There was a "whoosh" sound in the bathroom, Wang Chu knew that Li Xiangyang had gone to wash, she returned to her room, the room was dark, the first thing she did was to open all the curtains on both sides, open the windows for ventilation, and then put all the clothes into the suitcase, and walked downstairs with footsteps, even when she heard the footsteps of this person, she felt that there was an indescribable abnormal sensitivity. She took the divorce agreement and blocked him in the hallway, and he was picking up the keys to go out.

"Let's bookmark the divorce agreement." Wang Chu handed it to Li Xiangyang.

Li Xiangyang's breathing was rapid and even, and his face showed a trance-like look, "Do you have to go to the point of divorce?" He spoke.

"As a result, I've already told you, don't force me to do too much, it's not easy for you to climb to today's position, I do what I say."

"How long have you been looking forward to this day?"

"From the second time you hit me."

"Hmph." Li Xiangyang sneered, and nodded thoughtfully, "In the past fifteen years, you have been thinking about divorce all the time, and you have finally caught the handle of divorce." ”

"You're wrong." Wang Chu explained, "This time it's just one more handle, every time you hit me, it's a piece of evidence, it's just that the loan of 150,000 yuan for the façade house has not been repaid three years ago, Haohao must belong to me, the façade house must belong to Haohao, I don't want to divorce and repay the loan, Haohao will grow up in a blink of an eye, need to go to school, need to get married, need to buy a house ......." ”

"Scheming enough." Li Xiangyang nodded several times in a row, "Leave, it's all up to you." With that, he quickly signed the divorce agreement and slammed the door.

Looking at the name on the divorce agreement, Wang Chu suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of relief, but this does not mean the end, and it is completely over if he can get the divorce certificate.

That day, Wang Chu went to the school, waiting for Li Haoran to come out at the door, Li Haoran looked very tall and thin in the crowd, fourteen years old, one meter six or eight, he put his hands in his trouser pockets, the handsome and naughty big eyes flickered, and the two big eyes like black gems in the conversation and laughter with his classmates As long as he turned, the laughter came. His pleated face, whether it was the bulging cheeks, or the thin lips, or the slightly upturned little tip of the nose, as well as the expressions and movements of talking and laughing, all felt funny and funny.

When he saw Wang Chu, Li Haoran was stunned for a moment, ended all body language and movements, and his face suddenly became serious and serious. When his companions saw Wang Chu, they asked, "Hello, Auntie!" Then I said goodbye to her and him, and after pandering, the classmates all walked away.

Wang Chu took Li Haoran into a restaurant, and simply asked for braised pork and shredded potatoes, he didn't seem to have an appetite, chopsticks were poured in the rice bowl, knowing that on such an occasion, Wang Chu must have something to say to him.

"Eat more." Wang Chu spoke, "Now is the time for you to grow your body. ”

Li Haoran had neither expression nor words, he never moved his chopsticks, his thin lips moved, and his face showed a sense of melancholy, which was like two people talking and laughing on campus.

"Then if you don't want to eat braised pork, let's change it." Wang Chu said, "Or, I'll go home and make it for you." ”

"Mom." Li Haoran spoke for a long time, "You don't have to please me, I know you have something to say to me, if you want to talk to me about who I am with, then don't say it, I said, I won't talk to anyone." ”

"I know." Wang Chu nodded, "Haohao, you have grown up and have your own thoughts, I can't change your mind, all along, you have been living according to the rules of me and your father, washing clothes by yourself, cleaning up the house by yourself, getting up by yourself, and not going out to play with your classmates for more than an hour, I hope your life will be good in the future, your father and I can't go back for a long time, you must live with me." ”

"I said I wouldn't choose anyone." Li Haoran's eyes were red.

"Mom is going back to work, I don't worry about leaving you with your dad, do you know Haohao?"

"So what? Let me transfer again? My dad transferred me without saying a word and without consulting with me, and now I finally have a group of my own partners, and you want me to transfer again? ”

"You're graduating in one year, and you'll see each other in high school in a year, and you'll be going to school together then."

"I don't want it." Li Haoran stood up from his chair, "I don't want to transfer schools." Then he left the hotel, and Wang Chu chased him out, but he had already run away and disappeared.

