Quick Wear: The heroine refuses to be in love

Chapter 827 Parents Who Don't Understand (2)

But Xu Jinhuan wasn't around, so there was nothing she could do about it.

Du Lan was furious and powerless, and when Xu Shoucheng came home from get off work, she complained to him.

Xu Shouchang was also angry, but more than that, he felt helpless. He sighed and said, "What can we do? We can't exactly go to her workplace to look for her, can we?"

He has to go to work. Du Lan has never even left the city, let alone the province. What if she gets lost after she goes out?

After thinking for a while, Du Lan said, "I'll go to my sister tomorrow and ask her to think of a solution. She's smart, she'll definitely have a way."

"Then I'll ask my older brother about it tomorrow."

Xu Shoucheng thought of his older brother's daughter, Wenwen, who dropped out of school before finishing junior high. After a few years away, she earned enough to buy a new house for her family. She got married the year before last, and left all the dowry to her family. If only he had learned from his older brother back then, he might not have to work so hard now.

Xu Shoucheng regretted it more and more. He sighed and said, "We should have let Huanhuan and Wenwen go to work together. It would have saved us money and they could have earned money for the family."

Thinking about this, Du Lan gritted her teeth: "We were deceived by her back then. She kept saying that after graduating from university, she would definitely take good care of us, buy us gold, and buy us cars. But now we've been working for so long and haven't seen a single penny. She even blocked us."

Du Lan grew angrier the more she thought about it, until her chest started to ache.

She sat down on the sofa, rubbing her chest repeatedly.

Seeing this, Xu Shoucheng poured her a glass of water, then sat down and picked up a cigarette to smoke, sighing as he did so.

"How could we, two honest men, have given birth to such a cunning daughter? It's truly a misfortune for our family!"

The couple talked until late at night before finally going to sleep.

The next day, when Du Lan woke up, Xu Shoucheng had already gone to work.

She didn't eat anything and went straight to her sister's house.

Tell her what has happened during this time.

Du Yan almost laughed.

Ever since she married Du Lan, she has been jealous of Du Lan, whose husband dotes on her and whose children are well-behaved.

Especially since her own children didn't get into university and had to go out to work, while Du Lan's two children did get into university.

She became even more jealous, and the jealousy made her feel terrible.

"Then you'll have to threaten to kill yourself. They're already blocking you now, but when you get older and need someone to take care of you, they'll ignore you even more."

Du Yan spoke in a sincere tone:

"You need to think about your future and stop spoiling them, or you'll regret it later."

"Just imagine, when you get old and can't move, lying in bed, no one will bring you food. Isn't that terrible? Isn't that painful?"

Du Yan looked at her and asked.

Du Lan clutched her chest. How could she not feel terrible? She felt like she was dying.

She had lived a respectable life, but she never expected her later years to be so tragic.

So when she got home, she borrowed her neighbor's phone to call Xu Jinhuan, saying that she had fallen seriously ill and that Xu Jinhuan should come back immediately.

Xu Jinhuan: "Mom, are you faking illness? Your tone is off; you're faking it."

She scolded, "Mom, you're so inconsiderate! I'm at work right now. Okay, if there's nothing else, I'm hanging up."

Du Lan was so angry she wanted to smash her phone. That brat is so cunning.

Xu Jinhuan hung up the phone and set his phone to "Do Not Disturb" for unknown calls.

She didn't want to answer Du Lan's calls anymore; they were too annoying.

Du Lan then went to her sister's house for help.

Du Yan hadn't expected Xu Jinhuan to be so clever.

I guessed it right away.

Du Yan thought for a moment and said, "Then you should really do it. If you give her those sleeping pills, she should believe you, right?"

Du Lan was startled and looked at her in disbelief: "I don't want to die!"

Du Yan cursed him as an idiot in her heart, but patiently explained, "I'm not telling you to really die, I'm just telling you to eat less. I'll take you to the hospital and the doctor will give you a stomach pump. You'll be fine."

Du Lan was still a little hesitant, and Du Yan noticed it and said, "If you're still hesitant, then forget it. Don't come to me about this again."

Du Lan said with great difficulty, "Is there any other way? I really don't want to risk my life."

Du Yan rolled her eyes: "I can't think of anything, you figure it out yourself."

As she spoke, she got up to wash her own clothes.

Du Lan thought about it for a long time but still couldn't make up her mind. Before leaving, she said to Du Yan, "I'll go back and discuss it with my man."

