Chapter 94: Qi’s Mother: Filial Piety Runs in the Family! |
Qi’s father slowly put down the newspaper and searched for a handy weapon. He felt a little excited inside.
Since Qi Yun was ten years old, he hadn’t been spanked. He wondered if his skills had become rusty.
Qi Yun keenly sensed his father’s killing intent and didn’t dare to tease him anymore.
He immediately took out a small black gift box and said, “This is a gift I bought for you!”
Qi’s father was a little puzzled. He opened the gift box to find a set of car keys inside. There were four circles on the key.
He looked at them from left to right, up and down, and asked, “These are car keys? A model?”
Qi Yun replied, “No, they’re real! Why would I give you a model? I bought you a car!”
“You bought me a car, son?”
Qi’s father jumped three feet high, unable to believe it.
Qi’s mother also poked her head out from the kitchen, completely confused.
“Cough, I announce now that your beloved son, me, has bought an Audi sedan for our family! It’s parked downstairs!”
Qi Yun had wanted to buy his parents something for a while.
However, the problem was that the money from the system, although clean and received through dividends from a foreign investment group, couldn’t be easily explained to his parents.
He couldn’t just say that he, Qi Yun, a teenage prodigy, secretly invested in a foreign investment institution and became a shareholder when they didn’t know anything about it.
His parents weren’t fools.
Qi Yun had undergone significant changes this year, but his parents were well aware of his previous behavior in the past few years.
Only now, with the tea shop really making money, could he openly spend some money.
He knew that Qi’s father had always wanted a car but had never bought one because the Qi family didn’t have much savings.
Only around a hundred thousand yuan were in their bank account, which Qi’s parents had planned to use for Qi Yun’s college expenses.
Qi’s father could only occasionally envy the cars of others and borrow them to satisfy his cravings.
When Qi Yun’s company started making money in his previous life, he had also considered buying a car for Qi’s father.
Who knew he would fall ill?
The car purchase never happened.
……
“Audi! Isn’t it expensive?”
“Not really, it’s just the entry-level model, Audi A4L. It’s around 300,000 yuan.”
Qi Yun didn’t buy a Mercedes or BMW. He was afraid of scaring his father.
Qi’s father was still shocked. 300,000 yuan? That was his salary for five or six years!
“Where did you get so much money?” Qi’s father asked.
“Li Qingxue and I, didn’t we open a tea shop? We even expanded to the provincial capital. We’ve been making much money recently, earning over 300,000 yuan a month!”
Qi Yun had already prepared an explanation. He realized it was difficult to explain the origin of the system’s money clearly.
However, he could spend the tea shop’s earnings on his parents.
Qi’s father and Qi’s mother exchanged glances.
The tea shop was making so much money?
They knew that Qi Yun and Lian Qingxue had opened a shop together, but they thought it was just a small venture and didn’t pay much attention to it.
Now, it turned out to be so successful. Making over 300,000 yuan a month was unimaginable for them.
Qi’s father and Qi’s mother were both long-time employees in the factory, and their salaries were not low.
But Qi’s father earned less than 5,000 yuan a month, and Qi’s mother earned just over 3,000 yuan. Their combined annual income, excluding bonuses and benefits, was only around 100,000 yuan.
In Spring City, this income could be considered middle-class. However, Qi Yun was now earning over 300,000 yuan in a month!
Qi’s father looked at the car keys in his hand, fell silent for a while, and suddenly said seriously to Qi’s mother, “I think I can consider retiring!”
Qi’s mother replied, “Retire my foot! You’ve been thinking about retirement for the past ten years! You’re only forty now and already want our son to support us? How shameless!”
Qi’s father fell silent. In his heart, he muttered silently, “I’ve been thinking about retirement since the first day I started working!”
Qi’s father had always had a dream that he couldn’t speak of: When he was young, He was relying on his parents for support!
After marriage, relying on his wife for support!
In old age, relying on his son for support!
Now, he had achieved the first third of his dream.
In the last third, Qi’s father finally saw hope today!
Qi Yun had thought that his dream was going to shatter.
……
After dinner, Qi’s father went downstairs and drove around in the car.
When he came back, he specifically found a dust cover from home and placed it over the new car.
Qi Yun felt that this might not be his father. He clearly remembered when Qi’s mother was away on a business trip, and Qi’s father took care of him.
Once, Qi Yun’s pants had a hole in them, and Qi’s father used a stapler to fix it!
A stapler!
His dad was an absolute genius!
And now he was being so careful with the car. This couldn’t be his dad!
