Chapter 469 It Wasn't Intentional
Seeing that Shen Zhixia remained silent, Huo Chenzhou nervously confessed everything.
After hearing this, Shen Zhixia was speechless.
"So, you were afraid I'd find out you bought such an expensive fishing rod, so you hid it. Then, where did you get so much money to buy such an expensive fishing rod?" Shen Zhixia asked expressionlessly.
Huo Chenzhou could only explain in detail: "Sometimes I skipped breakfast and didn't go out to eat with them, and little by little I saved up."
As he spoke, he carefully observed Shen Zhixia's expression. When he noticed that Shen Zhixia seemed a little angry, he became even more nervous.
"Honey, are you very angry? But when you saw it just now, you were clearly smiling. I thought you had let it go."
He was very nervous when Shen Zhixia discovered that he had hidden a fishing rod, but he relaxed after realizing that Shen Zhixia didn't care at all.
It turns out that Shen Zhixia didn't get angry before, not because she didn't care, but because she had been holding back a lot of anger for him.
It truly terrified him.
Shen Zhixia sneered, "What kind of person do you take me for? Chunyan and Baojun are both here. You want me to question you to your face about why you did this? Do you want to lose face? If I ask you that, what will they think of me? I'm not some shrew who wants to control everything you do."
Huo Chenzhou hurriedly said, "Wife, it's my own choice. I just like you keeping an eye on me."
Shen Zhixia remained calm and said, "Now is not the time for your glib tongue. I'm asking you, is hiding the fishing rod a sign that you're wary of me?"
"No, why would I be on guard against you?" Huo Chenzhou was taken aback for a moment: "Wife, that's not what I meant."
“That’s not what you mean. Then what do you mean? Why did you hide it? You’re keeping secrets from me. That means you’re wary of me and treat me like an outsider,” Shen Zhixia said.
"No, I absolutely did not mean that."
Huo Chenzhou became somewhat anxious: "I have never treated you as an outsider."
He didn't know why Shen Zhixia would make such a connection, leaving him utterly speechless.
"So, you think I'm a stingy person, that I treat you badly, that I'll be unhappy even if you buy me a fishing rod, so you kept it from me?"
Shen Zhixia said, "In your mind, I am a mean person."
"No, you're not mean at all. You're a wonderful wife. I've never met a wife as good as you. I just feel that this isn't good enough."
Left with no other choice, Huo Chenzhou could only express all his inner thoughts, analyzing them clearly.
Otherwise, if he can't explain himself clearly this time, he'll lose his wife.
This was the first time he had ever seen Shen Zhixia like this, and it made him feel uneasy.
He felt that buying fishing rods was a bad thing; he had bought so many of these expensive rods, and he hoped no one would find out.
He kept it a secret not only from Shen Zhixia, but from everyone else as well.
If today's events hadn't exposed him, no one would have known he bought an expensive fishing rod.
This is a form of self-contempt.
After all, he experienced famine when he was a child and knows that you can't just spend money recklessly. He should set an example for others.
After hearing his words, Shen Zhixia was speechless.
Fishing rods are quite expensive, but Shen Zhixia can understand that.
Many people don't actually buy things that are very useful. They just like to collect pretty and rare things that aren't really valuable. The moment they collect them provides them with emotional value, and that's when the item becomes meaningful.
So when she saw Huo Chenzhou buy several fishing rods, she didn't think anything of it; what bothered her was why Huo Chenzhou had kept it from her.
Keeping it from her means treating her like an outsider.
Shen Zhixia said, "Even the child knows about this and conspired with you to deceive me. You don't care about me at all."
Huo Chenzhou: "?"
He explained, "I didn't conspire with the children to lie to you; they discovered it by accident and then used it to threaten me."
If he weren't afraid that Shen Zhixia would completely misunderstand him, he really wouldn't want to explain this matter. It was too embarrassing for a grown man like him to be threatened by two children.
well……
"You just bought a fishing rod, it's not a big deal. Today, Chunyan and Baojun must have guessed everything. They must think that I've always treated you badly and didn't allow you to buy things, so you secretly hid the fishing rod. You did all this to deliberately ruin my reputation."
Shen Zhixia's face was full of sadness as she said this: "I never thought that after so many years of marriage, you still wouldn't treat me like family."
When such a huge label was placed on Huo Chenzhou, he was completely stunned.
Little did he know that Shen Zhixia would think of this aspect.
He hadn't even thought about those things.
He didn't do it on purpose.
He didn't mean that.
But seeing Shen Zhixia's sadness made his heart clench, and he felt very sad too.
Huo Chenzhou quickly lowered his head and began to coax his wife: "It's all my fault this time. I shouldn't have kept this from you. From now on, I'll tell you whatever I'm going to do, okay?"
He reflected on himself again: "I don't know why, but lately I've suddenly become fond of all kinds of fishing rods and have wasted so much money. I'm never buying fishing rods again. I'm going to completely quit this hobby. I'll give all those fishing rods away, okay?"
He'd do anything as long as Shen Zhixia wasn't angry.
He completely regrets it now. Why did he even bother fishing? He shouldn't have liked fishing at all. Compared to his wife, fishing is utterly boring.
If he had known that hiding a fishing rod would have such serious consequences, he shouldn't have taken a liking to fishing in the first place.
Shen Zhixia looked up at him and said softly, "No, those fishing rods were bought with money, why should we give them away? You're not allowed to give them away."
“Alright, alright, I won’t give it away, I’ll keep it,” Huo Chenzhou said immediately.
"snort."
Seeing that Shen Zhixia wasn't so angry anymore, Huo Chenzhou leaned closer and said, "Wife, you can punish me however you want, but you can't be angry anymore. Whenever you're angry, I feel really sad too. Touch my heart."
As he spoke, he placed Shen Zhixia's hand on his chest.
Shen Zhixia glared at him: "All you do is say nice things."
Her voice was softer than before, and she didn't seem very angry anymore.
After confirming that Shen Zhixia was not angry, Huo Chenzhou finally felt relieved.
Shen Zhixia said, "I had ten yuan in my bag before, but now there's nine yuan and fifty cents. It's become a pile of loose change. Did you do that?"
Huo Chenzhou immediately said nervously, "It's me."
Shen Zhixia asked, "What are you doing?"
Because of this, she even questioned the children, asking if they were the ones who did it.
Her bag contained over a hundred yuan, all ten-yuan bills, with no change. The sudden appearance of a little extra change immediately caught people's attention.
Later, Shen Zhixia thought she had misremembered, but she still felt something was wrong. She kept a record of everything she bought, so how come she had a lot of extra change this time?
Huo Chenzhou said awkwardly, "I bought a fishing rod and then I ran out of money, so you took ten yuan to buy cigarettes."
"After receiving the change, I put the money back."
Shen Zhixia: "...You secretly took the money, so why did you put it back?"
If Huo Chenzhou hadn't put it back, she probably wouldn't have noticed that ten yuan was missing. But once she put it back, she immediately noticed the pile of change.
"I just felt that I shouldn't take so much."
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