Chapter 438: Might as well marry Meizhu

The facilities at the Public Security Reception House were indeed mediocre, and although the guest rooms were open to the public at high prices, they were hard to come by.

The attendant flatly refused my request for room 512. She said the room was still occupied, and the Municipal Bureau had requirements that this room was temporarily not open to the public.

I couldn't get the room, but the number 512 kept circling in my mind. I seemed to have understood the meaning of the number Hao Qiang wrote. All the secrets should be hidden in room 512.

The Bureau Director asked if I wanted to change rooms, but I declined his suggestion, saying I wanted to go home to visit my mother.

When the County Bureau Director heard I wanted to go home to visit my mother, he leaned over and said with a smile, "Why don't you take me with you, so I can pay my respects to your mother?"

I refused him again. It wasn't that I wouldn't give him a chance, but my mother had never had a good impression of the police in her life.

Back in the day, my maternal grandfather ran five pharmacies, and my mother was his only apple of his eye. My grandfather was charitable his whole life; how many poor families in Hengyue City had received medicine from my grandfather's pharmacy without paying?

My grandfather insisted on a bottom line for poor families. If they couldn't afford medicine, they could buy on credit, but they had to write an IOU. The IOUs piled up, but my grandfather never went to collect them. Some families who owed money, when their situation improved, would bring money to pay off the debt, and my grandfather would just smile and accept it. He was neither polite nor talkative.

By the time of Liberation, the IOUs in my grandfather's hands became his evidence of guilt. They said he had a "book of accounts for changing the sky"! Fortunately, my grandfather never offended anyone his whole life, so others just talked about it, and at most, he was dragged out to be struggled against for a few days. He didn't suffer physical pain, and he didn't suffer any major losses.

The people handling the case at that time were the Military Control Team, and the Military Control Team was the predecessor of the Public Security. My mother watched with her own eyes as my grandfather was dragged out by the Military Control people to be struggled against. Although my grandfather didn't suffer physical pain, he couldn't bear the mental pressure. Thinking about how respected he had been for decades, and now he had to bow his head every day, standing with a group of hooligans and street ruffians, letting people point and spit at him, how could he bear it?

My grandfather finally hanged himself from a beam with a straw rope, ending his life.

I parted ways with the County Bureau Director and didn't let him send me off. I took a taxi and headed home.

My mother hadn't seen me for months. When she saw me, she was both sad and happy, reaching out to touch my face, looking like she was crying but not crying, laughing but not laughing.

Xi Meizhu, who was on the side, was dutifully supporting my mother, looking at me from time to time.

I squatted on the ground, leaning my head on my mother's knees, letting my mother's bony hands touch me from my eyebrows to my chin. My mother's hands were as comfortable as a spring breeze brushing my face. In an instant, I felt as if I had returned to my childhood, enjoying the warmth transmitted by maternal love to my heart's content.

"Meizhu, hurry and pour some tea for your brother," my mother pushed Meizhu, letting her walk away.

Meizhu hesitated and let go. She exhorted me, "Don't let mother fall."

I nodded and watched her enter my mother's room.

As soon as she left, my mother pulled my head over and whispered in my ear, "Feng'er, it's been years, and I haven't seen you bring a wife home."

I complained, "Didn't one come during the New Year?"

Mother sighed and said, "They are from official families, and we are just commoners; we can't climb that high."

"Who said that?" I said dissatisfied, "Besides, I am an official now, so it's not climbing high."

"Do they look down on you? Otherwise, why haven't I seen you get married until today?" Mother asked suspiciously.

"Why would they look down on me?" I said indignantly, "I became an official through my own ability and skill, without begging for help or money. Why would others look down on me? It's just that regarding marriage, your son's career has just started, and I want to wait a bit longer."

"Still waiting? How long do you want to wait?" Mother pushed me away, tears rolling from her dim eyes, and said angrily, "You are over thirty, and you haven't married and had a son; how can you expect me to face your father when I go down there?"

My heart skipped a beat; my mother was right. I was over thirty, and although I couldn't say I had achieved success, I had made a name for myself. Marriage was indeed something that needed to be put on the agenda.

"It will be soon," I comforted my mother.

