My wife’s brother, who is two months older than my daughter, lifted the girl’s skirt at school. I advised my wife to be seriously educated.
As a result, the mother-in-law said, “What kind of bad intentions can a child have? At the worst, when he grows up, he will do this. When he grows up, no one will take care of him.”.
I was speechless, but I didn’t care much about it, but before long, the child made a big mess.
I was doing my quarterly work report with PPT in the conference room when my mobile phone buzzed on my seat.
I motioned to my assistant to help me take my mobile phone out of the conference room, insisted on finishing the report, and rushed out to look at my mobile phone.
Sure enough, it was Zhu Min who called, with seven missed calls and countless WeChat messages with exclamation marks, like a reminder, which made me feel suffocated.
I went to the quiet corner of the company and called back Zhu Min’s phone. Surprisingly
, she didn’t shout. Her voice sounded tired and weak:
“Why are you calling me now? I’ve already dealt with it. I really can’t count on you for anything.”
I ignored her taunts and asked her what had happened.
She sighed irritably:
“What else could there be? Of course it’s Zhu Xi. This naughty child is getting more and more disorganized now. During physical education class, she lifted up a girl’s skirt to take off her shorts. It happened that the girl’s mother came to school to finish her work and didn’t leave. She stood on the playground and watched.”
“You don’t know how I’ve been scolded since I left. I’ve never been scolded like that in my life. I’m so humiliated. If Zhu Xi gets into trouble again in the future, you’d better go. I can’t afford to lose this man.”
I hesitated for a moment, but decided to bring up
the old story again: I told you long ago that the matter of Zhu Xi can only be left to our parents. They are the first guardians. As a sister, you can’t be beaten or scolded, and you can’t speak well. How can you manage it? It is better for us to take care of Guoguo than to have that energy.
“Peng Yang!”
Chu Min’s voice suddenly rose and interrupted me in a harsh voice:
“For the last time, that’s my brother, my own brother. We both have the same blood. You, an outsider, had better stop nagging.” The word
“outsider” pierced my heart like a steel needle, which made me wake up in an instant, so I kept my mouth shut.
My silence let Zhu Min feel bored, she did not continue to say anything, only told me to go home early from work, go back to help her deal with that big mess of family affairs.
Look, she is such a contradictory person, while scolding me as an outsider, while asking me to help her deal with family affairs.
I sighed helplessly and packed up my things to pick up the car in the parking lot. It took me more than hour to get home
from the company. I drove very fast. I thought there would be a criticism meeting against Zhu Xi when I got home. I didn’t expect to push the door and enter, but it was a very peaceful scene.
Zhu Xi was sitting in the arms of his mother-in-law Yao Guizhi while feeding fruit and playing games. His father-in-law Zhu Zhiguo was listening to opera on the balcony with a radio. In the bedroom near the kitchen, there was a slight voice of Zhu Min scolding Guoguo.
This is my home. No, my father-in-law’s home, actually. I’m just a long-term boarder.
This family has father-in-law Zhu Zhiguo, mother-in-law Yao Guizhi, brother-in-law Zhu Xi, and then Zhu Min, Guoguo, and me.
In this way, in fact, Zhu Min scolded me that sentence is also quite right, in addition to me, the rest of them are really blood relatives.
I changed my shoes and clothes at the entrance, put my briefcase away, rolled up my sleeves to wash my hands and cook, and caught a glimpse of the mess of cups and plates on the table.
“Oh, you have eaten.” I murmured. My mother-in-law Yao Kuei-chih was the closest to me, and she obviously heard what I was saying. She raised her head and gave me
a squint: “
Today Chuhsi left school early, and when I came back, I cried out that I was hungry. I couldn’t wait for you to come home and cook. I asked your father
to cook a few dishes and eat them first.”
She stretched her neck and looked around me at the table.
“I haven’t cooked for a long time. It seems that I’ve done a little less. You should
be able to eat enough if you clean up the bottom of the plate. If not, there are instant noodles in the kitchen.” You don’t deserve to cook
another meal alone.
I managed to pull the corners of my mouth and smiled. “I know, Mom,” I said. “You’re
busy.” My
hungry stomach suddenly stopped being hungry. I rolled up my sleeves and cleaned up the messy table
. I turned on the tap and began to wash the dishes.
Zhu Min probably heard the sound of water and came from the bedroom eating an apple. Thinking about Zhu Xi,
I turned around and asked her,
“Did you tell the two elders about the school?”? Without criticism and education?
“I’ve talked about it, and I’ve educated it.”
I picked up a towel to wipe my hands and said,
“Does it work?”? This kind of thing must be severely criticized. This is not a trivial matter. How
old is he? He knows how to lift a girl’s skirt. This is playing hooligans. If you don’t discipline him well, something big will happen
in the future.
Chu Min rolled her eyes at me. I knew she didn’t like me making a mountain out of a molehill, but there were some things I wanted to say:
“Also, tell our mother to be careful when you watch TV. Nowadays, there are always intimate scenes on TV. Adults blush when they watch them, and children are easy to imitate when they watch too much.”
“It’s best to give him less access to electronic products. There’s all kinds of stuff on the Internet now, and he can’t tell right from wrong, so it’s easy to get bad. I think he probably learned to lift his skirt from the Internet.”
“Peng Yang!”
