Me and my Apollo husband

Chapter 36 Survival

Handsome silently took the fish from Zhou Meng's hand, brought all the dishes to the kitchen, rolled up his sleeves, and turned on the range hood.

A tall, thin man with a beer belly followed him in. He was Zhou Mei's husband and Zhou Mang's brother-in-law.

"Cough, what, eat fish for lunch, right?" Brother-in-law coughed lightly, watching Yingjun pour the oil into the pot, and the vegetables and fish were still placed whole in the basin.He tentatively asked, "Can you do it?"

"No." Handsome shrugged.

"Let me come, you wash the vegetables first." The brother-in-law said with a smile, walked to the stove and turned off the fire. "Don't rush to start the fire, the fish needs to be washed and salted first. I used to be a chef, so you can help me. Let's cook them a delicious meal at noon today." The brother-in-law sighed as he spoke. , there was a hint of embarrassment in his expression, "It's not easy, every family has scriptures that are hard to recite..."

The handsome and unruly picking and washing vegetables is decent.And the brother-in-law started to wash and marinate the fish, and the kitchen was soon in full swing.

The mother and son sat on the sofa and talked softly after crying, roughly summarizing the past and looking forward to the future.Zhou Mei's eldest daughter, Tang Tang, is 17 years old this year, and she is already a slim girl.At this moment, her lips were red, her teeth were white, her eyebrows and eyes were beautiful, she bounced to the kitchen, and shouted coquettishly: "Dad~"

The man who was heating up the oil pan and was about to put the fish in it let out a brisk yell, "Hey, there is a lot of oily smoke in the kitchen, go to the living room and go with your uncle and the others."

After that, he pulled the tail of the fish with one hand, and slowly put the whole fish into the oil pan. Suddenly, there was a sound of oily light bursting, and oily smoke was everywhere.

The handsome man who was washing the vegetables was accidentally splashed with a drop of oil on his nose, jumped up instantly, and hid at the kitchen door.

Tang Tang leaned against the door and did not leave, but looked at the handsome side face, blushing.He whispered: "Brother handsome, you are so pretty."

Handsome looked at her, smiled, and suddenly his expression changed, and he quickly whispered: "You want me to be your boyfriend? Be careful, I'll tell your parents."

Tang Tang was really startled, her face turned red and white and ran to the sofa in the living room, shouting: "Uncle~"

"What's the matter?" Zhou Mei asked her daughter who rushed over.

"...you're hungry." Tang Tang pouted and said, shaking her uncle's hand, "Uncle, I really like a skirt in the xx mall, but my mother won't buy it for me.

"Go shopping in the afternoon." Zhou Meng shook her hand and said softly with a smile.The corners of his eyes that had just cried were still tear-stained, and his face was as clear as a lotus.

Tang Tang rushed over excitedly and kissed him on the cheek, "I like uncle the most!"

Her mother Zhou Mei beat her on the butt a few times angrily, "Why are you so ignorant! Your uncle just came back and you asked him for something. Who can buy you a dress that costs more than 5000? Don't buy it! "

"But I really like it!" Tang Tang stood on the ground and stomped his feet, "Next week our class will hold a graduation party in xx Villa, and Zhao Lingling Qiulan's mother bought them more than 3 Chanel Dior! I bought it Prada is the worst and cheapest!"

Zhou Mei was furious, "Who can compare with those rich girls in your class? Why do you go to the parties held by those rich people? You don't think I don't know that the graduation party of your class is at xx hotpot restaurant. , You can also sing at night. Each person pays 300 yuan! You have so many clothes that you can match casually, and it’s almost a thousand yuan. Why can’t you wear it! 5000 yuan a dress, you know your dad gave it a day for a few years Is it only 5000 yuan a month to drive a car in Hei? Do you know that I was only a few hundred dollars a month in the factory when I poked the embroiderer’s hands to bleed? In recent years, the business in the house has been slightly higher than in previous years. Better, you think you are a princess, and a dress costs [-] yuan? You say it’s [-] or tens of thousands? I see you are whimsical all day long!"

