three feet away

Yin Pengfei was somewhat embarrassed by Yan Ruyi's categorical refusal.Because in the few months of getting along with Yan Ruyi, she has always been like most older women in this society. It seems that she has no special requirements for blind dates. The urging of the family and the pressure of the society have long since made them disappear The luxury of being loved.This kind of not courting and being loved is now that as long as there is no big difference in the other party's three views, and the parents and family members think that the other party has a good character, they can try to date, and then get married at the right time, and then have children non-stop, and the other party Partner for a lifetime.

Yin Pengfei never thought that Yan Ruyi would suddenly regret it, and the reason she said for breaking up was that she couldn't love him.This reason makes Yin Pengfei, who has passed his thirties, feel a little funny. He thinks that maybe his gentlemanly boyfriend is not good enough, making Yan Ruyi feel that he is not being taken care of, which makes her want to break up, because they seem to be in harmony all the time. shot.He believes that women of Yan Ruyi's age are mostly realistic, and they may have been calculating things that can be measured by money, such as dowry gifts and real estate.He likes Yan Ruyi, so after trying to contact Yan Ruyi to no avail, he and Yan Ruyi's parents thought of the best people who could solve the problem. He didn't mention to anyone that Yan Ruyi had broken up with him. The self-righteous Yan Ruyi can make Yan Ruyi feel that he cares, because his conditions are not bad, and the marriage arrangements discussed with his parents are enough to match Yan Ruyi.

It's just that everything didn't go according to his plan. As soon as Yan Ru entered the door, facing his parents' lukewarm expressions and ignoring him, Yin Pengfei began to feel a little flustered. On the occasion when it was supposed to be my parents who proposed marriage, I didn't hold my breath and said it first.He didn't even think that Yan Ruyi would refuse without hesitation. He didn't react for a while, and he was stunned for a few seconds. It wasn't until Yan Ruyi said that they had broken up again that he came back to his senses and said that he didn't agree to break up. .

Yan Ruyi's inappropriate sentence caused everyone at the table to fall into embarrassment.She lowered her head slightly, her hand holding the chopsticks trembled a little. She took a deep breath in the silence of everyone, put down the chopsticks, reached out and hugged Yiyi who was sitting next to her crying, and wiped her tears with to cover up her trembling hands: "Yiyi, be good, don't cry."

A table of people looked at her coaxing the child with different expressions. Yin Pengfei's parents looked at her with six points of sadness and four points of suppressed anger. Yan's father and mother on the left laughed awkwardly at Yin's family and on the right were angrily He looked at Yan Ruyi.The atmosphere fell into a weird balance of brewing emotions, and everyone was suddenly silent, as if waiting for someone to break this balance, and then a world war broke out.

Yiyi stopped crying in Yan Ruyi's arms, blinked her big eyes to see the expressions of the people on the table, and then stretched out her small arms timidly to hug Yan Ruyi's waist, looking for a sense of security in her.

Yan Ruyi touched her small face, lowered his head and showed her a comforting smile, then raised his head and smiled apologetically at Yin Pengfei's parents, and said:

"Sorry, uncle and aunt. I really can't marry your son. He is very good and very good. There is no conflict between us that needs to be resolved. It's just that we are not suitable."

Facing Yan Ruyi's firm refusal, the Yin family's parents didn't say much and were about to leave.Father Yan and Mother Yan sighed and got up and sent the person to the door. Before Father Yin left, he gave Father Yan a meaningful look. Father Yan was embarrassed to look at him, and lowered his head with a shame and embarrassment.

Everyone was sent away, and the temperature in the lively living room suddenly dropped like a cold storage.Yan Ruyi was sitting on the seat, holding Yiyi in her arms who was just in a better mood, waiting expressionlessly for the storm she had to face.

With the door closed, Father Yan returned to his original seat with his hands behind his back without saying a word, glanced at Yan Ruyi and Yi Yi in her arms, and calmly called the nanny to take the child upstairs to give her a bath.

The moment the child left Yan Ruyi's arms, her tears ran out of control again. Her young heart seemed to feel the unusual atmosphere between grandparents and aunt, and she keenly captured the timidity and fear of her aunt. She wanted to stay at the scene, but was caught Ruthless rejection.I could only cry and be carried away.

