More than an hour later, the train stopped at a small county station, and Bai Lu and Qiao Xiaoqiao got off the train after greeting the tour guide.

It was almost ten o'clock when I got off the train, the small station was deserted, except for the staff of the railway, even a passenger could not be seen, out of the station, the door was even more deserted, and it took a street to get a car, so that the driver found a better hotel to stay for one night, and got up the next morning, Bai Lu checked it, the bad news is that the nearest airport is in the city of two hundred kilometers away from the county seat, the good news is that there are direct flights, or several flights, do not be in a hurry.

The time of this trip is thirteen days, Bai Lu and Qiao Xiaoqiao also brought a lot of luggage, basically a change of clothes, Bai Lu also brought a camera, two suitcases simply found a courier, the camera was held by himself, and he traveled lightly.

I got up at seven o'clock in the morning, washed up and had breakfast until half past eight o'clock, arrived at the airport at eleven o'clock, waited for less than half an hour after check-in to board the plane, and at a little more than two o'clock in the afternoon, the plane landed, because the car was in the parking lot of the railway station, Bai Lu and Qiao Xiaoqiao could only take a taxi.

"Husband, I think we should split up." When I arrived outside Qiao Xiaoqiao's community, Qiao Xiaoqiao suddenly said: "In the morning, my mother sent me a message, saying that my father went to the hotel last night. ”

"Okay." Bai Lu thought for a while and agreed: "There may be some misunderstanding in the middle, you go talk to your mother, I'll go find your father, and then we can exchange information at any time." ”

"Well, I'll send you the address." Qiao Xiaoqiao sent Bai Lu the address and entered the community with a heavy heart.

Bai Lu took a taxi at the gate of the community and went straight to the hotel where his old father-in-law lived.

The hotel is not a star-rated hotel, it is a particularly ordinary chain express hotel, the kind of one hundred and eighty yuan a night, and the facilities in the room are just like that.

went upstairs and knocked on the door, and soon Qiao Guoqing's voice came from inside: "Who?" ”

"Dad, it's me." Bai Lu replied.

"Huh?" Qiao Guoqing opened the door and said in surprise: "Bai Lu? What are you doing here? Oh, I see, Little Joe is home? ”

"yes." Bai Lu entered the house and found that there was still an instant noodle bucket on the small table, it was not today, it was full of cigarette butts, and it seemed that the old man had not eaten for almost a day.

"I'm upset, I can't eat." Qiao Guoqing lit a cigarette and smoked it with a sullen head.

"Dad, how many cigarettes have you smoked, you choke like this when you open the window." Bai Lu waved his hand and said, "No matter how troublesome you are, you can't skip eating, let's go, Dad, I haven't eaten at noon, and we are both cars and planes in the morning." ”

"You guys, huh...... Okay, let's go. ”

The two of them went out, it was quite embarrassing at this time, it was early at three o'clock, basically all the restaurants were closed at this time, and they had to wait until after half past five, Bai Lu simply found a Malatang.

After eating and drinking, and not in a hurry to leave, Bai Lu asked at this time, "Dad, what's the situation?" Why are you still making such a big fuss with my mother? ”

"She's unreasonable." Speaking of Qiao Guoqing, he was still a little aggrieved: "I just met an old colleague, and I happened to see her moving, so I helped out, and when I was done, I invited me to dinner, and when I came out, I let your mother see it, do you say I was wronged?" ”

Bai Lu smashed it, smashed it, and smacked his mouth: "Female colleague?" ”

"It's a female colleague, but I didn't do anything." Qiao Guoqing said angrily: "Your mother is just unreasonable, not to say what do we have, you said that I am this age, what else can I do?" Your mother can't explain it anymore, so she has to divorce me. ”

Bai Lu was also quite helpless, he received Qiao Xiaoqiao's message during the meal, and this is the case. But the difficulty is that the mother-in-law bit the old father-in-law to death and did something sorry for her, no matter how I explained it, I didn't believe it.

Probably ......

"We really don't have anything."

"Do you think I believe it?"

