Chapter 29 Section 29

He Meiqing's newly married life is going well.The so-called "not bad" means that there is no special change.Every day after work, I go straight back to the two-bedroom, two-living apartment I rented in Nansha, Jiangdong District. I watch TV while eating dinner made by her, and then take a shower and go to bed.Most of the holidays go out for shopping.Once I started a new life, I realized that many things were missing. Our newly married life can be described as smooth.I could see that Miharu was trying to make our new home more comfortable.I also try to help her.Day after day, living a life of peace and tranquility, I feel very comfortable being in such a stable life.

However, some people find this kind of day peaceful, while others find it boring.Miharu obviously belongs to the latter. "You said you wanted to play golf?" I widened my eyes.We were having dinner at the time. "My friends around me are starting to fight. They also often ask me out. Is it okay?" "Where did you say you were going to practice?" "Kiba has a big practice range where you can take lessons. I brought back the instruction booklet." "But, golf..." I held the chopsticks in my hand and stopped eating.I never thought of such a thing. "Isn't tuition expensive?"

"It's okay. It's not the kind of one-on-one teaching. I heard that golf equipment can be borrowed, and there are buses to go there." "But……" "I also want to start doing something." Meiqing looked displeased. "I'm always at home all day, I don't have much to do. My friends are playing golf, and when I meet up to chat, they're all talking about golf, and I can't get in the way. It's boring. Yeah. So, I guess I'm going to do it too." "Won't it affect the family's economy?" I whispered. "I'll figure it out. So, okay?"

"Well, since you said that..." "Great!" Miharu said.Looking at Meiqing's happy face, I felt a bad premonition. About a month later, Miharu said she wanted her own golf clubs. "Didn't you say that you can just borrow the golf equipment?" "Thinking of the rental fee, it's better to buy the ones. Besides, the teacher also said that it is difficult to play well without the equipment that suits you. Like now, there is no way to play on the court." "Didn't you know this from the beginning?" "I wanted to be patient at first. But, since I want to buy it, it's better to buy it as soon as possible, so I beg you like this. Are you okay, husband?" She put her hands together and tilted her head slightly.

I sighed. "Cues are expensive, right? Besides, it's not just clubs that you need to buy, right? You should also buy ball bags, sneakers, etc., right?" "Now the golf classroom is holding a promotional event. Students who attend the class can buy it at 40% off the original price. I heard that there are also ball bags and clubs sold together as a whole set." I thought to myself, she has fallen into the trap of the golf course operator. "How much will it cost?" "The price ranges from high to low, and I want to buy as cheap as possible." I sighed again.There is indeed a golf craze in the society.The same conversation must have played out between many couples. "I said, do you know how much my salary is? The rent here is not small. Don't you think it's messy to play golf under these circumstances?"

"So I'm trying to raise money myself. Husband, can I buy it?" "If you have spare money, it doesn't matter if you buy it." She is in charge of the family's money, and if she says it's okay, I have no choice but to trust her. After Miharu bought a whole set of golf equipment, she soon began to go out to play on the golf course about once a month.I knew almost nothing about golf, and later I heard that some people would spend tens of thousands of dollars to play a round of golf, so I had to force her to tell the truth. "The golf we play is not that extravagant. Unless it is a high-end course, and the venue fee is on Saturday or Sunday, it will cost tens of thousands of yuan. We go to second-rate and third-rate venues, and sometimes it is a lady's day. Yes, that day’s fee is 30% off the usual rate. Besides, I only eat ramen at noon, and it doesn’t cost much at all, so don’t worry.”

I have nothing to say after being robbed by her like this.I simply thought at the time that she had money to play, and if she had no money, she wouldn't have gone. However, there's more to it than just getting hooked on golf. I almost never open the closet next to the dresser in my bedroom.Once again, when Miharu was not at home, I was suddenly looking for clothes to wear to the funeral. I opened the closet that I hadn't opened for a long time and saw that the closet was full of famous brand boxes and bags.I looked inside, and it was full of purses, wallets, jewelry, clothes and other items.Everything looks brand new, unused.

At that time, because I was going to participate in the vigil, as soon as I found the mourning clothes, I had no time to take care of other things, so I went out directly.When I got home, I immediately questioned Meiqing, but she didn't change her face, probably from the traces in the closet, she noticed that someone had moved. "Those are all gifts from others, or bought in discount stores. Besides, those look very high-end, but they are not worth a lot of money at all." "They sent it...why did they send it to you?" "There are many reasons. It's a gift from a foreign trip, or you don't like it after buying it."

Having said that, I can't help but feel that things are different. "Let me ask you, how much savings does our family have now?" Miharu turned to the TV and didn't answer right away.I asked her again. "Huh? What did you say?" She turned her head around. "How much is our savings?" "Huh? How many miles?" She tilted her head and thought. "Bring me the passbook." "It's okay to read, but I haven't read my notebook recently, so it's useless for you to read it." "Didn't you have a receipt when you withdrew the money?"

