Chapter 51 Section 1

Before I could react, Lu Licheng had already wrapped me tightly with a down jacket, wrapped my head with a big towel, and dragged me quickly into the house. I went home on weekends, living the life of rice bugs with clothes and food, and I was planning to discuss with my parents how to spend the Spring Festival, but they gave me a big surprise. "Manman, can you take care of yourself?" Under the interrogative sentence of my mother, the subtext is already obvious. I can only stare at their tickets and nod, "I can take care of it." My mother held a swimsuit and asked me: "Do you think I can wear this?"

I still can only nod, "Very good!" My mother put her swimsuit in the suitcase, and showed me a pair of swimming trunks of the same color, "I bought this for your father, isn't it pretty?" "It looks good! It looks like a couple's outfit." Mom smiled smugly, "This is called husband and wife pretending." After researching the ticket for a while, I finally confirmed that everything is true, "Mom, you are going to Southeast Asia, why didn't you tell me in advance?" My mother gave me a blank stare, "They said on TV that they want to pursue the surprises of life. This is the surprise I gave to your father. Why should I tell you?"

I was depressed, "What should I do during the Spring Festival?" While folding the clothes, my mother said nonchalantly, "What do you do, how do I know? Lao Li's girl is the same age as you, and she will go to Europe with her husband during the Spring Festival. They are afraid that the holidays will not be enough, unlike you, I also think there are too many holidays. I just saw that you were improving a while ago, but there is no news recently..." I can never say no to her on this topic, so I can only quickly change the subject, "Alright then! My dear mother, can I support you to go to Southeast Asia for your second honeymoon with both hands and feet?"

Mom smiled and said, "Your dad and I are going abroad for the first time. Come and help me see what else I need to bring?" I went to help her check the equipment, "Mom, how much is the total? I'll pay for it! On the way, don't save on what you want to eat or play. Although your daughter and I don't have a lot of money, I still have money for a trip to Southeast Asia." Yes." Both parents are ordinary working-class workers, and their monthly retirement salary totals more than 3,000 yuan. The family still had some savings, but after Dad suffered a serious illness, it was all emptied.When I bought a house, I relied entirely on my own savings, so the down payment was small and the monthly payment was high. For this matter, my father secretly sighed many times.

Before Mom could answer, Dad, who was taking off his shoes just after entering the house, said, "You pay for your house! Your mom and I know how to spend money." My mother also started nagging: "Yeah! Manman, although Mom and Dad can't afford to help you buy a dowry, they still have the ability to take care of themselves, so don't worry about it. Your main task now is to find a boyfriend and get married quickly .When you settle down, your father and I will let go of the heartache. That Song Yi..." "Xiaoru!" Dad called mother's name, interrupting her nagging, "Okay, okay, next year our family will definitely have good luck."

I didn't dare to say any more, so I could only lower my head and help them pack their luggage. Every item was marked with my name and contact number in Chinese and English, as well as my contact information, as an emergency contact method. Mom whispered to Dad: "I heard that temples in Thailand are very effective in praying for marriage. Should we prepare some incense? Otherwise, we will buy it at the gate of the temple. I'm afraid it will be very expensive!" Dad elbowed her, and Mom sneaked a look at me and stopped talking. On the twenty-seventh day of the new year, I took half a day off to see my parents off.My mother made a new hairstyle specially, and my father wore a white baseball cap. Both of them looked very energetic.There are many old men and women in the tour group, but no matter how I look at it, I think my parents are the prettiest.

I deliberately talked to the tour guide and handed her a 400-yuan Estee Lauder counter gift card together with my business card.The little girl took a quick glance, accepted it immediately, and reassured me with a smile on her face that she would definitely take good care of my parents and let them have an unforgettable travel experience. When I got out of the airport, I breathed a sigh of relief. I just felt that Beijing was big and empty. I really didn't know how to spend the next ten days of vacation. In the evening, Malatang asked me to go out for dinner. I haven't figured out an excuse for refusing, but she has already spit out a series of words: "I called Lu Licheng, and he has agreed. Your boss doesn't plan to work overtime anymore, and you should sell less. Life."

I can only have a "sweet" banquet with Lu Licheng.When Malatang saw me, he gave me a bottle of beer without saying a word, "You are getting bigger and bigger now, asking you out for a meal is harder than going to heaven!" I opened the beer and drank half of the bottle in one gulp, before Malatang was satisfied. "What are you up to lately? Your parents don't plan to spend the Spring Festival in Beijing anymore, and you don't need your help to prepare the New Year's goods!" I pointed at Lu Licheng, "Ask him!" Malatang probably already knew about the embarrassing relationship between Lu Licheng and Song Yi, so she didn't want to ask more questions when it came to work, so she could only puff up her cheeks and say, "No matter how busy you are, you have to celebrate the New Year!"

I said: "Tomorrow, everything should be finished. In the afternoon, my colleagues will leave one after another. Those who go back to their hometowns go back to their hometowns, and those who go to travel go to travel." "What about you?" Malatang looked at me anxiously. "Me? I just eat dumplings and watch the Spring Festival Gala." Malatang let out a breath from his nose, expressing extreme contempt, "Come with us to Hainan! Air tickets and hotels are fine." She showed me the pictures of the hotel, with fine white sandy beaches, blue waters, fiery red Flowers and waiters in flowing sari greeted me with smiles.

