Beijing, after all, has nothing to do with me

Chapter 17 Surprise inspection of parents (2)
In fact, Tao Jie had told her father all this information, since her father knew about it, there was no reason why her mother didn't know about it. It was really strange why she had to ask herself every detail.

"However, our company's benefits are quite good, and we even bought commercial insurance for our employees." She tried her best to beautify her treatment.

"You earn more than 2000 yuan a month, and the rent alone costs more than 1000 yuan. What about your other expenses? Electricity, water, food, clothes, all these add up, how can a few hundred yuan be enough for a month?" Mom stared at her sharply.

Tao Jie's thoughts finally shifted from the stinky socks to the mother's question, and she secretly complained, why didn't she think of this level.

"I, this, uh, it's actually okay." Tao Jie racked her brains to form sentences, "I, I have some savings from my previous work..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Tao Jie wished she could get her head up, the whole thing was incoherent!

Sure enough, my mother's face suddenly became ugly, "You have to pay back when you come to Beijing? Then what are you doing here?"

Tao Jie stared dumbfounded at her mother's sharp, lightning-like eyes. After a few quick thoughts, she decided to adopt the usual strategy—be an ostrich, let her mother scold her, and wait until her energy passes.

So she simply shrank her neck, raised her eyebrows and put on a posture of being reprimanded, exactly the same as when she was a student and came back to face her parents after getting unsatisfactory grades.

"Oh, why don't you teach the child a lesson as soon as you come here! How to say, she has been here for half a year, and she is doing well. Did she ask us for money?" At the critical moment, it was her father who stepped forward to replace her. Circus.

Tao Jie vowed secretly in her heart that she must honor her father well in the future.

"Don't pretend to be a good person." Mom rolled her eyes at Dad, "That's the problem. Tell me, can she survive in Beijing with this little salary?"

Tao Jie's heart shuddered.Mom then asked, "Are you with that boy surnamed Li?"

Tao Jie looked at her mother, and then at her father. The latter also remained silent at this time. She was suddenly isolated and helpless, and her mood fluctuated several times. The long-term pain was worse than the short-term pain. She nodded slightly and admitted.

"You live together?" Mom's voice suddenly raised several scales, and a fierce wind rushed towards her face.

"...No." Tao Jie bit the bullet and lied.

"Xiaojie is well-mannered." Dad comforted her mother, "Besides, look at this room, how can two people live in it? This is clearly a single room!" His eyes still paused when he glanced at the double bed, Fortunately, Tao Jie was careful and had already hidden one of the pillows.

In all likelihood, my father had already mentioned her and Li Yaoming's affairs to my mother, and my mother didn't seem very surprised, but there was always some disappointment.

It's just that she didn't come here purely to condemn her daughter. No matter how much Tao Jie has done to make her dissatisfied, her daughter is still a daughter. In Tao's mother's heart, love is more important than blame, otherwise she would not come to Beijing to visit regardless of face she is gone.

She looked at Tao Jie and said earnestly, "No matter how you get along with him, there are still some barriers to overcome, otherwise you will always be the one who suffers in the future..."

Tao Jie was disturbed, but she still had to nod her head frequently. The only good thing was that she notified Li Yaoming not to come back temporarily, but that sock...

As soon as mother's tone dropped, the atmosphere suddenly became more relaxed. Dad took advantage of the momentum and pulled a travel bag he brought with him to his feet, "Come on, Xiaojie, dad brought you a lot of things you like to eat. Look, meat Candied fruit, candied fruit, fish floss... oh, and the new clothes your mother bought for you!"

After all the things were taken out, Tao Jie regained her joy for a while, and squatted at his feet like her father who was looking forward to returning from a business trip when he was a child, watching him take out the packed things one by one from the bag. After a while, A high pile was built on the sofa.It's just that Tao Jie couldn't regain the whole-hearted satisfaction she felt when she was a child.

The clothes were chosen by her mother. She glanced at the autumn clothes on Tao Jie's body that were still brought from home, and said with a bit of distress in her tone, "You said you child, you don't know which tendon is wrong. It's a comfortable life, but I have to come here to suffer!"

A paper bag was not stable and slid off the edge of the sofa. Seeing this, my mother bent over to pick it up, but her eyes were instantly attracted by something on the ground.

When Tao Jie and her father emptied the luggage bag and clapped their hands to get up to place the newly arrived supplies, a gray sock appeared unsteadily in front of her eyes. The arc-shaped crocodile logo stood out in front of her. There are still a few wisps of fiber dust and a strong smell of sweat!

It was her mother's white and cold hand that was holding the sock, her face came into Tao Jie's field of vision together with the sock with disgust and shock.

"What is this?" Mom's voice was a little trembling, and Dad, who was still smiling just now, also changed his face.

