Chen Ke looked up at me.

"It's the beautiful aunt who lives next door, you met one day, go and ask her to come over for dinner. I thought Chen Ke didn't know, so I said it again.

"I know. Chen Ke said.

"You know why you don't go yet, the food is going to be cold. I set the dishes and chopsticks and said to Chen Ke, who was still not moving.

"Dad, are you going to find me a stepmother?" Chen Ke said to me suddenly.

I paused.

An eight-year-old child still knows these things?

"What's a stepmother or not, who told you this?" I said.

"Don't try to lie to me, I just know that you are so handsome, you are still so young, you just divorced my mother, and you let other women come to my house to eat, you must want to find me a stepmother. Chen Ke said seriously.

My daughter actually praised me for being handsome, children don't lie, so I'm really handsome?

I can't help but feel a little sweet in my heart.

"I borrowed the rice you ate yesterday from this aunt's house, and I borrowed something from someone else, should I express my gratitude?" I squatted beside Chen Ke and whispered to her.

Chen Ke thought for a while and nodded: "Yes." ”

"Well, that's right. That's why I asked you to call this aunt and invite her to our house for dinner, which is called courtesy, you know?" I continued.

"Then aren't you going to find me a stepmother?" Chen Ke seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and said to me.

"No, this aunt also has children and a husband, how can she be your stepmother?" I said, touching Chen Ke's head, "Go quickly." ”

Chen Ke ran out, and I heard a knock on the door.

"Auntie, my dad asked you to go to my house for dinner. Chen Ke's voice.

I glanced out, and just as the woman leaning against the doorway glanced into my room, I smiled at her, then lowered my head to pick up the rag and wipe down the table and chairs.

"No, I'm eating at home, thank you, kid. The woman refused.

"Dad, Auntie said she didn't come to eat, let's eat by ourselves. Chen Ke ran back.

"You go wash your hands. I put down the rag and said to Chen Ke, "I mixed hot water in the basin in the kitchen and washed my hands with the water in the basin." ”

Out of the house, I personally knocked on the door of the woman next door.

"Is there something wrong?" asked the woman when she opened the door and saw that it was me.

"I made a few simple dishes, and the food is enough, so let's go to my house and eat them. I said, "You have a leg injury, and it is not very convenient for you to cook by yourself, so there is no need to bother." ”

The woman didn't speak, as if hesitating.

"Don't think about it, neighbors already care about each other, and besides, I have two children at home, so I can't do anything to you. I said.

"What do you want to do to me?" the woman replied, then turned and walked back into the house.

I sighed and shook my head, this woman is too faceless.

"You wait for me a moment, and I'll take the key. The woman paused, then turned back to me.

It turned out to be to get the key, and I thought she had refused.

"Good. I answered.

"Your house is really messy. The woman took the key, entered my room, and said unceremoniously.

"Hehe, no way, no woman is like that. I sneered and pointed to a stool, "Sit." ”

After serving a good meal to Chen Ke and the woman, I filled myself another bowl, and the three of them sat at the small square table.

After a meal, I didn't talk much, the woman ate a bowl, then thanked me and left.

Very polite.

In this politeness, people feel a sense of strangeness.

The distance between people is not so easy to approach, although there is a slight intersection between me and women, but it is still too early to get acquainted.

However, I didn't care, and I didn't think about how close I was to women.

Inviting a woman to this meal is just that she feels a little pitiful.

A woman, driving a car that is also good for the white-collar class, lives in a room of more than 160 square meters, looking at the scenery, but in fact, she is the only one in the huge room, which makes people feel a little colder.

It's still my home, it's a little messy, but all the living utensils are complete, and it's really small, but I have two daughters with me, and I feel warm.

Chen Ke went to school after eating, I washed the dishes and chopsticks, and walked to the overpass with Chen Le, who had slept for a while.

"Coming?" Brother Zheng saw me, greeted me, and took out ten yuan from his pocket, "Two people bought four pairs of shoes, and I sold them at the price of five yuan and two pairs." ”

"Thank you. "I'm so grateful," come on, smoke a cigarette. ”

"Don't smoke it, you haven't smoked this one you gave me yet. Brother Zheng pointed to his head and said.

He still has the cigarette I gave him in the morning.

The ten-yuan pack of Zhongnanhai is not an expensive cigarette, but it tastes good, and for a smoker whose fingers are dyed yellow, he will not keep it all the time.

"Why, doesn't it fit?" I asked.

"Quit it. Brother Zheng said.

"You're fifty, your hands are dyed like that, I'm afraid you have made a lot of determination to quit smoking, right?" I hugged Chen Le and asked.

"There is no way, smoking is harmful to health, and if you don't quit, you have to quit. Brother Zheng sighed, sat down beside me, took the cigarette from his ear, put it to his lips, and sniffed.

"You're laughing at it, an old smoker, and still care about your health?" I laughed.

Everyone understands that smoking is harmful to health, but for most smokers, yes is yes, but before the day of lying in the hospital bed, it is still necessary to smoke.

"My daughter is sick, I have to have another illness, who will save her?" Brother Zheng put the cigarette back to his ear, his eyes were empty, staring out of the overpass, "I was originally healthy, why did I suddenly get that kind of disease?"

"What's the disease?" I suddenly felt depressed, I didn't expect him to have this difficulty.

"Leukemia. Brother Zheng's eyes were red, "What a sin, I smoke every day, why didn't I get it, but it fell on my daughter?"

"In half a year, it's time for the college entrance examination, a good person, thin and not human, and he has to suffer so much torture. ”

"Her mother is taking care of her in the hospital?" I didn't know how to comfort him, but it was not good to say nothing at this time.

Brother Zheng sat on the cold ground, his legs bent, and wiped his eyes.

"Ran. He said two words lightly, without any emotion, as if he had seen through, "At first, I insisted on it, but when I sold the house, she left." ”

"Hehe, I'm not afraid of your jokes, brother, my woman is more than ten years younger than me, when I got married, my family was not bad, I had a house, a car, and savings. She was introduced to her, beautiful and young. ”

"I'm not good-looking, I'm not as handsome as my brother, it's just a little money, what does she like about me, I know very well, now that I have no money, she ran away, I can understand. ”

Brother Zheng patted me on the shoulder: "Brother, listen to my advice, there is only one reason why a woman has a falling out with you, and that is that you are not rich enough." ”

"But you're fine, you're still young, work harder, you can stand up. ”

I smiled and didn't answer him.

The money ran out, I went to the flyover to set up a stall, my wife ran away again, my daughter is still in the hospital, Brother Zheng is already a poor person, I don't want to argue with him anymore.

I don't agree with what he said.

No matter how many women recognize money, some women recognize feelings after all.

I'm convinced.

Otherwise, what is the point of getting married?

In the evening, I was about to close the stall when one stopped in front of my stall.

"Chen Jin?" the man said with some surprise, his voice full of surprise.

I looked up and saw this person, and I was also very surprised: "Wu Dong, why are you here, what a coincidence." ”

Wu Dong was my classmate in high school, in fact, not only in high school, from the beginning of junior high school to the third year of high school, Wu Dong and I were classmates.

To a good degree, the two of them can pool money together to buy binoculars, peek at the night view of the girls' dormitory in the opposite building, and go back for two weeks, and the two eat three steamed buns a day.

"I'm back, coming back last week and working in the business district opposite. Wu Dongdao looked at me a few times, "Why did you get to the flyover to set up a stall?" Let's find a place to get together, and a few high school classmates together. ”

"By the way, Tang Wan is also there. ”