That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 575 Unwritten Rules
"I'm going to talk to my colleague about something. Goodbye, Ms. Fu."

Yang Yumin changed tables after eating half full. Although he knew that his wife had a good relationship with Fu Yiru, it was normal for him to have a meal with Fu Yiru's mother.

But for some reason, he just felt some inexplicable pressure.

This was very strange. Ms. Fu had a very good temperament and was very kind when she spoke to him, but Yang Yumin felt like he was almost sweating.

After Yang Yumin left, Li Ye looked at his mother with a slightly frown.

"Mom, why did you scare him away?"

"what?"

Fu Guiru was stunned for a moment, then she thought about it carefully before she asked doubtfully, "Really? No! I didn't even dare to ask any questions, so you're scared away?"

"And I think Yumin is an okay kid! Is there any misunderstanding?"

Li Ye said with a smile: "Mom, do you still need to ask questions? Look at the look in your eyes just now, it's like you were interrogating a spy. If you don't believe me, ask Xiaoyu and Xiaoruo."

Fu Guiru looked at Fu Yiru and Wen Leyu in surprise, and the two little girls nodded in unison, indicating that the main point was real.

Fu Guiru couldn't help but rub her forehead and sighed softly.

Li Ye smiled and joked: "Mom, people say that the more a mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more she likes him. If you look at him a few more times, you will like him.
Actually, Yang Yumin is not bad, except for his appearance, he is very good, a decent person, and he treats my sister well."

"That's right, mom is just too picky," Fu Yiruo immediately accused from the side, "Love is inherently a very selfish thing, and outsiders are not allowed to interfere. If you continue to be like this in the future, you will become an old witch."

"Ha~"

Fu Guiru smiled and slapped Fu Yiru's forehead with her head: "Don't fool me. If you want to find a boyfriend in the future, I think the same way. As for that Yao Feng from the past, don't even think about it."

"Don't be unconvinced. A daughter marries into another family and lives with her, while a daughter-in-law marries into your own family. The mother-in-law finds fault with her son-in-law for the good of her daughter."

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Fu Yiru rolled her eyes. Malay girls mature earlier than girls from the mainland. Although she also looked down on Yao Feng, she was instinctively dissatisfied with her mother's brutal interference in their "free love".

However, after thinking about it for a while, Wen Leyu nodded and agreed: "Auntie, you are right."

Fu Yiru was so angry that she kicked Wen Leyu's foot under the table.

[We are natural allies. Why did you turn against me in order to please my mother-in-law? Are we still good sisters? ]

But Fu Yiru didn't know that Wen Leyu was not trying to please Fu Guiru, but because Li Ye had been strictly selected by Teacher Ke and he didn't find any faults in him, so he "liked him more and more".

"Okay, what my mother said is all from experience. Although it is a new society now and we value free love, wouldn't life be happier if we could get the blessing of our family?"

Unlike these two little girls who are only about twenty years old, Li Ye, who is several dozen years old in his two lives, has a deep understanding of the difference between a daughter-in-law and a son-in-law.

The daughter-in-law is right under his nose, and the parents-in-law are watching over him. Even if the son suffers a little grievance, he has someone to support him.

Nowadays, it is recognized by society that once a daughter-in-law marries into a man, she belongs to that man.

Even in rural areas, if there is a dispute or fight with others, people will not easily beat a married girl, because beating a married girl is equivalent to bringing in another enemy.

Therefore, since ancient times, if the mother-in-law doesn't like her son-in-law and wants to say something, she has to be careful and be pleasing to him even if she doesn't like him.

But it is different with the daughter-in-law. If she doesn’t like someone, she will just start scolding him. It is not just talk that a daughter-in-law can become a mother-in-law after many years of being a daughter-in-law.

It was not until the 1990s that strong daughters-in-law turned the tide and completely overturned the years of tradition.

The daughter-in-law cannot be scolded, the son-in-law. Alas~
Therefore, if you can satisfy both sets of parents before getting married, you can avoid a lot of trouble later.

"Actually, I'm just taking a look at Xiaoyue's boyfriend. I have no right to find fault with him."

Fu Guiru sighed and said, "Xiao Yue told me that Yumin is a very good child, and your grandfather, grandmother, and parents also think he is very good. This is actually the blessing of the family that Xiao Ye mentioned.
Although I am worried, I just want to take a look."

"."

Seeing Fu Guiru suddenly become lonely, Li Ye, Fu Yiru and Wen Leyu looked at each other and chose to remain silent at the same time.

Every family has its own problems, and mine has two!

The Li family must be very satisfied with Yang Yumin. He has a good job, a promising future, and a good attitude towards the Li family.
Sister Li Yue never called Han Chunmei "mother", but Yang Yumin respected Han Chunmei very much. Every time they met, he bought gifts for Han Chunmei, Li Juan and Li Ying, and he used his own salary to buy gifts.

