Father's Land Mother's River

Chapter 191 Metamorphosis

After the final exam, the school was about to go on winter vacation. Hu Liwen decided to take Liu Qiyu home to meet her parents after obtaining her parents' permission in advance.During this semester, the two learn together and promote each other, and their feelings continue to heat up in the ordinary communication, and they are already inseparable from each other.

On the evening of the last weekend at school, Hu Liwen took Liu Qiyu away from school and back to their own house in order to stay out of the sight of her classmates.Hu Liwen made a phone call and told Liu Qiyu that a car would pick them up later.

According to the scheduled time, the two came to the gate of the community to wait.Hu Liwen smiled and asked Liu Qiyu if he was nervous, Liu Qiyu said it was just a big exam.Hu Liwen told Liu Qiyu not to be nervous, her parents were very kind.

It was getting dark, the street lights were on, and the temperature was getting drier and colder.Fortunately, after a while, a black car stopped in front of them, and a young man in a military coat got off the passenger seat, opened the door without saying a word, and let the two of them into the car.

The window glass is dark, so you can't see the outside clearly, and you can't see the inside of the car clearly.Liu Qiyu was not familiar with the route, let alone where he was going, and it was not convenient for him to ask, so he sat straight.

Hu Liwen and the driver and co-driver didn't speak. There was only the noise of the engine inside the car, and the oppressive atmosphere seemed colder than outside.

Hu Liwen gently held Liu Qiyu's hand, Liu Qiyu held her hand instead, turned his head sideways, and the two looked at each other and smiled.One smiled mischievously and playfully, and the other smiled unnaturally.

The car drove into a gate guarded by guards, and Liu Qiyu was even more dizzy as he turned around.The car stopped in front of the gate of a quaint courtyard, and the young man in the passenger seat opened the door and asked the two of them to get out of the car.

Hu Liwen took Liu Qiyu's hand and walked into the yard, and smiled mysteriously at him: "This is my home."

Looking at a row of brightly lit rooms, Liu Qiyu felt apprehensive, but said, "It's almost like a house in the countryside."

Hu Liwen said: "You are right. In fact, this is a typical courtyard house in old Beijing."

Hu Liwen pulled Liu Qiyu into the room and shouted: "Dad, Mom, we are back."

An elegant middle-aged woman came out of the inner room and blamed Hu Liwen: "What are you shouting, your dad and I saw it."

Hu Liwen made an introduction, and Liu Qiyu bowed and called her aunt.Mother Hu measured Liu Qiyu, and said kindly: "You are welcome to my house as a guest, don't be restrained."

Hu Liwen took Liu Qiyu into the study to meet Hu's father, and Liu Qiyu also bowed and said hello.Father Hu stood up, held Liu Qiyu's hand, and said boldly, "Welcome, little fellow."

Liu Qiyu was stunned.Father Hu has gray hair and is wearing grass-green casual clothes. He is obviously from a military background. How can he be a little fellow?

Seeing Liu Qiyu staring blankly, Hu's father laughed loudly: "I came from the countryside as a soldier, and my hometown is in the same commune as Liuzi Street. Do you think I am a fellow villager?"

Liu Qiyu came to his senses, glanced at Hu Liwen beside him and said, "Uncle, actually, I am no longer a rural person."

Hu's father didn't mind: "Your father is a native of the countryside. I heard that your father built a school and a market. He did a lot of good things for his hometown and drove the development of his hometown. I left I haven’t done this in my hometown for so many years, it’s amazing. I went to Liuzi Street to work before I was a soldier, and there is a Mr. Guan in Liuzi Street who is very famous, and your old Liu family was also very famous before.”

The more they talked, the closer they got, Liu Qiyu relaxed a lot. He said: "Mr. Guan is the teacher of my grandfather and my father for two generations. My father's calligraphy was obtained by copying Mr. Guan's stele. Uncle still knows Liuzi Street very well. .”

Hu Liwen took out her mobile phone and showed her father the photo: "Dad, look, this is the stele written by Mr. Guan standing in front of Liuzi Street Primary School. This is the stele written by other fathers, 'The source of love 'Are the three characters very close to Mr. Guan's style?"

Father Hu nodded, patted Liu Qiyu on the shoulder and said, "You are also amazing. You can play military boxing and have a strong physique. You are not a nerd. I like it. My old man has no objection to the matter between you and Liwen."

Hu Liwen hugged her old father's arm and said: "Thank you dad for supporting my choice, and please ask dad to do my mother's work."

"I don't need your father to do work." Hu's mother came in and said to Hu's father: "When I see people from my hometown, I can't stop talking. The meal is ready, and the children should be hungry. Talk while eating." Then invite Liu Qiyu: "Son, let's go to eat. We must be cold and hungry with such thin clothes."

