Schrödinger's straight man

Qin Shaoyou cleared out a clean space on the table where the miscellaneous things were placed, put the brocade box with dark patterns of auspicious clouds and rolled paper on it, and opened the brocade box to show her the four treasures of the study inside, saying: "A few days ago A set of New Year’s gifts from a friend, I’m an engineering student and I don’t know how to write or write, and I heard Ruolin said that my aunt likes these things, so I came here to borrow flowers and present Buddha.”

The woman nodded knowingly, indicating that she understands, and she will take good care of things for you.As if he wasn't very interested in Qin Shaoyou's background or the flattering gift he sent, he just ticked his fingers at him, his eyes lit up, and his expression with a little smile was similar to Yao Ruolin's: "Are you Engineering student? Then you must have learned metalworking.” Handed him an electric drill, asked Qin Shaoyou to help drill holes into the wall, and then tapped things with a mace.

Because he is of the same age, Qin Shaoyou is less stressed when facing her than elders like Mrs. Yao. Seeing that she is so familiar and blunt, he must have a carefree personality and a straight temper, so he won't play around with her. He rolled up his sleeves and got down to work.The electric drill buzzed to drill the necessary holes, and then chatted with her casually, and joked: "You have so many workers working all night, why are you still short of manpower?"

The woman smiled and didn't answer, just whitewashed the wall and replaced the old one with new paint.Qin Shaoyou was bored, so he had no choice but to talk less and do more. After finishing the work in his hand, he took the initiative to carry a tin paint bucket to help her brush the places that were out of reach from high places.

Qin Shaoyou remembered that Mrs. Yao, whom Yao Ruolin had instructed, was so angry that she ran away immediately, so she rushed over without eating, thinking about delivering the things to pay her respects, and then rubbed the soles of her feet with oil.After a while, the mother-in-law didn't return the gift and didn't bother him, which meant that she accepted it with her heart, and her anger subsided a little, so he could hang around Mrs. Yao again.

Unexpectedly, this trip was in vain, the father-in-law was not there, and the mother-in-law was not there, and what received him was a pile of rough and tiring work that could not be done.Qin Shaoyou was so hungry that his stomach was growling. He found time at noon to go to the supermarket to buy fresh raw steak, pasta, black pepper and other ingredients, and asked Yao Ruolin to take them back and wait for him at home. He wanted to cook a romantic candlelight dinner himself. .But it was almost time for supper, and as the chef was still working as a painter, he was inevitably a little anxious.

It is common for Qin Shaoyou to eat one meal a day when he is busy with work, but he doesn't care if he is hungry for a few hours. He is afraid that Yao Ruolin will sit alone and cut the candles in the west window, and he will not order a bowl of instant noodles. go home.

That woman has long since discovered that others are acting good here, and she doesn't know where she has gone. She just thought that I would ask you to help drill a few holes, but she didn't say anything to force you to do all the other work. She is as stupid as an old scalper , naive and hardworking.Deliberately delayed Qin Shaoyou for another half an hour, and seeing him take out the mobile phone in his pocket to look at it from time to time, he seemed impatient, finally wiped off the dust on his hands, and said to all the workers with a smile: "It's not too early, I'm busy today Come here. Working hours after nine o'clock are considered overtime, and you will be paid double wages."

The workers were all let go, and only the bright lights, the woman, and him remained in the empty living room.

Qin Shaoyou washed his hands in front of the temporary water pipe, and said with relief: "Then I will go first. If Uncle Yao and Aunt Yao come back, please send me a message that I will come to visit another day." leave.

"Hello." The woman stopped him, and took out a card that looked like an invitation from the large front pocket of the denim overalls, "I know you are Yao Ruolin's current partner, your name is Qin Shaoyou, right? His father is not in the country, and his mother is going The temple is burning incense, and I won’t be back in three to five days. I am his third cousin, and I came to help supervise the work.”

Qin Shaoyou guessed that this woman was a relative of Yao Ruolin's generation, but he never thought it would be the cousin who was crazy about love and broke with her parents at all.Although he only listened to the story, he sympathized with her situation, felt a little inexplicable sympathy for the third cousin, and called her third sister affectionately as if she were his own family, took the invitation and opened it to read Looking at the content, it was a family dinner on New Year's Eve, and the old face turned red: "Third Sister, this is..."

