Original illustration: Meow Meow Xia, narrated by: Qian Yuan, female
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32-year-old Qian Yuan never thinks that marriage is her urgent need in life.
is the only way to make money.
is the freedom.
So, she is never vague about work, and she goes from Party B to Party A’s father step by step.
While financially free, emotions are actually free.
She has been working hard from a small town in the south to Beijing, and she has always been independent and outstanding.
has had several love stories. Although they were fresh and moved at the beginning, that's all.
Start with the initial self-introduction, the trivialities at work, the news of mutual friends, which restaurant is good to eat together, watch movies together...
The topic is always like this. If you talk a few more, you will feel that all love is just doing the same thing with different people, so you are exhausted and have no pleasure.
is far from working hard, overcoming one difficulty after another, adding account deposits, and drinking the most profitable wine with your best friend, and having the most thorough chat.
Look at the colleagues and friends around her who have been in a dirt-stricken relationship in marriage, chicken and baby , and mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. She feels that if she and a man don’t have any deep hatred in this life, don’t get married.
What's more, parents are open-minded and know that they are as good as her, and they will set up their own life well.
Just be happy.
02
Of course, Qian Yuan has two best friends who are desperate, so she never has to worry about going to the hospital without anyone accompanying her or answering the phone.
There is also a successful confidante Li Zhuohang, a Chaoshan native, and a new energy project manager of private enterprises.
The two are old colleagues, and they can be regarded as witnessing each other's growth and transformation along the way.
or above, if the lover is not full, you can make jokes on a large scale, or you can provide the most sincere ears when each other is in a low mood and give appropriate suggestions.
Even the best friend who is looking at the top occasionally advises Qian Yuan: "Please accept him, it's not bad everywhere. What if someone intercepts you?"
Qian Yuan is very disdainful: "Don't talk about getting married, I can't bear to live with him. These days, it's easy to find a bedmate, but it's too difficult to find a close friend who can chat and not think about it. We must protect each other's relationships like protecting Cuihu National Wetland Park."
Sometimes, Li Zhuohang would joke with Qian Yuan: "If I am 80 years old, I am unmarried and you are not married, we will grow old together."
Qian Yuan laughed: "Okay, teenagers and middle-aged couples should not do it. There are too many things. If we want to do it, we can be the one who directly cares for the other party and sees the death of the other party."
The two people's communities are separated by three streets. They both entrust their door password to each other. If something happens, ensure that the other party can open their door as soon as possible.
03
Qian Yuan doesn’t know how comfortable she is for her lifestyle.
Especially when watching two married best friends fighting in complex relationships such as food, rice, oil, salt, chicken, baby, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, Qian Yuan felt more and more that she was right.
There are always a few days a month when two best friends will suddenly visit her, lying on her imported Italian leather sofa to recover blood, and they can't even chase her away.
Seeing Qian Yuan eat alone, the whole family is not hungry, and she is free and carefree. She is completely unaware of school district housing, new concept English, and Haidian mother. The two best friends asked her many times: "Why didn't you stop me when I got married? Isn't you help me if I don't save me?"
As a punishment, they took turns to Qian Yuan: "Pour me a glass of red wine." "Cut me a mango and cut it into small pieces."
Both of them like Qian Yuan's super large projector. Every time they come day and night, they pull up the automatic curtains , and then, they always watch whatever movies. Moreover, if you see them for ten minutes, they will sleep very well. It feels like they have never slept in eight hundred lives.
The most frustrating thing is that the three of them have to travel once a year.
But since their best friends have children, no matter where they travel. Traveling is actually to find a hotel with a huge swimming pool in another place.
In this way, they can throw their children into the swimming pool and then lie on the lounge chair for a holiday.
Seeing that Qian Yuan could not talk to them and could not play together, she said, "Why don't we break up with each other.
Two best friends are silly: "Your family is the last pure land of our lives. Even if you make our husband green, we can't break up with you. "
Before, they were Qian Yuan's human experience.
Now they are moving further and further towards the direction of bad friends, and they are far ahead.
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In March 2020, when the epidemic broke out in Beijing, my best friend A was isolated because he took an elevator with a confirmed positive.
She was sent to the hotel by an ambulance. On the first day of quarantine, her best friend called Qian Yuan and cried loudly.
Qian Yuan comforted her in various ways: "Oh, it's okay, you are lucky and you generally don't dare to approach your body." "Don't worry about the child, if you are not at home, your husband and mother-in-law will take good care of the child..."
Who knew, best friend A interrupted her: "Do you know?" This is the first time I went to bed from 6pm to 6pm in the morning in two years since I had a baby. I didn’t have to do housework and walk the baby, and I didn’t have to think about what to cook in the morning, noon and evening. I felt that every joint in my body exuded the joy of freedom... Do you understand this feeling of crying with joy, as if it was a lifetime ago? "
However, three days later, when my best friend called again, his style suddenly changed. He missed his children and homesome, and felt that he had no home. He would definitely be in chaos. Her husband just reported good news but not bad news, for fear that she would be worried...
