Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
These people talked about all sorts of things, and in the end, somehow they ended up talking about women.
Yes, it is abnormal for some men to talk without women.
These guys closed the doors and windows, and then began to talk about their romantic affairs, whether true or false, with lewd smiles on their faces and excited expressions. Before they started talking, they asked Wan Feng to cover his ears.
That's nothing. I had several relationships in my previous life. Although I didn't find a sister, I did seduce other people's wives. I have much more experience than you country bumpkins born in the 1980s.
With the development of the times, the term "搞破鞋" (to make a shoe) which has been popular in Northeast China for decades has gradually been replaced by "找的情况" (to find a situation).
Wan Feng is not a romantic person, and he doesn't deliberately try to find situations, but when he is in love, these situations arise on their own.
That year, Wan Feng was forty years old. The TV set-top box of a house on the third floor of a building diagonally opposite his house broke down, so his wife, who never spoke to him on weekdays, came to his house to ask him to repair it.
Wan Feng is a well-known person in this town. There are not many things he can't repair or do in his daily life, from repairing home appliances to laying walls and bricks, from cleaning sewers to scraping whitewash, there is no job he can't do well. Therefore, neighbors always ask him for any work they need, and they will pay him two yuan for the work done. In many cases, he doesn't charge for it.
My wife is also a miserable person. When she was in her thirties, her husband had a car accident. Just like those melodramatic plots in TV dramas, he became a vegetable. He was inexplicably a vegetable for several years, and then he inexplicably got better again.
That is, during the time when her husband was in a vegetative state, Wan Feng maintained a relationship with her for several years until her husband recovered.
When Wan Feng went to repair her set-top box, her husband had been in a vegetative state for a year. The car that caused the accident was from the city's State Grid Corporation, so they paid more than 300,000 yuan in compensation. His wife had no worries about food and clothing and just spent her time watching soap operas at home.
When the set-top box broke, she didn't go to Cable but went to Wan Feng first, because Wan Feng's repair was broken and if she waited for Cable, it would take who knows how long.
That afternoon, Wan Feng's wife was making trouble. Wan Feng had nothing to do and was about to go to bed when his wife called him.
There was a soldering problem on an electronic component in the set-top box. It was not a problem worth mentioning at all. I just had to solder it back on and it would be fine.
When Wan Feng plugged in the soldering iron and waited for it to heat up, he chatted with his wife who was squatting beside him watching.
The TV was in his wife's bedroom. Wan Feng looked at his wife and husband lying on the bed, who seemed to be fast asleep, and asked in a very mean way, "Can Qu's illness be cured?"
The husband of the daughter-in-law is named Qu.
Unexpectedly, just because of this very ordinary sentence, the daughter-in-law burst into tears and then sobbed.
Wan Feng was shocked. Such a common sentence accidentally exposed someone's scar.
Since you have made someone cry, it is only right to comfort them.
"Big sister, I didn't mean it. I really didn't mean it. I believe Brother Qu will be fine. He will definitely be fine."
Unexpectedly, this advice made the daughter-in-law cry even louder. The sound of the rain turned from a drizzle to a heavy downpour, and she got up and ran to another room to cry and wipe her tears.
Wan Feng didn't know what to do for a moment. He pulled out the plug from the antelope soldering iron and walked into the room with his head held high.
Although he knew that he shouldn't enter the house at this time, he didn't dare to leave. If his wife did something bad, it would be like mud falling into his crotch, which would be shit.
The daughter-in-law cried without restraint. Fortunately, the windows of her house were closed tightly, otherwise if someone heard her and came to find out what was going on, she would have no idea what was going on.
Seeing that the makeup on the other person's face had turned into a rainbow island, Wan Feng took out a towel and handed it to his wife.
But the daughter-in-law didn't answer and just kept crying.
Wan Feng hesitated for a long time but still raised the towel in his hand to wipe his wife's tears. Unexpectedly, as soon as he wiped her tears, his wife fell into his arms.
Wan Feng was stiff and at a loss. After being stiff for a minute and seeing that his wife showed no intention of stopping, he had no choice but to touch her back with his hand.
"Sister, sister, listen to me..."
Before Wan Feng could wait, his wife suddenly looked up and put her arms around his neck.
What happened next was a little unclear, and both sides rolled onto the board in a daze.
After that, Wan Feng was the one who took the initiative to date his daughter-in-law. Wan Feng denied it and he was not sure who took the initiative.
For the first time, Wan Feng discovered what a usually serious woman would be like when she went crazy. That afternoon, it started from around 12:30 and lasted until around 2:30 in the afternoon.
In Wan Feng's words, his wife took out all the money she had accumulated over the year on him.
In the end, he couldn't hold on any longer and fled without even fixing the set-top box...
Afterwards, Wan Feng was very scared. His wife was not an ordinary person. She dared to kill Rao Zhuer with a knife.
If we knew that he had something going on outside, his life could only be described by a world-famous novel: Les Miserables.
So on the one hand he tried his best to pretend that nothing had happened, and on the other hand he avoided his wife.
But some things cannot be avoided. About ten days later, at noon when it was raining heavily, his wife came to his house again. The set-top box that she had repaired last time was damaged by lightning.
Wan Feng naturally knew what was going on. It was not that the set-top box was damaged by lightning, but that she was clearly remembering certain feelings again.
While the daughter-in-law was chatting nonsense with Wan Feng's wife who was playing mahjong, she stole a glance at Wan Feng viciously.
Wan Feng knew that he had to go, so he had to pretend to pick up the tool box and go to his wife's house again.
Their relationship remained ambiguous, and the two of them were very sincere. Until the wife's husband recovered and they broke off their relationship, there was not a single rumor about them.
This cannot but be a miracle.
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"Damn it, I don't know how I got discovered by her husband. I ran out with my pants in my hand, and he chased me for three blocks with a stick. If I hadn't been running well, I would have been screwed. Even my pants were thrown at his house. Luckily, it was black, otherwise he would have been in big trouble."
A buyer's words caused laughter and woke Wan Feng from his memories.
In this world, men cannot live without women, and women cannot live without men.
If you meet that woman again in this life, what would you choose?
Wan Feng fell into a deep sleep amidst this unforeseen problem...
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