Malatang turned to the inside page, "Did you see that? This hotel's swimming pool is connected to the sea. It will be freezing cold in Beijing, but we will be basking in the sun, drinking cocktails, commenting on beauties and handsome men at the beach, and swimming in the sea under the moonlight at night." Manman, we said before that we would go diving in Hainan together." I glanced at Song Yi, and there was a smile on his face that hadn't changed for thousands of years.I lowered my head, pretending to concentrate on reading the brochure, thinking about how to reject Malatang.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Malatang continued to do Lu Licheng's ideological work, "How about it? It would be interesting for the four of us to play together." Lu Licheng smiled, "I really want to go, but I have already promised my family to go home during the Spring Festival this year. The countryside attaches great importance to the Spring Festival tradition. I have been absent from the ancestor worship at home for two years, and I can't be absent again this year." "Ah?" Malatang was first disappointed, then dissatisfied, "What about Manman? If we don't ask her to go to Hainan, you plan to leave her alone in Beijing? You are too much! Fortunately, Manman still has us ..." My heart was moved, and I immediately said: "Of course not. Actually...Actually...I went to his house with him to eat dumplings and watch the Spring Festival Gala. It's just...it's just that I didn't feel too embarrassed to say it just now." Lu Licheng turned his head to look at me, I smiled at him, my eyes were full of pleas, he smiled and held my hand on the table and said: "Yes! She is thin-skinned, and we haven't figured out how to tell her Parents, so I wanted to keep it a secret." I felt relieved, lowered my head, and left all the troubles to him.Malatang really became unhappy, and furiously accused me of not telling her such a big thing.But Lu Licheng is a long-sleeved and good dancer, and Song Yi is not weak. Two superhumans coax her one. In the end, Malatang happily wished us a smooth journey. "When are you leaving?" Lu Licheng paused, and then said, "The air ticket the morning after tomorrow." Mala Tang excitedly said to Song Yi: "We have a plane ticket after 6:00 pm, shall we send them off in the morning?" Song Yi stared at Malatang with pity in his eyes, "Okay." I immediately said to Malatang: "No, no!" "It's okay, I'll be on vacation tomorrow, and I'll be free if I'm free, so it's settled, Song Yi and I will see you off." I stared at Malatang powerlessly and with hatred.My God, it's the Spring Festival!Don't say that I don't want to go to Lu Li's family at all, even if I want to go now, I can't get a ticket!Lu Licheng squeezed my hand, signaled me not to be impatient, and said with a smile: "Then respect is worse than obedience, and it happens that I have a lot of luggage." "It's okay, Song Yi looks gentle and gentle, but he is actually very strong." Malatang is very bold, with a look of "Dude, don't treat us as outsiders". During the dinner, Song Yi was gentle and silent, and I was silent nervously, while Lu Licheng and Malatang were talking and laughing happily.I found a very strange phenomenon: Malatang likes the four of us doing activities together.But whenever the four of us are active together, Song Yi and I don't talk very much. She and Lu Licheng often talk and laugh. People who don't know will think that Song Yi and I are light bulbs, and they are a couple. After dinner, I watched them get into the taxi, and immediately jumped to Lu Licheng, "What should I do? What should I do? Why didn't you refuse Malatang just now? Why?" Lu Licheng frowned and said, "You have strength now? Who was pretending to be dumb just now?" I grabbed my hair, wanting to bang my head to death, "What can I say? Malatang's temper has always been like that, stubborn, stubborn and aggressive. If I insist on not letting her go, she will immediately ask me 'what do you mean? ?'" Lu Licheng opened the door and pushed me into the car.I held my head in my head, how should I explain the pain to Malatang, thinking about the scene the next morning, I shuddered.Malatang found out that I wasn't going to Lu Li's family, found out that I didn't have an air ticket at all, found out that I was lying, and found out that I didn't hesitate to lie in order not to go to Hainan with her... Oh my god! I was holding my head in pain when I heard Lu Licheng make a phone call while driving: "I'm Lu Licheng, I want to change the ticket, um, yes! It's for one person, the ticket tomorrow afternoon, I want to change it to the morning after tomorrow. In addition, I want two... I know it's Spring Festival travel, I know air tickets are very tight... I must have two tickets, I have deliberately delayed the time to give you time to process, if you still don't have two tickets, please send them My membership card will be canceled immediately." Lu Licheng hung up the phone. A few minutes later, the phone rang. He ignored it, waited for a while before answering it, and said with a smile: "Hello, Manager Chen. Well, yes, it's just for the ticket. I'm so sorry, but Let you call so late. Of course not, okay, no problem, we will have dinner together after the Spring Festival, it’s just my treat, where, where, thank you.” He hung up the phone and said simply: "The air ticket the morning after tomorrow, you prepare your luggage!" I let out a long breath and was finally saved, but... wait!I'm going to Lu Licheng's hometown!My head hurts again. Seeing that I was destroying my hair again, Lu Licheng said gently, "You don't need to overcomplicate things. The scenery in my hometown is very nice, so you can treat it as a holiday in the countryside." I can only hold my head and hum.