Chapter 179: Hairpin 2 Where is the salary passbook? He promised to give it to me,...
Zhou Juan didn't care. It's just one dollar.
There are people at home, why does Xu Wei have that expression?
She was a little unhappy: "Yeah, I went too late. Mao Ling was the only one willing to sell to me. You can't expect your uncle and his family to come here and not even get any meat, right? What does that expression mean?"
Xu Wei wanted to criticize her several times, but considering that she was pregnant and had spent the whole morning cooking for the whole family, he really couldn't bring himself to say it.
If you talk too much, she'll get upset and start crying again, and it won't end.
If it really doesn't work, wait until he gets better and then need to buy meat, he can go by himself.
I could only sigh silently: "Next time I'll go earlier. One dollar can buy a lot of things."
Zhou Juan was completely upset now. With a sullen face, she said, "What do you mean? Are you dissatisfied with me for spending too much? How do you think we got the meat the other time? We bought it the same way! It's just that sometimes there's an extra thirty or fifty cents, but I'm too lazy to tell you."
Xu Wei's brows were like crumpled old newspapers, furrowed with furrows filled with dissatisfaction with Zhou Juan's squandering. "No, you're pregnant now, and you still have to raise a child at the end of the year. The expenses are huge. You're not working anymore, so can't you be a little more frugal? I don't mean to criticize you, but you have to think about the future, right?"
"I didn't mean it, and I didn't spend money indiscriminately. It's your mother's birthday, and your uncle's family is coming. It's just a small matter, why do you care? I work so hard, but I don't get anything out of it, and you still despise me? What do I want?" Zhou Juan was so angry. If she really wanted to buy meat, wouldn't her mother-in-law buy it for her?
He was just trying to give her a hard time and make her go.
Do you really think she doesn't know those little thoughts?
I'm so angry, so angry. It turns out that going to work is still the best!
No, she had to tell her mother quickly that she didn't want to be a housewife anymore. She had had enough of this period of time.
I didn’t feel it before when I ate ready-made food, but now I know how hard it is to prepare three meals a day for a whole family.
In the past, you didn't need to ask for money; you just had it. But now? It only costs two yuan a time.
She suddenly suspected that her mother-in-law might have taken the passbook on purpose because she knew she had lost her job.
No, she had to get back Xu Wei's salary passbook. At least before she found a job, she had to have some money on her so that she wouldn't have to ask her mother-in-law for money every day.
Why should she take her man's money?
The more Zhou Juan thought about it, the angrier she became. Without waiting for Xu Wei to speak, she just walked out.
I went into my parents-in-law's room and quickly searched. Hey, it wasn't in the drawer or the bedside table, so the only place it could be was in the three-door cupboard.
As a result, the three-door cabinet was locked.
Well, he usually pretended to be a gentleman, saying that he was from a scholarly family and should be respectable. But in the end, he tricked her into taking away the passbook and locked it up and didn't give it to her.
What a cunning and respectable scholar mother-in-law!
Zhou Juan was so angry that she kicked the three-door cupboard and ran back to the west room, demanding to Xu Wei, "Where's your passbook? Is it locked up? Give me the key!"
"What do you want the passbook for?" Xu Wei had indeed given her the passbook before, but although she had many problems, she had never thought about misappropriating money. She always spent her own salary and did not touch the money in the passbook.
So Xu Wei was quite relieved and didn't want to ask her how she spent her salary, so as not to make her worry.
Besides, the two of them have been living with their elders in the past few years, and their food and expenses are all taken care of by their elders. There are not many things that require them to spend money. He also thought that Zhou Juan should have some savings.
Today, he found out that this ancestor was living paycheck to paycheck, and he suddenly didn't want to give her the passbook anymore.
No wonder his mother found an excuse to take away the passbook a while ago. It was really expensive. It shows that people with experience have a sharp eye.
Knowing that she had lost her job and could no longer spend lavishly, she had to use the money in her passbook.
It would be fine if she spent the money on something serious, but she had to spend an extra dollar to buy a piece of meat, which is simply unreasonable.
Xu Wei simply played dumb: "You are needed for food, clothing and daily necessities at home, and you don't have much money to spend."
Zhou Juan laughed angrily: "So you mean, Xie Dayou doesn't have to pay back the one dollar, right? Fine, I'll tell him to collect the debt from you later."
"I have one dollar." Xu Wei touched the pillowcase. His mother was worried that he would be recuperating at home during the day and would need something urgently without money, so she left fifty dollars for him, two ten-dollar bills, ten one-dollar bills, and the rest were Mao Zedong's banknotes.
He took out a piece of paper and said, "Here."
Zhou Juan was stunned. She slept with Xu Wei every day and had no idea that he had money hidden in his pillowcase.
He quickly grabbed his pillow, opened it and looked at it. He counted it and found there were forty-nine pieces. Adding the one piece in his hand, that made fifty.
"Okay, I asked your mother to give me money to buy groceries, and she was so stingy that she only gave me two dollars. You were lying at home with nothing to spend money on, but I gave you fifty. I know how much I, an outsider, am worth!" Zhou Juan took out all the forty-nine dollars and threw them at Xu Wei's face.
This action was extremely humiliating, but Xu Wei suppressed his anger and did not lose his temper because of her pregnancy.
He tried to reason, "Apologize! What do you take me for? Humiliating me like this?"
Apologize? What had she done wrong? Zhou Juan was completely furious.
