Chapter 48: Marriage proposal
After Chen Lu grabbed my little brother, her face immediately turned red. For the brother who was driving in front to see what was wrong. I took Chen Lu in my arms, leaned into her ear, and whispered, "Now that this road is so bad, don't move like this." After a while, the road will be smooth, and I will naturally let you go. ”
Unexpectedly, Chen Lu immediately pulled his hand back from my crotch after hearing me say this. scolded: "Obscene!" Then he punched me in the chest, but I didn't expect this to be heard by the brother who was driving in front of me. Looking through the rearview mirror, we were both laughing.
I immediately said with a black face: "What are you looking at, drive well!" ”
Chen Lu punched me and quickly dodged it, sitting on the other side holding the handle above his head. I had no choice but to sit on the sidelines, covering my chest and rubbing it gently.
After this muddy country road was finished, the road behind it was finally much smoother. The village that hasn't been back for more than ten years. The mountain, the water, and the tree where I used to catch insects when I was a kid were all from a long time ago, but they were still the same. Nothing has changed.
Seeing cars driving into the village, few of the older generation of people in the village went out of the mountains to see the world, most of them have been to the farthest and most luxurious place may be our small county town, some people have even only been to the county seat once in their lives, and they have not even gone out of the far gate, and the place they go to the most is the market in our town.
So for most of the cars, I had only seen them on TV, but now I saw a real car for the first time, and I saw so many cars at once, and almost the whole village came around.
Chen Lu was a little embarrassed to sit in the car at this time, because the people in the village looked at us as if they were aliens, and they wanted to see who was sitting in the car.
I didn't wave to the people outside the car window like those successful people who have returned home from entrepreneurship, and sat quietly in the car waiting to get home, I wanted to surprise Uncle Xu and them.
The convoy slowly drove through the village, and the crowd also came along, and finally, the car stopped in front of Uncle Xu's house, which was a somewhat dilapidated tiled house, and there was a cowshed built with grain grass next to it.
The bustle outside the door attracted the attention of Uncle Xu, who walked out of the house and stood by the courtyard to see who was coming.
I sat in the car and tidied up my clothes, then opened the car door and went out, I haven't been back for more than ten years, and the people in the village have long forgotten what I look like, basically no one recognizes me anymore, and I can't remember what those people looked like in the past, and some people are even completely unimpressed.
When I got out of the car, Uncle Xu recognized me at a glance, and I was stunned next to the yard, I smiled and walked forward, wanting to hug Uncle Xu, when a woman standing next to me suddenly said: "Old Xu, this young man is here to propose to your family's Xiaoru, right?" Look at how energetic this young man is, he looks energetic, and he drove several cars back, your family has found a golden beetle son-in-law, when will we all be able to drink your Xiaoru's happy wine? ”
As soon as the woman said this, the onlookers also started to laugh, but the smile I just showed couldn't smile anymore, Uncle Xu stood beside the courtyard and looked at me blankly, and half of his body leaned out of the door of the house in the courtyard, "Dad, what's going on outside so lively?" ”
Looking at each other, time froze instantly, everything seemed to go back to the past, back to the day when Sister Xiaoru jumped into the river, she struggled desperately in the water, I tried to swim to her side, wanted to grab her hand, but found that no matter how hard I tried, I could only stay in place, and the distance between me and her became farther and farther, until finally the river flooded my sight.
I couldn't believe it was her who was leaning out half of her body behind the door in front of me, and I tried to tell myself that it must be a hallucination, but I rushed towards her as if I didn't listen.
Sister Xiaoru was so frightened that she immediately closed the door, and with a "bang", it attracted the ridicule of the onlookers, and the woman before laughed and said, "Young man, you don't need to be so anxious when you come to propose marriage, right?" Our Xiaoru is a well-known beauty embryo in ten miles and eight towns, you are so rich and don't show some sincerity, our three aunts and six aunts don't agree. ”
After saying that, everyone laughed again, I ignored them, rushed to the door and whispered, "Sister Xiaoru, is it you?" I'm Xiaohai ......."
At this time, Uncle Xu also reacted, and began to ask the onlookers not to coax, let them disperse quickly, Wu Ming and they all got off the car at this time, seeing such a group of young and strong people in black suits getting off the car, the people who were originally interested in watching also began to slowly stop talking at this time, and some people were afraid of causing trouble and left early.
I stood at the door and gently patted the door, trying to get Sister Xiaoru to open the door, but it didn't work, she ignored me, and the movement outside also attracted the attention of Aunt Xu, who was cooking in the kitchen.
The first thing Aunt Xu said when she saw me was: "Xiaohai, why did you come back......"
She blamed her words a little more, as if she was saying that I didn't even say hello when I came back, I turned my head to look at Aunt Xu and said, "Sister Xiaoru is still alive, right?" She didn't die after jumping into the river, did she? ”
Facing my questioning, Aunt Xu stood there and didn't answer me, at this time Uncle Xu had almost driven away the crowd of onlookers, walked behind me and said inside: "Xiaoru, open the door, since Xiaohai has seen it, there is nothing to hide." ”
When I heard Uncle Xu's words, my first reaction was to feel a faint pain in my heart, Uncle Xu and they were completely hiding from me for so long? Is this what they agreed on? In order not to let me know that Sister Xiaoru is still alive, they would rather give up their life in the city than move to the countryside? But what is all this for?
Wu Ming and the others quickly came over, and Uncle Xu didn't take them seriously, but said, "Xiaohai, let these brothers of your wait outside." ”
After speaking, I sat down as such, and asked Wu Ming and them to go back to the car first and wait, not to worry about my safety, at this time, Chen Lu stood aside and probably knew that this matter was not simple, so he didn't say anything, and followed Wu Ming and them back to the car.
After Wu Ming and the others left, Sister Xiaoru slowly opened the door inside, and Aunt Xu did not follow in, but continued to go back to the kitchen to cook, because she knew that I had brought so many people over, and the food she had cooked before was definitely not enough.
The first thing I said when I entered the house was, "Why? ”
Uncle Xu understood what I meant, sat aside and explained: "Because we wanted you to study hard in school, and we didn't want you to have any burden in our hearts, originally we wanted to wait for you to stabilize in school before leaving, but we didn't expect that Xiaoru jumped into the river suddenly, so we had to decide to leave Jiangcheng in advance......"
Listening to Uncle Xu explain the reason for moving away at that time, I couldn't help but ask, "Is it worth it?" Uncle Xu, I'm just a child, you didn't need to do this at all...... But why did you lie to me that Sister Xiaoru was missing? But she's always been with you! ”
When I said this, my voice became a little excited, and Sister Xiaoru sat next to Uncle Xu and said to me for the first time: "Xiaohai, can you not be so excited?" ”
She is still the same her, her voice is still so gentle, and even the kind of domineering towards me before is still in this tone, I watched Sister Xiaoru calm down, and said: "I want to know why all this is, my parents left me quietly, and after I woke up, they disappeared, and then you also had to leave me, at that time I thought that after Sister Xiaoru disappeared, you were afraid to stay in Jiangcheng to see things and think about people, so I didn't say anything, but Sister Xiaoru is obviously still alive, why do you still do this?" ”