Chapter 8: Marriage
Since then, Wu An has often come to see Liu Sisi after work, or on a Saturday and Sunday (another day when he was going to see his son). Sometimes two people go for a walk on the street, or go to a certain store. Wu An offered to buy a few clothes for her, and after looking at it, the two would compare the prices, and then decide whether to buy or not to sell after thinking about it left and right. Sometimes I go to the vegetable market to buy some vegetables and come back, and then I work together to cook the food. After a few times, she got used to this rhythm of life, and she also had a sense of steadfastness and stability.
A month later, Wu An, a unit-level cadre, took a lot of trouble and begged a lot of people to find a temporary job for Liu Sisi in the street and became a street sanitation supervisor. A dispensable job can earn a salary of 200 yuan per month. Although the money is less, it is her first job after all. In the future, she can go to and from work like a city dweller and keep up with the pace of life in the city.
Wu An is really a man who keeps to himself, and after a month of dating between the two, he tentatively took her hand. His face was red and shy. This made Liu Sisi, who had experienced the stormy attack of two men, feel that Wu An was really a man who could be entrusted for life. So, one day two months later, he blushed, lowered his head, and muttered: Look, we've known each other for so long, or- if you don't have any opinion, let's get married, right?
Listening to his confession, her heart beat like a drum, this was the first time she had heard a man propose to her. It was her dream to marry a man from the city. At that moment, her tears almost fell.
The wedding was very simple, they first went to the street to register, and then they had a meal with a dozen of Wu An's friends and colleagues. After marriage, they still lived in the house where Wu An lived, and the furniture, including daily necessities, were also remnants of Wu An's previous marriage, except for the extra bed, new bedding, and a few clothes symbolizing the newlywed. All this made her very satisfied, and she felt that this was the life that she could see and touch.
On the night of the wedding, Wu An hugged her for the first time with the strength of wine. She could clearly hear his "pounding" heartbeat. He spoke incoherently, panting and said: You are so beautiful, so young, you are with me, you don't regret it, right?
She shook her head in his arms. He let out a long sigh of relief, and his movements went a little deeper.
At that moment, she had been very nervous, after all, it was not her first time, and she was afraid that Wu An would find something. Her body had been viciously possessed by two men, and there must have been a change, and she was worried that Wu An would be angry or end their marriage in a fit of anger. As a result, nothing happened. He took her in his arms as if he had found a treasure, and kissed and kissed, looking a little crazy and obsessed.
In the following days, the water was not prosperous, and the lives of the two finally stabilized, and the important thing was that their respective wandering hearts had a home. Wu An's complexion improved, ruddy and shiny, and his lower abdomen was a little erect. She is also more moisturized and hydrated. She was finally able to walk down the street now, and she was now completely from the city. Because in this city, there is her home.
Every night, the two of them lie in bed contented and happy, looking at the moon outside the window, and dreaming of their future lives. Most of the time it was Wu An who said and she listened. Wu An is a down-to-earth man, and everything he says is very pragmatic and not false at all.
He said, "After a while, I'll help you find a decent job."
He said: In two years, when our economic situation is better, you can give me another child.
He also said: Others say that I, Wu An, am an old cow and eats tender grass, and I am not worthy of you, hehe......
She listened to his words and hugged him tightly, tears welling up on her cheeks. This is her man, the husband who lives his life. From the day she got married, she erased the two men from her memory. She swore in her heart: she must live a good life with Wu An.
The days passed peacefully for a while, and then for a while. If Ma Bo had not had an accident, their married life might have been very happy. It turned out that something happened to Ma Bo. He was sued for rape by a student at the nursing school. Ma Bo was detained, and then the case was opened for investigation, and the situation became complicated. Ma Bo recruited everything during his detention, including the fact that he used to use his teacher's position to seduce female students in the name of falling in love. In this long list of victims is Liu Sisi's name.
One night, the police knocked on the door of Wu An's house and solemnly approached Liu Sisi to understand the situation. Although Wu An was politely invited into the bedroom from the living room by the police, he still understood the ins and outs.
The Mabo incident is a big case in this small city, and everyone from the mayor to the people are concerned about this case. After all, this matter also involves his wife Liu Sisi, and Wu An has no reason not to care.
In the process, Liu Sisi was invited to the Public Security Bureau twice. At first, she didn't want to say anything, after all, the relationship with Ma Bo was not a glorious act, she had already erased it from her memory, and it was the police who turned it over again. If she didn't say anything, the police kept looking for her, and then she said that it was the original. She thought that if she said that, her life would be peaceful.
Wu An saw Ma Bo's file at the district procuratorate, and he focused his attention on the section involving Liu Sisi. He took advantage of the conditions of working in the district party committee and found a classmate who worked in the procuratorate to find out the file.
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, this time I realized that my wife still had this disgraceful experience. The wife slept with a rapist and willingly. Wu An couldn't stand it anymore, he closed the file, hugged his head and cried once. Since then, Wu An seems to have changed as a person, he no longer loves Liu Sisi, he returned home without saying a word, smoking with his head stuffed, and then looking at her with slanted eyes. I could see that the hairs on her body were all over her body.
Lying in bed at night, he pulled a quilt by himself and avoided her from a distance. She understood the reason for all this, but she could only cry silently.
She choked up and said: Wu An, I'm sorry for you, I was deceived by his rhetoric at that time.
She said, "I was really deceived." He has such good conditions and says that he wants to marry me, and I have no reason to disagree. He also said he would help me find a job and marry me.
She also said: It's all my fault, I'm not clean.
He howled mournfully: You've been with him, that rapist for more than a year, for more than a yearโ
After a while, he said heartbrokenly: I thought you were very innocent, but I didn't expect you to mix with a rapist and a guy who plays with women. You tell the truth, who else but him?
She thought of the Taiwanese man, Xue Li. She didn't want to say it, but when she saw Wu An's painful appearance, she thought that if she said everything about herself, it would be fine. She couldn't deceive her husband, so she spoke it all.
Wu An's mouth opened wide in surprise, and his facial features were distorted. When she had finished speaking, he cried out: Who else? Who'sโ
She shook her head and said: Before marrying you, just these two men.
Wu An collapsed there like a deflated ball.
Things took a turn for the worse after that. Soon after, Ma Bo was sentenced to thirteen years in prison. With Ma Bo's sentencing, stories about the students who had an affair with Ma Bo spread in this small town. People know that Wu An married the student who Ma Bo had played with back then. No matter where Liu Sisi goes, there is something behind him. The man pointed and pointed. As soon as she appeared, people were silent. She knew what people were saying, but she couldn't stop it. If it is said that the rumors outside, she can still deal with it calmly, but she can't escape Wu An's changes. Now, Wu An has separated from her and lived on the sofa in the living room, no matter how much she pleaded, he was indifferent.
One day, he finally said in tears: You made me unable to be a man outside. At first, I thought I didn't deserve you, you are so young and beautiful, who knows that you - there are so many things, you are slapping me in the face.
Wu An's appearance was extremely painful, and for a few months, he seemed to have been tortured to the point of being more than ten years old, discouraged, and about to die.
Liu Sisi has also changed a lot, and he washes his face with tears all day long. When no one was around, she tore at herself at once, letting the pain of her flesh torment her numb nerves.
Their days seem to be at the end of their rope.