After the exam, Xiao Yunhai was the happiest.

He can be free and ask his mother to hug him at any time. He can go back to his parents' big bed at night. Although he always wakes up in the crib in the morning after falling asleep, at least he can play with his parents before going to bed, with his mother singing to him and his father reading stories to him. How happy he is! Little Yunhai said he doesn't care where he wakes up.

The Shen residence, which had been quiet for two months, suddenly became lively again. Relatives, friends and guests came and went constantly, and the phone rang all day long, most of them looking for Meng Tao.

There were also several invitations, the wedding banquet of the youngest son of the Fang family, Su Meiling's uncle; Dou Qianqian's son was almost one month old, and a full-month banquet would be held next week; various gatherings of Dou Nannan, Xia Moli, and others...

Meng Tao had originally planned to go back to Linshui Village to visit Dongmei and her daughter after the exam, but this plan had to be postponed.

Young people are always more impatient. Xu Hengrui got the answers to the test paper quickly. Xu Yuting, Liu Jianli, Han Dongdong and others asked Meng Tao to check the answers and estimate the scores. The resulting scores were unexpected. They didn't quite believe it and asked Meng Tao if she had remembered it wrong.

Meng Tao didn't want to pay any attention to them: this was because she was being low-key and deliberately made a few mistakes when answering the questions, otherwise she might have gotten full marks.

When the official results were announced, her college entrance examination score was almost the same as expected, and she was above the admission score line of Peking University. Everyone cheered and congratulated her and were happy for her.

After receiving the admission letter from Peking University, Shen Heping happily set up more than a dozen tables at home to entertain relatives and friends. He also specially asked Xu Yuting and several young people to set off more than a dozen firecrackers, just like he was holding a wedding banquet.

Shen Yu joked, "This is the ceremony for winning the top prize. When I was admitted to university, there wasn't such a big ceremony."

Meng Tao covered her face and punched him twice: "How can it be the same? It was so normal and easy for you to get into college, but now... it's not easy to get, you know?"

"Yes, it's not easy to stay in the house for two months. My wife is awesome!"

Meng Tao: “…”

Grandpa Xu and Old Man Meng came over and heard this, and they praised Meng Tao again. Old Man Meng's face was beaming and he couldn't stop smiling: He was so proud that his granddaughter was so smart!

As the year draws to a close, after all the social engagements and gift-giving, four or five days before the Spring Festival, Meng Tao and Shen Yu are ready to set off back to Linshui Village. This time they are in a hurry as they are in a hurry and do not plan to take Xiao Yunhai and Xiao Wangcai with them, so they stay at home with their grandparents.

Before leaving, Liu Yongsheng called them and asked them to go to Liu's house. Han Shufang and Wang Cuixi wanted to bring some things to Jinniu's wife and daughter.

After sitting at Liu's house for a while, chatting and picking up their things, the couple said goodbye and went back. As they were in a hurry, they took a helicopter at night.

Just as I walked out of the gate and was about to get into the car, another jeep drove up and when it stopped, several people got in. They were Liu Jianye and Song Anxin, as well as Xu Yulin and Song Anxin's younger brother, named Song Jianzhong.

Before Song Anxin changed her name, she was called Song Jianxin. Her two younger brothers were named Jianzhong and Jianguo. When their names are put together with the three brothers of the Liu family, it is true that people from the same family tend to resemble each other.

The two sides greeted each other and exchanged a few pleasantries. Upon learning that Shen Yu and Meng Tao were going back to Linshui Village, Xu Yulin said, "Do you want to drive? It's quite windy and rainy, and the road is long. I'll go with you."

Shen Yu patted his shoulder and said, "It's already been arranged. Let's take the plane. We have to leave in a hurry. We'll get together again after the holiday."

"Okay, I'll wait for you to come back."

Xu Yulin helped Meng Tao close the car door and watched them drive away. When he turned around, he saw Liu Jianye looking at him with an obscure expression and winking at him. Xu Yulin was stunned for a moment, then looked in the direction Liu Jianye pointed, and immediately frowned, feeling his forehead throbbing.

He clicked his hat, turned around and walked back home without saying a word.

Liu Jianye also pulled Song Anxin and called his brother-in-law into the yard and slammed the gate shut.

You have to be decisive in your attitude towards some people, otherwise you will get into trouble and be extremely annoyed.

Shi Huixian, who had been standing in the snow for an unknown amount of time, saw the door of Liu's house closed, stamped her feet, and ran after Xu Yulin, shouting as she ran: "Yulin, wait, wait for me!"

Xu Yulin walked very fast with his long legs, but he knew that even if he entered the house, Shi Huixian would still knock on the door and call out, so it would be better to just say it at the door.

They have broken up completely and Shi Huixian is about to get married. He doesn't plan to let her into the house, and there is no need to say too much. He hopes to solve the problem quickly.

Xu Yulin stopped at the gate and turned sideways, but Shi Huixian was rushing too fast and was about to crash into his arms. Xu Yulin dodged and let her hit the gate with a bang. Fortunately, it was winter and Shi Huixian's cotton coat and pants were thick enough to act as a shock absorber, so she was probably fine, except for a slightly red forehead.