Zhu Min began to get annoyed again, and fiercely spat out the apple she had just bitten into the trash can:
“Are you finished? One mouthful at a time, I lifted my skirt. I told you to educate you, and when I came back, I educated you. Zhu Xi said he would change later. What effect do you want?”? A beating? Then you have to ask my father and mother if they agree. She
suddenly raised her voice and drew the eyes of several people in the living room together. First Yao Kuei-chih glared at me disapprovingly. Then her father-in-law, Chu Chih-kuo, strolled over to Chu Hsi’s side and raised his hand to rub his head
: “What a big deal! Schools nowadays, ah, are just making a fuss.” What kind of bad thoughts can he have as a child? It’s just curiosity.
Then he seemed to remember that he should give me a step down, so he went on to say,
“Zhu Xi, tell my brother-in-law that we won’t do this in the future, do you know?”? Wait until you grow up, and then no one will care about you.
Such an evasive conversation left me speechless. I shook my head and retreated to my bedroom helplessly. In the
bedroom, Guoguo was making a handwritten newspaper. I stood beside her and looked at it for a while. Then I picked up a drawing next to it:
“Did the teacher arrange two handwritten newspapers this weekend?”
“No, Dad, I made this for Uncle Chu-hsi. Mine was done long ago.”
I said, “Oh,” patted Guoguo’s little head, and sat on the edge of the bed watching her continue to draw. Under
the lamplight, Guoguo’s tender and earnest face made me feel relieved. I breathed a sigh of relief and exhorted myself to mind my own business, as long as my Guoguo was healthy and safe.
The next day was the weekend, and the two children’s interest classes were arranged in the afternoon. I intended to let Guoguo sleep more, so I got up gently and went to the kitchen to prepare the family’s breakfast.
Washing rice, washing rice, shredding, mixing vegetables, and finally steaming a few small steamed bun with red bean stuffing, this process has been done for nearly ten years, and I can finish it with my eyes closed. Tidy up the
dishes on the table, look at the time Yao Guizhi and Zhu Zhiguo morning exercise is also coming back, they plan to go to Zhu Min’s bedroom to call her to get up.
Zhu Min has not slept in the same bedroom with me and Guoguo since three years ago. She now sleeps with Zhu Xi.
Zhu Xi originally slept in the same room with Yao Guizhi, but Zhu Xi did not sleep honestly and kicked the quilt countless times a night. Yao Guizhi complained that she was not sleeping well and had to wake up from time to time every night to cover Zhu Xi with the quilt, which was too much for her.
So Zhu Min volunteered to take over the task of sleeping with Zhu Xi, leaving Guoguo, who was two months younger than Zhu Xi, regardless.
I pushed open Zhu Min’s door and found only Zhu Min on the bed, and Zhu Xi’s seat was empty.
I was wondering when suddenly I heard Guoguo’s screams coming from my bedroom. I thought she had a nightmare again and ran to the bedroom.
Unexpectedly, I saw a scene more terrible than a nightmare.
Zhu Xi was half kneeling on the bed, pressing Guoguo’s stomach with one hand and pulling down her shorts with the other. Guoguo was so frightened that his hands and feet fluttered. He shouted at Guoguo not to move while spitting angrily in his face.
My forehead exploded, and I grabbed him by the neck like a chicken, slapped him in the face, and kicked him to the door. With a
bang, Zhu Xi fell to the ground. He was stunned for a moment, and then he let out a deafening howl.
At the same time, I heard the sound of the door opening, Yao Guizhi and Zhu Zhiguo exclaimed and ran quickly towards this side.
I already did not care so much, quickly dressed Guoguo in my arms, while comforting her while coldly looking out of the door.
Yao Kuei-chih and Chu Chih-kuo shouted, “Little ancestor, little ancestor,” and picked up Chu Hsi to check on his condition. Chu Min, in her pajamas, ran over in a panic and asked, “What’s wrong?”.
Zhu Xi cried until he was out of breath. He pointed his finger at me and said intermittently,
“He..” He He hit me.. Kick me.. It’s killing me. Hurry up and hit him. As soon as
Yao Guizhi heard this, she got up swearing, rolled up her sleeves, and rushed at me with a ferocious look.
I put Guoguo in my arms on the other side of the bed, stood up unhurriedly, and dodged when Yao Guizhi was about to jump up. She hit the wooden hanger at the end of the bed and hit her chin. The
pain filled her eyes with tears. She wiped her face, stretched out her legs, clapped her thighs, and began to howl:
“Beating! Against Heaven! My son-in-law is beating!”.
Chu Chih-kuo was still holding the wooden sword he had used for morning exercises. He was so angry that his hands trembled.
“Peng Yang, you’re a big man, and you hit a child with such a heavy hand!”! You see what you did to his face? Did he do anything to hurt the world? If you don’t give me a reason, I won’t let you go first!
Chu Min also rushed over angrily:
“Peng Yang, if you dare to attack my mother and my brother, will you turn against you?” With a sneer,
I pointed to Zhu Xi, who was rolling on the ground, and said,
“What did you let him say he did?”
Zhu Xi ignored me, still lying on the ground and tugging at Zhu Zhiguo’s trouser legs, shouting:
“Hit him, hit him, kill him!” With a snort in my
nose, I said to the three members of the Zhu family,
“If he doesn’t say it, I’ll say it!”! He ran to Guoguo’s bed in the morning to pick up Guoguo’s shorts
. “If I come late today, my Guoguo may encounter something!”! Is this considered
harmful? Should I teach him a lesson?
