The afternoon sun shines obliquely through the small garden and shines warmly through the floor-to-ceiling windows in the neat house. After sending Shao Wenyu away, Tang Jianyu had nothing else to do, so he sat by the window and chatted with Tang's mother. Tang's mother closed the flower magazine in her hand and said, "Are you strange or not?" Tang Jianyu looked at his mother with an inquiring look, and Tang's mother continued: "I speak Wenyu!" I heard that she came back alone this time. I can't even ask about her foreign husband no matter how I beat around the bush! Tang Jianyu retracted his gaze, looked down at the book in his hand and said, "Don't worry about it."

When Tang's mother heard this, she put her legs together, and said while beating her legs: "Yes, it's not a real daughter." Then let me ask you, you should have said it! When are you going to the woman's house? What to bring? Tang Jianyu didn't raise his head this time, and returned: "I'll discuss with her tomorrow, and I'll talk about it when I come back." Tang Mu nodded, "Let's discuss it early." After this pass, the following things are easy to say. Tang Jianyu raised his eyelids and glanced at his mother, and asked, "What's next?" Tang Mu glared, and replied angrily: "What do you say!" Tang Jianyu raised his eyebrows and moved the corners of his mouth noncommittally.

Because Li Yaxin's work couldn't be adjusted, and he insisted on meeting Tang Jianyu as soon as possible, the two had to make an appointment to have lunch at a small restaurant near the hospital. "Our colleagues come often, and the taste is good and clean." Li Yaxin said as she picked a seat and took Tang Jianyu to sit down.

"Well, order a cold salad with pork ears, mustard fungus, a sweet and sour hairtail fish, garlic short ribs, stir-fried chicken offal, and a tomato egg soup." Li Yaxin ordered a good dish, and when the waiter walked away, she asked Tang Jianyu as if she had just remembered something: "That's all you can do, right?" Tang Jianyu nodded, "I can do it." ”

Li Yaxin smiled, picked up the teapot and poured Tang Jianyu a cup of barley tea first, and asked when he handed it over, "Are you tired from work?" Tang Jianyu took the teacup and thanked him, saying, "It's you who is still working." Li Yaxin took a sip of tea and said softly: "Look at the time you didn't have to connect to the phone that day!" ”

Tang Jianyu suddenly realized that she was still minding her broken appointment, and she was begging for an explanation! He put down the cup, looked at Li Yaxin and said, "I'm really sorry that something happened suddenly that day." The other party quickly shook his hand and said, "No, no, no, I don't want to blame you, but I'm worried about what happened to you." "Ah, in terms of student grades, it's nothing." "Oh, you're such a good teacher."

Saying that, the waiter brought the soup over, and Tang Jianyu took it and put it in front of Li Yaxin. After the two drank the soup, Tang Jianyu said: "It's the New Year soon, I want to visit my uncle and aunt first." Li Yaxin nodded, "I told my parents a long time ago, it's the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, I only had that day off a year ago." Tang Jianyu thought for a while and said, "Okay, just that day." "My house is quite far from the city, you should leave early then." "Okay."

It was extremely cold on the 27th day of the lunar month, and the sky was covered with thick clouds from the morning. The three members of the Tang family got up early in the morning, and Tang's mother repeatedly told her son to pay attention to the etiquette, and Tang's father helped his son count all the gifts and move them into the carriage. After confirming that everything was correct, Tang Jianyu hit the road according to the address provided by Li Yaxin.

Due to the peak of the return trip during the Spring Festival, some sections of the road were a little congested, and the road conditions outside the city were unfamiliar, Tang Jianyu saw Li Yaxin who was picking him up on the side of the road It was already close to noon. "Wow, it's cold." Li Yaxin rubbed his hands and sat in the passenger seat, Tang Jianyu turned on the wipers, and answered: "You are wearing too little, it is snowing." Li Yaxin put down the collar of his coat and showed Tang Jianyu the way.

This was originally a matter of recognizing the door, Tang Jianyu didn't expect that there would be such a big battle waiting for him. In front of the self-built three-story building, there were no less than 20 people, old and young, standing in the cement clearing, all of whom craned their necks to see the direction in which his car was coming. As soon as Tang Jianyu got out of the car, a middle-aged and elderly man with a high forehead rushed up with a group of people, grabbed his hand and said with a smile: "Come on, the weather is bad today, and the family is worried that you will not be able to walk on the road!" ”

Tang Jianyu was not used to being close to people, let alone people who met for the first time, but because the other party might be Li Yaxin's father, he had to shake hands and return: "Uncle, you are worried, it is quite smooth." At this time, Li Yaxin came over and said loudly: "Why are so many people!" Forget it, let people into the house, freeze to death. ”

Seeing that there was a possibility of being carried into the house, Tang Jianyu, who couldn't resist it, hurriedly grabbed Li Yaxin and said, "You let your uncle and them go into the house first, and I will move in with things in the car." Li Yaxin pursed his lips and smiled, and greeted his father. Li's father left his younger brother Li Yafei to help carry things and left, so that the attention of a group of people temporarily left Tang Jianyu.

