Chapter 31
Chapter 31
Before the wedding, we discussed that we would accompany each other back to their home countries to see their families, and cash out all the vacations we had saved in the past few years.First, I flew to Paris with my uncle, played casually for a few days, and was warmly received by Mama Mi.A few days before I left, I took the initiative to announce to them at dinner that I would be getting married in a year, and as expected, the Mi family rioted.
Papa Mi insisted on bringing out the good wine from his collection to celebrate. Mama Mi held the phone and notified relatives, "My youngest son is getting married! Yes, the one who found a very beautiful Asian boy, yes Da, it's a little boy, that kid is a boy..."
Lawyer Mi covered his face and shrank to the side, making pink bubbles, with a shy expression of [Dear why are you so active, I'm so embarrassed], I felt hairy all over, "No, you thought I called you here France, why are you following me back to China? Traveling?”
Lawyer Mi was still bubbling over there: "Then you didn't discuss it with me, you said it so directly." He pointed to the excited family members in the restaurant and complained to me: "Look, it's because of your words My family has been turned upside down."
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After finally holding the excited Papa Mi and Mama Mi, the four of them sat back at the dining table. Before their buttocks warmed up, Mama Mi couldn’t wait to hold my hand and asked excitedly, "Which one of you proposed to whom? Hey!" , it must be Michelle, then what month do you plan to hold the wedding? In France, the United States or China? What kind of wedding? Open-air outdoor, indoor church? Why did you tell us such a big thing? ?!...Emma, oh my god, I'm so happy for the child's father!!!!" Mama Mi popped up a bunch of questions, and while talking, she excitedly pulled her husband to act like a baby.
Papa Mi stretched out his hand to comfort her: "Okay, okay, I'll make you happy, ask so many questions, how will Asher answer", he reached out and poured me a glass of wine, and said kindly: "Come on, this is 92 years The salon, today must be a good celebration."
As soon as the wine glass was pushed over, before he could pick it up, he was stopped by Lawyer Mi, robbed him halfway, and taught his father: "Dad, how many times have I told you that he has a bad stomach and cannot drink?"
Papa Mi waved his hand: "Oh, a little bit, it's rare to have a happy event to celebrate today! Just half a glass is fine."
I stared helplessly at the champagne glass, and the poor Uncle Chong blinked: "That's right, just a little... Is there a happy event... The salon in 92... It's about the same age as me... I haven't even drank it yet. ..."
Lawyer Mi frowned and handed me the cup, and said sternly, "Just this one!"
The meal was very enjoyable, and Mama Mi kept asking questions throughout the whole process. When she knew that it was me who proposed to my uncle, she widened her eyes excitedly. Attorney Mi also glanced at me proudly, with a face full of [you proposed first. , you proposed first] showing off his expression.
Halfway through dinner, the phone rang at home, and it turned out to be Lawyer Mi's grandfather calling.Thinking that she was calling to bless her, Mama Mi turned on the speakerphone so that everyone could listen together. The old man's loud voice spread throughout the room, "What? Michelle is really going to marry that little boy?! Man and man Get married, then who will wear the wedding dress? Let me tell you, Michelle is absolutely not allowed to wear it, he will scare people to death if he wears a skirt when he grows up to that virtue..."
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I stayed in Paris for 3 days and had to leave again. I wanted to stay longer, but my uncle said he wanted to leave me more time in China.Before leaving, Mother Mi took out a check and handed it to me, exhorting: "We have a custom in France to pay for the wedding expenses of our married daughter/son. You keep the money, and my Michelle will entrust you to you in the future." Check The number on it was followed by a string of zeros, and she touched my head with red eyes: "You have been coming to my house for Christmas for several years, you are a good boy, I can see that you care about Michelle , I will treat this place as my own home in the future, and I can come here whenever I want.”
Papa Mi also echoed: "Let Michelle apply for a French green card for you, so that you don't need to apply for a visa when you come to France. If Michelle treats you badly in the future, you can come and complain to us at any time, and we will help you deal with him .”
The amount of money was too big, so I shirked and said nothing, but Mi's mother was not happy, and stomped her foot: "Oh, you are all part of our family, what's wrong with giving you some money, take it, take it, don't worry!" Buy something delicious and drinkable."
Glancing at Uncle, he also nodded, and had no choice but to gratefully put the check into his wallet.
After that, I flew directly from Paris to Beijing. While waiting for the plane, I was so nervous that I was sweating and my hands and feet were trembling.Uncle ran to take a piece of cake and put it in my hand, and persuaded, "Just go back and play for a while, let's see how nervous you are, how long you haven't gone back."
