Chapter 36: So Be It!
"Future husband?"
The four people standing at the door, including Grandma Lin, were all a little dazed by Old Man Lin's inexplicable words!
"Grandpa, what do you say?"
Xuanxuan reacted first, looked at Lin Zehui who came out of the back room, and shouted in a coquettish voice!
Lin Zehui patted his granddaughter's little head dotingly, but didn't say anything, but looked at Yan Wen and Chu Yating, and said with a chuckle: "Come on, hurry up and enter the house, why are you standing at the door? Old man, I'm waiting for this dinner, I'm about to have low blood sugar! Yan Wen put down the things, what are you still carrying, hurry up and go into the house with Xiaoting!"
After speaking, Old Man Lin took his little granddaughter's hand and took the lead in walking towards the back room!
"This dead old man!"
Grandma Lin looked at the old man's back, scolded softly, and then turned her head again, and said to Yan Wen and Chu Yating with a smile!
"Then let's go into the house first, grandma has made dumplings for you! I don't know what Yan Wen likes to eat, I made a few dishes he likes to eat according to the habits of Xi Yan! Child, you are from the Northeast, right? I don't know the old lady and my craftsmanship, you can't eat it!"
"It's sure to be delicious! Hehe, as long as it's my dad's favorite food, I love it!"
Yan Wen put down the things in his hand with a smile, raised his head and said!
"That's okay!" The old man took Yan Wen's arm with one hand and Chu Yating's soft hair with the other, and walked to the back room, "Grandma is still afraid that you won't be used to eating southern food!"
Yan Wen and Chu Yating glanced at each other, smiled lightly, and let the old man pull him to the house!
The two-bedroom apartment where Mr. Lin and Grandma Lin live has two living rooms, one inside and one outside!
Entering the living room, Yan Wen carefully looked back and forth!
Mr. Lin's living room, the decoration is simple and simple, unlike other literati and scholars, the wall is full of so-called "celebrity calligraphy and paintings", vassal elegance, but only a simple brush ------ look at the payment or Mr. Lin handwritten!
"Half an acre of square pond is opened, and the sky and clouds and shadows wander together. Ask the canal to be as clear as promised, for there is a source of living water!"
After Grandma Lin brought Yan Wen and Chu Yating to the living room, she turned around and went out to the kitchen to get dishes, chopsticks and cutlery!
I was afraid that my wife and granddaughter would steal food, but Grandma Lin didn't even bring a chopstick to the table!
Yan Wen and Chu Yating respectively pulled out two stools and sat opposite Old Man Lin next to each other! Directly above the old man's head was the framed middle hall!
"How?"
Seeing Yan Wen softly chanting this little poem in the middle hall, Old Man Lin stretched out his hand and pointed to his head, and asked with a smile!
"The pen is a rule, but the strength is a little insufficient! And with this poem, it seems a little inappropriate!"
Yan Wen narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the words carefully, and did not politely praise the old gentleman, but criticized it euphemistically!
Chu Yating listened to Yan Wen's words, gently touched Yan Wen's arm with her elbow, slanted her phoenix eyes, and glared at him without a trace!
But Old Man Lin didn't get angry because of Yan Wen's direct words, but clapped his hands and laughed!
"Hahahaha, good boy! It's really polite to speak, it's really your Yan family's seed!"
"Hehehe, speak straight, don't have a brain, old man, don't be angry!"
Yan Wen looked at the old man, snorted, scratched his head and said!
"What are you angry about? Good is good, bad is bad! Don't I know what it's like?"
Old Man Lin glanced back at Zhongtang, waved his hand and smiled!
"Besides, you are much more tactful than your father! When he saw this character, he directly gave a comment of 'vain and weak, weak pen', but he didn't save me any face for the old man!"
"My father also saw this painting you wrote back then?"
After listening to the old man's words, Yan Wen pointed to the Fuzhong Hall in surprise and asked!
"That time your father came to my house for the first time, and not long after I hung it, he saw it!"
