So It Turns Out You’re a Fox Spirit (GL) - Chapter 36
Le Mom was furious. Still cooking, she had an urge to smash the spatula she was holding on Le Xiaoyao. Why is she so disappointing! Fortunately, Le Dad pulled and coaxed her, and finally, Le Xiaoyao actively admitted her mistake and promised to take the next blind date seriously. Only then did Le Mom let the matter drop for the time being.
In the evening, a group of aunts and female relatives came to the house and started a mahjong game. To appease her mom, Le Xiaoyao fed Le Mom cards throughout the game. Le Mom finally smiled, and the topic of blind dates was temporarily set aside.
After three rounds, Le Mom won a good amount of money, and Le Xiaoyao also smiled along. Just then, a call came in, and it was Fu Jin~ After being separated for so many days, she finally took the initiative to call. Le Xiaoyao was overjoyed and wanted to go to the side to answer the call. “Excuse me… I’ll just take this call.”
Le Mom’s eyes were sharp. Seeing Le Xiaoyao’s smug look, she felt something was fishy. “Just answer it here. Why go to the side? Who is it?”
Answering a call secretly? Could there really be something going on? Le Mom had heard some rumors before that Xiao Yao had a boyfriend. Hey! Her own mother didn’t even know, so how did outsiders know?
“Mom, it’s a colleague from work.”
Something was fishy, absolutely fishy. Le Xiaoyao had popped out of her belly. She could tell whether she was lying or not at a glance. Le Mom’s gaze was not ordinary; it was razor-sharp. “A colleague from work? Then there’s even less of a problem, answer it here…”
“Mom… it’s too noisy here…”
At this moment, Le Mom’s aura was fully unleashed. She said to everyone present, “Ahem, please be quiet for a moment, Xiao Yao is taking a call.”
Having a mother like this was truly exceptional. Le Xiaoyao was still twisting and turning, thinking, Fu Jin, why aren’t you hanging up~
“Be honest, is it a boyfriend! I heard people say a long time ago that you had a boyfriend. No wonder you didn’t like any of the blind dates yesterday. Tell Mom the truth, do you already have someone? Mom is not an old fossil. Free love is great. As long as he looks good to you, what opinions could Mom have? When are you bringing him back for us to meet?”
Fu Jin finally hung up. Le Xiaoyao breathed a sigh of relief…
The aunts and female relatives were excited to hear that Xiao Yao was bringing a partner back and urged her on.
“What are you talking about? Who told you that? If I had a partner, wouldn’t I know?”
“Your cousin told me personally, and you’re still arguing.”
Le Xiaoyao’s eyes welled up with tears. Cousin, oh cousin, you really screwed me over…
At this moment, Fu Jin called again. Le Xiaoyao clutched her phone. “It’s really a colleague.”
Le Mom adopted a strategy of advancing by retreating. “Alright, alright… it’s a colleague. Answer it quickly, maybe they have something urgent. Just put it on speakerphone, and let the elders understand your work situation.”
Put it on… speakerphone! If she had known this, Le Xiaoyao wouldn’t have kept emphasizing that it was a colleague. “Mom… it’s a private matter…”
In the end, Le Xiaoyao couldn’t argue with her mother. Her mother who gave birth to her could naturally subdue her. Besides, Le Mom’s “motherly love” was more excessive than most mothers! If she said it was a private matter, it meant it was a boyfriend. If she said it was work, she had to put it on speakerphone. Choose one…
Thinking about it, Fu Jin hadn’t said anything extraordinary. She wasn’t much different from an ordinary friend, so it should be fine, right? Speakerphone is speakerphone. She couldn’t show guilt in front of Le Mom. The more guilty she was, the more excited her mother would become.
She simply put the phone on the table, turned on the speakerphone, and answered the call. Everyone quieted down, even making the naughty children turn the TV volume to the lowest setting, concentrating on Le Xiaoyao’s call.
“Hello, is there something wrong?” Le Xiaoyao chose the most ordinary, most ordinary opening.
“Nothing…”
Everyone heard it was a woman, and indeed not a boyfriend. Le Mom was instantly disappointed. It really wasn’t a boyfriend. Then why was she so nervous, making it look so real?
“I miss you.”
Since the room was incredibly quiet, these short four words, even if not forceful, were loud enough to “reverberate” and be heard clearly by everyone in the room.
Le Xiaoyao was startled by these four words, especially since Fu Jin’s tone was serious, completely unlike a joke. Moreover, why would she suddenly say something like this… She had never heard her say it before!
Le Xiaoyao immediately wanted to reach for the phone, but wouldn’t that be “an admission by trying to cover up”? Calm down, she had to remain calm at this critical moment…
The people in the room suddenly… had an indescribable feeling.
“Hahaha… Hahaha…” Le Xiaoyao first gave a few awkward laughs, her brain scrambling for a strategy. “I said… stop messing around~ I only owe you 1000 yuan. Look how you’re obsessing over it… I’ll pay you back when I return, with interest, is that okay? Such a tightwad… Hehe…” She followed up with two dry laughs, feeling embarrassed herself. What was she even talking about?
Fu Jin paused. Was it inconvenient for her to take the call? “Just remember it, I’m hanging up.”
Very good, very good, Teacher Fu was very perceptive! Le Xiaoyao hung up the phone, not daring to look up and meet the eyes of the aunts and female relatives…
With all this commotion, Le Mom was no longer in the mood to play mahjong. When everyone left, Le Mom sat on the sofa, clutching a rolled-up magazine in her hand, pointing it at Le Xiaoyao, “You! Come here! I have something to tell you!”
Le Xiaoyao’s heart thumped rapidly, especially when facing Le Mom’s serious face…