Part 1 Debt Obligations
It is said that the ratio of men to women in China is now 110/100, which means that one out of every eleven men is a single dog.
Xiao Han didn't know if this was true or not, but he saw on the marriage website that there were far more men seeking marriage than women! At least more than half of the so-called women on the website are engaged in pyramid schemes and pulled down the line in the name of marriage. Isn't this a tragedy for Chinese men?
Despite this, Xiao Han did not lose his confidence in marrying and starting a family, and took advantage of the Spring Festival holiday to still leave contact information for ladies of similar age on the marriage website, hoping that there would be an exception for himself.
At night, the prompt on the mobile phone sounded, and when I saw the WeChat display on the mobile phone, a lady named Liqun applied to be added as a friend, and he happily accepted it.
Xiao Han: Happy New Year! It's a pleasure to be your WeChat friend.
Liqun: Friends, you left me a WeChat account on the marriage website.
Xiao Han: First of all, let me introduce myself. I am from Nanning, 35 years old, divorced, engaged in design work in an architectural design institute, and a 11-year-old son.
Liqun: Thank you for your candor! I'm a year younger than you. I'm also divorced, I don't have a job now, and one of my daughters is in elementary school.
Xiao Han: We are the right age.
Liqun: yes, but your job is so good, you don't dislike me, right? I'm looking for a partner now to find a long-term reliance!
Xiao Han: If it's suitable, I won't dislike it. What personality are you?
Liqun: I'm a bit introverted, weak, and I'm more homely now. What about you?
Xiao Han: Don't look at me as a science designer, but I prefer to talk and be romantic. But I can't think of staying at home this Spring Festival, because of the epidemic in Wuhan, I can't go anywhere, so I can only stay at home.
Liqun: You added me, shouldn't it be to accompany you to relieve your boredom and chat?
Xiao Han: I am indeed sincere in asking for marriage, of course, single people are very lonely, and I also want someone to talk to together.
Liqun: What do you think is the most important thing to succeed in your marriage?
Xiao Han: Sincerely! It's better to talk about everything!
Liqun: Can you tell me why you got divorced?
Xiao Han: Because my ex-wife always grabbed my pigtails and always had a cold war with me, both of them felt that life was boring, and she was strong that if she divorced, I had to agree to her.
Liqun: Oh, what pigtails do you have, can you say?
Xiao Han hesitated for a long time: I think it is impossible to truly understand a person without understanding a person's past. I can be honest with you about my experience, and I hope you don't hate me after listening to it, okay?
Liqun: Past experiences don't mean the future, you name it.
Xiao Han had courage: I came from the countryside. Before I went to college, my family introduced me to a partner. Since my own family was poor, the target of this rural village was working in the town to provide for my university education.
Liqun: After graduating, you look down on rural people? Did you change your mind?
Xiao Han: When I'm done, you will condemn me. After graduating, I went to work at an architectural design institute and developed a relationship with a female designer in the office who was three years older than me. At that time, I didn't dare to tell her that I had a fiancΓ©e in the countryside.
Liqun: Ah! ββ
Xiao Han: Later, I thought that Xiaolu married this female designer, and he was my ex-wife.
Liqun: What about the rural one?
Xiao Han: A month after I got married, I went back to the countryside to explain to this person in the countryside in the name of going back to my hometown to visit my parents, and asked for her forgiveness! Instead of listening to my explanation, he slapped me hard.
Liqun: Oh, that's it?
Xiao Han: I thought it was over, but I actually felt very guilty in my heart, feeling sorry for the past in the countryside and sorry for the present at home. So I tried to care more about my ex-wife at home, and I was considerate of my ex-wife, and a year later I had a son. I hope that life can go on in such a peaceful way!
Xiao Han looked up to the sky and sighed: But---But when his son was two years old, the paper finally didn't cover the fire! When my ex-wife and I took the children home for the New Year, my ex-wife heard the neighbor's talkative second aunt talk about it, and since then there will be no sunny days in our house!
Liqun: If you can tell your ex-wife this before you get married, there may be no more shadows after marriage. You say yes, right?
