Hate The Bright Moon Chapter 88

Chapter 92

When the plane landed, the unique moistness of the southern air gave Chen Shilu a familiar feeling of boredom.How long has it been since you last came back?Four years, or five years?It was so long that he lost count.

After reporting to the headquarters, he had a new work arrangement. He had two options: one was to join the board of directors as secretary, or to expand business overseas.

As the company grew, battles at the top became fierce.Being a board secretary is the most conducive choice for future development. As long as you are on the wrong team, your career prospects will be bright.But the thought of entering the core of this vortex made him very tired.When going overseas, he will lead the team. There are no complicated interpersonal relationships, but it will definitely be difficult to open up new markets.He is not afraid of challenges at work, but is eager for the comfortable life in China.

Mr. Kuang talked to him, hoping he could stay.Chen Shilu was promoted by him. Everyone believed that he was Mr. Kuang’s man. Mr. Kuang himself thought so too, so he strongly recommended him to the board of directors.Only Chen Shilu himself knew that he belonged to no one else.

Chen Shilu did not give an answer immediately. He only said that he was going back to his hometown to visit his parents and wanted to take a leave.President Kuang naturally gave him a long vacation and asked him to think about it carefully.

He originally planned to use this holiday to look for suitable opportunities to change jobs, but when he mentioned that he was visiting his parents, he suddenly wanted to come back and have a look.

Not being close to his family, he couldn’t afford to be casual and thoughtfully buy gifts for everyone.

He walked out of the airport carrying two large suitcases and took a taxi.

From the urban area to the county seat, he was unrecognizable in many places after not returning for several years.It wasn’t until the car trudged along the narrow two-lane road in the old city that he felt a familiar feeling, as if he had gone back to those days in elementary school and middle school, feeling a little depressed.

After all these years, my parents still live in the welfare house of their former employer.

There are six floors of stairs, and his house is on the fourth floor.At that time, there was no concept of closed management. The community was completely open, and there were three-wheelers and motorcycles parked everywhere in the buildings, which was a mess.Downstairs, there were mostly elderly people chatting and sunbathing, while a few children were running around.

When an out-of-place person like Chen Shilu stepped into this place, all the chatting old people turned their attention to him.

After careful identification, he actually greeted him proactively: “Are you the second eldest son of the Chen family?”

“I haven’t seen you in many years. Where can I get rich?”

“Why did you come back alone and not bring your wife back with you?”

“Your sister is already thirty. You have already passed it, right? How many children do you have?”

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Chen Shilu couldn’t resist, so he dealt with these problems randomly and hurriedly got into the building.

With a suitcase in each hand, he carried it up to the fourth floor out of breath. When he was still in the corridor, he heard an argument going on at home.

After all these years, I still don’t have the habit of closing the door tightly.A simple iron door can provide ventilation and block thieves, but it cannot protect privacy or isolate sounds.His brother’s voice came out.

“Mom, you said you were working as a housekeeper. It’s hard work and you can’t make any money. You might as well take care of the kids for me and let my wife go to work.”

The mother murmured for a long time: “When Yangyang goes to kindergarten next year, I will help you pick him up and drop him off. These are old customers of mine. They have been working for several years. If they are discontinued, they can no longer be found.”

“If you can’t find it, stop looking. You should take a break.”

My sister’s voice came out: “Mom, I want to take a break. If you can, you can pay off the mortgage by yourself. If I hadn’t provided you with a house, my parents’ pension would be enough for them…”

Her mother quickly stopped her from saying anything more, but it was already too late.

“You have the nerve to tell me, but look at yourself. You’re thirty years old and you’re not married yet. You’re living at home eating and using your parents. Change your bad temper and try to get married as soon as possible.”

“What’s wrong with me at home? This is my own home. You say I live with my parents and use my parents. How much money did you spend on your wife to buy a house? You didn’t count it?”

“Getting married and having children is a serious matter. That’s what I should spend. My parents didn’t say anything. It’s your turn to interrupt by throwing water? Parents, I just said that I bought this house and paid off the balance of the mortgage. You live with me and let her find a man to take over. It’s because you pamper her like this that she won’t find a man.”

“I’ll fuck your uncle Chen Chunsheng!”

“Chen Xiangrong, please keep your mouth clean. You look like a shrew. You will never find a man in this life.”

Chen Xiangrong’s voice trembled with anger: “Just you…just a loser like you. If you are almost forty and still biting your parents, your wife will cuckold you sooner or later…”

“Shut up, everyone!” Father Chen yelled and finally became quiet.

Chen Shilu stood at the door and took a deep breath.He was in a dilemma, and even before he met his family, he was already regretting his decision to come back.

Just when he was about to go downstairs first and wait for the storm in the house to pass before coming back, someone came up.The neighbor looked at him with an unscrupulous look, so Chen Shilu had no choice but to knock on the door and shout: “Mom, Dad, I’m back.”

At this time, the neighbor’s exposed and wary eyes turned into a familiar inquiry: “It turns out to be the second eldest son of the Chen family. I haven’t been back for many years and I don’t recognize him.”

Dragging two boxes into the house, the brother and sister were a little surprised.Chen Shilu called his parents to tell him that he was coming back. It seemed that his parents did not tell his brother and sister.

Chen Chunsheng looked him around and said hello: “Hey, brother, you are doing well.”

Chen Xiangrong had no reaction and called “Second Brother” as a greeting.

His parents were neither happy, surprised nor unhappy when they saw him. It was as if he had always lived here and was not a son they had not seen for several years.

