Beloved wife

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, the small mountain village where the Yan family lives.

It's the new year, and the migrant workers have returned to the village one after another.

Face is very important for this person to live. If he gets along well outside, if he doesn't go back to his hometown, no matter how well he does outside, it seems to be meaningless.

At least, that's what the vast majority of people in this village think.

Therefore, some people have to save a sum of money even if they eat vegetables outside, and go back to the village to show off during the Chinese New Year.

Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer people in the village. People who usually live in the village are either old people or children. Going back and forth to buy things.

The children in the village come to buy snacks, firecrackers, and fireworks with their pocket money and lucky money; the men in the village come to buy cigarettes, wine, and playing cards; the women in the village come to buy various condiments and daily necessities.

Occasionally, people who bought expired snacks came to the door cursing.

In the dirty canteen, it was as lively as in previous years.

And in recent years, when everyone gathers to chat in the canteen, they will definitely talk about Yan Jingze, the eldest son of the lame old Yan family.

"The lame old man's luck is really great. He has been useless all his life, but he gave birth to a son who is promising, and then turned around!"

"I said many years ago that the young man of the Yan family must be promising, am I right?"

"I heard that Yan Jing has opened a big company outside?"

"He started a big company! He was still in college, so he bought a house in the county town for his father to live in. As soon as he graduated, he started a company and became the boss."

"The other children of the Yan family have also been brought up to success by him. The second younger sister Yan used to be quiet, and her grades were not good, and now she is admitted to university."

"And the youngest son of the Yan family, he knew how to be mischievous before, and now he is doing well."

"Sister Yan is the real one. She came back this year by car."

……

The villagers are now indescribably envious of the lame father Yan.

He has been farming all his life without earning much money. As a result, he gave birth to a good son and the whole family prospered.

In their village, there are also people who didn’t study much, went out to work and opened a shop, and finally made a lot of money. It is said that the son of Lao Jiang, who opened a small shop, took his wife to the coast to open a breakfast shop. Earn a dozen or 20.

But compared to Yan Jing who can be on the newspaper or on TV, it is really nothing.

"By the way, this Chinese New Year, Lame Old Yan has returned with his dumb wife."

"A few years ago, they repaired the dilapidated house at home."

"Didn't he come back every year? What's there to say... Has Yan Jing come back for the New Year? Didn't he come back again?"

"I'm sure I didn't come back again... I'm a busy person, so I don't have time to come back to this place where no shit is like to stay for a few days. It would be great to come back and have a look in a few days!"

"Oh, he probably doesn't like this place... He looked down on people since he was a child."

……

While talking about this topic, it went in a bad direction.

The village head who was smoking in the canteen said: "What are you talking about! Don't they come back every year? They just stay for a shorter time. If you bought a house in the city and lived comfortably, you would still come here Stay for more than half a month? Who is complaining in front of me these days that the signal here is not good enough to connect to the Internet?"

As soon as the village head said this, those people stopped talking.

At this time, the promising son of Lao Jiang who runs the canteen came.

So the crowd began to talk to him again.

Lao Jiang's son, Xiao Jiang, is the same age as Yan Jingze. He has been compared to a scumbag by Yan Jingze in terms of grades since he started studying.Later, Yan Jing was bitter. When he was in high school, he went out to work.

At first he worked in a steamed stuffed bun shop. After learning how to make steamed stuffed buns, he first set up a small stall selling steamed stuffed buns, and later rented a shop and opened a breakfast shop.

He has been working like this for three or four years, and because of his hard work and willingness to work, he can earn more than one hundred thousand a year. He even found a wife for himself. After graduating from university, that's what you earn!

When he went home that year, he wanted to show off, but Yan Jingze also came back that year. He even brought money back when he just went to college. Go to school!

In this way, he seems to be nothing?

Xiao Jiang continued to work hard and continued to struggle. In the next few years, he finally saved a sum of money, returned to the county town, bought a house, and had a child with his wife.

He felt that he would definitely be better than Yan Jingze in this way, and Yan Jing had just graduated, so he might not be able to find a good job!

As a result, in that year, Yan Jing bought a house in the county town for Yan's father to live in, and the house he bought was bigger than the one he bought!

Xiao Jiang: "..."

Gradually, Xiao Jiang stopped comparing with Yan Jingze. In fact, as long as he ignored Yan Jingze, he would be a successful person in the village.

