Chapter Twenty-Three: The Past of Youth
"Your daughter-in-law is really beautiful?"
"It's an ex-wife."
"Well, whatever it is, it's pretty."
"It's okay."
"Such a beautiful daughter-in-law, why is she still divorced?"
Chen Hong and Xiao Shaohui have been together for so long, and they have never asked him the reason for their divorce, and they have never asked each other, which is a tacit understanding.
"What's the use of being pretty, it's too dangerous to live with her."
"Dangerous?"
"That's right."
"What's the danger of getting by?"
Xiao Shaohui brushed the hair on his forehead, revealing the scar.
"That's the price."
"Ahh Did she get it? ”
"yes, you say it's dangerous?"
"How?"
"Cut with a knife."
"Ahh It's terrible, she seems to be quite gentle, how could she do such a thing? ”
"Gentle, it's not her that you're seeing today. She's all pretending to be today. ”
"Why do you want to pretend?"
"You can't be fierce to anyone, and you can't use a knife against everyone. She is like this in front of outsiders, not ostentatious at all, but she is strong inside. What's more, after being separated for so long, it has become better now. ”
"Then what is she looking for you today? Want to remarry? ”
"How is that possible? She's a man. It's a child's business, and she wants to send her daughter abroad to study, so she wants to discuss it with me. ”
"It costs a lot of money to go to school abroad, right?"
"Yes. My daughter is doing well in her studies, which is not a problem. ”
"It's still a girl, obedient, much better than my son."
"I haven't taken much care of my daughter in recent years."
"If your child wants to go to school abroad, you can support it more financially."
"Yes."
"She didn't ask you who I am?"
"Asked."
"What did you say?"
"I said it was my girlfriend."
"So what did she say?"
"Bless us both. What else can be said? ”
"Did she find a boyfriend?"
"I heard my daughter say that she seems to have found one, and I don't inquire."
"That's a good thing."
Chen Hong doesn't seem to pay much attention to Xiao Shaohui's past, and is indifferent to his money. She only hopes that the two of them will continue to be okay like this, as long as Xiao Shaohui's ex-wife does not come to him to remarry, the rest is not a big deal.
However, more or less Chen Hong is still a little unsure, just like seeing Xiao Shaohui's ex-wife for the first time in the store, which made Chen Hong's self-confidence that he had accumulated for many years plummet. Maybe it's the reason for the first come, first come, Chen Hong felt that Xiao Shaohui's attitude when he saw Lin Jia was different from usual, he was originally very chic and free, he didn't know how to look inferior in front of Lin Jia, and such a move had never been done when he came into contact with her.
Lin Jia seemed to have a lot of aura, although they didn't talk much, but in a few short minutes, Chen Hong realized that Lin Jia had an atmospheric performance, which she was ashamed of. Compared with Lin Jia, she seems very small, Lin Jia has the temperament of a hostess, and she looks like a little maid no matter how she looks.
Curiosity prompted her to want to know more about Xiao Shaohui's previous and about their divorce. So she continued to ask Xiao Shaohui:
"How did you get to the point of using a knife? She doesn't look like a woman who hurts people with a knife, how could she do such a vicious thing, did you force her to be anxious? You divorced you because she slashed you? ”
After Chen Hong and Xiao Shaohui met, both of them seemed to rarely mention the past, and never asked about each other's past. Both of them have their own ideas, for Chen Hong, her feelings for Xiao Shaohui are simple, and her kind of grinning living habits that she has developed since she was a child make it impossible for her to care about such a problem, she only cares about the present, as long as Xiao Shaohui is good to her, as long as the two of them love each other and are happy, it doesn't matter if anything else. And Xiao Shaohui is not the kind of person with a small belly, he thinks that since the two of them have come together, they are not young, who has not clicked on the past, and it is useless to care about those.
Lin Jia didn't inform Xiao Shaohui before she came to him, this was her usual behavior. Although they haven't been in touch for a long time, even Xiao Shaohui opened this store, Lin Jia has never been here. On the one hand, it was because she was busy taking care of the children, and later got a new boyfriend, so she didn't have time to come here. On the other hand, she also doesn't want to see these things that don't belong to her. But Lin Jia is still in control of their relationship.
Now that Lin Jia appeared, Chen Hong asked again and again, which made Xiao Shaohui think that it was better to take this opportunity to explain the previous things clearly, so as to avoid Chen Hong always taking it seriously in his heart.
It's just that all of a sudden, recalling the events of the past two decades makes him feel like a world away. If it weren't for the events in front of him that brought back his memories, perhaps he would never have had such an opportunity to remember the events of that time. At that moment, he suddenly had a warm experience, and Lin Jia's past was beautiful most of the time, but now they are no longer husband and wife, but in Xiao Shaohui's heart, Lin Jia is the closest person to him in this life. This is not because the two were once husband and wife, and the closeness he experienced was not only the relationship between husband and wife, but a feeling of being closer than any relative.
