"I'm here to find something."

Sitting opposite Xing Ruyi was a young man in a suit and leather shoes. In his early thirties, there are already a lot of gray hairs in his black hair. His skin was good, but his eyes did not have the vigor that a young man should have, but were lifeless, as if stuffed with things.

"What are you looking for?"

"Peach blossom cake, a kind of dim sum pastry." The young man shook his hand: "I know, my request is a bit excessive, and I also know that you are here a rouge shop, selling rouge gouache." But I was told that what I was looking for was the only way to find it here. ”

"However, peach blossom crisp is not hard to find."

"Yes, ordinary peach blossom crisp is not difficult to find, just find a city, find a street that sells snacks, and maybe you can find a peach blossom crisp. There are even a bunch of them in this online store, but those are not the peach blossom cakes I am looking for. ”

"So what kind of peach blossom cake are you looking for?"

"Honestly, I don't know." The young man grabbed himself by the hair.

It can be seen that he is very entangled and painful in his heart. His fingers were all stuck in the gaps between his hair, black and white hair, and his eyebrows were full of pain.

"What you don't know, let me help you find it." Xing Ruyi stood up, "I'm sorry, I may not be able to help you." ”

"Nope! You will definitely be able to help me, you will be able to help me. The young man grabbed Xing Ruyi's hand at once: "Please, I really have no other way, no other ideas to think of, other people to ask for." ”

"If you don't make it clear, how can you let me help you."

"My name is Marco, the Marco Polo's Marco." The young man's hand hung down: "I studied finance, and my family also did this, and I was decent since I was a child, and there was nothing special." After graduating from university, I stayed in the city and, with the help of my family, opened a billing agency. I don't know if I'm an old man, although my parents took the money to start the company, and they introduced me to a lot of the first business, but I also worked hard myself. In the first half a year of the company's opening, I almost ate and lived in the company, I worked hard to do accounts, desperately pull business, and finally put the company on the right track. When the company started to make a profit, I was exactly 26 years old, and in the eyes of my parents, I was considered to have a successful career, and it was time to start a family. ”

"Twenty-six years old, not very big."

"Yes, at this age, it's not very big." The young man leaned back and leaned lightly on the back of his chair: "As I just said, I have been the kind of decent child since I was a child, like the kind that grew up in a lattice, I didn't grow into a talent, but I didn't grow into a strange person. My parents, like all parents in this city, are ordinary and ordinary, in their eyes, after graduating from college, having their own jobs, and having a decent income, it is time to find a girl to talk about marriage. I myself have no objection to this arrangement of my parents. ”

"Haven't you been in a relationship in college?"

"Yes, but I don't know if it's a relationship." The young man bowed his head: "When I was a sophomore, I fell in love with a girl. Short hair, big eyes, but when you laugh, your eyes become crooked like those crescents. I met her during my morning jog, she was wearing a black tracksuit and a pink headband that is very common for girls, and she was running unhurriedly in the green belt of the campus and in the sun. As I staggered by, I saw her smiling crescent-shaped eyes, and my heart throbbed. I don't know if it was love at first sight, I just know that from that day on, I fell in love with running and seeing her every day. ”

"Did you confess to her?"

"I said I liked to run with her, and she smiled and said, 'Welcome.'"

Although Xing Ruyi considers herself an otaku and doesn't remember any romantic love experience, she despises the confession of the young man in front of her.

"And then?"

"Then we used to run together a lot, and when we got tired of running, we would rest in place and talk together. We talked about movies, we talked about music, we talked about each other's classes, and the teachers who taught us. I'll bring her water, and she'll bring me fruit, and I guess we've been in love. ”

"What do you mean to be in love?"

"I don't know, I don't really have much experience in this area." The young man scratched his head: "She and I ran from sophomore to senior, we both graduated, and left the campus one after the other to go out for internships." Occasionally, we would meet at school, say hello, and make an appointment to eat together, but we didn't leave contact information for each other. After that, we never saw each other again. ”

Xing Ruyi looked at the man in front of him, and he really didn't know what to say.

