The next day, Pei Donglai went to the hospital to visit his mother. When he arrived at the hospital, he saw Lin Xiaojie there. Lin Xiaojie was busy with Pei's mother and greeted her as if they were not divorced.
Pei Donglai felt that Lin Xiaojie was a little pretentious. When the two were together in the past, he didn't see her caring so much about her parents. Instead, she only started doing these face-saving projects after they got divorced.
"Donglai, have you and Xiaojie gone to apply for the certificate?" Mother Pei said slowly.
"Mom, it's not good for me and Xiaojie to get the certificate just after Li Xin leaves. Besides, Xiaojie can't bring her original household registration."
"Xiaojie has already brought it, what do you mean? You promised well yesterday, but you regretted it today? I'm telling you, if you don't go with Xiaojie to get the certificate today, I will..." Mother Pei suddenly covered her chest with an expression on her face. pain.
"Auntie...Auntie..." Lin Xiaojie realized something was wrong and hurriedly ran out to call the doctor.
After the doctor came over, he said to Pei Donglai and Lin Xiaojie: "Have you stimulated the patient? The elderly cannot be stimulated with this disease, do you understand?"
Pei Donglai nodded, "Thank you doctor, I understand."
After a while, Pei's father came, and Pei's mother said, "Hurry up, you two."
Pei Donglai was afraid that his mother would be angry, so he could only ask Lin Xiaojie to go out.
"What do you mean? Lin Xiaojie."
"Donglai, I'm sorry, I really want to remarry you, but I..."
"You, you, you have brought your household registration book, what else can you explain?" Pei Donglai said angrily before Lin Xiaojie finished speaking.
Lin Xiaojie stood there silently, her eyes moist.
"Let's go, what are you waiting for?" Pei Donglai led Lin Xiaojie towards the Civil Affairs Bureau.
The two of them were one behind the other, separated by a distance, and they didn't look like they were going to apply for a marriage certificate.
When I came to the Civil Affairs Bureau, the person who applied for the certificate was a middle-aged woman who asked, "Why did you get remarried not long after your divorce?"
Pei Donglai stood there with an unhappy look on his face. Lin Xiaojie said: "We broke up impulsively before, so..."
"You young people, you are treating marriage as a child's play. You can leave as soon as you want, and get married as soon as you want." The middle-aged woman was nagging as she went through the process, and the two of them stood silently.
After a while, the certificate was issued.
The two returned to the hospital. Along the way, Pei Donglai didn't say a word to Lin Xiaojie. The more he looked at Lin Xiaojie, the more sinister he felt. She was no longer the beautiful and sensible girl he had known.
"Is it done?" Mother Pei asked anxiously.
"Mom, it's done," Lin Xiaojie immediately changed her mind, and then showed her mother Pei a red book, which made her happy.
The next day, Pei's mother said that she was going to be discharged from the hospital. She also said that she would invite relatives and friends to have a meal to celebrate.
"Mom, what's the point of celebrating? Xiaojie and I just remarried. Have you ever seen anyone celebrate their remarriage? Isn't that embarrassing?"
Pei's mother's face suddenly dropped, and Pei's father winked at his son. Before his mother could speak, Pei Donglai quickly apologized, "Mom, I'm just saying, I'll listen to your arrangement."
In the afternoon, when Pei's mother returned home from the hospital, she ordered her son to go to the hotel to bring Lin Xiaojie's luggage.
In the evening, Pei Donglai cooked the food himself. Sitting together as a family, it always felt a little awkward. It would be so warm if so many things didn't happen to Lin Xiaojie.
But now, although the two are remarried, it is only in name. In Pei Donglai's heart, there will no longer be a place for Lin Xiaojie.
Pei's mother said happily, "Dong Lai, my wife is still the original wife. Although there were some episodes between you, they are all over. People, you have to look forward and move forward."
In front of his mother, Pei Donglai could only nod and cooperate.
After dinner, Lin Xiaojie took the initiative to wipe the table, wash the dishes, etc. Pei Donglai felt sick just looking at it, but Pei's mother was very pleased.
Now, no matter how well Lin Xiaojie does, in Pei Donglai's eyes, it's just acting.
When she was about to go to bed, Lin Xiaojie walked into the guest room. Mother Pei said: "Xiaojie, you are a couple. You are still so young and you have no children. How can you sleep in separate rooms? Look at your dad and I, we are so old. We don’t even sleep in separate rooms.”
Lin Xiao's face turned red and her ears turned red, so she could only walk into Pei Donglai's room.
"What are you doing here?" Pei Donglai asked.
Lin Xiaojie lowered her head and said, "Mom asked me to come in."
"Okay, you sleep here and I'll go out to sleep."
"Don't... don't go out, mom will be angry."
Pei Donglai had no choice but to sleep on the same bed as Lin Xiaojie.
"Donglai, actually I..."
"I'm tired, good night." Pei Donglai didn't want to say half a sentence to Lin Xiaojie, even one punctuation mark was too much.
Lin Xiaojie had no choice but to close her mouth and sleep.
The next day, Pei Donglai got up early and made breakfast for his parents before going to work.
When he walked into the office, his colleagues were all talking about it. When they saw Pei Dong coming, they shut up.
If there is something going on in this small, palm-sized county, there is no need to post a notice. Within a few hours, it will spread to every corner of the county and become a topic of conversation among people after dinner.
Two days later, when Pei Donglai was at work, he received a call from his mother, "Son, go home early today. I have invited relatives and friends to have a meal at Jubao Building."
Although Pei Donglai was disgusted, he could not make his mother sad and said, "Mom, I won't be coming home anymore. Let's take him to Jubao Tower first."
"No, come back first and we'll go there together."
Pei Donglai didn't dare to disobey his order, so he took her home first after get off work. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Lin Xiaojie wearing a red dress and heavy makeup.
"What are you doing?" Pei Donglai asked in confusion.
"Don't you young people like the sense of ceremony?" Mother Pei said.
"Mom..., okay." Pei Donglai didn't want to make his mother angry, so he could only silently accept this strange sense of ritual.
"Dong Lai, please change into new clothes," Pei's mother said.
Arriving at Jubao Tower, after a while, relatives and friends arrived one after another, and there were five tables of guests.
Before eating, Pei's mother said: "Today is my son's big day. Thank you all for coming. I won't say too much. Everyone has a good meal and a good drink."
Under Pei's mother's arrangement, Pei Donglai and Lin Xiaojie sat down at the table to toast, "Donglai, is this daughter-in-law the same as before?" asked the eldest cousin.
Pei Donglai was a little embarrassed and nodded, "Yes."
"It looks familiar to me, what? Didn't you two do it once before? Did I remember it wrong?"
When Pei's mother heard her eldest cousin say such words, the expression on her face changed subtly. My aunt is a smart person and said quickly: "Donglai, your eldest cousin drank too much and talked nonsense. Don't suggest it." As she spoke, she pinched her husband's arm to signal him to stop talking nonsense.
Pei Donglai knew that his mother did this for the sake of face. In such a small county, any child who has not found a wife when he reaches the age will be made irresponsible remarks. Unlike in big cities, it is popular to only fall in love. Getting married here would be a blatant hooliganism.
Pei's mother did this to let everyone know that her son has a wife.