The third cousin smiled narrowly: "The rules of our Yao family, the reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, the family takes turns to organize it for a year, this year it's my father's turn, and my family has the final say on the specific matters."

Qin Shaoyou heard from Yao Ruolin that Yao's family is thriving and prosperous. Not only do he have many immediate and collateral relatives, but his grandparents are still in good health.So there is a rule in their family, unless they are far away from the ocean and cannot fly with wings, on New Year's Eve, no matter if the surname is Yao or married to Yao, as long as they are relatives, they have to eat this at the table. A reunion dinner.

If he ate the Yao family's wine for this day, it would be equivalent to passing the bright road in front of the whole family, and in the future, there will be no distinction between you and my family.Qin Shaoyou squeezed the invitation card, his fingers whitened excitedly, but he looked at Yao Ruolin's third cousin with trembling eyes: "If I go, there will be elders like Aunt Yao who can't accept a man present, wouldn't it be embarrassing for Yao Ruolin?" With so many people in your family, it hurts his heart to be scolded in front of your relatives. I think it’s better to forget it. I’ll take care of the third sister. If I’m free, Ruolin and I will treat you to dinner alone a meal."

The invitation was returned to her, and she went out the door without looking back, almost fleeing, the tall and straight figure under the moonlit night dissipated in the wind in the blink of an eye.

When they returned to the house where they lived in the early morning, Qin Shaoyou carefully packed two bowls of wontons and put them in the car's air-conditioning outlet to warm them up. They were still warm when they took them in.Yao Ruolin hadn't fallen asleep yet, wearing pajamas, cotton slippers, leaning on the floor-to-ceiling window with one hand, looking at the empty road below illuminated by street lamps; holding the phone in the other hand, muttering something.

Qin Shaoyou entered the bedroom, tiptoedly put a coat on Yao Ruolin, put his chin on his shoulder, and apologized with a smile full of apology: "Something happened, I came back late. Are you hungry? I brought you supper."

Yao Ruolin hung up the phone, turned his face to rub his ears, rubbed his head with his hands, pulled his hair and said, "Did you meet my third cousin today?"

The news is so well-informed, the cousin who called him just now must be the correct one, so Qin Shaoyou didn't hide it, and told him in detail about the first meeting.When it came to the family banquet, he also explained his scruples to Yao Ruolin: "I really want to have this reunion dinner, but it's not yet time, your mother is like a time bomb, maybe it will happen at any time." It broke out in public. On that occasion, I can be wronged, but you can't, anyway, it's not my family member whose blood is thicker than water. In the worst case, I just don't move around in the future, but you can't really separate from the family relationship. "

Yao Ruolin's life has been smooth and smooth, and his family is harmonious. Even if there are occasional conflicts between brothers and sisters, they will still help each other when encountering major problems.This simple and happy environment is not unusual, but it is not common either.Qin Shaoyou couldn't selfishly force him to leave the protection of his relatives and friends, and taste what it's like to be in an unhappy and fragmented environment in the world.

"Your mother loves to nag you very much. She is afraid that you will be hungry or cold, and will pay close attention to your food, clothing, housing and transportation as a major issue. It shows that your mother cares about you, the only child." Qin Shaoyou murmured Say, "I've taken you from your future wife, from your future children, and I can't take you from your mother, who will hate me for the rest of her life. You're stuck between the two of us. I won't be happy if I get married. No matter how difficult it is, I have to pass your mother's test."

Yao Ruolin lowered his eyes and said softly: "I don't blame you. I can't eat this meal, and there will be another meal, and the next meal. My cousin told me that after I decided to leave Yao's house with you, my mother actually started to eat vegetarian food." Recite the Buddha's name, saying that this may be the debt owed in the previous life, and in this life there is an uneasy debt collector to collect the debt."

Qin Shaoyou also smiled wryly: "No wonder your mother's family doesn't care, and even those who are in the snow and ice go up to the mountain to burn incense."

Yao Ruolin said indifferently: "Let her go. Believe in Buddhism, recite scriptures, so as not to keep thinking about how angry I am at her, and go into a dead end, it's better to find a proper spiritual sustenance as comfort."

