Dead but not stiff

After an unhappy dinner on Friday night, Shen Bai still couldn't let go of the second elder at home. After all, they were the parents who gave birth to and raised them. Different.If your business partner makes you feel uncomfortable during the process of project cooperation, you can choose to terminate the cooperation, or even blacklist the other party in future projects.But parents and relatives, there is only one pair in this life, and until they are forced into a desperate situation, they can only constantly repair and accommodate, trying to find a way to have the best of both worlds, so that each other can be satisfied with peace of mind.

Shen Bai went home again on the weekend, but this time he was not alone, he brought Gu Xien with him.

Gu Xi'en must have refused at first, he knew that Shen Bai had always been straight before, and the parents at home must not have known the fact that his son had turned into a mosquito coil.Shen Bai started to fall in love with men because of himself, which made Gu Xien feel a faint layer of guilt deep in his heart, not knowing how to face those two old people who had never met before.

"Don't be afraid, I'll just say you're a colleague who has a good relationship with me. This time, I'll take you to identify the door first, and improve your favorability with my parents." Shen Bai comforted Gu Xien like this, but he still couldn't calm down. He was terrified in his heart, but he had a faint expectation.

Yes, look forward to it.

Gu Xien lost his parents since he was a child. His father died in the line of duty when he was five years old, and his mother left his hometown and went far away.He grew up with his elderly grandmother until he was more than ten years old. During the long lonely years, he survived a dark time mixed with various negative emotions such as depression, pain, rebellion and depression.

At the most painful time, he couldn't feel any meaning of his existence in this world, no one needed him, and he no longer needed anyone.Like a walking corpse, walking alone in a world full of people, isolated from the noise, the excitement belongs to them, and I have nothing.

Therefore, Gu Xien has always been envious of those peers whose parents are still alive and who had a happy childhood. It is not like he has never had such a feeling, but when he was five years old, he was torn apart by a sudden huge family change, and then completely forgotten in the depths of his memory. place.

Therefore, under Shen Bai's repeated urging, and out of his inner desire, Gu Xien finally agreed to go to his parents' house with Shen Bai.

It was about an hour's drive from the urban area to Shen Bai's parents' house. When it was about to arrive, Shen Bai reminded him, but he noticed that Gu Xien's body suddenly tensed up, and his usual indifferent temperament disappeared. Jin, like a newcomer who needs to give a speech without a script, is surrounded by great tension and excitement.

Shen Bai took his right hand away from the steering wheel, stretched it over to cover Gu Xien's left hand, and slowly tightened his grip, "Don't be nervous." He said softly, "There's still me."

When I got home, I unexpectedly found that Shen's mother was the only one in the house, and Shen's father was invited by a friend to go fishing.

Shen Bai secretly heaved a sigh of relief. His mother was much gentler than his father and it was much easier to deal with. He saw Gu Xien being so nervous in the car before, and he was still a little worried and regretful. He was afraid that seeing his father glaring at him again would make him even worse. heightened his tension.

After entering the door, Shen Bai led Gu Xi'en to his mother, and introduced to the old lady with a smile: "Mom, this colleague from my company is called Gu Xi'en. We worked overtime together today, and we were so busy that there was no place to eat in the afternoon, so we brought him here. home."

Gu Xien stood there in a daze, forgetting to say hello for a while.

Shen's mother made two oh-oh, straightened her reading glasses, looked at Gu Xi'en carefully, and suddenly oops, startled Gu Xi'en, and heard Shen's mother say: "This young man is really handsome, where is he?" people?"

Gu Xien glanced at Shen Bai hastily, as if asking for help, but his strange emotional reaction made Shen Bai very useful, enjoying the feeling of being dependent.

"Mom, don't be so startled, you're frightening people." Shen Bai put his arms around Gu Xien's shoulders, and squeezed his shoulders slightly with his palms.

"Oh, oh," Shen's mother hurriedly said, "I'm sorry." She took a step forward, grabbed Gu Xi'en's hand, smiled lovingly and said, "I scared you, child, blame me, blame me. Come here, come here Sit on the sofa, and Auntie will bring you fruit to eat. Do you want apples or oranges?"