I pointed at Zhu Min and said,
“You are Guoguo’s mother. Do you think I should teach him a lesson?”
Zhu Min had never seen me so out of control, and she mumbled and dared not open her mouth. Zhu Xi, who
had been rolling on the ground, suddenly stood up from the ground, jumped on me at a very fast speed
, and bit down on my arm.
He made a fierce bite, and there was a wolf-like roar in his mouth. I couldn’t break free for a moment, so I grabbed his neck and forced him to let go. At the moment of
separation, I saw the blood on his mouth and two deep rows of teeth marks on my arm.
He coughed for a long time, and when he breathed, he looked at me again with a ferocious look that didn’t match his age
: “This whole family is mine, and all of you are mine. I can’t watch others at school, and why can’t I watch Guoguo at home? Why do you care about me?”? Who the hell are you? You just cut in! As soon as the three words
“inverted door” came out of the mouth, all the adults present were stunned.
Such a word from the mouth of a ten-year-old child so smoothly, obviously already familiar with the heart, and why so familiar with the heart, must not be without adults in the back of the gossip. I
suddenly had no intention of arguing. I took out several Band-Aids from the drawer and stuck them on the bite. Then I walked up to Chu Min and held out my hand
to her. “Give me my bank card back.”
Zhu Min is stupefied, did not understand my meaning apparently.
“Give me the bank card!”
I roared again, and Zhu Min shivered with fright and hurried to the drawer to find it and put it in my hand. Starting
today, Guoguo and I will move out. You, feel free! If you feel that Zhu Xi needs you more than Guo Guo, you can continue to stay in this home. Then
I pulled out a suitcase from under the bed and began to pack up my things with Guoguo. Yao Kuei-chih, who
had been sitting on the ground slapping her thighs and cursing in the street, suddenly sneered:
“Yo, my wings are stiff and I want to set up my own business. That’s all right. Let’s pay the rent for these years. Our family is not a charity!”. The movement in
my hand, a contemptuous smile appeared on my face, dare to play this hand with me, not afraid.
All right, Mom, if you want to do that, please figure out how much I should be paid for working as a free nanny in this house for so many years? It includes three meals a day, cleaning, unblocking drains, and repairing electrical appliances. Oh, and you don’t want to spend money to hire a sister-in-law during the month of confinement, so you assign me the job of washing diapers. This money is also well calculated.
If I remember correctly, I’ve managed all the food, clothing, shelter and transportation for Zhu Xi since he went to kindergarten. You should calculate the money carefully. Make a list when you have finished your calculations, so that we can be even.
Yao Kuei-chih’s face turned blue and white for a while, and Chu Min began to come out to smooth things over:
“Peng Yang, you see, you’re serious. Our mother was trying to keep you, and she said that on purpose to scare you, but you took it seriously. It’s really not funny. All right, it’s all right. I’ll tell Chu Hsi later that the naughty child is not obedient.”
As she spoke, she came up and tried to put my clothes back in my suitcase, but I stopped her:
“Zhu Min, I made it very clear that I said I would move out a long time ago. If you don’t agree, I won’t compromise again this time. Even without Guoguo today, I don’t want to stay in this house for a long time.”
Chu Chih-kuo clanged the wooden sword in his hand:
“Let him go, let him go, and see what tricks he can turn out!”
With the help of my colleagues, I successfully found a new house with two bedrooms and one living room, which was clean and bright with complete furniture.
The most important thing is that the school run by the landlord is downstairs, which greatly saves my time to pick up and deliver Guoguo every day.
I am very happy with the house. The landlord seemed to be very satisfied with our tenant, especially Guoguo, who was wearing a lavender dress and would squat down and listen carefully when talking to Guoguo. When
I took out my bank card to pay the rent, I found that the money in my card was far less than I thought. As for why it was so little, needless to say, it was taken by Zhu Min to secretly subsidize Yao Guizhi’s family.
No wonder every time I asked Zhu Min if her savings were enough for the down payment, she always hesitated and refused to say. She didn’t want me to go out to buy a house from the bottom of her heart. She just wanted to tie me to that house as a cow and a horse for the whole family.
No man would be willing to live in his father-in-law’s house for ten years. When Zhu Min and
I talked about marriage, we also made it clear that we would go out to rent a house for a few years first, and we would work hard for a few years to buy a house.
At that time, Zhu Min was still the only child in her family, but the news that the country planned to liberalize the two-child policy was flying everywhere, and many parents of one-child families were eager to try, regardless of age.
Zhu Min’s parents are among those who are eager to try.
However, they did not tell us this idea at that time. Instead, in order to prevent us from renting a house outside, they lied to me that they had only one child, Zhu Min. It was very lonely to move out of the house. It was better to live together. It was lively and economical, and they could take care of each other.
I could not resist the repeated persuasion of Zhu Min and his parents, and finally lived in their home, which became the inverted door in my hometown.
As for the three words “inverted door”, I have made a special investigation. When a woman recruits a son-in-law, her children follow her mother’s surname, which is called “inverted door”, but I am only staying temporarily, and I have nothing to do with it.
But those people do not care, they laugh at me, you live in the father-in-law’s house is not called inverted door? You serve your wife’s parents every day, so why don’t you ask them to insert the door? If you have the ability, you can move out on your own.
