Chapter 15: Divorce

I woke up before dawn, to be precise, I woke up from freezing, I touched it with my hand in the dark, and found that half of my body was exposed outside the quilt, when did I kick the quilt off? I reached out and grabbed the quilt and pulled it on myself, but I couldn't pull it! What's going on? I touched it with my hand and suddenly found a behemoth behind me! It turned out that I was squeezed out of the bed by this behemoth!

"Hey, hey, hey! How did you get to my bed? ā€

I turned around and pushed hard against Lu Tao, who occupied most of my bed and half of the quilt, but Lu Tao, who was asleep, just turned over and didn't hear what I said at all. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

"Wake up! Wake up! I sat up, grabbing Lu Tao's shoulder and shaking it back and forth.

"What are you doing to keep people from sleeping?" Lu Tao was finally woken up by me, and he was angry and scolded me loudly.

"Sleep? Do you see where you are asleep? You're going to squeeze me under the bed. ā€

Hearing me say this, Lu Tao seemed to realize something, temporarily extinguished the fire in his heart, and then looked left and right, and found that he did occupy too much territory, he gave way to the side, freed up half of the quilt and half of the bed, and then he lifted the quilt and motioned for me to get in!

"Go back to your couch and sleep, or I'll go sleep on the couch!" I said coldly.

"Wife, I haven't touched you for almost a year, let me hug you." Lu Tao pulled me over with a smile and hugged me in his arms.

"What for?!" I broke free, jumped out of bed, and stood on the ground.

Seeing that I didn't accept it, the smile on Lu Tao's face disappeared immediately, and he said to me with a tense face: "Can't get over?" ā€

"No!" I said firmly.

"Never let me touch you again?" He asked again.

"We've decided to separate, what are you?" I say.

"Can we not be separated?"

"Is there any reason not to separate? Are you in love with me? ā€

"I've always loved you, don't you know?"

"I really don't know where your love for me is."

"Okay, let's stop discussing the esoteric theory of love, now that the whole city is sleeping, we should sleep too, what are you arguing about in the middle of the night? Come, come! ā€

Lu Tao's face was like this for a while, and now he was cheeky enough to lean over and try to pull me to the bed, but I shook off his hand and left the bed and sat on the sofa. Lu Tao sat on the bed and stared at me for five minutes, when suddenly he jumped out of bed, put on his clothes, and pushed the door away without saying a word.

Looking at the back of Lu Tao leaving, I stayed alone in the dark and suddenly felt a trace of remorse in my heart, shouldn't I let him leave in the dark? If you want to leave, you should wait for dawn to let him go, how uneasy is it to go out in such darkness? But then I thought, how can I snuggle into the arms of a man who might want me and divorce at any moment? Even though he is my husband, what is there between us but the piece of paper on the marriage certificate? I really can't get entangled with a man just to satisfy my carnal desires.

After dawn, Lu Tao called, and he said two words: "Divorce!" ā€ć€‚ He asked me to meet in front of the shopping mall building, and then we went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register the divorce.

Now I can face the divorce calmly, because the word divorce has been on my lips with Lu Tao for a year or two. The problem is that I have to go to the unit and the director to ask for leave in person, I didn't ask the director for leave yesterday, if I don't explain in person today, I'm afraid the director won't leave me any more room in the future.

I went to the unit with my child in my arms, and when I saw the director, I explained the reason why I didn't take leave yesterday, and then asked for another day off today, but the director flatly refused me:

"Do you want to do it? If you don't want to do it, quit your job! Either you are late every day, or you take leave twice for three days, do you think that the salary given to you by the state is for you to take for nothing? ā€

"I'm going to get a divorce, and I've made an appointment with the child's father." Standing in the director's office, I lowered my head and said timidly.

"Divorce? No way! You give me an honest and punctual shift for a month and then talk about your divorce, you make a mess of your work and family, who else can you make sympathy for you? Shouldn't you reflect on yourself? ā€

Listening to the director's loud reprimand, I didn't dare to say anything more, and retreated boredly.

What to do? If I don't show up for the appointment, will Lu Tao think that I don't want to get a divorce? How can I bow my head to him? Why don't you sneak away! In the end, I took advantage of the fact that the people in the bureau were not paying attention and quietly slipped out of the unit.

When I went home to get my household registration book and ID card, and came to the front of the shopping mall building with Yangyang in my arms, I saw Lu Tao smoking a cigarette and waiting there. When he saw that I was speechless, he walked directly in the direction of the Civil Affairs Bureau, while I followed him closely with my son in my arms. As soon as we walked more than ten meters away, we met an acquaintance, who was Lu Tao's junior high school classmate Wu Daren, and the other party also brought his wife and one-year-old son.

"Yo, three people shopping?" Wu Daren took the initiative to say hello to Lu Tao.

"Oh, yes, yes, shopping." Lu Tao smiled unnaturally.

"Neither of you go to work today?" Wu Daren asked.

"No, I'm on leave." Lu Tao replied.

"Take time off to go shopping? Not bad! Wu Daren said with a smile.

