On such a cold day, I didn’t expect to be able to play outside with Ji Guanxin for more than an hour before returning home. After entering the door, the warm air enveloped the surroundings, and Ji Guanxin and I shivered without exception.
My mother and my aunt were sitting on the kang. Seeing us come in, my mother asked aloud: "Where have you two little ancestors gone? Are they cold?"
My cheeks turned red from the cold, and I replied with a haha: "I just ran around in a circle." I really ran around in a circle, and I kept chasing Ji Guanxin. If he hadn't stopped and asked me to catch him, I probably wouldn't have caught him even after running for a whole day. Not to him.
I really envy Ji Guanxin, the colder his face becomes, the paler his face becomes, without any 'plateau red' at all. With a nice smile on his fair and handsome face, he looked at my mother and replied: "Auntie, it's fun here. You can go out and run with us later."
My mother kept saying: "Oh, forget it, my aunt's legs are the most afraid of the cold."
My aunt patted the fire bed next to her and said to me and Ji Guanxin, "It's getting cold. Come up and warm yourself up."
We took off our coats and shoes. Ji Guanxin lifted his legs and sat cross-legged on the edge of the kang, while I climbed up because the northeast kang was too high.
Ji Guanxin laughed at me for this: "Are your legs so short?"
I turned around and rolled my eyes at him. My mother smiled and said, "Guan Xin, you didn't see how I came up here."
My mother is five centimeters shorter than me. I climbed up all the time. How could she get up
Ji Guanxin's transfer was so fast that he said to my mother: "Auntie, she is exquisite and cute, not like Zijin."
I sat down next to my mother, stared at him and asked, "What's wrong with me?"
Ji Guanxin said: "You are almost 1.7 meters tall, with big shoulders and a round waist."
My mother couldn't stop laughing, so I clenched my fists to scare him, but Ji Guanxin wasn't scared at all because there was someone else around.
After a second thought, I had an idea. I looked at my aunt and said coquettishly, "Auntie, look at him."
My aunt had a deep smile on her wrinkled face. She looked at Ji Guanxin and asked, "Where are you from?"
Ji Guanxin faced my aunt and immediately replied politely: "I am from Yecheng."
"Where?"
"Night City."
"Ye Chen... isn't that from the next door town?"
I laughed so hard, my aunt's hearing skills are simply amazing.
Ji Guanxin is most afraid of talking to my aunt, and I finally found someone who can subdue him.
My mother leaned close to my aunt's ear and said word by word: "Old aunt, Ye Cheng is not Ye Chen."
My aunt immediately nodded: "Capital, look at my ears."
After saying that, she asked Ji Guanxin: "How old are you this year?"
Ji Guanxin smiled and replied: "It will be twenty-nine soon."
This time my aunt heard clearly. She nodded and said, "Twenty-nine, how old is Zijin?"
My mother said: "Zi Jin just celebrated his 24th birthday."
My aunt said: "Five years older is okay, but too much older is not good."
As soon as the conversation changed, I was embarrassed.
Ji Guanxin said with a smile: "My aunt is very discerning. Five years older is just right. And I am so young that I can't tell how much older I am."
I couldn't help but straighten my legs and kick Ji Guanxin. Ji Guanxin didn't hide, he just kept laughing.
My mother didn't know what was wrong, but she asked Ji Guanxin with a smile in front of me: "Guanxin, do you like Zijin?"
God knows, my head suddenly went bang, and it felt like something exploded inside me.
I didn't know where to turn my eyes, and I didn't know what to say for a moment. I could only sit stiffly on the kang, motionless.
I didn't dare to look at Ji Guanxin, so I didn't pay attention to the expression on his face. I only heard him reply with a smile: "I like it. I think Zijin is very good. She is highly educated, good-looking and has good taste. I like her best when she is anxious." He scolded me in Northeastern dialect.”
I still remember that the first time Ji Guanxin made me anxious, I told him: I love you so much.
As for him saying that I have good taste, I seriously doubt that he is teasing me.
My mother sat next to me, with a meaningful smile on her face. She joked: "Guan Xin, if you like someone, you can't look at his face. What will happen when Zi Jin gets old and doesn't look good?"
Ji Guanxin quickly replied: "Everyone will get old one day, not to mention she is so much younger than me. When she gets old, I will get old too, no one will dislike the other."
My mother added, "But your family situation is so good and there are many temptations around you. What if a girl who is better and more beautiful than Zijin appears in the future?"
I was like a mirror in my mind, is this the mother-in-law interrogating her son-in-law? I should have stopped him, but I don’t know if it was because I was embarrassed or because I wanted to know how Ji Guanxin would respond deep down in my heart. Anyway, I didn’t say a word or stop him.
Ji Guanxin said: "Auntie, no one can say for sure what will happen in the future, but I know what is right and what is wrong. Being together requires not only an emotional foundation, but also moral restraint. I am not the kind of person who falls in love with someone when I see them. , you can rest assured about this.”
My mother nodded thoughtfully: "Yes, who can say for sure what will happen in the future..."