In the past ten years, the idea of buying a house has come to my mind again and again, and has been defeated by reality again and again. I never expected that in just a few years, the house price in this city has increased many times, and it is no longer within my reach. Half a year after Zhu Min and
I got married, my mother-in-law Yao Guizhi announced that she was pregnant for three months, nearly two months earlier than baby in Zhu Min’s belly. I was stunned.
Chu Min couldn’t accept it at first, and she tried to oppose it, but she couldn’t stand Yao Kuei-chih’s tearful cry: “In the past, you couldn’t give birth if you wanted to, but now that the policy has been liberalized, you have to leave a queen for the old Chu family anyway, otherwise you won’t have the face to see the ancestors of the Chu family!”
Even in order to appease Zhu Min, Yao Guizhi offered to transfer a two-storey facade room to our names.
Zhu Min finally accepted the fact that he did not know whether it was happy or sad.
From then on, I became the busiest person in the family, cooking, washing and cleaning up the housework. No matter how tired I was in the company, I had to do a lot of work at home.
I am a big man, and the first month I served was not Zhu Min’s, but my mother-in-law Yao Guizhi’s.
Yao Guizhi gave birth two months earlier than Zhu Min. She was afraid of spending money and refused to hire a sister-in-law. She said that there were three adults in the family, and they were taking turns. How could they not get through a month.
But as a result, Zhu Min refused to move on the sofa every day on the grounds of her heavy body in the late stage of pregnancy. Her father-in-law Zhu Zhiguo held his radio and pretended not to hear Yao Guizhi’s instructions.
Just me, helping her make soup, cook porridge, wash diapers, all I can do is dry.
It was really the darkest time in my life. I was busy in the company during the day, and I was still busy at home at night. I was so busy that I almost got depression.
Later, the child gradually grew up and began to go to school, the energy is not so hard, but the money to pay one after another.
Yao Guizhi and Zhu Zhiguo are local aborigines. In addition to this house, there is also a shop front. The couple’s income points to that shop front for rent. At first, life was fairly easy.
But after Zhu Xi, this income was stretched to the limit, and the couple were lazy and looked down on those who did odd jobs, so they cast their eyes on me and Zhu Min.
I don’t know what method they used to brainwash Zhu Min this time, so that Zhu Min paid Zhu Xi without complaint, as if that was her child. The
delicious food is always eaten by Zhu Xi first, and the fun food can only be taken after Zhu Xi picks Guoguo. Even for Guoguo’s own birthday, the candles have to be blown out by Zhu Xi before Guoguo can continue to blow.
A quarrel is always Guoguo’s fault. If you are unhappy, you will take out your anger on Guoguo’s toys. If you don’t do well in the exam, you will tear Guoguo’s test paper to pieces and stick it up. In the
fourth grade, the school recommended a summer camp. With a limited budget, Zhu Min did not hesitate to give Zhu Xi the best place for the luxury seven-day tour, while Guoguo could only attend the local tour.
Fortunately, my Guoguo is sensible, she is cheerful and generous under my constant guidance, and grows up mentally healthy every day.
I took the key from the landlord and led Guoguo to our new home step by step. The moment the
door opened, Guoguo cheered and jumped. She shouted to me, “Dad, is this really just for us?”? Can I jump if I want to? Can I sing loudly? If I put my painting on the wall, will no one tear it again?
I smiled and nodded with tears, my fruit, my little lovely fruit, finally no longer need to look at other people’s faces every day to compromise. After
settling Guoguo, I applied to the company for a post transfer, and changed from an after-sales service manager to a salesman.
I want to work hard again for my future with Guoguo. I have
moved out for two months. I go to work and get off work every day. I take care of Guoguo. From being in a hurry at the beginning to coping with it now, I feel full of energy and full of expectations for the future. In
the past two months, Zhu Min has not visited Guoguo once. I know she is in a fit of pique, betting that I will go back sooner or later. During
this period, I will also think about our marriage in the dead of night and what role Zhu Min has played in our marriage for more than ten years.
She gave me the first warmth and home, gave Guoguo life, the other, no more, only cold and disappointed.
She never gave me a word of comfort when I was exhausted, nor did she give me a warm embrace when I had a nightmare in Guoguo’s night. She would only follow Yao Guizhi’s example and accuse me of not doing my best for the family. When I
did my best, they twisted their brows and scolded me for being too lenient and calling me an outsider.
She spent every penny of my hard-earned money generously on the family surnamed Zhu, and bought it for
Guoguo and me, which was always the old style of changing seasons.
She is like a needle stuck deep in my body, greedily supplying my fresh blood
to the big family behind her, never dying. After more than a decade of numbness,
I finally woke up in pain, and now I want to pull
out the needle.
I began to think about how to mention the divorce to Zhu Min, but I didn’t expect Zhu Min
to call first.
Her voice on the phone was anxious and confused:
“Peng Yang, come to the Central Hospital quickly, quickly, and bring more money!”
At that time, I was preparing to take Guoguo to the zoo. Hearing her flustered tone, I
quickly entrusted Guoguo to the landlord in the school downstairs and drove to the hospital. When
I found Zhu Min, she was pacing restlessly in front of the hospital. I called out
to her, and she rushed at me as if she had seen a life-saving straw.
I asked her what was going on and who was in hospital.
Zhu Min gave me a timid look.
“It’s Zhu Xi. She pushed the eight-month-old woman downstairs down the stairs. She’s bleeding heavily and is being rescued inside.”
