Chapter 21: The Meaning of a Cockroach
Mi Cai and I walked towards Ban Daddy, and I asked, "Bather Ban, why don't you call me? The temperature dropped so hard this night. How cold is it for you to sit like this!"
"I've called, you've turned off the phone." Daddy Ban's answer was still dull, without any emotion.
After saying this, I remembered that my phone was thrown into the moat by me when I was drunk and crazily. I couldn't help but feel ache. I didn't make much money and I was doing all the things that were spendthrifts.
Mi Cai greeted Ban Dad: "Uncle, OK!"
"You are okay, you haven't eaten yet, I bought some vegetables in the supermarket to cook for you." Daddy Ban said as he took out a convenience bag from behind, which contained fish and some vegetables.
"Uncle, the porridge you cooked last time is delicious, and it must be delicious to cook." Mi Cai said to Daddy Ban with a smile that he had never had before me. This made me realize that I am indeed an unpleasant person, not Mi Cai's high posture.
For Mi Cai's praise, Dad Ban just smiled and then signaled us to go upstairs.
When I went upstairs, Mi Cai was walking in front, and my father and I were behind. I asked Mr. Ban in surprise: "Dad Ban, have you been staying in Suzhou these days and haven't returned?"
"I went to Guangzhou to attend an exhibition again, and when I came back, I passed by Suzhou." Ban Dad's answer was still simple.
I think about it, it’s winter soon, it’s the state-owned enterprise where Ban Dad is located. When the warmer orders are the most, Ban Dad has to go to many places to purchase raw materials every year.
Back in the room, Ban Dad went straight into the kitchen and started to move his hands. Mi Cai wanted to go to the kitchen to help Ban Dad, but Ban Dad refused. Then he went back to his room and didn't know what to be busy with. I sat in the living room in a daze, and my heart was still bitter. I knew that this bitterness would accompany me for a long time until I completely forgot about Jian Wei.
After a short while, Mi Cai walked out of the room and changed into a home clothes. This made her look much more friendly, but she was still beautiful. It seemed that beauty was something in her bone marrow, and she would be beautiful no matter how she dressed up.
"Sit like a sculpture! Can't you go to the kitchen to help your dad?" Mi Cai seemed dissatisfied with the fact that I was doing nothing when my dad was busy.
"You don't understand, he likes to cook alone."
"There is something like this?"
"Because he treats cooking as a fun, and helping others is to steal his fun."
"Oh, then the food he cooks should be delicious, right?"
"You are not a foodie, why are you asking so much?"
"If you have to ask foodies, do you have the right to be curious?" Mi Cai once again was dissatisfied with me.
"Don't you know later? It's not a bad time."
Mi Cai did not follow me and turned back to his room, then walked towards the bathroom with a dirty laundry basket. I was a little surprised. It turned out that the goddess also wanted to wash clothes.
The sound of water flowing in the bathroom, and then the washing machine rolled. Listening to the regular rolling sound, I became even more lost and could not even feel my presence for a moment.
The screams came from the bathroom, and naturally the sound of Mi Cai. The decibels instantly woke me up from my loss. My father Ban had already run to the bathroom with a spoon in his hand, and then I ran over.
Although my father and I made the formation big and the wolf could be killed, Mi Cai was just confronting a cockroach lying on the bathtub. The cockroach was shaking its tentacles with fearlessness, while Mi Cai was already losing its appearance. This was obviously an asymmetrical contest. What was ridiculous is that the one on the weak side was actually a living person.
Seeing that I came, Mi Cai instinctively stepped back and hid behind me. It was exactly the same as the plot in the 9 o'clock Korean drama. I also got a chance to save the beauty because of this, even though my opponent was just a cockroach.
I walked to the edge of the bathtub and picked it up with the cockroach's tentacles. The cockroach's emotions were very unstable. After a violent struggle, Mi Cai screamed again. I was amused. Every time she choked me so hard that she wanted to vomit blood, a cockroach ambushed in a dark corner could scare her to death. This is something that will bring something down.
I picked up the cockroach and said to my father, "Add some more dish. I haven't eaten meat for a long time. Should I stir-fry or steam it?"
Mi Cai felt disgusted.
Dad Ban seemed to be very protective of Mi Cai, and his face darkened and said, "Stop making trouble, throw it away quickly."
I smiled at Mi Cai with disdain, then threw the cockroach out of the window, and then sighed and said, "Oh! If I didn't fall to death, I would become a homeless cockroach that cannot take care of myself. It would be better to fall to death with a little care!"
