For this Spring Festival, Li Shaohui was extremely disappointed, he and his relatives and friends got together a few times and couldn't get rid of it, but this way he couldn't escape the doom again and again. For example, when my aunt visits, I have to interrogate Li Shaohui's lifelong events, ask Li Shaohui if he has a partner, and can he show everyone the photos.

Li Shaohui smiled helplessly, he didn't know how to answer, there were many photos on his mobile phone, but most of them were mixed up in heaven on earth, in addition, it was all kinds of photos that he and Xiao Bei promised the three of them to have fun in the room, which had to be seen by them, and he had become a complete playboy?

Li Shaohui's weak response made the elders more and more anxious, some of them wanted to introduce the object, some suggested incense and worship the Buddha, and even asked for the eight characters of the birthday, saying that they were looking for someone to count a hexagram...

Li Shaohui couldn't cry or laugh, he couldn't stand the interrogation of his neighbors and relatives, so he simply pretended to be sick and hid in the room, and at the same time he was also thinking: "When the Spring Festival has become a kind of torment, when I was a child, I began to look forward to it in the first few months." ”

In the evening, Li Shaohui's torment did not lessen, but became more and more serious.

At dinnertime, the uncle and the seventh uncle went to Li Shaohui's house to visit the house, and after three rounds of drinking, the uncle regretted Li Shaohui's cousin's insistence on letting Li Shaohui's cousin go to school because he was over 30 years old.

Because I missed the best moment of my life by studying, like a child of the same age as Li Shaohui's cousin went out to work after finishing junior high school, those who have the ability and are active can bring a daughter-in-law back for free, and those who have no ability, with the help of their parents, can get married early without much money.

When Li Shaohui's generation came out of college, he found that there were college students everywhere in the society, and the college diploma was not worth a few dollars, and at this time, people were also much more realistic, and marriage only valued material conditions such as houses and cars, and not many people would consider character potential stocks or something.

At this time, the real estate industry is booming, housing prices are soaring, and the cost of marriage is also rising, almost sky-high. frightened many people didn't dare to mention the word marriage anymore, and could only watch with envy the children of their peers playing soy sauce all over the world.

"In my opinion, let Chengzi plug the door upside down, it won't cost a lot of money. Uncle Seven took a puff of cigarette and said slowly.

", I'm just a son, and I'm going to plug the door upside down, where do you put my face?" the uncle glared at the seventh uncle and said angrily.

Chengzi is the son of his uncle and Li Shaohui's elder brother, and he will be 37 after the New Year. He was excellent in character and learning since childhood, and was the first college student in the village.

In the year when he was admitted to the university, the whole village came to celebrate the uncle, and the uncle was also happy, he praised everyone and straightened his back when he walked.

But later, Chengzi studied for a doctorate and came out to work in his thirties. He is a bit similar to Yu Qiangzhai, he is a workaholic, and he is devoted to his work, but his temperament is relatively upright, and he is not favored in the workplace, so he is still not ideal after a few years of development, but he is very stubborn, and he will never get married before he achieves a career, but this can be a bad uncle, and the people in the village have also begun to gossip, saying that reading and reading bad brains and so on.

"The world has changed, it is not necessarily bad to be a son-in-law, like the little black egg in our village, who has been stupid since he was a child, no one is optimistic, but after people are upside down in the next village, they have children, build a house and buy a car, and everything is not delayed. Uncle Seven also tried to persuade the uncle again.

The uncle put the wine glass on the table heavily, and scolded in his throat: "You are small in the family, and everyone has been used to you since childhood, but look at you like this, you can say this."

Don't you know that the son-in-law who came to the door has a bright appearance, but he is called and drunk behind his back, and he has no dignity? Let's just say that the little black egg, for a period of time last year, at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, he still had to give his father-in-law to farm outside!"

Li Shaohui's father was the only one of the brothers who worked in a government agency, and he duly stopped the two brothers' quarrel and changed the subject.

