The next day, early in the morning, Li Yutong hadn't gotten up yet.
Her grandmother Chen Xiaoying had already returned from exercising outside, carrying the breakfast she had just bought: "Xiaoyu, get up and eat."
Li Yutong woke up in a daze, looked at the time, it was seven fifty, then she got up.
While she was washing her face, Chen Xiaoying put the food into the bowl and said to Li Yutong, "When I was exercising in the Garden Square, I met a group of old sisters. They introduced me to a fortune teller who is very accurate. He usually sets up a stall at the head of Ping'an Bridge. We will go there after we have dinner."
Li Yutong did not comment: "Okay, milk."
The elderly always like to calculate important things, such as their children's future, marriage contracts, engagement dates, wedding dates, housewarming dates, etc.
The grandparents had finished their meal and were about to leave when the phone at home suddenly rang.
"Who is calling?" Chen Xiaoying thought, and walked over to take a look. She found that it was a call from a store in the old city. Could something have happened in the store?
She picked up the phone, but her elder sister Chen Xiaonao's voice came from the other end: "Xiaoying, where are you? Why aren't you in the store?"
Chen Xiaonao didn't have her sister Chen Xiaoying's home phone number, but she knew where the store where Chen Xiaoying stayed all year round was. In the past few years, when she occasionally went shopping, she saw Chen Xiaoying in the store from afar, but she had never come in.
Zhao Xueyan looked at Chen Xiaonao curiously. Why was her aunt looking for her mother-in-law so early in the morning?
Chen Xiaoying didn't expect her elder sister to come to her so early in the morning: "Elder sister, didn't we say we would meet again at 2:30 in the afternoon? Why did you come to see me now?"
Chen Xiaonao said on the phone: "Well, it's like this. The kid happened to have something to do in the afternoon, so he asked me if we could move the blind date forward to 10:30 noon."
"Xiaoying, where are you?"
Chen Xiaoying was already a little unhappy: "I have something to do this morning."
Wasn’t it an agreed time? Why did you change your mind at the last minute?
Chen Xiaonao could tell that Chen Xiaoying was unhappy. She thought about how her sister's temper had changed over the years and how she even dared to divorce the man she had spent her whole life with, not to mention such a small matter as a blind date. She was afraid that if she made her angry, the blind date would not go through.
She quickly explained, "Didn't I tell you the other day that this kid is a doctor? He's very busy at work. How dare he delay saving lives and healing the wounded? It's for this reason that this kid hasn't found a partner at the age of 29. Otherwise, with such good conditions, other girls would have snatched him up long ago."
That's what I said.
Although Chen Xiaoying felt uncomfortable, she had to admit that what her elder sister said made sense.
He has a good family background, his parents are leaders, most of his relatives are government employees, the child graduated from a prestigious university and has a good job. I heard that he is tall and good-looking. If it weren't for some special reasons, he would not have been delayed to this point.
Chen Xiaoying is old and has old ideas. She thinks that if she is not married at the age of 30, it would be a little late to have children in the future.
In her mind, girls can start dating at the age of 21 or 22. Only after dating several people can she know what kind of man is truly good to her.
If you have been dating for three or four years and your relationship is stable, then you can get married when you are 26 or 27 years old. You can get married and have children within three years. By the time you are 35, which is the dividing line between career and work, your children will be grown up and you can feel at ease sending them to kindergarten, hiring a nanny, or letting the older generation take care of them.
Because the children are older, they can tell you where it hurts or where they feel uncomfortable.
In this way, you can have both career and family.
Chen Xiaoying had a good idea, but she knew that plans could not keep up with changes, and not getting married at the age of 30 did not mean that one was a bad person.
She turned to look at Li Yutong: "Your aunt said that she wants to meet later, what do you think?"
Li Yutong blinked. She also heard the voice on the phone just now: "That's fine."
In fact, she didn't think that there would be any development between her and Wang Tianlei, but her aunt was urging her to have milk, and she was really curious...
As for her aunt, it was obvious that she was holding on to her and would not let go. If she refused today, she would come again tomorrow.
The granddaughter agreed, and Chen Xiaoying also wanted to meet Wang Tianlei: "Then let's meet in the morning. After that, if possible, we can ask the gentleman after we meet."
After getting the OK, Chen Xiaonao hung up the phone and directly dialed Wang Tianlei's home.
His mother, Qiao Cuifeng, answered the phone: "Let's meet at the coffee shop on the first floor of Tianrui Restaurant. It's his uncle's shop, so it's convenient for us to go there."
"Hey, hey, okay, I'll tell them right now and ask them to go earlier." Even though they couldn't see her through the phone, Chen Xiaonao still had a smile on her face and was extremely enthusiastic.
After Chen Xiaonao left, Zhao Xueyan looked at her back in confusion. She realized that it was her aunt who was arranging a marriage for Xiaoyu.
It seems that the man's family is well off.
Chen Xiaoying and Li Yutong couldn't help but frowning when they got the specific address.
"Grandma, the location for this blind date is a bit far away."
First, he changed the time of the blind date without my permission, then he decided the location of the blind date without my permission, and just for his own convenience, he booked a big hotel in the north of the city.
Kaiyuan City is now developing towards the north. There are tall buildings in the north, good greenery, and wide and clean streets. People who buy houses there generally have good conditions. The consumption in supermarkets, hotels and restaurants there is also a little higher than here.
"Xiao Yu, why don't we not go?" Her grandmother Chen Xiaoying was also unhappy.
When people go on blind dates, the man goes to the woman's house, and many even bring some gifts to show their sincerity. If the man doesn't have anything, that's fine. Nowadays, it's not fashionable for young people to go to the other person's house.
But it can't be like this.
"Grandma, I won't go if I don't want to, but how do I notify my aunt? She doesn't have a phone with her." Li Yutong said.
The grandparents and grandchildren looked at each other. After all, they were honest people, so it would be wrong to just leave them waiting there without saying a word.
They still took a taxi.
Now that the roads in Kaiyuan City are well built and the population has increased, there are more and more taxis.
The grandparents and grandchildren arrived at Tianrui Hotel. At the door of the hotel stood waiters in work clothes, white shirts with blue vests. The decoration in the hotel all looked shiny, and it had a high-end and classy feel.
Chen Xiaoying and her granddaughter Li Yutong walked in. Turning to the left, they found the coffee shop. They asked the waiter to lead them to their seats.
Chen Xiaoying looked here and there curiously. It was her first time to come to such a place and she had never drunk coffee before.
"Grandma, you like sweet drinks, so I'll order you a cup of cappuccino and two pieces of cake for you to try." Li Yutong showed her grandma the pictures on the color page.
Chen Xiaoying nodded: "Okay, I'll order a cup and try it to see what this coffee tastes like. I heard it's very bitter."
"I want iced American coffee, which can reduce edema, refresh the mind and relieve greasiness. This kind of coffee is bitter. You will know when you both try it later." Li Yutong said, just in time for the fried dough sticks she had for breakfast.
I ordered two more pieces of cake.
The grandparents just looked around the coffee shop, why hasn’t anyone arrived yet?