"Then go ahead." Du Yan didn't even bother to look at her. Her older sister was good for nothing, and she didn't know how she was so lucky to have two college students as children.

Du Lan kept thinking about this after returning home, and as soon as Xu Shoucheng came back, she told him about it.

Xu Shouchang frowned, somewhat disapproving: "What if something goes wrong? What will we do then?"

Du Lan was furious: "I wanted to fake being sick, but that brat wouldn't believe me."

"Is there any other way?" Xu Shoucheng asked again.

Du Lan shook her head.

That evening, Xu Shoucheng racked his brains and came up with an idea: "When she comes home for the New Year, we'll just lock her up at home and force her to get married."

"This...this probably won't work, will it? Marriage is free now, if we do this, won't the police arrest us?"

Du Lan was a little worried; she didn't want to end up in jail at her age.

Xu Shoucheng waved his hand and said in a very certain tone, "Don't worry about this. We are her parents. If we go in, she will lose face too. And Xiaoming, he probably doesn't want us to go in either. He will try to persuade us to stay."

Hearing this, Du Lan patted his thigh and made up his mind: "Then let's do it this way!"

To their surprise, Xu Jinhuan did not go home for the Chinese New Year.

At first, the two thought she would come back on New Year's Eve, but they waited until dark and she still hadn't returned.

They still held a sliver of hope on the first day of the Lunar New Year, but it still didn't come. The two of them were so angry that they started cursing at home.

Xu Ming hadn't expected his sister to be so resolute and actually refuse to come back.

He wanted to call and try to persuade her, but as soon as he picked up his phone, he remembered that his sister had blocked him, not only his phone number but also all other ways to contact him.

“You can’t follow your sister’s example. After studying for so many years, you can’t even do basic filial piety. People will talk behind your back.” Du Lan stared at Xu Ming and said.

Xu Ming nodded, and after a while asked, "Mom, did you say something to my sister?"

Otherwise, given his sister's personality, she wouldn't have blocked the whole family.

"What can I say?" Du Lan couldn't help but shout. "She did all the talking, saying I'm incompetent and have lived this long for nothing."

Xu Ming hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

This doesn't sound like something his sister would say at all.

Others might not know, but surely he, as the younger brother, knows?

Although his sister is sometimes like a hedgehog, she does it for the good of the family and doesn't want her parents to be taken advantage of outside.

Du Lan was furious. Several people had asked her why she hadn't seen her daughter when she went out today, and she had to make excuses for that brat, saying that she was busy with work and couldn't come back for the Chinese New Year this year.

Du Lan grew angrier the more she thought about it, and said to her husband, "Let's go find her! We can't just let her get away with this."

Xu Shoucheng said in surprise, "I have to go to work in a few days."

“Take a few days off, and we’ll go together.” Du Lan’s attitude was very firm. “We must teach her a good lesson and let her know what she can and cannot do.”

Xu Shoucheng sighed, "Then I'll give it a try!"

He was also angered by Xu Jinhuan. Not only did Xu not come home for the New Year, but he didn't even make a phone call.

At Du Lan's request, Xu Shoucheng called his superior to ask for leave.

"What's up?" the leader asked casually.

"..." Xu Shoucheng hesitated for a long time before finally saying, "Family matters."

"How many days are you taking leave?" the leader asked again.

“A week,” Xu Shoucheng said somewhat uncertainly.

"That's fine."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Shouchang felt a little uneasy. "What if President Li gets angry?"

He dared not offend these leaders.

"If you're angry, then be angry. Even if he fires you, you can find another job. There are plenty of jobs in the world," Du Lan said nonchalantly.

Xu Shouchang: !!!

If that's really the case, why don't you go to work?

Of course, he wouldn't dare say such a thing.

"Since you've decided to go, go as soon as possible. Buy the tickets now, and we'll leave tomorrow."

Xu Ming, who was standing to the side, was shocked: "What am I going to do if you leave?"

If I leave him home alone, it's better if he doesn't come back at all.

Du Lan hesitated for a moment before making a decision: "You're coming with us."

She and her husband were not very knowledgeable, but their son was different; he was a college student and had a lot of experience.

Xu Ming hesitated.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Du Lan assumed he was unwilling and complained somewhat, "I'm not happy about it."

"You child, you can't even handle such a small thing. What can we expect from you when your father and I get old?"

Xu Ming had no choice but to nod: "Then let's go!"

The three of them set off early the next morning and took a train for a day and a night before arriving in the city where Xu Jinhuan lived.

