Chapter 9: A Brief Warmth
Days like this make me feel like maybe it's really good. Every morning Ye'er is no longer in a hurry as when she opened the store before, and now Ye'er always gets up lazily, still wearing strong makeup, and then goes to the street to buy vegetables, and goes home to cook vegetables. When I arrived home with my baby at noon, Ye'er had already prepared a hearty lunch, and in the afternoon Ye'er still went to play mahjong, and when I returned home with the baby in the evening, Ye'er came home at about that time, and then Ye'er was busy preparing dinner there, and I was tutoring the baby's homework next to me.
Dinner was the most relaxed and welcoming time for our family. The baby is talking about interesting things in school, or talking about today's newly learned knowledge, Ye'er is summarizing the wins and losses in the afternoon mahjong, I leisurely drink a little wine, we don't open the store, this long-lost warmth has returned to our side.
However, this warm and harmonious picture lasted less than a week.
In this way, less than a week later, when my baby and I came home from work at noon, the food on the table had been set, but Ye'er was not at home, and there was a note on the table: I have eaten and gone to play mahjong.
When I got home in the evening, I said to Ye'er angrily, why are you so anxious? Is it that patronizing mahjong doesn't even have time to eat? Ye'er said that those people are playing mahjong earlier and earlier, and some people even started cooking at ten o'clock, and they had already had lunch and rushed to the mahjong field before eleven o'clock, so she had to go early, otherwise, she would not be able to catch up with the mahjong field if she went late.
Ye'er's words seem to make a lot of sense, yes, what do these women want to do? Now I know that the indulgence of Ye'er's bad habit of gambling will only make her even worse, until she finally loses her conscience as a human being.
From the time Ye Er began to learn mahjong, I found that Ye Er had a gambling nature in her bones, as long as the surrounding environment was a little more suitable for her, she would plunge into it and couldn't extricate herself. I don't know why Ye'er has such a trait in her bones, maybe it's because she is a descendant of fishermen.
Fishermen fish, rely on the sky to eat, these hard-working, kind and persistent fishermen, always begging from the mouth of death, in the long years, slowly formed their unique character quality: indomitable, never give up, never admit defeat, "ten nets of fishing, nine nets empty, one net back nine nets". This is a way of life that these fishermen are forced to choose in the face of harsh environment and hard life, and they are unyielding and never give up, which is an unyielding belief and persistence in a better life. Therefore, the children of fishermen often spend lavishly, because they firmly believe that there will always be a chance to "catch nine nets in one net".
This is a good quality of persistent life, but condensed in Ye'er's body, it has evolved into a gambler's psychology, which has been deeply engraved in Ye'er's bones.
If you let it go, it will only get worse! Ye'er Mahjong is not the kind of small fight when you just started to learn mahjong, now her mahjong wins and loses, a game has won or lost thousands of yuan, my monthly salary at most is so much, now Ye'er is no longer playing mahjong to kill time, but in the real gambling money, this unique gambler psychology and money game in the fanatical support of Ye'er!
I know that the reason why Ye'er has the money to play mahjong is because when she opened the store in those years, Ye'er must have saved a little private money in her hands, plus the business money of those goods in the office supply store later, Ye'er should have a lot of money on her, and this money supported Ye'er's crazy gambling.
Ye'er's fanaticism and obsession with gambling money have made this home no longer look like a home.
The original Ye'er was at least able to make lunch and then go out to gamble, but now Ye'er doesn't even do lunch, and goes out to gamble in the morning. It turns out that Ye'er will not go out to gamble at night, and every afternoon when the gambling money is over, Ye'er will always buy some cold dishes I like to eat and snacks or fruits that the baby likes to eat from the vegetable market and return home, and the family of three will get together to eat and chat. Now Ye'er has finished mahjong in the afternoon and doesn't go home. When I questioned her, Ye'er said, mahjong is a game, it's not worth running back and forth to waste time, you can make some food yourselfใใใใใใ
What is mahjong "Lianchangzi"? I do not know. Ye'er said that mahjong playing four rounds is a general, generally they play mahjong regulations only play four will end, that is, playing four cards is a game, and then each counts the wins and losses home. If you continue to play, it is called "even the field", as long as the field, then you must play four more cards, in the middle of the exit is not allowed.
I understand, that is to say, Ye'er will play four mahjong in the morning, and then play four more in the afternoon will be the second, and then play four in the evening will be the third. Between the games, someone in the mahjong field will prepare lunch and dinner for them and charge a certain fee. Gamblers with red eyes really want to be in the casino 24 hours a day.
At noon and in the evening, only my baby and I ate at home, thinking that the store would not open and life would be easier. Unexpectedly, the store was not opened, and life was even more messy than when the store was opened!
Now I still take the baby with me, tutoring with homework, laundry and cooking, cleaning, tidying up the housework, and I can only see Ye'er in the morning and at night when I am sleepy. Ye'er always comes home at the end of the mahjong at night, at that time it is often eleven or twelve o'clock in the night, sometimes Ye'er will bring her mahjong friends to the house for the night, and the mahjong friends who come to my house for the night are almost all divorced and single women because of gambling money.
I take the baby, sometimes the cooking time seems very tight, especially at noon, the mother sees that it is very inconvenient for me to take the baby alone all day, so she wants me to go to her place to eat, but the baby and I hardly go to the mother's house to eat, because I don't want to let the mother work again because of the embarrassment of my life.
Ye'er is completely keen on gambling money and can't extricate herself, she can't think about it every day, no wonder Ye'er can do it, that's because their gambling money has evolved from a small fight at the beginning to a gambling economy now. Some people provide gambling venues, some people cook for you, and even wait for the meal to be ready, someone personally serves it to you, some people run errands for you to go to the supermarket outside to buy any daily necessities you want, including cigarettes or food, etc., in a casino, there are always these people who run before and after serving you, but they never gamble, they just take commissions from gamblers like Ye'er to support themselves.
In this kind of drunken dreams and death, drunk and gold, Ye Er and the others seem to have become emperors! As everyone knows, this money is our hard-earned money.