Volume 1 08: The Joy of the Chen Family (1)
Xu Xiaoyu's show was ranked in the penultimate order, and the eldest brother Chen Ruiwen had to pull Chen Ruifeng to watch, regardless of whether he wanted to or not. is still in the town hall, or the dance he has watched several times that day, Xu Xiaoyu is still wearing the green military uniform, but it is much farther away from the stage, and there are all the teachers and students in the town in the middle, they are watching carefully, and the eldest brother is also watching very seriously.
The joy on the eldest brother's face couldn't be hidden, smiling like a fool, Chen Ruifeng sighed silently in his heart, and then silently moved to the corner of the wall, standing against the wall, hiding himself in the dark shadow that the light could not shine. The show ended quickly, Xu Xiaoyu and her classmates bowed on the stage, in exchange for everyone's warm applause, the host came to the stage, Xiaoyu stepped down from the other side, she turned her head slightly, he saw her sweet smile, he knew who she was smiling at, and silently withdrew his gaze.
The last show on the stage was still continuing, Chen Ruifeng was stuck in his own thoughts, and when he found that everyone was starting to leave, the eldest brother didn't know where to run, and there was no green on the stage and in the crowd. What are you afraid of at school, it must be back in the classroom. He muttered in his heart, his eyes staring at the stage in a daze.
"Chen Ruifeng !!" The eldest brother appeared at some point, followed by a middle-aged man with a camera, "What are you thinking?" I don't squeak you a few times. The eldest brother's hand waved in front of Chen Ruifeng's eyes, and he blocked it with his hand. Thinking about things. After saying it casually, he turned around and left.
The man with the camera was brought by the eldest brother to take pictures of the three of them, and the eldest brother was very happy and said that he wanted to take a commemorative photo. In the background are the black-tiled and grey walls of the auditorium and the phrase 'Study hard and strive to be the successor of socialism', with the trio standing on the playground under the command of the owner of the photo studio. Xiaoyu stood in the middle of the two brothers, the eldest brother's hand was holding her shoulder, Chen Ruifeng glanced at it with the rest of his eyes, his hand hung casually, and Xiaoyu was separated by a distance of half a person's width, and was called by the owner of the photo studio several times to 'come closer'.
The atmosphere between him and Xiaoyu has changed back to the silence and embarrassment of a few months ago, because he has a spike in his heart, a thorn that cannot be pulled out, reminding him every moment of the relationship between the two in reality. She didn't know what he didn't think about her, and he wouldn't let her know. But no matter how much he reduced the chance to meet her, even if the weekly call was broken, he still cut the thick rope of the eldest brother and his heart that was ready to think about her.
"Three people look at the camera and smile naturally." The photo studio owner holds the lens of the camera in his left hand and shakes it gently with his right hand, reminding the three of them to look at him. The eldest brother and Xiaoyu were laughing, and Chen Ruifeng pretended to be cool expressionlessly. He was trying not to make his face look bitter, in fact, he was happy to see Xiaoyu today, but it was only for a second or two.
"Click!"
Sitting on the stone at the foot of the mountain where no one passed, Chen Ruifeng looked at the wedding card in his hand, and the cold wind of winter blew his face, which was biting cold. Suddenly, for no reason, I remembered that before the National Day, the three of them were in the town to the occasion, and the eldest brother specially washed three photos, saying that there would be no competition.
Chen Ruiwen, the eldest brother who thinks about him in everything, the eldest brother who wants to send him to college and then settle down in the city; Xu Xiaoyu, 'Xiaoyu is your future sister-in-law!' The girl that the big brother likes, and she likes the big brother too. These, Chen Ruifeng is like a mirror in his heart.
After taking a group photo, the eldest brother repeatedly told him to study hard, and whether he could get ahead depends on this time, and the family has no extra money for him to restudy. Xiaoyu also cheered him on, "Come on, Erfeng!" I would love to go to Beijing and see the universities there. "Okay."
