Ye Ming was worried about what to buy to go to Xia's house, and as soon as he received a call from Xia Chuchu, he immediately asked as if asking for help: "Chu Chu, I am now in a supermarket outside the provincial bureau, and I am going to buy some gifts for Director Xia and your mother, but I don't know what is appropriate to buy, can you give me a reference." ”

When Xia Chuchu heard that he was still going to buy gifts for his parents, he couldn't help but smile, giggled over there, and said in a mocking tone: "Hillbilly, why are you so villaged, how can you buy gifts for other people's parents and ask for that person's opinion, however, considering that you are not very sensible, and you may rarely give gifts to people, then I will give you guidance and guidance, let me tell you: My father likes to eat dog-headed red dates in the northwest, and my mother likes to eat cuttlefish, so you just need to buy a bag of dog-headed red dates, A bag of high-quality cuttlefish will do, and nothing else. ”

Ye Ming hurriedly thanked him, and according to her instructions, he bought two gifts, and then carried them to Xia's house.

When Ye Ming knocked on the door of Xia Bicheng's house, he saw that it was Xia Chuchu who opened the door, and her parents were standing side by side behind her, both of them had cordial and modest smiles on their faces, after seeing him come in with gifts, Zeng Yanhua immediately took a step forward, took the two bags of gifts in his hand, and said with a smile: "Xiao Ye, look at you, is it a good life, come to my house casually, there is no need to buy any gifts...... Ouch, how do you know that I like to eat cuttlefish, did Chu Chu just tell you, and this dog's head jujube is also Lao Xia's favorite food, Xiaoye, I didn't expect you to be so young and so sensible and polite, not bad. ”

It turned out that when Xia Chuchu called Ye Ming just now, Xia Bicheng and his family were still discussing how to receive Ye Ming in the bedroom, and they didn't hear Xia Chuchu guiding Ye Ming to buy gifts.

Xia Bicheng also stretched out his hand, shook Ye Ming tightly with a smile, and then said in a very kind voice: "Xiao Ye, come to my house to play in the future, there is no need to be so polite, but the dog-headed jujube you bought today is indeed my favorite food, it can be seen that you are a very attentive and polite young man, come on, come and sit in the living room first, your aunt Zeng is cooking now, let's talk about it first." ”

Although Xia Chuchu didn't know why her parents would suddenly be unnormal today, so polite and enthusiastic to Ye Ming, she could see that her parents' enthusiasm came from the heart, not pretended, which made her both surprised and ecstatic: what she was most worried about now was that her parents would oppose her marriage to Ye Ming, if they didn't approve of this family business, maybe they would speak coldly to Ye Ming or even make sarcastic remarks, and Ye Ming was a stinky temper, and he had always been soft and hard. Once his parents have a bad attitude towards him, maybe this guy will be angry and will completely cut off contact with him from now on, let alone marry him.

Therefore, when she saw that her parents were not only polite to Ye Ming now, but also enthusiastic that people felt a little too much, she was both surprised and happy, and after her father shook hands with Ye Ming, she walked over, generously stretched out her hand to hold Ye Ming's arm, and said to her father: "Dad, you sit down first, I'll greet him." ”

With that, she pulled Ye Ming to the sofa and asked him to sit down, then turned around and went to the kitchen, made Ye Ming a cup of tea, brought it over, and put it on the coffee table.

Next, she sat next to Ye Ming, leaning on his shoulder naturally, with a happy expression on her face, listening to the conversation between her father and Ye Ming.

She noticed that after she deliberately made this kind of intimate action with Ye Ming, her father, who was sitting opposite, did not show an angry or dissatisfied expression on his face as before, on the contrary, today, his eyes also showed a look of encouragement, he always had a warm and friendly smile on his face, and he also looked at himself with gentle eyes from time to time, obviously not objecting to his intimate actions with Ye Ming.

This made Xia Chuchu extremely happy and happy, so he simply pillowed his head on Ye Ming's broad shoulders, with an intoxicated look, which made Ye Ming quite embarrassed, but he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to let it go......

After chatting a few words, Xia Bicheng suddenly asked: "Xiao Ye, I heard that Secretary Lu went to Xinleng County twice to investigate, and both lived in the old house where you and your mother came from, is there such a thing?" ”

Ye Ming didn't know why he suddenly asked this question, so he replied truthfully: "That's right, Secretary Lu said that our scenery there is very good, and it is very quiet, and living there can make him feel the strong natural atmosphere, so he likes to live in my house, in addition, because the village where the middle school where my mother teaches is located is the poverty alleviation point determined by Secretary Lu himself, when he went there to investigate, he was unwilling to go back to the county seat to live, and my house is usually empty, he can live there, Won't cause trouble to the village. ”

Xia Bicheng nodded thoughtfully, and then asked: "I have a few friends in the General Office of the Provincial Party Committee, who once followed Secretary Lu to your Xinleng County to investigate, according to them: When Secretary Lu went to Xinleng County for the first time, he once went to your mother's tomb to worship. ”

Ye Ming heard that the question he asked was getting stranger and more sensitive, so he looked at him a few times, thought about it, and replied: "When I worshipped, it happened to be my mother's life, and Secretary Lu went up the mountain early in the morning to worship, even earlier than the time when I went up the mountain to my mother's grave, I went up the mountain at half past eight, and at that time Secretary Lu had already gone down the mountain, and at that time Secretary Lu only took his secretary Director Xu up the mountain, and the rest of the people were waiting at the bottom of the mountain. ”

"What, Secretary Lu went up the mountain to worship on the day of your mother's birthday."

Xia Bicheng's eyes widened in surprise and asked in surprise.

Ye Ming nodded and said: "I remember very clearly, that day was December 2rì, which happened to be my mother's birth, therefore, I took leave that day to go to Wantou Town to worship my mother, but I didn't expect to be stopped by a few jǐng cha when I went up the mountain, and I was not allowed to go up, in order to hurry, I almost got into a fight with those jǐng cha, and then the secretary of the deer happened to go down the mountain, and drank to stop those jǐng cha, after I went up the mountain, I found that my mother's grave had a lot of offerings, and there was incense, it is estimated that the secretary of the deer put it, At that time, I was still very strange: Secretary Lu worshiped a people's teacher, which is understandable, but it is not very reasonable to go to buy sacrifices and incense candles to worship on the grave like this, and I still can't figure out this question. ”