Chapter 14 chapter 2

On the day of Ding Yi's birthday, Dr. Man arrived on time, carrying the gift they had agreed upon in advance, dressed not too rusticly, wearing a short-sleeved white shirt, the style was similar to that of Ding's father, and the grade was higher than that of Ding's father. It’s a little different, but he has a good “clothes rack”, dressed in sharp and angular clothes, and is very handsome. Underneath it looks like a pair of brand-new black trousers. . She paid special attention to his hair, because he didn't wear a white hat, his hair was very conspicuous, it must have been combed, and it wasn't piled up on his head like a mess of grass, but it wasn't as soft as it was after taking a bath in the pond. In the middle state, other parts are still obedient, that is, there is a pinch on the top of the head, standing there stubbornly.

The Ding family's parents greeted Doctor Man like a distinguished guest, and Ding's mother even looked up and down with a smile and greeted his parents.And he also called him "Uncle and Aunt" quite naturally. When her parents called him "Doctor Man", he still knew how to be modest: "Just call me Xiao Man." Ding Yi heaved a sigh of relief, it seems that this Xiaoman is not quite a caveman, and he knows a little bit about the etiquette of a son-in-law visiting his mother-in-law in modern society, but this is probably trained by his authentic girlfriend, which makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

The following plot was a bit embarrassing, Xiaoman didn't talk much, although Ding's father and Ding's mother were very talkative people and kept throwing bricks, but they couldn't draw much jade from Xiaoman's mouth, most of the time it was Ding's father and Ding The mother took turns in the talk show, and Xiao Man was just an audience, and a non-responsive audience, highlighting that other responsive audiences were like babysitters. Xiaoman also has no hobbies or specialties. He can't play chess or cards. He can't play TV shows. He can't figure out which series to watch. He doesn't know much about national affairs.

Fortunately, the meal was served soon, and all entertainment activities stopped appropriately. The four of them sat down at the dining table. How many meals do you have to serve?" Ding Yi was blushing and tongue-tied, she didn't expect this, she was only worried that Xiao Man wouldn't speak, she didn't expect him to talk nonsense. Fortunately, Mama Ding has a good sense of humor, and a joke relieved her daughter: "It's okay, I'm near the kitchen, let me serve it after you finish eating, I just want to exercise more, so I can lose weight." Unexpectedly, Xiaoman shook his head sullenly and said, "Can you lose weight by walking this way?"

Mother Ding said with a good temper: "Then introduce me a way to lose weight." "Just find a beauty doctor to cut suet." Mother Ding almost burst out laughing, and praised repeatedly: "Xiaoman is so humorous! It's so interesting to talk!" Xiaoman's eating scene is not bad, not as complete as when eating noodles, but the style of the silent film era, only the picture, no sound, but because there is no sound, the picture has to be doubled, so the movements of the characters seem a bit awkward. exaggerate. The three members of the Ding family eat in similar postures. They take a bite of rice into their mouths, then put down the rice bowl, and chew with their mouths closed. Do some homework.

But Xiao Man is different. Although he also picks up rice with a bowl, he never puts down the bowl, and the chopsticks are extremely diligent. The processing plant at the bottom, it seems that if you don't fill a mouthful, the teeth will be idling, and that is a waste of mechanical energy. Xiao Man wiped out a bowl of rice in three mouthfuls, staring at the empty bowl in embarrassment. Ding Yi quickly extended a helping hand to him, and said before his mother: "Give me the bowl, and I will serve you rice." She took the rice bowl in his hand across the table, walked around his mother, and went to the kitchen to serve him rice. When it was full, she pressed it hard with a spatula a few times, and then added some rice on top, hoping that it would be enough for him. four.

After she returned to the table, she simply changed seats with her mother, and sat in the dangerous part of the living room leading to the kitchen, exclusively contracting for his task of serving meals. Xiaoman is relatively passive when he eats, he never takes the initiative to pick up food, and he doesn't pick it up very much when asked to pick it up, but if someone picks it up for him, he will not shirk it. Sorry, it stopped automatically, so he withdrew his hand holding the bowl, and then he shoveled the vegetables and rice into his mouth.Seeing how delicious and sweet he eats, you must think that the Ding family cooks delicacies from mountains and seas, and the feast is full of Han and Han.

