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Chapter 18 Love Comedy (1)
When Li Sichuan was studying in the United States, he watched a Hollywood movie called "My Big Fat Greek Wedding". It was originally a matter of a man and a woman, but when he met the traditional and strong father of the woman, the wedding became A carnival.And the parents of the poor urban middle-class hero who come to their son's wedding bring a small, delicate wedding cake that looks like a three-year-old's toy.Facing the woman's huge lineup of relatives, I was surprised to think that I went to the wrong place and came to a large playground.

The difference is that it is a romantic comedy, and even if there are cultural conflicts, the ending is always a standard Hollywood happy ending.But Li Sichuan felt inexplicably uneasy about his grand Jinjiang-style wedding.

The day before his wedding, he called his parents and told them what he was going to do tomorrow, but he didn't say that he was actually married, legally.

Li Sichuan's father expressed shock at his cutting first and then playing.He called Li Sichuan's mother to listen to the phone together.Mrs. Li asked: "Is it the girl we saw last time?"

Li Sichuan said, "Yes."

Mrs. Li was silent for a while, and said: "I can't help you, your choice, your own life, we can't interfere. Since we have already expressed our views on this girl, you still have to go your own way, and you will even get married tomorrow. , you just told us today, so you didn't take our opinion to heart. Then you don't need to inform us."

Li Sichuan hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry, I didn't expect things to develop so fast. I came to meet her this time, originally I just wanted to get together with her, but after meeting her, I realized that I really like her, so I proposed marriage. She couldn't screw me, so I had to agree. I was afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, and that good things would last forever, so I decided to strike while the iron was hot and put her on the hook to get married."

Li Sichuan took everything on himself, not because he wanted to impress Xiaoyu in front of his parents, but because he felt that such things as marriage proposals should be done by men. Put gold on your face.

Mr. Li chimed in and said, "Then you didn't listen to what mom said last time? Are we talking for nothing?"

Li Sichuan remained silent.

Mr. Li sighed and said, "Since you like it so much, it's fine. It's not easy to find someone you like to marry, don't you think so?" He was asking Li Sichuan's mother, and then said, "What if he stayed in the United States and didn't come back, or found a white girl to be his daughter-in-law? We have to accept it differently? That girl looks a bit cold, at least she looks good, and her grandson will not be ugly in the future."

Li Sichuan immediately agreed and said: "Isn't it Dad, Xiaoyu's appearance can be scored at least 95 points? Marrying a beautiful daughter-in-law will save face, and my daughter-in-law will definitely look good in the future. My grandma has met, so I can't love each baby enough?"

"Go!" Mrs. Li scolded: "You still have the face to mention your grandma, your grandma wants to see you get married, but you are better off, just sneak around and get married."

"Mom," Li Sichuan said hastily, "I didn't sneak around. Didn't I just tell you? Besides, I can take Xiaoyu back to Xi'an to do it again. It's like this now, once at the man's house, once at the woman's house, who knows?" Let our country have a large land, rich resources, and a large population. It is not easy to meet people from all over the world, right? This is called fate. Otherwise, why can’t we buy tickets during the Spring Festival every year? It’s all caused by this situation. One During the Spring Festival, there are two venues to attend, how much patriotic young people like us have contributed to boosting GDP..."

He wanted to be poor again, but was immediately interrupted by Mrs. Li, "Chuan'er, don't think that I can't see through your little tricks. It's fine, it's fine. If you insist on marrying this girl, we won't necessarily object. We have never supported what you want to do? But you are getting married tomorrow and you just told us today, do you never want us to attend your wedding? Or are you planning to hold three events to continue driving GDP?"

His mother's words broke Li Sichuan's mind, and he immediately smirked and said: "Mom, how can it be? For our wedding tomorrow night, you book the air tickets now, and fly over tomorrow morning. It's completely in time. I'll pick you up at the airport. Forget it." Let me book your tickets for you, I am familiar with this."

