Chapter 67
When Lin Youqing and He Guijuan returned home, their minds were still blank.
After a long while, He Guijuan came back to her senses and pulled her husband's arm to confirm, "Was that our daughter on the road just now? Is she dating someone? Is her boyfriend Xiao Zhong?"
Lin Youqing sighed, "It looks like it should be."
"Xiao Zhong is indeed a good man, but he is more than ten years older than Jiang Jiang." He Guijuan still remembers the avalanche that year when Zhong Xing saved her husband. Zhong Xing was an outstanding young man in terms of knowledge, appearance, character and ability. The only bad thing was that there was a big age difference between him and her daughter.
Lin Youqing was silent for a long time before he patted his wife's shoulder comfortingly. "In fact, in real life, there are many people with a big age gap who live happily. The most important thing is to be able to accept it. As parents, we should not make things difficult for our children. These two children seem to like each other. Xiao Zhong, we have known him for many years. He is a down-to-earth, reliable and sensible person. Although Jiang Jiang is young, she is very thoughtful. I believe that their decision to be together must have been carefully considered. We should support them."
When Jiang Jiang got home, she saw her parents sitting upright. She glanced at her watch and saw that it was almost eleven o'clock. Her heart skipped a beat. "Mom and Dad, you haven't gone to bed yet?"
He Guijuan forced a smile, "Mom and Dad have something to tell you."
Jiang Jiang sat down next to them.
"Jiang Jiang, are you dating your brother Zhong Xing?"
Jiang Jiang suddenly became restless. Although she really liked Zhong Xing, she was not ready to face his parents with him. "Yes, Mom and Dad, I really like Zhong Xing. I hope you can agree to let me be with him."
In fact, Jiang Jiang was not sure whether they would agree to her and Zhong Xing being together.
"Don't be nervous. Mom and Dad don't want to break you up. Your dad and I have thought about it, and we agree that you and Xiao Zhong can be together."
Jiang Jiang breathed a sigh of relief.
"Because mom and dad love you, we are willing to support any decision you make. But if one day you are wronged in this relationship, then you can come back. We will always be your strongest support."
Jiang Jiang sighed in her heart. She knew that they didn't really support her dating and that they would need some time to accept the fact that she was dating. She just didn't want to put herself in an awkward situation. "Mom and Dad, I remember."
"Bring Xiao Zhong home tomorrow. We haven't seen him for many years."
Lin Youqing and his wife really couldn't accept Jiang Jiang's relationship at first. In their eyes, Jiang Jiang was still a child, not to mention that she was with Zhong Xing, who was more than ten years older than her. The experiences, thinking levels, interests and hobbies of these two people were not in the same age group. How could they be together?
They have made up their minds to take a closer look at Zhong Xing, Jiang Jiang's boyfriend.
But after really getting to know him, Lin Youqing and his wife felt that they really couldn't find any faults with Zhong Xing.
He was mature and steady, and spoke eloquently. He also kept picking food for Jiang Jiang, serving her soup, and even rushed to wash the dishes after dinner.
This finally made Lin Youqing and his wife, who had been resentful, feel relieved.
When Zhong Xing was washing dishes, Jiang Jiang went into the kitchen and talked to Zhong Xing under the pretext of helping.
"Brother, I will accompany you back to Qingjian County tomorrow."
"Okay." Zhong Xing lowered his head to wash the dishes without thinking much about it.
"I'm not visiting your house as Lin Jiangjiang, but as Zhong Xing's girlfriend, to meet Uncle Zhong and Aunt Zhong."
Zhong Xing paused while washing the dishes. Jiang Jiang was still young, and he had never thought of letting her face his family now. "Are you sure?"
"Yeah." Jiang Jiang thought clearly. Since Zhong Xing was the person she had decided to be with for the rest of her life, then it made no difference whether she met his parents earlier or later. She would meet them sooner or later anyway.
"I remember one year when my parents and I went to visit your home, the elders even suggested that I become your siblings. Fortunately, you refused at that time, otherwise we would have really become siblings."
Zhong Xing couldn't help laughing, "Fortunately, I rejected it because it was too troublesome. Now I can save a lot of trouble."
When Zhong Xing brought Jiang Jiang back home, Zhong's father and mother were already waiting at the door.
