Chapter 6 The Marriage Contract of the Wang Family's Parents
The next morning, Wang Zimo appeared at the door of the hotel on time, Lu Anqi didn't have much luggage, except for the bag of food and a backpack. The prince thought that she could handle it, so he did not go to the room to pick her up. The two people always respect each other when they get along, and there are not too many sparks of passion.
Lu Anqi was still very angry when he saw Wang Zimo, angry that he was unwilling to fight for himself. In fact, the insipid relationship between the two really made Wang Zimo unable to find the courage to resist Li Yuemei's absolute authority.
"Don't be angry, my mom is like this, give her some time. What she said also makes sense, we haven't graduated yet," Wang Zimo explained.
"I'm not angry, what's there to be angry about, what you say is reasonable" Lu Anqi was reluctant to say anything more on this topic, and her strong self-esteem drove her to save face for herself.
"Okay, let's go eat something first, the big wontons with shepherd's cabbage at the door taste very good, take you there" Food is always irresistible for young people. It's not strange to be delicious. Prince Mera landed Angel and walked towards the mouth of the alley.
"Oh, isn't this going around, it's a holiday, it's getting more and more handsome," I met Aunt Zhao, who I didn't want to see the most, at the door of the wonton shop. Aunt Zhao's gossip is well-known in the community. The community where Wang Zimo's family lives is a welfare house built when the factory was booming, and the neighbors are either colleagues or classmates, and the social circle is narrow.
"Hello Aunt Zhao, you are still so young!" Wang Zimo knew what Aunt Zhao wanted to hear, and he specially saw what he liked to hear.
"Doudou, who is this?" After seeing Lu Anqi, Aunt Zhao was no longer interested in whether she was young or not, she was very curious about the small strange girl in front of her, and she guessed eight or nine points in her heart, and she still wanted to find out.
"This is my girlfriend Angel Lu"
"Hello Aunt Zhao" Lu Anqi heard Wang Zimo introduce herself, and quickly responded.
"Yo, I'm looking for a female ticket, does your mother know?" Aunt Zhao is typical of no wind and no waves, and there are waves that can turn the sky. Without the Dinghaishen Needle, it is really difficult to control her.
"Aunt Zhao, let's talk to you in detail, my girlfriend has to catch the train, let's have something to eat and leave" Wang Zimo didn't really want to meet the gossip lady's appeal early in the morning, besides, this topic may make the parting breakfast unhappy.
"Okay, then you eat first, and we will play at our house in the sky another day, Nan Nan said a few days ago that I haven't seen Brother Doudou for a long time" Aunt Zhao's daughter Wang Tienan is as her name suggests, with a hearty personality, she was like a tomboy when she was a child, and she was Wang Zimo's iron buddy from childhood to adulthood. But now people are well-known beauty bloggers, busy with live broadcasts to make a lot of money.
"Okay Auntie, ask Uncle Wang for me" After the prince said goodbye to Aunt Zhao politely, he hurriedly found a place to settle Lu Anqi. After a while, I brought over two bowls of large wontons with shepherd's cabbage.
Different from other urban communities, the family courtyard neighbors in the factory area are all old neighbors who have been getting along for decades, from the leading cadres, down to the small shopkeepers on the street, and the tally clerks in the supermarket. Especially in places like mahjong rooms, chess and card rooms, or hairdressers. Whose child is in college, whose child is making trouble at school, whose child is not too young to find a partner. Children are the most talked about topic among neighbors after dinner, and they are also a reference for comparing with each other.
The breakfast was silent, and Wang Zimo and Lu Anqi didn't communicate much with each other. The prince thought in his heart that he would hurry through and let time settle everything. Lu Anqi was thinking about how to strengthen Wang Zimo's determination. The first time I came to City B, it was not as noisy and prosperous as City A, and it was much stronger than my hometown. Finding a husband who was born and raised here, and working hard in City B for the rest of his life can be regarded as some hope, not to mention that he loves this boy very much.
