The son of Aunt Lin’s family is not suitable for Huang Xin, Huang Xin doesn’t like boys like his type.” She had known Huang Xin for more than ten years, I think, and she knew her best , she often said that her criteria for choosing a spouse must be someone five or six years older than her, and also handsome and golden, mature and stable, a man like Ling Weihao.
“Why? I think the two of them are quite a good match.” Zhang Qin blinked her eyes and asked in confusion; for their generation, it was fine as long as they loved their wives and knew how to live their lives.
“Aunt Lin’s family’s son, probably only twenty-four or twenty-five, which is quite a young age, Huang Xin don’t want to engage in any sister-brother relationship …”
“Don’t you have a saying that ‘age is not an issue, , how come now that it’s moved to reality, it doesn’t work anymore?!”
Yang Shuting heard her mother say this and puffed out a laugh, thinking that her mother sometimes spoke quite funny. She said, “Huang Xin doesn’t like this type, why don’t you ask her one day and see if she wants to go out with Aunt Lin’s son?”
“I’ll ask her when she comes back.”
“Mummy, Grandma, what are you talking about, you’re so happy, I want to be a part of it.” Xin Yan, who was doing her homework carefully in the living room, heard her mummy and grandmother chatting very happily, so she looked up at them and asked.
“Grandma is introducing a boyfriend to your sister-in-law?” Yang Shuting said with a smile.
Xin Yan put down the pen she was holding, then ran up to them, wearing a small suit, and a floral plaid skirt that billowed up. She looked at her grandmother with crystal eyes and said, “Grandmother you can introduce me to a boyfriend too!”
“Oh, my XinYan doesn’t need to introduce any boyfriend, such a beautiful beauty, there must be many boys pursuing her, but now you have to study hard, you mustn’t think wildly …” Zhang Qin was amused by her , and at the same time She did not forget to remind her.
Nowadays, children mature quickly, so they have to pay some attention to it.
“So when can I fall in love?” Xin Yan said petulantly.
“Didn’t Mommy tell you, study hard now, and when you turn eighteen and become an adult, you can fall in love.” Yang Shuting looked at her daughter and said.
Xin Yan made a face at her mummy, then went back to the living room and started doing her homework.
“Mummy, did you buy this fruit?” XinYan took an apple from the fruit basket, and before she could wash it, she bit into it with a very crisp sound.
Yang Shuting was flabbergasted for a moment, she glanced at the fruit, which was placed in the fruit basket, her brain could not help but recall that scene in the lift today once again, her heart sank, but her emotions were not written on her face, she smiled and said, “Yes!”
“It’s so delicious, Mummy you have to buy fruit back for me more often, even if I don’t eat it, Grandma has to eat it too!” Looking at Xin Yan fragrantly eating the apple, she hadn’t bought fruit for Xin Yan for quite some time because of the straits of life, and it was only the last time she temporarily stayed in the Beitou villa that Wei Hao had bought fruit back regularly.
“Mmm, good.” Yang Shuting responded softly.
Huang Xin didn’t come home very late either, she got home at about ten o’clock. The manager had invited the group of their colleagues to the restaurant for a meal. She hadn’t wanted to drink, but she had been plied with a few beers by her colleagues, which had left her red in the face, but not so much that she would get drunk.
She pulled out her keys and opened the door, only to see the light still on in the empty hall, with Shu Ting sitting on the sofa, knitting a scarf. One night last week, when she hadn’t happened to be working late, Shu Ting had dragged her out shopping with her, so she had run to the knitting shop and bought a few balls of brown wool, and bamboo needles. She said she was going to knit scarves, one for her aunt and one for Weihao.
“You’re back!” Yang Shuting heard the door open, stopped what she was doing, looked up at Huang Xin, smiled lightly and said.
“Mmm.” Huang Xin gently answered her, then sat down next to her and touched the soft scarf, suddenly thinking that she also wanted to knit a scarf for someone, but what would she knit for him, he might not receive it, and wasn’t it obvious that she was expressing some kind of thoughts about him by behaving like this?
Her heart was quite conflicted.
“Oh yes, you should have met Aunt Lin’s son, right?” Yang Shuting thought of something and asked as she knitted.
“I know him, but not the familiar kind, if I run into him when I go out, I’ll say hello or something.” Huang Xin said lightly.
“So what do you think of him?” Yang Shuting suddenly stopped moving her hands, raised her head to look at Huang Xin and asked again.
“It’s alright!” She didn’t know how to say it, she thought he was neither good nor bad anyway, just like that. Feeling a bit off, she woke up and blinked her eyes at Yang Shuting, asking back, “Shuting, what do you mean by that? Why are you asking about Aunt Lin’s son all of a sudden.”