Mama Ding said happily: "I usually spend a lot of time and effort cooking a meal. Either more than half of this dish is left, or more than half of that dish is left. It takes several days to cook the rice. Today is good, I can finally finish a dish gone." Ding Yi felt that her mother's words were very conservative. Today is not a matter of finishing a plate of dishes, but that all the dishes have been eaten to the bottom, and the rice cooker is in a hurry all the way. Scrape the bottom of the pan. Mother Ding was so happy from ear to ear: "I like Xiaoman like this, he has a good appetite, so that we can make a living as a cook!"

Papa Ding also praised: "Okay, young people should eat more. The common problem of modern people is that the three meals are not delicious, and they only eat snacks and drinks, which ruins their physique." Xiaoman, on the other hand, had an expression of "eat your own food, let others talk about it", and didn't respond to Ding's father and Ding's mother's admiration. Basically, Xiaoman ate the meal by himself, while the other three people watched and waited at the hall. They mainly focused on watching, and supplemented by picking up vegetables and serving meals for him. They forgot about eating by themselves.

Ding Yi couldn't help but think of a cat he fed before. It was a stray cat picked up by his mother. The only central task of the three of them in those days was to feed the cat, put a bowl of food in front of the cat, and the three of them gathered around to watch the cat eat.Then the cat was full and bloated, and lay motionless with a contented noise in its throat. But within a few days, the cat ran away, and the three of them were very sad. The mother sighed and said, "It is said that wild cats can't be kept in the house. I still don't believe it. It seems to be the case. Now it's all right, we don't have to make cat food every day. .”

