The Rationalist's Marriage

Feng Kaijuan was discharged from the hospital a few days ago, and maybe her son is about to get married. She is in a good mood and her physical condition is improving day by day, and she occasionally goes downstairs to exercise.

The mother reassured Qiu Yuening that it was time for him to take time to visit Ding Ye's father.Even if the other party will be present at the wedding, it is a basic etiquette to visit and get acquainted with them in person.

They didn't drive.From Wencheng to Wucheng, it takes less than two hours by high-speed rail.Ding Ye told his father in advance that he planned to stay with Qiu Yuening in his hometown for two days.

Ding Yunqian and his wife used to be neighbors, and they lived in an old house, which was old and had no elevator. Later, Ding Ye and the other party's children jointly invested in buying a new apartment, and sold the two apartments.This time when they went back to Wucheng to visit relatives, the two came to Ding Yunqian's new residence.

The main industry of Wucheng is tourism. There are few high-rise buildings and many small shops. The old streets maintain the style of tens or even hundreds of years ago.Qiu Yuening also liked the less modern atmosphere here, so he proposed to Qi Ran to travel here.

The community where Ding Yunqian lives now is one of the few high-rise residential buildings in the city, and there are only fifteen floors in total, and they live on the eighth floor.

The small city doesn't have much traffic jams. It took about ten minutes to get a taxi from the train station and stand downstairs in the apartment building. Qiu Yuening followed Ding Ye into the elevator.

After the sound of "ding", the elevator door slid open to both sides, and Qiu Yuening found that the door of the house facing him was wide open, guessing that this was probably Ding Ye's father's house.

Sure enough, a figure flashed past the door, waving at them.

"Dad," Ding Ye introduced to him as he entered the room, "this is Yue Ning."

"Hello, uncle."

"Okay, come on, you are—" The light at the door was not very bright, Ding Yunqian took a few more glances, and suddenly smiled, "I may have seen you."

"Ah?" Qiu Yuening was a little nervous, and was surprised by Ding Yunqian's words.

Ding Ye was also a little puzzled: "Have you seen it?"

"Come in first." Ding Yunqian took the luggage and presents from their hands.

As soon as you enter the door, you will see the living room facing south. The light comes in from the balcony, making the room transparent and bright.

"Have a hard time on the road." After they sat down on the sofa, another old man walked out of the kitchen with a tea set. It was Ding Yunqian's wife. "Drink some tea."

"Thank you Uncle Zhang."

"Have you been to Wucheng before?" Ding Yunqian asked Qiu Yuening after sitting down.

"Well... the year before last." But Qiu Yuening couldn't remember when he met this man. If he was familiar, he thought it was because of Ding Ye, but after careful observation, there was no similarity between their father and son. so high.

Ding Yunqian nodded, as if he was thinking about something, "I sprained my foot when I went down the stairs at the gate of 'Anbai', did you carry me back?"

Qiu Yuening opened his eyes wide, and it really evokes such a memory.He was originally helping Qi Ran buy water that day, but because he met an elder in trouble, he sent him home first.Qi Ran waited for a long time, and then quarreled with him, thinking that he was meddling in his own business, what if he was blackmailed... Qiu Yuening only remembered that unpleasant experience.

"I still lived in the old district at that time, a small five-story building, do you remember?" Ding Yunqian continued, "You carried me up to the fourth floor of my house."

"Yes... so that person is you," Ding Ye mentioned before as the "good-hearted person" himself, "Sorry, I didn't remember it just now."

"Dad, is this true?" Of course Ding Ye believed what they said, he was just too surprised.

"Yeah, it's a coincidence, right?"

"This shows that there is fate," Zhang Bo interjected, "it's not that one family does not enter one family."

When Qiu Yuening talked about their blind date, it was Ding Ye who helped his mother.

"Then I feel more at ease," Ding Yunqian said, "This is called heaven as a matchmaker."

Qiu Yuening smiled embarrassedly.However, even if there was such a karma, he still felt puzzled, Ding Yunqian seemed too laissez-faire in his son's lifelong affairs.Judging from the information Ding Ye disclosed to him, their marriage had been promised and blessed before they came to Wucheng to meet their parents.

This is a good thing for him, it doesn't need to go through the strict consideration of the other party's parents, but it also arouses his curiosity about the Ding family's father and son's way of getting along.

Ding Yunqian also had a new life, getting along with that "Uncle Zhang" naturally and tacitly.

It was the first time Qiu Yuening came to the house with Ding Ye, but Zhang Bo insisted not to let them into the kitchen.

"At noon, I'll cook for you, and you can continue talking."

Ding Yunqian said that Lao Zhang was not very good at cooking, and after talking for a while, he was still worried, so he went to the kitchen to guide him.

There is a pair of colorful munia on the balcony, and there are a few birdsong from time to time.

"Thank you." After his father left the living room, Ding Ye suddenly said to Qiu Yuening.

Qiu Yuening soon realized that he was thanking him for what happened two years ago.

"Needless to say that," he said, "and I'm delighted that we...were meant to be."

Ding Ye didn't answer.Qiu Yuening felt that he was watching him, and his face became hot again.

The old streets of Wucheng are more distinctive and are very popular among tourists.Ding Ye asked Qiu Yuening if he was interested in visiting, and Qiu Yuening agreed.He has been there with Qi Ran before, and now he wants to go there again with Ding Ye.

It was hot during the day, and they had dinner with the two elderly people, and then went out after sunset, and took a taxi directly to the center of the old district.

