Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 172 - 172 169 Blind Date

Chapter 172: Chapter 169: Blind Date Chapter 172: Chapter 169: Blind Date “Shut up!”

Mu Cong, while supporting his weeping mother, glared at Mu Wan, “If the police had been called immediately back then, perhaps the traffickers wouldn’t have been able to escape Beijing, and Xiaosi might have been found.”

Li Qingyan glanced at Mu Cong with disgust, “What business is it of yours? You have no manners at all.”

Mu Cong sneered, “Your daughter has manners, and that means she has the right to yell at elders?”

“You…”

“Enough!”

The old Master Mu slapped his palm on the coffee table with a “smack”, his face turning ashen. He first glanced at Mu Shaotang and then turned to his elderly wife and asked, “Chenyan refuses to come back?”

After such an ordeal, the old lady was also exhausted in both body and spirit. Holding her chest, she spoke in a muffled voice, “That child suffered a lot in the past ten years. If things are left as they are, Chenyan will have no face to see the child. What’s more…”

She lifted her head and looked resentfully at Mu Shaotang, “If it was an unintentional mistake, there would still be a chance for reconciliation, but if it was deliberate…”

“Mom, do you believe anything Mu Chenyan says?”

Mu Shaotang, helped up from the floor by Mu Wan, sneered, “It’s always been like this since we were children, whatever she says or does, she’s right! You’ve always believed that I am not as good as her, never considering to hear my side of the story. It was like that before, and it’s still like that now.”

The old lady’s eyes filled with disappointment. She turned to the old Master and said, “This is the eldest son you’ve always favored, openly and secretly. Look, take a good look at yourself, see what you’ve turned him into?”

However excellent a daughter may be, she is after all, a daughter; in his private heart, the old Master still favored his mediocre son.

He had his doubts about that incident with the young girl back then; it was just self-deception that he didn’t want to believe it.

He knew why Mu Chenyan was angry with the elderly couple.

When the old Master didn’t respond, the old lady knew the answer, “You also know that back then when Chenyan was about to take the college entrance exam, he tore up her admission ticket, right?”

Mu Shaotang’s head shot up suddenly, and the old lady sneered, “You think that just because you’re sneaky, no one knows? Your sister is just sparing you your dignity by not telling others. She might not mind what you do to her, because after all, you are her younger brother, but how old was that child? Mu Shaotang, you’re worse than a beast!”

After speaking, she again turned to look at the old Master, “A son’s failings are his father’s fault. He turned out this way because of your repeated coddling.”

Mu Shaoning also turned his head to look at the old Master, “For these past ten years, outsiders have said that it was for my sake that you fell out with my sister, and whenever you talk about my sister, I am the first one you blame. Fine, we accept that, after all, the child was lost in our home, and we should assume the responsibility we ought to carry. But I never expected you could be so biased… I only regret now, regret that I shouldn’t have stepped out for half an hour, regret that I was busy looking for the child and let them, the couple, go to report to the police and notify my elder sister…”

Mu Shaoning wiped his face, smirked self-mockingly, and turned to call Mu Cong and Yong Ruifang, “Let’s go!”

…..

The chaos at the Mu Family had nothing to do with Mu Chenyan; she had long since been disappointed in her parents, and the thought of their eightieth birthday feast hadn’t even crossed her mind.

It was about to get cold soon, and she was recently trying to learn how to knit a sweater for Xiaosi.

After the old lady left, she reached under the coffee table and pulled out the wool that had just been cast on and had only been knitted a little, and continued knitting.

“Wrong, here you should use the knit stitch… Oh dear, I’ve told you, you should just knit the simplest one knit one purl, still not very good at it but trying to learn fancy patterns…”

Mu Chenyan put down the wool, raised her head, and looked towards Yu Heng, “Have you been especially idle lately?”

Yu Heng hurriedly denied, “No, no, I’ve been incredibly busy every day, supervising graduate students and also teaching advanced mathematics for the physics department…”

When it came to the physics department, he remembered Xiaosi teasing him that night, and quickly tattled, “Mom, do you know what Xiaosi did today?”

Yu Heng imitated the words Xiaosi had said that night, and then said, “That girl, I don’t know where she learns this nonsense from. Do you think it’s that boy teaching her?”

However, Mu Chenyan looked at Yu Heng thoughtfully.

Yu Heng felt ants crawling on his scalp as he leaned back, trembling as he asked, “I’m talking to you, what are you staring at me for?”

“Xiaosi, tell your mom the truth. Are you that…”

“Mom!”

Yu Heng nearly jumped off the sofa, “How can you even think that? I’m your own son. Don’t you know whether I’m normal or not?”

Mu Chenyan looked at him with a complex expression, feeling that her eldest son’s mind really might not be all right, “I am your mom, that’s true. But how could I possibly be clear about whether your orientation is normal?”

Yu Heng: …

With a look of helplessness, he explained weakly, “Then let me clarify now, I’m normal. There’s nothing abnormal about me.”

“That’s good then,” Mu Chenyan took the opportunity to say, “This weekend, your fourth aunt’s sister-in-law’s niece will be in Beijing, and I’ve arranged a meeting for Saturday night at five-thirty. You should go on a blind date.”

Yu Heng: ….

He suspected that his mom was digging a pit earlier, and this blind date might have been her ultimate goal.

While Mu Chenyan untangled the yarn in her hands, she kept on muttering, “It’s not wrong for your sister to think this way. After all, you are thirty and don’t even have a girlfriend. She’s just looking out for you, reminding you that others might think the same way…”

Yu Heng suddenly recalled how Luo Xiao looked at him like she had seen a ghost during the day, and she had never acted like this before.

Having been pursued by women so many times, he knew at a glance when someone was interested in him.

Is there a similarity between bashfulness and avoidance?

So….

Luo Xiao thinks the same?

But why? Aren’t there many PhD graduates from Beijing University who are also around thirty? Are they all not normal?

The next day, Yu Heng made a special inquiry around the school and found out that the majority of PhD students near thirty or already thirty, were either married or had girlfriends they’d been dating for several years.

He fell silent in an instant….

…

After classes at noon, Yu Heng returned to the office to deliver teaching materials.

Just as he climbed the stairs and turned the corner, he saw a silhouette standing at the door of his office.

Yu Heng stopped in his tracks, while the other person heard the sound and turned to look over.

“Xiaosi.”

Mu Shaoning had already been waiting here for nearly two hours. He spoke earnestly, “Take me to see Xiaosi. I just want to have a look, quietly, okay?”

Yu Heng had complex feelings about this uncle. Although Xiaosi was lost by Yu Xin, he and his aunt were definitely not innocent.

If either of them had stayed at home all those years ago, then Yu Xin would have had no chance to act.

If their mom chose not to forgive their uncle, then they had even less to say on the matter.

Seemly reading Yu Heng’s refusal, Mu Shaoning continued to plead, “Uncle is begging you, Xiaosi. I really just want to look at her, just one glance.”

Mu Shaoning also knew he had no right to see Xiaosi, but after pining for so many years, and after searching for over a decade, he couldn’t get over it if he didn’t see her with his own eyes!