Staying Overnight

Author: Hometown Three Thousand Miles

Staying Overnight

Yan Xin and his party did not stay on the river embankment for long.

The main reason is that there is wind on the river embankment.

It is already evening now, and the weather is very cold. The cold wind is blowing so hard that it is useless to wear thick clothes.

Yan Xin pointed out his home to Ruan Siyao and told him which roads could be taken to get there.

If you know the way, you can take the small path and cross over the field ridges.

When he and Bai Xiaoling came here, they took the path.

If you don't know the way, you may go astray if you take a small path, and if you go around in circles, you will waste time.

There are many rice fields here, and some of them are relatively low and still have water. Even if there is no water, there is still mud. If you are not careful, you will sink in, but you cannot break through the fields directly.

If you don't know the road, you should take a straighter and wider road that can allow tractors to pass. It is also called a tractor road. This way you will not go wrong, but it will be more circuitous.

If you don't take the mechanical tillage road, you have to go back to the road and then go around it, which is a relatively long distance.

If you drive there, there is only one way, which is to go around the highway.

Although Feng Chen's car could pass through most of the tractor-taught roads, there were still a few places where the roads were broken and it was impossible to pass.

Moreover, the road condition was still very bad, with many potholes.

It was most convenient to drive there, but Ruan Siyao wanted to walk there because the distance was not very far to begin with, so it could just be a walk.

She also wanted to immerse herself in what the countryside here was like.

To feel the countryside, of course, you can better feel it by going to the fields.

Although her hometown is also in a rural area, it is a northern rural area and a great plain, and the scenery is completely different from the scenery here.

Yan Xin had nothing to say about this. It was their own decision. They could go to his house no matter what.

I just talked for a while, feeling that it was too cold in the wind, and then returned to Feng's house.

Continue to warm yourself by the fire in the main room.

In the kitchen, the Feng family's parents were busy, and an aunt was helping.

Feng Xi did not go to the kitchen to help, but sat next to Yan Xin to warm himself by the fire.

Sitting on the other side of Yan Xin was Bai Xiaoling.

The seats were not like this when they went out, but when they came back they could choose where to sit again. Feng Xi and Bai Xiaoling were both smarter and grabbed the seat next to Yan Xin before Ruan Siyao did.

After sitting down, the two of them looked at each other and smiled across Yan Xin. They were so happy that they had sniped Ruan Siyao that they almost raised two fingers and shouted.

Ruan Siyao was a step late and could only sit on the edge, feeling a little depressed:

"They... don't seem to welcome me very much..."

Feng Chen and Ruan Mengyao couldn't help but shake their heads.

Ruan Mengyao was thinking: "Feng Xi is indeed interested in Yan Xin. My sister has no chance. The gap between the two of us is too big. I have to persuade my sister to get out of the way so as not to fall into it."

Yes, you are bringing shame upon yourself."

What Feng Chen was thinking in his mind was: "My sister is good at everything, but her emotional intelligence is a bit low. I have told her that I want to introduce Siyao to Yan Xin. If the two of them get married, then we will be relatives, and we will not be related."

Is it more stable? If there is no opportunity, we should take the initiative to create opportunities for her. Why should we take away her opportunities? Alas, the emotional intelligence is too low!"

I thought to myself that when there is no one around, I have to have a good talk with my sister and ask her to help create opportunities.

There are so many people warming up in the house right now, it's really inconvenient to talk.

Not long after, dinner was ready. Mother Feng came over and said something. Everyone got up and moved the chairs away. An Eight Immortals table was placed on top of the still burning coal stove to serve as a dining table.

Feng Xi went to the kitchen, brought over a burning coal stove, and placed an Eight Immortals table on it.

There were quite a lot of guests, fifteen or six in total, and there was no room for one table, so only two tables could be placed.

It's extremely cold now. If you don't put a coal stove under the table, it will be too cold and the food will easily get cold.

Everyone also took action and moved the chairs around the table one by one.

Feng Xi's mother and aunt began to serve food, and Feng Xi also went to the kitchen to scoop out rice.

Ruan Mengyao is the future daughter-in-law of this family. She has been here twice before, which is the kind of relationship that has been confirmed, so she cannot treat herself as a guest.

Here she also showed her master's subjective initiative and went to the kitchen to help serve the food, and also called her sister over.

This is where she is sensible.

Bai Xiaoling originally sat there and didn't want to move, but when she saw Ruan Siyao following him, she felt that she couldn't act too lazy in front of Yan Xin, so she also followed him to help.

Ruan’s mother also praised Yan Xin with a smile:

"Your sister is really nice and very hardworking."

After a while, the food was put on the table and everyone sat down one by one.

Young people like Yan Xin sat at the same table, and two younger elders followed them. There were a bottle of liquor, several bottles of beer, and a bottle of orange on the table.

At the other table, the Feng family's parents and the Ruan family's parents were there, and everything on the table was white.

Except for the different drinks, the dishes are all the same, served in duplicate.

This dinner was quite sumptuous, and the ingredients were the best in rural hospitality here. Most of them were hard dishes.

As for the taste, there is nothing particularly outstanding. I can only say that it is delicious due to the ingredients, but there is still a lot of room for improvement.

For the rural areas here, the preparations made by the Feng family today are of the highest standard.

They attach great importance to the in-laws coming over this time.

This is not an ordinary visit to visit relatives. This time the parents of both parties met and had to decide on their marriage.

Feng Chen is already twenty-one years old and will get married in another year.

The Feng family's parents did not treat Feng Xi very well, but they still valued their son.

Correspondingly, I also attach great importance to this daughter-in-law.

So in terms of hospitality, it can be said that everything that can be used is used.

In this regard, Master Ruan also repeatedly expressed his gratitude.

The elders at the table drank more. They started with two bottles of white wine and drank them all in a short time.

Two more bottles of white wine were added later.

That was a bottle of wine that cost several hundred yuan. After drinking it like this, Feng's mother really felt a little bit sick.

If the in-laws drank this wine, it wouldn't hurt so much. I originally bought such an expensive wine just to entertain the in-laws.

Ke Qinjia didn’t drink much.

Master Ruan drank a little more, but his wife only drank two cups - a small cup that was only filled with one or two cups.

The ones who drank heavily were the elders of the Feng family who were invited to accompany the guests.

For these people, they have never drunk a bottle of wine that costs hundreds of dollars. Now that they have this opportunity, of course they have to drink it.

Just one cup will cost you dozens of dollars.

Of course, the more you drink, the more money you make.

Even if I don't usually drink much, I still drink a lot at this time.

If you drink more today, you will have more capital to brag to others in the future.

After today, there may not be another opportunity like this in the future.

If you drink like this, you will indeed feel a bit unable to hold on.

It's understandable that Feng's mother feels pain.

All she can do is drink less and ask her husband to drink less.

This will reduce losses.

She had no way to persuade others not to drink, so she could only control her husband. The reason was that he was not a good drinker and could not drink too much.

When people drink, they talk a lot and their voices are very loud.

After a while, the main room became as noisy as a vegetable market.

Fortunately, no one went crazy with alcohol.

There were only two elders at Yan Xin's table, and they were not very old. The other young people did not drink white wine. There was no such atmosphere, and they did not drink too much. They did not finish a bottle of white wine.

I finished four or five bottles of beer.

Everyone can drink beer, it’s just a matter of whether they like it or not.

Yan Xin also drank two glasses of beer.
To be continued...