My girlfriend who has been running for ten years is getting married tomorrow

Chapter 18 The rival in love shows up, the mother-in-law doesn't believe in love (2)
"You studied civil engineering, what can you do if you change your career?" He asked again.

Now I'm speechless, not because I don't have an answer, but because I don't know how to express it here.Do I have to boast that I've seen enough in the industry to be able to live without engineering, or run my own store, or work for a company, or even, be a writer?
"Where are you buying the house now?" Her mother didn't like us going around in circles, so she interjected and asked.

"Mom..." Ling Yiyao was not satisfied with this kind of blatant question, and was eager to defend me, but her mother gave her a cool look and had to keep silent obediently.

"I haven't bought it yet." I have already begun to feel her hostility, because it is impossible for her not to know about my situation.

"Why haven't you bought it yet? The house price has risen so much now, and if you buy it a little later, the total price will differ by more than ten or two million yuan." At this point, her mother glanced at me and said meaningfully, "But it doesn't matter. When young people buy a house, their parents pay a down payment, and the young couple pays it back slowly.”

"It's better if you can pay in one lump sum. It's better for young people not to be house slaves." Her father also echoed.

Ling Yiyao helped me out and said, "Why are you talking about things so far away now? We can rent a house in Nanjing for a year or two first, and then consider buying a house when we have more money. Besides, his house is so big..."

"Far away? Do you think you are still a little girl of eighteen or nineteen years old?" Her mother's tone was full of indignation, "People go to high places, and water flows to low places. After studying for so many years, you finally ran to the countryside Anjia, aren't you afraid of being laughed at by your relatives?"

"What's wrong with the countryside? People in the countryside are much more comfortable than us now." Her father also began to smooth things over.

They discussed it to themselves, completely ignoring me, obviously not unaware that it was a faux pas, but to make me realize that I couldn't fit in with the family.Maybe they already have a predestined son-in-law in their minds, and this visit is just a trip to eliminate, so as to give their daughter a reason to completely deny this love.

My usual drinking capacity is pretty good, but this time I don't know what's wrong, the drink is only five taels, my face is already flushed, and countless voices are constantly circling in my ears.They are all me, yet they are not me, as if the various personalities are fighting in the head, trying to use high-pitched voices to gain the upper hand and force me to obey their wishes.

"Buying a second-hand house should not be stressful."

"Newly married second-hand housing? Is our family Yaoyao only suitable for second-hand housing?"

It was another quarrel that pointed to something.

My heart was congested, painful like choking on food, I was full of grievances and couldn't express it, and I didn't dare to refute, so I could only hold my teeth tightly, for fear that I would lose my words if I drink too much.At this time, Ling Yiyao quietly reached out her hand, her eyes full of guilt, she was just an ordinary girl, she didn't know how to deal with the conflict in front of her, so she could only hook my finger, secretly expressing her position to me.

"Are you so dark?" Her mother suddenly stared at my face and asked.

Ling Yiyao excitedly said: "Of course not! It wasn't like this before!"

She put down the dishes, left her seat, and ran back to her room, holding a photo in her hand when she came back.That was a group photo of us on the shore of Taihu Lake. At that time, the two of them were sophomores. Their eyes were green and childish, and the shadow of high school students still vaguely remained.She pointed at me in the photo and said, "Look, he was white before! He was tanned at the beach later, and he recovered after a while!"

This was a failed visit. After lunch, Ling Yiyao's parents didn't intend to keep him, so I also left politely. They sent me downstairs out of politeness.At this time, a neighbor across the flower garden greeted her from a distance. Her parents went over to shake hands and chat, and Ling Yiyao and I chatted on the spot.

"I'm sorry today." She said guiltily.

I comforted me with a forced smile: "It's okay, good things always take a long time."

She puffed her cheeks and pretended to be pitiful, and swore: "Next time I come again, I promise it won't be like this."

I was about to tell her that my mother hoped that she would come to our house as a guest in the next year, and the family specially made salt and pepper soft and crispy bones for her, but her mother suddenly waved and shouted: "Yaoyao, come here."

Her parents, another middle-aged man and woman, and a fair-skinned, bookish young man all cast their gazes over.Ling Yiyao had no choice but to lean over obediently, and called "Uncle" and "Auntie" under her father's guidance, and then her mother began to introduce that her daughter had a master's degree and worked in Nanjing, and the other party said in an exaggerated tone: "Oh, Yao Yao is better than before More beautiful, almost 20 years have passed in a flash, and the last time we met was a little girl! I'm 25 this year, right?"

"Yes, two years younger than your Luo Tingyu." Her mother replied.

Ling Yiyao kept smiling politely, looking back at me from time to time.

"Who is that young man?" the other party asked again.

"Her classmate, came to visit..."

Although her mother tried her best to keep her voice down, I could still hear her clearly from downwind.I looked at myself in the rearview mirror of an electric car, my skin was dark, and my appearance after drinking was not acceptable to me at all.It seemed that my IQ and dignity had been anesthetized by alcohol. I was not angry or wronged, I just stood there helpless.

