Anyone who has stayed in a hotel knows that there will be two free bottles of mineral water in the hotel room, as well as some drinks and food for a fee, basically instant noodles, ham sausages and the like. However, Ding Ran had already taken all the food in the room from the hotel in advance, and Xiao Chen had never stayed in a hotel, so he didn't know about the existence of these things at all.

"What's wrong? Why don't you eat it? Seeing that Xiao Chen didn't move his chopsticks, Ding Ran asked with great concern: "Is there something uncomfortable in your body?" ”

"No, I...... I just don't really want to eat it. Xiao Chen refused to tell the truth.

Boys of this age almost have one thing in common, that is, they care about their faces.

For example, if three rebellious children are together, A will say that my dad just bought me the latest game console, and B will immediately say that he has time to go to your house to play, and C will not play at all because of his poor family background, but he will also discuss what games are fun.

Xiao Chen doesn't eat mutton, and he doesn't say it, in the final analysis, it's also a matter of good face, and he thinks that if he says it, he may be ridiculed, just like many girls scream when they see mice, they don't even dare to eat meat, what kind of man is it?

This thinking is very strange, and many people can't even understand it, but the fact is that this phenomenon appears in almost every child who is going through a rebellious period, but the vast majority of people are not aware of it.

At this time, it is the time when the self-consciousness is the strongest, and many very simple things will be complicated, that is, they will be complicated without any reason, or they will make a simple thing into a complex thing, and the more they think about it, the more they make sense, and the more they think about it, the more they think about it.

……

Since Xiao Chen didn't want to eat it, Ding Ran didn't force him to eat it, let alone ask if it was unappetizing and if he wanted to eat something else.

In the adult world, there are so many choices for you.

If the problems encountered in adolescence are fill-in-the-blank questions, and the answers are all standard answers, then the problems encountered by adults are multiple-choice questions, and they are the kind of mandatory multiple-choice questions, such as, what are you going to do on the weekend? A: Overtime. B: Overtime. C: Overtime.

If you don't eat this one and that don't eat, you will be thrown into the backwoods for a few months, not to mention mutton, and the rats in the village will not dare to show their heads.

So, Xiao Chen was so hungry all night.

The little thing I ate at noon had already been digested, and at three o'clock in the middle of the night, Xiao Chen was woken up by hunger, and then got up and boiled two bottles of free mineral water in an electric kettle, drank some hot water, and felt more comfortable in my stomach, and finally resisted until dawn.

"Let's go, let's have breakfast." Ding Ran beckoned the listless classmate Xiao Chen to go downstairs and found a breakfast shop that sold fritters.

Xiao Chen, who was so hungry that his chest was close to his back, ate the fritters in a big gulp, and could have eaten two fritters, but today he ate three of them, and drank a bowl of tofu brain and two grilled sausages.

It's very supportive, but it's very happy.

After breakfast, Ding Ran drove Xiao Chen to the pig farm again, and today's luck was better, the boss didn't go out, and received them in person.

"An investment company? I see, I don't need it, I'll talk about it when I need to. After hearing the intention, the boss directly refused.

"Mr. Tao, now is the most appropriate time to expand the scale, let's ...... it," Ding Ran said for a long time, explaining why he needs to accept investment from all aspects.

Then, Boss Tao refuted all kinds of things, and finally even said something very ugly, saying that the investment company is a dog, how can there be interests and run away by himself.

Ding Ran didn't react, but Xiao Chen couldn't stand it: "Why are you like this?" We're here to send you money, what qualities do you ......?"

"Xiao Chen!" Ding Ran and Boss Tao inadvertently glanced at each other, and instantly possessed his acting skills, and he scolded in a low voice: "How can you speak?" Hurry up and apologize to Mr. Tao. ”

"Why?" Xiao Chen's temper has come up, yesterday he blew the wind all afternoon, and he was hungry all night, in his opinion, the culprit is this Tao boss.

"Yo, you still use child labor?" Boss Tao was not angry at all, but smiled happily. "What can such a kid do? Why did you still bring it out? ”

Xiao Chen was even more angry, the most unpleasant thing for him at this stage was that others called him a child, and he got up and left angrily.

……

In the car, Ding Ran was still possessed by his acting skills, his original amiable appearance was gone, and he pulled his face and reprimanded: "What do you think?" Yes? What was your attitude? ”

"He scolded us first." Xiao Chen hurriedly defended with a white face. "We are sending him money, whoever has money is the uncle, why does he scold us?"

