Chapter 28: Twenty-Eight Untitled
Chapter 28 Untitled
Chen Yun had indeed lived the life she wanted, but the thing she feared most was the emergence of any unstable factors that might destroy everything.
The elders are the same as her, especially Liu Yingxia.
Liu Yingxia is a person who cannot keep things to herself. On the way home, she whispered to her daughter: "Do you know who else was in the store just now?"
Who? Chen Yun joked, "The Jade Emperor?"
Liu Yingxia was still a superstitious person. She patted her daughter in annoyance and said, "Don't talk nonsense."
Then she lowered her voice again, "The kid named Hu."
Fortunately, there were not many people on the road at night, and even cars rarely passed by. Chen Yun did not miss her mother's silent words.
She said, "What's wrong?"
Liu Yingxia glanced at the father-in-law and son-in-law who were walking in front of her, supporting each other: "Doesn't Fenglin know him?"
Chen Yun felt that Song Fenglin might not be able to see it with his myopia, so she lifted her son's hand, which
was about to fall, and said, "If he sees it, he sees it. The ex-boyfriend is not your lover." Even if it was in dialect, Liu Yingxia was afraid that her granddaughter would hear it: "You can say such things with such a mouth."
Chen Yun loved her parents, but she also knew that they had many shortcomings, such as feudalism and conservatism.
When she first met Song Fenglin, her parents repeatedly told her to pretend that she had never been in love, as if that was the most shameful thing in the world.
But Chen Yun herself didn't care: "It was just a joke."
Liu Yingxia couldn't laugh: "I'm just afraid that Fenglin will see you and quarrel with you."
Chen Yun: "When have you seen us quarreling?"
Then she said: "It's been more than ten years. Song Fenglin is not as stingy as you think."
Liu Yingxia was worried: "Men may not say it, but they definitely care in their hearts. Look at you, how did you let Fenglin know about such a person."
Chen Yun was a little unhappy: "Why, I have to give him a chastity arch before I marry him? It's the 21st century."
Even if another hundred centuries passed, Liu Yingxia would think: "You are a girl, how can it be the same?"
And she said with relief: "Fenglin is really good in everything. He is a son-in-law that can be found everywhere on the street. He doesn't care about anything."
Chen Yun was furious: "I just had a relationship, not murder or arson. What do you mean you don't care about anything?"
She raised her voice so high that her son in her arms was startled, and even her daughter stopped and looked back.
Liu Yingxia rubbed her hands helplessly: "What happened?"
She then made sure in a panic that her son-in-law didn't hear the little conflict.
Chen Yun closed her eyes slightly and took a deep breath: "Don't say such things in the future."
Parents are limited by their cognition and have their own stubborn concepts about everything in the world. Even if they agree with it verbally, it is difficult to change their true thoughts.
Just like covering one's ears and stealing a bell, Chen Yun assumed that there was no such difference without saying anything, and poured a bucket of cold water on her heart: "Go home."
Liu Yingxia might not be able to sort out her daughter's anger. Perhaps even in the closest relationship, there is no way to fully understand each other.
She agreed cautiously, which only made it more painful.
On the one hand, Chen Yun couldn't control her temper, but on the other hand, she always felt guilty after losing her temper.
She concealed her true emotions and forced a smile: "Xingxing, run slower, don't fall down."
Chen Xingyue was also easy to fool and didn't take this incident, which was not an episode, to heart.
She rushed forward and squeezed between Grandpa and Dad.
After drinking three bottles of beer, my father-in-law couldn't even walk in a straight line.
Song Fenglin was originally supporting himself, but was nearly knocked down by his daughter's squeeze. He managed to stand: "Xingxing, grandpa is drunk, you better be careful."
Chen Xingyue nodded obediently, looked at her grandfather's red face and asked: "Grandpa, are you hot?"
Chen Yongzhong said in a loud voice like a bell: "No, not hot at all."
He raised his voice in a high tone, but in fact he didn't even have the energy to take a shower when he got home, and fell asleep immediately.
Liu Yingxia went to the second bedroom with a quilt in her arms and urged her son-in-law who was sending the old couple home: "Your dad is fine, you should go back quickly."
Song Fenglin: "Okay, Mom, you should go to bed early too."
He returned to his home a few buildings away. Chen Yun had already changed clothes for her half-asleep son and put him on the bed. She urged at the door of the public bathroom: "Xingxing, take a shower quickly, it's too late."
Chen Xingyue has been playing with water recently. She can rub out three pounds of bubbles with her shower gel. Usually, the tragedy is "lip service".
But she was probably too sleepy today. Soon she came out rubbing her eyes and crawled into the quilt.
Her battery was drained and her breathing became heavy soon.
Unlike my younger brother, who couldn’t even open his eyes but still acted like a spoiled brat and refused to sleep.
Chen Yun had just coaxed him for a while before he lay down obediently. Seeing this, she turned off the night light in the children's room, went to the living room and said, "Aren't you going to sleep yet?"
Song Fenglin sat on the sofa and patted the seat next to him: "I have something to tell you."
Why does everyone have something to say? Chen Yun's temper, which had just been suppressed, came up again. She thought that if he was jealous of Hu Yuchen again, they must have a fight today.