Yan Ruyi sighed in her heart. Many years ago, she once faced such a scene. At that time, she was still young and easily controlled by her parents. Now that many years have passed, she faced the same scene again. The aura seems to have become stronger, but she won't take a step back, she is still timid and afraid, her hands are shaking all the time, but she can't let them discover her fear, she must be extremely firm, because she Knowing that this is a war that will last for a long time without gunpowder, she has already lost once seven years ago, and that time, she almost lost the love in her heart forever, so this time, no matter what, she cannot lose.

The silence of her parents made Yan Ruyi even more stressed. She cleared her throat reluctantly, looked up at their gloomy faces and said, "I'm sorry parents, I didn't know that Yin Pengfei would propose marriage. He broke up. What happened today..."

The sound of the soup bowl shattering interrupted Yan Ruyi's words. The bowl that was smashed angrily and was still filled with hot soup shattered at Yan Ruyi's feet, and a small piece of debris bounced off her left hand on her lap. A cut of about one centimeter was made on the back of her hand. After a burst of pain, she curled her fingers without showing any signs of expression.

"Are you breaking up?" Papa Yan sneered: "Which aspect of his education, work, family background, and character is not good enough for you? Don't think that if you change jobs and have some achievements, you are superior. Even if you are better than others, you can guarantee you Can it always be smooth sailing? This person will live his whole life, which one can keep his head up?"

Yan Ruyi lowered her head, a bit of bitterness appeared in her mouth, she bent her lips to show a wry smile, she hadn't said anything yet, and the instructional suppression had already begun.

Seeing that the father and daughter were opening their mouths, Mama Yan was in a state of aggression, she quickly pressed Papa Yan's shoulder to calm him down, and asked Yan Ruyi instead: "Ruyi, why didn't you discuss such a big matter with your family? "

"Whether I'm suitable or not, I have experienced it for myself in the past few months. Mom, marriage is a lifetime thing. I don't want to settle down with someone I don't like."

"Like?" Father Yan became angry when he heard these two words, he patted the table and held his head up to block Yan Ruyi's words: "I see you like messing around!"

"You let her finish talking, why are you in a hurry?" The words were interrupted, and Yan's mother was a little impatient, and she raised her voice and shouted at Yan's father: "You slam the table before the child finishes speaking!" Throwing the bowl, how do you make her speak?"

"I'm not only going to throw bowls, but I also want to beat people! At worst, we're a family, do you think we're a family?" Papa Yan patted the table angrily, pointed to the baby room and said, beating his chest and saying:

"The big ones don't live up to expectations. They get divorced as soon as they have a child. The dolls don't have a mother when they are young. The sinful ones call their aunts and mothers every day. The young ones are good, stable and decent teachers. They want to come out as salesmen. Pao, how do you look like a girl! Outsiders say that our old couple is blessed, this blessing, I am afraid that few people will have their lives to share!"

Yan's mother was between the father and daughter, watching the two of them, one furious and the other silent, she sighed anxiously: "Ruyi, we only have our own family now, please tell me and your father, what are you doing?" Why do you have to break up with Yin Pengfei? You never mentioned any dissatisfaction with him before? His parents came to the door, and you refused so directly in person. That would not only hit Yin Pengfei in the face, but also his parents and you. The faces of parents, we are all retired colleagues from a school. Our Yan family will not take advantage of this matter! Outsiders will gossip behind their backs after hearing this."

Yan Ruyi's nerves were touched by Yan's mother's words, and tears filled her eyes instantly. She sniffed, raised her head and looked at Yan's mother with a nasal voice and said, "But I can't, because I'm afraid that others will gossip. give up the right to the pursuit of happiness."

"What's happiness? What's power? Did they treat you badly? Or did they abuse you? In the past few months, Yin Pengfei has spent more time with our old couple than you. In the end, you are still not happy?" Papa Yan stood up , staring at Yan Ruyi condescendingly.

The chandelier in the living room cast shadows on his father, and Yan Ruyi watched him being illuminated by the light. He had aged a lot in these years, but his staunch temper hadn't changed at all, and even became more sensitive because of her brother's divorce. Aggressive, more and more gray hair doesn't take away half of his harshness, it only increases it.

