat in the northern style, which is particularly interesting. Zhou Xiaonan patiently wanted to wait for her to finish, but his mother had no intention of stopping, and even her words became more and more scoreless, and he couldn't help but interrupt.
"It's not me," Zhou Xiaonan said angrily, "Zhou Xiaobei is back, he wants to use the house to have a party, let us move out for a few days." ”
"What do you mean?" His mother exclaimed, "Where are we going to live when we move out?" Zhou Xiaobei has so many houses under his own name, he doesn't have a party anywhere, he wants to open it in our house, and he wants to kick us out! Why? I'm going to call your dad, his son is going to kick us out!" It's really the other way around......"
"Mom—you can't call my dad!" Zhou Xiaonan hurriedly stopped.
"What do you mean?" Xiao Nan's mother was completely furious on the phone, "I said, why are you so cowardly." What's the use of me raising your son? People raise a dog and know how to protect the owner, you come, what's the use of me raising you? When did you maintain me? Your brother has bullied us! And what about you? You don't even dare to say a word! If he drives you away, you'll go. Do you have any backbone? Even dogs know how to protect food, and you can even let your own home out casually. Hmph, you don't dare to quarrel with Zhou Xiaobei, I'll come! Isn't he going to party? I'm going to his party! Let his friends come and see how he bullied our mother and son, and see if he wants to be ashamed!"
"Mom, Mom, don't! Don't!" Zhou Xiaonan panicked.
However, Zhou Xiaonan's mother had quickly hung up the phone. "Mom, where are you now? Mom—" Zhou Xiaonan shouted in vain.
"What can I do about this?" Su Tao said helplessly, "Why don't you let them solve your parents' affairs by themselves?" After all, you're just a kid, and you're too tired to worry about so much. ”
"Su Tao, she is an extremely selfish woman, look at my mother like this, do you think that if I didn't mediate in the middle all these years, would they be able to live together for so long?" Zhou Xiaonan looked tired.
"Then you try to let them handle these things on their own, I think sometimes it's better to say it clearly. My sister and I had a lot of misunderstandings because of the lack of communication after the death of our parents, and even in the end, we didn't make it clear. I regret it really, really now. So it's not a good thing to let your father know what's really going on in your heart if you have the chance. Su Tao suggested while thinking.
Zhou Xiaonan shook his head and said, "Su Tao, you don't know my father at all. My dad doesn't care what I think at all, he only cares about his own interests. If what I do causes him trouble, and my value is not enough to make up for it. Then I can be discarded. ”
"Oh my God, Xiao Nan, are you too anxious? In any case, he is your father no matter what. Even though he's quite ruthless in many things. But he won't be angry with you because of such a little thing, after all, you are related by blood, I don't think he will ......" Su Tao said.
"You don't know anything about him, Su Tao." Zhou Xiaonan's gaze froze, "You know what? There was a time when I was a child, when my father and Zheng Huaihai were in a stalemate, he refused to come to see me, he thought that I had caused him to be like this, and my mother didn't want to care about me at that time. My dad doesn't care about us, and my mom goes out all day to have fun. And I, who was only three years old, was left in nursery. The children in the nursery bullied me, and my aunt often beat us, and no one cared. ”
"Oh my God, how can this be? How can they do this to you! Su Tao was indignant.
"So it wasn't until my dad solved the business problems that he vaguely remembered that there was a son like me, and occasionally remembered to give us living expenses, and my mom often quarreled with him, so he rarely came to see us. Later, the contradiction between him and Zhou Xiaobei deepened, and I obeyed him again, so he treated me a little better, and I would not be so poor. If I offend my dad this time, not to mention where I live is not guaranteed, my tuition and living expenses will be a problem in the future, my mother has many men who are willing to spend money for her, but even if she has money, she is only willing to spend it on herself, as for me, it is just a tool for her to compete for favor before, and now it is another source of money. When did she think about it for me? As long as she makes such a fuss, I will definitely be in a sad situation. But did she care? I'm afraid never. She's just trying to earn back her so-called face. Zhou Xiaonan said expressionlessly.
"But what can you do now? You don't know where your mom is, and you can't stop her from doing whatever she wants. Besides, if she doesn't care about you, it's a problem where you stay tonight. Otherwise, you can go to my house first, but if you can't do it, you can stay in my house for a while and wait for the turmoil to pass. Anyway, if I live alone, there won't be anything inconvenient. Su Tao said sincerely.
"Su Tao, I appreciate your kindness. But I can't just go to your house casually. You're a single girl, and I didn't live in it rashly, and it didn't take a good stand for your reputation. ”
Su Tao wanted to speak and stopped, only to hear Zhou Xiaonan continue, "I can't leave now, I'm going to stay here and wait for my mother to come over." She said she would come. I must not just let her go to Zhou Xiaobei to make trouble. It's the way to my villa, and if she comes, I'll be able to see it. I'm waiting here for her to come, and I'm going to stop her. ”
"But what if she didn't come over now, but called your dad first?" Su Tao questioned.
"She doesn't dare," Zhou Xiaonan said categorically, "My mother is not so stupid, she just talks about it, and she knows my father's temper best." If my dad was interrupted in the middle of a business conversation, he would have been furious. She would never touch this moldy head. But if she goes to find Zhou Xiaobei to sprinkle this kind of thing, she can really do it. ”
"In that case, I'll wait with you. Maybe I'll be able to help you persuade her later. Su Tao pursed her lips and said.
"Maybe." Zhou Xiaonan said with a smile and a smile, "But a style like you speak will only make people more and more angry the more they listen." ”
Su Tao had no choice but to say, "Then I'll shut up later." Save it from being mixed in, and the more it gets worse. ”
As he spoke, a curling figure came over, with a large bag hanging on his body, obviously returning from shopping. Zhou Xiaonan immediately ran forward and shouted, "Mom-"
Su Tao also stepped forward, only to see that this woman was graceful, if it weren't for Zhou Xiaonan calling her mother, Su Tao would never believe that she was in her forties, because she looked like she was in her early twenties, with a palm-sized face, with the same fawn-like eyes as Zhou Xiaonan, she looked innocent and innocent, the delicate and beautiful nose bridge drew a good-looking arc, and the slightly upturned lips were the most dazzling embellishments on this perfect face, which made her look squeamish and sexy. She is not tall, obviously like a southern woman, petite and thin, with her own style. Su Tao originally thought that she had seen enough beauties, not to mention that her sister Su Ying and herself were also rare beauties, so they were naturally not interested in ordinary beauty, but this one made her naturally admire the miracle of the creator, and she would give birth to such an amazing beauty. She also sighed that Zhou Xiaonan was delicate and cute, but now it seems that it is not as good as one-tenth of his mother's. was in a trance, I saw the beautiful and moving Xiaonan's mother looking straight at her, her beautiful eyes shining, but she said to Zhou Xiaonan with a little disgust, "Eh, this is your girlfriend?" This one looks okay, but it's a bit of a dull. ”