Natural beauty, inspirational nature

Chapter 57 Forcing a Blind Date
After half a month of business trip, I finally have a normal weekend rest time. I was planning to take a breather and rest at home on the weekend, but my cousin who also works in Changzhou sent me a message, telling me:

Your mother is very worried about your life-long affairs, and asked me to help you pay attention to the introduction object.I suffered from not meeting a suitable opportunity before, but this time a good friend of mine recommended a boy who is excellent, you must not miss it.Let me introduce you to each other.

My cousin is my only relative in Changzhou, because their company is headquartered in Changzhou. He got to know his cousin here through someone's introduction, and then bought a house in Changzhou, started a family and started a business. My cousin is a project engineer, engaged in In the construction industry, in the past few years, he has become the right-hand man of the boss, a small boss with an annual salary of one million.

Because when he was in high school, his liberal arts grades dropped sharply, especially his English was a mess, and he gradually thought of dropping out of school. Later, when his mother learned about it, she tried her best to do his ideological work, starting with the 26 phonetic symbols, helping him with tutoring and teaching him to learn. The knack of English forced him from being an English rookie to above the middle level of English in the class. Only then did he regain the confidence to continue the college entrance examination, and finally was admitted to the ideal university.

So for so many years, my cousin has always been grateful to my mother. My mother is retired now, and she has nothing to worry about. The only thing that worries her is my marriage, so she delays this and that, and naturally she does not forget to live in Changzhou. cousin.

My cousin has been worrying since she received her entrustment last year, and this time I finally found a decent opportunity, just like discovering a new world, and reported to me: "Cousin, this young man is really outstanding. The conditions are similar to yours, and he is also divorced. No children, a technical engineer in the factory, with an annual salary of 50. What do you think?"

"Well, it's pretty good." I can't say it's bad, but I'm more concerned about what he looks like. Every time they introduce someone to me, the conditions seem to be pretty good, but when I see the photo, my The head shook like a rattle.

"Tian Lingling, Di Lingling, don't introduce another ugly one to me this time", I was meditating in my heart, my cousin was also unambiguous, and the photo of the other party will come soon, I saw it and was immediately disappointed At the end of the day, this time he is not a greasy middle-aged man, neither fat nor bald, but dark and thin, not ugly at all, just looking short and short, he has no masculinity at all.

The male god's handsome face and his long legs can't help appearing in my mind, hey, any man who compares with my male god will be completely defeated without any suspense.

Although my cousin only gave me a half-length photo, I have sharp eyes. Based on the proportions of his upper body and facial features, I can basically guess his height.I guessed he was at most 1.70m, and later verified that my sixth sense was absolutely accurate.

My cousin asked me when I would be free to meet for dinner.I was thinking about how to refuse, when my mother called: "Hey, daughter, I saw the guy my cousin introduced to you, it's pretty good, you must not refuse me this time haha , you must seize the opportunity, the opportunity is rare! Listen to me, you know, don’t give me another chance and then turn it down.”

"Hmm." I didn't know what to say, so I could only sigh and "hmmm" and had to agree, but I thought in my heart that you are not in Changzhou, maybe you can still force me to go on a blind date.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away, so I don't listen to you. I have to listen to my heart. Since I saw the photo, I already don't like it. If I don't refuse directly, when will I wait?It would be too much of a waste of each other's time to refuse after meeting, so why embarrass both of them.

So I became ruthless, gritted my teeth, and replied directly to my cousin: Brother, I'm really sorry, I don't think I have much interest in him, so just stop seeing him.Don't waste his time.

My cousin saw that I had no room for manoeuvre, so he didn't make things difficult for me. After all, my peers could understand my feelings. He said: Sister, since you said so, I won't make things difficult for you.This can't be done without eyesight.

I was very happy when I received the reply, and I thought my cousin was the most reasonable matchmaker I have met over the years, bar none.Because after other matchmakers got my rejection, their first reaction was to call me and criticize me, accusing me of being demanding and forcing me to meet.

I thought to myself: Cousin is indeed a scholar and an intellectual. Although he is entrusted by others, he knows how to measure.

Who knew that I was too happy too early. As soon as I went to work the next day, my mother called me again when I was about to go to the conference room for a meeting: Feifei, you really give me so much trouble. , You didn't listen to me at all, and refused again!Why do you do this every time?Let me tell you that I took the first bus to Changzhou this morning, and I will go to your company to find you today!