"Of course you are familiar with this. It's become a habit for you to fool us like this." Mrs. Li said, "We won't go. I have something to do at school tomorrow. You don't need to tell us what you like. You don't need to tell us if you are married. Were you notified one day in advance of the big event? Do you still have us in your heart?"

Seeing that the old wife was going to get angry, Mr. Li immediately persuaded her: "Young people, they are like this. When they see a beautiful girl, they will lose their direction. It is not bad if he thinks of notifying us today." After persuading the old wife, he turned his head. Then he said to Li Sichuan: "Okay, let's get married when you get married. Parents wish you happiness. We will not attend your wedding tomorrow. When you finish your work, you will always go back to Beijing. We will discuss it later. To do it or not to do it.”

Li Sichuan said yes repeatedly as if he had received an amnesty.

Mrs. Li snorted and said, "If you see a beautiful girl, you don't want your parents, and if your daughter-in-law is beautiful, you don't have to be principled?"

Mr. Li laughed and said, "I am the same too. I rode a car for two hours against the north wind just to see you, don't you remember?"

Mrs. Li blushed and spat.

Li Sichuan laughed out loud when he heard it, and said: "So I learned it from my father. I always thought that I learned it by myself without a teacher, but it turns out that I learned it from my family."

After talking nonsense with his parents, Li Sichuan picked up the phone and went to find Xiaoyu.Xiao Yu sat in front of her mother's grave, resting her head on the tombstone.Li Sichuan thought she was crying, knelt down to look at her face, but found that she was asleep, the expression on her face was calm and calm, not sad.Li Sichuan sat down beside her, held her in his arms, touched her shoulder, and let her continue to sleep.

The past two days were spent playing outside, maybe she was tired, Xiaoyu couldn't sleep well at night, she tossed and turned, and couldn't sleep until two or three o'clock in the middle of the night.Li Sichuan felt strange, wouldn't it be easier to fall asleep after taking a hot bath when tired?Maybe it was back home, the people and things here disturbed her thoughts, which made her so uneasy.

Xiao Yu moved in his arms to make her lean more comfortably.Li Sichuan looked at the person in his arms, and then at the porcelain statue on the tombstone, and found that Xiaoyu and her mother looked like they were carved out of the same mold, except that Xiaoyu's mother had more gentle eyebrows, and Xiaoyu, A little more arrogance.Li Sichuan couldn't help thinking, with such a beautiful wife, how could Yu Xiushan engage in extramarital affairs.Looking at the dates of birth and death engraved on the tombstone, it can be calculated that Xiaoyu's mother was not yet 30 years old when she passed away, which is when a woman is at her prime. What kind of nerve did Yu Xiushan want to betray his wife?
Li Sichuan recalled seeing Yu Xiushan for the first time in the hotel, the sadness in his expression when he faced Xiao Yu.When he saw his daughter who looked so similar to his late wife, how could he be so ruthless to stop her decision?Li Sichuan understood that he was able to pass Yu Xiushan's test at that time, not because of his sharp tongue and unsparing energy, but because of Yu Xiushan's guilt and longing for his dead wife.In Xiaoyu's tearful eyes and the flickering dimples at the corners of his mouth, there must be all of Yu Xiushan's sadness about the past.He could almost imagine what Yu Xiushan said to Xiaoyu in the end: "Just like your mother."

It must be this sentence that made Xiaoyu cry again.

The name of the buried woman is engraved on the tombstone: Jinying.

It turned out that Xiaoyu's name was taken from her parents' surnames, which is actually proof that a man and a woman love each other.It's just how come when the daughter is only five years old, the wife died and the daughter was orphaned?Yu Xiushan is such a jerk.Li Sichuan slandered his father-in-law severely.He kissed the top of Xiaoyu's head, thinking, he will never allow himself to do such a thing, if there is any problem, communicate well, "Panlu Deng Xiaoxian", he does his job well, and in the "little" You must work hard on the words, and you must make your wife happy.In the future, he will rely on her to give birth to a daughter for him, how could he be willing to make her sad.

