Chapter Seventy-Six: The Coming Storm (Volume 2)
"The day after tomorrow! is the day after tomorrow! What if...... If they allow us to go out together!" Leng Yue said with certainty, because she knew that she couldn't wait!
"Won't it work tomorrow?" asked Toyama, looking impatient, as if he had been looking forward to this day for a long time.
"No," she said briefly, "I'm going to go home tomorrow! ”
"Okay! Then we'll make up our minds! The day after tomorrow, we'll go out together!"
Yuan Shan stretched out his right hand and raised his little finger, and Leng Yue also stretched out his right little finger. They put their little fingers together and the thumbs of both hands together.
Like children, they pulled the ditch, stamped it, and made an agreement to go out together the day after tomorrow.
*
On Sunday morning, Leng Yue returned to her home.
She opened the door with the key, and when she walked into the hall, she thought that Li Min would be waiting for her in the hall like last time.
In her consciousness, she was ready to open her mouth as soon as she entered the door, begging Li Min to let her have a little more time.
However, unexpectedly, the hall was empty, upstairs and downstairs were quiet, and no one was at home. Even the maid Zhang's sister-in-law was arranged by Li Min to take a vacation and return to her hometown after Leng Yue left home.
Leng Yue subconsciously walked into the bedroom.
There is no trace of movement in the bedroom, everything is the same.
Didn't Li Min come home to stay? She was confused! But she was so tired, so tired, so exhausted...... She really didn't have the energy and energy to analyze it all.
Seeing her comfortable big bed, she let out a sigh of relief, and then fell down on her big bed and fell asleep in a trance.
I don't know how long it took, but all of a sudden, she smelled a choking smell of tobacco.
Leng Yue opened her eyes and saw that the room was brightly lit. Could it be that it was already dark? She saw Li Min sitting on the sofa in the bedroom, smoking a cigarette.
On the coffee table next to the sofa, there was a document bag, and the ashtray was already full of cigarette butts.
She sat up and looked at Li Min.
Li Min's eyes were wide open, and he was also staring at her tightly.
Seeing Leng Yue wake up, he didn't speak, and continued to smoke, without any expression on his face.
"Li Min!" she began, "I...... I still need to work for another week. She whispered, "A week is fine...... You can come back. ”
"What?" asked Li Min from the depths of his throat.
"That's it...... There are some special circumstances......" she said, "The situation is not allowed, and it has been delayed for some time, so ...... Definitely ...... next week"
"I think," Li Min puffed out a puff of smoke. "You've forgotten our last appointment!" he stared at her, his eyes straight. "Promises are meant to be kept!" he said, still smoking a cigarette.
"This ......"
Leng Yue was stunned, not knowing what to say.
From Li Min's face, she couldn't tell what he was thinking. However, the room was gradually filled with the tranquility that preceded the storm.
The wind blew through the window lattice, and wisps of his cigarette spread in the air.
Finally, Li Min finished smoking a cigarette, and there began to be an invisible layer of worry on his expressionless face, and there was a distress that was difficult to hide everywhere under his eyebrows.
He stared at Leng Yue intently for a long time, and then quietly shouted:
"Cold Moon!"
"Hmm!"
She replied passively.
If the storm was coming, she would have to accept it right away.
Li Min extinguished the cigarette butt and stood up from the depths of the couch, he approached her, reached out and lifted her chin, examining her face and her eyes.
Leng Yue looked at him passively, waiting for the storm to come.
However, his face was patient, and a touch of pain and bitterness passed under his eyes, and he lowered his hand and said softly:
"You look tired and haggard, and you look like you've cried...... Now, you need to take a hot shower and eat something—" He paused, and asked softly, "Have you had dinner?"
Leng Yue shook her head in confusion.
"Look, I knew you never took care of yourself!" he sighed. "Alright, you go take a shower, I'll help you get something to eat!"
Li Min walked to the kitchen.
Leng Yue looked at his back, what's the matter? No blame? No noise, no anger, no storm?
She's confused!
But she was really so tired, so tired, so exhausted, she really didn't have the energy and energy to analyze it all.
She obediently took her pajamas and went to the bathroom.
When she came out of the bathroom, Li Min had already brought a tray and placed it on the bedside table next to the bed.
Inside the tray, there is a glass of steaming milk, a fried fragrant egg, two slices of toast and a bottle of imported jam.
"You have to eat something!" Mr. Li said.