"..." Tao Jie was silent, she had nothing to say.She knew that continuing to lie would only make Mom angrier.

"Li lives here with you, right?" Mom asked sharply.

"His name is Li Yaoming." Tao Jie suddenly raised her head and said quietly that she was very dissatisfied with her mother's "surname Li".

Mom looked at her with strange eyes, and then turned to look at Dad, "You, you knew?"

Dad shook his head.

Mom stood up and said, "Old Tao, let's go!"

Dad hesitated for a while, and finally stood up, seeing his daughter bowing her head silently, feeling a little unbearable, "Xiaojie..."

He called out, but didn't know what to say.

The sound of the door closing heavily shook Tao Jie's head subconsciously, and she was left alone in the room again, with a dazed silver lamp.Only the pile of things piled high on the sofa reminded Tao Jie of what happened just now.

She got up, walked to the sofa, bent down again, picked up the sock that her mother had thrown down forcefully, and glanced at it indifferently, wondering that she no longer had the panicked mood just now.

Holding the socks and walking to the trash can, she let go of her hands, and the socks floated down.

There was a sound of unlocking the door, and after a while, Li Yaoming's figure appeared in front of Tao Jie.

"They left?" He looked tired.

Tao Jie looked at him, "Are you back early?"

"Yeah! I didn't dare to come in. I stood outside the door for a while. It was really cold."

As he spoke, he unloaded the computer bag from his shoulder, and had nothing to say for a moment.Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a lot of food on the sofa, so I walked over, picked it up and took a look, "Your parents really love you! I opened a bag of dried meat and ate it. I didn't eat dinner today. I'm starving to death." .”

There was no sound behind him, Li Yaoming turned his face to look, Tao Jie was standing by the bed two meters away from him, two lines of hot tears flowed down her cheeks, she was crying.

That night, Tao Jie made many phone calls to her parents, but her mother refused to answer them. I don't know if it was at her behest that even her father refused to answer her calls.

Li Yaoming sat on the sofa and watched her busy without saying a word. He had already understood the seriousness of the situation from Tao Jie's brief description just now. Their daughter, but they see themselves as a scourge.Besides, Tao Jie has already grown up, why does she have to ask her parents for permission in advance for what she likes to do, she is not a child.

He himself was born in a family with brothers and sisters, so he couldn't understand how Tao Jie's parents doted on their only daughter.

In the middle of the night, neither of them had the mood to sleep.

Li Yaoming looked at Tao Jie with a sad face, and couldn't help but said: "Don't be like this, since they know it's good, anyway, it's a matter of time, didn't I say it a long time ago, see your parents sooner, than How much stronger is this passive situation now!"

Tao Jie turned over in agitation and lay down on the pillow. She couldn't pass on the exact words of her mother to Li Yaoming, it was too hurtful, and she was afraid that he would fly into a rage.

At about one o'clock, Tao Jie's cell phone rang suddenly, and she immediately grabbed it to answer it.

It was my father calling, and the voice sounded like a thief, "Xiaojie, don't call us anymore, your mother won't let you answer. I'll just tell you."

"Dad, where are you talking?"

"bathroom."

"Oh—Mom, she..."

"Oh, isn't she just with that temper! But Xiaojie, you are wrong about this matter."

Tao Jie seldom lied in front of her parents, especially in front of her father. With a look of shame on her face, she asked softly, "Dad, are you still angry with me?"

Dad sighed, but didn't answer her. Instead, he said, "Don't worry, since your mother is willing to come to Beijing, she must be aware of this situation. I will persuade her tomorrow."

"Thank you, Dad." Tao Jie's throat suddenly choked up again. She felt that she did her best in everything, but not many people were satisfied with her. This kind of frustration was something she had never experienced before coming to Beijing. I just feel that my heart is full of bitter and salty taste.

Tao Jie didn't sleep well all night, and didn't sleep for a while until after four o'clock in the morning, and was woken up by Li Yaoming's mobile phone alarm clock after not long after sleeping.

The next day was Saturday, and Li Yaoming had to work overtime as usual. Although he was too sleepy, he still struggled to get up, looked down at Tao Jie who was half-opening his eyes on the pillow, "Do you want me to accompany you?"

Tao Jie looked at him, shook her head slowly, "Forget it, you can go about your business."

Li Yaoming then got out of bed, took a quick wash, went out with his bag, walked to the door, and didn't forget to turn around and tell her, "Call me if you need anything."

"Okay." Tao Jie said weakly on the bed.

Once she woke up, it was difficult to fall asleep again, the messy thoughts in her mind once again grabbed her and tortured her, so she had to get up too, ate something lightly and found something to eat, and then restless Sitting on the couch, not knowing what to do next.

Around ten o'clock, Dad finally called her again, "Your mother wants to talk to you."

