CHAPTER XXIII
Early in the morning of the second day of the 23rd, Lao Wei and Lin Zixiao were about to catch the first bus home.
Before leaving, Lei Zhenyu repeatedly told the two of them to leave 25,000 yuan at home, which was a little gain they had gained from fighting outside in the past few years, and gave each of them 2,000 yuan as pocket money.
"This is your salary for two months, and when you get home, you must explain the matter, and if the family is very opposed, you will say that this is equivalent to a civil servant job"
"Well, Zhenyu is a good idea, let's just say that we can become a civil servant, and we don't have to worry about it, anyway, they don't know" Lao Wei said with a smile.
"I'm afraid that if we say this, the family will really believe it, and once one day they will know the truth, they will be angry, what's wrong with telling the truth," Zi Xiao said.
"It's up to you, as long as you don't overcomplicate the problem."
"It's not that complicated, the young people are not all mixed outside now, Zhenyu might as well go back with us, it's not interesting for you to be here, the round-trip fare and expenses are all ours" Lin Zixiao said to Lei Zhenyu very seriously after putting the money on his body.
Lei Zhenyu smiled and said; "Zi Xiao is really generous, I still don't go, take advantage of the two days you are away, I will carefully look up the information and information about this regard, you also have to know in your heart don't miss the time of departure."
Lao Lei and Lin Zixiao's home is not willing to live in the county seat where Lei Zhenyu's family lives, only a few dozen miles away, and it takes about an hour for Lei Zhenyu to arrive home early.
It was just over 1:30 p.m. when they got home.
Lao Wei and Lin Zixiao are both children from the countryside, and their parents have always hoped that they can make a name for themselves outside, hoping that one day their son will be able to return to his hometown in fine clothes to honor his ancestors and glorify his family.
For more than three years, the family has been proud of them, most of the young people in the village are working outside, only Wei and Lin are doing business in the provincial capital, which is enough to make the village passers-by look down on their two families, although they have not created much wealth for the family.
The son came back, and the parents of the Wei and Lin families were very happy.
But when I heard that my son was not in the provincial capital and was going to the south, the parents of the two families behaved differently, and Zixiao's parents were more hesitant and worried: "Zixiao, you are not too young, and your parents don't know how you are doing in the past few years, and you never tell us, and we haven't seriously asked you, but we rural people are talking about affordability, no matter how beautiful and proud they are outside, but they still have to start a family, you see that you are as big as the one who has not become a family, and some of the children have run all over the ground, But you are still a single, and in another year or two, you will be a single for the rest of your life. You're leaving again, hey, I don't think it's okay, come back early, now the village can eat enough for anything, and the trees are tall and the leaves have to return to the roots."
Zixiao's mother weighed the 25,000 yuan given by Zixiao in her hand, with a blank expression on her face, and the meaning of her words had already revealed some disappointment in her son, as well as the action of weighing the money in his hand.
Twenty-five thousand yuan is no longer an unattainable amount for rural people, and it is not enough for two cows.
"Mom, I've already walked out, can I come back like this without accomplishing anything, that not only will I not be able to raise my head in the village, but your face will not look good, it is better for me to mix around outside for a few years"
"Zi Xiao makes sense, we are also famous in the village now, and we all think that the child is a boss outside, if it is really not good-looking to come back like this, it is better to let him mix outside, as long as he has this ambition, he will definitely be able to make a difference."
Zixiao's father said so.
"Then I will be like this for the rest of my life, and if I can't succeed in my career, I won't marry a wife and have children," Zixiao's mother asked.
Zixiao and his father were speechless about their mother's words.
"The old Han family in the east of the village asked someone to propose marriage a few days ago, I think it's better to see before you leave, this girl is very beautiful, worthy of you, so where you go, I can rest assured, after all, there is a family room at home, if you don't want anything else, you can also be willing to do anything else on your looks, 20,000 five you can use it as a marriage for the girl, by the way, Zixiao, you also have to tell me what you are doing in the south this time, once people ask, I can tell people about it."
Seeing her son's guilty and embarrassed look, Zixiao's mother said it more tactfully, after all, it was her own son, and she was still distressed to be a mother.
"Mom said that you don't understand, I can't make it clear to you, now it's just going to the south to investigate, what to do hasn't been specifically decided, and it's not the time to go on a blind date now, I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon"
"Then you have to tell us where the money for doing this and that comes from?"
"It's still that classmate of mine who takes us again, his family has money, you can rest assured"
"I'm even more worried when you say that, isn't it the Lei rich family in our county?"
The villagers called Lei Dawei Lei Dafu, and in the early years, many people in the village worked in his mines.
Zixiao's mother continued with some uneasiness; "People have money, and other people's children are still looking for a big girl even if they are fifty years old, but our family can't do it, you will be twenty-five soon, and you will be thirty years old in a few years, and there will be such a big girl waiting for you in the village at that time, no, you don't object to your mother, but you must be involved in this family business, and I will go to a heart if I succeed or not."
Hearing his mother say this, Zi Xiao couldn't say anything anymore, he was afraid that it would cool his mother's heart.
After all these years, he has not made a name for himself outside, and he also has a kind of guilt for his parents, his parents were strongly opposed to going out to break in, and he has long asserted that he can't break into a famous hall, and now he really hasn't come out of his parents' materials, and the so-called knowing son is not as good as his father.
