"Nana's mother, look at what you said, we are all a family now, what is inconvenient. If you ask Nana, you will know, you go down to our house and have a place to live. When the time comes, we will accompany you to take a good look at the scenic spot near Lucheng. ”

At this time, Xia Xiaona remembered the topic that the two elders had just discussed in the living room, and she quietly asked Li Xin: "Is the 4-character photo written by your father in the Shanghai villa still there?"

"What are you doing?"

"You find out, I'll show my dad. ”

"Oh. Li Xin said and took out her mobile phone, found the digital photos stored in the mobile phone, and then handed the mobile phone to Xia Xiaona.

Xia Xiaona took the mobile phone and handed it to her father and said, "Dad, you see, as I told you before, these four words engraved on the door of the villa in Shanghai and on the rockery were written by Uncle Li. ”

Xia Xiaona's father took the mobile phone, carefully looked at the four powerful characters on the digital photo, and sincerely admired: "Section Chief Li, I'll just say, no wonder your insights into calligraphy works are so unique and incisive, it turns out that your own calligraphy level is so superb!"

"Where, where, this is not worth mentioning. Xia Gong, your beautiful anti-Song characters also make me breathtaking, and I can't write such beautiful words. ”

Xia Xiaona's father said modestly: "This is different, there is no comparison, the imitation Song characters I wrote are too rigid, and they are too far behind the 4 smart and free regular script characters you wrote." ”

Li Xin interjected at this time and said: "Uncle Xia, the imitation Song characters you wrote are really beautiful, and you can't write them at that level without more than ten years of hard work." When we were freshmen, we had a course in mechanical drawing, and that course required us to write imitation Song characters. But after practicing seriously for a semester, the imitation Song characters I wrote were still crooked, and I didn't get started at all. ”

Xia Xiaona's father smiled and asked, "Li Xin, have you learned calligraphy with your father?"

Li Xin scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "I have learned, but I have little effect." Being able to write well like you and my dad might be a luxury for me. ”

Li Xin's father pointed his finger at his son and said, "His mother is right, Li Xin had too many ideas when he was a child, he was a little naughty, and he couldn't sit still." Practicing calligraphy was a very difficult thing for him. ”

Xia Xiaona's mother took the mobile phone in her husband's hand and said, "I'll take a look." ”

She looked at it for a while, and then said, "That's a really good handwriting! Doctor Yu, have you ever lived in this villa that Li Xin bought in Shanghai?" ”

"No, how can I have time to live. He himself stayed two or three times on weekends. ”

"Isn't it a pity to buy it and leave it empty?"

Li Xin's mother complained: "Why don't I say that this kid has a big idea! It's a pity that such a big villa is left empty!"

"Dr. Yu, how many years do you have to retire?"

"More than 4 years and less than 5 years, Li Xin and his father are similar. ”

"When the time comes, will you go there to live?"

"Probably not, at least I won't go there to live for a long time, his father and I still like the environment of Lucheng, at most we will come to Jiangcheng to live for a while. You said that if Li Xin didn't go to Shanghai, his father and I would go to Shanghai alone to live there, right?"

"Yes. ”

Xia Xiaona's mother asked these questions seemingly casually, but in fact, she wanted to inquire whether Li Xin's parents would live with Li Xin in the future.

From the perspective of cherishing her daughter, she doesn't want her daughter to live with her mother-in-law for a long time. No matter how good the mother-in-law is, there will be a lot of conflicts between her daughter-in-law.

Of course, her greatest hope is that her daughter can live with her after marriage, but she knows that such a wish will not come true.

In such a situation, she can only hope that the young couple can live alone after her daughter's marriage. According to Li Xin's financial situation, after the young couple lived separately, in daily life, the daughter did not have pressure from the elders, nor did she have too much housework pressure.

It's the best of both worlds.

But she can only think about this question in her heart, and it is too early to talk about it.

Just when she was secretly pondering these questions in her heart, she only heard Li Xin's mother say: "Nana's mother, Li Xin is not young this year, his father and I have been worrying about him finding a girlfriend to marry in the past few years, I wish he would start a family as soon as possible, so as to end our heart." Now that he and Nana are so compatible, if you agree, will you do their business as soon as possible?"

