Early the next morning, Wang Tao got up to make breakfast with his mother, and Xia Wei packed her luggage and prepared to go home. Wang Tao said that he would go with Xia Wei, but Xia Wei couldn't resist him, so he went to Xia Wei's house together after breakfast.

Xia Wei's parents saw Xia Wei leading a boy to the house early in the morning, and they already felt their extraordinary relationship. Xia Wei took the initiative to introduce Wang Tao to her family, and her parents politely left Wang Tao for lunch and let him go home alone.

After sending Wang Tao away, her mother locked Xia Wei in the room and forced her to ask: "Wei'er, when did you fall in love with him?" ”

Xia Wei felt that her mother's tone was a little wrong, and she bowed her head tremblingly and replied, "For more than a year, he and I are classmates. ”

"I already knew that you were in love with him, and your father and I also went to their village to learn about it, and the people in the village said that he was not good at working in the production team, and he held a book all day long, and he wanted to be admitted to a university? Don't say that he can't pass the exam, even if he gets admitted to the university, I don't agree with you being together! Mother said cruelly, took out paper and pen and handed it to Xia Wei and continued: "You write it down as I say, write a letter of closure, and you are not allowed to have any contact with him in the future." ”

"I don't write, Mom, he has a lot of potential in literature, I believe he will succeed, he won't always be like this." Xia Wei raised her head and looked at her mother willingly.

"If you don't write, I'll hack you to death with a knife. No matter how good he is in the future, we will not agree to it, and you will die of this matter. After speaking, her mother shook the knife in her hand in front of Xia Wei's eyes, Xia Wei has been afraid of her mother holding a kitchen knife since she was a child, and her mother's habit is to use knives to scare her family. She has always been very obedient, she is the eldest daughter, and she usually leads her younger siblings to work, and she is also a role model for her younger siblings. Today, my mother is also scaring herself with this kitchen knife, feeling desperate, she doesn't know if her mother will really do such a thing. She didn't dare to fight her mother, maybe she had been obedient, or maybe she was really afraid that her mother would do something to hurt people with a knife, she saw that her mother's face had always been so serious, so she gave in.

Xia Wei shed tears, according to what her mother said word by word, tears fell on the letterhead, the words on the paper also melted a little, her mother folded the letter and put it in the envelope, and then explained: "You don't need to send this letter, let your father send it to their house in person." Xia Wei looked at her mother helplessly with teary eyes.

After Wang Tao received the letter, he went directly to the health center to find Xia Wei and wanted to ask what was going on. Xia Wei felt that she had no face to see Wang Tao again, so she hid. Wang Tao searched everywhere in the hospital, but there was no trace of Xia Wei.

It's dark, Wang Tao is still in the health center, where does he stay at night? You can't hide from him anymore, you should explain the situation to him. So, Xia Wei appeared in front of Wang Tao, made dinner and ate with him, and then walked with him on the field path, so as to explain to him and gain understanding.

The two walked side by side, still the same way, still two people, but the mood was different from before. The two didn't say a word, each thinking about their own thoughts. Xia Wei broke the silence and said: "It seems that we are destined, and my parents are firmly against us being together. ”

Wang Tao said in surprise: "Why, there must be a reason." Do you think I'm not working? ”

"I don't know, they said that even if you are admitted to college, they will not agree to us being together, I don't know why they are against you like this." Xia Wei frowned.

"No, you'll just wait for me for two years, okay? I won't let you down. Wang Tao said this sentence and left in a hurry, Xia Wei wanted to stay with him, but he still left resolutely.

After Wang Tao left, Xia Wei lost her smiling face and was no longer so lively. After getting off work, I often come to the small river where I walk with Wang Tao, looking at the quiet river, and my heart is filled with infinite thoughts, maybe this is the best way to vent my thoughts.