Once they landed, the three of them were momentarily at a loss for where to go, because it was only then that they realized they didn't know where Xu Jinhuan's company was.

Xu Ming was speechless for a moment: "Didn't you know before?"

"That brat didn't tell me!" Du Lan slapped her thigh in frustration.

Xu Ming took a deep breath and said, "What do we do now? She's blocked us all, so we can't ask her anything."

Du Lan said, "Call her friend and ask."

Xu Ming countered, "Do you and Dad know her friend's phone number?"

Du Lan was speechless for a moment; she really didn't know.

After thinking for a long time, the three of them decided to call their relatives, children who were about the same age as Xu Jinhuan, and ask them if they knew anything about it.

The first person I thought of was Xu Wen.

Xu Wen was washing dishes when she saw the caller ID. She paused for a moment, wiped her hands, and answered, asking, "Auntie, what's wrong?"

Du Lan cut to the chase and asked, "Do you know which company Huanhuan works for?"

Xu Wen honestly replied, "I don't know. The last time we chatted was on her birthday."

Since she dropped out of school to work in another city, the two have rarely been in contact.

"What's wrong?" she asked with concern, inquiring about this matter in a proper way.

“That brat didn’t go home for the New Year, so her dad and I came to find her.”

Xu Wen: !!!

Didn't you give me any prior notice?

"No, that brat blocked us a long time ago."

Du Lan no longer cares about keeping her family scandals private.

Xu Wen was a little curious, but it wasn't the right time to ask too many questions, so she forcibly suppressed her curiosity.

"So what do you do now?"

"Send her a message and ask. She shouldn't have blocked you. You two are such good friends," Du Lan said.

Xu Wen immediately agreed, but after she sent the message, she discovered that Xu Jinhuan had also blocked her.

Before the call ended, Xu Wen said directly to Du Lan on the other end, "She blocked me too."

Du Lan was furious. "What is she trying to do? Deleting us isn't enough, she has to delete our relatives too? How are we supposed to face people if this gets out?"

Xu Yongcheng was also furious and kicked a roadside trash can hard.

Xu Ming stood silently to the side, not daring to speak, wondering what his mother had done to make his sister so angry.

The three of them stood there for nearly two hours until they got hungry, and then they left the station.

Looking at the various restaurants nearby, Du Lan asked Xu Ming, "Son, what do you want to eat?"

“I’m fine with anything,” Xu Ming said obediently.

He dared not be disobedient; his parents were like two ticking time bombs.

After searching for a long time, Du Lan finally chose a restaurant that offered refills of noodles.

Xu Ming glanced at the price and pursed his lips.

It's not that I'm disgusted, but I just can't understand what his parents are thinking. They choose expensive restaurants when they invite others to eat, but they choose cheap ones when they eat themselves.

"What kind of noodles do you want?" Du Lan asked.

Xu Ming glanced at the menu from top to bottom and said, "Vegetable noodles, please."

He wanted to eat beef noodles, but he didn't dare to ask!

Du Lan also ordered vegetable noodles for herself and Xu Shoucheng.

The three of them quickly finished a bowl and then took the bowl to get a refill.

Xu Ming was full after two more bowls of soup. Seeing that his parents wanted more, he took out his phone from his pocket, opened various apps, and tried to contact his sister to tell her that his parents had come here.

After trying for a while, it failed.

He sighed deeply, and just as he was thinking of other solutions, he heard his mother's angry roar in his ear.

"...What's wrong with me adding more noodles? You didn't say how many times I could add them."

The waiter said somewhat helplessly, "We didn't say how many times you could add more, but you've already added three times. We were worried you'd overeat, so we're just reminding you."

The noodles aren't expensive either.

She's not worried about guests eating too much, she's just worried about guests getting too full.

"You say you're full? I'm not even full yet." Du Lan angrily handed her bowl to the waiter. "Give me more."

The waiter looked at her slightly protruding belly: "Are you sure?"

Du Lan suppressed the urge to burp and said:

"OK, add it to my account right away."

"Alright then!"

The waiter took the bowl and went to the kitchen to add more noodles for her, somewhat helplessly.

"More?" the chef asked, somewhat surprised.

"Okay, add it!" the waiter sighed.

The chef filled her bowl to the brim. It's been a long time since I've seen a big eater. I wonder if this female customer can break the store's record.

Du Lan looked at the full bowl of noodles and gave the waiter a smug glance.

The waiter's lips twitched; he was utterly speechless.