Everyone in the Yu family, who had been noisy all morning, fell silent in front of the dinner table.
A simple breakfast, full of burnt dishes.
In fact, it is inferred from the series of processes that Yu's mother rushed into Yu Dong's room with a spatula and then fainted. It is not unusual to burn a breakfast or something.
After eating this unforgettable breakfast, Yu's father pushed his motorcycle and planned to go to the market to buy some dishes for New Year's Eve. After all, his son-in-law came, and Yu's mother quietly told him to buy two more dishes.
"Uncle, where are you going? I'll drive you." Xia Feng was worried when his father was pushing a motorcycle without even a helmet.
"No, I'm going to the market to buy some food, it's very close." Yu's father refused.
"I'll accompany you, the dishes can be put in the trunk, which is very convenient." Xia Feng said attentively.
"The country road is narrow, and the car can't get in." Yu's father had to tell the truth.
"Oh." Suddenly the air was a little awkward.
Dad Yu got on the motorcycle, paused, looked back at Xia Feng and asked, "Your aunt asked if you have any favorite dishes."
"Ah?" Xia Feng was stunned for a moment, and quickly reacted, with happy eyebrows, "I... I like to eat fish."
"Got it." Dad Yu started the car and quickly disappeared on the country road.
Xia Feng looked at the direction where Yu's father disappeared, with a warm smile on Junya's face.
"What is silly music?" Yu Song suddenly appeared behind Xia Feng.
"Nothing." Xia Feng smiled.
"Hey, lend me your car key, I'll go buy something in the city." As a brother-in-law, Yu Song instructed his future sister-in-law to come here without any ambiguity.
Without hesitation, Xia Feng took out the key from his pocket and handed it to his uncle.
"Thank you!" Yu loosened the car and walked away dashingly.
Yu's mother heard the sound and walked out with a rag. Seeing Xia Feng still standing in the yard, she immediately knew who drove the car away, so she said, "Songsong's driving skills are average, so be careful if you touch him. already."
"It's okay, it's safe." Xia Feng saw that he was idle after eating, so he took the initiative to ask, "Auntie, is there anything I need to do?"
"Then you and Dongdong go to post the couplet." Yu's mother thought for a while and said.
"Okay!" Xia Feng replied with a smile, walked back to the house happily, found Yu Dong who was packing his luggage, and the two began to paste couplets.
The courtyards of each house in the village are open, and neighbors often come to visit or pass by, but in just one hour, the flow of people coming and going is too large.
The aunt came and took a look, the child came and laughed and ran away, and the little girl came over and blushed.
Yu Dong thought for a while and asked Xia Feng, "Did you meet anyone in the backyard in the morning?"
"I met an aunt and talked for a while." Xia Feng recalled and said.
"What did you say?" Yu Dong asked.
"I didn't say anything, just said I was my boyfriend." Xia Feng said strangely, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, it's just you, you have almost finished being visited by the people of our village." Yu Dong sighed.
"Visit?" Xia Feng posted the last door god, and when he turned around and was about to ask Yu Dong, he suddenly met a few pairs of curious eyes.
"Hello!" Although Xia Feng was startled, he still greeted with grace.
"Oh, this guy is so handsome, Yujing, your boyfriend?" an aunt asked.
"Yes!" Yu Dong smiled and nodded.
At this time, Yu's mother just came out of the kitchen, when the aunt saw Yu's mother, she leaned over and exaggerated: "Xiao Lan, your Yujing already has a boyfriend, I heard that the young man is still promising in the city. "
"Yes, yes, I heard that he is still a doctor, which is incredible." Another aunt also said.
"When are you drinking wedding wine?" The third aunt also joked.
"It's still early, they just talked, Yu Dong has just graduated, and he still has to work for a while." No matter how anxious Yu's mother is to marry Yu Dong to Xia Feng, she must not show any hatred for marriage when asked by outsiders. .
"It's early, if you have a quick knot, don't be like Baoqin, you can't get married even if you're 28, so her mother is anxious."
"Yes, yes, now her mother is asking people everywhere. It's hard to marry such a big girl."
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Yu Dong loves and hates these aunts and aunts. They are the most enthusiastic about whoever has an accident, but who is a little gossip, and they are the fastest.