As soon as I heard it, my brain exploded. What is this if not killing people? How terrible this child is! Where is
Zhu Xi? Where are Mom and Dad? Why are you here alone? What about the patient’s family?
“Mom took Chu-hsi to hide, and she was afraid that the patient’s family would beat him. Dad told me to call you and negotiate compensation.”
I was so angry that I punched the pillar next to the hospital. I couldn’t help cursing,
“What ***ing time is it to want to hide? Shouldn’t the most important thing now be to let that bear child kneel down in front of others and beg for forgiveness?”? How many times does he make a mistake before you realize the seriousness of the matter? It’s not naughty, it’s not naughty, it’s bad! It’s a crime!
Zhu Min, who was at a loss, cried on the spot because of my roar, which attracted people’s attention. I ignored her and turned to run to the operating room. There were a lot of people outside the
operating room, and I only saw the father-in-law, Chu Chih-kuo, kneeling inside, tearfully begging the pregnant woman’s family:
“The child is not sensible and has made a mistake. You adults have a lot of people. Please forgive us this time.”
A man who looked like the husband of a pregnant woman gave Zhu Zhiguo a kick in the chest:
“I tell you, old man, you’d better bless my wife and children, or I won’t be finished with your family, and you’ll die if you get a baby when you’re old, won’t you?”? Then I’m here to tell
you that unless you can hide him for the rest of your life, I’ll take care of him sooner or later. Then
he planned to kick again, but was stopped by the people around him, saying that it was not necessary to attack him, and that it would be hard to explain if he was cheated again and again.
I know now is not the time to talk about compensation, in order not to arouse greater hatred of the patient’s family, I did not say anything, picked up Zhu Zhiguo, sat on the bench, waiting for the news of the operating room. It
was then that I pieced together the whole story from the gossip of these people.
It turned out that after Guoguo and I moved away, Zhu Xi changed the empty house into his own activity room. Every day, as long as he didn’t go to school, he played ball games, ran and jumped at home. It was noisy until 11 or 12 o’clock in the evening, which caused great noise trouble to the downstairs neighbors.
Downstairs neighbors came up to communicate about the noise problem several times, specifically explaining that they had pregnant women at home and needed rest. Zhu Zhiguo had a good attitude at first, and every time he smiled and promised to pay attention next time.
But after each communication, the neighbors found that the noise was worse than last time, not only the sound of bouncing the ball, but also the sound of deliberately dragging the stool to hit the ground. As a result, there was a rift between the
two families. They almost started fighting several times and alerted the police. However, the police could only deal with the noise disturbance mainly by persuasion. There was no substantive restraint on Zhu Xi, which aggravated his inner hostility. What
he returned downstairs was more noise. The day of
the accident was the weekend, the man downstairs was not at home, and the woman, who was pregnant for more than eight months, was woken up and angrily went upstairs.
Chu Chih-kuo was playing with Chu Hsi in the activity room when he heard a knock on the door and muttered,
“It must be someone from downstairs who has come to me again. I’m really bored to death. I have to take care of it in my own house. I want to live in a quiet villa!”. While complaining,
Zhu Zhiguo went out to deal with his neighbors, but Zhu Xi rushed over first, opened the door and quarreled with the pregnant woman downstairs.
Adults and children are unreasonable, do not know what the pregnant woman said to provoke Zhu Xi, or Zhu Xi has long been deeply resentful of her, he suddenly stretched out his hand, the pregnant woman pushed the whole person to the stairs.
The pregnant woman rolled down the steps of the 12th and 13th floors and went into shock on the spot.
Zhu Zhiguo was so frightened that he dialed 120 and asked Yao Guizhi to take Zhu Xi to find a place to hide and never show his head.
I sighed, took out my cell phone and called the landlord. I explained the situation and asked her to help me take care of Guoguo. I might not be able to go back tonight. Without a trace of hesitation,
the landlord agreed and told me to do something without worrying about Guoguo. A warm current rose in my
heart and I said thank you from the bottom of my heart. As
time went by, it was a torment for everyone waiting outside the operating room. The mother of the pregnant woman tried several times to rush over and hit Zhu Zhiguo. After being stopped by the crowd, she collapsed in a chair and wiped her tears and scolded Zhu Zhiguo: Why are
you catching up with that fashion at such an old age? If you were born, you would raise it, and you would educate it well. If you were born but not raised, would you keep such a thing to harm the neighbors?
Chu Chih-kuo was scolded so much that he couldn’t keep his face down, but he still defended himself shyly:
“The child is still young and doesn’t understand. It will be all right when he grows up.” The
pregnant woman’s mother also scolded, the operating room has been on the lights suddenly went out, the door immediately opened, the pregnant woman’s relatives stood up and swarmed around the door.
“The adults and the child are all fine. It’s a baby boy. Because of the premature birth, his physical signs are a little unstable. He needs to be sent to the child care department right away, and the family will come and sign it.” The
waiting crowd sent out a series of surprises, and the mother of the pregnant woman put her hands together with tears in her eyes.
I heaved a long sigh and put down a stone in my heart.
The next step was to talk about compensation. Because the amount of the claim was too large, both sides refused to compromise. Finally, they hired a lawyer. The court ruled that all the expenses of the other party’s adults and infants during hospitalization should be borne by us, and another 100,000 yuan should be compensated.