Xiao Han: Maybe! But I don't understand, why do women attach so much importance to concealment, and the two of them will live well in the future?
Liqun: It means that you don't understand women!
Xiao Han: So I just met you now, no! When I first started communicating with you, I told you about the dark side of my past.
Liqun: Although I am disgusted by your past ingratitude to the person in the countryside who sponsored you to go to college, you have the courage to confess now that you have recognized your mistake, so I don't hate you now. Besides, I'm not in a position to hate people!
Xiao Han: Thank you! Can you let me know about your past too?
Liqun: I really don't want to say it! But in order to repay your sincerity, I will tell you. You wait a minute, I'll pour a glass of water.
Xiao Han also got up and poured a glass of beer and brought a plate of peanuts.
Liqun: Are you listening?
Xiao Han: I've just washed my ears, and I'm ready to listen.
Liqun: I've also said it first, I've finished my experience, if you don't like it, just tell me, there's no need to waste your feelings.
Xiao Han: How can a divorced person have no story? No one has the right to dislike others.
Liqun took a sip of water: It's the same, after all, they are all from here.
Xiao Han: I want to be a record of your memories, hehe!
Liqun: The first time I talked to someone about my privacy, I don't know where to start, but I started at the age of sixteen.
Liqun closed her eyes and thought for a long time:
I was originally from the countryside of Cangzhou, Hebei Province, and I have a younger brother below. Because my family was poor, when I was 16 years old, I dropped out of school to work in a distant uncle's factory in Cangzhou City and lived in a collective dormitory.
Working in this factory, I work in the workshop for more than ten hours a day, there are no Sundays, and my salary is not paid on time. My distant uncle not only did not take care of me, but he was even harsher than other workers!
After working there for more than three months, I went to a clothing store owned by a Wenzhou man with a wife and two children.
Since I didn't have a place to live, I had to live in a warehouse in the backyard of a clothing store.
The proprietress sometimes returns to Wenzhou with her two children. At this time, at night, the boss always goes to the warehouse to take inventory.
Xiao Han interjected and asked: What did he do to you?
Liqun: He'......
Liqun continued: I have learned a lot by working for them Wenzhou people. I learned how to buy, how to ship, how to get customers to buy your clothes, how to make money persistently, how to save money hard.
Xiao Han: "How can I sell my clothes?" β
Liqun: For example, a lady tried on a blouse, obviously the blouse is very fat, and it doesn't look good at all, but the Wenzhou seller will say: "Sister, you are wearing this gown very generous, very luxurious, whoever sees it will envy you!" β
For example, if a lady tries on a gown that is too thin and not suitable, they will say, "Sister, you are wearing this gown in style, and this waist is as ...... as a little girl."
Xiao Han: They really know how to sell!
Liqun: I worked with them in Wenzhou for two years, and when I was 18 years old, I met a young man named Zhai Weidong. He was tall and handsome with curly hair, and he often came to see me in the clothing store and often bought me good food. It didn't take long for us to fall in love! After falling in love, he helped me open my own clothing store, and since then I have been doing my own clothes.
I have been in love with Zhai Weidong for three years, and when I was twenty-one years old, he came back in a panic in the middle of the night. I asked him what had happened? He said nothing but came back late from drinking with his friends. But while he was washing, there was a violent knock on the door outside. As soon as the door opened, Wei Dong was handcuffed!
He went in for a robbery!
Xiao Han: Ahhhh How many years has it been sentenced?
Liqun paused: sentenced to five years!
Liqun continued: At that time, I was worried and anxious, so I transferred the clothing store and tried to ask someone to get him out. But I'm from a rural area, how can I have a strong relationship? I was deceived by the so-called capable people for more than 10,000 yuan, and I was forcibly taken back to my rural home by my parents.
Xiao Han: Your parents definitely don't want you to wait for him to come out, right?
Liqun: Of course, who wants their daughter to marry a criminal?
In order to make me forget about Weidong and cut off contact with Weidong in the future, I was only taken home for three days, and my parents introduced me to a partner.
His name is Fu Zhongde, and he is a sand turner for a company in Cangzhou City.
