[This content is an adaptation of a long fictional short story, please watch it rationally, do not sit in the opposite seat]
I still remember the first meeting between my daughter-in-law and me, which can be regarded as a thrill, and even almost had a misunderstanding.
In the early 90s, when I first went to the city to work, I was very curious about everything around me, and before I left, my family told me to pay attention to safety when I was outside.
Because I was the only boy in the family, and I had an older sister above me, my parents married her early in order to get the bride price.
But I have had a good relationship with my sister since I was a child, and even after my sister got married, I often went to play with her.
At that time, my parents insisted that I go to school in order to get ahead, and even if I didn't want to, they forced me to go to school.
In the beginning, I did have a rebellious mentality, I would always make trouble at school, I was often called parents, and I was almost dissuaded from quitting once.
Seeing this, my parents finally chose to let me go, and when they got home, they discussed with me that if they wanted to go to school, they would continue to go to school, and if they didn't want to, they would help work at home.
After hearing the news, I naturally chose to drop out of school, and when I returned home, I did work very hard to help my parents, and they were very relieved to see it.
But after a long time, I felt that this life was very boring, but now I can't go to school anymore, and at that moment, my friend said that he was going to go out to work.
As soon as I heard that I was interested, I asked him to take me with me, and he agreed, because the time was urgent, so he asked me to talk to the family first, and then pack up my things and leave in two days.
When I heard this, I ran home happily and told my parents about it, who knew that they would be anxious when they heard it: "You are a little child, run so far away, what can we do if something happens along the way." ”
But I didn't listen to my mother's words, and went straight into the house to pack my things, and my father rushed in when he saw it and snatched my bag from me.
Only then did I notice the worried looks of my parents, looked at them and said, "I am already an adult, I should have my own choice, and going out to work can also reduce your burden?"
Despite all the things I said, my parents didn't approve of me going out to work, and even locked me up, and when I went out that night, I did find that the door was locked.
Fortunately, they also left me a window, I went out of the window to find a friend, I wanted to let him take me with me, but he said that I should think about it, after all, I still have to ask my parents for advice when I go out to work.
I wanted to be willful, but my friend still advised me: "You don't need to worry, after all, the life of working outside is not as good as I imagined, if I can do it there, I will write to you." ”
After hearing this, I also calmed down and thought about it, it is true that if I go out, I have to rely on myself for everything, even if the family will give help in the early stage, but I can't always rely on the family.
I didn't go home that night, and I dropped my friend off at the station early the next morning, and looking at his back in the distance, I still wanted to go outside, but now was not the right time.
When I got home, I found my father standing at the door waiting for me, but he was surprised when he saw it, perhaps because he didn't expect me to come back.
I looked at my father and said, "I'm not going out to work anymore, I'll talk about this later." ”
Before my father could speak, I went into the house and lay down on the bed, after all, I hadn't slept well all night, and now I just wanted to think about nothing and get some sleep.
In this way, I started my old life again, and every day I followed my parents to work in the fields, and if the harvest was good, I would get some to sell.
Although such a day is stable, it is indeed very boring, and things take a turn for the better because my mother is sick and hospitalized.
That night, my mother suddenly cried out that her stomach hurt, and she thought it was because she had eaten a bad stomach, but who knew that the next morning not only did not get better, but it worsened a lot.
My father and I hurriedly took my mother to the hospital to see a doctor, and when we found that we needed appendicitis surgery, I hurriedly followed my father's instructions and went home to get the money and then hospitalized my mother.
Looking at my mother lying on the bed, this made me think of going out to work again, because now the family is in a hurry to use the money, even if the family has enough savings for surgery, but still have to live after that.
When I mentioned to my father again that I was going out to work, he didn't stop me like he had done before, but patted me on the shoulder and said, "You must be safe when you go out." ”
At this time, my mother also looked at me and asked me to pay attention to safety when I went out, I looked at my parents and nodded heavily.
After going home and packing up, I went to the hospital to say goodbye to my parents and embarked on a life of working outside.
I walked to the train station, bought a ticket to the south, and wanted to leave as soon as possible, but I didn't expect that the ticket was only left for the night, so I had to sit alone at the train station and wait for the train to leave.
After a while, I felt very sleepy, found a place in the corner, lay down on a stool and fell asleep, perhaps because I didn't have a good rest in the hospital for the past two days, and I fell asleep after just closing my eyes.
I don't know if it's a dream or it's real, but I always feel like there are people around, because the stool is very spacious, maybe someone is sitting next to it and resting.
I didn't pay much attention to it, but then I was woken up by the heat, because the place where I was lying was not very ventilated, and when I got up, I found that it was almost at the departure point, so I sat and woke up for a while.
But what I didn't expect was that my hand was to the side, and I actually touched a person, and when I turned my head, I found that it was still a girl.
This frightened me to stand up quickly, and I didn't know that I thought we were together, maybe I was moving too much and woke up the girl next to me.
She sat up, rubbed her eyes, and stood up as if she were frightened, and we both stared at each other blankly.
It wasn't until the radio broadcast the arrival of the train that the girl hurriedly ran away with her luggage, leaving me alone standing here at a loss.
Who would have thought that sleeping at the train station would encounter such a thing, and now I was completely sleepy, but fortunately it was not far from the time I got on the train, and after a while, I got on the train.
When I got in the car, I was still thinking about what had just happened, and I always felt like I hadn't woken up from a dream, but the touch was so real that I was sure that what I was seeing was a real person.
But I don't have time to think about it so much now, thinking that the biggest problem at the moment is how to survive when I get there, in fact, before I left, I wrote a letter to my friend and told him that I was going to find him.
However, before leaving, I didn't receive a reply from my friend, and I thought that it would be difficult to meet such a big city, even if I arrived, and my friend's work should be very busy, so I won't bother.