Chu Min and Chu Chih-kuo came out of the court swearing, and when they got home, they found that Yao Kuei-chih had already returned with Chu Hsi. Chu Chih-kuo swept away his anger and looked up and down with Chu Hsi in his arms. “I’ve been suffering outside these days, and my face has lost weight. Let your sister cook some sparerib soup
for you to mend.”
I just wanted to interrupt and let them teach Zhu Xi a good lesson through this matter. Then I thought,
they are so affectionate, how can they listen to my advice? Besides, I will have nothing to do with them
soon. It’s better not to complain. While Zhu Min was busy in the kitchen,
I solemnly asked her for a divorce.
Such a family is so terrible that I don’t want to have anything to do with them for a moment.
Chu-min probably felt that her ears were broken and asked me again and again, “What did you say
? Say it again.” Then
I said, “Zhu Min, I want to divorce you!”
Chu Min finally understood this time. As soon as she pulled her face, she picked up the spatula at hand and hit me
on the head:
“Divorce?”? Eat my family, drink my family, live in my family, and dare to divorce me! Go out for
two days and grow up, don’t you?
I grabbed her spatula and told her
, word for word, “I’m going to get divorced. If you don’t agree, I’ll see you in court.”
I shook her off and walked past the family of three at the door. When I
reached the corner of the stairs, I heard Yao Guizhi say to
Chu Min through the crack of the door, which had not yet been closed tightly: “We can’t divorce this marriage. If we divorce, who will support our big family? Go after him quickly,
live with him, and depend on him!” With a
cold hum in my heart, I quickened my pace and went downstairs.
Zhu Min is really the most obedient to her mother, we moved out two months time she did not
come, but her mother a word, she touched my door
in the evening of the day.
I blocked the door to keep her out. Unusually,
she took out a hairpin from her bag and shouted into the room,
“Guoguo, Guoguo, mom is here. Mom bought you a beautiful hairpin. Come and have a
look.” Guoguo, who was drawing with her back to her
in the living room, did not move.
Zhu Min pulled down his face again and said,
“You really have a bad heart. Did you instigate Guoguo not to recognize me as his mother?”
I sneered,
“You know you’re a mother?”? How many times have you held Guoguo since she grew up? You
weaned Guoguo in two months in order to take care of Zhu Xi. You are really great.
Have you ever cut her fingernails? Did you braid her hair? Did you know she had a decayed
tooth that kept her awake at night? Have you ever seen the tears of envy in her eyes when she was hospitalized for pneumonia and had an injection, and when other children cried out for their
mothers to hold her? “You don’t deserve to be Guoguo’s mother at all. Go back to the home
that needs you. We don’t need you here.” Without waiting for Zhu Min to react,
I slammed the door and stood for a moment. Suddenly, I saw
Guoguo’s shoulders shaking badly in front of the drawing board.
I hurried forward and whispered her name.
Guoguo looked back with tears on his face.
It turns out that the child knows everything in his heart.
Guoguo’s tears strengthened my determination to divorce.
I filed a divorce application to the court as quickly as possible, but the court did not grant a divorce in the first court session because
of Zhu Min’s tearful confession, and
another lawsuit could only wait until six months later.
I’m a little discouraged.
I asked Ge Wei to have a drink. He was my boss in my first job after I came to this city. Although
he started his own business later, our friendship was not broken at all. After
a few glasses of wine, Ge Wei saw that my mood was not right, and after repeated questioning, I confided my heart to him
.
I said, “This marriage must be divorced, or I will always wipe the ass of that family and never see
the light of day.” “Why doesn’t she want to get divorced?” Asks
Ge Wei. “Is it because she still remembers her old love?” I sneered, “Fart, I’m afraid that no one will support their family after the divorce. They’re
all vampires. Where else can I find a second sucker?” “Oh,” said
Ge Wei. “So it’s for money.”
He thought for a while and then asked me, “Your father-in-law lives in a neighborhood on the other side of Guiyang Road.
Is the shop front under your husband and wife’s name in the Hedong Road vegetable market?”
I nodded.
He slapped his thigh excitedly and said, “That’s easy to do. You wait and I’ll think of something
for you. Within a month, she will definitely beg for a divorce from you.”
I asked him again and again, but he kept silent and said he wanted to give me a surprise.
I didn’t expect Zhu Min to come to me so soon to talk about divorce, and he made an appointment directly
with the Civil Affairs Bureau.
She proudly took out a piece of paper from her bag and threw it in front
of me. “Don’t you want a divorce?”? Sign this and get divorced! Leave as soon as possible and forget as soon as possible.
I picked it up and saw that it was a divorce agreement, which stipulated that the child’s savings and the car
belonged to me, and I was not allowed to touch the facade under her name.
I chuckled, picked up my pen and signed. She seemed to have something urgent. As soon as she got the divorce certificate, she ran out of the door. I followed
her and saw her get into a red BMW. The
car sped past me, and I vaguely felt that the driver looked familiar,
as if I had seen him somewhere.
Before I could think about it, Ge Wei called and said,
“How are you? Are you divorced?”
I looked down at the divorce certificate still in my hand and answered.
All right, I’ll get divorced. If I don’t get divorced, my brother will die of exhaustion as a coolie. So come out for a drink tonight
? Just in time to thank the great hero.
I was stunned by what he said, brother? A great hero?
Without waiting for me to come to my senses, a message came in from my mobile phone. I saw that it was sent by Zhu Min, so I hung up Ge Wei’s phone first
and made an appointment to contact him later.
