Chapter 16: Forced to go on a blind date
After arriving in Tanglin, Hu Youmin first went to the third grandfather's house and told him about the situation in recent years and his future plans. The third grandfather praised him very much, saying that young people should go to break through, don't be greedy for comfort, and also said that he had a few comrades-in-arms in southern Hunan, and he would take a chance to say hello to his comrades-in-arms and help him, Hu Youmin was busy writing down their contact information.
The next day, Hu Youmin went to the Changxing Electric Furnace Factory nervously, and all the way he had in his mind was the scene of seeing Tian Yumei, whether she would ignore herself angrily? Or would she throw herself into his arms and tell him how much she missed him? Will she go back to Xiangnan with her this time? How would she convince her parents?
In the past two years, there has been no change in the factory, and most of the workers are still former colleagues, who have come to greet Hu Youmin warmly, and while he is smoking, he asked Lao Tian is still in the factory? Xiao Lizi said that he is here, and he still knows how to come back to see the master? I thought you had forgotten about us, Hu Youmin expressed his humility again and again.
In the workshop, he found the master Lao Tian and handed him a pack of lotus seeds and two cigarettes that he brought from his hometown. Lao Tian didn't be polite to him, and then asked him what he had been doing in the past few years.
At this time, Liu Hongyang came in, and he was very surprised when he saw Hu Youmin. After a while, he warmly beckoned him to sit in the office and gave him a cigarette, Hu Youmin waved his hand and said that he would not smoke. Liu Hongyang asked him if the furniture factory was open and how was the business?
Hu Youmin said that the furniture factory had not yet opened, and then told him about his trip to Shenzhen-Hong Kong City. After finishing speaking, he asked why he didn't see Tian Yumei? Liu Hongyang looked at him with a complicated expression, saying that Tian Yumei had not been working in the factory for a long time, and she had returned to Tieling City the second month after he left. Hu Youmin cautiously asked her how she was doing now?
Liu Hongyang sighed and said: "She has been sullen since you left, her parents introduced her to several objects in order to pull her back from falling out of love, she didn't fancy any of them, and then she was forced by her parents to marry a tax collector in Tieling City, gave birth to a boy a few months ago, and now she is at home with children." ”
Hearing this, Hu Youmin's head buzzed, and he didn't know what Liu Hongyang was saying later. At this time, he only felt that his heart hurt very badly, a little out of breath, he stood up with difficulty, Liu Hongyang saw that his face was very bad, and hurriedly came over to help him, he pushed Liu Hongyang away, and walked out in despair.
Walking to the street, Hu Youmin held on to the trunk of the tree and cried bitterly, feeling more comfortable after crying. The urge to go to Tieling City to find Tian Yumei also cooled down, and what could he do when he met? He went directly to the train station to prepare to return to Xiangnan.
After getting off the train in Baisha, Hu Youmin went to visit his sister at Xiangnan University of Finance and Economics. Seeing him, she pounced happily: "Brother, why are you here?"
Hu Youmin stroked her head and said, "Brother came to see you on purpose, I didn't expect my sister to be so beautiful, do you have a boyfriend?" Hu Youfen hammered him and said, "Brother, you are necrotic." ”
After chatting with his sister for a while, he asked her about her situation at school, and saw that she was dressed more simply, and she looked a little shabby in this big city, so he took out 300 yuan and handed it to his sister, and asked her to buy a few sets of clothes and eat better.
Hu Youfen didn't want it, he glared at her and said that he was polite to his brother? She took the money with a little moist eyes and asked him if he wanted to go to her campus to have a look? Hu Youmin said no, he wanted to rush back to Yuyang.
Hu Youmin told his sister his phone number, saying that if there is anything to call him in time, if there is any difficulty, the eldest brother will solve it, study with peace of mind, don't worry about family affairs, don't be too frugal in life, now that he has money, he can spend it with confidence.
Looking at the back of her brother leaving, Hu Youfen had mixed feelings in her heart, she and her second brother Youjun both knew that the eldest brother gave up going to college for them. At that time, the classmates with worse grades than the eldest brother could be admitted to a good school, but the eldest brother was not admitted, and even a fool could think of what was going on.
Now the burden of the family is on the eldest brother, he is also a big boy who is not much older than himself, but he has to fight against a family, and he pretends to be an adult in front of her every time.
The eldest brother sacrificed too much for this family, Hu Youfen secretly vowed to be kind to the eldest brother in the future, he must study hard, find a better unit in the future, work hard, earn more money, reduce the burden on the family as soon as possible, and make the eldest brother no longer so tired.
When he returned home, the trees had been cut down and the house was almost dug up, and he was about to demolish the old house, when his father built a thatched hut on the side as a temporary shelter. After staying at home for a few days, seeing that he couldn't help much, Hu Youmin was going to Baisha to find a suitable place to open a furniture factory.
During this period, Luo Juan made a few phone calls, said some interesting things in the company, asked him about the situation here, and his words revealed a strong sense of longing.
Every time she had to talk about it for a long time on the phone, Hu Youmin had to helplessly remind her that the phone bill was very expensive, and she smiled and said that her sister is rich now and doesn't care.
Luo Juan herself didn't know when she fell in love with Hu Youmin, and when she saw him for the first time, she felt that he was sunny and confident, and his temperament was elegant, which made people feel excited.
He also likes to run to her office, and at first thought that Hu Youmin wanted to chase her, but after a long time, he found that he didn't mean that. This made Luo Juan a little disappointed: Sister is also a factory flower, so she is so unattractive?
