Chapter 103: The Li Family
After playing at the two aunts' house for two days, Chen Shi and others returned home, and the Lantern Festival was the Lantern Festival in one day, and after the Lantern Festival, he followed Li Yalian home, Li Yalian's family has many relatives, at least Li Yalian's uncle and others want to see each other, after all, this is a lifelong event, if you don't go to pay New Year's greetings during the festival, it is really unreasonable.
As soon as the Lantern Festival is over, Chen Shi and Li Yalian are leaving, and their sister and younger siblings are also leaving, they are all about to sign up for school, and there are only two elderly parents left in the family, and it has become their habit to stay behind, and they only hope that the children can come back during the stay-behind period, but the young people go out, how much time is there to turn back? How many people are willing to turn back? At least Chen Shi has never thought of returning to the countryside, his idea is that his parents had better follow them to the city to settle down, but he knows that his parents are not willing to go to the big city.
The city is too noisy, too noisy, cold in winter and hot in summer, especially in summer, they are really not used to that kind of hot atmosphere, and there is a king mosquito in the city that is really scary. All kinds of discomfort add up, there is a natural isolation between the city and the countryside, and the parents are farmers, except for the pursuit of a little harvest on the land, they have few superfluous hobbies, and of course do not miss the scenery of the city.
Young people are different, they are lively, easy to accept new things, curious, and want to explore new things, and there are all kinds of things in the city that they pursue spiritually, from simple Internet cafes to dance halls, from game rooms to large shopping malls, etc., all for young people, such places are like paradise in the hearts of young people, who wants to come back?
Fifteen years later, after parting with their parents, Chen Shi and Li Yalian took the car back to Li's house, all the way was full of winding mountain roads, they bought gifts in the county, packed a small bag in their hands, it looked very clumsy, but this kind of clumsiness is a manifestation of happiness in the countryside, no one likes empty-handed guests, naturally hope that the more gifts, the better, especially the future son-in-law like Chen Shi who goes to his mother-in-law's house, naturally has to pack a small bag.
Chen Shi is too familiar with the road to Li Yalian's house, but he has walked in his past and present lives, and he is naturally familiar with it as if it is his own home, even if he closes his eyes, he can walk there, the two walked from the county seat, and after more than an hour, they saw the small earthen house of the Li family, and heard Li Yalian's dog barking from a distance, as if it already knew that they were coming.
After a while, the big yellow dog trotted over to the two with his tail wagging his tail, and then circled around them, running around flatteringly, hoping that his master would give him a reward. Chen Shi was very happy when he saw that the big yellow dog still remembered himself, and wanted to tease it, but because his hands were full of big bags and small bags, he naturally had no choice but to yell at it twice.
Chen Shi said to Li Yalian: "It has such a good memory, it's been so long, it still remembers me? β
Li Yalian said: "Who knows? Maybe it won't attack when it sees me, if I don't come, just you, you can try it and see if it attacks you?" I'm afraid it would have screamed a long time ago." β
Chen Shi smiled and didn't refute, and after taking two steps, Li Jun came, and when he saw the two of them, Li Jun shouted excitedly: "Sister, brother-in-law, are you back?"
Hearing that he was still his brother-in-law, Chen Shi was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, and hurriedly said to him: "Come and help, don't you see that we are so tired?"
The two of them walked for more than an hour on the mountain road, and there were big bags and small bags on their bodies, so they were naturally too tired to do so, but fortunately, both of them had a good physique, so they didn't fall. Li Jun took a third of the package from them, and the two of them were as relaxed as if they had come out of hell, and they were relieved that they were walking faster.
When he went to Li Yalian's house, after meeting Li's father and Li's mother in a simple and polite manner, Chen Shi regarded this place as his own home, whether it was eating or resting, he was not polite at all, and he treated Li's father and Li mother like his own parents, and he was not angry. has already been here once, Li's father and Li mother are naturally not so restrained, they call him Xiao Chen affectionately when they call Chen Shi, and ask Chen Shi's family situation while talking.
Last time, they only came to stay for one night and left, so they didn't have time to talk about the situation at home with Li's father and mother. Although Chen Shi doesn't like this situation, he must take the initiative to cooperate, and the conditions at home are completely explained. After listening to Chen Shi's explanation, Li's father and mother were very satisfied.
stayed at Li Yalian's house for a day, and after the next day, Li Yalian took Chen Shi everywhere, starting from the neighbor's house next door, more than a dozen families in the village with better relationships all went to a trip, most of these are Li Yalian's uncles and grandfathers' houses, each family has a meal, and each family has given gifts, so the things that the two of them carried back with large bags and small bags were not left to Li's father and mother, and Chen Shi was a little regretful.