One day, Dr. Zhang looked at Xia Wei's face and said, "How long have you had pigmented spots on your mucous membranes?" ”

Xia Wei looked at him suspiciously and said, "Doctor Zhang, why are you asking this?" ”

"Oh, I don't mean anything else, I want to tell you that this may be a hereditary disease, mostly with a family history, it is an intestinal polyp syndrome, you should check it often."

Xia Wei looked at Dr. Zhang and said a little nervously: "I found mucosal dark spots when I was very young, and no one in our family has ever had this disease, how can there be a family genetic disease?" Thank you! Then I'd better go for a check-up. ”

During the break, Xia Wei went to the city's tertiary hospital for a colonoscopy and found no abnormalities, but the experts still hoped that she would have regular colonoscopy. Xia Wei thought, since this is a hereditary disease, I can't hurt Wang Tao and let his children have such a disease, thinking of this, she burst into tears.

Since then, Xia Wei has made up her mind not to see Wang Tao again, and if she loves him, she wants to make him perfect.

Since she made up her mind to leave Wang Tao, Xia Wei has not been happy, perhaps because she is in a bad mood, her resistance has decreased, and she often catches a cold due to cold. This morning, Xia Wei woke up and felt a sore throat and dizzy head, after finishing the work in the class, she went to the outpatient clinic to find Dr. Pan to prescribe some medicine, Dr. Pan showed her and prescribed it, Xia Wei was about to pick up the medicine, Xiao Lu walked in and said to Xia Wei: "You just wait here, I'll help you get it." ”

"Thank you then!" Xia Wei also handed the prescription to Xiao Lu unceremoniously.

"No thanks" Xiao Lu walked out of the consultation room quickly, and after a while, he took the medicine and shouted from afar: "Xia Wei, come out quickly, the medicine has been taken." ”

"Okay, come on." Xia Wei agreed, walked out of the consultation room, and met Xiao Lu waiting at the staircase, Xiao Lu handed the medicine to Xia Wei and said, "Here, go back to the dormitory to take medicine." ”

"How much is it, did you help me keep the accounts?"

"You don't need to keep an account, I'll get it for you with my prescription at public expense."

"That's so embarrassing, I'll settle it with you later."

"I really don't need to, go get some medicine."

"Thank you!" Xia Wei took the medicine and went upstairs, and when she arrived at the dormitory, she opened the medicine box and a letter was revealed. There was no handwriting on the envelope, she was very curious, she quickly opened the envelope, read the letter, she was stunned, this Xiao Lu, he is many years older than herself, and he looks very old, she always thought that he was a married person, who knew that he had no object yet, it was really incredible, he would never be involved with himself. Today, he wrote a courtship letter to himself, Xia Wei had someone in her heart and wanted to reject him, but she didn't know how to solve this matter, she never replied to Xiao Lu.

Xia Wei didn't want to have anything to do with Xiao Lu, firstly because Xiao Lu was eight years older than herself, and secondly, because he was really average-looking, and now seeing the courtship letter he gave him, her heart was calm without a trace of turmoil, she wanted to find a suitable opportunity to talk to him and tell him that this was impossible, and she already had others in her heart.

Xia Wei's silence was understood by Xiao Lu as acquiescence, and he often called some colleagues to Xia Wei's dormitory to play poker. Xia Wei finally couldn't help it, and still wrote a reply letter to Xiao Lu, in which she wrote:

Hello Xiaolu!

I didn't expect you to write me such a letter, thank you very much for your kindness to me, I already have others in my heart, forgive me for not being able to accept your kindness.

Sincerely

courtesy

Xia Wei

1982-09-20

After dinner, Xiao Lu asked Dr. Xiao Li to come to Xia Wei's dormitory together, and Dr. Xiao Wu in Xia Wei's bedroom, and the four of them began to play cards to upgrade, and after playing a game, Xia Wei said impatiently: "I want to sleep, let's play here tonight." ”

Xiao Wu said, "Okay. I'm also about to go to the bathroom. After speaking, Xiao Wu went downstairs and ran to the toilet first. Xiao Lu and Dr. Li also left one after another, Xia Wei took out the letter prepared in advance and called Xiao Lu: "Xiao Lu, you come down, I have something to look for you." Xiao Lu, who walked to the middle of the stairs, hurriedly agreed: "Okay, here." ”

Xia Wei stood at the door of the dormitory, handed out the letter far away with one hand, looked at Xiao Lu and said, "Here you go." ”

Xiao Lu looked surprised, and took the letter with a smile and said, "Oh." He disappeared into the staircase aisle.

