Xu Shanlan

Although Cong Zhanyi performed well against Gu Haiping for the first time, he knew in his heart that without systematic training for a few years, his physical fitness and skills had regressed after all.Since you want to participate in the competition, you must do your best to get a good result, otherwise you will be too sorry for yourself.Cong Zhanyi has always been safe in his work. After a few days of recovery training, he found his own shortcomings, made adjustments in time, formulated a series of training plans, and started to increase the amount of practice step by step.

But today there was something at home, he didn't want Xu Shanlan to face Xu's father alone, so he speeded up in the afternoon, completed the training task in the shortest time, and went out to take a taxi home.Unexpectedly, by such a coincidence, Xu's mother also came to visit Xu Shanlan, and the two entered the courtyard.Cong Zhanyi frowned, this woman really knows how to find time, she doesn't even call first if she wants to come.But the other party is Xu Shanlan's mother after all, so we still have to follow the etiquette when meeting each other. He went up to say hello, "Auntie is here?" and took the luggage brought by Xu's mother.

"Thank you Zhan Yi." Mother Xu took off her sunglasses with a smile, and looked back at Xu Shanlan who was standing in front of the steps.Since Xu's mother came to Shenzhen, she has been able to flex her muscles like a fish in water. It took nearly ten years to grow from a small working girl step by step. Now she has owned five or six chain supermarkets and has become a female boss.Xu's mother was originally pretty and beautiful, but now she has seen the world, broadened her horizons, and has an outstanding temperament.With light makeup on her face, she is radiant, not at all like a woman in her 40s.

"Lanzi." She called Xu Shanlan's nickname, and opened her arms, "I'm here to surprise you, miss mom?"

Compared with his father, Xu Shanlan was obviously closer to his mother, but he did not show the livelyness that a fourteen-year-old boy should have, and even felt a little embarrassed by his mother's exaggerated gestures.He shuffled to Xu's mother, deliberately ignoring the other's outstretched arm, and called out in a low voice, "Mom."

Xu's mother didn't care about her son's dull reaction at all, she just smiled, grabbed Xu Shanlan's arm and asked questions like a cannonball: "I've grown taller again, do you still sleep with my senior brother? How is your study? I heard that you are going to participate in a competition gone?"

Xu Shanlan listened quietly, occasionally answering a few words briefly, and the two walked into the living room together, completely ignoring Father Xu and Aunt Shan who were standing aside.

Aunt Shan's face was so gloomy that she was about to thunder, she pushed Xu's father vigorously, frowning tightly, she nodded her jaw in the direction Xu's mother was walking towards.At this time, Xu's father was also extremely embarrassed. He called the wind and called the wind and obeyed the Yin in the officialdom. Facing these two women in his life, he still didn't know what to do.When he turned around and saw Cong Zhanyi, he smiled as if seeing a savior: "Zhan Yi is back? Shanlan has caused you a lot of trouble, right?"

Cong Zhanyi nodded slightly: "Fortunately, Lanzi is very obedient and sensible."

Aunt Shan was in a fit of anger, when she heard this comment, she let out a mocking sneer from the corner of her mouth.Cong Zhanyi turned his head and stared at her, this glance was quick and hard, as if a steel nail had stabbed Aunt Shan suddenly.Aunt Shan's heart skipped a beat, she couldn't help turning her face away and didn't dare to look again, her anger subsided a lot.

The five of them were sitting on the sofa in the living room, and Xu's mother was still holding Xu Shanlan's hand with a smile and asking non-stop, as if she wanted to show off in front of Xu's father.She asked a question and Xu Shanlan answered, she was willing to talk, but she didn't seem very enthusiastic.Cong Zhanyi sat next to Xu Shanlan, patted the child's head, and said to Xu's mother, "Auntie is tired after coming so far, why don't you have a meal first and take a good rest. Master and uncle went out to do some business, but I didn't expect Auntie If you can come, I will call right away, and they will be back soon."

"Don't bother, it's not my first time here, so you don't need to be so polite." Mother Xu took something out of her pocket and handed it to Cong Zhanyi, "I heard from Lanzi that you like this kind of chocolate very much." , bring more this time."

"Thank you, Auntie." Cong Zhanyi took it over, "I'll let Auntie Zhang cook. Uncle, Auntie Shan, let's eat together."

"Ah - good." Father Xu nodded hastily.

Aunt Shan pretended to be very casual, and greeted Xu's mother: "Sister, what a coincidence, you also came to see Lanzi."

Xu's mother still looked at her son, her smile remained the same, but her tone became stiff: "Of course I want to see my own son, it's only right and proper, no one can care about it."

Aunt Shan smiled softly, looked sideways at Xu's father tenderly, and said, both complaining and distressed: "Isn't it, the unit just gave me the leave in the morning, and Lao Xu couldn't wait to come here in the afternoon. The relationship between father and son is also very important." Communicate frequently, which is good for children's growth."