"I'm actually a very traditional man. When I say tradition, I don't mean the kind of tradition in thought, but I think that as a man, as a son, when he reaches a certain age, he should get married and have children, and he should enter another stage of life. I don't know if my college experience was a relationship, but after work, especially after work got on track, I knew that it was time for me to get married, I should have a wife, and I should have children. My sons and daughters are fine, I don't have a patriarchal mentality, and my parents don't have a patriarchal mentality. Moreover, the conditions at my family are okay, and now that the second child is also open, it is okay for us to have two. ”

"Are you married, then?"

"Hmm." The young man nodded, and looked at Xing Ruyi with some embarrassment: "I know that I am very verbose and trivial, and I shouldn't talk about my marriage from my university, but I think that if I don't say that, I can't tell you why I am looking for peach blossom cakes." ”

"It's okay, I actually like to listen to people talk about my life experience."

"Thank you." The young man shook his hand.

"Adults who have entered society want to get married, and there are only so many ways. Introductions by friends, mutual admiration by colleagues, and traditional blind dates. Xia Xia was introduced to me by a friend. Oh, Xia Xia is my wife's name. Her surname is Xia, her name is Xia Yutao, and she said that her mother gave birth to her on a rainy day in a hospital with many peach trees. She felt that her name was not good, so she asked me to call her Xia Xia. ”

"Xia Xia, a very cute name."

"But my wife is not cute at all." The young man shook his head, but the words were extremely affectionate: "The first time we met, it was the kind of people who were together. Xia Xia was brought by a friend of mine, and she sat quietly in the corner with shoulder-length hair and comfortable and unobtrusive clothes. When others talk, she will smile, look and listen very attentively, and when it is her turn to speak, she will try to be as short as possible and her tone will be soft. In short, she gave me the impression that she was sensible, virtuous, gentle, and generous, especially suitable for a girl who could be a wife. As it turned out, I was right. ”

"She's a good wife, isn't she?"

"Hmm." The young man nodded: "She's almost a perfect version of a particularly qualified wife." Because she's good, because she's unique, I love her so much, and I really, really love her. ”

"So, that peach blossom crisp is ......"

"It's Xia Xia, and it's what my wife wants to eat." The young man's hand shook again: "This year is the fifth year of our marriage. In the past five years, we have been very affectionate, and Xia Xia and my parents get along very well. ”

"Then you should be very happy."

"Yes, I have always felt very happy, but happiness does not mean that there are no regrets."

"Son, you don't have children, do you?"

"Hmm." The young man nodded: "In the first year, Xia Xia and I didn't have any special contraception. I, naturally, want to have a child, Xia Xia's thoughts, I didn't ask, but she didn't ask me either. I think that our thoughts should be the same, we love each other so much, we should have a love crystallization of our own. But a year has passed, two years have passed, three years have passed. Some of those who got married later than us have already had a second child, but between Xia Xia and me, there have never been any children.

My parents are the kind of parents who are quite enlightened, although they are anxious to hug their grandson, they have never accused me of anything, nor have they complained to me privately about Xia Xia, saying that Xia Xia is unwilling to have children or anything. ”

"Many parents don't complain to their sons, but they will talk to their daughters-in-law in private."

"I know what you said, I don't live with Xia Xia and our parents, but we go to my parents' house every weekend to eat with them. I'm worried that they will embarrass Xia Xia in private, and always find every excuse to stay with Xia Xia. Privately, I also asked Xia Xia, and she said that my parents did not ask her about the child, but told her that young people should live their own lives first. ”

"Then, what did Xia Xia say about the child."

She doesn't seem to have any special expectations for having children, but she doesn't have any special aversion. I think Xia Xia's personality has always been very casual and casual. It's like, when the child comes, she will naturally accept it and will be a good mother. If the child doesn't come, she doesn't force it, she just does her job every day and is a good wife. ”

"That peach blossom crisp is ......"

"At the beginning of this year, Xia Xia suddenly fell ill, she couldn't eat anything, and all she thought about every day was peach blossom cake. At first, we didn't think there was anything wrong with Xia Xia's illness, thinking that she might be sick and wanted to eat something. But when we bought all the peach cakes we could find and put them in front of her, we realized that the problem might be more serious than we thought. Those peach blossom crisps that were bought, Xia Xia would spit them out as long as she tasted it, and then said like crazy: No! Not this one! Not this one! ”