Probably relying on the presence of uncle and grandma, Tang Tang also started to yell at her mother: "What a whimsical idea! I only play well with Zhao Lingling and the others in class, and I don't want to talk to those other people. Why are you going to their graduation party! And my uncle said he bought it for me without your money, why are you so excited!"

"It's enough for uncle to buy it for you? Do you think it's easy for uncle to make money? Even if uncle loves you and loves you and is willing to buy it for you, do you know that he asks many people to do many things and stay up many nights to earn 5000 yuan? Going to a rich man's party for you wasted all night? Don't you personally feel distressed?" Zhou Mei became more and more angry as she spoke, she took off her shoes and was about to beat Tang Tang, "I see You woman is a white-eyed wolf, I should have taught you a lesson long ago!"

Zhou Meng next to him quickly grabbed Zhou Mei, "Sister, what are you doing? How can you beat Tang Tang?!"

Zhou Mei said: "Why can't I beat her? I spoiled her too much before and got used to her like this! Look at her, she will get into trouble one day sooner or later. What will happen if I don't care about her now?"

Tang Tang cried and burst into tears: "You beat me a long time ago! Uncle was not born to grandpa but you were born to grandpa! You are the same as grandpa. If grandpa beats grandma, you beat me! Dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, violence A crazy daughter is also a violent crazy!"

Zhou Mei's hair was about to stand on end: "Damn girl! Believe it or not, I'll tear you apart!"

"Tear you tear, you dare to tear me in front of your uncle!" Tang Tang hid behind Ms. Zhang.

Hearing her daughter crying, brother-in-law Tang, who was cooking in the kitchen, rushed out holding a spatula, "What's going on, what are you doing!"

"Dad, my mother is going to beat me again!" Tang Tang cried and complained.

Brother-in-law Tang looked at Zhou Mei, who was furious, and then at Zhou Meng and Madam Zhang who were helping to stop her. He frowned and said, "It's all right, it's all right, it's really true what troubles the family."

After speaking, he went into the kitchen again, but his expression was not very good during the process.

Zhou Meng sighed in his heart while persuading his sister not to be angry.In the past 30 years, the country's economy has developed rapidly, and the gap between the three generations has also emerged.Zhang Niangniang went to the fields to do farm work and sell pigs to earn some money to support her children and daughters. At that time, let alone 30 yuan in total, it was difficult; Zhou Mei was in the factory in the early days, and after she got married, Catching up with the giant dragon that is taking off in the international economy, although the couple's education level is not high, but fortunately they are willing to endure hardships and study hard to catch the dragon's tail and start a business. It took more than ten years to barely run into a well-off family, which can provide a better educational environment and living environment for her daughter; but in Tang Tang's generation, the dragon that the parents sat on in the early years had already flown into the sky, and the rich second-generation official The second generation can be found everywhere. Both the standard of living and the concept of consumption are different from the past. There are thousands of clothes and skirts, which is really nothing.

Zhou Meng persuaded his sister for a while, and stood up on the pretext of going out to buy a pack of cigarettes, stood up and pulled Tang Tang to the back of the stairs, and quietly gave her a card, "Go back and buy it yourself. I will apologize to your mother later and say that you don't want to buy it." Got it. Do you understand?"

Tang Tang smiled happily, "Understood! Thank you, uncle! I'll apologize to my mother now~!"

Zhou Meng hurriedly pulled her, "Put the card away."

"Hmm!" Tang Tang put the credit card in his bag, and then rushed to the side of Zhou Mei on the sofa with a happy face, knelt down numbly, and his little mouth called sweetly, "Mom~ Mom~ I was wrong. I shouldn't make you angry, don't worry, I don't want that skirt anymore. Really~"

Zhou Mei looked at her for a while, she was her daughter after all, so let it be fine after finishing her angry words, "Do you really know that you are wrong?"

Tang Tang nodded heavily, "I know, I know~!"

"The food is ready, come and eat." Tang brother-in-law shouted, winking at Zhou Mei, meaning to ask her to go upstairs and call old man Zhou down.

