35 this year

Chapter 5 Drinking with Bitterness Makes You Intoxicated
The meal finally came.Sheng Min took out a bottle of whiskey from the takeaway box, and asked, "You order this strong?" Xu Hong said, it's not too strong, right?can drink.Yu He and Sheng Min knew that Xu Hong was addicted to alcohol, or she had a good fantasy about alcohol. She liked the feeling of being slightly drunk when her fingertips tingled, and after drinking, Xu Hong was very talkative and had nothing to do. Scruples, maybe this is one of the purposes of her ordering wine, so that the three people who haven't seen each other for many years and can't open their hearts have a chat.

With the arrival of the meal, the dispute just now seemed to be paused, and the embarrassing atmosphere in the room disappeared instantly. Sheng Min seemed to have caught oxygen and came back to life.She turned on the TV, put the two chairs together, and sat on her bed, planning to use the bed as a stool and the chair as a table.Xu Hong and Yu He also sat on both sides of her.

The three of them poured wine while laying out the food, then Sheng Min thought there was something else to talk about, what should we talk about?What is a good topic to break this embarrassing situation?Of course it's gossip!And it must be emotional gossip, who doesn't like to talk about love?She has nothing to say about her love with Yuhe, and besides, it may touch the shady side of marriage, so Xu Hong has become the target of her topic.

While picking up the cup, Sheng Min asked Xu Hong, "Did you not want to find one after all these years?" Xu Hong sighed again in his heart, thinking that if you can't speak, you can shut up, but the atmosphere eased after a long time. Unable to fall into the cold again, Xu Hong nodded and said, "Well, I didn't think about it." "I heard that F looked for you." Yu He also joined in.

F, the only man Xu Hong had ever had a close relationship with in college, and the only man she had ever had a close relationship with in her life, because of bad luck, she didn't even admit that he was her boyfriend, and made three chapters with Yu He and Sheng Min. Among people, only letters are used instead.

"Yeah" Xu Hong is still perfunctory, in fact, she doesn't have any feelings for F, or a few years ago, but not recently. F appeared briefly after Xu Hong was 30 years old. That appearance completely shattered Xu Hong's reluctance. She even asked him bluntly, why did you make me a boy like Bai Yueguang? As it is now, F spat on the phone and said: Shit, what white moonlight, don’t fix that useless, show me your chest.Since then, Xu Hong blackmailed him, and the two had no intersection.

But Sheng Min is related to F. She said, "I heard that F said he proposed to you, but you refused." "Ah? Why?" It's a pity, but as to whether it's a pity that Xu Hong rejected F's marriage proposal, or a pity that she only found out about it, it's unclear.

Xu Hong put the whiskey in his mouth and said, "Because he doesn't like me, he proposed to me just because he needs to get married. What does it mean to need to get married? It means that he can't take care of family and work alone. The 80-year-old father is in danger. He needs a woman to help him take care of him. He searched around and found me the most suitable. Why am I suitable? Because my private life is simple, I never mess with men and women, and in his opinion, I have a bad temper Gentle, able to abide by all things filial piety first."

"It's really cunning." Sheng Min said with emotion, even for the purpose of gossip, she was on Xu Hong's side at this time.

Xu Hong continued, "Do you know what is the funniest? Those just now were not the funniest. The funniest thing is that he taught me how to mess around in the workplace. He taught me? Hahahaha." As Xu Hong laughed, F not only put That young man was lost, and he lived in a worldly way, which is greasy in today's words.

"You know, after he taught me for several nights, I couldn't stand it anymore. I asked you how much your salary is now, and he said hesitantly, 3000. 3000." Xu Hong made an ok Sheng Min Yuhe suddenly smiled.Even if Xu Hong didn't make as much money as the 35-year-old woman in the TV series, his salary is indeed over ten thousand. F's operation is really a joke.

Xu Hong made a helpless gesture and raised his glass to say cheers. Yu He and Sheng Min felt that this was really worth doing, and they took it as a thank you to F for contributing the first joke of the day.

After laughing, Sheng Min asked, "Why is his father so old? He's over 80? My parents are only over 60."

Xu Hong explained, "Old man, don't you know? I knew it when I was in college. Look at his white face, look at his hands, it looks like he hasn't done any work, baby."

"You said that, his father is always strong." Sheng Min had just finished teasing, and Yuhe said disdainfully, "What is old and strong, but my old father-in-law left with a young woman, and he doesn't know where he is now." , Occasionally contact my husband, my husband dare not tell his mother."

Xu Hong said, "I don't know what this man is thinking? Your husband and father-in-law are already at this age, what are you fussing about?"

"A man is a teenager until he dies." Yu He and Sheng Min said in unison, and then laughed together.Xu Hong thought, the little dispute just now is completely over, thanks to the alcohol.

"Then is your mother-in-law leaving? When will you return to the Northeast?" Sheng Min asked.Yu He replied, "I don't know, but I want her to go back." Xu Hong looked at her and asked with his eyes, and Yu He swallowed a mouthful of wine and said, "Anyway, you already know, so I won't hide it from you, my child, You've seen it too, Tang's children."

