Confessions of a Salesman

Chapter 844 A Good Actor
I didn't understand Bao'er's mentality before, but now I know that she is thinking about how to help me share the responsibility on me, but I haven't given her a chance for a long time, which caused her to feel a lot of burden. Things seemed to be working against me.

With regard to the project, there was finally a solution, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Yaoyang could also take a vacation and go home for a few days.

In the evening, when I came home, I saw Yaoyang playing chess with my dad, and Sheng Nan was beside me in a panic, helping my dad for a while, and Yaoyang for a while, I smiled and walked over, hugged Sheng Nan and said: "The emperor Don't worry about the eunuch, what are you worrying about? Let me ask you, do you want your father-in-law to win? Or do you want your uncle to win?"

Katsuo put his arms around my waist and said, "I want you to win! Both of them are bad chess players!"

My dad took off his glasses, stared and said angrily: "What am I a stinky chess player! You didn't see, I killed him so that only two carts, two cannons, and one horse were left!"

I pursed my lips and said, "You're going to kill a horse after you've been in love for so long?"

Sheng Nan hummed and said: "Let's not talk about half an hour of one move, and I still regret it all the time. I am tired of watching it! Yaoyang is even more funny. He can kill Dad's rook, but he insists on playing the army. I I thought there was no back hand, but he just wanted to have fun! Probably because he was afraid that he would not have a chance to check in this game!"

I laughed loudly and said, "Go, don't watch it. If you watch too much, your chess skills will become stinky! Dad, you play all day, how come your level has not improved at all? I started when I was 12 years old. You never beat me, did you?"

My dad blushed, and immediately quibbled: "You know what! I was letting you in, I was afraid that I would keep winning you and make you lose interest in playing chess!"

Yaoyang urged: "Old man, don't just say it, you won't move your hands? You are afraid of losing too fast, so you don't dare to play so fast?"

My dad cut it and said: "Is it not in a hurry to lose? I'm taking one step and watching three steps!" After moving the car, I just walked to the horse's eye. Yaoyang quickly ate it, and my dad regretted it. Unable to stop, I was about to grab it back, saying: "This step doesn't count! I was talking to you just now, and I was distracted!"

Yaoyang put the chess pieces behind him and said, "No regrets, man!"

My dad snorted, and said to Shengnan and me: "The real gentleman is to watch chess without talking! You two hurry up! It's all influenced by you!"

Sheng Nan reluctantly said: "I am a little girl, not a man, and I am not a real gentleman!"

I shook my head and walked into the kitchen by myself. My mother was cooking with Zhang's mother. Xiaowai was standing at the door of the kitchen, gnawing on a big bone. Seeing me, he hurriedly explained: "Grandma gave it to me, not me. I want it!" After finishing speaking, he put the bone in his pocket.

I said sternly: "Why did I tell you? You can't eat before eating! Look at your mouth, it's full of oil!"

Xiao Wai hurriedly wiped his mouth with his sleeve, I lowered my body and asked, "Is there any more? Give me a piece too?"

Xiao Wai's originally tense expression suddenly relaxed, walked into the kitchen, and then brought out a big bone with sauce, and handed it to me.

The two of us were at the door of the kitchen, gnawing big bones together.

My mother came out with the dishes, and saw us one and one were squatting at the door and gnawing on the bones, kicked me and said, "I knew you were stealing, go in and serve the dishes!"

I said dissatisfied: "It's fine to gnaw, but if I gnaw, I'll steal it?"

My mother said angrily: "You compare with Xiao Wai, he is only so old, and he is growing up! And you, you are lazy all day long!"

I snorted and went in to serve the dishes. Xiaowai looked at me with a grin. I glared at him and said, "What are you looking at? Go serve the dishes!"

My mother put the dishes on the table, saw me talking to Xiao Wai viciously, came up and slapped me on the head, and cursed: "You son of a bitch! Why are you so fierce! Can he serve the dishes?"

Xiaowai took advantage of the fire to rob, and said with a mournful face: "He bullied me!"

My mother was even more angry when she heard that, she pointed at me with Xiaowai behind her and said, "Be more honest, and if I see you bullying Xiaowai again, my legs will be broken by you!" Weeping: "I haven't had a mother since I was a child, and Shi Yaoyang is still not by his side all day, we must treat him well. This child has a hard life and is always at home alone. Let me tell you, whoever dares to bully him, I will Just fight with whoever you want! You said it would be great if he had a younger sister or younger brother, so he wouldn't be so lonely by himself!"