Qi’s father returned home humming a song and immediately noticed something was off in the atmosphere.
Qi Yun sat upright on the sofa, being extremely well-behaved. In the kitchen, Qi’s mother was chopping ribs.
Dong! Dong! Dong!
It was particularly loud!
Qi’s father sensed danger.
Qi’s father didn’t dare to speak loudly. “What’s going on with your mom?” He asked Qi Yun.
“I don’t know. She started as soon as you went downstairs, and it’s been half an hour!”
Qi’s father scratched his head. “She’s jealous! Did you buy a gift for your mom?”
Qi Yun gave him a reassuring look. How could he forget this principle that involved family harmony?
“Don’t worry, Dad. Even if I didn’t buy one for you, I definitely bought one for Mom!”
Qi’s father: …
He felt a little choked up.
Qi’s mother was indeed angry. She stood in front of the cutting board, feeling wronged!
Qi Yun had bought a car for Qi’s father without even considering her, his dear mother!
Dong!
She made another cut on the ribs. It was all about the father and son showing filial piety!
Dong!
She made another cut. She felt aggrieved!
As the sound from the kitchen grew louder, Qi’s father glanced at Qi Yun and cleared his throat. “Qi Yun, did you use the money from the tea shop to buy me a car?”
Qi Yun immediately shook his head. “Of course not! I also bought a gift for Mom!”
The noise from the kitchen stopped.
Qi’s mother was definitely eavesdropping!
“You bought a gift? Why didn’t I see it?”
“What a gift! I don’t want it!” Qi’s mother’s voice came from the kitchen, full of arrogance, as if she couldn’t be bothered.
“I left it on Mom’s bed! Mom, I bought it, but she won’t accept it!”
Qi’s mother remained unmoved and said, “I don’t want it even if you bought it!”
Now you remember that you have a mother?
It was too late!
Qi’s father and Qi Yun exchanged glances again.
Qi’s father suddenly stood up and moved to the kitchen, “I just remembered that I might not have parked the car properly. I’ll go check!”
Qi Yun also stood up and returned to his room. There was silence in the living room.
Qi Yun pressed his ear against the door and quietly listened to what was happening with Qi’s mother.
After a while, he heard some movement in the living room.
Through the crack of the door, he saw his mom acting sneakily and heading towards her own room. Once she entered the room, Qi’s mother immediately noticed a gift box on the bed.
It was bright red and looked festive. When she opened it, her eyes sparkled. Inside was a complete set of gold jewelry – from hairpins to earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and rings. There were seven or eight pieces in total.
Whether the design was good or not, she could tell that they were of good quality just by holding them.
Qi’s mother didn’t know Qi Yun had struggled to think of what gift to buy her.
In the end, he remembered that she liked practical things. He thought gold might seem a bit tacky, but his mom loved such things.
He even had them custom-made at the shop, with no specific requirements other than them being heavy enough. He believed his mom would like them.
As expected, Qi Yun heard his mom making a phone call in the room.
“Hello, Little Zhou? Let’s go dancing tonight!”
“What do you mean it’s hot? The weather has cooled down quite a bit! We agreed on it, right?”
Qi Yun looked outside and saw that it was still August, and the sun hadn’t set yet.
Spring City wasn’t exactly a cool place.
It was still around 28 degrees Celsius in the evenings. It was scorching hot!
He suddenly realized that his mom intended to wear several kilograms of gold jewelry while dancing. It was like carrying a heavy load on a cross-country trek! It seemed like a real burden.
Watching his mom actually put on the jewelry and humming a song as she prepared to leave, Qi Yun regretted his choice. He was worried that his mom might suffer from heatstroke.
As Qi’s father’s new car and Qi’s mother’s jewelry became famous among their colleagues, Qi’s mother lost a couple of pounds.
After all, dancing every day with such heavy jewelry was an effective way to lose weight. It turned out to be an unexpected joy.
Meanwhile, Qi Yun’s summer vacation in his senior year was coming to an end. These days, the Qi family was busy packing his belongings for his trip to Beijing.
However, before Qi Yun went to school, there was one important event for the Qi family – Qi Yun’s celebration of entering college.
The Qi family’s celebration was a bit late because their relatives didn’t live in Spring City.
Qi’s parents weren’t originally from Spring City either. They had relocated due to the factory’s relocation, and it was a four or five-hour drive from their hometown.
Since their elderly relatives had passed away and hadn’t returned to their hometown for the past few years, they decided to wait for their relatives to come to Spring City. That’s why the celebration was held late.
Thinking of their relatives, Qi Yun felt a bit nostalgic.
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