According to the regulations on the reception of letters and visits in the hospital, every Tuesday morning is the reception day for the parties to civil cases. Generally, a judge with a clerk is responsible for receiving visiting parties, receiving their advice or submitting relevant litigation materials, or receiving their opinions on the case. In exceptional circumstances, the relevant judge will also be assigned to receive specific parties.

After receiving more than a dozen parties to visit, Dongfang Siyi was about to leave when a young woman walked in, and she casually closed the door of the reception room. Dongfang Siyi looked at it, and it turned out to be a party to a newly accepted divorce case. He remembered that she only briefly stated the reason for the breakdown of the relationship between the husband and wife due to the incompatibility of the two parties' personalities on the divorce complaint, which was less than 400 words from beginning to end, and it was a very simple complaint with only one page.

"Hello, I'm the plaintiff Lili, the divorce case I filed has been filed, and I have received a summons to schedule a trial at 3 p.m. next Friday. I would like to ask you a few questions, because some of them are not convenient to write in the complaint, so I have chosen to ask you in person. ”

The person first explained her intentions, and her face was full of exhaustion, and her look of frustration was like a few thorny vines growing in a field of flowers. Like a garden originally sprinkled with spring light, there is more of a frightening danger and less of a free and leisurely place.

Facing Dongfang Siyi's inquiring eyes, Lili sighed helplessly: "No one is unwilling to protect their happiness, but happiness is not a flower in the mirror, nor is it a moon in the water, if happiness is something that can be seen but touched, such happiness is not real happiness." When happiness becomes an empty concept, there is no reason to defend it, and I can only choose to give up. ”

She calmly recounted her years of helplessness: "No one knows my suffering, no one understands my suffering. Yang Wei is the same as me, we are all numb. I gave him five years, and I didn't see any change in him, the initial love was gone in the toss and turns, and all that was left was resentment. My best friend didn't understand our marriage either, and she asked me again and again, puzzled: Lily, why don't you have children, are you two going to be Dinks? Aren't you in a good relationship? Why do you want to get divorced now? I was speechless, for me, he became a scarecrow, I didn't want to struggle anymore, I didn't want my youth and life to be buried in a marriage that had lost its vitality. ”

As if a flower was about to stick out tenaciously from the thorny vines, a few hints of firmness appeared on her face.

Lili and her husband Yang Wei grew up in the same dormitory compound, and both parents graduated from the same university of science and university, and after graduation, they worked in the same large state-owned construction engineering company limited by shares.

Lili's father started as a secretary and rose to the top of the company ten years later, and her mother was a government worker, and with her kind personality and shrewd talents, she finally became the head of the company's personnel department with her kind personality and shrewd talents, and accumulated connections over time.

Yang Wei's father focused on his engineering and technical profession, and many years later, he became the person in charge of the company's engineering supervision, and traveled with the construction project team all the year round. His mother is also a government worker, and she is also a senior accountant in the company's finance department. Although the two parents have different job positions and different professional hobbies, it has not affected the close relationship between the two families.

When they reached the age of a man getting married and a woman getting married, Lili and Yang Wei, who had become colleagues from classmates after graduating from college, finally walked into the palace of marriage hand in hand. At that moment, Western-style wedding costumes and Western-style grand etiquette made them a model marriage that no one in the company did not pay attention to. Just like the model house of a newly opened real estate, it is talked about by those familiar relatives and friends as well as colleagues who are close to the company.

"Actually, I don't have much interest in Western-style things myself, and I also know that Western-style weddings are just an imported form, except for the glamorous and gorgeous appearance, there is no connotation we need, and there is no cultural meaning that it should have. But the wedding is not something I can choose alone, and Yang Wei and I can only follow the trend and the world. ”

"Actually, I don't have much interest in Western-style things myself, and I also know that Western-style weddings are just an imported form, except for the glamorous and gorgeous appearance, there is no connotation we need, and there is no cultural meaning that it should have. But the wedding is not something I can choose alone, and Yang Wei and I can only follow the trend and the world. ”

Dongfang Siyi nodded, now except for remote villages, traditional weddings seem to be gone. Lily smiled wryly, the somewhat extravagant wedding left her with only the white wedding dress and a CD recording the empty ceremony.

