After jogging all the way, Zhou Xing returned home much earlier than usual. He found a villa with a small garden in a quiet villa area.
Zhou Xing walked into the yard and opened the closed door with the key. There was a "crackling" sound of frying from the kitchen inside the house, and at the same time, a strong aroma of meat hit his nostrils.
"Mom, I'm back!" Zhou Xing walked into the house and shouted tiredly into the house.
"Why so early? You didn't go to play games today!" Zhou Xing usually doesn't go home until dinner time. It's rare to be so early today. Zhou's mother, who was busy in the kitchen, asked curiously.
"Not in the mood, what are you doing? It smells so good?" Zhou Xing was slightly shaken.
"I'm frying the ribs, they're so delicious! Do you want a piece?" Zhou's mother asked happily with a smile.
"Okay, I'm starving!" Zhou Xing threw his schoolbag on the sofa and ran into the kitchen happily. Today's mental and physical exertion was huge, and he urgently needed to replenish energy.
"Mom, who is coming to our house for dinner tonight! How delicious is the meal?" Before he even entered the kitchen, Zhou Xing was attracted by the dishes on the dining table.
White chopped chicken, braised pig's feet, lion's head, steamed fish, the steam was steaming, and the fragrance was overflowing. Zhou Xing swallowed and salivated, his eyes glowing green.
Zhou's mother came out of the kitchen with a plate of hot fried pork ribs in both hands.
"I'm inviting your uncle, uncle Qiang, and the others to dinner today. I don't know when they will come over. If you're hungry, just eat first! You don't have to wait for them." Zhou Xing's mother, Ye Huilan, was in her early forties. She took good care of herself and looked just like that. When he was about thirty years old, a bright smile broke out on his face after seeing Zhou Xing.
Hearing this, Zhou Xing got what he wanted. The "free time" given by the system prompt was less than half an hour. He was worried about how to start eating first!
"Mom, let me help you serve it. Is the rice ready?" Zhou Xing stepped forward and reached out to pick up the plate of fragrant fried pork ribs.
"The rice is done. Go and serve it. Your father and I will eat together. Just serve yours!" Zhou's mother ordered Zhou Xing with a smile.
"Okay!" Zhou Xing nodded and rushed to the kitchen impatiently.
Soon, Zhou Xing took a bowl of rice, sat back at the table full of delicious food, and started eating alone without any ceremony.
The chopsticks were rising and falling on the plate, and he kept stuffing it into his mouth, chewing big mouthfuls. After a while, Zhou Xing's mouth was full of food, and his mouth was full of oil.
"You brat, eat slowly, why are you in such a hurry! No one is trying to grab it from you!" Seeing Zhou Xing gobbling up his food, Zhou's mother couldn't help but cursed.
"Yeah, yeah!" Zhou Xing nodded like garlic, but the speed of stuffing vegetables into his mouth did not slow down.
"You brat, eat slowly and be careful not to choke. I'll get you some soup!" Seeing Zhou Xing as if he hadn't eaten in a few days and refusing to listen to persuasion because he was so hungry, Zhou's mother was angry and distressed, so she told her to leave. Went into the kitchen to make soup.
Soon, there was a "ping ping ping ping" sound in the kitchen.
While Zhou's mother was busy making soup, Zhou Xing quickly finished the bowl of white rice, leaving gaps in the dishes on the table.
"Mom, I'm full. I still have some time to go back to the room. Don't disturb me if you have nothing important to do!" Zhou Xing put down the bowls and chopsticks, left the dining table, and shouted impatiently into the kitchen.
"You brat, stop here and finish your soup before leaving!" As if she had expected this scene to happen, Zhou's mother rushed out of the kitchen, looked at Zhou Xing who was picking up his schoolbag in the hall, and roared loudly.
"Mom, I don't want to drink milk anymore. I'm going up first!" Zhou Xing picked up the schoolbag on the sofa and ran up the stairs with "Oh, no!" and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
There was a soft "bang" and the sound of a door closing from upstairs.
