Chapter 20
Ke Xin had no idea what was going on, but seeing that she kept complaining and refused to leave, she could only nod in agreement and then asked, "What does his father do?"
"His dad is just a crappy delivery man. He goes out early and comes back late every day. I've told you that if I didn't help him look after the kids, he wouldn't even be able to pay for the kids' nursery with his delivery man's salary!" The woman almost said: Unlike you, you can still buy a Hermès bag. This bag looks valuable and can even be used as a down payment for a house in her hometown.
But she swallowed these words whole.
Seeing her helpless look, Ke Xin reminded her again, "No matter how difficult our family's situation is, we can't beat our children like this. I saw he was bleeding. Go back and get him some medicine. Do you have any medicine at home?"
Seeing the woman shaking her head.
Ke Xin returned to the house and handed the woman all the remaining medicine from the injuries she had sustained after being beaten by her ex-husband. She then casually picked out an unassembled toy from the pile of toys and handed it to the woman: "This is medicine for the scratches, and there's also a toy for your son. I hope he's doing well and take good care of him!"
Ke Xin was afraid that she would go back on her word, so she said the last sentence in a resounding voice.
The woman paused for a moment, then took it with a playful smile: "Hey, thank you for giving so many things at once!"
Before Ke Xin closed the door, the woman hugged the toy and said, "Hey, we are all mothers. You can call me Sister Wang from now on. Let's walk around more often when we have time. We can also take the baby for a walk together!"
Ke Xin nodded slightly and chuckled twice. After closing the door, she felt relieved and thought to herself: No matter what the woman says, as long as she doesn't beat the child, she can still walk around occasionally. Otherwise, don't blame her for being ruthless, just call the police!
The Hermès bag on the living room table was too eye-catching, so Ke Xin took a photo and sent it to Jia Qi.
Soon Jiaqi sent a message with a stunned expression.
Then he stopped talking.
Just as Ke Xin was preparing the tools for setting up her stall tomorrow, the door suddenly slammed shut.
Ke Xin was startled. When she heard Jia Qi's voice, she opened the door and said angrily, "What are you making so much noise about? I wonder if you think we're being robbed!"
"Sister, if you have this bag in your room, you really have to be prepared to guard against thieves!" Jiaqi was not looking at Ke Xin, and she rushed towards the bag as soon as she entered the room.
Then he touched and smelled it, and said excitedly, "Ke Xin, do you know how rare this bag is? It's a limited edition Hermès, the kind you can't buy in China!"
Hearing this, Ke Xin subconsciously asked, "So how much is this bag?"
"About five hundred thousand!" Jiaqi blurted out.
This time it was Ke Xin's turn to be shocked. She then carefully took the bag back from Jia Qi's hand and said, "I dare not use this bag. I have to worship it like a Buddha. If Fu Xuan breaks up with me one day and asks me to return his gift, I can return it to him intact!"
"You!" Jiaqi put on a speechless expression: "When people are speechless, they really get angry and laugh!"
Ke Xin held her bag, frowned and retorted: "What do you know? There are so many bad men. Fu Xuan and I haven't known each other for long. Who knows what will happen in the future? Isn't there a saying that goes, a man is one way when he loves you, and another way when he doesn't love you!"
Jiaqi originally threw up her hands, but after Jing Kexin said this, she said, "Hey, you know what, what you said makes quite a bit of sense!"
Then Jiaqi suggested: "Since we are here, let's go shopping and have afternoon tea. It's been a while since we went shopping, sisters!"
"good!"
As soon as the two of them went out, they ran into Sister Wang. Sister Wang was slightly surprised to see them, then quickly put on a smile and greeted them: "Hi!"
Ke Xin smiled and nodded, and then the two of them disappeared into the corridor under Sister Wang's puzzled gaze.
Jiaqi couldn't help but mutter, "Who is she? She looks like a pig head ready for tribute when she laughs!"
Ke Xin quickly hugged Jia Qi's arm and quickened her pace, fearing that she would hear: "Neighbor!"
"She doesn't look like a good person. Stay away from her!" Jiaqi rolled her eyes and couldn't help muttering. Then, as she reached the stairs, her mouth suddenly drooped, her shoulders slumped, and she muttered again: "Ke Xin, how about I help you sell your bag? This one is a limited edition. If it's sold in China, it can still double in price. It's enough for a down payment on a nearby house!"
"Is it really possible?" Ke Xin smiled slightly. Jia Qi stomped down the stairs in her high heels. She couldn't help but tap her forehead again. "Yeah, if you were me, you would have moved to a new house long ago. If all else fails, you could at least rent a better place. How do you manage to climb five floors with a baby every day?"
Ke Xin's thoughts suddenly wandered to something else: "Actually, there's another benefit to living here. What if my parents knew I lived in a nice place? Would they come and harass me again?"
What she said was not without reason. Many times, her sister-in-law and brother tried to test her overtly or covertly to see how she was doing after the divorce. Sometimes they even offered to take her out to play, saying that they felt sorry for her because of the divorce and wanted to take her to the park to get some free air. In fact, Ke Xin knew very well. If they saw that she was having a miserable life, they would go home and laugh secretly behind closed doors, and act as her parents' spy. But if she was doing well, their greedy fangs would be raised in an instant to pry open her marrow and suck her dry.
