Chapter Thirteen: Unfortunate Family
The father and son faced off for a long time, and the atmosphere became deadlocked. After a long time, Chen Jianwen took two steps forward and said with a cold face: "Get out of the way."
"No." Chen Shuo shook his head, thought about it and said, "Dad, I really didn't steal. I am your son. Don't you understand me?"
"It's because I know you well that I didn't slap you now. Move aside and let me take a look. I feel relieved."
"no...."
Chen Shuo opened his mouth, not knowing how to end it. He looked back at the closed bedroom door and explained bravely,
"Dad, that's it. Actually, I didn't steal these slippers, and I don't have a habit of stealing shoes. These slippers belong to my friend. The water supply is cut off at her house, so she came to my place to take a bath."
"Well, where is she?" Chen Jianwen waited patiently and calmly for him to continue explaining.
"She is going back now."
"Walking barefoot?"
"It's not barefoot, I should say one foot is bare. Her other leg has a problem, is fractured, and is in a cast. Plus, she lives relatively close to each other, so..."
Speaking of this, Chen Shuo couldn't help but pause. Not only the old man, but even he himself didn't believe this reason.
"Keep going, don't stop, I'll see if you can make it up." Chen Jianwen sneered.
"Actually, there was a lot of water on the bathroom floor. She slipped while washing and broke a leg, so this slipper..."
Speaking of this, Chen Shuo fell silent again.
Chen Jianwen waited for a while, and when he saw that he stopped talking, he gradually lost his patience and continued walking forward, "Get out of the way."
"Dad, listen to me, I haven't... Bang!"
Chen Shuo stepped back step by step, and finally leaned against the door. Then he staggered. The door was not locked, and the deadbolt was old. As soon as he leaned against it, the door opened.
Immediately, the cat-eared girl that he had been hiding so painstakingly appeared in front of Chen Jianwen, and the three of them were silent.
"..."
The air is quiet again.
At this moment, a very urgent knock on the door broke the silence, and a slightly urgent voice rang out, "Hello, please open the door. I'm hungry for takeout."
"I'm coming."
Chen Shuo responded quickly and quickly escaped from this awkward place, leaving Chen Jianwen and the cat-eared lady facing each other in silence.
At this moment, Chen Jianwen's expression was unusually confused, and he looked at the other person unconsciously.
Look at her long snow-white hair, then look at the blue pajamas she is wearing, her eyes pass over her bare feet and the other wearing slippers, and finally her eyes rest on the pair of white cat ears.
If he remembered correctly, this way of dressing up seems to be quite popular among young people. It's called Cosprey in English, which translates to role-playing.
But that's not important. What's important is that the pajamas the girl is wearing seem to belong to her son.
This is...
Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote "The Story of Han Wu": When the emperor was a few years old, the eldest princess held her in his lap and asked him how he would treat Gillian as a wife. The emperor laughed and said that if he got Gillian as a wife, he should store it in a gold house.
The allusion of the beauty hidden in the golden house suddenly popped into Chen Jianwen's mind.
At this time, Chen Shuo came back from the takeout with a plate of yogurt under his arm. He looked at the two people who were looking at each other, hesitated, put the thing on the coffee table, and squeezed in, "Dad, this is white
Xiaoqi is my friend, those slippers belong to her, I didn’t steal them.”
Chen Jianwen withdrew his gaze and looked at Chen Shuo, "The one who comes to your place to take a bath?"
"right."
Chen Shuo nodded, ignoring the complicated expression of the old man, and said to Bai Xiaoqi: "Well... Xiaoqi, this is my dad, you can just call me uncle."
"uncle."
"Hello."
Chen Jianwen responded quickly, but suddenly felt something was wrong. Why didn't this girl say yes?
"Ahem, you said uncle is good." Chen Shuo coughed lightly, pretending not to see his father's strange look in his eyes, and reminded the cat girl.
"Hello, uncle." Bai Xiaoqi said crisply again.
"Hello."
Chen Jianwen responded again, this time he was right, but why he felt a little complicated.
"Dad, anyway... it's basically what I said. She came to my place to take a shower. I was afraid that you would misunderstand, so I admitted to stealing shoes. But in fact, I didn't steal them at all. How about we continue to make videos?
