Chapter Seventy-Seven: My Wife

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To paraphrase a phrase from one of my favorite British dramas "Miranda", nothingchanges, everythingchanges. For the next few days, he and I wandered around the school like two ghosts walking at night, leaving our footprints in the library, basketball court, and gymnasium.

As summer drew nearer and the night warmer, he and I held hands and walked on the embankment of the art academy next door. I lay down, took out the two cans of beer that Babao had delivered to me from the canvas bag that I had placed on the grass, and pulled the tabs open, and the foam was on my face.

The guy next to me, gloatingly laughed for a few seconds before he pulled out a small men's handkerchief from his pocket and gently wiped the beer stains off my face.

"When did you buy a handkerchief?" I handed him a jar of wine, took his handkerchief away, and took it in my hand to examine it carefully, it was a common men's handkerchief in Japanese dramas, dark blue, pure cotton texture, with a few horizontal bars in the corners.

"After being with you. He answered me honestly, which made me a little embarrassed. I sat up, opened my can of beer, and we drank it quietly in the breeze and moon, and it was very beautiful.

If we are the heroes and heroines of idol dramas, it will definitely make the audience very boring, who makes the two of us firmly fenced, we can't insert a gentle and considerate spare tire male second, and we can't get into a beautiful and lovely female second female. On the contrary, it was the hearts of the two of us that added sets of shackles and obstacles to ourselves, and the two of them were cautious step by step, closing their eyes and touching the darkness to finish the road. When we take off the black cloth that covers our eyes, the road is nothing more than a smooth road overgrown with flowers and weeds.

Don't say that there are many obstacles in the green mountains, the wind is also clear, the water is also clean, and the white clouds can also convey affection over the mountain peaks. I only wish that I would be like the stars and the moon, and the night and night would be bright and clean.

In the final days of the graduation ceremony, several major events took place. First, my father returned with my mother as he wished, and the two of them dragged their luggage to Huangshan, where they had been going for a long time, and only told me to go to dinner together the next night before returning to Shanghai. So, before they went home for acceptance, I got off work and hurriedly pulled Comrade Cheng Xiao to be a strong man, and cleaned the house up and down three times overnight, and even the black dog's nest was washed and dried by us and sprayed with the newly bought mite removal spray.

Who made my mother a housewife who was gentle and started a temper storm, my father and I were jealous in this regard, and we didn't dare to make Lafayette angry.

The next day, I came back from work and took the key to open the door, and entered the house nervously, this time the black dog did not squat as usual, I took off my shoes and walked into the door with doubts, and looked into the living room, only to find that my parents were sitting on the sofa watching TV, and the black dog, nestled in my mother's arms, made a purring sound like the air conditioner that started. I was speechless.

I approached them and threw my backpack on the sofa, and my mother found me back and immediately stood up with the cat in her arms: "Come back, xxx (my dad's name), hurry up and pack up and eat." She is darker than before she left, and her hair is a little more gray, and as a middle-aged woman, she has wrinkles and markings under her eyes, but her whole face still looks full of collagen, and she is a woman with charm. She could have been happier and better, but she chose to come back and return to her bland and boring married life. I thought I'd cry, but I didn't, I just put my backpack back on and said yes.

Suffering does not make people stronger, overcoming suffering makes people stronger. We are a family of three, walking on the path leading to the hotel, a full moon hanging in the starry sky, bright and bright. I walked in the middle, silently hooked their arms, the three of them walked side by side, if passers-by saw it, they might think that we were a happy family of three.

"Today we are in the store~, what are you going to eat?(Will you remember tomorrow, the diary you wrote yesterday)" Dad was in a good mood, and sang what he was thinking at the moment to the melody of "You at the Same Table".

"Just eat a black dog's cat feces to pad your belly (tomorrow do you still think about you, you used to cry the most). My mother replied in an incomplete tone, which made me think deeply, it turned out that I didn't join the choir, it was all thanks to my mother's blessing.

