Chapter 1: The Otaku's Dilemma
It's the weekend again, Yu Xiang sits decadently in the computer chair in the office, his heart is in a mess, sweet and happy expectations and embarrassing accusations are like two wild horses that have escaped the reins, trampling back and forth in his heart, making his mood a mess. Last weekend, the harsh words of his girlfriend Yang Lili's mother's mother still echo in my ears and linger.
Last Saturday, Yu Xiang put on his best suit and gestured in front of the mirror for more than an hour, until his big back was meticulous and he was more satisfied. White. The face is simply a tyrannical thing", seeing such a handsome prospective son-in-law, his girlfriend's mother should be a few words to herself.
Out of the dormitory building, go straight to the fruit stall, today is a little strange, usually deserted in front of the fruit stall actually surrounded by a lot of old aunts, Yu Xiang hurriedly stepped forward to take a look, only to hear the fruit vendor shouting loudly: "Big Ya pear, weekend special, ten yuan three catties, three catties and ten yuan, the opportunity must not be lost, the time will not come again." With the shouts of the hawkers, the emotions of the aunts were aroused wave after wave, and they all rushed to reach out and grab the goods.
Since the aunts like it so much, my girlfriend's mother should also like it, and it doesn't cost much, hehe, Yu Xiang's heart blossomed, without saying a word, he took out thirty yuan, squeezed into the crowd, and bought a big bag, so he was relieved, held his head high, got on the bus, poured the subway, and then took the bus, and finally came to his girlfriend's downstairs when the city's night lights were blooming.
The girlfriend was waiting downstairs for a long time, wearing a pink tunic top, and her figure looked graceful and graceful under the night light, like a fairy.
When Yu Xiang saw his girlfriend, he was excited, and hurriedly walked up, not wanting to stumble and almost fall, a few disobedient pears jumped out of the plastic bag and rolled around.
Even a few broken pears are not honest, they will eat you later, see that you are still running, Yu Xiang cursed these disobedient pears in his heart.
Yang Lili saw Yu Xiang's nervous and embarrassed appearance, so she couldn't help but laugh, and quickly helped him pick up the pears back into the bag one by one. His girlfriend wanted to take the bag, Yu Xiang put the bag behind him, and said righteously: "This kind of heavy work, how can there be a wife who does it herself!" Although they are not married and do not live together, according to the popular name nowadays, they still refer to each other as husbands and wives in private.
Yang Lili smiled knowingly, sweetly grabbed his other arm, and went upstairs. After a while, they came to the door of her house.
Yu Xiang straightened his waist and asked Yang Lili to see if her hairstyle and clothes were messed up? Yang Lili helped him check himself, straightened his crumpled clothes, and a few strands of hair on his forehead went down to the back of his head, and after confirming that it was correct, Yang Lili clenched her fists and made a "struggle" action, and Yu Xiang dared to knock on the door.
Gently knocked on the door a few times, and after a while, the door opened, and a woman wearing glasses and holding a newspaper in her hand opened the door, Yu Xiang hurriedly bowed down and said, "Hello, Auntie!" ”
The bespectacled woman had no expression on her face, snorted her nose as a greeting, turned around and went straight into the room and sat down on the sofa.
Yang Lili glanced at her mother and whispered to Yu Xiang: "Husband, my mother is like this, don't be surprised, come, change into these slippers." She kindly brought him a pair of slippers for her to change into. Yu Xiang glanced at Yang Lili gratefully, his heart was full of warmth, if it were not for Yang Lili's support and encouragement, he would definitely not have the courage to face his future mother-in-law.
Yu Xiang changed his shoes and carried a bag of pears into the living room, while his girlfriend's mother looked at the newspaper without raising her head. In the kitchen, my girlfriend's dad is cooking in the kitchen. Yang Lili took Yu Xiang's pear, Yu Xiang walked to the kitchen, and greeted his girlfriend's father: "Uncle Yang, I'm here." ”
"Xiaoyu, you go to the living room and sit, the meal will be ready immediately!" His girlfriend's father replied.
Yu Xiang exchanged a few words with his girlfriend's father, found a stool in a corner of the living room, and sat down carefully.