The tragedy of his father did not repeat itself, and Liu Qiyu felt the warmth of Hu's mother's concern. He said, "Thank you, auntie, for your concern. I am not cold."

Hu Liwen took off the down jacket for Liu Qiyu, and they sat down in the restaurant together.The table was rich, and Hu's mother said to Liu Qiyu, "It's just a few home-cooked dishes, without seafood, it's not as good as yours. Don't be too polite, eat more."

Naturally, Liu Qiyu would not be polite, and he drank a little wine with Father Hu when he was full.Hu's father and mother liked her frank and honest character. Hu's mother asked: "I heard from Liwen that your ambition is to build a big ship, and you will return to Bincheng to work after graduation."

Liu Qiyu replied honestly: "Yes, auntie, building warships and aircraft carriers is my wish since I was a child, and I have been working hard towards this."

Hu's mother asked: "You don't want to stay in Beijing to develop? After all, this is a metropolis, and the development prospects will be better."

Liu Qiyu said: "Uncle and aunt please understand, I don't want to change my ambition."

Father Hu picked up the wine glass and said, "Come on, let me have a toast. My old man supports your choice. Young people should not easily shake their determination."

After dinner, Liu Qiyu was left behind, sitting in the living room talking and playing chess with Father Hu.Hu Liwen was talking with her mother in the study, she smiled and asked her mother: "I brought the man back, is the mother satisfied?"

Mother Hu smiled and replied: "If I am not satisfied, I can still interfere with my daughter's choice? You know each other and love each other, it is also a kind of fate, but you will return to Bincheng to work and settle down in the future, and you will be far away from me. I only have you This one daughter."

Hu Liwen said: "It's not so far away, the traffic is so convenient, it's not easy to meet each other? Besides, when you and your father retire, you can also live in Bincheng. The temperature and environment are really good. Standing by the window I could see the sea, the sea and the sky. There is also seafood, our family has never eaten such fresh seafood before, and those seafood are all produced by his family."

Hu's mother said: "Then the house his father bought for you is a waste? I think it's better to stay in Beijing."

Hu Liwen said: "Mom, I know your thoughts, you must not interfere with Qiyu's choice. Like a father, like a son, he will be like his father, firm in his goals in life. When the time comes, those who have suffered the blow , it can only be your daughter. We keep that house for investment, don't worry about it."

"Really plan to spend the Spring Festival at his home?"

"I plan to go back with him as soon as the winter vacation is over. Can't we come back early after the Spring Festival?"

Hu's mother sighed: "Women don't stay in college, the old saying is true. I have raised my daughter so much, and I will fly away in a blink of an eye and become someone else's family."

Hu Liwen hugged her mother to comfort her: "My daughter will always be your daughter, no matter how far you fly, she will still be your daughter, and I will bring you a son-in-law, and there will be grandchildren in the future. You have earned it."

Mother Hu laughed and said, "You can coax mom. Mom told you that when you get to someone's house, you can't play the role of a young lady."

The children who had the winter vacation all went home, and with the addition of Hu Liwen, the family became lively again.As long as there is nothing to do at the farm, Liu Xiaonan will go home early, bring back the seafood that Hu Liwen loves to eat, cook a seafood feast for the children, and chat with the children.

In private, I happily shared with Meng Xiangxiang: "We welcome them home like VIPs, as if they went to college for us and studied for us, as if they are our meritorious ministers."

Meng Xiangxiang said: "Aren't you willing? Don't complain. This is a sign that we are going to grow old. We hope that the children will be around us, but the children will leave us after all."

It makes sense when you think about it carefully.When I was young, I hoped that they would grow up, and when they were far away, I hoped that they would go home often, and when they returned home, they would be served with delicious food and drinks, and they were treated as children. What kind of mentality is this?
Liu Xiaonan sometimes feels that parents are very pitiful and humiliate in front of their children.

Three days passed, the words that should be said were finished, and the enthusiasm slowly faded away.The meals you cook carefully are worthy of being eaten, but I don't have much to say to you.

And some behaviors of the children gradually made Liu Xiaonan feel uncomfortable.I hold my mobile phone in my hand all day long, lie sideways and vertically, I don’t want to sleep at night, and I’m lazy in bed in the morning. Is it so easy to study in college now?
There was no one to eat the breakfast prepared in the morning, and when they woke up in the middle of the morning, they all went downstairs sleepily. Sun Yuxiu had to reheat them twice before Sun Yuxiu could go upstairs to clean up.While eating, they still played with their mobile phones, as if their mobile phones were closer than their parents.

On the fifth day, Liu Xiaonan said to Meng Xiangxiang, "Go upstairs and wake them up for breakfast."

Meng Xiangxiang said: "Study in school is very heavy, so you can let the children relax after the holiday."

