Chapter 6: The Silence Before Dawn
As of now, there is no problem that he can't solve in accounting work, and his ability to deal with some things with ease and sleek is indeed unmatched.
Now that this should be busy, when it was supposed to be planting winter wheat, Wang Defa thought about contracting out a few acres of land for his family. From his point of view, the main thing is that there is one major event that he is not very sure of being able to deal with, and whether he will have the energy to take care of these lands in the coming year will become a problem. If he contracts out those few acres of land, he will definitely have enough food to eat next year, so he won't have to worry about dealing with other things.
"Accountant Wang, why haven't you seen your woman recently?" I don't know if Wang Defa is out of the street, the neighbors ask him, and occasionally he will greet and ask.
Wang Defa's most troublesome thing on the road is that he met someone who asked him where the woman went, although he had already let go that his woman went back to her parents' house to take care of her mother-in-law, but there were always some people who just politely asked when they saw it. This kind of politeness can be understood as caring, it can be understood as finding a problem, or it can be understood as really wanting to know the answer to a question.
"My mother-in-law's legs and feet are not good, so I won't go back to my parents' house to take care of them!" Wang Defa always answered very seriously, and this answer is also worthy of his seriousness, he thinks he is standing on the moral high ground.
"Your woman ran away, your woman ran away! Wang Defa, the woman, ran away. "Lao Wan recently met Wang Defa, but he dared to say and think, in his mouth, there is no unspeakable fact. But this time he was wrong, Wang Defa did not run, but hid.
"Legs discounted,!" Wang De angrily chased after Lao Wan and scolded. The most annoying thing for him is to see Lao Wan and meet him, if you clean him up, he is half a madman, crazy talker, if you don't clean up, it will really make him panic.
In addition to his normal accounting work, Wang Defa is such a tireless explanation to explain how he has lived a day. So far, no one knows that his woman has a big belly, and those who arrest women in family planning do not know.
Seeing that the end of the year is approaching, Wang De is worried about how to spend this year, whether the whole family will go to his mother-in-law's house, or take the risk to bring the woman back. There can't be no woman at home to greet him during the Chinese New Year, but after thinking about it, Wang Defa still decided not to go to his mother-in-law's house, nor to take the woman back.
On this morning, when the sky was bright, there were snowflakes, Wang Defa settled the old couple and two dolls at home, went to the market to buy double copies of New Year's goods, and went straight to his mother-in-law's house. He is thinking about buying all the meat, New Year's goods and the like, so that his woman can cook it in his mother's house, and he will bring some back during the New Year, which can be regarded as having a New Year's flavor in his own home. As for whether relatives can greet them during the New Year, it's all trivial, as long as the child is a boy, nothing else matters.
At noon, the snow was a little lighter, and Wang Defa rode a bicycle with great fanfare and walked up the mountain with the purchased New Year's goods. Everyone who saw it praised Accountant Wang as a filial person, not only a good accountant at work, but also a good man in life. It is not an exaggeration to give Wang Defa the words "fame and fortune".
But beneath the surface of a calm life, there may also be undercurrents surging waves. No one can say for sure what will happen in the next second, let alone whether the sun will rise the next day or not.
After riding a bicycle all the way, Wang Defa saw a woman he hadn't seen for nearly four months, and her belly was already obviously bulging. He looked at it carefully, nodded and said to himself that this time it must be a son, and the shape of this belly is different from the shape of Wang Chenglong and Wang Laidi at that time.
Wang Defa went into the house and drank a cup of hot water, the whole person warmed up, and after asking for warmth, he also talked about the recent things with the woman. This is very rare, it is said that Xiao Bie is better than a newlywed, this is an old husband and wife who is looking forward to getting a child when he is old, and he can still sit down and chat, you must know that Wang Defa has no words in his own house except for "um" and "ah", and he has few words like there is no woman like him at home.
"Now everyone knows that you are coming to your mother's house to take care of the elderly, you can stay with peace of mind, as long as the child is born, don't leak the news, the rest of the things are nothing, I'm afraid that I will be arrested now and take my son's life, you don't have anything to do, don't go around, just stay at home." Wang Defa settled his woman very seriously.
