Xia Yitong: "I haven't even brought you to meet them yet, and you're already calling them mom and dad."
Lu Yinbing smiled and said, "We have met now, haven't we? It's okay. I'm not afraid of strangers. I'm quite familiar with people."
Xia Yitong muttered quietly: "I still call your parents uncle and aunt."
Lu Yinbing: "What did you say?"
Xia Yitong shook her head: "Nothing." If Lu Yinbing heard it, she would probably laugh at her again. She had been so eager to get married before, and now she was thinking of changing her name. How could she be so shameless
Lu Yinbing didn't think much about it, and turned her face towards the sun, letting the sun shine on her face: "My mom used to be a strong woman, the type who would do whatever she wanted outside, but when my dad got home, he became a little woman who acted like a spoiled child all day long. You can see how powerful love is. Take you for example..."
Xia Yitong smiled and said, "What's wrong with me?"
Lu Yinbing: "Aren't you a queen who has countless female fans? You can electrify the host of a talk show."
Xia Yitong couldn't stop laughing and quickly covered her face with her hands, as if saying "let's not talk about the past anymore".
Lu Yinbing added, "As soon as I got home, I just lay down and begged for sex. How could I be a queen? I remembered a nursery rhyme. No, I don't remember if it was a nursery rhyme, but a children's song or something. It describes you very well."
"What?"
"The little white rabbit is so white, with two ears standing up. It loves to eat radishes and vegetables, and it jumps around so cutely." Lu Yinbing stretched out his hands and made rabbit ears on his forehead.
Xia Xiaobaitu jumped up and knocked Lu Yinbing to the ground.
The two of them were laughing and playing on the floor, not even noticing Liu Xinmin's arrival. It was not until Liu Xinmin coughed twice with an ambiguous look in her eyes that the two glanced at each other and ran upstairs.
Liu Xinmin sighed, feeling lonely downstairs, and turned on the TV. She heard footsteps coming from the stairs again, and Lu Yinbing and Xia Yitong ran down again. They sat on the sofa and picked up the remote control very naturally: "Are there any TV series to watch recently? Which one?"
Liu Xinmin was stunned for a moment, rolled her eyes, and said, "You know what your mother and I do. There is not a single TV show worth watching recently. Find a movie for me to watch online."
In the past, Hitachi Yinbing might have thrown the remote control at her, and added, "You're a high-level intellectual, but I have to do everything for you to just move my fingers to surf the internet. Isn't that shameful?", and then ordered a movie for her with disdain.
This time Lu Yinbing didn't say a word and quickly switched to the network: "What are you watching?"
Liu Xinmin: "Watching "Breaking Snow"."
Xia Yitong was startled and wanted to look at Lu Yinbing reflexively, but she held back. Lu Yinbing's voice didn't show any big emotional ups and downs. She glanced at him calmly and said, "Why are you watching a tragedy on New Year's Day? When my dad comes back later and sees you with tears in your eyes, he'll be happy to see me again. Let's watch a comedy."
After that, she ordered a representative work of a certain movie emperor, put the remote control on the table, and crossed her legs.
When the movie was over, Liu Xinmin went to bring over a bunch of sunflower seeds and said to Lu Yinbing fiercely, "These are not for you. They are for Xiaoxia. Come, have some sunflower seeds."
Lu Yinbing: "...Mom, I haven't even opened my mouth to speak yet."
Liu Xinmin: "I know, take precautions in advance."
Xia Yitong laughed silently while holding the melon seeds.
Lu Yinbing gave her a look, and Xia Yitong handed her some melon seeds: "Boss...eat some melon seeds."
Lu Yinbing targeted her: "What do you call an old boss? Am I old?"
"… "
Xia Yitong almost called her wife, but it was inappropriate with Lu's mother present, so she twisted her mouth. Who knew that Lu Yinbing was upset with her mother and took her anger out on her.
Liu Xinmin: "Don't talk, the movie is starting."
