Chapter 20 - The Movie Queen's Domineering Fan (20)

Approaching the Spring Festival, there are many festive topics on the Internet, no one wants to mention the scandals of Lin Yan and Liu Jie, they just disappeared from sight.

‘Life is Beautiful’ is being promoted, and Xu Zifan and Qiao Zixin have also appeared on several well-known variety shows. Showing their faces with other new male and female actors, form the movie.

The Qiao family of three sat on the sofa watching TV on weekends. As soon as the program was broadcast, the young man sitting in the middle exclaimed, “isn’t that Qiao Zixin? She is as beautiful as she used to be. When will she come back?”

Mother Qiao glanced at Father Qiao’s face and said, “your sister doesn’t always come back for the Spring Festival, but the gift will definitely be sent back. ” She handed over the peeled orange and spoke with a smile, “this orange is very sweet, more than ten yuan per jin, very expensive, Xiao Peng, you should eat some more. ”

Qiao Zhipeng glanced at the oranges worth more than ten yuan a jin, then skimmed his lips at the bright Qiao Zixin on TV and said, “Auntie Yu, you are too stingy. Doesn’t Qiao Zixin transfer money to you every month? Are oranges that expensive?”

“That’s not what I meant. I used the money to buy a house. I want to keep the rest in reserve.”

“Well, if you want to watch TV, you can watch TV. Why is there so much nonsense!?” Father Qiao frowned. “Sun Yu, please call Zixin and ask her if she will come back for the Spring Festival. What’s going on with that girl, staying outside all the time. As if I couldn’t support her life. Remember to ask her clearly what’s going on with that Director Xu? We can’t have a bad reputation in our family, what would other people will think of me?”

“Yes, the child is just disobedient. I’ll tell her well. ” Mother Qiao put down the orange, picked up her phone and went back to her room to make a phone call.

Qiao Zixin was having dinner with Xu Zifan at home. She was stupefied when she saw her mother’s call and answered, “Mom? Are you looking for me?”

“If I don’t look for you, would you care about coming home? Raising you so big was so bitter. I knew you were only fooling around outside, your dad told me to ask you whether you will come back for the New Year. I think you have to come back, you made such a big deal, you also have to come back to explain to relatives. It’s good for them to see you now, otherwise I can’t lift my head in front of them. ”

Qiao Zixin frowned. “Mom, I’m not a criminal. Why can’t you lift your head? You have to compete with them? Their children can’t study or work. Am I not enough to give you some pride?”

“What pride? It’s more like losing face! Do you look like a good girl when you make movies where you cuddle with men? By the way, who’s that surname Xu again? What’s the matter with you two, isn’t he director who is still filming with you? Why did I hear your brother say that you two are a couple on the Internet? After a loss, you still don’t know how to repent. Now you are involved with a director. Your brother said that the director had an unclear relationship with a beautiful female star … ”

Xu Zifan picked up the soup bowl on the table and went to the kitchen to fill the soup. Qiao Zixin bowed her head awkwardly and felt that all these words were heard by him. She spoke angrily, “Mom, what are you talking about? Are you so suspicious of me? You believe everything Qiao Zhipeng says. Is he your own son? Did he ever call you mom all these years? When can you have respect for your own daughter and stop letting that old man and son talk nonsense!”

“What old man and son? That’s your father and your brother!” Mother Qiao’s brows knit tightly, “you are really becoming more and more disobedient, just like your father said, the temper of someone mixing with wild people outside. You’re teaching your mother, you think I’m senile, don’t you? You never thought that, when you father was gone, how a woman like me could raise you? If your father hadn’t taken us in, I think you would have starved to death. You should know how to be grateful and respect him. ”

Qiao Zixin said helplessly: “I don’t disrespect him, but it doesn’t mean I have to let him arrange my life? He asked me to be a small clerk. I can’t get a promotion without an education. Should I be a small clerk all my life? What’s wrong with me now? I gave you a house expenses every month, a big house and a car for Qiao Zhipeng. If I were a small clerk, could I afford these? It won’t be enough to feed myself. ”

“You saying this again! Aren’t you just giving the family some money? You have not been with us all these years and Xiao Peng has taken care of us. Shouldn’t you give more subsidies to your family? Besides, you are a sister, not your father’s own, if you don’t do much, can these people in the family accept you? All right, all right, just tell me, what’s your relationship with that director?”

“Friend, you can rest assured that I don’t have a boyfriend. “Qiao Zixin doesn’t want to say anything anymore, it is impossible to say anything that has been debated countless times.

Mother Qiao thought for a moment and said, “You must come back for the New Year. Relatives will definitely mention you at the gathering. If you are not at home, you have no family in your heart, which would embarrass me.”

(TNote: nice guilt trip lady~ 凸(`△´＃) )

“Mom, I have a new movie coming out at Spring Festival. I have a job …”

“Don’t look for excuses, final word, you must come bac. You find the time, let me know when it’s settled, that’s it, long distance is very expensive. ”

Hearing the cut off tone on the phone, Qiao Zixin rubbed her forehead and dropped her mobile phone on the table. This has always been the case. Mother Qiao hung up when she had said what she wanted to say. She did not care about her or listen to what she was saying. In short, it’s reasonable to say that the family had three members, and she is the only one who did not belong. Just because she is a girl and her mother’s ‘tag-along’, she is not the old man’s own child.

