no longer ordinary friends

The Zhou family was immersed in the joy of Zhou Bingcheng's successful marriage proposal. Zhou Guohua was making breakfast, and Cai Mei didn't have time to open the shop. Someone knocked on the door outside and shouted, "Cai Mei, why didn't the shop open today? What time is it and the lights are on?" Don't open the door? Buy cigarettes, buy cigarettes."

Zhou Zhicheng said, "I'll go and open the door."

Stepping on her slippers, she ran to turn on the light of the canteen. The door of the canteen was made of old-style door panels. After opening one door, the remaining door panels had to be removed one by one.

There were several people waiting outside the door, and they looked up: "Hey, where are your grandparents, why are you here to drive?"

Seeing Zhou Zhicheng's hard work, an uncle took the board and helped her put it on the wall, complaining: "Your grandpa and grandma don't dig in or out. This broken door is still reluctant to replace it with a stainless steel one." iron gate."

Zhou Zhicheng also laughed: "Grandma, I'm afraid you won't be able to find the store if you change it. This is the symbol of Meimei's canteen."

There were many traces drawn on the door panel by Xiao Zhou Zhicheng, and an old man pointed at the two crooked characters on it, happily: "That can't be changed, it was written by Chengcheng himself when he was a child, a crooked merchant! This old man Zhou A profiteer."

Zhou Zhicheng laughed, it was written indiscriminately when she was in elementary school, she originally wrote a good business, but was fooled into writing no on it, and they took the opportunity to laugh at it.

"Chengcheng, give me a pack of cigarettes."

"I want a box of yogurt. My family treasure is still waiting. What happened to your grandma today? I didn't go to other stores to buy it before it opened. I'm just waiting for your house."

There was a delivery man outside the door who yelled in: "Grandma Cai, I will come to unload the goods in half an hour. The goods your family bought today are about to arrive."

"Okay." Zhou Zhicheng replied with her head. She grew up in the store, and she is very familiar with the buying and selling process, and she is not in a hurry. When she was a child, she would sit behind Zhou Bingcheng's tricycle, and the brother and sister would deliver goods to everyone together. , now that grandpa and grandma are old, Meimei’s canteen no longer delivers goods.

An uncle asked: "When your grandpa and grandma are old, you will become a lawyer again. This store will not open. I don't know where to buy cigarettes or chat."

Zhou Zhicheng smiled: "Grandpa and grandma are still young, and they can still drive for many years."

"That's true."

The uncle said again: "When your parents return to China, you can also open a shop."

"Then it will still depend on your support."

"It's okay, it's just that your grandma's store doesn't sell me fake cigarettes, I'll know when I smoke them."

In the back living room.

Jiang Li was crying, Zhou Bingcheng hugged her, his eyes were red when he saw her crying, he raised his head, and held back his tears, they have known each other for many years, but before the accidental intersection between the two, she was in front of him There was always only a vague impression in his eyes, the good friend of his sister, the little girl who was beaten by her mother in front of everyone when she was young.

How miraculously, she became his future wife.

Cai Mei went to get the red potion, and said to Jiang Xianghuai with a straight face, "Come here." She pointed to the stool opposite her with her chin.

Jiang Xianghuai obediently walked over and sat down.

Cai Mei stared at the bloodshot eyes in his eyes, and asked, "Did you not sleep last night? Why is your complexion so bad? What's wrong? Stomach?"

"Well, my stomach hurts."

She sighed, but finally she was reluctant: "Later, grandma will cook you a stomach-nourishing soup. After drinking for a month, I guarantee that you will not have a stomachache when you go back to Beicheng."

I don't know if it was because he didn't sleep all night, or because Zhou Bingcheng struck too hard, the bruises on his face looked quite heavy.

She frowned, dipped a cotton swab in red potion, and carefully applied it to his wound, cursing, "Zhou Bingcheng, your attack is not serious, let's see how you beat him up?"

Zhou Bingcheng went to get another popsicle to apply to Jiang Li's eyes, and said angrily, "Forget it if you don't call the hospital."

Jiang Xianghuai seemed to be very sensible and obedient: "It's okay, grandma, brother should beat me."

Zhou Bingcheng had goose bumps all over his body due to the smell of green tea.

Cai Mei glanced at Jiang Xianghuai, sneered, and when she wiped the wound on the corner of his mouth, she squeezed hard with the cotton swab, causing him to hiss in pain.

Only then did she say: "Xiang Huai, when Chengcheng is not here, Grandma told you directly that you are not suitable for her, so please stop talking, Grandma has been thinking about it all night."

"The first one is, you hurt Chengcheng in the first place, once there will be a second time, your family is rich, and your own conditions are good, it is not difficult for you to find a good girl, and grandma doesn't think you are bad-tempered or uneducated If you want to break up, you didn't say it properly, you had to say those nasty things, no matter whether you really dislike Chengcheng's poor family background or not, it can only prove that you are not suitable."

"Second, you can also see that our family is an ordinary family. We don't pursue great wealth and wealth. We only want to be safe and happy. Chengcheng is very happy now. She works as a lawyer in Nanri. Many people like her, and she also likes this job. Work, as I just said, girls should not marry far away, just find someone who knows the basics, your work and home are in Beicheng, it's too far away, it's not suitable."

