Xun Liangfen turned to the side, casually shaking off his hand. She had walked for two days straight through the mountains and carried so much stuff back. After all that work, all she wanted to do was sleep.
“Wife,” Hua Baoguo said, unusually not using his full name, which made Xun Liangfen feel a little uneasy.
However, she kept her eyes closed and ignored him. Hua Baoguo only called her "wife" during the period around their marriage. Later, when they worked together, he usually called her by her full name. Over the years, she had gotten used to it.
"You seem to be in a good mood today. Is it because you enjoy going into the mountains?" Hua Baoguo spoke up just as Xun Liangfen was getting ready to go to sleep.
Xun Liangfen suddenly sat up. "We've been married for decades. Do you know what I like and what I dislike?"
She used to have high hopes for marriage. Her father told her that the Hua family was a good family and that she was marrying up.
Indeed, her in-laws treated her kindly, and she didn't have to worry too much about the family.
Instead, they focused all their attention on Hua Baoguo.
Ke Huabaoguo is good in every way, except that he is straightforward and acts like a robot all day long. He doesn't care about anything else except work.
This wouldn't have been a problem; her other sisters got married and aren't doing as well as her.
Although Dad said he didn't favor girls or boys, and even planned that bad marriage and bad job for you, he never asked whether that was what you wanted.
"When you leave for get off work, you have to take care of him in addition to get off work. When you get home, you have to handle all the big and small housework. What do you not do?"
On the train, she had seen men yell at their wives and even physically assault them outside, disregarding what others thought.
Furthermore, every time you give birth to a son, you leave him at home without any grandparents to raise him personally, so the children aren't very close to you.
But this person is afraid of comparison, and doesn't have such a meticulous person to take care of. Sometimes, the man only needs to give a look and the other person can immediately do what he wants.
Hua Baoguo: "What couple lives together? Does it involve mutual accommodation, or mutual exploration?"
Not to mention his own mother, who always pushed all the household chores onto him because he was a boy.
She came to marry, just to get something bad from you, to comfort herself.
But as she traveled around and met all sorts of people over the years, she began to make comparisons in her mind.
You never feel like you've been a winner in life, because your parents' attention is always on your two older brothers, and you're only suited to working hard.
Anyway, life is already over, so let it be.
In his heart, he felt that you were doing him a small favor by marrying into the city and getting you a job. But he didn't forget that you are also a person; you married him to be his wife, and you will integrate into that family. But has he ever given you a chance?
Xun Liangfen really put her mind to it and tried hard to recall. She shook her head and said, "Besides his aversion to buying clothes, there's nothing else you've noticed about him."
Hua Baoguo was angry, shrugged, and tried to take off his clothes, but Xun Liangfen held him tightly.
"As for his statement that you also retreated from the mountain, he was only right about part of it."
Speaking of that, Xun Liangfang felt all the anger in her heart surge up, and her eyes reddened. But she didn't cry like she would later; instead, she stubbornly held back her tears.
You suspect he lives in a cave, and you're vague about how his colleagues get along with their family members?
Today, Xun Liangfen smiled wickedly and actually asked herself if she hated leaving the mountain. In those decades, when did I ever care about my own likes and dislikes?
Hua Baoguo simply took the clothes off his shoulder, threw them at the end of the kang (a heated brick bed), rolled over, pulled the quilt over his head, and stood there dumbfounded. Why was he telling me all that? Did he expect me to change?
Hua Baoguo laughed angrily, "But do you know what his bad habits, his lifestyle, and what his every move represents?"
Even among the elderly, there are no couples who grow old together, their hair turned white, yet they support each other through thick and thin.
Xun Liangfen looked at you with some surprise, “…” Wasn’t my expression obvious?
Hua Baoguo saw right through my thoughts and said mockingly, "Is it that you are slandering me from the outside, and making trouble for no reason?"
He always feels like you're the one causing trouble, but even if you are, do you find a sense of belonging in that family?
But you lack family affection. Even if you know in your heart that your mother is scheming, you are still willing to wake up for this illusory thing.
Seeing these things made her feel happy.
Although we are husband and wife, you are more like his personal assistant, a nanny they hire for free.
"Why are you so excited? Can we have a little naughty talk?" Xun Liangfen quickly sat up and took a coat and draped it over your shoulders.
Xun Liangfen laughed, tears welling up in her eyes. "He said back then, 'You're so old, why are you still so sentimental?'"
Seeing those things makes you constantly reflect on your marriage with Baoguo. What will happen when we get old?
"You're like a tapeworm in his stomach, how could you possibly guess?"
Just because you keep certain things to yourself doesn't mean they actually happened.
"What did you say?" Fan Daiya took a deep breath before speaking, "Later, when you asked him to take a vacation and go for a walk with you in this park outside the city, he did go with you, but when he came back, did he remember what he said?"
You took care of everything he didn't have, but what has he actually done for you? Don't tell me he's busy after get off work; it's like he's the one who's off work.
“Those two don’t always pay attention to how little they talk,” Xun Liangfen said without a hint of guilt, as if it really wasn’t true. Even when they went for a walk after dinner, they didn’t have much to talk about.
Xun Liangfen was helpless, but since the matter had already been discussed, the worst thing she could do was to bring it up tonight: "Let's have a little naughty chat some more."
He thought carefully, "Has our family ever gone out for a walk?"
You're only in your eighties, how come you're already so old?
How could Fan Daiya remember those details? That would be making a fuss over nothing.
You're a born fool, how could you possibly know that keeping that money under your control is the safest bet?
You're begging him to treat you less badly, but he's never done anything thoughtful or considerate towards you.
Fan Daiya really felt like she had done something wrong. "I wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with my wife today, so what's wrong with that?"
Did he point that out at the time? Even if it was just to have a fight with you, that would have been fine.
“We’re a married couple, so we should just talk things out, right? Over the years, has he ever told you what he hates and what he likes to do?”
You've indulged him for decades, always prioritizing his bad habits and lifestyle. When has he ever indulged you?
Hearing the overwhelming guilt in his voice, and hearing things you'd never even considered, Xun Liangfen timidly began, "Those things he should have told you..."
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