three desperate women

Chapter 1 The Uninvited Guest at the Funeral

It was almost six o'clock in the evening when Liu Yini walked out of the building of Xinda Securities Company.

She is 40 years old, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses. The thick foundation on her face has almost taken off, and the chloasma on her cheeks is faintly exposed. Fortunately, she reapplied the lipstick that had bottomed out before leaving get off work. , to barely cover up his pale complexion.

Her hair was combed into a bun at the back of her head, and there were a few strands of white hair on the sideburns. She was wearing a dark blue suit. The elbow cuffs and pockets of the suit had been scuffed and shiny, and the trousers were tightly bound on both sides due to static electricity. On a thigh like chopsticks.

A leather bag that has been outdated for many years is hanging on her shoulder. The skin on the handle has begun to peel off due to years of use. Sometimes when the bag is taken off, there is a layer of dander on her shoulder. She has developed a habit of reaching out and flicking it. .

The phone rang again, and she was exhausted by the short-term notice of overtime work, and the phone call from her husband made her even more irritable, asking where the pot was, where the dishes were, and when she would be back, if she was not afraid of her daughters What's the matter, she really wants to turn off the phone.

She stood under the bus stop sign, leaning on the chair, and slowly took out her mobile phone to take a look. It was her college classmate, the eldest sister who used to live in the same dormitory. She cleared her throat, and instantly changed into a flattering look. face, smiled and answered the phone:

"Hello? Eldest sister, hey, I just saw your circle of friends. Your son is really good, and he has won so many awards!"

The eldest sister on the other end of the phone said something, her face changed from enthusiasm to shock and then to sadness, she hung up the phone, and she sighed softly.

The bus finally arrived, just in time for the people who got off work at 6 o'clock in the surrounding office buildings. She squeezed forward desperately, but luckily got on the bus, even though the backpack was sandwiched between the doors, the driver shouted: "If you didn't swipe your card, Quickly swipe your card!"

She thought about swiping later, but now she couldn't move, the driver shouted again: "The big sister at the door, don't forget to swipe the card!"

Reluctantly, she took out her bus card and asked the person in front to pass it over to swipe it, but she accidentally swiped it twice. After a while, she stood beside the driver and said loudly: "Brother, you give me a dollar. I swiped twice."

Sitting in the transparent driver's cab, the eldest brother rolled his eyes at her: "It's not in my pocket anymore, I can't give it to you!"

"Then you are in a hurry to ask me to swipe the card, but you swipe an extra one, what should I do?"

"Then you stand and wait to see if other passengers insert coins, and you think about going back!"

She stood wearily at the door. Nowadays, young people seldom swipe their cards. They all scan codes with their mobile phones. The elderly are either free or discount cards. Students are student cards, and there are very few coin inserters. After six stops, four tourists from other places finally squeezed in.

They asked the driver where to get off at the beach, and took out four one-yuan coins. She quickly blocked the coin slot with her right hand, grabbed one and put it in her pocket.

The phone rang again, and she knew who it was without looking, and she didn't answer it, so she got off the bus in such a hurry and walked to the community in front, thinking: Damn, hurry up, hurry up your mother! "

She walked into this dilapidated community in the 90s, without even a gate, and the property owner didn't know where to serve the owner, so she showed up proactively when collecting property fees.

She quickly walked into the gate of the low corridor, went up the stairs, took out the key and opened the door, there were the shouts of the daughters and the cursing of the husband:
"You fucking know to come back? Are you deaf? You didn't answer a single call. I thought you died outside?"

"Didn't I tell you to work overtime? The boss doesn't want to make so many phone calls. What should I do if the bonus is deducted?"

"How much money you can get from the bonus, it's not enough to buy a keyboard."

"You fucking know how to play games and return the keyboard, I think you look like a keyboard!"

At this time, there was a quarrel between the elder daughter and the younger daughter, and the elder daughter drove the younger daughter out of the room one by one.

"Mom, ah... woo woo woo... My sister hit me!" The little girl ran into her parents' room crying.

Liu Yini was changing clothes in the bedroom, half of her trousers were taken off, her little daughter ran over to complain to her sister, she stretched out her arms to hug her three-year-old daughter, put it on her lap, and comforted her.

Only when she hugged her daughter did she feel so relaxed, but it was always so fleeting.

"Have you finished changing your clothes yet? Hurry up and cook! I have to go home to pick up the kids and cook for dinner after a busy day! All the clients I have made have missed their appointments, how much I have been delayed!" Her husband yelled at the door.

She didn't speak, and gently put down her little daughter, let her play in this room, and don't disturb her sister's study.Then he quickly changed his clothes, rolled up his sleeves and walked into the kitchen.

It was already 7:[-] for the family of four to have dinner, and the two daughters were still arguing. She ate by herself and helped the younger daughter to eat.

She looked at everything in front of her, thinking about the phone call from the elder sister just now. The elder sister said that the husband of the second sister in their dormitory died of a sudden myocardial infarction at three o'clock last night, and asked her to attend the funeral in three days.

The second sister's husband was so good but died young. Then look at the man in front of me.

While shaking his legs, he watched the short video and slid food into his mouth. The external sound mixed with the daughters' quarrel and the sound of the TV on.

