Chapter 96 Let's Get Divorced
It was evening and work was over.
Qian Lisheng calmed down and decided to go find Lin Xia to apologize.
Her job was given to her by her mother, and her excellence was based on that job. The better she was, the better their family would be.
He shouldn't be uncomfortable.
He was just too uncomfortable and couldn't help but get emotional, wanting Lin Xia to... coax him, wanting Lin Xia to give in.
If Lin Xia obeyed him, then they would have less trouble.
His mother wouldn't be angry anymore, and his business wouldn't be a big deal.
He could confess to Lin Xia later, so he wouldn't be afraid of Jiang Weidong's nonsense. Then, as long as Lin Xia cooperated and pretended to be pregnant, he would find a newborn baby from the countryside or a black clinic and pretend that it was Lin Xia's.
This way, neither Lin Xia nor he would be gossiped about. She was not a chicken that did not lay eggs, and he was not a good-for-nothing.
He needed Lin Xia's cooperation.
But he was too good to her before, always praising her, so he was not strong enough to make such a request.
Since his sister-in-law left, he wanted to confess to Lin Xia many times about his infertility, but he could not open his mouth.
Her excellence put a lot of pressure on him.
He hoped that Lin Xia could be more virtuous.
How much he admired Lin Xia's straightforwardness and generosity in the past, now he hoped that she would not be so straightforward and generous, and hoped that she would be more gentle and virtuous.
If it was a woman who had no job and income, and depended on him for support, and she could not have children, she would not say anything if he found a woman to have children. He could not have children, let alone let her pretend to be pregnant, even if he asked her to borrow sperm, she would cooperate.
Unfortunately... Lin Xia is not that kind of woman.
If he dared to find another woman, if he dared to ask her to lend him his sperm, then she would definitely break up with him and scold him.
So he could only put aside his self-esteem and confess to her that he was incompetent, useless, and incapable.
He was under too much pressure and felt too uncomfortable, so he lost his temper with her and hoped that she would forgive him.
He hoped that she would feel sorry for him like before. In the past, she would feel sorry for him when he was uncomfortable or sick.
For so many years, the couple has always had a good relationship. He loves and tolerates her, and she loves him too.
But recently, a gap has appeared.
He was a little upset. If he had known earlier, he would not go for training and stay to take care of Lin Xia. His sister-in-law is such a gossiper!
Oh, it would be great if they had a child. With a child, the couple would work together and not have their own thoughts. She missed her parents' home, and he missed his own home.
He hurried to the electrician team, but did not find Lin Xia.
The young man in the electrician team had some opinions about Qian Lisheng, and couldn't help but tease him, "Master Qian, don't you want to be quiet? Why are you looking for our Master Lin?"
Qian Lisheng: "You little brat are teasing me, right? Are you happy to see me embarrassed?"
The young man quickly apologized, showed him the way, and told him that Team Leader Lin was repairing the line over at the boiler.
Qian Lisheng found Lin Xia and saw that she was wearing work clothes, carrying a tool bag on her back, and wearing insulating gloves on her hands. A woman was climbing up and down like a man, which was really hard work.
He stepped forward and continued, saying softly, "Wife, I feel bad to see you working so hard. I reflect on myself. I'm a bastard. I shouldn't have gotten upset and lost my temper with you instead of calming down." Seeing this,
the others hurriedly moved away to let the couple talk and solve the problem.
Lin Xia took the tool bag back and put it on her shoulder, glancing at Qian Lisheng.
Although she was so angry at him that she was shaking all over at noon, she was not a person who liked to sulk. Moreover, electrician work required full concentration and extra caution, and she was not allowed to work with temper and emotions, so she quickly adjusted her emotions to calm herself down.
The method taught by the third sister was good. Put aside emotions and get to the core of the problem. As long as she didn't die or the sky didn't fall down at this time, if she couldn't solve it at noon, she could solve it in the evening.
Try not to let problems affect your mood and work, especially do not work in a negative mood to avoid dangerous operations.
She is no longer angry, and she is calmer when facing Qian Lisheng, and she can't help but look at him with scrutiny.
In the past, when she and her mother-in-law had conflicts, he would always persuade them with a smile, and would never frown to quarrel with her.
Now he quarrels with her with a frown one moment, and apologizes with a smile the next, which makes her subconsciously think that this is an example of suppression and control that the third sister mentioned.
Is he subconsciously trying to suppress her and control her?
