"Don't worry, mother-in-law, I will talk to him about it."

"Our Xiao Mo is still sensible. Don't worry. I don't have any other children. I will treat you like my daughter in the future."

Shen Mo's eyes were red: "Thank you, mother-in-law."

She thought of her mother, Chen He. If she were still alive, she would be happy for her when she saw how happy she is now!

…

When Yu Hongyuan returned home, he seemed to be in a trance.

Xia Wanfen kept complaining: "What's going on, Hongyuan, you are protecting me and your son, why are you helping two outsiders, is it possible that you really have a crush on that girl?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Dad, how can you vent your anger?"

"Wenjie, this is a matter of venting your anger. What you did was right. You can't do this again in the future. Don't let your child be so overbearing."

Yu Wenjie compromised on the surface, but he was convinced in his heart.

Xia Wanfen just felt that everything was just right after her husband came back.

Just at this time, Yu Shanshan also came back.

Xia Wanfen no longer cared about his loss of consciousness, "Shanshan, are you back? How was your outing with your friends today?"

Yu Shanshan was full of anger: "Don't mention it. When I went to her house, it was crowded and crowded. Did she marry a husband? Or did she rely on the relationship between her father-in-law to gain a foothold in the grain management office? And there are also poor friends who come to visit. She won't stay here for a while."

"After we start dating, we will have to associate with those people. After all, our family conditions are different."

"Mom, you know, only when you are with people like this can you feel superior."

The atmosphere at the dinner table was unusual, and Yu Shanshan also felt it.

"Mom, what's going on? What happened to our dad?"

Xia Wanfen put down her chopsticks and said unhappily, "I don't know which vixen has bewitched her. She has been like this all the time."

Yu Hongyuan felt very upset when he heard this and put down his chopsticks: "I'm full."

When I returned to the study, the girl's face appeared in my mind.

It was very similar. It was all so unbelievable.

When he went to the countryside to work in a production team, he met a girl. They often worked together, and after a while, they developed some feelings for each other.

The day their relationship changed was because of a snowfall in the forest farm.

Because of an accident, both of them were trapped in the mountains.

Snowy nights in the mountains are very difficult to endure, and you may even freeze to death here.

The girl did not shy away from it. Instead, she asked him to hold her in her arms so that they could keep each other warm. Only in this way could she have a chance to survive.

At first, Yu Hongyuan thought that there were differences between men and women and that he could not destroy the other's reputation.

Who knew she smiled and said, "Everyone is afraid, what are you afraid of? Besides, no one else knows what we are doing here."

These words caused ripples in Yu Hongyuan's heart.

The two hid in the cave, hugging each other and spending the night together, leaning on animal skins, and survived the cold night.

But his heart also stayed with her.

Not long after, Yu Hongyuan expressed his feelings to her.

"My father said, 'Those educated youth from the city have floating hearts and wandering feet. They look glamorous, but they are just passers-by after all. Their roots are here. Once the policy changes or the wind blows, they will leave at any time.'" She imitated her father's firm tone.

"I will abandon you, I will also leave here, and I will be with you forever." He almost roared, and every word was loud and clear.

The two of them secretly decided to spend their lives together. At that time, he really thought that he would stay here with Shen He forever.

But within a few months, he received a letter from home saying that they had found a way to get him back to the city and arranged another path for him, and his future would be brighter.

In the first few days, Yu Hongyuan hid the letter almost unconsciously.

He wanted to leave Chen He every moment.

He liked to see the lines of her neck showing when she bent over to work, and liked the look in her eyes when she tilted her head to share with him the only half of a boiled sweet potato.

Shen He is his anchor in this sea of ​​suffering and his painkiller.

He found Chen He, next to the haystack in the threshing ground that only they knew about: "Go back! It's right here! What's so good about the city? You don't want it!"

He tried to convince her, and himself, by painting a vision of a better country life.

He even said impulsively: "Let's go get a marriage certificate now! Let's stay in the countryside forever!"

Shen He looked at his excited expression and remained silent for a long time.

She did not immediately refute the future he described, but reached out and gently stroked his hands, which had become rough from being worn by farm tools and whose knuckles were a little red, swollen and deformed.

She touched his sunken eye sockets and thin jawbone with her cold fingertips.

Her voice was very soft, as if she was afraid of waking something up:

"Brother Hongyuan, look at you... you've only been here for a short time, but you've become so skinny. The cut on your wrist, was it caused by chopping wood the other day? It's almost scabbed over, but this callus..."

She didn't say she was going, but Yu Hongyuan seemed to have been touched.

Those lofty words that were propped up with great effort shattered silently like soap bubbles in the sun.

He couldn't deny reality.

Life in my hometown is so bitter, as bitter as coptis root soaked in bile, endless and endless.

In addition, his family wrote several letters to persuade him.

She said that there was no future for her if she stayed, but if she returned to the city, she would be able to marry a wife and live a good life.

Yu Hongyuan's heart wavered, and he had to go back.

So, on a sunny afternoon one day, he left a letter to Chen He, saying that he would come to pick her up in the future, then said goodbye to the production team and took the train back to the city.

He thought that he would write a letter back during this period, and then come to see her when he had time to bring Chen He back.

But... there was no response to those letters until he received the last and only letter.

That was the news of Shen He's death.

He remembered that his hands were shaking at that time. It was written on the cover that Chen He had gone into the mountains, had an accident and never came back.

He felt extremely distressed at the time, but he also recovered from the setback.

His family took the opportunity to introduce him to the girl whom he had rejected before.

Getting married is not so much a fresh start as it is a complete surrender to life.

Just one month after the wedding, another "opportunity" came - a place on a government-sponsored trip to Leningrad, Moscow, Soviet Union for further studies.

This opportunity for "gilded further studies" that he had once longed for now now seemed like the only way out of the suffocating life before him.

He agreed without hesitation.

Before leaving, he didn't even feel too sad.

Xia Wanfen's complaints, his father's instructions, and his mother's abandonment all sounded like they were blocked by a thick layer of glass.

He just packed his bag mechanically, wrapped the square cloth pad tightly in a few pieces of underwear, and hid it in the deepest part of the box.

Until Xia Wanfen said, "You are pregnant, can Hongyuan go with you?"