35 this year

Chapter 15 Even if he is a jerk, I hope he is happy

Xu Hong was hugging Sheng Min to comfort him on the side of the street, when a car stopped in front of him, and Chang Qing got off the co-pilot, Xu Hong's expression became surprised.Seeing Xu Hong who was surprised, and Sheng Min who was lying on her shoulder crying with tears all over his face, Chang Qing asked, "Is it okay?"

"How did you find it here?"

Chang Qing glanced at Sheng Min, and said, "A man answered her call. When I said I was looking for you, the man said that you came out. It should be around here." Xu Hong thought, it should be Sheng Min. Her husband answered the phone.

"Get in the car, find a place to sit." Chang Qing glanced at the car after speaking.When Xu Hong got into the car with Sheng Min, he found Huang Guanyang sitting in the driver's seat. Huang Guanyang looked at Sheng Min twice, his whole face was filled with irritability.

Huang Guanyang chose a small bar near the street, and Xu Hong's mind was full. Did he not know other places besides the bar?Chang Qing saw her doubts, and explained, "It's all over, and there are not many places for business." Xu Hong sighed, and asked Sheng Min, "Do you want to go?" Sheng Min nodded, and at this time she really wanted to have a drink.

The four of them still chose the outdoor position. It was a bit chilly at night in autumn, so Huang Guanyang also took a small blanket from the car in his hand, and when Sheng Min settled down, he laid it on her body.Xu Hong still asked for a glass of whiskey, while Sheng Min wanted a bottle of red wine, Xu Hong looked at her, and then said to the waiter, "Return the whiskey, we want a bottle of red wine." After speaking, he said to Changqing Huang Guanyang, "Today I Pay the bill." Chang Qing and Huang Guanyang did not refute after speaking.

"Xu Hong, I still want this." Sheng Min pointed to a huge fruit platter on the menu and said, Xu Hong nodded with a smile and said, "Well, you can do whatever you want."

"Really?" After finishing speaking, Sheng Min ordered a few more set meals, and when the meals came, the table was fully set.

Huang Guanyang asked, "Have you eaten?" In fact, he really wanted to ask, are you not afraid of getting fat after eating so much?
Sheng Min ignored him, and Xu Hong said, "Leave her alone, let her eat, she didn't eat tonight." Not only did she not eat tonight, she also cried a lot just now, exhausting a lot of energy .

After Xu Hong finished speaking, he noticed that Chang Qing had been watching her. Xu Hong looked back at him, took a cigarette from his bag, and asked them, "Do you mind?" Naturally, Sheng Min didn't mind, even today she still Wanting to taste it, he reached out to ask Xu Hong for it. Xu Hong really followed her today, and she could do whatever she wanted. She asked for a cigarette, so he handed it to her.

Sheng Min lit a cigarette and choked on the first puff. Xu Hong leaned on the handle of the chair with his elbows and looked at her smiling with his chin on his hand.Chang Qing felt that it was rare for Xu Hong to show a doting side on his face, as if he was looking at a child, a child he liked very much.

After laughing, Xu Hong looked back and found that Chang Qing was still looking at her, so she lost interest.Xu Hong flicked the ash into the ashtray on the table and said, "Can you stop looking at me with those sticky eyes?"

Chang Qing narrowed his eyes and said, "I talked to that Yan Feng on the phone today." All the movements of Xu Hong's hands and face stopped immediately.

Xu Hong looked at Chang Qing and said word by word, "You have crossed the line."

"Well, I admit, I apologize to you, whether it is for yesterday or today, I apologize."

"Your phone number from Yu He's husband?" Xu Hong knew that Sheng Min rejected them, so Yu He should have given the phone number.

Chang Qing nodded and said, "I'm just curious..."

"I'm also a little curious." Suddenly Xu Hong was a little curious whether he was the younger brother of Yuhe's husband's boss, and whether Yuhe's husband was dreaming, or was it really as he expected?

"Since you want to date, you have to be honest and talk about your wealth."

