In a flash, the wheel of time rolls to the Year of the Monkey.

This year, Lin Ruoxi felt that like previous years, she was not salty or light.

At the turn of Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year, the sound of firecrackers and fireworks outside is very festive. Lin Ruoxi was not in the mood to feel the strong flavor of the New Year; She lay lazily on the bed, holding a widescreen phone in her hand, and wanted to send a message wishing Feng Tianyu a happy New Year, but when she finished editing the message, she didn't press the send button. She thought that maybe at this moment, he and Bao Xiaodie were snuggling up to each other and watching the gala with relish; Or set off fireworks outdoors in high spirits, long forgotten who you are.

She sighed softly helplessly, threw her phone aside, and covered her head with the quilt, full of thoughts.

Just after Chinese New Year's Eve, Lin Ruoxi sighed that he was one year older. The next morning, she looked carefully in the mirror and found that she didn't know when there were more obvious crow's feet on her face; At this moment, she thought of Feng Tianyu again, and remembered the bits and pieces of herself and him.

She suddenly felt a pang of sadness. But what she was sad about, she couldn't say. Maybe it's because the years are fleeting and the appearance is easy to age; Maybe it's because you can't stay with the person you love for a long time; Maybe it's a bit of both.

After eating some glutinous rice balls with her daughter, Lin Ruoxi took her daughter to her grandmother's house. In addition to meeting her grandmother, she also met her father, nephew Lin Xiaobao, and Lin Xiaobao's wife and son.

Lin Xiaobao is the son of Lin Ruoxi's half-brother, his father died in the line of duty when he was more than two years old, and in the third year after his father's death, his mother took him to marry one of his father's former comrades-in-arms, and he did not leave his mother and stepfather until he was eighteen years old. Five years ago, he married his now-wife. Since he lost money in the liquor business before he got married, he had no money to buy a house, so he moved to live with his great-grandmother with the consent of his great-grandmother. Later, he borrowed money from his stepfather to start a coal business and made some money, so that he could buy a house, but he felt that his great-grandmother was old and not in good health, and his grandfather's illness was from time to time, and he was crazy when he had seizures, and they all needed to be taken care of.

Lin Xiaobao made such a decision for Lin Ruoxi to be the most worry-free, she didn't have to take care of her father and grandmother. It's not that she doesn't want to take care of the elderly, but she is busy with business every day and has no time to take care of them, and the two old people are unwilling to move in with her and Lu Xiaobai. However, every month she would give a sum of money to her nephew for the living expenses of the two elderly people.

Lin Ruoxi's grandmother was very happy to see that Lin Ruoxi brought Lu Xiaoyu to pay her New Year's greetings. The grandmother asked Lu Xiaobai why he didn't come with her, and Lin Ruoxi said that he couldn't come because of something.

The grandmother was very dissatisfied with Lu Xiaobai not coming to pay New Year's greetings to her, she remembered that this was the fifth consecutive year that her grandson-in-law had not given her New Year's greetings. In fact, she has long been dissatisfied with Lu Xiaobai, and since he married Lin Ruoxi, he rarely visits his grandmother. Sometimes when the grandmother went to his house, he lacked the enthusiasm he deserved, let alone sat down to chat with the grandmother, and she felt that she was left out.

The next day, Lin Ruoxi took her daughter on a long journey from her grandmother's house to pay New Year's greetings to her uncle Zhang Kui.

Zhang Kui is already an old man in his seventies, his hair has long been gray, and he has a relatively serious rheumatism; Lin Ruoxi's grandmother died five years ago, and Zhang Kui's daughter Zhang Huanhuan has not been heard from since she disappeared, and no one knows whether she is dead or alive.

Lin Ruoxi saw that her uncle was living alone in her hometown, lonely and without a companion, so she felt very sorry for her uncle.

Lin Ruoxi has mentioned several times that he wants to take his uncle back to live with him, but his uncle refuses for two reasons: first, he feels that his daughter is still alive in the world, and he is worried that one day his daughter will be anxious when she returns home and cannot find her father, so he has to wait for her daughter to come back at home. Second, he still has a grudge against Lu Xiaobai, he thinks that his daughter's disappearance has something to do with Lu Xiaobai, and he doesn't want to see Lu Xiaobai.

Lin Ruoxi stayed at her uncle's house for two days before returning home. Before leaving, she threw her uncle 2,000 yuan and told him to use the money to see a doctor, and if he needed money in the future, he told her to talk to her.

Back at home, Lin Ruoxi learned that her husband's resort was opened on the second day of junior high school, and she asked her husband why he opened on the second day of junior high school, and he explained that the resort was a service industry, so it would naturally open earlier.

Lin Ruoxi believed it.

Lu Xiaobai asked Lin Ruoxi when her beauty salon was going to open, and she said that it would not open until the eighth day of the first lunar month.

Lu Xiaobai's meat factory and resort are already profitable. The meat factory relies on monopoly operation to make profits; The resort relies on gambling and loan sharking to make a profit. Only furniture stores make profits through formal business means.

When her husband's furniture store and meat factory opened, Lin Ruoxi did not come to the scene. She didn't go because she didn't want to.

As long as it is a business run by her husband, no matter what activities are held, she is not willing to participate, unless she cannot shirk it. Since her husband ransomed her from the kidnappers, although the quarrel between her and her husband has decreased significantly, only she knows best in her heart that there is only one bed left in the space between her and her husband, and the relationship has long since ceased to exist.

On the morning of the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, because he was busy opening Zhang Luo, Lu Xiaobai ran between the furniture store and the meat factory; And Lin Ruoxi leisurely took her daughter to McDonald's restaurant to eat hamburgers.

