When it was dark, Liping went home.

It can be said that for the first time in history, after seeing his second daughter, the father said to her very politely:

"Pingping, are you back? Wash your hands and eat. ”

Liping was very surprised by her father's inexplicable enthusiasm and kindness, and looked at her father in a daze for a long time without moving.

To be honest, at this time, her thoughts have not completely returned from the Acacia River! It can also be said that her mind has not completely left the old weeping willow tree, and has not left the state of love with Li Gang who is intimate with each other and snuggled passionately on the lawn.

"Pingping, what's wrong with you, today?"

Seeing her daughter's stunned appearance, Zhang Xueru screamed again strangely, and Liping let out a blank "ah", and then hurriedly went to the kitchen to get the bowl.

At the dinner table, my father continued to drink the bottle of "Four Specials" wine, and his eyes were burned red with alcohol.

After a few glasses of wine, he asked Liping with a misty drunkenness:

"Pingping, I heard that you have been transferred to the province? Why don't you tell your father and mother about such a big thing? ”

"I, this matter, haven't been decided yet!"

Liping didn't know how her father would know the news, so she responded softly in her heart.

She speculated in her heart:

Oh, it turns out that Dad is happy because I have a job and because I was transferred to the Provincial Sports Brigade. No wonder you were so kind to me today!

Liping thought she understood the reason for her father's happiness, and she glanced at him with some lightheartedness, but still a little timid.

Indeed, the issue of her daughter's job is also a major issue that Zhang Xueru has always been very worried about.

Seeing Liping grow up day by day, because she didn't have a diploma, she could only work as a temporary worker at the train station as a temporary passenger attendant. In the future, what will she live on? Do you want to be a housewife for the rest of her life, just like her mother?

You can find a job temporarily, but you can't live a life "temporary"! For Liping's work, Zhang Xueru often sighs.

In the past, it was said that "a family has a woman and a hundred families are begging", but the current society is very different!

If there is no job and no financial resources, many girls now have almost become "no one asks about women in hundreds of families"!

In all fairness, how many of today's migrant workers, including those civil servants, are well-paid? How many men can rely on one person's income to support women and children who eat at home? In today's increasingly demanding enjoyment of material conditions and rising prices, who wants to find a woman with no job and no income, and then work hard to raise her at home?

Her daughter has no way to work, Zhang Xueru often pounds the table and smashes the bench at home, and from time to time she loses her temper at her wife.

Now it's good! My job is solved, and my mother will be less wronged because of it.

Liping looked at her father who was sitting at the table drinking a little wine, and then turned her head to look at her white-haired mother, her heart was sour, remembering that she only cared about Li Gang's feelings and pain, and blindly insisted on returning the employment notice and letter of introduction from the Provincial Sports Commission, and felt that she was too selfish and narrow-minded!

As a daughter, why don't I think about my elderly parents, why don't I think about this family?

It shouldn't be!

Thinking of this, Liping's face flushed.

While blaming herself, Liping lowered her head and gently took a few mouthfuls of rice into her mouth.

Zhang Xueru also misunderstood his daughter at this time.

When he saw that Liping was blushing and only bowing her head to eat, and she was about to stop talking just now, he thought that she was happy about the happy event of being transferred to the provincial capital, that she was fantasizing about her future happiness, and that she was happy that she might become the daughter-in-law of the mayor's family.

After looking at Liping for a while, Zhang Xueru said with a big grin:

"Pingping, don't just think about your thoughts. Come, eat more. Dad is usually reluctant to drink more, but today I am happy, so I will drink two more glasses. ”

He controlled his dizzy head and continued to drink the small wine in his glass.

After eating, my father made an exception and took his grandson to play outside the door.

Before leaving, he specially said to his daughter:

"Pingping, I'll take Xiaobao to go for a walk, don't go out tonight, your mother has something to tell you!"

Liping said "um", put down the dishes and chopsticks, returned to the room where she lived in the back, sat on the bed, and leaned sideways to carefully study the pictures posted on the wall.

The furnishings of this room are actually very simple: against the wall is a small three-foot-wide bed, which was the "wedding bed" used by my parents when they got married a few years ago.

Next to the head of the bed, also against the wall, there are two old four-legged benches with three old wooden boxes stacked on top of each other. In addition, there are a few old cardboard boxes and a few jars for pickles.

Fortunately, Liping loves to be clean, and although the things in the house are simple, she picks them up and sticks them one by one.

At the head of her bed, there are several diving pictures of her favorites, world women's diving champions Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia.

At this moment, she was carefully studying the pictures of Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia.

After a while, her mother packed up the dishes and chopsticks and came to Liping's room lightly.

She sat on the edge of the bed with Liping, and cautiously inquired:

"Pingping, it's good this time, if you go to work in the provincial capital, the whole family will count you as promising!"

