In the next two days, everyone went out happily every day, eating and drinking.
Until the afternoon of the third day of the lunar new year, everyone expressed that they were tired and announced that they would not go out and would rest at home for two days.
Xue Ling didn't go out much since the second day of junior high school. He ate and slept at home and ate after sleeping. The moment of lethargy came again.
Cheng Tianyuan stayed with her at home, and the two of them read, chatted, and slept. They lived a very leisurely life.
In the afternoon of the third grade of junior high school, everyone didn't go out anymore. They sat around the living room, drinking tea, chatting, or playing cards or chess.
Cheng Muhai played chess with Xue's father, while Xue's mother taught Liu Ying how to play cards, talking and laughing in a low voice.
Xiao Ranran has been playing like crazy these days. She went to bed very late today and felt sleepy just after lunch. Cheng Tianyuan took her into the room to take a nap.
Ahu was full of energy and asked everyone if they wanted to eat grilled fish in the evening. He also said that he had made a small net bag by the river and caught three big fish last night and kept them in a water tank at home.
Dad Xue smiled bitterly, "I can't eat it anymore. Now I just want a bowl of millet porridge and a plate of pickled mustard."
Everyone laughed!
Ah Hu said: "Don't be afraid, I'll keep it for now, and we'll eat it tomorrow night."
At this time, the phone in the living room rang!
Ahu was closest to the phone, so he picked up the phone and answered it.
"Oh! Ah Fang! It's me! It's me! Really?! That's great! Everyone is waiting for you! Godfather was still talking about you this morning! I left some fish to bake for you
Here! In the evening? Okay! I’ll pick you up! I know the pier best! Okay, see you then!”
He put down the phone and explained: "Afang has arrived at Meicheng Pier now. He got off the boat and made a phone call. He said he should be able to get here in the evening."
"It will probably be a little later." Cheng Tianyuan looked out the window and explained: "Meicheng is quite close, but there is a headwind today, so it shouldn't be that fast."
"It's okay." Ahu patted his chest and said, "I promised to pick her up. I'll wait at the pier in the evening!"
"I'll just go." Cheng Tianyuan said warmly, "I have nothing to do anyway."
"Don't I have nothing to do?!" Ahu said with a smile: "When she was in the provincial capital, she came to help me with work every week. I went to pick her up, so what? I will return to the provincial capital after the Lantern Festival.
, I still have to rely on her to help me with the store work!"
"Okay, you go ahead." Cheng Tianyuan said.
Cheng Muhai and Liu Ying were secretly happy when they heard that their daughter was coming back.
"I've been out for three weeks and I'm probably very hungry. I need to cook more meat for her at night."
Xue's father said warmly: "Of course, you can't have as much nutrition as you do at home when you are away from home. Fortunately, there are still ten days before school starts. If you take a good supplement and eat, young people will recover quickly."
"Haha!" Mother Xue said: "You are the only ones who think so! Girls nowadays don't like to be too fat, and they pay attention to what is beautiful if they have a slim body!"
Father Xue couldn't help laughing and explained: "Each era has its own aesthetic values. During the Warring States Period, there were also countries that pursued thinness as true beauty, while the Tang Dynasty pursued fatness as beauty. In the past, we only pursued learning and pursuit of beauty.
Women can hold up half the sky. Except for those who are too fat or too thin, no one dares to look down on them."
"It's already great if you can get a wife! I still dislike it!" Xue's mother said coquettishly: "In our time, there were more men than women! Many men couldn't even get a wife!"
"Indeed." Cheng Muhai nodded in agreement, "It was really not easy to get a wife at that time. Especially in rural areas, asking for a wife was like... fighting for your head!"
Everyone laughed.
Ahu couldn't help laughing at himself: "It's easier to get a wife now, but I still can't get one! My mother said that if it were twenty or thirty years ago, I would definitely be a bachelor for the rest of my life!"
Everyone laughed again.
Cheng Tianyuan glared at him and told the truth with a smile: "It's not that you can't marry, it's that you don't want to give in or lower your conditions."