However, Xiao Lu, who received the letter, continued to come to Xia Wei's dormitory to play cards as if he hadn't read the letter. Finally one day, Xiao Lu took the initiative to ask Xia Wei to go out for a walk.

It was still the path leading to the field, and it was still under the milky white moonlight, and Xia Wei suddenly felt sad in her heart. A few months ago, it was still here, still like this night, walking on this quiet path with Wang Tao, listening to the symphony of the fields together, describing the future prospects together, and telling the love in my heart.

Xia Wei bowed her head and was silent, but she had to tell Xiao Lu her true thoughts, otherwise, it would make him misunderstand and delay his lifelong event. So, Xia Wei broke the silence: "Xiao Lu, I have long been interested in someone, I'm sorry for you, we can only be ordinary friends, can you understand what I mean?" ”

Xiao Lu took a step forward and looked at Xia Wei's serious appearance, and then said with a smile: "I know, haven't you broken up yet?" Besides, you're not married, so I can still pursue you. ”

"But I don't have feelings for you, I only have him in my heart, and I won't promise you." After Xia Wei said this, she began to walk back, and happened to meet an acquaintance, Xia Wei saw someone from a distance, so she lowered her head and pretended not to see it, and continued to walk in the direction of the health center. Xiao Lu followed, exchanged a few words with the pedestrians, and then chased after Xia Wei.

Time passed day by day, and Xiao Lu still chased Xia Wei closely. That day, Xia Wei went home after resting, and her mother was looking for a partner for Xia Wei, and it happened that the person introduced to Xia Wei by the seventh uncle in the village was about to come to the village to meet. Where did Xia Wei know this, she only knew that her mother said in the letter that her grandmother was sick and asked her to go home to visit.

In the evening, my mother called Xia Wei into the room and said to her: "Xiaowei, Uncle Seven in the village introduced you to a partner, he works in the Public Security Bureau, and he has made an appointment to meet tomorrow afternoon, you have to dress up." Xia Wei heard her mother say this, she felt so sad, her mother still had to force herself to meet a stranger, but she only had Wang Tao in her heart, no one, no condition was attractive to her, she bowed her head silently, thinking about her own thoughts. Seeing this, my mother added: "You just go to bed early, the weather will be better tomorrow, look at your little face on the night shift, all yellow." ”

"Mom, I don't want to meet, and I don't want to fall in love." Xia Wei finally mustered up the courage to say such a sentence.

"No, you have to meet tomorrow, how good this person's conditions are, I won't harm you." After her mother finished speaking, she stared at Xia Wei's face and pleaded, "Agreed, can you go and meet?" ”

"Mom, I really don't want to go, so don't force me."

"No, you have to go, and if you don't go, you have to go." Mom looked at Xia Wei angrily.

"Don't go, you have to go, you go yourself, I won't go anyway." Xia Wei also left an angry sentence.

With a "whoosh", my mother brought a kitchen knife out of nowhere, shook it in front of Xia Wei's eyes and said, "If you don't go, Lao Tzu will kill you today." ”

"Woo-woo-" Xia Wei cried in shock and fear, and when her grandmother heard the cry, she hurriedly ran into the room and pushed Xia Wei's mother away: "Go out, scare the child and I'll settle accounts with you." He came to Xia Wei again and hugged Xia Wei's head and comforted: "Obedient, don't cry, my mother-in-law will call the shots for you, so I won't go to meet." ”

When Xia Wei heard her grandmother say this, she felt much better, and said to her grandmother with a crying voice: "Mother-in-law, my mother is too unkind, I have a partner, she has to disagree, and now she forces me to meet with someone I don't know." ”

"Well, don't talk about your mother like that, she is also for your good, that Wang Tao doesn't have any work, but this person works in the Public Security Bureau, you can perfunctory your mother tomorrow, besides, don't make Uncle Seven embarrassed, people are also kind." Obediently, do you listen to your mother-in-law? Grandma looked at Xia Wei lovingly.

