Xu Ruirong carried a luggage package and took a shuttle bus to the provincial capital, all the way. The shuttle bus arrives in the provincial capital in the evening, and the streets are brightly lit and the roads are full of vehicles. Xu Ruirong is coming to the provincial capital for the second time today, and it has been ten years since he came to the provincial capital for the first time, and he is nearly 50 years old. Compared to the first time I came to the provincial capital, the change is worlds apart. The building in the memory is gone, the station is no longer the place when I came last time, the road is very clean and open now, the greening is very good, the street trees are tall and straight, vigorous and powerful, there is a big square out of the station, there is a silver-white flagpole erected in the center of the square, about dozens of meters high, the bright flag on the flagpole is blowing up by the wind and fluttering in the wind to hunt. Around the flagpole are pots of colorful flowers, which are also crowded together in white plastic pots to form circles that expand outward from the inside. Xu Ruirong has no intention of appreciating the flowers here, but only thinks that there are hundreds or even thousands of pots of bonsai here, with colorful colors and varieties, and the flower workers must be masterpieces after careful design and ingenuity. There are many people who have free time to enjoy the flowers, but there are many more tourists who rush by like Xu Ruirong, and they may all have their own expectations in their hearts, or maybe they are new to the guest house, hostel, and hotel that need to find a suitable place to stay. For them, it is more important than anything else to find a place to settle down as soon as possible, fall into bed and fall asleep, and eliminate the fatigue of a long day's work. Of course, it may also be that the pace of looking for friends and friends is too hurried, where can I take care of other things.

Xu Ruirong's friend gave him the address in the suburbs of the provincial capital outside the construction site, it was too late, Xu Ruirong didn't know how far away the construction site was from the station, today I have to live here for a night, a whole day of travel after a lot of tiredness, the body bones are not as tired as when I was young. On the contrary, my shoulders hurt today, my legs and stomach are sore, and my stomach is still ringing. Xu Ruirong walked into a snack bar next to him, the owner was a middle-aged man about the same age as himself, it was a mom-and-pop shop, the shop was small, and a price list with white letters on a red background hung on the wall. Xu Ruirong put down the luggage first, raised his head and stared at the price list and swept it down one by one. A waitress came up to him with a towel in her hand and asked him what to eat while wiping the table? Xu Ruirong said: "I'll take a look first." The waitress moved to the other table with a blank face.

"Let's have a bowl of pickled cabbage noodles." Xu Ruirong said loudly. The waitress asked: Is there anything I need to add?

Xu Ruirong said: "Don't want it, just a bowl of cabbage noodles." ”

The waiter also said loudly: A bowl of pickled cabbage noodles.

Two more groups of people came in the store, and almost the entire store was crowded. Xu Ruirong had to sit alone in a corner of the store, and the waiter came over to order, so he wrapped Xu Ruirong's quilt and luggage outside the store. Xu Ruirong said, don't get it out, I'll leave right away after eating. The waiter said: Don't worry, I will leave it at the door, it will not be lost. Xu Ruirong said: You can give it to me, I will put it at my own feet, and it will not affect others. The waiter said, "Then you can go and get it yourself, I'm busy now." ”

The pickled cabbage noodles were served. Xu Ruirong was already so hungry that he didn't care if it was hot or not, so he grabbed the chopsticks and ate them.

A few drops of oil in the bowl floated on top of the cabbage and noodles, and a circle the size of a soybean was spreading to the rim of the bowl in a panic. Xu Ruirong's chopsticks quickly disappeared without a trace after destroying the structure of these oil stars.

After Xu Ruirong finished eating the noodles, he drank all the soup in the bowl into his stomach, but his stomach was still empty, and he was about to eat another bowl, but the waiter had already taken the bowl away. Xu Ruirong said, "Waiter, bring me another bowl of cabbage noodles." The waiter said, "Wait a minute."

