In order to change the topic, Qi Xi decided to make troubles: "Don't talk about me, Mom, even if I work hard, I still know how to balance my life. You should take care of Dad!"
Qi Xi said dissatisfied: "It's okay for Dad to be busy when he first founded the law firm, but now the firm is on the right track. He himself said that there is a team and assistant lawyers under him, so why does it seem like he has to do everything by himself?" Busy! The competition and cooperation firm is much stronger than my dad’s small firm. Any partner in it can generate several times or even ten times the income of my dad, but they are not as busy as my dad. I think we I am a partner in the firm, and I insist on playing tennis with my son every weekend.”
Although Qi Xi mentioned this topic to divert her mother's attention, but when it came to this, she couldn't help but feel a little angry and helpless.
Leaving aside his father's filter, to be fair, Qi Xi also knows that Qi Ruiming is not a very talented person in the law. When he was in college, Qi Xi secretly read the indictment left by his father in his study. In fact, the writing is a bit rough, and occasionally from the chat between Xi Wen and Qi Ruiming, I can learn that Qi Ruiming has messed up some cases, and he was reported to the Lawyers Association by his clients.
And since she entered the competition, she saw the legal documents written by Gu Xuehan, and only then did she know what is the real professionalism and level.
So maybe she really can't force her father to manage his private life as well as elite lawyers like Gu Xuehan while handling his business well. Balancing career and family is a very difficult art, and it can be done well. After all, it is a minority.
Thinking in this way, Qi Xi began to doubt himself a little. Was it because he was too strict with his father before? Because her father is not a superman, just an ordinary middle-aged man, there are many things that he can't do, and there are many things that he can't do in the world.
"Xixi, don't get angry with your father. When you were young, he was so precious to you. The cervical spine itself is not very good, but because every time you are held by him on the neck, you will smile happily. , so I didn’t listen to my advice, and carried you around on the neck every day to play, but one time the cervical spondylosis recurred, and I lay on the bed for a week.”
When Qi Xi's mother said this, she also showed an angry and funny expression: "And your junior high school, your school organized a closed military training and sent you to a military training camp near the city, but you sprained your ankle , it was so barren that you couldn’t even buy Yunnan Baiyao, and there were no errands or takeaway services at that time, and there was a once-in-a-hundred-year rainstorm in Linshi. I will deliver Yunnan Baiyao overnight with the second-hand car I just bought..."
It's fine if Xi Wen didn't say anything, but Qi Xi's heart softened when he said so.
It's not that she doesn't remember these childhood memories, and it's because she always remembers her father's kindness to her that when she grows up, she can't tolerate her father's sexist views. She obviously didn't raise eyebrows at her because she was a girl It's cold, how can I grow bigger and bigger, but because I am a girl, I suppress myself in various ways, thinking that my gender is doomed to fail
In the final analysis, Qi Xi would not tolerate it because it was his father, because Qi Xi cared about his father's opinion and hoped to get Qi Ruiming's approval.
Qi Xi's mother has a gentle personality. Seeing that Qi Xi was obviously loose, she patted her head: "Everyone has some shortcomings, and your father is not perfect. No? Your father was born in a rural area, and in their rural area, boys are the only inheritors of incense."
But Qi Xi was still aggrieved: "But he is a graduate of the Law School of Rongda University. He has received higher education and has long been out of the rural living environment. How can he be like this? Isn't education just to eliminate some bad habits and problems in the countryside? Misconception?"
"But how can a person's deep-rooted ideas be changed so easily?" Xi Wen smiled, and explained in a very tolerant and gentle way, "Sometimes it is difficult to change the information a person receives in childhood, and your father is just a Ordinary people, but he cares most about you, and he said a few days ago that he would urge you to learn how to drive, and buy you a car later, so that it will be convenient for you to go home on weekends in the future."
Xi Wen patted Qi Xi on the back: "So don't be angry with your father, okay?" She laughed at Qi Xi, "Mom's birthday is almost here, so why don't you give it to your mother as a birthday present?"
Her mother had already talked about this point, Qi Xi felt that if she refused to take a step back, it would be a bit pretentious and too much, so although there was still some resistance and reluctance in her heart, she still nodded her head anyway.
