In a word, I transferred the work of the transport team to another retired comrade. He offered me money, but I refused. Our conditions were not very good. I had been doing transportation for so long and had earned a lot of money.
Knowing that I really wasn’t going out, my wife panicked. She said to me, “If you don’t go out, where will you get the money to support the family? Are you going to make me and the children suffer with you?”
I was so angry at the time that I almost didn't care. I told her that if I knew who that man was, then it would not be just a matter of suffering with me. The man in her belly should go out and I would go in.
Ever since I said that, she has been pacing back and forth in a restless state.
I really didn't have a good face for her, so I said to her directly: "Either we get divorced and you go live with him, and I won't acknowledge that the child is mine, or you don't want the child and break up with him in the future, and we can live the same as before. I won't go out to work, but stay at home to take care of you and the child, and work to earn work points."
"Go to work? How much money can you make in a year?" She yelled hysterically, "Your son is grown up now. Do you know how much he eats every day? Can you support him if you go to work?"
My grandfather came out after hearing the voice. He didn't hear what was said before. He just asked us to discuss it properly and said that my wife was still pregnant and asked me not to make her angry.
Am I mad at her?
She looked fearless because she knew that my grandfather had to save face and I had to save face too, so I would never tell anyone that she had cheated on me.
Even if she really chooses to divorce and follow that man, I won't say anything outside.
My grandfather came out and tried to persuade her a few times, but when he saw that I didn’t say anything, he said that a harmonious family is the key to success and asked me to be more accommodating to her.
What else could I do? Let her give birth to the child? Let the man she had an affair with raise the child? I can't be that cowardly!
After staying at home for a month, I found out whose child my wife was pregnant with. It was with the male educated youth who was about to return to the city.
My wife actually believed his lies that he would take her with him when he returned to the city. I took her and watched with my own eyes as the man got on the train without looking back.
She cried bitterly at that time and said she wanted to abort the child and live a good life with me in the future.
I sighed. Since she was willing to live a good life, I didn't say much. After all, she had worked hard taking care of grandpa and her son for so many years.
I took her to the health center. The medical staff there looked at me as if I were a scumbag, but I endured it.
The doctor who received the patient said that the child should not be aborted. If it was done, the possible consequences might be mild, such as not being able to have children again, or serious, such as being in danger of death.
I took my wife home with a grim face and tacitly agreed that she would give birth to the baby. I bought her all the nutrients that a pregnant woman needed.
I also took on the housework because my grandfather said that I should not let my wife get too tired.
During the time she was pregnant, I took great care of her. She felt regretful and swore many times that she would live a good life with me in the future.
During that time, in addition to taking care of her, I went to work early and came back late every day, and came back to cook for her at noon. I was friendly to the villagers and united the neighbors. Finally, in the next team leader election, I was elected.
After the voting results came out, my grandfather was very unhappy. When he got home, he said that Liu Ping's vote was only one vote lower than mine.
He asked me to think carefully about why Liu Ping could fight on equal terms with me without the support of her family. It was purely the charm of her personality.
Now that Liu Ping has been elected director of the Women's Federation, my grandfather asked me to learn from her and listen more to her opinions when handling affairs.
I agreed to all of them.
Not long after, my wife gave birth to a girl, and I breathed a sigh of relief. After all, raising a girl for others would make me feel much more relaxed than raising a boy.
I haven't taken care of that girl since she was born. I thought that since she has her mother around, she won't be wronged no matter what.
In this way, this girl lived in my home until she was seven years old, and I never even looked at her.
It was not until my cousin Pei Yuanzheng was discharged from the army that he found a wife who was an educated youth. He set up a primary school at home and informed me that he would not go to work in the future.
I thought of sending my child to study with him. My son is already old, and I have taught him some reading and arithmetic on weekdays, but the girl has never taught him anything.
Forget it, just consider it as a good deed. Send her to school and provide for her studies. Then when she reaches a certain age, I will no longer care about her.
But I didn't expect that I would be taught a lesson just one day after I sent the girl there.
Did she live under the beatings and scoldings of my wife every day? I was a little confused. Although that girl was not my biological daughter, she was also born from her belly. How could she be so cruel?
Under the scolding of my brother and sister-in-law, I held my head and told the truth of the matter in pain. It was the first time in so many years that I told others that I had been a cuckold.
In fact, at that moment I was able to sense my own meanness. I just hoped that there was someone who could denounce their immorality with me, and then express understanding for why I had been ignoring the child, or even praise my morality for raising her.
But neither of them had it.
After comforting me, my sister-in-law still said seriously that my behavior was destroying a child's life, and that I should either endure everything and raise her normally, or simply divorce my wife.
She asked me a question in return, "If I didn't divorce, wouldn't that mean I accepted the child by default? If I accepted the child but didn't take responsibility for her, it would be even more despicable than just abandoning her."
She said that my method of revenge was too unmanly.
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