Chapter 38: You Are So Filial, Dad
"cheers!"
Five glasses filled with Coke clinked together, making a crisp sound.
"Congratulations, Director He!"
Xu Cheng's words were as sweet as honey, and He Ying smiled happily, "Mom, I'm only the deputy director, I'm still far from being the director."
Xu Jianghe also nodded beside him, "Yes, congratulations to Deputy Director He."
"Hehehe." He Ying's body trembled slightly, and her smile was very forced. "Old Xu, go wash these two dishes for me."
Xu Jianghe stopped his chopsticks as he was about to pick up a piece of prawn. "Ah? Let's go after we finish eating. Why wash the dishes now? The food will get cold soon."
He Ying's eyes narrowed into a slit, "Do you want to wash?"
Xu Jianghe immediately stood up and rushed into the kitchen with a plate, hearing the sound of running water.
Xu Cheng shook his head. Young, that’s too young!
Yu Yu huddled in the corner and watched silently, swallowing his saliva.
Sure enough, the gentle Aunt He is fake...
Lin Wanzhou's little mouth never stopped talking. She usually paid great attention to table manners at home, but now she was too lazy to even peel the shrimps when eating them. She just cut off the heads and tails and stuffed them directly into her mouth.
Xu Cheng took out a tissue and wiped the oil stains from the corners of her mouth. "Lin Wanzhou, please be more ladylike when you eat at our house. Don't show off your foodie spirit so easily."
"whee."
She smiled embarrassedly, then remembered something and asked.
"Xu Cheng, how are your driving skills?"
Xu Cheng looked at her and said, "I was driving very fast, what's wrong?"
Lin Wanzhou scratched his head. "What do you mean by fast? Can you ride a bicycle? My father bought me a bicycle. You can teach me how to ride it later."
Xu Jianghe wiped the water off his hands, sat down at the table, and said, "Bicycle, let him teach you. Xu Cheng can ride one now. Your aunt He and I haven't taught him yet, but he can ride a big bike, and he rides it very well."
"Then let's go to Bayi Square to learn later." Xu Cheng said.
The matter of teaching Lin Wanzhou to ride a bike was thus finalized.
Xu Jianghe had just picked up two pieces of food with chopsticks and had not yet enjoyed the carnival of his taste buds when he heard Xu Cheng's very harsh words.
"Mom, you are the deputy director, so you are at the deputy section level, right? What's Dad's level? Dad can't be lower than you, right? No way, no way?"
Xu Jianghe's veins jumped for unknown reasons, but he still tried to maintain an elegant smile in front of the child.
He Ying glanced at her husband awkwardly, not wanting to lose face in front of his child, so she said tactfully, "Your father's rank is not as high as mine for the time being..."
"Really? Dad doesn't make as much money as you do, does he?" Xu Cheng spoke in the noisy tone of a naughty child.
After getting He Ying's confirmation again, Xu Cheng's aggression gradually increased, imitating Crayon Shin-chan's meanness, " Doesn't mean that Daddy still needs to rely on Mom for support? You have hands and feet but still need a woman to support you. How embarrassing for a man, don't you think so, Lin Wanzhou?"
Lin Wanzhou shook his head and said to Xu Cheng seriously, "You can't talk about your uncle like that, Xu Cheng! It's too much!"
Xu Jianghe looked at Lin Wanzhou with satisfaction. As expected, the little girl was sensible, while the little boy was not considerate of his parents at all.
"Uncle is just not as capable as Aunt He. How can you casually say that uncle is embarrassing for a man?"
"Cough, cough, cough..." Xu Jianghe started coughing violently, just like a wounded person lying at the scene of a car accident, being crushed a second time by the oncoming ambulance.
He Ying looked at him with concern, "Eat slowly, is there a fish bone stuck in your throat?"
Xu Jianghe waved his hands to indicate that he was fine, but Xu Cheng's torture was obviously more than that. He looked at the corner of the dining table again, "Yu Yu, what do you think?"
Yu Yu was startled when he was named, and said in a whisper, "I, I think... Lin Wanzhou is right!"
"Oh, my father is such a loser..."
"Mom, how about I take your last name and call myself He Cheng, or let dad take my child's last name. It's really embarrassing to have a father like this."
The chicken wing bone in Xu Jianghe's hand broke easily with a snap. His face became very hot and his hand involuntarily touched the seven wolves on his waist.
This is weird. Why do I want to be violent towards this kid so much today?
He Ying also frowned, "Xu Cheng, how can you say that about your father? That's out of line!"
Xu Cheng pretended to be innocent and picked at the food in the bowl. "That's obviously it. I just can't understand how Dad can be so ordinary and so confident..."
Xu Jianghe coughed twice and put his chopsticks on the bowl.
"Ahem, well, I'm full."
"What are you doing, Old Xu? You only ate so little..."
Xu Jianghe forced a smile and explained, "The food is too hot. I'm going to the study to calm down."
Xu Cheng said quietly at the dining table, "Dad, why don't you stay in the refrigerator for a while? It will cool down faster there."
Xu Jianghe staggered and almost fell.
You little bastard, wait and see how I, your dad, will teach you a lesson after you finish your midterm exam!
Lin Wanzhou looked at He Ying with a worried look on her face, "Aunt He, is uncle angry with me? I, I didn't mean it..."
Yu Yu was also feeling very uneasy in his seat. If he had known earlier, he would have said that Xu Cheng was right.
Xu Cheng’s house is so scary!
He Ying explained with a smile, "No, how could uncle be angry with you? It's just that my stomach is not feeling well today..."
Xu Cheng gnawed at the chicken leg in his hand and muttered, "Who is he angry with? Putting aside the facts, is he really not at fault at all..."
Xu Cheng's boxing skills, which were full of sparks, lightning and critical hits, really dealt a heavy blow to Xu Jianghe, but they were also very effective.
In the next few days, although he did it very covertly, Xu Cheng still found out that Xu Jianghe secretly bought the iriver audio triangle, which is now regarded as a masterpiece, and the MPMan F10, which is known as the pioneer of MP3, and studied them secretly in the study every day.
Finally you are willing to follow the path your son has pointed out for you!
Xu Jianghe originally came from an engineering background. Before he went to the marketing department, he had been working in the production department of Jing'an Communications. He was very skilled in technology. Xu Cheng remembered that after he was laid off in his previous life, he moved around several times and finally opened a mobile phone repair shop. His business was good, and in the new media era he often shot short videos of repairing mobile phones.
Seeing his father working so hard, Xu Cheng was as pleased as an old father who saw his son still studying at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. Although he knew that it would be difficult to get things done in the bloated system of state-owned enterprises, for there was a thing called Feixun later.
Feixun came out earlier than WeChat. In the early days of smartphones, it was almost one of the must-have software for installation. Some colleges and universities even directly equipped students with a Feixun account when they enrolled. Its functions were very creative and forward-looking, almost integrating the later WeChat, QQ, Weibo...
But unfortunately, it is very difficult to expect a large fruit-funded company to carry out breakthrough projects. Not to mention the risks of innovative projects, just the internal struggles will consume all the energy, and eventually this thing failed.
So Xu Cheng could probably guess that his father wanted to lie down and rest, maybe because he was not strong enough and faced many obstacles, or maybe he just got things done and the cake was taken away by others.
But if we do it, there is a glimmer of hope. If we don't do it, there is no chance. The resistance of Jing'an Communication can't be greater than that of China Mobile...
"Dad, don't worry, your son will always be your solid support!" Xu Cheng showed a fatherly look at the corner of his mouth.
