Volume 3 Chapter 67 (1/2)
Volume 3, Chapter 67: A not so perfect meal-time
TL: flarewk
”Mum, dad, I've returned home, the timing wasn't that late right?”
”I've returned home.......”
Pulling onto meimei's hands, after I've used my house keys to open the door I saw lao bà sitting on the sofa watching television, while the fragrance of home-cooked food emanated from the kitchen, with a familiar figure busying about within.
”Back already? Go on and greet your mom then.”
”Alright, Xiao Yu, go ahead and accompany lao bà to talk for awhile.”
After entrusting Xiao Yu to my old man, I placed the vegetables that I was carrying onto the chopping board inside the kitchen, lao mà glanced towards me as she smiled and stroked my head.
”How's life outside, what's with the sudden want to return home, aren't you still supposed to be at school right now?”
After she had stroked my head, what followed next, was a stern eye gaze.....indeed, according to today I should have been in cla.s.s.
”Wasn't there a typhoon at that side.....thus school was temporarily suspended for a few days, and I just went along with it, coming back home for awhile......”
”Is it....and I heard that you brought along your girlfriend here as well? You better not be fooling around, lest hurting onto other people's feelings.”
”I understand, I really understand.”
”You don't even understand anything at all, at your age right now, you'll need to focus more on your studies, stop thinking about love relations.h.i.+ps all the time... me and your lao bà started to get into a relations.h.i.+p when we were 20 plus years old, but look at you, fooling around everyday, and how's your school studies?”
The nagging just as usual.....lao mà was expectedly just like her usual self.......
”I'm the number 2 among the entire school cohort, in the midterm exams!”
”My foot, more like you number the last 2 among the entire school cohort!”
”I'd say lao mà, why can't you just believe your son's words!!”
As for lao mà's suspicions, I'm really very sad.....was my parent's impression of me really that horrible......
”It's true, I swear, if you don't believe me, you can call up the school and ask them!”
”Is it.....well sure, one day I'll call them up and ask them, and if you this brat dared to bluff me, I'll discontinue off your allowance!”
”And if it's true?”
”Doubled allowance!”
”Lao mà, then get ready to give me double of my allowance then.....”
”Can't you learn more from your meimei, Xiao Yu never ever took money from our family, there's only just you who keep asking for allowance like a puppy!”
”But Xiao Yu always asked me for allowance last time.......”
Lao mà used an tone of excruciatingly strict firmness to lecture me, which made me confused already, even though I was so good, such a well-behaved son, so where exactly I did wrong already.
”Alright, now go away wherever you want to be, don't stay in the kitchen and disturb me here.”
Lao mà waved off her hands a few times, wanting to chase me out of the kitchen.
”Heh heh, don't be in such a hurry, I'll come help too, I can also fry some dishes as well!”
”You? You wanted to poison all of us to death, right!”
Lao mà gave me a look of disgust, as her the corners of her mouth unveiled a mock smile, this........
”Cough, cough, last time my cooking indeed wasn't that delicious, but right now.... there are huge drastic changes in my cooking skills already, lao mà, just think of it as being deceived by me, and try it out in a moment later.....”
”You go and make a call to ask if there's any available surgeon's desk at the nearby hospitals, when something comes up later we'll be able to have an emergency treatment immediately.”
”It can't be that exaggerated right.....when I was young, Xiao Yu still was fine without any issues even after eating all of my dishes.....”
”You still dared to say that, Xiao Yu at that time was spouting rubbish from her mouth, and when she woke up later she even said that she had saw grandpa already!”
”Eehh.....is it, so there's still such a thing huh......”
Now that it was being brought up, I seemed to have remembered seeing my grandpa once before too when I was unconscious as well....when was it exactly.......
I tried hard to recall back, and suddenly an image of a strawberry suddenly appeared into my mind, but what came right after that, was my head exploding out in an splitting headache.....
”Strawberry......double strawberries.....strawberry below....arrgh.....”
I really can't remember anything at all, the more I tried to recall, the more my brain ached, so I just gave up on reminiscing.
”What strawberry this strawberry that, if you want to eat then go buy them yourself.”
”It's nothing.... lao mà, just carry on with whatever your doing, I'll go busy on doing my things here......”
After dismissing lao mà and busying about in the kitchen for ten plus minutes later, hot steaming dishes were being served onto the dining table.
”Lao bà, Xiao Yu, it's dinnertime!”
On the sofa, I'm not sure what lao bà had said to Xiao Yu, but it made Xiao it seemed happier a little, so lao bà must have properly apologized to her already then.
On the dining table, laid out an array of usual home-cooked food, although it's spread wasn't luxurious, but it's indeed heartwarming.
”Xiao Yu, right now towards your brother, do you still......”
Lao mà looked at the silent Xiao Yu, and asked about this topic that I was always trying to run away from.
”That's right~ I still loved gege very much, but...last time it's maybe that I didn't say it clearly, but I only just plainly loved gege, because gege's extremely good to his meimei like me, but if you want to let me marry to gege who's dense , useless, having too much energy, and also a person that don't know how to read the atmosphere, I'll be very depressed.....”
”Right-right-right, that's right, Xiao Yu, next time you definitely must not find someone like your gege to marry, he's just a useless trash of the family, if you want to look for someone then find someone who's like your lao bà, a society elite!”
I've actually been defamed by my own dad......can't he give his own son, me, a little bit of honor......
”I see.....society elite huuh, lao mà, in the both of your bedroom, after you've entered the door, the fifth straight tile on the floor ahead, you can open it up, there's something good underneath~”
Without saying a second word, lao mà dashed towards the bedroom to take a look.
”Zhang Ou! So you actually dared to hide from me your house savings....son, you've done a good job, there's a reward for whistle-blowing, you'll get three times your allowance amount.”
”Much thanks to my esteemed and honorable mother!”
As expected, only mom's are good in this world only....
(TL: it's a snark reference to the old song, 世上只有妈妈好, try copying that and googling it!)
”You brat!! You actually dared.....good, goood, gooood, Xiao Yu... go and take a look what your brother hid underneath his bed.........”
Xiao Yu put down her bowl and chopsticks, and swiftly dashed off towards my room. Now I'm doomed....everything's finished...how exactly does my lao bà know about that, I hadn't a clue at all, but what's there, was my hidden collection of dark-genre sister 'training' book series.
Grandpa, I'll be coming soon.......
”Gege, although I knew that you'll collect these kind of things usually, but I really didn't expect that, there's still these kind of series as well.......gege, your interests are really not bad, huuh.....”
On Xiao Yu's face, etched an emotionless smile....
”What do you want exactly......”
”What are you planning to do......”
I looked towards Xiao Yu, while lao bà glanced at lao mà....their expressions were extremely scary.......