Xia Wei was defeated by her grandmother's words and kind eyes, how can she not give her grandmother face, she grew up with her grandmother since she was a child, and her grandmother loves herself so much, thinking about what her grandmother said, it's right to deal with it. Thinking like this, he said to his grandmother, "Well, you don't care how I dress, or I won't go." ”

"Okay, good girl, my mother-in-law also feels sorry for you." Grandma kept stroking Xia Wei's hair.

At night, Xia Wei couldn't sleep, thinking about the letter she gave to Wang Tao to endorse her mother, her heart was as uncomfortable as a knife. Now, my mother is about to force herself to meet with a stranger, and she still says that her parents have to decide what is important about marriage, and she doesn't realize that tears have flowed down her cheeks, and the pillow towel is wet. Thinking like this, crying, my heart was tormented all night, and when I got up the next morning, Xia Wei felt that her eyes were swollen and painful, and when she looked in the mirror, she was about to lose recognition of the person in the mirror, and her eyes were red and swollen like two big walnuts. Seeing her own appearance, Xia Wei was overjoyed, with my appearance, people must not look down on me.

After lunch, her mother asked Xia Wei to change into a beautiful dress, Xia Wei promised in her mouth: "Oh" ran into the room, she took a rusty red coat and put it on, it looked a little wide, it was originally a winter dress, but now it is worn as an autumn dress, where will it not be lenient. Then she picked out a pair of dark green pants to put on, these pants are also often worn in winter, this set of clothes is worn on the body, it feels ridiculous, Xia Wei admired her dress, looking at the red and green combination is ridiculous, and so wide, plus today's walnut eyes, no one can look at her appearance, and a trace of excitement suddenly appeared in her heart.

Mother had already prepared props for Xia Wei to meet, she stuffed the half-knitted sweater into Xia Wei's hand and said, "You just play the sweater and don't say anything." ”

Xia Wei took the sweater and didn't say a word, she already had an idea in her heart.

Came to Uncle Seven's house, in the living room of Uncle Seven's house, there were already several people sitting on the bench next to the table, mother and they exchanged a few words, Xia Wei found a small bench and sat down, just play sweater, she heard Uncle Seven introducing one by one, mother and they sat on the big bench next to the table together, they were chatting about a knife murder case recently cracked by the Public Security Bureau.

Xia Wei lowered her head and knitted a sweater, didn't look at anything, didn't say anything, the difficult time lasted for about an hour, and finally ended.

In the evening, my mother went to ask Uncle Seven, and Uncle Seven replied, "They don't think it's suitable." Xia Wei finally smiled happily.

Mom didn't worry much about Xia Wei's marriage, so she asked Xia Wei: "Did anyone chase you in the hospital?" ”

Xia Wei heard her mother ask, knowing that her mother would interfere in her marriage, and she would definitely arrange such a meeting in the future, so she said: "There is a pharmacist chasing me, but I didn't agree." ”

"Huh? Someone is chasing you, why didn't you tell me earlier, is he a regular worker? Mom started to care.

"It's a regular worker, and he looks average, eight years older than me, and he's not tall."

"It doesn't matter, as long as it's a regular worker." Mom thought for a moment and said, "I'll go with you tomorrow." "Mom was a little excited.

"Don't go, I didn't promise him, besides, he is not suitable for me." Xia Wei wanted to stop her mother's actions.

"No, that's it." Mom left happily without waiting for Xia Wei's consent.