Xu Ruirong waited for five minutes, then knocked on the table and urged, "Bring me another bowl of pickled cabbage noodles." ”

The waiter came over and said, "I'm sorry, boss, the pickled cabbage noodles are gone, can you eat something else?" ”

Xu Ruirong said: "When I ordered it just now, people didn't come in yet, why didn't I go before him?" Everyone has it, so what's the point? ”

The waiter lowered his head and said, "I'm really sorry, there really isn't." ”

Xu Ruirong said: "Since there is no more, why did she come in later than me and order the same cabbage noodles?" ”

The waiter insisted: "People have added eggs and vegetarian chickens to it, of course there are still them." The proprietress here came over and said to Xu Ruirong: "Master, it's like this, Guangxue vegetable noodles are indeed gone, if you add something, I can still let it be burned for you?" ”

Xu Ruirong said: "What is the reason, if I don't add other things, you won't make it for me, and if I add ingredients, you will make snow cabbage noodles?" ”

The proprietress said: "It's true, this is the rule of our store, I opened the store, and of course the rules are also set by me." ”

It makes no sense to continue to theorize, Xu Ruirong left the noodle restaurant full of anger.

Xu Ruirong didn't go into other snack bars anymore, he found the hostel first, settled himself, and took a hot shower in it. He wanted to go to bed, so he collapsed on the bed, turned on the TV, and pressed many channels, which was the prime time for advertising, and all the channels were advertised. Xu Ruirong didn't watch commercials, so he had to turn off the TV, simply turn off the lights, and sleep with his head covered.

The soundproofing of the hostel is simply terrible. Not only did the sound of cars on the road go straight to his ears, but the TV commercials in the next room were also pouring into his ears, and even the sound of people talking and walking, talking and making fun of people on the sidewalk could be heard clearly. Xu Ruirong had no choice but to lift the corner of the quilt, get off the bed, he walked to the window, opened the corner of the curtain, and the golden light on the street projected in, and the shadow was very funny. Xu Ruirong turned on the bed lamp again, pulled the curtains back together, he took out a book from the package, this is an old version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that he often brings when he goes out, usually put it in the bedside table at home, he didn't turn it for a while, today he opened it, turn it at will, the pages quickly ran over with the movement of his fingers, raising a puff of dust, he had smelled a smell of moldy acid, he knew that the book had been broken. There is nothing delicious in the package, Xu Ruirong's stomach is indeed not full, so he will definitely not be able to sleep well at night, so it is better to find another snack bar to solve it. Xu Ruirong walked out of the hostel, hesitated for a while, and finally went to have a supper.

Huang Zhixiong asked Zhao Jinping to go to the movies in the evening. Zhao Jinping asked him what movie it was? Huang Zhongxiong said that he doesn't remember the title, but he heard others say that this movie is still very good. Zhao Jinping asked him again, did you ask them about the content of the movie, I didn't bother to watch the war movie. Huang Zhixiong said that it seems to be some work by Taiwanese writer Qiong Yao, it should be an emotional drama. Zhao Jinping warned him: "If you lie to me and it's not Qiong Yao's movie, I won't pay attention to you next time." ”

Zhao Jinping and Huang Zhixiong walked into the theater side by side, the lights inside were dim and they couldn't see anything, and when they entered, the theater was showing additional films such as promotional videos. With the dim lights of the screen, the two found their place and sat down. Huang Zhixiong took out a bag of melon seeds from his pocket and handed it to Zhao Jinping, but Zhao Jinping didn't answer it and said softly: "Don't eat it." Huang Zhixiong didn't retract his hand, but still handed it to Jin Ping, who ignored him and aimed his eyes at the screen. Huang Zhixiong looked at the silence around him without a little noise, and knew that no one was eating melon seeds in the entire theater at this moment, so he had to withdraw his hand.

The movie is indeed adapted from Qiong Yao's novel, the title is "Deep Love, Rainy", Zhao Jinping was attracted by the characters in it, and she has devoted herself to it. Huang Zhixiong is still restless, he doesn't come to watch movies at all, he almost can't watch such a storyline at all, he is not interested in any other emotional dramas, dramas, dramas, tragicomedies except for war movies. Zhao Jinping is sometimes excited, sometimes sad, sometimes agitated, sometimes tearful with the fluctuations of the plot. Huang Zhixiong couldn't help but feel extremely funny when he looked at Zhao Jinping's amorous tears, but he didn't dare to laugh out loud to sarcastically mock her. Although his sarcasm and ridicule are clearly written on his face, Zhao Jinping can't see it, because Zhao Jinping's heart is not on Huang Zhixiong's body at the moment, but is galloping in the inner world of Qiong Yao's romantic drama.

