As soon as she walked in the door, Mother Zhao enthusiastically grabbed Xu Zhinian's hand and took her directly to the kitchen.

"Niannian, Auntie doesn't know what your taste is, look at these dishes I prepared, do you like to eat?"

Xu Zhinian took a look, and there were prepared ingredients on the stove, including chopped pepper fish head, stir-fried bacon with sharp pepper, fried mutton with garlic, and kung pao chicken... There is also a sweet and sour pork rib, which is all hard dishes.

This specification is more than enough for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

"Auntie, Deputy Mayor Zhao said to let me come to the house for a light meal, I didn't want you to spend so much thought and effort, I would have known that I wouldn't have come."

"Why do you still have a bite of Deputy Mayor Zhao? Aren't you friends with Hee-sung? In the future, it will not only be friends, I think, it will soon be able to develop into boyfriend and girlfriend. ”

Mother Zhao spoke very quickly, and she didn't care what Xu Zhinian's expression was, so she went to cook with a smile after speaking.

Xu Zhinian followed Zhao Xicheng to the living room, Zhao Xicheng's father was sitting on the sofa at this time, wearing a washed white military shirt, which looked a little more majestic.

"Dad, let me introduce you, this is what I told you Comrade Xu Zhinian, don't look at her young, she has invested in an industrial park in our town, and she has her own ideas in her career."

"Hello Uncle Zhao." Xu Zhinian went over and shook hands with Zhao's father.

Father Zhao's expression looked a little serious, his eyes looked at Xu Zhinian, and said, "How many people are in the family?" What do you do, and have you ever made a mistake politically? Is there a glorious soldier in the family? ”

Xu Zhinian had no choice but to introduce his ordinary family background again.

Father Zhao's face looked calm, nodded and said: "It's good to come out of the countryside, rural people are simple, in the end, who is not a rural person?" I'm also from the countryside. If it weren't for the farmers' efforts, how could we have a happy life today? I especially hope that Xicheng can find a rural girl to be his daughter-in-law. ”

The more Xu Zhinian listened, the more confused she felt, and then, something that shocked her even more happened - Father Zhao actually handed her a big red envelope.

Because she is very sensitive to money, she immediately judged from the thickness of the red envelope, which was at least 500 yuan.

Why do you give such a big red envelope to a guest who comes to eat for no reason?

Unless it's a meeting gift, a meeting gift for the future daughter-in-law......

Xu Zhinian looked at Zhao Xicheng in shock, Zhao Xicheng was obviously also surprised, and said: "Dad, Zhinian and I are just friends, what are you doing?" ”

"You kid just didn't inherit your father's courage, chasing the girl just can't grind and chirp, the things that should be decided have to be decided, your mother has made a lot of efforts to marry this good daughter-in-law into the door? You're going to have to work harder, Daddy can only help you get here. ”

Xu Zhinian and Zhao Xicheng looked at each other and saw the helplessness in his eyes.

Xu Zhinian wanted to say goodbye and leave, but Zhao's mother came over enthusiastically and pulled her to the restaurant.

"The dishes have to be cooked the same, you eat first."

Xu Zhinian sat on the dining chair with apprehension, and the meal was ready after a while, Xu Zhinian tasted and praised them one by one out of politeness, although the level was not as good as that of his mother Song Shuzhi, but it was also good.

"I see, you should be our daughter-in-law, if you like it, you can eat it for a lifetime in the future! Zhinian, I tried to match you and Xicheng, but it took a lot of talk, and now, the person named Song Chuxing has already retreated, right? ”

Xu Zhinian was gnawing on a piece of ribs, but suddenly choked on this sentence, and a piece of meat stuck in his throat couldn't be eaten, and he couldn't spit it out.

She looked at Mother Zhao in shock, and finally swallowed the meat in her mouth.

"What do you say? Song Chuxing retreated in the face of difficulties? ”

"Yes, I have already talked to him solemnly, he recognized his identity clearly, promised me, will obediently return to the provincial capital to continue to study at his medical university, people are self-aware, young people, sometimes they will not know themselves clearly, I need to remind him, let him realize how far he is from you......"

Xu Zhinian stood up from the stool suddenly, as if he had knocked over a five-flavor bottle, and the taste was complicated.

Zhao Xicheng has helped herself several times, and it stands to reason that she should be grateful and respectful to these two, but she didn't expect that Zhao's mother would go to talk to Song Chuxing and directly break up her and Song Chuxing.

Xu Zhinian is not a soft persimmon, and her politeness does not mean that she can accept other people's arrangements casually.

"Auntie, are you making a mistake? In what capacity did you talk to Song Chuxing? Zhao Xicheng and I are just friends, or partners, I told you when we first met, I don't think there is anything wrong with you! ”

Mother Zhao looked at Xu Zhinian's face full of anger, smiled slightly, and said: "Child, you are too young, and you don't know the benefits of resources for you, Xicheng is definitely a noble person in your life, and our Zhao family will also make you like a tiger, as for that Song Chuxing, I really don't know what you like about him, he has a bad background, just the son of a pig slaughterer, that's it, people's temper is very short-tempered, if it weren't for me to point to his pain point, he would have liked to do it with my elders, such a person without quality......"

"Say no more!" Xu Zhinian rudely interrupted her and glanced at Father Zhao again.

"Just now my uncle said that he likes people from the countryside very much, and said that without the efforts of farmers, there would be no happy life for us. In your hearts, people are still divided into high and low, and there are still differences in origin, and you sit in a two-story house in the capital, eating precious and delicious food, and you feel that you are nobler than the son of a pig killer? Can you deny everything about him? Suppressing his self-confidence? Forcing him to leave me? I think that's just lack of quality. ”

"You kid, how can you talk like that?" Mother Zhao had never been so frightened before, and her eyes suddenly widened with anger.

"I'm sorry, the lintel of the Zhao family is too high, and I can't climb it."

After Xu Zhinian finished speaking, he turned around and left, her steps were extremely fast, Zhao Xicheng was tall and long-legged, and it took a lot of effort to catch up with her when he arrived at the door.

"Zhinian, I'm sorry." Zhao Xicheng grabbed Xu Zhinian's arm and quickly apologized.

"I didn't know that my parents asked you to come here to say this, I thought it was just for you to come to the house for a meal and communicate your feelings...... I didn't expect ......"

"So, Deputy Mayor Zhao doesn't know what your mother did from beginning to end?"

Xu Zhinian looked at Zhao Xicheng angrily, and his tone was questioning.

"I really don't know."

"Okay, I believe your words, but I won't forgive your mother just because you didn't participate, she hurt Song Chuxing, which is equivalent to hurting me."