Yonghe Road

Chapter 56 Blind Date
No wonder the old couple looked down on his two skewers of broken squid. It turned out that they had already prepared a seafood feast for him in a restaurant in the town.

As a natural harbor nestled between mountains and rivers and rich in fishery resources, Shajiaqi has a wide variety of seafood, including yellow croaker, hairtail, eel, cuttlefish, shrimp, swimming crab, etc. As the town is located in the center of the harbor, fishermen go out to sea to fish every morning and return with a full load in the afternoon. Therefore, the tables of restaurants in the town are filled with the freshest seafood. There is no need for complicated cooking techniques. Only the most primitive steaming and boiling methods are needed to allow diners to enjoy a feast. For example, yellow croaker can be steamed and shrimp can be blanched. If the chef wants to show off his cooking skills by making crabs, he only needs to throw some green onions and ginger into the pot, and it will be a paradise for taste buds.

The table was already filled with seafood. Secretary Wang swallowed his saliva calmly and sternly lectured Wang Zian: "Is this the feast your mother and I prepared for ourselves? No, it's a blind date banquet prepared for you."

Wang Zian almost choked on his own saliva: "Why didn't you discuss this with me in advance?"

"What? You still want to escape?" Secretary Wang Kai raised his voice.

Wang Zian smiled apologetically and said, "If I had known this earlier, I would have dressed more respectably."

Ms. Bingfen glanced at her son and smiled, "An'an, you look very handsome like this at night."

His mother's evaluation had no objective reference value, so Wang Zian didn't take it to heart. He just looked around the private room, wondering where his blind date was.

Ms. Bingfen said, "Your sister and your brother-in-law have already gone to pick up the girl."

The door of the private room was pushed open. Wang Zian's heart skipped a beat and he became nervous instinctively. It turned out to be a waitress in her forties or fifties who came in to deliver the food.

After the waitress left, Ms. Bingfen comforted Wang Zian and said, "Don't be nervous. The girl likes you."

"She hasn't even met me, how do you know she'll like me?"

"I have seen it." said Ms. Bingfen.

Secretary Wang Kai added, "Your mother sent your photo to the other party."

"Is it an artistic photo or a daily photo?" Wang Zian felt a chill all over his body. He didn't expect that he had been betrayed by his own parents without knowing it.

"I gave you a photo of you in the army. You looked so handsome in your uniform. All the girls like soldiers."

Secretary Wang Kai's explanation made Wang Zian laugh and cry.

Soon, the girl who had a crush on the soldier arrived, carrying Wang Zian's eldest sister's son. She followed her sister and her husband, acting coy, gentle, and charming. Secretary Wang Kai reprimanded his daughter for letting the girl hold the child, but the girl held the child all night, barely touching her chopsticks. Finally, it was Ms. Bingfen who whispered in Secretary Wang's ear that the girl liked to hold the child to show Wang Zian she was a loving wife and mother who loved children. Secretary Wang Kai finally understood.

Throughout the blind date banquet, Wang Zian was polite, answering every question the girl asked and smiling. The girl was holding his nephew and it was inconvenient for her to pick up the food, so Wang Zian put some of each dish into the girl's bowl.

Neither side behaved impolitely, and even Secretary Wang Kai became happy and clinked glasses of wine with his eldest son-in-law.

It is a happy Lantern Festival.

When they parted, Secretary Wang Kai said to the girl, "You are welcome to come to our Baile Village to celebrate the Lantern Festival next time."

"From now on, we will celebrate the Lantern Festival every year in our Baile Village. Not only the Lantern Festival, but all festivals will be celebrated." Ms. Bingfen said with a smile on her face.

The girl, still holding her eldest sister's child, took a bus back to the city with her eldest sister and brother-in-law.

At this time, the parade had ended and the entire street was deserted. Those tourists who came specially to see the iron rods either went home or had a midnight snack in the town's restaurant, clinking glasses and not leaving until they were drunk.

Secretary Wang Kai and Ms. Bingfen looked at their son in the night. He kept looking around, looking a little lost.

Secretary Wang Kai said, "Haha, don't look at it anymore. The girl has already left. When you marry her, you can look at her as much as you want."

Wang Zian said, "I am waiting for Ziqi."

Secretary Wang Kai's face darkened: "You've already gone on a blind date, what are you waiting for?"

"I came to see Tiezhi with Ziqi tonight. He came in my car, so of course he has to take my car back."