Gu Xi'en was led by Shen's mother to sit on the sofa, and then slowly said: "Auntie, no need, I'm not hungry."

"Fruits are just eaten as snacks. There's no reason to eat them until you're hungry." Shen's mother sat down next to Gu Xi'en, and turned on the home-cooking mode: "Where are you from? How old are you this year?"

Gu Xien asked and answered, very honestly: "Auntie, I'm from City C, two years younger than Shen Bai."

"Oh, hey, the young man is so good-looking. When my aunt was young, she liked you like you, with red lips, white teeth, and a white face like a crown jade."

Shen Bai listened from the side, and gradually tasted it, well, this is the old version of a fan girl, but Gu Xien's appearance is very suitable for his mother's appetite, which can be regarded as a small step towards success.

Shen Bai walked over and interrupted his mother's chatting, "Mom, when will my dad come back?"

Shen's mother glanced at him, and Shen Bai felt the coldness of family affection from this look, "You made your father very angry that day, and you still know how to care about him?"

Shen Bai was afraid that what his mother said would misunderstand Gu Xien, so he hurriedly said: "Mom, my colleague is here, save me some face. Besides, didn't I come back to apologize to my dad?"

Shen's mother is soft-tempered, and she will let Shen Bai step down, so she won't be too aggressive, so she continued with his words: "I guess it will be soon, and I will be back by dinner time." Speaking of which, she looked at the time, hurriedly got up and said, "No Is it almost time for dinner, Xiao Gu, what do you like to eat, Auntie will make it for you tonight."

Gu Xien replied softly: "I can do it."

Shen's mother patted the back of Gu Xien's hand, stood up and said, "Then you talk, Auntie is going to make dinner for you."

Gu Xien hesitated and asked, "Do you want me...to help?"

Shen's mother laughed again when she heard the words: "Why can you help me? How can you cook? Auntie alone is enough."

Shen's mother walked briskly to the kitchen, exuding the aura of a fan girl all over her body, Shen Bai waited for her mother's figure to disappear at the kitchen door, leaned over from behind the sofa to Gu Xi'en's ear, and softly laughed: "Master Gu, you Do these ten fingers not touch Yangchun water, do they want to go to the kitchen to make trouble or make trouble?"

Gu Xien looked back at Shen Bai, with a serious look in his eyes, "Your mother is really good, and you are very happy." He kept Shen Bai calm, and said these words slowly.

Sensing that his mood was not right, Shen Bai asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Gu Xien withdrew his gaze, looked down at his hand that Shen's mother had just held in his palm, and shook his head, "It's nothing."

Seeing that he didn't want to talk, Shen Bai didn't continue to press the question any longer. Anyway, the days would be long, and he would always have a chance to untie the knot hidden deep in Gu Xien's heart.

"Okay, now Teacher Shen is going to give you a second vaccination." Shen Bai stretched out his hand to grab Gu Xien's shoulder, and said to him, "My dad will be back in a while. I had some trouble with him when I came back the day before yesterday. So he will definitely have a bad face when he sees me after a while. But my dad won't target outsiders, so you can do whatever you want when the time comes, don't be nervous, don't be afraid, you understand?"

Gu Xien finally raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, "No."

"So good." Shen Bai took the opportunity to rub the oil, rubbed Gu Xien's hair, and when he put down his hand, he pinched it on the earlobe, trying his best to tease him.

After a while, there was a sound of the door lock being twisted, and Shen Bai quickly said to Gu Xien: "My dad is back."

The vermilion door opened, and Shen's father walked in carrying a bag containing fishing tackle, followed by Wu's father and daughter.

The smile on Shen Bai's face faded away instantly after seeing the two people coming in from behind.

Father Shen, who walked in the door, saw Shen Bai standing up beside the sofa at a glance, his face turned cold instantly, and he said to him angrily: "Why are you coming back? You won't listen to anyone else in this family?" ?”

Shen Bai suppressed seeing the irritability and resistance of Wu's father and daughter, reorganized his smile, and said to Shen's father, "Dad, do you take your anger seriously? Why do you look like a child as you get older?"