Xu's mother frowned, her eyes still fixed on Xu Shanlan stubbornly, as if she was talking to her son, not anyone else, and said sharply sarcastically: "Growth? Ha, do you know what growth is? It's too much trouble." gone."

Xu Shanlan shrank her head imperceptibly.Cong Zhanyi embraced his junior brother, and pulled Xu Shanlan to sit next to him without showing any signs but very firmly, keeping a certain distance from Xu's mother.He smiled at the three people present with different expressions, and said: "Uncles and aunts are tired, go to bed early, I will ask Aunt Zhang to arrange rooms for you."

"That's right." Xu's father heaved a sigh of relief, and quickly stood up, "Let's rest first, and we'll talk after dinner."

Aunt Shan said slowly: "I think it's better to wait for Brother Cong and the others to come back to eat together, and just talk about Shan Lan's return home."

"Go home?" Xu's mother immediately heard the implication of the other party's words, and raised her eyebrows, "What home? Which home?"

Cong Zhanyi interrupted their conversation: "Let's go upstairs."

"That's right." Xu's father went up the stairs first, and Xu's mother stepped on the ground with high-heeled shoes to catch up, and shouted: "Wait a minute, please make it clear first, what home does Lanzi want to go back to?"

"Uh——" Xu's father hesitated, looking back at his wife helplessly, but Aunt Shan turned her face to one side, pretending she didn't see it.Xu's father had no choice but to bite the bullet and said, "Lanzi's grandfather misses his grandson, and he wants him to go back and have a look."

"Ah?" Mother Xu's eyebrows were raised high, she stared and sneered a few times, "He wants to take a look? He just takes a look if he wants to look? Now that he knows he misses his grandson, what did he do before? The mother and son were kicked out?"

Xu's father frowned and said, "I never chased you away before. You are the one who wants to move out. It has nothing to do with my father."

"It doesn't matter? If he hadn't been there to protect you, would I have taken the child away from home to live in the dormitory in the winter?" Even though it was an old story, it was an eternal pain in Xu's mother's heart. After so many years, I still couldn't bring it up again. relieved.

Father Xu felt ashamed in his heart, but he was unwilling to back down in front of his wife, and muttered, "I didn't ask you to move out!"

This sentence completely angered Xu's mother, she yelled like a mad lioness: "Xu Jianguo! Are you still a man? If you hadn't been behind my back and hooked up with this woman, how could I Come to this point? You were the ones who didn’t want this son at the beginning, you drove us out. Now that the child has grown up, do you think about it, is it because no one can inherit the incense because a son can’t be born? Haha, let me tell you Xu Jianguo , you deserve it, this is your retribution!"

Xu's father seemed to be slapped hard in the face, his face turned livid, and he accused Xu's mother unceremoniously: "What did you do for him? How did you become a mother? How long have you been in charge of your son? I Let me tell you, when I take Lanzi away, I only tell Brother Cong and Brother Yin, you don't need to worry about it!"

"Why don't I take care of it?!" Xu's mother threw off Cong Zhanyi's arm, her eyes spewed fire, as if she was about to pounce on Xu's father, and her sharp voice echoed in the living room, "Lan The son was born by me, and I am his mother! You didn’t want him back then, and your Xu family didn’t want him, why should you take him back now?!”

"You didn't want him either!" Xu's father yelled not to be outdone, "Don't you just give him to someone else and leave? Do you want this child?!"

There was a loud bang, which startled the three people in the quarrel and turned their heads together.Cong Zhanyi slapped heavily on the yellow pear wood coffee table in the middle, his face was gloomy like a dark cloud before a storm, his voice was very low, but it was obvious that he was trying to suppress the anger that was about to burst forth, and said every word Literally said: "You all shut up." Xu Shanlan stood alone beside Cong Zhanyi, trembling slightly from the tips of his fingers to the tips of his toes.With tears in his eyes, he looked at his father and mother in disbelief, his whole body was so fragile that it would easily shatter if he touched it.

Xu's mother suddenly regretted it, and she called out in a trembling voice: "Lanzi..."

Xu Shanlan's tears fell silently, he turned and ran out without saying a word.

Cong Zhanyi stared at the three people present one by one, his eyes were full of manic anger, which almost made Xu's father think that he was going to rush up to beat him, so he took half a step back involuntarily, and said, "You..."

Cong Zhanyi exhausted all his strength to resist the urge to tear the person in front of him into pieces, and said with difficulty: "You... you go upstairs first, I'll go and see Lanzi."

Xu Shanlan hid behind the big tree, shrinking into a small ball.He buried his face in the crook of his arms, bit his lips tightly, so as not to cry out, his body was shaking all the time.

Cong Zhanyi walked over and slowly hugged the hurt boy. "Brother—" Xu Shanlan choked up, "They don't want me, am I redundant? They don't want me..."

"No, you are not." Cong Zhanyi's tone was firm and unshakable, "They don't need you, I want you, brother wants you!"