Lin Xia feels tired.
To be honest, ever since Qian Lisheng started making a fuss about going to training, she felt that there was an invisible wall between the couple, which made their relationship awkward.
In the past, the couple would just talk about any problems, and they would talk about it with a smile, without any tempers.
Now, it seems that there is a road between the two of them, full of bumps and bumps, and every step is not smooth, and they can't go on.
Especially after the third sister came to accompany her in the bed, her mother-in-law's attitude changed drastically, and Qian Lisheng also spoke coldly.
These days after the third sister left, he would occasionally be sarcastic to the third sister and brother-in-law, and she would immediately say he was joking if she wanted to make a fuss.
What puzzled her most was that he wanted a child so much, her body was better, and she wanted to try to have a baby, but he backed off.
He said he wanted her to have a good rest, didn't want her to be too tired, didn't want her to be in any danger.
She believed him.
But after what happened today, she suddenly became uncertain.
She stared at Qian Lisheng, "Are you having an affair with another woman?"
"What?" Qian Lisheng's head shook like a rattle, "Wife, don't wrongly accuse me, I swear to God, absolutely not."
He began to humble himself to please her, joking with her, and smiling as before.
But he didn't know that from Lin Xia's point of view, he used to tease her from the bottom of his heart, so she found it fun to look at him, but now he was obviously... forced, suppressed, and even angry.
His smile didn't reach his eyes, and he forced his face to be curled up, which made her feel creepy.
Lin Xia felt that she was a contradictory person, both sentimental and hard-hearted.
When Qian Lisheng treated her well, she truly loved him. But once Qian Lisheng treated her badly, her feelings quickly cooled.
It was of course painful. They had been married for five years, spending every day together. She considered him her lifelong support. How could she not feel uncomfortable? It was
very painful. Her chest felt tight and her heart ached.
But so what?
Sanmei said that once things in life start, you have to stop the loss in time, otherwise you will get deeper and deeper into trouble, and in the end the sunk cost will be too high to extricate yourself.
She even laughed at herself for being a fast learner. Sanmei talked about so many things that she had never heard of before, but she could remember them as soon as she heard them.
The term sunk cost is good.
If they had children, she would not divorce for the sake of the children. She would wrong herself to please her mother-in-law and her husband.
Now that she has no children, she can clearly calculate the gains and losses.
As for feelings, of course there is. When they just got married, they were also very sweet and affectionate, and they were not embarrassed at all.
At first, she didn't have a job, but he didn't give up on her at all. Instead, he said affectionately that he would support her for the rest of her life, let her stay at home to take care of the baby, and he would work hard, and he could also go out to earn extra
money to support her and the baby. She couldn't sit still, so she secretly looked for work, such as washing clothes for others and cleaning in factories. He felt sorry for her being tired and wronged, so he looked for a job for her everywhere, and even wanted to lend her money to buy a job.
At that time, she was really grateful to him and loved him very much. She felt that this man was very reliable and worthy of entrusting her life, and she would treat him well for the rest of her life.
Later, her mother-in-law gave her a job, and she was really grateful with her heart and eyes, and she wanted to treat her mother-in-law and her husband well with all her heart.
They gave her a job, and she would seize it with all her might and work hard to make progress.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, the days of deep love did not last long, three to five months?
No more than that.
Then came the stressful days of daily necessities.
She enjoyed it and was somewhat willing.
Every time she gave money to her parents and two yuan to her sister, he would joke with a smile, "My son-in-law is so important, he still has to support his father-in-law and mother-in-law", "Our sister-in-law can also benefit from it", "Our mother's job is too busy"...
At that time, she didn't think much about it. She felt that he didn't blame her for not having a job. He could give her a job. How could such a good person have any bad intentions?
In fact, after the honeymoon period, Qian Lisheng's kindness to her was more of a way of living together. Why wasn't she the same?
She treated him as a family member, as a relative. She felt the same way as her parents, brothers and sisters in the first half of her life, and her husband, parents-in-law and children in the second half.
But since she took someone else's job, she had to be more tolerant and generous, and learn to read people's expressions.
He liked to brag to his friends and apprentices, and she had to cooperate even if she didn't think much of him.
Qian Lisheng didn't pay much attention to hygiene, and always wore outer clothes to lie on the bed, so she had to persuade him and wash him in various ways.
Why did she get gynecological diseases? The doctor said that a big reason was that her husband didn't pay attention to hygiene.