"Hmph." Shen's father stared at Shen Bai, but at the same time noticed Gu Xien who was standing up next to him. He was a little stunned for a moment, and Shen Bai hurriedly introduced: "Dad, let me introduce you, this is Gu Xien, a colleague of our company. This weekend We work overtime together, so I'll take him to our house for dinner on the way, this is a great hero in my project, I'm a little embarrassed to send him away after dinner."

Father Shen didn't want to make a fool of himself in front of outsiders, so he quickly put on a smile and said to Gu Xi'en, "Hello, Xiao Gu, right? I, a worthless villain, usually cause you a lot of trouble in the company, right?"

Gu Xien smiled and shook his head: "Hello, Uncle, you are serious. Mr. Shen is serious and considerate of his subordinates. He is a very good boss."

"Hehe..." Father Shen smiled politely, turned around and said to the Wu family's father and daughter, "You go and sit down first, and I'll go and tidy up the fishing rods first."

Wu Jiaying followed her father into the room, saw Shen Bai, and greeted him with a warm smile: "Good evening."

Shen Bai never expected that after such a refusal, Wu Jiaying would still appear in his home calmly, and put on an intimate appearance of being safe and sound.But now, in front of Gu Xien, he didn't want to show his special hostility towards Wu Jiaying, so he just hummed perfunctorily.

"Are you back?" Shen's mother poked her head out of the kitchen when she heard the commotion, and happily said to Shen's father, "Today there are guests at home, you pack up and come to the kitchen to help."

Seeing that Shen's mother was so happy, Shen's father couldn't help but also smiled and said: "Yo, it seems that we are going to have a big meal today."

Shen's mother was so happy that she could not close her mouth from ear to ear: "A big meal, it must be a big meal, but it is very rich, come and help me."

Wu Jiaying walked over and echoed: "Auntie, let me come, so don't bother Uncle Shen."

Shen's mother pretended to be angry and waved her hands: "How can that be, you are also a guest."

Wu Jiaying smiled: "You don't need to treat me as a guest, if you don't treat yourself as an outsider, this is already my second home."

Shen Bai: You really don't treat yourself as an outsider.

"Miss Wu," Shen Bai suddenly got up from the sofa, smiled at her politely, and said, "Go and rest, I'll go to the kitchen to help my mother."

"Okay, okay." Shen's mother hurriedly greeted Shen Bai into the kitchen, "Come in first and help me choose the dishes."

"You're a smart boy." Shen's father added something aside, apparently thinking that Shen Bai was offering to compromise, and then said to Wu Jiaying: "Jiaying, go and rest, and let him do some work."

Wu Jiaying completely lost the reason to help in the kitchen, so she forced a smile and replied, "Okay."

Mother Shen greeted Shen Bai and returned to the kitchen. Shen Bai took the opportunity to pull Gu Xien up and whispered in his ear, "Come on, let's go to the kitchen."

Gu Xien was dragged into the kitchen by Shen Bai in a daze, Shen's mother was cutting vegetables on the counter with her back to them, Shen Bai pushed Gu Xien in, smiled and said to his mother: "Mom, I'll bring little Gu with you Come and help."

Shen's mother turned her head, stomped her feet and scolded Shen Bai: "Why are you so ignorant, Xiao Gu is a guest, how can he enter the kitchen?"

Shen Bai said like a wolf with a big tail: "That's not okay, my boss has come to help, how can he be idle?"

Shen's mother glared at Shen Bai, but she heard Gu Xien say: "Auntie, it's okay. Anyway, I'm idle outside, so I just came in to talk to you."

Shen's mother, who was a fan of Yan Kong, couldn't refuse such a request. She lowered her head to search, and said to Gu Xi'en very embarrassedly: "Then Xiao Gu, you can help boil the pot." Then the conversation changed, and the commander Shen Bai said: "You go and take out the ribs to thaw first, and then go to choose the vegetables on the ground. After finishing these, you also need to deal with the fish in the pool."

Shen Bai: "..."

Shen Bai went to the refrigerator and took the ribs and soaked them in warm water to thaw, then squatted on the kitchen floor with two long legs bent to choose vegetables, and thought over and over in his heart whether he was his own.Suddenly a shadow flashed in front of him, Gu Xien came to him and squatted down together, reached out to pick up a vegetable, and said lightly: "Let me help."

