After spending three yuan on the roadside and ordering a mango milkshake, Jiang Chen began to make calculations in his mind.
After all, their county is a small place, and the most popular ones are barbecue restaurants and foot-washing towns. If they want to take advantage of the future information age, they still have to go to big cities.
Especially after 2014.
At that time, 4G network and mobile payment had just emerged, and related industries were mushrooming like mushrooms after a spring rain. It was a good time to make a lot of money.
Jiang Chen thought about it and stopped in front of a Sichuan restaurant called "Chunxing". Jiang Chen stopped and waved to the woman in the room who was settling accounts.
"Mom, I'm back!"
This is a small restaurant opened by his parents, near a construction site. Because of its good taste, it is very popular among workers and has always been profitable.
The woman who settled the accounts had permed curly hair and gentle eyebrows. When she saw Jiang Chen standing at the door, she put down her calculator and looked at her son at the door. She didn't even take off her apron and hurried over.
"Tell me the truth, where did you go tonight?" The words sounded fierce, but Jiang's mother had a smile on her face.
Jiang Chen looks like his mother, with gentle eyebrows and graceful demeanor.
"My classmate is sick, I'm going to see her." Jiang Chen put his schoolbag on the chair and asked.
"Where's my dad?"
"He went out to buy goods and hasn't come back yet. I've prepared the soy sauce fried rice. Whatever dishes you want to eat, mom will cook them for you."
"Whatever, I like to eat whatever mom makes."
Jiang Chen looked at his still young mother, looking at the beautiful curly hair, his eyes lit up.
When I was depressed, my family's restaurant was losing money.
My mother has never permed her hair since then. There are a lot of gray hairs on her originally dark hair, and there are many wrinkles at the corners of her eyes. She looks ten years older than her sisters of the same age.
"It's not easy to cook whatever you want. Mom will open the fire. You can look at the menu and see what you want to eat."
Sun Yuhong pointed to the menu on the wall and said.
Jiang Chen looked at the big red menu on the wall, hesitated, and said, "Then... let's make fried shredded potatoes, and you can watch the rest."
"Okay." Sun Yuhong just entered the kitchen and found Jiang Chen coming in together, so she asked.
"Son, why did you come in?"
"I'll help mom." Jiang Chen said with a smile.
"Mom, are you using you to beat me? This kitchen is full of gas and kitchen knives. Don't hurt you. Go sit and wait for dinner." Sun Yuhong pushed Jiang Chen.
"You are just looking down on me, Mom, your son can also cook."
Jiang Chen washed his hands, picked up the kitchen knife and cut up the potatoes.
Although she is not as skilled as Sun Yuhong in knife skills, she cuts the shreds evenly and does not look like a novice at all.
"Is this still taught in school?" Sun Yuhong was a little surprised when she looked at Jiang Chen's evenly cut pieces.
"Doesn't this mean that I follow my mother? My sword skills are top-notch!" Jiang Chen said with a smile.
"Go, go, go, if you don't learn something good, what's the use of learning to chop vegetables? Do you want to chop vegetables all your life?"
Sun Yuhong stretched out her hand to chase Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen ignored it and continued cutting the potatoes into shreds.
"That's enough, that's enough. Mom will do the rest. You don't know how to fry."
Jiang Chen nodded, walked out the door obediently, and sat on his seat waiting for the food to be served.
After a while, Sun Yuhong put the food on the table and sat opposite Jiang Chen, watching her son eat. His eyes narrowed into crescent moons, filled with love for his son.
"How's it going son, is it delicious?"
"It's delicious!" Jiang Chen hadn't eaten soy sauce fried rice for a long time, so he ate most of it in just three bites.
"Eat slowly and don't choke. Just like your father, he doesn't eat properly." Sun Yuhong said.
"I eat it so quickly because my mother made it delicious. If it were someone else who made it, I wouldn't eat it."
