Except for the old father Fang Xiecheng, whose expression was numb as always, everyone else was full of praise for Song Yuping, and her mother Xu Lihua was a little open-mouthed as soon as she was excited, "Teacher Song is knowledgeable and reasonable, and can speak, unlike Xiaofeng's girl, who is not polite at all!" ”

Fang Xiecheng hurriedly stopped, "Okay, you, which pot is not opened, what are you talking about in front of Teacher Song?" ”

Fang Hanmin felt that it didn't matter, "It's okay, Xiaofeng's business, Yuping already knows." ”

Song Yuping also suggested to the two old men, "Uncle, aunt, there are no outsiders in the family, you don't call me Teacher Song, just call me Xiao Song or call me by my name." ”

After a period of hectic confusion, Fang Hanmin told his mother to make lunch early, "Yuping has to go back in the afternoon, and she can't leave too late." ”

Xu Lihua pulled his eldest son aside and said anxiously: "Hanmin, you didn't say it earlier, we didn't prepare at all, there is nothing good to eat at home, how do you do lunch?" ”

"What to eat, she is not picky. Mom, is there a shop in the village? ”

"There's one, not too big."

"Okay, let's cook."

Fang Hanmin shouted inside, "Xinmin, you come here." He gave his brother Fang Xinmin twenty yuan, and Fang Hanmin asked him to go to the store to buy some food.

"Brother, what are you buying?" Fang Xinmin had no idea.

"As long as you can eat it as a dish, you can buy anything, such as ham sausage or cooked food, you can watch and buy it."

While waiting for lunch, Fang Hanmin took Song Yuping to the village for a turn, and met the villagers who came home from work in the field, he greeted him warmly, and the other party asked curiously: "Hanmin, this girl is a colleague in the unit, right?" ”

"This is my girlfriend!" Fang Hanmin said generously.

"Brought your girlfriend home, when are you going to get married? We waited for the wedding wine. ”

After turning to leave, Song Yuping blamed: "Why are you telling them this? ”

"I just want the people in the village to know that I have a girlfriend, see if she dies!"

Song Yuping suddenly realized, "Oh, you really used me as a shield?" ”

"If you come here, you can do me a favor. Besides, you were my girlfriend in the first place, and I didn't lie to them. ”......

At noon, the scorching sun was like fire, and after a circle outside, Fang Hanmin and Song Yuping returned to the courtyard, and their mother Xu Lihua greeted: "Hanmin is back, I was about to ask Wenxiu to call you, let's get ready to eat." ”

Because Song Yuping came to the door for the first time, although the family sat around the table, they all seemed relatively restrained, and lunch ended in less than half an hour.

After dinner, Song Yuping has to help clean up the dishes and chopsticks, in fact, she just behaves, because in her parents' house, she rarely does housework.

The future daughter-in-law has to help with housework for the first time, Xu Lihua is of course very happy, but she can't do that, "Don't help, you can rest." ”

At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was in the west, and Fang Hanmin's parents and family, like other villagers, were ready to work in the fields.

"It's time for me to go back, goodbye uncle and aunt!" Song Yuping said goodbye to Fang Hanmin's parents and prepared to leave.

Xu Lihua was very satisfied with this future daughter-in-law, she took Song Yuping's hand and said with a little regret: "Since it has been decided in advance, we will not keep it." Hanmin, go and send your girlfriend. ”

Not far away, Fang Hanmin was anxious to know Song Yuping's feelings, "What is your impression of my hometown in these short hours?" ”

"What do you mean? The whole family or yours? ”

"It's both."

"If you want to talk about family, it's pretty much the same as what you introduced before. Family, of course, refers to your parents, your mother is warm, down-to-earth, optimistic and open-minded, a hardworking rural woman, and should be very easy to get along with. Your father seems to have a bit of an eccentric personality and is cold to everyone. This is my general impression, because the contact time is too short, and what I say is not necessarily accurate. ”

"You have been in contact with them for no more than three hours, and you have observed them so carefully, which is worthy of learning Chinese. Your assessment of my mother is very accurate, she is warm-hearted, easy-going, hard-working, optimistic and open-minded, and the family depends on her. As for my father, maybe because of the difficult life, under the pressure of life for a long time, there are few opportunities to be happy, plus he is more introverted, which has created his cold personality, you see he and I have nothing to say. ”

Song Yuping seemed to suddenly think of something, "Yes, you haven't been back to your hometown for more than a year, it stands to reason that your father and son should have endless words when they meet, he can not care about my existence, but it is human nature to ask you about your situation for more than a year, but he doesn't seem to care about your business at all." ”

"He's got such a temper, I'm used to it. Every time I went home, I talked to my mother the most, what was the parent's short, the anecdotes in the village, there seemed to be endless words, and when I faced my father, it seemed that there was no common interest at all. ”......

Unconsciously, the two of them had arrived on the streets of Yumin Town, and if they went further, they were going in the direction of Song Yuping's hometown, "Yuping, I'll send you here, the road to your house is very easy to walk, and the distance is not far, it's only half past four now, there are many people on the road, it's safer, I won't send it forward." ”

"Send it forward, it's my house again, just send it here. Don't worry, I walk this road a lot, and it's safe. ”

The two said goodbye and were about to turn around and leave, when Fang Hanmin suddenly stopped, "Yuping, when will we meet next time?" ”

"I haven't thought about it next time I ......."

"What do you have in mind during the summer holidays?"

"During the summer vacation, I stayed at my parents' house, and I didn't have much to do except read books."

