Four

Yang Yanjun walked out of the subway and walked into a small restaurant next to the road, although there are only a few small square tables in the small restaurant, and it is not very hygienic, but it is suitable for people with big stomachs and small wallets. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Yang Yanjun gobbled up breakfast and got on the bus that started with "9" and headed for the suburbs.

This time to visit his girlfriend's parents, Jiang Zhengping urged him to go.

Jiang Zhengping told Yang Yanjun that girls, especially those who grew up in rural areas, attach more importance to their parents' opinions on marriage issues, and striving for the approval of their girlfriend's parents is the basis for further developing their relationships.

Jiang Zhengping did not approve of non-commissioned officers in the official class talking about girlfriends in Beijing, saying that non-commissioned officers talking about friends in Beijing were "beyond their means." "When a woman is looking for a man, she first finds a meal card that can eat and drink enough, and then a hut where she can sleep peacefully. Once, I wore a soldier's uniform and followed the administrative secretary to the city to buy cleaning supplies, and the administrative secretary went to do something else, and asked me to wait for him in one place, and I walked into a boutique with curiosity, and several waitresses in the boutique greeted me with a smile when they saw other customers, and when they saw me, they knew that it was a visitor who could not afford their goods, and just wanted to 'feast their eyes', so thousands of trees and pear blossoms rolled their eyes at me. ”

Jiang Zhengping also has a bad impression of some girls who come to Beijing to work, "As soon as the eyes blinked, the peacock turned into a crow." He said that a female classmate of his high school came to Beijing to do business, and in a few years she changed from a pure girl to a street vendor, during which she talked about three or four boyfriends, ate birth control pills every day, and had two births. Jiang Zhengping also warned Yang Yanjun several times, asking him and the girl he is dating now not to be in a hurry to determine the relationship, let alone get married, communicate more, the fruit on the tree is sweet only when it is ripe, if you are in a hurry to pick, you can only taste the sour and bitter taste.

Yang Yanjun is a veteran who joined the army in the same year as Jiang Zhengping, and the two have the same qualifications, so he feels that he is qualified to lack due respect for Jiang Zhengping, and he is more casual when talking to Jiang Zhengping. In fact, if you think about it carefully, Jiang Zhengping is a very good comrade, and when you don't make up your mind about some things, he will give you a staff officer to help you make up your mind. Once you have made up your mind, he will do everything he can to fulfill your determination and fulfill it. Although he sometimes manages the affairs of the official class too carefully, speaks wordy, and some of his words are not even very toned, but sometimes some of the things he says are quite reasonable, and the arrangement of things is also relatively thoughtful.

Yang Yanjun's girlfriend Qiu Ping, who was introduced to him by others, came to Beijing to work for less than three years, and began to work as a waitress in a restaurant, in addition to eating and lodging, she could get seven or eight hundred yuan a month. Because the salary is too low, she later went to the mall to help others sell clothing, the salary of selling clothing is not fixed, with an average monthly income of about 2,000 yuan, but every day is harder than being a restaurant waiter. Qiuping's younger brother came to Beijing a year after his sister and now works as a security guard in a residential community on the outskirts of the city. Qiu Ping's father saw that his children's monthly income from part-time work was more than the income from growing grain for a year, so he simply handed over a few acres of land at home to a cousin to plant on his behalf, brought his wife to Beijing, rented two small houses in the suburbs near his son's work, and started the business of collecting waste products, Qiu Ping and his younger brother also had a home in Beijing.

When Yang Yanjun and Qiu Ping first met, they did not agree with the statement that she had a "home" in Beijing, saying that the place where she lived with her parents and younger brother was just a rental house. Qiu Ping also disagreed with Yang Yanjun's statement, her reason is that for unmarried men and women, where their parents are, where is home, even if it is just an underground house and a thatched shed; Where there are no parents, even if it is a mansion or villa with property rights, it can only be called a "house".