Wang Chu still didn't say anything about Li Haoran's transfer, and finally had to rely on him, she told him, "Mom promised you to stay first, but you have to promise Mom that you have to get up on time every day, and the school must listen to the teacher." ”

"I know, Mom, I'm self-reliant, you trust me."

Wang Chu believes this, what she is worried about is not this, but worried that Li Xiangyang will be fierce to the child after getting drunk, Li Haoran is already timid and can't stand the yelling of adults, but she is gullible, the child can't last long, he will definitely ask for a transfer one day in a short time, because she knows Li Xiangyang's character too well.

I haven't been back to the unit for more than half a year, the office computer has long been occupied, the desk is full of dust, the materials are stacked messily, and the books on the ground make people have nowhere to put their feet. It took nearly two hours to clean the office, sort the many documents, and put them all in file boxes.

When he came back suddenly, everyone in the office was surprised, especially Sister Feng, "Why did you come back?" ”

"There is no cadre support policy in southern Xinjiang, and now the reform work is being carried out and cannot be transferred, so I have to come back to work." Wang Chu can only say this, probably they don't understand the policies of their superiors either.

"You said that you finally reunited with your husband, and this is back." Wang Ke interjected.

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back, we can be together again." Han Qi said.

"Then where are you coming back to live, I heard that your house has been sold." Wang Xuewu said.

Wang Chu smiled, "Secretary, do you know all this?" ”

"Hey, it's so big." Wang Xuewu explained, "If a big thing can be spread, the matter of the leader will spread faster." ”

When he said this, Wang Chu felt very uncomfortable, Wang Xuewu was right, in a small group, her divorce will be known in less than a month.

"I have a house in the Moon Lake community, it's a little smaller, almost more than 50 square meters, or you live there, anyway, the house is empty." Wang Xuewu said again.

Wang Chu frowned, "That's good." There is no place to live at the moment, and she doesn't want to go back to her mother-in-law's house to live, and she didn't refuse, "How much, I'll pay you rent." ”

"What kind of rent do you pay, I don't know if I will have to ask Deputy Political Commissar Li for help in the future, aside from the relationship between Deputy Political Commissar Li, why is this the relationship between superiors and subordinates for many years, you can live in peace of mind, and I will give you the key to the house when I go back."

"Secretary, I must give you the rent."

"I'm angry about the rent, so it's settled, I'll give you the key now."

"Then thank you, secretary." Wang Chu hurriedly thanked him.

"You're welcome."

After getting off work, Wang Chu smoothly lived in the house provided by Wang Xuewu, she hung the clothes in the wardrobe one by one, took care of the room neatly, there was only a set of sofas in the room, there was only one bed in the bedroom, there was not even a TV, a pot of pothos, a pot of osmanthus, a pot of phalaenopsis, and the laptop could be put on the coffee table to watch TV series, such an atmosphere she felt warm and comfortable.

Before dark, Wang Chu called Li Haoran and asked him if he had eaten or done his homework, and he said that he would finish his homework quickly and go to sleep. She also instructed not to play with mobile phones, go to bed early, get up early in the morning to go to school, send a text message before school, etc.

Hanging up the phone, Wang Chu got up from the sofa, walked to the window to look outside, she always likes to look into the distance in this way, let her heart calm for a few minutes, there are children playing in the community, there are vehicles, there are mobile people, the community has not been built for a long time, there is no lawn, not even a tree. Here you can see the cotton fields, the roads, and the trees in the distance.

On the first night, Wang Chu tossed and turned and didn't fall asleep in the middle of the night, she was obviously worried about Li Haoran, worried about whether he was asleep, whether he was playing with his mobile phone, whether he could get up to school on time in the morning, a series of worries surged in her mind, making the whole room have a dull atmosphere.

The sky was shining as scheduled, Wang Chu only squinted for a while, he turned over his mobile phone and saw a message from Li Haoran, "Mom, I'm going to school, I'll call you after school." ”

A smile lightly wiped from the corner of Wang Chu's mouth, "Stinky boy, it's quite punctual." She muttered to herself, then got up from her lazy bed.

The sun outside was warm, and the temperature on a September morning was accompanied by a slight cool feeling, and Wang Chu walked to work, about half an hour away. It takes half an hour to get up at half past eight in the morning, wash your face, brush your teeth, and clean up, and arrive at the office more than 20 minutes early, which is a habit she has accumulated over the years.