Leng Yue ate it, ate it silently, and never said a word.
He watched her finish eating, and as he took the tray, he took the opportunity to kiss her lightly on the forehead, and then whispered, "I'm going to tell you a word." ”
"What kind of work?"
Leng Yue asked weakly and frightened.
She leaned her back against the bed pillow, and her arms were filled with a passive, confused emotion.
"You are free!"
Li Minqing said clearly.
"I thought about it for a long time, although the husband and wife were married with the help of God, if they ran away, they would be weak. But, if I bind you with a marriage contract, it's not a man's doing! I'm not so domineering and old-fashioned! So, if you want a divorce, you want to leave me...... As long as you open your mouth, I will not pester you anymore, nor will I stop you!"
He paused, then he put down the tray he was about to take and sat back on the couch, looking at her.
"Now, I'll give you five minutes to think about it!" he seemed to say firmly, "as long as you speak!"
Li Min said as he opened the file bag on the coffee table and pulled out a piece of paper from it.
"This is a divorce agreement, if you want a divorce, sign it, and I will set you free!"
Leng Yue looked at him in astonishment and opened her eyes wide.
Minutes and seconds passed, and five minutes passed quickly.
Li Min's eyes flashed with brilliance, his face turned pale from waiting, and he stared at her and smiled.
"I've been waiting for you for five minutes, and you can't open your mouth, can you?"
His eyes began to soften, and his voice was also gentle: "I know you can't do without me, and you can't leave this family." I'm sorry, but in the face of such a major problem, although I am emotional, I can't think too much. ”
He stretched out his hands, walked over and hugged her, patted her gently on the back, and then sat back on the couch.
"Don't you know what a serious test these five minutes are for me?" Li Min said with a smile, "It's like five years." ”
"But...... I ......"
Leng Yue quickly glanced at Li Min, and then glanced at the divorce agreement on the coffee table, she was extremely flustered.
"I ......"
"What do you want?"
Li Min lit another cigarette.
He leaned back on the couch and looked at her for a moment.
"I ...... I said, I hope you ...... Give me another week. Leng Yue was clear, but a little flustered and said, "A week is fine...... And, this time...... This time, really, really. ”
"What?!"
Li Min threw away half of his cigarette.
"It's been more than ten days for you to leave!It's going to take a week?!" His face was white, and he stared at her. "Your demands are a thing of the past!"
Li Min glared at her and turned his face bluntly.
"I gave you five minutes to think about it, and you didn't say anything, which means that you still care about my husband! You care about this family! In that case, why do you have to run outside? Do you have to get lost outside?" He frowned, held his breath and asked, "Do you want your so-called 'freedom'?" He asked loudly, "Don't you think that your 'freedom' is too much?" Even I, a person who loves freedom, sigh to myself! Who are you to me? Are you a fool?!"
Leng Yue's heart ached, and she was silent.
Tears began to float in her eyes, but she tried to keep them from rolling down into tears.
Li Min picked up the document bag on the coffee table and threw it on the bed.
"Look at what good things you've done every day!"
With a 'snap', the tray on the bedside table was scraped to the ground, and the tray and glass made a crisp sound.
Li Min didn't care, he just stared at her.
Leng Yue took the file bag, then opened it and found that it was a stack of photos.
She took out the photos and looked at them one by one, and her cheeks gradually lost color with them.
She looked at Li Min tightly, the tears in her eyes turned into anger, and she asked:
"You're actually following me? you're actually sending someone to investigate me?" Leng Yue couldn't believe it, flipping through the photos of her pushing a wheelchair, the photos of her taking care of the distant mountains, and recently, the photos of her watering flowers and grass.
"Yes!" Li Min said loudly, "How is it? I sent someone to follow you! What are you going to do!?"
"I'm leaving—"
"I warn you!"
Li Min screamed violently.
He interrupted the word 'marriage' that Leng Yue didn't say, divorce.
"My patience with you has reached the edge!" Li Min is shouting: "I am a human being! Moreover, I am a man with a heart and lungs, joy and anger!"
He 'soared' and stood up from the depths of the couch.
"Don't think that I condone you and endure you, you think I'm a bully, and you threaten me with divorce at every turn!" Li Minmin pointed at her and said angrily: "If you dare to say those two words again, I can't guarantee that I will do anything to you!"
"Li Min, you ...... What's going on?"
Leng Yue looked at him in horror and asked him a little weakly.