"I think, why don't you listen to me," Mother suddenly winked at me mysteriously, pursed her lips toward her room, and said, "Those girls you had before, I don't think they are good wives. You might as well marry Meizhu."

I was stunned for a moment and hesitated, "Mother, have you ever seen a brother and sister get married?"

"What kind of brother and sister are you? Didn't you just swear brotherhood? Besides, you didn't hold a ceremony, so it doesn't count."

"This has already been said, and everyone knows it; can I marry my own sister?"

"If you don't marry her, who do you want to marry?"

"You know Weiwei too, she is a good person."

"Oh," Mother sighed long and hard, "She is good. But I'm afraid she has no heart to marry you! Otherwise, why haven't I seen any movement until now."

"Marriage is something that takes time; you can't rush it." I looked up and saw Meizhu coming out of the room, so I quickly stopped my mother, "Let's talk about this later, okay?"

"No!" Mother pouted like a child, "You want to wait until I die to talk about it, right?"

I was left between laughter and tears. My mother was now focused on holding a grandson, but where did I have the leisure to talk about marriage?

Meizhu handed me a cup of tea and chided, "Why did you make mother angry?"

I smiled, "My mother is getting younger as she gets older. Making her angry so her son can see it is a way of showing love to her son."

Mother didn't accept my words and said directly to Meizhu, "Meizhu, I don't have many thoughts, I just want you to be my daughter-in-law. Is this thought wrong?"

Xi Meizhu blushed upon hearing this. She patted my mother's back gently and said shyly, "Mother, how can a son and daughter get married?"

"Don't say that, I know it in my heart." Mother grabbed Meizhu's hand and then grabbed one of my hands. She stuffed Meizhu's hand into my palm and said, "If you two are together, I can die in peace."

Before I could react, Meizhu had already pulled her hand out of my palm and said feignedly angry, "Mother, if you talk nonsense again, I will be angry."

Mother laughed and tapped Meizhu's forehead, saying, "Girl, how can I not see what you are thinking in your heart?"

I looked at Xi Meizhu; her face was already as red as a piece of red cloth, and as bright as the peach blossoms in March.

"I won't talk to you anymore." Meizhu ran into the small room like an escapee and refused to come out again.

Mother pursed her lips at me, signaling me to go into the room.

I shook my head and refused, picking up the teacup to drink tea.

Mother snatched the teacup from my hand, and because the movement was a bit violent, the spilled tea splashed on my leg, hurting me so much I almost screamed.

Mother didn't care and kept pushing me into the small room.

I refused and wouldn't move. Mother got angry, raised her hand, and patted me lightly on the face, saying, "Stupid child, stupid child."

Seeing my mother's determined look, I had to stand up, push open the door of the small room, and look back at my mother; she had already moved slowly back to her room.

On the edge of the bed in the small room, Xi Meizhu was sitting with her body half-turned and her head bowed.

She was still flushed and didn't dare to look up at me.

I coughed, and she looked up at the sound, glanced at me in a panic, and asked in a small voice, "Why did you come in?"

I smiled self-deprecatingly, "Can't I enter my own room?"

Meizhu didn't dare to answer, moved her butt in a panic, and asked me, "Why did you come back?"

"I came to the city for business. By the way, I came home to see my mother."

"Don't worry, mother has me." Meizhu patted the edge of the bed beside her and said, "Don't stand, come and sit."

There wasn't an extra chair in the room, and besides the edge of the bed, there really wasn't any place to sit.

The small room was clearly occupied by Meizhu; one could tell from the room's decoration. She had put wallpaper on all four walls, and it was pink wallpaper. Under the light, it showed a faint softness.

Seeing me examining the room, she said bashfully, "Mother told me to live here. So I put up the wallpaper."

I smiled and said, "Good, good, good. Very beautiful!"

Meizhu asked happily, "Is it really beautiful?"

"Really beautiful."

She smiled, stood up, and said, "I knew you liked this color."

I took out a cigarette and just wanted to light it, but Meizhu reached out and snatched it, broke it in half, and said, "No smoking."

I smiled, "Starting to manage me?"

Meizhu smiled shyly and said, "Brother, do I dare to manage you?"

"Isn't this managing me?" I looked at the broken cigarette in her hand and said unhappily.