"Nengcheng, I know, you come over on the twenty-third day of the lunar month to take back the boiled meat and steamed buns, and make a new set of clothes for the two dolls, and the dolls are happy for the New Year." Wang Defa's woman held her stomach and instructed Wang Defa. The husband and wife have never communicated in a similar way like today.
After Wang Defa said goodbye to the old couple, he simply said "go" in front of the door, and pedaled his bicycle and returned. He walked all the way, thought about it all the way, and the answer he wanted to know most in his mind was that if this child was born, what would the people of the family planning office do with him, and after the baby was born, they would have no coercive measures, and their lives would definitely be saved, but there were still various punishments.
Now the fine for giving birth to a doll is 2,000 yuan, which is not a small amount, the money is not a thing, he has been ready, he has been an accountant for so many years, the clear salary, the unknown money, he still got a lot. The biggest concern is that it is unknown to what extent this accountant's work will be affected. The worst result is good, this accounting position is removed, if he does anything in the future, people are not in his position and speak lightly, he doesn't care about things, he has no real power in his hands, it is estimated that even Lao Wan will see his jokes.
This road back from my mother-in-law's house, since the first time I married a woman to the present, I have walked countless times, and none of them have been heavier than today, difficult to walk, and so preoccupied. And the questions that plague him have never been answered, what can he do? What else can I do? When the child is born, maybe there will be a natural way.
Isn't the day just walking forward step by step with the left foot on the right foot, every year is sad and every year, this year is the most lonely and the most fearful year for Wang Defa. On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the public officials in the team had a group worship together, saying that the group worship was actually a little expense, and everyone got together to eat and drink, big and small captains, accountants, family planning offices, etc., all of them were there. In the past year, these are glamorous and beautiful on the surface, but whether they have the same virtue as Wang Defa behind the scenes, no one will say, and everyone will have an account in their hearts.
During the banquet, some people from the family planning office revealed this year's family planning policy after three rounds of drinking. Wang Defa asked with interest: "Are there any new regulations for superbirths this year?" "It's just that I don't ask, this question still asks questions.
"Accountant Wang, I heard that your woman hasn't been at home for more than half a year, so you won't plant another melon, right?" The young man, who had drunk too much, said, "I heard you want a son, you're going crazy!" ”
This question frightened Wang Defa enough, and hurriedly replied: "No, no, my woman is going to take care of her mother-in-law, she is old, and her legs and feet are inconvenient." Don't listen to those people's nonsense, I'm also a servant of the people, and I can't know the law and break the law. Wang Defa said this, obviously lacking confidence.
"Hahaha, Accountant Wang, I'm drinking too much, joking with you, you are an old accountant for more than 20 years, how can you be overborn. However, this year's policy is indeed very tight, and all public officials and those who have a working relationship will be dismissed from their posts once they are overborn, and their jobs are bound to be lost, and there is no need to negotiate. This year, our work is not easy to do, and we also ask the captain and accountant to do a good job in the ideological work of our team, and only one is good! "Young people drink some wine, and if they are bold, they will not look ahead and backward when they speak.
Wang Defa's spine was cold, according to such a request, he may only have to make plans for the worst results. Wang Defa didn't eat this meal in vain, which made him feel a score, and when he decided to have this third baby, all this was expected by him, but it was coming, which made him a little panicked.
Wang Defa's eldest daughter and second daughter are already running and playing all over the ground, and the third baby that is still in his woman's womb is unknown whether it is a male or female baby. This may be the most unthinkable period of Wang Defa's life, if it is a male baby, the matter of inheritance is solved, but the accounting work cannot be done, and he has to pay a fine; If it's a girl, you have to pay the fine, you have to lose your life, and you have to end up with no children and grandchildren.
Now all the hopes are pinned on his uncompetitive woman, what kind of fate is in that belly, it is unknown. How Wang Defa will deal with this pre-dawn darkness is also unknown. Only one thing is clear, that is, the cry of the third baby will definitely change this family.