Chapter 143: Let’s accept the loss and get the marriage certificate
When Lu Bingchen was a child, he loved eating the duck wings braised by his mother and could never get enough of them.
The next day, Lu's mother cooked and braised three ducks.
After the duck wings were cooked, she hummed a song and put all the duck wings into a thermos bucket, preparing to deliver them to Lu Bingchen's apartment personally.
Lu's mother thought that even though Lu Bingchen moved his household registration out, she still asked him to give her 100 million yuan before she agreed to sign an agreement that he would not provide any support for her and her husband for the rest of their lives.
But no matter what, Lu Bingchen is her flesh and blood, her biological son. How could he be so heartless and unfilial to her?
Besides, with Lu Bingchen's current net worth, he can spend tens of millions to prepare a fancy proposal for Xie Yiyi, and take out hundreds of millions to help his blood relatives in an emergency. What's that?
Moreover, as an elder, she bowed her head and took the initiative to give way.
Mother Lu sprinkled a handful of sesame seeds on the duck wings for flavor, closed the lid with satisfaction, and instructed the cook who was helping her, "Young Master loves braised duck legs. Put four in a thermos later, sprinkle some sesame seeds on them for flavor, and then send them to the company. As for the remaining two, I will give one to my husband and me."
"I understand, ma'am."
"Yeah." Mother Lu carried the duck wings in the thermos and arranged for the driver to take her to Lu Bingchen's apartment.
Along the way, Lu's mother was in a good mood.
She never thought that Lu Bingchen would be so outstanding and could be worth hundreds of billions on his own.
She is so lucky, God has given her two outstanding sons.
When they were almost at Lu Bingchen's apartment, Lu's mother took out her phone and sent a voice message to Lu Zhizhang, "Zhizhang, I braised your favorite duck legs today. I'll have Xiaoping send them to your office in a thermos later. I'm going to look for your brother now, so wait for good news from me."
Lu Zhizhang: [Thank you, Mom.]
However, the black car was stopped outside the gate of Lu Bingchen's apartment complex.
Mother Lu rolled down the car window and saw that it was the security guard who had greeted her the last time she came.
With a faint smile on her face, she said, "Xiao Zhou, right? Don't you remember me? I'm the mother of Lu Bingchen, the owner of 1601, Building 6. Please open the door. I'm here to bring some braised dishes to my son today."
The security guard, Xiao Zhou, said in a businesslike manner, "Mrs. Lu, Mr. Lu Bingchen specifically called the security office to tell them that he has severed the mother-son relationship with you and will not allow you to set foot in the community again."
"What?!"
Mother Lu's face changed and she panicked.
The image of that day at the household registration office suddenly appeared in front of her eyes. Lu Bingchen looked at her with utter disappointment after they signed the contract.
She subconsciously took a deep breath, "No, no... How is it possible?!"
Lu Bingchen was her own flesh and blood, born after ten months of pregnancy. How could he be so cruel as to sever the mother-son relationship with her? ... It must be Xie Yiyi. Xie Yiyi was the one who was interfering!
Mother Lu: "Can't you call Lu Bingchen from here? Call him now and tell him that his mother has made his favorite braised duck wings and is waiting at the door. He will definitely come down to pick me up in person!"
The security guard Xiao Zhou looked at Lu's mother's determined eyes and hesitated for a moment.
"Do you want to hit her or not? If not, I'll complain to you. Have you ever seen a family without quarrels and harsh words? Or did you quarrel with your mother and then you just don't care whether she lives or dies?"
"Oh, then you are really unfilial. My son is different from you."
Xiao Zhou curled his lips and was speechless.
In the end, Naidi called the owner and conveyed Lu's mother's intention.
After a moment, he picked up the phone and said, "Mrs. Lu, Mr. Lu said he doesn't want to see you and asked you not to come again."
"How is that possible? He is my own son!"
Mother Lu didn't believe it. She pushed open the car door and got out. She snatched the landline phone from Xiao Zhou's hand and said in a loving tone, "Hello, is this Bingchen? I'm your mother."
But she had never spoken to Lu Bingchen in such a tone in more than 30 years, and she immediately got goosebumps.
Take a breath and suppress it.
On the other end of the phone, Lu Bingchen felt the same way.
If it weren't for the familiar voice, he wouldn't have believed that the person in front of him was her mother.
"Bingchen, Mom is at the gate of your community. Today, I personally cooked your favorite duck wings for you. I packed the duck wings of three ducks for you. They are still hot and you can eat them while they are still hot."
Lu Bingchen said in a cold tone, "What's wrong?"
Mother Lu responded gently, "Isn't it a big deal to send your son his favorite braised dishes? Bingchen, have you left? The guards here won't let me in."
Lu Bingchen chuckled softly, his breath calm, without any waves or emotions, "Madam Lu, why do you think I love braised duck wings the most?"
