The next day, the weather was clear, and at 10 noon, the young couple knocked on the door.
"Uncle, aunt."
"Dad, mom!"
Zhang Mu bowed deeply to Deng Jie's parents, and Deng Jie slid away from Zhang Mu like a little loach, ran over, and grabbed his mother's hand.
Mr. Deng laughed and said, "Oh, it's Xiao Mu! Come in quickly." He turned to look at Deng Jie, with a slight blame in his words: "It's really a girl who is too young to stay! I thought you would never come back!"
Deng Jie pouted and said, "No! I'm back today! Mom, do you miss me?"
Deng's mother complained: "I have been talking to your father these two days, but I didn't expect that I would really talk back to you. Come and go into the house to chat with my mother. Xiao Mu, just sit there!"
"Thank you aunt." Zhang Mu smiled and sat on the sofa accompanied by Deng's father.
"Uncle, this is something Xiaojie and I bought in the supermarket. Because we don't know what cigarettes you like to smoke or what wine you drink, so..." Zhang Mu carried the cosmetics he bought and a large plastic bag of cigarettes and alcohol on the table.
Mr. Deng looked at the gift in the bag and said, "Xiao Mu, this is a brand-name cosmetic. How much does it cost? Also, these tobacco and alcohol are also very expensive. Are you a bad guy getting rich? Have you won the lottery?"
Zhang Mu scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly: "It's not considered getting rich, I've earned some pocket money, as long as my uncle likes it."
Mr. Deng shook his head and pushed the gift aside: "What do you think of this? Is it worth such a little thing?"
"This... Uncle, I, I don't mean that, these gifts are..." Zhang Mu's words were awkward for a while, and the atmosphere became a little awkward.
"Hahaha! Silly boy! It's so inexplicable!" Mr. Deng laughed and said, "Fuck the kid, come out quickly!"
"What are you doing?" Deng's mother pushed open the door and asked.
"Hurry up and buy vegetables and cook, why are you doing? Look, the cosmetics Xiao Mu bought for you."
"Oh, Xiao Mu, why are you so polite to your aunt's house?"
Deng Jie's family's living conditions are even worse than Zhang Mu's family. Their parents are laid off workers and have a pension of less than 2,000 yuan a month. It is precisely because of this family conditions that a sensible girl like Deng Jie was trained. Since high school, Deng Jie has been working as a part-time worker in "KFC" or "McDonald's". As soon as she graduated, she immediately went to find a job. Compared with Deng Jie, Zhang Mu is quite lucky.
"Don't be verbose, buy vegetables quickly! Ask Xiao Mu what he likes to eat!" Deng's father is typical machismo.
Zhang Mu waved his hand quickly: "No need to be so troublesome, we will go back later..."
Mr. Deng said angrily: "What? No, you are not allowed to go home until you finish lunch! You bastard, do you think this is a place! Let's have some good drinks at noon!" Mr. Deng said that he could drink three pounds of white wine without changing his face. This kind of alcohol content was practiced by drinking "Red Star Erguotou". He was quite powerful. Of course, Zhang Mu didn't know these.
"Since my uncle invites you, Xiao Mu is more respectful than obedient, hehe." Zhang Mu grinned and smiled, and his father patted him on the shoulder: "This is a good thing! Xiaojie, go buy vegetables with your mother. You are not at home for two days, your mother will be annoyed me to death!"
"Hmph! Dad! I hate you and bully my mom all day long!" Deng Jie said sobly: "Mom, don't you have such a good temper!"
Deng's mother held her daughter's hand and said with a smile: "Don't nag, let's go, let's buy vegetables for these two men!"
"This girl!"
After the Deng family's mother and daughter left, Deng's father kept talking to Zhang Mu. Although Deng's father had a bad temper, he was still reasonable and his neighbors also had a good reputation for him.
"Xiao Mu, I am just a treasure daughter like Deng Jie. I will hand it over to you. You have to take good care of her and not let her suffer any grievances, do you know?"
"Don't worry, uncle, I will never bully her! I will not let others bully her!" Zhang Mu nodded heavily. He was a well-behaved girl like Deng Jie, so how could he bear to bully her? Now he is no longer the bastard boy he used to.
"Xiaojie has a weak personality and is an honest child. Such a person may not have much achievements in his career, but I can guarantee that she will be a good wife and mother in the future! So, hehe, it's not that I, Old Deng, boasted that you have picked up the treasure!"
Zhang Mu smiled: "It is my honor to be with Xiaojie."
"No!" Mr. Deng shook his head: "You are also a good child! You two are the best! You are not allowed to belittle yourself, do you know? A man must be like a man! You are not afraid of being poor, the most important thing is to have backbone! But I think you are like this, it seems that you live a more relaxed life than anyone else. What career are you busy with?"
"It's nothing, I just made some small money in the game, oh, by the way!" Zhang Mu handed the five thousand yuan to his father Deng and said, "Uncle, this is Xiaojie's living expenses for the two elders."
"So much money? I can't collect it!" Deng's father shook his head: "Our family is not short of money."
"Oh, uncle, don't shirk it. I give my parents a living expenses every month at home, and they all say they should treat them equally. Didn't Xiaojie give them too when she was working in a hotel? You have raised us for more than 20 years, and now we have the ability, so it's time to be filial to our parents."
Mr. Deng shook his head repeatedly: "Then this is too much, cut it by half, cut it by half."
Zhang Mu smiled and pushed the money into his father Deng: "Uncle, please accept it! If you don't accept it, I'll leave! You didn't treat Xiao Mu as your family at all!"
Mr. Deng hesitated for a while, and finally pushed the money aside openly: "Okay, since you said that, I will accept the money, but if you come back next time and buy gifts, I will drive you out with a stick!"
"Haha, I got it!"
At this time, the sound of the door opening came from outside, and the mother and daughter of the Deng family walked in with a vegetable basket with a smile.
The mother and daughter of the Deng family both have good skills in cooking. In about an hour, six dishes and one soup were placed on the table, and they were all real home-cooked stir-frying, which tasted quite comfortable.
But what Zhang Mu couldn't stand the most was Deng's father's ability to force him to drink, which was so superb that Zhang Mu, the junior, deeply understood the essence of "eating, drinking, and having fun". In the end, even Deng Jie, the honest girl, could not see her, and almost jumped onto the table. Then Deng's father gave up.
Leaving Deng's house at 1 pm.
With Deng Jie's support, Zhang Mu walked into the community. Mr. Su, who was sitting in the corner of the park, was concerned and said: "Yeah, isn't this the boy from the Zhang family and the daughter of the Deng family? What's wrong? Xiao Zhang is sick?"
"No, I've drunk too much..." Zhang Mu waved his hand with a wry smile, and vomited again.
The aunt of the neighborhood committee who managed the community came over with a cold face and scolded: "How come you kid spit everywhere, you are fined 5 yuan!"
Chapter completed!