Chapter 114

Because the noise was so loud, other people in the yard were also woken up.

Chuxia didn't want to go out at first, but when she heard Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei opening the door and leaving the house, she got dressed and went out.

When I went out, I saw Jiang Jianping and Xu Lihua also coming out from the west room.

They had all fallen asleep just now, so Jiang Jianping asked, "What are you doing so late at night?"

Tang Haikuan replied, "We were all asleep, how would we know what happened?"

After that, he asked Jiang Jianping: "Why don't we go over and take a look?"

No one knew what was going on with such a loud noise in the middle of the night. Han Lei and Li Lan were not at home, and if Han Qingtian and Wang Cuiying couldn't control the situation, something big might happen.

Jiang Jianping hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's go and have a look."

Tang Haikuan and Jiang Jianping exchanged a few words and then passed by immediately.

Xu Lihua and Wu Xuemei followed them. Chu Xia knew that if she followed them, she would just watch the fun and would not be able to help much, so she did not go with them.

She returned to her house and warmed herself by the fire.

Not long after Tang Haikuan and his friends entered the east room, the voices of Tang Haikuan and Jiang Jianping trying to stop the fight were heard from the east room, and the noise of smashing things stopped.

After that, the only sound left in the room was Wang Cuiying's crying.

Chu Xia couldn't hear what she was shouting when she was crying, but she was definitely cursing Su Yun.

After a while, Wang Cuiying's voice could no longer be heard.

The night slowly returned to tranquility, and then Tang Haikuan and the others came out of the east room. The footsteps of two people came to the north room, and the footsteps of two people went to the west room.

After Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei opened the curtain and entered the room, Chu Xia asked them, "What are you doing?"

Wu Xuemei said, "Han Ting and Su Yun were arguing about divorce. They smashed everything in the house and told us not to persuade them. They said they would go to get the formalities done tomorrow. We tried to control the situation with a few words, and they stopped arguing and smashing things, so we came back."

Chu Xia asked curiously again: "Don't they usually not see each other? Why did they suddenly quarrel?"

Tang Haikuan said, "I don't know. Only Han Ting said he wanted a divorce, and the other two didn't say anything. To be honest, it's not surprising that they want a divorce. What kind of life have they lived in the past three years of marriage?"

Chuxia nodded and didn't ask any further questions.

She had some guesses in her mind, but she didn't think about them in detail, and of course she didn't say them out loud.

After getting up so late in the night to do this, everyone was very tired. Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei went back to their rooms to continue sleeping. Chuxia also went back to her room, took off her clothes and went to bed to continue sleeping.

Before she lay down to sleep, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

I thought the love between Han Ting and Su Yun was deep, sincere and indestructible.

Clearly in the novel, they broke up and got back together amid the ups and downs of the times, and were unable to be together due to various practical factors, but they were the love of each other in their hearts all their lives.

As a result, they are now together successfully, but this is the ending.

It seems that their love can only withstand the sadness and separation, but not the daily necessities of life.

Perhaps because of this, in the novel, Su Yun gave Han Ting a passionate, burning love that he would never forget in his life, rather than a complete family.

***

At about the same time the next morning, Su Yun came out of the east room again.

This time, in addition to carrying a small leather bag, she also carried a hard-shell suitcase in her hands. Judging from her posture and expression, this should be the last time she came out of the east room.

She still doesn't say hello to anyone.

Of course, no one took the initiative to greet her, and no one cared about her and Han Ting's affairs.

That day Wang Cuiying did not utter a single curse in the east room.

But when Su Yun was about to reach the second gate, she suddenly came out and shouted at the second gate: "Hurry up and leave! Stay far away! You have brought trouble to my family for three years, don't let me see you again in this life!"

Su Yun didn't look back.

He carried the suitcase and walked straight out the second door.

It was considered to have left a last bit of dignity between Han Ting and her.

After Su Yun went out of the second door, Chu Xia also went forward and prepared to go to the kitchen in front to have breakfast.

