(The storyline is fictitious, the official must not sit in the opposite seat, the similarity is purely a coincidence)

Unexpectedly, a few days later, Harry's mother came to Oxford again to attend a relative's wedding, and Harry invited her to go too.

There were a lot of people at the buffet, and although they were not all dressed in fancy clothes, they were all very generous and decent.

Some walked around with wine glasses, while others sat and chatted under large parasols, which were lined in several rows, white, brown and dark green.

Harry's mother and Harry were sitting under a large coffee-colored parasol chatting, and her mother was chatting with Harry: "Harry, when are you going to get married?" Are you still planning to get married? ”

Harry said, "I haven't figured it out yet. Marriage seems far away. ”

The mother said, "The point is, are you sure you have found someone to marry?" Another person in marriage. ”

Harry smiled and said, "Hehe, I can't say 100% sure, the point is that I don't know what the other party thinks." ”

The mother smiled and said, "Oh, I guess, 'that's nice,' isn't it?" If there is such a person at the moment, it must be her, because no one else, your friends, has let me meet, hehe, right? ”

Harry nodded, smiling, "Uh——, yes, that, you guessed it. We're trying to date, and she's pretty reserved, uh——, but sometimes she doesn't seem to be as enthusiastic about me as she is, or rather, she doesn't express it very much, whatever, this kind of thing needs to continue dating to know......"

Mother nodded: "Yes, yes, life is a marathon, it is a long way for two people to get along, and marriage is a long river." ”

Harry said: "Hehe, yes, she seems to have had a boyfriend in China, and she should have broken up some time ago. As for marriage, it may be a little far away for us now. Again, to be honest with my mother, the last marriage was not smooth, and the shadow left on me doesn't seem to have completely faded......"

Everyone who came and went at the wedding dinner had sweet smiles on their faces, clinking glasses to each other and saying blessings. Jing Hao walked over from the side, holding a drink, and stood not far behind Harry.

Harry's mother said, "Yes, they are Americans, and they are not exactly what we think, and you found an American woman to marry and went to the West Coast of the United States, and I was actually worried...... It's good that everything is over, now start again, you are still young, this time you will choose the good one. ”

Harry said, "Well, yes Mother, thank you. ”

Harry and his mother touched a slender goblet containing a beautifully coloured cocktail – his mother's orange with tequila and orange, and Harry's icy blue with blueberry and vodka.

Harry's mother pursed her lips and took a sip of agave orange, and said with a kind face: "Mothers all over the world are the same, the secret hidden in a mother's love is love, something that money can't buy." (The original English proverb: "Mothers are the similar people, The real secret behind motherhood...") Love, the thing that money can’t buy.” ）

Harry said apologetically, "Mother, I'm sorry that I didn't realize that I was worrying about your personal life. ”

Harry's mother said, "You don't have to apologize, it's not that I want to get too involved in your personal affairs, it's just that you just said that she wasn't enthusiastic about you?" So, do you think she wouldn't be like some people, for example, Billy's ex-wife, who probably dated and married an Englishman for the sake of a British identity? ”

Harry's mother whispered angrily at the man next to her, her voice slightly lowered.

Harry grinned, shook his head, and said, "Uh——, I don't think so. Definitely not. She's not like that, and I don't think she needs to do that. ”

Harry's mother said: "You know, what they think as foreigners, we don't really know, if she was an Englishman, it would be much easier to communicate, or even if she was French or Spanish, I think it would be better." ”

Harry said, "Oh, Mother, you're too worried. In addition, who to meet is really a fateful arrangement. ”

Jing Hao was standing behind them with a very light yellow cherry juice cocktail, and a few people walked past her, she didn't actually hear the whole conversation between mother and son, but she clearly heard the second half of the conversation that could easily cause unpleasantness, she couldn't be indifferent, heard this, and quietly walked away with the cocktail.

Harry's mother did have more or less doubts. However, Jing Hao also took it out of context, misunderstanding Harry and his mother.

She didn't even hear the last words of Harry's conversation with his mother: "Oh, mother, you're too worried. In addition, who to meet is really a fateful arrangement. Maybe she'll be relieved to hear it. She pondered the words ahead, very unhappy. She has only dated Chen Dongliang's boyfriend, and she doesn't have much experience. She took the cup, paced her steps, and walked around a little lost.

So, what kind of relationship is it with Harry? He is indeed very warm sometimes, but he has never expressed enthusiasm, even if the two of them were alone in the room that day, and the objective conditions were so sufficient, he did not show a little closeness and intimacy, even if he took the initiative to hug himself...... If you rely on this, I really don't know how to judge whether the two are dating. Is it yourself, unattractive?