Shi Huixian: “…”

She slowly turned around, her face full of tears and eyes full of resentment as she looked at Xu Yulin: "How could you do this to me? You are so cruel!"

Xu Yulin had a blank expression on his face: "Comrade Shi Huixian, if you have something to say, please tell me. If not, please leave and don't disturb me. Although it's winter vacation now, the school has arranged something for me, so I have to return to school later."

"Why should I tell you?"

"I am yours... We are in love, I am your lover!"

"It's over. Don't forget that you are someone else's fiancée now."

"No! When my aunt and I came to your house, it was clearly you who arranged for us to come. We had already discussed it on the phone. We would get married after our parents met. You even said that your mother had already prepared a gift for the meeting and a betrothal gift...but you suddenly changed your mind. You lied to me!"

"I did want to get married at that time. My mother was old, she had worked hard all her life, and she lost my father, so she was all alone. She wanted me to get married, have children, and live with a kind and filial daughter-in-law and well-behaved grandchildren, and enjoy being a grandmother. Is that wrong? But you and your aunt and uncle proposed on the day we met that after we got married, you wanted my mother to return to the countryside and not stay in the city to live with us... This not only hurt her heart, but also hurt us as sons. Do you understand?"

"Is this the reason why you changed your mind and didn't tell me that you got the opportunity to further your studies?"

"Isn't that reason enough?"

"You...you bastard!" Shi Huixian cried out, "You are too self-righteous, you are old-fashioned, damn male chauvinism!"

Xu Yulin was speechless. He was accused of several things at random, and none of them matched his temperament.

Shi Huixian continued to accuse: "You know what kind of person I am. I didn't say that we couldn't let the elderly live together. That was just my aunt's idea! Couldn't you have discussed it with me in private? If you had just informed me that you were going to Beijing to study and that you would be arranged to work in Beijing in the future, my aunt and the others would have agreed...even if your family couldn't afford a thousand yuan for the bride price!"

Xu Yulin smiled sarcastically: "I really don't have a thousand yuan for the betrothal gift. At that time, I prepared eight hundred... It's all in the past, no need to mention it again. Comrade Shi Huixian, I know you will be getting married soon, I wish you all the best."

"Yulin, I don't want to!"

Shi Huixian covered her face and cried, "My family arranged this. They told me how good he was and he agreed to all the conditions my family proposed. Later I found out that his family was rich, but they also had many problems. They had four children, and I didn't know who gave birth to them. There were also three elderly people... They asked me not to work, but to do housework at home and take care of the old and the young... Yulin, I would rather die than do this!"

"Comrade Shi Huixian, there is no need to tell me your private affairs. You are a young person of the new era, you can be self-reliant and independent. You have the autonomy to make decisions and get the consequences. It is not convenient for me to say anything. Please go back."

"No! Yulin, you are the only one who can save me now, let's get married! 800 yuan is fine as a betrothal gift, at worst I can give them all my salary in the future. I really love you, you are the only one in my heart from beginning to end, I think of you in my dreams... I will listen to our mother, even if I have to live a hard life, I will be happy, okay? Yulin!"

Xu Yulin: “…”

He just said these words to Shi Huixian unnecessarily.

He was about to walk into the yard, but Shi Huixian immediately grabbed his sleeve and wanted to follow him in. Xu Yulin brushed her hand away: "You are about to get married, please keep your distance. My mother and brother are not in the room, so don't go in."

Shi Huixian came over and hugged his arm: "Yulin! Let's make peace. I will break off the engagement with that person tomorrow, and then we will get married!"

Xu Yulin used his hand like an iron clamp to pull her away and pushed her a few steps away: "Comrade Shi Huixian, it is impossible for you and I to reconcile, otherwise we would not have separated in the first place. I have said this, don't look for me again, please respect yourself!"

"Yulin! We have such a good relationship. You wrote it in your letter. You like me too... wuwuwu!"

"I just wrote them casually and have forgotten them long ago. You can burn them."

"I won't! Yulin, I love you, you can't do this to me... I've already agreed to marry you, what else do you want? Do you want me to kneel down and beg you?"

Xu Yulin finally lost his patience: "Comrade Shi Huixian, I don't like you and I won't marry you. Now I can still treat you as a stranger and be polite. If you continue to pester me, I will be annoying and hateful! Do you understand?"

"You, you can't possibly not like it... Do you have another woman?"

“It’s none of your business!”

"Xu Yulin! You deceived me and played with my feelings, but you didn't marry me. I have a letter you wrote to me, and I'm going to sue you at your school!"

"Okay, go ahead and sue me. Someone will come down to investigate right away. If they can't find any fault with me, then you will have to bear the consequences of making up rumors and making false accusations."

"Yulin, Yulin..." Shi Huixian cried like a tearful person, staggering and looking pitiful.

Xu Yulin walked in, closed and bolted the gate, and ignored Shi Huixian who was banging on the door and crying outside.

(End of this chapter)