Stone roads, low buildings with wooden beams and columns... To Qiu Yuening, this is an uncommon city scene, but he thinks that Ding Ye has lived in Wucheng since he was ten years old, and he should be very familiar with the most lively places here.

"Did you come here often?" he asked.

"Fortunately, it's been a long time, and I won't go shopping much when I go home later."

After the development of tourism, more and more foreigners come here to do business. In addition to shops with more local characteristics, there are also business items that are only for attracting people's attention and full of entertainment - flashing toys, garlands or rings. It can be found in tourist areas all over the country. There is nothing special about it, but it can always attract tourists to stop.

After the street lamps were turned on, people crowded around, and the mundane business atmosphere seemed to be more intense.Qiu Yuening stopped in the open space at the intersection, and the lights on the stalls ahead attracted his attention.The stall owner was a middle-aged man, holding a string of colored rings in his hand.

"A ring," Ding Ye also noticed the commotion over there, "Do you know how?"

"Hmm." In fact, Qiu Yuening hadn't missed this kind of game yet, but the small group of people around seemed to be families with children, so it wasn't suitable for him to play by himself.

Ding Ye, however, seemed to have a novel discovery, and touched his arm, "Go, go and try."

"Do you want to play?"

"Watch you play." His voice was light and cheerful.

There are three rings for ten yuan, and a young man in front of him spent dozens of yuan and didn't get one.

Qiu Yuening took the three rings from the boss and asked Ding Ye, "Which one do you want?"

His tone sounded like all the targets were in his pocket, and the onlookers couldn't help but chuckle.

"That rose."

The night lights of different shapes are all placed on the ground, and the rose ones are in the second row, emitting a faint red light.

Qiu Yuening held a ring in his right hand and the remaining two in his left, and before Ding Ye finished speaking, he threw the one on his right.

Almost like a magic trick, in the blink of an eye, the small rose lamp has been firmly surrounded by the small yellow ring.

The spectators suddenly stopped laughing, especially the stall owner, who waited with bated breath for his next two throws.

Ding Ye chose the yellow car for the second time, and the blue apple for the third time, and he got them all.

Qiu Yuening handed the three small lamps to Ding Ye and asked him, "Do you want any more?"

The stall owner looked at them nervously, and when he heard Ding Ye say "Okay, let's go", he turned his head away and continued to entertain other buyers.

"You are so amazing, the boss is about to cry." After walking a certain distance, Ding Ye joked.

"Huh? It's okay." In fact, this level of hand-eye coordination is much easier than aligning the plane to the center line of the runway during the approach phase. Of course, it is a piece of cake for Qiu Yuening.

"I can't."

"You played too?"

"Well," Ding Ye said, "I played it once when I was a child, but I couldn't get it right. When I got angry, I never played again."

"Angry?" Qiu Yuening was quite surprised that he would get angry over such a trivial matter.

"Yeah, I was so angry that I turned around and left. My dad didn't know what happened to me." Ding Ye smiled and turned his head, "Isn't it very naive?"

Qiu Yuening silently imagined Ding Ye's angry appearance when he was young. He probably didn't show it on the surface, but his anger was all stuffed in his heart, and he didn't make a sound when he was about to explode.Compared with his usual indifferent posture, he may have revealed more true colors when he confided in embarrassment.

"No," Qiu Yuening accidentally laughed, weakening the sincerity in the words, but this sense of casualness narrowed the distance between the two of them, "I like to hear you say this."

There was a lot of eating, drinking and having fun in the night market. They walked all the way, and put a few crude things in their bags into their bags, and they didn't know what to do with them.Qiu Yuening saw several snack carts next to each other, exuding an irresistible aroma, even though he was not hungry at all, he was a little shaken.

"Do you want to eat Malatang?" The previous atmosphere was too relaxed, he stared at the steaming stall, and spoke his mind without much thought.

But Ding Ye should not want to eat junk food on the street, right?Qiu Yuening immediately came to such a judgment.

It's the smell of flavoring, really, and he thinks his suggestion sucks.

"Which restaurant do you eat?"

"How about—" Qiu Yuening suddenly realized what he said, "Do you want to eat?"

"What's the matter?" Ding Ye blinked at him innocently, "I don't seem to know how to eat?"

All the seats around were occupied by people, and the two of them carried two bowls of hot food and ate while walking. Qiu Yuening continued: "I thought you didn't like food, it looks a bit... unhealthy."

"I'm not a nutritionist." Ding Ye glanced at him amusedly, "A nutritionist may not stop eating junk food."

Because they were not too hungry, they ordered vegetarian ingredients such as kelp, tofu, and cauliflower.

"Mainly." Qiu Yuening bit off a piece of bean curd, "You give me the feeling... very orderly, didn't you say that you often eat the same thing? So it's not quite—"

"Don't like change?"

"is a bit."

"Maybe it's a habit," Ding Ye said, "It's not that I don't like new ones, it's just that I rely more on things I'm used to."

Qiu Yuening immediately had a new question: "Then why did you think of starting your own business?" After all, for most people, this is quite deviant.

"I also worked for others at first, doing event planning, and I was not very happy. I resigned after a few months. If I persisted at the beginning, I might not have tried anything else," Ding Ye said. The paper bowl was thrown into the trash can, "I attended a classmate's wedding when I was unemployed and looking for a job. I thought it was too rustic."

"Wedding?"

"Yes," he shook his head and smiled, "He hired a big-name planning agency, but I think it would be better for me to design."

"So you're going to do this?"

"Well, that's one of the few unplanned things I do."

Ding Ye didn't tell the whole story. Another unplanned event he experienced was meeting someone he liked and marrying him.