Mi Cai naturally knew that I was using cockroaches to harm her, but she still didn't recover from the cockroach incident just now. She just looked silent with horror. So I suddenly had a childish and funny idea. If the rich people were so afraid of cockroaches like Mi Cai, I would put a bag of cockroaches to extort them, and I would be able to get rich easily.
After the emergency ended, Dad Ban was still busy in the kitchen, but Mi Cai didn't allow me to leave the bathroom and asked me to accompany her to wash her clothes. He was afraid that a cockroach would pop up from some corner. It might be a group. In short, it must be the relatives of the cockroach just now.
After a while, I finally finished washing. Mi Cai took out her clothes from the drum, and I sat on the bathtub and watched her.
After a moment of silence, I said to her, "I'm moving out tomorrow."
"I know."
"You should be quite lonely alone, right?"
"Why am I lonely?"
I pretended to be disappointed and said, "Yes, why are you lonely? There are cockroaches A, B, C and D accompanying you here. If you have nothing to do, you will play hide-and-seek games with you. It's very lively!"
Mi Cai was stunned, then looked at me with anger, but I said calmly: "Go and dry your clothes quickly, and I will have dinner later."
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At the dinner table, I, Ban Dad and Mi Cai sat on one side. Ban Dad, who had always been dull, asked Mi Cai surprisingly: "Is the food still suitable for your appetite, girl?"
Mi Cai nodded and replied: "The food made by uncle is delicious!"
I know this is definitely not a compliment. The food made by Ban Dad is really great, especially the sweet and sour fish, which is awesome, and Mi Cai is also very aware of the goods, so he can pick up sweet and sour fish to eat.
After Mi Cai praised him, Dad Ban nodded and smiled, then looked at me, as if telling me: "Son, your dad can only help you get here, and the rest depends on you!"
I would rather misinterpret the meaning expressed in Ban Dad's eyes, because Mi Cai and I have no chance of developing into a couple. First, she was extremely tired of me; second, I have not yet emerged from the shadows given by Jian Wei and Xiang Chen; third, it is also the most important point, I am not worthy of her. Who has ever seen a beautiful girl driving a luxury car fall in love with an unreliable scum!
It is not a wonderful arrangement for us to meet, but God is just to let me understand how big the gap between people will be, and then let me die in shame. What a fucking unethical God!
While thinking about it, Dad Ban spoke to me again, "Zhaoyang, you can repair the water pipe after dinner later. There is a little leak at the interface. If the weather is a little colder, the pipe will explode."
"I understand." I answered.
Dad Ban nodded and said to me after a while: "Next time I will bring more rice and flour from home. You will go home to cook after work. Eating outside is wasteful and unhygienic." After a while, he added: "You two live together, you should take care of other girls more, and you can cook as well, and do more work in daily life."
According to my agreement with Mi Cai, I will have to move out tomorrow. Ban Daddy also used his fantasy to force my future life together. I was a little helpless, but I couldn't speak. For example, if I told him about moving out, he would probably be disappointed.
I nodded again, then looked at Mi Cai, but her expression did not change much, and she was just eating very focusedly.
Finally, Daddy Ban's attention shifted from me to Mi Cai, and he asked Mi Cai again: "Girl, our Zhaoyang living with you didn't cause you any trouble, right?"
I was afraid that Mi Cai would reveal all my crimes, so I kicked her under the table and told her not to talk nonsense, but I didn't expect her to take advantage of the opportunity to step on my toes. It hurts so much that I almost threw away the chopsticks in my hand.
"Uncle, he is pretty good... he always likes to smoke in the house and never changes his words." Mi Cai first praised and then criticized him and exposed my crime to Ban Dad.
Dad Ban looked at me with a calm face. I pretended not to see it, but Dad Ban's eyes were still sharp and he looked at me relentlessly, while Mi Cai looked gloating.
"Change, I change." I compromised in helplessness, but felt that such a compromise was meaningless. Mi Cai was boring enough. I moved away immediately. Is it worth fighting if I don't smoke in the house?
After this little episode, Mr. Ban seemed to be in a good mood. He asked me to go to the kitchen to get the glutinous rice wine he brought last time. I poured a glass of Mr. Ban and asked Mi Cai again: "Do you want to drink some?"
Mi Cai handed the empty cup in front of him and said, "Drink some."
I poured a little for Micai and a little myself, so the three of them gathered around a not-so-large table and had a family-style dinner on this night of lights.
Don’t get me wrong. The family atmosphere I mentioned is only different from dining outside, because Micai and we are not from the same family. I’m afraid it will be difficult to encounter one side in this huge city after I move out!
Chapter completed!