Chapter 12 page twelve

He wears gold-rimmed glasses, crosses his legs, leans on the sofa and flips through a magazine. She mops.He was wearing an old homely gown, but the middle white button had fallen off and he had replaced it with a green one.The trouser legs were rolled up to the calf, and a pair of plastic slippers were worn on the bare legs, the beige color turned black, and they were an inch larger.She wiped the sweat from her head with the back of her hand and pushed the mop to the side of the sofa. "Hey, raise your legs." He raised his leg and pointed to the magazine in his hand: "Hey, look, there are really fresh ones in India."

She bent down and dragged under the sofa. "Look, it's a custom in India that a new daughter-in-law has to dress up beautifully at night before sending her to her husband's house..." She gave him a blank look. "Actually, this custom cannot be dismissed as outdated. There is some reason for it. I heard that in Western developed countries, wives have to put on makeup and red lips every night before entering the husband's bedroom." "I'm tired." She straightened up and stood there leaning on a mop. "Take a break when you're tired. As I said earlier, you can't finish the things at home, so don't be so demanding. For example, here, you don't have to procrastinate every day. One or two times a week is enough. Why bother?" Seriously!"

"I can't learn that you are not serious." "Learn slowly, come, come, sit down, respected lady, aren't you tired! Sit down first, sit down and listen to me. Life, don't make it too hard. Don't be a slave to the house, and Don’t be a slave to the floor, after work and dinner, you should live a colorful life, if you are happy, others will be happy too, wouldn’t it be good?” She couldn't answer, couldn't laugh or cry. "As I just said, whether it is Indian custom or Western custom, its purpose is nothing more than to beautify oneself, beautify the family, and beautify the life between husband and wife. It should be said that this is a very noble sentiment. What is lacking. I have always believed that socialism is rich, not poor, and socialism is beautiful, not ugly.”

"You don't need to teach me this, who doesn't love beauty?" The wife finally spoke. "I don't think you understand beauty. Why do you always wear this at home, wear this..." "Which one to wear instead of this one? I have to work." "What about going to work? Why don't you get dressed properly at work?" "Why do you get dressed for work? For whom?" "So, may I ask, when will you wear your nice clothes?" "Then there's no need to ask - wear it when you go out during the Chinese New Year!" "There are three hundred and sixty-five days in a year. How many days do you go out as a guest? Even if there are sixty-five days, that means that you are not beautiful for three hundred days in a year."

Saying that women are not beautiful is undoubtedly stabbing a hornet's nest.The wife was furious: "I came back from get off work to wash clothes, eat, and mop the floor. I made you fat and fat. You are greasy all day long, and you still wear leather shoes at home. You look like a young master. Do you think I am beautiful?" "Don't be angry, ma'am! My wording was inappropriate, and I didn't mean to be slanderous. What I mean is that you only pay attention to beauty for sixty-five days in a year, and you don't pay attention to beauty for three hundred days. In other words , During these 300 days, you did not hesitate to destroy your beautiful image. In other words, during these 300 long days, in front of your husband, you did not show your beauty, but did not show your beauty show out."

"You are beautiful, I am not beautiful, that's fine!" "That's not the problem. The problem is that you are beautiful, but you don't pay attention to showing your beauty, especially at home..." "Then you go write a paper and tell me that there is no manuscript fee for half a day." "Let's discuss the problem!" "Beautiful, you have to be rich!" The wife was very practical. "No, there is a certain relationship between beauty and money, but it's not an absolute relationship. For example, you can wear brighter and more beautiful clothes at home, the cloth is not expensive, and you can make a nightgown or something."

"Nightgown? How about the dressing gown? Don't be idle." "Look, the bride across the door, when I saw her that morning, she was wearing a little floral nightgown..." "Humph! Humph! You look at someone's new wife, you only look at someone's new wife, you only look at someone's new wife's nightgown! You are too personal!..." "Hey, hey, hey, why do you think like this? People can't talk to you if you think like this!" "You can't tell me, tell her! Tell her to put on a little flowery nightgown and listen to you!"

"You are wrong. Between men and women, in fact, there is a problem of attraction that should be admitted. Tell me, why do you dress up when you are in a relationship?" She didn't speak, she just felt wronged. "Stop talking! You're sorry! I think your gown can be dealt with, how about a mop? Tomorrow I'll accompany you to buy a pair of pajamas. I saw that the ones at the stall are not expensive." She felt warm and awkward.He thought of her, but he thought she didn't understand beauty.Isn't it for this family?Tears were about to fall. "How is it? Are you happy? Women, men should have some ideas."

What?It's outrageous. "What the hell? What's your idea? Men don't have a good thing? I miss you and want to go! The new wife has ideas and the ability to hook up!" "Don't distort my meaning! I mean between husband and wife, within this scope. In fact, women have no thoughts about men?" "Hmph, women, women are not as bad as you! I have no idea when I meet other men." "No? No. If a man is dirty, are you willing to approach him? If a man's teeth are yellow, are you unwilling to eat at the same table with him? If..." "There are not so many assumptions. What you are talking about is not that question at all. Don't think I don't understand!"

"It's great if you understand! We can talk calmly. Think about it, after decades of husband and wife, they live in a broken drawer like a pair of old shoes, and no one can remember to look at the other. Boring, isn’t it? Actually, the other day I saw a kind of slippers, half-heeled, very beautiful, red color, how about buying a pair for you?” "Thank you so much! Going around and talking, I want me to smear red lips like others, and make it up for you to see, it looks beautiful! This is China, not the West. If you want to do that, you should find a foreigner!" " "Well, I'm just talking about my feelings. Since you are so disgusted, I won't force it on you. However, I insist that my point of view is right."

"Point of view? What point of view? When you see a woman, you have an idea, and if you teach a woman to make a man think about himself? Do you still need ideas between husband and wife?" "By the way, that's the question." "I don't think about it. I see you, the whole thing-bourgeois liberalization. How did your institute pull you down last year when you launched a movement? You look like Alain Delon all day, I have no idea. " "That's too bad!"