The office is deserted, only Sister Feng is there, this nearly fifty-five-year-old woman, experienced the biggest setback in her life, fifteen years ago her husband suddenly died of drinking, although a few years later she restarted the family, but she used a salary of 1,500 yuan to 3,000 yuan a month to let her two daughters enter the threshold of the college campus, and then both joined the work.

Wang Chu admires Sister Feng's dedication the most, she has to go to the office an hour in advance every morning, register calls from more than 40 water distribution points in 16 companies, register and summarize the amount of water distribution required every day, and deliver it to the regiment leader's office before going to work at 10 o'clock.

"Why did you come to the office so early?" Sister Feng asked.

"I'm bored at home, I can't stay." Wang Chu said.

"There's nothing going on in this office, our water conservancy unit has been reformed, a lot of material work is gone, and you have become an idler."

"Who's to say it isn't." Wang Chu sighed, "What do you need help with, just say it." ”

"I'm all data-based, and you can't keep me busy."

"yes, I get a headache when I see the numbers, I can't do this." Wang Chu looked around the office, "Sister Feng, why is the office so quiet." ”

"Who says it's not, they are all waiting for reforms, they are all waiting to see, and they don't even have the heart to go to work."

"Then stay in the office, too."

"What are you doing in the office, staring at you with big eyes, you can go home if you don't have anything to do."

Wang Chu frowned, and told Sister Feng that without a job in the material business, she became an idler, and she was either in a daze or in a daze in the office.

"You go home and rest, or go back and write your novel, you see where is there anyone in the office but me, an old woman?"

"Isn't that right?"

"What's wrong, go home, find something meaningful for yourself to do, don't waste time here."

Wang Chu listened to Sister Feng's words and went home, indeed, she was an idler in the office, she didn't understand the business work on the water situation at all, Han Qi's body was obviously not as good as before, and it was a little difficult to walk, the stationmaster and the three deputy stationmasters were almost at the water distribution point at the gate of each company every day, and no one knew what the instructor was assigned to do by the division, and the salesman disappeared in less than two hours, and Wang Chu had to return home more than an hour early, and called Li Haoran for dinner and fell asleep.

At about two o'clock in the morning, the phone rang suddenly, and Wang Chu woke up in horror, it was Li Haoran calling.

"Mom." Li Haoran's voice was obviously wrong.

"What's wrong, Haohao?"

"My dad drank too much."

"Haohao, you lock the door and sleep well, don't pay attention to it, okay?"

"Mom, Dad has been walking around the room for almost half an hour, and I'm scared." Li Haoran's voice was very low, and Wang Chu could feel that he was about to cry.

"Haohao, it's so late, where did mom find a car? Besides, when I get to the day, it's dawn, you are obedient, good, go to sleep. ”

"Oh!" Li Haoran reluctantly hung up the phone, and Wang Chu also stayed awake all night.

Before dawn the next day, Wang Chu dialed Li Haoran's phone, the first time no one answered, and the second time there was a voice on the other side of the phone, but it was not Li Haoran's.

"Auntie, okay." Greetings from each other.

"You are? What about Li Haoran? ”

"Auntie, I'm classmate Li Haoran, and he's going to the toilet."

"Why is he at your house? Didn't he stay at home last night? ”

"He stayed at my house last night."

"He was still home at three o'clock last night, how could he run to your house so late?"

The other party squeaked, and then Li Haoran answered the phone, "Mom." ”

"Why did you run to your classmates in the middle of the night?"

"I'm too scared to stay home."

"I asked you to transfer schools, but you didn't transfer, you didn't dare to stay at home, do you have to stay with your classmates every night?"

"Mom, can you let me think about transferring to another school?"

"Okay, I'll give you time to think about it, tell me when it's ready."

That night, Li Haoran didn't go home for another night, and called the next day, "Mom, I want to transfer schools." ”

"Have you thought about it?" Wang Chu confirmed it again.

"I've thought about it."