"Don't talk about your crooked reasoning." Ding Ran said. "Do you think that when we make investments, we are uncles with money in our hands? Do you think that when we sit motionless in the office, eating snacks and watching a movie, someone will come running over and crying and shouting to beg you to invest? Then I ask you, what if no one comes? Do you have to go out and find a project on your own? Or just sit in the office and eat and die? No matter how much money you have in your hand, you also have expenses every day, and when the money in your hand is gone, no one comes to you to invest, what should you do? ”

Xiao Chen was so angry that he wanted to refute, but he couldn't find the direction of rebuttal, so he still used the old routine: "He scolded people first!" ”

"Hey, oil and salt don't come in, do you?" Ding Ran sneered. "When I came out, Mr. Tao said, if you go in and serve tea to him now, we can have a chance to cooperate, you just say whether you want to go or not."

"I'm not going!"

"Okay, if you don't go, we'll go back." Ding Ran drove back, and more than three hours later, the two returned to the company.

……

"Mr. Bai, I think this kid is going to collapse." Ding Ran reported in Bai Lu's office.

"I can't collapse." Bai Lu said with a smile. "Later, you will go out and tell him, because of his reasons, the company lost an investment and deducted his salary for three days."

"Good fellows." Ding Ran exclaimed. "This kid is only going to work for seven days, right? That's four days' worth of wages. ”

Salary deduction is salary deduction, Xiao Chen's stubborn temper came up, and he didn't care about salary deduction, but what made him unbearable was that no matter where he went in the afternoon, he could hear someone talking about him, not whispering behind his back, but blatantly talking, looking at his eyes made him very uncomfortable, just like the classmate in their school who was called "the first fool in the school" by the whole school. Because he is stupid, because he is always dressed dirty, all his classmates laugh at him and bully him, but he always laughs and does not get angry.

Xiao Chen can't do it, he's not stupid, so he's angry.

"I'm quitting." Xiao Chen rushed directly into Bai Lu's office. "You're bullying."

"Okay, then you can go home." Bai Lu didn't expect that Xiao Chen couldn't stand it so soon, he was still a child after all.

Xiao Chen left, bought a two-yuan grilled sausage at the small supermarket outside the office building, and then took the change and took the bus home.

Bai Lu didn't leave until he got off work in the afternoon, didn't go home, and drove to Chen Jiang's house.

"Brother Chen, let's Xiao Chen." Bai Lu entered the house, asked with a smile, and then said hello to Chen Jiang's daughter-in-law.

"Inside, it's been hit." Chen Jiang also laughed, and when he saw that his son was unhappy, he was happy.

"Didn't tell you?"

"Do you still need him to tell me? No need to ask, I know what's going on. Chen Jiang pursed his lips and said. It's nothing more than that, when we went to work, we didn't experience it, I changed the design of the first version fifteen times, and every time Party A politely said, "Mr. Chen, this version is very good, but you can see if you can change it again, we will pay the cost." ”

"It sounds very polite, but in our ears, people don't approve of you and insult you euphemistically." Chen Jiang pushed the fruit bowl to Bai Lu. "Take what you want to eat, and I'll eat at home later, when I see that kid come back, I know that you will definitely have to come over at night."

Bai Lu told Chen Jiang the general situation, and after listening to it, Chen Jiang couldn't help but laugh again: "It's not that I look down on him, I hope that he will be successful in the future than anyone else, and I don't want him to suffer in the future, but the child is a child after all, so I especially don't understand, what does this rebellious period mean, how can he think he can do it?" I don't remember being like this when I was a kid. ”

"You're selectively forgetting." White Road. "Just tell me if you ever had sex with your parents when you were fifteen or sixteen years old."

Chen Jiang was stunned for a moment, then smiled and scratched his head: "Hehe, there is, when you say this, I seem to have a rebellious period." ”

"It's everyone."

"Well, if you think about it, you have it too." Chen Jiang teased. "Your family is so rich, you don't go home to inherit the family property, and you run out to work, isn't it a rebellious period, and your rebellious period is still a bit serious, other children are at most eighteen years old, and you are in your twenties before you pass the rebellious period."

Bai Lu could only laugh awkwardly, he couldn't explain it, could it be that he could tell Chen Jiang that he was no longer the original him, the original he was dead, and now he was a brand new him.

This philosophical explanation can only be found in two places, in a university philosophy department in a classroom and in a psychiatric hospital.

Soon, the meal was ready, and Chen Jiang went to ask Xiao Chen to eat, but the door was locked, saying that he was not hungry and did not want to eat.

"This kid, don't care about him, let's eat."

"I'll take a look." Bai Lu went over and knocked on the door. "Open the door, it's me."

After a few seconds, the door opened, and Xiao Chen, wearing a pair of pajamas, stood there with his head bowed, and called Uncle Bai weakly.

"Call brother, don't listen to your father, I'm not yet thirty years old, let's talk about it, I call your father brother, you call me brother." Bai Lu entered the room, sat down on a chair, and looked at Xiao Chen's room.