Xu Zifan brought out the soup, filled her small bowl, smiled and said, “Drink the soup, I made it myself, you should drink more. I have just tasted a few mouthfuls, it’s delicious. “

Qiao Zixin looked at him and whispered: “I’m sorry, my mother has that kind of character. She thinks that there are no good people in the entertainment circle, it’s not against you. ”

Xu Zifan smiled. “It doesn’t matter. Since when do I care what other people think? It’s hard for you, isn’t it? Do you want to talk about it?”

Qiao Zixin was stunned, she lowered her head, picked up the spoon and stirred the soup in the bowl in a daze. After a while she spoke, “actually, this kind of thing is very common, and I’m all right, My home is a small town, the folk customs are close-minded, when I was five years old, my father died of illness, the family had no money, my mother raised me alone. Later, someone introduced her to my present father, who was also a widower, and there was a four-year-old boy at home. After they got married, I changed my last name to Qiao and lived with them. But the Qiao family favors sons over daughters and treats me as a tag along burden, and all my relatives are lukewarm to me. My mother was twice as kind to Qiao Zhipeng and wanted to raise him into her own son because she was physically injured and could not give birth anymore. So, every year, only Qiao Zhipeng had new clothes and toys to play with. I can only wear and play what the rest of my relatives and Qiao Zhipeng didn’t want. ”

“It just so happens that I am poor at study, and no matter how hard I try, I can only wait in the exam room. They think that I am stupid and that going to school is a waste of time, so I might as well find a job to help my family. I worked as a clerk for almost a year. When I saw that Qiao Zhipeng had taken an examination of a general college, and they held a banquet for him to celebrate, I felt they were bias. I didn’t want to live like that again. I came to Yanjing alone. Unexpectedly, I was lucky. When I was seen by a talent scout, the first movie became a hit. I thought I could finally raise my head, but they were very opposed to it. My father said that it was too humiliating for me to play romance movies. ”

Qiao Zixin laughed. “In fact, I have figured it out now. I am very grateful to them for raising me, so I am willing to give them a comfortable old age. If Qiao Zhipeng’s requests aren’t too much, I would meet them. After all, I have made a lot of money in filming, so if I give them those, it’s nothing. I would take it as spending money to buy peace and quiet. But I don’t want to go home. The relatives of the Qiao family will preach as soon as they see me. They firmly think that the entertainment industry is a big scandalous vat and there are no good people there, as if I was a star in some improper industry. We have different ideas, and we are not happy with each other when we get together. I don’t know why my mother wants me to go back this time. Maybe my relatives have whispered too much in her ear. ”

Xu Zifan opened the itinerary in his phone and looked at it. “Do you want to go back?” There are a total of three days before and after the Spring Festival. You can go back on the 29th day of the twelfth month and come back on the first day, okay?”

Qiao Zixin nodded. “Just for these three days. I’ll go back early and come back late. ”

Xu Zifan thought that Qiao Zixin died alone in the original world, and she had no relatives around her when she was suffering from depression, her mother must not have much feelings for her. He was a little worried letting Qiao Zixin go back alone, he said: “I will go back with you, and I’ll stay in a hotel, so will go together. If you have anything, come to me directly. Don’t let yourself be wronged. ”

Qiao Zixin looked at him and couldn’t help smiling and said, “I’m so big, how can I let myself be wronged? But you are celebrating the Spring Festival by yourself here, so come to my house and see where I grew up. When they get together and play mahjong, I’ll go out with you. ”

“Okay.”

When the two agreed on the itinerary, Qiao Zixin told Mother Qiao, that she only said she would go back and didn’t mention Xu Zifan, so that Mother Qiao wouldn’t scold her again.

The related work for ‘Life is beautiful’ was busy until the 27th day of the twelfth month, after which Xu Zifan gave a proper account to the company and went to Qiao Zixin’s hometown with her. There was no airport in that small town, so they could only fly to a nearby third-tier city and take the train home.

After getting out of the train car, Qiao Zixin took him to their best hotel and asked Xu Zifan to settle down. The room is not spacious, but it is a big bed room. Fortunately, it is very clean, and there was an independent bathroom, a computer and a television. They came by chance, and there was just one room left, so they would have to go to other small hotels later.

When Xu Zifan saw Qiao Zixin checking the facilities in the room, he smiled and said, “I’ll just stay here for two days, as long as it’s not damp. You go home quickly, they may be looking at the time. ”

Qiao Zixin nodded, put on her hat, scarf and glasses. She wrapped himself up and told him, “Don’t go to a remote place, you are a stranger here. Let me know where you are going. ”

“Okay, I won’t go out, don’t worry. You’re the one that needs to call me if you need anything. I’ll be open 24 hours a day. ”

“Hmm. ” Qiao Zixin smiled and waved out of the door. Every time she went home, she felt depressed, but this time because of the company of Xu Zifan, she felt very relaxed and seemed less repulsive about going home and listening to people talking about her.