A lot of free time was in his hand, and he couldn't sleep even after suddenly, and the ready-made food was not delicious.
Qian Yuan comforted him in various ways, but the more he persuaded the other party, the more he became more and more excited.
Finally, Qian Yuan patiently overdrawd and began his daily bombardment mode of best friend: "I'm too lazy to persuade you anymore, you are not here to listen to your advice at all. You married women are just contradictory, and it is difficult to draw the ground into a prison and fall into a trap. "
Best friend was scolded very comfortably: "Qian Yuan, you are right. I was also quarantined and found out that family and marriage are actually just people who are willing to fight and be beaten. People who get married and have children are more or less masochistic. Of course, people like you who have never experienced it cannot understand it. "
's words are the truth.
Qian Yuan doesn't understand, but she doesn't want to understand.
A good life, be simpler, be more carefree, live in the present, love yourself well, isn't it good?
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However, on April 28, 2022, the community where Qian Yuan was located was classified as a medium- and high-risk area in the middle of the night.
Only when she woke up did she realize that she was qualified to go downstairs All were cancelled.
Qian Yuan was not panicked at all. First, he called the company for leave, and then @ the community property manager to inquire about the supply of materials.
When he found that the property staff had been busy cooperating with epidemic prevention and control since last night and had no time to care about supply guarantee, she quickly called Li Zhuohang and asked him to prepare supplies for 21 days in quarantine and delivered them to the community.
One hour later, Li Zhuohang sent four big bags of materials to the entrance of the community, and the property manager personally connected and delivered them to the stairs.
Opening the shopping bag, Qian Yuan simply wanted to give it to her knees.
Fish, seafood, fruit, potato chips, melon seeds, shredded squids, and Qian Yuan’s favorite Haidilao hotpot base and beef and mutton slices...
Moreover, one of the bags is full of books, which was temporarily drawn by Li Zhuohang from his bookshelf and WeChat: "These are a few books I often read by my pillow. I hope I can pass the time with you. When I am bored, I will find me at any time and provide you with housekeeper-style service for twenty-four hours!"
All the supplies and spiritual food are prepared, and Qian Yuan began to enjoy her quarantine time.
Make cooking, read books, chase dramas, do yoga every day, and occasionally handle work online, and the day passes in the blink of an eye.
Two best friends call Qian Yuan every day to popularize various dishes to her. In order to relieve her boredom, their children showed her talents to her in the video.
Qian Yuan told them that she was not bored at all, just pretending that she was practicing in the mountains, and her best friend said that she was stubborn.
Then, hung up the phone and continued to push various recipes and jokes to her.
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Compared with this, Qian Yuan thinks Li Zhuohang understands her better.
He will send her WeChat messages on time at nine o'clock every day, talk to her about the drama, and talk about the books she read that day.
He has the habit of taking reading notes. When he encounters classic plots in the book, he will copy them down, as if he has taken a book for himself.
And Qian Yuan, influenced by him, used to like to draw paragraphs in books. Now, when you have time, you also try to do excerpts and use the notebooks you buy when you see them.
Every night, the two chatted a few words about their respective living conditions, just like they were with lottery, sharing with each other the excerpts they made in the same book.
Many times, the paragraphs they excerpted overlap, so the two of them recited together across the screen.
says that reading is a spiritual jailbreak. With these books given by Li Zhuohang, Qian Yuan is indeed not anxious at all. She is trapped at home, but her thoughts are high and long.
07
At this time, as the quarantine period increases, some families have begun to shortage of supplies, and some people's mentality has collapsed. When
community group or nucleic acid test , neighbors often start to argue with each other at a disagreement.
Some people have also begun to criticize various things for the inadequate property services.
Some people even wanted to run out of the quarantine area in the dark, but were taken away by the police.
It was a mess outside, and Qian Yuan closed the door and formed a peaceful and peaceful state. On the eighth day of the blockade of
, Qian Yuan heard someone knocking on the door, and it was the grandmother next door.
Qian Yuan moved here for 3 years and never talked to her grandparents in the opposite door.
It is said that the grandparents and grandparents are both university professors and their children are abroad.
They are simple and noble and cold in their work, and do not cause trouble to others, nor do they bother others.
Qian Yuan and they occasionally met them in the elevator or at the door of their house. They never quack like ordinary elderly people, but they just nodded their heads rather than words.
They keep a distance from everyone, and two people live in a small world.
What Qian Yuan did not expect was that this cold grandma knocked on her door for the first time, and she actually asked for help from a humble person.