The depression and grievances during this period are like an active volcano that refuses to sleep. If you throw two stones into it, it will instantly burst into sparks all over the sky.
And now, the volcano no longer wants to suppress itself and erupts completely.
She picked up the scissors and, not wanting to hurt Xu Wei, twisted the pillow.
He twisted the pillow, revealing the buckwheat husks inside, and threw them all over the room.
She roared at the top of her lungs, "Why should I apologize? Why? I was carrying your child, waiting on you and taking care of you, scrubbing you every day, making you feel good and happy, and even preparing three meals a day for the whole family. What do you think I am? You're still nagging me for your uncle's one dollar. If you didn't have any money, it would be fine, but you do, you have fifty! You have fifty and you won't give it to me, and you want me to go groveling and borrowing money from others. What the hell do you think I am? Am I your family's slave? Am I even worse than the maids in ancient times? Fuck your uncle! An apology would be the least of your worries!"
Xu Wei was so dumbfounded by her scolding.
This is the woman that Xu Wei likes. She is hysterical, ugly, and has no image at all, just like a crazy woman.
The huge disappointment was like a surging wave, which swept him up and threw him high into the dark and silent void, falling into the abyss of endless coldness and panic.
It's terrible. If he has to spend the rest of his life with a woman like this, he will go crazy.
How did she become like this? He didn't know.
Maybe she was like this all along, but he was blinded by her beautiful appearance.
He looked quietly at the mess on the ground, and suddenly he couldn't say a word.
What are you talking about? She has indeed worked hard. It's not that he doesn't feel sorry for her. Hasn't he already made an appointment with his cousin from his uncle's family to come and take care of her in a while?
After all, he is bedridden at home all day, so it would be inconvenient for his cousin to come, right?
He is not a heartless person, nor is he a stingy person. He is just a little scared when he sees her spending money without counting. He doesn't want to be left with nothing by the time he raises a child. He is not wrong.
But why didn't she understand?
Why was she acting like a madman, cursing and twisting the pillow, yelling until his ears were almost deafened?
It's so scary, this woman is really scary.
The most terrifying thing is that she is pregnant with his and her child.
This child was created by him - if he had chosen to let go during the incident during the New Year, at least there would be no child.
If he woke up from the beating and took advantage of the fact that his mother-in-law felt guilty and asked for a divorce, at least he would still have the moral high ground. Even if it would not be too smooth, he could at least ask for an abortion and divorce, and at most give some money to buy peace.
But what about now? They have a child, and she has taken care of him for so long, and she has really worked hard for the whole family. If he opens his mouth again, it will seem like he is nothing.
Besides, he was indeed fascinated by the things she did to please him.
He really deserved it. For the sake of that momentary pleasure, he forgave and compromised again and again.
It was his own fault. He had to pay for his brain with two ounces of flesh with endless pain.
Closing his eyes, he sighed silently: "My uncle and the others will be here soon. Can we not quarrel? You can take all the money, and I will take the passbook as well, but you have to promise me that you won't buy meat like this in the future. Even if I go to buy it, I will spend it a little more frugally, okay? I have to pay my cousin to take care of you, so can you be a little reasonable?"
Zhou Juan couldn't reason with him and insisted, "I don't care, you apologize to me!"
Xu Wei really wanted to jump out of bed and slap her, but he couldn't.
Physical fitness is secondary. It is his principle not to hit women, let alone the mother of his child.
The sadness and pain he is suffering now are all his own fault. What can he do?
I could only smile bitterly: "Okay, it's my fault, I'm sorry. Don't be angry, wait until I get better, I'll go buy meat later."
Zhou Juan was stunned, feeling like she had punched cotton.
Why didn't he quarrel anymore? Didn't he love scolding her the most?
If he hadn't scolded her, there would be no quarrel today, right?
Now that he had suddenly compromised, she was very suspicious that he was up to some evil idea.
He just stood there in front of the bed, looking at Xu Wei with hatred.
Xu Wei just smiled, a bitter, sad and humiliating smile.
He and her were done, completely over. From now on, they could only be co-parents, sharing the same bed but dreaming different dreams.
At this moment, he suddenly understood why so many unhappy couples in the world would rather continue to be entangled than get divorced.
I can’t leave, I can’t leave, I dare not leave.
If he filed for divorce, he might become a pillow in Zhou Juan's hands.
And he would definitely not do the same cruel thing to the mother of his child.
He lost. He thought he could change her. Blame him for being too naive.
He smiled helplessly: "What's wrong? Are you still angry after I apologized?"
"No. You're so weird." Zhou Juan was not stupid. She had noticed something. His attitude towards her seemed to be different.
Bending over to pick up the money on the ground, she only kept twenty on her body and handed the remaining thirty to him: "I'll give it back to you. You can figure out how to tell your mother, otherwise your mother will treat me like a thief."
These words hurt Xu Wei.
He couldn't help himself and asked, "Why do you say that to her? She's an elder, can you please be more respectful?"
"Respect? Do you respect me?" Zhou Juan sneered, turned around and went out, found a broom, cleaned up the buckwheat husks on the ground, and then went to the yard to find a bamboo basket, washed the buckwheat husks, dried them in the sun, and sewed them into the pillow again at night.
While she was busy, her distinguished parents-in-law finally arrived, leading her uncle Xu and others.
Zhou Juan didn't bother to talk nonsense and asked directly, "Mom, where is Xu Wei's salary passbook? He promised to keep it for me. Where did you put it? I can't find it."
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