The ten-square-meter room is decorated with a youthful atmosphere, a table, chair, bookcase, a bed, a lot of posters of basketball stars and anime posters on the bedside, and there are many small figures on the small table on the desk, which are not rare varieties, but the kind that is given away from buying small snacks.

"I'll ask you a question." Bai Lu looked at Xiao Chen and said. "How do you feel about going to work these days? …… Don't know how to say it? So let me put it another way, which do you think is easier, going to work or going to school? ”

Xiao Chen was unconvinced: "I think you are deliberately making things difficult for me." ”

"Hey, you're so smart." Bai Lu slapped his thigh. "I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, we really deliberately embarrassed you...... Don't stare at me and say we did it on purpose, but that's the reality. Let's just say your dad, your dad stayed up for several days for the project, slept three or four hours a day, and the design draft came out, guess what Party A said? ”

"Guessed it? I must be dissatisfied. Bai Lu continued. People are not polite at all, just tell your dad directly, they are very dissatisfied with this design, just find someone to copy and paste on the Internet is better than this, I just graduated from college at the time, your dad took me, that time I went with your dad, I will also be impulsive, why do they deny the fruits of sleepless labor for several days with a mouth? Just because they are Party A, do they have money? ”

"I wanted to theorize, but I was stopped by your father, and your father laughed and said that this is the first version, and it must be changed, and I will take it when it is corrected."

Speaking of this, Bai Lu suddenly stopped: "Guess, your father changed a few versions of the design later." ”

Xiao Chen was also fascinated when he listened: "Five editions? ”

"Almost, your dad changed six versions and used it for more than a month." White Road. "In the end, Party A looked around, slapped the table, and thought that the first version was good, so he used the first version."

"Do you feel like you've been busy for more than a month?" Seeing Xiao Chen's surprised look, Bai Lu smiled. "But for your dad, it doesn't matter, as long as this order is done."

"You feel like you're now grown up and can make your own decisions about everything, and you feel that your point of view is correct, and that's fine." Bai Lu said. "But you can't just think that what you think is right is what is right. Everything is two-sided, it's either right or wrong, and your dad may be wrong sometimes, but sometimes he's right. ”

"Come, let's talk about it, you didn't do well in the exam this time, what is the reason?"

"Then ......," Chen Jiang hesitated. I'm telling you, you can't tell my parents. ”

"I've got a tight mouth." Bai Lu swears. "God knows this, you know and I know, and I promise that I won't let a third person know."

"I ...... I am...... I just like a girl in my class. With that, he blushed.

"Ahem, what should I be doing?" Bai Lu said hesitantly. "Isn't this normal, what is there to be embarrassed to say, but if your grades drop because of this effect, you shouldn't be."

After thinking about it, Bai Lu said, "Let's put it this way, are you delaying your meal when you go to school?" ”

Xiao Chen was stunned for a moment: "Don't delay, does it matter?" ”

"Of course there is." Bai Lu said: "You don't delay eating when you go to school, and you don't delay your studies when you fall in love." ”

"Huh?"

"If you want to say that you are watching TV and writing homework at the same time, it must be that you can't watch TV well, and you can't write your homework well, because these two things themselves are conflicting, but your learning and falling in love are two unrelated things, there will be no conflict, and you don't need to use two minds, so it stands to reason that it shouldn't be affected."

"Yes, yes?" The first time Xiao Chen heard such an explanation, his mind was a little overwhelmed. According to the teacher, that is, early love is harmful, and early love affects learning. But how did it come to this point that it became mutually influential?

"Of course yes, what's so hard about that." Bai Lu said. "Do you think work and study are the same thing? Yes, your current profession is a student, and your job is to go to school. Then look at me, I fell in love with my daughter-in-law, and it didn't affect my work, so you have to learn how to separate the two things. ”

Xiao Chen hurriedly humbly asked: "How to separate?" ”

"Do you think about studying when you're hanging out with friends?" Bai Lu asked.

"I don't want to." Xiao Chen pouted. "It's hard to go out and play, who still wants to study, that's a lot of fun."

"Isn't that what it is?" Bai Lu said. "Then you should study when you should study, and spend your time playing in love."

Xiao Chen thought for a while, and his eyes lit up: "Yes, why didn't I think of it before." ”

"You didn't dare to tell your dad before, men are the ones who know men best, you tell your mom, she may discipline you, but your dad will definitely not."

"But I told a few of my best friends."

"They know." White Road. "They're just heckling at best."

"So, then you're supporting me?"

"You catch up first, falling in love and having a crush are two different things." Bai Lu got up and said. "Okay, let's go out to eat, I haven't eaten for the past two days."

