A foreign city, dear you

Chapter 81 Unacceptable Customs

"The light of the lake and the moon are harmonious, and there is no windshield on the surface of the pool that has not been smoothed."

"The smoke waves are motionless and the shadows are deep, and the blue color is not as deep as the green color."

Ye Lian walked slowly by the Xiangzui Lake with Lan Shan, and she couldn't help but think of two poems by poets Liu Yuxi and Tao Yong in her mind.

Ye Lian likes Elephant Mouth Lake more and more.

Although it is a bit far away, when she has time, she will take Lanshan for a walk by the lake.

Ye Lian later learned that Xiangzui Lake was not completely undeveloped. There was a leisure area beside the lake that had been developed for a long time.

In the morning, the sun was just right, and the lake was covered with sparkling gold, and the golden waves swayed slightly, layer upon layer.

From a close distance, the lake is crystal clear; from a distance, the houses and trees are clearly reflected on the water.

The blue sky also makes people think that the bottom of the lake is as beautiful as sapphire.

This lake and this scene are really pleasing to the eye!

When Lanshan saw the fitness equipment in front of him, he started running happily, and Ye Lian had no choice but to break into a trot.

Horizontal bars, parallel bars, seesaw...

There are quite a lot of fitness equipment here.

There is shade from the big trees next to it, so the elderly, children and young people who have free time all around here like to come here for leisure and fitness.

"Mom, let's play on the seesaw." Lanshan said as he excitedly sat on one end of the seesaw.

Ye Lian smiled and sat on the other end of the seesaw, leaning on Lanshan.

While they were playing, a little girl who was about the same age as Lanshan and had two pigtails came next to her. She looked enviously at Ye Lian and Lanshan rising and falling.

Ye Lian gave up her position to the little girl.

Lan Shan is even happier now that she has a playmate.

Ye Lian paid attention to the two children while leaning on the railing to enjoy the lake view.

In the distance, an unknown school heard the national anthem that made people excited when raising the national flag, which made Ye Lian feel very sad.

It’s a new semester, and all schools have started.

But she, Ye Lian, could never return to campus or stand on the podium. She and the campus have been separated.

Even though there is a lot of reluctance, there is also a lot of helplessness.

Ever since Ye Lian listened to Cao Xueqian's advice not to go out to look for a job, she had not really adapted to the fact that she was no longer working, thinking that she was still spending her summer vacation. But the familiar national anthem from the campus brought her back to the ruthless reality.

Accept it, Ye Lian!

You are no longer a teacher, you are now a housewife, a stay-at-home mom!

A helpless smile appeared at the corner of Ye Lian's mouth.

"Ding-ding-ding-" Ye Lian's cell phone suddenly rang. It was a call from Grandma Lanshan. (After being robbed last time, Cao Xueqian bought Ye Lian a new mobile phone)

Grandma Lanshan always sang about going back to her hometown when she was in Yancheng, saying that she had no one to talk to in Yancheng and missed Grandpa Lanshan. A piece of land at home had been vacant for a long time...

But when the day came to go home, I was very reluctant to leave my grandson. I hugged Lanshan and kissed him again and again. When I returned to my hometown, I missed my grandson very much. I called him every three days without fear of wasting phone bills.

No, I called again.

Ye Lian quickly asked Lanshan to answer the phone.

Long-distance calls cost money every minute.

But Lanshan was having fun, he said hello to his grandma and then went off to play.

……

The sun rises higher and higher, and the shade of the trees becomes thinner and thinner.

"Shanshan, we are going home." Ye Lian calls to Lanshan.

Lanshan didn't seem to hear it, and was still having fun.

Ye Lian shook her head helplessly.

But she was not in a hurry. At noon, she and Lanshan were the only ones having dinner at home. There was no need to buy vegetables, just stir-fry simple dishes.

Cao Xueqian is far away and will definitely not come back at noon; although Ye Wei is close, she lives in the factory and only occasionally returns to her sister's house for dinner on weekends.

Speaking of Ye Wei, there is really no pressure if you don’t push.

After Ye Wei was kicked out by Ye Lian with a bench last time, he didn't dare to hang around anymore.

She knew that she would not be able to submit a job to her sister unless she found a job, so she made up her mind to look for recruitment information outside and apply for the job very seriously.

Two days later, she found a job as a foreign trade assistant in a gift box factory. She finally settled down and settled Ye Lian's worries.

……

Lanshan finally came to Ye Lian's side, holding Ye Lian's hand and willing to go home.

It turned out that he had no playmates to play with her.

*

The sun rises and the moon sets, summer passes and winter comes.

Another year has passed in the blink of an eye, and it’s time again for workers to grapple with the question of whether to return to their hometowns for the New Year.

Because they did not go back to their hometown last year, Ye Lian and Cao Xueqian originally wanted to go back to their hometown this year to celebrate the New Year.

But Ye Wei's gift box factory is in peak season and he has to work until New Year's Eve, so Ye Wei can't go back to his hometown.

Lanshan's grandmother was worried about Ye Wei and specifically told Ye Lian not to let Ye Wei stay alone in Yancheng for the New Year.

