My Eldest Sister Brought her Boyfriend back in this Spring Festival
2016-02-12
This New year differs from all the previous New Years I have experienced. It is all because of my eldest sister. She didn't appear at home even on New Year's Eve. Various from the popular one-child family, all in all our family has six members. I am the third child in my family. I have two elder sisters and one younger brother. Undoubtedly, the absence of my eldest sister made a family gathering of six an incomplete one. My eldest sister is 27 years old now. Even though she just graduated from her graduate school in June, she has has a stable job and a stable relationship. Her boyfriend is of the same age of her. They are campus couples. They graduated from the same unniversity and the same graduate school, and they are of the same major! Up until now, their relationship has lasted nearly 7 years, quiet a long time. In common cases, most people of their ages are married now, and some even have their sons and daughters. It is no surprise for me that they will get married someday in future. However, what surprises me is that they decide to get married so soon.
My eldest sister phoned my parents she would spend this new year with her boyfriend's family. They would come back to see them on the fourth day of lunar new year and leave on next day. Yesterday my eldest sister brought her boyfriend back with her boyfriend's father. It is the second time that she brought him back, but the first time that her boyfriend's father met my parents. My sister forgot to tell my parents in advance that her future father-in-law would come. Few hours before she came back, she told them the news. As you can imagine, my parents were almost in panic right after they heard of it, especially my mom. She started preparing delicious dishes for lunch. Everyone in our house were in a state of tension, busy cleaning the house and helping mom cook. Without exaggeration, it was just like prewar period. After almost four-hour preparation, everything was perfectly done. Before we could take a break, my sister's future father-in-law drove to our house. My dad waited them in our frontyard right after he caught a sight of the car. While he welcomed them, my mom let us set the table for lunch.
( Here is the picture of the inviting dishes that my mom cooked for them)
That day's lunch seemed to be a hangover ceremony to me. My parents told a lot with my sister's boyfriend and her boyfriend's father. And they made their promises that they would treat her well. My mom also prepared my sister favorite dishes, and she kept telling her to eat more, as if she would never come back. Right at that moment, I realized my mom's true feelings. In fact she felt lost more than happy. So did I. To be honest, our house is a little bit small and shabby. Usually we three girls would sleep together in one room, my brother in another room, and so would my parents. But yesterday before we got to bed, mom told my brother to go to my uncle's house for one night, and left his room to my sister and my future brother-in-law. Not until that moment did I realize that my sister is not only my sister. Few months later, she will become a wife. And soon she will have her children and she will be a mom. All our roles will be multiplied.
Deep at night, I could still hear the sound of turning over from my parents' room. Even though they talked in low voices, I could still feel it. My mom mentioned many times that she and dad wanted us to marry to a near place, especially after they knew my eldest sister would marry to a place far away from our hometown(Hubei Province). But I don't know whether I can live as they want or not, because I am in Beijing now. I am 23 years old. I am a graduate student and I am still single. Part of the reason for my singleness is because I have to take care of my parents' lives and their feelings. I am not sure where I will marry to. I believe no one does. But I hope oneday when I get married, my parents won't be as sad as they see my eldest sister off~
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