Just like today, as soon as Xiao Jiang entered the canteen, the people sitting and chatting inside all praised him and asked him various questions.

Xiao Jiang touched his growing belly, and said triumphantly that he planned to sell the house in the county here and buy a small house in the place where he opened his shop.

His shop is in a small city, and the house price there is affordable for him.

Everyone suddenly envied.

Envious of Xiao Jiang, everyone thought of another person: "By the way, do you still remember Jiang Pingxiu?"

They are all from the same village. Of course they remember Jiang Pingxiu.

"Jiang Pingxiu...hasn't he been back for over ten years?"

"At the beginning, it seemed that his name was Yan Jing, and he picked up his grandma? I asked Lao Yan where he was picked up, and Lao Yan said he didn't know."

"His house is uninhabitable."

"I don't know what he's doing outside..."

"What else can I do? I guess I'm working part-time to barely survive, and I don't have the face to come back."

……

Lao Jiang who runs the canteen is actually the younger brother of Mrs. Jiang's husband.

At that time, he was afraid that Mrs. Jiang would ask them to help after she lost her husband, so he cut off contact with Mrs. Jiang early, but now that everyone is financially well-off, he feels a little embarrassed when he thinks about it, and he still misses his own life. Sister-in-law came: "Ping Wa'er's grandma is not young anymore, and I don't know if she can get used to living outside."

"I can't get used to it. I can't move around in the small rented house, and there is no one to talk to. If I am not sick, I will get sick." Xiao Jiang said: "Why doesn't Jiang Pingxiu come back? If he comes back, I can let him come back." He went to my store to help with errands."

When Xiao Jiang was a child, he always bullied Jiang Pingxiu, who should actually be his nephew, but now looking back...he is also a little embarrassed.

However, there were also people who didn't feel embarrassed at all. A young Jiang's peers said: "Brother Jiang, if you want to find someone to work, you can't find Jiang Pingxiu, a broom star. Are you not afraid that he will overwhelm you?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Xiao Jiang said.

But the man said: "Say Jiang Pingxiu is a broom star!"

Xiao Jiang and Lao Jiang, who runs the canteen, suddenly became a little unhappy.

But before they said anything, there was some movement outside, which attracted everyone's attention.

It was the sound of cars, and other miscellaneous sounds, which sounded very lively.

When everyone went outside, they saw three cars in a row driving into the village. The front one was a dilapidated Santana, the middle car was an ordinary Honda, and the last one was a It was a tall off-road vehicle with a particularly high chassis and an aggressive appearance. It was very expensive at first glance.

Is this a promising person coming back to the village, or is there some big person coming to them?

The car stopped quickly, and the people on the Santana at the front got off first. There was a person in it, and the villagers were very familiar with it—isn't that the cadre in charge of poverty alleviation work on their side?He came down with him, as well as the cadres of the town!

Seeing this, the village chief hurried up.

Everyone in the village felt that there must be a big shot here!

"Who is here?"

"Is it to guide the work of poverty alleviation?"

"Or do we want to develop here?"

……

The villagers were very curious, and at this time, the two cars behind also stopped on the drying yard.

Someone got out of the second car... Judging from their appearance, they should be all cadres.

Why are there so many cadres in their village?

People were amazed, and at this moment, the door of the last off-road vehicle that looked particularly high-end opened.

Jiang Pingxiu, who was sitting in the car, hesitated for a while, and finally got out of the car.

He hadn't come back for ten years, and now he finally came back. He was a little timid and a little scared.

The life he lived in this village before was so bad that he didn't want to recall it.

Strange to say, he met Yan Jingze here, and he thought he would have some sweet memories, but since Yan Jingze accepted the roast duck, he suddenly didn't want to think about the past.

Now that I come to this land again, I feel that all the things in the past are very far away.

Now his heart is full of all the good things in the past ten years.

Thinking of those things, Jiang Pingxiu no longer hesitated, got out of the car firmly, turned around again, and went to help his grandma.

Grandma Jiang said as she walked down, "This car is really tall, but it sits really well!"

After getting out of the car, Jiang Pingxiu looked around.

In the past ten years, a lot has changed here, but there are still some things that are familiar...

When Jiang Pingxiu looked around, the people around him were also looking at him.

When he got out of the car, the people around were very curious: "Who is that?"

"Where did that young master come from?"

"Look at the money!"

