Chapter 161: You Unfilial Son
After finishing the barbecue, Wang Heng took a taxi, first sending Han Yixuan back home, then sending Lu Qi to the hotel, and finally going home alone.
He sat in the passenger seat, looking at the familiar small town street view, silently lowering the car window halfway. Leaning back in the seat, he let the cold wind blow on his face, feeling finally much more relaxed and comfortable.
The driver beside him suddenly asked, “Young man, you’re really impressive.”
Wang Heng: “?”
The driver recalled the previous two stops, the performance of those two girls when they got out of the car, and sighed, “I’m an experienced guy, I can tell… Both of them seem to have a good relationship with you. Don’t say anything yet, let me guess! One is your younger sister, and the other is your girlfriend, right?”
Wang Heng: “…Something like that.”
The driver slapped the steering wheel and came to his senses: “Wait, no, why doesn’t your younger sister live with you? Could it be that both are your girlfriends?”
Wang Heng: “…Cousin.”
The driver smiled and winked: “The kind like Lin’s younger sister?”
Wang Heng sighed and said nothing more.
Fortunately, the journey wasn’t far, and the time for the driver’s chit-chat soon ran out.
Upon arriving at the destination, Wang Heng paid, opened the door and got out, supporting his stuffed-full belly, and walked home.
After finally climbing the stairs and reaching the front door, he took out the key, unlocked the old security door, and immediately met his father’s gaze.
The lights in the living room were still on, and the television was on too. His father was sitting on the sofa, seemingly watching TV.
But at this moment, he stared at his son and scolded, “You unfilial son, you still have the nerve to come back!”
Wang Heng: “?”
“I was just thinking about your future with that Sister Lu, and today you bring back another girl? What are you thinking!”
Facing his father’s question, Wang Heng supported his belly and sighed, “All I can say is you overthought it…”
At this time, his father’s scrutinizing gaze also fixed on his abdomen.
“You go out with girls, but when you come back…” The middle-aged man’s vicissitude-filled tone carried a hint of puzzlement, “your own belly is bloated?”
Wang Heng: “Just ate too much.”
His father was even more surprised: “You go out with two pretty girls, and end up ignoring everything else just to eat?”
Wang Heng asked in return, “Otherwise? What do you think I should do?”
His father stared at him, suddenly letting out a long sigh, his expression quite complex: “As long as you didn’t do anything, that’s good…”
“Alright, I’m going to take a shower and prepare to sleep anyway. You have to go to work tomorrow, so go to bed early too.”
With that, Wang Heng took off his clothes and went into the restroom, taking a shower at the fastest speed. He had no other thoughts, just hoping to lie in bed quickly and not stand for even one more minute.
Under the pull of gravity, the burden on his intestines and stomach was really a bit heavy.
After everything was tidied up, as Wang Heng lay in bed about to fall asleep, his father came in again.
“Let’s talk.” He sat on the edge of the bed.
Wang Heng: “What do you want to talk about?”
His father earnestly advised, “I’m not against you dating. It’s perfectly normal for university students to date, and now you have a certain economic strength yourself. Spending your own money on romance, no one can say anything about it. But you can’t date two at once. No matter how rich you are, you can’t do that!”
Wang Heng lay there unwilling to move, explaining, “Lu Qi and Han Yixuan are both my friends, absolutely not girlfriends. Dad, please make sure you understand this. I’ve never dated and don’t want to.”
His father looked surprised: “Don’t want to date? Why?”
Wang Heng: “What’s there to say about it… If I don’t want to date, I don’t want to.”
His father: “But those two girls seem pretty into you?”
Wang Heng: “But I’m not interested.”
His father: “Then what are you interested in?”
Wang Heng resolutely said, “Earning money. I’m only interested in earning money.”
His father looked down at him, speechless for a moment.
After a long while, he finally sighed deeply: “You unfilial son…”
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The next morning, after Wang Heng woke up, the first thing he did was run to the restroom to thoroughly empty last night’s inventory.
Then he brushed his teeth and washed his face, coming out of the restroom refreshed, feeling completely liberated.
His father had already gone to work, leaving him alone at home. So, what should he do?
“Did I forget something…”
Wang Heng contemplated for a moment and finally remembered what he had forgotten.
He found his backpack in the living room, unzipped it, and dumped everything inside onto the sofa. Besides the laptop computer, change of clothes, and two books, there was also an angry hamster.
It was huddled in a transparent little plastic box, which had originally been full of sunflower seeds, but now only a pile of sunflower seed shells remained.
“Are you trying to kill me?” The hamster jumped out of the box, indignantly pointing at him. “From the afternoon before last until just now, a full forty-two hours! Forty-two hours!”
Wang Heng scratched his head: “Sorry, but couldn’t you get out by yourself?”
The hamster pointed at the backpack and roared: “Why did you zip it all the way up without leaving any gap! It’s still a canvas bag, thick canvas, super durable! Super durable!”
Wang Heng recalled. When he got off the airplane the afternoon before last, he had casually zipped the backpack all the way. As a result, the hamster trapped inside naturally couldn’t get out, since the zipper couldn’t be opened from the inside.
“Then why didn’t you remind…” Halfway through, Wang Heng realized the issue, “Oh right, there were people around, so you couldn’t remind me.”
“So why did you leave the bag in the living room? Afraid your dad would hear, I didn’t even dare shout! And I even tried to turn on your computer, you know, but it had no power, no power… Can you imagine the despair of being locked in a dark room, calling to heaven and earth with no response!”
The hamster spread its two little paws, looking aggrieved to the point of tears.
“My fault, my fault. Sigh, are you hungry? Here, eat something?” Wang Heng took a snack from the coffee table beside him and offered it to the hamster.
But the next second, the hamster swatted it away with one paw.
“I can’t chew chestnuts!”
Wang Heng: “So what do you want now?”
Hamster: “Water. Give me some water. I’m not hungry, just a bit thirsty.”
So Wang Heng found a bottle of Nongfu Spring, unscrewed it, poured some water into the bottle cap, and placed the bottle cap in front of the hamster.
The little thing clung to the bottle cap and sucked away.
At this time, Wang Heng said, “I think it’s necessary to get you a communicator, a miniature one, so we can contact each other anytime. That way, this kind of awkward situation won’t happen again. Plus, it’ll make future actions more convenient…”
The hamster wiped its mouth, looked up, and disdainfully gazed at him: “Convenient actions? More like convenient exploitation?”
Wang Heng: “Why are you slandering me?”
Hamster: “Heh, can find me anytime and ‘ding’ to make me work? And that’s not exploitation?”
Wang Heng looked up at the sky: “It’s not for my struggle, it’s for your own treatment too…”
Hamster: “I work for sunflower seeds, you get the money, and you say it’s not exploitation? For just seven hundred thousand you want to give me the ‘ding ding’, that’s scary. What will happen to humanity when you really get rich?”
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Got hungry from writing, going to earn a living… In the evening, after handling some matters, around midnight, there might be an extra chapter. Please give some tickets first, recommendation tickets or monthly tickets are fine. Thanks for everyone’s support!
