Ye Ming was worrying about what to buy to Xia's house. As soon as he received a call from Xia Chuchu, he immediately asked for help: "Chu Chu, I am now in a supermarket outside the provincial bureau, preparing to give something to Director Xia and your mother. I want to buy some gifts, but I don’t know what is appropriate to buy. Can you give me some reference?”
When Xia Chuchu heard that he was planning to buy gifts for her parents, she couldn't help but smile. She smiled and said in a teasing tone: "Country bumpkin, why are you so rural? How can you buy gifts for other people's parents?" In turn, I asked that person for his opinion. However, considering that you are not very sensible and may rarely give gifts to others, then I will give you some guidance. Let me tell you: My father likes to eat dog heads from the northwest. Big red dates, my mother likes to eat cuttlefish, so you only need to buy a bag of dog-headed big red dates and a bag of high-quality cuttlefish, and nothing else is needed."
Ye Ming quickly thanked her, bought two gifts according to her instructions, and then carried them to Xia's house.
When Ye Ming knocked on the door of Xia Bicheng's house, he saw that it was Xia Chuchu who opened the door, and her parents were standing side by side behind her. Both of them had friendly and humble smiles on their faces. When they saw him entering with gifts, After arriving, Zeng Yanhua immediately stepped forward, took the two bags of gifts from his hand, and said with a smile: "Xiaoye, look at you, are you pregnant? Come to my house casually, there is no need to buy any gifts." Oh... Ouch, how did you know that I like to eat cuttlefish? Did Chuchu just tell you? And this dog-head jujube is also Lao Xia’s favorite food. Xiaoye, I didn’t expect you to be so sensible at such a young age. Polite, not bad, not bad,”
It turned out that when Xia Chuchu called Ye Ming just now, Xia Bicheng and his wife were still in the bedroom discussing how to receive Ye Ming, and did not hear Xia Chuchu instructing Ye Ming to buy gifts.
Xia Bicheng also stretched out his hand, shook hands with Ye Ming tightly with a smile on his face, and then said in a very friendly voice: "Xiaoye, you don't need to be so polite when you come to my house to play in the future, but the dog-headed one you bought today is Dates are indeed my favorite food. It shows that you are a very attentive and polite young man. Come on, come and sit in the living room first. Your Aunt Zeng is cooking now. Let’s talk first.”
Although Xia Chuchu didn't know why her parents were suddenly uncharacteristic of themselves today and were so polite and enthusiastic towards Ye Ming, she could tell that their parents' enthusiasm came from the bottom of their hearts and was not pretended. , which made her both surprised and overjoyed: What she was most worried about now was that her parents would oppose her marriage to Ye Ming. If they did not approve of the marriage, they might make sarcastic remarks or even make sarcastic remarks to Ye Ming, and Ye Ming He also has a bad temper and has always been willing to accept the soft rather than the strong. Once his parents have a bad attitude toward him, this guy might get angry and completely cut off contact with him from now on, let alone get engaged and married to him.
Therefore, when she saw that her parents were not only polite to Ye Ming, but also so enthusiastic that it seemed a bit too much, she was surprised and happy. After her father shook hands with Ye Ming, she She walked over, generously stretched out her hand to hold Ye Ming's arm, and said to her father: "Dad, please sit down first, and I'll greet him."
With that said, she pulled Ye Ming to the sofa and let him sit down. Then she turned to the kitchen, made Ye Ming a cup of tea, brought it over, and put it on the coffee table.
Next, she sat next to Ye Ming, leaning on his shoulder naturally, with a happy expression on her face, listening to the conversation between her father and Ye Ming.
She noticed that after she deliberately made such an intimate gesture with Ye Ming, her father sitting opposite did not show a sullen or dissatisfied expression on his face as before. On the contrary, today his eyes showed He had an encouraging look, a warm and friendly smile on his face, and looked at himself with gentle eyes from time to time. It was obvious that he had no objection to the intimacy between himself and Ye Ming.
This made Xia Chuchu extremely happy and happy, so she simply put her head on Ye Ming's generous shoulders, with an intoxicated look on her face, which made Ye Ming quite embarrassed, but she didn't dare to say anything, so she had to let it go...
After chatting for a while, Xia Bicheng suddenly asked: "Xiaoye, I heard that Secretary Lu went to Xinlang County twice for inspection, and both stayed in the old house you and your mother had. Is this true?"
Ye Ming didn't know why he suddenly asked this question, so he answered truthfully: "Yes, Secretary Lu said that our place has a very beautiful scenery and is very quiet. Living there can make him feel the strong natural atmosphere, so he likes to live there." I live in that house. In addition, because the village where the middle school where my mother teaches is located is the poverty alleviation point identified by Secretary Lu himself. When he went there to investigate, he was unwilling to return to the county town to live, and my That house is usually empty, so he can live there without causing any trouble to the village."
Xia Bicheng nodded thoughtfully and asked: "I have a few friends in the Provincial Party Committee General Office who once followed Secretary Lu to inspect Xinlang County. According to them, when Secretary Lu went to Xinlang County for the first time, I once went to worship at your mother's tomb. Do you know whether Secretary Lu went to worship with everyone at this time, or he went up the mountain to worship alone?"
Ye Ming listened to the questions he asked becoming more and more strange and sensitive, so he looked at him a few times, thought about it, and replied: "The time of worship happened to be my mother's birthday, and Secretary Lu was I went up the mountain to worship early in the morning, even earlier than I went up the mountain to visit my mother's grave. I went up the mountain at 8:30, and Secretary Lu had already come down the mountain by that time. Secretary Lu only took him with him that time to worship. The secretary, Director Xu, went up the mountain, and the rest of the people were watching and waiting at the bottom of the mountain."
"What, Secretary Lu went up the mountain to worship on your mother's birthday,"
Xia Bicheng's eyes widened in surprise, and he asked in shock.
Ye Ming nodded and said: "I remember it very clearly. That day was December 2nd, which happened to be my mother's birthday. Therefore, I took leave that day and went to Wantou Town to worship my mother. Unexpectedly, when I went up the mountain I was stopped by several policemen and I was not allowed to go up. In order to rush for time, I almost got into a fight with those policemen. Later, Secretary Lu happened to go down the mountain and stopped the policemen by drinking. After I went up the mountain, I found my mother's grave. There were many sacrifices and incense was put there. It was probably Secretary Lu who put them there. I was still very surprised at the time: Secretary Lu paid homage to a people’s teacher. This is understandable, but he went to buy sacrifices and incense candles like this. It’s not common sense to worship at a grave. I still can’t figure this out.”