Chapter 11 10 Happiness Days and Nights

On "October", Du Juan and Bai Yang got married as promised. During the first month, Bai Yang could always go home with Du Juan when he was off work, and then cook together, including chicken, duck, fish, and meat.In those days, Du Juan was dizzy and immersed in a kind of happiness. After a month of marriage, Bai Yang seemed to have changed first. When he was off work, sometimes he couldn't come back on time, and sometimes after dinner, he said to Du Juan with a chess set in his hand, "I'm going to the bachelor building." The days went by bumpily, she was pregnant by accident, Bai Yang and her have always been very careful, they didn't want to have a child so early, but the child still came without schedule.

Du Juan gave birth to the child, a girl.The days became busy all of a sudden, the child cried day and night, Bai Yang seemed to have lost weight because of the child, he no longer left early and returned late, although he sighed every day, he knew he was guarding the house.Du Juan thought again, this is not bad.But as the child grew up and was brought by his mother, Bai Yang became free again. Bai Yang became obsessed with dancing again. He went to work during the day, so he changed into casual clothes to dance at night, and it was naturally too late when he came back.Du Juan became angry again and made a few noises, but failed to stop Bai Yang from dancing.Du Juan could only be silently angry at home with her daughter.

Once, her daughter developed a high fever in the middle of the night, and Bai Yang hadn't come home from dancing, so Du Juan had to take the child to the hospital by herself. From then on, the two started arguing again.Now Du Juan really regrets marrying someone like Bai Yang. Once they quarreled because of Bai Yang not going home, Bai Yang pointed at Du Juan and said, "Look at you now, you are just a housewife." Du Juan said: "What's wrong with the housewives? Of course I'm not as good as those little girls." That being said, Du Juan was still surprised by the changes in herself. She hadn't danced since she became pregnant, so her figure was naturally not what it used to be.She was no different from any other woman now, with a flabby belly and sagging breasts.Sometimes, when she saw the eighteen or nineteen-year-old girls in the regiment walking past her, she would be so jealous.

Bai Yang is now taking these little girls to dance secretly all night, the army has regulations, soldiers are not allowed to dance in local dance halls.But Bai Yang and the others can always take advantage of loopholes and go out secretly.Bai Yang's dancing partners are naturally those pretty girls. When Bai Yang came back in the middle of the night, Du Juan looked at Bai Yang angrily, and Bai Yang said, "Don't look at me like that, I'm not a criminal, just dance, what's the big deal, if you're not balanced, tomorrow you will go." Du Juan naturally didn't have the heart to go. When she was alone, she thought about what happened when she was single. At that time, she was young and full of youth, and she could feel her existence in the eyes of men.She was proud at that time, and she was naturally happy in her heart. What about now?She thought of Damei again.Damei's father-in-law, Minister Wang, has retired. Not long after Damei's father-in-law retired, the regiment decided to let Damei change jobs.Damei has been idle in the regiment for several years.Damei has no special skills, she only knows how to dance. Now that she is fat, she can't dance anymore. Damei changed her job and had to go to the Children's Cultural Palace, which is also a frighteningly leisurely place. There are only children in winter and summer vacations. Come to the Palace of Culture to study.

After changing jobs, Damei became fatter and fatter. It is said that her lover, Section Chief Wang, shared an apartment, but that apartment was far away from the urban area, and it was inconvenient to commute to and from get off work, so she never lived in it.Every time Du Juan saw Damei, Damei was eating snacks non-stop. When they were dancing, they were most afraid of eating snacks. Damei seemed to want to make up for the snacks that she ate less before.While eating, she sighed to Du Juan: "I am optimistic about the future of my career, and I can live my life as comfortable as possible." Then she "giggled" at Du Juan like a street woman.

Du Juan seems to have seen her own future from Damei. She can't dance now, and she is leading students just like Damei used to.Maybe one day, the leader of the regiment will talk to me and tell her that it's time to change jobs, and then she will report to the Children's Palace or some other unit.Could this be her fate?Is this what Damei once said, and it is also the happiness she thinks about day and night? She felt vaguely uneasy.