"Maybe it's the son of some high official."

……

Then, Jiang Pingxiu helped his grandmother down...

Jiang Pingxiu has changed too much.

When he left the village, he was a thin and small 16-year-old boy. Now he has grown into a handsome 26-year-old boy, so that no one recognizes him, but Grandma Jiang is different.

Even though Grandma Jiang changed her clothes and her face was no longer sad, the old people in the village could still recognize her: "Isn't that Jiang Pingxiu's grandma?"

"Why is she in the car?"

"Who is holding her up?"

……

Suddenly, someone said: "Then it can't be...Jiang Pingxiu, right?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent.

Jiang Pingxiu was the most unpopular one in the village back then. Everyone thought that this child with no father or mother would have no future, but now... what did they see?

Jiang Pingxiu subconsciously ignored the existence of the villagers, and went forward to speak with the leaders of the county who came with him.

This time, he came here on behalf of Yan Jingze's company, and planned to donate money to build a boarding primary school and a boarding junior high school in the county.

These two schools recruit students from his hometown, whether they are students in their towns or those in mountain villages, they can study free of tuition.

As for why the school was built in the county... firstly, it is easier to find teachers, and secondly, because of population loss, if the school is built in a town, I am afraid that it will not be able to recruit many students.

Jiang Pingxiu was very willing to do this. He had talked with the people in the county a few years ago, and he came here this time because he wanted to sign a contract with the people in the county after repairing his parents' graves.

As a result, after learning that he was going back to his hometown to repair the grave, a leader of the county insisted on accompanying him, and then a few people came from the town...

Not many people came from them, but he was still a little unaccustomed to it, but luckily he could handle it.

After all, he has several years of work experience.

In the first three years of his university, Jiang Pingxiu passed all the certificates he was required to take.

In his senior year, he went to Yan Jingze's company for an internship.

Yan Jingze took good care of him, and everyone in Yan Jingze's company knew that he was Yan Jingze's target, so he had a very good life in the company and made great progress in interpersonal communication.

At this moment, he can chat and laugh happily with the leaders of the county.

Even Grandma Jiang is not stage-frightened at all. She talks to people in dialect. When others praise her grandson, she even bends her lips with a smile: "Where is he, he has no skills, he just helps his boss do things."

That's what Grandma Jiang said, but she actually thinks her grandson is pretty good, ahem, good at finding a partner.

The leaders of the county came over and said they were here to lead the way, sent Jiang Pingxiu there, and told the village chief to take good care of Jiang Pingxiu, and left.

When they were there, people in the village looked at Jiang Pingxiu from a distance, and they were afraid to come over, but when they left, these people all came over.

Xiao Jiang walked with his belly upright in the village recently, but when he met Jiang Pingxiu, he shrunk his stomach unconsciously: "You, you are Jiang Pingxiu?"

Jiang Pingxiu smiled: "Yes."

"Are you... all these years okay?" Xiao Jiang asked again.

"Very good." Jiang Pingxiu said.

Jiang Pingxiu looks pretty good, and Grandma Jiang looks pretty good too.

In the village before, Grandma Jiang looked much older compared to those of her age, but now it is different. Compared with her peers, Grandma Jiang does not look old at all, but looks younger.

Her dress is even more fashionable. In their village, there is no more fashionable old lady than her.

Those who used to look down on these two people and always bullied them now started to shrink their necks and hide, and those who thought they had no grievances with them came to talk to them.

Jiang Pingxiu only politely answered when others asked him a question. Grandma Jiang was different. She felt elated at the moment. Although she was small, she raised her head very high: "My family, Pingxiu, reads Went to college and got a good job."

"But it all depends on Yan Jingze's help."

"Xiaoyan is a good person."

"Now Pingxiu is a college student, working in Xiaoyan's company, earning [-] to [-] a month!"

……

Grandma Jiang talked about these years, and the villagers also secretly talked about them: "I thought that Jiang Pingxiu must have lived a miserable life outside these years, but I didn't expect him to live very well."

"Why did Yan Jing even help him? Help us if we haven't seen Yan Jing!"

"Jiang Pingxiu seems to be having a really good life."

……

While everyone was talking about Jiang Pingxiu, the Yan family, Sister Yan and Second Sister Yan were trying to persuade Father Yan who wanted to trouble Jiang Pingxiu.

