Xu Jing's hometown is in the north suburb of Haizhou city. After five years away from home, Xu Jing finally came back and found that this part of her hometown was beyond recognition.
In her memory, it used to be the countryside full of low bungalows, but now there are construction tower cranes and hot construction sites everywhere. The prosperous city is like a fat pig that has not enough to eat. It has arched around for five years. Now it has finally arched here. It has arched this piece of ground into a mess. There are broken roads and foundation pits everywhere.
I don't even know the road. After driving around with Yang Xiaobao, Xu Jing still couldn't find her hometown. Stop the car, put down the window, and yell at a middle-aged woman with a vegetable basket: "Auntie, let me ask you the way. How can I get to group 2 of Wuxian village?"
The aunt turned around and saw that Xu Jing was stunned for a few seconds. She exclaimed in surprise: "Xiao Jing! Isn't this Xiao Jing? I'm your aunt Xi! When you left home and went to military academy, your parents were sick and couldn't move, or did I send you to the station? Don't you remember me? "
"Aunt Xi!" Xu Jing also recognized it. She jumped out of the car and took her arm excitedly to talk. Her eyes were red after a long farewell to the villagers.
Aunt Xi also wiped her tears, holding Xu Jing's hand and looking up and down: "Xiao Jing, you've been in the army for five years, and you've grown into a big girl. You're so upright." Then he took a look at Yang Xiaobao sitting in the car and said in a low voice with a smile: "I've brought back such a strong boyfriend. This young man is very rich, isn't he? He sent you this way. I'm afraid it's hundreds of thousands! "
Aunt Xi is a sharp talker. She looks at Yang Xiaobao's 1.8 meters tall and long legs. She is a slouch and slouchy native wherever she goes. It's too fake to praise him as handsome and energetic, so she can only say "sturdy".
Xu Jing couldn't laugh or cry. She felt a little embarrassed and didn't know how to explain. When Yang Xiaobao heard this, he laughed, got out of the car, opened the front passenger's door for Aunt Xi, and politely said, "aunt Xi, Xiao Jing is unable to find her way. You get on the bus and show zhixiaojing the way. I'll see you home by the way. "
The young man is nice and polite. Aunt Xi nodded unconsciously, feeling satisfied.
After getting on the bus, aunt Xi sits in the front passenger seat, pointing the way, while chatting with Xu Jing about the changes in her hometown. It's just who has made a fortune by demolishing, who has married a beautiful daughter-in-law, who has twins, who has lost all his children and so on. On the one hand, he kept looking back at Yang Xiaobao in the back row.
The car turned two blocks into an alley. Aunt Xi stopped the car, but it was not Xu Jing's old house, but her own home.
Aunt Xi pulls Xu Jing and Yang Xiaobao home to have a meal. Xu Jing was thinking about her old house and wanted to go back to see it as soon as possible, but it was hard to refuse, so she had to comply. Yang Xiaobao naturally follows her meaning.
After dinner, Xu Jing remembered what Yang Xiaobao had said about the "meeting ceremony", so she quietly pulled him out to a quiet place to discuss with him.
"Brother Yang, can you lend me 10000 yuan for the cash in your bag? I wanted to go home and put things down first, and then go to buy some gifts to visit relatives and neighbors. Now it's too late. Empty hands are not good-looking, so I can only seal red envelopes. I don't have any cash on hand. "
"Borrow something, take it and use it well. Aunt Xi is a good person. It doesn't matter if you give more." Afraid that she was not enough, Yang Xiaobao took out the plastic bag in the car and gave her an extra bundle.
Xu Jing returned to the main room with two bundles of red banknotes. She took out a stack of them, about two thousand in size, put them on the dining table, pushed them to Aunt Xi, and politely said, "aunt Xi, I'm sorry to trouble you. You gave me to my parents when I went to the military academy. I always remember that. I came back in a hurry this time, so I didn't have time to buy a gift. Take this money and have a cup of tea. It's my wish. "
"What can I do? Your parents left early, and my uncle didn't take care of you. It's not easy for you to earn a few salaries in the army. My aunt's life is OK. I don't lack your heart. Besides, my house is going to be demolished, which is also a large amount of income. "
Aunt Xi's refusal was firm, not hypocritical and polite. Xu Jing had no choice but to push her.
"... besides, you should come back to work this time, right? That's the time to spend money. When is the time for wine? " When talking about "doing things", aunt Xi glanced at Yang Xiaobao quickly, with a smile in the corner of her eyes.
When Xu Jing heard this, her cheeks turned red. She couldn't help glancing at Yang Xiaobao. She looked as if nothing had happened to him. She felt a little disappointed.
Yang Xiaobao is not thinking about this at the moment. He listens to Aunt Xi's "uncle of my family is not decent" and says that this is so special that he must be getting into trouble again.
