Chapter 33 Vacation Day

Sometimes, something has an ominous aura from the very beginning.

But foolish humans will never be able to understand whether this ominous situation is a test of "everything is difficult at the beginning" or a common way for God to change the weather.

The hot spring resort that Gu Yunsu booked is less than two hours away from the city. The hotel starts checking in at 2 o'clock. The Li family plans to arrive at 12 o'clock, have a leisurely lunch at the top vegetarian restaurant in the resort, and return to the hotel at 2 o'clock. After completing the formalities, they can officially start to enjoy life. Why choose a vegetarian restaurant? There is a reason for this, because the hotel package includes a seafood buffet dinner worth 288. Eating less and more exquisite at noon can leave more for dinner.

We the working class are so good at calculating.

Wu Limei woke up at 7 o'clock in the morning, humming a little tune while preparing breakfast for everyone, and then excitedly ran to the room of her two children to wake them up. She was so virtuous.

But Gu Yunsu typed until 3 a.m. the night before, and her mother pulled the quilt out of her at 8 a.m. She was so annoyed that she closed her eyes and shouted angrily, "I don't want to eat!"

Wu Limei usually doesn't interfere with her daughter's daily routine, but today she had to leave at 10 o'clock. She was very anxious and kept nagging her daughter beside her bed: "Are you done packing and still want to sleep?! We will leave on time at 10 o'clock. If you are late, no one will wait for you!"

"I know!!!" Gu Yunsu yelled angrily. She was the kind of person who was always in a bad mood when she woke up. If she didn't sleep well, she would be so angry that she wanted to kill someone. Once, she was so angry with the alarm that she threw her cell phone off the bed.

"Okay, just go to sleep! I'm too lazy to care about you!" Wu Limei was also irritated by her daughter's yelling, so she turned around and left after saying this.

But the shouting woke her up. Gu Yunsu curled up in the quilt for five minutes before her mind began to unconsciously pop up a series of random and unrelated thoughts: "I want to eat pineapple and ancient pork", "The house that Luo Jingjing's boyfriend likes seems to cost four million", "Beautiful ballet is so difficult", and "Next time I have to ask Xu Wenbin to treat me". She knew she couldn't fall asleep.

She got up and brushed her teeth and washed her face with a sad face. When she went downstairs, Wu Limei was still angry. Seeing her, she sneered: "Hey, you still know it. Whose girl is so old and still sleeps until noon every day?"

It was a good day to go out and play, and Gu Yunsu didn't want to spoil the fun. By this time, her anger had passed, so she laughed and joked, "You are ignorant, aren't you? We young people are all like this."

"Your brother is not like that!"

"He's a senior in high school, how can he be the same as me? I woke up earlier than him when I was a senior in high school!"

Wu Limei rolled her eyes at her daughter and concluded, "You are always right."

Gu Yunsu chuckled, pretending that the matter was over, and went to the kitchen to eat the sandwich prepared by Wu Limei.

As she was going to travel a long distance soon, she was afraid of getting carsick due to lack of sleep, so she didn't dare to eat too much. She just ate a few bites and went to pack up.

At 10 o'clock, everything was fine. But when he got in the car, Li Jianxiong remembered, "I forgot to bring my notebook."

"Which one?" Wu Limei asked.

"Just remember your physical condition."

When this was mentioned, Wu Limei's face flashed with sweetness. But she couldn't seem to be "getting away with it" in front of the children, so she patted her husband and said, "It's okay if you didn't bring it. It's no big deal."

"How can that be possible!" Li Jianxiong glared, "It's very important!"

As soon as Li Yan got into the car, he put on his headphones and closed his eyes to rest, completely ignoring everything else. Gu Yunsu interrupted and asked, "Can't you write on your phone?"

Li Jianxiong shook his head, unbuckled his seat belt, and apologized, "Five minutes, just five minutes!"

And this little episode is nothing.