When Xi Wen saw Qi Xi's statement, she was really happy: "You are still working, so don't spend money on expensive gifts on my birthday. As long as our family of three is healthy, it will be the best gift."
Qi Xi pouted: "Mom, are you looking down on my salary? I already earn my own money, so I can't buy anything, right? If a person can't even receive a gift for his birthday, how can I Isn't this birthday a bit boring?"
"Won't your dad give me a gift?" Qi Xi's mother laughed, "Although it's not my birthday, your dad has given me a lot of things recently. I went to Hyatt last month to apply for a SPA card, and it will be fully charged once it is charged. 30,000, and he is very considerate to help me make an appointment every week to go to the SPA and beauty treatment one night."
Xi Wen rebuked half-complainingly and half-happily: "I told him not to spend money, and he didn't listen."
It's all right, all right, Qi Xi was also a little helpless, feeling that he was forced to eat his parents' dog food again.
It's just that although Qi Xi decided to take a step back, this time he went home and had a good meal with his father to settle the suspicion, it's a pity that Qi Ruiming didn't give her this opportunity.
He has been getting busier and busier lately. It is normal for him to go out early and return home late, and temporary business trips are even more frequent. That night, Xi Wen personally cooked a table full of dishes, but Qi Ruiming was waiting to come home later He called Qi Xi and the others not to wait for him to eat.
There was obvious disappointment on the mother's face, and Qi Xi also complained about it: "Father is also true, and he is also in his fifties, why has he been working harder and harder recently?"
Frankly speaking, although Qi Ruiming had fought hard when he was young, it was not even as good as it is now.
After hearing this, Xi Wen felt a little helpless: "Yes, in fact, our family's expenses are not large, but your father didn't know what happened. When he was forty years old, he aroused his ambition and became very hardworking. The cases he took Not too picky…”
Qi Xi was impressed by this, because in those years, Xi Wen and Qi Ruiming had many disputes over this. Xi Wen believes that as a lawyer, especially a well-off lawyer whose food and clothing problem has long been solved, he should have a certain sense of social responsibility After a little selection of clients and cases, some clients who are morally unacceptable should not just accept the business regardless of the high agency fees offered by the other party.
But my father doesn't think so. From the age of forty, he seems to have suddenly become enlightened on the desire for money, and he wants to make more money wholeheartedly. Even Qi Xi can know from the dispute between the two parents that in order to win the lawsuit, his father When operating some cases, the technique is not glorious.
But even so, Qi Xi felt that the quality of life of the family hadn't improved because of his father's desperate efforts to make money. They even lived more frugally than ordinary well-off families.
After holding back for so many years, Qi Xi finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked the question he had been asking all along.
"Mom, why do you think Dad is so desperate for money? Don't people earn money to live a better life? Money is just a tool, not an end. You shouldn't give up life just to make money. This is putting the cart before the horse. He said that the money in the future would be reserved for me to spend, but when I really needed to spend money to study abroad, I didn’t see my father take it out.”
Xi Wen was still talking for Qi Ruiming, hoping to resolve the quarrel between Qi Xi and Qi Ruiming: "Your father came here to hope that you would not be too tired, and secondly, if you go abroad, you will stay abroad. We don’t have anyone to accompany us when we’re old, so you have to forgive your dad’s selfishness. I’m a full-time wife and he works as a lawyer. In the future, when you get old and retire, you won’t get good retirement benefits like civil servants, so your dad wants to save some money for retirement. On this level, mom can understand him, not to mention your dad still has Your grandparents have to take care of them. If the old man gets sick, it will cost a lot. Your father came from the countryside. He suffered from having no money when he was a child. Now that he is old, he easily panics when he has no money. You are not him. Those who came out of that growing environment and era may not necessarily be able to understand his impulse to save money.”
Even though he said that, Qi Xi still felt a little resentful: "It's fine if he refuses to give me the money to study abroad, but don't lie to me, if he said earlier that he would not support me, I would have been able to apply to schools with scholarships earlier, and even Go to work early to save money, in short, you won’t be helpless like a thunderbolt from the blue sky after getting the offer…”
But complaints are complaints, Qi Xi's anger has passed, and now he is much more relieved about not being able to go to the United States. Parents are willing to support their children because of love, and they are not willing to spend money to support their children. There is indeed no shortage of anything in the basic expenses on weekdays, at least I have given myself everything a child from a well-off family should have.