Everyone in the Li family likes Yang Yumin very much.

In comparison, Fu Guiru missed out on Li Yue's growth process and became an "outsider" in a subtle way.

So how should Li Kaijian, Fu Guiru and Han Chunmei get along with each other from now on?
Li Ye was also very worried.

. . . . . . . .

Li Ye accompanied his mother to drink a few glasses of red wine. When they finished eating and left, most of the people in the restaurant had already left, leaving only the most important table. Yang Yumin was also at that table, accompanying his colleague Lao Shao.

Then when Li Ye passed by, team leader Zhou at the table called out to Li Ye.

"By the way, Li Ye, when you go upstairs, go to Room 6022 to find Xiao He and report today's events."

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Li Ye looked at Zhou Ziyuan, whose face was flushed, and asked coldly, "Excuse me, Captain Zhou, what do I need to report?"

Zhou Ziyuan frowned and said, "According to the regulations, any contact with anyone other than our exhibitors needs to be recorded. You just had dinner with these two female comrades, so it needs to be recorded."

"."

Li Ye was very surprised, he really didn't know there was such a rule. Was they afraid that he was in contact with spies?
"Hehe, Li Ye, don't make such a fuss,"

Old Xie saw Li Ye's displeasure and smiled to smooth things over, "This has been an old rule for many years. It's just a formality. Li Ye, just go and say hello to Xiao He."

"Yes, yes! Rules are dead, but people are alive. Go up and tell Xiao He that you are having dinner with your classmates. It's just a matter of two sentences."

"Hahaha, young man, don't be so stubborn. We old guys are all doing this for your own good!"

"."

Everyone was "well-intentioned" in persuading Li Ye, as if a group of experienced people were persuading the newcomer not to be stubborn and to be sensible.

Li Ye glanced over coldly with disdain in his eyes.

He will not write this report today. Does he have to report to have a meal with me?

And how to report it? Have a friendly meal with a patriotic businessman?
But just as Li Ye was about to turn around and leave, Wen Leyu suddenly stepped forward and said in a cold tone: "As far as I know, we don't have any regulations that require reporting to the organization for situations like today. Do you have any documents?"

"If there are no documents or specific regulations, please don't show off your authority in front of so many people."

"."

Everyone was stunned, even the few people who were almost drunk were confused.

A little girl was so bold that she even went to the extreme of accusing Zhou Ziyuan of abusing his power.

Old Xie said awkwardly: "Ahem, these are all unwritten rules, and everyone is used to abiding by them."

"Old Xie, you don't have to explain to her. Why should you explain to her?"

Zhou Ziyuan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly became angry and started scolding Wen Leyu.

But Yang Yumin at the table said, "How can they understand without explanation? They are still students and don't understand these unwritten rules."

"I know what you are worried about, Captain Zhou, but as far as I know, Li Ye and Wen Leyu have both refused the opportunity to study abroad in school, and more than once."

"Even if everyone would flee, they wouldn't, because Li Ye can go abroad to study at any time. Lijiapo National University once invited him."

“Also, I don’t understand why you, Team Leader Zhou, mentioned that unwritten rule in front of the two foreign guests?

When we go abroad, we represent the image of the mainland. Don't you think that what you just said can easily lead to misunderstandings among foreign guests? Or do you just think that doing this is really normal management?"

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Yang Yumin said this in a very calm tone, but after he finished speaking, the entire restaurant became silent and you could hear a pin drop, as if it had been struck by lightning.

If Wen Leyu's behavior just now makes people think that he is a young man who is frivolous and does not know his place, then Yang Yumin's words are suspected of being a "mistake".

Because he is a public official, he openly contradicted the team leader during a group activity and even ridiculed Lao Zhou for abusing his power?

Don't you notice the impact?
If this were to be reported to the unit after returning, the accusations of being ignorant of the overall situation, undermining foreign affairs work, and having no political wisdom would be firmly put on my head.

To put it more seriously, this will affect your career.

However, as Fu Guiru looked at Yang Yumin with a calm expression, she felt that he was much more pleasing to the eye than before.

Helping relatives instead of others is what we call family!
More than 20 years ago, Fu Guiru received letters sent from Malaysia to the mainland and was identified as having overseas connections. She was pushed to the bottom by the "unwritten rules" and became a suspect from a militia company commander.

And no one in the family stood up to oppose it openly.

Li Zhongfa's opinion was to try his best to mediate within the rules, and he complained to Li Kaijian a few words.

Then Fu Guiru got angry and stubbornly went south to Malaysia.

Later, Fu Guiru often thought that if her family had "helped the relatives but not the others", she would have stayed and shouldered all the hardships instead of choosing to escape.

(End of this chapter)