Chapter 17: The Taste of Home

Lei Zhensheng hasn't eaten noodles made by Chen Baozhu for a long time. Since separating from Chen Baozhu, Lei Zhensheng usually drinks and socializes outside, and occasionally returns to the villa, and Aunt Liu cooks the food, and Aunt Liu and Li Lina are both from Sichuan, and the food she cooks is almost according to Li Lina's taste, which is more spicy. And the spicy taste is not suitable for Lei Zhensheng's sweet habits, but Lei Zhensheng is not as particular about this kind of food as Li Jianping, he eats whatever he wants.

Facing the bowl of noodles on the table, Lei Zhensheng was inexplicably happy, he didn't say anything, picked up the chopsticks, picked up a mouthful of noodles, and took a hard sip, it was still the familiar taste - the taste of home. He picked up the bowl again, took a sip of the soup, and it tasted great.

His wife Chen Baozhu accompanied Lei Zhensheng to eat with him and didn't say a word, which made Lei Zhensheng feel both novel and unexpected. He slowly remembered the former Chen Baozhu, Chen Baozhu is a university teacher, in the eyes of outsiders, she is mature and stable in doing things, but no one knows, Chen Baozhu in family life is also like ordinary women in the family, will tell him some firewood, rice, oil, salt, and short things in the family when Lei Zhensheng is very tired, which once made Lei Zhensheng very disgusted, and even they quarreled about it.

Of course, Chen Baozhu also knows that men don't like women to be verbose, but she doesn't think that her behavior is a manifestation of verboseness. In her concept of love, she hopes to be able to say something in front of her husband that she is unwilling to say in front of others, precisely because she cares about him and regards him as a close relative.

Just imagine, in her work, as a party member and cadre, she usually has to say all kinds of clichés and scenes, and she has to do a good job of communicating with the top and guiding the bottom, which is already very hard. If she goes home and has to pretend and hold with her husband, and can't relax herself, what a painful thing it will be! So she wants to show her truest self in front of the person she loves the most, and she likes this state of broken thoughts, which is Chen Baozhu's inner family concept - home is a place to talk freely.

And how did Chen Baozhu know that she thought that the meaning of home and the embodiment of the love of husband and wife were boring housewife behavior in Lei Zhensheng's eyes, not the state she should have as a leading cadre, she was verbose! However, as long as she still loves this man one day, she hopes to express her love to him wholeheartedly in her own way, so she has never been able to change the habit of breaking her thoughts in front of him. But Chen Baozhu at the dinner table today didn't say a word, eating noodles quietly, this is not that she has changed her personality, nor is it that her family values have changed, but that she no longer loves the man in front of her, at least she no longer loves deeply.

But on the contrary, such Chen Baozhu gave Lei Zhensheng a refreshing feeling, because in his increasingly self-aggrandizing world, he needed someone who was honest and obedient, admired him, and looked up to him. In fact, he deeply engraved in his bones the idea of male superiority and inferiority of women, and he hoped that his wife would be an intellectual, intellectually decent, beautiful and generous; at the same time, he also hoped that she would be like a rural woman, who needed to be dependent on a man and obey the man's arrangement in everything, but could not have the kind of verbose and chatter of a rural woman. He is such a double standard! The way Chen Baozhu eats quietly like this in his opinion, it is a sign of meekness, and it is the state he wants his wife to have.

He looked up, and just when he wanted to say something, he suddenly found that Chen Baozhu's temperament had changed, but his appearance also seemed to have changed. In the past, she was only wearing loungewear at home, but today, when she inadvertently broke in, she actually wore a dress made of thread clothing that showed off her figure, as if she was going to go to an appointment to dress up. And Chen Baozhu before, even when she went to work, she only wore pants, because she thought that people who were engaged in administration should give people a solemn and serious state.

Chen Baozhu is now not only dressed differently, but also his hairstyle has changed, his hair is permed and dyed dark burgundy, and his medium-length hair is scattered over his shoulders. Maybe he hasn't focused on Chen Baozhu for a long time, Lei Zhensheng feels that today's Chen Baozhu looks very temperamental, this temperament is different from Li Lina's young and lovely beauty, but the kind of beauty that spontaneously spreads out after the connotation of time precipitation.

Lei Zhensheng thought like this, and the atmosphere in the living room suddenly became subtle. Today's meal, from beginning to end, everyone didn't say a word, but Lei Zhensheng ate very satisfied, he not only ate the familiar meal, but also ate a down-to-earth, a steadfastness that even he didn't have in the villa. His blatantness on the surface in the villa is actually hidden in his inner uneasiness. However, his steadfastness is a self-consolation he gave himself! Because at least in Chen Baozhu's opinion, this meal was not a dinner between husband and wife, but a charity for a friend she hadn't seen for a long time or even a homeless man, and she didn't bother to say anything more to the man in front of her.

After the meal, Chen Baozhu packed up the dishes and chopsticks and went into the kitchen again, still not saying a word. Lei Zhensheng was immersed in the "feeling of going home", and after dinner, he returned to the living room to watch TV leisurely, but he didn't bother to watch TV, but observed Chen Baozhu's movements. In fact, he has always wanted to share with Chen Baozhu what happened in the past two days, and wanted to tell her why he suddenly appeared at home today, but Chen Baozhu has been busy going in and out, and there seems to be no leisure. Seeing Chen Baozhu take out the peeled fruit from the kitchen and put it on the coffee table, and when he was about to leave again, Lei Zhensheng finally couldn't bear it, patted the seat next to him and said to Chen Baozhu: "Baozhu, don't be busy, come, sit down and rest!"

Chen Baozhu glanced at Lei Zhensheng, and a trace of anger could still be seen in his eyes, after all, Lei Zhensheng was raising a junior so unscrupulously outside, and he couldn't stay at home for a whole month, and now when he came back and said a few good words, he delusionally thought that nothing had happened to Chen Baozhu, that was impossible! Chen Baozhu didn't pay attention to his accosting.

Lei Zhensheng is a rare good temper, seeing that Chen Baozhu ignored him, he actually took the initiative to stand up and pull Chen Baozhu on the sofa to sit down, and looked at Chen Baozhu with gentle eyes, and said with a smile: "Rest down! Baozhu, you see that we haven't seen each other for 1.2 months, sit down and have a good conversation!"

Lei Zhensheng has not seen Chen Baozhu for many years with such a pleasant face towards him, so far away that Chen Baozhu can't remember what the gentle and elegant Lei Zhensheng was like before? Chen Baozhu, as a woman and a wife, faced the man and this husband in front of her, and her heart will inevitably fluctuate a little at this moment.

The heart full of resentment just now was shaken, and she wondered, did Lei Zhensheng come back now because he had completely broken off with his little lover? Or did he come home after a temporary quarrel with his little lover? Or did he just come back to see this home suddenly?