"Well, that's the kind of thing I usually throw away." "Then, remember to read it next time." "Well, I see." I entrusted Meiqing with full authority to manage my family's money, and even handed over the bank's ATM card to her. If she withdraws money, she will give me pocket money from it. A few days later, she still didn't check the bank deposit amount.As soon as I urged her, she said that she was too busy to go to the bank, or she accidentally forgot.In a hurry, I called the bank directly from the company, reported my name and then said the account number, and asked for the deposit amount.My heart almost stopped when I heard the bank clerk's answer.That number turned out to be negative.In other words, let alone deposits, we are still in debt.I asked on the phone why things had changed.The other party was a female cashier, who seemed to be frightened by my angry tone, and quickly explained that the ATM card can pre-borrow up to 90% of the fixed deposit amount.

As soon as the end of get off work time came that day, I immediately left the company.Upon returning to the apartment, high-pitched conversations could be heard in the living room.I realized right away that they were friends with whom Miharu played golf.There are two shoes that I have never seen side by side in the entrance.They seemed to notice that I was back, and the conversation stopped abruptly. As soon as I walked into the living room, besides Miharu, there were two other women.They bowed their heads and said, "Excuse me." Both of them were about the same age as Meiqing.One is wearing a black-soled dress, the other is colorful, and both of them give people a fancy impression. "Then, it's time for us to go." The woman in colorful clothes stood up, and the other person followed suit. "That's it. Then, see you another day." Meiqing watched the two leave from the entrance. "They are friends who played together at the golf school." Meiqing returned to the living room and said. "Miharu." "I hear they're going to play golf in Hawaii someday. Great, isn't it?" "That's not important. You sit over there for a while." I pointed to the sofa. "What happened?" She sat down suspiciously. I stood up and said, "I checked the bank balance today." At that moment, Meiqing's eyes immediately sank.Seeing her appearance, I felt a big chill in my heart: "It's true." I originally hoped that there was some misunderstanding. "What the hell is going on here? The deposit amount is actually negative. Isn't it so strange? Please explain it to me clearly!" I said a long list in one breath.As he spoke, he became excited. "I'm sorry." Miharu apologized frankly, with her hands on her knees and her head bowed. "Didn't I ask you to explain clearly? What the hell is going on!" "I withdrew too much money, so there was no money in the bank." "I know. I'm asking you, why did things come to this?" "Sorry." "This can't be done with an apology, right? Why did you keep it from me until today?" "I can't say it." "What will you do if you don't say what you plan to do? Paper can't contain fire, you can't keep hiding it, can you?" She didn't answer, just kept panting. "What are you going to do? You've even spent all of your time deposit, what are you going to do in the days to come?" "I don't know. I don't know what to do myself." Meiqing held her head in her hands and twisted her body like a child coquettishly. "It turns out you're spending too much money on golf, right? You said you'd figure out what to do with your family's finances, but you ended up drawing on your time deposit, right? You're overdrawn every month, so you take out your time deposit to cover it, After repeating it a few times, it became what it is today, right?" She nodded silently. "What the hell are you doing!" I stomped angrily. "In addition to golf, you even bought those high-end leather bags and clothes yourself, right? Everything you said to me is a lie, isn't it?!" "I'm not lying. I'm telling the truth. I don't buy that much stuff, and it's really in discount stores. Trust me on that." "Those are not important!" I kicked down the sofa. "The time deposit originally was two million! Do you know what kind of mood I used to save the money? I didn't do what I wanted to do, and I didn't buy the things I wanted to buy. The money I saved. Those money is I saved it to buy my own house in the future. Now? There is only less than half a million left. What are you going to do? Tell me! How are you going to compensate me?!" She said something in such a low voice that I didn't hear it. "Ah? What are you talking about? Make it clear!" "……you." "what?" "I'll pay you back." She said with her head down. "I will work and earn money to pay you back." "Stop kidding!" I beat the back of the sofa. "Do you know what you're doing? Listen to me! It's easy to spend money, but it's hard to make over a million dollars! That's something I saved so hard I saved money, but you... because I am easy to talk, put those..." I was so angry that I couldn't speak. Meiqing suddenly rolled from the sofa to the ground, put her hands on the ground, kowtowed and apologized to me with her whole body on the ground. "I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. I didn't mean that at first, but under everyone's invitation... I thought to myself, I can't go on like this, but I'm so lonely, I'm afraid that if you don't come again Ask me out... I don't want to be seen as a difficult person." Her tears trickled down to the floor.Seeing her like that, my excitement quickly cooled down. "Guys like us on a dead paycheck, playing golf was a mistake in the first place." "I won't play golf anymore." She lowered her head and continued to beg for mercy. "It's really..." I clicked my tongue, sitting on the sofa and scratching my head with my hands. I felt Miharu stand up, but didn't look at her, but didn't look at her.She left the living room without a word, I thought she had just cried, probably to wash her face. However, after a long