Chapter 4 I Want to Divorce You

The next morning, Su Mei was woken up by being frozen.

As soon as the sky outside brightened, she stood up, moving her arms and legs despite her sore back.

I didn’t seem to feel it was that cold last night. I pushed the door open and the snow outside had stopped. The sky and the earth were covered with white.

Su Mei walked to Huo Jianguo's door and took a look. She found that his door was locked from the outside, and knew that Huo Jianguo had gone out early in the morning.

It is very hard to be a soldier in the frontier. Even though Huo Jianguo is already a cadre at the division level, he is still very busy every day.

They are responsible for border construction, border development, maintaining border peace, and preventing smuggling, drug trafficking, and poaching across the border.

There are so many miscellaneous things to do, and border guards have the hardest time.

Seeing that Huo Jianguo was not there, Su Mei breathed a sigh of relief. Although she had made up her mind to have a good relationship with Huo Jianguo, what happened yesterday made her feel embarrassed to see him now.

Her stomach was rumbling with hunger, so Su Mei decided to make herself some breakfast first.

She went to the kitchen and found rice, flour, shredded potatoes, eggs, and a few pumpkins that had been there for who knows how long.

There was half a jar of boiled lard in the oil jar, and a large lump of salt in the salt jar.

In this era, few people eat fine salt because fine salt is expensive. Salt is very cheap. It is a big salt block like a stone. When cooking, you can scrape out the salt by scraping it a few times with a spoon.

There is no other seasoning in the kitchen except salt.

The original owner was not very good at cooking. At best she could just cook until the food was well-cooked. She didn’t care about the taste. Anyway, when she had no choice, she could eat anything.

Su Mei's craftsmanship is excellent.

Although she was busy with her studies in college, she always insisted on cooking her own dinner in order to save money.

After that, when she started working, Su Mei would cook for herself whenever she had a break.

Because she felt that the aroma of cooking could make her, a person without a home, feel the smell of home.

Su Mei has tried to cook all kinds of dishes from the eight major cuisines. When she first started, she learned step by step from Douyin.

After learning more, Su Mei memorized the recipes of many dishes. Although her cooking skills are different from those of a chef, there is no problem in making the dishes look, smell and taste good.

She took out the flour and kneaded the dough, then placed the dough at the bottom of the bowl to let it rise.

While the dough was rising, she peeled the potatoes, cut a piece of pumpkin, cut the pumpkin and potatoes into cubes, stir-fried them with a small amount of oil, then added water to make soup.

Then she pulled out the dough and started making noodles.

Soon, distinct noodles appeared in Su Mei's hands.

After the soup boiled, she put the noodles in. After a few minutes, a bowl of fragrant soup noodles was cooked.

The heavy snow covered the smell of everything in the world, so the aroma of the noodles made by Su Mei soon filled the yard with the winter breeze.

Touching her rumbling stomach, Su Mei sat down with the bowl in her hand.

The tables, chairs and benches in the kitchen were still very clean, because Huo Jianguo would go into the kitchen to cook when he took a break occasionally, and he would clean up the place.

So Su Mei could just sit down and eat.

While smelling the fragrant noodles, she suddenly heard the door of the yard being pushed open from the outside. She turned around and found Huo Jianguo walking in with a cold face and a fierce look.

It was too dark in the room yesterday, and Su Mei didn't see clearly what Huo Jianguo looked like.

Only today did he realize how handsome this man was!

He had a neat crew cut and wore a neat military uniform. He was tall and strong, and he walked with steady steps, looking very heroic.

With such a top-notch man, it's no wonder that the original owner was so determined to marry him and even begged for his body.

It's a pity that the original owner was too stupid and didn't grasp such an excellent man in the right way.

Su Mei was eager to try, thinking that the original owner couldn't do it, so she could give it a try. She took the initiative to stand up and greet Huo Jianguo:

"You went out early this morning and haven't eaten yet. Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something together?" ×

At this time Huo Jianguo had already walked in front of Su Mei. His eyes were filled with rage, veins on the back of his hands were bulging, and he looked at Su Mei as if he wanted to eat her.

"Su Mei, I want to divorce you. I went to the Youth League Committee early in the morning to explain our situation. Our relationship has always been in name only.

You are so tyrannical and overbearing that you have caused a lot of complaints in the military compound. I have already applied to the organization and have received its approval. Now come with me to the Youth League Committee to go through the divorce procedures!"

At this time, divorces in the military did not need to go through the civil affairs department. One could go directly to the Youth League Committee to get a divorce certificate. Both husband and wife signed it, and the Youth League Committee stamped it, and the divorce was complete.

Su Mei was dumbfounded.

She was still thinking about how to please Huo Jianguo and get along well with him, but she didn't expect that he would leave early in the morning just to file for a divorce from her.

Come to think of it, the original owner did go too far. She actually drugged Huo Jianguo.

For a man like Huo Jianguo who holds a high position and has a proud character, if he were really raped by a woman, he would probably do something as serious as murder or arson.

Huo Jianguo did not pursue the matter of drugging and directly filed for divorce, which was enough for them.

But Su Mei still wanted to fight back. She lowered her head and said softly:

"Huo Jianguo, I know it was all my fault in the past. I was arrogant and unhygienic, and embarrassed you in public. It was all my fault.

I was wrong, I was really wrong. Can you give me a chance to start over? I promise I will never do it again. Can you not divorce me first and wait and see if I can change? "

Seeing Su Mei's cautious and aggrieved look, Huo Jianguo was stunned for a moment. He was a little surprised. In the past, whenever divorce was mentioned, this woman would cry, make a fuss, and even threaten to commit suicide. But today, it was strange that her first reaction was not to make a fuss.

But no matter how Su Mei reacted, in Huo Jianguo's eyes, she was playing tricks, and he would never be soft-hearted. He gritted his teeth and said:

"Don't give me so much nonsense. This is not the first time you have said something wrong. What's the use of saying it? You will do the same thing again after a while.

I don't believe you will change, and whether you change or not is none of my business. I didn't want to marry you in the first place.

If I had known that you would blame me after I pulled you out of the river, I would have regretted not watching the flood drown you.

Su Mei, you have to divorce today whether you want to or not."

Having said that, Su Mei knew that Huo Jianguo had already sentenced the original owner to death in his heart.

She couldn't clean up this mess, and there was no way she could repair her relationship with Huo Jianguo.

The noodles in her hand suddenly lost their fragrance. Su Mei felt extremely heavy in her heart when she thought that after the divorce, she would return to the isolated mountains with no water or electricity.

This era is different from the later generations. In the later generations, people could go wherever they wanted after divorce. But in this era, you need a letter of introduction to go out. If she gets divorced and has no household registration, she can only return to her hometown.

She swallowed the bitterness in her heart, looked down at the noodles in her bowl, and said hesitantly:

"Since you insist, then leave. I'll go with you to handle the formalities after I finish this bowl of noodles."

Although Su Mei was still thinking about pleasing Huo Jianguo last night in order to maintain her current comfortable life, she is not as shameless as the original owner.

There was no way she could make a fuss and insist on staying with the man when he filed for divorce. After all, she was a modern woman with her own dignity.

Holding the chopsticks tightly, Su Mei fed the hot noodles into her mouth one mouthful at a time.

Huo Jianguo's brows were deeply wrinkled. He felt that Su Mei had suddenly become abnormal since some point last night.

However, he soon stopped himself from thinking about it.

This woman is full of bad intentions, and who knows what evil ideas she has in mind. Huo Jianguo took off his hat, sat down opposite Su Mei, and said in a cold voice:

"Okay, I'll wait until you finish eating and see what other tricks you can come up with!"