Knowing that I was going to take him home, Shang Muxiao seemed very quiet all the way, but just silently followed behind me without making a sound.
When I got to the door, just before I was about to ring the doorbell, he suddenly spoke.
"Why don't I go down there and wait for you?"
I looked back at him, my hands kept moving, and I rang the doorbell.
"Don't move." I ordered him.
Shen Luoyu quickly came to open the door, and saw the tall Shang Muxiao behind me at a glance, his mouth half-opened in surprise, his eyes staring like copper bells.
"Is it coming?"
I smiled at her: "It's better to hit the sun if you choose another day."
When I brought Shang Muxiao to the table, I introduced him to everyone, saying that he was Yang Haiyang's brother-in-law, and Shen Luoyu also knew him. He happened to be nearby today, so I asked him to come over for a meal and lively together.
Although my parents were somewhat surprised by my sudden and unspoken behavior of bringing a man up to dinner, at least on the surface the hospitality was still warm.
As for my aunt... She should have guessed Shang Muxiao's identity, and when she observed him, her eyes were filled with the criticality of her mother-in-law looking at her future daughter-in-law.
However, Shang Muxiao's face really has an innate advantage. As long as he accepts his gender, I'm not worried at all that he won't be able to subdue his aunt.
"Oh, this kid is really handsome."
Sure enough, when he called someone, the aunt smiled like a flower. If she wasn't prepared, she might be able to take out a red envelope for a meeting from her pocket.
An extra pair of tableware was added, and Shang Muxiao sat on the other side of me. The old topic was also changed because of his arrival.
"How old are you, Xiaoshang?" Father held up the beer bottle and wanted to fill it up with Shang Muxiao.
He blocked it and declined: "I'm driving here, and I don't drink. I'm twenty-one this year."
"Oh, that's still reading."
"No, I dropped out of school and am now a professional motorcyclist." Shang Muxiao said honestly.
His father frowned suddenly when he heard the words, and he could see that he didn't agree with his approach very much, but because he didn't know each other well, he didn't express much opinion.
"Dropped out? Which school did you go to before?" The mother poured a drink into Shang Muxiao's cup.
"Qingwan University, from the Department of Finance, is in the same school as Mr. Bei. My family asked me to take the exam. I don't like it very much. In addition, a professional team just happened to send me an invitation. If I miss it, there may be no second place. Given the next chance, I'll just drop out of school."
"Or from Qingwan University?" The father put down the glass and said loudly, "Now that the child is too self-willed, it is impossible to go to such a good university."
Although the mother did not necessarily agree with Shang Muxiao's approach, she was the most respectful person and would never say it in front of the master.
"Say less." She said coldly to her father in a volume that everyone at the table could hear.
Her father always listened to her in big and small matters. To put it bluntly, he was "fear of inwardness". He was trained to stop talking immediately, and only concentrated on drinking and eating vegetables.
"Then you... What does your car look like? Can you show it to me?" Bei Yan crossed me and excitedly asked Shang Muxiao.
In the past, I didn't really understand Shang Muxiao's decision to drop out of school to drive a race car. I always felt it was a pity, but when I saw Bei Yan's twinkling eyes, I suddenly realized that the race car driver was probably a racer that most boys couldn't refuse. 's profession. It's like... Philosophers can't stop exploring life. Without this "proposition", philosophy also loses life.
Shang Muxiao seemed to be an old father who finally found a chance to show off his child. He took out his mobile phone and showed Bei Yan his mount.
"Like this, the body is red, and the front of the car is my lucky number '28'. I call it 'Vulcan'."
Bei Yan was holding the phone, drooling when he saw it.
"It's so cool." He was full of envy.
"Come, come and show us too!" Shen Luoyu stretched out his hand to ask for a cell phone.
Bei Yan looked at it for a while, and then reluctantly handed the phone to the opposite side.
Shen Luoyu took over the phone and savored it carefully. Aunt and mother sandwiched her from left to right, and their eyes were full of curiosity.
"You're so handsome." Shen Luoyu asked, "Is this a lot of money?"
