Chapter 369 Son
When they heard that the fish boss knew Duan Xiaoling, Zhang Nianzu and the others were excited.
The fish shop owner said, "You came at the right time. Normally, this is the time when Teacher Duan comes out to buy vegetables." Zhang Nianzu didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that he had a strange smile on his face when he spoke.
The fishmonger suddenly pointed into the distance and said, "Here they come!"
Zhang Nianzu and the others hurriedly looked in the direction of his finger. Lei Yuanzheng appeared indifferent and his body leaned forward slightly.
I saw an old lady with white hair and a youthful face holding a vegetable basket in her hand, picking two eggplants from this stall and a small bundle of celery from that stall. Many people passing by knew her and often greeted her casually as "Teacher Duan". Duan Xiaoling nodded and smiled kindly.
Ah San said: "Your mother is in good condition."
Lei Yuanzheng stared at Duan Xiaoling in a daze, with a lot of thoughts in his mind for a moment.
Duan Xiaoling followed the crowd to the front of Zhang Nianzu's car and said to the fishmonger, "Boss, give me a yellow croaker."
The fishmonger winked at Zhang Nianzu and the others and said enthusiastically, "Okay." He weighed the fish skillfully, put them in the bag and poured half a bag of water into it. The fish was very fresh and was still jumping around in the bag.
Duan Xiaoling paid the money with satisfaction and took the bag.
The fish boss casually asked, "Teacher Duan, are you going back to cook now?"
Duan Xiaoling said happily, "Yes, my son is waiting to eat the fish I stewed." Then she entered the community.
Old Guo thought about what Duan Xiaoling said, and suddenly turned around and said to Lei Yuanzheng: "Oh, your mother must be looking for a new partner!"
Ah San said, "What do you mean by second wife? Maybe his mother remarried a long time ago. This is called a reconstituted family!"
Lei Yuanzheng looked somewhat lonely. What Du Heng said was right to a certain extent. When he was able to be energetic and do bad things, he did not think it was important to have a mother or not. Now that he was at the end of his rope and finally had a home, his position was replaced by someone else. At this moment, he felt that he was redundant in this world.
Zhang Nianzu glanced at him and said , "Are you okay?"
Lei Yuanzheng said calmly: "I want to see her son."
Ah San said: "What else is there to see? Do you want to kill her son and take his place?"
Lei Yuanzheng said to Zhang Nianzu: "I'll just take a look. If she's doing well, I'll go back with you. That will be the end of our mother-son relationship."
Zhang Nianzu said: "Okay."
Duan Xiaoling was not walking fast. After they parked the car, the old lady was still in sight. Ah San could only curse and put Lei Yuanzheng on his back again. Several people quietly followed Duan Xiaoling into the apartment building. Duan Xiaoling took out the key to open an old anti-theft door. The wooden door inside was not locked. She pushed it open and said while changing her shoes, "I'm back."
No one answered. Duan Xiaoling seemed to be used to it and went into the kitchen with the vegetables. Because the wooden door was not closed, Zhang Nianzu and his friends could see the situation in the house through the fence of the security door. It was a common two-bedroom apartment, which was very clean. The door of one of the bedrooms was half-closed, which should be where her son lived.
Duan Xiaoling was picking vegetables in the kitchen while talking to her son. Her son must not have gotten up yet, as there was no response.
Ah San said to Lei Yuanzheng: "Your brother is so lazy."
Lei Yuanzheng said angrily: "I don't have a brother."
Ah San said: "Your mother gave birth to him, so of course he is your brother."
Duan Xiaoling held a bunch of vegetables in her hand, leaned forward and told the people in the bedroom about what she saw and heard at the morning market, and then changed the topic to gossip about Grandma Wang and Aunt Li's homes in the community. The people in the bedroom remained silent.
Ah San asked, "Is your brother so aloof?"
After Duan Xiaoling finished picking the vegetables, she heard the sizzling sound of cooking in the kitchen. She continued to chat with her son, and suddenly said cautiously: "I won't say anything if you are always idle, but you should find a girlfriend, right? You are... 33 this year, right?"
Lei Yuanzheng blurted out: "The same age as me!"
Ah San exclaimed: "Your mother was very quick, which means that your mother remarried right after your father took you away!"
Lei Yuanzheng's face suddenly became extremely ugly.
Ah San finally felt compassion and sighed, "Let's go?"
Lei Yuanzheng gritted his teeth and said, "I must see her son."