When the theater came out, Zhao Jinping was still unsatisfied, and was talking with Huang Zhixiong along the way. Huang Zhixiong tried his best to recall the picture in the movie just now to support Zhao Jinping. Zhao Jinping was very dissatisfied with Huang Zhixiong watching the movie for an hour and a half and remembering nothing, although Huang Zhixiong was courteous to her along the way, he did not get a good word from Zhao Jinping.

Huang Zhixiong sent Zhao Jinping to Caizhen clothing store, and Zhao Jinping urged Huang Zhixiong to go back. Huang Zhixiong was a little reluctant, and he didn't dare to disobey Zhao Jinping's words, so he said to Zhao Jinping slowly: "Jin Ping, there is no car to go back at night, can you let me live in the clothing store, you can sleep on the bed and I can sleep on the ground." ”

When Zhao Jinping heard this, he started a fire: "You're going to die, you want to be beautiful, I don't sleep alone in this clothing store, what people will say about me, don't even think about it, you really can't go back, just find a hostel to live in by yourself, what's the matter with me." As he spoke, he put down the shutter door of the clothing store. Huang Zhixiong had no choice but to walk in the direction of the outside of the city.

The wedding date of Zhao Jinping and Huang Zhixiong is scheduled to be held on the 11th National Day. Just three months before Xu Ruirong entered the city, his parents-in-law wrote a letter to tell Xu Ruirong in detail about this happy event. Xu Ruirong then returned home with the 1,500 yuan salary he had earned from his hard work in the past three months. The family needed a man like him to preside over this happy event.

The Huang family fulfilled all the promises according to Zhao Xiaoting's requirements, although this matter should be inherited and the Huang family took off their skin, but Huang Zhixiong was in a hurry to marry Zhao Jinping, so he didn't care about his parents' pain. The Huang family sent all the dowry items to Zhao Xiaoting's house in advance, and Xu Ruirong specially vacated two rooms specifically for these things. The neighbors all rushed over to help the Zhao family move things, the women had never seen anyone marry a daughter who could receive so many things from the man, and everything sent into the house was pasted with the word "Xi" in red, from the scarlet carved tung oil warm bed to a gilded horn comb. The Huang family also sent a dowry book, which was densely packed with two pages. Of course, all these things in the house are actually not worth mentioning. What is even more eye-opening is the gift money sent by the Huang family, it is said that the cash package is a full 20,000 yuan, all of which are brand new 10 yuan denomination tickets, and even the bank seal has not been removed, and the gold and silver jewelry is also worth more than 10,000 yuan. Naturally, these valuable things could not be placed directly in the house, and the gift money was deposited by Xu Ruirong in the credit union in the town, and the gold and silver jewelry was kept by Zhao Jinping himself. The Huang family sent someone to send all these things, and went back after having lunch at Zhao Xiaoting's house, drinking wine and meat. Now there are still three days left before October 1, Zhao Xiaoting has invited all his relatives and friends, including his neighbors, to open the fire warehouse from today, and the Huang family will also start to hold a banquet from today. All relatives need to prepare gifts and gift money in advance when they come, and relatives of the older generation need to prepare a red envelope for the bride and groom as a meeting gift. The relatives here pay the most attention to the uncle of the bride and groom, and the uncle is the most authoritative person representing the mother's family, so the red envelopes issued by the uncle are also the most weighty and valuable. When there are many uncles, the eldest uncle begins to arrange the seats, and then ranks down in turn, Zhao Jinping's three uncles, two aunts, cousins, and even the next generation of relatives and so on all came, and Xu Ruirong arranged them all to come and go in various rooms in his own house and the best rooms in the neighborhood. There are too many relatives who come over now, and they can't arrange it at home, so the Zhao family borrowed a room from a neighbor and borrowed it depending on the number of relatives who came. Because Xu Ruirong's parents and brothers are from the same village, there is no need for his relatives to make arrangements for them, and they will be taken by his brother to settle down after dinner. Xu Ruirong knew that his parents and brothers' houses were not rich, so he did not disperse the foreign relatives of the Zhao family to their house. Fortunately, at this time, all the neighbors are happy to give up their best rooms and lend them to the Zhao family to use, and the neighbors will dismantle and clean their quilts a few days in advance, and do a good job of hygiene in advance, so that the room will naturally be very face-saving to lend out. The relatives also slept soundly and happily.

