Chapter 12
Zhang Ma had already waited all night, when she heard the door slam she hurriedly turned off the radio and quickly walked to the door just as Yang Yuyan rushed in, behind her was Yang Yucan who was frequently turning back, and at the end of the walk was Zhu Yanshu.
“Mistress! Why are you so late! If you don’t come out I’m going to hang up the phone and go to the police station to scold them!” Zhang Ma usually cursed the police and government officials the most, but only cursed them at home, and never sang about the peace of the world in front of outsiders.
As soon as Yang Yuyan entered the house, she ran towards her bedroom, she was going to hide the string of beads!
Yang Yucan also rushed into her own room and closed the door, too many things happened when they met today, her heart was in turmoil, she was more afraid of being pulled by Zhu Yan Shu not allowing her to fall in love with Ma Tianbao again!
Zhang Ma: “I cooked sweet soup, you guys changed your clothes and came out to drink it!”
The two sisters spoke in unison, Yang Yuyan: “I don’t want to drink it!”
Yang Yuchan: “I’m going to sleep!”
Zhu Yanshu collapsed on the sofa, “Mrs. Zhang, have you boiled water? I want to have a good soak, I’m really tired today!”
Zhang Ma said, “I’ve only boiled the water for washing, you need to boil more if you want to take a bath, wait a minute.” She turned to go to the kitchen, Zhu Yanshu remembered Yang Yuyan and straightened up again and shouted, “Do you have ginger at home? Grind some ginger and cook a soup, let Yan Yan drink a bowl later, I’m afraid she’ll catch a cold out today.”
Zhang Ma: “Second Miss is freezing? I did cook a pot of pear soup, thinking that your mouths must be dry when you return from the banquet.” Speaking of this, Zhang Ma couldn’t hold back her curiosity, looking at Zhu Yanshu’s expression it didn’t look like she was furious, thinking that Ma Tianbao was a wonderful talent, and had actually convinced Zhu Yanshu as well!
“Ma’am, that Mr. Ma ……” Zhang Ma just opened her mouth to ask, the door knocked.
“What kind of person ah? Coming to the door so late at night, without any eyes!” Zhang Ma muttered and went to open the door, Zhu Yanshu however thought that today is the third day, maybe they are here to pay the rent, so she got up and said, “Zhang Ma, you go and serve the sweet soup and tell Yan Yan to come out to drink it, I’ll open the door, it should be the one who pays the rent.”
Zhang Ma went to the kitchen, Zhu Yanshu straightened his clothes and hair, then walked over to open the door, piled up a full-face smile: “ah, so late ……” behind will be mute.
Because the person in front of her is a person she never want to see!
Ma Tianbao nervously rubbed his hands straight, and bowed deeply: “Ms. Zhu!”
“Come in and talk!” Zhu Yanshu was afraid that he would stand in front of the door for too long and be heard moving, and pulled him in with one hand, still looking behind him, “Where is your father?”
Ma Tianbao: “My father has gone back, my father said ……”
His words were interrupted again because Zhu Yanshu didn’t want to hear it!
“Sit, sit. Zhang Ma! Sheng an extra bowl of sweet soup over here!” Zhu Yanshu raised her voice, while pushing the person to the dining room in a row, she also lowered the curtain, “You sit!”
Zhu Yanshu put the person in the dining room and came out, quickly rushed to the kitchen and whispered to Zhang Ma who killed the chicken and wiped her neck, “Master Tian! That Ma Tianbao actually came to the door! You go and stall him! I’ll go and tell Yu Cicada not to come out tonight! And Yan Yan, we can’t let her know either! I have to send this little rascal away!”
Zhang Ma was also anxious upon hearing this, “What’s going on here! What’s going on? It’s still so late!”
Zhu Yanshu rolled her eyes and crossed her arms, “I don’t know! Really! Really!”
Zhang Ma was pushed out of the kitchen, Zhu Yanshu watched her go to the dining room before picking up a bowl of sweet soup and gently walking to the outside of Yang Yucan’s house, gently knocking on the door.
Only when Yang Yucan opened the door did Zhu Yanshu dashed inside and closed the door behind her.
“Good daughter, mom brings you sweet soup to drink.” Zhu Yanshu puts down the sweet soup, affectionately pulls her hand and sits down, “Seeing Mr. Ma today, really makes me happy!”
Yang Yu Cicada: “Mom, are you really happy?” Although Zhu Yanshu was very polite today and didn’t look angry, but as a daughter, she could still vaguely sense her mom’s true thoughts.
Zhu Yanshu used all her gentleness and wrapped her arms around Yang Yucan, “Of course I’m happy. My daughter has grown up and is already about to leave home, to get married, to become a wife, to become a mom!” Saying this, she had tears in her eyes and a smile in her tears, “I’m happy, happy!”
