Just like every time Chen Hong filed for divorce from Bai Xuesong, this time it came very suddenly, without any premonition and foreshadowing, just like two people chatting.

After dinner, put down the dishes and chopsticks, Chen Hongjiao pulled his slippers, twisted his body, and staggered to the living room. As usual, Bai Xuesong began to clean up the table, brush the pots and wash the dishes, and after everything was done, he brewed a pot of jasmine tea.

Bai Xuesong entered the living room with a teapot, Chen Hong was lying on the sofa with Erlang's legs crossed, and her bare feet were still trembling, looking at her phone intently.

Bai Xuesong put down the teapot, found a small blanket from the bedroom, and covered it on Chen Hong's feet, still chattering:

"Such a big person, barefoot is not afraid of cold!"

As he spoke, he pulled Chen Hong's leg with his hand.

"Please go inside."

Chen Hong didn't say anything, but just symbolically moved her body into the sofa. Bai Cedar sat down and took out a packet of sugar-fried chestnuts from the coffee table.

Bai Xuesong gave Chen Hong the whole chestnuts one by one, put the broken sheets aside and prepared to eat them himself, and then began to peel the apples. Chen Hong shouted while chewing chestnuts:

"Water, water, I'm choking."

Bai Xuesong quickly poured Chen Hong a cup of tea, tasted it with her mouth, and handed it to her carefully. Chen Hong drank the tea in a few sips, handed the teacup to Bai Xuesong, then put the phone aside and looked at Bai Xuesong seriously.

"Let's get a divorce." Chen Hong said to Bai Xuesong with a hippie smile.

Bai Xuesong didn't even tilt his head to Chen Hong's side, put the chestnut skin into the trash can, and held some peeled chestnut pieces in his hand, and was about to put it in his mouth.

"Why are you stealing my chestnuts?" Chen Hong stared at his hand.

Bai Xuesong opened his hand and showed the crushed chestnuts to Chen Hong.

"Will you eat the broken ones?"

Chen Hong glanced at the shapeless crushed chestnuts in his hand.

"It's better for you to eat, I won't eat this broken."

White Cedar put the peeled apples on the coffee table again.

"You say, why don't I eat so many snacks and not get fat?" Chen Hong asked while handing the paper that wiped her mouth to Bai Xuesong.

"You've said about the divorce more than a hundred times, and you haven't fulfilled any of them." Bai Xuesong did not forget the topic Chen Hong just now.

Chen Hong sat up excitedly when she heard Bai Xuesong talk about business.

"I saw an article on the Internet that said that no matter how happy a family is, both husband and wife will have hundreds of thoughts of wanting to divorce."

"Yes, there are dozens of times when I want to strangle the other person. Then you're still far away, just over a hundred times. ”

"But this time I'm telling the truth."

"You say it's true every time."

"This time it must be."

"Can you tell me why I have to leave?"

"We haven't quarreled for a long time, I think it's boring like this, I don't mean anything else, I just don't understand, why don't you even know how to quarrel and quarrel? I'm looking for your fault like this, why don't you even hear back, how do you look like a big man? I think our family is too depressed and dull now, and I have to look at the outside world. ”

"It's okay to see, just hide by our window and look out."

"No, it's not interesting to look through a window, I don't feel it, I have to go and see it."

"Will you come back after reading it?"

"I don't know."

"What if you lose your mind?"

"No, I'm just looking, curious. Won't get distracted. ”

"Leaving someone is worse than wandering."

"If you get distracted, you won't come back."

Bai Xuesong thought about it, and it seemed that she had nothing to say to her.

"Okay, when did you say you were going to go through the formalities?"

"I'll take a look at the yellow calendar, and see which day is suitable for divorce?"

As she spoke, Chen Hong took the mobile phone that she put on the coffee table and began to search for the yellow calendar.

"Is there any other day on the yellow calendar that is suitable for divorce?"

"There should be, I'll see."

"The yellow calendar was summed up by people in ancient times, and it seems that you can't divorce casually at that time, right?"

"You're right, it's really not, so what should I do?"

"Then don't leave."

"That's not good, we can do this, just find a day that is not suitable for marriage to divorce."

"It's not suitable for marriage, and it's not necessarily the day of divorce."

"Make do with it, I'm going to leave anyway, it doesn't matter what day it is, I think it's next Tuesday, I just don't have classes next Tuesday."

"What day of the week is it?" There's another week, okay, you don't have any changes this week. ”

"No, don't worry, I've already thought about it, and it won't change again."

"I hope so."

"But I still have to tell you, even if you leave, you can't leave this home, you can't leave for the time being, and you can't tell my parents about our divorce."