I'm so stupid, where is all this?
Xiao Wai was also terrified, pulled my mother and begged: "Grandma don't cry, my uncle didn't bully me, it's my own nonsense!"

My mother hugged Xiaowai pitifully and said, "Don't be afraid, there is a grandma!"

I stood aside innocently, not knowing what to say.

Turning around, I saw Yaoyang standing behind me, looking at me with a complicated expression, with touch, helplessness, deep yearning, and regret in that expression!
I hurriedly asked, "Why didn't you play? Who won?"

Yaoyang immediately recovered a grinning expression and said: "Who are we? A substitute member of the National Youth Chess Reserve Team, can we lose? We win by a big score, and after killing the old man, only a bald veteran is left!"

My mother came up and hit me first, then gave Yaoyang a slap and said: "Your father has only such a hobby all his life, if you don't go home, you will be angry with us two when you come home! You can't let your father win a game!" Come back, last time I lost to you, I thought about it for most of the night, so I took out the chessboard and said that I want to replay it!"

Yaoyang and I laughed, and at this moment, Sheng Nan shouted again in the hall: "Dad, you can't regret the game anymore. If you regret the game again, we will start again! You regret one move and forget it. How can anyone even regret it?" How many moves are there?"

My mother continued to complain: "Shengnan is the same, why is he so competitive? You can't let your dad? There are people in the room, no one can worry!" After nagging, she went into the kitchen.

I went to the lobby and gave Shengnan a look, and Shengnan rolled his eyes back at me and said: "I can't let it go, otherwise our dad will never improve, and he won't realize his own level, so how can he dominate our community? "

Yaoyang came over with a smile and said, "When I came back today, Uncle Li downstairs complained to me that our dad shaved his head bald in front of an old man in the neighborhood, and didn't save him any face. Our father is taking revenge!"

I smiled and echoed: "Dad, you are too, that old Li has a heart attack and cerebral thrombosis, if you really piss him off, we will have to pay for it! Next time, don't attack so hard! "

This time I finally said triumphantly: "Playing against you young people, my brain turns slowly. If you remind me, I will easily make mistakes, but when playing chess with those masters, they are my opponents! You can beat them with just one eye!"

Just after playing here, Katsuo said: "General!" My dad looked at the chessboard, and his face became gloomy again.

I hastily pulled Sheng Nan and said, "Eat, eat! Play after eating, this round is not counted!"

Yaoyang also hurriedly grabbed my dad and said, "Tie it! Tie it up! Don't look at it, let's have some drinks later!"

My dad still looked at the chessboard reluctantly, muttering: "No, there must be a way to solve it!"

After dinner, my dad clamored to play chess again. We were really scared, so we hurriedly called him to the rooftop to chat.

Like our two leaders, my dad asked both of us: "How is your work recently?"

Yaoyang lowered his head and replied: "It's not going well! For the first half of my life, I always felt that as long as I put my heart into it, I have nothing to do and I can't do it. But it really feels like I'm starting such a big project. I can't do what I want, I don't know anything, I have to learn now!"

I said loudly: "Live and learn! I think Annan's idea is very good. Do one day, learn one day, and earn one day!"

My dad hummed and said: "How can everything be as you wish, you have to put your mentality in order!"

Yaoyang nodded.

My dad asked me again: "How's your board meeting going?"

I shook my head and said, "It's not that good! I'm the only one who has the final say. It's just that there are no major projects right now, so they can't be put on the agenda. If there is a real disagreement, I think a board meeting will be held!"

My dad said patiently: "You have to take a longer view, just like playing chess, take one step and see three steps. The pattern should be large, and the chess pieces in your hand are all useful to you. You must make full use of them. , don’t lose the whole chess game just because of one or two chess pieces! It’s not impossible to make appropriate concessions, the main thing is that the whole chess game is in your hands, that’s fine!”

I hummed and said, "I know! Don't worry, I figured it out a long time ago!"

My dad nodded and said: "I have another thing, I want to tell you, I plan to go back to my hometown in Fujian with your mother, your aunt and your second uncle are both old at home, I want to take advantage of it To be able to move around, to see them."

