Chapter X
Wang Chu woke up, the sun was already high, she got up and looked at the clock hanging on the wall, it was already more than ten o'clock, she got out of bed, put on slippers, opened the curtains and stretched a long waist, and then went to the living room, there was no one on the sofa, and it seemed that Li Xiangyang had gone to work.
The arm was still a little painful, Wang Chu then remembered to go to the medicine box to deal with the wound on the arm, the alcohol cotton wiped the pain on the wound, she endured it and endured, the pain was so painful that she gritted her teeth, and finally the tears still fell, her tears were not the pain caused by the wound, but the pain that Li Xiangyang brought to her heart.
After dealing with the wound, Wang Chu went back to the bedroom and lay on the bed, she looked at a place on the roof in a daze, the colorful stripes on the roof dazzled her, and the sunlight shining in from outside the house shone somewhere, and it was even more colorful in front of her.
All morning, Wang Chu spent so lazily in bed in a hazy sleep, she didn't go to make lunch, Li Xiangyang deliberately kicked the door out when he came back, and the living room was silent for a long time, and then a door creaked open, she knew that it was the sound of the kitchen door being opened. After only half a long time of cooling, the bedroom door was opened, and she pulled the futon to her face, so that her whole face was not in the futon, leaving only the head and eyes partly outside.
There was no movement in the empty room, Wang Chu could hear the sound of his faint breathing, for a long time, he heard Li Xiangyang take a cold breath, and then the door was closed, and her heart tugged and tugged with the sound of the door closing. She knew that he was not going out, that he must have struggled in his heart, and she knew that it was because of the resentment that she had brought from not preparing a sumptuous meal for him, and finally, in less than a minute, the door was kicked open instead of opening.
Wang Chu got up from the bed at this time, Li Xiangyang's face was pale, "I look at people's faces when I go to work one day, and I have to look at your faces when I get off work, I'm already hard enough and tired, can you show me your face?" ”
"Li Xiangyang, whose fault is it? You overthrew me, didn't even apologize, and let me smile at you, didn't you? ”
"Why don't I just push you? As for you throwing my face at me, you don't even cook? ”
Wang Chu sneered and showed him the injuries on his arms, "My hands are bruised, what do you mean?" ”
Li Xiangyang threw Wang Chu's arm away, "Bored." After saying that, she turned her head and left, her heart ached and hurt, and she bit her lip so hard that she didn't let the tears flow.
This Cold War was several days, Wang Chu still didn't cook for Li Xiangyang, and he didn't come back on time, even in the evening, he didn't go home until late.
One night, Li Xiangyang returned home at 2 o'clock in the evening, and when he came back, he was so drunk that he collapsed on the bed without even taking off his clothes. In less than half an hour, Li Xiangyang's mobile phone rang, there was no name on it, Wang Chu answered the phone, and a woman's voice came from the other side of the phone, "Hey......." ”
"Who are you?"
As soon as Wang Chu spoke, the other party hung up the phone. She hung the phone in the air and dialed it again, "Hello, the phone you dialed is off. ”
Wang Chu's heart was slowly tightening, she looked at Li Xiangyang in surprise, she still couldn't believe what she heard, how could there be a call coming in at the third watch in the middle of the night?
The first thing Li Xiangyang did when he woke up was to look at his mobile phone, he found the phone call in the middle of the night, and the call showed that it was connected, Wang Chu did not question, she was waiting for an explanation. And what he did was to quickly change into a set of clean clothes, make himself neat, and go out.
Wang Chu drew a question mark in her heart, she sat quietly on the edge of the bed, and couldn't calm down for a long time, did Li Xiangyang have a problem? Or did she misunderstand, she didn't know at all. She panicked, she wanted to catch up and ask for clarification, but at the moment of going out, she hesitated again and again, and finally did not go.
That day, Wang Chu spent most of the day cleaning the house thoroughly, taking out the clean clothes in the wardrobe and washing them, and even the dirt at the bottom of the kitchen pot was wiped clean for a long time.
When cleaning up the bedroom, Wang Chu knocked over Li Xiangyang's file bag on the bookcase on the ground, and the materials in it also fell out, she didn't want to pick it up at all, after cleaning the house, eating a meal, and falling asleep.
At two o'clock in the morning in the middle of the night, Li Xiangyang came back, and it could be heard from the footsteps of walking that he came back drunk again. He pushed the door open, opened the bedroom door, turned on the light, Wang Chu was blinded by the light, she pulled the bedding to her forehead, turned her body to the side, and did not look at him.
Li Xiangyang breathed a cold breath, there was no movement for a long time, Wang Chu didn't want to pay attention to it at all, she just wanted to sleep with her head wrapped in the quilt.