Liu Yini's husband, Qiu Xiaochen, is the same age as her. The two met on a blind date. They have a mutual friend, Xiao He.

Xiao He found out that the two looked very husband and wife, and they both worked in the financial system. They were similar in age and introduced them to each other. After getting along for a year, the two got married and had children step by step like many blind dates.

Qiu Xiaochen works in Changxing Bank. When she first met her, she was just a teller. After the birth of her child, in order to increase her income, she started to find people to get loans. She was often away from home.

Qiu Xiaochen, 40 years old, is not tall, but a little hunchbacked, with a thin body, but a fleshy face, also wears glasses, slender eyes, a nose that is neither sagging nor straight, and a pair of thin lips.

Liu Yini's eyebrows and eyes are almost the same as Qiu Xiaochen, but she has a pointed face and thick lips. She is not tall, only about 1.6 meters. When she was the fattest, she only weighed more than 80 catties, and she did not exceed 40 catties when she was 90 years old.

After dinner, Qiu Xiaochen put on the earphones, lit a cigarette and sat in front of the computer desk to enter the legendary virtual world.

Liu Yini asked Yiyi and Xiaoxiao to sit on the sofa and watch cartoons, and she saw that she was cleaning up the tableware, then washing the dishes, tidying up the kitchen, warming up milk for the two daughters and passing it to the two daughters to drink.

She started to clean the messy living room, mopped the floor, and sorted the dirty clothes of the family of four into different categories, then washed the adults' clothes by machine and the daughter's by hand, then put away the dried clothes on the balcony, and hung up the washed clothes.

"Fuck you, son of a bitch, get out of here, who told you to fuck me blindly, do you owe a beating!"

There was the sound of the husband cursing in the living room, followed by the crying of the daughters!

She hurried back to the living room to pick up Xiaoxiao, and dragged Xiaoxiao into the bathroom one by one, preparing to bathe the children.

"What happened to your father? Did you hit your sister?" Liu Yini asked one by one.

"My sister turned off the switch for my father's computer socket, and my father became anxious! I didn't hit my sister, and I didn't go down!"

"Oh, let's help my sister take a bath!" Liu Yini put down the tub, filled up the water, put the two daughters in the tub, and put towels and a few toys.

She went back to the balcony to dry the clothes, passed the living room with a basin, and looked at the smoky computer desk, her husband was talking with a cigarette, not knowing what to say.

She sighed softly. This was the first time Qiu Xiaochen had dinner at home this month. She usually came back only drunk. She didn't know how busy her husband was outside, and she didn't want to worry about it. Just get back 1 yuan a month on a regular basis.

After taking care of her daughters to sleep, she took a bath by herself and read novels while lying on the bed. She doesn't like to watch short videos, she prefers to read sweet and refreshing articles that don't bother her brain.

It was past one o'clock in the morning after Qiu Xiaochen washed up and went to bed, and Liu Yini who was woken up couldn't fall asleep, thinking of her second sister and her husband who passed away, her husband began to breathe evenly after a few minutes.

She got up and went to the bathroom, and when she came back, she looked at Qiu Xiaochen's half pack of cigarettes on the computer desk. She put on some clothes, opened the door with a cigarette and a lighter, stood by the window in the corridor, and lit one.

The funeral parlor was even busier than the vegetable market. Liu Yini made two phone calls to the eldest sister before finding the hall where the second sister was. After saying goodbye to the body for burial, they went to a large private room in a high-end hotel with thirty tables inside.

She put 500 yuan in a white envelope at the sign-in counter, took out her own business card and put it in, signed in, and went into the private room to sit with the elder sister.

She only knew the eldest sister. After the meal, the guests came bustlingly. If it weren't for the black and white color of the tablecloth and the private room, it would really make people think that they are attending a wedding. They should eat, drink, and smile.

She saw the second sister wearing a black suit and walking to their table with a wine glass, and saw them smiling and offering them a glass of wine.

"I don't take good care of you, just eat some casually today, we are old acquaintances, let's get together again after I've been busy for a while! Have a drink, I'll do it, you can do whatever you want, thank you all for coming to send Bi Jing off for the last time !"

She then drank a glass of beer, laughed with her, and continued to eat salt-roasted prawns, beef cold cuts, and a few abalones.

Suddenly, I felt that someone was crying heart-piercingly, and the whole private room exploded, and there was a lot of people's voices.

She and her eldest sister squeezed through the crowd, and saw several people pulling up a woman with a big belly. She was very young, and she was sitting under Bi Jing's altar, crying heartbreakingly.

The second sister stood beside the altar with her arms folded, watching the young pregnant woman perform without saying a word.

"Husband, why are you treating me like this? What about our child when you leave? She has no father before she was born, so take us away too!"

"Husband! Husband, you said you would love me for the rest of your life and take care of me for the rest of your life. Now you're leaving like this. Why don't your words count?"

The woman was crying, and several women in their 40s wanted to pull her up and take her away. With her hands on her stomach, she stood up with difficulty, and when she saw the new widow standing on the altar, she rushed towards her.

"You vicious woman, you killed Bi Jing, it was you! You killed him! I will kill you!"

(End of this chapter)