Nearly twenty minutes into the drive, when Gu Yunsu and Li Yan were sitting in the back seat catching up on sleep, Wu Limei screamed, waking up everyone in the car.

"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?" Li Jianxiong asked distractedly while driving.

Wu Limei looked uneasy: "I forgot to bring my amulet."

Wu Limei was an older woman who was in poor health. When she was first diagnosed with pregnancy, she was happy but also worried. She was afraid that the delivery would not be smooth and that the placenta was unstable and she would have a miscarriage. She didn't know where she got help from a "fortune teller" who told her fortune and asked for a talisman, which she was told to carry with her to ensure her safety.

Wu Limei usually keeps the talisman under her pillow, but she forgot to take it with her when she left today.

"It's okay," Li Jianxiong persuaded her, "Let's just go for four days. I think it's okay."

But Wu Limei was very frightened. She covered her chest and said, "No, I always feel uneasy."

"But it's so far..." Li Jianxiong said with some embarrassment, looking at the two young men in the back seat through the rearview mirror.

Gu Yunsu was woken up again. She didn't have any thoughts, but was quite annoyed. She made eye contact with Li Jianxiong, and it was obvious that the other party was just afraid that she and Li Yan would not be willing.

She was certainly not happy about it, but she forced herself not to say anything. In the end, she was too lazy to talk, so she closed her eyes and pretended to sleep.

The most annoying thing is the governor who forbids his people to light lamps and then accidentally sets a fire himself.

Li Jianxiong, a wife-slave, of course followed Wu Limei back home. This wasted nearly an hour, and by the time they finally arrived at the resort, Gu Yunsu's waist was almost broken.

At this time, she had already begun to have an ominous premonition in her heart, vaguely feeling that this trip plan was not very good, and it seemed that something bad might happen. It was like driving a car. If you catch the green light at the first intersection, there will be green lights later; but if you hit a red light at the first time, then you can relax and stop at every intersection.

However, there is a saying, or more precisely, a Chinese philosophy of just four words, that can help each of us stay calm and carry out our plans when we participate in many unsatisfactory activities or visit disappointing tourist attractions.

Those four magical words are: It’s already here.

The time was 2:15 pm and there was already a queue at the front desk checking us in.

The rooms had been divided long ago, Li Jianxiong and his son in one room, and Wu Limei and her daughter in another. By the time Gu Yunsu had completed the formalities with everyone's ID cards and entered the room and put away their luggage, it was already three o'clock.

The timing is really awkward. If I really go to eat, I won’t be able to eat at night. If I don’t go to eat, I will be really hungry.

As a self-disciplined worker, Wu Limei encouraged everyone: "Let's not eat yet! Take a walk and take a break. It will be time soon."

Li Jianxiong nodded and dragged his son to explore the resort.

Gu Yunsu had been awake since he got up and was now hungry and tired. As soon as he entered the house, he collapsed on the bed and sent a WeChat message to Xu Wenbin.

She complained about the unhappy trip and her mother's drag and control. Xu Wenbin comforted her: "Just bear with it and it will pass. At least you don't have to work overtime."

Gu Yunsu: "Wow, I live in the same room with my mom, and we are on standby 24 hours a day. I don't have to work overtime because I don't have to leave work."

"Then what? I'll pick you up?" Xu Wenbin provoked her again.

"Disgusting." Gu Yunsu complained in a coquettish tone, "Remember your oath now, there is no guarantee that this will be fulfilled!"

As a result, Xu Wenbin did not reply again.

Gu Yunsu browsed various social platforms and waited for 15 minutes, but no WeChat message came in. She clicked on Xu Wenbin's profile picture and closed it again, getting angry.

When this person gets busy, he always disappears without saying goodbye. Once or twice is no big deal, but if it happens too often, it's annoying. Everyone knows why you're busy. How important is the matter that you leave without even being able to type "let's stop talking"?

