Chapter Twenty-Six: A Story

"This guy is a bastard. Originally, when she heard the first half, Zhang's mother wanted to interrupt, and she was sure that her son was insinuating. But unexpectedly, as soon as the second half came out, Zhang's mother believed that her son was talking about other people's affairs. Because she felt that her son, who was less than six years old, would not be able to make up such a logical plot as "affair", "forcing the palace", "signing" and "dividing property". So I couldn't help but scold when I heard this.

"Mom, don't interject, there's more to come!" Hearing his mother's comment, Zhang He suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, so he continued: "After that, the teacher didn't come to work at school again, and he has been living with his children at his parents' house. But she did not agree to the divorce, but kept spending it with her husband, until one day, his husband said that the new house was down, and he hired a nanny for her, and the teacher took the child back to the new home. ”

"This man has a bit of a conscience. Zhang's mother interrupted inadvertently.

"Mom, listen to me first. Zhang He said as he wanted to sit up.

"Okay, you say, mom won't interject. Mother Zhang pressed Zhang He's shoulder and said.

But when the teacher returned to her new home with the child, she found that her husband had already obtained the keys to the new house two months ago, and that she had been living here with the woman called the nanny for more than a month. If they hadn't been reported by their neighbors that they were living together illegally, it is estimated that her husband would not have suddenly called them back. ”

"Ahh

"Mom, don't interject again, let me finish. Zhang He coughed and reminded.

And the most unacceptable thing for this teacher is that since she went back that day, she has been washing dishes, cooking and doing housework, while the nanny is only responsible for accompanying her husband out to play cards every night. So, the teacher couldn't bear to question her husband, who was the nanny, but his husband didn't say a word, went up and gave her a mouth, and kicked her several times, if she hadn't been stopped by the nanny at that time, the teacher would have been beaten and couldn't stand up. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang He suddenly stopped and coughed his throat, he felt as if he was about to be unable to speak. Because these scenes that really happened in front of his eyes in his previous life were like sharp knives cutting his heart. He didn't seem ready to tell the story to his mother in such a way that he seemed to be watching the scene be introduced.

"Why don't you talk about it? Your throat hurts when you speak? Drink saliva. Zhang's mother saw that her son suddenly stopped coughing vigorously, so she got up and poured water for Zhang He.

"It's okay, Mom. You lie down, I'll tell you about it!" Zhang He leaned back into his mother's arms and said, "Not long afterward, her husband asked her to go back to live for two days, saying that he had blown away the nanny, so the teacher took the child back again. But unexpectedly, as soon as the mother and son entered the house, her husband pushed the teacher to the balcony of his house, took out a paper and pen from his pocket, and forced her to sign the divorce now. He threatened that if she didn't sign today, she would be pushed off the balcony on the 12th floor of his house. also threatened to tell the police that it was the teacher's old illness that relapsed and was tortured and chose to commit suicide by jumping off the building. No matter how the child in the locked room cried and screamed and slapped the glass, her husband pressed the teacher's neck as if he didn't hear it. ”

"Oh my God, who is this? It's horrible. Did the teacher sign it finally?"

Mother Zhang suddenly turned her head and asked.

With tears in his eyes, Zhang He turned his head to look at his mother's silhouette, and replied with distress in his heart: "I didn't sign it, and her husband didn't dare to really come." Instead, he went to court to sue for divorce. ”

"And what happened later?" Zhang Mu continued to ask.

Later, after another four years, the court finally granted them a divorce. The child is raised by the teacher, and the man pays 30 yuan a month until the child is 18 years old. For a two-bedroom house, the big house was awarded to the teacher and the cottage to her husband. ”

"It's been four years since this lawsuit? Also, if this was sentenced at the time, it is estimated that 30 yuan would not be given!" Zhang's mother seemed to feel that 30 yuan a month seemed to be a lot.

But this can't be blamed on Zhang's mother. It was 1985, and according to the data given by the Bureau of Statistics, the per capita annual disposable income of urban households in Beijing was only 900, with an average of less than 80 a month. However, what Zhang He is talking about is after 1990, from the time he was 10 years old to his 18th birthday, his figure rose from 170 per month to 450 per month, nearly tripling in eight years. Not to mention that people like Zhang He's father, who just caught up with the most glorious eighties and nineties of the Capital Iron and Steel Plant, had a monthly income of twice as many employees as the employees of other enterprises. Although Zhang's mother also works in the Capital Iron and Steel Plant, after the operation, she first suffered labor insurance, and then she could only work as a cleaner, so her monthly income was pitiful. This is also an important reason why Zhang's mother had to choose to take Zhang He to live with her parents after surgery and divorce.

At this time, after listening to his mother's words, Zhang He had no choice but to continue to preach: "Although the big house was awarded to the teacher, the house is in Shijingshan, too far away from our school, and the teacher can't live there at all, so the house is still enjoyed by his ex-husband." But who would have thought that because of this, the man would secretly change the house. ”

"Ah, how did he change, where did he change?"