"Chu Chu." Li Xiangyang spoke after a long time, Wang Chu almost fell asleep, she opened her eyes in shock, and she didn't even move her body, "You get up." ”
Li Xiangyang's voice was very heavy, Wang Chu moved his arm at this time, she gasped, and then got up, he stood in front of her, his face was pale, and even his lips were white.
"You check me?" Li Xiangyang didn't look at Wang Chu, stared at the unpicked materials in the file bag on the ground and said, "What do you have to check?" ”
"What did I check on you? From yesterday to today, what have I asked you? ”
Li Xiangyang's face turned pale, "You didn't check me, you flipped through my phone?" Didn't check me, you flipped through my portfolio? When he said the phone, he poured his hand on the phone several times, and pointed to the file bag when he said it.
"I'm looking through your phone? It was ...... someone called me a few days ago. ”
Before Wang Chu finished speaking, Li Xiangyang slapped her in the face, although this slap caught her off guard, she covered her face to look at him, slapped her again, and fell on the bed. She was about to get up and theorize, and more slaps came over.
"Li Xiangyang, are you crazy? I said I didn't check your ....... Wang Chu shouted.
"Didn't check that you flipped through my phone? Rummaging through my portfolio? Li Xiangyang spat at and flew out and sprayed on Wang Chu's face.
"I don't have ......." Wang Chu explained.
"I'll let you check my ......." Li Xiangyang's emotions seemed to be out of control, and he searched the things in the house with his eyes, "I'll let you check, I'll let you check it at once." He walked out of the bedroom door, and when he came in, he was holding a shovel in his hand, Wang Chu's eyes widened, "I'll let you check enough this time." He walked over to the bed, and a shovel and stick struck her on the arm.
Wang Chu shouted, and just as she was about to get up, she was hit with a stick on her leg, and she squatted on the ground in pain, and then countless sticks hit her on the shoulder, arm, arm, and leg. She felt every nerve and muscle in her body atrophy, and she was so frightened that she couldn't help it, and she didn't know how many times she was beaten or how long she was beaten. From beginning to end, she didn't have time to think about the scene of An Jiahe beating Mei Xiangnan in "Don't Talk to Strangers", nor did she think of Li Xiangyang's sister-in-law telling her that she knelt on the ground and begged for mercy and her brother couldn't stop, and she couldn't remember what it was like for her mother-in-law to be beaten and dragged out of a distance of two meters by her father-in-law, she only felt that these things could not happen in real life, and she was experiencing it herself.
The whole room was filled with the sound of sticks beating, as well as Li Xiangyang's cursing, "I asked you to check me, you don't have any skills, you learned to check me?" You've made me lose face, and I'll let you check ....... At first, Wang Chu shouted a few times because of the pain, but later, she squatted on the ground, holding her head in her hands, biting her lip with her teeth, and she didn't even make a sound. There was only one thought in her mind, if she didn't die, after this war was over, she would definitely flee from here and leave this demon-like person in front of her.
I don't know how long it took, Li Xiangyang finally stopped, threw the shovel on the ground, he seemed to be dizzy, staggered, couldn't even stand steadily, staggered, swung for a long time, and finally fell on the sofa, and it didn't take long for him to fall asleep.
Wang Chu had no strength to crawl from the ground, her whole body was in pain, and she only felt that every muscle and nerve in her body were connected together, which made her feel painful. She raised her head and looked at Li Xiangyang with disgust, there was a shovel not far away, she wanted to pick it up, but she tried to get up several times to no avail, and even her legs felt painful. She wanted him to experience the pain she had suffered, but she didn't have any strength, she couldn't even pick up a shovel, and she might be beaten again. Her legs hurt so much that she couldn't retract, her back was numb, and she couldn't even move her arms. She found that she couldn't open her eyes and had bags of different sizes on her head, and it took her a long time to get up from the ground and to exercise her legs for walking. Two hours later, she felt that she could walk, and after making sure that Li Xiangyang was asleep, she reluctantly took her clothes from the closet, took her shoes, and quietly walked out of the house, getting dressed while fleeing.
Wang Chu didn't dare to walk from the main road, she ran into a cotton field, followed the cotton stalks, and ran several dirt roads before finding the main road. It was not yet dawn, there was no car on the road, she didn't dare to go along the road, worried that Li Xiangyang would catch up, so she hid in the cotton field and waited for dawn, she quietly heard a vehicle coming in the distance, and then ran out to stop the car.