"Mom, I have to leave tomorrow afternoon, the day after tomorrow's ticket, if you want to go, go quickly, if people don't have anything to say, okay, let's see, you don't have to worry about it"
Zi Xiao said this, but his mother didn't show any too much joy, and her expression was still very flat; "Old man, clean up the house, I'll go to the old Han's house in Dongtou"
Zixiao's mother went out for a short time and brought the mother and daughter of the old Han family in the east of the village over, they are all familiar with each other in the same village, and they may have to be a little bit close to each other.
The girl of the Han family is two years older than Zixiao, and she has not studied in high school, she is twenty-six years old this year, because she is a little picky when she looks beautiful and finds a partner, and unconsciously picks her age, and the young men who are as big as the village have become married, and the rest are much younger than her age, the only two options are Zixiao and Lao Wei, Lao Wei needless to say, he is called by Lao Wei and Lao Wei every day, and the appearance of the call is getting old, and the age of twenty-five looks a little like thirty years old, It's a little too mature.
In such a comparison, Zi Xiao is undoubtedly the first choice of the Han family's son-in-law, since last year, the Han family has been constantly asking whether Zi Xiao's marriage has the master, when I heard that there is no candidate, the Han family is even more anxious, every day urging Zi Xiao's mother to call Zi Xiao back to set the family matter, Zi Xiao's mother also has to mention this matter every time she talks to Zi Xiao on the phone, but every time Zi Xiao is too busy with business to politely refuse.
If he hadn't come back this time, maybe Zixiao would still not have agreed to the blind date, he wanted to find a girl in the city.
"Does Zi Xiao still recognize her aunt?"
As soon as they entered the house, the Han family's mother greeted them warmly.
In the eyes of the Han family, Zixiao is a promising child, he will go out to work hard at twenty, and he is still a business in the provincial city, and if the business is good or not, at least he has a solid strength.
"Why don't you know, come into the house"
Zi Xiao also stood up politely and greeted him.
"Yuling, do you still recognize it?" the Han family's mother hurriedly introduced her daughter.
"It's not too small, you two talk, see if it's appropriate, you're all about to break our hearts, Yuling come here"
The girl of the Han family is called Han Yuling, when she went to school, Gao Zixiao was for two terms, and there was basically no contact opportunity between the two people, when Zixiao graduated from junior high school, Yuling had already gone to the city to work, and worked outside for two years, and the parents were worried that the girl would be bad at studying abroad, so they desperately called their daughter back from the city, and when Yuling came back, Zixiao went to the provincial capital again, but Han Yuling's beauty is still famous in the village, but Zixiao has not seen it with her own eyes.
"You sit aunt, Sister Yuling, you sit too" Zixiao still greeted very politely.
"How good is this girl Aunt Han Yuling, the old man of our family said that this girl is a blessing, you see how handsome my family is, if he becomes a match made in heaven."
"It's not, Zixiao can wander outside at such a young age, who in the village doesn't admire it"
The two mothers sang and sang in harmony for the two young people.
"Let's go to the house and sit in the house, let the two of them talk by themselves, dinner will be eaten at our house, Zixiao will leave again tomorrow afternoon, leave time to them"
Before things could go any way, Zixiao's mother called her in-laws.
"I see that the two children can do it, they are so old, in my opinion, if they both have this meaning today, let Yuling also go to the provincial capital, wouldn't it be better to have Yuling in front of him to take care of Zixiao?"
The mother of the Han family simply recommended her daughter directly.
"Don't listen to my mother's nonsense, just don't hear it, she is in a hurry to marry me off, I'm afraid that no one will want me at home, and I'm going crazy"
Han Yuling said to Lin Zixiao very generously without the slightest twist.
Zi Xiao smiled and said; "The old people in our rural areas are like this, it's still an old tradition"
Lin Zixiao said this, but his eyes didn't want to move away from the other party's body for a moment, and sure enough, the Han Yuling in front of him was really beautiful, with a pair of smiling eyes under the thin curved eyebrows, an oval face with a small nose, and a slightly slanted corner of the mouth with a naughty energy, which made people look a little fond of it immediately.
"How is your business in the provincial town and how much money can you make in a year?"
Han Yuling diverted the topic at once, and the two naturally chatted about topics other than blind dates.
"Always not ideal"
When it comes to this issue, Zi Xiao is a little embarrassed, he is afraid that others will talk to him about this matter.
"Then what to do, do you want to continue to maintain or change careers, or have other plans, I heard your aunt say that you are going to the south"
"I have this idea, I'm going to go to the south to see what is more suitable over there, and then make plans"
"Is it still with the old Wei family, I always feel that the partnership business is not easy to do, and your cooperation can be given in the long run, I heard that he is also back"
"Well, let's go together, go home and say hello, this trip may only come back once in a few years"
"Can you tell me exactly what you're going to do, I'm curious?"
Hearing Han Yuling ask again, Zi Xiao couldn't hide it from her anymore. He told Han Yuling all the purpose of Lei Zhenyu and their southern purpose without concealment, and finally emphasized; "It's mainly my classmate Lei Zhenyu who leads us to do it, I think this thing is very good, it's more meaningful than doing business, what do you say?"
"It's really good, I want to go when I hear you say this, you talk to him, add me one, I can cook for you and take care of the accounts, I don't want to be paid."
"Don't rush, I'll leave tomorrow afternoon, and our tickets have been booked, and besides, if you're a girl, your family will not be at ease"
"You can call him now and ask him to book another plane ticket, saying that I can't wait to go with you to my mother, he thinks the two of us have made a deal."
Han Yuling laughed as she spoke.