
His eyes were looking at me and now he's moving on to Oliver. Oliver who knows he's observed and judged it looks at me. I don't like him right away. Why is there something wrong with our appearance, there might be a phoenix crest or dragon horn on our heads.
"Hallo Uncle, nice to meet you." Oliver greeted him sympathetically in Cantonese. Mama said she knew Cantonese.
"Ohhh, you can talk Cantonese turns out. You're a Western?"
"Yes I can Cantonese, but not so smoothly."
"What's your job." It seems that work is very important to him. Maybe he underestimated Oliver and thought his job was a model, too.
"Uncle know China National Conventional Center?"
"Yes of course."
"Try to check the name of the architect Oliver Russell or not."
"Ohh... Are you the architect? The building designer? Really true?" Now his haughty gaze instantly changed.
"Yes I work at AECOM. I'm the main architect, of course this building was built in collaboration with the team. I'm not the one who designed every detail. "
He's quiet now
"My son-in-law's candidate is great." Mama praised Oliver. "My son is also great, he's never incriminated his mother in his entire life." That's a subtle insinuation to my sister who always asks for money I guess.
"Mama, I can make Mama sad. Mama we're eating now? All the guests we've been waiting for have arrived?"
"Well, let's eat now." Mama looks happy. I am happy to invite others to eat. The menu consisting of team fish, dumpling, longevity noodles, chicken, and other meat variations was served on the table in its own cooking with a little help from me as I was a bit stiff in cooking.
But the night before we were together making a dumpling together while chatting until the night, it felt really nice. Even Oliver was on the show.
"You guys wrap it up don't have to be so stiff, the only one is a smith, the only one is a stewer.... What is this?! Dumplings?! Dumplings are better in shape than this. You can make an ancestor rise from his grave." Mama scolded how bad our results were, Oliver and I looked at admitting how bad our dumpling was while scratching our heads.
"You will eat this yourself later, .." and tell us to eat our own produce, although finally there is a good one too after many times wrong.
Now Mama as the host is taking everyone to the dining table. She let her husband sit in the middle of the table while he sat on the right with me and Oliver. His second wife sat to his left along with Cheng Xin.
Mama smiled, took food for her husband, we started eating after waiting for her husband to eat first because he was the oldest.
"Everyone is happy this New Year, let's eat." Her husband is now the one who is taking everyone away. Mama is sweet to everyone today, she doesn't want to fuss about anything. Even if her husband isn't being sympathetic towards me and Oliver, it seems that he doesn't want to bother about it.
Okay, I don't want to fight anyway. I also try to be a sweet day for Mama who is happy.
We went to Uncle's house in another part of Shanghai in Mama's car. While her husband brought his own car, Cheng Xin also brought her own car.
"Mama, is the house you live in now bought by your husband." I'm curious now a little scribbling Mama's relationship with her husband.
"Of course not, how could he have bought me. Sometimes the monthly money isn't sent because she knows I'm a rich woman. At most he only paid his son's school fees and once a month gave a monthly stipend for his son. I used to just use his name to protect me, he knew I was using his name. Now replace the one who used me instead. Yeah, some kind of symbiosis."
"What an amazing story." Oliver finally commented. Mama laughed.
"Auntie just wants Oliver's quiet life. Maybe in your eyes this is not worth it. But you have no idea what our age view is of a woman who is broken and has children with other people. He's a little unregarded child in the family, his career is not so brilliant than his brother, he never saw Aunt, consider Aunt is a bad choice given to him, Aunt never disputed him. Indeed your grandfather put Aunt in punishment for opposing her. Even when he openly took a second wife, your grandfather didn't mind it. It's a punishment for defying parents, only the Bibi brothers have taken pity on Bibi. They were helping out secretly, and Bibi consciously used her name to protect her eventually. Is worth it? Yes Auntie thinks it's worth it... Only yes Your Uncle and Aunt do defend Aunt sometimes insinuate him, but he never cared. Auntie doesn't really care..."
"Auntie, you're a very stoic person. I'm amazed at you. Everyone has their own struggles, you fight here trying to find Sandra, Sandra fights without you out there. God will meet you at the end. You two are really great women."
"Auntie has to have her own money to find Sandra, if Bibi doesn't trade, how can Aunt hire a detective to look for her, and Sandra is my daughter, although fate finally brought us to meet 40 years later, but it was all worth it, she was my daughter, we all didn't give up easily and always found a way out." I saw my mom in the back.
"Mama, I love you." I took her hand, My mother who never gave up on finding me, I was lucky to have a Mama like her.
"Mama loves you too baby. You ignore the attitude of your sister and your sister-in-law. I've been the one who miseducated him."
"Yes Mama, I won't respond to them. Mama take it easy. You know Mama was she wanted to introduce me to a handsome widower she said, expecting me to have cute kids like her too and when she saw Oliver, it was like seeing an alien from Mars. Mama should have seen sister-in-law's face." Mom laughed at my story.
"Good baby, it must be you who teach him manners, Mama bet after this he will not dare to mess with you again."
"Then, shouldn't you have dinner at your husband's house. Does your husband's family accept you Mama.
"At first they were preaching me as a broken woman. But finally after I accepted my husband's decision to have a second wife, they also knew I was self-financing my life and never asked my husband for a dime, some began to feel sorry for me, some began to feel sorry for me, his brothers took me to talk, his brothers-in-law understood my struggle at last. I was accepted by the others, well even though until this moment my husband is still the same behavior, but as Mama said, Mama also does not care."
I finally understood the whole reason why Mama didn't just choose divorce. Using each other, it seems that this is a made-up reason. But seeing what my mother had to face after giving birth to me and being excommunicated by Grandpa, I understood.
My mother was a smart woman and never gave up.
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