At the same time as the feast was held, the men and women of these neighbors would put down their work and rush to help. Those who can cook and cook will come to the spoon, and those who can't cook rice and stir-fry will be arranged to pick vegetables, cut vegetables, wash dishes, chopsticks and tableware, and other posts, and men will be arranged to move tables and stools, chop wood and saw, build color racks, boil wine and boil water, pull wires and electricity, serve tea and water, entertain relatives and friends, and so on. People who are flexible, diligent and sociable must also bring their own livestock, vehicles, and transportation equipment for the work of registering and making records, arranging personnel lists, arranging relatives' seats, counting the number of guests, buying groceries, buying cigarettes, buying alcohol, and running errands. Today, because Zhao Xiaoting's family is married to a daughter, there is no need to post too many decorations such as red wedding couplets, red lanterns and lanterns at home, but this procedure for the groom's family is essential. In short, all the neighbors and friends are arranged in, and there is also a general manager here, who generally recommends the prestige elders of their own clan to exercise this job, and being able to be assigned to such a job is naturally a very prestigious person in the village or clan, which is a supreme honor, and it is also the most nerve-wracking person in the whole happy event. At the end of the day, the person in charge of affairs will also convene a meeting after dinner to summarize all the things that need to be done today, and those who have not done a good job or have not completed the task today will criticize themselves or the group and let everyone learn from the lessons and make corrections tomorrow. In the evening, it is necessary to arrange tomorrow's work and tasks, the focus is to arrange the procurement of goods for the whole day tomorrow, to ensure that the quality of the next day's banquet dishes, tobacco, alcohol and candy is not a problem, all relatives need special personnel to arrange their food, accommodation and entertainment, and even a child can not be missed.

October 1 is an auspicious day for the zodiac, and the Huang family has already contracted the lobby of the most high-grade Yunhai Hotel in the town to hold a banquet. Xu Ruirong sent the list of women who needed to attend two days in advance. Zhao Jinping was accompanied by seven female guests, Zhao Jinchan and Zhao Jinlian were also arranged in the female guests, the two sisters met such a grand scene for the first time, and their faces changed with fright, but fortunately, Jin Chan and Jin Lian both had shallow face shadow powder on their faces, and they both had headdresses on their heads, and no one could see that the two were panicked.

There is also a large stage in the lobby of the hotel for the bride and groom and their parents to meet all the guests attending the wedding reception. Zhao Xiaoting and his wife, who are in their seventies, are a little uncomfortable with the emerging ceremony of going on stage, so they refuse to participate. The two sides then decided that the woman's temporary representatives, Xu Ruirong and Zhao Jinchan, would attend instead. Zhao Jinchan was very involved in this matter, so he excitedly improvised many shows, and the limelight almost overshadowed the bride and groom, but fortunately, everyone was willing to watch Zhao Jinchan's performance. Zhao Jincian seems to be a tireless golden cicada, as soon as her golden voice is displayed, the audience applauds. At the request of the guests, the master of ceremonies gave the stage to Jin Chan to sing and dance again and again, and Jin Ping and Zhixiong, who stood in the center of the stage, became supporting roles.

The feast ended, and the guests dispersed. Sister Zhao Jinchan sent her sister Zhao Jinping to a new house. Zhao Jinping was very dissatisfied with her sister Jin Chan's performance today, but how dare she attack in front of many guests. Zhixiong is also depressed about his sister-in-law's outrageous behavior today, today should be the brightest, shiningest, brightest and happiest day for him and Jin Ping. Although Zhao Jinchan's behavior won the praise of most of the guests, it was a big impact for Zhao Jinping and Huang Zhixiong, the newcomers.

