Chapter 70
Chapter 69 Extra
Some people have sprinkled fish fry in the river at my hometown in recent years. Sometimes fishing enthusiasts sit there and go fishing. They sit for a day. They catch big fish and take them away. Small fish are thrown back into the river, and occasionally they bring their own. The fry came to throw, so the fish here have not been cut off, and no one has come to stop it specially.
There are also several sets of fishing rods left at home. Zhao Zhengyang bought them on a whim at the time, but he didn’t want to have the patience in this respect at all. He bought a lot of fishing rods and caught very few fish.
After lunch, Sun Lu sat by the river holding a fishing rod.
The sun was just right, he was wearing a peaked cap with a low brim, and a beige half turtleneck sweater with his cuffs slightly raised, showing half of his forearms.
The buoy in the river hadn’t moved yet. He put one tripod on the other, took out his phone and looked at the time.
Zhao Yinqing came here and brought him a plate of fruit.
Sun Lu smiled at her, and gnawed a piece of orange there.
Zhao Yinqing said softly, “Have you ever had one?”
Sun Lu pointed to the bucket on one side to show her.
“Kang Dang Kang Dang” is only a half bucket of water.
“Can you fish?” Zhao Yinqing said.
“Yes, just wait, what are you going to do this afternoon?”
“I don’t know, I’ll take a nap or read a book later.” Zhao Yinqing looked far away, passing through a large green field, and faintly saw a few mountains.
“Or go out and take some photos.” Zhao Yinqing felt his chin and thought.
“There is nothing to shoot here, right?”
“Yes, you can shoot everywhere, depending on what you shoot.” Zhao Yinqing then popularized his photography habits.
Not long after, Zhao Zhengyang dragged a fishing rod and came over as a display, and thoughtfully placed a recliner beside Liu Siqi. The two were chatting and laughing, and the atmosphere was harmonious and affectionate.
The smile on a person’s face cannot be pretended, and it is enough to say whether a person can live a good life.
And Zhao Zhengyang and Liu Siqi now look like a couple who have been in love for many years. It is hard to imagine how they quarreled in the past. In the impression of Zhao Yinqing, they did not quarrel.
What if they didn’t meet each other?
Maybe Zhao Zhengyang will still miss the flowers, and Liu Siqi also stays in the factory workshop for many years like ordinary women. In this way, are they also regarded as each other’s salvation?
Sun Lu reached out to cover her hand, the two looked at each other, Zhao Yinqing tilted his head and leaned on his shoulder.
After sitting with him for an hour, Zhao Yinqing’s buttocks felt a little greasy. Sun Li could see what she was thinking at a glance, and said with a smile: “Go.”
Zhao Yinqing didn’t make a needless dying struggle, got up and ran into the house, and when he came out, he wore a DSLR around his neck.
She wandered around first, photographing weeds, reflections in the water, and soil patterns, and then slowly moved outward like a snail.
Sun Lu sat in the same position, turning his head to look at her from time to time, and when he was about to lose sight of anyone, he threw the fishing rod and got up and chased him.
This afternoon, the two traveled throughout the small village, and also went into the mountains, where there is a free-range chicken coop, and finally they were repelled by a foul smell.
It was already evening to return to the foot of the mountain, and the entire sky was a pink sunset.
The two held hands, smelling the peculiar smell of the field, and walked in the direction of home.
There were traces of gray dust on the back of Sun Lu’s hand, and Zhao Yinqing rubbed his finger against him.
Sun Lu said, “Go back and wash it.”
Zhao Yinqing said “Um” and wiped him with his cuff.
Such a small detail has never been seen before, and Sun Lu’s eyes flashed a little flattered, and then his chest warmed.
One night later, he was entangled in nightmare again, and didn’t sleep much that night. In the middle, Zhao Yin woke up once, got up to go to the bathroom, and helped him gently tuck the quilt when he came back.
Sun Lu was not at ease because of the nightmare, but didn’t want to affect Zhao Yinqing, so he didn’t move.
Unable to hold back this meeting, he turned over and hugged her.
