I am the Odd One Out Chapter 2

"I didn't stay to eat."

Leo Lin knew that this was the answer to the blind date. If the mother stayed for dinner, it meant that she was attracted to the woman. After his mother's death, Leo Lin inherited his mother's habit and bought one or two pieces of colorful satin when he went to the city for his own blind date.

During this period, a matchmaker came to his door several times to introduce him to his future bride. He also followed the matchmaker to the woman's home for a blind date. He seemed hesitant in the homes of those who matched him.

Leo Lin, who was accustomed to his mother making the decision for him, didn't know how to face all this for a while. Moreover, his mother returned empty-handed from more than ten blind dates, which made Leo Lin feel at a loss while being hesitant. Every time he sees a woman, he will think to himself: I wonder if his mother will like this woman? The end result was that he didn't stay to eat, but left the colorful satin he brought.

There was once a beautiful woman who moved his heart. It was in Liuzhuang, thirty miles away. Leo Lin was moved by the deep courtyard of this family. After he sat down in the hall, the woman's father handed her a He smoked cigarettes. Just when Leo Lin was about to excuse himself by saying that he didn't know how to smoke, he saw the look in the matchmaker's eyes, so he took the cigarette. At this time, the beautiful woman bowed her head and came out of the back room, walked towards Leo Lin gracefully, and put the bag on Leo Lin. A bag of cigarettes, and then he lowered his head and returned to the room.

Leo Lin knew that this woman was his blind date. Her hands were shaking when she filled his cigarettes. The matchmaker asked her a few questions, but she did not answer. However, she and Leo Lin looked at each other. At that moment, her eyes lit up, and Leo Lin felt his blood boiling. In the following exchanges, Leo Lin was confused and confused. When the woman's father asked him if he was staying for dinner, he obviously wanted to stay, but the look in the matchmaker's eyes changed his mind. After hesitating for a while, he left the bag. He took out the colorful satin and put it on the table. The surprised look in the woman's father's eyes made him ashamed. His face turned red and he hurriedly stood up to leave.

On the way home, Leo Lin's eyes were filled with the woman's beautiful face and her father's surprised expression, and Leo Lin felt blocked in his heart. The matchmaker told him on the way that the reason why she winked at him to refuse the marriage was that she was worried that the girl from the Liu family might be deaf and mute. The matchmaker said that when the girl packed cigarettes for him, she used words to tease the girl several times, and the girl was No answer, as if not heard. Leo Lin felt that what the matchmaker said was reasonable, but he just couldn't let go of Liu Zhuang, a woman named Liu Fengmei. It wasn't until he almost finished walking more than thirty miles and saw his own house that he let out a long sigh and felt in his heart Feel better.

In this way, Leo Lin missed the opportunity to get married. He was twenty-four years old, and then a young man and woman came to his house. The woman was wearing a floral cheongsam, the man was in a sapphire blue gown, and the woman had her head wrapped Wearing a blue calico turban and carrying bundles behind them, the two stood outside the gate of his house talking. They spoke very fast, as if every word was flying.

It was dusk. Leo Lin in the yard heard what they were saying, but he didn't understand a word. He opened the door and went out. The young man spoke in an accent that Leo Lin could understand. The scholar-looking man told Leo Lin that they One of the wheels of the carriage suddenly fell apart, and the carriage could not move. The car shop was more than ten miles away, and the sky was getting dark again. At this point, he paused and carefully asked Leo Lin if he could let them stay at his house for the night.

The young woman stood behind the man and was taking off her blue and white headscarf. At the same time, she looked at Leo Lin with a shy and smiling look. Leo Lin saw a soft and beautiful face illuminated by the sunset. When she took off her headscarf, she looked at him. The right side tilted a little, and this momentary movement made Leo Lin's heart move.

That night, the three people sat around a kerosene lamp. During the conversation, Leo Lin knew that they were not a couple, but brothers and sisters. Among the names they called each other, he learned that his sister was called Mia and his brother was called Alex. Leo Lin looked at them carefully and felt that they did not look like siblings. The brother named Alex saw Leo Lin's thoughts and said that his sister looked like his mother and he looked like his father. Alex told Leo Lin that the reason why they didn't look like siblings was because their parents didn't look alike. Leo Lin laughed after hearing this, and the next thing he knew was that they came from a town called Wencheng, which was in the far south. After crossing the Yangtze River, they still had to walk more than 600 miles. It was a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. Alex told Leo Lin that in their hometown, they encountered a river when they went out, and they had to use a boat to lift their feet. Their parents are both dead, and the brother and sister are going north to the capital to join their uncle. Their uncle once worked in Prince Gong's house. Alex believes that his powerful uncle can get him a job in the capital. Errands.

While they were talking, the loud braying of animals came from outside the house. Leo Lin saw the brother and sister looking surprised and told them that it was the braying of a donkey. The two of them said in surprise that this was how the donkey brayed. Leo Lin learned from this that there were no donkeys in the southern water town where they lived.

That night, Leo Lin talked about himself at length, about his father who was vague in his memory, about his mother who was clear in his memory, about the thread-bound books and his mother's loom, about the green gauze tent in his childhood, and finally told them that in He was considered a wealthy household within a hundred miles. He saw that these words made Alex's eyes sparkle. He looked at Mia again, and Mia's smile was still a little shy.

Leo Lin felt that this was a pleasant night. After his mother passed away, the room fell silent, and there were continuous voices this night. He liked this woman named Mia. Mia, who rarely spoke, always had a smile in her eyes. She sat sideways opposite her, her hands constantly playing with the blue calico turban. Leo Lin saw the pattern of phoenixes and peonies interspersed on it, and Curiously, he poked his head over and admired the beauty of this turban. He said that the ones they had here were all white cloth turbans. He heard Mia's sweet voice, and Mia said it was called a phoenix wearing a peony, which was a symbol of wealth. After Mia finished speaking, her bright eyes looked at Leo Lin through the light of the kerosene lamp. It was her eyes that made Leo Lin, who seldom spoke on weekdays, become eloquent. He felt that Mia had a beauty he had never seen before. It was a moist face that grew up among the green mountains and green water in the south. Still tender and vivid after the trek.