Xu Ruirong also saw Jin Ping's unhappiness, but he couldn't stop Zhao Jinchan's impromptu performance, since everyone wanted to see Jin Chan's performance, then he couldn't interfere. After all, Zhao Jinchan is also performing hard for her sister and brother-in-law, and Jin Chan is simple-minded, and she definitely didn't take into account that the protagonist of tonight is not herself.

Zhao Xiaoting naturally also saw Zhao Jinping's thoughts. As a father, her daughter is the happiest and happiest day in her life today, and it is not appropriate for Jin Chan to overshadow her sister tonight. He wanted to get up from his seat and go on stage several times to persuade Jin Cicada to stop, but unfortunately it was too far away from the stage and the sound was too mixed and too loud, so he had to sulk himself.

Zhao Jinchan returned home to sleep at 2 o'clock in the morning, and found that the family was all sitting in the house and did not go to sleep, she wondered if her parents were too excited to sleep at night. As soon as Jin Chan entered the door, Zhao Xiaoting said with a dark face: "Jin Chan, you are very amazing, I thought you would not come back to the Huang family tonight." ”

Jin Cicada was indeed still excited, so he walked up to his parents with a smile and said: "I thought I was the only one who was excited until now, but I didn't expect you all to be so happy, Dad, Mom, you are so old, but pay attention to your body, don't wake up for a long time." ”

Zhang Fengxian pulled the corner of Jin Cicada's clothes, and was about to speak, Zhao Xiaoting poked the ground with his cane, and said loudly: "Jin Cicada, you are not too young, but you need to use more brains, you should be forward, you can be forward, tonight is your sister's big day, you can help the fun, what kind of limelight." ”

When Jin Chan heard this, he shed tears aggrievedly and said: "Did I do something wrong tonight, how can you mock me like this, is it wrong for me to sing a few songs and dance to cheer my sister up?" Since you are so opposed to my performance, why don't you stop it at the scene, but wait for the aftermath to have a 'settlement after the autumn'? ”

As soon as Jin Cicada cried, Zhang Fengxian's heart softened first: "Cicada, it's not that everyone doesn't want you to perform, you can perform for your sister to cheer up, everyone is very happy, your father didn't blame you just now, he meant that you should give more time to your sister and brother-in-law at night." ”

Jin Lian also persuaded: "Sister, my parents are right, the protagonists tonight are my sister and brother-in-law, we are all just supporting roles, okay, don't be wronged, it's okay to let your parents say a few words, don't cry." ”

Xu Ruirong also persuaded: "Little sister, the matter is over, and no one blames you for anything, and our father has no other meaning, I just hope that you will know how to be flexible outside in the future, and be smart." ”

Jin Chan still cried and said: "Don't play a round for our father, I know, I don't have a little speaking status in this family, I didn't expect me to be so unpopular here, even so, I will leave tomorrow, go far, you just treat the Zhao family as if the Zhao family did not support me Zhao Jinchan." ”

Zhao Xiaoting couldn't listen to this anymore, and stood up to beat someone with a stick, but was persuaded by Ruirong: "Dad, you sit well, Xiaomei's performance at night is also for the fun of this couple, the starting point is very good, this is worthy of our affirmation, I don't think there is anything wrong with Xiaomei, even if Xiaomei occupies a little time for them, it's nothing, everyone happily eats until the end of the banquet tonight is a good proof." Xu Ruirong comforted his father-in-law back in his seat, and at the same time hinted with his eyes that Zhao Jincian should go back to the room and stop standing here and suffer.

The next day, the Zhao family got up late. Zhang Fengxian cooked breakfast and sat in the kitchen waiting for everyone to get up to eat. Zhao Xiaoting also groped his way up to eat breakfast, so he said to his wife: "Don't sit still, hurry up and let everyone get up for breakfast, it's not delicious when it's cold." So, Zhang Fengxian knocked on the door of every room. Zhao Jinlian got up, Xu Ruirong didn't know when he went out to do farm work, Zhao Jinchan had no one to answer, Zhao Xiaoting asked Jinlian to go over and call her again, Jinlian came back and said that Jinchan was not in the room, and he didn't know where to go. Everyone didn't wait for Ruirong and Jin Chan, the three of them sat down for breakfast, and Ruirong came back soon.

