Ch112.2 - Negotiation (1/2)
Yu Hao broke his chopsticks apart. Zhou Laichun poured some beer for him, and Yu Hao said, “My alcohol tolerance isn’t too good.”
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Zhou Laichun answered, “Mine isn’t either. Just drink a little, it’ll be fine.”
Zhou Sheng sent Yu Hao a message on WeChat, asking him to go downtown to have dinner with him and Fu Liqun. Yu Hao took a glance but didn’t reply. Zhou Laichun saw it too; in the notification that popped up, Zhou Sheng called Yu Hao “wifey”.
“After so many years, I still remember the day of my divorce.” Zhou Laichun said, “I left the marriage with nothing. After completing the divorce proceedings with his mother, I went home to pack a bag, stuffed two pairs of underwear in it, and left.”
Yu Hao didn’t interrupt and just listened quietly to Zhou Laichun.
Zhou Laichun said, “Sheng’er stood by the door of the room as he looked at me, he was this big.” As he spoke, he made a gesture, “I said ‘come over here, Dad has something to tell you’, then he came. I wanted to tell him, ‘Dad will be back’, but he ended up slapping me instead, hahahahaha!”
Zhou Laichun’s face flushed red, and he couldn’t stop coughing from laughing so hard. He studied Yu Hao and muttered to himself, “That was a really violent slap, and it almost made a blood clot form in my brain. I’ll never forget that for the rest of my life– of how my own son slapped me in the face. His mother probably taught him that.”
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Yu Hao took a sip of beer, thought about it, then said, “What were you thinking about at that time?”
Zhou Laichun said, “I thought, once I’ve earned enough money, I’ll come back to pick you up, then I’ll let you buy whatever you want and live whatever life you want.”
Yu Hao fell silent. Zhou Laichun asked, “The two of you have been living together for awhile now, ever fought?”
“Never.” Yu Hao answered.
Zhou Laichun said, “During the incident with Ou Weihong, I saw how he calmed down right after you shouted at him and thought yo, there’s finally someone who could stop him at last. At that moment I had a vague sense that something was wrong, but I didn’t really think too much about it, until your counsellor told me later on……”
The boss carried over a plate of twice-cooked pork and a bowl of tomato egg soup, placed it on the table, wiped his hands on his apron, and went back to watch TV.
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“You believed it.” Yu Hao said.
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Zhou Laichun’s brows furrowed deeply. Yu Hao pondered for a bit before saying, “Both of you want to control him, to control this only son of yours and show off your strength to each other through your control over him. Although aunt does nag him, once her nagging doesn’t work, she’ll leave him be. That’s also a kind of respect. She’s not like you, who wouldn’t give up unless you achieve your goal.”
Yu Hao had already realised this problem through contact with Zhou Sheng’s parents. Zhou Sheng’s mother might scold him a lot, and the words she utters aren’t exactly pleasant to the ears, but once she realises that she can’t get through to him, she would just hatefully conclude her rant. She would only unleash a torrent of emotional attacks on him, but she wouldn’t go through a series of other means to suppress Zhou Sheng, to force him to comply with her expectations.
It was just like how she used to urge Zhou Sheng to find a girlfriend: Zhou Sheng didn’t want to find one, so she would only scold him but not arrange blind dates for him all the time. She definitely doesn’t wish for her son to be gay because her relatives would mock her for it, but she wouldn’t exhaust all means to split them up by hook or by crook.
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Zhou Laichun said, “You’re not me, you don’t understand my feelings for him. Yu Hao, I want to give him the best of everything.”
Yu Hao once heard Zhou Sheng say the same thing and thought, you father-son pair really do have inherent similarities in your personalities.
Zhou Laichun continued, “Do you know that throughout all these years, whenever I slept with all kinds of women, I would always remember to wear a condom?”
Yu Hao studied Zhou Laichun. The last time they met, although Zhou Laichun was near his fifties, he still possessed much grace and appeared very energetic. But over the past year, Zhou Laichun actually looked like he had aged quite a bit; he had a lot more white hairs now, and his expression carried slight despondence too.
“After divorcing his mother, I’ve never had another son or daughter.” Zhou Laichun said sincerely, “Do you know why?”
Yu Hao answered, “You want to leave everything you have, your money, your assets all to Zhou Sheng alone.”
“Yes.” Zhou Laichun put his palms together and said politely to Yu Hao, “So, could you please be a magnanimous guy, Yu Hao? I know you’re a good kid.”
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Yu Hao stared at him in silence and didn’t answer him.
“I want to train him well.” Zhou Laichun said, “All the way until he started senior high, I’ve been waking up early while groping my way through the dark to exchange my life for money. His mother refused to let me visit him, and I thought that after he got into college, he would gradually come to understand. I want to send him abroad, to get a business degree……”
Yu Hao finally understood Zhou Sheng’s reaction and attitude whenever he mentioned getting a business degree now.
“He won’t go.” Zhou Laichun said, “And he wouldn’t even come ask me for any conditions. I think you definitely won’t let him refuse……”
“That’s true.” Yu Hao said, “He never told me before, and if he did, I would have certainly asked him to go. That’s not much, it’s just two to three years; we won’t break up because we’re in different countries. I’m confident that we’ll be able to withstand any trial.”