For the first point, Jiang Xianghuai had nothing to explain, he did not do well, but for the second point, he said: "Grandma, Beicheng is far away, but I chose to stay in Nanri. I have hands and feet. It is not difficult to find a job here, and the money in hand is enough for me to buy a house and a car here."

Cai Mei didn't believe it at all: "Aren't you the big boss in Beicheng? What kind of barrister, you don't want to be?"

"It's just a more advanced part-time job, and there is nothing to do."

"Your parents agree?"

"They don't need to agree." Jiang Xianghuai said lightly.

"Then how?" Cai Mei said, "Forget it, it's too early to say these things, I just want to tell you today, even if Chengcheng and you get back together again, I will never let Chengcheng go to Beicheng. Are you two going to break up?"

She was even more confused now. To be honest, she really didn't know about Jiang Xianghuai's family situation. Hearing this, it seemed that he didn't have a good relationship with his parents, so how could his family treat his daughter-in-law well?If Chengcheng really marries, he will suffer, some parents-in-law will make their daughter-in-law miserable.

Cai Mei is straightforward again. For her precious granddaughter, she is not afraid of offending people now: "Aren't your parents difficult to get along with? Do you like to put on airs of rich people? Or used to beat you often?"

Jiang Xianghuai didn't know where to start for a while, whether it was from his elder brother who died young, or from his crazy parents, if he brought up any one at random, it was full of his inferiority complex and hatred, and most of the darkness and distortion in his character came from this. .

On the contrary, Zhou Bingcheng took a sip of water slowly, and stopped him: "Grandma, what do you care about his house? As long as we keep Chengcheng away from him, won't we stay away from his house?"

Cai Mei: "It's true."

Jiang Xianghuai pursed his lips, and his chest heaved slightly. An idea had come and gone in his mind several times since it first came to him. He really thought it was pretty good, and he told Grandpa Zhou once.

His voice was very calm: "Grandma, my family is not good, so I will be your Zhou family's child?"

Cai Mei froze for a moment, but did not react.

Jiang Xianghuai: "Get married."

Zhou Bingcheng, who was drinking water, was choked to death by a mouthful of water, and was speechless for a long time.

Jiang Li, who was covering his eyes, suddenly took away two popsicles, and looked at Jiang Xianghuai in shock.He just said that he wanted to stay in Nanri County, which surprised her enough. She is working hard now, isn't it just to become a partner as soon as possible to take over the project, so as to get rich and free, but he wants to give up his hard work directly So many years of money and status.

Cai Mei was so frightened that she didn't know what to say: "No, you are the only child in the family, right? Why are you married? Your parents can't possibly agree?"

She waved her hand, feeling that the child was getting more and more outrageous: "Our family doesn't need to marry."

"I need it, why don't I need it!" Zhou Guohua kept his ears open to listen to the movement in the living room, and now he ran out with a shovel in hand, "I can't rest assured that Chengcheng stays at our house."

Cai Mei rolled her eyes angrily: "Why don't you just walk with her by the hand for the rest of your life? The child is old and you should let go. Do you think you can protect her for the rest of your life? Or do you think she is still the one following behind you, shouting The follower who wants to eat popsicles? She knows more than you now. When you were sick and hospitalized, she was busy running around. In the past few years, which of the poor relatives of the Zhou family encountered legal problems, which one was she to help solve? What? Zhou Guohua, figure it out, she is protecting you!"

Zhou Guohua stiffened his neck, refused to admit defeat, and said to Jiang Xianghuai: "Bei Chengzi, if you can get married, grandpa will be the first to support you."

Cai Meihuo was dead, she gritted her teeth, stood up, walked towards him with a few strides, and cursed: "You've been yelling about this since she was a child. Do you know what the neighbors say about us? You can't find it locally. If a man wants it, he has to recruit a useless man from other provinces who can't afford a bride price to marry him. If he really gets married in the future and happens to be a foreigner, who would believe that Jiang Xianghuai's conditions are good? He must say that we are clear and clear Upside down!"

She cares about face very much, and her appearance must be in a good manner, not to be off-putting.

Zhou Guohua was patted on the shoulder by her a few times, but he didn't dare to speak out loudly, and complained in a low voice: "As long as you like to compare and save face, and listen to what other people think all day long, happiness is more important than face, isn't it?"

Cai Mei pinched his ears angrily.

Jiang Xianghuai understood that Grandma Cai valued the betrothal gifts, so he learned to be smart now. He opened his wallet, took out a few cards, put them on the table, and said, "Grandma, I also have a betrothal gift."

Cai Mei felt dizzy when she heard it: "Okay, okay, put it away, what is it called a marriage if you have given a bride price? Let's not talk about this, let's have breakfast first."

At this time, an old man poked his head into the living room from the inner door of the store, glanced curiously, and said with a smile: "Oh, old man Zhou, you are holding a shovel here. Got something to buy."

Zhou Guohua also smiled cheerfully: "Yes, why not?"

The uncle said again: "Bingcheng, you're back too?" He joked, "You came back to inherit the family's small store? It's a pity, your grandfather said every day that you want to find a granddaughter and son-in-law to watch the store for him."

When Cai Mei heard this, she immediately cut Zhou Guohua with sharp eyes, as if she wanted to eat him.

He turned his back, not daring to look at her, and muttered anxiously, "Old Weng, are you talking nonsense?"