Chapter 180 Reasons for Resignation
The afternoon passed in a rush, and by the time Zhao Xiaojing had some free time, it was already 2 p.m., and the construction site cafeteria had closed. Worried that the two women were taking their lunch break, Zhao Xiaojing waited another hour before calling Geng Mingyan.
"Xiao Zhao, I was just wondering when I'd call you, and you called first, haha." Geng Mingyan answered the phone quickly, and another voice rang out beside her. "Xiao Zhao?"
"Xiao Zhao! How is the store doing? Business must be booming!" Hou Guihua shouted loudly into the phone.
"Sister Hou is here too. Things are going well and business is pretty good." Unexpectedly, there were two people on the phone. Zhao Xiaojing greeted Hou Guihua with a smile, while thinking about how to start the conversation.
"Xiao Zhao, your sister Hou and I have resigned. You knew everything when you spoke to Master Sun on the phone today, right?" Without giving Zhao Xiaojing much time to think, Geng Mingyan took the initiative to break the window paper.
"Yes, Master Sun said that you all resigned, and I don't know what happened, so I said I would call you to ask.
You've been working here for so many years, why did you suddenly quit? "
"Because your elder sister Geng is getting a divorce!" Before Geng Mingyan could speak, Hou Guihua's voice came first with a hint of joy.
Zhao Xiaojing was stunned, quite surprised. "What's going on?"
"What happened? That bastard didn't control his lower body. The water that entered your sister Geng's brain has dried up, and she has woken up on her own!" Hou Guihua spoke quickly. Although she was not involved in the incident, she was more indignant than Geng Mingyan, who was involved.
"Sister Geng, you must be feeling bad, right?" Zhao Xiaojing asked silently.
"Of course it's tough. If it wasn't tough, how could your elder sister Geng make such a decision? She was so mad the day she found out she wanted to die with that bastard!" Hou Guihua said, her tone becoming increasingly angry. "Alright, let elder sister Geng talk to you. Why am I interrupting here? I'm going to go do the laundry!"
"Sister Hou is chivalrous and as warm-hearted as ever." Zhao Xiaojing said with a smile while holding her cell phone.
"Xiao Zhao." There was the sound of footsteps and a door closing on the other end of the line, and Geng Mingyan slowly spoke. "Actually, after I talked to you last time, my heart began to waver.
During that time, I didn't know what I had been insisting on for so many years. You said that the child had grown up and I could live for myself. Suddenly, I seemed to have an idea and felt that there seemed to be more than one road ahead, and it seemed that many roads were better than this one.
But I've lived this way for half my life. If I were suddenly asked to change my path, I wouldn't know how to start. I hesitated again, thinking, "What's the point of living like this for the rest of my life? Isn't this how most people live their lives?"
I didn't expect that I would be the first to get annoyed by the life I was willing to live. This time, he was kind of helping me, giving me a push to wake up." Geng Mingyan said sarcastically.
Zhao Xiaojing sighed in her heart. This idea was very real. Most people did think this way. She was the same in her previous life.
"But aren't you both at the construction site, together every day? Didn't he ask you to go there because he said that being apart for too long wouldn't work and would cause problems? Why is he..."
Zhao Xiaojing hesitated to speak. She wanted to say that the construction site was so tiring, working during the day and being together every night, so where did he find the time and energy to cheat? But then she thought, as long as someone has the intention, even if there are no conditions, they will create them. What's the big deal about this little problem?
"The construction site was closed for three days during the National Day holiday. Thinking that my child was busy with her studies and stayed at school instead of going home during the National Day holiday, I went to her school to see her.
After I came back, I always felt that something was wrong with Zhou Mingliang. He would always go to the bathroom for no reason and always carry his cell phone with him. When I wanted to use his cell phone, he would be secretive and fiddle with it for a while before giving it to me. I became suspicious at the time.
Until last Sunday when the construction site was closed, I still had to work in the kitchen. Zhou Mingliang told me early in the morning that his mother called him back to eat, and that he wanted to go back to see them while the construction site was in Hecheng.
I knew he was lying as soon as I heard it. During the National Day holiday, I asked him to go with me to see the children and to invite his parents to the city to have a meal together near the children's school, but he refused to do so.
He even went to his comrade's house and stayed there for three days, drinking for three days before coming back.
Now that he only has one day off, he thought of his parents. He has to take a two-hour drive from Hecheng to the countryside, and then another two hours drive back. Is it possible?
"Xiao Zhao, tell me, why do men always tell clumsy lies, not even bothering to make up excuses, yet expect women to believe them? Does he really not care, or does he think I'm stupid?"
Geng Mingyan chuckled sarcastically and asked back. Zhao Xiaojing paused, organizing her words. "Perhaps, at the time, his mind was completely focused on his infidelity. He hadn't even considered these issues. He just made up a random excuse to fool you, without even considering whether the lie would hold up."
"Haha, maybe. He really didn't have the heart to think about anything else. He said he was going back to his parents' house. When I called home at dinner time to look for him, his parents were completely confused. They asked me if he and I worked together. When he came back, I asked him about it, and he said he did go back and had lunch, but his parents were old and had forgotten! Isn't that funny? He actually lied to me with such stupid talk!"
Geng Mingyan's voice became much deeper as she spoke due to the emotions she was trying so hard to suppress. Zhao Xiaojing pursed her lips and could feel Geng Mingyan's sadness from the conversation on the phone.
Geng Mingyan took a few deep breaths, paused, and continued. "He was still stubborn, insisting it was just his parents being old. I grabbed his phone and started to look through it, but he snatched it away again. In the scuffle, he pushed me to the ground, almost knocking me over the scissors sticking out from the table.
He came to help me as soon as he saw me, but I snatched my phone away again and pointed a pair of scissors at him. This time he didn't dare touch me. I turned his phone upside down, revealing his true identity. He couldn't hide it anymore, so he knelt on the ground and begged me again.
I was so angry that my head was about to explode. I took the scissors and was ready to die with him. He hurriedly opened the door and ran away. I chased him, cursing at him. Later, everyone at the construction site came out, but they didn't dare to stop us. It was your sister Hou who hugged me.
I was exhausted from running, and once she hugged me, all my strength went out, and I was so angry that I was paralyzed and couldn't stand up. When your sister Hou saw me like this, she went up to Zhou Mingliang and slapped him without saying a word, without even knowing why.
Geng Mingyan's voice became increasingly hoarse, and she would laugh at herself from time to time while narrating the story. The entire thrilling scene could only be described in just a few sentences when she recounted it after so much time had passed.
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