But Li Shaohui sighed, he didn't expect this kind of refreshing three views to happen in front of him. He thought of his cousin Chengzi again, and although he hadn't seen each other for a few years, he could still understand his cousin's situation. In ancient times, scholars and celebrities who were unrewarded for their ambitions and unsatisfactory careers due to their upright temperament and unwillingness to join the stream abounded, let alone now.

Li Shaohui thought of the current social situation, students have studied for nearly 20 years, learned to be kind, learned to be upright, and learned to be knowledgeable... But when they come into society, they will find that what they have learned before will not bring them benefits, but may become a stumbling block. Therefore, smart people will let go of their principles and re-learn intrigue and indifference, and when they learn it, they will be like a fish in water, and those who can't learn or don't want to learn will be considered high or poor.

Li Shaohui's college roommate Yuan Gang originally planned to open a figure store, his creativity, operation model, products and services were very good, but he was stuck in a series of procedures for opening a store, and was stuck many times, Yuan Gang was discouraged and finally gave up the project. He didn't expect that in their small county, the rules of officialdom and social relations could be so dark, and it was difficult to do things without money.

Li Shaohui survived Chinese New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival at home, and finally returned to the local city on the eighth day of the new year, and planned to return to Shanghai by car the next day.

When he returned to the city, he was picked up by Uncle Li Shaohui, who was a straight man who always spoke straight and never beat around the bush. When he saw Li Shaohui, he asked, "Xiaohui, you are so old, don't you have a partner and are ready to start a family?"

"Well, it's working on it. ”

"I asked your cousin, and he said you didn't!" Uncle's words seemed to be the upright child in "The Emperor's New Clothes", which made Li Shaohui smile bitterly.

"Well, it's not decided yet, but it's about the same this year. ”

"This year, I think you're choking enough, I don't know you yet. After Uncle Li Shaohui finished speaking, he seemed to smile a little disdainfully, although it was that kind of kind mockery, but Li Shaohui was still very uncomfortable in his heart, he endured it without having a seizure, and returned to the room and began to pack up his belongings.

Li Shaohui's uncle didn't notice this, and was still chatting loudly, but his mother was careful and saw Li Shaohui's abnormality, so she hurriedly followed Li Shaohui into the room to persuade him.

After dinner, Li Shaohui sat in the co-pilot, Li Shaohui's cousin and his wife and sister sat in the back of the car, the three of them first discussed clothes and cosmetics, and then chatted about the parents' shortcomings, talking about the cousin who had just entered the freshman year in school and changed three objects in half a year, Li Shaohui listened to it crampedly, and did not dare to talk, for fear of asking himself, so he simply closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.

Back in the city, Li Shaohui wanted to buy some special products to bring to Shanghai, so he got out of the car alone and went shopping on the street.

When passing by the Civil Affairs Bureau, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

At this time, the Civil Affairs Bureau was very lively, like a vegetable market, with people coming and going, and it was noisy.

Some of the people in the crowd glared at each other angrily, some raised their eyebrows coldly, and of course there were those who scolded each other, and you pushed me. They rushed to the counter, eager to get a divorce, as if the divorce certificate was a 5 million yuan lottery ticket, with which they could make a fortune and run to happiness.

Time passed slowly, this lively phenomenon intensified, and in the short time that Li Shaohui observed, several more couples walked in.

In this thriving market, the omnipotent profession of "scalpers" was once again applied, and they walked through the crowd with smug eyebrows, peddling numbered tickets, which made the already lively crowd boil again.

Li Shaohui was speechless, and he suddenly remembered what Shi Lei said: "Marriage is a mistake, divorce is liberation, and remarriage is obsession." At the time, he didn't think so, but now that I think about it, it seems to make sense.

The next day, when Li Shaohui boarded the train, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, the anticipation before going home, the embarrassment and anxiety after returning home, and the ease at this time, made Li Shaohui have mixed feelings, he is a very homesick person, and he used to be unable to sleep the night before every time he left, and he was melancholy.

But now? Li Shaohui smiled bitterly, planning not to go back for the Spring Festival in the future.

And this Spring Festival, which Li Shaohui has had the most uneasy time in his life, finally made Li Shaohui understand one word for the first time - living like a year.