"Okay." Wang Chu said, "When I arrived at the school, I found your homeroom teacher and asked him to give you a transfer certificate." ”

Hung up the phone, Wang Chu then sent a message to Li Haoran's head teacher, "Hello Teacher Jiang, I am Li Haoran's mother Wang Chu, due to the cancellation of the policy of teaching cadres in southern Xinjiang, I went back to work in my original unit, the child's father is too busy with work on weekdays, and he has no time to take care of the child, please help the child go through the transfer procedures, please trouble you." ”

It didn't take long for the teacher to reply with a message, "Okay, got it." ”

Li Haoran transferred to Tumshuk Middle School as he wished, and was transferred to Tumshuk Middle School, and then to a strange environment, Li Haoran was obviously a little uncomfortable, but fortunately, the middle school in the regiment and even Tumshuk were almost all his childhood friends and primary school classmates.

Li Haoran's daily life, eating, drinking, and Lazar are all taken care of by his mother, and his mother played such a role as early as a year ago, since her niece went to high school, she got up at eight o'clock in the morning, cooked porridge for her niece and made breakfast, prepared lunch at twelve o'clock at noon, and served the meal on the table before school in the evening, but now there is one more Li Hao.

Li Xiangyang only learned about Li Haoran's transfer more than a week later, Wang Chu's phone rang three times, she didn't want to answer, knowing that after connecting, there would be endless abuse and accusations.

Early the next morning, on the way to work, a white car stopped in front of Wang Chu, the car was fast, and a large amount of dust was raised, and she didn't have to guess that the Outlander white car was Li Xiangyang's.

Li Xiangyang got out of the car, dragged Wang Chu into the car, and then he got into the main driver, and yelled without sitting still, "Wang Chu, what do you want to do?" Why didn't Hao Hao discuss with me about the transfer? ”

"What am I discussing with you?" Wang Chu looked back at him, "Hao Hao hasn't been home for a few days in his classmates, do you know?" How long has it been since you transferred to another school before you came to me to ask me? Why don't you worry when you're away from home for more than a week? ”

"That's when I knew he lived in his fellow students."

"Do you still know that Hao Hao lives in his fellow scholars? You drank wine, he was so scared that he didn't even dare to go home, what kind of life did you give my mother and son? Fear, worry, fear, anxiety, it's time for this to end, stop making me full of fear of life, full of despair about life, okay? Let's end it! Her eyes were red, and she stared straight at Li Xiangyang with hateful eyes, her teeth seemed to be fighting, and her body was trembling.

"Okay, leave." Li Xiangyang nodded, "I'll leave you once completely, don't regret it." ”

The divorce got his wish, Li Xiangyang found an acquaintance, first notarized the divorce agreement at the judicial office, and then went to the civil affairs department, all the formalities were completed in less than an hour, except for the person who handled it, there was no second person to witness.

The seal was stamped on the divorce certificate, Wang Chu's sinking heart finally fell, she picked up the divorce certificate and rushed out of the office of the civil affairs department, Li Xiangyang chased him out, followed closely behind, in a no-man's corner, he grabbed Wang Chu, his breath was short, it was caused by following her.

"Are you satisfied?" Li Xiangyang said, "We have finally become passers-by. ”

"Let go of me." Wang Chu prompted, looking around to see if there was anyone.

"Where to go? I'll send you. ”

"No, you don't." Wang Chu shook him off, blended into the crowd, and then disappeared.

There are not many people in the city of Tumshuk, they are everywhere, and it seems too difficult to hide in the crowd and disappear without a trace, Wang Chu struggled to escape, and she did not stop under a tree until she could not see Li Xiangyang's car.

Tall trees block the sun, and a river runs from south to north, and white, red, yellow, dark purple, gray-green lotus flowers and lotus leaves float on the water, some sway in the wind, and some have dried up. Not far away, the artificially piled rockery was covered with green, and a curved path led to the top of the mountain, Wang Chu walked up, stood on the top of the high mountain, and watched the city under the pavilion. She closed her eyes and suddenly felt that the city was so beautiful, even the wind that blew over carried the fragrance of lotus flowers.

Sitting on the chair in the gazebo, Wang Chu took out the divorce certificate, took a photo and sent it to Yang Huimin on WeChat, and in half a second, she replied, "Congratulations, you are finally free." ”

A smile appeared at the corner of Wang Chu's mouth, and she held the divorce certificate high on the sunny side, the bright red color was like a glowing flame, and it was like the beauty of a maple leaf, more like the enthusiasm of blood, and it was very good-looking.

