Chapter 32 Chapter Thirty-Two

Ye Shengnan and I don't live together like husband and wife, and lovers don't live together like lovers.As a husband and wife, we are financially independent, each have our own housing, and there is no legal procedure.Said to be lovers, we have sons, each has no family of his own, I have no wife, she has no husband.When Ye Shengnan introduces me to others, she always says that this is my man. If others further believe that I am her husband, she must clarify: "It's not my husband, it's my man." It made me feel awkward at first. My identity is ambiguous, a bit like her face.Later, I followed her example and introduced her to others like this: "This is my woman." The first time I introduced her to others like this, I suddenly had a strange feeling.The taste of this feeling can only be understood and cannot be expressed in words. It seems that Ye Shengnan and I have really created a relationship between men and women that is closer and fresher than husband and wife.The relationship between us seems to have an ambiguous taste, and it is this ambiguity that allows us to taste the mutual temptation between men and women.

They didn't care about our behavior, but they were afraid that Ye Shengnan would know that they had introduced a girlfriend to me, so they kept telling me not to tell Ye Shengnan.The pork ribs are highly appreciated by individuals, and the battered bread and braised pork are very envious. They once said that they would also try it with their wives. Later, I asked them if they had tried it, and the battered bread smiled awkwardly. , and was scolded by his wife.That day, Ye Shengnan decided to call our classmates together to cook hot pot in her hot pot restaurant. Ribs had another lover, this time he was a dance hall foreman. The woman who does the work is called Mommy, and it seems that they have become sons in front of this kind of woman.We asked Ribs to learn from the people in the special zone, calling her Mommy, and Ribs said that they are of the same generation.Both the battered bread and the braised pork came with their wives, and they kept persuading me to remarry Ye Shengnan. The ribs were bothering me, and I drank a little too much. They scolded them for meddling in their own business: "What do you know, this is called fashion, What does it have to do with you if someone remarries? Don’t be in a hurry to poop, but be in a hurry to find the latrine.” The wife of the battered bread is Meng Wenli, a classmate who went to the countryside with us. She is usually a quiet and introverted woman. Uncharacteristically, he became aggressive, calling Ribs a big hooligan, and what he said sounded like a hooligan.Ribs wanted to quarrel with her, but Ye Shengnan persuaded her. Ribs' girlfriend was upset, so she pulled Ribs and left, but they broke up after a fight.

The first person in the family to express opposition to our relationship was Ye Shengnan's father. During my divorce with Ye Shengnan, her father was quite open-minded and did not show any hostility towards me. He would greet me when we met: "Dear Is Dan going to work?" "Dan is off work?" But after Ye Shengnan and I got together again, he turned his head and left when he saw me. That day Ye Shengnan said that her mother was not feeling well, and asked me to go back with her to have a look, so I went with her. I haven't been to their house for so many years, and I really have mixed feelings standing outside the door.Neither she nor I have the key to their house. She knocked on the door, and I waited anxiously, with the nutritional supplements bought for her mother in my hand. I felt stupid, like the first time I came to the door Poor son-in-law.

Her father opened the door, saw it was the two of us, turned around and walked into the house, Ye Shengnan grabbed me and asked me to be the vanguard, she also saw that her father was unhappy, afraid of being scolded when entering the door, so she sent me to lead the battle.I bite the bullet and followed his father into the house, and took the initiative to get close to the prospective old father-in-law: "Dad, I heard that Mom is not in good health recently, let's come and have a look. Is there any work at home recently? I just did it." The old man scolded me with a slap in the neck: "What are you doing? I can't afford you if you have a job, get out!"

I made him feel a little dizzy from scolding. If I didn't get dizzy, I wouldn't have chased him and asked, "Dad, what's the matter? An official doesn't hit those who give gifts, and don't hit those who have a reason. Why are you scolding me?" The old man continued to scold: "What are you doing? If you want to live a good life, you will be divorced. If you get divorced, you will be ripped apart. If you want to remarry, then remarry. If you don't remarry, don't get together!" Ye Shengnan corrected her father with a playful smile: "It should be said that the root is broken, what the root is broken."

