Chiba Salted Fish Legend

Chapter 583 Long-lasting Memories (12) (15)

I came home and didn't go straight back to the apartment over there.What happened this afternoon made me feel a little complicated. I don't know how to face it. Moreover, I have to change my clothes. Then I go to the laboratory to see how much I owe on the electricity bill. After paying this part of the money, I might have to go to the bank... There are still a lot of things to do. Even going to the apartment over there won't be of much help to me. It can only give me a little rest.

I walked back home slowly, opened the door with the key, but found a pair of shoes at the door, I knew those shoes, and I knew who it belonged to.

"Who is back?" someone asked, and my guess was correct.

"Mom, I'm back." I shouted in response, and then I bent down to take off my shoes. I heard the sound of someone approaching quickly in slippers. I looked up and saw that my mother was indeed standing right next to me. In front of him, he looked a little restrained and a little excited, and there were a few tears in his glasses.

I remembered what Hua Shiyao said to me again, hesitated a little, and took the initiative to hug her: "Mom."

She quickly hugged me tightly, a little harder, as if she was afraid that I would run away again: "It's okay, it's okay, just come back. Things will always be solved."

She comforted me, which made me feel a little embarrassed: "Mom, didn't I tell you that I got a job? It will get better gradually in the future."

"Okay, okay, this is my daughter." She hugged me again, and then let go: "Are you hungry? Mommy will make you something to eat. As good as your brother is as a three-legged cat, it's me. I taught him temporarily in the past two years, and I don’t know if he has made any progress.”

Speaking of this, I have a lot of questions I want to ask.

"What time is it now? I'm not hungry. By the way, shouldn't you go to work today? Why are you still at home now?"

"The company has a meeting this afternoon and we have to go to another company. I have to go with him. We will eat out in the evening. Our company's driver will drive us there by then. It is now far from the time I expect to go out. There’s still more than an hour left, there’s no rush.”

"That's it." I blinked my glasses, pushed her towards the sofa in the living room and said, "By the way, Mom, I want to ask you some questions, is that okay?"

"go ahead."

"It's about my brother."

"Xia Zhi? What happened to him?"

"It's nothing wrong, just, he seems to have been here for a long time..." I mentioned it vaguely, and my mother understood what I meant, and sighed softly: "He has been here Almost a year and a half, living in the apartment on the outskirts of your lab, where you live these days. I've visited him once or twice, but he's not much in the apartment."

"Why doesn't he just come and live at home?"

"He said he had something to do and it was more convenient to stay there. Besides, you haven't seen each other for a long time. He said it was a little inappropriate to live in the same house. But what's inappropriate about this? It's all mine. My child, what's wrong with living in my house? He just smiled, just like when I trained him before, nothing changed."

There was a look of nostalgia on her face.

"You seem to have never told me about this?"

"That's what he said. He said you were busy at that time, so I didn't need to tell you. He would go back after being busy for a while. But he even quit his job and came here specially, so what's the point of being busy?"

"He quit his job? Wasn't he fired?"

"Although your brother doesn't have much ability, he does things in a down-to-earth manner. He has been doing things for a long time and has never made any mistakes. How can you just dismiss him? He resigned himself. I directly I went to their company and asked."

It would be too much to go directly to the company and ask...forget it, my mother is just like that.

"About a year and a half ago, he called me and said that he and his girlfriend had agreed to get married when his job became more stable. Don't mention how happy I am. He is already 28 and nine years old, and he will not get married again. It's a little bit old." At this point, my mother still looked at me with some resentment, but she was a little scrupulous so she didn't say it, so I just pretended not to see it.

"Later, not long after you started your company, he suddenly quit his job and went to the suburbs. He rented a house and didn't know what he was doing. His long-time girlfriend also blew it. Neither of you two can make me worry. You're better off. I don't know how to persuade your brother. Don't look at him, he seems to be easy to talk to, but he can't pull ten cows if he's stubborn. When I come back, I simply don’t want to worry about it so much. Do you know what he is doing over there?"

Cleaning, reading, and doing odd jobs... I couldn't say this. Mom would be very worried if she knew about it. I shook my head.

She also sighed.

"Don't bully him too much. He was very kind to you when he was young. He gave you everything. Although you were sensible earlier...or too early, you gave him your things. Maybe he didn’t feel anything at all. When he was playing with his friends, he would quarrel with others when he heard someone say bad things about you.” Mom laughed, as if remembering something very funny: “I still taught him at that time, saying Others are just jealous. Why are you so angry and fighting with others? Mengmeng might not care. What do you think he said? "

"He said: Mengmeng is a sister and I am a brother. No one can bully my sister. He yelled at me at that time, and I beat him up when I was angry. I didn't even have to think about it, it must have been your dad all along. You instilled those macho things in him and let him sleep on the sofa for a week, but your dad beat him again, saying good job while beating him."

"However, at that time, you seemed to have gone to the small library in our hometown to read. You probably didn't know about these things."

"In a blink of an eye, so many years have passed... That little bastard who dared to yell at his mother has grown so big... The New Year will be coming in more than two months, so we can invite him to come over and have New Year's Eve dinner together. No. Come and ask your dad to beat him again."

She was thinking about what would happen in two months in a low voice, and my thoughts had already gone to a very far away place.

I changed my clothes and left the house with the excuse that I still had a lot of things to do. After knowing that I would still rest in the apartment tonight, my mother gave me some cash and asked me to go and meet my brother tonight. Have a good meal.

I left with her in mind.

(End of this chapter)