Chapter 67
Chapter 67
Gu Tianyuan stared at Sheng Shi with big eyes.
He didn't expect Sheng Shi to come home suddenly, he was unprepared, he was a little flustered in his heart, but it didn't show on his face.
His foot injury was not healed, so the crutches were laid carelessly by the side, and the house was left untidy.
"What are you doing here? The filming is not going well, so you're running around." After staring for a while, Gu Tianyuan looked away, bent down to pick up the newspaper and shook it, sitting upright, pretending to read the newspaper seriously, and said casually: "Eat Do you have breakfast? There are dumplings in the refrigerator, cook them yourself."
"...I have eaten." Sheng Shi said slowly.
He took off his shoes on the porch, and was about to enter the door barefoot, but accidentally found his slippers on the shoe rack.
The slippers are very old, they are the pair he wore in high school, they have been washed clean, and they are placed in the most conspicuous position on top.
Sheng Shi put on the old slippers with complicated emotions.
He looked at the furnishings in the living room, and there was not much difference from when he left, except that an ashtray was added to the coffee table, and there were a few cigarette holes in the carpet. Things were not messy, but they were far less tidy than before.
Sheng Shi asked Gu Tianyuan: "Aunt Liu asked for leave?"
Aunt Liu is a nanny hired by the Gu family for many years. She is diligent and careful. Whenever she is around, the windows are always bright.
"Resign." Gu Tianyuan turned a page of the newspaper and said calmly, "I don't need a nanny to take care of me alone."
Sheng Shi glanced at the crutch beside the sofa, disagreed, and held back not to contradict Gu Tianyuan.
He knew that the father and son hadn't talked properly for so many years, and the estrangement could not be eliminated in a short while, so if they could avoid a few quarrels, it would be better to avoid a few quarrels.
Sheng Shi walked into the house and saw that Gu Tianyuan was ignoring him, so he looked around.
It was even more chaotic elsewhere.
The living room is the reception area, Gu Tianyuan took a good look at it, and spent all his energy in the living room when cleaning.
The dirty clothes in the laundry basket piled up into a hill. Sheng Shi couldn't see it, so he washed the clothes by category and dried them.
The kitchen is okay, there are no moldy bowls and chopsticks in the sink, but there are a lot of takeaway lunch boxes accumulated in the trash can.
No matter how high-end the packaging is, it is takeaway after all.
Sheng Shi opened the refrigerator and found a lone bag of quick-frozen dumplings in the freezer. He checked and confirmed that it was within the shelf life. He cleaned the pan with his hands and added the dumplings under water.
The house has not been turned on for a long time, the gas valve is closed, and the stove is covered with a layer of fine dust.
When he finished cooking the dumplings and put them on the plate, he vaguely heard the knocking sound of the crutches going away quickly.
When he came out with the bowl, Gu Tianyuan was still nestled on the sofa, his sitting posture remained the same, except that the newspaper in his hand was knocked down, and he was still panting a little.
Sheng Shi didn't point it out, put the dumpling in front of him, put the chopsticks on it, and said in a muffled voice, "Eat it."
"What time is it, I've already eaten." Gu Tianyuan said without raising his head.
Sheng Shi couldn't help it this time: "Then tell me, did you eat Quanhuide roast duck or Danliu Laoma's rabbit head?"
There are only these two kinds of takeaway boxes in the kitchen trash can.
Gu Tianyuan looked at him angrily.
"Let's eat." Sheng Shi was helpless, and took the lead in softening his tone, "It's almost noon, so let's eat lunch early."
Gu Tianyuan's hands trembled, he threw the newspaper away, and picked up the bowl to eat the dumplings without saying a word.
He ate quickly, as if he didn't feel the heat. After eating the dumplings, he drank the soup, pushed the empty bowl, burped expressionlessly, and said in disgust, "Too much salt, it's salty."
Sheng Shi wanted to laugh, but he didn't.
He packed up the dishes and went to the kitchen to wash them. He smelled the faint smell of cigarettes just after washing.
Sheng Shi hurried back to the living room, pulled the cigarette from Gu Tianyuan's mouth, and extinguished it in the ashtray.
Sheng Shi asked in a low voice: "How long have you been smoking?"
Gu Tianyuan's expression was unnatural for a moment.
He started smoking after his wife died.
At that time, he was afraid that Sheng Shi would find out, so he would always close the door of the study to smoke, and only after Sheng Shi left home would he openly put the ashtray in the living room.
"Do you need to care?" Gu Tianyuan frowned unhappily with his thick eyebrows, touched the cigarette case, and took out another cigarette, "How many men don't smoke?"