He wanted to be happy for himself, but he never really thought about her.
There are trivial things like this in life. She didn't think about them before, but once she thought about it clearly, she was... very clear-headed - without the bond of children, and the love between husband and wife, there would be nothing.
Children are the knot between husband and wife, which cannot be untied. Either they continue to be entangled, or they cut off the knot directly, with blood dripping.
Without children, there is no knot that cannot be untied. The two have no blood relationship, so they can separate at any time.
The bond between her and Qian Lisheng is work. If she can't bear to part with them, she can't separate. If she is willing to part with them, she will just do it.
Why don't she give her job back to them!
From now on, she will never be controlled by them again!
Fortunately, she used the opportunity of marrying Qian Lisheng to study hard in the past five years, and now she has passed the third-level electrician examination. This title will not disappear.
She can give the job back to Qian's mother, or she can use this electrician qualification to find a job in the factory or even other factories.
She can support herself.
And you should stand up straight and support yourself with dignity. You don't need to be told that your mother-in-law gave you this job and that you are sucking the Qian family's blood.
She was tired of that kind of talk, tired of the looks and half-joking remarks from Qian's mother and Qian Lisheng.
Give it back to them.
After thinking it through, Lin Xia suddenly felt relieved, as if a huge mountain weighing on her heart had been lifted.
It was a little light in the sky.
Lin Xia looked at Qian Lisheng and said very calmly, "Qian Lisheng, let's get a divorce!"
Qian Lisheng was stunned.
No one spoke for a while, and even the wind seemed to have stopped.
Lin Xia was thinking calmly, and Qian Lisheng was completely stunned.
His face turned pale in an instant, his whole body was shaking, and his lips were trembling a little, "Wife, wife, what did you say? How could you be so heartless? What did I tell you?"
His voice suddenly rose, "Are you trying to force me to death? I don't agree!"
Seeing his agitated look, Lin Xia stepped back subconsciously and looked at him warily, "Calm down."
Qian Lisheng growled, "I can't calm down, I don't want to live now!"
He suddenly realized that Lin Xia was serious, she was not threatening to divorce out of anger as his mother said, she really didn't want to leave him.
She must know something.
She despises him!
She wants to abandon him!
"Ah--" He yelled, and suddenly lay on the ground, straight and motionless.
Lin Xia was startled and squatted down to look at him, "Qian Lisheng, what are you doing?"
Qian Lisheng clenched his teeth and eyes, looking like he had turned into a wooden block.
Lin Xia was a little at a loss, "What are you doing?"
Soon more people came to watch and asked what was going on.
After Qian Lisheng experienced the failure of the employee election and was ridiculed for being inferior to his wife, a switch was suddenly turned on and he was no longer so ashamed, especially when Lin Xia saw him squatting in the office at noon and people watched the couple quarreling. He felt as if someone had torn off his fig leaf.
He was desperate, he had no shame!
He used to be the man who cared most about face!
The man who cared most about face became so shameless, how pitiful he was, he was forced.
Who wouldn't feel sorry for him?
Chen He: "Master's Wife, why are you so angry with my master? He... isn't he ill? Hurry, send him to the infirmary!"
He went up to carry Qian Lisheng on his back.
Qian Lisheng said angrily: "Don't worry about me, just let me die."
Lin Xia was shocked. She never knew that Qian Lisheng had such a shameless side. He really refreshed her understanding of him.
Fu Xiumei and others also came to persuade Lin Xia, "Master Lin, what's wrong with you? How can you just say you don't want to live like this? Can you just say divorce?"
"Yes, it's so embarrassing."
"What the hell did Master Lin do and say? Look how angry he was about Master Qian. Such a face-saving and clean man just lay on the ground."
"Master Lin, you're going too far. How can you bully an honest man just because Master Qian is kind?"
"Besides, your job was given to you by Aunt Qian. You took her job, got promoted, and then you kicked her out and divorced her?"
"Isn't that too ungrateful?"
"Hey, country boy..."
During this period, someone spoke up for Lin Xia, but was suppressed by Fu Xiumei and others and couldn't speak at all.
Lin Xia suddenly understood that Qian Lisheng acted like this on purpose, in fact... he wanted people to blame her.
She felt a little uncomfortable but more determined, and smiled, "Yes, so I gave the job back to him."
Tong Ailian also ran over. When she heard that Lin Xia was going to divorce Qian Lisheng, she thought she was crazy.
