Chapter 434: Zheng Xiaolian, do you want to live? Jumping into the river holding the child?
At this time, there were not many people on the streets as everyone was staying at home to celebrate the New Year. However, there were bursts of firecrackers.
There was no one on the empty street except Song Wenlin riding his bike.
The dim street lights stretched his shadow out.
He pedaled the bicycle slowly.
Ride forward little by little.
A thin line of tire marks was left on the silvery white ground.
There is a small courtyard in Beishun Hutong, and the lights are on at this time.
The yard is not big, about the size of two mu of land.
There is a main room, two east and west wing rooms, a kitchen, and a small house built in the yard. It looks very crowded.
A young woman was squatting at the gate of the yard, crying, holding a two-year-old child.
The man was cursing in the middle of the yard.
"You want money again! You want money again! Do you f*cking 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 got sick, and then I spent all our family savings. I think I have done my best!"
"As a result, you, a bitch, actually dared to sell your job behind my back to pay for your mother's medical treatment! Do you think this job is pie in the sky? If you weren't young and beautiful, do you think I wanted to marry you?"
"What's going on in your family? Don't you have any idea about it?"
"Who would have thought that now that you've given birth to a daughter, she's got a problem! All the money in the family has been spent, and you still want more money? Where can I get you money? You'd better take your daughter and get out of here as soon as possible!"
At this time an old lady also came out.
He glared fiercely at the woman at the door with a pair of slanted eyes.
"You couldn't even give birth to a son, and you gave birth to a money-loser. You still have the nerve to ask my son for money and even want to treat the money-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 started to cry loudly.
But she didn't feel distressed at all. Instead, she slammed the door in front of them with a bang.
The woman held the child and cried silently.
Only some intermittent sounds could be heard from inside.
"Son, 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 down and looked at the little girl with heartache, silently wiping her tears.
Then he picked her up and walked forward, stepping deep and shallow on the snow on the ground.
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 the cart.
Song Wenlin just wanted to secretly come and see Zheng Xiaolian to see how she was doing these years?
Do you regret leaving me?
Unexpectedly, on New Year's Eve, he unexpectedly saw this scene.
Looking at the woman in front of him, still wearing thin clothes in the heavy snow, he suddenly felt a pang of sadness in his heart.
I thought I would be happy to see that she was not living a happy life.
Will be happy.
See? How wrong was your choice?
But when he saw her current appearance, Song Wenlin couldn't smile at all.
I just felt a tightness in my chest.
It is clear that Zheng Xiaolian was the most beautiful among their educated youth.
She is good-looking, even a little gorgeous.
Now she has a sallow complexion and 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 when she was making dumplings just now.
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 with snowflakes, Song Wenlin could feel her whole body trembling.
Not to mention her, even the two-year-old child in her arms was not wearing thick clothes. Not only that, but 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.
It's obvious that her house doesn't go this way.
And as time went by, he felt something was wrong.
Because a river appeared ahead.
She held the child in her arms and walked straight in 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 panicked, and when he pulled with all his strength, she and the child almost flew up, if Song Wenlin hadn't been quick to support her back.
I'm afraid they're really going to fall over there.
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, are you going to die? You actually jumped into the river with your child in your arms? Is that man worth sacrificing your life for?"
Hearing his slightly accusatory words, Zheng Xiaolian reacted 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 of his finger and smiled.
"Do you think a river like this can drown people?"
Because he was too anxious just now, Song Wenlin didn't look carefully at all. Now that he took a closer look, he realized that because the weather was too cold, a thick layer of ice had already formed on the surface of the river where the man jumped into.
Just as Zheng Xiaolian said.
A river like this really won’t drown people.
"Then why are you... carrying the child over 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 pulled his feet back, trying to cover the ugly patch on his cloth shoes with his trouser legs.
"I, I just wanted to come 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 was 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!"
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