Li Sichuan imagined the future infinitely beautiful here, and he heard Xiaoyu talking in his dream, as if calling "Mom". Li Sichuan felt sad when he heard it. The wife has a young daughter again, fortunately there are still uncle and grandmother to love her, otherwise, it would be really pitiful.

Xiao Yu frowned, a tear slowly dripped from the corner of her eye.Li Sichuan erased it gently for her, Xiao Yu opened his eyes and looked at him like a stranger, which made Li Sichuan feel chills all over his body.He was about to speak when he saw Xiao Yu's eyes turned warm, smiled at him, and said, "Fortunately, you are here."

Li Sichuan hugged her tightly, hugged her chest and shook her, and asked, "Did you dream about your mother? What did your mother say? Did you praise you for having good eyesight and choosing a good son-in-law?"

Xiao Yu sighed, leaned close to his chest, and said: "Mom said she can go away without worry. It turns out that she has never left, and has been watching me by my side."

"How nice, isn't it? I can talk to my mother." Li Sichuan said, and suddenly looked at Xiaoyu in surprise, "You said that your mother-in-law has been watching you by your side, so what should we do at night? , Wasn’t she also seen by her old man? It’s a sin.” He raised a palm and bowed three times towards the tombstone, “It’s dark at night, your old man’s eyes must be hard to see clearly, right?”

Xiaoyu knew he was making her happy, so she forced a smile, "Don't talk nonsense, this is in front of mother's grave. Why don't you have any fear? You dare to talk nonsense naked in front of my father, and you are not afraid of me. You dare to make this kind of joke in front of Mom's tomb, if you hold your head three feet above the gods, you won't be afraid of being struck by lightning."

"I am a complete atheist." Li Sichuan admits that he is not afraid of ghosts and gods, "But I see that your side has a lot of traces of Wubu culture, and you can see temple statues everywhere, and you can build a small land with three or five bricks The shrines also have incense sticks."

"You are a Chinese from the Central Plains, and I am a mountain people from Baiyue," Xiaoyu laughed a little when he explained, "The people of Baiyue all attach great importance to divination, because the will of heaven is profound, all things have animism, and human beings are the most arrogant and the most Those who are powerless always think that they can control everything by themselves, including fate." Her eyes fell on her mother's tombstone, "My mother also thought it was possible, but this is the result."

"Xiao Yu, can you let go of the past and look forward?" Li Sichuan carefully suggested, "You have at least 50 years to live in the future, you will have your own daughter, and you will prepare for your granddaughter. dowry."

"Daughter..." Xiaoyu's expression began to drift, "I know I will have a daughter, she has a pair of round eyes, black as cold stars, and a round face, short and flat like a cat. "

"It's so cute, I can't wait to meet her." Li Sichuan asked curiously, "Have you seen her in your dream? What did she say to you?"

Xiaoyu didn't answer according to his words, but said to herself: "I saw that I was walking on a mountain road. There was a mountain on one side and a slope on the other. The road was a winding road with white flowers on the hillside. I saw a There was a little girl with a round face and round eyes sitting in the car. I knew it was my daughter. I saw me walking in front of the car, and my daughter was calling me, but I couldn’t hear it. I walked slowly, and the long white The skirt got tangled up around my feet..."

Li Sichuan's hairs stood on end when he heard this, and he hurriedly said: "Xiao Yu, don't talk about it."

Xiao Yu didn't hear it, she was immersed in her two-dimensional world, "The long skirt of the skirt is entangled with my legs, I can't walk fast, my daughter is calling me, I can't hear it. I saw the car coming towards me, I flew Up to the sky. I clearly see the white skirt curling me up like a petunias. I have a long scarf around my neck. I'm flying away, on the road of glory... ..."

Li Sichuan was shocked when he heard this, he shook Xiaoyu desperately.

