Chapter 434 Zheng Xiaolian, are you trying to save your life? You jumped into the river with your child in your arms?
At this time, there were not many people on the street as everyone was staying at home to celebrate the New Year. However, there were bursts of firecrackers coming from the area.
There was no one on the empty street except Song Wenlin riding his bike.
The dim street lights made his shadow look very long.
He pedaled the bicycle slowly.
Ride forward little by little.
A line of thin tire marks was left on the silvery white ground.
There is a small courtyard in Beishun Hutong, and the lights are also on at this time.
The yard is not big, about the size of two mu of land.
There is a main room, two side rooms, a kitchen, and a small room in the yard. It looks very crowded.
A young woman holding a two-year-old child was squatting at the gate of the yard and crying.
The man was swearing in the middle of the yard.
"You want money again! You want money again! Do you think I'm a money jar? Can I make money? I really don't know why I married such an unlucky thing like you. First your mother was sick, and then I spent all the family savings. I have done my best!"
"As a result, you, a jerk, actually dared to sell your job behind my back to pay for your mother's medical treatment! Do you think this job is a piece of cake? If you weren't young and beautiful, do you think I would want to marry you?"
"What's going on in your family? Don't you have any idea of what's going on?"
"Who would have thought that now that you have given birth to a daughter, she has a problem! All the money in the family has been spent, and you still need money? Where can I get money for you? You'd better get out of here with your daughter!"
At this time an old lady also came out.
A pair of slanted eyes glared fiercely at the woman at the door.
"You couldn't even give birth to a son, but gave birth to a loser. You still have the nerve to ask my son for money and even want to treat the loser's illness? Bah! Dream on!"
"I can't even have a peaceful New Year! It's so unlucky!"
After saying that, he walked to the door and pushed the woman and the child forward fiercely, scaring the little girl so much that she burst into tears.
But she didn't feel sorry at all. Instead, she slammed the door in front of them.
The woman held the child, crying silently.
Only some intermittent sounds could be heard from inside.
"Son, get a divorce! This marriage must be divorced!"
"Mom, do you think I don't want a divorce? If tomorrow wasn't the first day of the Chinese New Year and the people at the Civil Affairs Bureau weren't at work, I would definitely drag her to get a divorce early in the morning!"
These words, like steel needles, pierced into the woman's heart one by one.
But she seemed a little numb, and apart from crying, she couldn't say a word.
He just bent over and looked at the little girl with heartache, silently wiping her tears.
Then he picked her up and walked forward, stepping on the snow on the ground with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
A figure was standing at the entrance of the alley, pushing a bicycle, but his eyes were fixed on the woman.
After a while, he sighed softly and followed with his cart.
Song Wenlin just wanted to secretly come and see Zheng Xiaolian to see how she was doing these years?
Do you have any regrets when you left me?
Unexpectedly, on New Year's Eve, he unexpectedly saw this scene.
Looking at the woman in front of him who was still wearing thin clothes in the heavy snow, he suddenly felt a pang in his heart.
I thought I would be happy to see that she was not doing well.
will be happy.
See how wrong your choice was?
But when he saw her current appearance, Song Wenlin couldn't laugh at all.
I just felt a tightness in my chest.
It is clear that Zheng Xiaolian used to be the most beautiful girl among their educated youth.
She is pretty, even a little charming.
Now, her face is pale and her body is thin.
Song Wenlin looked at the part of her arm that was exposed when she was holding the child. It was as thin as the rolling pin that Song Shiwei had used to make dumplings just now.
It's just skin and bones.
It was such a cold day, and she was only wearing a thin gray coat with a red floral shirt underneath.
The cloth shoes on his feet must have been worn for a long time, and there was a patch on the big toe of his left foot.
In the cold wind blowing snowflakes, Song Wenlin could feel her whole body trembling.
Not to mention her, even the two-year-old child in her arms was not dressed thickly. Not only that, the clothes were altered from adult clothes, which were obviously much larger. Not only were they whitened by washing, but they were also covered with patches.
Song Wenlin frowned. He didn't know where she was going with this.
Obviously her house doesn't go this way.
And then he felt something was wrong.
Because there was a river ahead.
She held the child in her arms and walked straight inside as if she didn't see anything.
Song Wenlin was stunned.
Just as I turned around, I saw her holding the child and walking towards the river.
Song Wenlin was terrified.
He dropped the car with a bang and ran over.
He grabbed Zheng Xiaolian's arm.
Just as he imagined, she became anxious, and when he pulled with all his strength, she and the child almost flew up, if Song Wenlin had not been quick to support her back.
I'm afraid the two of them are really going to fall over.
Zheng Xiaolian was even more frightened. When she turned her head and saw the face she had been thinking about day and night, she thought she was dreaming.
Song Wenlin was running so fast that he was still panting heavily.
He looked at her with some dissatisfaction and let go of her hand: "Zheng Xiaolian, do you want to die? You actually jumped into the river with your child in your arms? Is that man worth your life?"
After hearing his slightly accusatory words, Zheng Xiaolian came to her senses and suddenly burst out laughing.
As I laughed, tears started to flow down the corners of my eyes.
"Which eye of yours saw me jumping into the river?"
Song Wenlin pointed anxiously at the river ahead and asked, "If you weren't going to jump into the river, why were you walking straight towards here with your child in your arms?"
Zheng Xiaolian looked in the direction his finger was pointing and smiled.
"Do you think a river like this can drown people?"
Because he was in a hurry just now, Song Wenlin didn't look at it carefully at all. Now that he looked carefully, he found that because the weather was too cold, a thick layer of ice had already formed on the surface of the river where he jumped.
Just like what Zheng Xiaolian said.
A river like this is definitely not enough to drown a person.
"Then why are you... carrying a child here?"
Zheng Xiaolian looked greedily at the face in front of her that she had been thinking about day and night for three years, her eyes filled with admiration and guilt.
She could only calm herself down by taking a deep breath.
Then, she seemed to have thought of something and quickly lowered her head.
He even quietly retracted his feet, trying to cover the ugly patch on his cloth shoes with his trouser legs.
"I, I just wanted to come over and see if the ice on the river is solid and if I can still catch some fish..."
"Catching fish?"
Song Wenlin lowered his head to look at the little kid who seemed to be in a bad mental state, and then looked at Zheng Xiaolian who looked a little embarrassed in front of him.
He understood instantly.
He turned around and lifted the car off the ground.
Patted the back seat of the car.
"Let's go, I'll take you to dinner!"