"Different words have the same meaning." Her father insisted stubbornly. Ye Shengnan and I came here to visit Ye Shengnan's mother. Her mother, an old lady with a heart condition, is still alive today, and many elderly people who are stronger than her have passed away one after another.My relationship with her mother has always been very good, and the relationship between her mother, my mother and my father has not been greatly damaged because of my divorce with Ye Shengnan. I think the key to her mother's ability to survive until now is her mother's personality Kindness, aloof from the world, can even be submissive, just like a stream emerging from the ground, it can change the direction of its flow, but it can't stop it, because it is its softness that prevents it from being destroyed.Now I am less and less convinced that her mother would steal Chinese cabbage from the cafeteria, and more and more believe that this may be another unjust case of the "Cultural Revolution", but her mother never asked for redress, and I never dared to ask her I'm afraid she will be embarrassed about this matter.

Different from her father, her mother showed a kind of open-mindedness and understanding towards the relationship between Ye Shengnan and me from the beginning to the end. What moved me especially was that after I finished the divorce procedure with Ye Shengnan, I ran into her in the retirement home. Knowing how to face her, she wanted to avoid her and try to run away, but she stopped me and told me: "Yang Wei, no one can do anything about this kind of thing. Don't hate Sheng Nan, Sheng Nan I can't hate you. After all, you have been together for so many years and have children. This is fate. Although the fate is over, you should think more about the kindness of being together, and don't always think about each other's faults. There will be a long time in the future Let’s go, find someone who is suitable and live a good life, don’t worry if you don’t meet the right one for a while, maybe you two will get back together after a period of separation and feel that you are better off together.”

Now what she said came true, and even though we didn't come together the way she imagined, she was quick to admit it.Ye Shengnan's father scolded us a lot, making it hard for me to get off stage.Ye Shengnan stepped in to help me out: "Dad, you don't understand, we may or may not remarry, isn't this just trying?" "Try? Try what?" Her father made her confused. "Try marriage, it's popular all over the world. If you can try to get married, if you can't, just break up and go your own way." Her father was dumbfounded and said after a long while: "Try what? Yang Chenglong is in high school, what else are you trying? Why are you getting thicker and thicker as you grow older, and you are getting more and more out of shape!"

Ye Shengnan still wanted to explain and explain. Her mother heard it in the room, and she was afraid of intensifying the conflict, so she hurried out to interrupt: "Yang Wei, please help me repair the water heater in the bathroom this afternoon. There is a leak, and I'm afraid that I will be electrocuted." When Ye Shengnan and I were not divorced, her family had a technical job, and the old man was always willing to come to me, saying that I was highly skilled, and she could rest assured that none of her own children knew how to work. worried.Sometimes I suspect that she is reluctant to let her own children work hard, and treats me as a free long-term laborer, just like Ye Shengnan came to my house to make a living, in order to save energy in her house.Therefore, I used to complain in front of Ye Shengnan: "I, a dignified senior technician, became a free laborer for your family." If the deaf cannot be cured, the blind must be cured.”

I quickly turned to my old mother-in-law and said, "No problem, I'll fix it now." I said this partly to show courtesy, and partly to avoid Ye Shengnan's father's persecution.Ye Shengnan's father is not stupid, he saw that I was really going to repair the electric water heater for their house, so he let me go, and stopped scolding us with that stinky face like an expired sesame cake, and let out a "huh" went back to the room. The prospective old mother-in-law shook her head at both of us, and nodded again. I don't know what she meant. I guess the shaking of the head is to tell us not to take the old man seriously. The nod may be to agree to our trial marriage?Or agree to our remarriage?Or... It's definitely not a negative meaning anyway.We were all afraid that Ye Shengnan's father would hear something inappropriate, so we didn't say anything.Ye Shengnan asked her mother how she was doing, but her mother said she was not doing well, with chest tightness and shortness of breath, so Ye Shengnan helped her mother into the house to chat with her mother.I hurried to get the tools under the kitchen counter. I haven't helped their house as a maintenance worker for so many years, and I don't know if the tools are still there.They have a complete set of tools, some of which I bought myself, and some I brought back from the factory. A fitter relies on tools for his work. An old fitter like me has several sets of good ones. I often go to their house to work, and I don’t bother to take the tools back when I bring them over. Every time I finish the work, I put them under the counter in their kitchen.