When she returned home, there was suddenly a puppy at home, she was bouncing back and forth around Wang Chu, she didn't know how to know a puppy, her mother was in the kitchen to get Xu Xiaoran to eat, Xu Xiaoran was breastfeeding her niece, her father was not there, and Wang Jian was not there. Wang Chu had no intention of asking where Wang Jian and his father had gone, and as soon as he entered the room, Xu Xiaoran saw the iron blue marks on Wang Chu's face, "What's wrong with you?" She asked in surprise.
"Chu Chu is back?" Mother asked, Wang Chu did not answer his mother's words, went into the small room, and buried himself in the quilt. "This damn girl, something is absolutely wrong." Mother muttered, "Come back and get some sleep, and I'll call you dinner." ”
There was only the sound of her mother chopping vegetables in the room, and after a while, the sound of footsteps came, Wang Chu heard the sound of her little niece "babbling", and then someone sat on the edge of the bed, she knew that it was Xu Xiaoran.
The quilt was lifted, Wang Chu felt her niece's little hand scratching her hair, and the wound on her head hurt painfully, although the little niece's hand was very light, she still couldn't bear it, and even screamed.
Wang Chu didn't know what the little niece was scared of, and when she heard the scream, her mother came from outside the kitchen, and Xu Xiaoran had already seen the wounds on her face, and her eyes were so swollen that she couldn't even open her eyes.
"Sister......." Xu Xiaoran asked in surprise.
"What's wrong with you?" The mother said loudly, when she came over her, she saw the injury on Wang Chu's face, and exclaimed, "Did Li Xiangyang do it?" She wanted to lift Wang Chu's hair to see the injury.
And Wang Chu used her arm to block it, but she touched the wound on her arm, she screamed in pain, her mother was frightened, and immediately let go of her hand, "What's wrong with you?" Talking? The mother's words were already trembling several times, and she forcibly pulled Wang Chu, first seeing the bruises and scars on her face, and lifted her sleeves, there were several large bruises on her arms. The mother's hands began to tremble, tears flowed down one by one, Xu Xiaoran held her little niece in her arms and began to wipe her tears, and her mother then lifted her clothes again, and found that none of her front and back were good, all of them were iron blue marks knocked by shovels and sticks.
The mother finally couldn't bear it anymore, and suddenly felt a thunderbolt from the sky, and when she looked up, she found her father and Wang Jian also standing in front of her, her father's legs began to tremble in place, and Wang Jian's eyes were red, "Did my brother-in-law do it?" He asked.
Wang Chu still didn't speak, "Definitely." Mother said through gritted teeth.
"I'm going to cripple him." Wang Jian shouted, and then walked out the door.
Parents grabbed Wang Jian, "Don't go yet, listen to what your sister says." ”
"What else?" My mother yelled, "I went to the photo studio to take pictures of the injuries on my body, and I went to the hospital to get my disability appraised and divorced." ”
The word divorce has been in Wang Chu's ears for a long time, and according to what his mother said, Wang Chu went to the photo studio, took pictures of all the injuries on his body, and went to the hospital to do a disability appraisal.
In the past 20 days, the bruises on Wang Chu's face have slowly faded, and the middle part of the bruises on his body is still a hard lump, and the better part has spread, and the edges have turned yellow. She can finally afford to hold her niece, but she can't hold it for too long, her arms will be sore and her body won't be able to support it.
For a long time, Wang Chu couldn't eat, often felt nauseous, and wanted to vomit after eating some food, she thought it was a bad mood recently, but she vomited so badly that sometimes she couldn't even vomit out her stomach, looking in the mirror, her whole face and lips were pale.
"Sister, do you have it?" Xu Xiaoran gave the answer on the side.
Wang Chu was shocked, as if cold water was splashing all over her body, she covered her stomach with her hands, and it took a long time to calm herself down. After a long time, she turned around and went out the door to the hospital, where the results showed that she was pregnant.
Wang Chu's heart was extremely confused, he hid in a corner where no one was there and cried, and replayed the beating situation in his mind from time to time, "I can't have this child." She made the decision and told the doctor what she thought, but by the time she lay on the operating table and watched the doctor fiddle with the surgical instruments, she couldn't breathe. Her breasts rose and fell, her hands kept caressing her belly, and from time to time she remembered her niece's bright smile, she jumped out of bed, escaped from the operating room, escaped from the hospital, and Dr. Ren didn't look back no matter what she called.
Out of the hospital, Wang Chu walked along the asphalt road, walked into the hinterland of a desert, reached the top, and sat down, which was a whole afternoon. The September wind blew on her body unusually cold, the sand kept blowing on her face, watching the sunset falling from the top of the mountain in the distance, and touching the little life that was being born in her belly with her hand.
