(14) Future father-in-law
Three bungee slowly parked in the county of a food city downstairs. Old Yao brushed my hair out of shape from the crush of the hat and asked me to be sharp and try to make a good impression.
Uncle four, with a big belly, led the way, and the three of us entered a private room in the food city.
Dating is like going to an interview. Before entering the door, I arranged my clothes and adjusted my breath, saying that I should never lose sight of myself.
Fourth uncle pushed the door into the house, people have stood up to greet. Uncle four smiled and introduced me one by one. Most of them were his comrades in arms when he was a soldier. I bowed and called them one by one.
Led by a tall elder, we all took our seats. Four uncle gave me a look, I quickly took out a few bags of soft China from the pocket, stood up to give the elders smoke.
Most of my elders looked at me implicitly or openly. I said I wanted to kiss, but there were so many people there. It was embarrassing. But scan a circle, but did not see the heroine in the legend, although feel puzzled unceasingly but also bad ask.
Four uncle know my heart, he smack a mouth cigarette, ask a way: “old, your baby how didn’t come?”
Lao He, who could be my future father-in-law or someone else’s future father-in-law, said, “Oh, I have something to do. I’ll be there soon.”
The future father-in-law was the uncle who had just led us to our table. He was tall, about 180, with a fat belly and impressive red sandalwood beads on his hands and neck.
After the small talk, uncle 4 took off his coat, squared off and began to sell me to the buyer, “This is my nephew, Yao Boqi, a top student at THE University of Post, now working in the Beijing headquarters of X Bank.”
“The younger generation is terrible.” “Imperial food, great.” “An iron rice bowl, a future.” “Working in a bank in Beijing is really impressive.” .
I listened carefully to the buyer’s miscellaneous chatter, filtering the noise, and seemed to praise the majority. I do not know whether they are sincere praise or polite perfunctory, but good words are always sweet, I accompanied the smile.
The future father-in-law put a hand, instantaneous quiet down. He stood up, cleared his throat, and then said, “Fellow comrades, today our party was supposed to be held in hall 48, but they don’t open on the sixth day, so I chose the venue in this food city. The place is shabby, but the food is good.”
No. 48 Club house is one of the most expensive restaurants in the county. When I was in high school, it often appeared in the stories of braggarts. Hearsay there is extremely beautiful woman, there are delicacies, there is gang fire fight, there is big banquet courtiers……
In short, house 48 will be mentioned in any story that takes place nearby and needs a grand venue.
They all looked at the future father-in-law in unison and began to talk. It seemed that what mattered was not eating and drinking, but communicating with each other.
The future father-in-law twisted a string of beads and smiled. “Today, our old comrade-in-arms are gathered together. One is to take advantage of the Spring Festival, walk around each other, do not be separated. The second is to match children. My girl is good at everything except her studies. Years ago, I heard from Old Yao that he had a nephew working in the Bank of Beijing. He was a top student, about the same age as my girl. Old Yao and I talked about fixing the two kids up. We don’t lack a house or a car, but a man of culture.”
Public echo father-in-law, inside the room is a burst of restlessness. My ear root son bursts of red, repeatedly waved his hand way: “uncle, you overpraised, I am not what superior students, is to go to school a little longer.”
Father-in-law thumb out: “baby modest.”
(15) Future daughter-in-law
Wine and vegetables slowly on qi, four uncle they push a cup for a cup, ear to ear chat. At this table, the father-in-law firmly controls the discourse, he is both the topic starter and the topic terminator. Sure enough, money is thick.
Old Yao and I sat there, facing strangers around us, never finding the right time to get a word in. After several failed attempts to get a word in, I fell silent.
In the middle of the dinner, the heroine suddenly arrived. His father-in-law took his own girl and proudly introduced her to everyone: “This is my daughter, Sui He.”
He Sui is very square, bend over a way: “everybody uncle good.”
The heroine is really a big man, which may be the reason why the girls look tall. In my opinion, she should be more than 170. Sui he has shoulder-length hair and no makeup, wearing a black jacket and black leather pants. She was very sharp, but not pretty, perhaps because I didn’t have much interest in girls dressed in such neutral clothes.
The first time we met, there was no loss nor much excitement. When it comes to dating, don’t talk about love at first sight, till death do us part. When you look at others, they look at you. I squeezed out a smile and exchanged a few polite words with He Sui.
The arrival of he Sui let the topic instantly transferred to the blind date this thing. Uncle Four laughed and said, “You two young people don’t have any pressure. Asking you two out gives each other a chance to get to know each other. Parents’ orders are not popular now, and matchmakers’ words are free love.”
Father-in-law echoed: “rightness rightness, old yao said rightness, you leave a contact information, have no matter to make an appointment.”
He Sui and I smiled at each other and nodded repeatedly.
With the topic of dating, the elders began to talk about marriage, childbirth, education and so on, and then real estate. We started talking about houses in China, from the first-tier metropolises of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen to the fifth-tier small town we were in. On the housing market, their views are not consistent, gradually forming several camps. Several camps expressed their opinions, and the room was full of bubbles.
