Mr. Yuan is Always Unhappy - Chap 77
CH77 – SENSE OF HUMOR
Yuan Rui hastily stood up as well, but again, he didn’t know what she meant and felt extremely nervous. He couldn’t help but send a pleading look at Zheng QiuYang.
Zheng QiuYang pretended he didn’t feel it. He grabbed a magazine from the coffee table and said without even looking up: “Pour me a cup of water first.”
Yuan Rui obediently went to pour the water. He even warmed it slightly before carrying it over.
Zheng QiuYang was only wearing a bathrobe. Crossing one leg over the other, he read the magazine, exposing the leg hairs on both legs. He sat there, like an arrogant and bossy lord who was used to ordering people around and instructed: “Go make food. Listen to my mom and make egg preserved congee, then fry some slices of steamed buns. My mom likes to eat it.”
Yuan Rui acknowledged with an ‘okay’ and then obediently went to prepare breakfast.
Giving a glance at her son, who was still leisurely flipping through the pages of a magazine, Mama Zheng also followed Yuan Rui to the kitchen.
Without an audience, Zheng QiuYang stopped pretending and put down the magazine. He stretched out his neck to look over in that direction.
“Aunty.” Yuan Rui said, completely bewildered: “You can just rest outside. I can do it myself.”
Mama Zheng stood at the door and said with a stern face: “I’m not going inside. I’m just watching from here.”
Yuan Rui thought to himself: Why does she need to watch? Is it because she is afraid he’ll spit into the food? He’s not that terrible!
However, he didn’t dare say this and silently took out two preserved eggs from the fridge. He peeled the shells, poured a little hot water on the knife, and cut the preserved eggs into pieces. This can be considered a small trick so that the egg yolk of the preserved eggs does not stick to the knife.
Mama Zheng stood to the side, watching with a cold eye. Internally, she calculated and pondered back and forth. Yuan Rui wasn’t too terrible. In terms of appearance, he’s got it. In terms of intelligence, it’s fine. He knew how to cook and do housework. Just look at how her son ordered him around just now. Normally, he probably yielded to her son’s demands a lot. No matter who her son found, they couldn’t get any better than this; besides the fact that the gender was wrong, and he couldn’t birth her a grandchild.
Zheng QiuYang didn’t hear anything from the kitchen and felt a bit puzzled. With his mom’s temper, can she endure such a long time without criticizing Yuan Rui? She’s not holding back a big one right?
His neck was sore from the stretch. He leaned against the back of the sofa and wanted to rest for a second. It’s only now that he abruptly noticed there was another person behind him. Unknowingly, Fang ShiQing was standing right behind the sofa, currently giving him a cold smile.
Zheng QiuYang: “……”
Fang ShiQing had hidden knives in his smile. Yet his voice was extremely sweet. He said: “Oh QiuYang, when did you take an interest in me?”
Zheng QiuYang instantly felt goosebumps all over his body. Immediately, he snatched up the empty ashtray on the table and used it as a demon revealing mirror. He yelled in a low voice: “Hai! Where did this demon come from! You better reveal your true form immediately!”
Fang ShiQing sneered even more and said: “You think I didn’t hear you calling me a fox demon secretly just now? Don’t you know the phrase ‘the walls have ears’?”
That ashtray was purchased by Yuan Rui. Zheng QiuYang was afraid to drop it accidently and put it back on the coffee table, cursing: “Get lost. I’m talking in my own house, why would I care if the walls have ears? You’re only a guest living here and you dare to eavesdrop?”
The two of them started to exchange retorts back and forth. The two people in the kitchen could only hear that it’s rather lively outside. Yuan Rui didn’t know what to say, but searched for a conversation starter: “That’s Fang ShiQing. He’s our friend. He has a little issue at home so he’s temporarily living here for a few days.”
Mama Zheng absent-mindedly acknowledged with an ‘en’. In her ears, the noise from outside was her son and the little vixen currently fooling around.
Yuan Rui wanted to become closer to Mama Zheng, but he really didn’t know what to say. Afraid he’d say something wrong, he could only cook in silence.
