After the winter vacation, Yu Dong was not in a hurry to go home. He wanted to stay with Cheng Yanqiu at his parents' house for a few days.

Although they haven't held a banquet yet, he and Cheng Yanqiu are already legally married. Since they are husband and wife, they can't spend the New Year separately.

So they faced the first problem after getting married, whose house should they go to celebrate the New Year?

After much discussion, we finally decided to spend time in Shanghai this year and then come to Jinling next year, but before going home to celebrate the New Year, I would first stay in Jinling for a few days.

In fact, Yu Dong’s idea is that after the house in Jinling is built, he will take his parents over and spend the New Year together. Anyway, both parties are only children, so it is relatively simple. Then he will bring Grandpa Cheng Yanqiu over.

Grandma took over, and the Chinese New Year was also lively.

Yu Dong had tested his parents' ideas before, and they were not opposed to moving. The main reason was because there were no elderly people to support and they had fewer worries in their hometown.

These days, Yu Dong has been staying at his parents-in-law's house, and his life is very fulfilling.

After getting up in the morning, I first find a book to read. The morning passes quickly. I have a drink with my father-in-law at noon, and then in the afternoon the father-in-law and his son-in-law sit in the study and discuss calligraphy.

In the evening, after Chen Yuqing got off work, the four of them gathered around for a traditional cultural exchange, commonly known as playing mahjong.

Cheng Liye likes to play mahjong with his son-in-law, because he can always feel like a victorious general. He doesn't win much every night, only about ten yuan at most, but no matter how much he wins, as long as he wins, he will feel happy.

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"Are Yu Hua and Bi Feiyu going home for the New Year?" Cheng Liye asked while shuffling the cards.

Yu Dong smiled and replied, "Yu Hua will definitely not return. Bi Feiyu will have to look at the situation. There are quite a few teachers who will not return to their hometowns, and they are quite lively at school."

"Where is your student Ruan Xiaohu?" Cheng Liye asked again.

"He didn't reply either."

Ruan Xiaohu's family has been separated. There is only a dilapidated mud house in his hometown and he has no place to live. The eldest brother is married and has a child, and the house is not big. He cannot squeeze in, otherwise he will definitely be looked down upon by his sister-in-law.

The younger brother lives with his father, and there is only one bed. When he goes back, the three of them will have to squeeze in together. If he doesn't go back this year, he won't go back next year. His younger brother got a wife when he was fourteen, and he will have a daughter-in-law next year.

After passing the door, his father will have to find another place by then.

"This child looks clean and quite polite. It's not easy for him to be alone in a foreign land. As a teacher, you should take more care of him. Please invite him to play at home these two days."

Yu Dong said in surprise, "Dad, have you seen Ruan Xiaohu?"

Cheng Liye nodded, "He went to Jinling University a few days ago, and I happened to meet him. But he probably didn't know about my relationship with you, and he didn't even talk to me at that time."

"Who is Ruan Xiaohu? A student of Yu Dong? He has too many students, right?" Chen Yuqing asked curiously.

Regarding Ruan Xiaohu, Cheng Yanqiu had mentioned it to Cheng Liye before, but Chen Yuqing didn't know about it. The main reason was that Chen Yuqing didn't usually pay attention to things in the literary circle, so he told her that she didn't know who Ruan Xiaohu was.

Yu Dong explained with a smile: "He is indeed my student. Unlike other students, this student has some special fate. At that time, I went to Chengdu..."

Then Yu Dongyan briefly and comprehensively told the story of his encounter with Ruan Xiaohu and Ruan Xiaohu's encounter with Hu Yueming. After listening, Cheng Liye sighed and said, "Before, I only heard from Luoluo that the newly signed writer-in-residence of your school is your student, but now

I never thought there would be such a fate."

"I didn't expect it myself, especially when my teacher actually met him later."

Chen Yuqing smiled and said, "Human life is very strange. It is this child's luck to meet you and Hu Yueming. Ask him to come home tomorrow night, and I will cook a delicious meal."

Yu Dong nodded and smiled, "Okay, I'll ask him to come tomorrow."

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When Ruan Xiaohu heard that Yu Dong wanted to take him to his father-in-law's house, he was a little excited and a little embarrassed. The teacher's father-in-law is also his master, just like Hu Yueming.

"Teacher, Master, what do they like? I can't go empty-handed."

"You can't be empty-handed, buy some fruit. Your master likes to play mahjong, so you can just go and play mahjong with him."

"But I'm not very good at playing mahjong."

"It's better if you don't."

Ruan Xiaohu followed Yu Dong anxiously carrying fruits. When he arrived at Cheng's house and saw Cheng Liye, his eyes almost popped out of his head.

Dean Cheng is actually the teacher’s father-in-law?

Speaking of which, the master's wife is indeed surnamed Cheng, but there are so many people surnamed Cheng in the world, how could Ruan Xiaohu think of this relationship.

Cheng Liye saw Ruan Xiaohu's surprised face and said with a smile, "Come in, this is not the first time we meet, so I won't introduce myself."

Ruan Xiaohu carried the fruit bag into the house. He was not sure where to put the things. Yu Dong pointed to the kitchen and said, "Put it on the chopping board in the kitchen, and then come over and drink tea."

Then Yu Dong asked his father-in-law, "Where is Luoluo?"

Cheng Liye pointed to the room, "I've been talking on the phone for ten minutes inside. It's different now that I'm married. I don't worry about the phone bill at home at all."