Zhou Mei touched Tang Tang's head, "Tang Tang, go and help grandpa down."

"Okay, I'll go, I'll go~!"

The meal at noon was relatively peaceful, probably because of a quarrel, or because he was afraid of other people. Old man Zhou's attitude was much better, and he no longer hated this or that.But these are only on the surface, who knows if he will yell at Ms. Zhang after she leaves.

The mother and son had discussed it just now. Zhou Mei meant to take old man Zhou to her home to recuperate from illness, and she, as a daughter, would take care of him.Ms. Zhang also said yes, anyway, Zhou Meng came back these few days, so she will be separated from his father for the time being, so as not to conflict again.

"And you have given him so much money over the years, you have fulfilled your responsibility." Zhou Mei said to Zhou Meng, "I will be the daughter of the next thing. It is good for people to live in the future. It doesn't matter if you die, it has nothing to do with you."

Zhou Meng just sat there without saying a word.

After dinner, Zhou Mei went upstairs to the bedroom and conveyed the meaning to the old man Zhou, but the old man was very reluctant, "It has nothing to do with him, I have raised him for so many years, and he will give it to me when I am old." I will die in retirement."

"Dad, you should take your face into account when you say this. How much have you managed Zhou Gang all these years?" Zhou Mei's eyes were full of pain: "When he was a child, his mother tied him to his chest and worked in the fields. Well, you play mahjong all day long, go out early in the morning, and return to the house after dark all night. Zhou Meng calls you dad, and you scold him and mom. One day mom went out to sell pigs in the town I asked you to help take care of Zhou Meng, but you ran to sit in the mahjong hall, and Zhou Meng was handed over to traffickers to take him away for two miles. It was the head village secretary in the village who saw him and snatched him back. Zhou Meng When I grow up and go to school, my mother borrows the tuition from my natal family. I work all year round and raise pigs to make up the tuition money for him to study. And me, I stopped studying in high school and went to the factory to embroider for a month Earn a few hundred dollars to pay Zhou Meng’s tuition. Do your own calculations. Zhou Meng grew up, what did you give him? Oh, when he was young, you used to call him a bastard. Now When he grows up and can make money, you have to recognize his son? I can’t even do it! Let me put it bluntly, even if Zhou Meng wants to take care of him in the future, he will only take care of my mother and me. What can he do with you?”

The old man Zhou muttered, "Your mother's money for raising pigs, your money, it's all from my Zhou's house, and it's all mine."

Zhou Mei frowned and shook her head, "Forget it. I don't want to talk about this to you now. Anyway, Zhou Meng was not born by you, and you never raised him. You two have nothing to do with each other. If you want to go with me, go away , you don’t want to go, okay, think about it personally, Zhou Meng will have to chop you with a knife later."

As she spoke, she began to pack her things. Although the old man Zhou looked resentful and muttered endlessly, he didn't dare to say anything more.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Tang Tang helped her grandfather down from upstairs, with a look of disgust, while her mother was saying goodbye to her grandmother and uncle, she whispered: "Grandpa, let me tell you first, our place is not comparable to here. My mother has the same temper as you. If you are disobedient and don’t eat or drink medicine, I guess my mother will not tolerate you like my grandmother. When she gets anxious, she even beats my father. If you are disobedient, I will wait for you two to talk to each other Fight, anyway, they are all born in the same litter, let's see which one of you wins."

After sending people and things to the car, Brother Tang sat in the car and urged, "Hurry up, there will be a lot of traffic jams on the road at six o'clock."

"Mom, boy, handsome, let's go first." Zhou Mei said goodbye to her mother and younger brother.

Tang Tang hugged her uncle for a while, but her eyes stuck to the handsome body next to her.

"Uncle, do you have time? When will we go out to play together?"

"Yes." Zhou Meng said, "I'm leaving at the end of this month, anytime is fine, you can arrange it."

"Hey, let's go after my graduation party." Tang Tang's eyes lit up suddenly, "Hey uncle, why don't you come to our graduation party next week? Bring handsome!"

"Can we go to your graduation party?"