After hanging up the phone, I couldn't help but gasped and muttered "It's over". The handsome Taiwanese guy who runs the company smiled at me. He passed by me and obviously heard my mother's roar on the phone just now!He said in a Taiwanese accent, "Sister Fei, why are you so fat? This is because my mother is going to kill her and come to Changzhou."

"Damn, don't mention it, the marriage urging is directly urging the unit to come, it seems that this time I am in danger," I replied with a mournful face.

In the afternoon, when my mother arrived in Changzhou, she didn't contact me immediately. I didn't know what she was doing, and I couldn't help but feel a little worried about her safety. I didn't expect that the old lady went directly to rescue the soldiers and invited my cousin.

When we were about to get off work at five o'clock, my cousin called me: "Yifei, your mother and I will wait for you downstairs in your unit. When you come out, come and find my car, my license plate number I sent you."

In this way, I was "calculated" by my mother and my cousin that day, and I was directly "tied" to go on a blind date.

I haven't seen my cousin for a long time, and I didn't expect that I would be "hijacked" to go on a blind date as soon as I met, alas, I can only use my tricks.

When I got in the car, I saw my mother straddling her handbag, looking at me with a look of "hating women for not getting married", and didn't say a word to me.

I called my mother and said hello to my cousin. I saw a middle-aged woman sitting in the co-pilot next to my cousin. I thought it might be his wife, but she looked a little different, so I gently He called out, "Sister", and was wondering if he might call the wrong person. My cousin introduced himself, "This is my wife's biological sister. She helped introduce that boy."

Then the cousin also revealed to himself: "I met her first, and I met your sister through her introduction, and then married your sister."

Mom echoed and said: "Oh, there is such a story."

I thought to myself, this matchmaker is not simple.Having such a chat with my brother-in-law, I have become good friends.

When I arrived at the date place, I thought that there was only the boy at the scene. At most, I would bring one or two relatives and friends to have a light meal together. Who knew that I didn’t know until I entered the private room of the hotel that the boy had invited colleagues from two tables. Even the two leaders of the company were called together.

Today was the colleagues' dinner day when they got together in January. He invited his colleagues to dinner and invited the matchmaker and his partner along the way.This is a bit embarrassing. These people are all senior employees in the factory. The boys are three years older than me. They are not different from the photos, and they look leaner than the photos.

I wore a high ponytail and a blue windbreaker that day, and I looked very capable. My mother wanted me to let my hair down when I was on the road. She thought it would be more feminine if I let it down, but I had no intention of seeing a blind date at all. The object, who would care about these details just to catch the ducks on the shelves, I said: just tie it, it's pretty good.

During the dinner, their colleagues praised the boy in all kinds of ways for his dedication to his work and his skillful skills, saying that he was the technical person in their factory and the front support.

This is probably the most supportive blind date group I have ever seen since I grew up. Among them, a chubby girl praised her hardest. It can be seen that she is the pistachio in their group, and she is very good at drinking , Liquor is also done right.

She said that as long as there are handsome guys on the wine table, she must participate, because she wants to see handsome guys and make everyone laugh.I looked around for a week and didn't see a handsome guy. Maybe the account manager sitting next to her looked a little fairer and more attractive.

The group of them can drink, but my mother and I don't know how to drink. Watching them respect one from the left and respect the other from the right, we don't know any of them, and sitting on the side seems to be a superfluous existence.

My cousin was still considerate. After toasting the boy and the matchmaker, he solemnly poured another glass and began to toast my mother. He is not good at drinking. After two glasses of wine, his face turned red. He walked around my place. I got up and stood in front of my mother.

Looking at his red eyes, I knew he had something to say to my mother. Sure enough, he coughed twice, raised his glass and said to everyone: "Come on, everyone, be quiet and listen to me. I will give you a few words." Let me introduce to you, this is my aunt, who is also a teacher I respect very much. When I was in middle school, my academic performance was very poor. I didn’t want to study for a while, so I wanted to go home and work as a plumber with my brother. If it weren’t for my aunt’s earnest persuasion, If you work overtime to tutor me in English, it would be impossible for me to become what I am now. I have been very grateful to her for so many years.”

Cousin spoke so eloquently, I was moved by the side, I can see that this is the truth that my cousin has kept in my heart for a long time, I feel that all the brothers and sisters around me have not been taught by my mother, many Sometimes their care and help to me comes from their respect and gratitude to my mother.