Zhang Fengxian cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, Zhao Jinchan hadn't come back yet, Zhao Xiaoting said: "Jin Chan, this person is too unpresentable, one person drags everyone back, Fengxian, you wash the pot, don't wait for her to be alone, if she wants to eat, let her eat cold rice by herself, such a big person, don't get used to her." Zhang Fengxian said: "Don't always get along with Jin Chan, Jin Chan, this kid is not unfilial to you, you have an opinion on her, and you have said it, Jin Chan himself feels wronged, and it is normal to go out for a walk." ”

Zhao Xiaoting was dissatisfied with his wife's ridicule of herself: "What do you know, interjecting indiscriminately, it's not that you are used to her, she will be so willful?" ”

For the two of them like his parents-in-law, Xu Ruirong tried not to intervene if he could. Xu Ruirong wanted to sit down for a while before going out to work, but now the two old men were grinding their mouths, so they went out.

Zhao Jinlian went to Jin Chan's room again after eating, and Jin Chan folded the quilt neatly. Zhao Jinlian's quilt in her room had not been folded yet, and seeing that Jin Cicada's room was organized in an orderly manner, she was afraid of being scolded by her parents, so she went into her room to clean it up. At noon, Zhao Jinchan hadn't gone home yet, Zhang Fengxian was going to have lunch again, Zhao Xiaoting said, "You just warm up the leftovers of cold dishes left over from the early days, don't make noise about other fresh dishes, who will leave the cold dishes for to eat?" ”

Zhang Fengxian said: "There are no leftovers at home, and the leftovers in the early days are distributed to the neighbors to eat, but I will go to heat up what you want to eat, and keep what you don't want to eat. ”

Zhao Jinlian walked into the kitchen and said to her parents: "My sister is gone, and I guess I won't come home for a while." ”

Zhao Xiaoting jumped up and asked Jin Lian: "Who said that, Jin Cicada is gone, where can she go?" Don't you tell us about it? ”

Jin Lian said: "I met Ziying's mother at the entrance of the village just now, her mother said, Jin Cicada and Ziying went out early in the morning, Jin Cicada didn't bring any luggage, Ziying's mother still wondered, why didn't Jin Cicada go out with all her luggage, now the weather is about to turn cold, wouldn't you have to buy a new one outside, Ziying's mother asked me again, did Jin Ping leave Jin Cicada a lot of money, Jin Cicada didn't want to wear old clothes to go out." ”

When Zhao Xiaoting heard this, he thought about Ziying's family to ask about the situation. Jin Lian said: "You go and ask what's going on, Jin Cicada is just traveling with her daughter, and she doesn't know anything like us." ”

Zhang Fengxian went into Jin Cicada's room again, and she didn't know what she was looking for, Zhao Xiaoting was still sitting in the room and sulking at him, Zhao Jinlian saw that she had nothing to do, so she walked out of the house.

Xu Ruirong came back from work and heard that Jin Cicada went out without saying hello to anyone in the family, so he knew that Jin Cicada was angry and ran away, and he didn't want to meddle too much in such a thing, he needed to dig over his own land at home these days, so that after he went out, it would be much more convenient for his parents-in-law to go to the field to plant some vegetables, and Xu Ruirong would still go to the provincial capital to work and save money in a few days.

Zhao Jinping and his wife have to go home to save their relatives after a week, which is customary. In the past, when a girl married a long way away, she would go to her mother's house and pay for her mother to buy small gifts to be distributed to neighbors, friends and village residents. When Huang Zhixiong brought Zhao Jinping to Zhao Xiaoting's house that day, he hired a small truck to pull a whole car full of small gifts, which were prepared and packaged in advance, in addition to candy, peanuts, dates, biscuits, jelly, cooked eggs, dried slices and other things. Zhao Village is a big village, there are hundreds of families living in it, and each household needs hundreds of copies, so Xu Ruirong waited for Zhao Jinping and his wife to come to the province before they could go back to the provincial capital.

After Zhao Jinping and his wife saved their marriage, they completed all the procedures for marriage. Next, you can live with your husband for a long time, and the bride's life is over. The young couple began to live their normal lives.