When glitz swept over the city, prosperity became the only expression for humanity. But who knows, prosperity itself is a kind of harm.

This fairyland-like light is like a pearl baby, hurting the real simplicity and simplicity of truth. Lao Ma silently watched the entire light exhibition, and all he thought about was the clear night of Majiatun.

It was already half past eight after returning home in the evening, and the hungry and panicked people couldn't wait for a good meal, so they ordered one for each person in the roast duck shop downstairs. After the small plate of rice is served, it is very exquisite, there are vegetables and meat, the rice is hot, the vegetables are fresh, the meat is fragrant, simple and delicious, the old man eats very well.

Simplicity is already so beautiful, so why bother with it?

On Saturday night, when dinner was almost ready, Zhong Neng called Xuemei to ask when she would come back to eat, and Xuemei told her grandfather that she would not go back to the shop and go directly to her aunt on the grounds that she was eating out late after work. Zhong Neng hung up the phone and looked at Hyosung, who was speechless. After dinner in the Zhong family's multigrain shop, Hyosung took some dishes from the bowl to eat at the counter, Xuecheng took some dishes from the bowl and sat on the side of the coffee table to eat, Zhong Li sat in the middle of the sofa, and Zhong Neng sat opposite him. The family of four eats their own food, Zhong Neng has seen a little cold, and from time to time he jokes with Xuecheng and adds vegetables to the children.

Sister Zhang's house on the other side of the door was also having dinner at this time, and the family of three was eating a meal and was very noisy, and Hyosung was so envious.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Zhong Li dialed his daughter's phone.

"Hello?" Xuemei asked on the other end of the phone.

"Meimei, are you going back to the shop tonight?"

"I've already eaten, with my colleagues in the coffee shop." Zhong Xuemei stood at the door of the store, stretching her cheeks.

"I asked you if you would go back to the shop tonight?" Zhong Li's tone was full of authority.

"No return." Zhong Xuemei is challenging authority.

The father and daughter were in a stalemate for a few seconds, and Zhong Li hung up the phone. Xuemei took a deep breath and went back to the store. After getting off work at half past eight, she returned to her aunt. She knew that her mother had gone back to the shop for dinner, and she knew that her brother had also gone back, but she just couldn't figure out why she always went back so easily.

Zhong Neng saw that his son's face was not good when he called Meimei, and he was afraid that his son would be angry with Meimei. The old man called Xuemei again behind his back, persuaded her to come back tomorrow, and persuaded her not to be angry with her father. When he was about to close the stall in the evening, Hyosung received a text message from his daughter saying that she was staying at her aunt's tonight. Hyosung knew her too well and just let her go. She's stubborn, backbone, and good! She rejoiced for her, and grieved for her.

Xuemei arrived at her aunt's rental house at nine o'clock, and when she opened the door, she saw an extremely charming and enchanting woman lying on the sofa - a floral dress, a big long scroll, red nails, and a big sunglasses!

"Auntie, what are you doing?" Xuemei asked after putting down her bag and keys.

"Don't do anything! I'm afraid it scares you! Xiaotang looked in a small mirror while wearing sunglasses and said.

"Huh...... What do you do with sunglasses at night? Xuemei walked to the sofa and looked her aunt's face up and down.

"Don't do anything! I'm afraid it scares you! Xiaotang raised his head and said with a coquettish face.

"The ...... of the gods" Xuemei took advantage of her unpreparedness, looked at the frame and pulled out the sunglasses on Bao Xiaotang's face.

"Ahh

"What's wrong with your eyes! What's wrong? The little woman pointed and shouted.

"Can't you see? Fools? The big woman covered her eyes and shouted.

"Have you had plastic surgery?" Xuemei shouted again.

"It's not a facelift! It's fine-tuning! Fine-tune fine-tuning, fine-tuning, fine-tuning! Xiaotang shouted with his teeth and claws.

"I'll see!"

"It's still a little swollen! Don't touch it! You're going to touch me and beat you! It turned out that after Xiaotang was named last night, she went to the plastic surgery hospital this afternoon according to the appointment time, and chose three items: double eyelids, eye corners, and eyeliner, and after paying 30,000 yuan, she soon lay on the operating table again. It's like that day, the cold operating table, the nurse in the nurse's uniform, the doctor in the white suit...... Only this time, the cold scalpel fell on the face.