Xiao Yu blinked, came back to her senses, and asked, "Why are you shaking me like this, shaking my brains out?"

Li Sichuan said in surprise: "Do you know what you just said?"

Xiao Yu shook her head and asked again: "What did I say?"

"You don't remember?" Li Sichuan felt incredible.

"I don't remember. What did I say? I remember that I fell asleep and dozed off, like a dream, dreaming of white flowers." She saw the small pink and white petunias on the ground in a blink of an eye, pinched them I held one in my hand, "Here, it's like this."

She put the small morning glory in front of the tombstone, pushed away Li Sichuan's arm, stood up and bowed three times towards the tombstone, and said, "Mom, I'll bring Sichuan to see you."

Li Sichuan stood beside her, bowed three times, and said, "I will take good care of Xiaoyu, don't worry. Please rest in peace and let Xiaoyu live her life well."

He added in his heart: don't pester Xiaoyu again.

I don't know whether it was Li Sichuan's gentleness that touched Xiaoyu, or the conversation with the mother in the dream at the grave of the dead mother soothed Xiaoyu's nervous nerves. She went to bed relatively early that night.Li Sichuan thought, maybe after shedding tears, she released her anxiety so that she could go to bed early.

In the middle of the night, Li Sichuan woke up and didn't see her on the bed, so he got up to look for her.

Xiao Yu sat on the sofa chair in front of the window staring at the starry sky in a daze, with a big shawl on her shoulders.He used to sit next to her, helped her wrap up the loose shawl, and touched her hand. Fortunately, it was not very cold.He asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Xiao Yu smiled at him, changed her position, snuggled into his arms, and said, "I'm thinking that knowing you is the greatest luck in my life. Marrying you is the most correct decision I've ever made." After speaking, Xiao Yu smiled and kissed him.

"What a touching love story," Li Sichuan said intoxicated, "then why did you stay in a daze alone in the middle of the night instead of fighting with me in bed for [-] rounds?"

"You..." Xiao Yu grabbed his restless hand to prevent him from messing around. "It's not good to do this before the wedding. There is also a saying that it is unlucky for the groom not to see the bride before the wedding."

"Tch!" Li Sichuan snorted, "When is the time before the wedding? 24 hours before the wedding? Or the entire wedding? Doesn't include the time of dating? How can we talk if we don't meet when we are dating? And according to the law, we have Married, it’s already after the wedding. There’s no saying we don’t see each other after the wedding, right?”

"Then you have to see where the wedding is." Xiaoyu was amused by him, and said: "If it's a wedding in Hui'an, the bride will go back to her mother's house three days after the wedding. There is a saying called 'Buluo' Husband’s family’, the husband and wife don’t live together until the child is born.”

"What?" Li Sichuan yelled, "What is this called marriage? You don't give any sweets, and you see separation. You are not a Hui'an woman, right? Don't scare me, my heart is very fragile."

"I'm not." Xiao Yu smiled, "It's not that I don't give any sweets. They also meet three times a year, New Year, Qingming, and Zhongyuan. During these three days, the woman has to go to the man's house at night, and has to go back before dawn. , can’t be seen by others. Also, I’m not scaring you, when they were newly married, during those three days, they had different beds, and the bride sat by the bed until dawn.”

"Why?" Li Sichuan kissed her neck, "Girls used to get married early, children were afraid of that, and they didn't know the groom. I can understand that. But that man is dead? Facing his bride I can bear it, isn't it a man?"

He kissed and kissed, then suddenly raised his head and said, "I can't help it, I just can't help it. Shit! But why should I bear it?"

"You think all men are like you." Xiao Yu was provoked to laugh by his angry tone, "In order not to mess up their hair. It takes four hours for their wedding hairstyle to be done with the help of a female partner. Once you go to bed, mess up your hair, and comb it well, you will lose your face. This is equivalent to telling outsiders that they slept together at night, and they will be laughed at, looked down upon, and disobeyed. Just as serious."

(End of this chapter)