Ye Huilan stood at the door of the kitchen, holding a pot and spoon in her hand, trembling slightly, staring blankly at Zhou Xing's disappearing figure on the second floor, her eyes slightly red.
"This child, this child..." Ye Huilan murmured with a look of disappointment.
Ye Huilan seemed to have been hit by something, sitting alone on the chair, as if in a daze.
The luxurious villa was extremely quiet, except for the sound of boiling soup in the kitchen.
Time flew by, and nearly half an hour passed in the blink of an eye.
With a click, the door of the villa was opened, and then the voices of several men talking came in.
"Come on, come in, you don't need to change your shoes!" The door was pushed open, and Zhou Xing's father, Zhou Wenhai, led four men in.
"Xiaolan, Qiangzi, Dawei and the others are here. Is the food ready? We are going to have a good drink tonight! Haha!" Zhou Wenhai took the lead in the door and asked angrily when he saw Ye Huilan sitting in a daze at the dinner table. .
"Haha, please Huilan! We are really thinking about Lanzi's cooking!" Liu Qiang, who was following Zhou Wenhai, laughed and said a little greedily.
"That's right, my sister-in-law's cooking skills are as good as those of hotel chefs!" Zhou Wenshan praised with the same feeling.
"Yes! My sister-in-law's craftsmanship is incredible!" Liu Dawei and Zhang Xiaofeng praised in unison.
"Stop flattering, the food is ready, come over and eat quickly! I'll serve the soup!" Ye Huilan came back to her senses, secretly wiped the corner of her eyes, turned and walked into the kitchen.
Looking at Ye Huilan's back as she turned and left, Zhou Wenhai frowned. He noticed her sitting there in a daze when he entered the door. Seeing her wiping away tears and leaving, Zhou Wenhai had a sudden thought, and an uneasy thought came to his mind. A good feeling.
Zhou Wenhai walked quickly towards the kitchen with a serious look on his face.
"Xiaolan, what happened?" Zhou Wenhai walked behind Ye Huilan and asked in a deep voice.
Ye Huilan turned around, tears falling down her face: "It's not a good thing your good son did!"
"Xiao Xing? What happened to Xiao Xing? Where is he now?" Zhou Wenhai breathed a sigh of relief. It was the brat's problem. He thought some accident had happened.
"You, you, you don't think it's a big deal, right! Zhou Wenhai, your son has been spoiled, do you know that just now..." Thinking of Zhou Xing wolfing down the meal just now, he hid in the room and asked her to leave him alone. Ye Huilan's heart was filled with panic when she disturbed him, and her tears kept falling like broken pearls.
"What just happened? Where is that brat now?" Zhou Wenhai raised his eyebrows and asked angrily.
"Sister-in-law, what happened? Did Xiaoxing get into trouble?" Zhou Wenhua asked with a wry smile on his face when he saw the scene in the kitchen.
Ye Huilan wiped away her tears and told everyone what happened just now.
"Haha, Xiaoxing is still a child! He's just a little playful! Sister-in-law, don't get so angry that you'll become sensible when he grows up!" Zhou Wenhua frowned and said comfortingly.
"Yes! The same goes for my kid. He is almost thirty. Whenever he has free time, he plays with his mobile phone and plays King of Kings! Everything else is fine too!" Liu Qiang persuaded with a wry smile on his face.
"Xiaolan, don't be angry. Didn't I make an agreement with Xiaoxing? Let him play for a while and then send him to the factory as soon as the college entrance examination is over. I will discipline him." Zhou Wenhai reassured Ye Huilan resolutely and said .
"It's all your fault that Xiaoxing is like this now. What kind of agreement did you make with him? It'll be up to you to see how you end up with this brat!" Ye Huilan rolled her eyes at Zhou Wenhai.
"If he dares to break the contract, I will beat him to death!" Zhou Wenhai said viciously.