Xiao Han: Sand turners are the most tiring and dirty type of work in the enterprise, their job is to burn the iron into molten iron, and then pour the molten iron into the mold of the sand mold, and after cooling, it becomes an iron casting.
Liqun: Yes. At the urging of my parents, I got engaged to him ten days after meeting him, and we got married after knowing each other for less than a month!
Xiao Han: That means that you get married without falling in love and getting to know each other.
Liqun: I thought at the time, I can't let my parents always worry about me, and this husband Fu Zhongde is very honest and honest, although he has no feelings, but he is reliable after all, so I will make do with him!
Xiao Han: After a long time, you will have feelings, right?
Liqun: No! I don't like his smile, I don't like his calloused hands, and I don't like his sweaty overalls! But not long after I got married, I got pregnant!
Xiao Han: Oh, this is?
Liqun: When I was just over eight months pregnant, I was admitted to the maternity hospital. I asked the doctor if I was going to give birth prematurely. After examination, the doctor told me that the child was developing very normally in the womb and would not be born prematurely. I seem to get it!
Xiao Han: Ahhhh
Liqun: On the fifth day of hospitalization, I gave birth to a healthy daughter.
Seeing my husband Zhongde holding his daughter and smirking, I felt very uncomfortable, I didn't have the courage to tell him the truth!
Xiao Han: So?
Liqun: In this way, we live a peaceful life, and my daughter is growing up day by day, and she is becoming more and more like ......
Xiao Han: Didn't your husband notice it?
Liqun: I don't know. But I always felt as if he knew what was going on, but he never said a word of suspicion.
Xiao Han: Haven't you thought about giving him another one?
Liqun: In the family planning of the year, a couple was only allowed to have one child, and my daughter had already taken up the quota for this child.
Xiao Han: Your ex-husband is so sad!
Liqun: Even in this life, after five years, the peace has been shattered!
Xiao Han: I guess your first love Wei Dong came out, right?
Liqun: It's been five years. At that time, a colleague in Zhongde workshop happened to be injured at work and sent to Tianjin Orthopedic Hospital for treatment, and needed to be sent by the factory to accompany him. The leader felt that the loyal man was honest, so he sent him.
Two weeks after Chungdeok's business trip, it was raining heavily that night, and there was some rain leaking outside, and I had just put the basin under the dripping water when I heard a gentle knock on the door. I thought it was another neighbor who came to borrow something, so I opened the door, but in the electric light, I saw him standing tall and thin outside the door! My heart was beating to my throat!
Xiao Han: Zhai Weidong!
Liqun let out a long breath: Zhongde had been on a business trip for almost three months, and he called back from a long distance and said that he would be back in two days.
I'm so embarrassed, I don't know how to deal with it! But at this time, Wei Dong had an accident again!
Xiao Han: Is it a big deal?
Liqun: He, he, he killed the accomplice who confessed to him in the last robbery!
Xiao Han: Wow - it's over!
Liqun, during that time, I cried every day, and Zhongde always wiped my tears.
One dark night when the clouds were rolling, I walked towards the railroad through the city, and when the workers on duty at the crossing shouted at me, I closed my eyes and ran forward when the train rumbled......
Xiao Han: Oh my God!
Liqun: All of a sudden, calloused hands grabbed me! The wind from the passing train ruffled my hair and tears!
I heard the humble voice again: "Wife, let's go home!" β
Xiao Han: You wait and then I will wipe my tears first.
Liqun: Ahhh
Xiao Han: Since then?
Liqun: He always loves his daughter so much, but his daughter is always so cold to her!
Xiao Han: Why?
Liqun: My daughter looks down on him! I don't want him to go to every parent-teacher conference, and I always don't like to go out with him.
Xiao Han: If Zhongde were an official or a boss, your daughter's attitude would be different, and today's children are like this!
Liqun: Zhongde is a good person, and I am very down-to-earth with him. I tried to forget the past, love him, like her, but I couldn't do it in my heart no matter what. I often ask myself, am I a good woman?
Xiao Han: Feelings do not transfer by human will.
Liqun: But fate played a huge joke on me again!
Xiao Han: It seems that the trees want to be quiet and the wind does not stop.