In the past, crosstalk performers always loved to tell this story: The person upstairs took off a shoe and threw it on the ground, and the person downstairs waited all night for the other person to throw the second shoe.

Gu Yunsu is the one who will wait for someone to throw shoes at him.

Since no one was throwing shoes at her, she got angry and threw her phone onto the quilt.

Wu Limei, who just came out of the bathroom, saw him and asked with a smile, "Your new boyfriend? What's his name, Xu Wen...what?"

"Xu Wenbin."

"Oh yeah, did you have a fight?"

Gu Yunsu pursed her lips and said nothing. She had never discussed relationship issues with her mother before and didn't know how to respond.

But Wu Limei seemed to be in the middle of a conversation and asked again, "Why?"

"Nothing," Gu Yunsu subconsciously perfunctorily replied. After seeing her mother's slightly disappointed "Oh", she couldn't bear it and added, "He always disappears while chatting."

When her daughter was willing to answer, Wu Limei's expression immediately brightened up. She helped to analyze the situation and said, "She must be busy with work. Today is not the weekend. You think everyone is as free as you."

"Am I free?" Gu Yunsu was unhappy. "Although I'm at home and I'm not typing all the time, I'm learning by reading and watching TV shows. People think I'm daydreaming, but my brain is constantly thinking about the plot. My time is no better than others'. Besides, I know he's busy, but I'm just annoyed that he leaves without a closing statement."

Wu Limei nodded to show her understanding, but she also said, "But everyone has different habits. If you feel uncomfortable, you can tell him." She also used herself as an example, "Like your uncle Li, I will tell him everything I am not satisfied with."

Gu Yunsu was a little curious when he heard this, and asked, "Is there anything else about him that you are not satisfied with?"

"Look at what you said," Wu Limei glanced at her daughter, leaned on the bed, found a comfortable position for herself, and said, "There are so many things I am dissatisfied with. Look, he always speaks hesitantly and verbosely, I don't like it, the food he cooks is too salty, and he likes to talk to the people inside when watching TV, how terrible..."

Wu Limei kept talking, and Gu Yunsu had to interrupt her and said jokingly, "I didn't expect you to dislike him so much."

"People are different. No matter how much you like someone, there are bound to be things you can't accept about them. There is no one in this world who is 100% compatible with you. It's enough as long as there are no problems with the general principles." Wu Limei said with an experienced look, and gave her daughter a meaningful look, "If you demand so much, you won't be able to find a boyfriend, right?"

Gu Yunsu didn't want to argue, so she automatically ignored her mother's last sentence and just asked, "If you say that, isn't that compromising again?"

Wu Limei: "How can this be called compromise? This is tolerance. I love him, so I have to tolerate him. Of course, if there are things I cannot tolerate, I will tell him to correct them. Originally, when two people are together, they have to constantly compromise and give in."

Wu Limei never seemed to have any ambition for career. She married Gu Kangqi so early because she wanted to realize her ideal of being a good wife and mother. Gu Yunsu had felt this way a long time ago, and now she confirmed once again that Ms. Wu was a master in relationships, daring to love and hate, to speak and to act. Things that had troubled her for days were as easy for Wu Limei as eating and sleeping.

Wu Limei added: "When two people are guessing each other, is that love? That's fighting. If there is something wrong, just talk it out. If it's a big deal, just have a fight. What can't be solved?"

These few words made Gu Yunsu feel ashamed in her heart. She felt guilty that she always claimed to be a love guru in the circle of friends. After all the trouble, she was not half as satisfied as Ms. Wu.

Sometimes, the knot in your heart is untied in an instant. Gu Yunsu had a rare opportunity to have a heart-to-heart talk with her mother, and the effect was unexpectedly good. It was like meeting a more experienced but calmer best friend, who immediately untied her confusion.

It turns out that the relationship between mother and daughter can be like this, she thought, it turns out that all relationships can still be improved.