A few days later, the cat came back again, dying of hunger, and the three of them fed it again, but it lay there and ate violently, and ran away after eating. Until one day, the cat ran away completely and never came back.Ding Yi was very sad about this for a long time, thinking that he must have been run over by a car, otherwise he would definitely come back when he was hungry. For some reason, when she saw Xiao Man eating, she felt that he was very similar to that cat, and she felt more pity for him than disgust. After lunch, Ding's father and Ding's mother retreated to the bedroom to take a nap, leaving only two young people in the living room. Xiao Man asked, "Can I go now?" She was taken aback, and said in a low voice, "Leave now? There will be a candlelight dinner tonight, and some of my classmates will bring me cakes. Do you want to take a nap?" "Go to sleep, it's okay anyway." She took him to her bedroom: "you can sleep here." He was not polite, said "yes" briskly, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep soon. She looked at his horizontal "jade body" and couldn't laugh or cry, it was a piece of wood, and she didn't ask "where do you sleep", and she didn't care if it was someone's boudoir, she just laid it down and fell asleep without taking off her shoes . She went to the bed, helped him take off his shoes, moved his feet to the bed, stood there and looked at him for a while, and thought that he was very cute when he was asleep, mainly because his face was beautiful, and he fell asleep when he was awake. They all look good. She closed the bedroom door, leaned on a single sofa to read a book, and fell asleep while watching it. In her sleep, she saw him get up, carry her to the bed, let her lie down, and sit on the edge of the bed to admire her. But when she woke up, she found that the man was still sound asleep on the bed. In the evening, several of her postgraduate classmates and several high school classmates came. Two of her high school classmates were married but had no children yet. Except for Papa Ding and Xiao Man, there are all women in the room. Everyone was interested in Xiaoman, some teased him, told him to speak his native dialect, and some made friends with him, saying that they would go to him when they got sick.Although he doesn't have a sense of humor, he has a sense of humor, and the words he throws out are relatively hard, making everyone in the room laugh out loud. At the candlelight dinner, everyone sang the birthday song, and the birthday boy blew out the candles. At the request of everyone, the birthday boy and Xiaoman cut the cake together. Dad kept taking pictures for everyone. Others who brought cameras were not far behind. Time was shining brightly, very much like a press conference. Xiaoman is very dedicated when taking pictures, and no one is shy when asked to take pictures. She smiles when she is told to "smile", gets closer when she is told to "get closer", and puts her hand on her shoulder when she is told to "put your hand on her shoulder".Later, the gang of high school classmates got dizzy and made the birthday party like a bridal chamber, and they actually yelled, "Xiao Man feeds Ding Yi a cake with his mouth". Now Ding Yi felt a little embarrassed, but Xiaoman obeyed the instructions very much, and really fed her with a piece of cake in his mouth.She hid and refused to answer, several high school classmates all made a fuss, and one of them grabbed her and pushed towards Xiaoman. She was trying to break free, but Xiaoman stretched out his hand to grab her, and put the cake in front of her mouth with his mouth. I had to purse my lips and touch the cake. The spotlight was shining, and several cameras captured this historic moment at the same time. She was flustered while taking pictures, if this can't be done, what should I do with these photos? When everything was done, it was almost eleven o'clock, and he left in a timely manner. Ding's father and Ding mother repeatedly invited him to come and play often, saying, "Your home is not in city A, so take this as your home." All said yes, yes. She escorted him out, and they went downstairs together.When he got outside the building, he said, "I'm leaving." She gritted her teeth with hatred, but still followed him and asked implicitly, "are you having a good time today?" "happy." She was thinking about this answer, and he said with a distasteful look: "It's just that there is too much work in the laboratory that has been left behind, and I have to work overtime when I go back today." She said politely, "Then I shouldn't have dragged you here to delay your day." "That's right, I used to help others for half a day, and I only ate one meal." "So you've pretended to be someone else's boyfriend before?" "Ok." "several times?" "twice." "No wonder you are so experienced." She thought, you only ate one meal in those two houses, did they pay you for it when they saw how you ate?You are still proud here!She joked, "Then why didn't you say it earlier? If I said it earlier, I would have let you go." "Why didn't I say it earlier? I said it after lunch, but you said there are activities tonight, how can I leave?" She said angrily, "Then why don't you run back and do your work now?" "You follow me, how can I run?" She was stupefied and stopped moving.He really started to run, and she couldn't help shouting: "Doctor Man, wait a minute, I'll give you the money for buying gifts." He was actually rude, and came back to pay the bill and said: "The whole number is forty-five yuan, and the fraction is fine." She said coldly: "You wait here, I'll go upstairs to get the money." When she took the money and came down, she found that he was really standing there waiting for her.Angrily, she stuffed a fifty-dollar bill into his hand, turned around and left. He called her from behind: "You paid too much, I'll give you five yuan!" "No, just count my wages for you." "I said it was a help. I won't ask for wages, but let's count it as a car fare." When she got home, she was so angry that she cried a lot. The next day, her eyes were still a little red and swollen. When her mother found out, she asked, "What's going on? Did you have a conflict with Xiaoman?" She couldn't hide it anymore, and she told the whole story, with snot and tears, and when she finished speaking, she asked: "Mom, you have more life experience than I do. Tell me, what is going on with this person?" ?” My mother analyzed: "Maybe he is just such a person. He grew up on that mountain and didn't have much dealings with the outside world. Although he studied in the city for a few years and worked for a few years, it is likely that he lived in the city. In the environment of medical school or hospital, you are either immersed in your studies or immersed in your work, with no social experience.” "I'm not blaming him for not knowing etiquette, but blaming him for not caring about me at all." "Maybe it's not that he doesn't care, but he didn't expect you to like him at all. Even the girlfriend from the countryside abandoned him. How could he think that a girl from the city, the daughter of a university professor, and a graduate student himself, would like him? What about him?" "Then what do you say I should do?" "Either tell him directly, or just give up." She thought for a while and said, "I'd better give up on him. This kind of workaholic will not live a good life even if he gets married in the future." "That's true. But nowadays, many men don't work or care about their families. They hang around all day. Such people are also very annoying." When my sister called, she also talked about Dr. Man with her sister. My sister laughed out loud: "You are very interesting, Dr. Man. I have never seen such a person with personality." "Do you think he can be transformed into a good man like brother-in-law?" "What kind of a good man is your brother-in-law? He is full of flaws." "What shortcoming?" My sister listed several shortcomings of her brother-in-law, and then said: "Little sister, maybe men are similar. For them, love is just a prelude to marriage. Once marriage is over, the prelude is over. After they have completed the big task of getting married, they will continue to work together." Going to work. Xiaoman just performed a little bit worse in the prelude, but the main theme of the men is the same." Sister's words both encouraged and discouraged Ding Yi.Encouragement is partial, and discouragement is overall. Since Dr. Man just performed poorly in the prelude, it meant that he didn't care about her alone, but he didn't care about all women, which made her feel better.But since men are all career-oriented animals, marriage is only a task they must complete, and love is only a means to accomplish this task, so don't expect to find eternal love in this world, which makes her very depressed. She couldn't understand men, how could a person live without love?For her, since she knew the word "love", she has been longing for love, always looking for love, and always looking forward to meeting someone and loving each other until the sea dies.What's the point of living without this sweet vista? What the hell is a career that tells men to give up their love even if they promise each other with their bodies?