Yang Shuting smiled and said, “It’s nothing, it’s just that my mother she sees that you are also twenty-six or seven years old now, about the same age as me, and so far she hasn’t seen you have a boyfriend or bring one home, so she wants to introduce you to someone, she thinks Aunt Lin’s son is good and wants to get you together as a couple.”
“What, introduce me to someone, better forget it, Aunt Lin’s son, that type really doesn’t suit me.” Huang Xin said in surprise.
Before she had liked that guy, she might have paid attention to other single men, but now her heart was full of him, and she didn’t even look at the good men around her, even though there were quite a few men pursuing her now, but she didn’t want to.
She doesn’t know why, but her heart is just occupied with him. Ever since that night, her mind, her world, was filled with his shadow, his smile, even the sound of his voice when he spoke, haunted her ears.
“That’s what I told my mother, that Aunt Lin’s son’s type wasn’t right for you, but she said, “How do you know if it’s a good fit without trying to get to know each other, or go out?!” Yang Shuting said, although her mother did not say that to her, but that was what her mother wanted to say.
“Let’s just forget it!” She said this again, she wasn’t interested in people at all, the more practical point was that Aunt Lin’s son was younger than her and she didn’t like boys younger than her, that didn’t seem to make her feel safe at all.
“But my mother had dinner tonight and ran to Aunt Lin’s house to talk about it, and it seems to have worked out, and arrangements have been made for you to meet, at our house.” When she heard her mother come back and tell her about it, she was quite surprised, not expecting her mother to be so quick.
“Can we not meet?” Huang Xin said with difficulty, she knew that her aunt meant well, but this seemed to have been arranged for them to meet without even her consent, which seemed no different from a blind date.
She had stayed away from home mainly because she didn’t want her parents to spend all day looking for matchmakers to set her up on a blind date, and the last time she had gone back, she had been forced to go on five or six blind dates in just one week, but none of them were to her liking.
“It’s just a meeting and a meal, you just have to deal with it. If you don’t like him and he doesn’t have that kind of interest in you, you can be friends.” Yang Shuting knew it was quite abrupt, but there was no way around it, her mother had already made a deal with Aunt Lin’s family and it was impossible to refuse them.
“Uh, I know.” Although Huang Xin felt helpless, she went along with her aunt’s wishes, after all, she was the eldest, and now that she was recovering from a serious illness, as long as she was happy. Feeling a little tired, she got up and said to Shu Ting, “I’m going to take a shower first.”
“Good.” Yang Shuting looked at her as she went back to her room, smiled and went back to knitting her scarf.
The next day was Sunday and Huang Xin didn’t have to go to work, so she could sleep until noon, but by noon she was shaken awake by Xin Yan.
She frowned impatiently and slowly opened her eyes to see Xin Yan, who had two goat-horn braids, shaking her arm incessantly and saying to her in a childish voice, “Auntie, wake up, hurry up, Grandma has introduced you to a boyfriend and he and his mother are coming to our house.”
“How annoying, I don’t want to get up.” Huang Xin frowned tightly, coming over so early, she hadn’t slept enough now! She picked up the quilt, covered her head and said.
“Auntie, you can’t not get up, people are sitting outside waiting for you, go out and meet them, your boyfriend is quite handsome.” Xinyan gushed.
Even though her ears were tightly covered and even though the blanket had covered her head, she could still hear XinYan’s voice. She impatiently lifted the blanket, squinted her eyes and said to XinYan, “He’s not my boyfriend, don’t shout nonsense!”
“If you don’t get up, Mummy is going to spank me, saying I can’t do a single thing right, Auntie, can you bear to see Mummy spank me?” Xin Yan said resignedly, she was very excited about the rare occasion when the day was so lively.
“Alright, I’m getting up!” Huang Xin had no choice but to get up, but her head ached a little, probably because she hadn’t slept enough.
Xin Yan grinned happily when she saw that her sister-in-law had finally gotten up, revealing her almost lost teeth, which were now starting to fall out, but she still didn’t forget to eat sweets.
Huang Xin went to open the wardrobe and found a set of clothes from it to change into, sitting at the dressing table and brushing her hair before walking out.
In the living room sat Aunt Lin, and her son, with a beautiful fruit basket on top of the glass coffee table. And Zhang Qin was sitting next to Aunt Lin, talking and laughing with her. When she saw that Huang Xin had finally got up, she quickly beckoned her to sit over.
Huang Xin smiled a little awkwardly and sat down opposite Aunt Lin’s son. She looked at the man in front of her and then at Aunt Lin, and greeted them, “Hello! Hello Aunt Lin!”
She knew that Aunt Lin’s son was called Lin Zhiyuan and worked in an advertising company. They met and occasionally spoke a few words, but not much.
Lin Zhiyuan looked at Huang Xin, he was wearing a white shirt today with a black jumper on the outside, his whole person looked civilized and polite, but he looked quite relaxed and natural and smiled at Huang Xin.