What's more, what my mother said was right, lawyers earn hard money, no matter what, it's not wrong for Qi Ruiming to save some money for himself when he grows old.
It's just that Qi Xi finally figured it out, and planned to break the ice with Qi Ruiming when he went home this time. In order to have a meal together, Qi Xi and his mother didn't start eating at the normal meal point, and waited for Qi Ruiming all the time. After waiting for nearly an hour, it was almost seven o'clock when Qi Ruiming suddenly called—
"Honey, I was handling the bankruptcy and reorganization case of Zhongheng before, and suddenly something happened. I'm still in an emergency meeting with the company, and I can't come back."
Mom opened a public release, so Qi Xi could hear it clearly, because it was rare for a family of three to get together on weekends, and Xi Wen personally cooked a table of big dishes. Now that Qi Ruiming is not coming home, her face is clearly The disappointment: "Didn't I tell you? It's rare for Xixi to go home today, and I cooked a table of dishes for you."
On the other end of the phone, Qi Ruiming also said in a regretful tone: "I can't help it, I also want to go home and eat the big meal you made by yourself, but in the current situation of the client company, let alone a big meal, I'm afraid I don't have time for a meal eat."
When Xi Wen heard this, she really didn't care about Qi Ruiming's coming back. She took care of her with some worry: "Although the client's business is important, but the body is your own, no matter how busy you are, remember to eat. I'm afraid of eating in the morning." You were too busy and suddenly hungry, you stuffed some biscuits in your bag, remember to take them out to pad your stomach."
"My wife is so kind to me, I am so lucky to marry you!"
…
The two took a few photos with each other before hanging up the phone.
Not to mention, although my father is a bit patriarchal, he treats my mother very well every time. The two have been married for so many years, and my father can still make my mother blush like a girl every time of.
Qi Xi couldn't help curling her lips at her mother, expressing that she didn't see her, and in exchange Xi Wen gave her a coquettish slap.
Although Dad doesn't go home to eat, but such a sumptuous meal, Qi Xi will definitely live up to it. She ate to her heart's content, and praised her mother's cooking skills while eating, which made Xi Wen look happy, and she had long forgotten Qi Ruiming was disappointed that he couldn't go home and eat together.
After the meal, Qi Xi originally wanted to stay at home and talk to his mother later, but he didn't expect that Zhao Yiran forgot to bring the key and was waiting outside the house at the moment.
Qi Xi had no choice but to quickly pack up her things, leave the house early and rush to open the door for Zhao Yiran to save her dog's life.
In order to get back to the rented house quickly, Qi Xi took a taxi directly. She was lucky. Not long after she got in the car, it started to rain outside. If she was a few steps later, she might not even be able to get a taxi.
Once it rains, as expected, when driving on the main road, the road starts to become congested. Qi Xi was blocked at a red light. She sent Gu Yan a bored emoji, and began to look out the window in boredom. .
It was just a casual glance, but Qi Xi frowned.
Isn't the car blocked in front of him in the driveway next door to his father's car
Qi Ruiming's license plate number ends in the same date as Qi Xi's mother and his wedding anniversary, so there is absolutely no way for Qi Xi to read it wrong.
But didn't Dad say that he was busy dealing with Zhongheng's bankruptcy and reorganization case
Zhongheng is a long-established machinery company in Rongshi. The company's office address and factory buildings are in the suburbs far from the city center. It is nearly two hours' drive away from the current road, so why did my father suddenly appear here
Could it be that you have already finished the business over there, so you rushed home
But even according to Qi Ruiming's call just now, he was busy with Zhong Heng's business in an instant, and drove back immediately, in terms of time, it was not right, it was impossible for him to appear on this road in such a short time.
What's more, the road Qi Ruiming is driving now is not the way home at all.
Qi Xi's heart suddenly started beating.
She began to feel a weightless nausea, and a guess that she didn't want to believe began to form in her heart.
Will her dad...
Qi Xi felt that his whole heart was in his throat.
"Master, please follow that car."