The warm and romantic grass newlywed buffet is just around the corner, but Jing Hao is a little lonely in her heart, and the comparison between the two will inevitably give birth to a cold and miserable insecurity, which she has not had in her heart before. She even began to complain about herself, complaining about herself, why she didn't have the courage to ask Harry directly what kind of feelings he had for her. Yes, you should have been proactive.

But when to ask? Just took the initiative to walk over without being stunned, and asked, "Do you love me?" Are you going to marry me one day? "Definitely not appropriate.

Jing Hao walked to the grass next to her, pondered these things, and took a sip of the juice cocktail—in her hand, a clear yellow juice wine with cherries and agave, a wine that Jing Hao thought was closest to the original juice. But now that she drank one sip and another sip, she couldn't even taste anything.

Suddenly, there was a "boom", which was a prompt for Jinghao's mobile phone to receive a WeChat message. When she opened it, it turned out to be several pictures sent by Chen Dongliang to her small window: Chen Dongliang and Lei Xiaoming are married! In a five-star hotel by the sea, the wedding scene was very lively, Lei Xiaoming wore heavy makeup, Chen Dongliang was proud of the spring equinox, toasting, drinking, Chen Dongliang smiled too much, the makeup on Lei Xiaoming's face was spent, and the dark circles under his eyes were scary......

Jinghao was so surprised that she almost spilled the yellow juice wine in her hand, and she quickly put the wine glass on a nearby wooden round table.

Jing Hao quickly calculated the time, it should be seven or eight o'clock in the evening on the Chinese side, it seems that it is the wedding scene at noon, and it should not be in progress.

She transferred her mobile phone WeChat to the circle of friends again, and saw that Chen Dongliang had just posted a nine-picture message with text in the circle of friends ten minutes ago: "Friends, bless us, my dear Xiaoming and I have been in love for two years through ups and downs, it is not easy, and we finally come together!" At noon and in the evening, thank you for coming and sharing the joy of our lives! ”

Chen Dongliang seems to be a person who has nothing to do with Jinghao, but when she saw this message and the pictures that Chen Dongliang deliberately sent her, her heart still seemed to be stung, especially: "My dear Xiaoming and I have finally come together after two years of ups and downs!" ”

Chen Dongliang actually said that it was "two years of love"! In other words, Chen Dongliang has been dating this person for two years! Have you been kept in the dark? This "dear Xiaoming" must be the "Lei Xiaoming" that his mother inadvertently mentioned to him several times!

Chen Dongliang was deliberate, a bit bluffing, and exaggerated, but his goal was achieved, and he used a few pictures and a paragraph of text to easily affect Jinghao's mood through WeChat, so that she was in a corner of England thousands of miles away, at someone else's grass wedding buffet, and her heart was suddenly in a mess......

Theoretically speaking, since they broke up, whether Chen Dongliang and Lei Xiaoming get married, or who Chen Dongliang marries, has nothing to do with Jing Hao, the reason Jing Hao understands, but Chen Dongliang's "two years of love" still stimulated her, has she been deceived? Her expression was wooden, from the huge backyard grass of this relative, into the living room, as soon as she entered the living room, and an unknown person gently bumped into the ground, the blue cocktail in the person's hand spilled on the ground, people quickly apologized, she waved her hand, expressionless and walked away, just a few steps, tripped over something, the cup in her hand was also thrown to the grass, fortunately it was grass, it didn't hurt too much, the cup was not broken, she quickly got up......

Then, Jing Hao didn't know why he walked out again, and walked towards the grass, one foot deeper, one foot shallow, as if one leg was long and the other leg was short. On the pink dress and long skirt, a small slice of light blue cocktail was sprinkled - apparently the person who had just bumped into the person on the other side, serving the same blueberry and vodka flavored ice blue cocktail as Harry.

In fact, Jing Hao didn't know the truth about why Chen Dongliang suddenly married Lei Xiaoming. If she knew, she might have been deep in thought rather than unhappy.