Perhaps, young people don't know exactly what true love is, and some people think that two people don't have problems getting along together, don't quarrel, and harmonious coexistence is love. Some people think that love is what is dead and alive, and some think that what is satisfactory to their parents and less pressure is love. No one can say what love is, and many years later, looking back at the road they have traveled in the past, people who choose to live will feel a little nonsense.
"Report safety when you get home, send me WeChat" The prince silently advised, after all, thousands of kilometers are far away, and he has been studying for two years in city A, except that this is Lu Anqi's first summer vacation home, the first winter vacation and Spring Festival, the classmates left early, but Lu Anqi chose to stay in city A as a temporary worker, she said that it was tiring to toss for a few days on the way home, it is better to stay in school, and be able to make money, buy some good food and drink, and do not have to toss back and forth on the road, and the winter vacation will be less than a month, and it will not solve any problems if you go back. In fact, she was worried about the cost of the journey. The first time she went to City A from her hometown to participate in a graduate interview, Lu Anqi came in a hard seat and sat for a total of 38 hours.
Coming out of the train station, Wang Zimo didn't want to go home, and wandered aimlessly on the street. Since there has been online shopping, the most things to do every day is Taobao, the original joke that in addition to the canteen food can not be bought on Taobao, everything can be bought, now the canteen food can also be bought online, all the changes are not up to anyone, everything is unpredictable.
The main reason why I don't want to go home is because I have to hear Li Yuemei's ideological education when I get home, Wang Xinghai has not retired yet, and he is on the verge of being bought out.
In July, the sun was blazing in City B, and he couldn't survive without air conditioning, Wang Zimo walked into a Starbucks near his home, ordered a Frappuccino and started surfing the Internet, and turned on his mobile phone and was surprised not to receive any information. Information overload in the information age, mobile phones bring you endless joy at the same time, but also bring you endless troubles, any work information, study information and things you don't want to know will come to you, you can't choose, I want to choose not to see, unless you really can't see.
Rare purity. While drinking coffee and surfing the Internet, there was nothing around except the sound of office white-collar workers crackling and tapping on the keyboard. Wang Zimo opened a suspenseful mystery novel, read a few pages and closed it. Suspenseful reasoning is one of his hobbies, and he once thought that he had applied for the wrong major, and whether it was more suitable for him to study forensic medicine and be able to seek justice for people with grievances. After a while, he started the group again, and after playing a game, he didn't think it was interesting and quit. If you are bored, go to the supermarket, everything is an aimless time. It stands to reason that at this moment, he should sit quietly at his desk and review carefully, review his papers, and write down his new experiences in reading various materials. Or summarize the deficiencies of the thesis design at the master's thesis opening meeting not long ago, and hurry up to write the master's thesis. The more time is pressed, the more I don't want to do anything.
It was almost noon, Li Yuemei's phone call came in and asked when she would go home for dinner, Wang Xinghai was on the day shift today, and he was not at home at this time. Blessings and disasters are not alone, and you can't hide from them. The expenses of the third grade still need a lot of support from two sponsors, and the father of the gold owner really can't afford to offend. People can't die to save face and suffer sin, everything has to be built on the basis of living, right?
Li Yuemei simply fried two dishes and beckoned her son to eat.
"I saw Sister Zhao when I bought vegetables in the morning" As soon as Li Yuemei spoke, Wang Zimo had a premonition that nothing good happened, this Aunt Zhao, who likes Zhang's family and Li Jia's short, has a three-inch incorruptible tongue, and she speaks like a lotus, and it is a waste not to be a corporate spokesperson. Anything that is dead can be said to be alive.
"Well, I also saw Aunt Zhao in the morning"
"Aunt Zhao asked me where your girlfriend is"
"Let's put it bluntly, there's nothing unpleasant" Wang Zimo knew what Li Yuemei meant.
"What do I say, say it's your classmate, the home is there, that and that, and I can't find it on the map" Li Yuemei was angry, and she didn't bother to go around the corner.