"How much do pears cost a pound?" My girlfriend's mother asked coldly.
Yu Xiang was pricked by a needle, and quickly got up and replied: "Five yuan a catty!" "He raised the price by 20 percent.
"It's expensive to buy, this kind of pear, ten yuan and three catties is about the same. No one will eat it at home, so you can take it back to the dormitory and eat it yourself. My girlfriend's mother said coldly.
It's exposed! It's obvious that the gifts you bring are too cheap! It's too straightforward, isn't it? And let yourself take it back! Yu Xiang couldn't find a crack in the ground to get into!
Yu Xiang couldn't wait to get up and leave, he was also a university teacher, how could he stand being insulted like this! Seeing Yang Lili beside her glaring angrily at her mother, she still endured it.
Now, in his world, only Yang Lili is left, if it weren't for her, he really didn't know what it was like to live in this world.
Yu Xiang was born in poverty, his family was poor when he was a child, and his biggest dream in life was to have a reading desk of his own, and his homework from elementary school to junior high school was basically completed on the crumbling table of his home, and the awards plastered on the wall were his diligence and talent in exchange for intelligence.
Fortunately, his parents firmly believed that knowledge changed his fate, and ate bran for him to go to school, and he lived up to expectations, and was really admitted to a prestigious university in Beijing.
But after work, he began to walk on the word "back".
During the year of work, his mother became seriously ill, and she was sick for several years.
When the school divided the last batch of houses, he was missed because he was not married and did not have enough years of work.
Because he couldn't afford the down payment, he missed the best opportunity to buy affordable housing, and when he saved money to make up the down payment, he couldn't get the number to buy affordable housing. Since then, housing prices have been like riding on a rocket, soaring into the sky. And his salary is just spiraling, crawling slowly like a snail, far from keeping up with the rate of housing price increases.
With the development of computer technology, everyone is accustomed to looking for materials on the Internet, fewer and fewer students come to the library, and the voice of whether to cancel the library gradually appears on campus, and the library is gradually marginalized.
The librarian is in his forties, in the prime of life, is a doctoral graduate of the library major of the top university in the country, loves librarianship, and has a lot of master's and doctoral degrees in the library, it is almost impossible to take over the director's class, he is an undergraduate, can stay in the university, is already very good, if you want to go further, I am afraid it is even more difficult.
Watching his former friends appreciate and raise their salaries, the rumors of the chaos have risen, and his strong self-esteem has been devastated, and the ensuing sense of inferiority has nowhere to hide. Fortunately, the school assigned him a room in the basement, so he read books, surfed the Internet, chatted, saved money to buy a house in the basement, and he almost eliminated all activities that cost money, and became an out-and-out otaku.
Yu Xiang is usually modest, hard-working, and has a good impression in his colleagues, and his colleagues have introduced him to a few objects, but either the girl thinks he is poor, or the girl's parents think he has no house, and in the end, he has not made a girlfriend.
In reality, he was unsatisfactory, so he could only place his emotions on the Internet, and at this time, Yang Lili appeared in his world like a goddess. They met on the Internet, and Yang Lili was deeply attracted by Yu Xiang's humorous, knowledgeable, and eloquent image of a cow.
They began to develop from hot chats to meetings, when the moment they met, a young and beautiful girl waved at him, he instantly felt that his gray world was like a Buddha light, and suddenly flowers bloomed and colorful!
Yu Xiang originally had a good image, relatively handsome, and very talented, Yang Lili had a good impression of Yu Xiang, they gradually developed into a boyfriend and girlfriend in reality, Yu Xiang felt very happy, but Yang Lili's mother was very painful, she couldn't tolerate her beautiful daughter's flower inserted in cow dung like Yu Xiang who didn't even have a house and a car. But Yang Lili refused to break up with Yu Xiang, just such an only daughter, she didn't want to give her daughter * out of a good one, she could only hope that Yu Xiang would take the initiative to give up Yang Lili, so Yu Xiang never gave a good face, her bad attitude towards Yu Xiang escalated again and again, and what she said became more and more ugly, she hoped that Yu Xiang could retreat in the face of difficulties, but Yu Xiang had no intention of retreating, Yu Xiang's endurance exceeded her imagination.
