The Pentium Era - South to North

The men were still drinking, and the women had almost finished eating. While they were chatting, He Hongmei leaned close to Xiaofang's ear and asked, where is Xiao Zhao? I want to see her.

Xiaofang nodded and stood up, and He Hongmei also stood up.

The two of them went upstairs and entered the study, and Xiaofang closed the door.

He Hongmei saw Xiao Zhao's urn and her portrait. He Hongmei walked over and sat down. She touched Xiao Zhao's urn and said to her:

"Xiao Zhao, long time no see. I'm back. Have you missed me? You must have, right? I often think of you in Japan."

He Hongmei looked up at Xiao Zhao's portrait and smiled: "Xiao Zhao, look at you, you haven't changed at all. You are still so young. I have become an old lady."

He Hongmei sighed and remained silent, tears streaming from her eyes.

Xiaofang stood there, looking at the backs of Xiao Zhao and He Hongmei, her eyes were red. She remembered that in "Splendid Home", at that time, He Hongmei always had to sleep with her when she went to Hangzhou, and the two of them squeezed into one bed. On the small bed, I still remembered that she and He Hongmei were sitting on the bed chatting. At that time, she, the youngest sister, had so much to say to He Hongmei.

The door opened, and Xiao Zhao saw the two of them sitting on the bed chatting. He would also come in, sit on the bed, and sit on the other side of the bed. The three of them would cover themselves with a quilt and chat. After chatting until it got a little dark outside, Xiao Zhao yawned and went back to his room. He Hongmei cried out that she was sleepy, fell down and fell asleep.

Xiaofang walked over, pressed against He Hongmei's body, and hugged her from behind. He Hongmei tilted her head back and leaned on her body. He Hongmei sighed and said:

"How many years have passed in this flash, and Beibei is about to get married. Xiaofang, your daughter is already so old, does time fly by too fast?"

Xiaofang nodded.

One of the two people sat and the other stood there, looking at Xiao Zhao for who knows how long. Xiao Fang said:

"Sister Hongmei, let's go. I'll take you to the Hyatt and I'll book a room for you."

He Hongmei shook her head and did not stand up. After a while, she said: "Xiaofang, let me tell you one thing. You are not allowed to laugh at me."

"Say it, Sister Hongmei."

"Can you just let me make a bed on the floor here, or sleep on the sofa? I want to spend a few days with Xiao Zhao." He Hongmei said.

Xiaofang said yes.

Hearing that He Hongmei was going to sleep in the study upstairs, Zhang Chen's mother and Xiaofang's mother were very happy. Zhang Chen's mother said, this is the best. When Hongmei comes back, she will have to stay at home no matter how crowded she is. There is no way to stay in a hotel outside. reason.

Two people brought up three quilts for He Hongmei, spread them on the ground, and then put a bamboo mat on top. Zhang Chen's mother pressed her hand on the bamboo mat. She thought it was not soft enough, so she wanted to go down and bring up two more quilts. He Hongmei Quickly say, enough is enough, auntie, no matter how thick it is, you will get prickly heat.

Zhang Chen's mother laughed and then gave up.

Zhang Xiangxi was so happy when she saw that the floor was made here. She rolled around on the bamboo mat. Zhang Chen's mother called her to take her down to sleep. Zhang Xiangxi got into the air-conditioned quilt, closed his eyes, and deliberately shouted loudly. He was snoring, pretending to be asleep.

Several adults laughed, and He Hongmei said: "Auntie, let Xixi sleep with me. I have slept with her mother so many times before, so let Xixi sleep back."

Zhang Chen’s mother, Xiaofang’s mother, and Xiaofang laughed. Zhang Xiangxi’s eyes were still closed, and he raised his hands and said:

"I'm telling you, I have agreed."

Xiaofang and He Hongmei were still upstairs. Zhou Ruoyi and Sun Xiangyang came to find Xiangnan and Zhang Xiangbei. They were going to pick up Xiaohu and Mangchao from the airport. Xiaohu's plane was not from Taipei today, but from San Francisco to Hangzhou. In the evening Arrived around 9:30.