"I'm going back first." I said in a low voice.

The sound was quickly swallowed by the oncoming wind, and no one paid attention to me, including Ling Yiyao. I could only hear the buzzing sound of blood flowing rapidly in my body.My eyelids were a little heavy, and my consciousness was in a trance. I felt that I was in two different time and space with them, and even the farewell just now seemed funny.

In the end, I still smelled of alcohol and swayed out along the corner of the wall.

When Ling Yiyao called, I was already walking back in a taxi. She asked me why I left without saying goodbye, and I sneered.I didn't dare to express my dissatisfaction with her parents, so I could only vent my anger on her. I deliberately used my indifferent attitude to make her feel guilty and let her know that I was not without dignity.

But I just forgot that Ling Yiyao, who was willing to be hurt by me in silence while wiping tears, was the only one who cared about my emotions.Others only care about how high and far I fly, only she cares whether I am tired from flying, and only she wants me to stop and take a rest.

It's a pity that for a bitch like me, what I'm good at is hurting the closest people around me.

When I was a teenager, everyone around me seemed happy and content.A ten-yuan bill is a great fortune, a mulberry stick is a magic weapon, and a reply letter from her is enough to comfort the soul.But now, we all frown and forget what happiness is like. We only laugh heartily when we mention those childish and ridiculous past events.

"Hey..." Zishi sat across from me, and that was the opening remark.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"I'm about to break up with her." He broke off the disposable chopsticks, as if demonstrating to me the meaning of "break".

"in argument?"

"That's not true, it's just that the distance is getting farther and farther away." He took a sip of soju, sticking out his tongue, which was a precursor to the history of blood and tears. "We used to quarrel often, but every time we got closer and closer." The closer the quarrel is, the more intimate the quarrel is, and even when the quarrel is at loggerheads, there is no thought of breaking up. But now, it seems that all the topics that should be quarreled have been quarreled, and when it comes to sensitive topics, they just hang up on the phone and don't bother to guess what the other party thinks."

"Then you're just bored," I judged.

Zishi glared at me and said, "We have been brothers for many years, is this how you see me? Although I am suave and suave, I am a good brother to young women, but I have never been a person who loves the new and dislikes the old! I love love Your loyalty shines through the sun and the moon, and the world can learn from it! However, love is love, marriage is marriage, it is not the same thing at all.”

I asked suspiciously: "Why do you suddenly express this emotion now, haven't you already raised money to buy a house?"

"Hey," Zishi lowered his head, his voice lowered, "the down payment has almost been paid, but my grandfather has just been hospitalized, maybe he will spend the New Year in the hospital, and the daily expenses are not small."

"What's up with him?"

"The old man who is almost 80 years old has many problems on his body. I don't know if he can survive."

I was also silent. When Zishi was a child, his parents had been working outside. He was brought up by his grandfather through hard work. The relationship between the grandfather and grandson is quite deep.How deep is it?You can try to call him "fuck you", a lethal object closest to his right hand will soon hit your cap.

"What about the house?"

"I don't know, let's take it one step at a time, and make it up later. Although you are willing to give her everything you have, she wants to squeeze you dry. She wants a house, a car, a fur diamond ring, and finally you give the coffin to her." The money is all spent, and she still blames you for not starting a business, she is very sad after all, and she can't feel that such a marriage has half a dime relationship with love."

I thought for a moment and asked, "Are you talking about me or yourself?"

"Damn, do you have any culture? I'm fucking referring to all living beings!"

The speaker has no intentions, but the listener has intentions. I can't help thinking of my own situation, and I can't help but sigh.For the future of Ling Yiyao and me, it doesn't matter how hard we work, I'm afraid, we will repeat Zishi's mistakes in the face of cold reality, and forget why we were together in the first place.

"You went to Ling Yiyao's house this time, how is the situation?" He asked again.

I didn't want this drink to turn into two men mourning each other, so I covered it up and said, "It's okay."

"You are much better than me. You have been with Ling Yiyao for so many years, and your relationship foundation is good. Your financial situation is better than mine now. At least your family doesn't have too much burden."

I suddenly came to my senses, why would I take the time to have a few drinks with this guy at the end of the year when I have so many things to do? It turned out that I was here to enjoy the envy of another loser, so as to set off my sense of superiority.

"Come on, on the day you and Ling Yiyao achieved a positive result, Da Qiao and I would be willing to go naked for a while." Zishi raised the small wine cup, "Come, come, let's have a drink."

It was supposed to be a treat for Zishi that day, but he got drunk by drinking himself, and insisted on chatting with the owner of the food stall about his life, so I paid the money and dragged him away.I originally planned to send him home, but he insisted on going to the People's Hospital to guard his grandfather. Before leaving, he patted my shoulder and sighed heavily, "Hey..."

