Chapter 9: The Death of Children
Zhang Xiaoxiao watched Huang Zixuan get out of the car, rolled down the window and said to him: "Mr. Huang, I'll buy you dinner, what do you want to eat?"
"No need, you can go back early!" Huang Zixuan finished expressionlessly, turned around and went upstairs.
Today is Friday, according to the past practice, Zhang Xiaoxiao has already happily gone to pick up her son back, but the unpleasant thing last time has always made her feel like a fish in her throat, it doesn't matter how hard she pays, the important thing is that she can't be understood and grateful. She didn't want to pick it up today, if her son needed him, she would open her arms, if she was really as disgusted as Feng Sen said, then there was no need to always be the villain herself.
Since you don't go to pick up your children, there's no need to go home early. Zhang Xiaoxiao is actually a careful person, Lei Yu is not here today, she is a little worried about whether Huang Zixuan can eat dinner normally. Of course, this concern is not really concerned, she just wants to see the time and give the leader a surprise fart.
Seeing Zhang Xiaoxiao coming in with dinner, Huang Zixuan was silent on the surface, but she was a little surprised in her heart, except when she was drunk, as long as it was something he refused, she would not insist. Besides, she doesn't want to leave work early and insists on working overtime, which is not her usual style.
Zhang Xiaoxiao put down the meal and said softly: "You eat first, I'll go out and take a look at the process reported below, and I'll leave after reading." Call me after you finish eating, and I'll clean it up. ”
Zhang Xiaoxiao looked at the computer numbly, her heart was like a knife, it was almost seven o'clock now, she didn't pick up her son, and she didn't see anyone calling over there to ask, and she felt lost and sad. When she was at that home, she was her son's mother who couldn't leave her all night, and now three months have passed, and her son is not as inseparable from herself as she imagined, and after leaving his wife mentioned in the novel, the situation where her husband woke up did not appear. She originally wanted to use divorce to put her marriage to death, but it turned out to make her see that she was a complete failure. Zhang Xiaoxiao burst into tears, and in order to prevent herself from crying, she bit her lip tightly.
Huang Zixuan suddenly pushed the door out, standing at the door and was about to speak, Leng Buding saw her tearful but trying to tense up, he was at a loss, and after staying for a few seconds, he turned around and entered his office. After closing the door, Huang Zixuan paced in place, originally wanting to tell Zhang Xiaoxiao that he had finished eating, so that she could pack up and go back early. Now I understand that she has nothing to do, and there is a reason for her to be diligent. After thinking about it, I sent a message to Zhang Xiaoxiao: Come in and make a meeting minutes.
Two minutes later, Zhang Xiaoxiao came in and sat down with a smile. Huang Zixuan squinted his eyes and secretly looked at her, his eyes were red, but the tears had been wiped away, as if nothing had happened, and he waited intently for the video conference to start.
"Are you sure you don't have to go back sooner?"
"No, the child has something to do today, so I don't need to pick it up. ”
Huang Zixuan estimated that Zhang Xiaoxiao didn't find out that he had found out that she was crying, if she was really in a bad mood, it was better to do something and save herself from going back to thinking nonsense.
"Well, thank you. ”
in the elevator.
"On Monday, I sorted out the minutes of the meeting and sent them to each project for study. ”
"Good!"
"I'm going to have a supper, right?
"You're welcome, Mr. Huang, you go back early to rest, it's already past nine o'clock. ”
Silent. Huang Zixuan never knew what a warm invitation was, but the idea he finally came up with tonight couldn't just be miscarried so quickly, according to what he knew about her, she would refuse to care, but she would not refuse to care about others.
"I'm in a bad mood today, you can go have a drink with me!"
Sure enough, she seemed to have met the prey she was interested in, and her spirits were lifted.
"Okay, Mr. Huang, where are you going to eat?"
"You pick the one you like. ”
"Hehe, why listen to me, you may not be able to see where I go. ”
Huang Zixuan drove Zhang Xiaoxiao around for a long time, and he didn't know where to go, he hadn't eaten supper outside in Huaiqing, and he was occasionally hungry, and there were ingredients prepared by thunderstorms in the refrigerator, so he cooked a little by himself, but with his relationship with Zhang Xiaoxiao, it was really inappropriate to invite her home to eat.
"Well, let's go there, it's a good place to park, and after drinking, the two of us can walk home, not far from both of us. Zhang Xiaoxiao pointed to the roadside food stall not far away and said excitedly.
Huang Zixuan couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth: It's nothing unusual to eat roadside stalls, but what did she just say, she will finish drinking later?
Originally, the two of them felt quite embarrassed together, and they didn't know how to open the chatterbox, so they had to keep swiping their mobile phones. After the barbecue was served, looking at the barbecue on the table, Zhang Xiaoxiao was elated, and ate a lot in one go, of course, he didn't drink less wine. When the wine was slightly drunk, Zhang Xiaoxiao began to talk endlessly.
"To be honest, I'm hungry for the smell of barbecue, but I can't eat much, I'm afraid of getting fat. ”
"I don't usually eat these, it's too greasy, but I think this one tastes okay, and it's okay to eat it once in a while. ”
"Do you know how fat I was when I was the fattest, one hundred and fourteen, and the flesh on that cheek was so much that it was about to fall off!"
"140?" Huang Zixuan looked at her with interest: "Isn't that the second senior brother?"
Zhang Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes: "Don't you have something unhappy, say it and make me happy!"
Huang Zixuan looked at her with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth. He was not good at confiding, so he struggled to even make up a similar lie, and drank beer after sip and still didn't know how to answer. After a long time, he held back a sentence: "Why don't you throw bricks and lead the jade?"