Jiaqi immediately held her forehead with her hand: "Now I finally know why your circle of friends has been blank for many years. It turns out that you thought this!"
Ke Xin nodded. "At first, I really didn't post much. But after encountering some problems and seeing through many things, I lost interest in posting on WeChat Moments!"
The two walked to the most prosperous central area of the CBD business district. In the past, when Ke Xin passed by here, she felt like a rat crossing the street, always feeling that this place did not belong to her. Today, she followed Jia Qi into the coffee shop with confidence and ordered a cup of coffee for 50 yuan and a small cake for about 100 yuan without any burden.
The two chatted while watching the passers-by coming and going, and occasionally passers-by would cast special glances at them.
Ke Xin suddenly experienced the feeling of being an urban beauty.
It turns out that as long as you dress yourself neatly and beautifully, you will receive kind looks wherever you go. During the conversation, Ke Xin even received three requests to add her on WeChat, and Jia Qi also received two.
Ke Xin chose to decline. After Jia Qi added her, she couldn't help but mutter to Ke Xin, "Anyone who comes here is at least a programmer or a small boss. Adding another network of contacts will make your future easier!"
"I feel like, since I've fallen in love with someone, there's no room for anyone else in my heart!" Ke Xin rubbed her fingers and said with a slightly blushing face.
"You really fall in love with Fu Xuanla!" Jiaqi said in surprise, lowering her head.
"How can I do that if I'm not in love?" Ke Xin muttered softly.
Jiaqi raised the corners of her mouth, took a photo of the cake and coffee she had just eaten, and sent it to her circle of friends. She looked up, her eyes slightly red, and said, "To be honest, Kexin, it was only from you that I learned that there are such cold-blooded parents. I just thought about why, even though you fell in love with Fu Xuan, you were always so cautious and left a way out for yourself no matter what you did. Maybe this is also related to the harm your family has caused you!"
After Jiaqi's analysis, Ke Xin suddenly realized something: "So that's how it is!"
On the way back, Ke Xin pondered over Jia Qi's words, that no matter what she did, she would think twice and be cautious. This made her trace it back to when she was eight years old. She was alone in a leaky house and ate all the instant noodles. She waited for four days with an empty stomach for her father Zhong Zhuo to come home. Zhong Zhuo just gave her a cold look, bought some vegetables, left them at home, and then went away again. In order to survive, she learned to cook.
After her parents saw that she could cook, they threw the task of cooking for the whole family onto her from then on.
When she was seven years old, the family only had one bedroom with only one bed. She, her brother, her parents slept on that bed. Ke Xin had already begun to have the idea that there were differences between men and women, so she took a blanket and ran to sleep on the shelf in the front hall.
Seeing this, Zhong Zhou raised his finger repeatedly at Ke Xin and praised her, "I never thought you could use a shelf as a bed. You're truly talented!"
At that time, Ke Xin was rarely praised by her parents, but whenever she was praised, she would grin, revealing her eight simple teeth, even though the space was too small and it was difficult for her to turn over in her sleep, and she could even smell the moldy wooden boards on the shelves.
She slept like this until she was twelve years old. When her younger brother grew up a little and the bed was not big enough, Zhong Zhou thought of buying a bunk bed. From then on, Ke Xin could stretch her limbs when she slept.
Time passed quickly until she gave birth to a daughter. She named her Baobao. Why Baobao? It was because she hoped her daughter would always be well fed, want warm love, and want abundance and abundance.
She hoped her daughter would never experience a single day of her dark and damp childhood, not even for a second.
If the suffering she endured in her childhood could offset the harm her daughter suffered, she would accept it.
Some people say that since becoming a mother, they realized how difficult it was for their parents to raise them.
But this sentence made Ke Xin, a new mother, even more stressed. Many lonely nights, she gritted her teeth, sobbed and trembled, and had stomachaches, just because she realized that people are different.
Just as she cannot sympathize with a normal person's feelings towards their parents, normal people cannot sympathize with the torture her parents inflicted on her.
And this kind of devastation is the dampness of her life.
The experiences she had gone through along the way shattered her remaining illusions. She secretly licked her torn and healed wounds in countless late nights until she slowly accepted it. Since becoming a mother, she understood more clearly that her parents were so cruel to her as a child.
Thinking of this, Ke Xin, who had just returned home, squatted in the corner and sobbed with her hands covering her mouth.
She didn't know there was someone at home. Her whole body was shaking uncontrollably, and she even felt a dull pain in her heart. Every time she recalled her childhood, she felt like she was walking on the edge of a knife, and her whole body seemed to be in the vortex of a black hole. A feeling of impending death made her both terrified and out of control.
If a person has two faces, then the one during the day that pretends that life is peaceful, humorous, funny, kind and simple is her other face, while the trembling limbs like withered ones in the middle of the night are the real her.
Her body fell lower and lower, and her hands couldn't stop shaking. No, I can't go on like this, she thought. The remaining sanity made her crawl under the cabinet and reach out to touch the half-eaten medicine.
At this moment, the door rang!
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