"Don't worry, I can't leave here, where will I go without this? Since you don't leave, there's no need to talk to them, let's just live the same life as before, what should we do. ”

"That's not going to work, it's not going to be anything. You put away this double quilt tomorrow and replace it with two singles, and from tomorrow onwards, we won't sleep in the same quilt. ”

"Aren't you afraid of the cold? The two of them slept in a quilt and warmed up. ”

"They're all divorced, and they're still sleeping under the covers, what's the matter? I'm not afraid of the cold. ”

Bai Xuesong cut most of the peeled apple and handed it to Chen Hong. looked at her and said: "Then let's just say it, tomorrow I will find two single quilts, we have a week to go through the formalities, you try it first during this time, it happens to be cold now, if you can carry it for a few days, we will leave next week, if you can't resist, then we won't leave." ”

"Don't worry, I'm sure I'll be able to carry it, what a big deal? You can get divorced, are you still afraid of the cold? ”

Bai Xuesong didn't say anything more, and on the way to the bathroom, he hummed in his mouth: The outside world is very exciting, and the outside world is very helpless.

Bai Xuesong thought that just like every time they talked about divorce, they didn't get separated, and this time it wouldn't be true, so he forgot about changing the quilt early the next morning.

Usually he is very attentive to the things that Chen Hong explains, but he has never stayed in his mind at all, not that he is forgetful, nor that he doesn't take it seriously, but that Chen Hong said that there are too many divorces, just like chatting anytime and anywhere, he doesn't care about what he says. Of course, he didn't want to divorce in his heart, almost 20 years have passed since the two of them, and what is the separation, it is nothing more than Chen Hong being idle and having nothing to do, making some trouble.

Bai Xuesong thought that this matter was the same as every time before, and it would pass without mentioning it in black and white. But before going to bed the next night, Chen Hong reminded him:

"Did I do what I asked you to do?"

"What's the matter?"

"Pretend, huh? Did you find the quilt? ”

"What quilt?"

"You're Alzheimer's, what did we say last night, didn't you say that you won't sleep on a bed from today on?"

Bai Xuesong has actually been pretending to be stupid, he already knew what Chen Hong meant. He handed the peeled pear to Chen Hong, but this time he didn't cut it in half, a habit they had developed for a long time. At the beginning, when they were together, Bai Cedar always cut the peeled pears in half and ate them separately, and was scolded by Chen Hong every time. Chen Hong taboos the matter of "dividing pears".

Chen Hong took the pear and nibbled on it, and urged Bai Xuesong:

"You'll find it now."

Bai Xuesong went to the kitchen to wash his hands, and instead of going back to the bedroom to open their closet to find a quilt, he took a cigarette and went to the balcony to smoke. When he walked through the living room, he saw his mother-in-law and his father-in-law leaning on the sofa and stupidly watching TV, the TV was very loud, and he didn't know what it was playing. The two old men did not have any expression or movement, sitting side by side on the sofa, just watching TV without any reaction. He passed by the door of his son's small room, the door of the room opened a crack, and he looked inside, and his son was concentrating on his homework, and everything was the same as every day.

He went to the balcony and turned around and closed the sliding door, he was afraid that the smell of smoke would reach the living room, and the two old men would not be able to smell it.

Smoking on the balcony will be kung fu, he thought about it, is Chen Hong really wanting to divorce this time. Whether to sleep or not to sleep in a quilt affected Bai Xuesong's thinking, they still slept together after a quarrel before, but this time they have to sleep separately, this will be the starting point that leads to their final separation, this matter cannot be underestimated, and the trend of the situation must be curbed from the source. Thinking of this, he snuffed out the unfinished half of the cigarette and returned to their room. He asked Chen Hong:

"Do you really want to leave this time?"

"Nonsense, I've said it so many times, you quickly find out the quilt, and we'll sleep separately tonight."

"What are your plans after the divorce?"

"What else are you going to do? Find another one, find one better than you. ”

"What if you can't find someone better than me?"

"Cut, look at you like that, there are some better than you, why can't I find it?"

"I'm talking about what if."

"No case, ten thousand will be found."

"You don't want to think about how there is someone as good as me? How can anyone spoil you like me? Bai Xuesong still uses the same method as every time he discusses divorce before, turning serious questions into laughter, so that things will end in the end, which is his usual trick, and Chen Hong also likes it.

"You're such a fart, you're so old, you don't even have a house of your own, and now you still live in our house, so you can't do this."

Chen Hong often brings up the issue of the house when she talks about divorce, and the topic of the two of them will come to an abrupt end as soon as they talk about it.

Bai Xuesong opened the wardrobe and rummaged for a long time, and finally found two single quilts, he folded the double quilt they had originally covered, put it in a big plastic bag, and put it in the wardrobe.

Lying in the quilt with a strong camphor smell, Bai Xuesong couldn't sleep, looked at Chen Hong, who was also not asleep next to her, and asked her:

"If we leave, do I have to move out?"

"That's not it, and you can't move out yet? Even if it's divorced. ”

"Why?"

"I can't let my parents know about the divorce yet."

"You said that after the two of us really left, the old man and the old lady, can they not see it?"

"How do they see it? What should we do in front of them? ”

"But I can't pretend to."

"If you can't pretend to be it, you have to pretend, they can't see it, as long as you don't have anything abnormal."

"Do you think we're still together when we're separated, is this called normal?"