time, she still did not come back.I started to get worried and ran to see what was wrong with her.She wasn't in front of the washstand, but the door of the bathroom inside was open, so I looked inside. Miharu cut her wrists and fell to the ground. After being sent to the hospital, the doctor said that Meiqing just scratched the skin, and it turned out that cutting off the blood vessel was not as easy as imagined.The reason why she fainted seemed to be because of a mental blow. After Meiqing slept in the hospital for two or three hours, I took her home.She kept silent, and I didn't know how to speak. In the next few days, Meiqing hardly spoke, and was depressed all day long, lying down in the dormitory most of the time. I decided to manage the ATM card and passbook by myself, and try not to think about the money I spent, and I always feel that it is not an adult to blame the wife who seems to be introspecting.I decided to think of it as some stress she'd built up from being unaccustomed to married life, which she was taking away with golfing and shopping sprees. However, the problem has not been resolved. Gradually, the house began to become messy.Miharu became less likely to do housework.Every day when I came home from get off work, Miharu didn’t even buy food, not to mention preparing dinner, but just heated up the hoarded frozen food and put it on the table with a look of trouble.After a few days of this kind of life, I read her a meal, but she prevaricated with the excuse of "I'm tired today" or "I don't have any living expenses left this month".And her tone gradually became impatient, and after a while she was even verbally perfunctory.She seemed to be in a state of restlessness all the time, and she would yell hysterically if I made the slightest complaint about her. "Husband, can I go out to work?" Miharu asked me in her usual casual tone while having dinner one day without looking at my face. "Where are you going to work?" "A friend of mine opened an izakaya in Ikebukuro and asked me to help." "Izakaya..." "It's just serving the dishes and washing the dishes." "right." "If it goes on like this, I'm going to go crazy." I looked at Miharu.She was also facing me.Her gaze was unfocused. "I live a boring life every day. After dropping you off at work, I just stay in the house and watch TV. I've had enough of being by myself. My friends haven't called me lately. I put After some appointments dropped, gradually no one asked me out. Do you think this kind of life is interesting? I have no meaning in life now." "So you want to work?" "I also have the right to enjoy life, right? But looking at our family's financial situation, I can't do anything. That's why I thought, at least I have to earn money for playing. Besides, working outside can make a lot of friends and change my mood. .” Her tone of voice was not cadenced, and her eyes gradually turned to other places when she looked at me at first, and finally she stared at the table and talked to me. The reason is the same as when I first started golf.I think the problem is not solved at all. "I said, do you want to have a baby?" I asked tentatively. "Once you have a baby, you're bound to change your mind." Hearing what I said, Miharu frowned. "You mean, since I have nothing to do, why don't I just take care of the children? It means that if the only housework in life is too boring, should I find a more tiring job?" "I did not mean that." "Otherwise, what do you mean? I want to spend my life on myself. If I have a child, wouldn't I be unable to do anything?" "Didn't you also say you wanted children?" "That's someday. But that's not the same thing as this. I haven't had any fun in life yet. Besides, with our current economic situation, it's going to be hard to have kids. Your salary isn't would suddenly multiply, wouldn't you say?" We have always had opposing views on having children.I wanted to build a home sooner, so I wanted to have kids sooner, but she said no kids now.But in fact, she is the one who takes care of the child, so I can't force her.Before she got married, she pretended to like children, but she didn't expect such a 180-degree change after getting married. "Is the izakaya going to work at night? What about the family affairs?" "I'll at least get your dinner ready before going to work so I won't bother you. Is that okay?" "But in that case, our daily schedule will be staggered. Wouldn't we all be unable to see each other?" "I'll come back before you go to bed. Besides, there's still a holiday. Instead of staring at each other every day, it's more refreshing." I am at a loss for words.I'm shocked that she's saying things like "stare and stare" so soon after we've been married. "Still not working?" she said with a sigh. "Do I have to live like this from now on? There is no entertainment at all, and I can only grow old and ugly in this house like a yellow-faced woman?" "Nobody said that." "But that's what you want me to do right now, don't you?" "Is there no other job? It's not an izakaya, but a job that can be done during the day. Look for it, and there should be one?" "It's so easy to find. You can be with friends in that store, and you can feel more at ease when you work." "Some of my friends' wives also work, but mostly in supermarkets or convenience stores." "All in all, you can't work in an izakaya, can you? You just want me to work as a cashier in a supermarket or a convenience store?" "I didn't say that." "What's that like?!" As soon as I kept silent, Meiqing yelled hysterically: "Do you want it or not?!" I was defeated by her momentum, and finally accepted her proposal.In order to calm her down, I had no choice but to promise her.It seems that I should still love her at that time, so I don't want to be regarded as an unreasonable husband by her. As long as it is her wish, I want to satisfy her as much as possible. Of course, this was a huge mistake.Because at that time, I didn't realize how scary this woman Meiqing was.