Walking around these relatives' houses, it's not okay not to drink a little wine, especially a son-in-law type like Chen Shi, and it is a role of bullying, almost everyone has to toast, the old are good to talk, respect him a little, it doesn't matter if you are polite, and the age is not much different from him, it is really not good to talk, everyone toasts him like an enemy, Chen Shi really has no choice, and finally thought about it and had to pull Li Jun up, with Li Jun as a companion, no matter what, he had to talk a little better, and let Li Jun top the tank when he couldn't drinkγ
Li Jun is young, and he is a child, although he is forty or fifty, but he has not been exposed to alcohol, although no one is against drinking during the festival, but after all, he is a minor, and he still has relatively little contact with drinking, and Chen Shi does not want him to drink too much, although it is all beer, but if Li Jun is addicted to alcohol, it is his sin, therefore, he will never let Li Jun replace himself when there is no need.
However, Li Jun is a strong person, and others provoke him a little, he is sure to be fooled, and he has no scruples about drinking, just like drinking water, so in the past two days, he has been drunk several times.
Not only Li Jun was drunk, but even Chen Shi, who thought he had a good amount of alcohol, was also drunk, but it was not a simple thing to want him to get drunk, and there were many people who fell down before he got drunk, especially young people, who didn't have a bit of the city government and couldn't play tricks.
Therefore, in the past few days, Chen Shi is really afraid to go to other people's houses to eat, as soon as he eats, he will drink, and when he drinks, he will get drunk, he is already very tired of this situation, but he has to go, these are relatives, it is not easy to offend others, and you want to marry the girl here, this little test will naturally have to endure, otherwise not only others look down on him, I am afraid that even he will be embarrassed.
Sometimes he really hopes that this kind of human affection is less sophisticated, this kind of entertainment is less, of course, hope is just hope, and reality will not change with his hope.
Chen Shi complained to Li Yalian: "I'm afraid to drink, the wine I've drunk in the past few days has to catch up with what I've drunk in my life, more than I've drunk in my whole life, I didn't drink much in the past, I started it recently, you count, how many times have we drunk? Is there a pound of liquor each time?" The amount of a pound of liquor is still small, Chen Shi can see that some people with a high amount of alcohol can drink two or three catties of liquor, this kind of person is simply the god of wine, if he encounters it, he must surrender and admit defeat, it is not a shame to lose on the wine table, it is important to take care of his body.
People who can drink two or three catties of liquor must no longer care about their bodies, and they must not have thought about the life lost because of drinking.
It's really strange that drinking less is beneficial, but more is very harmful. As for drinking to relieve his sorrows, Chen Chengcheng has no sorrow, and there is no need to use alcohol to anesthetize himself, he feels very happy and happy now, and drinking is naturally to celebrate, so it is still necessary to be temperate a little, don't let go of it, and don't admit defeat.
Of course, Li Yalian knew that Chen Shi had drunk too much wine in the past few days, so she said distressedly: "There are few left, after today, you can drink it again, you have become famous recently, you don't know, my uncles and uncles all praise you for your good drinking, and say that you can be a man, there is no shelf." β
Chen Shi smiled, drinking so hard, if there was no one or two more compliments, he would really collapse, in order to successfully pass the test of the Li family, he was open, and almost drank all the wine that should be drunk in his life.
He said, "So we'll be able to leave in a few days?"
Li Yalian knew that Chen Shi had wanted to leave a long time ago, and now she had nothing to do to stay here, of course she wanted to go to the city as soon as possible to do something serious. Li Yalian herself doesn't want to stay here and have nothing to do, she really wants to find a job, go to work safely, and naturally want to leave.
She said, "It's going to be soon, but I still have to discuss it with my parents." β
This is common sense, Chen Shi nodded, the two of them quickened their pace, and walked to the nearby neighbor's house, this is the last few, although Chen Shi is very tired of the dinner now, but for Li Yalian, he will not lose his temper, he still happily goes to eat and drink, and then takes Li Yalian to the city, after which he thinks that unless it is the day of the wedding, he can't eat and drink like this, let alone get drunk.
Almost all of Li Yalian's relatives and friends have been wiped out by Chen Shi, so if he continues to stay here, he will not be annoyed by himself, and others will definitely dislike it, of course, people's sons-in-law naturally have to be a little more interesting, come when they should come, leave when they should go, and don't stay here with a dead face. If the son-in-law of any family really regards his mother-in-law's house as his own home, then he will definitely get some valuable experience in life, Chen Shi doesn't want to get any so-called life experience, so after this dinner, he and Li Yalian left.