Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Boring Blind Date

The work of running on the road all day long is monotonous, the contact with people is also superficial, and even the deep communication with passengers is short-lived, so Bai Xuesong knows very well that the state of him and his colleagues is a kind of impetuousness and boredom, just like Chen Hong said before, life at home lacks passion and romance. It's not that he doesn't know passion, and it's not that he doesn't know how to make romance, but his work doesn't give him so much leisure and not so much time to do it. The money they earn is calculated in minute by minute, unlike those white-collar workers who sit in the office, as long as they sit there and start earning money, their work characteristics are like this, they can't be distracted for a moment.

His colleagues live in the same simple and ordinary as him, so they all want something new to happen, even if it is not related to them, and it is good to have a little ripple in their overly calm mood. So he can understand Lao Zheng's enthusiasm very well, but he immediately refused bluntly.

"I'm living a good life now, and I don't want to look for it."

Lao Zheng looked at him and didn't have the idea of giving up at all.

"Don't be stupid, I don't know what you think, but you're still thinking about your ex-daughter-in-law, right?"

"What do you want her to do? Who is she with now? ”

"It doesn't matter who she's with, what matters is whether she can still be with you?"

Bai Xuesong looked at Lao Zheng, this is a philosophical sentence, only these people say it, don't think that they have no culture, there are all kinds of people who sit in their cars every day, they can ask as many questions as possible, and the people they come into contact with are also strange, and their knowledge is obtained from these people.

Lao Zheng's words made Bai Xuesong think about it a little, he knew very well that whether it was the more than 20 years he had lived with Chen Hong, or the period before and after their divorce, Bai Xuesong had thought about all kinds of things and designed all kinds of life results, but there was only one thing he hadn't thought about, let alone done, that is, another woman appeared in his life.

Bai Xuesong is not sick, physically and mentally healthy, he is not the kind of person who regards love as important, if he uses love to describe his life, he himself feels sorry for these two words, he and Chen Hong have been in love, just like most young people's love, but it is also the same as most families, and finally it will be dull.

The colleagues of the team will inevitably have all kinds of strange experiences, and small deviations in feelings are inevitable, but in his eyes they are just a story, and he judges very objectively and calmly that everything that does this kind of thing is a hobby, at worst, it is a disease, and it is not a matter of good or bad character. He doesn't have this disease, and he doesn't have such a hobby, so this kind of thing is not his turn. He lives a simple life, he feels that all feelings outside of marriage are a waste of time, and he doesn't have the spare time to deal with these things.

Now he's free, but let him start a relationship again now, with a strange woman,

He couldn't imagine what it would be like.

But since Lao Zheng said it, he also moved his mind a little. It doesn't necessarily have any purpose or result, it can be regarded as adding a little color to his peaceful life, so he promised Lao Zheng to meet the woman.

Lao Zheng actually had already chosen someone, and the woman was a neighbor of his hometown. So they looked for a day and drove back to Lao Zheng's hometown, which was actually a suburb and not far away.

Bai Xuesong rarely went to that kind of place, and it was only a short trip before, and he didn't go deep into the countryside, and he didn't know what the people in the countryside, especially the women, were like.

The place of their blind date was chosen at the woman's house, and the woman was also divorced, and after the divorce, she returned to her parents' home. There is a large yard, next to the yard is a garage door, a courtyard is an open patio, the ground is paved with colorful terrazzo, the house seems to be newly built, the main house is three rooms, on both sides is the kitchen, storage room, boiler room, etc., everything. Obviously, the woman's family is still good, at least in the countryside, such conditions should be okay, and Lao Zheng also briefly introduced it to him on the way.

The woman has a son who is also in school, but she doesn't live with him, these Lao Zheng said in detail, after all, it was a neighbor he had been familiar with since he was a child, but Bai Xuesong was not interested in these at all, he just went to the appointment out of freshness.

The woman was very capable, she made a table of meals for them, the woman's parents were not at home, presumably the woman sent away, the three of them ate very well, and chatted very well, Bai Cedar has not communicated with strangers for a long time, Lao Zheng drove, Bai Cedar can drink some wine, the woman is also very drinkable, Bai Cedar's amount of alcohol is average, and she was soon stunned by the woman's drunkenness.

In the whole banquet, Bai Xuesong's mind flashed Chen Hong's appearance countless times, Chen Hong never cooks at home, only he can cook meals like this, the simple woman in front of him and Chen Hong are completely two kinds of people, if you live with such a woman, you will definitely not worry about eating and drinking, and you don't have to be so tired to peel apples and smash walnuts, but living with such a woman, will he feel happy?