"Actually, it's taking the child to the doctor, and by the way, I go shopping." Lu Tao hurriedly lied again.

"Yes, the weather is cold, pay attention to the child's warmth, my son just had a cold two days ago, and he is better today." Wu Daren pointed to his son who was nestled in his lover's arms and said.

"You're still working in the township government?" Lu Tao asked.

"I'm waiting for the organizational rescheduling these days, and if nothing else, I'm going to work at the county government in two days." Wu Daren deliberately lowered his voice and said to us quite mysteriously.

"Looks like you're going to rise again, congratulations!" Lu Tao hugged his fist to Wu Daren.

"It's still early to say congratulations, and when the matter is decided, I'll invite you two to dinner!" Wu Daren patted his chest and said to the two of us.

"Okay, okay, waiting for your good news!"

"Okay, goodbye!"

During the dialogue between Lu Tao and Wu Daren, I kept smiling on the side and did not speak. When the three members of Wuda's family walked away, Lu Tao and I regained our cold faces and continued to walk towards the Civil Affairs Bureau one after the other.

I don't know what day it is today, it may be an auspicious day of the zodiac, there are a lot of newcomers who have registered their marriages at the Marriage Registration Office of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Lu Tao and I looked at the festive faces in front of us, and sat in two corners separately without interest, ready to wait for the people to disperse, and then come forward to apply for divorce.

"What are you two going to do?" I don't want a staff member to come up and ask about us.

"Divorced!"

I didn't answer, it was Lu Tao who hesitated for a while and then said the purpose of our trip.

"Divorce? Please go to this window for divorce. ā€

As the staff gave us loud instructions, the faces of everyone in the room turned to the two of us together, they looked at me holding the child for a while, and then looked at Lu Tao, and someone was still whispering: "The child is going to divorce at such a young age?" ā€

Under the gaze of everyone, Lu Tao and I stood up at the same time, walked to the office window in the back, and when we got closer, we saw that there was a "divorce registration" sign on this office window.

"Please give me the divorce agreement." The staff said to us.

"Divorce settlement? Nope! Lu Tao said.

"We didn't write an agreement." I continued.

"We only accept divorce by mutual agreement here, that is, how to distribute the property, who will raise the children, and other issues be negotiated clearly, written in the agreement, and signed by both parties." The staff explained to us in detail.

"There is no property between us, so there is no property distribution, and as for the children, I will raise them." I said to the staff.

"I'll raise the baby!" Before the staff could say anything, Lu Tao called me.

"It seems that you have not negotiated the custody of the children, and the disputed divorce will be sued in the court, and the court will decide, and we have no right to accept it here." The staff almost gave us an eviction order.

Lu Tao and I glared angrily for a while, and then had no choice but to withdraw from the marriage registry office again without saying a word, despite the strange gazes of everyone. After coming out, I felt that Lu Tao and I had obviously affected the festive atmosphere in the marriage registry just now, and the two of us were like an unlucky broom star, so it was better to disappear quickly.

The way back was to go our separate ways, I walked in the direction of the rental house with my child in my arms, and Lu Tao walked towards his shop, and the two of us went in completely opposite directions.

Although Lu Tao and I had just divorced in the morning, I still had to send Yangyang to my mother-in-law in the afternoon because I had to go to work. As I expected, as soon as I arrived at my mother-in-law's place, she began to lecture me again:

"You're really not going to live with our family Lu Tao? Is our Lu Tao bad for you? What exactly do you want? ā€

"Your son is not ready to live with me, I don't believe you ask him." I didn't answer my mother-in-law's question directly, because you have to be very careful when talking to your mother-in-law, she is a good argumentative woman, and if you are not careful, you will be left speechless by her.

"Okay, I'll talk to him when he comes back, but I still want to say something to you, that is, since you insisted on giving birth to Yangyang, you have to think about him. In fact, your mother and I didn't agree with you to have a child, if the relationship is not strong, don't just give birth to a child, if you can't give him a complete home, don't you feel guilty? ā€

Listen, although I didn't dare to talk more, I was still dumbfounded by my mother-in-law.

After I escaped from my mother-in-law, I got on my bicycle and went straight to the unit. Along the way, I panicked in my heart, and I didn't know what the face of the director of the unit was. Fortunately, after I went to the unit, I didn't see the director, and I heard from a colleague in the office that the director went to the countryside. I spent an afternoon in the office relaxedly, and I did a lot of work, as soon as the time came to get off work, I picked up my satchel and walked out, I was in a hurry to go to my mother-in-law to pick up the child, Lu Tao definitely didn't send it to me. But when I just walked out of my office, I met the director walking in from outside, I trembled in my heart, and looked at the director nervously, and when the director saw me, he said to me with a serious face: "Chen Yuyan, come to my office!" ā€

As a result of going to the director's office, I was reprimanded for half an hour, deducted a month's attendance allowance, and warned that if I violated work discipline in the future, the unit would ask the organization department to transfer me or let the discipline inspection department punish me! Oh my God, it's scared to death!