I was still quite curious about luxury appliances like an air conditioner, so I asked Zhang Jian, "How much did this AC cost?"
"Our room is small, so we bought a lower-power one. It was a little over three thousand."
"That's so expensive..." Back then, prices and wages hadn't really gone up that much, and as a high school student who hadn't handled much money, I genuinely thought three thousand was incredibly expensive.
Even with Zhang Jian holding her like that right in front of me, my mom wasn't willing to pass up any opportunity to educate me. She looked at me kindly and said, "It is expensive, isn't it? If you study hard now, you'll be able to find a good job in the future and make lots of money. Once you have money, you can spend it however you want. But the key is that you need to study hard right now, got it?"
I immediately drooped my head and mumbled in agreement, to stop her from nagging at me.
Zhang Jian chuckled at me, but my mom discreetly jabbed him with her elbow, her eyes clearly showing dissatisfaction because he had ruined her chance to lecture me.
Zhang Jian didn't seem to care about my mom's displeasure. He shamelessly kept his arm around her and grinned, "Auntie Tian, I've done my part to make sure my bro can get a good rest at night. Aren't you going to reward me?"
My mom seemed to sense Zhang Jian's ulterior motives. She forced a calm smile on her face and said, "Hmm, I really should thank you properly. Auntie will make more of your favorite dishes from now on."
However her big, watery eyes were secretly warning Zhang Jian not to act out of line.
"Hehe, no need for such a hassle. Auntie Tian, just give me a kiss and that'll do."
My mom's beautiful face instantly burned red. She glanced at me nervously and twisted her body, trying to get away from Zhang Jian. "What nonsense are you talking about? You're a grown man, but all you do is fool around all day."
"People kiss all the time like on TV though. What's the big deal?" Zhang Jian said frivolously. He held onto my mom and tightened his grip, refusing to let her slip away.
My mom knew she couldn't break free and could only turn her pretty face away and explain awkwardly, "That's different. You can't take what's on TV seriously..."
"Mom, why don't you just give him a kiss? It's not like there are any outsiders here, hehe..." I wasn't willing to miss out on such a stimulating scene. I shamelessly joined hands with Zhang Jian in teasing her.
"Xiao Bin, why are you going along with his nonsense too..." WIth both her lover and her son teasing and persuading her, my mom's tone seemed to soften a bit, though her face still looked somewhat conflicted.
Seeing that she was on the verge of agreeing, but was just struggling to let go of her dignity as a mother in front of me, I quickly added fuel to the fire: "Brother Jian is so close to us and he's not an outsider. Plus, he's been so good to us. Mom, just give him a kiss..."
"Yeah, exactly! I'm not an outsider. Auntie Tian, just give me a quick peck to show your appreciation, hehe..." Zhang Jian forcefully turned my mom's shoulders, making her, who was still hesitating, face him directly. He was already positioned and ready for my mom to kiss him.
"Sigh... you two kids..." My mom shook her head helplessly and sighed, looking as if she didn't know how to deal with Zhang Jian and me.
However, a doting smile hung on the corners of her lips. It seemed she actually quite enjoyed this playful, uninhibited atmosphere and wasn't genuinely angry or exasperated.
Zhang Jian and I both chuckled. My mom's face turned even redder from our laughter, and she glared at us in annoyance.
Taking advantage of the moment when we both felt a bit guilty because of her glare, she turned her head and gave Zhang Jian a quick, light peck on the lips.
After the kiss, my mom casually wiped her red lips as if nothing had happened and a faint relieved smile appeared on her face. She picked up her chopsticks, served some food to Zhang Jian and me, and urged us softly, "Alright, I've kissed him. Hurry up and eat. And Xiao Bin, don't be late for your evening classes."
"Hehe, let's eat, let's eat." Zhang Jian shot me a smug look before hugging my mom tightly. He looked thoroughly satisfied, as if could start making out with her right then and there.
My mom playfully pushed Zhang Jian away. Her smile was very gentle as she said, "Haven't you fooled around enough? Eat your food."
I'd never thought that my mom would accept being teased like this.
Zhang Jian had been right about her. She really had come to see herself as his woman in her heart. Moreover, she must have realized that I, her son, was more than happy to see her being so intimate with Zhang Jian. Otherwise, there was no way she would have acted like this in front of mee.
