Chapter 888: Aunt's Matter
When I entered the room, Xiao Shiqiu was sitting on the sofa reading documents. When he saw me come back, he put down the documents and walked towards me.
"Baby, you've worked hard these past two days. You went out without even having breakfast this morning. Did Lao Wen take care of your breakfast? How was the food? If it wasn't tasty, I'd go and scold him." He hugged me and kissed me.
I smiled and poked his chest with my finger, "Don't be so overbearing. Captain Wen is not your employee. Why do you scold him? Is it because of something like the bad breakfast?
I ate two meat buns and a bottle of milk. Don't worry, I'm not hungry."
Xiao Shiqiu said confidently, "I have given him a lot of support, both financially and physically. If he still doesn't let my wife eat well, then he can forget about my financial support next time."
He hugged me for a while and said, "Shall we go out for dinner?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the doorbell rang. It was a Chinese restaurant nearby delivering food.
I ordered four dishes and a soup. He is not picky about food, so he ordered all of my favorites.
He looked at the table full of food and frowned as he asked me, "Didn't you say last time that eating takeout is unhealthy? Shouldn't we eat out instead of ordering takeout from now on?"
"This is not takeout. I ordered it from the store on my way back and asked them to deliver it." I said confidently.
He chuckled, "What's the difference?"
"Of course there's a difference! I didn't order from a food delivery app! It's almost the same as eating at a restaurant, except they added the delivery service.
So no takeout.”
I just asked the restaurant to add an extra room delivery service and changed the place where I ate.
The food you order in person at a restaurant is obviously healthier than the food you order with your phone.
"You're right, everything you ordered is healthy." He said in his usual doting tone.
While eating, I was still thinking about what happened during the day, so I said, "I have something to tell you..."
"I have something to tell you..." He said it almost at the same time as me.
We both laughed. "You speak first, I'm listening," I said.
He didn't argue with me and said directly: "Okay, it's not a big deal, but it's related to your uncle." His tone was calm and it didn't sound like a big deal.
"What happened to my uncle?" I asked indifferently.
Xiao Shiqiu poured me a bowl of soup and said casually, "He's fine. Remember last time I said you thought your aunt was a little weird?"
I thought about it, and this is true. Because my aunt didn't let him arrange a job for her, he thought she was weird. His train of thought is quite strange.
"Remember it. What? She asked you for a job again? Do you think she's normal now?" I said with a joking smile.
"Oh, no, that's not the case. I'm the kind of person who likes to get to the bottom of things when I think something is unusual..." You're usually very straightforward, so why are you so slow and slow today?
"So? What did you do?" I demanded.
He said lazily, "I asked my friend in Lincheng to check on your aunt."
I almost spit out my soup. "What's there to investigate about my aunt? You don't think she has any connection with the Lu family, do you?"
I think the Lu family has tortured us to the point of going crazy.
"That's not what I thought," he said, picking up another piece of fish and putting it in my bowl. "I always felt that she didn't mention her work arrangements at all. This is very unusual. On the one hand, she complained that your uncle's income was not high enough, but on the other hand, she didn't plan to go out to work.
Both children will go to school after they come here, and the eldest can even live on campus. There is absolutely no need for her to be a full-time wife."
I thought about it carefully, and it was true. My little cousin needs to be picked up and dropped off every day. It would probably be very difficult for her to find a job in City A that would not delay picking up and dropping off the child. She would not want to find a job by herself.
Thinking of this, I nodded. "It's indeed quite unusual. Then what?"
Seeing that I accepted it well, he didn't tell me and went to investigate my aunt's matter privately.
He exhaled imperceptibly, and I could see that he went around in circles because he was afraid that I would be angry.
He really thought too much. My relationship with my aunt is just a little better than strangers.
Xiao Shiqiu pursed his lips and said, "Then I found something."
He picked up his phone, swiped it a few times, and pushed it in front of me, "Take a look."
There was a group of photos on the screen, showing my aunt chatting and laughing with a strange man in a cafe. In one of the photos, the man was even helping her to fix her hair affectionately. The photos were taken just last week.
I obviously knew what Xiao Shiqiu meant. Although I didn't like my aunt very much, I didn't want to put the blame on my uncle based on rumors.
"This... this doesn't mean she definitely cheated on my uncle, right? Maybe it was her cousin or something, or maybe a childhood friend?"
Xiao Shiqiu's attitude was quite objective, without any of the gloating pleasure of gossiping about others. "This man is your aunt's high school classmate, his name is Xu Shimo."
Wow, he has the same name as Jin Yong’s scumbag cousin.
"You even found out this, haha," I laughed dryly. "Your friend in Lincheng is pretty awesome."
He nodded calmly, "Well, my friends are generally quite capable."
I asked somewhat awkwardly, "Did you find anything else?"
"Well, this Xu Shimo originally pursued your aunt in high school, but he didn't get into college, and your aunt no longer liked him after she went out to study."
I know this. Although my aunt and uncle were not from the same school, they met at a school social. My uncle has a good appearance and must have been quite popular in school.
Xu Shimo also knew that the gap between him and my aunt had widened. Although he was somewhat unwilling, he did not persist. The little spark between the two of them ended in vain.
After graduating from university, my uncle went straight to work in a big factory and earned a high salary that was enviable at the time. In addition, his family gave him money to buy a house and a car in Lincheng, which made the gap between him and Xu Shimo even greater.
Until my uncle got married, he was still working in sales outside.
A few years ago, the real estate market was booming, and Xu Shimo borrowed some money to open a building materials store.
Unexpectedly, he hit the right trend and his building materials store became more and more prosperous, and was directly turned into a chain store. He also got married under the arrangement of his family.
However, they had been childless for three years after marriage. After a check-up, the couple found out that one of them had asthenospermia and the other had polycystic ovary syndrome, which were both infertility problems. They tried IVF seven or eight times but failed.
Last year, at their high school reunion, my aunt and Xu Shimo met again. They drank a little and I don’t know if they had a passionate romance, but from then on, they started to interact more frequently.
My aunt was wearing bags and jewelry that were obviously more expensive than my uncle's.
My uncle is a straight man. He doesn’t know those brands at all and didn’t notice the changes in my aunt.
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