Xia Yitong cracked melon seeds for Lu Yinbing, peeled them and put them in her palm. She collected fifty seeds and ate them in one bite. Liu Xinmin watched with satisfaction from the side. Lu Yinbing glanced over and Liu Xinmin glared back at her.
Lu Yinbing: “…”
Forget it, she'd better go watch a movie.
Halfway through the movie, a car horn was heard outside. Looking outside, it was already dark. Before Lu Xia and the other person present could react, Liu Xinmin had already run to the door and opened it, just in time to meet her husband's surprised face.
Lu Yunzhang then smiled: "I'm back."
"Auntie is cooking and the movie hasn't ended yet. Are you hungry? If you are, we can eat breakfast. If not, let's watch the movie first." Lu Yunzhang lowered his neck and Liu Xinmin said as she took the scarf for him.
Lu Yunzhang took off his coat, put it on his arm and walked in: "I'm not hungry. I had afternoon tea and ate a lot of snacks in the afternoon. Let's watch a movie first. What's it?"
Liu Xinmin told him the title of the film, put her arm around his and sat down together: "It's quite funny, your daughter recommended it to me."
Lu Yunzhang glanced at Lu Yinbing and said, "A busy man, do you have time to watch a movie with your mother?"
Lu Yinbing stuck out her tongue at him.
With one more person, the atmosphere in the living room changed. It was crowded and the laughter was much louder than before. After Xia Yitong observed, he found that Liu Xinmin's mood was much higher after Lu Yunzhang came.
Xia Yitong poked Lu Yinbing's waist with her finger, and Lu Yinbing leaned over to listen: "Hmm?"
Xia Yitong asked quietly, "What year were your parents born?"
Lu Yinbing: "Dad was born in 1963, Mom was born in 1966."
Xia Yitong counted on her fingers, and Lu Yinbing converted the answer and told her: "Dad is fifty-six, and Mom is fifty-three. Why are you asking this?"
"Nothing." Xia Yitong lowered her head and played with her fingers, feeling a little shy.
"What's nothing?"
Xia Yitong didn't look at her, but rubbed her fingers with her hands, and said in a low voice: "I just feel it's pretty good."
"A good relationship?"
"Yeah." Xia Yitong glanced over there and saw Lu Yunzhang and Liu Xinmin holding hands, their fingers intertwined. It's easy to fall in love but hard to stay together. Many couples who love each other very much gradually lose their throbbing and attachment in the daily life of firewood, rice, oil and salt, and either break up or treat each other with coldness. It's enviable that they have been together for decades without changing their ways.
Lu Yinbing inserted his fingers into Xia Yitong's fingers, arched his back, lowered his eyebrows, and coughed softly, creating an image of old age, and said: "My dear, where is my bone patch? The forecast says it will rain in the afternoon, and my legs are going to hurt again."
Lu Yinbing's acting skills have reached perfection. Even though her appearance has not changed at all, she seems to have become old in an instant, and has become the lover who has been with her for decades.
Xia Yitong was stunned at first, then her eyes felt sore and she felt like crying.
Not only was I moved by the life decades later, but I was also sad that someone like Lu Yinbing, who was born for movies, might have to bid farewell to the screen forever because of that accident. As Xue Yao said, let your ideals stay in the most beautiful place.
Afraid that she would notice, Xia Yitong quickly collected her thoughts and improvised, "Are you talking about the xx bone and muscle patch that works as soon as it is applied? The last one is on my knee. I'll go to the pharmacy with you to buy some more?"
Lu Yinbing said, "Why go to a pharmacy? Technology is so advanced nowadays, we can just buy it online and the transmission device will deliver it to us in a moment."
Xia Yitong chuckled and shook her head, sighing, "Ah, look at my memory, I thought it was decades ago. When people get old, they always think about the past."