As for why I was like this, my mom certainly couldn't ask me about my thoughts, and she was too embarrassed to ask Zhang Jian about me too.
It was only later, when she couldn't hold back her curiosity any longer, that she cautiously brought up the topic a few times while having sex with Zhang Jian. She asked him if he felt I had noticed anything or if there was anything unusual about the way I talked to him.
Zhang Jian was quite nervous when my mom asked him, thinking she had discovered our secret. He just brushed it off with a few vague remarks and moved on.
Later, when he realized my mom hadn't actually discovered anything and was merely suspicious, he felt relieved.
He then started deliberately teasing her in a perverted way, telling her that I had actually known for a long time, had even witnessed her getting fucked several times, and eavesdropped on her moaning every night.
When Zhang Jian told her the truth, my mom didn't believe him. She angrily twisted his ear and told him to stop talking nonsense.
This kind of situation was absolutely completely unacceptable in my mom's mind and she didn't want to believe something so exaggerated.
However, when she heard Zhang Jian say that I was eavesdropping on her moaning every night, my mom became very anxious. Because that was the one thing she couldn't hide.
By then, I had already entered my senior year of high school, and my schedule was extremely intense.
Sometimes I couldn't even believe that I could study so diligently. I even became somewhat obsessed with doing practice tests and exams. I had to admit, the environment makes a difference.
There was nothing I could do about it. Our school was very serious about academic performance, especially for the senior year students.
When a person is surrounded by an atmosphere where everyone is striving to improve, they can't help but be influenced. They'd quiet down and dedicate themselves to working hard as well.
Meanwhile, my mom spent all day confined to that small courtyard, isolated from normal social life, sinking into an ocean of carnal desire daily with Zhang Jian. The impact on her was likely even greater.
By then, Zhang Jian had been openly sleeping with my mom for several months, frequently fucking her at night as well. No matter how careful my mom was, she inevitably made some noise, and when she climaxed, she couldn't help but moan out loud, especially since Zhang Jian would deliberately tease her.
As it happened more and more often, my mom probably began to suspect that perhaps I really had noticed. It was happening every single night and I wasn't an idiot, so how could I not notice?
But seeing me act so normally allowed her to cling to the hope that I somehow hadn't.
What really puzzled me was that Zhang Jian had stopped mentioning the young wife on the second floor, as if he had forgotten his original ambitions.
This left me deeply disappointed, since I'd been fantasizing about something happening with her.
I didn't have Zhang Jian's thick skin so without him leading the way, I would never have the nerve to go find the young wife myself.
I only found out after asking Zhang Jian that my mom had actually caught him getting frisky with her on the second floor. Zhang Jian said my mom was genuinely angry this time and hadn't let him touch her for several days in a row.
She warned Zhang Jian that if he didn't behave, she would either move back home or rent a different place. It took a lot of promising and swearing on Zhang Jian's part before he finally managed to calm her down.
When Zhang Jian told me all this, he seemed embarrassed. After all, he had always been bragging to me about how obedient my mom was to him, making it sound like she couldn't live without his dick.
Now that he was actually being threatened by her in return, he naturally felt a bit of the embarrassment.
I comforted him with a mischievous grin on my face, saying my mom probably acted this way because she was jealous.
Zhang Jian nodded repeatedly, agreeing that it must be the case. Then he couldn't help but get a bit smug in front of me again. After all, how could he not be proud of making a dignified, gentle and virtuous mother like her jealous over him?
I didn't bother to explain what I was really thinking. I figured my mom really was a little jealous. It definitely wouldn't feel good to have the man you're sleeping with every day flirting with other women.
However, my mom had her own family and husband as well, so she really couldn't demand too much in this regard.
More importantly, I thought, she was likely worried about Zhang Jian. Since my mom didn't know the young wife upstairs, she must have assumed that young women these days had fierce tempers.
She was afraid that if he kept harassing her like this, she might call the police, and then Zhang Jian would be done for. Having a prison record wouldn't look good, and since he was still so young and unmarried, it would be hard for him to find a good wife in the future.
Ever since the AC was installed that day, Zhang Jian naturally slept in my room at night. This was a given as I couldn't make send him back to his room and sleep in the heat after he had bought the AC, and my mom didn't object.
However, at first, Zhang Jian slept with me. Because my mom's bed was slightly larger, she offered to let the two of us sleep in her bed while she moved to my smaller bed.
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