When she heard the words "Mrs. Lu", Lu's mother's heart skipped a beat, as if something had disappeared from her hand and could not be recovered.
But she still answered Lu Bingchen's question gently. After all, she came here today to take the initiative to repair the mother-son relationship, ease the deadlock between Lu Bingchen and the Lu family, and let him return to the Lu family.
"Of course mom knows this. From childhood to adulthood, every time mom made braised duck, you ate duck wings. Bingchen, you misunderstood mom. Mom has always loved you and cared about you. It's not like what Xie Yiyi told you, that no one in the Lu family loves you. Don't be brainwashed by Xie Yiyi. We are relatives whose blood is thicker than water..."
Lu Bingchen interrupted her, his tone cold and indifferent, "Mrs. Lu, do you know why I always eat duck wings?"
"……Why?"
"Because it's not my turn to eat the duck legs."
"Haha, Bingchen, how could that be?"
Mother Lu recalled the times when she made braised food. There weren't many people in the Lu family, so she always made two or three ducks each time, and there were always leftovers. How could it be possible that there were no duck legs when Lu Bingchen wanted them?
Lu Bingchen: "No matter how many ducks you cook at a time, the duck legs will always be given to Lu Zhizhang. Even if he can't finish them, I will pack them up for him to eat as a midnight snack."
"On my eighth birthday, you personally cooked three ducks. I thought, Big Brother definitely can't finish six duck legs. Can I have one duck leg today, since it's my birthday? That day, you slapped me hard three times. You scolded me for being greedy and said it was my fault for eating the duck legs, because they were meant for Big Brother."
"Since then, I have never eaten duck legs again in the Lu family, but you said that I don't like duck legs and only like duck wings."
Mother Lu held the phone, her back stiff.
She had no recollection of what Lu Bingchen said.
She smiled and said, "Bingchen, isn't it just a few duck legs? If you want to eat some, go home tomorrow and I'll stew a pot for you, okay?"
Lu Bingchen said coldly: "Sorry, I don't want it now."
Mother Lu clenched her teeth, her chest irritated by Lu Bingchen's sarcastic attitude. But when she thought of Lu Zhizhang, who was worried about the company's management problems, always had a gloomy face, smoking to relieve stress, and was almost addicted to the smoke, she felt distressed...
He took a deep breath and said helplessly, "Bingchen, is it worth holding a grudge for over 20 years just for a few duck legs? You've been in the Lu family for 30 years, and they've never lacked food or drink for you. Don't you know how to be grateful?"
Lu Bingchen sneered. He didn't want to mention the "duck leg" incident, but in their eyes, the grievances he had suffered since childhood became "he only likes to eat duck wings, not duck legs", which was used to divert guilt and cover up the grievances he suffered in his youth.
If he doesn't fight back, he will be letting down his childhood self.
Lu Bingchen: "If I didn't know how to be grateful, I wouldn't have been so willing to give out 100 million when the family was divided. Madam Lu, I know why you came here today. Lu Zhizhang's business is not doing well. He just filled a huge hole of 100 million to stabilize the situation, but now a new financial crisis has emerged. You want to ask me for money to use my money to fill this bottomless pit."
Upon hearing Lu Bingchen slandering Lu Zhizhang, Lu's mother suppressed her anger and rebuked him in disappointment, "Lu Bingchen, what are you saying about your elder brother! Do you think running a group is easy? Do you know how much your elder brother has suffered? How dare you say that you haven't benefited from the Lu family over the years? Now that the Lu family is facing a crisis, it's not like you don't have money. You wouldn't even bother to contribute some money to help them out?"
"Yes, I won't."
"An ungrateful and unfilial son!"
“…”This is the familiar recipe.
Lu Bingchen breathed calmly, moved the phone slightly away from his ear, and faced the slander without any ripples in his eyes.
Because, I don’t care anymore.
"Lu Bingchen, you're talking to your mother in that tone. Aren't you afraid that God will be displeased and strike you to death with a thunderbolt?"
"Mom sent you her homemade braised duck wings out of good intentions, but was I wrong to come here? You're just taking my kindness for granted? Are you still a human being?"
"Lu Bingchen, I really hate you. I suffered so much when I was pregnant with you. I wanted you so many times..."
Before Mother Lu finished scolding, the phone was hung up with a beep.
The anger in my chest instantly surged.
Mother Lu wanted to call again and continue scolding her unfilial son, but the security guard Xiao Zhou immediately snatched the phone back from her hand, "Mrs. Lu, this is our internal phone. We have regulations that prohibit outsiders from using it. If you want to call, please use your own cell phone."
Mother Lu glared at him fiercely and took out her cell phone.
But when dialing the number, the whole person froze again.
The last time they split up, she had deleted all of Lu Bingchen's contact information in a fit of rage. She only remembered her husband's and Lu Zhizhang's phone numbers...
