Chapter 22: Parents Meet

After the greetings at the time of the initial meeting, the two families were sitting in the living room at this time, and Sima Qing was sitting opposite Yu Shumin in a formal suit, but her eyes seemed to be out of focus thinking about her thoughts. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

She received a call from Li Wenzhe early this morning asking her to come to the imperial capital as soon as possible. Sima Qing didn't want to come, but Li Wenzhe said that Zhou Hao's family had seen their daughters in the imperial capital, although the woman took the initiative to come to the door a little abruptly, but how about our parents, we also have to come over to support our daughter.

Sima Qing was right to think about it, put down the phone and hurried over.

This yard is really as Guan Hong said, big enough and beautiful enough. In particular, the sunroom for sunbathing in the side yard, with a frame structure and three glass curtain walls, can be used as a Meng Meng pottery studio, Sima Qing has forgotten the purpose of his visit at this time, and constantly ponders what kind of pottery tools should be equipped with Li Meng's studio.

After Yu Shumin saw Sima Qing's performance of "God does not possess the body", she was so nervous that fine sweat broke out on her forehead, and while carefully looking at the expression of her future in-laws, she kept recalling Li Meng's waist and the performance of the morning, and kept thinking in her heart, "How should I express my position later?" If an 18-year-old girl undergoes surgery to remove the child, she will hurt her body, not to mention that she is reluctant to give up her little grandchild who has not yet been born! But if you insist that Li Meng be born, it will delay the girl's studies, how old is it...... Zhou Hao, this little bastard, I said a long time ago, let him be careful not to kill people, and the result is ......"

At this time, not only Yu Shumin, but even Zhou Hao's grandparents looked at Li Wenzhe and his wife with embarrassment and embarrassment.

In Lu Province, even if a man and a woman are in free love, if they want to confirm the official fiancé relationship, they must go through the procedure before they can be considered a husband and wife relationship that has been officially approved by the families of both parties and recognized by the people. Before that, even if both families are already familiar with their children's love partners, if they don't go through this procedure, they will only be treated as children talking about friends.

The procedure is not complicated, generally the man first entrusts a familiar or a respected elder to the woman's house, first express his attitude and then make an appointment, and the boy's maternal uncle or aunt takes the boy to the door to officially propose marriage, and then the girl has to go to the boy's house once accompanied by her female elders, which is considered to recognize the door, even if she has just returned to her home from here in the morning, she must recognize the door.

After everything was fine, I made an appointment to invite the parents of both parties to meet to discuss the marriage of the young couple.

There are exceptions, that is, the boy and the girl have been in love for a long time, and they have eaten the small pigeon that has been raised for many years, and the girl's belly is bigger, but the man has no expression, and the woman's parents are angry and come to the man's parents to ask for an explanation, which is a very embarrassing and rude mistake for the traditional Lu people, especially for the man.

Originally, there are not many people who pay attention to this custom, but Zhou Hao's family has been adhering to various ancient rites to govern the family, seeing the woman's parents come to the door, Yu Shumin and several elders' first reaction is that Zhou Hao made a human life at a young age, and now the woman's parents have come to ask for the crime. So Zhou Hao's grandparents and Yu Shumin could only carefully observe the expressions of their future in-laws, so as not to accidentally anger their future in-laws and mess up the marriage between Zhou Hao and Li Meng.

Li Wenzhe thought that he was frightened by his identity after seeing the expressions of the elders in Zhou Hao's family, so he took the initiative to greet the old man after sitting down, and he kept a humble smile. It's just that although Li Wenzhe and his wife have worked in Lu Province for more than ten years, they are not from Lu Province, and they don't know the marriage customs of Lu Province at all, let alone what it means for them to suddenly appear in front of the man's parents at this time.

As a result, the more humble Li Wenzhe and his wife were, the more nervous the Zhou family became. The more nervous the Zhou family became, the more modest Li Wenzhe became...... In the end, it was cold in the living room, and everyone was cautious, lest they not say a word and stiffen the relationship between the two families.

When Li Wenzhe saw the scene like this, he also secretly complained in his heart. On this occasion, the officialdom is not suitable for taking it out, and as a result, he can't think of how to break the deadlock for a while.

He and Sima Qing came to the door for two purposes.

One is purely from the father's point of view. The daughter who has been raised by his family for more than ten years was arched by Zhou Hao, Li Wenzhe was not particularly worried, after all, Li Meng's living in the compound was his default thing, and he also believed in his judgment of Zhou Hao - this child would not be abandoned from the beginning.