The shadow in front of her eyes coincided with the shadow of being beaten and abused in front of her many years ago. Yan Ruyi felt a trace of fear in her heart. She tried her best to adjust her breathing and suppress the tears in her eyes, so as not to let herself cry in front of her father. She can't show weakness, because once she becomes weak, she doesn't know if she will have a chance to survive in the eyes of her family as she did seven years ago.

Clenching his hands on his lap tightly, Yan Ruyi raised his head, looked at Father Yan calmly, and said in a firm and unusual tone:

"Father, I don't like Yin Pengfei. It is impossible for you and mother not to see that I am your daughter. You know me even more than myself. How can you and mother pretend not to know what happiness I am pursuing? ?”

"You and my mother know better than anyone why I didn't go to teach but resigned seven years ago. I regard you and my mother as my backing, but you have not become the harbor I imagined..."

"shut up!"

The glass brushed against the corner of her face before she could react, and the bottom of the glass slid past the edge of her cheekbone. Yan Ruyi felt pain on the left side of her cheek. The sound of glass shattering was even harsher as the soup bowl shattered.

"Your mother and I raised you up, taught you to read and write, provided you with food, drink and clothes, what's wrong?! We are not your harbor! You should go find your little bastard who hooked your soul! She What? She hooked your soul away and made your six relatives deny you and do shameless things. What about her? Why haven’t I seen her come to you in the past few years? You want happiness, you want power?! You Where does the face come from saying that you want to be happy?!"

"I have been teaching for more than 30 years, and I have never heard of a teacher who has an affair with a student. The whole school knows it! He is still gay!" Having said this, Yan's father became even more angry, pointing at Yan Ruyi and yelling:

"The Yan family has taught a lot since my great-grandfather's generation, and the family style has been good for generations. How come it is crooked when it comes to you? It's almost forgotten how to write the word shame!"

Yan Ruyi bluntly raised her hand to touch the burning and painful area on her face, her heart ached, she looked at her father who was yelling with no kindness at all, and her mother who stood beside him with an expression of family misfortune. , couldn't help chuckling: "No matter how immoral the teacher-student relationship is, no matter how perverted the homosexuality is, neither steal nor rob, neither beg nor lie, true love is better than pretending for the sake of face and tasks for the rest of your life! Don't think about passing on the family line and needing someone to accompany you. Asking the descendants to provide for their retirement is an excuse to persecute their children!"

"You!!! You, you shut up!!!"

"Stop talking, Ruyi, quickly apologize to your father!"

"Apologize?" Pointing to the baby room, Yan Ruyi smiled even more wildly: "Didn't Yan Qingmo leave a descendant for the Yan family? Isn't Yan Yiyi surnamed Yan? Then why can't you accept his divorce? You won't admit it Yes, it is the fact that your face is more important than the happiness of your children!!! In order not to be gossiped behind your back, you are not allowed to divorce Yan Qingmo, who gets together less and divorces more. A marriage proposal from someone! How ironic!"

"Huh? I said seven years ago that I couldn't accept other people, but you, you called me on a blind date two years later like nothing happened, urged me to get married, and you couldn't wait to manipulate my life You want me to complete the tasks you imposed on me, and you even wish that I was pregnant out of wedlock and want to send me to the bed of a man I hate! You never seem to know that sleeping with a man you don’t love is like being raped! You guys I know, only your face, the face that you have never been gossiped about in your life! For that ridiculous face, the son’s marriage unfortunately cannot be divorced, and the daughter can sleep in a bed that makes her sick all her life! What happened to the student? What's wrong with homosexuality? At least we don't have to be so hypocritical to live for others!"

"I tell you to shut up!"

Yan Ruyi's words undoubtedly revealed all the invisible secrets that the Yan family had buried in their hearts for many years and forced them to see the light. Father Yan was in a hurry, and with blood red eyes, he went around the dining table and slapped Yan Ruyi's face sparingly:

"I think your wings have hardened in the past few years, and you dare to say anything! No matter what, you, Yan Ruyi, have no right to do things that I don't agree with! Not for anything else, but because of you, Yan Ruyi's life is Lao Tzu given!"

"Fate?" Yan Ruyi raised his head and laughed out of tears blurred his eyes: "Did you give birth to me, did you get my consent?"

"When you chose me to be your daughter, did anyone give me the right to refuse? I can't choose my parents, but I... must choose the one I love... I had no choice in the past. Now, I will cherish...."