"The community only has vegetables and eggs for supply. I can do it, but my wife hasn't eaten meat for three days... I don't know if I can borrow some meat from you, even if I can pack a few wontons for him."
Speaking of this, my grandmother's face turned red.
A person who is usually so elegant and calm is at a loss as if he is a child.
After Qian Yuan reacted, he quickly replied: "Yes, some, you can wait."
So, he ran home and took out a box of beef slices, a box of mutton slices, a piece of pork tenderloin , and a box of shrimp .
Grandma thanked her so much, and she took out the money from her pocket and wanted to give it to Qian Yuan.
Qian Yuan sincerely refused: "I am only alone, I eat less and stock up more. You are helping me. ”
Grandma said many thanks and entered the door.
08
On night, grandma came knocking on the door again and took grandpa with her.
Although it was only a distance from the opposite door, the two of them were still dressed neatly and formally as usual.
They brought Qian Yuan a slice of mutton onion and a shrimp and seaweed egg soup, which was placed in an extremely particular dish, steaming hot.
In such a day when the epidemic was shrouded in the epidemic, such a human fireworks were particularly warm.
Grandma said: "These are all made by my wife. He loves to eat and can also cook. People who have been making meals for their whole life are still a little nervous today. Try it. In fact, this is borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, and what you borrow is your flowers. "
Qian Yuan thanked her grandmother, and her grandmother said, "My wife, let you taste his skills. If you think it's OK, the epidemic is over. I hope you can come to your house for a meal. "
Qian Yuan agreed readily: "Well, this dish smells delicious. "
Grandpa echoed: "Thank you, girl. It makes you laugh. An old man in his 80s actually wants to go out to ask for meat from others..."
was kind, and grandma asked Qian Yuan how he got the supplies?
Qian Yuan just blocked the epidemic and asked Li Zhuohang to tell me about the rush to buy.
Grandma then sent an invitation: "The epidemic is over, please come to your house for dinner with this friend. You may not understand that my wife is authentic, and the things you give are really life-saving for him. So, don't refuse. "
Qian Yuan did not refuse.
She liked the elegance that this old couple exuded in their bones. She also knew that if they didn't go to eat this meal and didn't let them repay this favor, they would be really uneasy.
09
That night, Qian Yuan ate a really healing meal since the quarantine.
is just an ordinary mutton , but the meat is just right and the onion is fried just right. Qian Yuan, who rarely eats onion, fell in love with the taste, and even thinks that shredded onion is better than mutton.
And that shrimp seaweed soup, the shrimps were made by hand, and it was so fucked so hard that it made people reluctant to swallow.
The meal, Qian Yuan ate very slowly.
l0 Later, I actually cried until my face was filled with tears.
The fireworks in the world are the most heartwarming.
She couldn't imagine how love and heartache that had been in the old age made such a noble and proud grandma let down her dignity and ask for some meat for her husband.
Perhaps, these meals made by their grandfather have the answer.
Although it is an ordinary home-cooked dish, it is difficult to What I got is that at least the old man who has been married in the golden age carefully cooks each meal every day.
For a person, it is not difficult to cook a meal for her. The difficult and precious thing is to cook for her for a lifetime.
This is probably the most extreme romance.
At that moment, Qian Yuan suddenly wanted to get married.
Of course, she was still sure that she could live a good life alone.
However, she also felt that it would be great if she had more companions and more like an old lady, the city was locked down during the epidemic, and she would give up all her face and just get a little humble love for her husband.
Just like a best friend who began to miss the messy family life on the third day of quarantine, Qian Yuan used to be disdainful, and now she understands it: that is another aspect of life, the dependence of lips and teeth condensed in verbal battles.
And the fireworks of the home are undoubtedly a dilution and shielding of the world's wolf smoke.
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Just like at this moment, when she faced the two side dishes in front of her, she stopped and was reluctant to finish it.
I really want to share it with another person so that that person can also taste the most deliciousness of the world.
And this person, what appears to her mind, is Li Zhuohang.
In fact, what have they never eaten before when they travel around the world?
But this kind of thought, this kind of affection hidden in a home-cooked dish, is strange and gentle.
So Qian Yuan called Li Zhuohang for video call.
talked about the "begging" of grandma next door, talked about their invitations, and reported in detail the taste of the two dishes in front of you...
Li Zhuohang said: "You really said you were hungry. If it weren't for the epidemic, I immediately took a taxi to the tiger's mouth to grab food. I really couldn't imagine how delicious the dishes my grandfather cooked were, so I would like to praise you so generously. I know how clever your mouth is."
Qian Yuan said, "Li Zhuohang, the quarantine is over, let's get married."
And Li Zhuohang is worthy of being the person who understands her best in the world. He was stunned for a half-second and quickly replied, "Well, okay, it seems that I should learn a few specialty dishes, the kind of dishes that I will suddenly want to get married when I get older when I let young people eat once."