Holding the cake and gnashing her teeth, "It wasn't you who was beaten when you came out of the closet, you had twelve fractures all over your body, and you have been in the hospital for more than three months, and you don't have back pain when you stand and talk."
He immediately shut up.After graduating from university, I deliberately flew back to China to come out to my family. I was beaten to death by my own father with a rolling pin, and almost broke the relationship between father and son.Since then, I have never been back to China. I thought that maybe I would never go back in this life, but this time I want to get married. I thought I had to bring Lawyer Mi back to China, so that he could meet the person who raised me. Grandma and grandpa.Having said that, in fact, I have no idea in my heart. The old man is old and I don't know if he can accept this kind of thing.
On the plane, Attorney Mi secretly added some sleeping pills to my drink, making me fall asleep from the beginning to the end. When I opened my eyes, the plane had already landed at Beijing International Airport. Won't wake me up? I missed the plane meal, bastard! My plane meal! My ice cream! My Haagen-Dazs! My Ferrero, my chocolate soufflé!"
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This time when I returned to China, I informed my grandma and grandpa. Originally, my sister wanted to be with me, but she didn’t have enough holidays, so she held my hand with tears in her eyes and told me, “Brother, don’t forget to pack the box for me.” Daoxiang Village is back, don’t forget!”
Grandma was also taken aback when she received my call. When she learned that I was planning to go back, she said happily, "Why do you suddenly want to come back? Will your sister be with you?"
I was not ambiguous, and said directly, "I'm getting married, and I want to bring him back to show you and grandpa."
There was silence on the other side, and after a while, grandma asked carefully: "Bring someone back? Is that your boyfriend? Is it the one who is a lawyer?"
"Yeah, he's a lawyer in the United States, he's of French-American blood, didn't the girl show you his photo before?"
"Are you okay? Oh no, I mean, he, this, you two... when will you be back?"
"The plane will arrive in Beijing on the 15th in two weeks' time"
Grandma hurriedly said, "Come back so soon? Oh, tell me about you son of a bitch! Why didn't you say it earlier, we are not in Beijing now, your grandpa and I are going back to live in Chengdu."
I wondered: "What are you two doing back in Chengdu?"
Grandma complained angrily, "It's not all about your aunt. We have a house in Chengdu, which is suitable for the elderly. We move there all day, so let's get out of here. It's too cold in Beijing in winter, and your grandpa and I are thinking about it." Come to Chengdu for the winter this year, and come back in spring tomorrow.”
After chatting with grandma for a while, grandpa answered the phone, and I said the same thing to him, the other side was also silent for a while, and grandpa's deep voice came from the phone after a while: "Bring me back to see, before the old man I heard the girl said how powerful that person is, and we haven't seen him until now."
I quickly said: "Okay, okay, we will go back in two weeks, don't worry. He is really nice"
Grandpa replied with a neutral promise: "Take it back and have a look."
Grandma asked us to come to Chengdu directly, and it happened that I hadn't been there before, so I thought it was a trip.The air ticket to Beijing has already been booked. There is no flight from France to Chengdu, so I can only buy a connecting ticket after arriving in Beijing.He told Uncle about this, and after listening to it, he asked stupidly: "Where is Chengdu? Is there more delicious food than Beijing?"I searched for some photos of Chengdu on the Internet. Lawyer Mi stared straight at a picture of a pair of handmade hands in red oil, and immediately nodded in agreement: "Okay, okay, go to Chengdu, it looks delicious."
After arriving in Beijing, I bought a ticket for the latest flight to Chengdu at the airport. While waiting for the plane, the two ate some food at the Beijing airport. The boxed lunch at the airport was very greasy and not tasty.It was the first time for Lawyer Mi to experience the time difference between China and the United States. He was so sleepy that he closed his eyes and stuffed it into his mouth indiscriminately, muttering that he wanted to eat authentic Beijing roast duck.After I wiped my mouth, I was so sleepy that I wanted to lie down on my lap.I slept all the way on the plane, and now I am mentally dying, let him sleep with his lap on his pillow, and sit quietly watching a good horror movie in the notebook.
When boarding the plane, several stewardesses stared at my uncle, and the two girls secretly whispered and laughed while talking. During the service, they secretly asked me if he was a model celebrity or something.Uncle is so tall that he stands out among Chinese people, but he himself doesn't know it.On the way, she didn't dare to let him sleep again, and kept pinching his palms, giving him painful sleep for a while and waking up for a while.Lawyer Mi couldn't take it anymore, and acted like a baby with me in a soft voice, "Asher, my dear Asher, stop making trouble, baby, just let me sleep for a while, I'm going to be sleepy, just for a while!"
I looked at the passengers around with a guilty conscience. No one noticed us. Fortunately, he spoke French, and others probably couldn't understand it.Fearing that my uncle would make trouble again, I had to let him continue to sleep.