"There's still the word "Fu" that hasn't been posted yet, let's go and post it." Yu Dong dragged the stunned Xia Feng back to the house.
When the two of them finished posting the blessing, the aunts and aunts outside also went home to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. At this time, Yu's mother brought out a large basket from the kitchen, which contained a whole piece of pork, and some fruits, and placed it on the table. He said to Dong: "In a while you and Xia Feng will go to worship the land public and the land lady."
"Okay!" Although I haven't done it for many years, Yu Dong still remembers the general process. The two of them walked on the road leading to the shrine with a tribute and a candle and a firecracker.
Along the way, many blind dates gossip and kindly rushed to Yu Dongxiao.
Yu Dong also smiled and said hello all the way.
"It feels so good!" Xia Feng suddenly said.
"Where is it?" Yu Dong asked in surprise.
"Everyone knows and everyone is friendly." Xia Feng smiled, "Everyone likes you."
Yu Dong was startled, vaguely dazed.
"Fish Jelly!" Suddenly a high-pitched voice woke up the contemplative Yu Dong.
"Sixth Aunt." Yu Dong called out, looking at the smiling middle-aged woman in front of him, "and Sister Baoqin."
Yu Baoqin nodded and smiled at Yu Dong.
"Are you going to offer sacrifices?" Sixth Aunt asked.
"yes!"
"This is your boyfriend, oh that's great." Sixth Aunt looked at Xia Feng with some envy.
"Hello Sixth Aunt, I'm Xia Feng." Xia Feng called after Yu Dong.
"Oh, hello, hello, really polite." Sixth Aunt smiled and said, "How old are you?"
"28." Xia Feng replied.
"28, it's the same age as my Baoqin. Are there any single classmates or colleagues around?" Sixth Aunt asked excitedly.
Xia Feng was caught off guard by being asked, and could only laugh awkwardly.
"Mom..." Yu Baoqin tugged at his mother a little embarrassedly, and then looked at Yu Dong embarrassedly.
"What are you pulling, I won't ask you again, what can you do?"
"Then you can't ask anyone."
"Then what if you don't do this? You don't look for it yourself." Sixth Aunt said angrily.
Xia Feng didn't know how his few words caused a quarrel, so he glanced at Yu Dong for help.
Yu Dong was also very emotional about this very familiar scene in front of him. He knew that the more he said at this time, the more chaotic it became, so he interrupted: "Sixth Aunt, let's go to the sacrifice first, and we'll talk later."
"Okay, okay, about Baoqin, you can help Aunty with snacks." Sixth Aunt did not forget to ask again.
When the two walked out of the distance, they could still hear the voice of the sixth aunt talking about his daughter.
Xia Feng sensed that Yu Dong was a little unhappy, but he didn't know the original, so he could only hold Yu Dong's hand silently. Yu Dong regained his senses, looked at the hands that the two were clasping tightly, and after a while in a trance, he raised his head and smiled at Xia Feng, and the two walked slowly to the gate of the shrine.
The shrine is an ancestral hall built with funds raised by the village, and it enshrines the god statue of the land public land wife.
There is a tribute platform in front of it specially used to put tributes, and below it is a large mud pile built with bricks, which is filled with incense candles.
The two placed tributes, set off firecrackers, and burned gold ingots.
Xia Feng looked at Yu Dong holding three incense sticks, closed his eyes and prayed to the statue, then bowed devoutly, and bent down to pour the incense into the soil.
"What did you say to the two gods?" Xia Feng asked curiously.
"I'm thanking them." Thank you to all the gods who brought me back to life.
"Then I want to thank you too!" Xia Feng bowed like Yu Dong did.
"What are you thankful for?" Yu Dong also asked curiously.
"Thank them for protecting you in a place I didn't know about." Xia Feng said seriously.
"Nasty!" Yu Dongbai glanced at Xia Feng and turned to leave the ancestral hall.
Xia Feng quickly put away the tribute, put it in the basket and chased out.
The ancestral hall is built at the front of the village, with a lake at the entrance, surrounded by rice fields that cannot be seen, Xia Feng thought when he saw this scene, it should be beautiful in autumn.