"Do you want me to manage you?" She didn't dare to look at me, lowering her head shyly, looking at her own toes.

"Manage me, manage me." I smelled the faint fragrance coming from her body and couldn't help but feel moved.

Hearing me say this, she immediately looked up, and a sorrowful face appeared in my eyes.

"Brother, don't take mother's words seriously."

"I didn't take them seriously."

She sighed disappointedly and said faintly, "Brother, you are a dragon, and I am just a blade of grass that no one knows. We are not on the same path at all. However, I have decided to serve mother well for the rest of my life, and I will not marry again."

"Why?" I asked in surprise.

"Because no one is worth me marrying," her forced smile made my heart ache.

"Who said that? In this world, every blade of grass has its dew. Everyone has their other half waiting for the other. Meizhu, you are smart, beautiful, and so virtuous; what kind of man would be lucky enough to marry you?"

"Really?" She smiled, her face full of sunshine.

"Yes."

"But I still don't want to marry," she said firmly, "If I don't marry, will the world stop turning?"

"It really won't turn," I teased her, "If you don't marry, won't there be one more bachelor in the world?"

"None of my business."

"It really is none of your business. It's just that with one more bachelor, there is one more disharmony in society."

"Still none of my business." She stared boldly into my eyes and said slowly, "Heaven has already given my other half to someone else; if you want to blame someone, blame heaven, don't blame me."

Could I not understand what she meant? I asked foolishly on purpose, "Where is your other half?"

She turned her head shyly and giggled. After laughing for a while, she suddenly leaned into my arms and chided, "Besides you, who else?"

I wanted to push her away, but seeing that she had already opened her arms, hugging my waist, and was quiet and motionless, I couldn't bear it.

"I am not your other half," I muttered, the shadows of Xue Bing, Huang Weiwei, Yue Bai, and Lin Xiaoxi appearing in my mind. My heart suddenly ached.

"You are my nemesis!" She hugged me tighter.

"I am your brother," I said, patting her back, "Not your nemesis."

"You are," she said stubbornly, refusing to let go at all. She pressed her head into my chest and said shyly, "If you aren't my nemesis, why did you peek at me taking a bath!"

I was stunned, and the scene from many years ago instantly entered my mind. That time she was taking a bath in the company, I saw it unconsciously. Besides Xiaoqin, I hadn't told anyone about this; how did she know?

I wanted to defend myself, but she reached out and covered my mouth, chiding, "I knew you were watching me at the time. Had your fill of watching?"

I was ashamed and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

She looked up, looking at me with bright eyes, and said seriously, "Can you kiss me once?"

I looked at her hesitantly.

She smiled shyly, "I haven't been kissed by anyone yet. I want to taste the taste of a kiss."

Such provocation, even if I had the meditative state of an old monk, couldn't stop my impulse of desire.

I lowered my head and kissed her soft little lips.

At first, she was like a startled little deer, wanting to escape, but after half a second of hesitation, she met me. Shyly, wanting to refuse but welcoming, she leaned in.

There was a sweet fragrance between her lips and teeth, like the faint smell of grass, and like the fragrance of flowers in spring, faint and faint, penetrating the lips and teeth, lingering in the mind.

She kept her teeth tightly closed, even breaking my lip.

I tentatively extended my tongue, wandering between her lips and teeth. She hesitated, trembling, like a door that had been dusty for a long time, wanting a ray of sunshine but afraid that the sunshine would burn her.

Finally, she opened herself, letting my tongue drive straight in. We were entangled together.

For a long time, she escaped from my arms, stood not far away, and looked at me with a smile that was not a smile.

I hesitated and wanted to go over, but she giggled, waved her hand to refuse me, and said, "Brother, that's enough. Thank you."

I still wanted to speak, but she stopped me and said seriously, "I am satisfied. Brother, you should marry your sister-in-law home sooner."

Such a change made me unable to adapt. The fragrance of her seemed to remain between my lips and teeth, and I wanted to possess her with evil intentions.

"That's it!" She seemed to see through my scheme, slipped past me, stood in the living room, and asked me loudly, "Brother, what do you want to eat? I'll go buy groceries."

By the time I came out of the small room, she had already rolled out like a gust of wind. ===== CHAPTER 439 =====