When I opened the counter, I felt a little fever in my heart. To my surprise, there was neither shortage nor disorderly throwing of tools.All kinds of tools are neatly arranged in the cabinet, not greasy or rusted. Some, such as multimeters and precision files, are wrapped in plastic bags, which are better preserved than the tools in the tool room of our factory. .Looking at these long-lost tools, those past days seem to come back to life. I have reached the age of nostalgia. The days... It seems that as long as they are the past, they are good days. No matter how much hardship and tiredness I suffered in those days, they are worth remembering.Some people say that nostalgia is a sign of aging. I don’t know if I am already aging. I asked Ye Shengnan, and Ye Shengnan said that not only have I not aged, but I have become more vivid and fresh.I don't know why she used words such as vivid and fresh to describe my current situation. I asked her why, and she said that vivid is vivid, and fresh is fresh. Her parents' electric water heater really couldn't be used. The automatic contact was broken. After taking it apart, it was found that the heater was also corroded badly. It could be repaired, but it was not safe.I told Ye Shengnan about the situation, and Ye Shengnan immediately asked me to buy a new one, which must be the best.I know she has money, but she didn't mention the money. I was too embarrassed to ask her for money in front of her parents, so I had to be proactive and immediately went to buy electricity for her parents. water heater.When I went downstairs, I realized that I only had three or four hundred dollars in my pocket, so I had to go to the bank to withdraw two thousand dollars. station brand.The service of the shopping malls is very good now, the goods are delivered immediately after payment, and the installation is also included. When the water heater was installed, most of the time had passed. When we said goodbye, Ye Shengnan's mother insisted on giving me money, took a passbook and stuffed it into my hand, saying that their family didn't have that much cash, and asked me to go to the bank by myself. Pick.I didn't want it. Although my financial situation is not good, it hurts me to spend two or three thousand yuan at once, but I also want to learn the spirit of a skinny donkey, slap a swollen face to pretend to be a fat man, and tell the old lady resolutely : "I'm running a company now, and the economic conditions are good. It's nothing to buy a water heater for the second elder. Besides, I've lived with Ye Shengnan for so many years, and I haven't bought anything decent for the second elder. filial piety." Ye Shengnan's father came out with her, and it seemed that I was quite satisfied with my performance. After all, anyone who gave away an electric water heater worth several thousand yuan for nothing would be very satisfied. The cloud on his father's face dissipated, but he still said something : "If you want to pass, remarry, otherwise don't talk about sheep's skin, try marriage, fortunately you can think it out, you can say it, we are China, not the United States." I wanted to tell him that it was not that I lied to her daughter and took advantage of her daughter for nothing, but that her daughter was unwilling to go through the formalities. From this point of view, it was actually her daughter who took advantage of me for nothing.Of course, I dare not say such words, I only dare to think in my heart. Coming out of Ye Shengnan's house, I said, "Your father is quite traditional, what should we do? Do you listen to him?" Ye Shengnan said: "My dad was your old father-in-law for a while, your ex-father-in-law for a while, and now he is a quasi-father-in-law. The roles have changed too much. You have fooled him as an old man. Don't pay attention to him. The money for the water heater I'll give it to you later, I don't want to take advantage of you, but I want you to establish prestige in front of my parents and win goodwill." I quickly said: "What do you divide me with? Forget it, I'm telling the truth, so I should be filial." She giggled: "That's about the same."