Liqun: A close friend of mine went to Liupanshui in Guizhou, and she called and said that Liupanshui had built a new clothing market, and the merchants were exempt from taxes for three years. She rented a shop in the market to sell clothes, but she didn't know how to do it, so she wanted me to help her.
I told Zhongde about this, and he said that there are so many people doing pyramid schemes now, don't be fooled. But I said it was impossible, my girlfriend couldn't lie to me! He had no choice but to agree to my going, but told me to come back as soon as possible.
Xiao Han: You just went? Outcome?
Liqun: I got there on the train for a whole day, and my girlfriend took me to a penthouse in one building.
I was stupid when I walked in! The walls in the living room are plastered with MLM slogans. Except for my best friend and another woman with a Sichuan accent, the other seven are all men! And in the two bedrooms, each with two double beds!
I ate vegan cabbage stew with them that day! But what they advertise is that they are all rich, and whoever joins their team can make a lot of money!
I wanted to leave, but my best friend stopped me and told me to stop for two days before leaving. I couldn't resist her, and I was afraid that they would be outnumbered, so I stayed for the time being.
Xiao Han: The Rat Society!
Liqun: But the next day my best friend left me alone. I repeatedly asked to leave, but they stopped me in a coaxing and frightened manner, and took my mobile phone, falsely claiming to keep it for me.
That night, the Sichuan woman was not with me.
Xiao Han: ...... they?
Liqun: ......
Xiao Han: The state should crack down on pyramid schemers!
Liqun: After eating vegetarian food for a week, a young man from Nanning came.
Xiao Han: Oh, how old is he?
Liqun: I don't think he's more than twenty-five, but he told me he's thirty.
He secretly asked me, do you want to leave here? I said of course. He said he could take me out, but on one condition, I had to agree to go to Nanning with him.
I understood what he meant, but I thought it was better to go with him than to stay here, no matter how young he was, he was just one person after all! I had no choice but to say yes. He paid some money to the pyramid schemers here, saying that I had promised to join the club and go back and bring in new people.
He took me to Nanning and rented a small house for me to live in.
I borrowed his mobile phone to call Zhongde at home, smiled with tears in my eyes and said to him that I was fine, now I have a new mobile phone, and I will come to Nanning with my girlfriend to buy goods, and I will go back after a while, so that he doesn't worry!
Xiao Han: Since you left the Rat Society, why don't you go back immediately?
Liqun: At that time, I didn't dare to go back, I was afraid that I would not be able to face Zhongde!
Xiao Han: What are you interested in this young man?
Liqun: I was grateful at first that he was able to bring me out, but after a few days together, I felt that I really liked him, he was so young after all.
Xiao Han: What will I do after that?
Liqun: My daughter is going on winter vacation, and I have to go back.
Xiao Han: So you've lived in Nanning for a long time?
Liqun: When I went back, I told Zhongde that I was sorry for him and that I didn't deserve to be his wife anymore!
He said to me, "Let's spend the New Year with our children again!" β
After my daughter started school after the Chinese New Year, I had my last meal with Zhongde, and he just drank sullenly and didn't say a word.
Silence, silence fell on both ends of the phone. Liqun was wiping her tears, and Xiao Han was in a daze.
The sudden power outage in the house made Xiao Han feel excited.
Xiao Han suddenly had a question: What is the name of that young man in Nanning?
Liqun: He asked me to call him Dashen.
Xiao Han felt his head start to get bigger: Do you have a picture of him? Send it over and I'll take a look.
Liqun: Okay, I'll send it to you to see, she really doesn't look like a thirty-year-old.
Xiao Han only glanced at the photo sent by Liqun, and then slammed his fist on the table.
Xiao Han gritted his teeth: Da Shen is lying to you, he is only twenty-four years old!
Liqun: I guessed right, but how can you be so sure?
Xiao Han: I'm sorry Liqun, let's delete each other!
Liqun: I knew that if I told you about my experience, you would definitely dislike me! Well, then I wish you happiness!
Xiao Han: No, I don't dislike you, but I want to tell you honestly that Dashen is my brother!
When Xiao Han wanted to say goodbye, he found that Liqun had deleted himself.