When she got home, my mother dropped her bag, changed into slippers, and went into the kitchen to cook without even having time to change her clothes.
I was so bored that I didn't dare turn on the TV. I took out the exercises from my schoolbag on the coffee table in the living room and started doing them.
I was not qualified to watch TV because I didn't rank in the top ten in the monthly exam. There were few times when I didn't know what was good for me and ended up getting scolded by my mother. I learned my lesson.
Not long after, I faintly heard some sounds that were not related to cooking coming from the kitchen, so I pricked up my ears to listen.
"Gao Tianxiang, you're dreaming! Even if I, Lin Mengxi, have to be a widow for the rest of my life, will never marry a sinister villain like you!"
Gao Tianxiang, it's him again.
After my mother said this, she didn't say anything else. I didn't hear what she said before, but it was probably some threats from the other party to my mother.
I know some of the details about him.
Gao Tianxiang is the president of Mingshuo Company. When he was young, he was my mother's suitor, but unfortunately he was defeated by my father. However, he has always been single. Ten years ago, my father died in a car accident, and he started pursuing my mother again. My mother has always been strong and did not agree. Not to mention that my mother wanted to maintain her dignity, even if she wanted to find a support, she would never choose someone like Gao Tianxiang.
When he was young, Gao Tianxiang's pursuit of my mother was very despicable. He often secretly made things difficult for my father. Now he has even worsened and often obstructed my mother's company, both openly and secretly. The instigator of this Mingshuo Liankou incident was Gao Tianxiang. He wanted to force my mother to marry him by threatening to destroy my mother's company.
This kind of thing happened more than once or twice. In the past, my mother had always been able to turn danger into safety with her good psychological quality and coping ability, but this time, it seemed to have really hit my mother's weak spot, leaving her unable to resist.
Xia Shi and Ming Shuo are both large cosmetics companies in Shanghai, with a combined value of hundreds of millions.
This time, Ming Shuo's newly developed Lian Kou completely overwhelms Xia Shi's newly launched Mei Fang a month ago. No matter from which aspect of this war, Xia Shi will undoubtedly lose.
However, there are many doubts here. Why did Mingshuo, which has always lagged behind Xia Shi in product research and development, suddenly possess advanced R&D capabilities?
Why did his cousin Xia Taiming, a director who had always been able to deal with any challenge, suddenly become like a lost soul and unable to do anything? A lean camel is bigger than a horse, so at the very least, he was at least helpless.
As I was thinking, I didn't realize that my mother had already prepared the meal and brought it to the table.
"Mingming, come over for dinner."
There was a hint of fatigue in my mother's voice. The troubles that had come one after another in recent days had really overwhelmed her.
I didn't dare to say anything. I obediently climbed onto the stool next to the table, picked up my bowl and chopsticks and started eating.
Two dishes and one soup, well-matched, delicious and tasty. My mother's cooking skills are really amazing. She might even get the title of "the most beautiful cook" if she participates in a food show.
I was eating heartily when my mother suddenly put down her chopsticks and said weakly, "I'm full. If you don't want to eat anymore, just leave it here. I'll pick it up tomorrow."
Then she staggered up the stairs as if she had lost her soul.
My mother is a very frugal person. This is a habit she kept from the time she lived with my father. We don't have a nanny or maid at home. She is responsible for the daily chores such as washing dishes, cooking, and cleaning. Occasionally, when i want to help, she won't let me, saying, "Students should spend their time on studying and not think about other things."
While I was annoyed at my mother's stubbornness, I also understood that she was doing this for my own good. She hoped that I could spend all my time on studying. After all, I am a student now and my top priority is studying.
After my mother went upstairs, I had almost finished my meal. I left some food in an insulated box so that my mother could eat it if she was hungry in the middle of the night. Microwave ovens are unhealthy. Then, I rarely went against my mother's request and forced myself to wash the dishes and clean the kitchen.
This time, my mother is having a harder time than ever before. I hope I can share some of the burden with her. I don't want to stand by and watch her bear it all alone.
'Mom, I have grown up now. Let me protect you from the wind and rain', i want to say this to my mom.
I went upstairs, said hello to my mother as I passed by her room, and then went into my own room.
My mother has always never entered my room without my permission, saying that she was afraid of disturbing me while studying. She would knock on the door every time, which also gave me some privacy.