"Lin Xia, don't be confused. Such a good man is hard to find even with a lantern."
Lin Xia: "Well, whoever wants him can have him."
She finally understood that life is really like what the third sister said, like a fish drinking water, only it knows the cold and warm.
Others envy her, but they don't know her hardship.
Why can't she have children? Because he doesn't pay attention to hygiene, which causes her to have a serious gynecological disease.
But she couldn't blame him, because he said, "Other people are like this, what can a woman do to you?" Or he said, "That's because I love you so much and can't wait."
"Lin Xia, if you get divorced and have no job, where will you go?" Tong Ailian was anxious, she really cared about Lin Xia.
Lin Xia had never thought about it before, because she had never really thought about getting a divorce. It was today, and the trivial matters of the past few years finally accumulated to the top, and they came out of her heart, and she could no longer suppress them.
It was from the moment she realized that her mother-in-law had never regarded her as a family member, and realized that Qian Lisheng did not really regard her as a family member, that she was extremely disappointed from that moment on.
If she continued to be entangled with Qian Lisheng, then the days to come would be clear.
He was always in the cold war with her. She worked hard at work but had to go home to see his cold face. His mother also accused her of not serving her husband and being unvirtuous, and asked her for one-third of her salary.
Fortunately, she didn't have children. What if she had children?
Then she would be even more miserable.
This is a family matter, and what about the factory?
The neighbors wanted to see a joke. They would not blame Qian Lisheng for his drastic change of temperament. They would only ask what Lin Xia did to stimulate such a good man like Qian Lisheng like this?
It must be that Lin Xia did something wrong, otherwise the man would not be like this.
In their mouths, it is the woman's fault that the man has become bad.
The woman did not teach him, care about him, or stop him. The woman was not gentle, virtuous, or considerate of him.
It is the woman's fault that stimulated him to become bad.
Lin Xia was speechless, because no matter how she explained, others would think it was your fault and would not listen to your explanation.
They first convicted you and then sentenced you, how could they believe you were innocent?
Lin Xia had worked diligently in the factory in the past few years, and had been kind to her colleagues and neighbors, but at this moment she realized that sometimes it had nothing to do with what you did or who you were, but only with your identity.
You are a country boy, you robbed their daughter of a good opportunity to marry Qian Lisheng, you robbed them of a possible job opportunity, so you are guilty.
Now if you dare to dislike Qian Lisheng, they will dare to rush up and tear you apart.
Qian Lisheng hid behind these people and watched coldly, savoring the pleasure of revenge.
Lin Xia stepped back step by step. She wanted to go home. Her parents and third sister would not treat her like this.
"What are you doing? What are you doing!" Old Mrs. Jiang ran over nimbly, holding a bag of steamed buns, and said angrily, "Qian Lisheng, you are an old man, and you are lying on the ground pretending to be dead? Get up! You look so useless!"
Fu Xiumei protected Qian Lisheng, "Aunt Jiang, you don't know, just don't worry about it. Lin Xia abandoned Master Qian because of her promotion and wanted to divorce him."
Old Mrs. Jiang: "What's the matter? What's the matter? Put aside the old society, there was still divorce, and in the new society, people are not allowed to divorce? Get out of here, don't think that I, an old woman, am uneducated and don't know. You are forming gangs to bully people!"
Soon, the young men from Lin Xia's electrician team also came to support Lin Xia.
Fu Xiumei said aggressively: "If you give the job back to Master Qian, then you can't stay in our steel rolling mill."
Aunt Jiang: "The steel rolling mill is yours? Lin Xia, come live with me at my house!"
The young man in the electrician group with low EQ and aggressive words shouted: "Master Lin, don't be afraid of him, otherwise you marry me, I marry you, and you can still stay in the steel rolling mill."
He was just saying it in anger, but it angered Qian Lisheng.
You are so good, Lin Xia, you have a lot of good relationships with men!
This seemed to remind Aunt Jiang, and she looked at Lin Xia with shining eyes.
Oh, boy, you have a quick mind, you reminded me.
Lin Xia is such a good lady, she and Qian Lisheng are divorced, isn't it just right for her to be the daughter-in-law?
OK, OK.
She immediately pulled Lin Xia and said, "Girl, let's go to the aunt's house. The aunt has no daughters or wives, and she is lonely all the time. You go and keep her company."
Soon Jiang Weidong, the head of the women's department, and several workshop directors came over.