Chapter 273: Blind Date
That's it. My assignment became the trigger for my father's heart attack.
The father was in the hospital for a week. I also reported to Yangjiang Hospital a week late. For the first few days, my mother would not let me see my father because the doctors repeatedly asked him to recuperate.
My mother was afraid that my father would lash out again when he saw me, which would aggravate his condition. I ran back and forth between the hospital and my home.
I contracted all the household chores. Except for breakfast, which my mother bought at a breakfast shop near the hospital, I cooked lunch and dinner at home and sent it to the hospital in a thermos flask. I sat in a row of chairs in the hallway and waited for my parents to eat. When they're done, I'll take the cutlery home.
It wasn't until the fourth day that my father himself offered to see me that I was able to enter the ward to see him.
My father asked to speak to me alone. The mother walked out of the ward suspiciously.
My father seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden.
"Daddy."
"Sit down." My father's voice was weak.
"Do you want to be better?" Seeing my father's tired appearance softened.
"I'm not going to die yet."
I looked outside the room.
"I've figured it out. If you want to go to Yangjiang Hospital, go there. Father said.
I looked back, "Thank you." ”
"I really don't have the strength to talk to you. The doctor said I couldn't get any more gas. ”
"I know."
"So there is a condition that you must promise me."
"Conditions?" I looked at my father. Is this a negotiation?
"You can go to Yangjiang Hospital to work, but you can't find a partner there, you have to find a partner in Hua'an." My father tried to calm his mind.
"Why?"
"I don't want you to stay in Yangjiang for the rest of your life. You're going to have to come back sooner or later. ”
"Does this have anything to do with me looking for a partner in Yangjiang?" I asked.
"Of course it is. How many of my decentralised intellectuals have never returned to the city after finding a partner in the countryside and settling down. If you make your home in Yangjiang, you won't be in such a hurry to come back. ”
"Why do you have to go back to Hua'an?"
"Your mother and I will grow old. What parent doesn't want their children to be by their side in their twilight years? ”
"I can take you to Yangjiang." I say.
"People want to stay in their own homes when they're old. Do you say yes or not? Father's tone became domineering again.
I looked out again.
"You won't even agree to this request from your father?" My father looked straight at me.
"Okay, I promise you." I say.
I'm going to have to use a delaying tactic.
But what I never expected was that my father's explanation was not only an explanation, but after I went to work in Yangjiang, he was worried about my marriage.
In the first three years of working in Yangjiang, my parents introduced me to no less than six or seven people, and every year they introduced me to two or three people. I was depressed. On the surface, it was my parents who were anxious for me to get married, and they were anxious to hold their grandchildren, but I always felt that there was something unspeakable behind the scenes.
My mother's side is simpler, really for the sake of my marriage, and on my father's side, he is too enthusiastic, which makes me very puzzled.
According to my understanding of my father, things like finding a blind date with a partner, he will never ask about it as a father.
Now, he is not only inquisitive, but also extremely zealous, isn't that unreasonable?
As long as I take a turn to return to Hua'an, my father will urge my mother to worry about the blind date. said that there was a good girl in the unit, who was beautiful and virtuous, and asked my mother to find a way to contact her, and told me to grasp it. My father also nagged me to talk more and not to be like a dumb person.
My father further advised me: "People should be bolder, girls, always be relatively reserved, and men should take the initiative." Your mother said that the first few girls fell in love with you, but she didn't say anything. Why can't you speak when you see a girl? Why don't you look like your dad at this point? ”
My father told me about how he chased my mother when they were sent to the East Gate. And I don't know how many times my mother has told me about this situation.
"Your grandmother is against it, you know? In order to oppose us, we went to the east gate with your grandmother, and your uncle, who went with us, beat me, and I was not discouraged. Your mother and I got married privately at the east gate. Later, after giving birth to you, the relationship between your grandmother and us eased. ”
"Mom told me about it." I say.
"I don't know what my mother said? Dad just wants you to learn from me, and the key to chasing girls is to take the initiative. You don't speak, you're cold, the other party still thinks how tall you are, and thinks you don't look down on her. "My father was rarely kind.
Of course, the father took the initiative to chase the girl, otherwise, how could he still cheat when he was in his forties?
"I've gone on a blind date, how can I be cold. That's my character. "I prevaricated my father.
"People are meeting you for the first time, where do they know your personality? Therefore, when meeting girls, you must be generous, take the initiative, and say a few nice words. Girls will be overjoyed when they hear something nice. Father said.
