The next day happened to be Saturday, so there was no need to hurry back.
People in the village got up early, and there was movement outside at dawn.
Jian Mingxia and Xue Liyan walked around the mountain in the morning light, and when they came back, they felt that their bodies were covered with frost.
Deng Yi squatted on the stone pier outside the door, yawned, and said sleepily: "You two are really boring. Go to the kitchen to bake for a while when it's cold."
Jian Mingxia said, "Then I'm going to warm up by the fire."
She looked at Xue Liyan, Xue Liyan shook his head and said, "Go, I'm not cold."
Jian Mingxia can only sigh with emotion, your physique is getting better! She got into the kitchen and said to Deng Yi's mother: "Auntie, I'll come in and have a fire."
"Hey, come on, sit here, don't get too close to the fire, be careful not to get burned." Deng's mother responded, and brought a small bench for Jian Mingxia. Deng's house still burns firewood, so the kitchen is very warm.
Seeing sweet potatoes on the ground, Jian Mingxia asked, "Auntie, can I bake a sweet potato?"
Deng's mother smiled and said: "Why not, I will pick some sweet ones for you, homemade sweet potatoes are more fragrant than those sold outside."
"Well, I don't usually eat sweet potatoes, but this sweet potato looks very delicious, so I just want to eat it."
The two picked out a few sweet potatoes, covered them with ashes, and buried them under the fire.
Deng's mother asked: "You and Deng Yi are also classmates, right?"
Jian Mingxia said: "No, I am several years older than them, I am an old cow eating young grass, much older than my boyfriend."
Deng's mother added water to the pot, and said: "It's better to be bigger, isn't the old saying that female juniors hold gold bricks."
Jian Mingxia: "That was also in the past, now boys, who wouldn't want to find someone who is young and good-looking."
"But to live at home, it is better to be an older woman. To say that a woman is three years older and hold a gold brick does not mean that a woman who is three years older can really hold a gold brick. It just means that women are older and more mature. Live with a man, guard with a house."
Jian Mingxia blinked and looked at Deng's mother, thinking that what Deng's mother said was very interesting. When she listened carefully, her eyes were focused and bright, just like the children who listened carefully in class, making people particularly interested in talking.
Deng's mother smiled and said a few more words: "This man is a child who will not grow up all his life. Before he has a family, his mother will discipline him. After he has a family, his daughter-in-law will discipline him. A man will be disciplined by his wife all his life. Disciplinary, before getting married, whether a man learns well or not is the responsibility of the mother. After getting married, whether a man can stand up or not depends on his wife. So marry an older daughter-in-law to manage a man. If you marry a younger Immature, with two children living a life, how can they live a good life. Just like the little girl now, she only thinks about whether a man will spoil her, but how can she think of disciplining a man and letting him go on the right path? Responsibility."
Jian Mingxia thought about it carefully, and said: "What you said is very reasonable, and I have never thought about this issue. I used to think that whether a man learns well or not depends on his self-consciousness. Now listening to you say that, I feel my thoughts It's still too narrow."
This is to look at issues from different angles, and you will have different understandings. Maybe your views are somewhat one-sided, but it is not unreasonable.
"I'll just talk about my own thoughts, and it may not be right. Deng Yi also brought back a little girl before. That little girl is really very different from your thinking. When she came to us, she actually asked me 'Auntie , Why don’t you install toilets here? Your toilets are too dirty, you should clean the toilets.’ After hearing that, I didn’t even want to answer her.”
Jian Mingxia also felt speechless for a while, this girl is so sweet! Then the two chatted about gossip.
The conversation in the kitchen was in full swing, and the voice drifted outside. Deng's mother has a loud voice, so although she couldn't hear what Jian Mingxia said, she could still tell from Deng's mother's tone that the two of them were chatting with great interest.
Deng Yi smiled and said, "Your girlfriend has a good temper."
Xue Liyan shook his head: "She just loves to chat, anyone can chat a few words."
Deng Yi took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed Xue Liyan one.
Xue Liyan didn't answer, just said: "Quit, you smoke."
Deng Yi lit a cigarette and didn't ask him why he quit. A man quit smoking for any reason, isn't it just for women, wives, and children.
Xue Liyan asked him: "Where's your girlfriend, why didn't you go to celebrate the festival with her?"
Deng Yite said indifferently: "It's divided."
Xue Liyan looked at him with a little surprise in his eyes.
Deng Yi said: "Don't look at me like that. I'm just a tortoise. My family can't afford white swans. It's better for each to go to each house and find its own mother."
Xue Liyan smiled and said nothing.
But Deng Yi himself didn't hold back, and couldn't help saying to him: "You said she looked down on me and thought I was poor, and I have nothing to say. This is the truth. But she looks down on my parents, so I really can't do that." Tolerate."
Xue Liyan said: "It's fine if we split up, but the two of you are really not suitable."
Deng Yi didn't want to mention any more, and asked him: "What about you, you care so much about your girlfriend, what are your plans in the future?"
Xue Liyan said: "I want to marry her."
Deng Yi didn't find it strange either. If he likes a woman, there is no reason why he doesn't want to marry and go home. "What's her attitude?"