Aunt Xi refused to accept the red envelope, but some people did. In addition to her family, there were several other neighbors in aunt Xi's hall. They all heard the Xu family come back to talk. When Xu Jing took out the money, she didn't plan to take it back, so she took the three hundred and the five hundred as a gift. Anyway, they were all the neighbors she knew here.
As soon as the money went out, things changed a little. The neighbors who took the red envelope went out to show off and spread it to others. They talked about how the girls of the Xu family spent so much money and brought back a rich son-in-law with a good car. The more the story spread, the worse it became. In the end, it turned out that it was the girl of the Xu family who brought her fiance back to her hometown. When she met her relatives and elders, she chose the day to drink.
According to the custom here, a son-in-law who has been ordered to come to the house should send a large amount of red envelopes. Relatives, neighbors, old people and children, as long as they know each other, all have their share. So wave after wave of old and young people in Wuxian village came to see their new son-in-law and took the red envelope by the way. This money is a custom, and I'm not embarrassed to take it.
According to the distance between people, Xu Jing gave one hundred and the other two hundred. The number was not large, but she couldn't hold up a large number of people. Xu Jing is also kind-hearted and thin skinned. She is embarrassed to face her acquaintances and refuses to give them. Before long, she scattered the 20000 Yuan Yang Xiaobao gave her.
It doesn't matter that Yang Xiaobao arrived. Anyway, it's equivalent to two bullets from the hotel owner. It's more convenient to send out the gifts like this now, so that he won't have to carry gifts to visit each family another day.
Yang Xiaobao doesn't care, but Xu Jing feels sorry for him. She knows that even if she insists on returning the money to Yang Xiaobao, he won't accept it, which is equivalent to spending his money.
Xu Jing stood up, picked up her nearly empty handbag and said goodbye to Aunt Xi: "aunt Xi, I've been sitting here for such a long time, and I've seen all the neighbors. I think I'll go home and have a look."
"Xiaojing, I've been keeping you. I don't want you to go home and get angry." Aunt Xi hesitated, "your house is occupied by your uncle."
Xu Jing was surprised to say "ah". Her uncle was always very shameful. When her father was seriously ill in hospital and could not afford the medicine, she went to his uncle's house to borrow some money for medical expenses, but he didn't pay for it.
That's all. After the funeral, my uncle didn't help at all. That's OK. After the funeral, seeing that Xu Jing had become an orphan, he jumped out and insisted that the house left by Xu Jing's parents had been built with the money borrowed from him. Now that people are dead and can't pay back the money, the house should belong to him. How can Xu Jing's lonely daughter compete with his elder? The villagers in Wuxian village couldn't bear to see it. They besieged the disgraceful uncle of the Xu family one after another, which suppressed it.
Aunt Xi knows about it, and Xu Jing always remembers it. It's because she remembers that the villagers helped her. She was very generous just now when she was giving out red envelopes.
"Xiaojing, it's not that the villagers don't help looking at your house. Who doesn't know that your uncle is not decent?"
Aunt Xi continued to talk about the whole story, "after you arrived in the army, your uncle let out a rumor in the village that your house has been empty. Someone has to live in it to take care of it. He will live in it and move out to return it to you when you come back. When he says that, it's hard for everyone to say anything. It's up to him. "
Xu Jing shook her head and said, "forget it. Everything has passed before. He is always my uncle. I'm back this time, as long as he moves out of my house. "
"Xiaojing, why don't you understand? He just won't move! "
Aunt Xi stamped her feet anxiously and said in a low voice, "I'll pull you from the street to my house, turn around and let my man go to your house, inform your uncle, and let him move out before you get home. I can't even talk about it. Otherwise, you two should stay with me for a few days, so as not to make trouble at home. Tomorrow, I'll find a few more villagers to come and scold him, and scold him away... "
Hearing this, Yang Xiaobao raised his head and put in a smile: "aunt Xi, don't worry, I won't make anything ugly. Let's go. Come back and sit down
Aunt Xi was stunned. She was trying to persuade her. Yang Xiaobao has pulled Xu Jing out of the hall.
Aunt Xi, this is Wuxian village, so there's no need to ask for directions. After getting on the bus and driving home, Xu Jing told Yang Xiaobao what her uncle had done.
Yang Xiaobao nodded: "no wonder aunt Xi said at the beginning that your uncle is not decent. Xiao Jing, this is your family business. I want to hear what you mean. It's not difficult to solve this problem. Do you want me to be tough or soft? "
Xu Jing was a little flustered and grabbed Yang Xiaobao's wrist: "brother Yang, promise me that no matter what you see later, no matter how irritating my uncle is, don't fight with him, OK? I'm not afraid that you will suffer, nor that you will hurt him. After all, this is my hometown. People think you are the new son-in-law. As soon as the new son-in-law comes to the door, he beats the eldest uncle of his family. This... How can I be a man after it's spread? It will also make you blush. "
Yang Xiaobao looked up to the sky and sighed: "God, in your eyes, am I so violent? OK, I promise you, I'll be civilized today. I'll just talk and never do anything