Addicted: Book One - The Inquietude of Youth (1-44)

Chapter 37: Father and Son are not in one mind

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"You've caught so many fishes, yet you're not going to let me eat dinner at your place tonight?" Gu Hai straightforwardly asked without caring that he hadn't been invited to do so.

Thinking about Grandma Bai's peculiar speech habits, Bai Luo Yin immediately rejected the idea, "Just wait until the fish is fully cooked and I'll bring them over to your house. You can just wait there."

Gu Hai then remembered about the men and women, both old and young tenants, who resided at his place and his heart anxiously quivered. There's no way that'd be okay. That place isn't even their home! It would be a miracle if my secret isn't exposed if Bai Luo Yin really came there.

"What's wrong with me eating at your place?" Gu Hai furrowed his eyebrows in displeasure, "Honestly, you should be the one to take the initiative first and invite me to dinner. I'm not the one who should remind you. Why do you lack such common sense?"

"You're right. I don't have common sense." Grabbing the bucket that was in Gu Hai's hand, Bai Luo Yin stubbornly retorted, "If you want to eat, just wait quietly at your home. But if you don't want to eat, then forget it."

The moment Gu Hai heard the word 'home', his whole body shivered.

By the time the two boys arrived at Bai Luo Yin's house, Bai Han Qi had already come back home from work. He was moving back and forth between two new trees that were planted in front of the door. Once he noticed that Gu Hai and his son had returned, he was visibly overcome with happiness.

"Uncle!" Gu Hai called him in a heartfelt manner.

Upon hearing Gu Hai calling for him, a bright smile spread across Bai Han Qi's face and he replied joyfully. Reaching for Gu Hai's broad shoulder, he was about to utter a few kind words, when his facial expression abruptly changed, "Why are your clothes so wet? Hurry inside the house and change into clean ones!"

Standing between Gu Hai and Bai Han Qi with a cold expression tainting his features, Bai Luo Yin frigidly inquired, "Dad, do we really have spare dry clothes at home for him to wear?"

"What do you mean......? I bought two sets of clothes just recently. Give one of them to him first."

As Bai Luo Yin stood in silent and listened, he couldn't help but furrow his eyebrows in frustration. How come he didn't buy new ones earlier? And why now? Why so unexpectedly? Not only did he have those thoughts in mind, he truly did not want Gu Hai to come into his house!

"Uncle, can I take a bath too? My body is covered in mud. If I don't, I'll dirty the new clothes!"

"Enough!" Bai Luo Yin said harshly, looking at him viciously with narrowed eyes. His lips were drawn in tight lines, visibly irritated.

Regardless of what his son said, Bai Han Qi actually looked very happy with the suggestion, "Of course you can! Do you know how to turn on the water? If you can't, just ask Luo Yin to shower together with you."

"That's a really good idea!" A smile spread widely across his lips and the sight of it almost made Bai Luo Yin's chin drop to the ground.

"A 'good idea', eh?" Bai Luo Yin said sharply, "Our house doesn't even have a decent toilet, the shower is in the open air and the showerhead is also clogged all the time. How can he take a bath here?"

"Of course I can!" Gu Hai said easy-goingly, "Your family bathroom is at least covered with a plastic sheet while the one in my house is an open-air bathroom. I took a shower using the tap water during summer and there isn't even any hot water!"