Her impatience was faintly visible in the corners, and Song Fenglin was puzzled: "Are you very tired? If you are, sleep and talk about it after you wake up."
He started by whetting people's appetite, and then said "Let's talk about it another day."
Chen Yun glanced at him with a spark in her tone: "If you have something to say, just say it directly, don't drag it out."
Song Fenglin quickly said: "Wait until I finish the resignation procedures, or let mom and dad go back to their hometown to live for a while."
His words sounded like he was trying to drive someone away, and he quickly made up for it: "What Dad just talked about to me, I guess he wouldn't have been embarrassed to mention it if he hadn't been drinking. They have worked hard for us for several years, and they couldn't even stay in their hometown for a few more days during the New Year. Now that I'm free, I can let them go back and rest."
Parents are always attached to their hometown, and occasionally they will mention the saying of returning to one's roots.
Chen Yun was like a balloon that was punctured. She felt deflated and her nose was slightly sour: "Is that what you want to tell me?"
Song Fenglin: "Yes."
He was startled when he noticed that her eyes were red: "I don't mean to drive them away. I really want them to have a good rest. Otherwise, they will always be around us and the children in Ningjiang and can't stop for a moment."
Of course Chen Yun knew that he was not like that. Seeing him so anxious and at a loss, she just wanted to laugh.
She said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Huh? Are you the one who makes the decisions in this family?
Song Fenglin didn't feel like a serf rising from the ashes at all, and he explained more carefully: "I swear to God..."
Chen Yun interrupted him: "I believe it, say less unlucky words."
This sounded like a normal tone, and Song Fenglin brushed the corner of her eye with his fingertips: "So you can't bear to leave your parents?"
Chen Yun: "I'm not a child."
She picked up the pillow beside her and said, "They can live their own lives now."
For some reason, all Song Fenglin could hear was sighs.
He didn't receive much love from his parents, and during these ten years of being loved by his parents, he could only feel grateful: "It's really not easy for them."
Chen Yun suddenly wanted to open her heart: "I was always happy when I was young. They didn't force me to study, sent me to the interest classes I wanted to attend, were the first to pick me up from school every day, and played house with me..."
Those things that she took for granted, thirty-three years later, made her feel how lucky she was.
Compared with the old couple, Song Fenglin admits that he pales in comparison: "Among the elders I know, my parents are indeed the best."
It is because they are so good that people always ignore the bumps and stumbles in their hearts.
Chen Yun: "So I decided a long time ago that even if I get married and have my own family in the future, my parents will also be a part of it."
Song Fenglin remembered something and asked for the first time: "So that's why you are with me?"
His parents are divorced, and to a large extent there are no conflicts in integrating the two families.
Chen Yun: “Not just that.”
Marriage is a very important matter, and she thought about it again and again before making up her mind.
Song Fenglin became curious and got to the bottom of it: "Then what else?"
Chen Yun hesitated, clenched her hands into small fists, and seemed to be ready to give a long speech. Finally, she said, "You are a good person."
Song Fenglin: "I thought this was a comment you would give if you were not with me."
It sounded like a consolation prize.
However, Chen Yun's expression was very serious: "Do you know how difficult it is to be a good person?"
Song Fenglin hesitated: "I, don't quite know."
Chen Yun: "Take my friend's ex-boyfriend for example. When she was in school, he brought her breakfast every day, picked her up and dropped her off downstairs of the dormitory, and queued for three hours just to buy her a pancake. Doesn't it sound good?"
Song Fenglin did not keenly notice her suspicious pause and nodded: "Yes, it's very good."
Chen Yun: "At the beginning, my friend also felt very happy. But the boy is from Ningjiang, and his parents don't agree with him to find someone from outside the area. When he met his parents for the first time, he gave my friend a cold look. The boy advised her to come a few more times to show her courtesy and move the elders with her sincerity. The girl disagreed, and later they broke up."
Before this later, there were of course many straws that broke the camel's back, but times have changed, and now only the result is left.
The more Song Fenglin listened, the more familiar it sounded: "Did you tell me about this?"
Chen Yun: "Not only you, I've told this to several boys who I thought were pretty good. You were the only one who didn't say, 'If you really love the other person, you won't give up so easily.'"
Song Fenglin didn't expect that he had been so successful in the past, but he was still curious: "If he didn't say it, he is a good person?"
This evaluation standard is completely different from what he thought of as all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor.
Chen Yun said confidently: "I'm looking for a partner, and if I say yes, it's yes!"
She raised her head slightly, as if to say, "If you dare to disagree, just give it a try."
Song Fenglin: "Okay, I'll listen to you."
He said a little embarrassedly: "That's why you like me."
He is already 35 years old, which has nothing to do with the word "young man".
But perhaps when it comes to the word "love", he is still immature.
Chen Yun didn't dare to look into his eyes for a moment and lowered her head: "We get along best."
Even if she didn't want to admit it, she knew that she was taking advantage of his love.
On the contrary, Song Fenglin felt that getting along well was better than "liking" each other, and smiled shyly.
Chen Yun moved closer to him and said firmly: "I will treat you better."
Only in this way can she better convince herself.
Without those unknown backgrounds, this is just a confession.
Song Fenglin was happily immersed in it, and everything seemed calm.