Sheng Shi snatched away the whole pack of cigarettes, crumpled them up and threw them away, with his lips tightly pressed, he sat stiffly across from Gu Tianyuan.
"I've looked for Aunt Xiao." He said bluntly.
"...Xiao Han?" Gu Tianyuan stopped smoking, and Fangzheng leaned back on the sofa with a look of disdain on his face: "Did she speak ill of me to you?"
Sheng Shi didn't understand what he meant.
Why did Xiao Han speak ill of him?
Gu Tianyuan knew that he had guessed wrong, without explaining, he pretended not to care and said, "What did she tell you? Forget it, don't tell me, I don't care that much."
At worst, he would ask Tang Zichao.
Although Tang Zichao might not know how to say it.
"...She said that it was your mother who asked you to accompany her to the dinner." Sheng Shi looked into Gu Tianyuan's eyes and said slowly, "She also said that mother is not going to relax, she is going to Europe for business."
"She farts!" Gu Tianyuan suddenly stood up, angrily grabbed the ashtray on the coffee table and threw it out, "Do you believe her nonsense?"
This time Gu Tianyuan was optimistic about the distance, the glass ashtray was broken in the corner of the living room, far away from Shengshi, no matter how high the glass jumped, it was impossible to hurt Shengshi.
Sheng Shi was already used to Gu Tianyuan throwing things around, so he wasn't even surprised when he saw him having a fit at first.
"I believe it." Sheng Shi took a deep breath and said, "Because you refused to tell me anything and let me guess wildly. Only she told me the truth."
Gu Tianyuan trembled all over, wondering if he was angry.
"Get out." He pointed at the door and said, "This is not your home anymore, get out of here! I don't believe it, I believe in outsiders, get out!"
Sheng Shi smiled wryly in his heart.
Sure enough, all the communication between him and Gu Tianyuan ended in this way, always ending in quarrels.
He got up to say goodbye.
"Hey, who did you argue with in the morning? Did you throw things?"
There was a lazy voice at the door, Sheng Shixun looked over and saw Sheng Tao walking in slowly wearing shoes.
"Why did I say the door was open? It turned out that Xiaoshi came home." Sheng Tao was overwhelmed with surprise when he saw Shengshi, "What time did you come? Are you hungry? Do you want to go to uncle's house for lunch?"
Only then did Sheng Shi remember that Sheng Tao lived next door to his house.
"Thank you, no need, I ate breakfast late." Sheng Shi said cautiously, and called "Uncle" bravely, "Do you have something to do with my father? Then I'll go first."
Sheng Tao and Gu Tianyuan were taken aback at the same time.
Gu Tianyuan's expression was complicated, he turned his face away and said, "Hurry up, be careful on the road."
Sheng Tao trotted over, grabbed Sheng Shi's arm enthusiastically, and said with a smile, "Are you willing to call me uncle? I'm fine. I just heard the noise while walking and came over to have a look. Would you like to sit down?"
"No." Sheng Shi lowered his head and broke away from Sheng Tao's hand.
He couldn't explain why, obviously he had a good relationship with his uncle in the past, and he knew that it was a misunderstanding about his mother, but he just subconsciously complained to Sheng Tao, and said with an excuse: "I asked for leave from the film crew, and I still have to prepare for it." Next play."
Sheng Shi never dared to look into other people's eyes when he was guilty, and whenever he was hiding something, those close to him could easily see it.
Neither Sheng Tao nor Gu Tianyuan exposed it.
"Okay." Sheng Tao compromised, "My driver is nearby, should I ask him to drive you?"
Sheng Shi shook his head: "I called a car, the master is waiting for me outside."
"That's fine, tell him to drive slowly. Take good care of yourself. Uncle will visit you when he is free."
Sheng Shi nodded, changed his shoes, and closed the door for them.
As soon as Sheng Shi left, the atmosphere in the living room changed suddenly.
Sheng Tao's smile disappeared quickly, and he sat down on the sofa slowly, took out a cigar from his arms, cut it slowly, lit it, took a puff, and exhaled a smoke ring.
He squinted at Gu Tianyuan, and said bluntly, "Boss Gu called me, what's your order?"
"Don't play tricks in front of me." Gu Tianyuan sat upright and glanced at him majestically, "Sheng Tao, you have breached the contract."
Sheng Tao narrowed his eyes.
He knew exactly what Gu Tianyuan meant by "breach of contract".