Zhang Xiaoxiao pursed her lips and glared at him: "I also said, what troubles do rich people have?"
"If you have money, you won't have troubles, right?"
"I don't know, anyway, my trouble right now is that I don't have money. If I have money, I can buy a house, hire a nanny to take care of the children, go to work if I want to, and don't go if I don't want to. When I have money, those who look down on me will also be impressed by me. If you have money, you can at least solve a lot of troubles caused by not having money. ”
Huang Zixuan quickly grasped the topic and cut in: "With your current income, can't you afford to hire a nanny to take care of the child?" Zhang Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "The child will go to primary school in more than a year, and if you follow me, I will buy a house in the school district, with my current income, I have to save money for two years before I can buy a house." Huang Zixuan was puzzled: "The nanny doesn't have much money, and the nanny fee for a year is borrowed." ”
Zhang Xiaoxiao lowered her head and her eyes were red. After a long time, he said helplessly: "That's right, it's all excuses, divorce is an excuse, and not being able to take care of children is also an excuse, I want to get rid of a one-man marriage, everyone thinks I'm very good, my parents think I'm a daughter, I can't be trusted, and I don't want to take care of my children." ”
Pulling out a piece of tissue paper, she wiped her nose fiercely, and then said, "I left the house and voluntarily gave up custody of the child. Actually, I don't really want to divorce, but I want to be separated for a while, calm down with each other, we can both examine our own rights and wrongs in the marriage, and then manage the marriage better. Speaking of this, she sobbed and laughed: "Who knows, my husband..... My ex-husband pretended to struggle for a while, and then gave up on the marriage, as if he felt relieved, no, he was right in the middle. ”
Huang Zixuan sighed: "Have you considered the child's feelings?" Zhang Xiaoxiao became excited: "He never participates in the child's upbringing and education, I thought that if I left, you would be left alone, you have to take care of it, but he still didn't ask, and left the child to his grandparents, and now the child has changed from a single-parent family to a left-behind child." Some men don't know which is more important, work is very important, but work is to better support the family, you don't care about the children, why do you earn money?"
"Then you have to take care of it as a mother, you can't just ignore it because he doesn't care. ”
"You're right, you heard that call last time, I was supposed to pick up the child tonight, but I just held my breath and didn't go, I wanted to fight for a breath. However, I feel unspeakably uncomfortable now. I'm going to hurry up and earn money, fight for custody of the child, and then never get along with that family. As she spoke, Zhang Xiaoxiao couldn't cry anymore, but she smiled stubbornly while crying.
Huang Zixuan wanted to comfort her, but he didn't know where to speak, so he was silent for a long time before he said slowly: "I have a friend who divorced and left home when he was young. He was too young to know where his mother was going, why she was leaving, and no one would seriously explain it to him, he missed his mother very much. The first time his mother came home to see him, he was very happy, but he was also very angry, because the interval was too long, and the pain of separation and longing was too heavy for him to bear, so he lost his temper with his mother, saying that he didn't want to see her, and his mother left crying, and never came back to see him. ”
Zhang Xiaoxiao sighed, "Then does he hate his mother?"
"Of course, hate. He thought about why he couldn't come over to see him when his grandfather's house was so close. It wasn't until he was older that he learned that his mother had emigrated shortly after the divorce. ”
"Didn't you ever ask your father about your mother?"
No, he felt guilty, he felt that he had lost his temper with his mother, and his mother left when she was angry. He regretted it, missed it, was angry, was sad, so, he was silent. ”
"Then have you ever wanted to go abroad to see your mother?"
"I don't know, hey, it's not me, it's my friend!" Huang Zixuan argued anxiously, his fair face slightly red from the strength of the wine. Zhang Xiaoxiao laughed: "Don't be embarrassed, what friends can you have with your character, right?" Huang Zixuan looked at her embarrassedly, and then took the cup and drank to himself. Zhang Xiaoxiao dragged his wine glass.
"Don't drink it, drink more. I was joking with you just now, but I guessed when I saw that your eyes were red. ”
I was so emotional, I don't know if I drank too much wine, Zhang Xiaoxiao's tears fell involuntarily: "Thank you, Mr. Huang, I understand now, no matter what my son does to me, I am also a mother with a clear conscience, and I will pick him up tomorrow." ”
Not long after returning home, Huang Zixuan received a text message from Zhang Xiaoxiao, "For your mother, the reason why you have been haunted for so many years is not hate, it is love, love is deep, and hate is deep to the bone." Your mother has been derelict in her duties, but you have never understood her suffering, so why not take a step forward and get to know her, not only to reconcile with her, but also to give yourself a chance to reconcile with the past. ”
Huang Zixuan was a little touched in his heart, he understood such a simple truth, but no one had ever told him like this, perhaps, with one more encouragement, he could have less pain over the years. After all, for so many years, he has been smooth sailing, worry-free about food and clothing, but the lack of maternal love has eclipsed his otherwise perfect life. Strange to say, more than 20 years later, God is finally willing to point out his confusion, but he actually chooses to use this way: with a similar plot happened to him, more than 20 years ago, he was the son of the plot, and now, he is the person next to the mother in the plot. When the scene changed and the roles changed, he finally had an epiphany. Thinking about it like this, he was much closer to Zhang Xiaoxiao in his heart.
Zhang Xiaoxiao is not a person who likes to do things, but after drinking a few more glasses of wine, when the mood arrives, he remembers to send a sensational text message to the leader. After taking a shower, the alcohol subsided a little, and then I touched my phone and saw the message, and I couldn't help muttering in my heart that I was really too contrived. However, it is still necessary to send this information, and if you have more peace with the leader, you may be impressed by yourself. If you usually can't pull this face, now, the wine will also help.