When she arrived at the place, Tong Yan saw the sentry on duty at the door, and realized that Lu Jinzhi's family background should be very unusual. Tong Yan looked at Lu Jinzhi with a complicated expression, Lu Jinzhi shook her hand and gave a comforting smile.

The car door opened, Lu Jinzhi got out of the car first, and when Tong Yan got out of the car, he took the initiative to reach out and help him, and the people standing at the door were stunned. A little girl of seventeen or eighteen years old appeared at the door of the car, wearing a light blue tweed dress, a white belt tied around her waist, a pair of black sheepskin boots, and a black woolen coat. There was a sweet smile on his face.

Zhang Qiao knew that his son was coming back, so he still came back with his prospective daughter-in-law. I was excited, so I got up early, urging Sister-in-law Zhang to buy vegetables and prepare refreshments. I ran to the door and looked at it several times, and asked Lu Xinian: "The train won't be late!" Lu Xinian was upset when asked: "If it's late, I'll be called over there." I said, what are you excited about, and it's not you who came to the door. Zhang Qiao glanced at him and replied, "What do you know?"

When he saw Tong Yan, Zhang Qiao was a little satisfied, with a white and tender face, a pair of big eyes, and he was not short, standing next to Lu Jinzhi just right, and the two were very compatible in appearance. Xu Jing thought to herself: This girl is really beautiful, the appearance of a southern girl, slender and smart, if Miao Miao is a blooming rose, now this girl is a lily with ice and jade.

Zhang Qiao walked over when she saw Tong Yan and took the initiative to greet her: "It's Xiaotong, I'm Xiaoyi's mother." Tong Yan was stunned for a moment, and said in her heart: Who is Xiao Mi? Lu Jinzhi was embarrassed, "Mom, you talk well." ”

Zhang Qiao hurriedly changed her words: "I am Jinzhi's mother." ”

Tong Yan stood up straight respectfully, and shouted with a smile: "Hello aunt." ”

"Hello, hello. Tong Yan's voice is crisp and pleasant, Zhang Qiao listens to it like the call of a lark in her ears, and she can't like it.

Lu Jinzhi really didn't want to stand at the door to chat, didn't he see that someone was already stretching their necks to look here!

Lu Jinzhi hurriedly interrupted: "Go home and say, go home and say." Xu Jing looked at the little uncle with a smile, he has always been a steady person, and it is rare to have such an angry look. Of course, Lu Jinzhi was angry, and said in his heart: I am really a mother, and I don't look at the occasion when I call people nicknames. Lu Jinzhi walked inside with his things, and several women also took some light objects and walked home.

Zhang Qiao saw this big bag and complained: "It's not that you don't want to bring things back, but take so much, both of you are coming back by train, and it's inconvenient and hard." ”

Lu Jinzhi took out the things he brought from home, Xu Jing helped on the side, and said to Tong Yan: "I am Jinzhi's sister-in-law, it's okay to call me Xu Jing." Tong Yan obediently called: "Sister-in-law Lu." Xu Jing nodded, and said in her heart: It's a good girl.

Tong Yan took out a pack of "White Rabbit" and handed it to Xiao Zhao, who quickly pushed it. Tong Yan smiled and persuaded him: "For the New Year, just eat a snack, it's okay, take it." Zhang Qiao looked at it and said in her heart: This girl can be a person. said to Xiao Zhao: "Xiao Zhao, take it, go back early, it's cold, drive carefully." Xiao Zhao saw that Zhang Qiao had spoken, and took the candy and thanked him.

Lu Xiannian walked out of the house, and Lu Jinzhi hurriedly introduced: "Dad, this is Tong Yan." He said to Tong Yan again: "This is my father, the chief of staff of a certain department, Comrade Lu in the past." Tong Yan looked at Lu Xiannian dressed in military uniform, and a little awe rose in her heart, and greeted her in a proper manner: "Hello Uncle Lu, I am Tong Yan." ”

Lu Xinian looked at Tong Yan's clear eyes and nodded, "Hello, come in and sit." In addition to Lu in the house, there are also Lu Jinzhi's nephews and nieces. Tong Yan also greeted them. Lu Zhen is an older sister, a teenage girl, quiet and delicate, Lu Huan, tiger-headed and tiger-brained, at first glance, she is a leather boy.

The house was very warm, Tong Yan felt warm as soon as she entered the house, her hands and feet, which were originally frozen stiff in the car, began to liven, Tong Yan wanted to take off her coat, but Lu Jinzhi stopped, "Put on it first, you just entered the house, and you will take it off later." ”

Everyone looked at Lu Jinzhi with incredible eyes, is this still the cold Lu Jinzhi? It seems that he really cares about the girl.

