Chapter 65 Meeting Mother-in-law
At G City International Airport, Zhou's parents came to see her off. Mother Zhou held Zhou Qingti's hand and said, "Be careful and have fun."
"Got it. Be careful when you and Dad go out to play."
"Your mother and I are traveling in China, don't worry." Zhou's father said from the side.
Zhou Qingti pulled the handle of the suitcase and said, "It's time to go through security. You guys should go back. You've only been back for half a month, why do you act like you haven't been back for half a year?"
After successfully passing security and boarding the plane, Lu Yanzhi asked the flight attendant for a blanket and covered Zhou Qingti with it. "Get some sleep. It'll take over nine hours to connect at Abu Dhabi Airport."
Last night, Zhou Qingti was like a primary school student going on a spring outing, tossing and turning in excitement and unable to sleep.
Lu Yanzhi even sang a nursery rhyme to coax her to sleep, but she still couldn't fall asleep, so he had to drag her to do two hours of exercise to consume her energy.
It was not until after three in the morning that the two of them fell asleep, and they got up to catch the plane before they had slept for four hours.
Zhou Qingti was feeling sleepy. He had eaten breakfast on the way to the airport, so it was a good time for him to take a nap.
Lu Yanzhi considerately closed the door of the compartment. The first-class cabin was very quiet and both of them fell asleep quickly.
I stayed at Abu Dhabi Airport for more than six hours, toured the airport, and finally boarded the plane to Pearson International Airport.
After a 14-hour long flight, you can meet Lu Yanzhi's mother Song Zhi.
Zhou Qingti slept for more than six hours after getting on the plane, but he couldn't fall asleep in the last few hours.
Lu Yanzhi also stayed up with her and watched a movie together.
They were watching "Léon: The Professional". Zhou Qingti didn't have the heart to watch it seriously, and he endured it so hard that he accompanied Lu Yanzhi to finish watching it.
With two hours left before the plane landed, she took out her cosmetics, put on some simple makeup, and watched the sunrise above the clouds.
The plane passed through light clouds, and the sun slowly rose on the side. Sometimes the view was blocked by clouds, but the scattered beams of light were quite interesting.
Toronto is a city with distinct four seasons. It is winter now and you can feel the cold wind outside when walking on the covered bridge.
Lu Yanzhi was wearing a long black coat and a dark cashmere scarf. He held Zhou Qingti in his arms and held his cell phone in one hand to contact his mother.
It's a little after seven in the morning in Toronto and the sky is pink.
She finally met Ms. Song Zhi in the busy airport. Although Lu Yanzhi didn't say it, she recognized her at a glance.
Song Zhi looks very young, as if she is less than 40 years old, but in fact she is over 50 years old, which shows that she has taken good care of herself.
She was wearing a long beige down jacket, but it couldn't hide her orchid-like temperament. Her hair was tied low behind her head with a white jade hairpin.
She stood in the crowd holding a bouquet of flowers.
"Mom." Lu Yanzhi let go of Zhou Qingti and gave his mother, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, a brief hug.
Zhou Qingti also called out, "Mom."
Song Zhi handed her the flowers and said, "Welcome." Then he hugged her and said, "Dear, are you tired?"
"Not tired, we slept on the plane." Zhou Qingti answered obediently. It was strange, it felt like she had known her for a long time.
Accompanying Song Zhi was her husband, a typical Canadian man named Bronson. He took the initiative to ask Lu Yanzhi and the others to call him uncle.
He welcomed Lu Yanzhi and enthusiastically introduced Toronto to the two of them along the way.
Song Zhi does not live in the city, but in a single-family villa in the suburbs of BC. This shows that Song Zhi's current husband is also quite wealthy.
The family ate the breakfast that Song Zhi had prepared early, sandwiches and milk.
In fact, Song Zhi hadn't seen Lu Yanzhi for three years, and there was endless longing in her eyes when she looked at him.
But they hadn't seen each other for so long that they didn't know how to communicate. Zhou Qingti looked at them, who clearly missed each other but were suppressing their feelings.
He offered to show Song Zhi videos of Lu Yanzhi cooking and writing calligraphy.
