Night 74: Steamed shrimp dumplings

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"Click-"

The blinding light lit up, and the man standing in the room closed his eyes uncomfortably.

Reaching out and rubbing his aching temples, the man exhaled slowly.

He was really tired, and inexplicably felt that his parents were too unreasonable.

Come on, he's content to have a child.

"Daddy......"

The man who heard the voice turned around and saw his five-year-old daughter, who was still in kindergarten.

She was wearing a cotton pajama with cat ears and prints, and light pink cat ear slippers on her feet, and the whole person looked soft like cotton candy.

The man tried to relax his frowning brow and softened his face, expecting that this would make him look more relaxed and gentle, "Xixi, did Dad wake you up?"

The little girl standing in the corner ran over and hugged the man's leg and whispered, "No." ”

"Is that getting up and going to the bathroom?" the man bent down and reached out and touched the girl's head, fluffy like a little milk cat, two days ago the little girl said that she wanted to raise a cat, and she would sell it tomorrow, the man thought.

"No......" the girl buried her face in the man's trouser leg and rubbed it.

The man felt a little wet on his legs.

"Well, go to sleep, if you don't sleep well, you won't be beautiful. The man racked his brains to coax his little girl to sleep, usually when he came home from work, his little girl fell asleep early.

"Don't ......"

The girl tightened her hands around the man's thighs, burying her face in his trouser legs and refusing to lift them.

"Obedient, didn't you say that you want to play with your children tomorrow? If you don't sleep well, you won't be able to play without energy. ”

The man was trying to persuade his daughter to go to bed, when he heard this sentence: "Dad...... You and Mom, don't you want me anymore?"

In the end, the little girl's voice was full of sadness and choking.

The man was stunned, "Who said that?"

How could he and his mom not want her?

"Me, Hiccup...... I heard, heard, hiccuped...... You and ...... And Mom, Hiccup, Mom...... Quarrel, quarrel hiccups, when ...... Hiccup, said. ”

The little girl was crying and hiccuping.

The man was a little distressed, and reached out and gently patted his daughter's back to give her a good breath.

It's the first time since I was born that I've bumped into him arguing with her mother, and I'm scared.

At the same time, he was also a little crying and laughing, this girl hugged his leg and cried, and wiped all the tears and snot on his trouser legs.

The man opened his mouth, he didn't know how to say it, he was a little embarrassed: "How come, Mom and Dad like Xixi so much, they won't want Xixi, be good, go to sleep." ”

"Really?"

The little girl looked up at the man cautiously and asked suspiciously.

The man touched the little girl's hair, "Really." ”

"Hmm...... Daddy, I'm going to sleep. ”

When the little girl heard the man's affirmation, she stopped crying, and lowered her head to find a clean place on the man's pants to dry her face.

The man didn't get angry when he saw his daughter's actions, but just took her to wash her face again.

After taking his daughter back to her room and watching her fall asleep, the man closed the door, turned off the light, walked to the balcony, and found the cigarette case and lighter he was carrying in the dark.

However, the lighter was not lit several times, and the man hammered the windowsill irritably, afraid of waking up his daughter who had just fallen asleep.

In the end, he just held an unlit cigarette and blew the night breeze, quietly staring out the window into the night.

He couldn't understand why things were the way they were, and it was good to live a peaceful life, but it was hard to say that both parents were dragging their feet.

Is it divorced......

"Click-" The sound of the key turning sounded in the silent night, and the woman in the voice-activated light outside the door looked up to see the man standing on the balcony.

The house they lived in was so small that they could see the balcony at a glance.

The man heard the voice and turned to look at the woman.

The woman walked in and closed the door and went straight to the balcony.

"Did Xixi sleep? ”

"Just fell asleep. ”

Hearing the man's answer, the woman breathed a sigh of relief, and she rushed back at this time because she was worried that the little girl would not sleep.

"Did you really decide to divorce? ”

The man turned his head and continued to look out the window.

"Well, it's good for you and me, you don't have to torture each other and hate each other, and ......"

The woman paused, "Our parents ......."

The meaning of the woman's words is that the man understands, and he has been forced by his parents at home until now, and the two of them are very haggard, "What should Xixi do." ”

"Xixi will stay with you before junior high school, I just changed jobs and couldn't be busy for a while. ”

The woman thought for a moment and said.

Then, she sighed again, "Ah...... If I knew that I was so reluctant, I shouldn't have been unable to conceive in the first place. ”

"What are you going to do after the divorce?"

The man turned his head to look at her, and she was the one who had agreed to have a baby.

"Let's get by. ”

The woman waved her hand casually.

The man took an unlit cigarette in his mouth and smiled, "Still friends?"

"Well, of course. ”

"Xixi's side don't let her know first, I'm going to Haishi for a job transfer, and my parents are also hiding it, and it's easy to accept it when we talk to them about divorce after we separate, and the backlash won't be so big. ”

"Also, you have a few god-assist sisters. ”

The man burst out laughing.