His mother asked him if he had eaten, and he said he had.

His father asked him if he was busy at work, and he said he was fine.

Without any other words, he opened the box and began to take out the gifts.

Each parent had a mobile phone. When they were given it, they were complained about spending it in vain.My sister was given a complete set of skin care products, and she thanked her calmly.There is a designer belt for the eldest brother, a cosmetics set for the sister-in-law and a stuffed toy for the nephew.

Chen Chunsheng took it and flipped through the price tag. When he saw the price tag, he said “tsk tsk” twice: “You have too much money and nowhere to spend it.”

Chen Xiangrong rolled her eyes at her eldest brother: “He wants you to give him the money directly.”

Seeing that Chen Chunsheng was about to have another attack, the mother quickly patted her daughter and said, “Xiao Rong, please stop saying a few words.”

Chen Shilu endured the discomfort in this tense atmosphere and said, “Let’s go out to have a meal as a family tonight. Brother, go pick up my sister-in-law and the child.”

Before Chen Chunsheng could say anything, his mother said, “It’s so expensive to eat out. I’ll go buy groceries later and eat at home in the evening.”

“It’s too much trouble to cook at home, so I’d better go out to eat. I’ve reserved a table…”

Father Chen said: “I’ll listen to your mother.”

In the afternoon, the eldest brother went to pick up his wife and children, and the younger sister accompanied her mother to buy groceries. Chen Shilu was silent with his father at home for a long time, and then Chen’s father spoke.

“Your sister will be thirty-one in the second half of the year. She is not married and has no job. You are the elder brother. Please give her some advice when you have time.”

Chen Shilu thought that he should be the most unsuitable person to preach, but he still nodded and said yes.

When the mother came back, she got into the kitchen, and soon her brother came over with his wife and children.Chen Shilu met his sister-in-law and nephew for the first time.The woman greeted him lightly, but the child ignored him at all and just pounced on the newly acquired doll.

A two- or three-year-old boy treats his dolls by pulling them and throwing them.Chen Shilu almost heard the sound of the sutures being torn. He thought he bought the wrong toy.

His sister said nonchalantly at the side: “This little bear doll is a jointly-branded genuine, and the market price is more than 800.” She handed the online price to her sister-in-law.

The woman only glanced at it and snatched the doll away from the child. Regardless of the child’s noise and crying, she put the toy out of his reach.

Dinner was a table of home-cooked dishes, exuding the taste of memories.The food cooked by my mother is not delicious, but people’s tastes are fixed by their childhood diet.I have eaten all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas, but there is still something irreplaceable about the food at home.When all is familiar unpleasantness, at least this taste is a familiar pleasantness.

His mother put a plate of braised chicken feet in front of him: “I remember you loved eating chicken feet since you were a child.”

Chen Shilu stared at the pot of limp chicken feet soaked in oil and suddenly lost his appetite.Those memories locked deep in his mind suddenly opened up, and the past came flooding back.

Why does he like eating chicken feet?The strange thing is that a chicken only has two legs and cannot grow a third one, so there is always the unpreferred child who is forced to like other parts.But he was so precocious and agile that he didn’t even have to fight and embarrass his parents.

Chen Shilu swallowed his dry throat and said, “I don’t really like eating it now.”

“Then you eat more.” The chicken feet were still placed in front of him.

The nephew next to him seemed very interested in this unusual dish and always reached out to grab it.His sister-in-law stopped him several times, but finally failed to control the child’s hand and told him to catch it.The woman couldn’t bear it anymore and hit her hands with her chopsticks. The child suddenly cried loudly. The chicken feet she picked up fell back onto the plate, and a string of oil spots splashed on Chen Shilu’s light brown suit jacket.

Everyone was trying to persuade his sister-in-law to coax his nephew, but no one saw the oil stains on his clothes except himself.

In the familiar taste, I finished a meal without any taste, and it was getting late.He took a look at the rooms at home. After Chen Chunsheng moved out, there was a vacant room, but it was filled with clutter.

He called several days in advance to say that he was coming back. He was embarrassed to say that he just wanted to see them, so he made an excuse and said that he would come back to transfer files and go home by the way.

He thought that maybe his parents thought he would leave the same day after transferring the files, and did not expect that he would stay at home overnight, so they did not clean up the house.He persuaded himself like this, but his heart was still filled with panic.

Compared with Chen Chunsheng and Chen Xiangrong, how is he inferior to them in terms of life and worldly success?He repeatedly stopped himself from thinking this way, and repeatedly raised this question in his mind.

It was still dark, and Chen Shilu seemed to be chased by something, so he urgently asked to stay in a hotel tonight.

The parents were a little surprised.My mother asked anxiously: “The hotel costs too much, how about just spending the night on the sofa?”

“You are still a child when you are the second child. How can you sleep on the sofa? A hotel is more comfortable.” The father said with a sensible air.

Mother nodded in agreement, and then asked: “Let’s eat at home tomorrow. What do you want to eat?”

“I’m going to see the teacher tomorrow. I should treat the teacher to a meal, so I won’t go home to eat.”

After saying this, Chen Shilu clearly saw his mother heaving a sigh of relief. He felt a tightness in his chest and left the house almost as if he was running away.It wasn’t until I walked out of the community and onto the road that I took a few smooth breaths.

At this time, his phone rang. He picked it up and saw that it was Han Xiao.

The author has something to say:

Every Chris who is out there will turn into Chen Laoer when he comes home.