The desire to conquer does not discriminate between men and women, she involuntarily approaches Hu Youmin, and as the relationship deepens, she falls hopelessly in love with him. When she knew Hu Youmin's first love, knew that he was still in love with Tian Yumei, and insisted on going back to open a furniture factory in order to be with Tian Yumei, Luo Juan was heartbroken. But Hu Youmin's dedication and responsibility to love have a greater attraction for her.
What Hu Youmin didn't expect was that his parents actually arranged a blind date for him. In the evening, his mother said to him: "Aunt Li from the village has made a matchmaker for you, she is your classmate in elementary school, and you will go to the other party's house tomorrow to see him." "Hu Youmin couldn't cry or laugh a little, what age is it, and he is still on a blind date?
Knowing that after Tian Yumei got married, Hu Youmin looked down on love a lot, he needed time to heal and forget about Tian Yumei, he didn't have the heart to fall in love now, and he didn't think about finding a partner in the township at all. He just wants to open the furniture factory as soon as possible, make more money, and make his family's life better.
He refused, and his mother said helplessly: "Don't know that you can make a lot of money outside, many people come to Hong Kong media, I take the risk of agreeing, Aunt Li, you can't wipe your face, you are so good? ”
Hu Youmin looked at his mother's expectant gaze and felt that she was a little reasonable, and he couldn't let others feel that he looked down on people with high vision, and he couldn't make his mother embarrassed, so he agreed to go on a blind date the next day.
The woman is Hu Youmin's primary school classmate, named Liu Xiaoping, who lives across the national highway, only more than two miles away from his home. Liu Xiaoping and he were classmates in elementary school and junior high school, but she dropped out of junior high school after only two years of school. I haven't met since then, I heard that she went out to work, Hu Youmin hasn't seen her for nearly ten years, and he has no impression of her, let alone what she looks like.
At nine o'clock in the morning of the next day, Hu Youmin walked to Liu Xiaoping's house with a pair of wine prepared by his parents and a few boxes of dim sum. Her parents welcomed him into the hall very warmly, brought him tea and some melon seeds, peanuts, and fruits, and beckoned him to eat. After sitting for a while, he didn't see Liu Xiaoping come out to meet him, and he was embarrassed to ask.
To his surprise, Liu Xiaoping actually slept in bed and didn't get up, this is the situation of Shenma? After a long time, Hu Youmin knew from her parents' evasive words that it was Liu Xiaoping's parents who fell in love with him, and she herself was unwilling to resist this blind date.
Liu Xiaoping is about the same age as him, he went out to work in the second year of school, he has lived in the big city for so many years, his vision has broadened, and his mind has kept up with the trend in the city, hoping to fall in love freely, longing for sweet love, and wanting to marry a rich and handsome person, so he naturally opposes such an old-fashioned blind date with no emotional foundation.
Hu Youmin was secretly happy after knowing these circumstances, but he didn't dare to show it, so he had to pretend to be helpless to sit in the courtyard and bask in the sun, her aunt was doing her ideological work hard in the room, Hu Youmin secretly prayed in his heart: You must not be moved, for your love and happiness, you must persevere to the end!
After waiting for more than half an hour, there was no result, Hu Youmin felt that he had almost waited, so he was about to say goodbye and go home, her parents were a little embarrassed and said: "A miscellaneous guy is disobedient, blame me for usually pretending to teach well, wait for Ha to do Ha She Di work, you can rest assured, you will do Tongdi, you will come to play when you have time." He hurriedly said that it didn't matter, and he just wanted to leave early.
At this time, Liu Xiaoping called him in the house, Hu Youmin looked at her parents inquiringly, and at the signal of her parents, he walked into Liu Xiaoping's room suspiciously. The walls are plastered with portraits of singers, and through the light in the window, Liu Xiaoping can be seen lying on her side on the bed. From her face, you can vaguely find the impression of childhood, she looks delicate and petite, but her expression is a little tired.
may be for her daring to rebel against her parents' arranged marriage, to be able to bravely stick to her heart, and to boldly pursue her own love, Hu Youmin admires her very much, if he is not afraid of a sense of disobedience, he really wants to give her a thumbs up and give her a thumbs up!
Seeing him come in, Liu Xiaoping sat up from the bed, brushed the hair on her forehead with her white little hand, and then turned her head to look at Hu Youmin. Want to see how perfect this smart and sensible and capable son-in-law who will make a lot of money in the eyes of her parents is forced to marry a man who forced her to marry?
When she saw Hu Youmin, her eyes lit up. Hu Youmin is wearing a famous brand, with a strong figure, resolute facial lines revealing angular handsomeness, a smooth and fair face with a soft smile, dark and deep eyes, glowing with charming color, a tall nose, beautiful lips, and a kind of confidence and elegance in the whole person.
I didn't expect Hu Youmin to be so tall and handsome, sunny and handsome, far from his thin appearance when he was a child. At this time, Liu Xiaoping regretted dying, how could he look like him now? She was a little flustered for a while, and asked him if he would go to the county seat during this time, and if he did, help her bring a guitar string back?
Hu Weimin looked at a guitar hanging on the wall, a little suspicious if it was really a broken string, he vaguely said that he was not sure, if he went to the county seat, he would buy it for her, and saw that she had nothing to say, so he ran away and left.
He felt that there would be no intersection with Liu Xiaoping, and he was not in the mood to figure out her thoughts, let alone go to the county seat to buy her strings, so he quickly forgot about it.
Unexpectedly, Aunt Li came over early the next morning, and said with a smile that Liu Xiaoping had taken a crush on him, and asked him what his family's opinion was.
Hu Youmin was about to go to Baisha because he thought it was impossible, and he didn't tell his parents when he came back. Now that Liu Xiaoping made a 180-degree turn, he had no choice but to tell him about yesterday's blind date, and his mother was also a little angry, and said to Aunt Li angrily: "Forget it, my family can't afford it!"