"If you don't believe me, I'll call someone to confront us."

"Hmph, you must have been right for a long time."

That's pretty much what it means.

"What do you think I can do?" Qiao Guoqing lit a cigarette and sighed: "Can't I hide if I can't be provoked, won't I come out." ”

What to do? There is really no way to persuade this matter, and the only way is to wait for the mother-in-law to dissipate her anger. can look at the message sent by Qiao Xiaoqiao, the mother-in-law is still angry, and she is very sure that the father-in-law went out to fool around last night.

"Dad, I have a solution." Bai Lu suddenly thought of a solution. "Where did you eat yesterday?"

"A small restaurant across the street from the Jiacheng community."

"Okay, then I got it." Bai Lu said: "Dad, you go back to the hotel to rest first, I'll do some errands, and I'll come to pick you up later." ”

……

After separating from Qiao Guoqing, Bai Lu took a taxi directly to the small restaurant, which was indeed small, just a bottom shop, sixty or seventy square meters, with seven or eight tables in it, mainly engaged in fish head cakes.

The door of the hotel was open, there were no customers inside, only a woman in her forties was sitting behind the bar and playing with her mobile phone with an electric fan. ”

"Sister, I don't eat." Bai Lu said.

"Don't eat? So what are you doing? The eldest sister looked at Bai Lu vigilantly, there have always been various sales promotions coming to the door recently, and there are all kinds of things being promoted, from the drinks needed by the restaurant to the kitchenware, and there are also those who claim to be the anchors who want to eat white food, which is annoying.

"That's right." Bai Lu said: "Yesterday, my father-in-law had dinner at your house with a colleague, didn't this make my mother-in-law misunderstand, I came to see if you have monitoring here, and I want to take a monitoring test and bring it back to my mother-in-law to clarify." ”

"There is surveillance." The woman said: "But I don't know if what you said is true, and monitoring can't be given to people casually." ”

Bai Lu didn't say much, he directly took out his mobile phone and scanned the code, it was not a big deal, it could be solved with money.

A few seconds later, a voice came from the woman's mobile phone: "XX paid 1,000 yuan." ”

"Eldest sister, I'm really not a bad person." Bai Lu said: "You also know that this thing is going to transfer money in real name, if I am a bad person, you can directly call the police with my information." ”

"Well, you see, I didn't say you were a bad person." The woman's face changed when the money arrived, and her smiling face was wrinkled: "What time did you tell me last night?" ”

"About six to six-fifty." Bai Lu recalled, the time that the old father-in-law said was almost like this.

"Oh, then ......" The woman pointed to the computer: "The monitoring is all here, and I won't look for it, you have to find it yourself." ”

Bai Lu walked around to the bar and found it in the folder on the hard drive.

dragged it to the corresponding time and looked at it, at about six o'clock, Qiao Guoqing walked in with a middle-aged woman, and the two sat by the door, the surveillance shot was very clear, and they couldn't hear anything, but the two chatted very well, and there was no extra contact from entering the door to finishing the meal.

"Sister, do you have a data cable here? I'm going to copy this video. ”

"Yes, you don't see it." The woman said, gesturing to the charger on the bar.

"Okay." Bai Lu connected the mobile phone to the computer, intercepted the surveillance video and sent it to the mobile phone, thanked the woman again, went out to take a taxi to pick up Qiao Guoqing, and notified Qiao Xiaoqiao to be home in a while.

……

More than 20 minutes later, Bai Lu directly took Qiao Guoqing's key and opened the door, and when he entered the door, he saw his mother-in-law and Qiao Xiaoqiao sitting on the sofa in the living room, Qiao Xiaoqiao's face was helpless, and her mother-in-law's crying eyes were swollen, and when she saw her father-in-law coming in, she immediately turned her face to the side and snorted coldly.

"Look at it, Bai Lu, look at ......"