"Then it's better for you to go for me."
"I want to go for you." My father rarely smiled in front of me.
In fact, I went on a blind date to show my parents, and I had no intention of getting married.
As a doctor, I don't know how fragile my father's heart is. I don't want to make it worse.
I'm using a delaying tactic.
You arranged for me to go on a blind date, but it's not my fault that the girl doesn't like it. Anyway, I can't go back to Hua'an a few times a year. Deal with it a few times, a year has passed, a few more times, another year has passed, if the convex ring is really magical, Hao Junqi will always appear in my world.
I always think so.
Think about it, how can a blind date with such an attitude be successful?
Three years in the blink of an eye.
In the fourth year, after two blind dates failed, not to mention my father, even my mother was anxious.
They all have the intention that this year will make me definitely get married.
Now that I think about it, it's no wonder that my mother is in a hurry. This year, I am 28 years old.
If it is placed in the countryside, it is already a big problem not to get married at the age of 28, even if it is placed in the small and medium-sized city of Hua'an, in those years, it is not common to not get married at the age of 28.
My father's heart became more and more fragile because I repeatedly failed to meet each other.
My father begged me for marriage.
I knew my delaying tactics were no longer available. I felt that if I persisted, my father would probably fall down one day and never get up again.
I can only take one step back.
So, I made a decision that no matter which girl I went on a blind date with in the future, as long as the other party agreed, I would marry her.
I know that this decision of mine is very cruel to the girl who is about to walk towards me. I'm going to hurt this girl. This girl will rewrite the course of her life because of me.
Because, I didn't want to marry her at all. I'm not going to have the slightest affection for her, let alone fall in love with her. Even if I have the physical desire to be close to it, the Ring Spirits will not allow it.
Is there a reason why such a marriage does not fail?
How can such a decision not be cruel to a girl?
However, this is still a delaying tactic.
What I pray is that if God has mercy, let Hao Junqi return to my life process as soon as possible.
But the next blind date failed. When I saw the girl, I felt a lot of guilt for no reason. I felt like an executioner. So, in the park, sitting on a wooden chair under that big camphor tree, for a whole half hour, I didn't say three words. The blind date is naturally yellow.
The blind date was yellow, and my father went directly to the hospital.
So I had a very difficult time. I don't have to be nagging my mother to cry and talk to me, I know what to do next.
That's how I met Xu Mo.
Xu Mo is a colleague of his parents. We had met before when I went to my father's office. At that time, Xu Mo had just graduated and was assigned to Hua'an No. 2 Middle School, and because there was no suitable work arrangement, he was sent to the Academic Affairs Office to do chores. And my father happened to be the dean of academic affairs.
Xu Mo left a good impression on me, although she is not tall, she is very well-proportioned, and she likes to laugh very much, showing two rows of white teeth and shallow dimples when she smiles.
When I was idle, I sat across from her and talked to her. I love looking at her eyes, they are not very big, they are not double eyelids, but they are indescribably fascinating. Although I am silent, I am still willing to speak in front of her. It's just that I didn't expect to go on a blind date with her at that time, and I didn't even think about making her a victim of my family, because she was in a relationship at the time, and in the short time she was chatting with me, she would answer her boyfriend's phone call two or three times.
It was only after learning about Xu Mo's breakup with her boyfriend that my parents came up with the idea of matching us. Strictly speaking, her boyfriend abandoned her.
"How can I get in touch with her at this time?" I was extremely reluctant.
"This is the time when women need comfort the most, and it is easy to succeed." Mother said.
"I'm not going. There is a suspicion of taking advantage of people's danger. "I tried my best to dispel my mother's thoughts.
"What do you want to do so much? Your dad and I have done a good job of laying the groundwork for you, and she is willing to make contact with you. ”
"Huh?"
No amount of reluctance is impossible.
We went to see a movie. My parents created another opportunity for us to eat. After Xu Mo came out of the emotional shadow, we were busy preparing for marriage, which had nothing to do with whether I had a good impression of Xu Mo in the first place.
As if it was fate, Xu Mo was going to go to her extremely unbearable marriage history.
We went to see the house together, and after the house was purchased, we were busy decorating it. Xu Mo's father was very generous and gave us 40,000 yuan for the renovation. After decorating the house, it is time to buy furniture and electrical appliances. Of course, almost all of these things were accompanied by my parents. I'm in Yangjiang, and I can't do such trivial things.
In essence, I'm running away. From the time I decided to marry Xu Mo to the official marriage, Xu Mo and I have only met twice.