Younger sister Yan has graduated from university and is currently studying for a graduate student. Now she looks more and more like Yan Jingze, looking at her father with dignity: "Dad, brother already doesn't want to go home. If you have a conflict with Jiang Pingxiu, he will definitely not want to come back!"

These years, her elder brother has rarely come back, and even if he does, he only stays for a while before leaving. Not only that, they don't know her address in the city, so they can't go to him... According to her elder brother, it is Because he was afraid that they would scare Jiang Pingxiu.

Of course, the relationship between the two parties has always been there. They are all raised by her brother.

"He's my son, why can't I take care of him anymore?" Father Yan was very unhappy.

Sister Yan said, "Brother is much better than you, why do you care about him?"

Father Yan: "..."

"Dad, if you want big brother to treat you well and value you, then treat Jiang Pingxiu better." Sister Yan said.

"You...your brother has a daughter-in-law and forgot his mother!" Yan's father was a little sad and angry.

"Yes, big brother is such a person! There is nothing we can do, right? He is already like this, if you treat Jiang Pingxiu badly...he may not just forget his mother!" Sister Yan said: "If he I won't give you any money..."

Father Yan was immediately frightened.

Prices have risen these years, and Yan Jing gave him more money than before, giving him 4000 yuan a month.

He was not involved in pornography, gambling, or drugs, at most he likes to eat some delicious food, and eating in the county town is not expensive... This money allows him to live comfortably.

If his son doesn't give the money...

Yan's father completely stopped looking for troublesome things with Jiang Pingxiu.

Sister Yan said again: "Dad, let's go, let's go say hello to Jiang Pingxiu."

"Why do you want me to say hello to him?" Father Yan said.

Sister Yan said: "Anyway, I'm going, it's up to you whether you go or not."

After Yan Damei finished speaking, she went out, and Yan Ermei and Yan Xiaodi also hurriedly followed behind her.

Seeing this, Yan's father and mother looked at each other and followed.

They soon saw Jiang Pingxiu.

Yan's father, Yan's mother hadn't seen Jiang Pingxiu in these years, and now they suddenly met... They found that Jiang Pingxiu was really handsome, no wonder their son liked it.

Sister Yan had met Jiang Pingxiu six years ago, but she hadn't seen him in these years. Now she saw the same kind of amazement, and secretly lamented that her brother had good eyesight.

Her brother is really a winner in life. Not only is he smart and capable, he has done a good job in his career, and he is also very good at finding a partner.

She still has more contact with her brother.Although her brother didn't go home many times, he cared about their younger brothers and sisters from time to time, especially seeing her a lot. She knew a lot about her brother and Jiang Pingxiu.

Jiang Pingxiu is devoted to her brother and listens to her brother in everything, how nice?

She also wants a husband like this, even if her husband is worse in other aspects, it doesn't matter.

When the Yan family saw Jiang Pingxiu, Jiang Pingxiu also saw the Yan family, and suddenly felt guilty.

His grandma already knew about his relationship with Yan Jingze, but Yan's family probably didn't know about it.

Yan Jing is the pride of the Yan family, but he made Yan Jing take a "bent" road. If the Yan family knew the truth, they would definitely hate him to death.

In fact, he didn't dare to come back because of this reason.

Jiang Pingxiu was very guilty, and so was Grandma Jiang.

Yan Jing is a child of Yan's family, but she has been living with them all these years to provide for her in the elderly. She is a little embarrassed, and... Yan Jing is with her grandson, so she has no son...

Jiang Pingxiu was a little uneasy, but Grandma Jiang, who was talking loudly just now, stopped talking now, and smiled shyly at Yan's family.

Father Yan let out a "hum".

Jiang Pingxiu felt even more guilty.

Father Yan doesn't like him now, and if he knows about him and Jiang Pingxiu, he will definitely dislike him even more.

"Brother Jiang, my brother told me that you were coming back and asked us to entertain you... come to our house for dinner." Sister Yan said with a smile.

"Your brother told you about me?" Jiang Pingxiu was taken aback, but Yan Jing...would he tell Yan's family about him?He always thought that Yan Jing would not say anything, after all, their relationship is not easy to explain.

"Of course I did." Yan Damei smiled, Yan Ermei said little, but she also smiled, as for Yan Xiaodi, he looked up and down Jiang Pingxiu curiously.

Father Yan hummed again.

Sister Yan gave her father a look, then looked at Jiang Pingxiu: "Come on, come with me."