Just as he was talking, Cheng Yanqiu opened the door and came out, "I'm used to using the phone at home... Xiaohu is here."

"Hello, Master."

Cheng Yanqiu waved his hand, "You're welcome, just treat this place as your home, sit down."

Ruan Xiaohu sat down straight, and Yu Dong poured him a cup of tea over there. He quickly stood up to pick it up, and then stared blankly at the coffee table while holding the tea cup.

Cheng Liye saw that he was a little restrained, so he took the initiative and said, "Xiaohu, what are you reading recently?"

“I’ve been reading Kafka’s The Castle and The Trial recently.”

"What do you think?"

"Kafka's books are a bit special to read. I don't read many books by German writers. I don't know if many German writers have the same style. Anyway, they are a bit difficult to read."

Cheng Liye smiled and said: "I don't blame you. In fact, the translated version is not bad, but the original version is more obscure. Kafka is a pioneer of expressionist literature. His works are very jumpy and the symbolic meaning of language is very strong..."

Maybe it was a professional habit, but Cheng Liye started taking classes as soon as he talked about literature. He usually didn't talk about this when chatting with Yu Dong, because Yu Dong was also a top student in the Chinese Department, and Yu Dong had already learned this knowledge in school.

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But Ruan Xiaohu is different. His writing method is somewhat similar to that of Mo Yan and Yu Hua. He relies on talent and reading, but he doesn't know much about these professional things.

Cheng Liye told him that Kafka's works had great leaps and symbolic meanings, and he could still understand it, but when Cheng Liye talked about modernism and expressionism, he was confused.

Yu Dong never told Ruan Xiaohu this, but he didn't object to the opportunity for him to listen.

The father-in-law was giving Ruan Xiaohu a small class, and Cheng Yanqiu pulled Yu Dong aside and whispered to him, "I just called Kan Tingting. She seemed to be in bad condition, but she didn't say anything when I asked her. And I

I received a call from her home, but no one spoke and she hung up after a while."

"It should be his husband calling."

"I think so too. Kan Tingting's husband seems to be very strict with her."

Yu Dong looked at his wife, "What are you going to do?"

"I wanted to help her, but she didn't say anything. I don't know what the situation is between them."

Yu Dong nodded, "Don't just help with this kind of thing when you don't understand it clearly, otherwise you will be a bad person in the end. If something really happens, the person who can help her the most is actually herself."

"Well, I know, it's just that sometimes it makes me uncomfortable to see her like this."

Yu Dong understood Cheng Yanqiu's feelings. Even if they were classmates, just seeing that something bad might happen to another woman would make both women feel worried.

But as outsiders, it is really hard for them to interfere in this kind of thing. Yu Dong has seen too many cases of interfering in other people's couples. In the end, the couple became so good that the person who helped became the bad guy. Moreover, Kan Tingting herself was unwilling to say anything.

What can they do to help?

Cheng Liye gave Ruan Xiaohu a lesson for a while, and realized that it was not good for him to have an occupational disease, so he said no more and suggested playing mahjong.

Ruan Xiaohu was afraid that he would not perform well in a while, so he took a vaccination first, "I'm not very good at it, Master."

"It doesn't matter if you don't know it, you can learn it." Cheng Liye laughed and said, "Your teacher is not very good at it, and after studying for so long, he is still half-assed. He plays cards, even if Confucius moves, he always loses."

A table of mahjong was quickly set up. Considering that Ruan Xiaohu was not very good at it, he played the simplest game of knocking down Hu without blasting.

But after a few rounds, Yu Dong and the others felt that something was wrong, because Ruan Xiaohu's playing style was so good. After four or five rounds, except for Cheng Yanqiu who made a mistake, the rest were Ruan Xiaohu's mistakes.

Ruan Xiaohu is indeed not very good at playing, and sometimes he can make mistakes when looking at cards.

There was one card that he actually made a fool of, but he didn't understand it, so he played out a three-shot card first. In the next round, it was his turn to draw a card, and he drew another three-shot card, but he still made a fool of himself.

It's simply impossible not to be stupid.

From the time they started playing cards to the time Chen Yuqing came back from get off work, less than two hours had passed. Ruan Xiaohu was the only one who won money. After all, he won more than 20 yuan.

Because they have to take care of Ruan Xiaohu, who can't play, their winnings are very small, only 10 cents for the butt, 10 cents for the concealed bar, and 30 cents for a win. If you are lucky, it won't exceed one yuan.

And because Ruan Xiaohu was not familiar with the game, he often played the wrong cards, otherwise he would definitely have won more than twenty dollars.

As soon as Chen Yuqing came back, Cheng Liye breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Let's stop playing and cook."

It doesn't matter if you lose some money, but the problem is that it's really depressing for the whole audience to watch Ruan Xiaohu play cards by himself, and there's no sense of participation at all.

After listening to their report on the battle situation, Chen Yuqing smiled and said, "Novices are like this, their cards are very good."

…

Jimmy rushed to the United States to celebrate Christmas and then started his busy work again.

Now he has many things on his hands, including the publication of "Fatal Identity", licensing negotiations for the "Resident Evil" game, co-promotion of the "Resident Evil" movie, and the sci-fi unit drama plan he worked on before. Things are happening one after another.

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In addition, because the movie "The Second World" is a hit in the UK, several major bookstores in the UK are inviting Yu Dong to hold book signings.

Seeing more and more things piled up in front of him, Jimmy knew that he should find some help.
To be continued...