Chapter 1 Prologue
With great difficulty, moving his huge body of 85 kilograms, Zhu Zhu finally climbed to the door of the house on the fifth floor. Holding the key in her hand, she didn't open the door, but patted her chest with her other hand, gasping for air, and her forehead was covered with a thin layer of sweat. After a long time, she finally calmed her breath, and then opened the door and walked into the house.
This is a two-bedroom living room that has only been lived in for three years, and the original snow-white walls have not only become a little dull due to the years, but also full of graffiti by her precious son. The 5-year-old son is the age when he is naughty and disgusted by dogs.
Awkwardly took off his shoes and put on his slippers, Zhu Zhu put the key in his hand and the bag hanging on his arm on the marble table of the shoe cabinet on the right hand, grabbed the water bottle placed on the side, poured himself a cup of cool water, and drank it.
Ah, finally a little more comfortable. The hot weather in July is really difficult for a fat person like her, a little movement, the sweat will fall like rain, and the clothes will be soaked with sweat immediately, the worst thing is that the sweat on the neck can not be wiped away, the sweat is stored in the lines of the fat neck can not evaporate, the skin is soaked a little red, and the sweat invades when rubbing, which is called a pain.
Let's hurry up and take a shower! Finding a change of clothes, she rushed into the bathroom to take a hot shower. Although the weather was hot, she didn't dare to take a cold shower, and prickly heat was the most terrible man-made disaster for fat people.
After taking a shower and getting dressed, Zhu Zhu turned on the ventilation fan, picked up a rag and began to clean the water stains in the bathroom. Ordinary people live to her in a few minutes, but it takes twice as long to get here. Alas! Who made her fat? Resign yourself to your fate.
Reconciled? She's only thirty-five years old, when did she start ......
As soon as his heart moved, the rag in his hand slid a clear light on the water-filled mirror and stopped. The white chubby rosy round face in the mirror is so real and so strange, is this what she is now?
Sky! When did she fall to such a point?
used to be a young and delicate little white-collar worker, but now she has fallen into a middle-aged fat woman. Should she sigh the ruthless destruction of the years, or should she complain about the twists and turns of life.
Zhu Zhu has no complaints about today's life, although she will also lament the injustice in the world. This world is inherently unfair, she is now well fed, warmly dressed, has a house to live in, a husband who is very good to her and responsible for the family, and a healthy and lovely son, she is very satisfied.
If there is any shortcoming, it is her huge weight and her mother-in-law, who is one in a million.
Suppose one day, let her do it all over again, she hopes that she has a slim figure and never let her meet her best mother-in-law again.
It's almost dinner time, and Zhu Zhu is ready to make dinner. At this time, there was the sound of unlocking the door and the sound of his son's scream, it should be that the husband came back with his son.
"Mom, I'm back!" As soon as her son entered the door, he shouted at her.
"Baby's back, come inside, it's hot, right?" Zhu Zhu hugged his son, but did not help him take off his shoes, but encouraged him to do his own things on the side.
Her husband Wu Haoming didn't plan to come in, but just stood at the door, as if he had something to say to Zhu Zhu. "Wife, Haitao asked me to eat barbecue, and I don't eat at home."
Zhu Zhu is reluctant to let her husband go out to drink, he has been in a bad mood recently, and he hurts himself by drinking. But he had something in his heart, and she was afraid that she would get sick. "Do you have money in your pocket?"
"There are more than two hundred, enough yuan!" Wu Haoming patted his trouser pocket happily.
Zhu Zhu nodded helplessly, "Go ahead, drink less, and go home after drinking." ”
"Dad, drink less and come home early." The baby son also pouted in displeasure.
"Okay, I'm leaving, wife and son." After that, Wu Haoming was afraid that she would regret and ran away.
Zhu Zhu shook her head both distressed and helpless, she could best understand her husband's unspeakable depression when he was bitter.
After graduating from high school, Wu Haoming and his eldest brother did border trade with Russia, and he worked for nearly 20 years, but when he came, he was kicked away by his eldest brother because of his loyalty and lack of ability.
What an excuse! Incompetent, incapable?
What did you do earlier? It takes 20 years to examine a person's ability? Was he elected heir to the royal family?
Since the birth of his son, Wu Haoming has had the idea of wanting to go it alone, and no matter how many times he has explicitly hinted at it, his good big brother has not said a word.
Wu Haoming, who was going to talk about it and disperse, was finally scolded so much that he was scolded.
Why do you have to say so many heartless words to your brother who has gained nothing? He just wanted to break up peacefully, but in the end he was said to be a huge burden that someone else had been carrying for nearly twenty years. Since it is a burden of twenty years, why should he say that he is ungrateful when he wants to leave? Isn't it just right for him to lighten the burden when he leaves? Boasting that he is the saint boss who takes care of his family, is that really the case?
Justice is at ease in the hearts of the people!
My heart is to the bright moon, and the bright moon shines on the ditch, which is what it means, right?
What made Wu Haoming the most sad was what his biological mother and Zhu Zhu's mother-in-law said. "You don't have the ability to rely on your brother, and you have the ability to shoot hundreds of thousands of dollars to give your brother flowers?"
Take a few hundred thousand and give him flowers? Why? Are they giving less?
People are poor, and in the end, even his dearest mother dislikes him, what will he feel like in his heart?
