38. Chapter 38(1/2)
In the spacious living room, Chu Qing and Qi Muyang occupied a sofa, looking at each other with their eyes straight. The sunlight outside the floor-to-ceiling window was good, making the living room very bright, but it couldn't shine into the dark hearts of the two of them.
Half an hour has passed since the property phone was hung up. During this period, Qi Muyang tried to turn on the lights at home countless times, but failed.
The two looked at each other silently, and saw a clear depression in each other's eyes. After a while, Qi Muyang couldn't hold it anymore. He slapped the sofa and said angrily: "It's too much. He even planned his own wife and son! Is there any humanity!"
"...I don't know what to say, I can only admire him for his good memory." Chu Qing said speechlessly. He is 41 and still remembers to assist him at the age of 18. People with poor memory can't do this.
The little sheep of her parents was aroused of rebelliousness, and Qi Muyang asked in a humming voice: "Mom, are we just giving up like that? Go and find him?"
"I want to find you, but I don't want to find you." Chu Qing looked awkward. Although the facts had already been thrown into her face, she still felt that the future of Qi Weichen was a couple was extremely magical. She didn't want to see him at all before she sorted out her mood.
Qi Muyang nodded: "Yes, if we don't go to him, we must let him know that we are backbone. If he forces us like this, it will only backfire."
When Chu Qing heard it was quite reasonable, she immediately agreed: "That's right, putting aside other reasons, just for this matter, you really can't compromise. Otherwise, he will use various means to threaten us in the future, and there will be no good life at that time."
"Okay, then let's stay in a hotel." Qi Muyang got up and prepared to go to the house to find a few clothes to bring.
Chu Qing hurriedly called him: "Stay in a hotel? Do you have money?"
Qi Muyang was stunned: "Do you have no money?"
"I have lent you all the money, and now there are only three hundred left to eat." Chu Qing looked innocent.
Qi Muyang opened his eyes wide: "I haven't borrowed it yet, didn't I leave you a small thousand?"
"It's time to cool down recently. I only have summer clothes, not even long trousers and long sleeves. Now it's colder, I can only buy them all," Chu Qing said more and more and more. "I didn't dare to buy them. I bought a pair of pants and a sweatshirt, not even a change of washing."
"Fuck... why is it so pitiful!" Qi Muyang immediately felt distressed, "Tell me, come back to get clothes, your clothes are expensive now, Dad keeps you like a princess."
"Don't mention those useless things. I won't say that after the 41-year-old I agree, is it not good to just wear clothes casually? As for 18-year-old clothes, don't you find it strange?" Chu Qing glanced at him, and after saying that, he suddenly had an idea, "Qi Weichen can remember the time travel for more than 20 years. After 41, he still doesn't forget to help 18 myself. So am I the same?"
Qi Muyang was stunned for a moment, and his eyes lit up after understanding what she meant: "It's possible!"
Chu Qing snapped her fingers, walked around the living room, and finally her eyes fell on the drawer on the coffee table, pointing to the drawer and said seriously: "I'm starting to remember it seriously now. I'll leave 20,000 yuan for myself in this drawer in more than 20 years. If I haven't forgotten at the age of 41, then there should be money in this drawer now."
She closed her eyes and frowned, and after muttering a few words in a daze, she looked at Qi Muyang with confidence: "Go, open it."
"Okay!" Qi Muyang immediately ran to the drawer, took a breath and opened the drawer solemnly. For a moment, the expectations on the faces of the two people reached their peak-
However, there is nothing inside.
The mother and son froze immediately.
After an awkward silence, Qi Muyang comforted his old mother with difficulty: "...My dad is a genius, so it's normal for him to remember it."
After a long time, Chu Qing petrochemicals, he pounded the sofa with a look of grief and anger: "I knew I couldn't remember it!"
"It's okay, no matter how smart he is, it's not that he will bow down and surrender as soon as you call the little baby. It's okay." Seeing that she was sad, Qi Muyang quickly increased his comfort.
However, Chu Qing didn't want to appreciate it: "...I thank you." What a little baby, this is definitely not a title she can call.
Qi Muyang sighed: "What should I do now? The two of us are less than 400 yuan in total, so we can only stay in a hotel for one night, but eating like that is not enough. Are we really going to find our father?"
"I don't want to find him," Chu Qing snorted softly.
