In the autumn of 2003, just after the SARS epidemic, Hua Nianping and Wu Ningfang got married. After marriage, Wu Ningfang was sent by Hua Nianping to study in the junior college class of the Beijing Dance Academy, which belongs to the adult education degree, and after graduation, she got a position as a dance teacher in the kindergarten affiliated to Beijing University.

The relationship between the two was good in the first few years after marriage, but since Hua Nianping was transferred from Beijing University to the current headquarters organ, the relationship deteriorated sharply, from trivial quarrels to husband and wife who did not give in to each other, and then developed into a cold war that did not care about each other for ten days or a month, and even had two hand-to-hand fights.

The reasons are, first, the boss and his wife surnamed Wu were found out by the school for using "gutter oil", and when they were kicked out of the teacher's cafeteria, Hua Nianping did not stand up to speak for his parents-in-law; The second is that Wu Ningfang's younger brother took the college entrance examination, and the whole family trusted Hua Nianping to use his relationship to enroll students to Beijing University, but Hua Nianping did not use his authority to help him, so that his younger brother could not go to university.

Now, Hua Nianping thought that he had just come back from the frontier, and was suddenly sent to Huai by the headquarters organ, and he had to leave Beijing at night, saying that it was a one-year period, and he didn't know how many years he would have to stay, thinking of saying goodbye to Wu Ningfang again, and the relationship between husband and wife would not know which year it would be reconciled as before, and he couldn't help but feel sad in his heart.

Because he will leave the capital by car early tomorrow morning, Hua Nianping plans to cook himself at dinner, cook a few side dishes, and apologize to his wife. But Wu Ningfang called home and said that there were two tutoring classes in the evening and that she would have dinner with her colleagues outside.

Sure enough, Wu Ningfang continued to come back very late, but unlike yesterday, not only did she not drink, but she also bought a new windbreaker jacket for Hua Nianping.

Hua Nianping decided to have a good talk with Wu Ningfang, and when she took a shower and changed into the goose yellow nightdress, he took the initiative to brew two cups of coffee and brought them to her.

Wu Ningfang didn't appreciate it, saying that it was not easy to sleep at night when drinking coffee at night, Hua Nianping was not interested, and said that he would drink all these two cups of coffee. Wu Ningfang said very unhappily that pouring out a cup of coffee could not save a lot of money, but blamed him for adding to his blockage.

Hua Nianping tried to restrain himself and said:

"Ning Fang, I know I've wronged you all these years. In fact, when I came back to the capital this time, I made up my mind to live a good life with you, and I would not only think about work in the future, let alone leave you again. But I'm going to leave again tomorrow morning, and I'm going to leave you alone to live a lonely life, which is really unfair to you, and I really feel sorry for you. ”

Wu Ningfang lit a cigarette and was silent for a while. said: "Actually, it is not easy for you to wander alone. ”

Her words moved Hua Nianping so much that he almost burst into tears.

He couldn't help but become passionate, and immediately stretched out his arms to hug his wife, and said with irrepressible excitement: "Fang, let's have a child quickly!" ”

To Hua Nianping's great surprise, Wu Ningfang seemed to have a strange feeling of hugging him, and felt very awkward, so he immediately broke free and pulled out to the side.

Seeing Hua Nianping's face suddenly swelling up gloomy, Wu Ningfang hesitated for a moment, only then did he seem to apologize, and as if he was afraid that Hua Nianping would misunderstand, he said: "Maybe you haven't noticed that my body is ...... It has been inconvenient since the day you came back. ”

When she said this, she seemed to mean that Hua Nianping brought her menstrual leave in the past few days, not every month.

Hua Nianping felt embarrassed, so he explained: "I mean that in the future, we have to have a child." It has not been long before the Spring Festival, and I will return to the capital for the New Year no matter what, and it will only be a year to take up a temporary position in Huai, and the time will soon pass. ”

Unexpectedly, his words made Wu Ningfang recall many things at once.

She suddenly looked at him hatefully, her voice was not high, but she was obviously full of resentment, and said, "The Spring Festival is coming." But Hua Nianping, do you think I will still believe you! You think this time it's a heavy duty, but I think it's just being assigned again. ”

As if suddenly seen through a kind of hypocrisy, Hua Nianping blushed and stammered, "How do you ...... How do you look at it this way...... The arrangement above! ”

Wu Ningfang sneered and said:

"At the beginning, you went to Xinjiang and said that you would go back to the capital once every two months, but how many times have you come back in a few years? When you first got married, you were the leader of the School of Economics, and although there were many things, we could still see each other every day. When you are transferred to the current headquarters organ, you will not be in the capital for 300 days a year when you are on business trips all over the country, either to investigate or to inspect. ”

Hua Nianping couldn't refute it, because Wu Ningfang told the truth, and the more she talked, she couldn't help but ask Hua Nianping about the fact that her parents were kicked out of Beijing University because of "gutter oil" and her younger brother was not able to go to college.

This is an indispensable topic of battle for her to be haunted by every time she has an unpleasant encounter with Hua Nianping.

Wu Ningfang continued:

"You're doing a good job, and you're getting higher and higher. But in the capital, there are many executives at your level, and what is the difference between them and ordinary employees, and they still take the subway and crowd the bus. Besides, your salary is not very high. After so many years of marriage, we can't even afford a decent house. This time, you went to a temporary job in another place, saying that it would be a year, and God knows when we will break up again. ”

Hua Nianping finally interjected and argued: "President Jiao personally assured me that he would indeed be suspended for one year. ”

Wu Ningfang shook her head and shook it, sighed and said, "Hua Nianping, I really can't imagine how a cowardly person like you climbed to the top. You're so confused, you don't have any wisdom to be a human being. ”

She stood up, seemingly unwilling to talk to Hua Nianping any longer, and walked to the dresser to apply a mask to her face.

This parting conversation between husband and wife ended in unhappiness for both of them.

Hua Nianping lay on the bed and looked at his wife's back, remembering that the goose yellow silk nightdress on her body was brought back by Wu Ningfang before returning to China when she was a visiting scholar in Singapore that year, and the bottom of the nightdress was inlaid with a circle of roses with gold threads.

Now, in just over two years, Hua Nianping couldn't imagine that Wu Ningfang's back had become sharp and thin, and the nightdress was worn on her as if she was supported by a stick.

He thought that it seemed that her life must have been very unsatisfactory when she was away from home.

Wu Ningfang made a mask and applied it to her face for more than an hour, she thought Hua Nianping was asleep, so she turned off the headlights in the room.

Hua Nianping was in a daze and didn't know how long Wu Ningfang would toss, seeing that she returned to the bedroom for a while, and went to the living room for a while, the nightdress dragged on the floor made a terrifying sound of "popping" from time to time in the silent night, following Wu Ningfang's every time she walked back and forth, as if a rattlesnake was crawling around with her.

Hua Nianping was shocked by the sound of "popping".

Later, Wu Ningfang finally went to bed, and suddenly kindly reminded: "Hua Nianping, don't sleep too hard, don't miss the train!" ”