Xue Liyan said, "I don't know."
"Have you tried her attitude?"
"Don't dare to try, I'm afraid she will refuse and break up directly."
The two of them squatted and stood at the same time, neither of them spoke anymore.
After a while, Deng Yi said: "I want to borrow some money from you."
"Ok."
"Don't ask me what I borrowed for?"
Xue Liyan just asked: "Is there a shortage of people?"
Deng Yi smiled: "Brothers are enough, why are there no shortages, I didn't dare to ask you before, but now I say that there are shortages, are you willing to come?"
"After the next year, after finishing this order, I will resign."
"That's fine, but in this way, I will count the money you borrowed from me as your shareholding."
"what ever."
The two finalized their future work arrangements in a few words. Speaking of which, Xue Liyan's current jobs are all resumes submitted by Deng Yi. Deng Yi thinks this is a good opportunity, and the salary is also very good. Xue Liyan was admitted, and it was only when Deng Yi learned from other people that Xue Liyan might not need the job.
Xue Liyan is usually very low-key. He eats in the cafeteria, lives in the dormitory, and doesn't pay much attention to his clothes. He can't see famous brand goods on his body. Thinking of looking at ordinary people who don't show their mountains and dews, they can still live in luxurious villas in Nancheng. Although it was his brother's house, the family background was not bad after all.
Thinking of this, Deng Yi still felt that he had done something stupid, and thanks to Xue Liyan who didn't get angry with him, he really accepted the job. Deng Yi asked: "How is your job doing now?"
"There is more than enough conservativeness, but not enough aggressiveness. It is more difficult for newcomers to stand out."
"Understood, you use a monkey knife to kill a chicken."
Xue Liyan learned programming, but he taught himself more things. In the current company, he is called an animator, but now which animation company has become famous, it will not get involved in the game, so Xue Liyan is actually a brick, where? Where do you need to move, work for several positions, and take one person's salary, if he is still alone, then maybe it doesn't matter, just take it as learning experience, but now that he is with Jian Mingxia, he has to do more Many plans.
A good woman urges a man to move forward, Xue Liyan wants to give Jian Mingxia a better life, whether she needs him to support her, and whether he has the ability to support her are two different things.
The two chatted about some details again, and they really made up their minds to start their own business. It was not an easy matter. There are thousands of young people with whimsical ideas, and a few of them made it happen. These things are not rushed for a while, but need to be prepared slowly. While chatting vigorously, Jian Mingxia ran out with a sweet potato wrapped in a tissue, and shared the sweet potato with Xue Liyan.
Looking at the hopelessly smiling brother beside him, Deng Yi shook his head helplessly. He could only say that love can really change a person. Who would have thought that Xue Liyan was one of the people he knew, The one who is the most difficult to get along with, he is the kind of man who is so incomprehensible that he can directly make the suitor cry, no matter how much you liked him before, as long as you stand in front of him, you will hate him to death. It is a benefit to the majority of male compatriots, but maybe the more difficult a man is, the more girls will favor him. There is always no shortage of persistent suitors around Xue Liyan. The suitor's daily life was drawn into a cartoon called "Fancy Abuse □ Daily", which filled Xue Liyan's hatred.
As his brother in the same dormitory, Deng Yi cast a deep disdain for his brother, and then encouraged him. Spit in his heart again, Deng Yi got up and went to the kitchen to get a sweet potato to eat.
Deng's mother prepared sweet soup and sugar glutinous rice cakes for breakfast. The sugar glutinous rice cakes were fried very crispy and delicious when dipped in syrup, but they were afraid of getting angry.
Jian Mingxia picked up a piece of candied glutinous rice cake, and ate it sparingly, one bite at a time.
Deng's mother saw that she was eating so delicately, so she took another piece and told her to eat more.
Jian Mingxia began to eat, feeling pain and happiness.
Seeing her greedy face, Xue Liyan could only shake his head silently.
When they left, Deng's mother prepared a lot of dry goods for the two of them and asked them to take them home to eat. Jian Mingxia was not too polite, she took them all over, and even made an appointment to come over and come to celebrate the New Year.
Deng's mother was also cheerful, and sent the two of them to the car all the way.
When the car started, Jian Mingxia covered the left side of her face and said, "I got a blister in my mouth, it hurts so much."
He blamed her angrily and distressedly: "Who told you to eat so much sugar glutinous rice cake, fried in oil, can you not get angry?"
Jian Mingxia said weakly: "But it's really delicious."
Xue Liyan kept silent with a dark face.
Jian Mingxia found that his angry appearance was scary, and he could scare people. If he wasn't driving now, she really wanted to poke his dimples to see if he dared to show her face.
On the way, Jian Mingxia received a call from Lu Yu. The little girl invited her to have afternoon tea. Jian Mingxia thought about it and agreed.
Anyway, she was idle in the car, and after asking Lu Yu to make sure she was free and busy, Jian Mingxia simply called her on the phone, and the two women chatted happily.
Xue Liyan, who was completely thrown aside, felt deeply powerless. As a boyfriend, he felt so helpless in front of his girlfriend.
She is sure that he won't be really angry with her, right
Unfortunately, this is the truth.
This is what really makes him helpless.