20. Twin Cities
Zhou Yang thought that everything would slowly get better after Su Ran gave birth to a child, but he didn't expect Su Ran to suddenly change his mood and fall into a trough.
Zhou Yang held his head in both hands, his face solemn. He said: "What do you want, if you want to go back, then when the child is older, now the child is not yet full moon, and you are so worried every day." But what to do, Mom and Dad are here, what do they think? ”
Su Ran said: "I feel like I'm about to collapse, you let me go." ”
Zhou Yang thought for a while and said: "That's it, the child is too young now, can you take the child back to the town when the child is half a year old, and I can explain it to my parents." Otherwise, I won't be able to make sense of them. ”
Su Ran nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll wait a few more days." ”
Zhou Yang's father and mother stayed in Shanghai for nearly half a month, and then left, inviting Su Ran to an aunt. Mother Zhou said to Zhou Yang before leaving: "Su Ran is not in a good condition now, it stands to reason that I should stay, but you can live your life, I don't want to participate in your life, Su Ran is also a withdrawn person, she doesn't seem to like many people." I'll ask the confinement lady to help you cook, and that's fine, you have your life, and your father and I have our life. ”
When Zhou Yang sent his parents away, he had all the flavors in his heart. He began to question the choice he had made at the beginning, was Su Ran really suitable for him? What he wants is a life where his wife, children, and parents gather together, and the days of a big family. And Su Ran is out of place in family life. He was a little scared to go home now, Su Ran frowned, looked at him like an airy expression, and didn't speak for a day. She took good care of her daughter, although she was fed milk powder, her little face gradually became fatter. The confinement sister-in-law helped Su Ran take the children during the day, and Su Ran took them at night.
Li Li came to see Su Ran, but Zhou Yang was not at home. Li Li saw Su Ran's malaise, and he lost his skin. She said distressedly: "Why did you become like this, Su Ran, I don't dare to recognize you." ”
Su Ran said: "I always have no appetite for anything, I have to get up at night to feed the child several times, and sometimes Zhou Yang will get up to feed her." Later, Zhou Yang couldn't sleep well and didn't have a state to work during the day, so I asked him to sleep in another bedroom, and I also felt cramped when he slept here. During the day, my aunt takes care of the children, and I can sleep for a while. One day, no one wants to pay attention to it, and I always feel panicked in my heart, and I don't even want to see Zhou Yang. ”
Li Li said: "You are postpartum depression, and it will be fine when the child is older, and suddenly there is no job, and life has changed a state." ”
Su Ran said: "I suddenly realized that I shouldn't get married, I missed Zhou Yang, I can't have a long-term relationship with a man for so long, I don't like him to sleep with me in his arms at night, I don't like my obligation as a wife to live a married life with him, I don't want a family to live together, there are voices everywhere." What's wrong with me, what's wrong with me, I don't think I'll let him touch me again in the future! ”
Li Li stroked Su Ran's thin shoulder, not knowing how to comfort her.
Zhou Yang was in a trance during this time, he never saw Su Ran's smiling face when he came home from work, and ignored him. He lay on the bed to watch the child, and when his body touched Su Ran, Su Ran would deliberately avoid it. Don't make eye contact with him. At first, he was always careful to coax her and smile with her. As the days passed, Su Ran's thin eye sockets were sunken, and he often stood alone at the window looking into the distance, he didn't know what she was thinking.
Aunt Zhou Yang called and said, congratulations to him on winning a daughter. She and her husband have settled in the United States, and if they intend to sell the house in Shanghai to them at a lower price than the market price. It's also a home in Shanghai. Zhou Yang thought that this location is very good, and it will be convenient for children to go to school in the future. Discuss with your parents, and your parents are happy to do so.
After he went home, he went to the bedroom, the child was held by his aunt, and Su Ran was lying in the bedroom reading a book, which was a copy of Yan Geling's 'White Snake'. He said: "My aunt settled in the United States and said that if we are interested in selling us a house in Shanghai at a lower price than the market price, what do you think?" Su Ran left the book with his eyes and said, "You decide, you can buy it if you want, I also have some money here, if it's not enough, you can take it." ”
Zhou's father and Zhou's mother took more than half, Zhou Yang and Su Ran took a small half, and Su Ran also gave Zhou Yang the 200,000 yuan that his parents gave when they got married. In the end, the house was completed, and the names of Zhou Yang and Su Ran were written on the house. In Li Li's words, Su Ran, you should feel lucky, Zhou Yang is good in all aspects, and he is handsome and warm. I bought a house in Shanghai. Both sides also have houses in their hometowns, and now they have children, so why not be happy!
Su Ran's depression is getting worse and worse, and she went to the hospital to see her, but she didn't get better after taking medicine. She sometimes loses control at home and hides in the bathroom crying. She was annoyed when she saw Zhou Yang coming to him.
Half a year later, Su Ran returned to the town with her daughter Zhou Mu. After going back, the small courtyard was well maintained by my mother. She suddenly became more in a better mood, her parents sometimes send some delicious food every once in a while, Su Ran is now handy with her children, in her spare time, she reads books, lies in the yard to make a pot of tea, and lies on a wicker chair to bask in the sun. Sometimes I would hold my daughter to read a book and bask in the sun. Zhou Yang calls every day, he thinks about his children, he will video with his daughter every day, and the children can't speak. He said it alone in the video, and Su Ran had nothing to say.