You can never imagine a mother at this age, seeing her hair getting grayer and more wrinkles every day, her daughter getting older every day, still single in her thirties, with no children under her knees, the hopelessness in her heart the sadness.

I don't know who applauded first, and then everyone started to put down their wine glasses and applaud. Don't think that the painting style of this dinner party has suddenly become a teacher-student appreciation meeting, which doesn't exist.

My cousin paused, and then began to turn the topic to me: Here I wish my aunt good health, and I also hope that my sister's marriage will be settled soon.

It's okay not to say the last sentence, but when I said it, everyone looked at me in unison.I suddenly felt very embarrassed, and the smile on my face was a little stiff.

That "Pistachio" immediately came up to compliment me: "How old is this little sister? Why is her skin so white and tender? I'm so envious, how did you take care of it?"

The blind date boy immediately stopped her and said, "Why do you care so much? If you put more powder on your face, put on some blush, and put some lipstick on your mouth, it will also be rosy."

I thought to myself that you can really talk, I am naturally beautiful, and it is not made of powder.Do you think that anyone can become white and tender just like me, but I smiled and said nothing.

In this way, you and I have to continue to fight and drink, and then the colleagues of the blind date boys toasted us in batches. We held the drinks in our hands and saluted one by one. I smirked the whole time, and the apple muscles on my face smiled sour.

Looking at the time, two hours have passed unknowingly. Their dinner party is not over yet, and I feel sleepy. By the time I go to the bathroom, I quietly pull my mother out and say: "It's getting late, it's almost ten It's time, we can't stay with them all the time, I'm a little sleepy. How about I tell my cousin, after all, I'm not here for drinking, but for a blind date. This person is pretty much the same, let's go first Let's go back.

Mom didn't object this time, she said that you will say hello to your cousin later, and we will go back first.I heard that we were going to leave first, and everyone said that you two should add WeChat first. In full view, I had no choice but to politely add his WeChat.

After adding WeChat, my cousin took us out of the hotel, and the matchmaker followed, and said to my cousin with concern: "You can't drive after drinking, I will drive you back."

The cousin said: "Okay, then you should drive carefully and take my aunt and sister to my house first. It's rare to come here and take them to my new home."

It was the first time I met a very awkward kiss, and I felt very boring watching the other party have dinner with colleagues. The only thing that made me happy was that I saw my mother and cousin, and I was able to go to my cousin's house for a sit-down.

I suddenly became a little excited. It felt like I had been working outside for a long time and hadn’t been home for a long time. Going home for the New Year, I was as happy as going to a relative’s new home with my mother.

What's more, I'm still in a foreign land, seeing my relatives.My cousin's new home is very large, 140 square meters, with red solid wood furniture, European-style lamps, and magnificent decoration.

It was a little girl who opened the door, about six or seven years old. My cousin asked her to call me aunt and my mother: aunt.She called someone shyly, then bounced into the room.

A woman in white pajamas with a calm expression and a smile came out from the back room. When she saw us coming, she was busy pouring tea to greet us.This woman is my sister-in-law. She seems to have a very good temper. No matter what she says, she always has a smile on her face.

After seeing my cousin's new home and his wife and children, my mother's eyes were full of envy. When she returned to my residence, she started chatting with me. It was already past 11 o'clock in the night, and she called me Send a message to the blind date guy.

I said: Mom, I will reply to polite messages, but don't worry about it, don't force me to date people.I saw a real person today, and I really can't find the feeling.

My mother became angry again when she heard this: "He is not ugly, the young man is very energetic, feeling, feeling, what do you always want to feel? Don't you know how old you are? You thought you were twenty Little girl in her early years. Can I not worry about you? If I don’t worry about you, I’d like to talk to myself. You don’t have the skills to talk to yourself! People you like don’t like you! Stop dreaming, you don’t have that Fate, Prince Charming doesn't like you! This is on par with your condition, you two are divorced and have no children, where can you find such a good match?."

As my mother talked, she became more and more excited and energetic. In the silent night, these words pierced my body like cold thorns.Although the rhetoric of changing the soup but not the medicine is repeated back and forth every time, but I feel that my heart can be pierced and bleed every time by these words.