I’ve been to a number of parties in recent years, and housing has always been a hot topic in weddings, funerals and weddings. There was a lot of interest and a lot of opinions about the house. A knowledgeable, expert appearance, seems to see through the trend of housing prices, have made or up or down, or bottom or sideways forecast. Some cry poverty, some show off wealth.
Old Yao sat by, obviously a little uncomfortable, did not eat a few mouthfuls of food, only to smoke one cigarette after another. As a loyal audience of the news broadcast, Uncle Four was discussing with others the major plans and policies of the country without losing any breath.
I switched my eyes to a few eloquent elders, observing their words and deeds. My heart said that if I don’t want to be a programmer in the future, I can consider becoming a writer and write these things into books.
He Sui was a little impatient with the elders’ talk. She took out her mobile phone, pointed out her wechat TWO-DIMENSIONAL code business card and whispered to me, “Let’s add a wechat together.”
I was a little embarrassed by the girl’s initiative. I quickly took out my phone and scanned the QR code. After I added her as a friend, I quickly clicked on my moments and deleted all the moanings, fun-filled posts and pictures to avoid giving the girl a bad impression. Then, like Columbus discovered the new continent, with great interest to browse he Sui’s circle of friends, page after page through her status.
With the information retrieval ability developed as a programmer, I soon made a user portrait of He Sui: after graduating from a junior college, she opened a tattoo shop in the commercial street of the county seat. She works as a tattoo artist and has a blooming peony tattooed on her left arm. She likes to use Butterfly as the site’s registration ID. There was a time when she was very keen on writing novels on Baidu Tieba. She has a black BMW motorbike that her dad gave her as an 18-year-old gift……
The more I got to know him, the more I realized that we weren’t exactly the same people, that our lives were completely different. On top of that, she seems reluctant to marry and have children, and has joked that men disgust her.
(16) Brothers of the opposite sex
The party ended with a crowd of middle-aged men rocking from side to side.
Uncle Four drank a lot of wine and blushed like a monkey’s ass and began to stagger. Old Yao and I had some toasts too. However, we were sober and sober.
A group of us gathered at the gate of the food court. As I waved goodbye, my future father-in-law went out of his way to talk to me, much to my surprise.
The future father-in-law was clearly drunk and spoke more intensively than at a banquet. He took my hand, a strong told me to spare time must visit his home, but also let He Sui and I have a good chat.
Sui he and I stood next to our future father-in-law, nodding our heads until he was picked up by the driver. I can see he must be satisfied with me.
I stood at the door of the restaurant with my uncle on my back, watching his comrades-in-arms leave the food city on foot, or by taxi, or by car. People dispersed, lively no longer, we three ye will sit on three bungee, ready to return. Uncle Four couldn’t drive, so old Yao had to steer.
Old Yao asked uncle 4: “Lao 4, your comrade-in-arms must despise our family? He has a big family.”
Fourth uncle leaned his head against the window and panted, “He used to drive for the county magistrate and was also from a poor family. As long as they like each other, he shouldn’t have too much of a problem.”
My heart said four uncle is too optimistic, this year has not popular parents order matchmaker’s words, the key is not he Shu, he Sui a look is that kind of special independent girl. Besides, I don’t really care much for other girls.
“Yes,” I sneered.
Four uncle turn a head to look at me, the eyes blurred: “how? Not interested in other girls?”
Shaking my head, I explained, “I’m not a match for that girl, either in terms of background or personality. In fact, when they see each other, they both know whether they are suitable or not.”
The fourth uncle tried to match: “Chat, look, there will be a long time, the feelings are all out of chat. Old he said, after two years he retired, he will give his daughter and son-in-law to manage the building materials city. I’m not looking for money, but something’s better than nothing. Icing on the cake.”
Old Yao began to jump three times and asked, “I see the tone of your comrade-in-arms, do you feel that you want to hire a son-in-law?”
Uncle Four made a big hiccup: “that’s not true, old he said, in the future when there is a grandson, have a surname he on the line.”
Without thinking, Old Yao refused: “That can’t be done.”
The fourth uncle was quite open-minded: “If you have two children, what if you give them a surname?”
Sunset, three bungee running on the asphalt road, against the afterglow desperately drive home. It seemed tired of a meal that was a waste of energy.
No matter how many children Boqi will have in the future, boys or girls will all be named Yao. If we can’t afford it, we won’t.”
I sneered to myself that Lao Yao and Uncle Si were talking about the next generation.
I clicked on the phone and found a message from He Sui: “After reading my moments, you must know what kind of girl I am.”
The girl was a quick person, and I wasn’t sloppy. I organized language and typed in the wechat chat box: “Since we can’t be partners, let’s become brothers with different names.”
He Sui replied quickly: “That’s a good feeling, brother Yao!”
I couldn’t help but laugh out loud and replied, “What brother!”
The first blind date trip, made a brother of the opposite sex and a different surname, is not not fruitful.
How many things, all paid in jokes.
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