Tao Jie cheered up, "Okay, where is it?"

"She doesn't want to go to your place anymore. We found a restaurant near the hotel where we can eat and talk." Dad said and reported the address to Tao Jie. It's not far from where she lives, and you can get there by bus. .

"I'll be there in half an hour."

After hanging up the phone, Tao Jie quickly changed her clothes and went out.

When rushing all the way to her parents, a strange mood enveloped her heart.

In the past, she was so tired of her parents nagging her like a child forever, and tried every means to escape from them, but once she found that her behavior deviated from her parents' expectations, she would still feel genuinely terrified.At this moment, if Mom and Dad forgive her and understand her, she will be grateful to them.

Is this because she hasn't grown up yet?Or was it because she also had deep doubts about the situation she was facing?
On Saturday, the bus was packed tighter than minced meat. Tao Jie was caught between three or five young men and women who came to Beijing for tourism. Hearing them excitedly express their curiosity about Beijing, when the gate of Peking University passed by. When the time passed, these older children cheered in unison, just like Tao Jie did when he first came to Beijing.

Now, all she has left is numbness to those gold letters against the beautiful bright blue. No matter how beautiful the scenery is, she can't bear to be dazzled in front of her eyes two or three times a day.

Tao Jie walked into the restaurant, and saw her parents sitting by the window waiting for her at a glance. Her mother's face was still ugly. She drank a sip of tea from time to time, and then cast her eyes out of the window opposite to the door. It was her father, who was always watching eagerly. Seeing the people coming and going at the door, he could see Tao Jie walking in at the first time. He seemed to want to get up and run to meet her, but he stabilized after only moving a little, and changed to raising his hand Call her over.

This scene made Tao Jie feel dizzy as if she was in a dream.

"Dad, Mom." She stood timidly in front of the two elders.

"Sit down, sit down and talk." Dad pointed to the opposite chair and said to his daughter.

Tao Jie sat down as she said, and the situation seemed to be on trial.

Dad turned to look at Mom, and Mother Tao lowered her head to refill her teacup with some tea, then put down the teapot, picked up the cup, took a sip slowly, put it down, and looked out of the window again, that's all.

Seeing this, Dad had no choice but to clear his throat and speak first.

"Xiaojie, your mother wants to ask you something, since she won't...cough, then let me ask, you and that Li Yaoming, you really, cough, I mean, you really think it over, really Can't find him?"

Tao Jie squeezed her right hand tightly with her left hand. Her mood was as bad as if she failed a certain major exam before, but it seemed to be different. The exam is always easy. This choice is related to her life.

Her mind was very messed up. An answer that was originally very simple became confused under the suffocating silence of her father and mother.

"...Yes." But she was able to spit out the answer clearly in the end, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, "Dad, Mom, I have been with him for more than four years, and he is very good to me, really Yes, he is also very promising, and he...he will start his own business in the future." When she searched her guts to find beautification props for Li Yaoming, she ridiculously lifted out the stumbling block that had been the biggest obstacle in their relationship, and used it to increase The weight of Li Yaoming's odds.

She seemed to hear her mother's cold snort from her nasal cavity. It was this voice that suddenly angered Tao Jie. She could quarrel with Li Yaoming by herself, saying that he was not good or bad, but she would not allow others to look down on him, even if Not even my own mother.

"Mom—" she stared blankly at her mother, "I know what you think in your heart, you look down on Li Yaoming, don't you? You think he has nothing, right? But have you ever thought about it, he is here, In Beijing, every achievement he got was bought with his own wisdom and sweat! Look at the people you introduced to me in the past, which one is not based on the relationship at home? Sitting here waiting to die? You think they are good, but you think their family conditions are good. Do you really understand them? Do you understand me?"

The mother's face turned pale, and her gaze finally turned to her daughter's face. The flush on the latter's face caused by excitement and the burning anger in his eyes made her feel strange.

"I never want to spend my whole life with a person who only knows how to be a parasite by his parents!" After Tao Jie finished speaking, she stood up abruptly, "Dad, Mom, I'm sorry, no matter what your opinions are, I have already made a decision."

Tao Jie felt powerless when she rushed out of the restaurant. The aura that had been inflated by anger just now was withdrawn from her body.

"Xiaojie, Xiaojie!" Dad ran out after him. Fortunately, she was stunned at the door and he caught her.

"Dad, don't try to persuade me, go back and persuade mom." Tao Jie sadly pushed her father's hand away, feeling the urge to cry.

"Xiaojie, you misunderstood mom." Dad frowned, he was caught between the two of them, it was a bit uncomfortable, "Your mom came to talk to you today, not to break up you!"

Tao Jie suddenly turned her head to stare at her father.

(End of this chapter)