Lu Yinbing rubbed the back of her hand and recalled the past sweetly: "Yesterday, I dreamed about when you and I were young. A reporter came to interview me and asked me what our relationship was. I hugged you and kissed you, saying 'this is our relationship'. The reporter was shocked. Weibo... Weibo was the most popular at that time. It was on the hot search for a week."
Xia Yitong was just about to continue her performance when two unignorable gazes were fixed on her. Turning back, she saw Lu Yunzhang and Liu Xinmin each holding a handful of melon seeds, with astonishment written on their faces: Please continue your performance.
Lu Yinbing and Xia Yitong stopped acting and turned to watch TV as if nothing had happened. You could still hear Lu's father and mother muttering, "People who are trained in professional schools are different. This pair of actors looks so good together." "When will we let them perform again? Can we give them a topic?" "Lu Xiaodingdang is so mean. He acted like a joke with us before, but he was so exaggerated and valued women over his parents."...
Lu Xia and the other person looked at each other and smiled.
Liu Xinmin realized later that there were now two actresses in her family, a daughter who was a big movie queen and a daughter-in-law who had a promising career. She was completely excited and asked them to improvise every few days, from life and death to comedy. When she had nothing to do, she turned on the TV to watch a bad drama, and asked them to re-enact a segment after watching it, but this plan failed because Lu Yinbing changed his face on the spot.
If it were usual, it would be fine for the two of them to use their special talents to amuse their elders, but this is not usual.
After narrowly escaping the siege, Xia Yitong was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, fearing that Liu Xinmin would suddenly come up with some idea and make Lu Yinbing's condition worse.
So when Liu Xinmin woke up in the morning on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, she found that Xia Yitong had a cold and coughed from time to time. Liu Xinmin asked her aunt to stew pear soup for her to reduce her internal heat, and she asked about her health and never let her act with Lu Yinbing again.
On the second day of the first lunar month last year, Xia Yitong was introduced to all her uncles and aunts by Lu Yinbing. She received a bunch of big red envelopes and got to know her cousins, one of whom was a particularly lively Liucheng.
On the second day of the first lunar month this year, Liu Cheng had grown a year older, but her personality had not become more stable. Before nine o'clock in the morning, Lu Xia and her partner, who were sleeping together in bed, were awakened by a hasty knock on the door.
Lu Yinbing frowned, Xia Yitong raised her hands to cover her ears and asked, "Who is it?"
Liu Cheng shouted outside the door: "It's me, Liu Cheng, your sister-in-law."
Orange? Xia Yitong took a while to react, then sat up straight on the bed: "Are you here so soon?"
Liu Cheng: "Yes, yes, everyone is here."
Xia Yitong: "Let's start now."
Liu Cheng: "Hurry up, sister-in-law, we're waiting for you two."
Lu Yinbing turned over, and Xia Yitong pulled her out of the quilt and urged her, "Your uncle, aunt, and Liu Cheng are here, it's time to get up."
Lu Yinbing stayed in bed for three minutes, let out a heavy sigh, got up reluctantly, changed clothes, washed up and went downstairs. The living room downstairs was full of people sitting in groups of three or four. The elders sat on the sofa and the younger ones were on the other side.
Xia Yitong was stunned, and Lu Yinbing's sleepy eyes suddenly opened wide.
There is one more person in the living room than last year.
Lu Yinbing looked at Liu Cheng, but Liu Cheng didn't say that Liang Shuyao was also coming this year.
Liu Cheng winked at her, which clearly meant "Are you surprised? Are you surprised?"
Lu Yinbing: “…”
What a surprise!
Liang Shuyao was chatting and laughing with a few sisters. When she heard her eldest cousin call out "Yinbing", she turned around. She was the same as she was two years ago, not changed at all. If there was anything that had changed, it was that she looked at Lu Yinbing with open eyes, no longer forbearing.
"Cousin." Liang Shuyao glanced at Xia Yitong beside Lu Yinbing, paused, and smiled, "This must be my cousin's husband. I have heard of your name for a long time. It is well-known."