sleepless tonight

Chapter 8 Change the Light Bulb

"This..." I was a little embarrassed, "My daughter is also yours. If we really want us to move out, don't you feel sad? If outsiders see it, they will say that you are inhuman."

"I didn't let A Ke and Xiao Le go out to live, I just let you go out to live." Tong Wangjun looked at me and said.

I was speechless for a moment, and couldn't help but regret what I said just now.

"Why don't you talk anymore?" Tong Wangjun asked Ann.

"Don't worry, when I find a job and earn money, I will return the rent to you." I said.

Tong Wangjun took a deep look at me: "Do you think we have to separate so clearly after we get divorced?"

"No." I shook my head, "It's just that it's not appropriate to ask you to pay the rent as a woman. This should be a man's responsibility. You can take the 200 yuan. You didn't eat here today. You already It’s not good to ask you to pay for food after paying for milk powder.”

Tong Wangjun paused and looked me up and down.

"What are you looking at?" I asked suspiciously.

"Chen Jin, you have changed. You were not like this before. You never said that it is a man's responsibility to support your family." Tong Wangjun said, "You are so drunk every day, let alone supporting your family, you still want me to take care of you. There is not a single day without drinking, and once you drink, you will be as drunk as mud, and you will go crazy."

"Really?" I have no impression.

What Tong Wangjun said should have happened before I woke up.

"Perhaps divorce is a relief for you. Marrying me bound you and wronged you. After divorce, you changed, became responsible, and deliberately kept a distance from me. "Tong Wangjun's eyes were bleak, and his voice was choked up, but after a while, he smiled again.

"I know that the combination between the two of us was a mistake. If you want to divide it so clearly, then divide it. I will keep the 200 yuan. As for the rent, forget it. Although the house is paid by me money, but we were not divorced at that time."

Tong Wangjun took the money from me, turned around and entered the elevator, with his back to me.

The elevator door gradually closed, and I saw Tong Wangjun raised his hand and wiped the corner of his eyes.

At this time, I suddenly realized that not only was I lonely, but Tong Wangjun in the elevator was also lonely.

I really want to run over, stand in front of Tong Wangjun, and ask her how I met her, how we got married, and what happened between us.

However, I didn't move.

No matter what the reason is, the result is already like this. Tong Wangjun and I have two children, and we are divorced. Now Tong Wangjun has a man who has a house and a car, and is also a good-looking person who is pursuing her.

This result should be the best for her.

I have no reason to interfere with her, after all, I can't give her the kind of life she wants.

The elevator door opened again, and the woman next to me was taken aback when she saw me at the elevator entrance.

"Wait a minute, I'll get the bowl and rice." I glanced at the light bulb in the woman's hand, turned to her, then turned around and ran back to my room.

I took out the plastic bag, scooped up ten bowls of rice with a woman’s bowl, looked at the small wooden bed and squatted on the small wooden bed, doing homework, and occasionally looked up at Chen Le who was sleeping soundly in the wooden bed. Outside the door of the woman next door.

The door is closed.

I originally thought that the woman would leave a door for me. After all, I said I was going to fetch rice, and it was only a while, but she actually closed the door.

I knocked twice on the door.

No one should.

I looked again.

Still ignored, but I knew the woman must be inside, so I knocked hard twice more.

There was a bang, as if the chair inside had fallen over.

After a while, the door opened, and the woman glared at me sullenly: "Why are you knocking on the door?"

The place where the woman covered her knee with one hand seemed to have fallen just now.

"I borrowed the rice and the bowl from your house, and I'll return it to you." I lifted the plastic bag in my hand.

"No need." The woman glanced at the plastic bag in my hand, turned around and was about to go back to the house.

"That won't work. I don't like being in debt. It's still a woman's." I didn't agree, and walked in. "I'll put it in the kitchen for you."

The woman wanted to get angry, but when she saw me coming in, the anger on her face was suppressed again, she ignored me and went into the room.

I put the rice and bowls in the kitchen and was about to go back to the house, but when I walked halfway, I saw the downlight in the dining room, and turned back again, and arrived at the door of the woman's room.

