"All asleep?" Ning's wife asked softly.

"For a while, how can I sleep! - Always sneaking around on new clothes? Alas - you are more concerned than my own mother. I originally planned to pay my salary at the end of the year and buy it for them again..."Sister-in-law Ning sighed.

"If you have money, you don't buy wax goods. It's 20 today, and it's the end of the year - if it snows, it's estimated that things will be more expensive. I buy it now, it's equivalent to earning! Ning's wife smiled and said:

"I'm just two nieces and nephews in front of me, if I don't buy them for them, who will I buy them for?"

"Confinement is right! It's all my own family, don't talk about two families, I see Xiaoqiang and Xiaowei, and I'm happy from the bottom of my heart! Ning Yuangui agreed.

"Alas—if only his father had half of his second uncle... I can't thank you, when the girl grows up - she will make money, buy you wine! Zeng Ming'e said, picked up the tongs and said:

"I'm going to pick up some charcoal, and you're going to sit down a little longer?"

"It's not cold, it's not cold!" The confinement approached her husband and said:

The temperature is really low, and I just cared about the two children - I don't think so. Now it's quiet, and the cold hits suddenly!

She said "not cold", but she just wanted to save some money for her sister-in-law.

"You are weak, and the New Year is coming soon, if you catch a cold - your nose is strained, and your sister-in-law can't bear the guilt! -Charcoal has..."Zeng Ming'e walked into the kitchen:

In previous years, she cut oak trees and burned charcoal by herself, gave her in-laws two snakeskin bags, and then sent two baskets to her mother. This year, I moved to Beifu Street, taking care of two girls while going to work, which is too busy!

After the frost fell, Ning Yuanfu was almost home, she lacked skills, and she was so anxious that she secretly cried - buy? It costs money! Don't buy - how to spend this midwinter? Fortunately, my father-in-law's conscience found that he was idle at home, so he burned a kiln of charcoal and sent it to him, saying that it was "roasting two grandchildren for the winter".

She felt uncomfortable, so she still bought two cans of middle-aged and elderly milk powder and asked her father-in-law to bring them back. Count it - almost flat! She doesn't want to take advantage of her in-laws and save gossip...

"Don't add so much, let's sit for a while - and go?" Ning Yuangui said:

"Sister-in-law, the girl is not asleep yet, let's talk - quietly?"

"......" Sister-in-law Ning was holding tongs and didn't make a sound?

"H-huh?" Ning Lao Er hummed lightly twice, which can be regarded as getting to the point:

"I contacted the third and fourth children in the afternoon, and they didn't have any news of the eldest brother. - Where can the Boss go? Is his 'ID card' at home? ”

"ID card? Absence! And the driver's license, the household register - not there! The only thing is that the 'marriage certificate' is in—" Zeng Ming'e turned the stove and said with a dull gaze:

"Marriage certificate - is it useful? — Except for the clothes I don't wear, I fold them in a box. He took out all the things that were slightly valuable..."

"Do you have a note or notebook?" Ning's wife asked:

She wanted to ask "IOUs, IOUs", but she felt that it was too stimulating for her sister-in-law's emotions?

"Nope. In the morning, the police station was also asking, I came back and looked for it several times, but I didn't see it! It's just such a big ass, if there is? I must have found it..."Sister-in-law Ning said, grinding her head.

"Sister-in-law, let me ask something - are you to blame? The boss is often away from home, is there something 'going on' outside? Ning Yuangui tentatively reminded:

What does he mean by "cheating"?

"What's going on? He's just 'looking for bets' everywhere! Gambling - that's his lifeline. As long as there is gambling, you can skip meals and sleep! Zeng Ming'e's eyes straightened and said:

"Now you can't sell your children - it's illegal! — I'm worthless..."

"Sister-in-law, how can you say that? How much you have worked hard for this family, others don't know, me and the confinement - know best! Ning Lao Er persuaded:

"Gambling is also a crime. It must be the boss, it's wrong! When he comes back this time, we must have a family meeting to 'criticize' him? But - now you can't let the old man and the old mother know! ”

"......" Sister-in-law Ning was silent again, and her eyes turned red.

"You get in the car - take my bag off?" Ning's wife winked at her husband.

"Bags? -Good! Ning Yuangui promised:

He reacted - it was fake to take the bag, and it was real to take him away! The wife wants to say "whispers" to her sister-in-law...

