It was more than five o'clock when I returned to Nanzhou, the winter nights were long and the days were short, the sun had a tendency to tilt westward, the sun was soft, and the wind was hard. Coming up from the subway station, the summer solstice was blown by the oncoming wind and shrunk his shoulders.

She rubbed her hands together and said, "You should eat a hot pot at this time......

"Yes!" Su Xiaoying said, "Go to the market to buy vegetables, compare who can run faster." ”

Before he could finish speaking, he was already running. Xia Zhi stomped his feet and shouted: "This is not fair, you still run away with long feet!" ”

Running all the way to the market, the summer solstice made the body hot, and it was not so cold. The two went to buy groceries separately, and in less than ten minutes, they had bought their things and gathered at the entrance of the market.

Carrying the ingredients back to Xia Zhi's home, three times five divided by two ready, Xia Zhi put the induction cooker on the coffee table, and immediately started.

The summer solstice eats in a hurry and is scalded to "hiss" and blows. Su Xiao pursed her lips and smiled: "Are you so hungry?" I see you eat a lot at noon. ”

"It's cold, and it's expensive." She talks with her mouth and keeps talking in her hands.

"Your parents...... It's actually pretty good. ”

Xia Zhi looked at him, not sure if he was sad because he remembered his father, whom he had never met, or if he was really expressing the literal meaning, she said: "I really haven't seen them quarrel, the two of them usually aim their guns at me in unison." ”

"Is that an exaggeration? They care about you. ”

She sighed faintly: "I don't deny this." ”

"And after that? What happens after that? Vapor rose from the pot, blurring his face.

"After a while. Anyway, they're used to not going back often, so it's best if they can drag it out for a year and a half. I'm not a golden sweethead, and no one is waiting in line to marry me. Mainly until I'm old enough for my mom to die. ”

"I thought...... You're doing it to put them at ease. ”

"Yes." She chuckled, "It's good to have peace of mind for at least a while." ”

He picked up two slices of fat cows and put them in a colander on the edge of the pot: "Don't you want them to be at ease all the time?" ”

"I want to, I have a weak heart."

"Is it because of him that you don't want to get married?"

Xia Zhi knew that he was talking about Pan Rui, and she shook her head: "No." I told you, before, we ......"

She raised her hand, indicating the quarrel between the two three years ago, Su Xiao nodded, and she continued: "I was really preparing to get married. Not with Pan Rui, with another person, that person, I have almost forgotten what he looks like now. ”

She stopped, took a sip of beer to moisten her throat, and also moistened her thoughts: "I began to formally consider marriage when I graduated from college, I thought I would definitely marry Pan Rui, I was fascinated by him, even if he was not reliable at all, he never let me rely on it, but I still want to marry him."

"What happened later made me feel that it is not possible to grow old and die without love. Love can't pay rent, can't make me swallow my anger, can't make me give up my life pursuit. Then at that time, the whole world was telling me that love and marriage are not necessarily related, and how many people love after marriage. So I wanted to give it a try too. ”

Su Xiao asked her, "How did you know that person?" "Standby station

"Blind date. Very earthy. That's right. She dropped the dishes and chopsticks and stood up, ran to the side of the bed and squatted down, and pulled out a storage stool from under the bed, if she remembered correctly, the lantern was still there, and she was too lazy to throw anything anyway.

"Looking for what?" Su Xiao turned sideways and watched her turn out all the things in the storage stool, and finally found the folding lantern at the bottom, and his memory was also lit up at once, "You still have this?" ”

"Well, I'm more nostalgic." She carefully opened the lantern, and the portrait Su Xiao drew for her was still very clear, "You look in the desk cabinet to see if there are any candles." ”

On her birthday in the middle of the year, Liang Lu and Xiao Yiqing brought a cake, and the leftover candles should still be there. Su Xiao really turned out a small box, he took out a dot and fixed it at the bottom of the lantern with wax oil.

Xia Zhi happily hung the lantern on the lampshade of the floor lamp, she looked at the warm red light and said: "That Lantern Festival, I only knew that person for a week, met four times, and then, my parents, our middleman, felt that we should get married." ”

"Is that an exaggeration?" Su Xiao didn't believe it.

"I guess it's my responsibility. No one urged us directly, but I agreed to what they said. I want to find someone with a financial foundation to fall in love with, so that I don't have to be so tired, and he wants to find a girl with a stable job and can take care of the family to marry. Everyone clearly marked the price, and hit it off. ”

She returned to the sofa and sat down, Su Xiao still looked at the lantern in a daze: "You don't know each other, why do you want to get married?" ”

"That's why I quit, ha." Xia Zhi asked Su Xiao if he had noticed the cabinet glass in the living room, "It was my father who restocked it in the past three years, and there were two or three hundred, all of which I fell." ”

He also went back to the sofa and sat down, with a light smile on his lips: "Xia Zhi, why did you choose me to play this scene?" ”

"Who else can I choose?" Xia Zhi asked him rhetorically, "I helped you act, and you also helped me back, this is called mutual non-arrears." Moreover, isn't the reason why I chose you the same as the reason why you chose me? You won't like me. It's more secure. ”

Su Xiao looked at her for a long time, then lowered his head and said softly, "Summer solstice...... Let's really get married. ”

His words also made her quiet for a while. The soup in the pot was about to run dry, she turned down the heat of the induction cooker and said, "What nonsense." ”

"You don't want to get married, and I don't want to, I'm always trying to hide this and that, it's very tiring. Isn't it very simple to solve a problem that can be solved with a marriage certificate? ”

"Don't be so naïve." She said shallowly.

He laughed, shook his head and said, "I'm kidding." ”

"It's not funny...... Do you still eat it? I'm going to add some water. Without waiting for him to reply, she got up and walked to the kitchen to boil water in an electric kettle.

When she returned, she said, "You should be honest with yourself, you can go to someone who you love and who loves you." Of course, so did I. I don't think it's a good thing to come by, but there's always hope. ”

His eyes flashed: "What if I just find it?" There will be no results. ”

She stared at him and said, "What is your so-called result?" That nine-dollar marriage certificate? That thing can bind your wealth together, your relationships together, but it's not the certificate that really holds you together.

"Many people get married because of love, because of the inseparable blood, wealth and interpersonal pressure around them. However, if one day I don't love anymore, I won't hesitate to divorce. ”

"I can't be as free as you." He said.

"No, you can't be so irresponsible." She laughed at herself, "So, people like me are not suitable for marriage." ”