"Dad, you go back to the house first." Bai Lu pushed Qiao Guoqing into Qiao Xiaoqiao's bedroom, and said before closing the door: "You sit down for a while, I promise to explain it to you clearly." ”

After arranging the old father-in-law, Bai Lu sat on the sofa, glanced at Qiao Xiaoqiao, and met Qiao Xiaoqiao's inquiring eyes, Bai Lu blinked, signaling that he could handle it, no problem.

"Mom, look at you crying, your eyes are swollen." Bai Lu sighed and said, "You and my father have been married for so many years, what can't you say?" ”

"What else do you say?" Li Huizhen sobbed aggrievedly: "Bai Lu, don't explain it for your father, I've caught it, who knows what the two of them did when I didn't see it." ”

"Mom, to be honest, you really wronged my dad." Bai Lu took out his mobile phone and said, "I deliberately went to the restaurant where my dad had dinner with that colleague yesterday, just look at it." ”

Bai Lu turned on the TV and used his mobile phone to project the screen to play the surveillance video, which he didn't dare to fast forward at all, and watched the almost fifty-minute video second by second.

"Mom, did you see that?"

Li Huizhen moved her lips, and judging from her expression, her anger had probably disappeared: "That...... So how do I know. ”

"You just care too much about my dad." Bai Lu smiled: "And you have been married for so many years, don't you know who my dad is?" Maybe you've figured it out, right? ”

"I care about his." Li Huizhen snorted.

"Mom, you can't fool me." Bai Lu said: "I bet you haven't slept well all night, you may have been thinking blindly in the first half of the night, and when you understand it, you will start worrying about my dad, right?" ”

Li Huizhen didn't speak this time, but because she didn't speak, she gave an affirmative answer.

"Mom, let me tell you, in fact, Xiao Qiao and I usually quarrel."

Qiao Xiaoqiao looked at Bai Lu suspiciously, did we quarrel? When?

Bai Lu didn't look at Qiao Xiaoqiao either, and continued: "But husband and wife, it is inevitable to quarrel when they live together, because all kinds of trivial matters, even if they are a little too small to be worth mentioning, sometimes they can quarrel, but after the quarrel is over, after calming down, it is clear who is right and who is wrong, and then we apologize, and whoever is wrong apologizes." ”

Li Huizhen understood, but was still a little entangled: "I still have to apologize to him?" ”

"Mom, you and my dad are old husbands and wives, and face is not important." Bai Lu said with a smile: "If we are wrong, we are wrong, right?" Of course, there is something wrong with my dad, and he shouldn't run away from home in a fit of anger and worry you all night. But I think it's okay, my dad is also quite worried about you, I haven't eaten all day today, so I smoked in the hotel, good guy, as soon as I entered the door, I almost smoked out, and the house was all smoked. ”

Li Huizhen didn't say anything more, but got up and walked to the door of Qiao Xiaoqiao's bedroom and knocked on the door: "Old Qiao, I'm sorry." ”

The bedroom door opened, Qiao Guoqing looked at his daughter-in-law who had been married to him for thirty years in surprise, a little unbelievable, she would apologize, and she didn't know what to do for a while.

"Dad, I think you should apologize to my mom too, after all, you shouldn't leave my mom alone at night and run away from home, right?"

"Yes, it's my fault." Qiao Guoqing had steps, and hurriedly went down the slope: "It's me who is wrong, it's just that I'm going to be a little angry, I promise, no matter who I eat with in the future, I'll take you with me." ”

"Virtue, with you?" Li Huizhen rolled her eyes, but her tone was similar to anger. "You haven't eaten all day? I don't have anything to eat at home, so I'll go out and buy groceries...... Bai Lu, let you see the joke. ”

"Mom, what are you talking about? Isn't this normal? ”

"Don't talk about it." Li Huizhen waved her hand, and there was already a smile on her face: "Look at this trouble, I tossed you back...... What do you want to eat? I went grocery shopping. ”

"Mom, don't be busy." Bai Lu said: "I ate casually with my dad in the afternoon, this will not be too hungry, don't wait, let's go out to eat together at seven o'clock, don't do it at home, if you are hungry, what snacks are there at home first." ”