allonlinenovel Chapter 281 Father Zhu is Here
Chapter 281 Father Zhu is Here
Zhu Kai did not answer Zheng's mother's question, but the other party had already gotten the answer from his face.
Ugh!
Mother Zheng sighed heavily and then helped Zhu Kai up.
Zhu Kai's expression relaxed a lot, and he felt a little excited inside. He thought that Zheng's mother was moved by him.
"You don't have to kneel before me. Even if you kowtow until your head is broken and bleeding, I will not agree to you two being together..."
"Can you... tell me why?"
Mother Zheng looked at the heart-shaped mole on the man's ear, her expression difficult to discern. She slowly turned her face to the other side and said in a cold tone:
"I heard from Zheng Yi that you don't even have the money to buy a house. Do you want my daughter to live in rent for the rest of her life?"
Zhu Kai didn't expect this to be the reason. He had the money to buy a house, but...
"Auntie, please listen to my explanation... I..."
"Don't say anymore. I don't want to hear it! No means no!"
Aunt Zheng was right. He did not have any reassuring evidence in his hands. After thinking for a moment, the man did not continue to persuade Zheng's mother. Instead, he assured her:
"Auntie, I will prove it to you!"
Zheng Lifan looked at the young man in front of him and thought from the bottom of his heart that he was very good, better than any other man in the world, but...
Now all she could do was to separate them for a while, and let her be the bad guy! After a while, when their feelings faded, she would explain to them.
The two sat facing each other, each with their own thoughts, until Zhu Kai had to go out for work.
On the way to the subway station, Zhu Kai called his father and the call was quickly connected:
"Son! Why are you calling me so early? Don't you have to go to work today?"
His father's cheerful voice came from the other end of the phone, which made Zhu Kai feel a little relieved.
"Dad, can I borrow some money from you?"
Zhu Gaoyuan, who was drinking tea with his friends, heard his son's timid voice, silently put down his teacup, and replied solemnly:
"Just go to work and wait for my news."
After saying this, Zhu Gaoyuan hung up the phone.
"Where are you going, Lao Zhu? You haven't finished your tea yet!" a short and fat middle-aged man shouted.
"No more drinking, I have to go do something urgent!"
His son never opens his mouth to him easily, because when he does, it's always something big.
Although the other party did not specify what the money was needed for, Zhu Gaoyuan, as a father, could probably guess that it was for buying a house and getting married with his future daughter-in-law.
The marriages of young people nowadays are not like those in the past. Back then, they could get married with 500 or 5,000 yuan, but now... you can't do anything without money!
Ever since Zhu Kai started dating, he has repeatedly offered to sponsor the couple to buy a house, but his son insisted that he could handle it and asked him to save the money for his retirement.
Zhu Gaoyuan felt that as a bachelor, one man's food could feed the whole family, so why would he need so much money?
Therefore, he prepared a card for his son early on, and usually deposited the money he earned from work into this card. It was not a lot, not a little, but it could at least contribute to the house they would buy for their marriage.
Zhu Gaoyuan went home, packed his luggage, put his bank card in his wallet, stuffed the wallet into the inside pocket of his coat, and hurried to the high-speed rail station.
During lunch, Zhu Kai walked out of the office and prepared to call his father again. When they talked in the morning, the other party hung up the phone before he could finish his words.
There were only ten minutes left before the department meeting, and he had been busy non-stop, and only now could he catch his breath.
The man dialed the number in the address book, but the call was not connected. Zhu Kai frowned until he heard a dead tone in the receiver, and then he put down the phone.
He looked out the window. The sky was covered with dark clouds and the wind was blowing hard. A storm was about to come.
"son!"
Zhu Kai was about to send a message to his girlfriend, asking her to remember to bring an umbrella after get off work, but he seemed to hear his father's voice in his ears. He looked around but did not see Zhu Gaoyuan. He shook his head slightly and focused his gaze back on the chat interface with Zheng Yi.
"Son!" Zhu Gaoyuan ran out from behind two workers carrying large boxes and waved his hand in Zhu Kai's direction. "Son! Why aren't you excited to see your dad?"
Zhu Kai only then realized that he had heard correctly, his father really came to see him!
"Dad! Why are you here?" Zhu Kai took a few steps forward, hugged the other's shoulders, and leaned his chin on his father's shoulder. All the strength in his body was gone at once, and he felt limp.
It felt as if a heavy rock was pressing down on Zhu's father's shoulders, causing his entire body to tilt to the left. He supported himself with all his strength, holding his son with one hand and patting his son's back steadily and rhythmically with the other hand.
After a long time, Zhu Kai's head left his father's shoulder, and he stood up straight with a small distance between him and his father. The man's face was full of shyness, and he didn't dare to meet Zhu's father's eyes.
"Son, do you need money to buy a house?"
Zhu Kai and his father's eyes met in the air. The man hesitated for a moment and admitted:
"Yes, Zheng Yi's mother is here, and she said..."
"What?" Father Zhu interrupted his son. "My future mother-in-law is here? You should be visiting her, why did you let her visit you first?"
Zhu's father remembered that Zhu Kai had brought Zheng Yi back to his hometown before, and he felt very uncomfortable. He thought that he and his son had not done a good job and had not made Zheng Yi's family feel their sincerity.
The man should visit the woman's family first, but their family did the opposite and even let the woman's parents come first.
Thinking of this, Zhu's father could not wait any longer and scolded his son:
"We are so ignorant of etiquette!"
"Don't even bother going to work this afternoon. Come home with me now. I want to personally apologize to my future mother-in-law!"
After Mr. Zhu finished speaking, he walked towards the elevator with his hands behind his back without waiting for Zhu Kai to answer.
Zhu Kai panicked and chased after him quickly.
"Dad! Wait for me!"
In the taxi, Zhu's father had a gloomy face. Zhu Kai asked cautiously:
"Dad, shouldn't we go buy something first? It's your first meeting, so you can't go empty-handed, right?"
Father Zhu glanced at his son, his expression softened slightly, and he said "hmm" softly.
There is a shopping mall near Zhu Kai and Zheng Yi's rental house. Zhu Kai took his father to choose gifts on the first floor. Zhu Kai was mainly the only one choosing. Zhu's father asked Zhu Kai to make the decision himself and said that he had only one request, which was not to buy anything too cheap!
While Zhu Kai was choosing a gift, Zhu's father walked to the door of the store to take a breath.
Suddenly, a familiar figure came into view, and he shouted in surprise:
"Li...Li Fan?"