Shen Bai was surprised: "Is this still our Young Master Gu who doesn't touch Yang Chunshui with his ten fingers?"

Gu Xien casually threw the green vegetables with strangled dead leaves into the basket, without raising his head, he said: "It's not so expensive. Although I don't know how to cook, I often do these laying jobs."

"Yo, I can't tell, our Young Master Gu is quite virtuous." The sound of the range hood temporarily cut off Shen's mother's hearing, and Shen Bai flirted with Gu Xi'en as usual.

Gu Xien smiled disapprovingly, and said softly, "You must learn to support yourself."

Shen Bai lightly bumped his shoulder, leaned into his ear, lowered his voice but said cheerfully: "I think my mother likes you quite a lot."

Gu Xien turned his face to look at Shen Bai, then looked away, stared at the vegetables in his hand, and said slowly: "Auntie is a gentle person, and she is a very good mother."

Shen Bai didn't understand the deep meaning in his words, or he could hear it but didn't want to delve into it at this moment, so he just continued to smile and said: "So you will often visit my house in the future, and slowly increase your favorability. This one went very well.”

The corners of Gu Xi'en's mouth hooked slightly, he nodded, and replied softly: "Yes."

Shen Bai was overjoyed. Gu Xien, who was so obedient and sensible, instantly became cute by several percentage points. Of course, Gu Xien, who would talk back to him, was also very cute.

"Oh, how could you let Xiao Gu do such dirty work?" Shen Bai raised his head, and Shen's mother was staring at him with a spoon in her waist.

"It's okay, auntie, if you count on Mr. Shen alone, I'm afraid you won't be able to eat tonight."

Shen Bai: "..." It's a pity that I thought you were sensible and cute just a second ago!

During dinner, Shen's mother kept looking for topics to chat with Gu Xien, and kept adding food to Gu Xien's plate along the way, and the other few people couldn't get in their mouths at all.It was not easy for Shen's father to catch the opportunity. After hearing that Gu Xien was single, he casually asked if he had a girlfriend.

Gu Xien paused for a moment, as if he didn't want to talk about it.Seeing this, Shen's mother used the sharp teeth unique to the old ladies in S City, and lashed out at her old man: "Just take care of your own son, and care about what Xiao Gu is doing. You poor old man has the energy, so just do it!" The matchmaker is ready." After training Father Shen here, he quickly turned his head to Gu Xi'en, his attitude changed 180 degrees, "Xiao Gu, let's ignore him, come and taste this crab, the crab roe is delicious. You are so thin , eat more."

Shen Bai looked at the crabs that were originally counted as one person per person, and now three of them had fallen into the plate in front of Gu Xien, and he couldn't help but said with a smile: "Mom, this is too exaggerated, you should let people eat it anyway." dishes."

Shen's mother finished training her husband and turned around to lecture her son: "What's the matter with you," she said, picking up a chopstick of cold shredded white radish and throwing it on Chen Bai's plate, "Shut up and eat your meal."

A meal was eaten from sunset to night, because of the Wu family's father and daughter, Shen Bai didn't want to stay for a long time, and took Gu Xi'en to bid farewell to his parents' house and drove back on the grounds that he had to sort out the meeting materials for the next day.

The two waved goodbye to Shen's mother who had been sent all the way to the gate of the yard. After both of them got into the car, Gu Xien was buckling up his seat belt with his head down, when a hand suddenly reached out and touched his abdomen. Joyfully asked: "What are you doing?"

Shen Bai said with a playful smile: "Let me see if my daughter-in-law's stomach is full for my mother."

Gu Xien pushed his hand away, but rubbed it himself, and answered him seriously: "I'm full."

"The three big crabs have all entered your stomach, can you not eat enough?" Shen Bai felt sad when he thought of this, and felt that his own son's status might be lost.

Gu Xien tilted his head and looked at him with a smile, his expression was like a sly little fox, "Is the shredded radish delicious?"

"Delicious, very delicious." Shen Bai said while starting the car, turning the steering wheel, the car turned around, and drove slowly onto the main road.

After a long time, Gu Xien's voice sounded in the car: "Let's cook some noodles when we go back."

"...Then throw two more eggs by the way."