I took advantage of every opportunity, frowned and said, "Okay, okay, why are you talking about this nonsense when you have nothing to do?"
My mother also knew that I was impatient and was afraid that I would be unhappy, so she coaxed her and said, "Why don't we just have a casual chat? Why don't we just sit here?"
I said, "Then don't talk about me, don't take me with you."
Ji Guanxin suddenly said: "Why is your face so red?"
I felt myself blushing and burning. Putting the back of my hand against my face, I tried my best to reply in a calm tone: "It's too cold outside and too hot inside, so blushing is normal."
Ji Guanxin said: "Why am I not popular?"
He was not red, and was still as fair as jade. I said, "Who looks like you? Big carrot's face is neither red nor white."
Ji Guanxin immediately said: "Auntie, look at her, she always bullies me."
My mother smiled and replied to him: "It's okay, if a man lets a woman bully her, she won't lose a few pieces of meat."
I raised my chin and said provocatively, "See, this is my real mother."
Ji Guanxin deliberately pursed his lips and whispered: "I miss my mother too..."
We sat on the fire bed and chatted for about forty minutes. My mother looked at the time and said, "Do you want to take a nap at noon? Your aunt takes a nap every day, so don't let us come." Tire her up again.”
My aunt immediately said: "It's okay, Xiaoli, you can chat with the two children. I can't hear what you are saying clearly."
My mother was already standing on the kang, clapping her hands, and issuing instructions like a leader: "Come on, children, take off the blankets and spread them out. Guan Xin, you sleep here, and we are here."
The fire pits in the northeastern countryside are bigger than others can imagine. Let’s put it this way, if I rolled on them, it would be enough for me to roll a dozen times.
Ji Guanxin spread the quilt on the left side. When my mother wasn't paying attention, he elbowed me, winked at me, and motioned for me to spread the quilt next to him.
I gouged out his eyes and pondered all these things all day long. It was shameless.
My mother laid it out for my aunt and then laid out her own. Naturally, I couldn't get that close to Ji Guanxin, so I spread the quilt at a distance of one and a half people from him.
Ji Guanxin was already lying down, with a smile on his lips.
I didn't dare to look at him. He looked like a psycho. No matter if someone was there or not, whether that person was a friend or relative of mine, he would say whatever he wanted. I was scared of him.
The quilt was spread out and I was about to lie down when my mother suddenly said: "Zijin, you lie down in the middle, next to your aunt."
I was slightly startled, and I naturally understood in my heart the reason why my mother wouldn't let me sleep next to Ji Guanxin, so I moved a position inside with a calm expression.
My aunt was lying on the far right, I was in the middle, and finally it was my mother's turn to be closest to Ji Guanxin.
After everyone lay down, my mother turned her head and looked at Ji Guanxin and said, "Guanxin, Auntie, are you embarrassed to lie here?"
I pretended to arrange the pillows and raised my head to look at Ji Guanxin, but when I saw that the smile on Ji Guanxin's face was no longer natural, I stiffened my lips and replied: "It's okay, it's okay..."
I suppressed my laughter, made a face at him, and then lay down.
Directly opposite the fire pit was a window with no curtains. It was broad daylight and the outside was covered with white snow, so it was very reflective. With such bright light shining on my face, I really couldn't sleep.
There is a pillow filled with dried corn grains under my head, and under me is a bed no less hard than a patchwork of flat wooden boards. On the left is my mother, on the right is my aunt, and on the bed is Ji Guanxin. This combination... made me lie on the kang for half an hour, and I still didn't feel sleepy at all.
My aunt snores in her sleep, and it's not light. Soon my mother's breathing started to become slightly heavier. She was tired after working hard for a long time.
I tried to turn over so that my face would not face the window, but the kang under me was too hard, even with several layers of quilts.
I said a very soft "ouch", and immediately behind me came two "tsk tsk, tsk tsk" sounds, which were also not loud.
This secret signal made me feel like a flashback, and I immediately raised my body and took a look.
It's Ji Guanxin. Ji Guanxin didn't fall asleep either. He stretched himself out and looked at me, whispering: "Is your pillow hard?"
I reached out and poked my pillow, and when I poked a hole, Ji Guanxin understood instantly.
I suppressed my laughter and said to him through my mother: "Can't you get used to living here?"
Ji Guanxin said: "Even if there is a curtain, it would be good."
It’s funny when people want to laugh more but can’t. I put my hand to cover my mouth, feeling like I was going crazy.
Ji Guanxin couldn't sleep, so he simply sat up. He patted the quilt beside him and mouthed to me: "Come here."
I immediately glared at him. Ji Guanxin frowned slightly, like a child who wanted candy but couldn't get it, and acted coquettishly at me: "Come here."
An instinctive glance of my chin signaled that my mother was still there.
When Ji Guanxin saw this, he had to hold his mouth and look dejected.
I suddenly felt a little sorry for him, for a young man from a rich family to come to such a poor and remote place. It is estimated that Ji Guanxin has never slept on a pillow filled with dried corn grains in his life.
It felt uncomfortable for me to lie down, let alone him.