Jiang Qingchi searched around but couldn't find Mu Yanzhu.
Feeling anxious, scared, uneasy, at a loss, helpless,,,
She couldn't run away again, couldn't have had an accident, couldn't have been kidnapped by her uncle and aunt, or maybe she disliked him for being so verbose today and was angry with him again...
He doesn't want her to leave his world!
"Why… "
One hand patted Jiang Qingchi's back.
Jiang Qingchi turned his head full of expectation.
But not Mu Yanzhu.
Hope was instantly replaced by disappointment.
Mu Yanzhu's grandma sighed, "You run so fast, I really can't catch you with my old bones."
"Grandma... I can't find Jiang Yan. Where has she gone? Does she not want me anymore?"
Jiang Qingchi's tone was so wronged that he almost cried.
The old lady couldn't bear it and wanted to touch his hair to comfort him, but she couldn't.
"I just wanted to tell you that Yanzhu should be at her mother's place."
"Mother?"
Jiang Qingchi thought, didn't Mu Yanzhu's mother pass away
The old lady nodded, "Today is her mother's death anniversary, and it's New Year's Day as well. She should go and deliver dumplings to her mother. She likes to talk to her mother alone today the most!"
"Which cemetery is Auntie in? Which section? Which garden? Which row and column is it? Did she not bring her coat when she went out?"
Except for the last sentence, the old lady didn't understand the rest!
"Our deceased people are all buried in the graves behind Mujia Village Primary School, and they don't know which row or column they are in."
"Okay, I'll go find her now!"
"Why-"
Before the old lady said, "Eat a bowl of dumplings before we go," the young man had already run away.
Then he ran back.
The old lady asked him what he was doing.
Jiang He gasped: "Grandma, are there any firecrackers at home? I'll get one for use."
…
…
Mu Yanzhu is a well-known Mu Bold in the village.
This boldness is in comparison with the little girl from the same village.
Mu Yanzhu is able to fight rough things even when she is young. She is not afraid of the dark, bugs, ghosts or ghosts.
Just like at this moment, looking around the graves, there is only a little girl named Mu Yanzhu, squatting here, holding a bowl of warm dumplings in her hands.
Mu Yanzhu took new chopsticks, picked up a dumpling, and sent it to the grave.
"Mom, don't you love dumplings stuffed with pork and cabbage the most? Try them. I made them myself. I kneaded the dough and rolled the skin. They are all made by me. I guarantee they will suit your taste. "
“…”
After a few seconds, Mu Yanzhu withdrew his hand.
"Mom, eat it. Is it delicious? How does it taste?"
“…”
"You said it's delicious, then I'll deliver it to you next year. I guarantee it'll be even more delicious than this year."
"Mom, I'm sorry for you. Our family is poor, but you and your dad didn't get a tombstone for you two."
"Grandma said, just bury her like this. The tombstones and other things are just pickaxes and don't matter."
"Mom, I'm still sorry for you. I almost couldn't save your grave."
"Fortunately, I saved it. I taught my uncle and aunt a lesson for you, no, it was Jiang He who taught me a lesson."
Speaking of this, Mu Yanzhu finally curled up his lips.
Pulling the corner of his mouth like this, tears flowed directly into his mouth, which was more bitter than dumpling soup.
"Mom, do you know who Jiang He is? He is my boyfriend. Yes, your daughter is in love. Her first love... was with the boy I liked since childhood. Did you protect me secretly and let others rely on me? There’s a tree on your neck.”
"Mom, Jiang He is very good to me. You really don't have to worry about me. I think I will live a good life if I follow him, just like Dad is very good to you. Dad said that a man has only one heart. When he was young, You can have a crush on many people, but in the end you want to get married only with that one person."
"Jiang He said he wanted to marry me. Mom, I want to marry him too. I don't want to be alone anymore. I feel like I'm too lonely. I can't stand it anymore."
"Mom, the dumplings are cold, please eat more, otherwise they will turn into frozen dumplings."
“…”
Mu Yanzhu poured out a bowl of dumplings and poured the dumpling soup inside.
The steaming heat was blown by the cool breeze, and soon the dumplings cooled down, and the dumpling soup blended with the earth.
"Mom, I am Jiang He."
A voice suddenly sounded behind him, making Mu Yanzhu jump.
Jiang Qingchi bent down and put his coat on Mu Yanzhu's shoulders, touched her head, and squatted down with her.
"Mom, first time we meet, am I handsome?"
Mu Yanzhu smiled.
Jiang Qingchi also laughed.
no! You can't laugh when you are so serious!
I can't help but introduce myself to my mother-in-law.
"Mom, my name is Jiang Qingchi, my nickname is Jianghe Huhai, Mu Yanzhu calls me Jiang He, and I call her Jiang Yan, because from the time I gave her this surname, she is already part of my Jiang family."
There was a pause.
The eldest young master pats his chest!
"Don't worry, I will always be hers alone, Jiang He, so trust me for the rest of Jiang Yan's life. I am a very reliable young man."