?You can go back and meet my mother after the filming."
Hearing this, Chen Jianwen's face, which had just softened, became complicated again, and he looked at Chen Shuo without saying anything.
What do you mean by being afraid that I will misunderstand?
I've misunderstood, okay?
And is it still important to have a business relationship with your mother?
Chen Jianwen, who has taught history for half his life, suddenly had some doubts about life. History develops in a spiral. If history is an exhibition hall, then basically everything in this exhibition hall is a replica.
But he searched through these replicas in his mind and couldn't find any that matched his son's story.
Yesterday I went out on a blind date, and today I found a hidden beauty in a golden house quietly.
This is even more outrageous than Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. At least Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not play like this back then, and he still acted like a character.
"Come, come with me."
Chen Jianwen looked around, then stretched out his hand to drag Chen Shuo towards the balcony. Thinking of something, he turned back to Bai Xiaoqi and said, "Um, Bai, Bai Xiaoqi, right? It's okay, you are busy with your business, I will go with Chen Shuo
Say a few words."
The father and son came to the small balcony. Chen Jianwen looked back and saw that the girl did not follow him. Then he turned to look at Chen Shuo and asked in a low voice: "What's going on?!"
"That's it, a friend came to take a shower..."
"Bullshit." Chen Jianwen didn't believe it at all and interrupted directly, "She wore your pajamas while taking a bath? She doesn't have any clothes of her own?"
"Those are her clothes, um..."
Seeing Chen Shuo making a long sound from his nose, obviously trying to figure out how to make up a lie, Chen Jianwen's face sank, "Don't tell me she came naked."
"That's not true, that's it. Her clothes were wet by water. Yes, they were wet by water when taking a shower, so she wore mine."
Hearing this, Chen Jianwen's expression softened slightly, and he looked at the balcony, but only saw Chen Shuo's two short-sleeved shirts fluttering in the breeze, and nothing else.
"Where are her clothes hanging?"
"Fuck..." Chen Shuo wanted to say about the bedroom. By the way, he said that it has good lighting and can work quickly. But he suddenly remembered that the old man had been to the bedroom just now, so he quickly changed his words: "Fuck, there is a dry cleaners at the door of my community.
, her clothes are dry-cleaned there."
"You leave your summer clothes for dry cleaning at the dry cleaners?"
Chen Jianwen had an expression on his face that said, "Do you think I'm stupid?" Then he stared at Chen Shuo and asked, "Your girlfriend?"
"no."
"But she's hiding in the bedroom, still wearing your pajamas."
"..." Chen Shuo scratched his head, feeling that there was really no way to explain this, so he simply remained silent.
Seeing that Chen Shuo was silent, Chen Jianwen stared at him for a moment, and finally chose to ignore the topic and asked about something he cared more about, "How old is that girl?"
"This is similar to me."
"Obviously I look smaller than you, but how old are you?"
"..."
Chen Shuo wanted to say that I really don’t know what you’re asking about. She told me that she was one year old.
After thinking for a while, he said: "Nineteen."
Hearing this, Chen Jianwen nodded, then suddenly asked with a straight face: "What does it belong to?"
"ah?"
Chen Shuo was confused and was about to do some calculations when he heard Chen Jianwen urging: "Don't think about it, speak quickly."
"It belongs to the cat, bah, it belongs to the sheep."
"Eighteen in the Year of the Sheep!"
"Then eighteen, maybe I misremembered."
"What does it mean to be eighteen? How old is it?"
"That's eighteen."
Chen Jianwen frowned and thought about Bai Xiaoqi's appearance. Eighteen made sense, "Really eighteen?"
"Um."
"..."
The air was silent again.
"What a sin..."
Chen Jianwen looked up to the sky and sighed, pointed at Chen Shuo, and said with a bit of resentment: "I have just grown up, so you..."
As he said that, he suddenly changed the topic and asked: "How many months? Don't think about it, just tell me."
"September."
Chen Shuo was confused and subconsciously answered his favorite month.
"My family is unfortunate." Chen Jianwen closed his eyes, "I'm not yet an adult."
Chapter completed!