She walked to the second door and happened to meet Lin Xiaohan who was pushing a bicycle in.

Lin Xiaohan parked the car in the front yard, went to the second gate to greet Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei who were busy in the yard, and then went to the kitchen in the front with Chu Xia.

He had come after breakfast, so he watched Chuxia eat breakfast.

Chu Xia prepared breakfast and went to eat at the table outside. Lin Xiaohan sat opposite her. While eating, she asked Lin Xiaohan, "Did you run into Su Yun when you came here just now?"

Lin Xiaohan nodded and said, "I met him, carrying a suitcase."

Chu Xia then whispered to Lin Xiaohan about how Han Ting and Su Yun had quarreled and threatened to divorce last night, and how they had been making a lot of noise and smashing things in the room.

Lin Xiaohan speculated for a moment and asked, "Is the sudden commotion because of... that guy?"

Chu Xia shook her head: "I don't know, neither of them said anything, but it was a big fuss anyway."

Lin Xiaohan: "I guess they just want to save face for each other."

Chu Xia shook her head, sighed and said, "Alas... As expected, marriage is the grave of love..."

Lin Xiaohan said in a harsh tone, "Can that be called love between them? Uncontrolled primitive impulses, satisfying the most basic physical needs, are almost like playing hooliganism with each other."

Anyway, in Lin Xiaohan's words, there is no such thing as love.

Chu Xia was used to hearing this, so she naturally didn't argue with him. She just smiled and said, "It seems that you understand love very well?"

Of course Lin Xiaohan could tell that Chu Xia was teasing him. She had often said before that he didn't understand love.

So he smiled and replied: "I really don't understand as much as you do. How about you teach me again?"

Chu Xia immediately replied, "You don't have any primitive impulses or physiological needs, how can I teach you..."

Before she could finish the last interjection "ah", her brain caught up with her mouth, so she stopped talking immediately, smiled at Lin Xiaohan, pretending that she had not said anything, hiding the embarrassment of having said the wrong thing, and quickly picked up the bowl and ran back to the kitchen.

Lin Xiaohan: “…”

Before he could get up, Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei came in from the inner courtyard.

So he got up and helped to prepare everything and open for business.

Because there were enough staff in the restaurant, there was not much for Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan to do.

So the two of them still helped to greet the guests. If the guests had any requests, they would chat with them to make the atmosphere in the restaurant more lively.

The restaurant in front is very busy.

The inner courtyard at the back was so deserted that not even a sound could be heard.

Because students from other grades had not yet had their holiday, Jiang Guanjie and Jiang Shan were not there, Xu Lihua and Jiang Jianping had gone to work early in the morning, and Han Qingtian had also gone to work, so only Wang Cuiying and Han Ting were left.

Han Ting lay in bed with his head covered and slept until noon without getting up.

Wang Cuiying was not idle. She cleaned up the mess in his room. While cleaning up, she couldn't help muttering and cursing Su Yun, saying that his family had committed a sin.

It was almost noon when Chaozi and Guogai came to the yard.

The news that Han Ting and Su Yun smashed things and threatened to divorce last night had spread throughout the alley over the past half day. Everyone was talking about it, so Chaozi and Guogai also knew about it.

When they came over and saw Han Ting sleeping on the bed, they didn't call out to Han Ting.

Wang Cuiying didn't let them go directly. She pulled them aside and asked, "You two are with San'er every day. Tell Auntie what happened yesterday. Did you run into Su Yun outside yesterday? What did she do to make San'er so angry when he came back?"

Chaozi and Guogai naturally couldn't tell anyone about such an embarrassing thing.

The fact that Han Ting and Su Yun are getting a divorce is already very disgraceful. If people knew the reason, Han Ting would become the biggest joke in the alley.

They didn't even let the other brothers who had dinner with them last night know.

So Chaozi said, "Aunt, it's nothing, they just can't get along anymore. It turns out that Su Yun was not like this when she was in the countryside. I don't know why she became like this after getting married..."