Jiang Pingxiu followed them and walked forward. Along the way, he was thinking about how to behave in order to make the Yan family like him.

It seems... no matter how good he is, it doesn't matter?

Even if he was a woman, the Yan family would probably not like him, let alone a man.

Jiang Pingxiu was very entangled in his heart, but as soon as he entered Yan's house, he heard sister Yan say: "Sister-in-law, don't be nervous, we won't eat you!"

Jiang Pingxiu almost fell to the ground, and finally stood still, so he asked in a trembling voice, "What did you call me?"

Grandma Jiang also couldn't react: "What?"

"You don't like me calling you sister-in-law? Then I'll still call you Brother Jiang?" Yan Damei said: "My brother asked me to call you sister-in-law, so I did. It seems that it is not very good."

"No...you know about me and your brother?" Jiang Pingxiu was shocked.

"You don't know that we know about you and my brother?" Sister Yan was also shocked.

At the beginning, her brother was so anxious that he came home and came out. She thought it was Jiang Pingxiu's request... But Jiang Pingxiu didn't know about it?

"When did you know?" Jiang Pingxiu couldn't help asking.

"Six years ago, I saw my brother with you during your college entrance examination, and then my brother told us." Yan Damei said.

"I don't know..." Jiang Pingxiu's mood was indescribably complicated and a little sweet, but Yan Jing came out to his family so early!

The Yan family and Jiang Pingxiu looked at each other.

In the end, it was Grandma Jiang who broke the embarrassing scene: "I didn't expect that Xiaoyan had already told you, didn't it scare you? When he told me, it shocked me!"

Yan's father is a talkative and chatty person, and he couldn't hold back his own words at first, and now he said: "Of course I was scared! He scared me. You said he is fine, why do you like men? ?”

Grandma Jiang said: "I can't figure it out either! But it's all like this, and I can't help it."

"I can't help it, this kid won't listen to me!" Yan's father and Grandma Jiang complained about Yan Jingze.

He actually wanted to talk about Jiang Pingxiu, but when he thought about what his daughter had said to him, he didn't dare to say it again, for fear that Jiang Pingxiu would go back and complain and his son would be angry.

But it's different when it comes to Yan Jing... This is what Jiang Pingxiu's grandma said first!

The two elders started talking like this, and Jiang Pingxiu looked at Sister Yan: "Why did he tell you about me?"

Sister Yan said, "My brother just keeps praising you."

Sister Yan began to talk about the past.

Jiang Pingxiu listened, his eyes were a little sour, but his heart was warm and full.

He thought that he was destined to be made things difficult by Yan's family, but Yan Jing had already cleared the obstacles for him.

Yan Jing was really kind to him.

How lucky he was to meet Yan Jingze.

Before coming back, Jiang Pingxiu felt uneasy in his heart, and he also had the hard-to-heal trauma left by being bullied in his childhood, but now...

Seeing the way those who bullied him treat him now, the old wounds in his heart have healed.

At this moment, even the uneasiness in his heart disappeared completely.

In this world, there is someone who will always love him and clear the way for him, so he is naturally fearless.

In the future, he will definitely get better and better.

At the same time, Yan Jing, who originally planned to go back with Jiang Pingxiu, but encountered some things and couldn't go back together, suddenly frowned.

He seems to have forgotten to tell Jiang Pingxiu that he has come out?

Because Yan's father had always had opinions on Jiang Pingxiu, he was afraid that Yan's father would disturb Jiang Pingxiu, so he separated the two of them, and did not take Jiang Pingxiu with him when he went home in the past.

The two couldn't meet each other, and Jiang Pingxiu never asked about his family affairs. After a long time, he forgot to tell Jiang Pingxiu that he had come out of the closet.

But it shouldn't matter if you don't say it?

His father has accepted the reality now, and since it is Chinese New Year, sister Yan and the others are at home, Jiang Pingxiu will definitely not be wronged.

Thinking of this, Yan Jing stopped working and took a look at his phone.

There is a message from Jiang Pingxiu on the phone, with three words on it: "I love you."

In addition, there were messages from his younger siblings, who told him everything that happened in the village.

Yan Jing smiled and sent a sum of money to his father, and gave a red envelope to his younger siblings, and finally it was Jiang Pingxiu's turn...

He also replied with three words: "I love you."

Volume Two