Chen Dongliang was not easy, first became a scapegoat in the unit; Then, Jinghao's mother looked for a detective to investigate him, and called again, forcing him to clarify the matter with Xiaolei, of course he couldn't tell him clearly; At the same time, Jing Hao had to postpone his return to China for no reason; Xiao Lei continued to stalk him, called him every day, even went to his work unit to find him, and went to his house downstairs to wait for him, during that time he was almost annoyed with these people, this series of unsmooth made him extremely emotionally unstable, only his parents still understood him, and he was more relaxed when he returned home to face his parents. Who knew that the house leak happened to be rainy, during this period of stock speculation failed, his parents put him there 850,000, as well as his own 150,000, a total of 1 million, less than two weeks, the market value evaporated 200,000, he found out that he was a little impatient, anxious to return to the original, continuous selling, buying, selling, only a few days and lost 130,000, this is a real loss, equal to the family's 1 million savings in an instant! Chen Dongliang was very annoyed and angry, and he really stuffed his teeth after drinking cold water.

Coincidentally, the money from his parents was originally kept for him, so he almost never asked, but on the day when Chen Dongliang's account was completely missing 330,000, his father suddenly called him, saying that he and his mother had just seen a townhouse in the high-tech zone, and wanted to ask Chen Dongliang to go to see it together on the weekend. Sell it when the price is right, don't wait for the house price to really fall, and regret holding several houses in your hands. Again, anyway, Chen Dongliang's wedding house is already there, so that the family has an apartment in the urban area, and there is a townhouse in the high-tech zone, which is also reasonable, and his father said that these houses are also left for Chen Dongliang sooner or later, and the money from the sale of the house is also his, so let him find time to see the townhouse, so that he can finally make up his mind.

Chen Dongliang asked his father, how big is this villa, how much is the total price, his father said, a total of 196 square meters, with a south and a north two small yards, two floors, but also send a 95 square meters of semi-underground space with windows, not big or small, all bedrooms face south, the overall is good, the total price is only 256 now, I heard that the price will increase by 20% next month, I don't know if it's true or not, so we have to hurry.

Chen Dongliang thought of the 330,000 yuan, his heart was weak, and he asked: "Dad, if you really buy it, how can we pay appropriately?" Borrow more or borrow less? ”

The father said: "There is no need to borrow more or less, just normal, you don't have a hundred, your mother and I still have seventy or eighty in our hands, we have to leave two or three hundred thousand in our hands in case of emergency, so we give the fifty-six, we can borrow a total of 100, the three of them have a lot of provident funds, and if they don't take it out, they will also put it like that, so that there will be a surplus to repay the loan together." If you want to pay off the loan early, then sell the house in the city early, and you will have a lot of money left after paying off the loan...... What do you think? ”

Chen Dongliang didn't dare to say to his father on the phone that he had lost 330,000 yuan in stock speculation, so he said "um" a few times, put down the phone, and was stunned for a while, thinking that soon even his parents would dislike him for not being angry.

That night, Xiao Lei asked him to have dinner with him, but Chen Dongliang did not refuse, he was afraid to go home and face his parents. During the meal, Xiao Lei found that Chen Dongliang's face was not good, and after three questions and two questions, Chen Dongliang couldn't hold back and said it, shaking his head as he spoke, very annoyed. Chen Dongliang didn't take Xiao Lei very seriously, so he was able to open his mouth when he faced her, who knew that Xiao Lei's reaction surprised him.

Xiao Lei held his hand and said, "Dongliang, don't worry, you don't have to talk to your parents for the time being, I'll make up the money for you." All my savings are exactly 300,000 yuan in total, and I can borrow 30,000 yuan from Mr. Lan first, which is equivalent to four months' salary advance, and you can use them all. ”

Chen Dongliang was almost stunned and looked at Xiao Lei.

Xiao Lei said: "Dongliang, I'm not joking, I'm serious. ”

Chen Dongliang said: "Why do you have so much savings? Where did you get the money? ”

Xiao Lei said: "I originally wanted to buy a house, so my parents gave me 220,000 yuan for the Chinese New Year this year, which should be the money they saved for a lifetime, I originally saved 80,000 yuan in my hand, adding up to 300,000 yuan, but unfortunately this money is not enough even for a down payment, plus Mr. Lan said that I can live in her small apartment all the time, as long as I work here I can live all the time, so the money has not been moved." ”

Chen Dongliang's nose was sour, but he couldn't hold back his tears, he finally believed that Xiao Lei was really good to him and really loved him. He blamed himself in his heart for thinking of Xiao Lei as such a philistine and utilitarian.

After the villa was done, Chen Dongliang told his parents that he planned to marry Xiaolei, and his parents knew that Jinghao and Dongliang had temporarily broken up, but when they heard that he was going to marry someone else so soon, they still didn't agree, and always hoped that he could get back together with Jinghao. But Chen Dongliang was very resolute and said that he would not marry anyone except Xiao Lei.

