Rong Yan stepped forward and called out, "Yu Wenhao."
The main door of the house was open, but no one came out for a long time.
Rong Yan peeked into the yard through the fence. There were two rows of clothes hanging by the door and peanuts drying on the ground, indicating that someone lived there.
She called Shen Xingzhi over: "No one's home. Look over there and see if any of Yu Wenhao's clothes are there."
Shen Xingzhi looked closely and said, "I don't recognize him. He didn't bring back the clothes I bought for him. The clothes hanging over there are just ordinary men's clothing. I can't tell if they're his."
“Take a picture and send it to him to see his reaction,” Rong Yan suggested. “If he’s deliberately avoiding you, he’ll see this picture and come to see you, unless this isn’t his home and his girlfriend comes to his door demanding an explanation, which isn’t a good thing in the countryside.”
"Okay." Shen Xingzhi sent over several photos taken from different angles, along with the text: [Yu Wenhao, is there something you can't say in person? I'm waiting for you at your house.]
Rong Yan parked her car at the village entrance and went back inside with Shen Xingzhi to wait.
Knowing that the results would be forthcoming soon, Shen Xingzhi calmed down. She sat silently in the passenger seat, holding her phone, waiting for Yu Wenhao's reply.
In the hospital, the woman, who had been through two hours of ordeal, was parched and still felt uncomfortable even sitting on the floor.
She was speechless, but she kept staring at her son, afraid that Yu Wenhao would abandon her regardless of his own life or death.
After calming down for a while, Yu Wenhao pretended to compromise: "Okay, whatever you want. I'll go home with you now and I won't go anywhere else."
Mrs. Yu instantly perked up: "Really? Okay, let's go home. This is my son. Your chemical plant in Dabai is hiring, and it's for an official position. I'll talk to him, why don't you go and take a look?"
"Mom." Yu Wenhao hadn't expected his mother to have such a backup plan, arranging a job for him. So, she had never intended to let him go after lying to him about coming back. "Mom, can I arrange my own job?"
“Okay, we’ll talk about it when we get back,” Mrs. Yu said happily.
After getting in the car, the man checked his phone and saw that Shen Xingzhi was actually waiting for him at his house.
Yu Wenhao panicked again. If his mother saw her, the two of them would definitely have a fight.
He quickly replied with a message, first apologizing and saying that it was hard to explain on WeChat and that they would talk when they met. He told Shen Xingzhi not to wait at the door, but instead gave her another address.
"Rongyan, Yu Wenhao replied to my message." Shen Xingzhi nervously opened the chat box. "Look."
"Trust him one more time, let's go." Rong Yan started the car.
After receiving the news that Shen Xingzhi had agreed to meet, Yu Wenhao spent the whole way thinking about how to sneak out without his mother knowing.
I don't know if any neighbors saw Shen Xingzhi.
Sitting in the back, Mrs. Yu was in a great mood: "Son, what do you want to eat tonight? I'll make it for you when we get home. You've lost weight since we went to Tiancheng."
The opportunity suddenly presented itself.
Yu Wenhao deliberately mentioned something that could only be bought at the town's market, then hesitated and said, "But Mom, we have to go to town to buy pig's trotters."
"It's alright, it'll only take about ten minutes by bike." Mrs. Yu's electric bike sped past, and with her relationship with her son improved, what was this little request?
"Okay, by the way, Mom, I need to go buy two outfits later. All my clothes are in Tiancheng." Yu Wenhao made up an excuse.
Yu's mother didn't know that Shen Xingzhi had come. She thought that her son buying clothes meant he was going to stay in his hometown. She said, "Okay, Mom will reimburse you."
The place where Yu Wenhao and Shen Xingzhi met was exactly the opposite of the place Yu's mother was going to.
After dropping his mother off at home, he drove towards the city center. Once he could no longer see his mother in the rearview mirror, he immediately turned around.
This time, Yu Wenhao gave an address for a restaurant.
As a foodie, Shen Xingzhi had always wanted to try authentic Northern Chinese cuisine, particularly sauerkraut with glass noodles and sweet and sour pork...
Their engagement banquet was originally scheduled for the middle of the year, but it was canceled at the last minute because Yu's mother disagreed. As a result, their trip to the north to eat sweet and sour pork was delayed.
Shen Xingzhi didn't know if Yu Wenhao would stand her up again this time, so she and Rong Yan waited in the parking lot outside the restaurant.
After getting out of the car, Yu Wenhao sent a message to Shen Xingzhi from outside the door, saying that he had arrived.
The woman, who was not far away, saw the man standing at the gate through the car window. She opened the car door and ran over quickly.
Rong Yan decided to stay in the car.
As a psychologist, emotional stability is a required course, but Shen Xingzhi still broke down when she saw Yu Wenhao.
She hugged Yu Wenhao, crying and hitting him, "Are you dead? Are you dead?"
Yu Wenhao stood there motionless. He knew he had indeed neglected his girlfriend these past few days, and Shen Xingzhi must hate him to death. It would be good for her to vent.
The man stroked the back of the woman's head with his hand, and after a long while, he slowly said, "Xingzhi, I'm sorry."
He kept repeating that sentence.
The woman who was hitting and cursing at the entrance looked particularly out of place, so Rong Yan made a phone call to remind her: "If you have something to say, let's talk in the private room."
Yu Wenhao and Shen Xingzhi entered the restaurant and ordered the three dishes that the women had been longing for. However, Shen Xingzhi had no appetite at the moment and desperately needed Yu Wenhao to give her an explanation.
"Yu Wenhao, I want to hear your explanation," the woman said, emphasizing each word after she stopped crying.
Yu Wenhao didn't dare to look his girlfriend in the eye. He couldn't go back to Tiancheng for the time being. On his way here, he had a selfish thought: could he stay in his hometown and have a long-distance relationship with her?
But after seeing Shen Xingzhi, he couldn't bring himself to say it.
“Silence won’t solve the problem. Is there no going back? I dare not say.” Shen Xingzhi understands Yu Wenhao.
After a moment of internal struggle, the man told Shen Xingzhi everything that had happened recently. Finally, he lowered his head and asked in a very soft voice, "Can we have a long-distance relationship?"
Unexpectedly, Shen Xingzhi replied, "Okay."
Just as Yu Wenhao was feeling both surprised and delighted, the woman added, "But do you think that just because I'm willing to have a long-distance relationship, your mother will agree to us being together? She's determined for you to find a local wife. Won't she force you to go on blind dates when I'm not around?"
The man's mind was buzzing; his mother would.
Introducing jobs or potential partners are things a mother can do.
“I can brush her off on blind dates and just say they’re not a good match every time,” Yu Wenhao said after thinking for a moment.
“Yu Wenhao, you were able to compromise on blind dates at first, and you were also able to compromise on accepting a certain blind date later, so between me and your mother, you chose her, right?” Shen Xingzhi already knew Yu Wenhao’s thoughts.
"If you're a man, say it outright instead of dragging it out like this. Who can't live without whom?" Shen Xingzhi wanted to hear him say it himself.
The man kept his lips tightly closed.
"You won't tell me? Fine, I'll tell you. I'm announcing our breakup. Now let's block each other's contact information." Shen Xingzhi took out her phone.
Yu Wenhao pressed down on her hand: "No, Xingzhi, I can't live without you."
“Then give up your mother.” The woman’s tone was firm. “She forced you to choose, not me.”
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