Section XXIV

Just as I was thinking about it, the doorbell rang and the takeaway arrived. He Sicheng put the takeaway on the table, poured a glass of red wine, and began to eat, enjoying the freedom to eat meat, eating very carefully and with special feelings. Ten days ago, He Sicheng never thought that eating meat also needs freedom, some things are always lost and you will feel precious, just like people usually never pay attention to their body, you will not think about your stomach, your eyes, your hands, your feet for no reason, until one day you remember a certain part of your body, it must be something wrong with this part. People are always very restless when life is easy, but when suffering comes, they only think about one thing: how to live!

After a while, He Sicheng felt that he had eaten enough, he hadn't drunk for many days, and a glass of wine had made him feel slightly drunk. He sat and thought about it, and decided to go around the community, always to appear in this circle of his life. With that decision made, he got up and began to tidy up the dining table and room. After sorting out three bags full of garbage, he was ready to resume his activities in the community by taking out the garbage. In order to strengthen his courage, he poured another half glass of red wine and drank it in one gulp, picked up the garbage and walked out the door.

When I got out of the house, the community was already very lively, and everyone started various activities in the community after dinner. There are people who lead children to ride bicycles, there are husbands and wives who are walking, there are old people sitting around chatting, and there are children jumping on the basketball court, the usual commonplace scene is very warm in He Sicheng's eyes at the moment, and he is very glad that he has returned to human society.

Not far from the garbage station, I met a few acquaintances on the way, they greeted He Sicheng, He Sicheng responded enthusiastically, and took the initiative to say: "I went on a business trip, just came back." Everything looks normal, but He Sicheng always feels that there is a little ridicule and a little contempt in the eyes of others, this is the mentality of being a thief!

But He Sicheng is brave, he is thinking that no matter who he is, whether he knows his own business or not, he has to be himself again, you despise me, pay attention to me, your own way can only be walked by yourself, it is better to live in other people's ideas than to live in your own practices, from now on not greedy, not hateful, not stupid, be a good person! Thinking of this, he decided to take a walk in the community again, Wang Jianguo is right, some things let go of yourself, others will let go of you!

When night fell, He Sicheng returned home, his wife had not returned, he wanted to call and ask, but he was afraid of being scolded, so he had to give up. The parents-in-law will go over in person tomorrow, I haven't seen Coco for ten days, He Sicheng misses his daughter very much, whether it is a knife mountain or a sea of fire, he has to break through! He sat on the sofa and turned on the TV, and changed the channel frequently in a distraught manner, hoping that his wife would return soon.

At half past nine, Finally, the door rang, and his wife Zhao Jiayi walked in. She was wearing a navy blue dark checkered suit and a white shirt, and she looked tired and haggard, tired of her body and haggard of her heart. Zhao Jiayi closed the door and looked at He Sicheng quietly without speaking. He Sicheng hurriedly stood up, feeling distressed and frightened, and asked weakly: "Wife, are you back?" Zhao Jia put the door key and car key on the shoe cabinet and replied: "Well, today the bank has a half-year work meeting, and the bank arranges meals after the meeting, and I am not allowed to ask for leave, so I didn't come back to accompany you." I went to see Coco after dinner and I told her you came back from a business trip but you won't be able to see her tomorrow. She was happy and said she hadn't seen you in a long time. It was Wang Jianguo and Ma Xuejun who went to pick you up, didn't you eat together?" "Yes, they wanted to invite me to dinner, but I refused, and I went home and ordered takeout." "Just eat it, turn around and I'll take a look." He Sicheng opened his arms and slowly turned around in front of his wife. "You've lost weight, haven't you been beaten?" "No, not really." "Okay, I'm tired, I'll go take a shower, you can watch TV." "Okay, okay, you go take a shower. He Sicheng looked at his wife with a smile, but his heart was like a child who had lost his beloved toy. At this moment, he hoped that his wife would scold him, curse him, beat him, and bite him, but his wife was so calm that ten days of longing were exchanged for polite, friendly, and polite dialogues? Could it be that he had really become the most familiar stranger? He knew that he had hurt his wife too much this time!

Zhao Jiayi washed for a long time, He Sicheng waited for a long time, and everyone was not calm in their hearts. Finally Zhao Jiayi came out, she sat on the sofa with her wet hair and still didn't say a word. He Sicheng was thinking about how to talk to his wife, his phone rang, the phone rang to break the embarrassment, he picked up the phone and saw that it was his mother-in-law's number, his heart tightened, but after connecting, it was his daughter Coco's voice: "Dad, are you back from a business trip? I miss you." "Yes, girl, Dad is back, I'm too tired today, Dad will come to see you tomorrow, the exam is coming soon, you have to hurry up and review, and you have to rest, Dad and Mom are waiting for your good news!" "Yes, you just wait for my good news, remember to come to see me tomorrow." "Definitely, you'll see me tomorrow after school, why don't you talk to your mother?" "Don't talk about it, your mother just left from me, and you should rest early." Bye. "Okay, bye-bye!"

Hanging up the phone, and being silent again, He Sicheng said to his wife: "Wife, I'm sorry for you, I may have tortured you enough in the past few days." "I'm too tired today, let's talk about it tomorrow! Your spirit is not good, let's get a good night's sleep first, I just want to tell you that you have said sorry to me too many times, but please remember: not every word of sorry can be exchanged for nothing! If I could not tell you earlier, it doesn't matter, maybe things will not come to this day." After saying that, his wife leaned back on the sofa and closed her eyes tiredly.

He Sicheng's home has three bedrooms and two living rooms, one kitchen and two bathrooms, and his daughter Coco, Zhao Jiayi and him usually live in a bedroom. I can't remember when it started, I can't remember what the reason was, He Sicheng and his wife slept in separate rooms, maybe because He Sicheng often returned late, maybe because He Sicheng snored, but the reason is not important, the important thing is that He Sicheng and his wife have been sleeping in separate rooms for a long time! The couple slept in separate rooms not because of emotional reasons, and they also thought that sleeping in separate rooms would not make their relationship bad, until later, the couple found out: they were both wrong.

Marriage is a whole game of chickens and rabbits in the same cage, well water and river water, two people with different living habits to live together, day and night, is originally a difficult stunt show. What's more, in the adult world, there has never been the word "easy", Zhao Jiayi has Zhao Jiayi's troubles, He Sicheng has no easy way to think about it, if they communicate more, the world may become relatively simple. It's not that it's good to share a bed, but the two of them can have more physical contact, more verbal communication, they can share their worries and sorrows, they can share joy, maybe a glass of water handed in the middle of the night, maybe covering each other in the cold winter will be better than ten thousand roses! Another reality is that couples who sleep in separate rooms* usually decrease. Marriages less than once a month*, be careful, a man can't go a month without ejaculation, it's physiology, and without *, it's impossible to be a husband and wife all the time, it's psychology.

Then there was silence, except for each other's heartbeats, there was no sound, He Sicheng sadly discovered: the silence of two people is more terrible than the loneliness of one person!