“Mom!” Yang Yu Cicada instantly recalled the time she had spent with her mother, when they were abandoned together by Yang Xuhe, it was also the two of them who had protected the family and raised their young sister together.
Mother and daughter dropped tears together for a while, the meager distrust of her mother in Yang Yucan’s heart was cleansed clean, even at this moment, the affectionate Ma Tianbao was not at all comparable to the love she shared with her mother’s sister’s family of three in times of trouble!
Zhu Yanshu used tears to call back her daughter’s love for her family, and succeeded in defeating that little redneck!
She took advantage of the victory and gently said, “Don’t worry, I’ve just given him twenty dollars, I think it’s enough for him to pay off his debt.”
Yang Yu Cicada was even more touched, “Mom, this way ……”
Zhu Yanshu: “Don’t you say it! He’s just like you in my eyes, just a kid ah. Saying that he is celebrating my birthday for me, do I really want him to pay for it? Having this intention is enough.”
Yang Yu Cicada was naturally touched.
Zhu Yan Shu continued, “After you go back to school and see him, you have to persuade him to return the money earlier. Alas, he is also too young, did not tell the family to borrow money, let his parents know must scold him! I wouldn’t dare to do that again. Think about it, how would I feel if you borrowed money for treats outside?”
Yang Yucchan thought about it and also felt that Ma Tianbao’s move was not quite right.
Zhu Yanshu: “More importantly, could it be that I am a person who dislikes the poor and loves the rich? Even if he’s not your friend, but just your classmate who wants to celebrate my birthday and follow you to have a seat at home, I won’t kick him out.”
Yang Yu Cicada hurriedly explained for Ma Tianbao: “He doesn’t mean this, he just wants to be solemn.”
Zhu Yanshu: “You guys are still kids, you haven’t earned a penny, not to mention me, even an outsider wouldn’t think you can go to the Hyatt Hotel to treat yourselves. Have I ever taught you that only equal interactions can be exchanged for a true heart.”
Yang Yu Cicada felt that Ma Tian Bao wasn’t such a bad person, but she also started to feel that him borrowing money to treat himself to the Hyatt Hotel wasn’t as good as he said.
Zhu Yanshu: “If it was you, would you do that?”
Of course she wouldn’t.
Yang Yucchan thought carefully and reflected that she would never borrow money to treat someone to the Hyatt Regency! Even if she didn’t need to borrow money, she wouldn’t invite someone to eat at such an expensive place. Because that is not her usual standard of living, purposely going over is like a swollen face.
Zhu Yanshu saw it as a good thing to let her think slowly, so as not to let her fall even more to the other side if she said too much.
“It’s already too late today, you drink the sweet soup and go to bed early.”
Zhu Yan Shu settled the big one out and wanted to continue to find the little one, but as soon as she came out, she heard Yang Yu Yan’s voice from the other side of the restaurant!
Yang Yuyan: “…… So you were able to go to college or did Master Jin recommend it for you?”
Zhu Yanshu strides in, swishes up the curtain, and glares straight at Yang Yuyan with a pair of eyes, “Yan Yan! What did I say! Go back to your house! It’s so late, hurry up and go to bed!”
Yang Yuyan defended, “I came out to brush my teeth!”
Zhu Yanshu was choked up and her eyes became even more vicious. Even though Yang Yuyan’s skin and bones were made of iron, she knew that she would be slapped, and immediately stood up and quickly fled outside: “I’ll go, I’ll go, I won’t listen, okay?”
Zhu Yanshu still urged: “Go to the kitchen to bring a bowl of sweet soup to drink, drink it hot to warm your body before going to sleep!”
Yang Yuyan: “I know!”
Yang Yuyan ran to the kitchen and brought a bowl of sweet soup, then went back to the house, and when she closed the door, she purposely took a slipper and placed it in the crack of the door and didn’t close it tightly! Just like this, she stood by the door and sipped the sweet soup while eavesdropping on the restaurant’s conversations.
Even if Zhu Yanshu’s voice was too small to be heard, she wouldn’t leave! She must hear what Ma Tianbao is doing here!
But the strangest thing to her was that Zhu Yanshu was not angry.
The restaurant was a happy place.
Zhu Yanshu sat on the sofa and kindly held Ma Tianbao’s hand, whispering as a loving mother.
“It’s so late, I don’t think you should leave, my house has a small room on the first floor, it used to be used for listening to the messenger, now there is only a bicycle and a few boxes of old clothes and furniture from the past in it, and I remember that there is also a long sofa, in a while, I will ask Zhang Ma to lead you down there, and you will sleep there. Zhang Ma, you go and dust it first, then carry a new quilt down.” Zhu Yan Shu said.
