"Have you had any headaches lately?" The old doctor's eyes were slightly closed, he sat at the table, one hand on Fang Mumu's pulse, the other hand stroked his sparse white beard, and asked Fang Mumu who was sitting opposite him while checking his pulse.

Since being knocked out by Fang Jianyi with a stick because of repentance of marriage, Fang Mumu will come to the old doctor every week for a review, and the last question that must be asked every time is this question about headaches, even so, she will still seriously recall whether she has been unwell in the past three months, whether she has a headache, "Basically, no." ”

"Hmm~" The old doctor nodded, continued to check the pulse, and after a long time, he opened his eyes, withdrew the hand on Fang Mumu's wrist, and packed the examination instruments taken out of the table into the medicine box one by one, "Then there is nothing wrong with it." You don't have to come every week in the future, but you come back when you have a headache. ”

Hearing this, Yu Cai's father, who was sitting on the chair next to the old doctor and Fang Mumu, stretched his neck a little anxiously and asked, "Then in addition to the headache, don't you let you come if you have pain in other places?" ”

The old doctor glanced at Yu Cai's father, "You old man, you know how to worry about nonsense and talk nonsense when you are old!" ”

"Doctor, I'm asking seriously." Yu Cai's father stood up and walked up to the old doctor, wanting to prove that he was serious about asking questions.

"I know it's a good question." While cleaning up, the old doctor stood up and glanced at Yu Cai's father, "It's just that you are not serious!" I'm obviously talking about the aftermath of this injury, you have to talk to me about the pain somewhere else, is that the same thing? ”

"Then you make it clear!" Yu Cai's father muttered and sat back where he had just sit, "Who knows what your headache is." ”

The old doctor put the medicine box he had just picked up back on the table, "You are looking at your granddaughter's illness, and you are deliberately finding fault with me, right?" ”

"That's not what my dad meant." Yu Cai, who was standing next to Fang Mumu, saw the old doctor talking with a straight face, thinking that he and his father were about to start arguing, so he hurriedly stepped forward to play a round, "Doctor, don't be angry. ”

The old doctor immediately laughed, "What's there to be angry with that old guy of your father?" It's been decades, and both of us have to change the way we speak, and we still can't get used to it. Alright, you guys pack up and go back, I should go to sleep for a while. ”

"Okay, the old doctor is bothering you to get old." Yu Cai smiled and bowed to the old doctor, and then helped Fang Mumu up.

"Thank you, doctor." Fang Mumu smiled and thanked the old doctor, in her opinion, although the old doctor was a little poor, he was still quite kind.

The old doctor was thanked by Yu Cai and Fang Mumu one by one, Xie had a headache, and walked to Yu Cai's father, who was bowing his head and not speaking, with the medicine box, and patted him on the shoulder, "Old Yu, hurry up and take it back, otherwise my beard will be gone." ”

"Okay, I'll take them back, and you can rest." Yu Cai's father stood up in response, no longer greeted, and said to Yu Cai and Fang Mumu, "Let's go, go back." ”

Yu Cai's father took the lead out of the old doctor's house, Fang Mumu and Yu Cai followed closely, after the two came out, Yu Cai's father turned to the two and said, "Bring the door shut, the old doctor is old, and he can't afford to close the door back and forth." ”

"Okay." Fang Mumu had just agreed, and was about to turn around and close the door, but her mother had already closed the door one step ahead of her.

Yu Cai's father was in front, Yu Cai and Fang Mumu followed, and the three of them left the courtyard of the old doctor's house, and Yu Cai took the gate of the old doctor's house by the way.

"Dad~" Yu Cai stopped his father at the fork in the road, "Why don't you go to our house for lunch." ”

"Yes, Grandpa, you shouldn't have eaten until you came out in the morning, let's go home and prepare to do it." Fang Mumu followed the invitation, for fear that if she spoke late, her grandfather would not be able to see her sincerity.

Yu Cai's father turned his head with his hands behind his back and glanced at Yu Cai and Fang Mumu, "No, your mother is still waiting for me at home, you hurry up and take the child back to eat." With that, he walked in the direction of his house.

"Mom, is Grandpa's house far away?" Fang Mumu looked at the back of her grandfather leaving, and couldn't help but ask her mother, she grew up so big, she only knew that she still had her grandfather and grandmother until she became an adult, but she had only seen her grandfather, she didn't know what her grandmother looked like, and she didn't know where her grandfather's family lived.

"It's a little far." When Yu Cai said this, his eyes drifted into the distance with his father's departure.

"That grandpa is so hard." Fang Mumu sighed.

"Let's go home." After Yu Cai came back to his senses, he pulled Fang Mumu and walked in the other direction of the fork in the road.

In the weather of the wax moon, even if it is noon, even if there is no breeze, it is still freezing hands and necks.

Yu Cai turned around and pulled up the scarf around Fang Mumu's neck with a lot of hairballs, and then put Fang Mumu's hand into his padded jacket pocket, and the two of them took small steps all the way home quickly.

A rusty lock locked the closed door, Yu Cai and Fang Mumu glanced at each other, both of them knew that Fang Jian had gone out to find wine to drink, and there was no need to take care of him for lunch.

Yu Cai took out the key from his pocket and asked Fang Mumu as he opened the door, "Do you want to eat rice or noodles at noon?" ”

"Noodles." Fang Mumu leaned next to his mother, wanting to warm the mother who opened the door, "The noodles are hot." ”

"Okay, let's have hot noodles at noon." Yu Cai opened the door and pulled Fang Mumu into the courtyard.