Back at home, Wang Chu put the divorce certificate in a file bag, mixed it with many documents and documents, and then put it in the closet.

Next, Wang Chu devoted himself wholeheartedly to reviewing and meeting the targeted recruitment examination for the reform of the water conservancy system of the Corps, and Li Haoran could not relax in her study. To put it bluntly, his grades dropped before the first and second years of junior high school, for example, what is the most basic object in physics that can emit light? Why is the moon not a light source? He had no idea what mechanics, optics, electromagnetism, relativistic physical phenomena were. At least 70% of a chapter in English is ambiguous, and the authorship and interpretation of ancient poems are often confused. For this reason, Wang Chu bought tutoring books for each course from Xinhua Bookstore, and specially enrolled him in one-on-one tutoring classes, and he rushed to the school and cram school on the way, even walking on the road to memorize words and ancient poems, and after two days off, his niece pulled back, so hard, because he wanted to be worthy of the 3,000 yuan that Wang Chu spent on him.

"Your two cram courses in physics and English are 3,000 yuan, and there are more than 800 tutorial books, so you can weigh whether you learn or not." This sentence is what Wang Chu said to Li Haoran when he came out of the cram school.

"Don't worry, Mom, I will get up before the chickens crow, I will go to bed after twelve o'clock, I will remember all the knowledge points that the teacher told me, in short, you will see the results after the tutoring."

"If you listen well in class and master all the knowledge points, you won't let me spend so much money."

"Isn't that too many courses, and my brain is limited."

"Strong words, more high school courses, how are you going to learn? If you can't get into college, what will you do in the future? As a waiter? Food delivery? Or carrying bricks on the construction site? ”

"Oh Mom, I'll just come on."

Wang Chu gave Li Haoran a very reluctant look, let him experience it himself, he quickly realized this, after more than 20 days of one-on-one tutoring, the average score of each unit of physics was about eighty-five points, ninety-five points in the comprehensive exam, and the English score was slightly worse, but he also scored eighty-seven points.

Wang Chu was very satisfied with this result, and Li Haoran's physics teacher said to her after Li Haoran finished all the exams, "Your Li Haoran is very smart, as long as I talk about the knowledge points in the book, he will understand them, and his IQ can completely master the knowledge points in the book in the classroom." ”

"He's just playful and doesn't study hard." Wang Chu squinted at Li Haoran sideways as he spoke, and he tilted his head not to look at her and the teacher, pretending not to hear and turn a blind eye.

"That's right, it seems that I didn't study hard, so in the future, it's okay to get into a key school."

"Thank you, teacher, for your hard work in the past 20 days."

"You're welcome, I like Li Haoran's character very much, smart and handsome, if he doesn't understand anything in the future, let him come to me, I tutor for free, it's a pity if such a smart child can't be admitted to a key high school."

"Okay, then I'll bother you." After Wang Chu finished speaking, he yelled at Li Haoran who was not far away, "Li Haoran, did you hear what the teacher said?" ”

"I heard my mother, the teacher kept praising me, and I was embarrassed to praise me." Li Haoran higged with a smile on his face.

"You're embarrassed ......." Before Wang Chu finished speaking, he was interrupted by Li Haoran.

"Mom, I know, I know you want me to study hard, you want me to be admitted to a key high school, no, I will come to the teacher, and I will also find my sister, Mom, I understand what you mean, let's go home first."

"...... you?"

"Okay, let's go home first, go home first." Li Haoran's articulate and improvisable ability made Wang Chu have to admire, he took a few seconds to say goodbye to the teacher, and then pulled her out and continued to smile, "Mom, you are really worried, you see that you are old, and you also have crow's feet on your face." ”

"Are you embarrassed? You say I'm going to ...... you from that long. ”

Wang Chu was interrupted by Li Haoran before he finished speaking, and picked up a sentence that she had been nagging for many years, "Do you think it's easy for me to raise you from such a long time?" How much does my life worry about me? Mom, I know you're not easy, I'm trying, trying. ”

Wang Chu was so angry that he was speechless, so he had to keep his mouth shut.