Zhao Yinqing had just turned off the light, was surprised, and said in the dark: “Did I wake you up?”
Sun Lu shook his head, and a dull voice came: “I just didn’t fall asleep.”
Zhao Yinqing also turned over, face to face with him, and whispered, “Are you dreaming again?”
“Ok.”
Zhao Yinqing didn’t know what to say. Even if she wanted to help, she didn’t know what to say, so she gently patted him on the back, just like calming a child.
Sun Lu smiled and said with emotion: “You have been so kind to me lately.”
Zhao Yinqing patted and asked, “For example?”
“Remind me to add clothes and make me coffee. Didn’t you pinch my shoulders yesterday?”
Zhao Yinqing said, “Your shoulder is so painful that you can’t lift it up. How can I just look at it? Next time I find time to go to the hospital.”
“Yeah.” Sun Lu pressed her head to her chest, “I’m still very touched.”
Zhao Yinqing squirmed her lips and felt a little uncomfortable. In fact, she didn’t do anything. She mentioned it when the temperature difference was obvious in the morning and night. When she poured water, she also gave him a cup of water. These are very small things, so small. negligible.
In Sun Lu’s heart, what he was like in the past, such a little thing could touch him.
Sun Lu said: “All good things make me suspect that you like me a little bit.”
“No doubt.”
Sun Lu: “Huh?”
“If you don’t like it, how can you lie here with you?”
Sun Lu suddenly pulled her out of his arms, turned on the bedside lamp, and stared at her closely: “What did you just say?”
Zhao Yinqing raised his hand and patted his face, and said helplessly, “I still like it a little bit.”
Sun Lu’s eyes were obviously different, they became brighter and with anticipation, but in the end they were all covered, and they all sank flat again.
He bowed his head and kissed Zhao Yinqing’s forehead, turned off the lights again, and closed his eyes with his arms around the person. It took a long time for him to murmur like: “This is enough.”
Just a little like is enough.
The sleepiness struck, and after falling asleep again, Sun Lu was no longer entangled by nightmares, and it was rare to have a good night’s sleep.
Not long after the beginning of the new year, it was Chen Yange’s wedding date. There was a banquet in City B. Zhao Yinqing and Sun Lu went there, and she went to the dressing room to say hello.
There were only Chen Yange and the makeup artist, who had already put on their wedding dresses, and were fixing the veil several meters in length at the moment.
In the mirror, Chen Yange’s original delicate face was put on delicate makeup, her facial features became a lot more three-dimensional, the tenderness between her eyebrows and eyes became sharp and translucent, her bright red lips and the shadow on the side of her nose appeared taller and taller.
Zhao Yinqing looked at her in the mirror and said, “Why do you look unhappy?”
The beautiful bride has no smile on her face at this time, even a dignified look.
She said in a cold voice: “His mother thought that my dowry was not good enough yesterday, and it doesn’t match the decoration of their home.”
Zhao Yinqing showed a little astonishment, and said, “I told you personally?”
Chen Yange snorted and said, “No, I don’t want to think about who bought the house. I also paid two-thirds of the money. If I returned it to their house, can it be regarded as theirs? Funny.”
“What did Chen Daming say?”
Chen Yange was silent before speaking, “It is for me, but the attitude is more neutral and tends to reconcile.”
The husband’s attitude towards himself after marriage directly affects the intensity of conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
If the husband is unconditionally on the side of the wife, then the mother-in-law will be more considerate and dare not show her daughter-in-law’s face at will.
On the contrary, there will be a feeling of a family of three targeting one person.
Chen Yange looked at herself in the mirror and said, “This marriage is really frustrated. It hasn’t been done yet. I already regret it.”
At this time, the makeup artist interrupted: “I have been to so many weddings, and I have encountered almost all kinds of situations. For the most part, mother-in-law wants to see daughter-in-law pleasing to the eyes. People, or strangers across generations, are not so easy to live together.”
Chen Yange said: “Have you ever run away from marriage with Zhuang?”
She fixed the last clip and checked her makeup and hair: “There is no escape from marriage, and there is no way to do it if the arrow is on the string.”