When Mrs. Zhong saw Jiang Jiang, her face was immediately filled with smiles. "Jiang Jiang? Why are you here together? I haven't seen you for a long time. You have grown so tall and are so beautiful. Come in!"
Mother Zhong held Jiang Jiang's hand earnestly, and then saw that her son's other side was empty. Her face darkened, "Son, didn't you say you were going to bring your girlfriend back? Why don't I see her?"
She was so worried about her son's lifelong affairs that she started urging him to find a partner and get married a few years ago, and she has been urging him to do so until now. As a result, she has not even seen a finger of a daughter-in-law. People of the same age as her have already become grandmothers, but Zhong Xing never takes it seriously, which almost makes her angry to death.
"Mom, Jiang Jiang is my girlfriend."
When Zhong Xing said this, not only was Zhong's mother stunned, but even Zhong's father was unable to recover for a while.
"……What's the meaning?"
"Aunt, I am the girlfriend that Brother Zhong Xing brought home. We are together now."
"Really, Jiang Jiang?"
"Um."
After getting Jiang Jiang's confirmation again, Mr. and Mrs. Zhong's expressions changed from shock to disbelief, and then to joy. Mother Zhong couldn't help but pat her son next to her, "Why did you tell me such big news only now?"
"If you had told me earlier, I don't know how much happier I would have been this year."
Unexpectedly, their son would be with Jiang Jiang. The Zhong couple were so happy that they didn't know what to do. They had always liked Jiang Jiang and had even thought of letting Zhong Xing become her sibling. In this way, Jiang Jiang would be their goddaughter. Unexpectedly, she became their daughter-in-law instead of their goddaughter.
During the meal, Zhong's mother deliberately pulled Jiang Jiang to sit next to her and kept putting food into her bowl. She didn't even notice Zhong Xing.
After dinner, Jiang Jiang looked at Zhong Xing's old photo albums in his room.
The first page of the album was of a little boy who was restlessly kicking the leg of a stool. He looked very naughty and active. The second page was when he was a little older and began to learn to walk unsteadily. Zhong Xing in junior high school looked particularly carefree and uninhibited... Later, he grew into the young man in her memory. She flipped through the photos one by one. These were all his past that she had never participated in.
There was a knock on the door and Mrs. Zhong came in with a bowl of sweet soup.
Jiang Jiang put the photo album down and called out, "Aunt."
"Zhong Xing was very active when he was young, and he became even more naughty when he was in junior high school. Once he was rebellious and skipped school, and his father beat him with a wooden whip that broke. In fact, during high school, they spent that period in a daze and did not learn any deep knowledge. After graduating from high school, he was assigned to work in the Luling Commune. Later, when the college entrance examination was resumed, he was admitted to university. After graduation, he worked for more than two years and then started his own business. I know he suffered a lot during these years."
"Jiang Jiang, I'm very grateful that it was you and Zhong Xing who came together."
"I'm also glad that he and I are together." Jiang Jiang stroked the young man's face in the photo with her fingers, and couldn't help but smile. "He is really good, better than all my imaginations combined."
In the early morning of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, when everyone was still asleep, Jiang Jiang suddenly heard someone calling her, "Jiang Jiang."
"I'll take you to see the sunrise."
Jiang Jiang instinctively wanted to resist this suggestion. Who would run out in the dark in the middle of winter to watch the sunrise without sleeping? She felt like she couldn't even open her eyes. After struggling for a long time, she finally nodded in agreement.
"I'll get you some clothes."
The mornings at this time of year were very cold, with a thick layer of frost on the leaves. The man's palms were warm and dry. Jiang Jiang leaned on his shoulder, watching the dawn gradually brighten up in the distant sky. The rays of light shone on the earth, the sun rose, and the misty mountains and forests looked like a huge emerald.
It is a kind of beauty and romance full of vigorous vitality.
The train, which had been running all night, rumbled towards the station.
When they returned to the city, it was already bright. People were already coming and going in front of the restaurants and stalls. The streets were hung with the latest banners and slogans, revealing the bustling atmosphere of life.
Jiang Jiang sat on the back seat of Zhong Xing's bicycle. With the clanking sound of the bicycle, time seemed to travel back to a certain year when she also sat on the back seat of Zhong Xing's bicycle and traveled through the streets and alleys of Qingjian County.
I've been wanting to say something, but I've given up because I'm not good at words...
Thank you.
Stay with me till the end.
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