Yang Lili's mother looked down on and even disgusted Yu Xiang from the bottom of her heart, and she held the idea of not breaking up the pair of mandarin ducks and swore not to give up, and dug out her heart to find various ways and opportunities.
At this time, she was looking at the newspaper and asked casually, "Is your mother's health better?" ”
"It's still like that, taking medicine and treating conservatively!" Yu Xiang replied.
"Oh, how does your dad make money from farming?"
"Now the policy is good, and I have an income of 20,000 yuan a year, all of which are for my mother's treatment!"
"How much money do you send your mother a month to see a doctor?"
"Oh~! It's almost a thousand points a month. Our rural medical insurance is low, and the medical expenses are basically all paid by ourselves, and the rural cooperative medical care is less. ”
"How many years has your mom been sick?"
"It's been four years, and I've been sick since the year I graduated from college."
Yang Lili's mother snorted and changed the topic, she threw the newspaper in her hand to Yu Xiang and said: "Lili is not small, I can't spend a lifetime with you, if you really love Lili, you have to give her a good home, you can't watch her sleep on the street, now that the house price has stabilized, you might as well buy a house now, you can afford a house, the marriage of the two of you is easy to say, you can't afford it, don't delay my Lili!" Break up early! ”
Yu Xiang looked at the newspaper in his hand was "Property Market Weekly", and casually flipped through it, the houses outside the Fifth Ring Road were 10,000 or 20,000 per square meter, and the 200,000 yuan he saved by himself was not enough for a fraction of the down payment, and he wanted to buy a house closer to him, which was even more fantastical. Yu Xiang blushed and stopped talking.
Yang Lili's mother looked at Yu Xiang bowing her head and was silent, and she was even more angry, and shouted: "You are also a university teacher, you should always understand the truth of misleading people's children, when are you going to harm my daughter, are you still human?"
Yu Xiang's fire suddenly rose, he was so angry that his whole body trembled, and said loudly: "I didn't harm Lili, we really love each other, I will definitely rely on my own efforts to give Lili a better future!" Auntie, I'm sorry, I still have something to do, I'll go first! ”
After that, Yu Xiang got up, said hello to Yang Lili's father, changed his shoes and went out. Yang Lili blamed her mother for a few words, and hurriedly followed Yu Xiang downstairs.
Downstairs, Yang Lili took Yu Xiang's hand and said: "Husband, don't be angry, or let's travel and get married, they can do whatever they like, I am in charge of my own marriage, and I will follow you in this life." ”
Yu Xiang's nose was sour, he picked up Yang Lili's face and kissed it gently, Yang Lili opened her lips lightly and responded warmly, Yu Xiang's tears fell on Yang Lili's face, and Yang Lili hugged Yu Xiang even tighter.
For a long time, Yu Xiang hugged Yang Lili's head into his arms, like a treasure, he couldn't bear to let go, Yang Lili leaned on the boy's chest, listened to his heartbeat, and felt his body temperature. The warm embrace of the two attracted the envy of others. The two of them are talented and beautiful, and they are more like a wonderful work of art, lighting up the dark night sky.
Yu Xiang said categorically: "Wife, I must not let you follow me like this without explanation, such a good girl as you deserves the blessing of her relatives, please give me another half a year, after half a year, if I can't let you see hope, let's break up!" After speaking, Yu Xiang gently pushed Lili away, shook off his big stride, and walked towards the bus stop without looking back. Yang Lili's crying voice came from behind him: "You fool, you are my hope!" ”
Yu Xiang walked forward with his head lowered ruthlessly, and his tears fell to the ground one by one like pearls.
Yu Xiang was thinking about last week, he was avoiding Yang Lili this week, he wanted to give himself a little time to calm down and think of a way out.
When Yu Xiang was in a daze, there was a knock on the door, Yu Xiang came back to his senses, cheered up and said, "Please come in!" ”
The door opened, and his buddy, Professor Yang, walked in with two books.