Soon Duan Xiaoling started to bring up dish after dish. Finally, the old lady rubbed her hands and said, "It's time to eat. Today we have your favorite yellow croaker." Then she placed two sets of bowls and chopsticks on the table.
Zhang Nianzu and the others stretched their necks unconsciously, because the real person should have appeared by now.
Duan Xiaoling brought a dish of delicious fish with a cloth and sat down at one side of the table.
Zhang Nianzu frowned and said, "Why doesn't this kid come out yet?"
Duan Xiaoling picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks, blew on it, and then put it in the empty bowl opposite. She said in a friendly tone: "Try it and see if it suits your taste." She looked at the opposite side gently, as if waiting for the other party's response.
Ah San was completely confused and suddenly asked, "Could it be that your brother is Asassin?"
After a while, Duan Xiaoling smiled to herself, "Is it delicious? Then you should eat more." She looked intently at the air opposite her, and suddenly sighed, "I know you don't like it, but mom still has to say something to you. Even if you find a job or a girlfriend, you should go downstairs for a walk when you have nothing to do. The neighbors all know that I have a son like you, but no one has ever seen you. They think I'm mentally ill. Okay, okay, if you don't like it, mom won't say it anymore. Let's eat." When Duan Xiaoling said this, she suddenly stretched out her chopsticks and knocked on the bowl opposite her, scolding, "Don't just eat meat, eat more vegetables."
Seeing this, Zhang Nianzu understood everything. Duan Xiaoling was the only one living in this house from the beginning to the end. The old lady had imagined that a son lived with her out of thin air. No wonder the fish owner looked at her strangely.
Ah San was a little slow in thinking, and then he suddenly realized: "Your mother is... a psychopath!"
Lao Guo said, "It's rare to meet a colleague who is also a fellow patient—" He suddenly patted the fence of the security door and said, "Sister-in-law, we are here to send your son to you."
Lei Yuanzheng was horrified and said: "Don't--"
There were several people standing at the door for the whole morning. Duan Xiaoling seemed to have noticed it, but she didn't take it seriously. When she heard someone talking, she calmly walked up to open the door and asked politely, "What did you say?"
Old Guo pointed at Lei Yuanzheng and said, "This is your son."
Asan was also very tired at this time. He rushed into the house without thinking and put Lei Yuanzheng on the chair behind the empty bowl.
Duan Xiaoling walked up to Lei Yuanzheng, reached out and stroked the top of his head and said, "Is it Yuanzheng?"
Zhang Nianzu and his friends were filled with mixed feelings after hearing these four short words. It turned out that Duan Xiaoling still remembered her son's name. When four strange men broke into the house, she had no worries or doubts. The first thing she did was to care about her son...
Without any warning, Lei Yuanzheng cried out, "Mom, it's me!" This is the nature of mother and son.
However, Duan Xiaoling did not react too strongly. She just hugged Lei Yuanzheng happily, then returned to her seat, picked up another piece of fish for Lei Yuanzheng and said, "Let's eat." After eating a few bites herself, she glared at Lei Yuanzheng and said, "You have been away with your father since you were four years old. It took you so long to come home. You are such a bad boy!"
Ah San quietly asked Lao Guo: "What... is going on?" There was no way. Not to mention him, even people who were a hundred times smarter than him could not understand the scene before them. He could only ask for help from Lao Guo, who was at the same level as Duan Xiaoling.
Lao Guo said: "It's normal. The old lady has never left her son in these years. Now she just saw the entity."
Ah San and Zhang Nianzu looked at each other, and both of them felt a dilemma...
Lao Guo served himself a bowl of rice and sat down to eat. Zhang Nianzu and Ah San were in a more difficult situation...
Duan Xiaoling asked Lei Yuanzheng: "Are these all your friends?"
Lei Yuanzheng hummed in a daze.
"It's good to have friends." Duan Xiaoling saw that Lei Yuanzheng had not moved his chopsticks, so she suddenly reached out and took his bowl, sighing, "You're so old now, but you're still the same as when you were a child. Someone needs to pick out the fish bones for you." As she spoke, she carefully picked out the fish bones, mixed a mouthful of rice and put it in front of Lei Yuanzheng. It seems that her son's love for fish was not just her imagination, but Lei Yuanzheng really liked to eat fish mixed with rice when he was a child.
Ah San suddenly said sadly: "I miss my mother, even though she often hits me on the head with her shoe soles."
Zhang Nianzu asked, "Is this the reason why you are not as smart as Ah Si?"
"No, his mother likes to hit him on the head too, but she uses a rolling pin."
