After Zhao Ermei and He Xiangdong got married, they lived together for a few years, and she learned that this man's biggest weakness was selfishness.

It was a selfishness that flowed in his blood, and no matter what the circumstances, he thought about himself first and foremost. He will never regard others more than himself, let alone the affairs of the collective more important than his own.

After He Xiangdong came back with a contract, Zhao Ermei was not as happy as everyone else. She seemed to see a trace of uneasiness in He Xiangdong's eyes, and she didn't know why she felt this way.

Zhao Ermei read the contract and found that the conditions on the contract had many disadvantages for Xinfeng Textile Factory, mainly because there was no guarantee of cash on delivery, and the two parties agreed that the buyer's agency company would pay the seller after receiving the payment from the third party.

Zhao Ermei asked He Xiangdong: "What if the agency refuses to pay for the goods without paying for the goods by a third party?" ”

He Xiangdong was stunned for a moment and then shook his head: "No, the contract signed by the agency and the seller is stipulated in this way, not for our family." ”

Zhao Ermei is still not at ease: "It's not for a family?" Maybe there's a bigger problem. Do you know about this company? ”

He Xiangdong said truthfully: "I don't know much about this company, but I know the boss of this company very well. It can be said that he knows the roots, because he is my classmate in middle school, and he is at the same table, he will not lie to me. ”

Zhao Ermei's heart became more and more unsteady: "What if? What if he receives payment from a third party and does not pay the seller? What are you going to do? Have you thought about it? Is this money related to whether the wages of the workers in the factory can be paid? Is it still about whether the factory can continue to produce? If something goes wrong, it's not a small problem. ”

Zhao Ermei's heart became more and more unsteady: "What if? What if he receives payment from a third party and does not pay the seller? What are you going to do? Have you thought about it? Is this money related to whether the wages of the workers in the factory can be paid? Is it still about whether the factory can continue to produce? If something goes wrong, it's not a small problem. ”

"No, you don't believe me." He Xiangdong was a little impatient, and his mood became obviously irritable.

Speaking of these old things in the past, Zhao Ermei let out a long sigh again, and she explained to Dongfang Siyi: "Actually, at that time, I not only found some problems from that contract, but also found that He Xiangdong was unreliable. Why do you feel this way? Because since all the crises in the factory, I feel that he is absent-minded. None of his thoughts were used in the factory, he was already quietly figuring out a way for himself, and he was reluctant to talk to me anymore. ”

Zhao Ermei's premonition finally happened unfortunately, and the goods sank into the sea like a stone after they were shipped. There was no news for a month, and there was still no news for two months. The factory director was anxious and asked He Xiangdong to go back to S City to collect the money. Soon, He Xiangdong came back empty-handed, saying that the agency company had been emptied, and his classmates had disappeared without a trace.

Because it involved nearly two million payments, which at the time could be regarded as a huge amount of money. Liu Ping instructed the county public security bureau to cooperate with the Xinfeng Textile Factory to report to the public security organs of S City, and to deal with it as a criminal case suspected of fraud, and to try his best to recover economic losses.

The public security authorities of S City also attach great importance to it, as they have received several reports of suspected fraud by this company. After a thorough investigation by the police, this agency company is actually a leather bag company without legal registration and no assets, involving the fraud of several enterprises, and the amount involved is as high as more than 30 million yuan, and the main culprit in this case is suspected of having absconded abroad with the money.

After the accident, He Xiangdong went back to the Xinfeng Textile Factory. After only two days, he returned to S City under the pretext of an excuse. He has found a new job in S City as an executive in a joint venture. Zhao Ermei endured the suspicious gaze of the whole factory alone, and that gaze was more uncomfortable than a knife piercing her.

"Divorce!" Zhao Ermei has no choice, only by divorcing He Xiangdong can she face the eyes of the whole factory, and only by divorcing He Xiangdong can she clear away other people's unwarranted suspicions and accusations against her.

Although Zhao Ermei was already disappointed in He Xiangdong, she still had some good thoughts in her heart, feeling that he was He Siyan's father after all and would not ignore her. At the time of the divorce, the two parties agreed that He Siyan would live with Zhao Ermei, and He Xiangdong would solve He Siyan's household registration problem in S City within three years, and He Siyan's child support would be borne by Zhao Ermei. If He Xiangdong cannot solve the problem of He Siyan's household registration in S City within three years, He Xiangdong's child support will be borne by He Xiangdong.

Xinfeng Textile Factory suffered heavy losses due to this fraud case, and finally entered bankruptcy proceedings due to insolvency. Zhao Ermei was unemployed, and He Xiangdong seemed to have evaporated from the world, neither settling He Siyan's S City household registration as he promised, nor paying a penny of child support. Later, I learned that a year after returning to S City, He Xiangdong remarried and lived a new life in S City.