Xu Hong's question made Chang Qing stunned for a moment, and Xu Hong said, "No one will have trouble with money. Although I am old, if you are really a rich kid, maybe I will consider it. "

"What did your friend tell you?" Chang Qing felt that he seemed to be really going through the blind date process and exchanging family background.

"It doesn't matter what she says, it depends on what you say." Xu Hong snuffed out the cigarette, took a big shark clip from his bag, and tied his hair all behind his head.Chang Qing saw this action as a bit charming, but Sheng Min who was next to him became worried. She knew that once Xu Hong put up his hair and showed such an expression on his face, it meant that he had entered a "combat" state.She must tear off Chang Qing's mask today to avenge him for crossing the border.

Looking at Xu Hong, Chang Qing adjusted his posture to make himself look more formal, and then said, "I...my family has nothing to say, if I was a little rich when I was young, but later...you should also know My father’s friend’s daughter died. After she passed away, our family didn’t get any money, and the business just went like that. My parents are now living in a house in the country for the elderly. I’m the only one in my family.”

"Oh..." Xu Hong took a sip of his wine and said, "So, now you want to find a woman to take care of your parents?"

"No..." Chang Qing looked at Xu Hong and said, "You should not be that kind of woman either."

Xu Hong nodded, with a secretive smile on his face and said, "Your eyes are so nice. If so, why do people think you are the boss' younger brother?"

"I am indeed the younger brother of the boss of the company, but only a cousin. My grandpa has many brothers, and my father's generation also has many cousins..."

Xu Hong feels that she understands the relationship Chang Qing mentioned. Her family is almost the same. There are seven or eight brothers in the grandparents generation. When it comes to the fathers generation, there will naturally be more cousins. There are several in a family, and it is their turn. In this generation, there are even more relatives.But many return many, and I don't have much contact with each other at ordinary times, making troubles.

"Are you Jia Yun?"

"Huh?" Chang Qing couldn't react to Xu Hong's metaphor for a while.

Xu Hong lowered his head and smiled and said, "Have you read "A Dream of Red Mansions"? Both of them have the surname Jia, but Jia Yun would rather accept Jia Baoyu, who is younger than him, as her father in order to earn money."

"Is it necessary to speak so harshly?" After Xu Hong finished speaking, Huang Guanyang threw the knife and fork in his hand on the plate, and stood up all over, intending to fight her.

Xu Hong glanced at the knife and fork he threw into the plate, and said, "Is it ugly? It's not that ugly. Jia Yun is a person who can bend, stretch, and be affectionate."

Huang Guanyang looked at Xu Hong and said, "Do you know why you met that kind of rotten person? It's because you are the same kind of person, with such a mean mouth, and your heart is not much better. You met that kind of rotten person because you are rotten." people."

After hearing what he said, Xu Hong stretched out his index finger, swayed like the hands of a pendulum clock, and said, "no, no, no, look, it's the same thing that humiliates women. Women meet bad men because women are bad too. , what kind of person you are, you will meet what kind of rotten man, what about now? Is it because you are rotten that you met me? "

Huang Guanyang gritted his teeth angrily, but Chang Qing was still smiling.Chang Qing asked Xu Hong, "Don't you want to know me?"

"Why, you want to say that although your family is poor, there are still three thousand nails on the broken ship, so I don't want to be so materialistic? Or do you want to say that you can get along well with your own skills? In my cousin, I still have to fight with eight poles. Is it really okay to hang out in the company of an invisible cousin? If you think it’s good, you won’t be so low-key, and your identity will be guessed. Oh, or you want to say that because of the girl who passed away, you have a heavy heart, so prepare I have been hit and depressed so far. Does it sound like you are very affectionate? Isn’t that what you should be? No matter what the girl is, no matter what your purpose is, it’s what you did to step on two boats, right? You are sad , you are depressed, but what about that girl? I'm sorry, I don't have the heart of a Bodhisattva to save a downcast prince, nor do I have the kindness to comfort others. Whether you are depressed or you blame yourself, it's all right. You deserve it! "

After listening to her, the table was instantly quiet. Huang Guanyang even forgot to be angry when he was angry, and looked at Chang Qing nervously, for fear that Chang Qing's expression would be different.Chang Qing, he usually pretends to be a normal person, but he always remembers that he has a life on his back, and the girl died because of him.

