"Do you usually cook your own meals at home?"

"Occasionally. ”

"Then your cooking skills should be pretty good, right?"

"It's okay. ”

"I don't know how to cook, our family's family style is still relatively traditional, all of them are male and female, so if I get married in the future, cooking at home and all other housework are my wife's business. ”

“......”

Qiao Anning silently closed his mouth.

She really couldn't answer that.

"Do you usually like to buy things? I see that you are dressed quite ordinarily, and you don't wear any makeup. How much do you get a monthly salary, and is it enough for you to spend on your own?"

“......”

Qiao Anning plucked up the courage to raise his head: "I'm sorry, I don't want to answer this question." ”

"Why?" the other party was visibly stunned by her reaction, "why don't you want to answer? Since we are here to go on a blind date, it is better to spread out some questions in advance. ”

Qiao Anning put down the chopsticks in his hand and straightened up to look at the other party.

"Mr. Liu, you are right, since this is a meeting in the name of a blind date, some things should be made clear at the beginning. In fact, I'm not ready to go on a blind date yet. ”

Mr. Liu was stunned when he heard this: "You still come to go on a blind date with me if you don't plan to go on a blind date?!"

Qiao Anning was blushing by what he said, and continued to explain with irritability: "As you said, it was Director Yang who enthusiastically said that he wanted to introduce friends to me and let me know him, so I came here to meet you with the mentality of knowing friends. Perhaps, our original intention of this meeting was a little wrong from the beginning......"

Mr. Liu's face was obviously ugly: "My cousin is really the one who introduced me! I thought I could finally introduce a reliable one this time!"

Qiao Anning was speechless: "......" who is unreliable.

Seeing that this meal was almost unfinishable, Qiao Anning apologized to the other party: "I'm really sorry for delaying your precious time." That's it, I'll treat you to this meal today, even if it is to compensate Mr. Liu, it's me who delayed you. ”

"You're a man!"

Mr. Liu didn't go down the steps she handed him, but he still ate the meal correctly, and patted his ass and left after eating.

Qiao Anning waited patiently for the other party to finish eating and paying, and when she came out of the restaurant, the night breeze outside the store blew on her face, but it still couldn't take away her full of sorrow.

When I got home, the two elders didn't sleep, sitting on the sofa in the living room and watching TV half-heartedly.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Qiao's mother ran out first: "You came back so early? Have you finished eating? He didn't ask you to go to a movie or something?"

In Qiao's mother's opinion, the two people who went on a blind date went to watch a movie after eating, which meant that they wanted to have further contact with each other.

"Nope. ”

Knowing that he would not be able to escape the questioning of his parents after coming back, Qiao Anning had already done a good job of building his heart before entering the door, and took the initiative to report the incident to his parents.

"Is there such a strange thing? Or is it a relative of your leader? What kind of leader is that? Why is such a strange person embarrassed to introduce to you? Isn't this harmful?!"

Qiao's mother was angry, and sat on the sofa with an ugly face.

Qiao Anning poured a glass of water and came over: "It's not my direct leader, it's the director of another department." ”

Qiao's father turned off the TV and persuaded on the side: "Forget it, if a unit looks up and doesn't look down, just avoid him in the future." ”

Qiao Anning nodded, she was quite embarrassed anyway.

talked about this with her college friend Fang Mengmeng at night, and her friend replied to her like this: "Your leader is introducing her cousin to her nephew, not to you, you are just an option for her." ”

It's right to think about it, it's just that the first blind date in my life started and ended in this way, and there were some ironies and bad omens, which made people's mood fall to the bottom all of a sudden.

Contrary to her discouragement, after this failed blind date experience, Qiao's mother seemed to be stimulated, as if she had been beaten with chicken blood, and became more and more anxious to find a partner for Qiao Anning.

When she came home one night, Qiao's mother looked through her graduation photo, and suddenly pointed to one of her former high school classmates in the photo and said, "An Ning, come and see, did this young man like you before?" I remember that he seemed to have written you a love letter at that time, but I confiscated it. How is he now? Where does he work? Is he still in touch with you? Is he married?"

Qiao Anning was simply one head or two, and hit Qiao's mother mercilessly: "Everyone and their children can make soy sauce, can you not mess with your mind and make a mess for me." ”

"What do you mean by making trouble for you? Am I helping you? Look at the neighborhood around our house, isn't a girl of your age already married and had children? Even your cousin's cousin is three years younger than you and eight months pregnant! Is there anyone like you who still hasn't had a partner?!"

Qiao's mother has probably endured it for a long time, and this time she finally couldn't help but spit out all the words in her heart that had been hidden for a long time.

"You always tell me that you are not in a hurry, but can he not be in a hurry about this? Do you think you are still young? You are already 26 years old, and you will not be married in two or three years to 30, and you will be an old girl that no one wants! Good men have been picked by others, and you are left, and when the time comes, it will not be you who picks others, but others who pick you!"

The more Qiao's mother spoke, the more depressed she became, her emotions were high, she took two deep breaths to calm down, and then played the bitter card with Qiao Anning: "People are the age of me and your father, and they have long been grandfathers and grandmothers, and grandfathers are grandmothers, so you can't be filial to us, find someone to marry early, and let us have this important matter?!"

Her mother's words weighed heavily on Qiao Anning's heart like a boulder, making her breathless.

She suddenly had great doubts about the word marriage.

Is it really such a sin not to get married?

What exactly is marriage for?

And for what do people get married?

Qiao Anning didn't want to get married, when she was just ignorant in her youth, she also fantasized about love, and imagined what kind of person she would marry in the future.

At that time, she felt that marriage was an ideal, a beautiful expectation, and a natural stage of life.

But now, after listening to her mother's words, marriage has become more like a task in their mouths, a life task that she must complete.

Mother's original intentions may be good, but is such a marriage that is completed like a task really good for her to the person concerned?