When the brother company began to expand its business to medicine, Li Wenzhe was already thinking about determining the identity of Zhou Hao's future son-in-law. It's just that his identity is not good and he took the initiative to talk to the Zhou family about this issue, so it seems that his daughter can't get married, and at that time, there was still the idea that Mengmeng was still young and could wait until graduation.

It's just that after witnessing the interaction between Zhou Hao and the Great Elder of the Red Palace yesterday, especially the secret conversation between Zhou Hao and the Führer, Li Wenzhe suddenly had a worry.

He was worried that Zhou Hao would be snatched away by other people's girls one day! Such a good boy is extremely rare now, maybe no one is tempted now, but what about the future? Li Wenzhe didn't dare to guarantee that one day he would suddenly receive a call from a certain big leader who wanted Li Meng to leave Zhou Hao.

Based on this psychology, after knowing that Zhou Hao's grandparents and mother arrived in the imperial capital, Li Wenzhe immediately wanted to arrange a meeting between the parents of both parties to determine the relationship between the two children. The premise of a love relationship is freedom, and the relationship between unmarried couples has an extra layer of social and moral protection because of the words of their parents, and the imperial capital compound is the home of two children, wouldn't it be good for the elders on both sides to meet in the children's small home!

Another purpose is that Li Wenzhe was harassed by phone calls from all over the world until the early hours of the morning last night.

In addition to the colleagues of the Lu Provincial Presbyterian Church, there are also elders from fraternal provinces, classmates from party schools, old superiors, old subordinates, and chairmen and presidents of some well-known domestic enterprises, and everyone has enough weight to call him directly. Every phone call clearly expresses a wish: Mr. Zhou is your future son-in-law, and ask Elder Li to come forward and let Mr. Zhou take a look at the illness of so-and-so, and it is best to dispense medicine!

In the future, policy support for Lu Province is not a problem, mutual cooperation between brother provinces is not a problem, investment is not a problem, in the face of life, everything is easy to say!

Li Wenzhe's heart was moved, and great happiness suddenly appeared in front of him, and his favor and political achievements were all the opportunities brought by his future son-in-law at a critical time. He was a little worried, with his own identity, he was bombarded with so many favors, and the young and vigorous Zhou Hao could not cope with this sudden tide of favors. That's why I visited Sima Qing today.

He wanted to talk to the Zhou family elders about the problems of the Zhou family medical hall in the future, and the small medical hall simply couldn't withstand the ensuing flow of patients. As a provincial elder, he had to consider more and more detailed issues.

When Zhou Hao and Li Meng just walked to the door of the living room, they happened to hear the first words that Li Wenzhe finally couldn't help but say, "When I came to see Li Meng yesterday, Old Zhou and Mrs. Zhou hadn't arrived yet. After listening to what Li Meng said yesterday, my wife and I happened to be fine, so we came to visit, and our parents happened to talk about the children in person. My family is quite satisfied with Zhou Hao's child, I don't know what you think of my daughter here? ”

After Zhou Hao listened to Li Wenzhe's subtle and rigorous voice, he suddenly thought of that night in Xijing inexplicably, and couldn't help but feel a little weak, he didn't know what his father-in-law said, so he gently took Li Meng's hand, and the two hid at the door and listened to the movement inside.

Yu Shumin is also a lady from the scholarly family, although it is the first time in her life to experience this kind of scene, but since the woman opened her mouth, she desperately praised Li Meng, all kinds of satisfaction, all kinds of likes, all kinds of praise, and in the end, she simply said four words and one sentence, such as gentle and elegant, solemn words, and a series of ancient sayings such as supporting the waiter spit out from her mouth.

Grandpa Zhou nodded frequently at the beginning to indicate that his daughter-in-law was right, and when Yu Shumin finally recited the idiom, Old Man Zhou seemed to change his face, his face quickly changed from stunned to sluggish to embarrassed, and finally simply lowered his head, holding a teacup and blowing the non-existent tea stalks.

Li Wenzhe listened very happily at first, Zhou Hao's mother likes Li Meng, so that the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will not be tense in the future. It's just that in the end, he found that he couldn't understand what Yu Shumin was expressing, turned his head to look at Sima Qing, and found that she was sitting on a chair, looking at the future mother opposite with a high mountain expression.

"Sima, what did Zhou Hao's mother say?"

