Yes, Lao Xiang only had time to recall that he didn't know how long it had been since he had a serious meal at home, watched TV with his children, and went shopping with his wife. In these years, he has dedicated all his time to "business", but he has no emotional contribution to his family except for constantly giving money.

He felt a little guilty, but in his heart he always felt that this guilt had come too late.

……

That night, Lao Xiang led his daughter-in-law Xiaofeng to a charcoal hot pot restaurant with Northeast characteristics, and then picked a window position and sat down.

Ten minutes later, the spicy soup in the copper pot was boiling, and the table was full of beef and mutton, green vegetables, shutters, luncheon meat and other shabu-shabu, and Lao Xiang rubbed his palms, smiled and picked up the wine pot and said to Xiaofeng: "Drink some!"

"I won't drink anymore!" Xiao Feng waved his hand with no expression on his face.

"Drink some, hehe!" After Lao Xiang persuaded him, he reached out and poured a whole glass of liquor for Xiaofeng.

Xiaofeng sat opposite Lao Xiang, as if he had a premonition, so the whole person was very tense, and he didn't dare to look at Lao Xiang from beginning to end.

"Come, take a sip!" Lao Xiang looked at Xiaofeng and raised his wine glass.

Xiao Feng pursed his lips and was silent for a long time, before he let out a long breath, revealing a calm expression and clashing glasses with Lao Xiang, and actually raised his neck and drank most of the glass of liquor directly.

"Why are you in such a hurry?" asked Lao Xiang after being stunned for a moment.

"Both of our children are in middle school, don't I know you yet?, if you have something, just tell me!" Xiao Feng's face was slightly ruddy, and he looked up at Lao Xiang and responded.

Lao Xiang looked at Xiaofeng and lit a cigarette, and asked with a smile on his face, "What do you think I'm going to tell you?"

“…… If you don't tell me, I want to tell you. After Xiaofeng gasped, he tilted his head and looked at Lao Xiang and said, "The day you had an accident, I told you that if you leave, our home will be scattered." But then you got hurt, and I didn't mention it to you!"

"Divorce?" asked Lao Xiang softly after being silent for a long time.

"Yes, divorce, but that's it!" Xiao Feng forced himself to respond without any expression on his face.

"Hehe, for that man?" asked Lao Xiang with a ruddy smile.

Xiaofeng was stunned when she heard this.

"I saw it, you two were talking in the hallway that day, and I was about to go to the bathroom. Lao Xiang was calm at the moment, but the cigarette ash on his fingers had already fallen into the spice bowl, and he didn't even notice it.

Xiao Feng pursed her lips and did not reply.

"Before I saw you two, I always thought you were hurt by what I did. But now it seems that this is not the reason, right?" asked Lao Xiang again.

Xiaofeng looked at him, still silent.

"Alas!" Lao Xiang sighed, turned his head to look out the window, and said in a trembling voice: "The matter has come to this point, and it is not interesting for me to get to the bottom of it! Xiaofeng, I have never been disgusted by myself in my life, so I will ask you a childish word." We've been married for so many years, have you ever betrayed me?"

"Hehe!" Xiao Feng laughed when he heard this.

Lao Xiang looked at him with a stubborn gaze.

"What you want to ask is, I haven't slept with him, right?" Xiao Feng looked at Lao Xiang, and his words were very direct.

"Yes!" Lao Xiang nodded through gritted teeth.

"Then let me ask you first, have you ever found another woman outside all these years, and have you slept with any other woman?"

After the words fell, Lao Xiang bowed his head and was silent for nearly half a minute, before he suddenly raised his head and confessed truthfully: "I have found it, and I have slept with it!"

"But I didn't. We have been married for so many years, and I have never betrayed you in anything except for fulfilling my obligations as a woman!" Xiao Feng said categorically to Lao Xiang: "But I have to admit that I don't know where to start, I don't love you anymore......!"

After Lao Xiang heard this, although he believed that Xiaofeng said that she had not betrayed herself, he didn't know why, and his heart felt more painful and panicked.

"I'm going to go with him, and I'm going to divorce you!" Xiao Feng raised his glass of wine again, pursed his lips and said firmly: "But I did this, not because you are not good and now you have no money, but the moment you walked out of the house, I decided like this." I'm dead, it's as simple as that. ”

"Okay, agree to the divorce!" Lao Xiang nodded heavily and said, "But there is one condition!"

"You say!"

"Nannan must be raised by me, if you want to leave, don't come back, never appear, just follow the person you love and start living again!"

Xiaofeng sat on the chair, listened to Lao Xiang's words, and fell silent again, because the only thing in this family that can make her miss, or be nostalgic, may be only Xiangnan.

After Lao Xiang put forward the conditions, he has been breathing a sigh of relief in his heart, because he knows better than anyone that he is not ruthless, but making the last retention. He hopes to use the child to keep Xiaofeng and make the other party change his mind.

“…… Okay, Lao Xiang, I agree, the child can be raised by you!" Xiaofeng said with tears in her eyes, her lips trembling: "But I want a deposit of 150,000 yuan, and I want to divide the family!"

At this moment, after Lao Xiang heard Xiaofeng's words, he was extremely shocked in his heart, and even couldn't believe it at all, Xiaofeng, who had been giving everything to the family, not only decided to give up the custody of the child, but also took the initiative to open his mouth to split up the family and ask for money.

"Do you think I've changed?" Xiaofeng asked Lao Xiang with a smile after pouring himself a glass of wine.

"......!" Lao Xiang bowed his head and was silent, not saying a word.

I have given the first half of my life, the first half of my life, the best years of a woman, to you two, to the firewood, rice, oil and salt at home, and to every night when I was worried about your accident, so I don't owe anyone anything! I only owe myself fucking anything. I didn't realize it before, but now I realize that I want to make amends, and I want to live for myself for the rest of my life. Xiaofeng roared excitedly and said to Lao Xiang: "Xiao Nan is your child, I raised him to adulthood, I see that he is about to become an adult, and in the days to come, it is time for you to fulfill your responsibilities as a father! We have been married for nearly 17 years, and I will care about you 150,000 yuan, which is not much, less than 10,000 yuan a year...... I can't help it, I can't do anything but do housework, cooking, helping my children with their homework, I don't have a job, I don't get social recognition......! You want a guarantee!"

"Don't say it, Xiaofeng! I'll give you the money, and I'll raise the child!" Lao Xiang gritted his teeth, patted the table and said, "Go through the formalities tomorrow, let's get together and disperse!"

……

In the ancestral house on Railway Street, Xiang Nan sat on the bed alone, playing a game console, looked up at the clock on the wall and muttered: "What time is it, why haven't these two people come back, are they going to starve me to death?"