But Chang Qing laughed suddenly, and while laughing, he raised his hand and said, "Waiter, bring a bottle of whiskey." Then Chang Qing looked at Xu Hong and said, "Drink what you like, and finish her bottle of Huang Guanyang for her. I'll take you back."

The gentleness in Chang Qing's tone and the partiality in his eyes made Xu Hong feel at a loss what to do, and Xu Hong's eyes avoided and moved elsewhere.Regarding Chang Qing's reaction, Huang Guanyang was also a little surprised, so he gave Xu Hong another look.

"It's a pity that I scolded him today."

Xu Hong looked back at him, and Chang Qing felt that she should still be holding back.Chang Qing took the wine brought by the waiter, poured it and said, "You really are a bastard."

"Why bother? She's going to get married soon, why bother to make trouble for her at this time."

Chang Qing slowly pushed the wine glass in front of Xu Hong and said, "So, even if he is an asshole, you still want him to be happy, don't you?"

Xu Hong held the wine glass in his hand and said, "Whether he is lucky or not has nothing to do with me."

"Well, the introduction to each other is almost over, let's get to know each other again. My name is Chang Qing." After speaking, Chang Qing stretched out his hand and looked at Xu Hong, but he still wanted to shake those hands.

Xu Hong removed his hand from the wine glass, and stretched out that hand reluctantly.Chang Qing felt a little cold when he held it, but besides that, it was a little soft.A pair of small, skinny but soft hands resembled Xu Hong's heart.

After shaking hands, Chang Qing seemed satisfied.Chang Qing withdrew his hand, looked at Sheng Min and asked, "So, Ms. Sheng, what's wrong with you?"

"Huh?" Sheng Min didn't expect the topic to suddenly turn to her.Hearing Chang Qing's question, Huang Guanyang added with concern, "Yeah, what's wrong with you, are you crying?"

Sheng Min was a little at a loss, and then hesitatingly replied, "It's nothing."

"Husband and wife quarrel?" Huang Guanyang suddenly remembered that Sheng Min was married, and who else could make a married woman cry like this except her husband?

While talking, Xu Hong's cell phone rang, and the caller ID was Sheng Min's name. Xu Hong thought it should be Sheng Min's husband calling from her cell phone.Xu Hong handed the phone to Sheng Min, and in a hurry, Sheng Min swallowed the food in his mouth, turned sideways, and answered the phone.

"Hey?"

"Where are you? I...I'll pick you up." The voice on the other end of the phone softened a lot, and the husband's old tenderness seemed to have returned.

Sheng Min choked up and said, "Stay with friends, and we'll go back by ourselves in a while."

"Then call me when you are about to reach the community, and I will pick you up."

"Yeah." Sheng Min nodded and hung up the phone.

Huang Guanyang's eyes followed her, and when she hung up the phone, he still looked at her eagerly, hoping that she would tell him what happened to their husband and wife.Unfortunately, Sheng Min didn't say anything, just took a sip of wine silently.

Xu Hong looked at her bottle of red wine and drank half of it, and said, "Don't drink it, it's time to go back." Then he looked at Chang Qing and Huang Guanyang and said, "You should go to work tomorrow, thank you tonight."

Huang Guanyang leaned back his entire upper body and said, "It's rare for you to say something human." Xu Hong gave him a look and didn't want to pay attention.Chang Qing continued to ask her, "When are you leaving?"

"Just a few days."

"Before I leave, let me treat you to a meal." Chang Qing felt that this was a formal invitation. They met in the name of a blind date, but they had never had a meal alone. He wanted to formally make an appointment with her before she left. meeting.

Xu Hong didn't answer him, called the waiter, paid the bill, and then helped Sheng Min to walk towards the car.Chang Qing knew that she rejected him again.