When Wang Cuiying mentioned this, she became angry again and said, "She was just pretending before we got married! She tricked San'er into marrying her, and now she wants to be our grandmother!"

Chaozi and Pot Cover sighed together.

Han Ting was lying on the bed, not falling asleep at all. He suddenly said, "Stop talking nonsense!"

After saying that, he couldn't lie down anymore and got up by throwing off the quilt.

He put on his clothes, washed up, took out all his documents, and went out with Chaozi and Guogai.

He and Su Yun made an appointment to go and complete the divorce procedures in the afternoon.

This is the end of the road for the two of them, and there is no room for maneuver.

Wang Cuiying not only did not stop him, but also supported him, saying, "It's better to get a divorce. You'll have peace after you leave our family. San'er, you'd better be careful in the future. Don't look for a wife like this again."

Han Ting was too lazy to say anything more and just left with his ID and Chaozi Pot Cover.

In the afternoon, he and Su Yun went to handle the formalities as agreed. After they met, there was no extra nonsense, only silence as if they were disgusted with each other and wished they would never see each other again.

After completing the formalities, Han Ting looked very relaxed.

He went straight to the ice rink to skate with Chaozi Guogai.

The three of them seemed to be still as happy as they were when they were fifteen or sixteen years old. They had no worries in life. Happiness burst out from the bottom of their hearts and flew on every strand of hair.

Then, when he was skating at his best, Han Ting suddenly lost control of his feet and fell heavily on the ice.

Seeing Han Ting fall heavily, Chaozi and Guogai quickly slid to his side and said nervously, "Brother Ting!"

Chaozi and Guogai tried to help him up, but he lay on the ice and couldn't get up.

The sun was shining brightly in the winter sky. He stared blankly at the sun, which was no different from the sun when he was a teenager. Suddenly he burst into laughter. As he laughed, tears filled his eyes.

***

After the restaurant closes.

Chuxia sent Lin Xiaohan out of the alley as usual.

She told Lin Xiaohan: "The restaurant is not short of staff now, you don't have to come every day."

Lin Xiaohan pushed his bicycle and looked at Chu Xia, "Han Ting is divorced, is it okay for me not to come?"

Han Ting came back from outside when it was getting dark in the evening.

When a gossipy person in the alley asked him about his divorce, he simply threw the divorce certificate into the person's arms.

After throwing the divorce certificate, he went into the yard, returned to his house and went back to sleep.

Of course, everyone in the alley knew that he was divorced.

Chuxia knew what Lin Xiaohan meant.

She turned to look at him and said, "Such a big thing happened to him. He seems to be very traumatized. He probably doesn't have the energy to think about other things, especially things like this. Besides, everything between him and me has been completely cut off a long time ago. He probably won't look for me again."

Lin Xiaohan said, "That's hard to say. Didn't he just break up with Tong Rui in the city and get together with Su Yun in the countryside? Also, if he hadn't regretted it after seeing you after returning to the city, he and Su Yun might not have come to this point."

Chu Xia thought about Lin Xiaohan’s words silently.

They walked out of the alley side by side, and she stopped and said with a smile, "Okay, see you tomorrow."

She thought that it was his own wish to come, and since he didn't mind the trouble, then he could come.

After Chuxia said see you tomorrow, Lin Xiaohan didn't show any sign of getting in the car and leaving.

He looked at Chu Xia and said, "There are some things I need to make clear to you."

It sounds like a more serious matter.

Chu Xia also became serious and looked at him and nodded: "You go ahead."

Lin Xiaohan cleared his throat and said, "I am a man."

Chu Xia immediately nodded in agreement with his words, "I know, you are a male."

Lin Xiaohan: “…”

He added: "A normal man in every way."

Chu Xia understood it, then tried to suppress the corners of her mouth and nodded: "Oh."

Lin Xiaohan looked at her and continued, "So do you want to teach me what love is?"