Zhu Min said WeChat, since the divorce is not related, let me go back this afternoon
to empty all the things of Guoguo and me, and do not wait for the expiration date.
Such impatience makes me wonder what method Ge Wei used to make her
divorce so simply.
I picked up Guoguo from school and went to the house to move things. The reason why I took Guoguo was
that there were many toys she liked in it. Last time I moved in a hurry, I couldn’t bring them out.
Guoguo was always thinking about it.
In order to make a quick decision, I made a special call to Ge Wei and asked him to come and help clean up. When I
knocked on the door, neither Yao Guizhi nor Chu Chih-kuo gave me a good look, but when Yao Guizhi saw Ge Wei behind me, his eyes lit up:
“Hey, why does this young man look so familiar?”
Ge Wei laughed and began to play Tai Chi:
“Auntie, I have a common face. I look like everyone else. The old man who collects junk outside says he looks familiar to me. It’s really sad.”
I led Guoguo around the room looking for toys. Zhu Zhiguo went to Zhu Xi, who was playing games on the balcony, and said,
“Ancestor, go and watch. Don’t let them take your toys away.” As soon as
Zhu Xi heard this, he quickly put down the tablet computer in his hand and followed Guoguo to stare at it with his eyes. When Guoguo wanted to take something, he ran over and hugged it first, and then stared at Guoguo viciously.
I sighed and said to Guoguo, “Just take the things that are memorable to you. Other dads can buy them for you again.”
Guoguo nodded and his eyes fell on the electronic organ in the corner.
It was the prize that Guoguo got when she took part in the competition in the specialty class. The teacher gave it to her personally, and she always cherished it.
Probably holding the idea of being determined to win, this time Guoguo took the lead in running over and picking up the electronic organ. Zhu Xi, who reacted, was a step too late. He hurriedly put down the other toys in his hand and rushed over to grab them. At the
end of my patience, I stood in front of Guoguo.
Zhu Xi was stupefied, his eyes flashed fear, and his footsteps retreated unconsciously. Since he had been beaten severely by me last time, he was somewhat afraid of me.
It seems that the bear child is not fearless.
I said to Zhu Xi in as good a voice as I could,
“Let Guoguo take this away, and leave the rest to you.”
Zhu Xi glared at me fiercely, turned around and ran to Yao Guizhi’s side, and began to give orders:
“You go and get it back for me, go quickly!”! That’s mine, and all of it is mine. Don’t take any of it! As
he roared, he pushed Yao Guizhi forward vigorously. At first, Yao Guizhi coaxed Guoguo to put down the piano with good words. Later, when he saw that it had no effect, he lost patience and suddenly shouted at Guoguo:
You are a worried girl. You have to fight with your uncle for something. No wonder your mother doesn’t like you. Stubborn!
Guoguo’s eyes showed a frightened look, and his small body hid behind me, but he still held the electronic organ tightly in his hands.
I leaned over and took her little hand.
“Good fruit, take your piano and let’s go home.”
However, before I could take the first step, there was a loud bang behind me. Even as an adult, I was still frightened.
When I looked back, Zhu Xi was holding a ball stick and smashing it like crazy. It was the glass tea table that was the first to bear the brunt of the loud noise. As
he smashed it, he howled,
“Let you take it!”! Let you take it! Let you not listen to me! Let you not get it back for me!
His second stick hit the refrigerator, the refrigerator door immediately dented a pit, he hit the square fish tank on the dining table with another stick, the fish tank broke, the water flowed all over the floor, the small goldfish which had been alive and kicking immediately flopped and struggled.
Yao Guizhi screamed and jumped up first to try to stabilize Zhu Xi, but she ignored the strength of a 10-year-old boy of one hundred catties when he was in a rage. Zhu Xi only pushed him with his elbow, and Yao Guizhi stumbled to the ground. Already ignoring herself,
she got up and continued to attack. Finally, she half knelt on the ground and firmly clamped one of Zhu Xi’s arms with both hands. Zhu Zhiguo also took the opportunity to grab the stick in his hand. Unable to move,
he became even angrier. Raising his voice, he pointed his finger at me and Guoguo and shouted,
“Will you put it down?”? If you don’t put it down, I will ruin this family! When the time comes, I’ll let you pay for it!
Yao Kuei-chih suddenly howled at his feet,
“Little ancestor, don’t smash it. If you smash it, our family will pay for a new one.”. Don’t smash it. I’ll buy you whatever you want.
I hugged Guoguo, who was frightened to cry, in my arms and motioned Ge Wei to continue walking and not to stay.
Walking downstairs, Guoguo calmed down. I took her hand and just wanted to say something to comfort her. Suddenly, I heard the sound of shouting and scolding coming from upstairs. I looked up subconsciously.
Zhu Xi was half leaning out of the window, as if looking for something, when suddenly his eyes were fixed on me and Guoguo, and then disappeared. Just as
I was wondering, Zhu Xi suddenly appeared at the window the next second. His arms were struggling to hold something up. Suddenly, he stretched out his arms, and an object that could only see the outline of it hit me and Guoguo in the direction of the top of his head. Subconsciously,
I pulled Guoguo backwards and stepped on the feet of the people behind me. I wanted to shout loudly for the people around me to get out of the way, but it was too late. A
heavy object grazed my shoulder and hit a girl wearing glasses. The girl didn’t even have time to hum. She fell softly in front of my eyes in a strange posture. The
glass was scattered on the ground, mixed with the bodies of several small red fish. In order to vent his anger,
Zhu Xi threw down the whole fish tank that he had just cracked. The
neighborhood was in a mess. On the tenth day after throwing objects from a
high altitude, Zhu Min found me.