After Jiang Chen finished eating, he took out a tissue and wiped his mouth. Just as he was about to clear away the dishes, he was stopped by Sun Yuhong.
"etc."
"What's wrong?" Jiang Chen said a little surprised.
Sun Yuhong clicked her tongue, thought for a while and then said: "Do you have a partner?"
Jiang Chen was startled and said with a smile: "It's okay, Mom, I was just joking with you about the mobile phone my classmate borrowed."
"Then why did the girl hang up the phone after I called her just now?"
Sun Yuhong's words made Jiang Chen hesitate and cursed in his heart.
This stupid girl...either doesn't answer the phone or answers honestly that she is her classmate.
Isn't there something wrong with you when you answer the phone and then hang up?
Seeing that her son was silent, Sun Yuhong suddenly understood and said:
"But that little girl's voice is quite nice, like a silver bell. Son, you don't really like her, do you? Talk to mom."
"It's okay, Mom, we are just ordinary classmates."
Jiang Chen has long ceased to be an innocent boy, and his face did not turn red at all when faced with his mother's inquiries.
"Ordinary classmate? I don't think you are ordinary? Your teacher called mom during the day and said that you and a female classmate were on the Internet. It couldn't be someone else, right?"
Sun Yuhong persuaded with earnest words,
"Son, it doesn't matter if you study well, but don't delay other girls' studies."
"It won't be delayed... I promise." Jiang Chen said, "We really have nothing to do. She is my deskmate. If she is sick, I will go see her. It makes sense."
"It's reasonable, it's very reasonable." Sun Yuhong said with a smile, "Then this Sunday, it's reasonable for you to bring your little classmate to your house for a meal, right?"
Hearing those words, Jiang Chen almost choked on his food.
"Mom, are you serious?" Jiang Chen quickly explained, "We are really innocent..."
"Just bring it here for a look. The construction site is closed on Sunday. Mom just has time to entertain your little classmate."
"This..." Jiang Chen still hesitated.
Sun Yuhong said in an irrefutable tone:
"If you don't bring it, Mom really thinks that you are the object of both. By then, tell your dad, see if your dad will not beat you."
When Jiang Chen heard about Father Jiang, he immediately softened: "This...Mom, is there no room for negotiation..."
"Just bring it here. Mom will treat her like an ordinary classmate and treat her well, okay?"
Jiang Chen really couldn't resist Jiang Mu, so after much hesitation, he had no choice but to nod.
"Okay, Mom, I'll talk to her..."
"Hey, do you want to study tonight?" Sun Yuhong said with a smile on her face.
"Yeah." Jiang Chen nodded.
"Then you go home. Mom will go back after settling the accounts."
…
the next day.
Han Yutong's family.
Jiang Chen tactfully expressed Jiang's mother's desire to see Han Yutong and pushed the millet porridge with candied dates in front of Han Yutong's face, Jiang Chen said.
"Look at this... can you agree to it?"
As the saying goes, you should eat someone's soft tongue, but Han Yutong is obviously not one of them.
Her bright little mouth opened and closed as she ate the millet porridge Jiang Chen bought, and flatly refused: "No, I have to study on Sunday."
"Study during the day, and I will take you to my house for dinner at night." Jiang Chen quickly added.
"I have to review at home in the evening. Now I have a lot of study and workload. How can I have time to go to your house for dinner?"
Jiang Chen's old face darkened.
Still studying?
I usually do more than 400 simulations, so I really consider myself a top student, right?
He thought so in his heart, but on the surface, Jiang Chen maintained his usual method of guidance.
"If you don't go, my mother will really misunderstand that we are dating... Do you think this won't have a good impact on you?"
"What's the matter? She's not my mother and can't control me."
Han Yutong saw through the loopholes in the other party's words at a glance and didn't care.
She was still sulking about what happened to Jiang Chen yesterday, and now that he came to her door, couldn't she be more careful?
I have to make him beg me!
