Chapter Eighty-Eight: An Unpleasant Dinner
After a busy day, Su Mengdie finally finished the interview script, turned off the computer, and looked at the clock on the wall, it was already seven o'clock in the evening. She hurriedly packed her things and walked out of the newspaper building, and went down, and Tang Karen was waiting anxiously for her by the car.
Su Mengdie said, "How long have you been waiting for me here?"
Don Karen said: "Don't you usually get off work at six o'clock? I waited for you for an hour. ”
Su Mengdie said guiltily: "Why don't you call me and urge me."
Tang Karen said in surprise: "Don't you like anyone calling you when you write?" It's your habit. ”
Su Mengdie came back to her senses at this time: "Oh, that's it,"
Tang Karen asked, "Do you wake up and don't remember as much as before?"
Su Mengdie thought for a while and said, "Yes."
Tang Karen helped her open the car door and said, "This is normal, it will be fine slowly." Let's go, get in the car. ”
Su Mengdie and Tang Karen rushed to the western restaurant, and Tang Karen led her straight to a western table. Su Mengdie saw a middle-aged woman with an intellectual temperament sitting at the table. This person is Tang Karen's mother Zhang Biying.
"Mom, this is ......" Tang Karen was just about to introduce. Zhang Biying stood up and said with a smile: "This should be Xiao Su, right?"
Su Mengdie glanced at Tang Karen with questioning eyes, and then responded politely: "Yes, Auntie, I am Su Mengdie."
Zhang Biying looked Su Mengdie up and down, and said with appreciation: "She looks really bad, and she is too good for Karen." Sit down, Xiao Su. ”
Su Mengdie sat down stubbornly, Zhang Biying seemed to see her embarrassment, and said, "Xiao Su, you don't have to worry, let's just have a meal like friends."
Tang Karen whispered to Su Mengdie: "Take it easy, my mother is really good, she really can't wait to see you."
Zhang Biying was still smiling, and shouted at the waiter: "Waiter, please bring the menu." Come, Karen, what does Xiao Su like to eat, you can give her something, I will invite you for today's meal. ”
Tang Karen said: "Mom, what are you polite to your son? I'm here to please. ”
As usual, after the steak came up, Tang Karen carefully cut Su Mengdie into small pieces. It's just that Su Mengdie is very nervous today. Fortunately, Zhang Biying didn't ask about her parents, but just cordially beckoned her to eat this and that. However, Su Mengdie always felt that there was a sharp eye under Zhang Biying's gentle appearance.
Zhang Biying said: "Xiao Su, you don't know how Karen survived the days when you were away, crying every day, and eating unpleasantly every day." You're finally back, otherwise what would he do? ”
Su Mengdie smiled awkwardly.
Zhang Biying continued: "Auntie also hopes that you will not leave him again, if you really like him, I hope you will settle down as soon as possible, you also know that my Karen is a talent, she has a career and a career, there are not many girls who like him, and he is infatuated with you." He's thirty years old, a man, thirty years old, we don't care about each other's family background, as long as it's a girl with pure nature. ”
Don Karen glanced at her mother anxiously, meaning to shut her up. But Zhang Biying still continued: "Xiao Su, when is it convenient, I want to invite your family to have a meal together, if your parents are not in Suining, you can also call relatives who are closer to you."
Su Mengdie tried to suppress her crampedness and said, "My parents are not in Suining, and I don't have close relatives."
Zhang Biying said: "Oh? Is it? Who did you grow up with? ”
Su Mengdie said: "Of course they grew up with my parents, they are just out of town, it is inconvenient to come back, Auntie, what else do you ask?"
Tang Karen hurriedly said: "My mother just wants to settle our affairs as soon as possible, which shows that she approves of you in her heart, Mengdie, don't be too sensitive." There's really no kinship, and it's okay. ”
Zhang Biying said: "Karen, I have made the biggest regression, I can't see her parents, can I see my relatives?" Can't you agree to this condition? When we do this, we also show our respect for her, you know? Son? ”
Su Mengdie stood up and said, "Auntie, I don't plan to get married right away, so I can't do it when I see my parents, I'm sorry, I still have something to do, so I'll leave first."
Tang Karen said anxiously: "Mengdie, you just eat a little, don't be ...... like this"
Zhang Biying said: "Since Xiao Su has something to do, let her go first." I've taught you since I was a kid not to make things difficult for others. ”
Su Mengdie picked up her bag and still said goodbye politely: "Auntie, I'm leaving, you and Karen eat slowly."
Tang Karen hurriedly stood up and said, "Mengdie, I'll send you."
Su Mengdie smiled hard and said, "No need, you accompany your aunt to dinner, the person I went to interview is in this area, very close."
Watching Su Mengdie walk out of the western restaurant, Zhang Biying pursed the corners of her mouth and said, "Son, let's eat."
"Mom!" Tang Karen shouted angrily, "How did you promise me on the phone at noon today, you said that you wouldn't ask her these questions, and you wouldn't force her to answer, but why did you break your promise?" What do you want me to do with her next? ”
Zhang Biying said lightly: "Son, forget it, this girl won't be very serious about you." I don't believe she doesn't even have any relatives in Suining. ”
Tang Karen said helplessly: "Mom, she is already very bitter, why are you forcing her?" Aren't you curious? Shall I tell you the truth? She also never told me about her family, it was the police who helped me investigate, her mother left her when she was four years old, I met at the cemetery some time ago, but there was no contact information, her father ...... killed the hooligan who bullied her back then, and she is still in prison...... In fact, she didn't even know that her father was in prison, hey, don't you think she is very bitter? She's bitter enough, don't ask her, a person can't choose her own background...... But, no matter what, I want to be with her, and I believe that my mother is a reasonable person, don't she? ”
Under Tang Karen's aggressive gaze, Zhang Biying said: "We are just one of your children, as a normal parent, it is not wrong to meet each other's relatives when we get married, right?" I didn't press her, she was too sensitive, son. This girl has peach blossom eyes and water eyes, and she must be an amorous person. ”
"Hahaha, are you still looking at your face?" Tang Karen smiled bitterly and said, "How is my well-informed mother the same as a worldly third aunt and six mothers-in-law?"
Zhang Biying explained: "Born from the heart, son, don't be too obsessed with some superficial phenomena, it's not good for you."