Cohabitation before marriage

80.

This year's New Year's Eve is in mid-February, and it is crowded with Valentine's Day. According to the usual practice, I will go back to my mother's hometown for the New Year.

My mother’s hometown is in Shengsi, Zhejiang, a small seaside city with more than 400 islands forming an archipelago, namely the Shengsi Archipelago, but only a dozen or so small islands are inhabited.

My mother grew up by the sea and met my dad when she was studying in the city. After graduation, she stayed in the city and rarely went home. So every year, my dad and I would accompany her home to celebrate the New Year and visit grandma and grandpa.

It’s not that my parents didn’t think about taking the old couple out to live together, but my grandma and grandpa have lived on the island all their lives. One is fishing and the other is doing handicrafts. There is basically no free time, so they come to the city to stay for two nights. I can't bear to go back.

My grandparents love to play, so they went to the island with my mother for vacation every Chinese New Year, and I happened to have a mahjong table with my grandparents.

Over the years, the two families have formed a tacit understanding and an invisible agreement.

This year, my mother plans to invite Dr. Wei's family to visit her hometown. After all, Dr. Wei and I have been together for so long, and the two adults haven't officially met yet.

While making dumplings, my mother asked, "Can Dr. Wei play mahjong?"

"I don't know, probably not, anyway, I've never seen him play before."

My mother asked again: "Then what does he do at home on weekends?"

Fuck me.

Of course I couldn't say this, I scratched the bridge of my nose: "Reading, writing, cleaning, going out in the evening for a workout, oh, and watering the flowers and plants he planted."

"Look at her, how healthy she is! Look at you again! I know how to lie on the bed and play games all day long, and I get annoyed when I see you."

"..." Didn't you say you missed me and let me go home for a few days!

81.

A few days ago, Dr. Wei went back to the countryside to help with work.

His parents own a supermarket, and the holidays are the busiest time. Migrant workers will buy a lot of things to bring back to their hometown before the year. Local people also stock up on new year’s goods. There are also a lot of people celebrating New Year’s Eve. I heard from Dr. Wei that the sales volume was six to seven times the usual one day ago.

During the Chinese New Year period, we can’t recruit temporary workers. In order to ensure sufficient goods, his parents had to stay in the supermarket to help take inventory and collect the cash. Dr. Wei went back to help move the goods and deliver the goods. He didn’t have time to play with me, so he didn’t let him I follow.

After nine o'clock in the evening, Dr. Wei took a shower and sat on the bed to video chat with me.

The bedroom in his hometown looks small, some old books are piled up in the corner, it looks a bit messy, the furniture style is relatively retro, the wardrobe and the bed are made of mahogany, the wooden board at the head of the bed is carved with hollow patterns, and there is a huge painting on the wall. The landscape cross-stitch, the central embroidered "Rising Sun" several characters.

"Did your mother do cross stitch?"

"No, my mother doesn't have time for this." Dr. Wei looked up at the cross stitch, "My aunt made it. There is also a picture of home and everything in our living room, which is a peony picture."

I laughed wildly: "Our family seems to have the same style of Jiahe Wanshixing. My mother embroidered it, and it was also a peony picture."

Dr. Wei was probably really exhausted. He yawned several times in just 10 minutes, and his eyes were watery. I urged him to go to bed quickly.

With his chin buried in a pillow, Dr. Wei said hoarsely, "I miss you so much."

This was the first time he said such nasty words, not only did my face get hot, but the tips of his ears also started to turn red.

"I miss you too hehe..." We both looked silly at the camera, "Oh, by the way, my mother asked me to ask you if you are free to go back to Zhejiang for dinner with us on the New Year's Eve, and bring your parents with you."

"They've been too busy recently, so they won't be able to go to the island to celebrate the New Year. My dad said that when the work is over, I'll treat your family to dinner."

"Is that so... What about you? Do you want to stay in the country to help?"

"I'll go back to the island with you to celebrate the New Year."

"Yeah! Good!—"

Dr. Wei's eyes curled into a beautiful arc: "Have you taken a bath?"

"washed."

"Then let's sleep together." Dr. Wei adjusted his posture as he said.

The mobile phone first shook twice at the small chandelier on the ceiling of his house, and then fell into darkness.

Dr. Wei's voice was still there.

"Xiaoqi, do you still have enough battery in your mobile phone?"

I glanced at the red indicator strip, picked up the charging cable and plugged it in: "Full."

"Then you lie down, let me tell you about a very interesting thing that happened to me today."

"Okay." I lay down immediately.

"There was a little boy who wandered around the door of our supermarket for a long time in the morning. I went over and asked him if he wanted to buy anything. He said that his mother was lost. He didn't dare to move around, so he had to wait there."

"How old is the child?"

"Five or six years old, it was still early at that time, and I didn't see any adults around, so I called the police directly. I was afraid that the child would cry, so I gave him a lollipop to chew on. Guess what he said gone."

"Thank you uncle."

Wei Nanlin laughed loudly: "No, he raised his head and asked me, 'Are you an angel? Why are you so nice to me', which made me very happy."

"Then are you an angel?"

Wei Nanlin laughed even harder.

82.

Early in the morning of the New Year's Eve, I received a call from Dr. Wei.

"Xiaoqi, come down and help me carry something."

My bed was next to the window, and as soon as I opened the curtains, I saw him standing downstairs.Dr. Wei looked up after opening the trunk.

"I'll change my pants and come down immediately."

Dr. Wei: "Why do you change your pants when you see me?"

"I'm just wearing underwear." I didn't want to hang up the phone, and threw the phone on the bed after turning on the speakerphone.

Doctor Wei didn't hang up either.

"Then why are you still wearing pajama pants when you sleep with me? So reserved."

"Didn't you let me turn on the electric blanket? Sometimes when I get up in the middle of the night, it's very cold to pee. It's not cold when I wear pants. At home, I always turn on the electric blanket to keep the temperature constant."

"Then you can hug me, my legs are warm, and I'll keep you warm."

Dr. Wei's voice floated out of the receiver. My dad happened to enter the room. I don't know what he heard. He gave me a disgusted look, and then backed out.

"Hey dad! What's the matter with you?"

"I can't download the APP on this phone. It keeps reminding me to press it twice. I press both times, but it still doesn't move. I want you to show me."

When Dr. Wei heard the movement, he changed into another expression, and greeted my dad calmly: "Happy New Year, Dad."

"Hey, happy new year. Have you set off yet? Your mother has booked a little boat ticket, we have to leave early."

"I'm already downstairs."

I have been at home for a long time this holiday and didn’t go out. Only when I went downstairs did I realize that today’s old north wind is cold and the sun is not helpful at all.The first thing Dr. Wei did when he saw me was to take off the scarf.

"Why do you wear so little?"

"The sun is so bright outside, I thought it would be quite warm today."

Dr. Wei: "The weather forecast also said that it might snow in the next two days, so how could it be warmer?"

"Then I was in a hurry to get down, so I didn't check the weather." I found that the trunk of Dr. Wei's car was full of things, no wonder he needed help.

Dr. Wei also hung his coat on me: "I didn't pay attention to it."

"Who is lying! You are lying!"

"I'm not false, don't you know?"

"Brother, you can meet your kind on the island this time."

"What kind?"

"Waves."

Dr. Wei frowned with joy.