"Well, they just can't see that my life is more comfortable than theirs, don't they have to be demons if they are red-eyed. ”

The woman rolled her eyes wide in the darkness, none of the sisters in her family were worried.

Angry at the thought of her sisters, the woman reached out and asked the man, "Is there any smoke?"

"Yes, when did you smoke?"

The man pulled out the cigarette case and handed it to the woman.

"I've been smoking before, but I won't quit if it's not for Xixi. ”

The woman expertly pulled out a cigarette and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Where's the lighter?"

"It's broken. ”

The man took back the cigarette case and placed it on the windowsill.

The woman felt a little pity, she hadn't smoked in five years since she was preparing to get pregnant, "Count, I'll smell it." ”

"It's amazing to think about it, we have been together for five years. ”

"yes...... Five years. ”

The man turned his back against the balcony and looked out into the darkness.

"Do you regret it for five years?"

The man asked with some curiosity.

"Regret and regret. ”

The woman took down the cigarette and rubbed it on her fingertips, "People like us can be tolerated in this society, but parents can't bear it." ”

Fortunately, she met the man she is now, otherwise life would have been sad.

"I know...... I only came out of the hospital before I met you, and my parents thought it was a disease. ”

The man remembered the days when he was really scared before agreeing to go on a blind date.

"I'm sorry. ”

"It's nothing, I also went against my heart, but it's good that you're just like me. ”

Men feel that there is nothing to apologize for, and if a woman is an ordinary person, he will definitely have a more troubled conscience than he does now, fortunately.

"Hmph, luckily we're the same kind of people. ”

The woman laughed.

"Five years, ......"

Five years is not a short time at all.

"Xixi said that she heard us arguing and asked me if we didn't want her anymore. ”

The man turned his head to look at the woman who was drowning in the darkness.

"The little girl will kiss you. ”

The woman was suddenly a little jealous, and her girl liked to talk to her father about everything, but was a little afraid of her.

"Whoever makes you like to tease her day by day. ”

The man tilted his head back, a little smug at his daughter's closeness to him.

"What's the point of not playing with it when you have a baby. ”

"Forget it, I can't talk about you. ”

The man was speechless for a moment when he heard the woman's answer.

"If you have a new object, remember to show it to me. ”

The woman was silent for a moment before saying.

"How?"

"Curious. ”

After that, there was silence again, there was not much to talk about between the two of them, and for five years, they had been more polite except for their daughter and pretending in front of their parents.

"Won't you be sorry Xixi?"

Men were a little worried that their daughters would not be able to accept it.

"What's so sorry, we're still her parents, we still love her, but we each have a new favorite. ”

"Xixi is still young, wait until she is older and explain it to her slowly. "When the man thinks about it, the little girl is still young, and she is only five years old, so she doesn't need to worry about this, the little girl is happy every day.

"You didn't eat properly after a quarrel at dinner, are you hungry?" the man's stomach twitched, he was hungry.

The woman took out her phone from the bag she had been carrying on her shoulder and clicked on it, 10:42.

"I don't feel like I'm hungry. ”

"Eat somewhat. The man advised her.

The woman nodded, "Okay, what's there to eat at home?"

"My parents took all the food with them when they went back, and there were still a few eggs and Xixi's milk left in the refrigerator. ”

"Hmph, don't I just don't want to have a second child, so why don't you let your eldest brother give birth to another grandson, what's wrong with Xixi?"

"Heh, my parents said that my eldest brother and sister-in-law are busy with work and have no time. "Men have big heads.

"I just have time? ”

"Let's go, let's go out to eat, and Xixi is sleeping. The man took back the cigarette case from the windowsill and walked to the door.

The woman stuffed the cigarette pinched in her fingertips into her pocket, "Okay, I'll go see Xixi." ”

After confirming that her little girl was sleeping soundly in the room, the woman and the man walked out of the house side by side.

"What are you going to eat at such a late hour?" the woman took out her phone and looked at it, and she didn't know what to eat.

Men get off work late, and every time before going home, they will eat out and have a supper before going back.

"The food stall at the west gate exit of the community tastes good. "The man walks in front and leads the way.

The woman had lived here for five years, had never been to Ximen, and did not know that there was a food stall there.

When the two arrived at the food stall, there were several tables of people sitting on the seats outside.

The man asks the woman, "What do you eat?"

"What's so good about this? I don't pick it. "The woman looked at the environment of the food stalls and didn't think how delicious the food here was.

"Okay, I'll just order it. ”

"Boss, are there any steamed dumplings?"

Huo Bai, who was busy stir-frying, looked up and saw a man who often came to the food stall for supper, followed by a woman wearing a one-shoulder orange leather bag with delicate makeup and a skirt.

"Yes, shrimp and shiitake mushrooms. ”

"Then come to six cages, five cages here to eat one cage and take it away. "Shrimp and shiitake mushrooms' own daughter likes to bring a cage back, and tomorrow she will be breakfast, the man thought.

Huo Bai's subordinates kept moving, "Okay, you guys go and sit down first." ”