Chapter 249 Our Parents

At noon, Xu Ying returned home, and Mu Zhengguang found a restaurant outside the school to have lunch.

"Mu Zhengguang wants his parents to meet you this weekend. After that, he can live in our house." Xu Ying couldn't wait to tell her mother the news. She was sure that her mother was also looking forward to the answer.

"Will his parents agree?" Wang Hongyu didn't expect Xiaoguang to ask this question to his parents. He seemed to be a very opinionated person. Why would he hesitate about such a thing?
"Whether he agrees or not, he will live in our house. He is the one who makes the decision. He just wants to tell his parents his decision."

"Oh, that's it. I'll send a message to your father later, asking him to come back earlier and not wait until the weekend. We'll meet his parents. Do you need to prepare any gifts?"

Wang Hongyu was incredulous about the question she asked: whether the adults from two families need to prepare gifts when they meet is up to him, but I actually asked my daughter for her opinion. Unconsciously, my daughter has grown up and become someone she can rely on, while I myself seem less reliable.

"No need to prepare gifts. Just meet and have a meal. Don't be too polite. Don't be so polite to his parents. No, be more polite to his mother."

My daughter's words sounded a bit like... being unreasonable? When the man's family and the woman's family meet for the first time, they are usually very polite. It's hard to imagine that she said these words... However, she must have Xiaoguang's support for saying these words. This is good. When they get married, they only need to take care of themselves and each other. The older generation can't affect them, which saves a lot of trouble.

"Okay, okay, I get it. I'll be more polite. Is his father a very bad person?" Wang Hongyu responded to her daughter's unreasonable behavior in a soft voice. She was a little helpless, but also a little relieved. At this moment, she felt that she should be a qualified mother.

"Not very good. Don't be too polite, just about right is fine." Xu Ying didn't know the little classmate's father, but from the little classmate's few words, she roughly guessed that his father was not easy to get along with.

"Okay, okay. I'll remember that. I'll also ask your father to be less polite."

"Ah."

Before the afternoon class, Xu Ying told her classmates what happened at noon.

In the following days, both of them were looking forward to the weekend dinner.

However, before this dinner, Mu Zhengguang and Xu Ying had already eaten two meals in that restaurant.

Xu Ying took the time and effort to select the location for the dinner party and tried it out in advance to ensure that everything went well.

Xu Yingze's father came back on Friday noon, and Mu Zhengguang's parents didn't come back until Friday night.

For the senior students at Pinglin High School, weekend is a virtual concept because they have weekly exams on Saturday night and Sunday morning.

When there are no weekly tests, evening self-study starts at 19:00, but if there are weekly tests, evening self-study will start ten minutes earlier. On Saturday night, there are Chinese and math tests, and the test times are 18:50~21:20 and 21:40~23:40 respectively. On this day, the lights in the classroom will be on until 23:50.

The exams on Sunday were also rushed. First, I took the comprehensive science test, then the English test. The order of these four subjects was based on the college entrance examination. However, during the college entrance examination, these four exams would last for two days, but in school, students only had one night and one morning. Different time, the same amount of test papers, which made people's weekends particularly difficult.

Mu Zhengguang took two days off. He had a lot of things to do this weekend. Moving takes time, having dinner takes time, chatting with family members, and picking up people also takes time. Mu Zhengguang's mother was very concerned about her son's life. As soon as she knocked on the door, she asked hurriedly, "Have you settled everything with your classmates?"

"It's agreed that we'll have a lunch gathering tomorrow at noon, and we can move tomorrow afternoon. Mom and Dad, do you want to find a job in the city? It will be more convenient for you to go home in the future. My workplace is also in the city."

This was not the first time that their son had mentioned to them about "finding a job in the city", but they were reluctant to give up their original jobs. The reason was simple: they could earn more money working in a big city.

In addition to this common reason, the two of them also have some reasons.

Mu Zhengguang's mother thought that her job was easy and the income was OK. If she returned to her hometown in a small city, she would probably be able to find an easy job, but the income would probably not be so good. If she wanted to find a job with a similar workload and salary to her current one, she would probably have to trouble her son, which was something she wanted to avoid.

Mu Zhengguang's father prefers life in a big city. The pressure is high, but he seems to have adapted to that kind of pressure, which can make people feel at ease. If there is no such pressure, or if there is no such job, he will feel uneasy. Even if his income is ten times higher than before, he will still feel uncomfortable.

Mu Zhengguang's mother declined his proposal: "No, if you want to see mom and dad more often, we can come back every weekend."

"My workplace is in the province. Most of the ancients have reached the third level... Never mind, they haven't reached the third level yet." The third-level asymptotes can use elemental dissolution. He can't use it, but Gu Tingzhou and Zhao Yuxi often use elemental dissolution. Once most of the ancients reach the third level, the world will be even more chaotic. If most of the recent ancients also reach the third level, my parents must return to the city.

"Okay, we'll be back when you reach level three. Let's talk about your classmate first. We are the male party, and your classmate is the female party. When we meet, we will give...a red envelope to your classmate. It's either living expenses or a red envelope for meeting."

"No. She doesn't need a red envelope." Mu Zhengguang "generously" rejected the red envelope for his classmate. How much money can be put in a red envelope at most? Ten thousand? It is meaningless to give a classmate ten thousand yuan for no reason. The classmate does not need ten thousand yuan. If you really want to give a red envelope, it is not enough to put only ten thousand yuan in the red envelope. Even if you want to give it, it will be him who gives it, and you can't let your parents pay for it.

"Who doesn't need a red envelope? Are you afraid it's too little? It's okay, your mother still has some savings. We're still saving the money you gave us in the past two years."

Mu Zhengguang's mother thought that red envelopes were indispensable. How could she not give a red envelope to the child of the other family? Moreover, no matter how the other party viewed the red envelope, her son lived in her house, so she couldn't not give him a penny, right?
"Yeah, listen to your mother. How can you go to see a girl without spending money?"

"Okay, you guys give me less. Xu Ying is not short of money, her salary is the same as mine." What Ying wanted was not the red tape, nor the small red envelope. He was the one who proposed the red tape, and he was also the one who felt bad about it. He was the one who didn't want to give him the red envelope, and he was also the one who wanted to pay for it with his whole life.

"Okay, I get it. I'm going to meet her parents tomorrow. Do you want me to change into some nicer clothes? Son, what do you think we should wear?"

He could tell that his mother was asking him sincerely. In the past many years, his mother had taken him shopping for clothes many times and asked him again and again, "What kind of clothes do you want this year?" He didn't like the clothes his mother bought, and later, his mother would let him choose clothes by himself. But before he chose clothes, he would look at the price first and then cross out some of the options.

Today, when he helps his mother make a choice, he realizes that the control he thought he had when he was a child and the feeling of controlling others are not as happy as he imagined. He got the "right to control", but also the responsibility and pressure.

"I'll ask my colleagues. Mom and Dad, I'll take you shopping for clothes tonight." The colleagues Mu Zhengguang mentioned were his secretaries. Logically, wherever he was, his secretaries would be there, and their purpose was to serve him in his daily life, but he didn't like people to provide services for him all the time, so his secretaries were not in Qichuan City. However, when he needed help, he thought of these people.

(End of this chapter)