Because I often go to my mother's company, I have also learned some knowledge about cosmetics. It is not just a superficial knowledge, but I have some real research and insights. I once made several cosmetics by myself and gave them to the female classmates and teachers in the class. Because they knew that I was the son of the chairman of Xia Shi Company, even if I made them myself, because of the halo of Xia Shi Company, they all scrambled for them. Afterwards, it was proved that my results were not without merit. They were all very satisfied with the cosmetics I gave them. After that, I would give them my research results from time to time for trial. Gradually, I became familiar with the girls in the class and the female teachers in the school.
Maybe this is also the reason why the girl named Chen Xixuan confessed to me a few days ago. She didn't like me, but my craftsmanship.
But who knows, I don't care, the only person I care about is my mom.
Knowing that my mother would not enter my room without permission, I took out the bottles and jars from the cabinet in my room and started my research as usual.
In fact, what my mother said about "ignoring me" has no practical meaning. Even if she pays attention to me, she rarely talks to me in life. It's nothing more than some daily things like getting up, eating, saying hello, etc. But she found that this seems to be very useful to me. Whenever she uses this punishment on me, some of my bad habits will be corrected and my declining grades will improve. What she doesn't know is that I am indulging her.
I love my mother, so I am willing to cooperate with her. This is a white lie.
You can also call me a licker.
I'm happy with it anyway.
Around nine o'clock, my mother passed by my room and said to me through the door, "Mingming, Mom is going to take a shower. Don't study too late and don't miss out on rest, otherwise you won't be in good spirits the next day, and that won't make up for it.Go to bed early!"
Then she went into the bathroom on the same floor.
My mother sleeps in the innermost master bedroom on the second floor, which has her own bathroom, but that means she has to run two electric water heaters at the same time, which wastes electricity. So since my father left, she has been sharing the common bathroom on the same floor with me.
I waited quietly for my mother to finish taking a shower. When she returned to her room, she greeted me and urged me to take a shower and go to bed quickly.
She usually doesn't deliberately watch whether I stay up late. Occasionally, when she wants to drink water or go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, she will check whether the lights in my room are turned off. Because she won't enter my room, she doesn't know if I stay up late with the lights off. But generally, I don't stay up late unless something happens.
But I know that my mother stays up late almost every day, especially in recent days when the Mingshuo Liankou incident broke out. She is busy until three or four o'clock every night before going to bed, and has to get up before seven o'clock the next day to go to the company to handle company affairs.
Every night I can hear the sound of her busy work in the room, and the sound of some phone calls. Usually there is no "good news" or the like, but usually "bad news". Then, as the chairman, she comforts her subordinates not to lose their composure, and after hanging up the phone, she hits the pillow in the room to vent her anger.
This is my mother, a silly woman who is fragile inside but has to pretend to be strong.
After tinkering with it for a long time i noticed, except for doing some homework at the beginning when I was waiting for my mother to cook in the living room on the first floor, I didn't turn a page after returning to my room.
But I was not panicked at all, because the reason why I fell out of the top ten in this monthly exam was not because I didn't study hard or anything, but because I stayed up late every night in the few days before the exam to complete a cosmetic product I created, which made me not in good spirits. I dozed off during the math test, so my score dropped.
As we all know, the top ten students in the grade are almost within a few points of each other. If I fail a subject, I will naturally fall out of the top ten.
Otherwise, I was generally confident that I could make it into the top five, but out of habit, in order to hide it, I usually kept my score at 7, 8 or 9, neither dropping out nor rising. My mother urged me a lot for this.
The reason I did this was to lower my mother's expectations. If I was always in danger of falling out of the top ten, then if I made it into the top ten, my mother would be very happy, and I would be confident that I could make it into the top ten.
But if I always made it into the top five, and one day my performance became unstable and I fell out of the top five, my mother would be angry and unhappy, and I would not be confident that I could make it into the top five next time.
I made a mistake in the former, but I can be confident because the top ten is not a difficult task for me who is at the top five level. But I may not be able to do the latter because that is the limit of my ability.
After my mother returned to her room, I put down the bottles and jars in my hands, took some clean clothes and went to the bathroom on the floor.
As usual, my mother threw the underwear,
stockings and other items that she had not had time to wash by hand onto the stainless steel rack on the toilet wall.
Looking at the translucent flesh-colored pantyhose, sexy white lace bra, and white lace panties that my mother was wearing today, lying quietly on the steel frame in front of me at this moment, my eyes, as usual, ignited a flame.