"If you don't feel normal, you can go. I'll explain to them when you're gone. ”

"And what if they can't accept it?"

"You don't have to worry about it, I'll take care of the rest of the matter."

Having said this, Bai Xuesong has already realized that Chen Hong is really ready to leave this time. She seems to have arranged the rest of the process, and lying under a different bed today is only the first step.

"Then we can't always be like this, we still live together when we leave."

"Why are you so verbose, you don't want to stay and you can leave at any time, didn't you just say?"

"What about the child, what about the child?"

"What to do? What should children do, they should go to school. ”

"This little thing is clever, he can definitely see it."

"It's not up to him, as long as we pretend to be alike, no one can see it."

"I mean, if you find someone new in the future, the kid will stay here?"

"Where are you going if you don't go here? You take him away? ”

"Of course I have to take the child away, I'm his father."

"I'm still it. Besides, how do you live with your children? With the money you earn, you can't rent a house with your children, right? ”

"And what if I miss the child?"

"If you want him, you can go to school to see him, and don't come here anyway. Or don't let them know, how we should live and how we live, no one knows when the door is closed. Or let them know completely, you get out of here and never show up again, just two options. ”

Bai Xuesong listened to Chen Hong's words and didn't want to ask anything more. He recalled that in the more than ten years since they got married, Chen Hong had asked Bai Xuesong for divorce countless times. To say that the request is not exact, it should be coercion and inducement.

Chen Hong used to talk about divorce with Bai Xuesong, the scenes and backgrounds were different, sometimes it was a joke, sometimes it was a casual sentence brought out during the quarrel, and sometimes it was serious, but in the end it was not realized. This time, however, it is different from the past, today there is no background or reason, but there are specific actions, such as sleeping separately, which seems to be a simple action that is decisive for Bai Cedar.

After more than ten years of married life, Bai Xuesong has become accustomed to a practice, that is, to consider things according to Chen Hong's thinking logic. This practice is difficult for white cedars, at least at first. At that time, they were all young, and Bai Xuesong was the kind of person who had his own ideas, so he always competed with Chen Hong. But after a long time, he found that all the competition was a waste of time and energy, and every time he quarreled, Bai Xuesong was angry and angry, and he couldn't slow down for a long time, but Chen Hong had already forgotten what had just happened as soon as he turned around.

Gradually, Bai Xuesong began to change his thinking and practices, and he made himself try to be a mindless person in front of Chen Hong. Although he was also a college graduate, he only attended the most ordinary branch school at that time, and he passed the college entrance examination score line by a few points, and the economic management he studied when he was in school was the kind of major that an individual could graduate from. I didn't learn anything well after work, and it was very difficult to analyze a person's thinking with this amount of knowledge. But this thing must be done, because Chen Hong's thinking is bizarre, fragmentary, and different, if you want to get along with her, you must understand her thoughts, and know the ins and outs, and know the future direction, which is why Bai Xuesong did this, unless he didn't want to deal with her.

Bai Xuesong originally wanted to continue to reason with Chen Hong, or to fight for it. But today's events came so suddenly that he was a little overwhelmed. He couldn't understand why Chen Hong had made the decision for a while. He needs to think carefully about what is going on so that he can go next. Anyway, there is still a week to go, and Chen Hong may not be able to make any changes during this period, which is a common thing for her. So Bai Xuesong decided to think about it first, don't follow Chen Hong's idea to do anything, and wait until everything is clear.

First of all, Bai Xuesong thought about what was the root cause of Chen Hong's decision, there must be an outside influence in this. Because for a long time, Chen Hong has been surrounded by several of her best friends, who have accompanied her for almost the entire life of her twenties. They have changed from college classmates to colleagues in one school, or they are distributed in several schools, but their contact has never been broken, and they will get together to discuss and decide what happens, so these people play a decisive role in Chen Hong's life, and these people must be the main culprits who caused her to have the idea of divorce. Of course, Bai Xuesong is still very objectively sure that the main culprit is himself, and Chen Hong is only an accomplice in the whole incident at best.

Of course, he also thought of the worst outcome, that is, a real divorce, which was the result he didn't want. But if you get there, you have to accept it. He understands Chen Hong's temper, and once he decides, he won't look back, but there are really not many things she can decide. He also thought about whether Chen Hong had someone outside, but this idea was immediately denied by himself. They live together every day, and with Chen Hong's intelligence, if there is really any movement, it is impossible to hide it seamlessly. Although Chen Hong fantasizes about meeting a handsome guy like in a TV series all day long, every time he talks about it, Chen Hong himself will laugh at it, those characters will only appear in literary works, and they are not in line with real life. And Chen Hong is not the kind of anyone who can look at it, which is enough to prove from their experience of knowing each other for nearly 20 years.

Thinking like this, he calmed down a little, even if this time it reached the point of no return, in fact, the result was nothing more than two like Chen Hong said, and the reality was in front of him. At this moment, he didn't want to recall the past, but the events of more than ten years ago couldn't help but remember vividly.