Yi Yunshuo burst out laughing.
Fu Huaiyi's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
That is definitely his dark history.
What he didn't expect was that even Wang Jianjun, who had a mental problem, looked at him as if he were a fool.
Yi Yunshuo patted him on the shoulder and said, "Brother Yi, life can't be too smooth, really. Being a sucker is to balance your luck in life, it's a good thing."
"Humph." Fu Huaiyi pushed his arm away angrily.
They continued to look down.
"Soon another year has passed. Lu Jiangting was busy buying tickets. After buying the tickets, I felt very nervous. Everyone is happy to go home for the New Year, but I am the only one who is not happy. Jiang Ting saw through it, and he told me, why don’t we not go back this year. How is this possible? He has a very good relationship with his parents. He is their only son and they are looking forward to his return home.
There is a girl waiting for him in his hometown. He has been talking about going home for more than a month. Now he says he doesn't want to go back, but he just wants to accompany me because he sees that I am unhappy. People can't be so selfish. I know he is very good to me. I have to go back, even if it is just to make Jiang Ting feel at ease. Besides, I have promised Fang Qing, so I have to go back. 』
"Like last year, Fang Qing would wait for me at the foot of the mountain every day, walking back and forth for more than ten miles. This year he came back two days late, and Fang Qing waited for five days. The weather has been bad these days, it rains every day. If you fall off the cliff accidentally, you will be doomed. I was so angry that my face turned red. I wanted to scold her, but when I saw her timid look, I couldn't say anything. 』
"This year, Fang Qing and I are still not married, but our relationship has become much better. People are all made of flesh and blood, and time can heal the hurt. I gradually forgot the look in Fang Qing's eyes that mocked me. Whenever I think of her, I always think of her cowardly look. During the ten days I was at home, I clearly felt that Fang Qing had become the bottom of the family. She was busy cooking meals for the whole family, but she couldn't sit at the table when it was time to eat. 』
“In the third year, the fourth year… I noticed that her eyes became more timid and she became more silent every year. Looking at her with her head down in a daze and her lifeless eyes, I seemed to see my former self. At that time, I softened my heart and took the initiative to talk to her.
I told her that I had asked someone to find her a job in town and asked her if she was willing. Her reaction was not the happy one I had expected, but rather a look of horror on my face. After a long time, she finally asked me if I didn't want her. 』
"That night I talked to her about many things, told her about the outside world, and told her that our marriage was wrong. There is no love between us, so we cannot be husband and wife. She said that she didn't understand these principles and she was not from the outside world. She only knew that according to the logic here, she had been our daughter-in-law for several years, and if I didn't want her, she would have no way out. 』
"Of course I know how conservative the people here are, but I am also innocent. I went to school normally, and my family decided to bring her over. I finally got out, and I really don't want to be tripped up by anyone or anything again. So I told her that the organization had trained me and I intended to dedicate my life to the country, and I didn't have the extra energy to support you. 』
"She said it was fine, even if she had to stay here and suffer forever, it was better than being abandoned. 』
"The next day I heard about Fang Qing from my younger brother. Over the years, she has been ostracized and ridiculed in the village. They said she had the audacity to move into our house and try to marry into a wealthy college student, but that people looked down on her and would abandon her sooner or later. I know very well how hurtful bad words can be. My brother said that if I divorced her, she might really die. 』
“During the few days I spent at home during the Chinese New Year that year, I was always struggling in pain and even had nightmares. I dreamed that I fell into a huge furnace. I tried my best to climb to the edge of the furnace. Just as I was about to climb out, Fang Qing was desperately calling for help at my feet. I struggled between saving and not saving until I woke up. 』
"The night before I left, Fang Qing and I got married. 'At this point the handwriting began to become sloppy and messy.
I don’t know what kind of mood he was in when he wrote this.
"My father said that he asked my stepmother to drug me because Fang Qing tried to commit suicide the day before. If my brother hadn't found her, she would have hanged herself on the beam of our house. My father said that our family finally had a college student, which was an honor for the whole family, and he stood up straight in the village. He doesn't want someone in our family to be forced to death, because then the whole family will be despised.
I couldn't accept it, so my whole family took turns to advise me, telling me how difficult it was for Fang Qing to stay in this family. The whole village was watching, and she had been our daughter-in-law for many years. I couldn't abandon her. It would be a conscienceless thing to do. 』
"My mind was in a mess. I was thinking, since you all know how difficult her life is, why do you bully her? It's obviously you who benefited from bullying her, why should I bear the consequences? 』
"After this incident, I had to admit that Fang Qing was my wife, and I had no choice but to report the marriage to my superiors. 』
"In the fourth year, we began to be assigned jobs one after another. Not long after, I received a letter from home saying that Fang Qing was pregnant. The letter was written by my younger brother. My parents are illiterate, my stepmother's son can't write to me, and Fang Qing didn't have much education either. The only one who can write to me is my younger brother. I looked at the familiar words and remained silent for a long time. I can’t describe the feeling, but it’s not happy.
Later, Jiang Ting noticed something unusual about me and I told him about it. But he was very happy and said he wanted to buy red eggs to celebrate. I don't understand, why should I be happy? He also doesn't understand why I am unhappy? He talked to me for an entire afternoon and I realized that he had misunderstood. He thought that Fang Qing and I were like him and Lin Yuyao, childhood sweethearts who had been engaged to each other a long time ago.
He put himself in my shoes and Lin Yuyao in Fang Qing's shoes. He told me many reasons why we should be happy after having children. He said that when we started working and got a house in the future, we would bring them over and live a good life as a family and never separate again. 』
"Maybe I was moved by him too, and put myself into his beautiful love with Lin Yuyao. I was actually looking forward to the arrival of that little life. I haven't grasped anything in my life, but I can at least grasp my blood, right? I will treat him well and make up for all the wrongs I have suffered since I was a child. As for Fang Qing and I, it was probably fate that brought us to this day. I accepted it and resigned myself to my fate. I followed Jiang Ting's advice, bought eggs and red paper, and dyed the eggs red myself. 』
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