But what I didn't expect was that I saw my friend at the exit of the station, and he saw me in the crowd at a glance and quickly stepped forward to help me get something.
I was very surprised when I saw him, and I thought I wouldn't believe it because he was too busy, but who knew that he would give me such a big surprise.
It turned out that he saw the letter I wrote to him, and he wanted to write me a reply, but when the time was counted, the letter arrived and I might have already left.
So he just came to the train station to wait for me, I didn't expect my friend to be so attentive, after picking me up, he took me directly to his place.
Although the room is not big, it is very well equipped, and it is a two-bedroom apartment, in fact, when he first came, the house he was looking for was either expensive or small, and he often had to change it after living for a while.
Later, he met a good landlord, but he didn't expect that the house price was not only not expensive, but also the place was not small, because their daughter was admitted to college, and the family wanted to go to the countryside to live, and the house was vacant.
My friend successfully picked up the leak, and after I put my things in, my friend asked me to live here with peace of mind, and I also knew that I couldn't live in vain, so I offered to share half of the rent.
Naturally, my friend didn't have a problem, but he still said that he would wait for me to find a job before he planned to pay for the rent.
I was right to think about it, after all, I just came here, and my first task is to earn money, and finding a job is also a very anxious thing.
According to my friend's introduction, I have been to many places for interviews, but it is difficult for a migrant worker like me with no academic qualifications to get a good job in such a city.
Eventually, I went to a factory, where I worked at the lowest level, but fortunately, the salary here was relatively stable, and although I was tired every day, and sometimes even had to work night shifts, I still felt very content.
As soon as the first month's salary was paid, I sent more than half of it to my home, leaving only enough money for food and clothing.
Fortunately, my friend was very tolerant of me, and he didn't urge me to call the rent when I was not stable, and I kept trying.
Such a dull life is quite comfortable, and it is almost time to pay the rent next time, and it was handed over to the landlord by friends before.
But this time, because of something at home, he went home temporarily, and the landlord also said that they went out to play and asked his daughter, who had just been on vacation, to collect rent.
I looked at the time, and it was just in time for me to rest, because I knew that it was the landlord's daughter who came, so I specially cleaned up the house very early.
After a while, I heard a knock on the door, and when I opened the door, I was stunned, but I didn't expect that the girl on the other side was actually the one I saw at the train station.
She also recognized me at once, and directly lowered her head and didn't dare to look at me, I embarrassedly handed over the rent to her, and just wanted to say something, I heard her say: "Don't mind that time at the train station, did it scare you?"
When I heard it, I hurriedly waved my hand: "I should have told you I'm sorry, after all, I scared you first." ”
After hearing me say this, the girl finally looked up at me, in fact, after taking a closer look, the girl in front of her was quite good-looking, she said that her name was Chen Mei, and she came back to help because the school was on vacation.
I also didn't expect that I could encounter such a thing when I went out to work, and after this meeting, she often came to bring us some food.
At first, my friend thought that the landlord was really good, but after a long time, I found out that this girl was actually coming for me, and sometimes when I didn't come home from the night shift, she would give her things to my friend and leave.
Only when I was at home, she would come into the house and sit for a while, and once, as soon as Chen Mei left on her front foot, her friend immediately pulled me and asked me what was going on.
He also didn't expect that he would go home halfway, and there would be an extra girl next to me when he came back.
In fact, I was also very surprised, so I told my friend about the train station, and he also felt very incredible when he heard it, why he had never encountered such a thing on the train.
And I have long felt that Chen Mei is interesting to me, and I also like her, but I have never dared to confess all this to her, seeing that the vacation is about to end, and she is going back to school.
Before leaving, she came to me again, this time she confessed everything to me, I looked at his sincere eyes, I didn't know how to answer, maybe I saw my hesitation, she didn't ask too much, turned around and wanted to leave.
At this moment, I gritted my teeth and grabbed her, and said that I liked her too, and when I heard what I said, she also said that she was shocked, but quickly hugged me and told me to wait for her to come back.
In this way, because of the encounter at the train station, I had a college student girlfriend, and my friend kept saying that I had a good life and that I could take a daughter-in-law home when I went out to work.
Although I was happy, I was still worried about what would happen if her parents didn't like me, after all, I was born in a rural area and I hadn't been to school for a few years.
With this concern, I waited until the landlord returned, this time they came as a couple, and as soon as I opened the door, I sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere.
Sure enough, after they entered the door, they directly confessed that they knew that the two of us were together, and they didn't agree, after all, my family affairs and background were not very good, but I couldn't resist Chen Mei.
In the end, they discussed it, and still felt that their daughter's happiness was important, so they went to the door to inspect it personally, but after observing it for so long, I was honest, so I didn't say anything more.
When our relationship stabilized and she graduated from school, I offered to take her home to meet her parents, but I said hello to my family before I left.
Although my home is in the village, with my efforts over the years, the home has also been renovated, and it looks completely different from before.
After arriving home, my parents came out very warmly to greet them, after all, they must have missed each other for so long, and then pulled Chen Mei behind me into the house.
After receiving the letter, my mother began to prepare very early, and as soon as we entered the house, we saw a very rich meal, and this time when we came home, we also decided to get married.
Soon the news spread throughout the village, and people were so envious that I could marry a daughter-in-law from the city.
After the two of us got married, I have always been very good to my daughter-in-law, and I will ask in advance for the New Year, and if she is homesick, I will go back for the New Year.
Now that I think about it, if I hadn't met at the train station at that time, maybe I would never have been able to marry such a good daughter-in-law in my life.
[This content is an adaptation of a long fictional short story, please watch it rationally, do not sit in the opposite seat]