When Zhao Ermei talked about this past, her heart was very fragile: "Do you know? After I lost my job, I used to set up a stall, work as a waiter in a restaurant, and work as a cleaner in a hotel. Later, with the help of relatives and friends, I rented a storefront and started a clothing business, and it gradually got better. Even though life is getting better day by day, I am in a state of confusion. You say, what is the value of me, a former model worker? Did it just disappear like a soap bubble? ”

"I can't find my original self anymore, and I feel that I have been abandoned by the times and become an outcast of the times. Why is that? Am I wrong? Is it that I haven't kept up with the times? Zhao Ermei seemed to be asking and answering herself, and Dongfang Siyi found that Zhao Ermei at this moment was the most real Zhao Ermei.

Zhao Ermei complained: "Let's take the matter of household registration as an example, at the beginning, how big the difference between urban and rural areas was, you also know that even now the difference between urban and rural areas also exists." Is it wrong for me to solve the problem of urban hukou? You think that's right, too. But now it's the other way around, and people in the cities are trying to find a way to get their hukou to the countryside, why? Because there is compensation for rural demolition, the compensation is hundreds of thousands at every turn, and in some places it is as high as millions. ”

Zhao Ermei said another thing that embarrassed her: "Yao Dabao's son Yao Youjin and I came to me last month, and he never came to me before. To be honest, I was a little overjoyed to think that he had grown up and sensible, and finally remembered that he had a mother, who knew that he had come to Xingshi to ask for sin. ”

Zhao Ermei said with a wry smile: "He asked me, why did he let him move his household registration to the city when he divorced his father?" Stay with her? Why do you want him to become a city hukou? Now, Yao Dabao's house and land in the countryside are to be demolished and expropriated, because Yao Youjin's hukou is an urban resident's hukou, which is not within the scope of compensation for land requisition and demolition. He said that he would lose hundreds of thousands, and asked me to find a way to move his hukou back again, otherwise I would have to compensate him hundreds of thousands. You say, "Who can I reason with in this matter?" At that moment, I really wanted to cry without tears, and I wanted to die. ”

Zhao Ermei's eyes were sour when she thought of this, and she couldn't help shedding two lines of tears, she picked up the tissue handed over by Dongfang Siyi and wiped it, and continued to complain: "I looked at the child who used to worry about me, but now he has a cold face like Yao Dabao, and tears can only flow to my heart." ”

Zhao Ermei sighed: "I told him that you were sentenced by the court to your father Yao Dabao, although you are only a young child and have no capacity, but your father Yao Dabao should be responsible for these things, I did not take the initiative to ask him to move your hukou, because at that time, the urban resident hukou was beneficial to your future school and work." Your father didn't come to me to move your hukou because he saw it. It is up to him to decide whether to move or not, and you can't put all the blame on me just because you need that rural hukou now, which is unfair. At the beginning, I took out more than three years of salary for this urban resident registration, which one would compensate me? The policy has changed, can I, an ordinary woman, change this? ”

Zhao Ermei took the paper cup handed over by Dongfang Siyi and took a sip of water: "I seem to have been cursed by the household registration in my life. When you don't have a hukou for urban residents, you need one of those hukous, and when you have it, now it's useless again. Fortunately, Yao Youjin, the child, is very sensible, and he listened to what I said, so he didn't dwell on this issue anymore, but sympathized with what happened to me as a mother. ”

Zhao Ermei finally began to explain the reason why she withdrew the lawsuit: "Why did I withdraw the lawsuit because I let go of my obsession with hukou and felt that hukou could not solve all problems. After He Xiangdong returned to S City, he did not fulfill his original promise, and I sued him to compensate He Siyan for the maintenance over the years, but I felt that this man did not have a sense of responsibility, I wanted him to be ashamed of what he had done in the past, and to make his current life a little more shadow of the past. This man who only accepts reality and only pays attention to benefits is too snobbish, he only cares about his own gains and losses. Although the hukou of S City still has a great gold content and great temptation today, the times are different after all. ”

Zhao Ermei talked about her daughter: "He Siyan, this child is very competitive, she was admitted to a prestigious university in S City this year. Before going to S City to study, she said Mom, don't worry, I will rely on my own efforts to strive for a good future, and I will let you live a happy old age. What can I say? Her words made me give up all resentment and obsession. When I was younger, I could follow the times, but in the end, I was pulled down by the times. Now that I think about it, the past has passed forever, and there is no turning back. If I continue to dwell on the past, I can only dwell on my own mistakes, and I can only get along with myself. ”

Dongfang Siyi quietly listened to Zhao Ermei tell her past love, hatred, and hatred, and she finally came out of the shadows, which was a dark cage woven from all kinds of losses she had encountered in the past, and it had been trapped in her heart that never accepted defeat.

Oriental thinking thinks that each of us has two colors of darkness and light in our hearts, and they will constantly compete for the place in your heart and affect our minds.

If you are imprisoned and devoured by the darkness, your soul will not be able to find a way out of the light, and you will be trapped in a desperate situation that you have set for yourself; If you always hold on to a light in your heart, that light will carry you to find a way out, and your soul will never be lost.

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