Although many people believe in the theory of constellations nowadays, I don't believe in it at all. I can't understand why you can use the month of birth to judge complicated people and things.But compared with the theory of the zodiac, I hate others to talk about the zodiac, because the zodiac is usually just a harmless afterthought, while the theory of the zodiac often becomes an accomplice to beat the mandarin duck.

For example, if you are born in the Year of the Tiger or the Year of the Dragon, those who are beautiful adults will say that this is called dragons and tigers, while those who dig graves and destroy marriages say that this is called fighting between dragons and tigers.Someone instilled the second theory in Ling Yiyao, of course Ling Yiyao would not believe such nonsense, but her mother was very stubborn and regarded it as one of the theoretical basis that Ling Yiyao and I were inappropriate.

Her mother said: "Both of you are tigers, and there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. You will quarrel when you get together."

Ling Yiyao argued: "Of course a female tiger matches a male tiger! Could it be that she matches an elephant?"

During that time, Ling Yiyao and I didn't get along very well. We obviously didn't have any malice against each other, but we didn't know what was wrong with us. We quarreled over trivial things like wording while we were talking.She always blamed me for being too stubborn, and I always blamed her for not disclosing my existence in advance, and finally broke up, verifying the saying "one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers" time and time again, even though we got along so well in the previous eight or nine years joy.

At midnight on New Year's Eve, the moment the New Year's bell struck, I sent her a text message: "Happy tenth year."

The moment the text message was successfully sent, I also received her text message: "Happy tenth year."

The five characters are exactly the same, even the full stop is the same. This is our traditional program on New Year's Eve every year.

When I called, she hid in the room to answer, and the two of them giggled on the phone.

"Say New Year's greetings to my uncles and aunts." I said again.

Ling Yiyao replied after a while: "My dad paid the bill outside and hasn't come back yet. There are four or five creditors who have been sitting at my house since noon."

"what happened?"

"This year, many families were in arrears of payment, and others chased my dad for the debt. Basically all the savings in the family were advanced, but it was still not enough." She said aggrievedly.Her father works at a river terminal, responsible for signing for goods such as yellow sand, gravel, cement, etc. In addition to the basic salary, only the owner of the ship has cigarettes and alcohol.But at the end of the year, the terminal's funds were broken, and the boss ran away to avoid debts, and he became the first and only line of defense.

"How much is still missing? Lao Liu sent my money the day before yesterday, and I can give it to your dad first." I couldn't wait to suggest that this is a great opportunity for me to win the favor of her parents, even if I use all my savings at present. Going in is absolutely unambiguous.

"It costs seven to eight million yuan, but my parents raised some money in the afternoon, and each creditor divided a little. After printing the receipts, they dispersed after nine o'clock, otherwise this time it will really be the end of the Chinese New Year."

"Oh, if you need it, just tell me." I volunteered.

"No need," she declined with a relaxed tone, "it's past twelve o'clock, and it's New Year's Eve now, no matter how big the debt is, this one is the most benevolent among the many rules in our country. "

"I'm going to the city for a few days after the new year."

"Okay, but the first day of junior high school is definitely not good. The second year of junior high school is at my grandma's house, and the third year of junior high school is at my grandpa's house. The rest are free to move around. I can go out and play with you."

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, I called her when I went to the city, and she said that she was paying respects to the New Year at Dinghui Temple.There are several temples with the name "Dinghui Temple" all over the country. Although this one in Rugao is quite small in scale, it was built in the early Sui Dynasty and has been a thousand-year-old temple. It faces south and faces north, which is extremely rare among Buddhist temples and Taoist temples.The important traditional festivals are full of incense, especially during this period of time, there is an endless stream of pilgrims, which is already an old tradition in Rugao City.

"Shall I go to Dinghui Temple to find you?" I said.

"No need!" She quickly refused, as if aware of her gaffe, she added, "There are so many people here today, it's not easy to find, and you can't go back until evening, why don't we meet tomorrow."

"Okay." I hung up the phone in disappointment, without telling me that I was already downstairs at her house.

However, I really miss her, and I plan to apologize to her in person to resolve the conflicts between the two of us who have avoided talking about it.Moreover, I stuffed all my wealth into a bank card and brought it here, hoping to make contributions and show my loyalty at any time.

So, I sat in the small gazebo in the garden, watching the news on my mobile phone, and waiting patiently.The sun is slowly setting to the west, the temperature drops sharply, the north wind shuttles through the gaps in the residential buildings, and the sound and smell of cooking come from the kitchens of each family.I was shivering from the cold, my phone was dead, and I didn't want to leave, so I could only stomp my feet back and forth in the pavilion.

At around 3.5:[-] p.m., a brand new white SUV was parked in the open space downstairs. The occupants of the vehicle did not get off immediately, the warning lights kept flashing, and the surrounding things were illuminated flickeringly. "The logo is impressive.I was more interested in the car at the time, and couldn't help but take a few more glances, but the car suddenly turned off, and a familiar figure appeared in the passenger seat, and I was stunned.

Ling Yiyao.

(End of this chapter)