Chen Yange fell silent.
There was still time before the banquet started. Chen Yange went to the scene for a rehearsal, then returned to the dressing room, and then waited for the wedding to begin.
The scene was beautifully arranged and romantic. After dozens of tables were filled with people, the host took the stage and gave a brief speech, and then stepped on the dots to hold the wedding.
The music plays, the door opens, the groom is in front of the stage, waiting for his bride to arrive,
The bridesmaid and best man advanced, and the bride walked slowly with her father’s arms at the end, with a long veil trailing to a new life.
Chen Daming was happy with the naked eye, and Chen Yange also twitched the corners of her mouth at this moment, with a sense of pleasure.
After that, the ring was exchanged and the man’s father spoke and toasted the elders.
When Chen Yange handed the small wine glass to Chen Daming’s mother, the other party didn’t know what was thinking and didn’t answer it right away.
Chen Daming screamed in a hurry, “Mom!”
The woman was thin, slightly taller with cheekbones, and permed with curly hair. Today, she wore a dark red cheongsam, and her eyes looked at Chen Yange with scrutiny and contempt.
About five seconds later, when she was about to reach out to take it, Chen Yange suddenly took the cup back and threw her hand to the ground.
She looked at the old woman mockingly, and said, “You still have a fart!”
The old woman’s eyes widened suddenly, as if she didn’t expect Chen Yange to come out on the spot, she was shocked and speechless for a while.
Chen Yange ignored the reaction of others, pulled her veil off, took off the diamond ring in her hand, and snatched the microphone in the hands of the host who was stunned and hadn’t slowed down.
“Family and friends present here, I’m very sorry, I’m sorry that today’s wedding was cancelled, which has delayed everyone’s time.”
She threw the microphone back to the host, dragged Chen Daming off her hand, and said, “Sorry, I really can’t accept your mother, so I’m going to give you up too.”
Chen Daming’s expression was very hurt, and he would almost cry in the next second.
The coldness on Chen Yange’s face suddenly faded, and it also revealed a bit of sadness: “We may… just have no fate.”
This day’s wedding became a farce. After the bride ran away, the man’s parents directly exploded and began to yell at him. Chen Daming stood on the stage blankly and did not respond.
Some of the guests are gone, and some are still sitting there waiting.
The waiter who was waiting for the food would be confused if he should continue to serve it.
Sun Lu turned his head to Zhao Yinqing and said, “Are you going to see your friend?”
“Yeah.” Zhao Yinqing picked up the bag, “You can take a taxi and go back. I will drive away first.”
“it is good.”
Outside the hotel, Chen Yange was no longer found, and she didn’t answer the phone.
Zhao Yinqing drove directly to her house, with double happiness on the security door, and ribbons hanging in the corridor, all of it.
She knocked on the door and shouted again: “Old Chen, it’s me!”
Before long, the door opened, and the house clothes were already changed. The wedding dress was spread on the floor of the living room, the headwear was taken off, and the makeup had not been removed.
“Come in, wait until someone knocks on the door and don’t open, I’ll go to remove my makeup.” After she said that, she turned and went to the bathroom.
Zhao Yinqing closed the door, then picked up the wedding dress and put it on the sofa, then went to the bathroom.
Lean against the door frame and watch her cleaning there.
“You are completely finished with Chen Daming like this.”
“Yeah!” She kept moving her hands, her entire face was full of bubbles, and her voice said vaguely, “It’s a little harder to get it done.”
“Temporarily regretting the marriage, what the older generations say may not sound good.”
“It doesn’t matter, they don’t have the guts to come to me and say it anyway.” Chen Yange turned on the faucet and started washing her face.
Zhao Yinqing said: “It’s troublesome to deal with the follow-up matters, right? Those bridesmaids or something.”
“The bride price is all used for home improvement. When the time comes, the house will be sold and the money will be over. I am too lazy to have another handover with this family. I will find a lawyer if I can’t figure it out.”
“Did you think about it a long time ago?”