"Change to a model mouth that is farther away than Shijingshan and is located at the foot of the Eight Great Places. ”

"Didn't your teacher lock the door?" asked Zhang's mother.

"Otherwise, the teacher is kind, she didn't lock the house because of the divorce. But then again, does it work?"

"Is the room bigger than the other side?" Zhang's mother continued to ask.

"It's much smaller than before, the teacher's house has changed from 15 square meters to 8 square meters, and her husband's original 8 square meter cottage is a little bigger than the original, about 10 square meters. ”

"Isn't this sick? Why change it?" Zhang's mother was puzzled.

Feeling that the court's judgment was unfair, the appeal intermediate court rejected it again. Gambling. ”

"Then what can you do as a teacher?" asked Zhang's mother.

"I heard that I asked a lawyer, but it seems that it costs a lot of money to fight this kind of lawsuit, but the teacher didn't have it, and my mother's family didn't want to come out. Zhang He explained and suddenly realized: "Oh, no! Back then, I just had to ask the court to decide that the transaction was invalid." How much does it cost? It doesn't have to be charged according to the value of the subject matter of the lawsuit. How did my aunt and my mother get it back then?" Zhang He, who had a blank mind about what the adults came forward to do, couldn't help but have doubts in his heart.

"Then how did you solve it?" Zhang Mu continued.

Later, after mediation by the unit, the two were separated. The two-bedroom house was given to her ex-husband, and the teacher was transferred to a bungalow in the city of only 9 square meters. (The old Beijing Guanerhuanli was called Chengli, that is, the place enclosed by the former Beijing city wall.) )

"Ah, why is this so, so unfair?" said Zhang's mother.

"Who let that man be a small leader in the unit, and the new daughter-in-law is the director. ”

"New daughter-in-law?" Zhang's mother wondered.

On the 10th day after the teacher got the divorce decree, the teacher learned from her ex-husband's colleague that her ex-husband had obtained a marriage certificate with another woman. ”

"Ah, is there anyone out there?" Zhang Mu exclaimed.

"This man has been married four times in 20 years. Zhang He replied.

"Four marriages?in the past twenty years?How old is this man?Your teacher is not too young, right?"

"The teacher had already died of illness when she was forty years old. Zhang He suddenly choked up, so he coughed his throat again, but the tears in his eyes didn't want to listen to him anymore, and he ran out by himself.

But Zhang's mother was unaware of this, so she sighed again: "Oh, the life of this teacher in your school is really hard!"

Zhang He moved his body upward, leaned his head on the bed and said, "There are even more things that make people itch their teeth when they hear it!"

"What's going on in the future, aren't all the teachers dead?" asked Zhang's mother.

Zhang He let out a long breath and coughed his throat again before saying, "On the day of the teacher's funeral, her ex-husband suddenly came. But he didn't come to see the teacher off for the last time, but to take care of him and his teacher's only child, who was only fifteen years old at the time, and to ask for a sum of money that the teacher owed him during his lifetime. ”

"Ahh

"It was the year before the teacher's death, just in time for the unit to call on employees to buy a house. Her mother's family was reluctant to lend her money, so she asked her ex-husband to borrow 2,300 yuan. Zhang He said weakly.

"Buying a house? I've only heard of a house division, but I haven't heard of anyone buying a house? Beibei, are you talking nonsense? Or did you hear it wrong?" Zhang's mother, who naturally couldn't predict the future, began to doubt the authenticity of the story her son told after hearing these words that made her feel very unfamiliar.

"Listen to me first!" Zhang He coughed his throat again, as if he was trying his best to make the last of his efforts, and said: "A fifteen-year-old child, and he hasn't gone to work, how can he get the money to pay off his debts? Moreover, the teacher not only owes him money to his ex-husband, but also has borrowed money from four colleagues, which adds up to more than 10,000 yuan." Therefore, his children can only ask his grandmother's family for help, but no one in his grandmother's family is willing to pay this money, even if the child says that he will make an IOU and promise to pay it back when he grows up and goes to work, this will not work. was forced by the teacher's sisters to go to school behind their backs to fight and quit the house. With the returned money, they paid off the teacher's foreign debts, and by the way, they also reimbursed themselves for the expenses incurred when they bought a birthday coat for the teacher. In the end, with the rest of the money, he bought a cemetery for the teacher. ”

"Beibei, are you telling the truth? Why does my mother get more and more confused the more I listen to it! Is it that your teacher is talking about the story in some book that you heard?" Zhang's mother, who had never associated the story Zhang He told with herself, was a little disapprehensive when she heard this.

As soon as Zhang He heard his mother's tone, he knew that tonight was all in vain, so he didn't have the heart to say any more, so he only said, "Maybe! Mom, I'm sleepy." Then he slipped out and slipped back to the bed.