Yang Mo walked out of the door of He's house, his lonely figure fading away in the heavy rain.
Yang Mo walked like this in the rain for about two and a half hours. When he arrived at the door of his house, it was already nine o'clock in the evening. He looked at the two windows covered with yellow paper and exposed the roof without tiles in several places. He felt mixed emotions in his heart. .
I returned to the door of the old tile-roofed house that I had not returned to for three years. I just stretched out my hand to knock on the door, but still couldn't bear to go in and face my elderly parents and my sister who was in high school, so I turned around and sat on the stone ledge next to the door in a daze. .
After the rain stopped, the door suddenly creaked open, and a skinny girl with a few bangs hanging vertically down her forehead to the level of her eyebrows came out. She was Yang Mo's sister Yang Ting.
At this time, Yang Ting found a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt, curled up on a stone, and got closer to take a look.
Because it was dark, she didn't see clearly who was sitting in front of her, so Yang Ting asked softly: "Excuse me, who are you?"
Yang Mo, who came back to his senses, was startled by the sudden voice, and then Yang Ting was also startled by the sudden reaction.
"ah!"
At this time, the parents in the house were also attracted by Yang Ting's cry. Yang Ting seemed to be frightened by a ghost. She hurriedly returned to her parents and said, "Dad, there is someone outside."
At this time, Yang Mo's old father, Yang Bin, asked: "Who is it? Come on, let's go take a look."
Out of curiosity, the three of them walked outside the house together and stepped out of the door. At this time, Yang Mo also stood up and watched the three of them come to him.
Before the three of them could react, Yang Mo weakly shouted: "Dad, Mom, I'm back!"
The three of them were shocked and did not react. At this time, Yang Mo's mother Li Xiaofen said: "Are you... Yang Mo?"
Yang Mo replied: "Mom, I'm back!"
At this time, Yang Ting kicked off her feet and threw herself into her brother's arms.
He cried and cursed: "Brother, you are finally back. Why didn't you knock on the door and enter the house just now? You scared me to death!"
Yang Mo stretched out his hands to hug his sister's back, and found that the place where his hands touched was only a little ridge of bone. It can be imagined that his sister has not eaten well in the past three years. Tears in the corners of Yang Mo's eyes streaked down his face. .
Yang Mo said tremblingly: "I'm sorry, sister, for causing you and your parents to suffer. From now on, our family will not be separated, and we will always be together."
Back inside, several people sat by the fire pit, looking at Yang Mo who was covered in moisture. His father sighed and said, "Go and change clothes first, don't catch a cold."
After a while, Yang Mo changed his clothes and returned to his seat. At this moment, the family quietly heard the raindrops on the roof of the house hitting the ground drop by drop.
What I fear most is that the air suddenly becomes quiet.
"Brother, why did you come home in the middle of the night? Where is your sister-in-law? Didn't she come back with you?" Yang Ting asked with a look of confusion.
Yang Mo's face was expressionless at the moment, his eyes were lifeless, as if his soul had been taken away by something.
Zhang Bin opened his mouth wide and yawned and said, "It's a conflict, isn't it?"
Li Fen kicked Yang Bin in the leg and said, "The child just came back, why are you talking nonsense?"
Yang Bin tightened his mouth and said nothing more.
...
The next morning, it was drizzling outside the window, and the family was eating around the stove.
Suddenly, a slim woman with long hair reaching her waist and wearing a floral dress walked in outside the door holding an umbrella.
The originally bright light in the house was blocked by the woman who walked in.
Everyone stopped holding the bowls and chopsticks in their hands and looked at the woman. It turned out that it was He Xiaojing who was here.
Without waiting for anyone to react, Yang Ting stood up from the stool, walked over happily, grabbed her sister-in-law's right hand with both hands, and said, "Sister-in-law, why didn't you inform me when you came, so that my elder brother could pick you up? Have you eaten? ? Let’s sit together!”
He Xiaojing touched the back of her head: "I have eaten. I haven't seen you for a long time. I don't often go to my sister-in-law's place to play. Look, you have lost weight. Eat more."
Yang Ting was overwhelmed by her sister-in-law's words, and her delicate face turned slightly red.
"Sit down when you're here." Yang Mo looked at He Xiaojing with blank eyes. After saying that, he went to eat his own food.
In the huge tile-roofed house, several people sat in a circle, and no one took the initiative to say a word. The awkward atmosphere made Yang Ting couldn't help but say something.
"You are all talking! Why are you silent." After Yang Ting finished speaking, He Xiaojing looked at Yang Mo for a moment.
"Are you really not going back?" He Xiaojing said in a tactful tone.
"Do you think this is necessary? Who in your family doesn't want me to leave early? Your mother and your brother want me to divorce you early and kick me out."
"From now on, I will no longer be a dog. I will go out to earn tuition for Xiaoting and earn money for the old couple. I will return to this family. If you have nothing to do, please come back!"
Yang Mo looked at He Xiaojing calmly. He had no choice at this time and seemed to be completely disappointed with He Xiaojing's family.
Yang Mo and He Xiaojing would never have met three years ago if it wasn't for that chance encounter. That encounter led to today's situation. After that, the two began to exchange numbers, and there were always endless phone calls and chats every day. There are endless days and endless faces to see.
As Yang Mo and He Xiaojing dated more frequently, Yang Mo began to muster up the courage to propose to He Xiaojing. However, after He Xiaojing told her mother the news, she learned that Xiao Gang, who was born in rural Yang Mo, slammed the table and scolded: "I will not allow you to marry a rural bumpkin who wants money but not money, and who wants strength but not strength. My daughter Ah, you said that Zhang Haifeng, the son of the Zhang family in Jinling, is not worthy of you. He wants money and a company, and he has been pursuing you for so many years. You don't even give him a chance, but you want to marry someone who is not even as good as Mr. Zhang. A country bumpkin. If you dare to marry him, I will die for you."
Who would have thought that He Xiaojing would not show weakness and would remain single forever if she did not marry Yang Mo. Seeing that Xiao Gang also gave in, in order to prevent his daughter from marrying to Liuhe Village, he gave Yang Mo's family a cash gift of 80,000 yuan to show his filial piety to the old couple.
At first, when Yang Mo heard this, he didn't agree. He wanted to bring He Xiaojing to his door no matter what, but in the end he lost to the reality. The family was poor, the couple was old, and there was a sister who was about to go to high school who was in urgent need of money. If you want to build a new house, you can't take it out all at once. Thinking of this, Yang Mo didn't want He Xiaojing to live with him in a tiled house that still leaked on rainy days, so he decided to become a door-to-door son-in-law.