Shang Muxiao took the peanuts on the table and said in a flat tone: "Our team is a satellite team, we don't directly manufacture racing cars, but rent cars from the factory team every season, two cars per person per year. One for the competition and one for the spare, about 15 million."
"Pfft!" Father spat out a mouthful of wine, and the rest of the people looked up at Shang Muxiao in dumbfounded manner.
I was also a little frightened. The previous one million motorcycles I thought was exaggerated enough. Who would have thought that there would be more exaggeration.
Shang Muxiao scratched the band-aid on his forehead and said, "I fell while training accidentally a while ago. The repair fee will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. I can't even compare to one game."
"My house is 3 million, and 15 million is my five houses." Bei Yan did a quick mental calculation, "You spend five houses a year?"
Shang Muxiao said: "If it is a factory team with the most advanced technology and the best engine, the price will be higher. The cost of a car is about 20 million."
Twenty million... This figure has been exaggerated to the point where it is unimaginable for ordinary people like us. Compared with the car he rides on the field, the SUV I bought him for more than 200,000 yuan is really only a "small" car.
Shen Luoyu suddenly made an "ah" sound, staring at the screen of the mobile phone with a little embarrassment, and hurriedly returned the mobile phone.
"Sorry, I accidentally locked the screen."
I glanced at it, the screen was already black.
Shang Muxiao used to secretly take pictures of me in class, but I found out that he had changed it again a while ago, and it was me, and it was still secretly photographed—I was lying on the sofa sleeping soundly, with a chest covering my chest. In this "Hegel's Philosophical Lectures", the egg yolk head rests on my stomach, and the four feet are upturned in a deep sleep.
Except for Shen Luoyu, the aunt and mother did not seem to see this photo, and they discussed with the father and three about the concept of 20 million, and how high the pile of cash should be.
Knowing that Shang Muxiao's career is so rich and rich, his father didn't say anything like giving up his studies as a pity. He originally had a tone of disapproval of the other party's unprofessional work, but suddenly he praised him for being young and promising.
After blowing out the candles and eating the cake, the birthday party comes to an end. I pushed Shang Mu Xiao and asked him and Bei Yan to play Lego in the living room, while I stayed behind to clean up the table with my aunt and the others.
Father added some hot water to the tea vat, and then went to sit outside. I stopped him directly and said to Shen Luoyu, "Close the door."
Shen Luoyu hurriedly walked to the sliding door of the restaurant and gently closed the door.
"Mom, you wash the dishes first, I have something to say." I sat down at the end of the table.
Father hesitated: "What's the matter?"
Shen Luoyu went over and took him to the table as soon as he was greedy: "Uncle, you sit down first."
"Manjuan, sit down too." My aunt also brought her mother, who was halfway through the dishes, over.
I sat on the long end of the long dining table, Shen Luoyu and my aunt sat on both sides of me, and my parents sat opposite me.
Putting my hands on the table and clasping my fingers, I calmed down and shared my life events with my family in the most serious and formal manner.
"About last fall, I met someone..." He was younger than me, more reckless than me, not very good-tempered, and sometimes very headstrong, but he would comfort me after a nightmare and tell me that it's not me living I love every dish I make, even the instant soup I made with my own hands. I also thought about ending it with him, but it didn't work at all.
He has taken root in my life and has become an inseparable part of my life, and removing him would be like gouging out my flesh and taking my life.
The more I said, the more my father was fine, and perhaps before he had turned the corner, my mother's expression gradually darkened. She should have guessed who this person I was talking about, and finally understood why Shang Muxiao appeared at home today.
"I'm asking you..." My mother raised her hand slightly and interrupted me, "Do you think it's impossible for you to get married and have children in your life, so you broke the jar and found such a person?"
The image of Shang Muxiao tonight has changed several times, from not doing a proper job at the beginning, to having great potential, and now, he has become "such" again.
In the eyes of parents, no matter how good the other party is, once there is a conflict with the secular concept, the advantages can also become disadvantages.
"No." I gave a firm negative answer. "Before I was paralyzed by a car accident, I knew that I could not get married and have children."
I glanced at the faces of several people present, and finally my eyes were fixed on my mother's stern face.
"I knew then that I was gay."