"Zi Qi will take your car, so where should your mother and I sit?"

"Four people in a small car isn't overloaded." The four people Wang Zian mentioned were passengers, not including the driver. Secretary Wang Kai interpreted this as the two of them, Ziqi, and Zian. Either way, it wasn't overloaded, but it was enough to infuriate Secretary Wang Kai. It was Ms. Bingfen who pulled him aside and bit his ear for a bit, saying, "It's all your fault. The whole village used to avoid the second son of the Zhong family, but you brought home that cat and dog hater. An'an's an obedient child, what does he know? You ask him to play, and he plays, but he doesn't play well, and when he does, he plays for real..."

"What the hell?" Secretary Wang would never allow himself to take the blame, and reached out to Wang Zian for the car keys. In that car tonight, either he or Zhong Ziqi could get in, or Zhong Ziqi could get in, but not him. If Wang Zian insisted on having Zhong Ziqi get in the car, then he would walk back to Baile Village with Zhong Ziqi from Shajiaqi.

He just didn't believe that Wang Zian would stay single for the rest of his life just for the sake of the second son of the Zhong family.

Secretary Wang was really furious, so Ms. Bingfen came to Wang Zian to mediate, coaxing him into transferring some money to Zhong Ziqi so that he could take a taxi back to Baile Village.

Wang Zian thought that Zhong Ziqi and Xie Anmin were a couple, and he felt uncomfortable being a light bulb in their world of two people, so he sent a WeChat message to Zhong Ziqi, got in the car, and drove his parents back to Baile Village.

The nearly two-hour drive was silent. Secretary Wang Kai and Wang Zian both wore sullen expressions, which bored Ms. Bingfen. She had no idea she was the instigator of this blunder.

I finally got home before twelve o'clock.

Secretary Wang Kai vomited as soon as he got out of the car. He wiped his mouth with the tissue Ms. Bingfen handed him, then yelled at Wang Zian, "Are you sick? You're driving so fast, are you trying to make your father faint? If I had known, I would have vomited in your car."

"You vomited because you drank alcohol. You're addicted to alcohol. You're an alcoholic."

Wang Zian didn't know where he got the courage from, but he actually challenged his own father.

His rebuttal successfully angered Secretary Wang Kai, who put his hands on his hips and said, "I'm drinking for you. If I wasn't arranging a blind date for you tonight, would I have to drink?"

"Don't put the blame on me. The girl you were dating didn't ask you to drink. You drank too much and dragged your brother-in-law to drink..."

"I'm happy. I found a virtuous girl for you. I'm happy. But what about you?"

"What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me? You asked me to go on a blind date, so I went on a good blind date..."

"You were just acting. I've seen countless people in my life. Do you think I can't see that you and that girl are acting?"

"How am I acting?"

"Your smile is fake, your words are fake, otherwise why don't you add the girl on WeChat?"

Fortunately, they were the only family in the new villa area, so even if the father and son shouted at the top of their lungs in the middle of the night, they wouldn't be laughed at by the villagers. Ms. Bingfen was quite amused by the fun.

After hearing what her husband said, Ms. Bingfen also remembered the details of tonight's blind date. The cousin of her eldest son-in-law took out her mobile phone to add WeChat, and Wang Zian pretended to get up to pour water and skipped over it.

"So An An, you really don't like girls?" Ms. Bingfen stepped forward, took Wang Zian's hand, and asked anxiously.

"Mom, this is the first time I've met her, I can't even say if I like her or not..."

"No, I'm not asking if you like this girl..."

"Your mother is asking you if you don't like girls?"

Wang Zian looked at his father and then at his mother, as if he understood something. He couldn't help but laugh out loud, laughing so hard that tears came out. He shook his head and walked towards the house.

What a mess, it ruins the fun of the Lantern Festival.

"What does he mean? Is he crazy?" Secretary Wang Kai pointed at Wang Zian's back and asked Ms. Bingfen.

Wang Zian had already reached the door of his house when he suddenly stopped, turned around, and shouted to Secretary Wang Kai and Ms. Bingfen, "I like girls! I like Xie Anmin, but he doesn't like me!"

Having said that, he slammed the door and went into the house, leaving the old couple looking at each other in the moonlight.

The moon was full on the 15th and 16th, and the shocked expressions on the old couple's faces were clearly illuminated by the moonlight.