After leaving the company, Cao Kui and I got in the car and prepared to go back to the company.
But on the way back, I suddenly received a call from my mother.
I looked at the familiar phone number displayed on the screen of my mobile phone and felt mixed emotions in my heart.
I wanted to hang up, but in the end I chose to answer. Maybe I still had the last bit of hope in my heart.
As soon as the call was connected, my mother's very urgent voice came from inside.
"Lin Qiao, did you just go to Xiao Luo's company? You also brought a large group of people to threaten him and take away his company, right?"
After hearing this, the faint fire in my heart was extinguished instantly.
I said with some self-deprecation.
"Xiao Luo's company? Steal his company? Mom, you can just deceive others, but how can you deceive yourself too?"
"I thought you were calling me for some reason. It turns out you just want to ask me for mercy, right?"
My mother continued.
"Don't worry about what I said, Lin Qiao, Xiao Luo is your brother, how could you do this to him?"
"Well, I can't explain it over the phone. You can go to the restaurant near our home now and we can meet and chat in person."
"Lin Qiao, I am your mother after all. You won't agree to such a small request, right?"
I thought for a moment, nodded and said.
"Okay, I'll be there in a minute."
After saying that, I hung up the phone directly. Cao Kui was sitting next to me the whole time and could hear the conversation between me and my mother.
he said angrily.
"How can there be such a mother in this world? Lin Qiao, your mother is so partial, how could she treat you like this!"
I smiled and said.
"It's okay, Brother Cao, I'm used to it."
"And this is good, it just allows me to see clearly what these so-called family members really look like."
"What happened before is just for me to pay the tuition. It's better than having a bigger property in the future and then being deceived by them, isn't it?"
Cao Kui looked at me in shock and said.
"Lin Qiao, your attitude is too good. If it were me, I would have killed you with the company's people."
"By the way, are you really going to see your mother soon?"
I nodded, and then Cao Kui asked the driver to stop. I looked at him with some confusion.
Cao Kui continued.
"Since it's your own family matter, I won't interfere too much. I'll just take a taxi back. You can just ask the driver to take you there."
After saying that, Cao Kui got out of the car and left. I smiled and shook my head and asked the driver to rush towards the restaurant.
I arrived at the restaurant not long after and met my mother in one of the private rooms according to the message she sent me on her phone.
Since I got out of prison, my mom and I have only seen each other a handful of times, and we certainly have nothing to talk about.
As soon as I entered the private room and sat down, she started to complain about me and kept complaining about me.
"Lin Qiao, you are my brother. What exactly did you do today? Isn't this a joke for others to see in our family!"
"And no matter what, that media company didn't fall into the hands of someone else. What difference does it make even if your brother is managing it now? It's our family's business anyway."
"Lin Qiao, you are a brother and a man, why do you have to go to Xiao Luo's company to cause trouble?"
"You have to destroy him and leave us, mother and son, homeless on the streets, are you satisfied?"
I looked at my mother calmly and said calmly.
"Mom, the people in this world who are least qualified to blame me are you and Lin Luo."
"If I had no feelings for my own brother, how could I go to jail for him?"
"If I hadn't trusted you before, why would I have handed over the company to you to manage? What chance would you have of taking my company away?"
"To tell you the truth, Mom, I went to Linluo Company today to make my words clear. I will take back everything that once belonged to me."
"The company will still be in Lin Luo's hands for a while, but it won't be long before it belongs to me again. No one can change this."
As soon as I finished speaking, I saw my mother stood up directly, then came to me and knelt down with a plop.
This shocked me, and at the same time, I was shocked and had mixed emotions.
I never thought that my mother would be able to do this for Lin Luo, kneeling down to plead for mercy for her own son.
She begged me in tears.
"Lin Qiao, please don't hurt Xiao Luo anymore, just let him go."
"Xiao Luo has been running the company conscientiously all these years since you entered. Without his efforts, the company would have been finished after you were imprisoned."
"So the company is not what it is today entirely because of his efforts. You can't ignore his efforts, right?"
"Besides, what's the matter with you being an older brother and letting your younger brother take advantage? You can't be more generous and stop worrying about the past things, can't you?"
"Just think of me as begging you. If you don't agree to my request, I will keep kneeling here!"
"Just let me kneel until I die. Anyway, I won't get up if you don't agree!"
If it were me who had just been released from prison, I would probably have softened my heart and agreed to see such a scene.
But now I have experienced so many things, both my character and my mind have been tempered.
I’m not heartless, I’ve just seen big winds and waves, and I’ve seen through people’s hearts.
Until now, I had no expression on my face and said it very calmly.
"Mom, do you know why I came to see you today? Because I still have hope for family ties and the relationship between our mother and son."
"But now I know that it was all my wishful thinking before, and I overestimated the relationship between us."
"You are Lin Luo's mother, and you are also my mother."
"But look at what you did and said just now."
"We have met a few times since I was released from prison, but after you met me, you had no intention of asking me how I was doing during this time, nor did you even care about me."
"But you can kneel down and beg me to let him go for Lin Luo, and beg me not to cause trouble for him again."
"Then how should I calculate my previous contributions? I spent three years in jail for Lin Luo, which stained my life and almost ruined my entire life. How should I calculate it?"
"He didn't know how to repay kindness. Instead, he repaid kindness with hatred. He took away my company, my property, and even my woman. How should we deal with these things?"
"Mom, I can accept your partiality, but I can't accept your partiality to this extent."
"You don't treat me as your son or as a human being at all!"
