The next day, because it was Chinese New Year's Eve, I woke up early.

I yawned and walked to the living room, scratching my loose hair, where the old man and my dad were sticking couplets on the doorway.

"Why don't you wake me up when you post New Year's goods (couplets and the like). I walked over and said.

The old man smiled: "Your father sees that you are too tired from work, and finally went back home, so he asked you to rest for a while." ”

The old man's words made me extremely ashamed, in Moon Bay these months may be the most idle period of time for me to come out to work, because now in the off-season of tourism, the tourism industry is not busy at all, but idle, and people have become lazy.

I touched my nose with some confidence: "You two old men are not tired, what is it for me to be tired as a young man." ”

"We're going to get it done anyway... What do you want to eat at noon and night, I'll go to the vegetable market later. My dad looked at me and said.

"Whatever. I paused, and then I remembered that I had made an appointment with Su Yi tonight to go to their place for dinner, and when I thought of this, I panicked again...

"Dad, I won't be at home for dinner at night, Su Yi said to take me to meet her parents. ”

My dad took the paste and the little broom and nodded: "It should be, it should be." With that, my dad walked briskly back to the room, and I sat back on the sofa with the old man in my arms...

My dad suddenly walked out of the room with a wad of red hundred-dollar bills, then handed the money to me and said, "Here are 5,000 yuan, while there is still time, hurry up and buy a decent set of clothes... When you go to meet the woman's parents, you can't lose face. ”

I pushed my dad's hand away: "Dad, I'm rich...... Besides, I'm not going to get married, so I need to wear a formal suit? I think I'm pretty good now. I gestured to the pajamas that I hadn't had time to change into.

My dad shook off my hand again: "You are poor in front of me! You have money, what money do you have? The business of the hotel is so bleak during this time, where do you get the money, take it!"

I refused again and said, "I've also been out to work for a few years, and I've saved some money anyway, so I really don't need you to give it...... You should keep this money to buy some food for the old man and his mother. ”

"Okay, you're my son, don't I know if you have money or not? Don't think that I will give you money this time and pay you back next time... If you take this time, you'll have to rely on yourself for the rest of the future, you know?"

Now the old man also echoed my dad, he patted my thigh and said, "Take it, it's one thing for you to have money, this is your dad's little heart, don't push it around." ”

I finally accepted the 5,000 yuan that my dad gave me, and with the 5,000 yuan, an inexplicable sadness slowly came to my heart...

Pinching these thousands of dollars, my nose is sore, I want to cry a little, I really want to cry, I have been working for so many years, and I haven't given them a penny. It's them, who are always heartbroken for my big and small things, and I feel a little sorry for them, sorry for what they have expected of me over the years.

I want to tell them, believe me, I will do a good job and live up to your expectations...

But I never said anything, because I didn't want to give them a blank check, I wanted to keep these things in my heart, and one day, I would make my own little achievements and make them proud of me...

After I put the five thousand dollars away, my dad didn't know where to take out a delicate box, and I was a little curious about what was in it to make it so tall.

My dad smiled: "We don't have any good things in our family, this box of tea was given to me by the tea farmers there when I went to Yunnan on a business trip in the first half of the year... Although I know that their Su family lacks nothing, they can't go over empty-handed, it's rude... If you take this box of tea with you, it can be regarded as a little heart of our family. ”

"Hmm. ”

… …

After lunch, I went for a walk downstairs with the old man before going out. When I went out, I didn't buy a decent set of clothes as my dad wanted, because I always felt that I was what I was...

As usual, I wore a set of clothes that I thought were acceptable and went out, and before I went out, I stuffed the 5,000 yuan my dad gave me back into the cabinet in his room...

Because there were still several hours before nine o'clock in the evening, I drove around, in fact, the main reason was that my mood was a little chaotic, I really didn't know how to face Su Yi's family, especially her parents...

To put it bluntly, I just don't have the self-confidence, I don't have the courage, I always feel that I and them are people of two worlds. The gap between us is not something that can be explained in a sentence or two.

I don't know when I started to have this extreme contrast, maybe from the moment I knew that Mo Zhenzhen was married to Liu Quan, I had this extreme contrast. Then low self-esteem has always been with me, so that I have never dared to face Su Yi, and I don't even have the courage to have a meal with her family.

I leaned back against the car, lit a cigarette, and looked at the traffic on the street, the smiling faces of the people, but I felt like I was not in the same world as them. My depressed thoughts and incomprehensible inferiority complex were also particularly dazzling on the evening of Chinese New Year's Eve night......

Time passed slowly, I don't know how long I had been standing here, I just felt that my body movements were completely out of the control of my brain, and I numbly smoked the last cigarette in the cigarette case before I got into the car groggily, ready to go to the Venus Hotel to meet Suy......

But I never thought that Jiang Yiguo would call me at this time...

"Xiuwen!Xiuwen!Where are you!Where are you!" After answering the phone, Ichikuni shouted with some excitement, so frightened that I almost touched the car in front of me.

I quickly parked the car on the side of the road and said angrily, "What are you doing, chasing souls for your life?"

"Where are you, I ask?"

"I'm driving, I'll talk about something. ”

"Do you know that Yao Shan, who teaches at No. 1 Middle School?"

"yes, what's wrong? if you want me to introduce her to you, don't do it, if you like it, chase it yourself. "Before he could say why, I had already rejected him.

"I'm not talking about her, I'm talking about another person. "A country is in a hurry.

"What is it? a cat or a dog?"

"I seem to see that girl walking with Yao Shan today...... It's the one I showed you before, can you help me make an appointment with Yao Shan, I really want to meet that person. ”

Jiang Yiguo's words make it a little difficult for me to do, whether he is really a prodigal son and turns back, I don't know... Although the woman he showed me was not bad-looking, it wasn't really prettier compared to the women he had "" before...

"You speak, Zhai Xiuwen, just one word, can you help your brother. Seeing that I was silent, Jiang Yiguo continued.

I thought about it, it's not a big deal, I'll ask them out when I have time, and then I'll act according to the situation.

I replied, "Okay, but you'll have to wait a few days." ”

"Okay, not too long. ”

"Okay, that's it. ”

It was only after I ended a call with a country that I realized that I was almost late...... I immediately started the car and flew to the Venus Hotel...