The two of them lit the fire, made noodles, cooked, and then ate, washed the dishes, and did housework.

Life has returned to the way it was when it was in winter, with the only difference being that you don't need to go down to the ground to turn over the soil in the cold winter.

Since Fang Mumu's quarrel, the people in this village, the next village, and even further away have temporarily cut off the idea of saying that Fang Mumu is his daughter-in-law.

Fang Mumu's life returned to peace, and she waited in peace for Yuan Chengle, who said that she would come back to marry her.

During the first winter vacation, Yuan Chengle did not come back, Fang Mumu passed by the door of his house several times, and there was an iron lock hanging on the door of his house.

In the first summer vacation, Yuan Chengle did not come back, and Fang Mumu spent half a month calming down his thoughts of going to the provincial capital to find him.

During the second winter vacation, Yuan Chengle still didn't come back, and Yuan Chengle's mother said that he was very busy every day and shouldn't come back in recent years. She wanted to find out from Yuan Chengle's mother whether Yuan Chengle had a word to bring her, but in the face of Yuan Chengle's mother's awkward shake, she could only smile and say, "It's okay, studies are important." ”

I didn't have time to count the days when they were coming, and it was almost the second summer vacation, and Fang Mumu had just passed his twentieth birthday.

Yuan Chengle seemed to have disappeared from this world, Fang Mumu never went to Yuan Chengle's house again, and he never had the idea of going to the provincial capital to find Yuan Chengle. She learned to wait quietly, holding Yuan Chengle's sentence 'Wait for me to come back and marry you' as a belief in quiet waiting.

Fang Mumu thought that as long as he waited for enough time, Yuan Chengle would naturally come back. It's just that she ignores that this world doesn't wait for anything other than the spirit that can talk and wait, including age.

"What about people?" Fang Jian kicked open the door and staggered in from outside the door, "Where are you dying every day?" ”

Fang Mumu, who accompanied Yu Cai to pick vegetables in the vegetable garden, was the first to react, stood up, and looked at the door, "Here." ”

Yu Cai, who reacted more slowly, then stood up and blocked Fang Mumu, who had spoken before, behind him, "Be in charge, cook after picking the vegetables." ”

"Phew!" Fang Jian, who was drunk, always had a better disgust than usual for Fang Mumu. In the past two years, Yu Cai has hidden Fang Mumu better and better, and he basically can't see it every time he gets drunk. But what's the use of hiding it well, it's not for him to see it today, "You'd better hide that bad thing behind you for the rest of your life!" ”

Yu Cai's hand behind his back grabbed Fang Mumu's arm tightly, "It's hot, in charge, you go to the house and wait." ”

"Humph!" Fang Jian saw that Fang Mumu, who he wanted to provoke, was silent behind Yu Cai, so he could only give up, tilted his head, and staggered towards the house.

Yu Cai kept watching Fang Jian's figure enter the house, and then she put her mind at ease, let go of Fang Mumu, squatted down, and continued to pick the vegetables for lunch.

Fang Jian's last sentence made Fang Mumu's thoughts a little distracted, and the firm belief in her heart was shaken by it.

Yu Cai saw Fang Mumu standing in front of him, so he pulled Fang Mumu, "Mumu, what do you want?" Move fast. ”

"Oh, good." Fang Mumu, who was pulled back to the real world, squatted down, picked up the bamboo basket woven at his feet, and took the green pepper handed over by his mother.

"Mumu~" Yu Cai squatted and moved to the depths of the vegetable garden, there were tomatoes she needed, she moved while saying to Fang Mumu behind her, "Have you ever thought about asking your mother to help you find a good home?" ”

Yu Cai asked very casually, she didn't want such a question to ruin the relationship between her and Fang Mumu, but there were some things that she, as a mother, had to face, such as Fang Mumu getting married. Although the world is changing, in the current world, getting married and having children is still the outcome that women must face.

"Mom, why did you suddenly remember to ask this?" Fang Mumu, who was following Yu Cai, smiled, her mother's question caught her off guard, making her not know how to answer, in other words, she didn't know how to say the promise she kept in her heart.

"It's not sudden." Yu Cai's picking movements did not stop, "Seeing you grow from such a small point to now so big, I know that this day will come sooner or later, so I will ask in advance." ”

"It's still early, wait." Fang Mumu looked at the red and big tomatoes in his hand, it was clear that it was just June, and these tomatoes couldn't wait to ripen, wanting to become dishes on people's dinner tables. But she doesn't want to make tomatoes like this, she wants to be the drizzle of spring, the flowers of summer, the rice of autumn and the snow of winter, and marry the person she thinks is worth it at the right time for her.

Yu Cai suddenly turned around and looked at Fang Mumu, "Mumu, my mother didn't mean to force you, but you are not too early, and if you wait, you will miss the right candidate, and you will be the one who will suffer at that time." ”

"I know." Fang Mumu lowered her head, she didn't dare to look at Yu Cai's eyes, "I want to wait for my brother to come back." ”

"Lele?" Yu Cai was a little surprised, she thought that two years had made Fang Mumu forget Yuan Chengle, "Lele hasn't come back for two years, I heard from the people in the village, he may not come back in the future, what are you waiting for him?" ”

"Mom~" Fang Mumu raised his head and looked at Yu Cai with firm eyes, "Brother said that he will come back." ”

"You..." Yu Cai swallowed the words she wanted to say more, and she was thinking in her heart, what would her Mu Mu do if Yuan Chengle didn't come back.