"Shhhh!" Ahu panicked: "Don't let my mother know! I know she's going to scold me again!"
The crowd roared with laughter.
Cheng Muhai smiled and said: "I heard from your mother that your marriage must be settled during this Chinese New Year!"
"Just let her go." Ahu said with a sad face, "She said that if I don't have a partner this year, she will cut me into pieces and sell them in the market."
Everyone laughed again.
Xue Ling smiled and said: "If you don't run away quickly, your mother will kill you if you don't run away!"
"Didn't I escape to your house already?" Ahu snuggled on Cheng Muhai's shoulder, "Godfather, you have to take me in from today on. I am already homeless."
Cheng Muhai shook his head again and again, "I agree with your mother's approach! If you don't marry me today, I will help your mother to offend you!"
"How cruel!" Ahu smiled bitterly: "This is a collective forced marriage!"
"You need to say it!" Liu Ying shook his arm and said: "Your mother has introduced you to so many beautiful girls, but you don't want them all. With your virtue, how can you do it without forcing yourself!"
Ahu cried sadly, "Godmother, who did you hear about being beautiful? Do you believe what my mother says? Either she is as fat as an aunt, or she is dressed older than you, godmother, and there is another one who is only seventeen years old -
—Am I going to marry her as my daughter?!"
Everyone burst into laughter again.
Xue Ling ate an orange lazily and asked: "Then what kind of man do you want to marry? Just tell the aunt! If you don't mention specific requirements, how will the aunt know? She doesn't know, so naturally she will marry anyone.
It's up to you to choose. You have the initiative to choose, which is already very good! If it delays for a few more years, you will only be chosen! Old man, who wants it!"
"...I can't say it!" Ahu smiled bitterly: "I told you, you must have feelings..."
Xue Ling shook his head and said bluntly: "Then no one can help you!"
Cheng Tianyuan took the orange from Xue Ling's hand and whispered: "It's cold, so we can't eat too much. I've asked him this before, and he said the same thing. No one can help him, no matter who he is."
Ahu chuckled and fell on the sofa.
"Wait, wait, wait. Anyway, I can't make do with the wrong person, and I won't make do with him either."
…
In the evening, Ahu drove to the pier.
He waited patiently at the dock for more than an hour, until the sky completely darkened, and the ship finally docked.
Ten minutes after docking, the passengers stepped off the deck one after another.
"Afang!" Ahu's sharp eyes suddenly spotted Cheng Tianfang in the crowd.
Cheng Tianfang shouted in surprise: "Brother Ahu! Brother Tiger!"
Ahu went up against the crowd, helped her carry her luggage, and walked down.
"I came here in the evening and waited for more than an hour."
Cheng Tianfang was very embarrassed, "I'm so sorry! I said it was evening, but I didn't know it was so late! I kept you waiting for so long!"
"Anyway, I have nothing to do." Ahu said with a smile: "We are all one family. It would be too polite not to say such things."
Cheng Tianfang smiled heartily and asked, "Is everyone okay? How is your health, too?"
"Everything is fine." Ahu replied: "Everyone is waiting for you to go back for dinner. My mother is in better health than last year. She went everywhere to pay New Year greetings in the past two days. Yesterday I went hiking with her and walked better than me.
quick."
Cheng Tianfang laughed and said, "That's good! Brother Hu, where is your car?"
"Over there!" Ah Hu said: "We can't park here, so we park over there. Come on, let's walk over there. Come on, let me carry all your luggage!"
"No, I will do this myself." Cheng Tianfang smiled and said: "You have helped me get so much, I can do this myself."
Seeing that she persisted, Ahu didn't force it.
The two of them chatted and laughed as they returned to Wangjiang Garden.
Ahu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Last time, he always felt that the girl seemed to be dissatisfied with him in some way, and even avoided him.
Now it seems that he may have thought too much.
As a girl, it is easy to have small emotions, and when they are over, the rain will pass and the sky will clear up immediately.
Everything is the same now as before, which is great!