"The provincial city is so far away, I don't want to leave my mother."

Liping put her hands on her mother's shoulders and put her head on her shoulder with some pampering.

"Hey, silly girl, can Mom keep you for the rest of your life? You're so old, you're going to get married sooner or later. Look at your sister, didn't she also marry to another place? ”

The mother lovingly stretched out a hand, combed her daughter's black hair with her fingers, and said kindly:

"Go ahead, work hard in the provincial capital, listen to the words of the leader, you can't be the same as at home, just behave!"

The daughter nodded submissively.

The mother smiled happily and then turned to the topic:

"Pingping, you're nineteen years old. Tell your mom that you found a boyfriend outside? ”

She deliberately did not mention Li Gang's name.

"Mom——, you!"

Meng Buding heard her mother ask about this topic, and a red cloud suddenly hit Liping's face, and she pushed her mother slightly shyly, covering her hot face tightly.

In an instant, the beautiful scene that happened on the bank of the Acacia River in the afternoon flashed vividly in front of Liping's eyes: she seemed to feel the opposite, hot, and full of true feelings of her sweetheart......

"Ping, Mom is asking you."

The mother said with a little worry:

"People outside are saying that you and Li Gang are getting along, is there such a thing?"

"No, no! Don't listen to people's nonsense. ”

Out of the girl's shy instinct, Liping shook her head and denied:

"We just often review our homework together and practice diving together, isn't that for the university entrance examination and to find a job?"

"It's good if you don't have it."

The mother let out a long sigh and said half-incredulously:

"Now, your age is not big, you are not small, you have to care. I'm listening,"

Speaking of this, the mother hesitated for a while, remembered her husband's advice in the afternoon, and still asked stubbornly:

"Ping, do you know the son of the mayor of the provincial capital?"

Originally, she didn't want to break the casserole to ask to the end, but she seemed to hear that the old man had come home from outside, and she seemed to feel that he was already in the front room, quietly "listening" to her conversation with Liping.

She knew it wouldn't work if she didn't ask now.

Of course, she was also prepared to ask no results. At the same time, there is a vague hope that her daughter will happily admit that she can tell herself that she does know the son of a certain mayor in the provincial capital.

"Mom, why are you talking nonsense? Where would I know the mayor's son? ”

Liping looked up from her mother's shoulder in amazement, and stared at the beautiful, watery big eyes.

"Well, I also listened to your father. This afternoon, a cadre surnamed Hao came to the provincial capital. Your dad said he was the chief of staff of the provincial and city governments. It was Director Hao who told your dad that you were on good terms with the son of a mayor in the provincial capital! ”

Mom seems to have deliberately raised her voice, deliberately so that the old man who was "listening" in the front room could hear her.

"This is a rumor, there is no shadow at all!"

Liping jumped up from the edge of the bed, stood opposite her mother, and said:

"I participated in the competition in the provincial city, except for a few people from the Provincial Sports Committee and the Sports Brigade, I don't know any other ghosts, who can I get along with?"

"Liping, don't worry! I'm just asking. ”

The mother took her daughter's hand and said:

"Actually, as long as you can make up your own mind, it's not a bad thing to know the mayor's son! Women always have to get married, and if you really know the son of a mayor, your father and I will not object. ”

What's going on? Listening to her mother's chatter, Liping was a little stunned.

From her mother's repeated questioning just now, thinking of her father's politeness during the previous meal, and thinking of Li Gang's lack of news from the employment offer, she seemed to vaguely feel something.

Behind all this phenomenon, is there some kind of secret hidden?

She couldn't guess the mystery, thought for a while, and simply replied:

"Mom, you don't believe what I said, otherwise, I won't go to the provincial capital."

"Fuck you!"

Suddenly, my father's angry roar flew in from the front room.

At this time, Zhang Xueru, who was "listening" in the front room, threw his grandson on the bed, grabbed his slippers, and rushed into the back room.

After coming in, Zhang Xueru pointed at Liping and shouted:

"You money-loser, is it easy for Lao Tzu to raise you so much? I finally got a chance, what the hell are you talking about, and you don't even go to the provincial capital? Do you want me to raise you for another nineteen years? ”

"Dad, don't be angry."

Zhang Xueru's wife saw that the old man suddenly rushed into the back room irritably and became angry, she was a little frightened, and she was also a little worried about her daughter, so she gently dissuaded her husband.

"You ****** less verbose! Pack her bags right away. ”

Zhang Xueru pointed to his wife and said:

"I'll take her to the provincial capital to report tomorrow!"

The father's voice was fierce and angry.

Seeing that her father was suddenly furious, Liping lowered her head timidly in panic, and both mother and daughter were dumbfounded.