Zhou Yang returned home every day, and the house was empty, and he was stunned and at a loss. Su Ran's attitude towards him turned cold was something he didn't expect, how long can postpartum depression last, he felt unbearable in just half a year. He didn't want to be alone in the house. His college classmate Song Gang also works in Shanghai, and has been asking him to drink with him lately to pass the time of boredom.
One day, he received a strange phone call from a woman. After connecting, he asked: Hello, who?
The other end of the phone said: "Zhou Yang, it's me, Xiao Lele." ”
Zhou Yang was stunned at the time, Xiao Lele was his ex-girlfriend and his college classmate. At that time, he insisted on coming to Shanghai, but she did not agree. Both of them are not very old, young and vigorous. No one was willing to compromise for anyone, and finally broke up.
Zhou Yang said: "Lele, how have you been in the past few years, how did you know my phone number, we both changed our numbers after we broke up." ”
Xiao Lele said: "I heard your phone number from Song Gang, I came to Shanghai, do you have time?" Let's have a meal together. ”
Zhou Yang came to the restaurant as promised after work. Xiao Lele was already waiting for him, he entered the door, Xiao Lele waved his hand with a smile, he sighed that she has changed a lot in recent years, and her youth has faded, but it has made her more beautiful, and the big waves that have been scalded add a little charm. I put on light makeup. The headstrong girl in the ponytail and jeans is gone. He walked closer, Xiao Lele gave him a sweet smile, and when he smiled, the pear nest at the corner of his mouth made her even more pretty. She smiled and said: "Zhou Yang, is it an accident, we haven't seen each other for many years, isn't it a bit of a feeling of turning around." ”
Zhou Yang also said with a smile: "It's quite unexpected, I think it's too sudden, I was stunned at the time, how have you been in the past few years?" ”
Xiao Lele took a sip of tea and said: "I got married the second year after I broke up with you, ten years older than me, and my classmates didn't notify me when I got married. There is an aunt who cooks and washes at home, he runs his own company, he is usually very busy, often drunk when he returns late, and sometimes the phone rings when he comes back, he turns off the phone directly, often like this. I took advantage of his hangover on Saturday morning and asked someone to help me recover deleted text messages, WeChat, and phone calls. As a result, I vomited nauseously, I turned out to be a doctor, and I have a habit of cleanliness, he opened a room 14 times a month, and it was a different person, and the content of the chat in WeChat was unsightly. I photocopied and printed everything and gave me a house, a car, and some money when I got divorced. Later, I found a mall in the city and rented a counter to sell branded skincare products. This time, I came to Shanghai to see how the shopping mall is and whether there is any investment. She smiled and continued, "I've been talking about it for a long time, so you can tell you too!" ”
Zhou Yang listened to her quietly and said: "I met my daughter-in-law in the second year I came to Shanghai, and now I have been married for more than two years, and now the child is eight months old, and she took the child back to her hometown two months ago." After saying that, he smiled bitterly.
Xiao Lele's eyes widened in surprise, "What's the situation, did she go home and let her mother take the child with her?" ”
Zhou Yang said: "No, she bought the small courtyard in her hometown, and she lives with her children, not with her parents." After giving birth, she was not in a good mental state. She just wanted to live on her own. ”
Zhou Yang drank some wine, and then explained the beginning and end of his acquaintance with Su Ran and the subsequent events like pouring bitter water.
Xiao Lele fell silent, thinking that if she wasn't young, she would be so willful. She and Zhou Yang will definitely come together. Now, after many years, things are not people. She looked at the painful Zhou Yang, the man she loved the most in her youth, and didn't know what words to use to comfort him.
Su Ran was at home alone with her children, and her health gradually improved, and Shao Yajun often called or texted her. The two would confide in each other, and once, on the phone, Shao Yajun said: "Su Ran, it's not good for you to be laissez-faire in your marriage, Zhou Yang is so good, marriage is sometimes like a battlefield, you have to defend your territory, you are cold to him, he is bound to compare, will seek, no one can withstand the temptation." Zhou Yang is the same. ”
Su Ran listened to her and said, "I understand everything, the spiritual defense line is easy to defend, and the physical desire is difficult to prevent." Natural selection, I want to be good too, Yajun, do you know? I worked hard, compromised, struggled, and gave birth to Zhou Mu. After giving birth, I was sluggish and withered, I didn't have a temperament, I couldn't control my emotions. Now that I have come back, my health has gradually improved. ”
Shao Yajun said on the other end of the phone: "You have been back for four months, I feel that I am almost in a state and go back to Shanghai, that is your home, Zhuo'er's incident happened once, do you want the second Zhuo'er to appear again?" ”
Su Ran fell into thought, she looked at her daughter's sweet smiling face, and then looked at herself in the mirror, her complexion began to be rosy, and she was a little fatter than before, she had recovered as before. She dialed Zhou Yang's phone, rang several times, and Zhou Yang answered the phone. She heard that there was a bit of noise over there, and she said, "Zhou Yang, I was not in a good mental state some time ago, but now I am much better." Also, why are you so noisy over there? ”
Zhou Yang on the other end of the phone said: "I'm eating out, this weekend, there are too many people in the restaurant, you just need to be well, have you eaten?" ”
Su Ran said: "After eating, I am going to go back to Shanghai in the next few days, and I always leave you in Shanghai, and my wife is incompetent!" ”
Zhou Yang said on the phone: "Su Ran, it's okay, I'm not wronged alone, you can stay at home for a while longer." ”
Su Ran chuckled in his heart, he used to wish he had returned to Shanghai as soon as possible, but now he suddenly wanted to stay in a small city again.