"What's the matter, didn't my dad also come out of the countryside?" Wang Xinghai followed the children of factory miners and young intellectuals to the countryside and returned to the city to recruit and go to City B to work together. At that time, the policy was that the outstanding young people of the educated youth point could return to the city with the returning educated youth, and then enter the factory to arrange work, without discrimination, as a care for the educated youth point. Wang Xinghai came to City B in 1978, and many colleagues affectionately called him a fellow countryman. Of course, there is another meaning here, you are different from us, we are all children of the factory, you are here to beat us. Fortunately, Wang Xinghai actively worked hard, liked to study the business, and quickly emerged in the factory in a few years, and was also a skilled craftsman in the 21 subordinate branches.
"The times are different, can it be the same? It wasn't that kind of environment at that time, so I wouldn't be looking for your dad."
Don't look at the current Wang family's calm surface, Li Yuemei was arrogant when she was young, but because of the poor family composition, it was not smooth when she recruited workers to return to the city, and she stayed in the educated youth point for a few years longer than other female educated youths, and her personal marriage was delayed when she came and went. Later, he returned to the post of Prince Mo's grandfather at the top of the city and became a nurse in the factory infirmary. Li Yuemei is the youngest of the three sisters, her marriage naturally worries her parents, the work is solved, and marriage is bound to be put on the agenda. Wang Zimo's grandfather's colleagues were also very enthusiastic, and they introduced several in a row, but they were not suitable, and finally Wang Xinghai in the same year was quite suitable, "That's it, you can't pick any more, and you can only find a second marriage with children" Wang Zimo's grandfather gave an ultimatum. Wandering all the year round, just returned to the city, everything seems new and interesting, and it is different from when I left. Li Yuemei, who is nearly 30 years old, was a proper older young man in the 80s, and her neighbors often discussed whether there was something wrong with her. Li Yuemei's two sisters also kept urging her to meet Wang Xinghai. can't stand other people's discussions and family nagging, and after seeing it a few times, I feel that Wang Xinghai is honest and responsible, and the only thing that is dissatisfied is that he is a foreigner. The sisters persuaded the in-laws to be in the field, and no one came back to bother you, so you were happy.
After thinking about it, Li Yuemei decided to accept Wang Xinghai, so be it, it's almost the same as anyone else. It's not an arranged marriage, but the union of the two is mostly because they are old and have no room to choose, so they make do with a partner.
However, Wang's parents are very similar, both of them are serious and studious, and they have always been tirelessly studying business, and learning under the lamp is a common thing.
After Li Yuemei entered the infirmary of the factory, she carried an iron rice bowl, but she did not feel that she had entered the safe, and always maintained the vigilance that she would be beaten if she was backward. Li Yuemei was diligent and studious, lived to learn all the time, got a psychological counselor's license at the age of 45, and changed departments a few years before retirement, and changed to a psychological counseling clinic.
The parents of the Wang family are not top-notch among the parents of the post-60s, but they are also typical examples of knowledge changing fate. Wang Zimo has been instilled with the concept of reading since he was a child, and no matter how naughty he is, his homework is always done neatly, and he strives to be the top in the exam, which lives up to the ardent expectations of the Wang family's parents.
"What's the difference, my dad is not very good" In Wang Zimo's opinion, Wang Xinghai doesn't talk much, and he is not humorous, he is always very serious, and he can't do the topics when he is a child, he can not sleep all night until the research is out, and then teach Wang Zimo the next day.
"I was 30 years old when I met your father, and other people's children around me could make soy sauce, and they stood as high as the counter, and you bastard didn't know where it was."
"It's been almost 30 years since my dad came from T County, what's the difference with this city?"
"As soon as your father speaks, everyone knows that this is the difference" Li Yuemei's family is a native, not a wealthy family, but she never cried during natural disasters in the sixties, and the superiority of the locals was more and more vividly displayed under the backdrop of Wang Xinghai.
"What's the accent, now everyone speaks Mandarin" The prince was silent, in his opinion, when everyone speaks English, it is called a foreign atmosphere.