She was so haggard that even her voice was hoarse. She mumbled and asked me to borrow money
: I sold my mother’s house, but it’s still not enough for the girl’s treatment. Now I really have no way to come to you. You can lend me 200,000 yuan first. Don’t worry, I’ll pay you back as soon as the money is paid for the demolition of the facade house.
“Demolition?”
I was stunned.
She looked startled, as if she realized she had said the wrong thing, and smiled awkwardly at me.
I have no interest in delving into it, after all, it has nothing to do with me.
“I’m sorry, Chu-min. It’s not that I don’t want to help you. There’s really nothing I can do. The last time your brother pushed someone down the stairs, the hospitalization expenses for adults and children plus compensation added up to nearly 300,000, all of which were deducted from my card.”
“You should know better than anyone how much savings I have now, or you wouldn’t have been so generous in the divorce.” Zhu Min was choked white by me, his face was uncertain, and finally he did not say anything more, turned
his head and left.
I looked at her back and sighed and called Ge Wei.
I made an appointment with Ge Wei for a drink after work, and I haven’t thanked him for his kindness. When
Ge Wei arrived, there were two of them. He pointed to the man beside him, who was a little shorter than him and
looked a little like him, and introduced him to me:
“Meet my cousin Guo Jun. You can get a divorce thanks to him.”
I looked Guo Jun in the eyes and suddenly remembered something. “Was it you who drove the red BMW at the gate of the Civil Affairs Bureau that day?” I asked
.
Kuo Chun smiled and said, “Brother Peng, you have a good eye.”
The three of them sat down and the conversation began. Kuo Chun complained to me,
Brother Peng, I really admire you. I’ve endured more than ten years in a home like that. I can’t stand it these two months
. You don’t know. I was just being polite at that time. If you need any help
, just call me. But day after day, if you’re not repairing the sewers, you’re repairing
the lamps. It’s like they’re working for his family.
I laughed,
“That’s right. They treat you like a new son-in-law. If they’re going to send you away, I’ll let you
take office. Don’t they have to test you too much?” “Oh, don’t say anything. It’s all the hard work my brother arranged for me. If you don’t
get a divorce, I’ll probably strain my lumbar muscles.”
Ge Wei laughed and knocked him on the head:
“Who told you not to do your proper work? I looked around at that time, and you
were the only one who had nothing to do, so it was your turn.”
I raised my glass and said to the two men bickering in front of me,
“Thank you for your great kindness. You have helped me out of my misery. Otherwise, I would not
have any bones left.”
Ge Wei was about to drink when he heard me say this and put down his glass again.
“It’s a pity,” he sighed
. “I don’t know if a young girl like that can wake up. A bear
child is really a little devil.”
He drank the wine and suddenly changed the subject:
“Don’t you wonder how we managed to get Chu Min to divorce willingly?”
I said, “I’m not curious. I’ve already guessed it myself.”
Yes, today when Zhu Min came to me to borrow money and accidentally said the word “demolition”
, I guessed it. Doesn’t
she love money? Then give her a trap from the money, and then find a little fresh meat from time to time
in front of a gallant, blowing a deaf ear, Zhu Min a moment of success, can remember
which onion I am? Through a traffic accident,
Ge Wei let his cousin Guo Jun and Zhu Min meet, get to know each other, stay WeChat, and often contact each other.
Enthusiastic Guo Jun will often take Zhu Min to and from work, will help her do some physical housework, just to fill the gap after I left home.
Then Guo Jun revealed a PS demolition plan to Zhu Min unintentionally, and the vegetable market on Hedong Road was in the demolition plan.
In fact, many years ago, there were rumors about the vegetable market on Hedong Road that it would be demolished, but it has not received a positive official response.
This time, Guo Jun took out such a seemingly official picture, and vowed that it was quietly disclosed to him by one of his classmates working in the government department, which was an absolute secret and must not be passed on.
Zhu Min felt that even with Guo Jun’s serious and serious face in front of her, the news was absolutely credible, and that the news about demolition, which had been rumored for four or five years, might really be a fact.
She is about to have countless money, as well as the present Guo Jun, who is several times more considerate and obedient than me. If she doesn’t hurry up to divorce, will she leave me waiting to divide up the demolition money?
That’s why she was so eager and generous to divorce me.
However, the authorities did not want to fall into the trap of others. When
he was slightly drunk, there were more customers in the shop and more family gossip.
Sitting diagonally opposite the table were two middle-aged men, who slapped the table heavily and were filled with indignation:
“That family is really not a thing. When such a big thing happened, they ran away with that bastard. It’s simply inhuman!”.
“Really ran away?”
“They ran away. The couple ran away overnight with that little bastard. The daughter of his family was delayed by something, and the next day she wanted to run away too. She was blocked at home. Now she has sold the house and raised money everywhere to see a doctor.”
“It’s a sin. Children today are simply terrible.”
“You still have to blame the parents. If the parents are irresponsible, the children will just do whatever they want.”
I thought for a moment, drank the last glass of wine in my hand, took out my cell phone, and transferred fifty thousand yuan to Zhu Min.
Not for anything else, just for the sake of the timely treatment of the strange girl who was lying in the intensive care unit and suffered from the disaster.