Xiao Chen nodded embarrassedly, followed Bai Lu out of the bedroom, and when he arrived at the dining table, he didn't sit down immediately, but bowed to Chen Jiang, and said sincerely: "Dad, I'm sorry, I shouldn't let you worry, I shouldn't quarrel with you, I was wrong, I won't do this again in the future." ”

Chen Jiang was stunned, looked at Bai Lu, and asked with his eyes: What did you tell him?

Bai Lu raised his eyebrows: I'll tell you later.

……

After eating, Bai Lu was ready to leave, Chen Jiang got up and said, "I'll send you." ”

Out of the corridor, Chen Jiang took out a bank card from his pocket and handed it to Bai Lu: "The rest of the money is here, and I will add 50,000 yuan of interest to you." ”

"Yo, Brother Chen, you haven't made less money this year?" White Road. "I said that I don't want your interest, I'll transfer it to you when I get back."

"You don't want it, it's my business whether I give it or not." Chen Jiang waved his hand. "Besides, the interest of 50,000 yuan is really not much, and I have taken a big advantage."

"Ahem, that'll do." Bai Lu put away his bank card and said. "Then wait a few days, call Sister Tang, let's get together, I haven't seen Sister Tang for a long time, how is her flower shop now?"

"It's good, I don't make much, and I can't go hungry." Chen Jiangdao. "If it's good for a month, she can have an income of more than 10,000 yuan, and if it's bad, she can earn six or seven thousand, and her husband can earn it, so she wants to be happy, which is very good."

"That's good." White Road. "Brother Chen, what about you, what are your plans?"

"Me? I'm fine right now. "Speaking of this, Chen Jiang is happy." I told you, I have a goal now, which is to change to a big house in two years. ”

"Okay, that's what I'm going to do for my son."

"What do I prepare for him, he wants to live a good life and earn his own money in the future." Chen Jiang's mouth was very hard, but he changed his words. "What did you tell him in the house before?"

Bai Lu recounted the conversation with Xiao Chen.

"You ......," Chen Jiang said speechlessly. Just said that he was tight-mouthed, and he sold people in this turn? ”

"So you can't sell me, and my credibility will deteriorate badly." Bai Lu said with a smile. "Don't ask him about this directly, I think he'll find time to take the initiative to tell you."

"Well, I know that."

Bai Lu was curious: "You don't object?" ”

"Against what?" Chen Jiangdao. "Against puppy love? To be honest, I really don't object, after all, it's normal for adolescent children to behave like this...... Let's put it this way, as long as he doesn't delay his studies, I can even help him go to the woman's house to propose. ”

Bai Lu: "......"

"Haha, just kidding, am I that unreliable?" Chen Jiang said. "I'm debt-free now, I'm thinking, the family is going to go out for a trip on May Day, and you'll have something to do when the time comes? If it's okay, bring your girlfriend, and then call your Sister Tang's family, let's find a place to play for a few days? ”

"I probably won't be able to go." Bai Lu scratched his head. "Little Joe is pregnant."

"Yo, when did it happen?" Chen Jiang was surprised. "How many months?"

"It's been almost four months." Bai Lu smiled like a fool.

"That's clatter." Chen Jiangdao. "Are you planning to have a baby after the wedding?"

Bai Lu nodded: "That's what I think about." ”

"Okay, then you must let me know when the time comes...... Come on, go back quickly, I've been bothering you these days. ”

Bai Lu drove home, and there was a guest at home, and this guest surprised Bai Lu very much, it was Zhang Lan.

"Sister Lan? What are you doing here? ”

Without waiting for Zhang Lan to say anything, Liu Jinnian gave Bai Lu a roll of his eyes: "How do you speak?" ”

"No......" Bai Lu said with a smile in his eyes. Mom, I'm not saying it's not welcome, I'm just a little surprised, after all, my sister Lan is right, a big star, she is busy with her feet hitting the back of her head every day, how can she have time to visit the door...... By the way, what about my brother? ”

"Your brother went out to buy something."

"Ah, then I'll go up and change my clothes first." Bai Lu went upstairs to change clothes, and as soon as he entered the bedroom, Qiao Xiaoqiao followed.

"What's going on?" Bai Lu asked curiously. "My brother is bringing this back to meet his parents?"

Qiao Xiaoqiao pointed to his stomach and grinned.

"What do you mean? Oh......" Bai Lu suddenly realized. "I said, why did my mother scold me as soon as I spoke, and I was no longer my mother's little baby?"

"Are you jealous of this?" Joe chuckled.

"No, I'm the little baby of the family." Bai Lu looked arrogant, and then he laughed at himself, and the gossip's little eyes flashed: "What did you guys talk about just now?" Let's hear it. My brother is also interesting, he usually pretends to be a decent gentleman, but I didn't expect it to be, hehe......"