"No, Mom, what are you thinking? I meant getting along well with her, not that we're dating well!!"
Now I understand why the questions his mother asked seemed a little strange.
It turns out it was because his mother had taken Shen Mu Ning as her boyfriend.
They even asked when I would like to see my family.
"No, then... then how come you're so useless?!"
Yu Ying's high spirits were extinguished by his words.
It was completely annihilated, and even her heart turned cold.
Knowing this outcome, all she could do was complain about Chu Mingxu's incompetence, for he couldn't even win over a wife.
He also glared at Chu Hongyi, who was pretending to be innocent and obedient on the side.
"Yingying, this lack of marriage and dating is all your son's fault, why are you glaring at me?"
Chu Hongyi, who was innocently implicated, expressed his innocence.
After all, his own brat has always been like this since he was a child, and he even acts arrogant when he's with the boys in the Yiga compound.
Later, when a girl liked him, he found it troublesome and rejected her.
"This is your son too. He's now an older, unmarried man, and you share part of the responsibility for that!"
Before the Chu family ran into trouble, how many young girls wanted to marry her son?
As a result, Chu Mingxu refused, and Chu Hongyi also used the saying "settle down first, then build a career" to shut himself up.
Once this person went to the army, he didn't go home for a long time, and even when he did, he didn't stay for long.
As soon as someone mentions that they're going to let him meet some young lady's mother, he disappears without a trace.
(PS: "Runned away without a trace" is the author's hometown dialect, meaning "disappeared without a trace.")
Later, when the Chu family fell on hard times, he lost even more interest in marriage and had even more reason not to get married.
The main reason is that I don't want to hold the girl back.
If this isn't Chu Hongyi's fault, who else can it be?!
So even if he pretends to be wronged or innocent in front of her today, it won't work!
"Mom, I'm not that old yet, you don't need to worry so much about my marriage."
Every year when I come here, I also visit my second uncle's place, and urging him to get married is an essential part of the trip.
Therefore, Chu Mingxu had long since mastered the skill of refusing to be pressured into marriage.
First, he comforted his mother with kind words and gentle voice.
Once Yu Ying starts to say what she wants to say, he has to listen quietly and obediently from the side, and make some responses to show that he is listening attentively.
After that, I would occasionally listen to my mother's advice on dating.
After he went back, he naturally continued to do as he pleased and didn't listen to his mother at all.
"You're not that old? Then when is considered old?"
When I was your age, you were already in school!
It has to be said that people in this era tend to get married quite early.
Most of them were already married and had children by the age of eighteen or nineteen.
Therefore, in Yu Ying's eyes, Chu Mingxu, who was already twenty-three or twenty-four, was an older unmarried young man.
Adding to the current situation of the Chu family, she has been anxious and stressed about his marriage.
But he himself isn't in a hurry, which is really infuriating.
Of course, she also knew that Chu Mingxu wanted to clear their names before considering his personal matters.
The key issue is that so many years have passed, and who knows when the policy will change so that their family can escape their predicament?
Besides, their family's situation is better now; apart from being separated by several places, they don't see each other on weekdays.
Their family, along with their second brother's family, still have their movements restricted.
But at least they are all safe, and life isn't as difficult as it used to be.
Therefore, in her view, urging her son to get married is the most important thing.
"Mom~~"
"Alright, stop calling me Mom. Just tell me about Comrade Shen's situation!"
Chu Mingxu was about to say something when he was interrupted by Yu Ying, who had suddenly regained her composure.
He had no idea what was going on; it felt like a volcano was about to erupt.
It suddenly cooled down the next second?
Unable to figure out the situation, he could only ask his father with his eyes.
"Dad. What's wrong with Mom?"
"Who knows? Anyway, she's not angry anymore, so just answer her questions!"
'Speak properly this time, don't make your mother angry again.'
Chu Hongyi, as Yu Ying's bedmate, didn't realize it at first.
But after a little thought, he understood what his dear wife was thinking.
This confirms that Comrade Shen and her son have something going on.
Or rather, she hoped something would happen between the two of them.
I'd like to learn more about Comrade Chen and see if there's any spark between them.
As for whether he will choose between his wife and son, it's not very clear now.
That would definitely mean supporting Yu Ying and interrogating her son together.
Although he felt it wasn't appropriate to ask his son about his love life, he couldn't resist his wife's concern.
Just consider it fulfilling my wife's wish! There's no need to worry about it too much.
Poor Chu Mingxu, who was completely unaware of this, obediently answered according to his father's instructions.
'Okay.'
"Mom, this Comrade Shen is a young girl who just came to Xinshan Brigade this year to work in the countryside."
Knowing that his mother wanted to pair him up with Shen Mu Ning, he deliberately emphasized the pronunciation of the word "small".
Sure enough, his mother's attention was immediately drawn to this.
"So, how young is this little girl?"
If the age difference is too great, then my son won't be good enough for her.
Of course, the thought only flashed through her mind and disappeared in an instant.
After all, in her opinion, a girl who could go to the countryside had to be at least eighteen years old.
Although she's a bit older, it's not that extreme, and she can accept it.
"She is sixteen years old this year (by Chinese reckoning)." This implies that she is only fifteen years old and a minor.
Just that one sentence, only seven words, really stumped Yu Ying.
She immediately gave Chu Mingxu and Chu Hongyi a demonstration of what it means to roll her eyes repeatedly.
If you weren't panting heavily, this would actually be a funny scene.
But because she was panting heavily and rolling her eyes, she frightened the father and son.
He quickly patted his wife on the back to help her catch her breath.
One of them immediately found the kettle, poured a cup of hot water, and handed it to his father.
"Mom, take a deep breath. Come on, inhale, exhale, okay."
Two minutes later, Yu Ying finally recovered.
Seeing Chu Mingxu's face in front of him made him furious.
“Ah Xu, although your mother wants you to get married soon, you absolutely must not go and seduce young girls.”
Startled by Shen Mu Ning's age, Yu Ying dared not analyze her son's relationship problems any further.
Instead, she kept reminding him not to bully the young girl.
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