In fact, Li Xin's mother once asked her son on the way from Lucheng to Jiangcheng: "When are you going to do the matter with Nana? Have you discussed it?"

"I didn't discuss a specific date, but two days ago I asked her to think about it and pick a better date. ”

"And what did she say?"

She hasn't answered me yet. ”

When Li Xin's father heard this, he said, "You kid just don't think about it! How can you ask her for an answer to such a thing?"

Li Xin said innocently: "Isn't this respecting her opinion, this is a matter of two people, and I must not be okay alone? Besides, haven't you visited her parents at her house? Is it not appropriate for me to clearly talk to her about this matter before this?"

Li Xin's father said: "You still don't understand what I mean, this has nothing to do with respecting her opinion, these are two different things." You have to put yourself in Nana's shoes. Nana is almost the same age as you, you are not a big boy as a child, we are all anxious about your marriage, Nana is a girl, will their family not be in a hurry? But this kind of thing must not be mentioned by the woman, and the man must take the initiative to say it. If you don't mention this all the time, what will Nana's parents think about it? What will Nana think about it? Will they think that you don't take the matter of marriage to heart at all, have you thought about it? As for the question of whether the time is ripe for you to say that you have to think about it this way: whether you take the initiative to mention this matter or not is a matter of your attitude. You put it up, and you give them your clear opinion, how Nana's parents and her think about this issue, that's their problem. Do you understand?"

Li Xin suddenly realized: "Understood!"

Li Xin's father said with some hatred: "You stupid boy, you are really a tendon! Where have all your clever people run away before? If you ask for it, it means that you care about other people, and whether you agree or not is the woman's business, so you can't worry about it! I think your conditions are not bad, why haven't you been able to get married until now? You shouldn't have just had the girlfriend you had in college over the years, right? There has been no result, is this the problem?"

"No, I don't. Li Xinyan replied insincerely, but her heart was suddenly pulled back to those past emotional experiences by her father's words. His father's words seemed to be like a bolt of lightning, and in the lightning and flint, he suddenly realized many problems that he had not thought about before.

Li Xin's father was not satisfied with his son's ambiguous answer, and then asked, "What does it mean that you don't have any girlfriends?

"I've had other girlfriends, but I've never been to the point of proposing. Li Xin replied. The rapidly changing traffic conditions on the highway and his father's questioning interrupted his musings.

Li Xin's mother said, "Your dad is right. Since you haven't taken the initiative to mention this matter to Nana and their family until now, then we came up to visit his parents this time to put these two things together, first of all, to ask her parents for their opinions on the matter of the two of you making friends, as long as they approve of the fact that you are making friends, under this premise, we will help you mention the marriage time at the right time. ”

Then, Li Xin's mother asked her husband again: "Lao Li, do you think this will work?"

"Yes, that's what you have to do. We can't delay any longer, or people will question our sincerity. ”

It is based on this consideration that Li Xin's mother lost no time in proposing to Xia Xiaona's mother that she hoped to settle the matter of Li Xin and Xia Xiaona's marriage as soon as possible when the topic was getting better.

Although Li Xin's parents only have Li Xin, an only child, the way they put themselves in the shoes of Xia Xiaona and her parents completely guessed the minds of Xia Xiaona and her parents.

As a woman, the reserved nature she should have made Xia Xiaona gradually have a kind of complaint in the face of Li Xin, a wishful husband, and this complaint stems from Li Xin's delay in giving her due promises. After this kind of complaint accumulated to a certain extent, the words that Xia Xiaona said to Li Xin by the Huangpu River appeared.

Similarly, as Xia Xiaona's parents, if their daughter is completely dissatisfied with the boyfriend they have, it will be easier to deal with it, just use a cold face to confront him, and let him retreat.

But in the face of Li Xin, a young man who made them very satisfied and most likely to become their Jackie Chan's quick son-in-law, Li Xin's delay in proposing to their daughter made them in a dilemma, and they couldn't help but say anything.

They couldn't guess what the attitude of Li Xin's family was towards this matter?

The two children are the same age, and Li Xin is no problem as a young man for another four or five years, but his daughter is different, what will it be like if he delays it for another four or five years?

After asking their daughter privately but not getting a definite answer, they wanted to ask Li Xin directly several times, but the words came to their lips, and they couldn't help it.