Listening to the thunderous voice of his fat wife, Zhang Shengli turned over irritably, staring at the dark wall with mixed feelings in his heart.
He didn't know how his life had become like this. He used to be so glorious and suave, but now he had to spend the rest of his life with a fierce and violent fat woman.
His acquaintance with his fat wife was indeed beautiful at the beginning, even full of drama.
It was when he returned home from the countryside to visit his relatives. He was in a bad mood, his mind was confused, and he wandered aimlessly on the street.
The hustle and bustle of the street formed a sharp contrast with his inner loneliness. He could not understand why Qin Wan, that woman, had gone with the army, while he still had to stay in the countryside and suffer hardships?
Shouldn't he be the one who put Qin Wan under his feet? How come he has now turned around and become Qin Wan's control group?
Looking at the bustling crowds in the market, he remembered a sentence by Zhu Ziqing: "The excitement is theirs, I have nothing."
Just as he was watching all this like a spectator outside the world, unable to fit in, a rapid shout broke his contemplation:
"Hold him! Grab him! My wallet! He stole my wallet!"
Then he saw a middle-aged man in his thirties running out of the crowd and rushing towards him quickly.
Instinctively, Zhang Shengli stretched out his foot.
The man tripped and fell, and the people behind him quickly caught up and took him to the police station. He also went there to take a statement.
After he finished taking notes, a tall and fat woman came to him and said to him gratefully:
"Comrade Zhang, I am the one whose bag was snatched. My name is Xie Chunhua.
Thank you, Comrade Zhang. If it weren't for you, the money in my bag would have been stolen by a thief. There were several thousand yuan in it. I couldn't pay it back even if I lived frugally for half a year. You saved our family."
Zhang Shengli scratched his head modestly and said, "It's what I should do." Although he just stretched out his foot subconsciously.
Afterwards, Xie Chunhua invited Zhang Shengli and his mother Liu Juhua to have dinner at a state-owned restaurant.
At the dinner table, Liu Juhua adjusted the atmosphere and soon the atmosphere became lively.
It was only then that Zhang Shengli learned that Xie Chunhua was a widow with a six-year-old boy. Xie Chunhua's parents were both prominent figures in the county: one was the deputy director of the county public security bureau, and the other was the director of the county women's federation.
Although Liu Juhua had no job, she was very savvy in dealing with people. Seeing that Xie Chunhua had a strong family background, she wanted to curry favor with Xie Chunhua.
Soon, she and Xie Chunhua became so close that they almost became a family.
During the conversation, Xie Chunhua learned that Zhang Shengli wanted to return to the city, and without hesitation she agreed to help him. But she stammered to Liu Juhua:
"It's not difficult to say, but there is one condition...it's a little difficult to do."
When Liu Juhua heard this, she hurriedly asked, "What are the conditions?"
Xie Chunhua said embarrassedly:
"Aunt, I've told you my husband married into my family. He didn't have a job when he did. My parents paid for it and got him a job as a buyer for the supply and marketing cooperative. After he passed away, his job became vacant. My parents said this job was for my future husband, what do you think?"
Liu Juhua glanced at Xie Chunhua, not knowing what to do. After all, her son was only in his 20s, six or seven years younger than Xie Chunhua!
So she asked tentatively: "Do you sell this job?"
Xie Chunhua said:
"If it were anyone else, I wouldn't sell it. But Xiao Zhang is my benefactor, after all. The price is a bit high, though. My parents said the job can't be paid less than 3,000 yuan."
When Liu Juhua heard the price was 3,000 yuan, she was shocked. If she hadn't reacted quickly, she would have blurted out, "Why don't you just rob them?"
But she still had her sense and didn't say that.
After returning home, Liu Juhua no longer mentioned work, but Zhang Shengli could not forget it.
He was fed up with the endless labor in the countryside and the pervasive gossip.
In Hongqi Commune, people hated Qin Wan as much as they liked him, especially after Qin Wan joined the army.
Qin Wan left with the army. Her departure was like a gust of wind that blew away the tranquility of the Red Flag Battalion in the past and also left a deep mark in Zhang Shengli's heart.
What she left to Wang Liming and others was a deep friendship, and what she left to the Red Flag Brigade was the vibrant medicinal field, but what she left to Zhang Shengli was resentment and anxiety, as well as emptiness and regret.
When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Zhang Shengli often lay alone in bed, staring into the distance with empty eyes in the dim light.
His thoughts often drifted back to the past involuntarily, back to the days when he walked side by side with Qin Wan.
At that time, he was suave, high-spirited, and the object of everyone's admiration, the white moonlight in the eyes of many girls. Qin Wan, gentle, virtuous, hardworking and capable, not only won his heart, but also made her a good daughter-in-law in the eyes of many parents.
When they walk together, they look like a match made in heaven, a golden boy and a jade girl, making people envious.
Zhang Shengli had tried his best to pursue Qin Wan. He remembered that time, he specially paid a few street urchins to play a hero saving the beauty.
Although that scene was a bit absurd, it successfully helped him enter Qin Wan's heart, and he and she became an engaged couple.
At that time, they smiled so brightly, as if the whole world belonged to them.
However, the good times didn't last long. As time went on, he began to get bored.
He was tired of this dull life, tired of repeating the same days every day, and tired of the unchanging Qin Wan.
To outsiders, Qin Wan obeyed him in everything and did what he said, but he knew that Qin Wan was very stubborn in some aspects, such as physical intimacy.
Many people don’t believe it, but he has been dating Qin Wan for three years, but he has never even tasted Qin Wan’s little mouth.
He was tired of Qin Wan and began to yearn for other women. When did he start to get tired of her? He couldn't remember.
He only remembered that the feeling of boredom was like an invisible force, gradually eroding his soul.
He began to be cold towards Qin Wan, began to avoid their relationship, and began to keep his eyes on other girls.
He was used to being a playboy. He had had several girlfriends long before he met Qin Wan. Some of those girls were gentle, some were fierce, but without exception, they were all beautiful.
But their beauty seemed unattractive in front of Qin Wan.
But no matter how beautiful the appearance is, it will fade with time. After being together with Qin Wan for a long time, Zhang Shengli also developed aesthetic fatigue.
Three years later, he cheated on Qin Ruanruan.
To be honest, he really had no intention of having anything to do with Qin Runruan. Even rabbits don't eat grass near their burrows, not to mention that Qin Runruan was his sister-in-law.
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