Mama Zheng also didn’t speak. She stared hard at Yuan Rui and thought to herself: Since her son liked men anyways, Yuan Rui at least looked like a decent person who didn’t look for trouble and seemed rather obedient. If her son really got friendly with that little vixen outside…… Just thinking about this made her head hurt. No need to say anything else, just considering her temper alone. If she repeatedly scolded the vixen right in his face, that vixen definitely wouldn’t endure her silently like Yuan Rui; they’d really rip each other apart. That’d look very unsightly, even more unsightly than when real mother-in-laws argued with their daughter-in-laws.
Yuan Rui, who was determined to make a perfectly delicious breakfast so that Mama Zheng could feel a bit more favorable towards him, focused devotedly on cutting the steamed buns into slices. After cutting a piece, he silently gave himself a thumbs up internally. This slice was cut so well, with uniformed thickness. 10 points! This piece was pretty good also! 10 points!
Seeing him smiling foolishly even while cutting steamed buns, Mama Zheng listened to the vaguely audible sound of laughter in the living room and felt a surge of sympathy in her heart.
“Yuan Rui,” She said: “That person seems to have a pretty good relationship with QiuYang. How’s he with you?”
Yuan Rui didn’t know why she was asking this and answered honestly: “Pretty good. We’re also good friends.”
Mama Zheng said internally, What an idiot.
She then said: “Have you been busy with work lately?”
Yuan Rui said: “Not busy.”
Mama Zheng glared at him and said: “If you’re not busy, then guard the house well. Where have you been putting your thoughts and energy?”
Scolded randomly, Yuan Rui didn’t dare to talk back. He lowered his head and continued to cut the steamed buns. However, this slice just happened to be cut crooked and only received 7 points. Instantly, he felt even more dispirited.
Looking at his foolish countenance, Mama Zheng felt a breath of air stuck in her chest, unable to go up or down. Really so disappointing!
The three people sat down and ate breakfast. While Yuan Rui scooped the congee, he said to Zheng QiuYang: “QiuYang, you go call Fang ShiQing.”
Mama Zheng opened her mouth to speak. Zheng QiuYang said: “He just said don’t call him, he’s not eating.”
Mama Zheng gave a huff. There’s no way she’d eat together with that little vixen.
Yuan Rui couldn’t read the atmosphere and continued to say: “I made a portion for him. if he doesn’t eat it, it’ll be left over.”
Zheng QiuYang said: “Don’t worry about him.”
Yuan Rui said: “Working overtime is so tiring. Tell him to get up and eat a little before sleeping again.”
Mama Zheng said in an unpleasant tone: “He wants to sleep, but you insist on calling him up. Why so meddlesome?”
Closing his mouth out of fear, Yuan Rui practically buried his face into his bowl.
Mama Zheng picked up a slice of the steamed bun and took a bite. Extremely reluctantly, she said: “Fried pretty good.”
Yuan Rui felt like a weight was taken off his shoulders. Not daring to speak too much, he lowered his head and drank his congee.
Mama Zheng looked at him, lacking the usual revulsion on her face. On the contrary, she seemed a bit satisfied.
After eating, she didn’t stay for too long before leaving. She made Zheng QiuYang drive her home.
As soon as they left and entered the elevator, she immediately changed face and said: “Hurry up and chase that little vixen out. What’s three people living together supposed to mean? Do you have any shame?”
Turning the car key chain in his hand, Zheng QiuYang said: “I’m also getting tired of sneaking around all the time. I’ll make some time later and have a good talk with Yuan Rui, so he can move out.”
Mama Zheng: “…… Tell who to move out?”
Zheng QiuYang said naturally: “Yuan Rui of course.”
Yuan Rui was still cleaning up the bowls and chopsticks when the door to the apartment opened again. Zheng QiuYang walked in by himself.
Yuan Rui asked in confusion: “How come you came back? Did you forget to bring something?”
Zheng QiuYang walked over and said sulkily: “My mom doesn’t want me to drive her anymore. She said she doesn’t want to see me.”
Yuan Rui opened his eyes wide and said guiltily: “It’s all my fault. I didn’t please her again.”
Zheng QiuYang feigned a crying face and said: “That’s definitely not true. Right now, she’s on your side, that’s why she scolded me.”
Yuan Rui didn’t understand what he meant: “What on my side?”