"It's not like it." Sheng Min blurted out, it's really not like, she has seen pictures of Tang's children, their faces are plump, although their appearance is indeed different from that of ordinary children, but they all love to smile, and their smiles are cute and innocent.

Yu He said with hatred in her tone, "You know why, right? Because my old lady gave him incense ash!" In the surprised eyes of Xu Hong and Sheng Min, Yu He said, "I didn't know it at first, but later it was my neighbor. Inquire with me and say that she saw my mother-in-law brought a girl into the house, and my mother-in-law told people that she was a witch who came to show our family Feng Shui, and said that the reason why my son got that disease was because of bad Feng Shui."

"The sorceress asked the child to eat incense ash?" Xu Hong thought it was too incredible. Is the old lady crazy for giving such a young child to eat incense ash!
Yuhe's eyes were slightly red, and she nodded and said, "Well, I bumped into her, and I only found out after asking, and I have eaten it several times." "It's too much!" She is an elder, she must be cursing her eighteen generations of ancestors.

Sheng Min patted Yuhe on the back and asked, "Then what does your husband say?" When you come back, let his mother go back, let the two live a good life, and it happens that my mother will retire next year, so she can come and help me take care of the children."

Xu Hong asked, "Is the child going to kindergarten soon?"

Yuhe took a sip of the wine in the glass, suppressed the rising emotions, and said, "I asked, it's not easy, I want him to go to a normal kindergarten, but the kindergarten doesn't accept it. I said yes, but I have to give it to a separate kindergarten." Expenses, after all, he is different from other children, plus a lot of money for a month."

Xu Hong nodded, saying that yes, the kindergarten fees are not low now, not to mention the situation of Yuhe's son, the fees are indeed higher.

Seeing that both of them shared their sufferings, Sheng Min felt that it seemed out of place not to talk about herself, but what could she say?Who brought the topic to the parents?But since she mentioned her parents, she also revealed it?
Sheng Min cleared the wine in his throat and said, "Well... I might really have to go to work."

"Why?" Xu Hong asked.After Xu Hong finished asking, Sheng Min cast a strange look, that look seemed to say, everyone knows you didn't go to work before.Sheng Min sighed and said, "It's not my dad. What do you think this man is thinking? He didn't make any money when he was young. Now that he's retired, what else can he make? He still imagines that he can get rich , Now it’s all right, the little savings at home have been tossed in.”

Xu Hong and Yu He looked at her suspiciously, and saw Sheng Min say while eating the vegetables, "My dad believed in P2P, saying that it was a big profitable project. He invested 20 for the first time, and then lost money." Xu Hong thinks it’s okay, 20 yuan is not a big problem for Sheng Min’s parents, and the expenses in third-tier cities are not big, and the two people’s pension together earns more than she earns in a month. OK.Then Sheng Min went on to say, "Once this man's self-confidence rises, he can't take it back. If he loses the first time, there will be a second time, one after another..."

"How much did you lose?" Yu He frowned when she heard this, and she wanted to know the exact amount quickly.Sheng Min looked at her sadly and said, "Seven to eight million..."

"So much!!" Even Xu Hong screamed, 80 to [-] yuan, the life savings of ordinary people, and the wealth saved by Sheng Min's parents who taught and educated people all their lives.Sheng Min nodded and said, "So my mother can't pay for my social security and the like, and she also wants to save some more money by herself, so she has started to substitute for cram schools again." After hearing her finish, Xu Hong Think, then you really should come out to work.Sheng Min's mother is almost sixty years old, she has been teaching all her life, and is also the director of the school's academic affairs office. However, because women retire earlier than men, their pension is lower than her father's, but even so, she is hiding it from her. Sheng Min's father helped her pay social insurance and buy commercial insurance. She always said that her daughter had no children, and she was afraid that men would be unreliable, and she would have no one to depend on in her old age. What would she do in a hundred years from now?Sheng Min's mother knows her daughter well. She doesn't have much money, and she is smart, but she doesn't have the patience to go to work. After so many years, she has never paid a penny, or even subsidized her. She doesn't go out to substitute for a class. How do you live?
This time it was Yuhe's turn to rub Sheng Min's back, unable to say a word, after all, if the seven or eight million yuan hadn't disappeared, it would be 80% Sheng Min's, and Sheng Min had indeed made this plan before.So what if she doesn't go to work, and what if her husband grows up thinking?Her parents are rich, and her parents have two properties at least, with deposits of 80 to 40. The disappearance of money is worth a lot less.The suburban roof of the third-tier cities is only 80 million?The house in the city is [-] million, but the sum of these two places is not enough to buy a house in her city.Are you going back to your hometown?Her husband will not agree, divorce? It seems that it has not reached this point.What's more, her parents have nothing left now, only two properties are left. It is said that the houses in the suburbs cannot be sold, and there is no extra savings in hand. What if she gets sick? ... The more Sheng Min thought about it, the more sad she became. After thinking about it, she felt that it was time for her to go out to work, but what could she do?

Both Xu Hong and Yu He knew Sheng Min's sorrow, but no one could solve this sorrow. At the age of 35, it is the age to start chanting "every family has its own scriptures that are difficult to recite", and the time for playing is over. The ups and downs of the world have been tasted twice, and the next thing is only sour and bitter.

(End of this chapter)