Early twelfth lunar month.
Su Yu and Shao Jinglin have been together for half a year.
This half-year can be called the most comfortable half-year for Su Yu.
It was Shao Jinglin who kept asking her when she would set the wedding date, which was annoying, but luckily she fooled her all the time.
Liang Shuwen also came to see her several times. Su Yu appeared to placate and induce her, but turned around and continued to stick with Shao Jinglin, which made Liang Shuwen's teeth itch.
Whenever he passed by Shao Jinglin, he would give him a secret look.
The new year is approaching.
There is not much work to do in the fields. At this time, most people stay at home, heating the kang, and occasionally bundle up and go out to prepare some New Year goods.
Shao Jinglin prepared the meal and put it on the table as usual.
"Mom, it's time to eat."
A woman with cloudy and unfocused eyes walked out of the house and muttered: "Why are you going to the kitchen again? Didn't Mom say that you can do the cooking? How can you, a grown man, do it every day?" Run to the kitchen and tell people to laugh."
Shao Jinglin's left ear went in and the right ear went out, and he nodded perfunctorily: "I know, I won't do it next time."
The woman said angrily: "I say this every time, how have I ever seen you listen to me?"
There was a clanking sound of clinking bowls and chopsticks. The woman was quiet for a while and couldn't help but speak: "If you hadn't driven Tiantian away and made her afraid to come to our house, why would you have done this?"
Shao Jinglin said in a deep voice: "Mom!"
"I can also do these things. Liang Tiantian is not related to us, so don't bother her all the time."
The woman excused herself and waved her hand: "Okay, okay, why don't I stop talking?"
After a while, the woman asked again: "How are you and that educated youth comrade?"
"How long has it been? She should have received a reply to the letter she wrote home. What do her parents say? When will the wedding date be set?"
The woman sighed. Her son didn't like the little girl next door, but instead fell in love with an educated youth from out of town.
Just take your fancy, it's a girl after all, if you set the date as soon as possible, she won't have to worry about it.
Shao Jinglin lowered his eyes and was silent for a moment: "I'm still young, so I'm not in a hurry to get married."
"Aren't you in a hurry to get married?"
The woman's heart ached when she heard this, and she pointed at him with a trembling finger: "She is still young, but you are not young anymore. She is already in her twenties after the New Year. How old are the children your age in the village? Are you trying to make me angry? "
Shao Jinglin said nothing.
In fact, he mentioned it to Su Yu several times, but Su Yu always resisted, looking at those hesitant and fearful eyes, and he couldn't bear to force her.
and……
I don't know if it was Shao Jinglin's misunderstanding, but Su Yu seemed to be much colder towards him during this period.
He even bumped into Su Yu and Liang Wenwen coming down the back mountain several times.
Once or twice is a coincidence, but the more times it occurs, the more people have to think about it.
Without any warning, Liang Tiantian's words half a year ago surfaced in her ears.
Shao Jinglin didn't want to believe it, but what if it was true, what if they had a relationship half a year ago...
Shao Jinglin suddenly put down his chopsticks: "Mom, you eat first, I have something to do and I'll go out for a while."
After saying that, he packed a few freshly steamed buns in his lunch box and hurried out.
"Hey——, we are eating, why are you going?"
The woman stretched out her hand to stop him, but was unable to move. She could only watch Shao Jinglin leave.
At this time, the Educated Youth Institute was also eating.
Su Yu chewed the tasteless food and wandered away.
"What is Su Zhiqing thinking, so lost in thought?"
Su Yu raised her head, her eyes were blank, and it took a long time for her eyes to regain their luster: "It's nothing, I just feel a little homesick."
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere at the dinner table instantly dropped.
Who doesn't miss home when he comes from his hometown to a country where he is unfamiliar with his life? What's more, now that the New Year is approaching, what is the New Year called if he can't spend it with his relatives? The emotionally sensitive educated youth even shed tears silently.
Su Yu: "..."
She really didn't mean it, she just said it casually.
Thinking of the time she had made with Liang Wenwen, Su Yu silently speeded up her meal.
Put down the bowl and chopsticks: "I'm done eating, you guys eat slowly."
The moment he walked out of the door, he could faintly hear someone whispering to the person next to him: "Su Zhiqing must be homesick and crying. He was embarrassed to be seen by us, so he secretly went out to cry."
Su Yu was silent again.
In a sense, they were right.
Su Yu and Liang Wenwen made an appointment in the woods not far from the Educated Youth Institute. When she arrived, Liang Wenwen had been waiting for a long time.
He huddled under the tree, putting his hand to his mouth and breathing to keep warm.
It's the coldest time in winter.
The cold wind is as cold as a knife and can blow into your bones.
Su Yu shrank her neck, tightened her scarf, and whispered, "Liang Wenshu."
Liang Wenwen turned his head, saw her, and came up to her excitedly: "Xiaoyu, you are finally here."
Su Yu didn't bother to correct his title and asked the question she was most concerned about: "How are you doing? Is there any news?"
Liang Wenwen nodded: "My dad said there might be a spot in our team."
Su Yu was pleasantly surprised.
But the next sentence was like a bucket of cold water pouring down on me.
"But my father also said that to be fair, this quota would be given to Yang Zhiqing, who was the first to go to the countryside and has been here for four or five years."
There are also older ones, but most of them couldn't stand the harsh conditions and married locals and had children. Only Yang Zhiqing is still persisting.
Su Yu panicked and grabbed Liang Wenwen's sleeve, shaking it gently. Her delicate face was buried in the scarf, revealing her eyes as bright as gems.
"Then what should I do?" Su Yu said in a soft voice, "You promised me before, please go and beg your mother. Doesn't your mother love you the most? Please help me, you are the only one who can help me."
Liang Wenwen closed his eyes in enjoyment, his mind wandering.
It turns out that Su Zhiqing is so beautiful when she acts coquettishly.
But when he thought that Shao Jinglin must have seen him often, Liang Wenwen suddenly felt unhappy.
Why doesn't Shao Jinglin just know how to do some work?
Liang Wenwen took the opportunity to make a condition: "What about Shao Jinglin?"
Su Yu understood instantly and her voice became softer: "I have nothing to do with him. You already knew that. I just lied to him and asked him to work for me. I am just a barbaric villager. How can I compare to you?" I keep all the poems you wrote for me, and I take them out and read them every night."
Su Yu herself was about to vomit.
One by one of those heart-wrenching poems, she threw them all into the stove and lit them on fire.
"You are the captain's son and you are so cultured. Why can't I think of falling in love with Shao Jinglin?"
Su Yu took a deep breath, took Liang Wenwen's hand and shook it gently, her voice soft and soft: "If you are still not satisfied, I will go and make it clear to him tomorrow, and I will be with you."
Liang Wen's heart suddenly lifted when his delicate white and soft hand came up. His feet felt light and he couldn't help but squeeze back. Ah, it was as soft as he imagined.
He groaned: "You really don't like Shao Jinglin?"
Su Yu nodded repeatedly: "Of course it's true. You already knew it. I've explained it to you so many times in the past six months."
Half a year happened to be the time to be with Shao Jinglin.
"You are only with him because he can work. You are forced to be with him because you can't bear the hardship. You have been lying to him all the time and you don't like him at all?"
Su Yu: "Of course."
Su Yu was almost bored to death. She kept asking this question over and over again. She asked him over and over again, but she didn't get the place to go back to the city, so she had to coax him.
Once he got the quota to return to the city, he and Shao Jinglin would end up in the same situation.