"It's all ancient texts, I don't understand it, but it seems to be all praised. No wonder Zhou Hao's child has such a good temperament, family history, and even her mother is so knowledgeable! ”

Li Meng, who was hiding outside the door, heard Zhou Hao's mother praise herself, her happy face was red, and her heart was beautiful, but in the end she found that she didn't understand what it meant, so she turned her head and wanted Zhou Hao to explain it to her, who knew that Zhou Hao covered his mouth with his hand at this time, with a desperate smile on his face, and twisted his hand angrily.

"Bad guy, don't laugh at people!"

"No, no, it's the first time I saw my mother nervous, and she was so nervous......" Zhou Hao held back a smile, put his mouth into Li Meng's ear and whispered, "Mom is definitely nervous, she is now reciting all the words praising women in "Internal Training", "Female Commandment" and "Boudoir Training Thousand Words", it is estimated that when I was a child, my grandfather punished my mother for copying books, and I still remember ...... after so many years."

"Auntie is amazing! Do I want to learn more ancient Chinese in the future, so as not to have a common language with your mother? Li Meng has never heard of these books that Zhou Hao said, the key is that the five words "praise a good daughter-in-law" make the little girl's heart bloom, and she looked at Zhou Hao's mother with adoring eyes, but she was extremely worried in her heart, and it seemed quite difficult to have a common topic with her future mother-in-law.

"No, my mother is just too nervous about you, thinking of ways to praise you but can't think of the right words, and only remembered the ancient book in a hurry, don't learn this." Zhou Hao couldn't help laughing, coughed loudly at the door, and then pulled Li Meng into the living room from behind the door.

I can't let my mother continue to endorse, listen to my mother's frame, and after a while, I'm going to start memorizing three and four virtues......

After Yu Shumin saw Zhou Hao and Li Meng appear, she immediately stopped endorsing, smiled embarrassedly at Li Wenzhe and his wife, and said, "Say a thousand things and ten thousand, my family likes Mengmeng this girl." After I saw Mengmeng today, I put the bracelet that has been passed down by the Zhou family for hundreds of years, and only the eldest daughter-in-law is put on Mengmeng, you two can rest assured! ”

Li Wenzhe saw that the man's parents had a clear attitude, and he was overjoyed, so he couldn't wait to say: "Why don't you pick a time to do their business as soon as possible?" It's good for both of us to have a relationship early! ”

Poor Li Wenzhe, he is used to speaking subtly on weekdays, but the person sitting opposite him is an official who is accustomed to this way of communication, and what he says is not daily government affairs but the marriage of children and daughters. This sentence heard in the ears of Zhou Lao and Yu Shumin, and the meaning had become, "Our woman's parents are very open-minded, and now time is tight, why don't you hurry up and get the marriage done, and then just wait for good things to happen!" ”

Ha, a good thing, what other good thing can there be besides having children......

Yu Shumin hurriedly nodded quickly and said, "No problem!" We're going to make the banquet lively! ”

"Don't, it's okay for two relatives and friends to get together for a light meal, so as not to spread the bad impact!" Li Wenzhe hurriedly expressed his attitude.

The Red Palace clearly stipulates that all disciplines hang above their heads, and no matter how rich Zhou Hao's family is, they can't do it in a big way. The disciplinary department doesn't care whether you receive gift money or not, this problem is a high-voltage line, and it is better to kill by mistake than let it go. Li Wenzhe feels that he is wise, but he must not be fooled in this issue, and he should know this when he comes to his in-laws......

Yu Shumin didn't have this idea in her heart, after she heard Li Wenzhe say this, she directly understood that "Li Meng's happy event with a stomach is spread out and it is not good for her reputation!" After thinking about it, he said to Li Wenzhe: "My in-laws deserve to be the big leaders, and they are really thoughtful!" is afraid of wronging Li Meng's child, or have a simple meal first, after Meng Meng takes a leave of absence, the Zhou family is responsible for making it lively in the name of full moon wine and 100 days wine, which can be regarded as compensation for Meng Meng. I'll take the child in the future, and Mengmeng will continue to go back to school to study, is it okay? ”

Li Wenzhe was confused all of a sudden. How do you talk about it, listening to the Zhou family, you will be a grandfather next year? Meng Meng still wants to suspend student children?

Zhou Hao was just confused by his mother's divine assistance, and saw that Li Wenzhe's face had begun to darken, and hurriedly explained: "Uncle Li, it's not what my mother thinks, Mengmeng is fine, don't worry, there must be a misunderstanding ......" (to be continued.) )