At the beginning, Xiao Shaohui and Lin Jia worked in a factory, which was a state-owned enterprise that produced handicrafts, Xiao Shaohui was ingenious since he was a child, and had a unique hobby for art, so he followed his master to study hard at a young age, and became the youngest craftsman in the enterprise, although his title could not get too much recognition, but at least he was outstanding among the young people in the factory. At that time, there were very few young people who could work in the office like him, most of them were workers in the workshop, and Lin Jia was one of them.
Although Lin Jia is just an ordinary worker, her biggest feature is that she is beautiful, Lin Jia will change different clothes and comb different hairstyles almost every day. In her spare time, she learned to sew and designed and made her own clothes. At that time, it was the early eighties, her dress, makeup and hairstyle almost became the vane of more than 1,000 female workers in the whole factory, she was a factory flower in her heart, although there were a few female workers who could match her in appearance, but in terms of dress and temperament, she was one of the best.
At that time, Lin Jia was only in her early twenties, and girls like her were inevitably pursued by boys in the factory, of course, there were all kinds of disputes for her, and even fights, and the more people who pursued, the more proud Lin Jia naturally became.
It's just that Lin Jia's heart is very high, she doesn't want to find a worker in the factory to live casually for a lifetime, the pursuit of economic life that has just sprouted in a specific era, the pursuit of material life has been tempting her, she yearns for a happier life in the future, and she doesn't want to stay in this factory in a mediocre and mediocre way.
But at that time she did not have a degree, this is the first step for her to change herself, it just so happened that the factory is ready to train a group of college students, in fact, that is, junior college, sent by the factory to the society to study, part-time work and study, of course, must select the best workers.
Xiao Shaohui doesn't have a high degree of education, but he is an excellent employee in the factory, so naturally such a good opportunity is indispensable for him. In fact, Xiao Shaohui was able to achieve such results, and there is a well-known reason, his father is an old craftsman, although it is not well known, but its level is also counted in China, which actually gives Xiao Shaohui a natural condition, coupled with his own cleverness, in the factory mixed with the wind and water.
Lin Jia wanted to participate in the junior college study, but there was still a certain degree of difficulty with her own conditions, and she didn't want to ask the leaders of those factories, after all, she was just a young girl, so she thought of a curved way and found Xiao Shaohui.
Before that, she didn't have much contact with Xiao Shaohui, one of them worked in the workshop, the other worked in the office, basically there was no intersection, and they rarely met, of course she knew Xiao Shaohui, that was a celebrity in the factory, and Lin Jia was also a figure that the boys in the factory often paid attention to.
But Xiao Shaohui only has a little impression of Lin Jia, there is almost no communication, he also knows that the friends around him have coveted Lin Jia for a long time, Xiao Shaohui has no ideas, he feels that he is still young, he does not consider the future family problems, he wants to do a career first, his goal is very clear, in the future to become the chief craftsman in this factory, which is almost equivalent to the position of deputy factory director, so there is no distraction. What's more, with his situation at the time, he really didn't take Lin Jia seriously.
It was Lin Jia who took the initiative to find him. The factory also adopts a fair way to select employees to participate in junior college study, as long as they are willing to participate, they must first pass the examination in the factory before they are eligible to be recommended. So Lin Jia got acquainted with him under the pretense of asking Xiao Shaohui for advice and reviewing homework.
Lin Jia understands very well that the in-house exam is just a situation, and even looking for relationships can get the questions out. Like Xiao Shaohui, who doesn't need to take exams at all, has long been included in the recommendation list. She thought that if she passed Xiao Shaohui's relationship, she would be able to create conditions for herself and pass the exam smoothly. As for developing in other directions with Xiao Shaohui, she didn't think too much about it.
But when Lin Jia and Xiao Shaohui met alone for the first time, both of them had a strange feeling.
It's not because this is the first time they've met alone, and it's not because Lin Jia took the initiative to ask Xiao Shaohui, but the two of them have heard about each other before and paid attention to each other, but because there are too few opportunities to contact, and they haven't even had close contact, so they are both strange and familiar, so they seem a little embarrassed.
And the first time they approached, they both seemed to discover the advantages in each other that they had not noticed before. Xiao Shaohui has always heard that Lin Jia is a factory flower, but this time he saw Lin Jia very seriously and carefully, which really surprised him. He studied handicraft design, and he thought that his aesthetic level was not too bad, but he was still a little surprised by Lin Jia's beauty.
And Lin Jia has always cared about a man's appearance, she pays attention to the other party's conduct and talent. Xiao Shaohui in front of her not only showed talent, but also revealed the childishness of some big boys, which made her very pleased. Compared with the uneducated gangsters in the factory, Xiao Shaohui is different, which also made her change her mind of not wanting to find a boyfriend in the factory in an instant.