"Oh? Mom, are you asking me why I am so confident? Haha, let me tell you, our Lao Jiang family's confidence is hereditary, so don't accept it."
"What did you say? Haha, you said you were convinced, Mom, that's great, your daughter will be mine from now on."
Mu Yanzhu: "..."
It turns out that when a person talks to himself, he is such an idiot!
It’s so unbearable to look at!
"Let's go."
Mu Yanzhu sniffed, purely because she was afraid that Jiang Qingchi would catch a cold while wearing a sweater. After all, the temperature in the cemetery was relatively cold.
"Hey, why are you so anxious? I brought firecrackers. Today is the New Year. I have to put one on my parents' graves."
Mu Yanzhu thought he was joking.
Good boy, I really brought firecrackers.
Then Jiang Qingchi picked up a bamboo pole, stood on the roadside and crackled a bunch.
The flowers after the firecrackers were set off fell on the grave. Among the red flowers and white dumplings, the grave of Mu Yanzhu's parents was the busiest.
Mu Yanzhu covered her ears, "I'm going to be deafened by you."
"Let me see."
Jiang Qingchi rubbed her ears personally and said with a smile: "Who bought the firecrackers? They are so loud."
"I bought it, do you have any objections?"
"No, no, you are my wife, how dare I have any objections."
"... Go back, it's cold here, and you won't feel well if you catch a cold."
"Come up, I'll carry you."
"I'm not lame."
Jiang Qingchi patted his shoulder and said, "Come up quickly. It's rare that I want to show off in front of my mother-in-law, but you won't let me."
Mu Yanzhu then went up unceremoniously.
She was still wearing Jiang Qingchi's large cotton coat.
He was tall, and the clothes looked like an opera on her.
"Am I not heavy?"
"You are not heavy, these clothes are."
"You're really good at talking." She joked.
"Originally, you weigh less than a hundred pounds, is this still heavy?"
Jiang Qingchi felt that Mu Yanzhu should be fatter. Her arms were too thin and she didn't have much flesh on her waist.
However, my daughter-in-law likes to wear loose and casual clothes, but no one thinks she is thin.
Forget it, he can just admire his wife's beautiful figure alone.
A string of tears flowed down Jiang Qingchi's neck, all the way to his chest and his heart.
Jiang Qingchi was stunned for a moment, then lifted Mu Yanzhu up.
A new year, a new beginning, but she pressed her face against his back, crying suppressedly, "Jiang He..."
"Hey~ I'm here."
"Jiang He... I have no home."
Jiang Qingchi held Mu Yanzhu's waist with one hand and patted her face with the other hand.
"With me, I will give you a home."
Mu Yanzhu made no sound and buried her face in his back silently.
This journey was speechless.
She really hoped that this was an endless road, and that there were only two of him and her on this road, walking on each other firmly and sincerely, without any obstacles or waves, until they grew old.
"Jiang Yan, watch the fireworks!"
Mu Yanzhu finally looked up.
I saw the brilliant fireworks in the sky, bang bang bang, brightly rising into the sky, red, blue, green, colorful.
Jiang Qingchi paused and had already reached the pond.
This is the pond in Mu Yanzhu Village. It has been there for many years. Many people have been fishing here in the summer. A few years ago, the village chief said that he would bury this pond and build a house, but no one in the village agreed, so he gave up.
"Jiang Yan!!"
Jiang Qingchi shouted towards the pond -
"I like you, I like you very much!"
"Jiang Yan, I will give you a home!"
"From now on - I am your Optimus Prime, your Tinkerbell, and your Popeye!"
"I declare that Jiang Yan is the granddaughter-in-law of Jiang Guoteng, the daughter-in-law of Jiang Beiyuan and Yan Nian, the sister-in-law of Jiang Chun and Jiang Jingming, and my favorite daughter-in-law, Jiang Qingchi!"
Finished shouting.
Jiang Qingchi turned around in confusion: "Why is there no reply?"
Mu Yanzhu couldn't help laughing: "You think this is a valley with echoes."
"Then you can shout too. Anyway, no one is here, only I can hear it."
"By the way, do your parents know that you are so cool here?" Mu Yanzhu joked.
Jiang Qingchi glared at her: "I confessed so deeply, and you actually called me Biao. Are you still a human being?"
Then Mu Yanzhu, who was "not a human being", lay on Jiang Qingchi's back and shouted:
"I want to have a home with Jiang He! A house with our names on it!"
Jiang Qingchi stared at her straightly.
"What else is there?"
"No more."
Isn’t one voice enough
Everything she wanted to say was in her throat.
Jiang He: "Why don't you say you like me so much."
Mu Yanzhu punched him, of course it was a fake punch.
"How can anyone talk about their love every day without getting tired of it?"
"It's not boring. If you like it, just say it!"
Ahem, this guy...
Actually, sometimes it's good to be a bit sultry.