Originally, the operation was over in two hours, but because it was difficult to operate when picking the muscles and pulling the eyelids, the operation was extended by an hour and a half. Several times, Bao Xiaotang thought that he was on the last operating table, and he shed a lot of tears during the period, which caused a lot of trouble to the doctor. The beauty was so frightened that she trembled several times, just afraid that the operation would fail and she would be blind or useless.

Butterflies break their cocoons, chicks break their shells, humans give birth...... All new beginnings come with intense pain. Bao Xiaotang thinks it's worth it.

"I'm going to tell my mom to go!" After Xue Mei bent down to observe, she smiled and pointed at the air threat.

"You dare!" Xiaotang sat up straight, with a straight face.

"Aren't you afraid of permanent trauma from a surgical error? How dare you! Xuemei asked with a smile.

"Nobody cares about me!" Xiaotang held the mirror and looked around.

"Mom cares!"

"Your mother can't even take care of herself, and she still cares about me!" Xiaotang sneered.

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart. Zhong Xuemei, who was originally surprised, sat on the edge of the sofa and suddenly fell silent.

"What's wrong with you! Don't call? Xiaotang snatched the sunglasses and put them back on his face.

"It's nothing ......," Xuemei looked at her feet.

"Your dad and mom won't quarrel again, will they?" Xiaotang asked Xuemei.

Xuemei didn't speak.

"You've been like this since you were a child, and if you're unhappy, it's definitely because of a quarrel between the two of you! Did you do it? Xiaotang put down the mirror and asked.

Xuemei tilted her head and bit her lower lip, but did not speak.

Xiaotang stood up with a bang, and walked around the living room with his hands on his chest.

"Your dad isn't a thing! Don't mind if I speak badly! And your mother! I've been separated a hundred times, and she's never divorced for so many years from beginning to end - let the family fight in vain? I'm so! Your mom used to be more capable, independent, and intelligent than you when she was your age, but how did she become ...... now I can't tolerate her! Xiaotang said as he carefully wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.

"I don't know if the fight is serious or not? Your mother is like this, she never squeaks when she suffers from the whim! If I scold your dad in front of her, she will scold me in turn! I really don't know what your mother thinks? I'm mad at her! What is she trying to live this kind of life for? What's the picture? Xiaotang shook his hands at Xuemei.

Xiaotang blew his nose, and then cried and said, "Your family is already dead!" Every time I ask your mom how much she owes, she never asks! I'll just ask your dad what he eats! If you don't support your family and don't pay off your debts, forget it, you still drink and beat women every day! Is this an individual? Is this a normal father? I really hate that I'm not a man, and if I were a man, I'd have to teach your dad a lesson! ”

"Auntie, don't say it! I went to take a shower. Xuemei went to the room to get pajamas with long tears, and then went to the bathroom to take a bath.

Bao Xiaotang sat on the sofa, wanting to call her sister, but she didn't know what to say, and she was even more afraid that she would hurt her sister by saying something ugly - there is no doubt that she is the saddest person at this moment. After the phone was dialed, Bao Xiaotang restrained his emotions and only talked about Xuemei a few words, and then took the initiative to hang up the phone. After hanging up the phone, Xiaotang looked at the only person in the phone address book who was starred by her, and felt unhappy and silently distressed for a long time.

Hyosung hung up the phone and stayed alone in the house in the Fuchun community, holding the mobile phone in his hand, recalling his sister's greeting just now.

When they first came to Shenzhen at the beginning of the period, the two sisters had nothing to say, and when she got married and had children, Xiaotang worked hard at work in the years, they had a lot less contact, and misunderstandings about each other also breeded, but fortunately, Meimei was ventilated and mediated in it. In the past few years, there have been a lot of resentments and grievances, and thanks to Meimei's incomprehension. They quarreled about it, and it was obvious that she knew, so she made such a call.

The window paper that is not pierced, the scene is not ugly, and the heart is very uncomfortable.

How will we live in the future? Hyosung held the wet toilet paper and wiped away tears.