Seeing Ning Yuangui go out, Zeng Ming'e added a piece of charcoal, turned her head and said to Ning's wife:

"Aunt her, I know that the second uncle wants to ask, 'What's the situation'? — Yes! ”

"I'm afraid you'll be embarrassed, so tell him to go out - we're going to have a good talk!" Ning's wife looked at her sister-in-law with pity:

"What woman doesn't want to have an honest man? I'm sometimes afraid, and I'm afraid that he's 'someone' out there! After all, all these years - my stomach is not angry..."

"Uncle-no! He's not that kind of person! Am that, that? - Eat, drink, prostitute and gamble! Zeng Ming'e choked up and said:

"I sometimes can't sleep all night. Confinement - do you see me old? ”

Ning's wife grabbed her sister-in-law's bulging and calloused left hand, and didn't know what to say for a while?

She felt the poor woman tremble—she must have been terribly frightened! Indeed, my sister-in-law is about the same age as her, and she looks like she is five years older...

"Alas—" Zeng Ming'e sighed:

"I really don't want to be a 'family ugly'. In the morning, the police station asked me if he had a place to stay outside. Does he have a way? I didn't even talk about it! I'll tell you only one person, and I won't talk about it again - I'm afraid I'm going to go crazy? ”

Sister-in-law Ning got up and added boiling water to the cups of the two, took a sip of cold tea, and told an unspeakable past-

After giving birth to Xiao Qiang, it was five years old. She wanted to add a son, so she looked for an opportunity to share a room with Ning Yuanfu?

Every time Ning Yuanfu came back from the car, after drinking and taking a bath, he either went out to find someone to play mahjong or gamble poker, or shouted that he was tired and covered his head and went to sleep. She was on the bed, and before he could reach under him, he yelled, "I'm annoyed."

She didn't give up, tried her best to coax her, and even sold the gold jewelry from the dowry, and turned it into money for him to gamble - as long as he agreed to have sex with him...

Later, when she finally got pregnant, she washed Ning Yuanfu's clothes with a big belly, and found that the woman had long hair on the autumn pants, which was still maroon-red. She herself has never been willing to spend money to dye her hair, and this long hair of unknown origin has become a "heart disease" for her?

Xiaowei was born, and she returned to her parents' home. Ning Yuanfu rarely took the initiative to visit, and it was only because she called and urged her again and again that she was reluctant to come to perfunctory. Every time, he took Xiaoqiang to sleep, did not give her a chance to have sex, and warned her to "be careful, don't wake up the girl".

Later, Xiao Qiang Neng took her sister to sleep. She thought that after years of hard work, she was finally "more convenient" and able to sleep peacefully with her husband?

Who knows, Ning Yuanfu almost didn't spend the night at home, came back from playing cards, and saw his two daughters asleep, so he said, "Someone chartered a car", turned around and left...

Once after dinner, when the couple were at home, she couldn't bear to express the doubts in her heart:

"You must be out there - raising women!"

Ning Yuanfu smoked, glared at her and sneered:

"It's not 'unusual'! I'm there - and more than one! If it weren't for the sake of the two girls, I would have left you a long time ago! ”

"Your conscience - let the dog eat! I do the work, I take care of the girls, I take care of the old. You smoke, you drink, and you gamble to death! You-you're still out there messing around with people, you-you're still not human..."

"Pap-pa-" Ning Yuanfu raised his hand and slapped her twice, making her eyes glaze out, squatting on the ground in pain, and scolded hatefully:

"Lao Tzu is not a human, Lao Tzu is not a human, you are a human? Dare to scold Lao Tzu, are you impatient? Whoever Lao Tzu likes to - whoever he wants, just don't you! Don't look for dog pee - take it yourself? This is a warning, see if you dare to show your teeth next time! ”

That beating and scolding was the beginning of all the contradictions...

Zeng Ming'e was already in tears when she said this, worried about waking up the girl - she didn't dare to make a sound!

"Sister-in-law, it is difficult for a clean official to decide family affairs. We are also noisy at home sometimes-" Ning's wife took out a small packet of napkins, took out two and handed them over:

"It's just、It's just that it's not so fierce..."

"The boss is so disagreeable, how can he do this!" Ning Yuangui pushed the door in, and roared with a blue face:

He knew that his wife didn't bring a bag, so he kept listening outside the door, cold and angry!

Zeng Ming'e was obviously frightened, and immediately covered her face with a tissue and stopped making a sound?

"You wait for me in the car, and I'll stay with my sister-in-law for a while-" Mrs. Ning pushed her husband out of the door and said in a very low voice:

"Let me ask - what kind of 'lovers' does Big Brother have?"