Then, the two laughed.
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That night, they chatted very late.
This time I was not talking about the book I read, but discussed the recent price of the food.
There is also whether to take wedding photos or not, and whether to hold a banquet.
and, if they get married and quarrel, if they quarrel in one, three or five, then Li Zhuohang apologizes first; if they quarrel in two, four or six, then Qian Yuan will make up for it on his own initiative.
And if there is a quarrel on Sunday, just have a cold war. It doesn’t matter if you always quarrel at the head of the bed and the end of the bed.
They even discussed the issue of having a boy or a girl for a long time, but in the end no one could convince anyone. Then they smiled knowingly: "Then wait to unpack the blind box."
Qian Yuan asked Li Zhuohang: "What does it feel like to be suddenly proposed?"
Li Zhuohang said: "Actually, I was ready to be a friend for the rest of my life, but when you talk about the grandma next door coming to ask for meat, I almost wanted to ask if you would like to try that kind of life of old age with me."
Qian Yuan sighed: "Li Zhuohang, I really can't bear to turn you into a husband. But I believe that even if we get along unhappy and unhappy in our marriage one day, we are the first to encourage each other to leave."
Li Zhuohang said: "Yes."
Then, they just kept the video like that until each other was sleepy and asleep...
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In the next days, Li Zhuohang was responsible for organizing the wedding outside.
Qian Yuan is responsible for notifying the few relatives and friends that she is getting married!
Everyone almost fell off their chins.
Best friend asked her: "It's too hasty. You must be stupid in isolation. Think twice."
Qian Yuan said: "I don't think about it. There are too many times in my life when I think twice before I act. This time, I want to be hasty."
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On May 19, 2022, Qian Yuan's community was finally released from isolation.
The next day, it happened to be May 20, and the two went to get the marriage certificate .
On the evening, I invited one of the few relatives and friends to have a reunion dinner in the hotel.
said it was a reunion dinner, but it was actually a Q&A banquet and a wedding banquet.
Qian Yuan reads everyone a piece of reading notes, from the writer Yishu : "When I die, I hope my husband and children are around me. I hope someone will compete for my legacy, I hope my sesame mung bean-sized gem rings have all my granddaughters who can't let go of it, claiming that they were left to her by my grandmother. I hope my grandson will discuss with me when I get married. I hope that I will be in a quarrel with everyone in my husband's family and will continue to quarrel. I hope to be a happy woman. "
Qian Yuan said: "When I was young, I felt that Yishu was really pretentious and confused. I actually hoped to be incompatible with my husband's family and let my children and grandchildren compete for their own inheritance. I don't hope for my own good. But when I was old, I realized that the words were too warm, too lifelike, and too simple. Happiness is not about having enough food and clothing, having a kind mother and filial son, but about being noisy. It is about being accompanied by one unsatisfactory life, home, and love and being loved like steel and cement over time. "Around
, there were people who came here with tears.
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And Li Zhuohang, on this day, also gave Qian Yuan a big surprise.
I never spoke when I went to KTV. He made his debut in his life that day, and he brought you a song "Give me to me" with his incomplete voice:
Give you my plain waiting and waiting
Give you my passionate desire and tenderness
Give you my joy and sorrow
Give you my insignificant joy and sorrow
Give you my insignificant All
Give me your smile corners and eyes
Give me your brilliant early spring and late autumn
Give me your uncrafted innocence and freedom
Give me your most precious
Give me your most precious
Give me your unswerving long and long-lasting
Give me your hand that is still tight after many years
Give you mature Will you just let me go?
be so white?
...
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That day, the neighbors next door also came. They were dressed more formal than the bride and groom, and were particularly excited about the marriage they had accidentally contributed.
At the invitation of Li Zhuohang, the two old men walked to the front stage generously and saved Li Zhuohang in their semi-professional singing style.
At the invitation of Li Zhuohang, the two old men walked to the front stage generously and saved Li Zhuohang in their semi-professional singing style.
At the invitation of Li Zhuohang, the two old men walked to the front stage with their semi-professional singing style.
At the invitation of Li Zhuohang, the two old men walked to the front stage with their semi-professional singing style. Lyrics like l4
flew out of the throats of two 80-year-old men. There was no word for love, but everyone felt that they were shrouded in love and blessed by love.
Xiaonian's words
This is the sweetest love story I have heard in the three years of the epidemic.
Just as Duras said: Love is not the closeness of the skin, not a vegetable and a meal, it is an immortal desire, a heroic dream of a tired life.
Life is impermanent, live in the present.
33 new crown reminds us: happiness is not a happy ending at a glance, but as long as there is a hint of happiness, try, chase, take responsibility, and make progress...
May everyone, like me, be sweet and inspire by this story.