"The opening is always babbling and babbling"
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"It turns out that when I gave birth to you, your grandmother never took you with her, and your grandparents took care of you"
"So, when I grow up, I will only be filial to my grandparents and grandparents" Wang Zimo's grandmother didn't want to take care of her, there were still a few children and grandchildren to take care of in T County, and the old lady in City B was uncomfortable, plus Li Yuemei's face was not good-looking, she loved to be clean, and she always felt that the old lady made the house dirty, and the old lady was cramped.
"Do you want me and your father to serve your family of three in the future?
"How can that be, we all have hands and feet"
"It's useless to have hands and feet until you have children. Look at your brother Xiaohua, I found a high school classmate of his, the two of them know each other, when they got married, the woman's family was accompanied by the car and the decoration, your aunt bought a house, and the woman's family paid half of the money for the banquet, and it didn't cost anything before and after."
"Isn't that crazy or something, or it's the dark of love, hahaha" Brother Xiaohua graduated from a technical school, and the children of the post-70s technical secondary school and technical school can participate in the work as soon as possible, and most of the children in the factory will take care of it, and the graduation package is assigned to the factory, which is a veritable successor.
"Look at what you said, the girl's house has several sets, there are private houses in the urban village, and she is a lone girl, your brother Xiaohua is blessed" Li Yuemei's expression could be seen to be envious and undisguised.
"These are all things that are hard to find, and they are not something that I can find if I want to, I must be able to find them."
"Don't you look down on what I introduced to you? Which girl doesn't have a set of two houses at home, at least her parents are retired from a regular factory, and they are guaranteed!" Li Yuemei really has little heart for this matter, she doesn't hate the poor and loves the rich, she just hopes that her son will live a better life and be less burdened. For mothers, there is nothing wrong with it.
"This kind of thing has to be fate, according to what you say, there is a rich man in England who has left his millions of euros of fortune to his cat, and everyone has to line up to marry their cat?"
"If you are disobedient, you will suffer in the future, don't come back and cry, if you really find that rich cat, I think it is better than Lu Anqi" Li Yuemei felt that the child was unteachable and stubborn.
"Let's eat, Aunt Zhao is really, I can't hold anything in my mouth"
"Aunt Zhao also cares about you, Aunt Zhao is not worth it for you"
"I'm not a rich second generation"
"You are not a rich second generation, and you are much better off than many people"
"I just want to live some peaceful life, and I think it's good for you to be like this with my dad."
"I know myself, I'm too lazy to care about you, let's graduate first, it's too early to talk about it now" Li Yuemei thought, there is still a year to go, the boy's heart is mature late, maybe he will be unemployed after graduation, and he will say goodbye if he is unemployed.
After saying this, the dining room was silent for a while, and after eating, Li Yuemei entered the daily life mode, and went downstairs to play mahjong in the chess and card room.
Wang Zimo entered his room, and no one in the house felt that the world was quiet. I didn't read much for two days when I came back, and the books were rusty, so I touched the slightly dusty cover, took out a pen, and began to read quietly.
Wang Zimo is a more self-disciplined person, as long as there is something to do, he can do what to do when and when. The bits and pieces of my parents' past life come to mind. From childhood to adulthood, I was the most beaten in the family, at the beginning it was my mother who beat me, but I couldn't beat it, so I changed my father to beat it, and my father said "Be good, tell you to be disobedient" while beating. While shouting obediently, while disobedient, the deeper the inconsistency, the worse the beating. Mixed doubles tournaments are often staged at home. Only at this time is the parents are unusually harmonious.
Li Yuemei has no other hobbies, she likes to play mahjong, she doesn't like square dancing, she feels nuisance and vulgar, she feels that once she dances in the square, she will officially become an old lady. Last time, a child from Wang Xinghai's relatives came to play at home, and inadvertently said a word in our hometown, an old lady like you. Li Yuemei is not lightly angry. Everyone has a love for beauty, and the mentality of yearning for youth will not change because of age.