Zhang Xiangbei and the others waited at the airport for twenty minutes. Xiaohu's plane landed. To Zhang Xiangbei's surprise, they not only picked up Xiaohu and Mang Chao, but also saw Zheng Xinxin and a man in his sixties. The foreigner also came with Xiaohu and the others.

Zheng Xinxin graduated from MIT and received a doctorate. She continued to stay in MIT as an assistant professor. The old man who came with her was Thompson, a professor at MIT who was also a graduate student at MIT. doctoral supervisor.

When Xiang Nan and Zhou Ruoyi saw Zheng Xinxin, they were of course very happy. Xiangnan punched Zheng Xinxin and said:

"Damn it, didn't you say that this summer vacation is very busy and you don't have time to come? Why are you here again?"

Zheng Xinxin said with a smile: "I was originally going to attend a conference at the University of Melbourne in Australia, but the conference was cancelled. The professor said he also wanted to come to China, so I brought him here."

"Then why did you get together again?"

Zhou Ruoyi asked Zheng Xinxin and Xiaohu, Zheng Xinxin said:

"I have Xiaohu's Facebook account. I knew he was in the United States. I thought he would definitely come to Hangzhou, so I asked him. Sure enough, we flew to San Francisco and took a ride on his plane."

"Zheng Xinxin, it's great that you can come!" Xiang Nan hugged Zheng Xinxin and shouted.

Zhang Xiangbei asked Xiaohu and Mang Chao: "Do you want to get jet lag?"

"No, I want a midnight snack." Xiaohu said.

Zhang Xiangbei said: "Okay, let's go. It's rare for so many people to get together again."

While these good friends were standing there laughing and shouting, Professor Thompson couldn't get a word in. He could only stand a little distance away from them and look at them with a smile.

It was decided that everyone was going to have a midnight snack. Zheng Xinxin walked up to Thompson and whispered something to him. Thompson shook his head and pointed at his head.

Zheng Xinxin walked back and told Xiang Nan and the others that the professor was a little dizzy and still needed to catch up on jet lag, so we should go to the hotel first.

"Let's go, Fatty and I will take them to the hotel. You go first. Send a WeChat message somewhere and we'll come over as soon as we get there." Zhou Ruoyi said to Xiangnan and the others.

Everyone dispersed, Zheng Xinxin and Thompson got into Zhou Ruoyi and Sun Xiangyang's car, Xiaohu and Mang Chao got into Zhang Xiangbei and Xiangnan's car.

Zhang Xiangbei asked Xiaohu what he wanted to eat. Xiaohu said that he had been in San Francisco for more than half a month and wanted to eat something very satisfying.

"How about spicy fish pot?" Xiang Nan asked.

"Okay! Going to Yongcheng?"

"No, no, no, there's one here in Xinyi Fang." Zhang Xiangbei said.

"Then let's go, what are you waiting for?" Xiaohu said.

Zhang Xiangbei started the car and left. He sent Zhou Ruoyi a WeChat message to Xiangnan and told her that we were going to Yongcheng Fish Pot in Xinyi Fang. There was no need to send the location. Zhou Ruoyi had been there.

The four of us arrived at Xinyifang. It was still early, and it was not yet the peak time for midnight snacks. There were not many people here in Xinyifang. It was summer now, although there were a lot of mosquitoes under the weeping willows by the river, and the water in the tributary of the canal next to it was a bit smelly. But they still chose to sit outside, and the landlady ordered two plates of mosquito coils for them and placed them on empty beer bottles.

Xiaohu and Zhang Xiangbei went inside to order food, then came back and sat down. The four of them sat here drinking tea, looking at the stone arch bridge over the river and the antique buildings on both sides. Xiaohu said, this place is not bad, why haven’t I done it before? came?

Xiang Nan smiled and said, "You only come to Hangzhou a few times a year now. Even if you come, you always come and go in a hurry."