When Chang Qing drove the two of them to the designated community, he saw a man about the same age as Huang Guanyang wandering under the streetlights at the gate of the community. He thought it should be Sheng Min's husband.

Sheng Min also saw her husband from a distance, seeing her husband Sheng Min's eyes became moist again, the stars were twinkling, and he looked very pitiful.Huang Guanyang looked back at her and said, "If you need help, you can come to me at any time, for anything." Sheng Min nodded and followed Xu Hong out of the car.

Seeing Xu Hong and Sheng Min coming back, her husband walked towards the car, and Sheng Min got off the car and ran towards him.Chang Qing looked at Sheng Min who threw herself into her husband's arms, and said to Huang Guanyang, "Even if you want to do it, you have to wait for her to divorce." Huang Guanyang laughed dryly and did not answer.

Xu Hong originally thought that the quarrel was over, but in the early hours of the morning, he heard the quarrel faintly again.At first, it was a normal voice between husband and wife, and then there were big and small quarrels, which were still the topic of the day.

Sheng Min originally thought that her husband understood her, or had accepted the fact that she was unwilling to take care of her in-laws, but when she asked about going out to work, her husband still stopped all actions to question her.

"What do you want to do?" he asked.

"Don't worry about it, I just want to know, if I go out to work, will you still take your parents over?"

"Would you rather go out to work than take care of my parents?"

"Would you rather let me take care of your parents than let me go out to work?"

"What can you do? How many years have you not worked? How much money can you earn by working? You might as well take care of my parents at home if you go out to work."

"After all, you just think I have to take care of your parents, don't you?"

"This is the maximization of the family economy. My parents have reached the age and need someone to take care of them. When you go out to work, you have to hire a nanny. Is your salary enough to hire a nanny?"

"I'm not a nanny."

"But you are my wife, isn't it natural for my wife to take care of my parents?"

"It's just and right?" Sheng Min thinks this word is so ridiculous, "You think it's only right and proper for me to take care of your parents, and your parents think it's only right and proper for me to have children, as long as they never persecute me, as long as they never dislike me , as long as you say a word for me when they persecute me, I will not resist so much, but have you ever done it? You are my husband, you speak for me, stand up for the decision of the two of us Isn’t it justified to say it?”

"What's the use of talking so much to the old man? They can't understand. Just pretend you didn't hear them nagging you."

"I can't pretend I can't hear. I'm not deaf or a fool. How could I not be able to hear?"

"So you just don't want to stay home and take care of my parents, do you?"

"So you would rather let me stay at home to take care of your parents than let me go out to work and pursue your so-called dream, right?"

The quarrel was silent for a moment, both of them were waiting for the other to compromise, but neither of them compromised.Finally, Sheng Min looked at her husband and said, "I want to go out to work, I must go out to work." After speaking, Sheng Min left the bedroom with the pillow in his arms, and entered Xu Hongzai's second bedroom.

Xu Hong looked at Sheng Min who was hugging the pillow, lifted the quilt and motioned for her to come over, and Sheng Min curled up on the bed with tears in his eyes.Xu Hong held her in his arms and patted her gently.Sheng Min asked, "Xu Hong, am I wrong? I shouldn't disobey you, I shouldn't choose to stay at home, should I?"

Xu Hong nodded, and let out a hmm from his throat. Whether Sheng Min felt that he had no talent for work, or Yu He couldn't work because of his son's health, Xu Hong has been trying his best to persuade them to go out to work, because She is well aware of the importance of the economy to a person and to a family. Only with economic power can she speak at home, otherwise she will always be careful not to enter Sheng Min's current situation, or fall into Yuhe's predicament.Those husbands, as long as they are frustrated, they will attribute the reason to the woman who stays at home. If it is not for you, if it is not for this family, you eat and drink for free and I will support you... This kind of endless Xu Hong had heard enough of her complaints. Hearing them from a young age made cocoons grow in her heart.

(End of this chapter)