Twelve years ago, they reached a consensus at Sheng Yueming's funeral. No matter how fierce the fight between the two was, even if it was a life-and-death struggle, they would never involve Sheng Shi and never use him as a bargaining chip.
Using She Rui to make trouble, he didn't deliberately conceal it from the beginning to the end, Gu Tianyuan couldn't see that it was his handwriting that was abnormal.
"Did I break the contract first?" Sheng Tao sneered, wanted to flick the ashtray, but couldn't find the ashtray, so he simply flicked it on the carpet, "I just want to help Xiaoshi restore his identity and let him be his dignified big brother again." Young master, don't be bullied by little fish and shrimp all the time."
"But what about you? Mr. Gu is very calculating. When did you force him to sign a statement to give up his inheritance rights?"
"I never forced him." Gu Tianyuan said, "Whether you believe it or not."
"I don't believe it!" Sheng Tao gritted his teeth.
He stood up suddenly and slapped the coffee table.
"Gu Tianyuan, I'll call you Mr. Gu, do you really think you're so great?"
"Have you forgotten that you belonged to the Sheng family? You, a poor boy, can climb to your current position. Without our Sheng family, you can do it?"
"You want Gu Qianmu to be the heir? Let me tell you, you are dreaming! As long as I have breath, I will never watch this happen!"
"The entire Yueming Group can only belong to Xiaoshi!"
Sheng Tao's force was too strong, the cups on the coffee table fell in response, and the tea was spilled all over the floor the night before, but Gu Tianyuan was in front of the mountain and his face remained unchanged, sitting firmly without trembling his eyelids.
"Sheng Tao, don't be greedy and insufficient." Gu Tianyuan warned him, "The shares I have given you over the years are worth far more than A Ming's dowry. You keep saying that it is for Xiaoshi, is that true?"
"Yueming Group was created by myself, how to dispose of my private property is beyond your control."
"Xiaoshi has his own life, and I won't give him a chance to become your puppet to control the group."
"My puppet? Hahaha." Sheng Tao seemed to have heard a particularly funny joke, and couldn't stop laughing. Halfway through the laugh, he suddenly leaned over, grabbed Gu Tianyuan by the collar, and asked ferociously, "Who the hell is that?" Are you using him as a puppet?"
"Forcibly buying out his contract and forcing him to marry a man, is this called 'his own life'?"
"Don't you just want to stop his thoughts and make him, like me, unable to have children, so as to pave the way for you to take care of your family! You speak so grandly and righteously, as if you are such a great father!"
Sheng Tao's face was only a short distance away from Gu Tianyuan, and all the saliva he spewed when he roared was splashed on Gu Tianyuan's face.
Gu Tianyuan raised his hand to erase it, and said indifferently: "Since you admit that I am his father, that's enough. You have no right to intervene in our family affairs."
"But his surname is Sheng." Sheng Tao's expression turned colder, "I am his uncle, his only relative with the surname Sheng."
Gu Tianyuan showed sarcasm.
Sheng Tao clenched his fingers tighter and tighter, wishing he could strangle Gu Tianyuan to death.
Neither of them spoke anymore, they stared at each other viciously, as if they were about to get angry at any moment and fight each other.
There was a sudden beep at the door.
That's the sound of the combination lock passing.
Sheng Shidu walked to the gate of the community, hesitated again and again, and turned back.
The door opened, and he looked at the scene in the living room, frowning.
Sheng Tao and Gu Tianyuan huddled together nicely. With a cigar in his mouth and one in his hand, Sheng Tao was ordering for Gu Tianyuan, and said, "Try it, brother-in-law, this is Xiao Wang from Cuba. The special supply I got is extremely mellow."
Gu Tianyuan took a breath intoxicated, and commented: "It's really good, get me a box if you have time."
Sheng Shi walked up to them with a gloomy face.
The two "addicts" raised their heads in "panic".
Sheng Tao's cigar fell and burned his pants. He hurriedly got up and patted out the sparks on his thigh, stepped on the place where the cigar fell, and said with a smile, "Xiaoshi, why are you back? Actually, uncle is not addicted to cigarettes, only occasionally Take two sips for fun, ask your dad if you don’t believe me.”
Gu Tianyuan puffed on his cigar, he smoked so hard that he coughed twice: "What are you talking to him about? It doesn't matter whether it's big or small, how dare you control the elders' smoking if you control the world?"
Sheng Shi's face sank a little.
"I forgot to confiscate the lighter." He spread his hands, "Hand over everything. Uncle, hand over your cigars too."
"From today, you quit smoking." Sheng Shi cruelly announced, "I don't want to see you get lung cancer."
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