At the beginning, they recognized their relatives one by one, and gave red envelopes to children in a hurry...... These are good to parry. When it was time for lunch, Father Li opened the wine brought by Tang Jianyu and said during the banquet: "This is the good wine brought by my son-in-law, do you think I can not drink it!" Relatives and friends coaxed, kicking off the prelude to taking turns to persuade drinking.

Sure enough, no matter how wonderful Father Li's performance is, people's attention is always Tang Jianyu. Tang Jianyu humbly held the teacup in the face of all kinds of rhetorical persuasions, and said with a smile: "I really can't drink, and I have to drive at night." "The people who persuade wine don't care about this, tirelessly launching round after round of offensives, Tang Jianyu realized that this is a family with good wine, and he is afraid that he will not be able to escape. In the end, Tang Jianyu had no choice but to grit his teeth and drink three glasses of white wine in a row, and his face was red to the base of his neck. He lit up his glass, and as he sat down, he thought: This must have passed.

Finally survived this veritable banquet, Tang Jianyu just wanted to sleep after accompanying the Li family to send off the guests. Li Yaxin expected him to do this and helped him prepare the bed. "Tell me to go down at three o'clock, I'm afraid that it will be difficult to walk in the snow at night, so I have to leave early." Tang Jianyu said to Li Yaxin before going to bed, and Li Yaxin patted his quilt and told him to sleep peacefully.

After closing the door that Li Yaxin forgot to close when he left, Tang Jianyu fell into the quilt again. His eyelids were heavy, but his consciousness was clear. I don't know if it's the unique smell of the newly bought quilt; or drank too much wine; Or something else made his chest throb suddenly, as if something was about to pop out, but it was stuffed there, and it was extremely uncomfortable. He lay panting like this for a long time, but after all, he couldn't resist the strength of the wine and fell asleep.

It was not Li Yaxin who woke up Tang Jianyu, nor was it the alarm clock, but the phone call from Tang's mother asking where he was. "What time is it?" Tang Jianyu rubbed his temples and asked hoarsely. Tang's mother understood as soon as she heard it on the other end of the phone, "Are you drinking?" Have you slept until now? "Well, his family is so welcoming." "It's seven o'clock, are you still coming back?" "I'm back." After hanging up his mother's phone, Tang Jianyu got dressed, rubbed his face and walked out of the room.

It seemed to be Li Yaxin's mother's voice, smiling with anger, saying something "Six years older, no matter how good he is, no matter how good we are, it's cheap for his ......family" Tang Jianyu hurriedly returned to the room, called Li Yaxin, and after a while, he saw her push the door in, and asked gently: "Wake up, I can really sleep." With that, he walked over to the bed.

Tang Jianyu cleared his throat and asked in a low voice: "Why don't you call me, the alarm clock is also turned off." Li Yaxin bit her lip and replied: "I want you to rest a little longer, it's okay to go back tonight, let's go together tomorrow morning." Tang Jianyu teased his bangs and said "It's okay" sullenly. Li Yaxin smiled disapprenously: "Don't be angry, hurry up and come out for dinner, I'm waiting for you." "Then you go out first, I'll get dressed." Li Yaxin nodded and withdrew.

Dinner was a brand new dish again, and Father Li held the wine cup and said, "Look, it's all remade by your mother." I know you're eating badly. He smiled with a red face, and he couldn't see that he was unhappy at noon because of Tang Jianyu's refusal to drink, "Don't drink with outsiders, drink less with Dad." ”

Tang Jianyu looked at Li Yaxin, she neither supported nor discouraged, and sat alone. Tang Jianyu had no choice but to look at Father Li, his expression was humble and his tone was resolute, "Uncle is really embarrassed, I really can't drink it." Seeing this, Father Li smashed his mouth, put down the wine cup, and said three times in a row, "We don't help me persuade you, it's too good for you." Tang Jianyu smiled and looked at Father Li without evasion

In the middle of the night, the snow did not rise heavily, but a lot of rain came. In this short day, Tang Jianyu has been sitting on pins and needles for too long. It wasn't until he held the steering wheel of his car that he let out a long sigh of relief. He knew that his performance was not good, at least not as good as the Li family's wishes. But only he knew that in the later situation, he had done his best to maintain his demeanor.