Lin Ruoxi and her daughter sat in a corner of the restaurant, talking and laughing, eating food with relish. After eating for a while, Lin Ruoxi felt full, so she stopped eating, took out a tissue to wipe her greasy mouth, and then let her eyes scan at will. Suddenly, she saw a woman with freckles on her face slowly walking in from outside, and when she looked closely, it was Tang Shan.

Tang Shan is Lin Ruoxi's high school classmate. Lin Ruoxi still clearly remembers that many years ago, Tang Shan sent a few "ambiguous photos" of herself and Fu Xiunian to Feng Tianyu, and spread rumors that the relationship between herself and Fu Xiunian was "extraordinary", which made Feng Tianyu jealous and beat Fu Xiunian. Although it was later confirmed that the "ambiguous thing" was purely out of nowhere, she despised Tang Shan's very irresponsible approach, and she wanted to ask Tang Shan why she did that, but because she hadn't met Tang Shan for so many years, she naturally had no chance to figure out the truth of the matter. Today, Tang Shan unexpectedly appeared here, and she naturally would not let go of the opportunity to question Tang Shan.

Tang Shan

I saw Tang Shan walk to a dining table and sit down with her back to Lin Ruoxi, and then put her satchel on the dining table.

Lin Ruoxi came to Tang Shan's side and knocked on the table twice.

Tang Shan turned her head suddenly, and saw Lin Ruoxi with an expressionless face, she was stunned for a moment, then smiled slightly, and said, "Ruoxi, such a coincidence." ”

Lin Ruoxi asked bluntly: "More than ten years ago, you spread rumors that I had an unusual relationship with Fu Xiunian, and you also took photos and sent them to Feng Tianyu as evidence, I don't understand, why did you do that?" ”

Tang Shan looked a little nervous, and hurriedly said, "It's been so many years, why are you still pursuing that matter?" ”

Lin Ruoxi said sternly: "Although many years have passed since the incident, your actions have caused psychological damage to me, and I feel very angry!" I really can't understand, I have no grudge against you, why do you treat me like that? What's the benefit of you doing that? ”

Tang Shan asked, "Do you really want me to tell you the truth?" ”

Lin Ruoxi didn't think much about it, and said categorically: "Of course! ”

Tang Shan thought for a while and said, "You better go and ask your husband!" He knows the truth better than I do. ”

Lin Ruoxi was taken aback and couldn't help asking, "What does that matter have to do with my husband?" ”

Tang Shan snorted coldly and said, "I'll tell you, lest you sprinkle your resentment on my head alone." Actually, it was Lu Xiaobai who instructed me to say that, and those so-called ambiguous photos were also taken by him secretly, and I was just his microphone and helping him run errands. Why did he do that, you're a smart person, you don't need me to explain, right? ”

Lin Ruoxi was very angry at what her husband had done, and she knew that her husband's purpose in doing so was to drive a wedge between her and Feng Tianyu; She questioned Tang Shan: "Why do you want to help Lu Xiaobai to help him commit abuse?" ”

Tang Shan didn't want to tell her that she was just raising money for drugs to help Lu Xiaobai do bad things, so she said: "You just need to know that Lu Xiaobai wants to break up your relationship with Feng Tianyu, there is no need to know so much." ”

Lin Ruoxi turned around and walked in the direction of her daughter.

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In the evening, Lu Xiaobai returned home.

Lu Xiaobai walked to the side of the sofa, looked at Lin Ruoxi, who was sitting on the sofa and didn't know what he was thinking, in a blaming tone, and said: "Today, my meat factory and furniture store have opened one after another, and I told you last night, I hope you will go over and give red envelopes to the workers for me, but I didn't expect you to go out with your children early in the morning, what are you doing?" ”

Lin Ruoxi said coldly: "I don't have that idleness! ”

Lu Xiaobai was stunned for a moment, and asked angrily, "What's wrong with you?" ”

Lin Ruoxi looked up at her husband and said sharply: "More than ten years ago, you used Tang Shan to spread rumors to Feng Tianyu that I had an ambiguous relationship with Fu Xiunian, and also sent him the so-called ambiguous photos of me and Fu Xiunian, why are you so selfish!" ”

Lu Xiaobai was taken aback and asked, "Who did you listen to?" ”

Lin Ruoxi said: "Tang Shan said. ”

Lu Xiaobai was silent for a moment and said, "Since you know everything, then I don't have to quibble." Yes, I did it, and I know I was selfish and broke your heart, so I'm sorry. However, I did that because I loved you too much and wanted to snatch you away from Feng Tianyu's side. ”

Lin Ruoxi felt very funny and said, "I'm ashamed of your behavior!" ”

Lu Xiaobai's face sank and he didn't speak.

Lin Ruoxi asked again: "Then Yang Xue's conspiracy to seduce Tianyu and try to make Tianyu have a relationship with her was also planned by you?" ”

Lu Xiaobai hurriedly defended: "It's not me, that matter has nothing to do with me." ”

Lin Ruoxi snorted coldly and said, "Really? How do I think you're behind this? ”

"I'm yellow mud and fell into the pants. In the crotch, it's not but it's! Lu Xiaobai said, "I swear, if I did it, I will be damned." ”

Lin Ruoxi still doesn't believe it, because she knows that her husband is a cunning person, and unless you have evidence that he did it, he will firmly deny it; She hated her husband and didn't want to argue with him, so she got up and walked towards the bedroom.

Walking into the bedroom, she locked the door and plunged into the quilt, the more she thought about it, the more she felt wronged, and she couldn't help but cry.

Lu Xiaobai sat on the sofa in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.