Mu Yanzhu suddenly thought this, and then she lay on Jiang Qingchi's back, biting the tip of his ear, and whispered very quietly, but more seriously and sincerely than anyone else:
"Jiang He, every day I like you more than yesterday."
Yes, Not Bad!
Jiang Qingchi was finally happy and lifted his wife up with satisfaction.
"Let's go home and eat dumplings!"
He ran so fast with her on his back. Mu Yanzhu was afraid that he would fall, so she patted his shoulder to tell him to run slower. The two of them ran all the way to Mu Yanzhu's grandma's house. There was the sound of firecrackers in their ears. Whose man was this? I came back late, so the blast was late.
…
At the same time, the Jiang family.
"A sneeze."
Jiang Chunhe sneezed while eating.
Along with this, Yan Nian and Jiang Beiyuan also sneezed.
Jiang San'er also wanted to sneeze, but he held it back and just rubbed his nose to stifle his yawn.
Yan Nian: "Why do we all have colds in the new year? After dinner, everyone will go and drink some isatis root, you hear me!"
Jiang Saner put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth, and said calmly:
"Mom, I guess brother misses us."
Upon hearing this, Yan Nian also put down his chopsticks.
"By the way, where did your brother go? He won't come back on New Year's Day?"
Jiang Beiyuan: "I'm going to be my son-in-law, don't worry about it."
Yan Nian reacted for a few seconds, then blinked his almond-shaped eyes, "Ah... I went to accompany my wife, right?"
Jiang Chunhe held his cheek with one hand, "Then I can't help but call to greet you. I'm a bit too much."
I just said that I went too far, and that classmate Jiang who went too far has already called me.
Was it a call to Jiang Saner or a video call
Jiang San'er: "Everyone is here, why don't you say a few words?"
Of course! Jiang Qingchi totally agreed.
There is no need to call him one by one to say Happy New Year.
"Mom and Dad, Happy New Year!"
Jiang Qingchi at the other end of the video smiled with big white teeth that almost compared with the incandescent lamp above his head.
Yan Nian rubbed his eyes and looked at the house behind Jiang Qingchi. It was an old house with a cement floor, a bit like an old man's house in the 1970s.
"Son, where are you?"
"I'm at Grandma Jiang Yan's house. Isn't it New Year's Day today? I want to spend the New Year with her."
"Then tomorrow Laba, will you come back?"
"I probably won't come back. Jiang Yan and I will take the train back to school tomorrow. School is about to start."
One mouthful of Jiangyan.
Yan Nian rubbed his forehead. It seemed that he really liked her. As long as he was happy, she didn't care as long as the other person had good character. Moreover, Yan Nian met Mu Yanzhu last time and thought the girl was quite innocent.
"Okay, take good care of yourself. Look at the gray on your face, just like that douchebag in Railway War. If you don't know, you might think that your father and I are abusing you."
Then Jiang Chunhe burst out laughing, pointing at Jiang Qingchi's face and laughing.
Jiang Qingchi didn't take it seriously, "I was setting off firecrackers today and accidentally got on them."
Jiang Chunhe: "I'll go! Brother, you can do it, you know how to have sex."
"Tsk, little girl, do you hear me taking the right path?"
Jiang Chunhe must have been led astray by Jiang San'er to be so sullen.
Well, it definitely is! Jiang Qingchi thought so righteously.
Then they chatted for a few more words, and before finally hanging up the phone, Jiang Qingchi said:
"Hey, Mom and Dad, Chun'er San'er, today I swore an oath in front of the city pond in my wife's village in the name of the four of you. From now on, she will be part of our Jiang family."
Yan Nian wanted to slap him: "You brat, no wonder the four of us sneezed at the same time."
"Warm? This city protection pond is so magical. It seems that everything I say will come true, hahaha!"
It could be seen that Jiang Qingchi was really happy today. He was always smiling, and he never took his big white teeth back.
Finally hanging up the phone, Yan Nian wanted to cry and laugh at the same time.
The funny thing is that this son has finally found true love, and she will probably have a grandson soon.
What makes me cry is that unknowingly, my children have grown up and my husband and I have grown old too.
The era that originally belonged to them has gradually gone away. The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead.
Yan Nian: "Okay, let's continue eating. As long as he is happy."
Jiang Chunhe hummed, "Yes, as long as brother is happy! Love is when two people are happy together!"
Jiang San'er nodded and echoed coldly: "As long as he is happy."
Jiang Beiyuan was the calmest, and Lao Jiang was drinking soup very gracefully.
Yan Nian rolled his eyes at him:
You are the head of the family, don't you mean a few words
Jiang Beiyuan put down the spoon and touched Yan Nian's hair.
"As long as you are happy."
In the new year, the family can continue to move forward neatly, be healthy and safe, this is the greatest happiness.
…
Happy New Year.
[Author's words: 1224, happy birthday to Jiangbei Yuan and Jiang Qingchi, I love you all.]
(End of chapter)