After another round of greetings, everyone sat around the table, and Sister-in-law Zhang brought tea and fruits. When Tong Yan saw her, she took the initiative to get up and greet Sister-in-law Zhang, who looked at Tong Yan and praised Tong Yan vigorously. When she saw the bag of white noodles and red dates brought by Tong Yan, Sister-in-law Zhang was even happier and proposed: "I'll make jujube cakes for you tomorrow morning, it's rare to see such big jujubes." ”

Tong Yan's travel bag also contained a ham, two dried fish, five catties of sausages, more than a dozen catties of peanuts, walnuts, and several bags of tight ingredients. Tong Yan explained: "These foods are for everyone, and a few pieces of ingredients are for my aunt and sister-in-law Lu." He took two more packets of candy out of his bag and handed them to the two children.

Not to mention Lu Xiannian's family, even Lu Jinzhi was shocked by Tong Yan's generosity. Lu Jinzhi saw that everyone's eyes were looking at him, and quickly explained: "These things are all prepared by Xiaotong, I don't know anything." Tong Yan just smiled when she looked at everyone. Lu Xinian spoke: "Little boy, you are too polite. ”

Tong Yan explained: "Uncle Lu, this is the first time I've come here, and it's the New Year, so I can't avoid disturbing here for a few more days, and besides, it's rare for everyone to have a reunion, so I'm happy." Zhang Qiao saw that Tong Yan's words were beautiful, and she was a little satisfied, and said with a smile: "This time my aunt accepted it, and next time I am not allowed to spend money indiscriminately." Tong Yan nodded yes.

Two of the materials Tong Yan brought were corduroy, which was also good. was going to be divided between Zhang Qiao and Sister-in-law Lu, but Zhang Qiao opened her mouth first and gave the two pieces of material to Sister-in-law Lu. Leave a few other pieces of plain cotton cloth for yourself. Sister-in-law Lu liked these materials very much, thanked Tong Yan, and thanked Zhang Qiao. Tong Yan watched the interaction of this family, and her first impression was not bad.

After that, it entered the stage of "checking the household registration", and Chief of Staff Lu drank tea with a teacup and only listened with one ear. Zhang Qiao opened her mouth: "Xiaotong, where do you work?" Tong Yan glanced at Lu Jin, which meant: You didn't tell your family.

Tong Yan's meaning Lu Jinzhi understood, Zhang Qiao also understood, and complained to Tong Yan: "I asked Jinzhi, he didn't tell me anything, and now I have to ask you." ”

Tong Yan smiled and replied obediently: "Lu Jinzhi and I are both employees of the machinery factory, he is in the main factory, I am in the branch factory, and I work in the finance office. "Zhang Qiao is satisfied, the financial office is good, suitable for girls. Tong Yan said, "Very good, the master who took me was very good to me, and he was willing to teach me, and everyone was good to me." ”

Zhang Qiao nodded again: The little girl's interpersonal relationship is also good, which means that she is easy to get along with. Again, "How old are you?"

Tong Yan replied with a smile: "Seventeen." Lu Xinian, who was holding the shelf, heard this, choked on a mouthful of water in his throat, and Zhang Qiao looked at Tong Yan with a stiff smile. Xu Jing felt that it was behind her ears, and asked again: "You just said how old you are?"

Tong Yan looked at the performance of several people, and understood a little bit in her heart, so she changed her words: "After the New Year, I will be eighteen." After speaking, he looked at the faces of several people, and inexplicably looked at Lu Jinzhi again. Lu Huan on the side blinked his big eyes, interjected, and said to Lu Zhen: "Sister, you are three years younger than your little aunt." ”

There was silence for a while. Lu Jinzhi glared at the little nephew fiercely, Xu Jing patted his son's head, although the little guy didn't understand why everyone didn't speak, but he also vaguely understood that he had said the wrong thing. Tong Yan subconsciously rubbed her wrong hands and felt a little embarrassed.

Zhang Qiao saw that everyone didn't speak, so he had to open his mouth to break the deadlock, and then asked: "Then Jin Zhi is so much older than you, are you willing to do it?"

"What?" When Tong Yan heard this, she turned her head to look at Lu Jinzhi, who quietly clenched his fists and stared at Tong Yan. Tong Yan asked with a serious face: "Lu Jinzhi, how old are you?"

Lu Xinian, who originally wanted to moisten his throat, squirted out a sip of tea, and said in his heart: I can't drink this tea today. Zhang Qiao almost wanted to hold his forehead, and said in his heart: Are these two people dealing with each other? Sister-in-law Lu looked at Tong Yan with a complicated expression, and then looked at her daughter. The heart said: I have to educate my daughter well, and I can't be so stupid as this.

Lu Jinzhi said slowly: "I am ten years older than you. Tong Yan was stunned, slowed down, patted her chest and said, "It's okay, it's okay." In the few seconds that Lu Jinzhi was waiting, his heart was about to jump out of his chest, and when Tong Yan said that it was okay, his heart slowly fell back, and the hand that was clenched into a fist gradually loosened.