"Study is heavy? I don't see it. This mental state and tension are not half as high as when I was in junior high school. I look at my phone all day, can I see flowers, or can I learn valuable things? From vacation to now, I Didn't see them picking up a book one day."

"Don't use the standards we had at that time to judge the current children. All children are the same. Don't worry too much. How long can the children stay at home? Open your eyes and close your eyes. If you don't get used to it, take it easy. Slowly learn to get used to it."

"Fortunately, you are still an educator. That's how you educate your students in school? It's laziness to teach laxly. No wonder all the children now have the same appearance."

"Don't forget, there is another daughter-in-law of yours upstairs, you can try one?"

Liu Xiaonan stared blankly, unable to say a word.

After a week, Liu Xiaonan couldn't bear it anymore.

At dinner that day, in front of Meng Xiangxiang and the children, he said to Sun Yuxiu: "Xiao Sun, from tomorrow onwards, if no one eats your breakfast, you will throw it away. You don't have to reheat it for a second time. You don't have to go up." Clean up the sanitation of the upstairs, and someone is responsible for the sanitation of the upstairs, if no one is responsible, you don’t have to deal with it if you create a pig’s nest.”

Sun Yuxiu was stunned, and asked cautiously: "Uncle, how can that be, that's my job. Is there something I can't do well?"

Liu Xiaonan said: "You have done a good job. You are the same age as my children. I admire you for your hard work and labor to support yourself and your parents. We all came from the countryside, and each other We can all understand each other, although we each have a division of labor, we have to share with each other."

Sun Yuxiu and the three children were stunned at the same time.The implication is that the three children are not from the countryside, but outsiders.Meng Xiangxiang just buried his head in eating and didn't show his attitude. He thought to himself, this is a way.

Liu Qiyu was the quickest to respond. He said, "Dad, Mom, let's get up on time from tomorrow. I will clean the upstairs."

Liu Xiaonan didn't seem to hear it, and ignored it.He asked Meng Xiangxiang: "When you were in college, you had to go to the beach to work every winter and summer vacation to earn a little tuition and living expenses for yourself. The palms of your hands were smashed by those rotten fish and shrimps. What did you think at that time?"

Meng Xiangxiang said: "How else can I think about it? The family situation is there. If I don't go out to earn a little, I have to increase the family's burden, and I have to drop out of school. Although I have a big brother to support me, I still feel that I should support myself , being able to stand on one's own will give a person a sense of self-confidence."

Liu Xiaonan asked again: "During your teaching and lectures, what would you do if there were students looking at their mobile phones below?"

Meng Xiangxiang said: "What else can I do? College students are not elementary school students or middle school students. They all have their own independent thinking, opinions and judgments, and they don't need teachers to watch over them. If someone looks at their mobile phone in my class, I will only think that it's their own. It's my lectures that aren't engaging, that's my problem, not the students."

Hu Liwen watched and listened, and thought to herself, this is the real husband and wife, who support each other and cooperate with each other with a tacit understanding.The relationship between mother and father is more of a dependent relationship. What the mother pays is youth, and what she asks for is stable and superior living conditions and treatment.

Qimeng said: "Dad, I look at my mobile phone to study how to write online novels. I really don't have time at school."

Only then did Liu Xiaonan show a little smile: "You also have to take care of your eyes and maintain a normal life pattern and work and rest habits. You will be a doctor in the future."

Half a month before the Spring Festival, Liu Xiaonan gave Sun Yuxiu a holiday in advance, and asked her to go home early to reunite with her parents and have a good New Year.There is no nanny at home, and a division of labor is naturally formed upstairs and downstairs.

Waking up early every day, Liu Xiaonan and Meng Xiangxiang prepared breakfast while the other cleaned up.The three children upstairs also consciously got up, cleaned up the upstairs, and went downstairs to have breakfast together.

Liu Qiyu became the "house chief" upstairs, responsible for waking the two girls up and cleaning the upstairs.Every night, I have to practice brush calligraphy with Qimeng for a while, and prepare to write Spring Festival couplets for the villagers in Liuzi Street before the Spring Festival.He told Hu Liwen that this was a responsibility he had taken over from his father.

In such a family atmosphere, it is difficult for Hu Liwen to stay out of it, even though she has never done housework.Also a girl, Qimeng can knit a sweater scarf, and all the sweater scarves she wears are knitted by herself; she can also cook, and she can even cook a dinner for her family alone.But besides talking about love with Qiyu, I can't do anything else.

She is very clear about her position. Now she is a guest of this family, so she can do nothing. In the future, she will be a daughter-in-law for others, and she will support the family business.You can act coquettishly and recklessly in front of your parents, but in front of your future parents-in-law, you must behave decently and show your ability to be independent.

She decided to try to change herself, starting from scratch and learning from the simplest.

(End of this chapter)