Because it was the departure station, the time was relatively early, and there were not many passengers on the bus, Yang Yanjun sat down in a seat at the back, first sent a text message to Qiu Ping, who had gone home last night, telling her the time he got on the bus, and then, closing his eyes, imagining all kinds of scenes of seeing Qiu Ping's parents and silently reciting a few words that had been made up and should be said at that time.

The bus that Yang Yanjun took traveled for about 40 minutes before arriving at the place where Qiu Ping told him to get off, and under the stop sign of the bus station, Qiu Ping, who had been waiting for a long time, stood. Qiu Ping took a day off for this meeting.

Qiu Bo is not tall, fat, and his face is red, like an apple, and it looks like a Fuji apple.

When Yang Yanjun came this time, he did not carry nutritional products like ordinary Beijingers visiting relatives and friends, but brought a bucket of peanut oil and a box of pastries according to the habits of his hometown, which were generous and affordable. Qiu Ping took the pastry box in Yang Yanjun's hand, and the two young people walked side by side on the country road leading to the mountain village, and also walked on the road of their longing for the future life. Qiu Ping should have been seriously dressed today, with decent clothes on her body and a thin powder on her face, Yang Yanjun opened all the pores on her skin, absorbing the faint fragrance emanating from her body, and every cell in her body was activated, looking extremely excited.

"What should I say to meet your parents?"

Although Yang Yanjun had prepared a set of words in his stomach, he still felt bottomless in his heart, and couldn't help but ask Qiuping.

"They ask you what you say, you can say whatever you think in your heart, my parents like to tell the truth, they don't like rhetoric." Qiu Ping said lightly.

"I think coming to your house today is a bit like a road test when I first learned to drive."

Qiu Ping listened to Yang Yanjun's words, stopped, looked at him vigilantly and said: "You passed the road test and became a driver, and then gave up driving, if you get the approval of my parents today, will you change your mind in the future?" ”

"You don't want to pull two things together." Yang Yanjun hurriedly defended.

Qiu Ping couldn't help but smile when she saw Yang Yanjun's serious appearance.

Some of the residents of this suburban village where Qiuping's parents lived temporarily moved to the city to earn a living or settle down, and the empty houses were rented to outsiders. These outsiders live in cheap rental houses, wear cheap clothes, eat cheap meals, and live cheaply in this world. Most of them speak in their hometown, which makes people feel that a certain department of ****** holds a national peasant congress here.

Most of the migrant workers who rent houses here for a while are doing everything, most of them are reselling fruits and vegetables, picking up rags and checking waste, they have little capital, weak physical strength, and no special skills, so they can only do the menial work that some people in the city and some people from outside the city are unwilling to do. Of course, there are also some capable people here who use home remedies to cure diseases and carry a big saw on their backs to find work, listening to their self-introductions, all of them are the reincarnation of Huatuo and the resurrection of Luban, but the vast majority of people in the city do not want to believe their words and scoff at them.

In this remote suburban village, the word "poor" binds the migrant workers together, they live next to each other, live in peace with each other, in order to earn a little more money, stay away from their hometowns, bid farewell to their relatives, and come to the big city to smell car exhaust and look at other people's eyes.

Qiu Ping's parents rented a house in a small farm yard of two west houses, Yang Yanjun followed Qiu Ping into the small courtyard and saw that the three main houses were rented by someone and opened a foot clinic, and the name of the foot disease can be treated on the wall at the entrance of the main house, of course, the foot odor of the national football team is not included, Jiang Zhengping's athlete's foot is very serious, and it is estimated that it will not be cured here, otherwise, Yang Yanjun will buy some "panacea" for the squad leader who always thinks about others, so that he will no longer suffer from foot disease.

Seeing Qiu Ping's parents, who were still dressed as farmers, and hearing their hometown dialect, Yang Yanjun felt very cordial, and suddenly felt less restrained. Qiu Ping's parents couldn't help but be overjoyed when they saw Yang Yanjun's talent, and listened to his greetings that had just been fished out of the honey pot, pouring water and handing out cigarettes. Yang Yanjun took the water cup, but refused the cigarette, although he usually has some addiction to smoking, but in order to leave a good impression on the two old men in front of him, he has to carry out strict fireworks control on his mouth today.