"Ahh "I looked around, for fear of meeting an acquaintance on the road.

"I don't agree with my poor singing, but when I met for the first time, I sang to your mommy, and this won my heart. Dad retorted proudly, and I laughed disapprovingly, thinking of his current voice. Halfway through this laugh, I slowly lowered the corners of my mouth with a serious expression.

No matter what life has changed for them, no matter what mistakes have been made later, the beginning of love is all sweet and warm. After half a year of joys and sorrows, reunion and parting, I finally understood some ineffable truths. The only constant in the world is change, whether to go to the calm sea, or to the undercurrent of the island and reef, it all depends on the person at the helm and which side of the sea he wants to sail to.

The second major event that changed our future was that He Xiaopan resolutely broke the tripartite contract, paid liquidated damages, and found a new job as a teacher in a training institution. According to her, she will also be willful this time, do what she really wants to do, teach and educate people, and be full of peach and plums. I am confident in this, indeed, the simple office life is not suitable for such a lively and cheerful personality as soy sauce, and I hope she has a better future.

In the past two weeks, Soy Sauce arranged for the four of us to have a double date, and she wore a cute little Lolita dress and took us to a strawberry plantation somewhere in the suburbs to step on strawberries. After she parted from the stupid big one, she hugged me and squeaked until she got on a different subway from me.

In this way, we ushered in our graduation ceremony. Since the graduation ceremony was held in early June, many students who had signed labor contracts in other cities took their graduation certificates early and no longer went back to school to participate in simple ceremonies, such as hot sauce. Wei Lin is right, you never know if the person opposite you will be the last person you will meet.

In this kind of activity, as usual, the principal finishes the secretary's speech, and the secretary finishes the student representatives' speeches, and when they all finish speaking, the whole ceremony will be halfway through. When the principal announced that the outstanding student representatives would come to the stage to receive the award, I vaguely remembered that I had promised Wei Lin to take pictures of him, and I thought that something was wrong, so I threw this task to Ah Huan, who was sitting next to me, and asked her to take a photo and send it to Wei Lin, and there was nothing wrong with it.

The last ceremony was when we went up to the stage one by one to receive a printed paper of the graduation certificate, which was regarded as a formality, and I took Ah Huan's hand and walked slowly to the stage. In front of us, there was a row of principals, deans, secretaries, and excellent counselors, handing us certificates, shaking hands, and even hugging us. I was wearing a bachelor's gown, holding the certificate in both hands, looking up at the grandstand on the second floor, with mixed feelings in my heart, from the time I walked up to the stage and then walked off the stage, it was only ten seconds, but in the blink of an eye, four years slipped through my fingers and disappeared.

At the end of the ceremony, the students of the college dispersed, and I said goodbye to Ah Huan with tears, reluctantly. When I walked out of the auditorium, I was already alone, and when I stopped to wait and look around, Cheng Xiao walked towards me with a bunch of pink and purple stars, and I covered the corners of my mouth with my hands to prevent myself from screaming.

In the bouquet, the starry sky has always been the status of a supporting role, and its words are just a distressing sentence, forget-me-not, as if doomed to be stuffed in the corner. It is not like a rose, it has a warm and flamboyant life, it is just a small flower bone, an insignificant, a handful like a cauliflower in the kitchen, not amazing, but Cheng Xiao, holding a bouquet of forget-me-not, walked towards me, this gift crashed straight into my heart.

"Happy graduation," he handed me the bouquet, took one of my hands, and confessed to me again with deep affection: "You once said that there are thousands of parallel universes in the universe, and there are thousands of me and thousands of you. In terms of probability, there is always a me who has never met a you, there is always a me who has not realized that I fell in love with you, and there is always a me who has missed a you. When I think that there is always a Cheng Xiao, who is alone in this city, eating alone, reading books alone, running alone, feeding cats alone, and watching movies alone, I am sad to leave tears. Fortunately, now I can hold your hand and dare to stand up with you, I am the one who envies me the most. Always, be my girlfriend, okay. ”

He spoke eloquently, in a declarative tone, not in a questioning sentence. I held the flowers, in a hurry, until Cheng Xiao's back, one left and one right, stood two humming two generals, I laughed awkwardly.

