Thinking of this, Li Xu did not continue the topic and asked, "Brother Feng, you and your sister-in-law went back to your parents' home a few days ago. How did you feel?"
After getting married, the newlyweds have to go to the woman’s home on the third day, which is what the old saying goes “returning to the bride’s home on the third day”.
This is not only to thank the girl's parents, but also to get to know the girl's relatives and friends.
So he really wanted to know if Li Qingxi had any weird relatives like that.
Hearing the question, Du Feng calmly replied, "I feel okay. At least this time no one asked me for a job, and no one asked me to borrow money."
"That's fine." Li Xu nodded, and then said, "I just happened to be going to the Xiawan Brigade. If you have anything you want to send, I can take it with you. If not, I'll leave."
According to old customs, newlyweds must bring gifts when they return to their parents' home. Not only the bride's parents should receive some, but also their relatives and friends.
Of course, in this era of material scarcity, just bringing some candy and cigarettes was enough to deal with relatives and friends.
But the problem is that you can't deal with the girl's parents so simply, their gifts often have to be different.
However, no matter how different they are, there must be food inside.
In this way, if you meet some unusual relatives or friends, they might express on the spot that they want to taste it. At this time, the host will often not be able to resist and will take out the food to share with everyone.
Then these things were divided up.
After all, there are so many people, and it’s not right to let only one person taste it.
Don't think this won't happen.
In fact, it has happened not only once, but also many times.
So, I don’t know when it started, but Tang County suddenly had a new rule, which is that on the day of returning to the bride’s parents’ home, only gifts for relatives and friends can be brought, and as for the bride’s parents, they can be given later.
Li Xu guessed that Du Feng might not have delivered the gifts to his father-in-law and mother-in-law yet, so he came over to inquire about it.
It is absolutely true that it happened by the way.
Because Li Qingxi's parents live in the same place as Wu Qingfeng.
He had known about this for a long time, but he had never mentioned it.
Du Feng paused playing cards and looked over in confusion, "What are you doing there?"
"My grandfather has a friend who lives there. I've dealt with him before. Last night, my dad said he was dying, so I went to see him."
Du Feng felt that it was not appropriate to let someone else do this kind of thing, so he nodded and said, "Okay, wait for a while, I'll finish playing this hand of cards and then go with you."
Hearing this, Qi Wen hurriedly asked, "Brother-in-law, can you play for Xiao Sen for a while?"
Li Xu said with a smile, "Why, do you want him to call your brother over?"
Qi Wen nodded repeatedly, his face full of anticipation, "Is it okay?"
"Okay, Xiaosen, get up. I'll play for you for a while. You can ride my bike and go there early. The sooner you go, the sooner you can come back."
Du Sen responded and ran out quickly.
After a while, they saw him walk in with a young man. Everyone said hello, then Du Feng returned to his room to get the money and tickets, and said to Li Xu, "I have the tickets ready. I haven't had time to buy the gifts yet. You have to come with me to the supply and marketing cooperative first."
"No problem, I just happened to need to go do some shopping."
Only after Du Feng sat in the back seat did Li Xu start the bike and drive towards the supply and marketing cooperative.
The two of them finished shopping quickly, and then Du Feng said that he would ride the bike. Li Xu naturally had no reason to refuse and agreed readily.
In this way, the two chatted all the way and only parted when they arrived at Xiawan Brigade.
According to his memory, he came to Wu Qingfeng's courtyard and saw that the gate was closed. Li Xu went forward and knocked a few times.
Soon, a girl who was about ten years old was seen opening the gate of the courtyard.
Seeing Li Xu, the other party asked hesitantly, "Who are you?"
"I'm here to see Mr. Wu. Is he home?"
"I'm home, please come in."
Li Xu pushed the car in, parked it in the yard, then picked up the gift he had just bought and followed the other person into a room.
As soon as you enter the door, the first thing that catches your eye is a huge bookcase filled with books.
In front of the bookcase is a desk with pens, ink, paper and inkstone on it, but it looks a little messy.
There was a figure sitting behind the desk, looking down at a book.
The girl quickly walked up to the figure, bent down and said, "Grandpa, a guest is here."
The figure raised his head and looked at Li Xu, then showed a happy expression, "Li Xu, why are you here?"
It can be seen that he had a very deep impression of Li Xu, and he could recognize him at a glance even after such a long time.
Li Xu stepped forward and placed the gift on the desk, cheerfully responding, "I'm on vacation today, so I thought I'd come visit you, old man. I also want to thank you for naming my two nephews the day before yesterday."
After seeing Wu Qingfeng's appearance clearly, he finally understood why his grandfather said that he was about to die.
I saw that the other person had sunken eye sockets, dull eyes, withered cheeks, and his hair and beard had no luster at all.
To put it bluntly, even if someone said he would die tomorrow, Li Xu still believed it.
Wu Qingfeng stretched out his right hand to stroke his beard, and said with a smile, "That's thoughtful. Yuting, come on, bring a chair over and make him a cup of tea."
The girl responded and quickly took a chair from the wall and placed it in front of Li Xu, "Please sit down."
Then he walked aside to make tea for Li Xu.
When Li Xu took the tea, Wu Qingfeng continued, "Yuting, go out first and close the door. Don't let anyone disturb us. Do you understand?"
"clear."
After saying that, the girl turned and walked out.
After the door closed, Li Xu showed a curious expression and asked, "Grandpa, why are you like this?"
"It's all because of you, kid."
"Huh?" Li Xu was stunned, not quite understanding what he meant. "What do you mean?"
Wu Qingfeng sighed and explained, "After returning from Fu's house last year, I spent all day looking through ancient books, trying to see if there was any record of your situation. But I searched through all the books at home and couldn't find any. So I started to think hard about it, and as I kept thinking, I ended up like this."
Li Xu: ...
Good job.
You are so persistent.
But is it worth it to make yourself like this just for one question?
After a moment's silence, he said cautiously, "Why don't you just forget it? I'm going to tell you something you don't want to hear. If you continue like this, I don't think you'll last a few days."
Wu Qingfeng shook his head. "You don't understand. Since I became an apprentice, I've never failed in Feng Shui and numerology. This is your first time. As long as I can figure out the reason, it would be worth dying for."
Li Xu showed a helpless expression and said, "If you die, I will be guilty of a great sin."
So he thought about it and said, "Actually, you are right, but my friend was next to me at the time, so I didn't dare to say it."
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