Other people's youth is restless, but Chen Ruifeng is very precocious, and his home does not allow him to have extra thoughts on other things. I know very well that I can't do anything, and I can only use the heavy school work to distract my attention, and maybe after a long time the feeling will dissipate. And time seems to have given him what he wants, and at home during the winter vacation, he can be as if he was alone with Xiaoyu.
'New Year, New Beginning! Chen Ruifeng thought so. That's right, Chen's father, Chen's mother, eldest brother, and Xiaoyu also think the same.
A few days after the start of the winter vacation, the eldest brother with a large bag returned home, and Chen's father and Chen's mother announced something in the evening. On January 27, the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, the day when the eldest brother and Xiaoyu got married! This day was selected by the second elder after a few days of the old calendar, and he hoped to set the boss's affairs before the New Year and add more joy to the family. That night, Chen Ruifeng was driven to his parents' room to lay the floor......
Chen Ruifeng's winter vacation became busy, because the eldest brother and Xiaoyu's wedding wine had too many things to prepare, and the eldest brother had to go to work, so he became the most important laborer in the family, first went up the mountain with his father to cut down trees, made a new set of furniture for the eldest brother, a new bed, a new wardrobe, a new table and chairs, and made a dressing table for Xiaoyu.
The rest of the time is to keep moving food home, catching chickens and ducks, helping Chen's mother carry dozens of pounds of pig food every day, feeding the big fat pigs at home, whenever the arm is about to be disabled by pig food, you will begin to wonder why the family is suddenly so rich...... When there was no arrangement at home, he took the test paper to the ginkgo tree in the back mountain to write, the temperature is getting lower and lower, and he is afraid of cold light rain and generally does not go out. Also, she has a thin and small body, and she is afraid of being blown away by a gust of wind.
Time flies quickly, and on this day, Chen Ruifeng has another important job, sending a wedding post.
In fact, there is no habit of sending wedding posts when getting married or placing wedding wine in Chenjiagou or nearby towns, so they are all looking for someone to come to the door to say a sentence and tell them the time to drink the wedding wine. But this time, the eldest brother insisted on doing it in the way of people in the city, Chen's father and Chen's mother did not agree at first, and they had to spend an extra amount of money, and the eldest brother said, 'I am not bad for money to marry a wife!' ’。 Later, when he heard his eldest brother talk about this matter, he realized that the eldest brother actually had a more important intention, which was to let Xiaoyu live with her head held high in the Chen family, because her situation was special, if she didn't get married and had a decent appearance, she would be looked down upon by others in the village in the future, and she would be bullied by them and couldn't hold her head up.
The big red wedding card, the upper left corner is printed with a dragon, the lower right corner is printed with a phoenix, the upper right corner is written with 'a hundred years of good harmony', the lower left corner is written with 'dragon and phoenix Chengxiang', the dragon and phoenix are silver, and the eight characters of 'Hundred Years ......' are golden, although the printing is a little rough, it can't stop its joy; Open the wedding card, which is the name, time and place of the banquet. The content was written by him and Xiaoyu in most of the day, Xiaoyu's words are delicate and beautiful, and his words are chic and casual. During this period, the two did not communicate much, and Xiaoyu would only ask him when he didn't know Chen's father. This time, the family is going to invite all the seven aunts and eight aunts, distant relatives and neighbors.
Chen Ruifeng took the wedding card and became a delivery person, which was the job he took the initiative to invite. After he and Xiaoyu finished writing the wedding card, they felt a breath of anger in their hearts, very stuffy and depressed, they needed fresh air, and they didn't want to stay in the same space with her, because the thorn in their hearts grew again.
After sending my mother's cousin's house, I found a big stone on the mountain road to my father's old classmate to sit and rest, put down the bag in my hand, and prepared to pat off the mud on the hem of my trousers, but I didn't want to see my fingers shining, it was the paint on the bronzing words on the wedding card, sticking to my fingers and even the cold wind in winter didn't want to blow it off. Suddenly remembered the words on the wedding card and read it silently.
"A hundred years together!"