In fact, Zhu Zhu had already foreseen this result. As early as the beginning of marriage, Zhu Zhu talked to her husband, hoping to plan with him for their future, but he vetoed them all one by one. As soon as she mentioned her future plans, he thought that she was digging the corner of the old Wu family, and he didn't know what gold and silver treasures were buried in the corner of the old Wu family. The words of the elder brother and the elder mother are holy decrees, and the words of the daughter-in-law can't even catch up with the fart.
But the result was that her prophecies came true one by one, and he was abandoned and used by his relatives, including his mother. In fact, he is like a stepping stone, where the eldest son needs it, she will throw the younger son there, as long as the eldest son steps on the foot, everything is OK! It doesn't matter if the youngest son is married or not, whether he is a father or not!
Compared with money, Zhu Zhu attaches more importance to people's hearts. She and he both have a pair of hands, supporting their small family, and it shouldn't be a problem to feed their son. I usually secretly saved some private money to speculate in stocks, and I gained a lot.
Now she finally waited until her husband's heart fell to her son and her side, his eyes were no longer only on the eldest brother and mother, and he also knew that he was a man with a wife and children. Guarding the clouds and seeing the moon, Zhu Zhu accepted the scarred man without any complaints.
Zhu Zhu, who originally worked with her husband for his eldest brother, found a new job as a cashier in a grain store, and her husband has always wanted to open a restaurant, which is still in the investigation stage.
During these days, he was very annoyed and bored at home, but he never got angry with them, only occasionally drank wine and ate with his former buddies.
Zhu Zhu generally doesn't stop him, and every time he goes out, he will persuade him to drink less.
I ate with my son, watched cartoons for a while, gave him a hot bath, and sang my own lullaby to put him to sleep. By the time she had cleaned up her room and looked at the watch on the wall, the hour hand was almost ten.
Maybe after eating and going to the shower again? didn't think much about it, Zhu Zhu left a lamp, and went back to the room to sleep first. In her daze, she never heard the door sound.
I don't know how long it took for her to be woken up by the rapid sound of her mobile phone......
"Hey, hello. Do you recognize the owner of this number? ”
Holding the boxy box in his arms, Zhu Zhu still can't believe that he who loves to talk all day is really gone? Just went to drink and ended up in a car accident? Leaving her and her son behind......
Since answering the call in the middle of the night, Zhu Zhu's whole body is wooden, and her tears have not stopped. The throat seemed to be blocked, hot, but it couldn't make any sound. I didn't close my eyes for three days and three nights, the water and rice didn't stick to my teeth, and I still didn't feel any sleepiness or hunger. Only when her son takes her hand will she hold him in her arms, tightly.
She shielded herself from the outside world, just standing and weeping, her face as pale as a blank sheet of paper. He embedded his photo in the recess in front of the urn with his own hands, and his trembling fingers stroked the familiar face over and over again. The sweet, bland, and quarrelsome scenes of the past......
Zhu Zhu's tears blurred everything, thinking of the confused future, thinking of the son who lost her father, she held him in her arms, the cold wooden box on her face, and cried loudly. The wails echoed in the empty funeral parlor, and the listeners were all worried and weeping.
After dealing with the funeral, Zhu Zhu, who looked haggard, returned home accompanied by her parents and son. Looking at her elderly parents and frightened son, Zhu Zhu finally picked up the chopsticks and ate more or less for dinner.
After lulling his son to sleep, he sat down with his parents to discuss his future plans, when there was a knock on the door.
Looking at the haggard mother-in-law, eldest uncle, and eldest sister, Zhu Zhu silently let them into the room. Seeing that Zhu Zhu's parents were there, Zhu Zhu's mother-in-law frowned, seemingly a little dissatisfied, but finally sat down.
Everyone was silent for a long time, and the eldest sister Wu Lingling took out a black plastic bag from her leather bag and took out three stacks of banknotes bundled into a square from the bag. After a pause, "This...... This is Haoming's car accident compensation...... 300,000 ...... It's all here......"
Staring at the banknotes on the coffee table, Zhu Zhu only felt dazzling, and tears welled up in her eyes again. She twisted her face to the other side, not wanting to look at it more.
"Daughter-in-law......" Mother-in-law Feng Lihua spoke, "This money is reserved for Ling Kai to study in college in the future, and it can't be spent indiscriminately......
Zhu Zhu's heart was stabbed fiercely, and she bit her lip tightly, she didn't want to quarrel, she hadn't done it before, and now that he was gone, she didn't want to quarrel even more. Zhu Zhu's parents, who were sitting on the side, changed their faces, opened their mouths, and finally held back.
But Feng Lihua still didn't plan to stop, "You are still young, it is a matter of time before you take a step forward, and this money will depreciate sooner or later, so it is better to ...... It's better to invest in your big brother's business. In the future, he will take care of Ling Kai and give him living expenses every month. Dad is gone, and he will have to rely on his uncle in the future. It just so happens that your eldest brother doesn't have a son either......"
"My son belongs to me and Haoming, no one wants to snatch it away. If I have a bite to eat, he won't starve. Daddy's gone, but his mom is still alive! Forcibly enduring the heart-wrenching pain, her body trembled slightly, and Zhu Zhu couldn't wait to rush up and bite her to see if her blood was red.
As soon as she heard Zhu Zhu's words, Feng Lihua's face also fell, and she shouted at her with anger on her face: "Ling Kai is the only seedling of our old Wu family, you care?" Can you manage it? Listen to me with this money, Lingling put the money away, let's go! ”