The blind date was over, Bai Xuesong didn't reply to Lao Zheng, and Lao Zheng also saw his thoughts and didn't mention it again.

Bai Xuesong sometimes thinks like this, if this life goes on like this, it is not necessarily a bad thing, it is good to live calmly and without fighting with the world, without being disturbed by others or disturbing others. What pleased him the most was that Chen Hong had never contacted him, at first he still blamed Chen Hong a little, ruthlessly blasted himself out of the house, only cared about messing around with other men, indifferent to himself, and now he doesn't even make a phone call, as if he never existed. From this, he asserted that Chen Hong was a heartless woman, regardless of their twenty-year friendship, tired of their ordinary life together, and couldn't resist the seduction of the outside world, and now she finally got her wish and could live freely and chicly. Thinking of this, he began to curse Chen Hong to his heart's content, he felt that his horizons were broad, and the various negative things he saw and heard every day were enough to prove that Chen Hong's behavior would not end well, he just needed to wait quietly for the day when Chen Hong regretted it.

Thinking of this, his mood will be much better, and the peaceful scenery in front of him will calm him down, and he will no longer think about contacting Chen Hong.

Of course, the most uncomfortable thing in Bai Xuesong's heart was that the pure schoolgirl Chen Hong in his mind no longer existed. Prior to this, although they were married and had children, Chen Hong was always dedicated to him, whether it was mind or body, like a white shirt, spotless.

Bai Xuesong occasionally thought about taking revenge on Chen Hong, or adding some blockage to her current life. He has this ability, and he thinks of himself as a restless person in his bones, otherwise he would not have walked out of the house twenty years ago, quit his job, and walked down a restless road. He couldn't remember when he started to live submissively, it must have been after marrying Chen Hong. That marriage made Bai Xuesong change from an unrestrained wild horse to a docile lamb, which he admired Chen Hong very much from the bottom of his heart. When he was fine, he sat by the lake, thinking about how to mess with Chen Hong's plan, and secretly admired his IQ and ability when he thought of the highlights. But when he left the lake, returned to his cabin, woke up and drove on the road, the thoughts of the previous day were gone. For a job like his, earning money is measured by time, and spending a little more time may earn more money. Now that he has thought that there is no other way out of his future life, people in their forties currently have nothing, and their former home, children, and daughter-in-law are gone in an instant. But after all, he is only forty years old, and he still has a long life to come, and he has to plan for his future and strive for a better life. Thinking of this, he would speed up the throttle and keep an eye on every possible customer on the side of the road. During that time, he lived in only three forms, on the road, in bed, and by the lake. The reason why he didn't make trouble for Chen Hong was that he knew best, he had always loved Chen Hong, and this thought was still the same when Chen Hong left him. He can't do this by allowing himself to make a bad life for someone he loves. Besides, he knows Chen Hong's character very well, and he used to joke with Chen Hong that I want to find a calligrapher to write four characters for you and frame them and hang them on the wall of our house. Chen Hong asked him what he wrote. He said: I would rather die than give in.

Chen Hong belongs to the kind of person who the more you ask her to do something, the less she will do it. Originally, there was no principled contradiction in their separation, but Chen Hong's temper was at fault, if Bai Xuesong made some extreme behaviors, maybe even the relationship they had accumulated over the past twenty years would be completely ruined.

As for others and for himself, Bai Xuesong felt that he couldn't do foolish things, and he didn't bother to do anything. Ten hours a day in the car, how can there be the leisure to interfere in other people's lives. Gradually, he got used to the current state, and there were not too many problems except for being a little lonely.

When Bai Xuesong was really bored, he also thought about whether he should find another woman. Whenever he thinks of this, he will come to the conclusion that follows: he is too lazy to reacquaint himself with a new person of the opposite sex, and he has to start from scratch, ask each other about the situation, and wonder if it is suitable for him. You have to go to great lengths to make the other person happy, to please the other person, you have to spend money, you have to waste time with the other person, and if the other party has children or the elderly, you have to find ways to make the people around her happy, so all this is a very tiring thing to think about. In the past 20 years, he has done these things to the fullest, fortunately, for a complete home. If he is asked to do it all over again now, and for the sake of someone else's daughter-in-law and someone else's child who used to be, it will be difficult for him to implement it. And once I did it once, it was a pretty perfect dedication, and I am afraid it will not be so good to do it again.