When we arrived in Chengdu, we didn’t ask grandma to pick us up. We waited in line for a taxi and asked the driver to take us to the address my grandma sent us.I have never been to Chengdu, and I am very curious about this city just like my uncle. The two of us looked at the scenery outside through the window.The driver was a local. At first he thought we were both foreigners, so he didn't dare to talk to us, and kept peeking at us with the rearview mirror.
I was terrified by him, and I took the initiative to say: "Master, you should concentrate on looking ahead, the road condition is not good."
The driver was a little embarrassed, "Boy, you are Chinese, I thought you were Chinese, and you can't speak Chinese."
"I'm from Beijing. I went abroad to study when I was young."
The driver looked at Uncle Gu, "Your friend is an American? He's really tall."
I nodded: "Master, it's the first time for us to come to Chengdu. I don't know what's interesting here. Can you recommend some?"
The driver introduced while driving, "Chengdu is much more interesting. Dujiangyan, Shixiang Lake, Pingle Ancient Town, and a place where young people especially like to go shopping, Chunxi Road. My daughter often goes there on weekends."
We chatted in full swing, and when we met a red light, we stopped on the side of the road.There is a food stall next to it, and the chubby proprietress is stirring a big pot of food, which looks very attractive.Lawyer Mi looked out of the window, sniffed and smelled the smell, and got greedy, so he pulled me and asked, "What is Asher, it looks delicious, I want to eat it!"
I asked the driver, and he replied: "That's a bean curd pot, a special snack in Chengdu. You two have a try when you have time, it's delicious."
Translated in English for my uncle, he looked out of the window greedily: "Let's eat this tonight, it looks so delicious"
Chengdu is not as crowded as Beijing. After a while, I arrived at the neighborhood where my grandma lived. I took out a one-hundred-dollar ticket to pay.I got off the car and went to a small shop on the street to buy a cigarette, which was broken.I got out of the car and unloaded the luggage first. Uncle sat in the car with his head raised in a daze, and asked innocently, "Why did that man take the money and run away? He doesn't want the car anymore?"
"Yeah, the car is ours, I will drive you and fly with you later, sir."
The driver bought a cigarette and tucked it under his arm, ran back and returned the change to me, and handed me a map.
"You two come to Chengdu for the first time, it is easy to get lost, I will see you off"
Thank you for taking it, the driver waved his hand and drove away.
Uncle He took the elevator with the suitcase, found the corresponding house number, rang the doorbell, and the old lady's sharp voice came from inside, "Come~~~~Who is it~~~~My baby, right?"
There are three brothers and sisters in my family, the elder brother is the big baby, the younger sister is the little baby, and I am caught in the middle, so I become the middle baby.Then my aunt gave birth to another child, who was called a little baby.
Grandma opened the door, and her short and fat body immediately hugged me, her thick palms stroked my back, and she kept muttering: "You said you are a dead child, you have no conscience, you don't even know how to call back, let me Take a good look, you're thinner again, you can put your hands on this back..."
I was caught and ravaged by my grandma, touching here and looking there, and Lawyer Mi was also very happy to stand by and watch.
"Ouch, grandma, that's all right, how old am I?"
"No matter how old you are, it's my baby...Look at your arm, every time your sister comes back, you can gain weight several times, how can you still lose weight?"
"Oh my god, is Zhong Baobao back? Let me see..."
Grandpa also came out when he heard the sound, thinking that there was no outsider, so he put on a big underpants, a big vest, and waved a bamboo fan. When he saw that there was still an outsider behind him, he turned back after two steps. After a while, she came out again dressed neatly, "Oh, is the baby back, let me take a look..."
Grandpa also came up to check, "Is it thinner again, and the collarbone is protruding?"
The two touched and dragged me into the house.I waved to my uncle and let him come in too.This is the first time I have brought him to meet his family in China. The human-shaped golden retriever has not reversed the jet lag, and is still a little dazed. He stood at the door for a long time without moving, and he had to pull hard to come in.
The 5 meter grandma looked up, "Good guy, this is tall."
I leaned into my ear and translated for him: My grandma praised you for being tall
Mi Jinmao touched his head in embarrassment, and spit out two non-standard Chinese: "crab crab"
Grandpa smiled, "Yo, I can speak Chinese, it's pretty good"
The Golden Retriever continued to laugh, "Crab Crab"
Grandma patted him on the back and asked, "How old are you, young man? What do you like to eat? I'll make delicious food for you tonight." Mi Jin Mao continued: "Crab crab"
Grandma: ...
This time the two elders found out that the half-baked lawyer Mi could speak a few words in Chinese and couldn't understand them at all.
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