Qin Shaoyou was noncommittal, remembering that his grandmother was also a devout Buddhist when she was still alive.When the old man was young, it is said that he was notoriously fierce and savage, and his behavior was bolder than the women of that era. Her sisters waited for the family to arrange marriages, marrying husbands and raising children, but she insisted on choosing a poorer one. The husband who serves others enters her family.So in Qin Shaoyou's childhood memories, the relatives on his mother's side were afraid of this amiable old man. She always taught the children the rules of the old society.

Later, his grandfather passed away, and his sons and daughters had their own futures. They left their hometowns and got married.The old man guards the old house that is older than her, and he starts to learn how to cook porridge and use the washing machine. When he has nothing to do, he looks through the Buddhist classics, thinking about folding gold ingots for the Bodhisattva, and bless the people in the underworld. Fetus, people in the world live in peace.

Qin Shaoyou's good cooking skills were honed when he went to the countryside to accompany his grandmother during the summer vacation.His mother is the youngest daughter, and he is also the youngest grandson. The grandmother he met after she became sensible is already an old man who can only smile and tolerate the younger generation.His mother forbade him to hide under the blanket, eat candy and read comics, but his grandmother would secretly stuff a few pieces of chocolate under his pillow, and snatch books confiscated by his mother and return them to him.

"It's really good to find something else to do. Buddhism pays attention to a word of fate, let luck follow fate, and everything will go with the flow. Your mother may become enlightened after thinking about it, no longer clinging to worldly prejudices, let us go along with it." Passed by the love of this life." Qin Shaoyou said optimistically, "My grandma's idea in her later years is that people live a lifetime, and when they should make changes, they have to make some changes, so that they can live comfortably than rules or decency. All important."

Yao Ruolin laughed, breathing hot and humid on the side of Qin Shaoyou's face, his voice was soft as if water could be wrung out: "You seldom tell me about your family."

"There is nothing to say. My family is not as rich as yours, but the family structure and relationship are similar to yours." Qin Shaoyou explained his parents and his family in a few words. In addition to being able to read, there are many intellectuals, and they live on the street every day. The ordinary people I see are no different, and their tempers and personalities are also ordinary, and there is nothing special about them.

Yao Ruolin chatted with him and was really hungry, so he pulled the coat around his body, and Qin Shaoyou hugged him like a koala and didn't let go.He was pressed close to Qin Shaoyou's body, very warm, and he didn't bother to break free, so he just coquettishly said to him, "I'm hungry and want to eat."

Qin Shaoyou put his arms around him, and staggered Yao Ruolin to the dining table. The wontons were completely cold, and the soup was soaked up by the dough, and it tasted a bit salty.But their minds were not on eating, they looked at each other, and they felt sweet after taking two sips of Northwest Wind.

Yao Ruolin finished his supper absent-mindedly. Qin Shaoyou owed him a candlelight dinner today, and he must get it back.But he couldn't think of what to eat, he was used to Qin Shaoyou taking care of his daily diet, and finally understood why Gui Yanan, the wife slave, had to rush back no matter how late it was, and seldom stayed out overnight.

"Shaoyou." He looked up at Qin Shaoyou across the dining table, with a very sincere and serious expression, "When I leave my job, I will take a long vacation and go to your hometown to live for a while. I really miss the mustard dumplings made by your aunt."

Qin Shaoyou understood what he was thinking, sighed a long sigh, nodded after a moment of silence and agreed: "Let's go after the new year, the traffic in small cities is not convenient. I also have time to prepare my family... My dad My mother is also quite nagging. She has this problem when she is old. But you can rest assured that my parents are not unreasonable parents. They love to talk and have a restrained temper. If you can bear the preaching, it will be easy to solve .”

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When the beautiful daughter-in-law finally meets her in-laws——

Yao Ruolin (looking at a sea bowl, the food in the bowl is piled up to the point): Didn't you say that your parents love to chatter?Why don't you say a word, just add vegetables to me.

Qin Shaoyou: They don't know what to say, I said you like to eat the specialties of our hometown, and they will let you eat as much as you want to show your love for you.

Yao Ruolin (laughing awkwardly and sweetly): So much, I can’t finish it for three days and three nights...

Qin Shaoyou (touching his thigh while eating tofu and comforting him): You can put on a show (help him solve most of the parts secretly)

(Then the next day, there was another table of dishes and a bowl of rice. Yao Ruolin wanted to cry but had no tears: I will die of fat if I am in your house...)