In the ever-changing trend, young people who are chasing fashion may not fully understand the history and meaning of those popular Western wedding dresses, and the busy society does not seem to have time to think about this foreign culture, ignoring the cultural differences and differences between traditional weddings and foreign weddings.

Most of the countries in Europe are theocratic countries, people must go to the church to receive the prayers and blessings of the priest or pastor when they get married, so that it can be regarded as a formal legal marriage, and the bride wearing a white dress means to show her sincerity and purity to God. Before the 19th century, there was no uniform color of the bridal dress worn by young girls when they got married, until Queen Victoria of England wore a white and elegant wedding dress at the wedding, and the white wedding dress evolved into a formal wedding dress in the West.

The noisy wedding song ended, and the Western-style wedding dress did not bring her a romantic and beautiful life. "I thought I was married to love, and I started my happy time from then on. Yang Wei and I are not Christians, and religion has nothing to do with us. I accepted the white wedding dress because I thought it could mean expressing my sincerity and purity to Eros. Lily seemed to be trying to make some excuses for herself.

"I've thought about a hundred possibilities, but I still haven't thought about the end result of our marriage. We came together because we knew and loved each other, but we found that we were only familiar with each other's appearances, but we did not understand each other's hearts, and we became each other's most familiar strangers. Lily's face showed a trace of sadness that could not be erased.

Lily didn't wait for her imaginary wedding night, she waited for the drunken groom. Yang Wei drank too much wine that day, and by the time he woke up from his drunken dream, it was already the evening of the second day of the wedding. A touch of sunset shines through the large floor-to-ceiling glass windows into the warm new room, and Lily is restless as she changes one record after another, but has no intention of listening to any of them.

"I'm so sorry, where am I?" Yang Wei, who finally woke up from his drunken dream, looked at Lili in a trance, with a panicked expression on his face, until his eyes stayed on the two red paper-cut "Xi" characters on the window glass of the room, and he suddenly woke up.

"We're married?" Yang Wei looked at Lili, who was crying and laughing on the side, rubbed his eyes, and looked at the two red words "Xi" fixedly, and finally came back to his senses, and then turned his head to look at Lily and smirked.

Lily's eyes were full of complaints: "In my opinion, the one who came to our wedding yesterday must not be the god of love, you must have summoned the god of wine, and I am not married to a husband who loves me, but to a drunkard who is addicted to alcohol." ”

Yang Wei saw the disappointment in Lili's eyes: "I'm really sorry, I shouldn't have drunk so much wine." It's just that there is no way to avoid the attacks of those classmates and friends, and before I know it, I drink too much. At first, I really didn't feel much, so a little wine should not be much for me, and you know that the real amount of alcohol I usually drink is really not too much. I think we seemed to be standing together to see off the guests, right? I still persevered to the end, I still withstood their bombardment, I still didn't get put down by them, at that time, I remember that I was still very sober. ”

Perhaps it was the support of the tenacious self-esteem in the subconscious, Yang Wei took Lily's hand and stood at the door of the hotel, until after sending off the last guest, he was no longer able to support his numb body, and his whole body finally relaxed, and he sat on the ground like a pile of mud. Lily had to call a few relatives and friends who had not yet left, and they hurriedly helped him into the car, and when they got home, they helped Lily carry him back to their new house.

After vomiting a few times, Yang Wei finally fell asleep on the sofa deeply, and she was busy cleaning up the vomit in the room, and then she lay down on the bed tiredly. Yang Wei's memory was like a stuck videotape afterward, erasing everything, leaving only a blank space. It's just that Lily reluctantly and passively burned this paragraph of embarrassment and confusion in her memory.