In the room, a woman stood on a chair with her head raised, her hands raised high, and she was trying to install the light bulb.

The whiteness around the woman's waist is looming.

"It's dangerous for you, you know?" I said.

what.

The woman suddenly screamed, her body staggered, and she was about to fall.

I just rushed over, and before the woman fell over, I hugged his legs to keep her balanced.

But the woman didn't know if she had an injury on her foot, or she was overly frightened, and she actually lay on my back, making my center of gravity unstable, and the two of them fell to the ground together.

"Are you okay?" I quickly helped the woman up.

"Why did you break into a private house?" The woman frowned and looked at me with disgust, "Do you believe me or not?"

"Can you stop calling the police? I'm kind. I saw that the downlights in your restaurant were not turned off. I was worried that you might get an electric shock when you changed the bulb, so I came here to help you." I said, "You don't even know to turn off the bulb when you change it." Is it the power supply?"

The woman shakes her head.

"Okay, give me the light bulb and I'll change it for you." I stretched out my hand and said.

The woman stood up, sat down on the bed, and handed me the light bulb.

I went to turn off the power first, then went into the room to replace the light bulb, turned on the power, and pressed the switch, and the room lit up immediately, but it was faint yellow.

"Ceiling lamps are generally used in rooms now, but you still use this kind of light bulb for decoration?" I glanced at the woman and said strangely, "It seems a bit out of place, and it's an old-fashioned light bulb."

The woman didn't speak.

I made a fuss, clapped my hands, went out and went back to my room.

In the city, when people get along with each other, there is often a wall separated by a wall, but a gully hangs between hearts.

"Come on, Ake, drink this cup of milk before going to bed." I opened a can of milk powder and said to Chen Ke.

"I don't drink it, this is for my sister." Chen Ke shook his head.

"Xiao Le still has more." I pointed to the cans of milk powder on the table, "See, imported ones, five or six hundred and one cans, that's for Xiao Le."

Chen Ke looked at the powdered milk on the table, then at the powdered milk I put beside the cabinet, then nodded and took the milk in my hand.

After taking a few sips, Chen Ke handed me the cup: "Dad, you drink too."

"You drink, dad is not thirsty." I said with a smile.

"I have a small stomach, so I can't drink that much, Dad, drink it." Chen Ke insisted, licking the milk stains on his lips.

"Okay, let's split it up, okay?" I took another cup and said to Chen Ke.

Chen Ke nodded: "OK."

A glass of milk is divided into two portions, Chen Ke and I each have half.

That night, Chen Ke slept soundly, with a rosy face and a smile on the corner of her mouth.

I got up in the morning, made breakfast, and made a cup of milk powder for Chen Ke and Chen Le. After Chen Ke went to school, I carried Chen Le and went out. I wandered the streets, looking for something suitable for me. work in this situation.

But after walking around, I entered a clothing store with the cheek to apply for a salesperson. I had already negotiated, but when I said that I had to bring my children to work, the boss immediately drove me away.

The wind was a bit cold, and the fallen leaves were blown up. I covered Chen Le's face to my chest, and wandered around aimlessly with my head curled up.

I'm really desperate. In a big city with such a population, everyone around me is in a hurry and looks busy. I'm the only one who seems idle and out of tune with this city.

The city seemed to have abandoned our family of three.

Is it possible that I still have to go back to my parents?
I shook my head. I am an adult, married, and have children. I must support a family instead of continuing to ask for it.

When passing an overpass, I saw the stalls on both sides, my eyes lit up, maybe I can try this.

With the direction, I didn't rush to start, but spent half a day, constantly observing by the side of the bridge, and finally found that the insoles were the best sellers, and many passers-by would stop and buy a pair or two thicker. insoles.

In just four or five hours, I saw a vendor selling thirty or forty pairs of insoles. A pair of insoles sold for three or four yuan, at least half of the profit could be made. 3000 yuan.

It is barely enough to feed my father and daughter.

(End of this chapter)