Ye Lian discussed with Cao Xueqian and asked Cao Xueqian to take Lanshan back to his hometown for the New Year, while she stayed alone with Ye Wei.

"How can a family spend the New Year apart? If you don't go back, neither will Lanshan and I." Cao Xueqian told Ye Lian that he didn't want to be separated from Ye Lian.

As a result, the two of them once again did not join the long queue of ticket buyers in front of the ticket window at the station. They once again saw the shops closing one after another, and once again felt that the streets were becoming deserted day by day. .

But there is also a less deserted place, and that is the vegetable market.

People who stayed in Yancheng to celebrate the New Year thought that after working hard all year, they should take advantage of the holidays to reward themselves, so the vegetable market became a must-visit place for them every day.

Cao Xueqian is already on vacation.

Ye Lian goes to the vegetable market every day, and he goes with her, and they have to hold hands.

In his words, it is: "The scale cannot be separated from the weight, and the father-in-law cannot be separated from the mother-in-law."

Cao Xueqian rarely has time to enter the kitchen, and has almost never entered the kitchen.

In the past few days, he had wanted to go into the kitchen to show off his skills on a whim, but he had been wronged by Ye Lian and Lan Shan.

He used a pressure cooker to press a piece of fan bone until it was pulpy;

The carrots were fried with meat, and the carrots were burnt. The kitchen fumes filled my nose, but the carrots were not yet cooked;

……

Ye Lian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and wanted to kick him out of the kitchen.

However, Cao Xueqian refused to leave, watching Ye Lian cooking, and hugged Ye Lian from behind, causing Ye Lian to keep scolding: "Oh, it's just adding to the chaos!"

……

On the twenty-ninth day of the New Year, Ye Lian and Cao Xueqian were on their way home from buying vegetables at the vegetable market. Cao Xueqian suddenly remembered something and hesitated to speak.

Ye Lian saw it but didn't say anything. She knew that Cao Xueqian couldn't hide things in his heart, and he would say it sooner or later.

Sure enough, after a while, the words came: "Lian, I suddenly remembered something."

"What's going on?" Ye Lian turned around.

"There is a custom in our hometown that the mother's family cannot come to live at home during the Chinese New Year." Cao Xueqian did not look at Ye Lian.

"What do you mean?" Ye Lian asked in shock.

"That means Ye Wei can't stay at our house on New Year's Eve." Cao Xueqian said bluntly.

"What are you talking about? Ye Wei is my sister. If she doesn't live in our house, where will she live?" Ye Lian's face dropped.

Seeing that Ye Lian was unhappy, Cao Xueqian stopped talking knowingly.

Ye Lian also thought that he just said it casually, so she didn't worry about it.

*

On New Year's Eve, the weather was a bit cold, windy and rainy, and everyone who went out wore thick clothes.

Ye Lian and Cao Xueqian went to the vegetable market to prepare vegetables for the three days of the Spring Festival according to the purchase order, and then went to the mall to buy some candies and melon seeds.

In the evening, Ye Wei came.

Ye Wei is now dressed like a working woman in the office, beautiful and elegant.

"Shanshan, let's see what my aunt bought you?" Ye Wei called Lanshan and was about to take something out, but stopped when he reached the mouth of the bag, pretending to be mysterious and asking Lanshan to guess.

Lan Shan didn't have the patience to guess, and couldn't wait to know what it was, so he tried hard to pull Ye Wei's hand out.

"Dang-dang-dang--" Ye Wei showed off a cool toy gun like a magic trick.

Lanshan was so happy that he jumped to grab it...

"Ding-ding-ding-" Cao Xueqian's phone rang.

"Hello - Mom" ​​turned out to be Grandma Lanshan.

……

"We've got all the New Year's goods. We don't need to prepare many New Year's goods outside... It's not just the three of us, but Ye Wei is celebrating the New Year with us."

……

Cao Xueqian's smiling face gradually turned serious as he talked. He went to their bedroom while talking.

When Cao Xueqian came out of the bedroom again, he became silent.

Although Ye Lian was surprised, she didn't ask him.

Cao Xueqian sat on the sofa for a while, looking thoughtful. Then, with great determination, he stood up and said to Ye Lian in a low voice: "Lian, come here for a moment."

Ye Lian followed Cao Xueqian into their bedroom in confusion, and closed the door at Cao Xueqian's signal.

"It's still what I told you yesterday. Ye Wei can't celebrate the New Year here."

"Why?" Seeing Cao Xueqian mention the old words again, Ye Lian's voice immediately became a little loud.

"Listen to me first. According to the customs of our hometown, my parents' family cannot celebrate the New Year with us. This will make our luck bad next year." Cao Xueqian was also careful.

"Do you really believe this? Or did your mother just ask you to do this?" Ye Lian asked.

"This is the saying in our hometown." Cao Xueqian did not answer directly.

"I don't care about this statement or that statement. I'm asking you, do you think this statement is reasonable?" Ye Lian felt that Cao Xueqian was serious this time and couldn't help but feel anxious.

"These things are inherently unclear. This is related to the issue of luck in the future. It is better for us to be cautious. We would rather believe what is true than what is true."

When Ye Lian heard what Cao Xueqian said, her expression immediately changed.