The furnishings of the rented house are very simple, a few pieces of old furniture can be seen at a glance as a substitute for Qiuping's father who was not willing to properly dispose of "waste" when he collected waste, and the yellowed white ash walls of the house are covered with mosquito corpses, which are animal specimens made by Qiuping's father with rough slaps.

Yang Yanjun and Qiu Ping agreed in advance that he would only sit at her house for about an hour for the first time, and let the two old men see their daughter's boyfriend and have a preliminary impression.

Yang Yanjun sat for a while, looked at his watch, felt that the sweet words in his stomach were almost poured out, and there were only a few minutes left before the agreed time with Qiu Ping, so he solemnly expressed his opinion to the two old men: "I am an ordinary non-commissioned officer in the army, although there is a word 'official' in the title of 'non-commissioned officer', but it still belongs to the soldiers. I don't have a house or a car in Beijing, and I will have to find a job on my own if I want to stay in Beijing in the future. I don't have the ability to provide Qiu Ping with better living conditions now, and I will do my best to create a happy little family with Qiu Ping in the future. Please believe that my love for Qiu Ping is sincere. ”

Qiu Ping's father was a village cadre for a few years when he was young, and he was also an enlightened person in the countryside, he listened to a few words like Yang Yanjun's primary school students' endorsement, and saw his restrained expression and sincere attitude, he felt a little relieved, and said to Yang Yanjun with a smile: "Girls like us from a family generally don't go to the rich or people with status in Gaopan City, Qiu Ping and I have no objection to Qiu Ping and your relationship, one is because you are a soldier, it turns out that the People's Liberation Army is a big school, We can trust this young man who came out of the big school; The second reason is that you grew up in the countryside, and the children who grew up in the countryside have suffered some hardships, which is the capital to overcome the difficulties in life in the future. We are not afraid that you do not have a house, but we are afraid that you do not have a pair of hard-working hands; I'm not afraid that you don't have a car, I'm afraid that you don't have two legs that can walk the right path. Some of your situations Qiu Ping has already introduced to us, we believe you! ”

Yang Yanjun listened to Qiu Ping's father's words, and had to look at the old farmer in front of him who had not been in the city for a long time, and was so moved that he nodded again and again and said: "Uncle said well, uncle said well!" ”

Seeing Qiu Ping's eyes, Yang Yanjun got up at the right time to say goodbye. The two old men must have known their daughter's arrangement, so they didn't keep it much, and sent them off with a smile.

Walking a section of the country road leading to the bus stop with Qiu Ping, Yang Yanjun's mood calmed down. He just drank a glass of water in the cozy hut of Qiu Ping's house, and soaked in urine in the open-air toilets shared by two families in the yard. Qiu Ping's parents seem to be quite satisfied with themselves, this time it should be said that the harvest is not small, Jiang Zhengping, this kid sometimes talks verbosity, but the idea of letting himself meet his girlfriend's parents earlier is still good.

"Your dad speaks quite well, I really didn't expect it!" Yang Yanjun saw that Qiu Ping's face was flushed, and knew that her mood was not very calm now, so he said with emotion.

"When my parents first came to Beijing, I wanted my father to sell vegetables with other farmers from other places who came to Beijing, collect the vegetables from the vegetable farmers, and then transport them to the vegetable market on a tricycle, so that I could have a stable income and not have too much contact with outsiders. However, my father disagreed, he was willing to collect the waste, go into the city every day to collect the waste from the residents' homes, and then sell it to the scrap collection station, so that it was very hard to walk the streets and alleys every day, and the income was not too high. Every night when he came back from the scrapyard, he always had a few magazines or a few newspapers on the tricycle, and he would stay late at night after dinner. Some people say that rural people go to the city to work, and they only know how to work, and they only know how to make money, which is a kind of prejudice. In fact, many people like my father, born and raised in the countryside, love to work and study, they pursue material life, but also pay attention to spiritual life, if they have certain conditions, they may enjoy life more than people in the city. ”

Qiu Ping said this with a little sadness and a little pride.