"Your home is so beautiful." Xia Feng praised.
"It's like this in the countryside." Yu Dong pointed to the rice field in the distance and said, "The field in front belongs to our family."
Xia Feng looked far into the distance, but he couldn't tell which part was.
"Sister Baoqin?" Yu Dong suddenly saw a red figure walking on the ridge not far away, "Xia Feng, go back first, and I'll go talk to Sister Baoqin."
Xia Feng nodded, and Yu Dong turned around and ran into the field.
"Sister Baoqin." Not long after Yu Dong walked, he caught up with Yu Baoqin who was standing in the field in a daze.
"Dongdong." Yu Baoqin was stunned, then smiled at Yu Dong.
"I saw you over there just now, so I came over to say hello." Yu Dong said.
"Really?" Yu Baoqin glanced back, just when she saw Xia Feng's back turning and leaving, and said a little lonely, "When I was working in the city, it was difficult to find someone who knew me to talk to, but I turned back. It’s hard to find a place to be alone when you get home.”
"Did Sixth Aunt tell you again?" Yu Dong asked.
"I'm angry that I refused a blind date yesterday." Yu Baoqin said with a wry smile.
"The eyes of the elderly are different from ours, especially for things like blind dates." Yu Dong, who has experienced 6 years of uninterrupted marriage urges, is deeply touched.
"This is my brief introduction, you sister Meiling."
"Meiling? Didn't he get married very early?" Yu Dong asked.
"Yeah, she came to my house the day before yesterday with a big belly that was about to give birth, which made my mother so excited." Yu Baoqin said with a wry smile, "Actually, she mentioned it to me on the phone before, but I politely declined, I didn't expect her I will go directly to my mother, and let my mother do my ideological work... "
"How did she..." Doing ideological work is not just about being scolded.
"This man is her husband's cousin..." Yu Baoqin said helplessly, "Dongdong, what do you think will happen if I don't go home next year for the New Year? My mother can't see me, but is happier?"
"Now every ten miles and eight villages know that Yu Baoqin is a girl who can't get married. My mother tells me every time I meet someone, and asks them to introduce me to someone. I can also find out an older unmarried man when I go to the street to buy food. The uncles and aunts in the village educated me when they saw me, saying that it is not a good thing that my eyes are higher than the top... I really... "
Yu Baoqin's eyes gradually turned red: "I was just looking for someone I would marry, but I didn't find it, so am I wrong?"
"Sister Baoqin..."
"Sometimes I really want to find a place where no one knows me, when I get married and when I come back."
Yu Dong doesn't know how to comfort Yu Baoqin, just like she doesn't know how to comfort herself ten years later. If a woman's pursuit of love is not lucky enough, she will either succumb to reality or wait alone.
"Forget it, it's no wonder you're uncomfortable listening to it." Yu Baoqin forced a smile and said, "Dongdong, I envy you very much, so you're fine."
Yu Baoqin waved his hand and turned around, as if he had erected a new barrier to fight the gossip around him, just like his old self.
"Sister Baoqin, hold on, your choice is not wrong." Maybe no matter whether the decision is right or not, you just hope that there will be a supportive voice around you who are full of accusations.
Yu Baoqin turned around, dressed in red, smiling like a rose.
Maybe in the eyes of others, you are different, but you are still beautiful and strong. Everyone has different choices in life, and there are different results after the choices, but we should not criticize whether it is good or bad.
"It's time to go back for lunch."
When Yu Dong regained his senses, he found that Xia Feng was half-squatting in front of him.
"What are you thinking of squatting here?" Xia Feng had been back for a long time, but he didn't see Yu Dong coming back, so he came over again.
"I'm thinking of you." Yu Dong raised his head and smiled.
"I'm not here." Xia Feng also smiled.
"Well, thanks for being here."
"What's wrong with you?" Xia Feng once again felt Yu Dong's emotional instability.
"Xia Feng." Yu Dong wrapped his arms around Xia Feng's neck and leaned on Xia Feng's body, "It's nice to meet you."
Xia Feng didn't know what happened to Yu Dong, but instinct made him hug the girl in his arms tightly.
Is it because I don't give you a sense of security enough, that's why you are often lost.
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