Dongfang Siyi flipped through the dozens of photos in the case file and looked at the photos of the property they were going to divide when they divorced: "Your new house is very spacious, the location is also very good, it is a relatively prosperous area, and the housing prices in that community have risen a lot now." ”

Lili's eyes were a little softer: "The wedding house was purchased by us after we discussed it together, and at that time, this community belonged to the school district house, mainly because we had children in the future, so we didn't have to worry about it." The community is in the center of the city, at night, after nightfall, open the curtains of the living room, look out from the wide floor-to-ceiling windows, in addition to the flickering neon lights on the nearby street, the starry street lamps on the elevated in the distance, and the warm lights from the nearby residential buildings, can make me feel a kind of quiet in the noise, this tranquility is the unique warmth of the family set off, I especially like such a feeling. ”

Lily recounts her marriage and her expectations of love after that striking wedding: "We sat in the living room, looking at each other. Recalling the emotional experience from childhood sweethearts to mutual love, from deciding to take the hand of the son, growing old with the son, to finally becoming the closest person. I tried to communicate with him with a new feeling, imagining the future life, we will have our own children, the children will grow up, and we will one day have frosty temples, this is endless life and inheritance. ”

Lily's eyes then darkened, "I looked at him, and I saw that he was deliberately avoiding my gaze. I said, what's wrong with you? Are you not unhappy. He said no, he just felt too tired when he was drunk. I got up and turned on the stereo in the home theater, chose a few soft music that we both liked on weekdays, clicked the loop play button, and the soft melody sounded, I snuggled up to him, trying to get him to hug me and kiss me, but I didn't get any response from him. Half a day later, his hands were a little stiff on my shoulders, but his eyes were empty and lost their original brilliance. ”

Lily tried to find the answers she wanted in the details, and she struggled to recall impressions that were not so far away, but had become a little blurry.

"Do you know what you said in your sleep?" Lily looked at Yang Wei after he woke up and asked suspiciously.

Yang Wei turned his head and looked at her uneasily: "Did I dream?" That's right, it's supposed to be a dream, and it's still like a dream. For me, it is my dream to marry you. Did I talk in my sleep? ”

Lily nodded, "You keep chanting a person's name in your dreams. His face was visibly nervous: "I read someone's name in my dream?" That's your name for sure, for sure, you can't be wrong. ”

Lily shook her head with a wry smile, her heart filled with a mystery: "It's not me you're shouting, you're shouting the word 'Fen'." Who is this Fen? She thought about it in her heart all night, and checked the girls with the word "Fen" in her name one by one, but she never came to a conclusion.

Yang Wei rubbed the temples on both sides to calm down, a smile appeared on his face, and his mood became completely relaxed, he teased himself easily: "I'm really drunk, I still think about drinking Fenjiu in my dream, you know that I like to drink Fenjiu the most." ”

Lily remembered that he was indeed not wrong, he usually liked to drink Fenjiu, and she believed his words, so she felt that she was too careful: "You swear to me now, are you sure that what you are shouting is not the grass head 'Fen', but the 'Fen' with water?" ”

He couldn't wait to stretch out three fingers and pull them together with Lili's three fingers: "Heaven, earth, conscience, I swear, I didn't lie, what I Yang Wei said to Lily is true, I swear to love this woman for the rest of my life." Lily's heart was hot, this was a game she and he had been playing with each other for decades.

After Yang Wei swore an oath, Lili deliberately said angrily: "Hmph, if I marry you, I will become the woman in your mouth in a blink of an eye, no!" Your words have hurt my soul so much, and you want to show your love to Miss Ben again. ”

Yang Wei had no choice but to say again according to Lili's meaning: "I swear, I love Miss Lily for the rest of my life, and I will never regret it or change my mind." Lily was amused, "Are you swearing to me, or are you swearing to the Order?" Who wants you to look so serious. Let's take it easy, let's do a dance. ”

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