Qi Muyang didn't want to do it either. After a long time of confusion, he slapped his forehead: "There is, there is a water pipe in the community. Let's go to pick up the water. During the day, I will go to the fast food restaurant to charge my phone. I will call the third one of my living expenses. As long as I persist for the past two days, I can go to the hotel. What do you think?"
"It sounds like that, so I'll find a part-time job in a fast food restaurant, so that I can make money." Chu Qing's eyes lit up.
"No," Qi Muyang refused without thinking, "You are not allowed to work, I will get my living expenses when I get half of you."
"How can you do it? You have only so much money. If you have to stay in a hotel the day after tomorrow, you may not be able to last until this holiday," Chu Qing laughed, "It's better to leave it for you to use it yourself. I'll do whatever I do."
Qi Muyang was dissatisfied: "Why can't it work? If I don't spend money randomly and eat in the cafeteria in school, a thousand yuan is definitely enough. At worst, I will treat less guests. I will not be too short of money. Anyway, I won't let you do those hard work. You have to worry about the quality of life. At worst, you will give you all the money. I will take part-time jobs."
"Why are you not so generous to me before?" Chu Qing raised her eyebrows.
Qi Muyang hummed: "Can that be the same? Now you are my real mother, who doesn't do housework at home. How could you go to other places to wash dishes? Don't say I don't agree, even my father won't agree."
Seeing that he insisted, Chu Qing knew that if he was determined, even if he went to find a job, he would be ruined by him. She thought for a long time and finally agreed to him: "Okay, I will remember this matter and I will compensate you when the time comes."
"Um!"
After the two of them chatted, Qi Muyang went to the bathroom to rummage a few containers of water and carried them with Chu Qing to collect the water. Although the water didn't look obvious, the weight should not be underestimated. Before entering the elevator, they could only rely on physical strength to transport it, so the two of them quickly became tired and sweaty.
After getting the water upstairs, the first thing I did was to take a shower with water. After the two of them washed separately, they found that two large basins of water were full of water, and there was only a little left.
"...It's not enough to flush the toilet." Qi Muyang was speechless.
Chu Qing took a deep breath: "Go and move again!"
So the mother and son went to suffer again. When they came back again, they looked at the sweat on each other's forehead speechless. In the end, in order to save water, the two of them simply wiped their bodies this time and kept the rest for other places.
Although the phone is almost out of power, the power bank is enough to get it twice, so the two of them don’t plan to go out. They lie in their respective rooms and play with their phones. Except for picking up the takeaway, they basically don’t move at other times.
The first day was easily over, and the mother and son were confident greatly. Although it was difficult for them to take a bath quickly, they were very motivated when they thought that they could go to the hotel to wash their living expenses when they were paid.
So under this motivation, they spent the second day safely and finally ushered in the third day.
From the morning, the two of them sat on the sofa waiting for living expenses. As a result, they waited from dawn to dark, and until night, but they didn't hear the phone's prompt sound.
"My father's identity card is set. When the time comes, he will automatically transfer money to my card. The error usually takes less than ten minutes. What's going on today?" Qi Muyang frowned.
Chu Qing stretched her head and glanced at his cell phone, and said worriedly: "Did the bank forget it?"
"It's the program that automatically turns, how can you forget it?" Qi Muyang said the more he felt more uneasy, "Unless it's a machine failure."
"That's the machine failure." Chu Qing said immediately.
The two looked at each other silently for a while, and then sighed at the same time. Qi Muyang was in a complicated mood: "Isn't he canceling the transfer?"
"... Then is he still a human? Surely he won't." Chu Qing comforted.
The two of them stopped talking again. After a long silence, Qi Muyang tentatively said: "It really doesn't work. I'll call the bank and ask how it's going?"
"Ming, tomorrow, it's getting late now, so let's go to bed first." Chu Qing swallowed.
Qi Muyang immediately nodded and agreed: "Okay, then tomorrow."
Both of them were in the mood to chat. They went back to their rooms and scrubbed for a brief time, and then slept on the bed. However, they didn't know whether it was because of the heat these two days or other reasons, they were a little annoyed and unable to sleep until the second half of the night.
The next morning, the two woke up. After coming out of their respective rooms, they were helpless when they saw each other's dark circles.
"I've beaten." Qi Muyang said solemnly.
Chu Qing nodded with a serious face. Qi Muyang took a deep breath and called the bank. While waiting for the call, his palms were sweating.