Being forced to go on a blind date already made me very embarrassed and uncomfortable, and when I got home, I started forcing me to send messages to fall in love with them. The suppressed anger in my heart was suddenly ignited, and I yelled angrily:

"You always push me, can you stop pushing me like this, do you know that you push me like this, I am not happy at all, I know I am old, but every time you introduce me, it is not me The type I like, I really can't get along with them. They are all shorter than me, and they look so old. I don't mean that they have to be handsome, at least I can see them. There is no eye contact at all. , I don’t like it at all, talk about it hard, this love can’t go on, who can afford to get divorced after getting married.”

So my mother and I started to quarrel again when you said something, and my mother began to swear: "Okay, I don't care about you, I will make you an old girl, become a no-nonsense woman." The "five-guarantee household" that people want, I will let you fend for yourself. If you don't listen to me, your brothers and sisters all listen to me. But in the end, they all listened to their aunt and married obediently. Now they are promoted and rich, and their husbands dote on them, and they are all living happily. You are the only one who refuses to listen to me, and the result is the most useless and saddest! I will leave tomorrow. I don't want to see you again!"

After my mother finished speaking, she closed the door of my room heavily, and ran to another room to rest alone.

"Where am I worthless?" I called through the door, and tears welled up in my eyes at this moment, and I burst into tears. I knew she must be secretly wiping tears outside the door at this moment, but there was nothing I could do.

I am very happy that my mother is here, the family love makes me feel warm, but she is here to force the marriage, just because I am divorced, just because I did not find another partner at a marriageable age, my mother thinks that I am all taught by him The most unpromising and unfilial child among the children.

But is this really the case?Is it up to me to decide whether a husband has children or not?Everything in this world can be achieved through unremitting efforts. Only marriage and love are the only things you can catch up with.

I used to believe in the view of marriage and love that "love that does not aim at marriage is hooliganism". I was born in the most traditional and formal family in China, and I accepted the most traditional and formal view of marriage and love passed down from the previous generation.

I used to be such a traditional woman, because I never dated or had sex with boys, I was even ridiculed behind my back by my classmates as a "National Treasure Giant Panda" when I was in college. Then he kept silent on the matter of men and women.When I left, they chatted enthusiastically.

After graduating, I haven’t even talked about a decent relationship. I was innocent and innocent. I think that as long as I hold hands with a man and have sex with him, I should be sincere and honest and have a long-lasting marriage. Poor and rich, regardless of disease or disaster, never leave, life and death depend on each other.

I don’t have any experience in love, and I think human nature is too beautiful. I don’t value material things or family background, and I don’t care about all external conditions. I only care about whether the other party really loves me wholeheartedly. Terrible fists and violence, and I never imagined that the man I was going to marry would be a mother boy, and even more violent and control freak.

After finally getting rid of the violent marriage, I am still innocent. I have only talked about this period of love. After the scars heal, I forget the pain. Two years later, under the pressure of my parents to marry "Playing hooligans" is a marriage and love advice, under the "brainwashing" preaching of family members and relatives, they regard marriage as the only way for women to obtain happiness.It wasn't until I was cheated into marriage by my ex again and suffered severe trauma in an unexpected "sexless marriage" that I suddenly realized and gradually saw the essence of love and marriage.

I just started to be wary of human nature, started to look at marriage with a more comprehensive and rational attitude, and realized that human nature not only has a very kind and warm sunny side in love and marriage, but also has a dark side of extreme secular utilitarianism.

The only good thing is that I didn't complain about these two disastrous failures and never recovered from it. On the contrary, I seriously reflected and was deeply vigilant.Summarizing experience and lessons in failures, and gaining the true meaning of life and marriage that is difficult for ordinary people to comprehend.I deeply understand that it is true that marriage is the goal of love, but marriage cannot be regarded as the only ultimate goal.

Tears flowed at night, I tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep, and the past flashed in my mind like a small movie.I didn't fall asleep until after 2:[-] in the morning. When I slept until [-]:[-] or [-]:[-] in the morning, I vaguely heard the sound of the door closing outside. I was too sleepy to wake up.

When I struggled to get up, I found that my mother's room was empty and her bag was gone. I called her cell phone and she didn't answer after several calls. I knew that the old lady was really messing with me. I left early in the morning.

I was a little worried about her safety, so I called my cousin and asked my brother to comfort her and ask her where she is now.My cousin contacted her after a while and told me that she was going back to her hometown by the first bus in the morning.

(End of this chapter)