"What?" Cheng Xiao saw my eyes wandering, turned around, the one on the left he had seen, it was my father, as for the one on the right, I naturally don't need to say more, it was my mother.

"I forgot to tell you, my parents heard that last time Babao's mother came to visit the school, they insisted that I applied for two seats in the grandstand on the second floor to come and watch my graduation ceremony, what you just said, hahahaha......"

The four of us stood in place, like an absurd caricature, with exaggerated expressions, different expressions, and each with his own thoughts.

The wind and clouds around us are changing, people come and go, but we are standing still.

……

After 360 days.

He Xiaopan and I chose May 18th, the day of fortune, and went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register our marriage together, of course, not only the two of us, but also Zhao Qingyang and Cheng Xiao. Xiao Pan and I fulfilled the promise we made in our senior year and got a marriage certificate together.

In the past year, the two of us have stumbled to where we are today, and it is not easy. Xiaopan and Qingyang were divided and combined several times because their in-laws refused to pay to buy a house. In the end, Sun Xinchen, a genius of logic, made a suggestion, suggesting that the in-laws' family should live together and make a house for the younger couple to live in, which is just right. Qingyang heard that he felt that the world was ridiculous, so he no longer procrastinated, and persuaded his mother-in-law earnestly that he borrowed money from the family and made a down payment, and the matter came to an end.

And between me and Cheng Xiao, some changes have also taken place. After graduating, I put my energy into my original love for clay figures, started video homework together, and published a column "Who Knows Dream Chinese Food" for pinching food figures, which has average clicks and is passable. But this incident gave us inspiration, we decided not to get married, set up a studio, and then go directly to the industry and commerce to register a limited liability company, online tutorials as the main offline teaching as the auxiliary main business. The registered capital investment of 100,000 is regarded as the paid-in capital of our 'contract marriage', and the common property of the two people will be counted as the company's equity in the future. Cheng Xiao's assumptions went deep into my heart, and I felt that it was no different from marriage, and it was fair and just, especially in line with our two logical and rigorous personalities, so it was decided.

Who knew that the time was in May, Cheng Xiao and I were walking in the park, the sun was shining and the sky was cloudless, he held my hand and sighed: "The weather is so good, why don't we get married." ”

"Okay. I didn't even think about it, and replied directly.

Although I am a woman, I will never be untrustworthy.

We lined up early in the morning, but the days were too good and the queue was too long, and we didn't finish all the processes until the afternoon, and the couple was still queuing inside. I held my own small notebook, and I stretched out my right hand to him: "Hello, I am your wife." ”

He was stunned for only a second, and then hugged me into his arms, his body exuded a good smell of cologne, it was the gift I gave him on his birthday this year, the clear and sweet woody fragrance, he lowered his head, kissed me on the forehead, and whispered: "Hello, I am your husband, please take care of me for the rest of my life." ”

"Hmm......" I fell into his arms, breathless, "my wife sounds too numb, so I'd better change my name." ”

"Then my wife, how about being a companion?" he looked down at me and asked, I nodded decisively, no longer blushing and heartbeat like I was in my senior year, "Since we are husband and wife, we must be honest with each other." I've always wanted to ask you a question...... That day, in the grassland camp, when we ate mutton, what was that joke you told Soy Sauce about brakes?"

Ahem, ahem. I choked and blushed for the first time in a long time, "I'll tell you when I go to bed at night." ”

He looked at me suspiciously, suddenly realized, and laughed: "By the way, today is the first day again, let's start again." ”

I took his hand and interlocked my fingers. Hello, I am your wife, please take care of me for the rest of my life.

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