"For more than a month of summer vacation, you have been staying at home, don't you feel bored? Why don't you go and stay with me for a while? You can read a book or go shopping in the city. ”

Song Yuping looked forward to Fang Hanmin's invitation, "It's good to go to you, but where do I live?" Do you still borrow dormitories from your female colleagues? ”

"You don't care about that, I promise you a place to stay, you just need to give me a call before you go." ......

When he returned to the village, it was already more than five o'clock in the evening, but it was dark in the summer, so Fang Hanmin decided to go to his own field to have a look, and his parents and family were working in the field.

Knowing that Fang Hanmin only stayed at home for one night and was going to return to the city the next day, Xu Lihua decided to call it a day early, "Hanmin, let's go first." ”

Fang Hanmin knew that his mother had something to ask him, so he followed him home, and when he arrived in the yard, Xu Lihua asked while washing his hands: "Hanmin, you tell me the truth, is this Teacher Song your girlfriend?" ”

"Mom, why would you ask such a thing? Is there still a fake girlfriend? ”

"Because you never mentioned it to us, and you didn't say hello to your family, we can't believe it when you suddenly brought her back today."

"You should remember that I have said more than once that you don't have to worry about the major events of my life, and there must be a reason why I say this."

"Now that you have a goal, why don't you tell us? Wouldn't it be better if we didn't worry about you? ”

"If I had told you about this more than a year ago, according to the customs and habits of the countryside, it was the meeting of the parents of both sides, the marriage ceremony, and the visit to each other during the New Year's holidays, Song Yuping is a university graduate and now a middle school teacher, and she has neither the time nor the energy to deal with these troubles. Of course, I work in a company in the city, and I am also busy all day, and I don't have time to participate in these things. Therefore, after discussion, we agreed to hide this matter from both parents for the time being. This is Fang Hanmin's temporary excuse.

"Do you want to use her as a middle school teacher and your busy schedule to skip all these courtesies?" While Fang Hanmin was talking to his mother, Fang Xiecheng and several children also returned to the courtyard, and he heard the words between mother and son.

"Dad, what I said is the truth, she and I don't have the time and energy to deal with these trivial matters, what do you let us do? Besides, those etiquettes really don't mean anything to us. ”

Fang Xiecheng washed his hands and said slowly: "Push off those etiquettes, you two are trouble-free, where do I put your mother's old face?" Do you still have the face for us to meet people in the village? ”

Fang Hanmin thought that he suddenly brought his girlfriend home and brought a surprise to his parents, which would definitely make them happy, but now it seems that his mother is very satisfied with this matter, but the elusive attitude of the old father surprises Fang Hanmin.

When it comes to the eldest son's lifelong events, the old father Fang Xie's achievements are indescribable, Fang Hanmin always says that he doesn't let his parents worry about it, but he is twenty-eight or nineteen, and his family has not seen any trace of his girlfriend so far.

What parent doesn't care about their children's life's events? On May Day last year, the family wrote a letter to deceive Fang Hanmin back to his hometown, the purpose was to let him go home for a blind date, under the arrangement of the introducer, he met with a girl named Xiaofeng in another village in the township, neither agreed nor refused, after returning to the unit, until Xiaofeng wrote to him, he expressed his refusal in the reply.

Xiaofeng's girl didn't know whether it was persistence or infatuation, Fang Hanmin had politely rejected her on the grounds that she was busy with work and had no time to fall in love, but she was obsessed and still said that she would wait for him, and ran directly to Fang Hanmin's house during the Spring Festival, and saw that Fang Hanmin did not go home, so she quarreled with the two old men.

This incident made the old father Fang Xiecheng very faceless, and while scolding Xiaofeng for being rude, he also blamed Fang Hanmin for not doing things well and disgraced his parents and family. Lao Fang originally had a lot of opinions about his eldest son's obstinate behavior in dealing with personal issues, and through Xiaofeng's trouble, he had a deeper prejudice against Fang Hanmin.

In all fairness, this Teacher Song is much stronger than Xiaofeng in all aspects, but Fang Hanmin's sudden attack still made the old father unhappy, especially when he heard that the eldest son wanted to dispense with all the traditional procedures, which made the old man angry.

However, the current Fang Hanmin is just the body of the host, and his ideology and wisdom almost completely come from the traverser, the host is used to seeing the stubbornness and indifference of the old father, and understands some customs of the rural hometown, but the traverser is from the 21st century, born in an urban family, has been studying abroad, and has never lived in the countryside, so Fang Hanmin disagrees with the attitude of the old father, "Marriage and family are the business of the two of us, what does it have to do with your face?" ”

"According to you, if a son marries a daughter-in-law, he can make his own decisions, and he has nothing to do with his parents?" Fang Xiecheng began to drill the horns again.

"I don't know about the others, but I have already stated that my personal problems will be solved by myself, and I don't have to worry about my parents.

"What? Invite us to the wedding as a guest? What do you mean, you don't plan to have a wedding at home? The old father looked at Fang Hanmin in surprise.

"Of course, we don't live at home or work locally, so why do we have a wedding in our hometown?" Fang Hanmin said confidently.

"You ......, I think you are sincere in embarrassing us in front of the old and young masters of the whole village!" Lao Fang said angrily.

"Okay, okay, you father and son don't say a word, the girl only came to the door for the first time today, and how to hold the wedding will be talked about later." Seeing that a quarrel was about to break out, Xu Lihua hurriedly dissuaded him and pulled Fang Hanmin aside.