Afraid he’d drop the ball in the future, Zheng QiuYang didn’t tell him too much. He only said: “Right now, she thinks you’re pretty good. You can cook delicious food, look very handsome, and are also very obedient; So good, you can’t be any better. The more she looks at you, the more she feels that everything is wrong about me. Even when I called you to help me pour a cup of water, she felt that I’m bullying you.”
Yuan Rui: “……”
Zheng QiuYang hugged him and faked cried, saying: “What am I supposed to do? My own mom is favoring an outsider.”
Yuan Rui still couldn’t believe it and asked: “Really? Did she really say that? But she was just resenting me for being annoying! You better not be amusing me.”
Zheng QiuYang laughed, saying: “Not amusing you. It’s real. Before we moved, she visited our place several times. Every time she saw how clean and organized our home was, she’d feel very satisfied with you. She just didn’t want to say it. So prideful.”
The words weren’t complete lies. His mom never had any issues with Yuan Rui himself. In the past, she criticized everything left and right, it was purely because Yuan Rui was a man. At first, she still carried the dream of introducing a good girl to her son and bending him back. The situation that she saw now… even if he left Yuan Rui, he’d still find a man. This completely moved the issue away from bending him back or not to what kind of son-in-law she wanted.
Zheng QiuYang knew that his mom really disliked Fang ShiQing’s type. When he first came out as gay to his mom, his mom thought his partner was a delicate, fair-skinned, flamboyant kind of man. When she heard it was Yuan Rui, she was stunned immediately for 3 seconds. She even asked him several times repeatedly “Are you really talking about that model with the big long legs?”
It’s clear to see that she originally didn’t dislike Yuan Rui.
Yuan Rui only felt that happiness came too quickly and suddenly. He still didn’t dare to believe it. As he cleaned up, he was still mumbling: “If this were true, that would be great. In the future, you won’t have to feel split apart between two sides. I’m just too stupid. I don’t even know how to win Aunty’s favor. Once Fang ShiQing is free, I’ll ask him to teach me a thing or two.”
Zheng QiuYang: “……You really have quite a unique thought process, too amazing at finding a good teacher.”
Yuan Rui couldn’t comprehend the meaning behind his words and continued to say very enviously: “Of course. He gets along pretty well with Wang Qi’s parents. I’m not the same. I don’t interact a lot with elders, and also don’t have many experiences……. Oh right, there’s one more thing. I almost forgot it. Where’s my phone?”
Zheng QiuYang picked up the phone on the coffee table and gave it to him, asking: “What’s the matter?”
“Have to give Aunty Yang a phone call.” Yuan Rui dialed the number and answered him, saying: “Need to see which days she’s free to invite her for a meal. I haven’t been able to leave the house lately. It’s been dragging on for too long.”
Zheng QiuYang heard him make the appointment with the other person on the phone. 7pm tomorrow night at Qiao JiangNan.
“I’m going with you.” Zheng QiuYang said without accepting any words of refusal: “I’ll wear a hat and mask. If I get photographed, you can just say I’m your assistant.”
Yuan Rui looked at him and said: “It won’t work. The media recognizes Xiao Zhao. Besides, you’re more handsome than him even if you wear a mask.”
Zheng QiuYang laughed and said seriously: “Stroking my ego is no use. I’m going anyway.”
Yuan Rui sat down next to him and threw an arm over his shoulder: “I didn’t say I’m not allowing you to go. I just said you don’t need to pretend to be my assistant. Eating a meal is not like we’re getting a room together. So what if you get photographed. What’s there to photograph?”
Zheng QiuYang lamented somewhat regrettably: “Back then when I wanted to get a room, you weren’t even willing. I just knew the good days wouldn’t last. Just look, now I have to be all sneaky even going out together with you.”
Yuan Rui leaned against his shoulder and sighed, saying: “I really shouldn’t have become a celebrity. Those paparazzi are too annoying.”
Zheng QiuYang asked him: “If you didn’t become a celebrity, what did you want to be the most?”
Yuan Rui thought briefly and said: “A paparazzi.”
Zheng QiuYang: “……”
Yuan Rui: “Hahaha. Was that a good joke?”
Zheng QiuYang: “…… Ha ha.”
Yuan Rui said, somewhat proud: “I really have such a great sense of humor.”
Zheng QiuYang: “……” What the hell.