The phone was connected after beating twice, and a gentle female voice came from the opposite side. Qi Muyang quickly asked: "Hello, I want to ask, I am the owner of the machine. I want to ask if my father and I have stopped the family transfer project? Why did I not receive living expenses yesterday?"
"Wait a minute, let's help you check it out." The female voice said gently, and the sound of the computer keyboard came from there. A minute later, she replied, "Hello, the query results have come out. Mr. Qi Weichen had stopped all your transfer items in October 2042 in July..."
With the phone on hands-free, the other party's voice clearly spread throughout the living room. No one heard the words behind him anymore. Chu Qing quickly thanked him and hung up the phone, then looked at Qi Muyang who was like the end of the world.
Qi Weichen's move was really... too cruel. Chu Qing didn't know how to comfort him, so she sighed and patted his back gently, for fear that he would be so angry that he would pass over.
...It doesn't matter if the young and strong person pissed over, but the important thing is that they didn't have the money to go to the hospital.
The mother and son sat on the sofa in a vicissitudes. After a long time, Qi Muyang slapped his thighs like a flash of light and said angrily: "He was so cruel to me. Am I his biological child?"
Chu Qing glanced at him and Qi Weichen's faces that were 70% or 80% similar. After a moment of silence, she sincerely said: "I'm talking about it, I may not be your biological mother, but he is definitely your biological father."
"Then why did he treat me like this?" Qi Muyang was dissatisfied.
Chu Qing twitched: "It's probably to let us fall into his arms as soon as possible."
"Don't even think about it, I won't go to find him this time!" Qi Muyang hummed.
Chu Qing sighed, took a look at her balance of only more than 100, and ordered two cheap takeaway packages. The packages were worthy of its price and were so hard to eat. The two of them could not do it after only a little bit of it. In the end, they would rather be hungry than eat it again.
It was already autumn for a while and the weather began to cool down, but today I don’t know what happened, but suddenly it became hot. There was no wind outside. They lived on the high-rise building and shining with sunshine. The whole house was stuffy and stuffy. I didn’t care about the purpose of opening the window.
If it is the usual weather, just turn on the air conditioner, but now there is no electricity, and even cooling is a luxury. It is okay during the day, but when you lie in bed at night, you will be so dry that you can't sleep.
After tossing and turning for a long time, Chu Qing finally couldn't help but go to the bathroom. However, she took a look at the small amount of water left in the basin and thought that she would have to wash with this water tomorrow, so she gave up the idea of taking a shower.
She was still sweating, and she picked up a magazine and fanned her, but it made her feel more restless. Just when she couldn't help but want to wash, a knock on the door suddenly came from the door. She paused and raised her voice: "Is there anything?"
"Mom, I can't sleep." Qi Muyang said depressedly.
Chu Qing paused for a moment, went to him helplessly and saw him staring at him with a sad look: "I want to go to my father's place, I want to blow up the air conditioner, eat delicious food, and pocket money."
"...Where is the backbone? Didn't you say you want to fight to the end?" Chu Qing was speechless.
Qi Muyang sucked his nose and pointed pitifully at his dark circles: "I haven't had a good sleep for two days."
Chu Qing felt distressed for a moment: "Then you go."
"You go too, I don't want to face him alone." Qi Muyang became even more pitiful.
Chu Qing looked at him for a moment, but finally compromised: "Okay, I'll go with you." Nothing can be hard for the child, so what's the awkwardness for her child?
When Chu Qing thought that she was already thinking about something from the perspective of being a mother, she was shocked. Before she could make it clear, Qi Muyang had already gone to pack up her things.
Half an hour later, the two people who were on the phone with Qi Weichen got into a taxi.
The air conditioner in the taxi was very cool. The sweat on the two of them quickly disappeared, and their mood was not as depressed as before. It was over 2 a.m., and it was dawn in less than four hours. The mother and son sat lazily in the back seat. The fatigue that had not been relieved for two consecutive days was slowly coming up.
When they were about to fall asleep in the car, a brake suddenly woke them up. The two of them quickly sat up and heard the driver say gently: "I'm here."
"Ah, how much?" Chu Qing rubbed her eyes, took out her ID card to pay the bill.
"There are 65 in total. I don't want the change, just 60."
Chu Qing was stunned: "Why is it so expensive?"
To be continued...