Zhang Ma very much wanted to stay! Seeing that Zhu Yanshu’s appearance just didn’t want more people to know, she only agreed, “Okay, ma’am, I’ll go now.”
After Zhang Ma left, Ma Tianbao, who was still a bit constrained before, gathered his courage, “Mrs. Zhu, I know that my coming tonight is a bit abrupt ……”
“What do you mean by abrupt? You are as much a child in my eyes as Yu Cicada.” Zhu Yanshu laughed, patted his hand affectionately, and pushed the sweet soup on the table, “Drink quickly, it’s all a bit cold. Drink it to warm up.”
She personally picked up the sweet soup and sent it to Ma Tianbao’s hand, Ma Tianbao had no choice but to drink the sweet soup and occupy his mouth.
Zhu Yanshu just lovingly watched him drink it, and after drinking a bowl, she served him another bowl, and when the third bowl was served over, Ma Tianbao refused to drink any more.
“Ms. Zhu, I know that in your eyes I’m still just a little kid, someone who isn’t really able to bear the burden of a family. But my heart for Yu Cicada is sincere!” Ma Tianbao suddenly stood up and said loudly, “I can swear to you that I will never change my heart in this life! Will not look for a concubine! I won’t look at other women! If I break my oath let me die without a burial place!”
These words were said in an impassioned manner, with a strong voice!
But Zhu Yanshu didn’t even move an eyebrow. When she was with Yang Xuhe, she had written love poems and love letters that could fill several boxes, what oaths hadn’t she sworn? But now, Yang Xuhe has a different pipa, God did not send thunder to strike him ah.
The oaths are not as useful as the watches and diamond rings that are given to the girls, except for cheating their hearts.
She was convinced that a heart is worth more than ten thousand taels of gold.
It is too silly.
Yang Yu Cicada suddenly lifted the curtain and came in, “Are you telling the truth?”
Zhu Yan Shu was startled! No longer able to sit properly, hastily stood up: “Didn’t I tell you to sleep!”
Yang Yu Cicada’s eyes were filled with tears, but her demeanor was tinged with a bit of indignation, “Did you mean what you said!”
Ma Tianbao stepped forward, “It’s sincere!”
Finished.
Zhu Yanshu saw this scene and knew that nothing she said today would be of any use.
She immediately intervened, holding Ma Tianbao down with one hand to prevent him from stepping forward, and pulling Yang Yucan with one hand, “You kids, you always talk about life and death! Don’t say that anymore! Auntie will get angry if you don’t! You have to consider your parents’ feelings! ”
Her words were as fast as a pearl, she first lectured Yang Yucan: “Don’t force people to swear, sincerity is not something you can talk about!”
Ma Tianbao wanted to interject, she immediately turned around and smiled at him again, “Auntie knows, Auntie believes you! Don’t be in such a hurry, Auntie is very happy to have met you today. Auntie just now also said to Yu Cicada, seeing you all makes auntie let go of her heart, right Yu Cicada?”
Yang Yucan nodded, Ma Tianbao do not dare to believe Zhu Yan Shu words, but believe his girlfriend, see this a heart is considered to have half of all down.
Maybe he just thought too much, Ms. Zhu does not have such a big opinion of him.
Zhu Yanshu looked at her watch in surprise: ”Look! It’s eleven o’clock! It’s too late, Tianbao ah, you’re not an outsider, Auntie really doesn’t feel comfortable letting you go back alone so late, just stay.” Then she turned to Yang Yucan and said, “If you have anything to say, let’s talk about it tomorrow morning. There will be many opportunities to meet in the future, quickly let him go and rest first. I’ve just asked Zhang Ma to pack the bed, you go and take a look to see if Zhang Ma has packed it yet.”
She pushed Yang Yu Cicada away before pulling Ma Tianbao, “You go wash up first, I’ll bring you a new toothbrush, come come come, the restroom is over here!”
She waited until she shut Ma Tianbao into the restroom before she was relieved, and when she turned her head, she saw that Yang Yuyan’s room door was not closed tightly again! She probed and Yang Yuyan’s little face flashed in horror before the door snapped shut!
Zhu Yanshu stood in the doorway stroking her chest in luck.
Not long after, Zhang Ma and Yang Yucan both came up, and Zhang Ma said, “It’s all cleaned up.”
Ma Tianbao also washed up, Zhu Yanshu told him to take a candle and go downstairs to sleep, and then told Yang Yucan once again, “Let’s talk about this in the morning”, and then instructed Zhang Ma to lock the front door!
She turned around and went back to the big bedroom, collapsed on the bed and let out a deep breath: “My mom, I’m not this tired even after playing 18 games of □□□!”