“I thought about it, but I didn’t expect it to be implemented on this day.” She wiped her face with a towel, turned her head and smiled at Zhao Yin, “Go, go out and hi.”
The singer Chen Yan turned off the machine and took Zhao Yinqing to stroll around the street for a day.
Later, I only contacted on WeChat. The situation was more optimistic than expected. Chen Daming’s parents did not expect to be strange. The matter was handled cleanly. The house has been sold out. Once it is sold, it will be cleared.
Chen Yange sent a message to Zhao Yinqing, saying: “In today’s society, there are independent women. It is no longer an old society that depends on men to live. I have money and a career. Why must I use marriage to show myself.”
Zhao Yinqing said: “I agree that marriage is a cooperative relationship, not an inevitable relationship.”
Not long after this farce has passed, Zhao Yinqing received a call from Yan Qiaochun. She said that Fu Ze was going to get married, and his marriage partner was Dong Miaoxuan.
Zhao Yinqing was accidental. She vaguely remembered that the last time she met, the relationship between Fu Ze and Dong Miaoxuan was not harmonious.
Yan Qiaochun said: “Is there any way, if the woman’s belly is big, it won’t work if she doesn’t knot.”
She was shocked: “A few months?”
“It’s been three months, so I can get married as soon as I can hide in my stomach.”
“This… Fengzi gets married?”
“Yeah, but there are many situations like this now. Are you married on the agenda?”
Zhao Yinqing was stunned, before turning to the topic, and said: “We haven’t considered it yet, take it slowly.”
“Whatever comes slowly, the age is not too young, in a few years it will be thirty, and it will not be difficult to recover from having a child.”
“Thirty is okay. Now some people get married after 30.”
“Listen to me, you can lie to you when you are a mother. There is a foreigner from Guoxing’s hometown. He is less than twenty-five years old. There are two children. Those who have recovered from the body can’t see that there is any. People with children.”
If the thoughts can’t collide, there is nothing to say.
Zhao Yinqing found an excuse and hung up the phone in a hurry.
Half a month later, she took Sun Lu to another wedding.
Didn’t find a wedding, the wedding was simply done.
I invited people who were close to each other, and there were no fifteen tables before and after.
Zhao Yinqing and Sun Lu were sitting at the main table. Soon the bride and bridegroom began toasting. The journey went smoothly. No one made a trip to play games. I don’t know if it was due to the bride’s special circumstances or was frightened by the bridegroom’s black face. Up.
When I arrived at their table soon, Fu Ze looked thinner than last time, and he felt lean and sharp, and the whole person felt so gloomy.
It was Dong Miaoxuan with a smile on his face, and timely rescued his significant other to make this wedding less embarrassing.
“You are already familiar with Yinqing, the last time I met.” Dong Miaoxuan added wine to her and patted her with one hand lightly on the shoulder.
Zhao Yinqing smiled politely.
Before he could respond, Fu Ze suddenly patted her hand off, and a trace of disgust flashed across his face.
The table was quiet for a moment, and Dong Miaoxuan laughed again. When nothing happened, she continued to toast the people behind her. She had a sweet mouth and was sleek. After everyone left, everyone had a good impression of her.
At 8 o’clock in the evening, Zhao Yinqing and Sun Lu walked out early.
Before leaving, she gave Yan Qiaochun a bag with a metal model of the Moon Palace and a necklace.
“I moved and cleaned it, but there was no place to put it for a while, and I accidentally lost it later, so I just leave it with you.”
Yan Qiaochun took it: “You want to move?”
The house I live in now is relatively large, and I have to climb up and down again. When I get older, my sports cell will no longer work. Zhao Zhengyang bought a large flat floor, and it has been renovated for half a year, and he is moving in recently.
Zhao Yinqing didn’t explain much, only nodded.
Yan Qiaochun didn’t ask much about the acquaintances, bowed his head and pulled the bag a few times, and said, “This necklace is pretty good, my one is just broken.”
Zhao Yinqing said, “Next time I will buy one for you, and put these in a cabinet.”
“Ok.”
Yan Qiaochun responded well, but she put it on when she went back.
