160 You Unfilial Son
After finishing the barbecue, Wang Heng took a taxi, first sending Han Yixuan back home, then Lu Qi to the hotel, and finally went home alone.
Sitting in the passenger seat, looking at the familiar street scenes of the small city, he silently rolled down the window a little. Leaning back on the seat, letting the cold wind blow on his face, he finally felt much more relaxed and comfortable.
The driver beside him suddenly asked, “Young man, you’re amazing.”
Wang Heng: “?”
The driver recalled the two stops just now and the reactions of the two girls when they got off, and praised, “I’ve been there, I can tell… those two seem to have a good relationship with you. Don’t tell me yet, let me guess! One is a sister, one is a girlfriend, right?”
Wang Heng: “…I guess so.”
The driver slapped the steering wheel and realized, “That’s not right. Why doesn’t your sister live with you? Don’t tell me they’re both your girlfriends?”
Wang Heng: “…Cousin.”
The driver winked with a smile. “The Sister Lin kind?”
Wang Heng sighed and didn’t speak anymore.
Fortunately, the journey wasn’t long, and the driver’s time for dirty jokes soon ran out.
Arriving at the destination, Wang Heng paid, opened the door, got out, and walked home, holding his stuffed belly.
After struggling up the stairs and arriving at the door of his home, he took out the key, opened the old security door, and met his father’s gaze.
The lights in the living room were still on, and the TV 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 the future of you and that Sister Lu, and then today you brought back another girl? What are you thinking!”
Facing his father’s questioning, Wang Heng held his stomach and sighed. “I can only say you’re overthinking it…”
At this moment, his father’s gaze sizing him up also froze on his abdomen.
“You went out with girls, how come when you came back…” The middle-aged man’s tone, full of vicissitudes, added a hint of puzzlement, “You got your own belly pregnant?”
Wang Heng: “Just ate too much.”
His father was even more surprised. “You went out with two beautiful girls, and you didn’t care about anything else, just eating?”
Wang Heng retorted, “What else? What do you think I should do?”
His father stared at him, suddenly sighed deeply, his eyes complicated. “Didn’t do anything, that’s good…”
“Alright, I’m going to take a shower and get ready for bed anyway. You have to work tomorrow, so go to bed early too.”
With that, Wang Heng took off his clothes and went into the bathroom, taking a shower as fast as possible. He had no other thoughts, just hoping to lie down on the bed quickly, not wanting to stand for even a minute longer.
Under the pull of gravity, the burden on his stomach was really a bit heavy.
After everything was settled, Wang Heng lay on the bed, about to fall asleep, when 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 said earnestly, “I don’t object to you dating. It’s normal for college students to date, and you have a certain economic strength now. Spending your own money to date, no one can say anything about you. But you can’t date two at once. No matter how rich you are, you can’t do this kind of thing!”
Wang Heng lay there not wanting to move, explaining, “Lu Qi and Han Yixuan are both my friends, absolutely not girlfriends. Please, Dad, you must get this straight. I’m not dating at all, and I don’t want to.”
His father looked surprised. “Don’t want to date? Why?”
Wang Heng: “What’s there to say… don’t want to date means don’t want to date.”
Father: “But I see those two girls seem to like you quite a bit?”
Wang Heng: “But I’m not interested.”
Father: “Then what are you interested in?”
Wang Heng said decisively, “Making money. I’m only interested in making money.”
His father looked down at him, speechless for a moment.
After a long while, he finally sighed deeply, “You unfilial son…”
**
The next morning, after Wang Heng woke up, the first thing he did was run to the bathroom and happily empty last night’s inventory.
Then he brushed his teeth and washed his face, coming out of the bathroom refreshed, feeling liberated.
His father had already gone to work, leaving him alone at home. So, what should he do?
“Did I forget something…”
Wang Heng pondered for a moment and finally remembered what he had forgotten.
He found his backpack in the living room, unzipped it, and poured everything inside onto the sofa. Besides the laptop, a change of clothes, and two books, there was also an angry hamster.
It was curled up in a small transparent plastic box. The box was originally full of melon seeds, but now only a pile of empty shells remained.
“Are you trying to kill me?” The hamster jumped out of the box, pointing at him indignantly. “From the afternoon before yesterday until just now, a full forty-two hours! Forty-two hours!”
Wang Heng scratched his head. “Sorry, but couldn’t you get out yourself?”
The hamster pointed at the backpack and roared, “Why did you zip it all the way up, leaving no gap at all! And this is a canvas bag, thick canvas, super durable! Super durable!”
Wang Heng recalled. When he got off the plane the afternoon before yesterday, he had zipped the backpack all the way up. In this way, the hamster trapped inside naturally couldn’t get out, after all, the zipper couldn’t be opened from the inside.
“Then why didn’t you remind…” Halfway through, Wang Heng realized the problem. “Oh right, there were people around, 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 to shout! And I even tried to turn on your computer, you know? But it was out of battery, out of battery… Can you imagine the despair of a person locked in a dark room, calling for help but no one answering!”
The hamster spread its two little paws, aggrieved enough to cry.
“My fault, my fault. Sigh, are you hungry? Have something to eat?” Wang Heng took a small snack from the coffee table beside him and handed it to the hamster.
However, the next second, the hamster slapped the thing away with one paw.
“I can’t gnaw on chestnuts!”
Wang Heng: “Then what do you want now?”
The hamster: “Water, give me some water. I’m not hungry, just a little thirsty.”
So Wang Heng found a bottle of Nongfu Spring, opened it, poured a little water into the cap, and placed the cap in front of the hamster.
The little thing clung to the cap and drank greedily.
At this moment, Wang Heng said, “I think it’s necessary to get you a communicator, a miniature one, so you can contact me anytime. This kind of embarrassing situation won’t happen in the future. And it will also be convenient for future actions…”
The hamster wiped its mouth, looked up, and looked at him disdainfully. “Convenient for actions? Convenient for exploitation, right?”
Wang Heng: “Why are you slandering me?”
The hamster: “Hehe, find me anytime, and then ‘ding’ urge me to work? Isn’t this called exploitation?”
Wang Heng looked up at the sky. “It’s not just for me. You’re also fighting for your own treatment…”
The hamster: “I work for melon seeds, you work for money, and you say it’s not exploitation? Only seven hundred thousand and you want to give me a DingTalk. It’s too scary. Will you have any humanity left when you’re really rich?”