The security guard refused to give him a number.
Mother Lu cursed at the air.
Because it was the weekend, there were people coming and going at the entrance of the community, and cars were blocked at the gate. The owners waiting in line behind became impatient and used their horns to warn others.
There were also many young people holding their phones to her, their sarcastic voices reaching her ears, "Is this the online Lu Bingchen's biological mother? She cursed her own son to be struck by lightning. No wonder Lu Bingchen had to leave the house..."
Mother Lu looked embarrassed and hid back in the car in a panic.
But in his heart, he hated Lu Bingchen even more.
If she could go back to the past, she would definitely not give birth to this evil creature!
-
Inside the apartment.
Xie Yiyi slept until noon.
The bedroom was quiet and Lu Bingchen was not visible, but when she looked down, she saw a pink diamond the size of a pigeon egg on the ring finger of her left hand.
Xie Yiyi recalled the romantic proposal last night and her heart softened.
After washing up and coming out of the bedroom, Lu Bingchen stood on the balcony outside the living room wearing his home gray and white casual sweatshirt, looking out the window. His back was cold and he looked a little lonely.
"What are you looking at?"
Xie Yiyi hugged him from behind and rubbed her cheek against his broad back, "When did you get up?"
Lu Bingchen turned around and hugged her in his arms, "A little earlier than you."
"I just received a call from Mrs. Lu."
Xie Yiyi was stunned, then looked up at him, eyes full of concern, "Why did she call you?"
Lu Bingchen met her gentle eyes, and his lonely heart softened instantly. He smiled softly, "She said she made a pot of braised duck wings for me."
"Braised duck wings. What about the duck legs? Did you give them to Lu Zhizhang?"
"Tsk, you stingy guy, drink some cold water."
"Something's wrong. Why are you so kind as to give you duck wings all of a sudden?"
Lu Bingchen was amused by him, and the coldness in his heart dissipated a little.
He pulled Xie Yiyi to sit on the sofa and coquettishly placed his head in her arms. "He must have learned from the Internet last night that I have a lot of money and wanted me to use it to fill the hole in the Lu Group. So he played the family card with me."
Xie Yiyi stroked his short hair, frowning slightly, "Then you..."
"I didn't agree."
"...If it were before, I might have agreed."
"Hmm? Why?"
Lu Bingchen chuckled, hugging Xie Yiyi tighter with his arms, without any concealment, "If it were in the past, I might have chosen to give it up just to have that little bit of family affection; but now, I don't care about it anymore."
He looked at Xie Yiyi with loving eyes, "Now that I have you, a fiancée who loves me wholeheartedly and cherishes me, I don't care about that trace of false family affection. Yibaoer, you fill my world with love."
Xie Yiyi's heart beat faster and faster.
To her, this confession was no less significant than the grand proposal at last night's concert.
She hugged Lu Bingchen back, her thin lips curled up, "Dear fiancé, tomorrow is Monday, I admit defeat, let's go get the marriage certificate."
"From now on, you won't be alone in your household registration. You'll have me, our future, and the fruit of our love."
-
It was already past eight o'clock in the evening when Lu's mother returned to the Lu family.
As soon as he entered the house, Lu Zhizhang came up to him excitedly, "Mom, how many hundreds of millions can Bingchen come up with?"
Mother Lu looked embarrassed and took out a check from her bag and handed it to Lu Zhizhang.
"Five million?!"
Lu Zhizhang was like being doused in a bucket of cold water. He said in a stern tone, "The company's current funding gap is estimated to be 500 million. What good can 5 million do? Lu Bingchen spent tens of millions to propose to Xie Yiyi at a concert, and he wants to get rid of us with 5 million?!"
Mother Lu sighed, "Zhi Zhang, this five million was given to me by your uncle when I went to his house this afternoon. He said it was a maximum of five million and told me not to borrow money from him again in the future."
"What about Lu Bingchen?"
Mother Lu was furious at the thought. Seeing the thermos in the housekeeper's hand, she coldly ordered, "Pour out all the duck wings in the thermos and feed them to the dog!"
"That ungrateful Lu Bingchen refused to even see me, yet he kept calling me Ms. Lu and wanted to sever our mother-son relationship!"
"Humph, he doesn't care about his parents' love, and he doesn't help his brother. I don't think he has any meaning in taking so much money all by himself!"
"Sooner or later, there will be retribution!"
Lu Zhizhang frowned, not expecting his mother to not get the money back from Lu Bingchen. He said in a deep voice, "Mom, Lu Bingchen refused to give us the money. In order to make up for the company's financial crisis, we can only mortgage the Lu family's old house."
Mother Lu's breath tightened as she looked towards the Lu family where she had lived for nearly half her life. "Zhi Zhang, the old house is the last foundation of the Lu family. Your father and I will continue to live here in our old age. How can we mortgage it?"
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