Lu Xinian suddenly stood up from the chair and said to Lu Jinzhi with a straight face, "You, come in with me." ”

Everyone looked at Lu Xinian, Tong Yan looked at Lu Xinian's face, and saw that Lu Jinzhi had already stood up, a little worried, reached out and pulled Lu Jinzhi's sleeve, Lu Jinzhi touched her head and comforted: "I'll be back soon, you can talk to everyone first." ”

Tong Yan watched Lu Jinzhi leave, and her smile retracted. Zhang Qiao saw Tong Yan's uneasiness, and hurriedly comforted her: "It's okay, his father just said a few words to him, you don't have to worry." Tong Yan thought for a while and said, "We are in the same unit, and we know the roots, I think he is still quite young, so I didn't ask." Zhang Qiaoxin said: I didn't even know the age, and I still know the roots, what a stupid girl.

Zhang Qiao handed a piece of dim sum to Tong Yan, "Take it and eat it, this is a hair cake made by Sister-in-law Zhang, you can taste it." Tong Yan took it and took a bite. Zhang Qiao continued the topic just now and asked: "Xiao Tong, you see that there is a big age difference between you and Jin Zhi, will your family have any ideas?" Tong Yan swallowed the hair cake and said, "I grew up in an orphanage since I was a child, and I have no relatives. ”

Zhang Qiao was stunned and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry! Aunt doesn't know, look at it, this ......" Tong Yan smiled indifferently, "I'm doing well now, Auntie, it's okay." I can make the decision about what happened to me and Lu Jinzhi. ”

"Good, good. Zhang Qian took Tong Yan's hand, "It's not easy for you kid, now you treat this place as your home, and tell us if you have something." Tong Yan smiled and said yes.

Zhang Qiao felt that he couldn't talk about it today, so he stepped on the thunder after asking a few questions, so he simply didn't ask. As soon as the door opened, Lu Xinian and Lu Jinzhi came out, Tong Yan quickly stood up, looked Lu Jinzhi up and down and asked quietly, "Are you okay?"

Lu Jinzhi smiled and shook his head. Lu Xinian said in his heart: What else can I do with him?

Sister-in-law Zhang came out of the kitchen and said to everyone, "It's all ready, it's time to eat." Lu Jinzhi took Tong Yan to wash his hands, someone helped set the table, the dishes on the table were still very rich, cold and hot dishes were complete, there were fish and meat, and it was also hearty. The table was full of them, showing that the Lu family had used their brains to welcome this prospective daughter-in-law.

Lu Jinzhi sat next to Tong Yan, Lu Xiannian sat on the main seat, said a few words, and deliberately took care of Tong Yan: "Don't be polite, you can eat what you want to eat." Tong Yan hurriedly said that she liked these dishes very much and must eat more. In front of Tong Yan was tea, and several children were brewing malt cream. Everyone else is full of wine in front of them, and even Sister-in-law Lu can drink a little.

Sister-in-law Lu also asked Tong Yan if she wanted to have some. Before Tong Yan could speak, Lu Jinzhi stopped him and told everyone that Tong Yan was a little sick today and couldn't drink. Everyone smiled knowingly. When eating, the rules of the Lu family are not big, and they chatted at the dinner table, and the conversation was quite pleasant.

Tong Yan found that several of us have a good appetite, and when the two nephews and nieces can eat, most of the chopsticks are sandwiched into the meat dishes, but they don't pick and choose, and there are still rules for what to eat.

Tong Yan also discovered for the first time that girls also like to eat fatty meat, and the little girl was smiling when she ate the fat meat skin. Tong Yan looked at it and thought it was funny. Lu Jinzhi saw that Tong Yan's chopsticks moved less, and knew that she was a bit picky, so he put a piece of chestnut meat in her bowl. Tong Yan saw the meat in the bowl, looked up at Lu Jinzhi again, and smiled sweetly. Lu Jinzhi didn't speak, raised his chin slightly, and motioned for her to eat quickly.

The interaction between the two fell into everyone's eyes, and they each understood it. Originally, I was worried that Lu Jinzhi would not get along with girls, but now I understand that Lu Jinzhi is not unhurtful, this time this should be the person who makes Lu Jinzhi tempted.

Especially Zhang Qiao, her heart was slightly sour, but also a little relieved. His son himself knows that he looks gentle, but he is actually a cold person, and now he has met someone who really likes it, and he will also shush the cold and ask for warmth, and he is not blessed to enjoy such treatment as a mother.

Tong Yan touched Lu Jinzhi lightly, Lu Jinzhi looked at her, and Tong Yan said two words with her mouth, "Your mother." Lu Jinzhi quickly connected to Tong Yan's brain circuit, turned his head and said to Zhang Qiao: "Mom, today's fish is not bad, let Dad give you some." You taste it. Lu Xinian sandwiched a piece into Zhang Qiao's bowl, and teased Lu Jinzhi: "You don't do it yourself, but send me to let you be a favor!" Everyone laughed, and the guests and hosts of a meal enjoyed themselves.