Chen Dongliang's parents had to meet with Xiao Lei, and Xiao Lei was very positive and brought gifts to Chen Dongliang's parents.

Chen Dongliang's parents were very cold to Xiao Lei at first, but Chen Dongliang talked about Xiao Lei's advantages and benefits at home every day, and Xiao Lei also came to the house to work for two days on the weekend, helping to clean up and cook. The parents saw that Jing Hao's side was completely yellow, and they could only gradually accept Xiao Lei.

Speaking of Xiaolei, she really loves Dongliang, she doesn't want expensive gifts or luxurious weddings, she just wants Chen Dongliang. Of course, Chen Dongliang's parents didn't want to be too simple, so they still gave them a decent wedding.

Jing Hao knows this. She was depressed, and she only felt that Chen Dongliang had deceived her, and he had deceived her for two years. Chen Dongliang wrote like that in the WeChat circle of friends, of course, he deliberately angered her. Now the sub-goal has been achieved.

She glanced at Harry and his mother's large coffee-colored parasol on the other side of the meadow, but instead of going over to sit with Harry and his mother, she turned back to the living room again, her mind and heart full.

Harry turned his head and noticed that Jing Hao had been walking this way just now, and why was she gone, so he got up and looked for her everywhere. Looking east and west, Harry finally saw her in the corner of the living room, but Jing Hao deliberately pretended not to see him, and walked to the balcony alone.

Harry followed him to the balcony and asked, "Why don't you sit and chat with everyone in the courtyard?" ”

Jing Hao suppressed a nameless fire in her heart, she suddenly frowned and whispered to Harry: "You suggested that I wear this dress, but I can't open my legs, it's very inconvenient, I just fell down, you said you have to wear this kind of skirt, but you see, there are obviously several women over there who are wearing trousers!" ”

Harry quickly apologized to her: "That's good, that, I'm sorry, I didn't say I had to, I meant that I suggest you wear this dress better, more feminine." ”

Jing Hao said: "Am I not usually feminine? ”

Harry said, "I, that's not what I meant. ”

Jing Hao said: "Then, why am I more feminine only when I wear this narrow and strange dress?" ”

Harry said: "Because people usually choose this kind of dress and skirt for weddings, it is probably better to show off the beautiful figure of women." ”

Jing Hao whispered: "Doesn't my figure look like a woman if I wear long pants?" ”

Harry shrugged his shoulders, spread his left hand, and said, "But, quiet, listen to me, I don't mean that, I just think it seems that it might be more appropriate to wear such a dress, that, and, I really didn't know before, your sense of self and feminism is so strong." ”

Jing Hao said: "How can this be called women's rights? At least I'm human! I'm a person who can wear whatever I want! I'm a free man! You British people always like to say, this is a free country, isn't it? (Free Country)

Harry said, "Well——, of course, but I really don't mean to command you, or influence your dressing. Well, I'm sorry, I probably didn't fit and shouldn't have let you choose this dress. ”

Jing Hao said: "Also, I would never want to get the same UK passport as you, or even associate with anyone for this reason!" ”

The sound was a little louder than just now, and Harry looked around, and the other people around him probably couldn't understand what they were saying, and they couldn't smell *, but two people looked back and forth.

It dawned on Harry that she understood the real reason for her tantrum - she must have heard some of the conversation between her mother and herself, especially the part about Billy's ex-wife for British status.

Harry spread his hands, paused for a moment, and said calmly, "Well, I'm sorry, it's my fault. Some of what I just said is inappropriate, and you may have misunderstood. ”

Jing Hao said, "What did I misunderstand? Freys they said the same thing, and your mother said the same thing, you really think so highly of your UK status! ”

Harry said, "Well, I didn't think that way, and my mother didn't mean it that way, you misunderstood my mother." ”

Jing Hao said, "What did I misunderstand? ”

Harry shrugged, spread his hands, and walked away with his cup alone.

Jing Hao looked at his back, feeling a little embarrassed, she didn't control herself. Harry was also a little embarrassed in his heart, in fact, not only the conversation between his mother and him that day would make Jing Hao misunderstand, but also the nonsense that two school colleagues in the Chinese restaurant had talked about before, and the topics that his mother had provoked in the previous few meetings, which were obviously unpleasant. He understood her, but Harry couldn't think of a way to mitigate the conflict, which he mentally defined as Cultural shocking. With a muttering phrase in his mouth, he said, "Cultural shocking, Cultural shocking...", and walked towards the big parasol on his mother's side.