The old man raised his hand and poured himself a cup of hot tea, and then handed the teapot to his granddaughter Xuanxuan beside him, and asked Xuanxuan to pour Yan Wen and Chu Yating a cup as well, and then continued:
"Actually, this pair of characters is the first time I just started to learn calligraphy, the first time I wrote such a pair of Zhongtang for myself, of course, it is all fault! As for the problem of the poem you said, that is, I saw such a small poem memorized by my eldest grandson back then, and I wrote it down casually!"
"At that time, this old man had just begun to learn to write calligraphy, and he had to hang this one on the wall, and he would show off to anyone who came to the house! When others saw that the old man was old, they all held him and said! As far as your father is straight-eyed, what do you say, don't say anything, just facing this old man's temper! Do you say that he is a cheap skin? He is not happy when people praise him!"
Grandma Lin walked into the dining room with two large plates of dumplings, and when she heard Yan Wen and Lin Zehui talking about the middle hall on the wall, she couldn't help but introduce Yan Wen with a smile!
"What do you know? Old man, I've lived so long, do I still use them to hold it?"
Old Man Lin raised his head and glared at Grandma Lin!
"Grandma, give me this!" Chu Yating stood up, took the two large plates in the old man's hands, and after handing the plates to Yan Wen, she reached out to help the old man slowly sit next to her, "You sit down first, I'll pick up any other dishes!"
"There's no more food!" Grandma Lin gently grabbed Chu Yating's lotus root arm, but turned her head to look at Yan Wen on the other side, and smiled kindly, "It's just that the casserole is still stewed with lotus seeds and pork belly, warm it for a while, don't be in a hurry to bring it over!
Looking at the old man mentioning his father's loving and caring appearance, after so many years, he can still remember his cold body and what soup he likes to drink, Yan Wen's heart couldn't help but be slightly moved!
It seems that the relationship between these two old men of the Lin family and their father is much closer than they imagined!
"Grandpa, what do you mean by what you just said?"
Xuanxuan sat on the side with a pouting mouth for a long time, and finally couldn't help but ask!
The excitement of getting the gemstone necklace from Chu Yating, because of his grandfather's inexplicable words, disappeared without a trace, and only full of unwillingness remained!
Yan Wen and Chu Yating listened to Xuanxuan's words, and they both looked at Old Man Lin opposite suspiciously, they all wanted to know what the situation was!
Lin Zehui didn't answer his granddaughter's question directly, but rubbed Xuanxuan's little head dotingly, then looked at Yan Wen, and introduced with a chuckle: "This is my youngest son's daughter, Lin Jinxuan!"
After listening to the old man's introduction, Yan Wen nodded with a smile and greeted Xuanxuan, but the little girl gave him a very unhappy look!
"What I just said is not casual nonsense!" Lin Zehui took a shallow sip of tea, looked at Yan Wen, and continued solemnly, "As for your marriage, it was decided when your father was there!"
"My father?"
"Uncle Yan?"
Hearing the old man mention Yan Xiyan, Yan Wen and Chu Yating glanced at each other, and asked at the same time!
"Hmm!" the old man put down the teacup and nodded slightly, "Back then, your mother and Xuanxuan's mother were pregnant almost at the same time! Xiyan and Xuanxuan's father agreed that if the children of the two families were a boy and a girl, they would become in-laws! To be honest, I didn't agree with this decision at the time, but I didn't say anything when I thought that it would be a long time before the two children grew up! Unexpectedly, then your father-"
Speaking of this, the old man glanced up at Yan Wen and didn't continue, but Yan Wen understood what the old man meant!
Sixteen years ago, his father Yan Xiyan died suddenly, which was unexpected!
The agreement that was a casual joke back then turned out to be a testament! I want to rely on the old man's personality, even if he didn't agree at the beginning, but now he doesn't want to do anything against the wishes of the deceased!
Yan Wen silently narrowed a pair of tiger eyes, without saying a word! He glanced lightly at Chu Yating, who was staring at a pair of narrow and charming phoenix eyes beside him, looking at him with a burning scorch, and his heart was faintly shocked!
After a long time, Yan Wen let out a sigh of relief, as if he had made a decision, and nodded slowly and said:
"Since it's my father's will, then so be it------ I'm willing to marry Xuanxuan as my wife!"