While watching the cooking video, Song Zhi even smiled and praised Lu Yanzhi: "You really have the skills."
Zhou Qingti nodded aside: "Yes, he also said that he wanted to show you his skills when he came to Toronto. He used me as a guinea pig every day."
Lu Yanzhi knew that he had never said such words before. He understood her feelings and felt warm in his heart: "Tomorrow, Qingti and I will go to the Chinese supermarket to buy some ingredients."
Song Zhi's eyes were moist, but she felt it was not good to cry on such a happy day, so she held it back and said, "Okay."
The second video shows Lu Yanzhi writing calligraphy in the study, with a serious profile. In a trance, Song Zhi seemed to have returned to the time when her son was in junior high school.
All the memories of accompanying my son in practicing calligraphy came to my mind, and I couldn't hold back my tears.
Her husband tactfully handed her a tissue.
Song Zhi wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with a tissue and smiled a little embarrassedly: "I remembered him when he was a child."
Zhou Qingti comforted her: "What was Lu Yanzhi like as a child? He was so aloof when I first met him."
He calmly pulled Song Zhi out of her sad mood.
Song Zhi clutched the tissue in her hand and looked at Lu Yanzhi, as if she was looking through him at the past. "He's always been cold on the outside but warm on the inside. When he was little, he always clung to me. He didn't want the nanny to hold him, he wanted me to hold him."
Lu Yanzhi felt a little embarrassed because his mother even took off his underwear when he was one or two years old.
Zhou Qingti looked him up and down and teased him, "No wonder he likes sweets so much."
Everyone was teasing him, and Lu Yanzhi could only endure it. The atmosphere became noticeably more cheerful under Zhou Qingti's lead.
Song Zhi also found some videos of herself to show them, including videos of herself shoveling snow at the door and planting flowers in the garden.
In the video, Song Zhi often smiles like a little girl, which shows that she has a good relationship with her husband.
The mother and son understood each other's fragments of life after leaving each other, and the barrier between them gradually disappeared.
Mother and child are connected by heart, as if they have never been separated.
Zhou Qingti took out the gifts she had brought from home, three pieces of Suzhou embroidery for Song Zhi and Biluochun for Song Zhi's husband.
Song Zhi unfolded the tea set and couldn't let it go: "I like it very much, thank you. This is really precious."
Her husband was amazed at the high level of Chinese art.
Song Zhi had many cheongsams, but he had never seen one with such intricate embroidery.
When he learned that all the pieces were embroidered by hand, the only foreigner opened his mouth in surprise and didn't even dare to touch the tea table for fear of damaging it.
When I saw the double-sided koi fan, I refused to believe that it could be made by humans.
Song Zhi found a video online and showed it to him. He looked at it from left to right while holding the fan and exclaimed, "Unbelievable."
Mother Lu brewed a pot of Biluochun tea. He obviously couldn't drink tea and shook his head, saying it was just water soaked with tree leaves. However, he was surprised by the sweet aftertaste on his tongue.
At lunchtime, Zhou Qingti sent a video to Mrs. Lu, saying everything was fine.
I also took some photos of the snow scene and sent them to Zhou's parents, and they sent me the photos of the Terracotta Warriors they saw in Xi'an.
With a mobile phone, a family can share each other's happiness even though they are thousands of miles apart.
In the afternoon, the family of four drove to Casa Loma Castle, where there was a figure skating performance.
After visiting the castle of European aristocrats, Zhou Qingti suddenly felt that the European style was also good.
Afterwards, we went to the beach to watch another exotic sunset. The azure sea was shimmering with cold waves, and the orange sky was swallowed by the buildings of varying heights.
Zhou Qingti and Lu Yanzhi held hands. She had never thought that one day she would watch the sunset in Toronto with her lover in the cold winter.
The feeling of happiness was so strong and full that it filled her heart.
Since they would be staying in Toronto for a week, they were not in a hurry to visit tourist attractions.
There is no need to make a strategy, and Zhou Qingti doesn’t even need to speak English, just say occasionally: thank you.
There are many Chinese people in Toronto, with five Chinatowns and countless Chinese restaurants, but they chose to eat in the Greek district.
When you go abroad, you always have to eat something different.
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