When everyone is newly married, they all have enthusiasm and hope for each other, and they all have enthusiasm and hope for life, and only after the reality is as ruthless as a typhoon, people can see each other's true colors. She is no longer the same person she was back then, and Zhong Li is no longer the Zhong Li of the year. However, people are so unable to withstand the trials and tribulations of life, and why are people so changeable and cunning.

At the beginning of the period, they lived freely and happily, she was willing to do his laundry and cooking, and he would not let her do any heavy work; She brought tea and water to him, and he went out to buy medicine in the middle of the night for her in the cold winter; She was frugal in logistics, and he was expanding his territory in the past; She is his virtuous helper, and he wholeheartedly seeks happiness for her...... She was in her early twenties, and he was in his second natal year.

After many years, they had children, fathers, and began to enjoy the warmth and joy of a large family. The three adults are all rotating every day, Chung Lee is working outside, Hyosung is busy with the shop business, and the child's grandfather is taking the child on a special trip, and Mei Mei's carefree and laughter like an invisible trophy makes everyone feel that the effort is worth it and life is proud. Although the days passed in a hurry, there was no lack of laughter and touching, harvest and gratitude in the hurry. The stable income of the two contributed to their early establishment of a house and a car, and it was not easy for a couple from the countryside with an average level of education to take root in a place like Shenzhen. Life was full of rushes at that time, and every day I woke up with happiness – looking back, it was ten years ago.

From strong to weak, from rigid to soft. People who have not loved and paid with heartbreak, people who have not insisted on going their own way to the limit of body and mind, and people who have not stubbornly fought against the so-called fate will not understand how Hyosung feels at this moment. The sorrow of marriage was certainly depressing, but the silence under the whirlpool, the tranquility before dawn, made her obsessed.

Between maintaining the family and pursuing oneself, it is a disaster for Bao Xiaoxing to give up either one. With the fish and the bear's paw unable to coexist, Hyosung didn't know how to choose. The bewitchment and urging of fate made her frightened and cowardly, and she could only escape—with indifference and silence, and Zhong Li's self-abandonment hastened her escape and exhausted the hope of her life.

At first, she couldn't understand him, and she felt that his self-abandonment was equivalent to chronic suicide. Not all suicides are intense and fatal. Self-abandonment is more lethal than a trick, because it is premeditated, processed, and self-monitored, and the self-abandoning person sees his pain multiply, they experience their weightlessness and demise in their own redoubled pain, they use their body excessively, deliberately or unintentionally, by first killing one of their bodily functions, then castrating their own organs, and finally killing the carrier that carries the organ.

The more cruel a self-defeating person is to himself, the more painful he becomes, and the more painful he is, the more cruel he becomes. In turn, they redouble their cruelty to those around them, and their pain is redoubled. If Zhong Li was the only one by his side, she would envy him. Enjoying another color of life in the sinking is not in vain for a vain life. But he was surrounded by old fathers and young children—a family that couldn't bear to abandon him.

He just slept on the floor every night after drinking, but there was always an old man who wept in his heart; He just said a few unpleasant words in his heart, but there was always a little child who thought he had made a big mistake.

Bao Xiaoxing missed the tall and handsome man in his tearful eyes. She indulged in Chungri's toughness and relied on his tallness; She admires Zhong Li's knowledge and cleverness, and values his diligence and kindness; She likes Zhong Li to show off his erudition in front of her, and she likes him to show off to herself the thrill of the workplace and his small victory......

Bao Xiaoxing is still intoxicated by Zhong Li's uniqueness and can't extricate himself.

He once took himself to see the mountains and rivers of Shenzhen, just wanting her to fall in love with the city; He once accompanied him to visit all over Shenzhen's big shopping malls and small streets, just to let her buy her favorite cyan dress; He once ran all day for the shawl he wanted, and he didn't want to let himself have the slightest grievance with him......

She misses Bao Xiaoxing even more at that time. At that time, every meal he had racked his brains to change tricks, just to let Zhong Li be favored; At that time, he took Zhongli to the temple every year to worship, so that he could learn to pray and be at ease, and let go of fear and anxiety; At that time, every deep conversation between himself and Zhong Li was full of seriousness and tenderness, just to let him see his own growth, as well as his support and love for him as a wife.

Bao Xiaoxing hated Zhong Li's self-abandonment, just as she hated her own indifference—deeply.