The next day someone from her family was coming over, so she decorated her neck with this necklace, not to be exaggerated.
Yan Qiaochun happily treated the guests there the next day, and deliberately took the necklace outside the collar.
It didn’t take long for Fu Ze to notice when he came in, and he felt as if he had been beaten severely on his head, and he was a little breathless.
His face is so bad, Dong Miaoxuan’s festive smile on her face took a little, and she clambered up on his arm and said with concern: “What’s wrong with you? Where is it?”
Fu Ze shook her hand away, and turned his head without saying a word.
Dong Miaoxuan’s expression faded a little, and she lowered her voice and said, “You have a child, and you are married. You still don’t accept your fate?”
“This is something you want to live and die, you are embarrassed to say?”
“You don’t want to be soft-hearted, I can’t get it anymore, right?” Dong Miaoxuan raised her eyebrows arrogantly, looking at what you can do to me.
Fu Ze looked away coldly and said, “It doesn’t matter, just do whatever you like, don’t regret it.”
At this time, the phone shook, Fu Ze picked it up, looked at it, and quickly responded to the message.
Dong Miaoxuan stretched out her hand to take it, and Fu Ze avoided it, giving her a warning look.
Dong Miaoxuan said: “Which wild woman are you messaging again?”
“Too much to go, can you control it?”
She yelled jealously, “Fu Ze!”
“No matter how loud you yell, it’s useless. If that’s the case, then everyone don’t feel better.”
Someone in the kitchen called Dong Miaoxuan, and she quickly took away the hideous expression on her face, returned to the happy and happy smile before, and turned to face the elders.
Fu Ze curled the corner of his mouth ironically.
Zhao Yinqing and Sun Lu are both on business trips, Zhao Yinqing is going abroad to attend the birthday banquet of his teacher Rosen, and Sun Lu cross-province talks about new mergers and acquisitions.
The luggage has been packed in advance, Zhao Yin’s early morning flight, and Sun Lu’s afternoon.
The two of them sat there watching a movie in the first half of the night. Zhao Yinqing asked him to go to sleep, but he couldn’t see each other for half a month after this walk. Sun Lu didn’t want to spend time sleeping.
At the end of the movie, it was almost eleven o’clock in the evening, and Zhao Yinqing got up and went to the toilet, and then was about to go out.
Sun Lu turned off the TV and helped pick up the luggage and send her to the airport.
The car ran very well on the road late at night, and the two of them were talking, and Zhao Yinqing put his hands on his forehead, with a lazy expression on his face.
She suddenly remembered something and asked: “Are you still dreaming recently?”
In the past, although I didn’t say anything about it, Sun Li’s sleep state can actually be seen. If my complexion is generally bad in the morning, it is basically a nightmare.
However, it seems that I haven’t seen him languishing for some time recently.
Sure enough, Sun Lu said: “Sleep is pretty good recently.”
Since that time when Zhao Yinqing said a little bit of like, his sleep has improved greatly, from being entangled with nightmares occasionally, to hardly dreaming now.
The sleep is better, the mental condition is better, and the random thinking is less followed. The two are getting along more comfortably now than in the past.
There were not many people at this point in the airport. The two looked for a place to have a cup of coffee, and then read the magazine. Half an hour later, Zhao Yinqing went to board the plane.
Sun Lu watched her walking towards the security checkpoint, and suddenly said, “Zhao Yinqing, when we come back from this business trip, let’s get married.”
Zhao Yinqing’s footsteps halted, and someone hurried past, bringing out a clear sound of footsteps, and soon fell silent again.
She turned to look at Sun Lu.
Sun Lu seemed a little nervous, paused, and said again, “Shall we get married too, how about it?”
“Are you proposing?”
Sun Lu said with an “um”.
Zhao Yinqing thought for a while, and said, “Marriage is not impossible, but your proposal is too perfunctory, so let’s get ready for this half a month, and you will beg again when you come back.”
Sun Lu smiled: “Okay!”
The hall was brightly lit, and Zhao Yinqing turned and continued to walk towards the security checkpoint, raising his hand and waving.