I froze for a moment and said, "Just go if you go, how long will it take to go back and forth?"

My dad shook his head and said: "The fallen leaves return to their roots, it's better to go back to provide for the elderly!"

Yaoyang became anxious all of a sudden: "Go back? Won't you come back? How can I do that? No, no! Who will take care of you when the time comes!"

My dad smiled and said: "I just don't want you to take care of me. Both your mother and I have retirement wages. Your mother also earned a little money from speculating in gold, which is enough for us to spend. Everyone in the village in my hometown is relatives. Can’t take care of us? I’ve lived in a big city for a long time, but I still like the peaceful life in a fishing village by the sea! Don’t try to persuade you, you are all grown up, and you don’t need us by your side anymore. It’s just a single wish, and your mother and I have never been together. Finished, I feel a little pity!"

I hurriedly asked: "What is your wish? Just say it!"

My dad sighed and said with a long sigh: "Your marriage! I think, I may not be able to see it in my lifetime, so we don't want extravagant things. We can't care so much about your young people's affairs." !Anyway, we also have a grandson, Xiao Yaoyang, and we have passed the addiction of raising a grandson, that's enough!"

I felt remorse in my heart for a while, and said: "Dad, it's not that I don't get married, or that I'm not always busy. Sheng Nan and I have long been a family and have lived together for so long. Marriage is just a formality. If you like it, I'll give you one from He Sheng boy now, I just think that Xiaowai is still young, and it will be very hard to take him with him. When he is older, I will give you another one, so that you will have a sense of freshness and trouble. do it!"

Yaoyang hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, Ah Fei told me about it! Just wait a little longer, we will set a date for them to get married!"

My dad lamented and said: "Forget it, forget it! I won't force you anymore, we still want to go back to our hometown and have a look, we have already decided!" Then, without waiting for us to say anything, he went downstairs alone.

I took a deep breath and said to Yaoyang: "Am I being unfilial?"

Yaoyang patted me on the shoulder and said: "We are too unfilial, do you think our dad knows that what we do outside is more dangerous, and he is afraid that they will implicate us, so he proposes to go to the countryside? If so , we are really unfilial!"

"Don't think about it, I just heard that Zhang's mother gave advice to our mother. Our mother and our father acted for you!" Sheng Nan walked up the stairs and said.

I groaned and asked, "What's your idea?"

Shengnan said with a smile: "Our mother felt that the two of us were just procrastinating and not getting married for a long time. She was anxious, and then she thought of this trick and said that she wanted to go back to her hometown so that we could get married before they went back to their hometown and have a grandson." come out!"

Yaoyang laughed loudly and said, "Then my dad's play was really good, he fooled me! I almost burst into tears just now!"

I agreed and said: "I said why our mother is so yin and yang. I usually bully Xiaowai like this. The worst thing we can do is to scold me. Tears came out today! I almost thought I did something wrong? It turned out that I sang this song Come out!"

After that, the three of us summed up and went downstairs.

My dad and my mom were watching TV, and when they saw us coming down, the smiling faces that were watching TV immediately collapsed.

I took the lead and said: "Dad, Mom, if you really want to go back to your hometown, I won't stop you. I will buy you air tickets tomorrow. When you get there, I will find someone to pick you up. I have many friends in Xiamen. There are many college classmates here, and they can help me take care of you!"

Yaoyang interjected: "Yes, I also have friends over there. We will visit you during the Chinese New Year and holidays. If you don't have enough money, just tell us!"

Sheng Nan said with a look of reluctance: "Dad, Mom, I will definitely feel uncomfortable when you leave, but we will definitely overcome it. We can't be so selfish and prevent you from pursuing your right to live in your later years. You at home Don't worry, there are Zhang Ma and me, I will definitely take care of them!"

My parents were taken aback for a moment, as if they had lost their mind, my mother opened her mouth and said: "Then we have to take Xiao Yaoyang with us, he has been with us since he was a child, he is not used to it without us!"

I shook my head and said: "Mom, you are so selfish. After all, Yaoyang is his father, so there must be parents around the child, right? Besides, Xiaowai is going to school soon, so we can't let him go to the elementary school in his hometown." Right? This is not good for children's education!"

(End of this chapter)