"Yes, yes! And I will invite some very famous people there that day, as well as celebrities! You must come! Are you okay!" Tang Tang shook Zhou Meng's arm for a while.

Zhou Meng was helpless, "That's fine."

Zhou Mei shouted in the car: "Tang Tang, what are you pestering your uncle for? Hurry up and come here!"

"Oh, I asked him to go out to play!" Tang Tang ran into the car, and turned around and blew kisses at Zhou Meng and Yingjun: "Bye bye uncle! Bye handsome!"

"Be careful on the road." Zhou Meng shouted.

Ms. Zhang stood beside her with an unhappy expression on her face, "This girl only blows kisses to you two and doesn't even say hello to me."

Zhou Meng smiled and helped her by the shoulders into the room, while Yingjun silently rolled his eyes behind him.

It was late at night, and Zhou Meng lay on the bed after taking a shower, staring at the ceiling blankly in a daze.There was a moment of peace in his mind, and he felt an unprecedented peace.

He didn't ask Madam Zhang who his biological father was, there was no need for that.He is an adult, and he doesn't want to know about the past and the grievances of the previous generation.Besides, in that era and in that environment, the most indispensable thing was people without conscience.As long as his "biological father" has a little bit of human relations, he and his mother wouldn't have to be so difficult when they were young.

He just asked Ms. Zhang a question: Why didn't she fall off me then?

"I've thought about it." Ms. Zhang sat on the bed in a daze for a moment, then said in a low voice, "I've thought about it, you really are a rascal. It's too difficult to live in that place, and it's too difficult to live in that situation. It’s hard, I don’t want you to come out and suffer. I went to buy medicine three times, but it didn’t kill you. The doctor told me: Your life is hard, I’m afraid God destined you to be this mother.”

She turned her head to look at him, holding his hand tightly, her eyes were moist: "At that time, I made up my mind, no matter how difficult it is, I will give birth to you, I will raise you... Sure enough You didn't disappoint me..."

Zhou Meng hugged her tightly and choked for a long time, "Mom, thank you for allowing me to be born in this world."

Unknowingly, his eyes became blurred again, until a string of icy drops of water dripped on his face, Zhou Meng woke up like a dream.Squeezing away tears, his pupils focused on the face that suddenly appeared in front of him.

Handsome was lying on him wet all over, with a towel wrapped around his waist, his curly hair hanging down to his ears dripped water onto Zhou Meng's face.

"...Handsome." Zhou Meng called him, "Go and dry your hair and blow it."

"Get it for me." Handsome looked at him.

"...I'm a little tired." Zhou Meng said, "Blow it yourself."

Handsome shook his head like a rattle, and his hair and water droplets hit Zhou Meng's face.

"Okay, okay, get up." Zhou Meng pushed him with his eyes closed, "I'll just make it for you."

Yingjun probably didn't want him to think about it.Zhou Meng gently rubbed his handsome scalp with a towel, dried it carefully, and then dried it carefully with a blower.Zhou Meng's expression was very serious, and his brown hair was like a rare treasure in his hands, being carefully cared for by him.

At night he sleeps on the floor and handsome sleeps on the bed.After sleeping until midnight, Zhou Meng was quietly dragged to bed again.But this time he woke up, or rather, he didn't sleep much all night.He felt in a daze, someone was pulling his leg, dragging him onto the bed with a swipe.

Zhou Meng opened his eyes, with a terrified expression on his face, he held his breath inexplicably and did not make a sound.

In the dark room, Handsome Hangchi Hangchi helped him put his legs in order, and then lay down beside him, stretching out his limbs to encircle him like a big bear.

"...Handsome." Zhou Meng shouted in a low voice.The person behind him arched his head and hummed softly.Zhou Meng wanted to ask him why he always dragged him to bed in the middle of the night, but suddenly he felt drowsy.As if suddenly falling into a lake, there was an invisible force pulling him down.Zhou Meng, who was not sleepy in the first half of the night, only felt that his eyelids were so heavy that he couldn't lift them up. He struggled a bit, and followed the force and fell into a dream.