Zhou Ruoyi and Sun Xiangyang came over. Zhou Ruoyi looked ugly and dark. She sat down without saying a word and asked Xiang Nan:

"Where's Zheng Xinxin?"

Zhou Ruoyi said angrily: "I don't know!"

"What, didn't you send them there?" Xiang Nan was surprised and continued to ask.

Zhou Ruoyi snorted and said nothing. She looked south at Sun Xiangyang. Sun Xiangyang smiled. Zhang Xiangbei asked:

"Fat man, what's wrong?"

"I'm not sure what I'm doing now." Sun Xiangyang said and looked at Zhou Ruoyi.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Zhang Xiangbei cursed. Sun Xiangyang made a face at Zhang Xiangbei and quietly pointed at Zhou Ruoyi with his finger.

Zhou Ruoyi picked up the cup on the table, took a sip of water, and then let out a long breath. She looked at Xiang Nan and asked:

"Do you know who that old foreign man is, Zheng Xinxin?"

Xiangnan said: "Didn't Zheng Xinxin say that he was her teacher in Massachusetts?"

"No!" Zhou Ruoyi snorted, "It's her boyfriend, what the hell!"

"Ah!" Everyone present was startled, and Xiang Nan said, "It's impossible."

"How is it impossible? They just opened a room and two people slept in the same room. How is it impossible?" Zhou Ruoyi said.

Xiang Nan said: "If you open a room, it may be for Thompson to sleep. Zheng Xinxin should go home and sleep."

"Zheng Xinxin told me herself. She said that she brought the old man here to meet his parents. She said that her parents also wanted to meet the old man. It was too late today. She had to sleep and go back tomorrow. , tell me, is this still wrong?"

Zhou Ruoyi asked, Fatty Sun nodded beside him, and Xiang Nan was stunned.

"This is normal." Xiaohu said, "In foreign countries, it is very common for an old man to have a young wife. Especially many Chinese women find old foreigners."

"What do you mean, Xiaohu?" Zhou Ruoyi shouted, "I feel so embarrassed. The Chinese women you mentioned are actually women from mainland China, right? Yes, I have seen many of them, in Shanghai and Shenzhen. There are many foreigners and old men with little girls in their arms. They are so damn mean. I just didn’t expect that Zheng Xinxin would be like this."

"Maybe it's true love." Zhang Xiangbei said.

"What a true love, how can you still have both your heart and your kidneys with an old man?"

Zhou Ruoyi asked, Zhang Xiangbei, Xiaohu, and Mang Chao all laughed, while Xiangnan frowned slightly. She also thought this was a bit unbelievable, especially Zheng Xinxin, who was her best friend.

Zhou Ruoyi looked at Zhang Xiangbei and the others, a little irritated, and cursed:

"You guys, don't you think it's a big deal? If Zheng Xinxin is with a Chinese man in his sixties, you will think it's treason, but with a foreigner, you think it's normal?"

Sun Xiangyang chuckled, and Zhou Ruoyi rolled her eyes at him: "What a laugh!"

Xiaohu thought for a moment and said honestly to Zhou Ruoyi: "You're right, it's really like that."

"I know you guys. I think Zheng Xinxin's ghost father and her ghost mother might be very happy. I'm just from Zhejiang University, and he's a professor from Massachusetts. He should be a little older." MIT eh.

"Especially Zheng Xinxin's mother, how snobbish she is. She took such strict control of her daughter and sent her to the United States. But she ended up giving it to an old man. She might be happy about it. She's even meaner than Zheng Xinxin!"

"You're so mean, Zhou Ruoyi." Xiang Nan said.

"Am I mean? Isn't that what her mother is like? When we were studying, yes, my grades were not as good as yours, let alone Zheng Xinxin's. Damn it, that mother of hers, didn't she let Zheng Xinxin play with me? ?" Zhou Ruoyi became angrier as she spoke.

Xiangnan was surprised and asked, "Do you know this?"

"Do you think I'm such a fool?" Zhou Ruoyi said.

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