When I got home, my mother asked first, "Chu Chu, are you pregnant?" ”
Wang Chu was reluctant to answer her mother's words, she took Wenwen in Xu Xiaoran's arms, sat on a chair and took her into her arms, and kissed her on the forehead. The mother, apparently already knowing the answer, asked, "What are you going to do?" ”
"What's going on?" Wang Chu knew what his mother was asking.
"You didn't say a word about the divorce, and now you're pregnant again, what do you think?"
"Mom, you don't have to worry about my affairs, I'll take care of it." Wang Chu told his mother.
"What do you mean I don't care?" The mother roared angrily, "Don't let me care about you and let the family beat you like this? Let me tell you Chu Chu, if you don't want to go back to live with Li Xiangyang, even if you are pregnant with the Li family, you are not allowed to give birth. ”
"Oh, Mom, don't you want to mention which pot you don't open? I'm annoyed enough! ”
"No matter how annoying it is, it has to be solved." The mother did not relent, "Tell me what the hell do you think?" ”
Wang Chu let out a cold breath, "I'm going to give birth to the child." ”
"What?" The mother was shocked, "You want to give birth to the child? ”
"The child is innocent." Wang Chu replied, "I will give birth to him." ”
"You don't even have a job, how do you raise a child, you tell me?" The mother was like a crazy cat, roaring, and in a blink of an eye, she found Li Xiangyang standing in the center of the living room, holding a large bag of gifts in his hand, looking at Wang Chu suspiciously.
"Chu Chu." Li Xiangyang muttered, "You ......." After a while, he was surprised and said, "Pregnant?" ”
"What are you doing here?" The mother yelled, "You still dare to come to the house? ”
"I ......." Li Xiangyang squeaked, "I'll pick up Chu Chu and go home." ”
"You don't want to take my girl away." The mother yelled, and the whole room was filled with the mother's voice, "You get out of here, and you dare to come to the house for me?" What have you done to my girl, are you a human or a brute? Get out of here. ”
"I'm not going to get a divorce." Li Xiangyang said, his mother was even more angry, and even pushed and beat Li Xiangyang out, and threw the gifts out of the door, the two chattered outside, and then heard the voices of Wang Jian and his father and the sound of crackling and chasing, as for what kind of movement outside the door, Wang Chu didn't want to pay attention to it at all, but went to bed and hugged the little niece in his arms.
After more than ten minutes, the courtyard finally quieted down, the mother broke into the door, she stood in the middle of the living room, she relieved her excitement a little and shouted, "Chu Chu, you hear clearly, hurry up and clean up the child in your belly for me, otherwise, I will die in front of you." ”
"Oh Mom." Wang Chu rolled up from the bed, "I won't go back with Li Xiangyang, but I want to give birth to the child." ”
"You ......." The mother was so angry that her lips were crooked, she suddenly burst into tears, and even sat on the ground, "Oh my God, why is my life so miserable, I'm about to be angry with you, how should I live!" ”
Wang Chu knew that her mother's usual measurement had come out again, she often had conflicts with her father, that is, she used the measurement uniform of crying, making trouble and hanging herself, she didn't want to give in, so she was upset and had to get out of bed and leave the house temporarily.
Wang Chu chose to sit down on the branch pole by the reservoir, which had long been frozen, and in the distance was an endless array of golden reeds, and her childhood figure reappeared in front of her eyes, this was where she grew up, at that time she and Yang Zhizhi were carefree and shuttled through the depths of the reeds, knowing that there was no end to it, but it was a whole day to walk, and they couldn't even find their way home, and finally let the sheep herder send them home. In short, no matter how physically and mentally exhausted you were at that time, laughter could always reach the clouds in the sky.
Xu Xiaoran didn't know when he arrived, "Sister." She was even a little out of breath, "Why are you running here, I've been looking for you for a long time." ”
"I'm fine." Wang Chu got up and looked at her, "The atmosphere at home is too stuffy, I want to come out and relax." ”
"Sister." Xu Xiaoran said, "Don't blame your mother for nagging, she is right, if you really plan to divorce, then you must not ask for it." ”
"But he's already here." Wang Chu explained, "He has gradually grown in my belly, you see how cute my little niece is." ”
"Your little niece is very cute, but you are not suitable for having children at all now, you and Li Xiangyang are still divorced, have you ever thought about how difficult it is to be a single mother? In the future, if you want to find a home, it will be even more difficult. ”
"Then I won't look for it."
"That's not realistic at all, sister, you listen to me and my mother, think about it."
Wang Chu let out a cold breath, she didn't want to argue anymore, so she said, "Let me think about it." ”