Life 1984

Shen Xiulan returned to her parents' home, and her luggage was temporarily stored here.

She and her sister contributed money together, plus a little savings from her parents over the years, and finally bought a commercial house.

Although Shen Xiulan lives in a villa, she does not want to live with her parents because she has too many secrets and is afraid of being discovered by her parents. And she is also afraid of being urged to get married every day.

Since 1984, when Shen Xiulan was still working in the Commerce Bureau, she moved out of her home and lived in a dormitory. Since then, she has rarely gone home. The knot between her and her parents will probably be difficult to untie in her lifetime.

If she hadn't been afraid of Li Yunhai's embarrassment today, she wouldn't have returned to her parents' home.

Shen Guoming and Fang Peihua were very happy and cooked a table of their daughter's favorite dishes.

"Xiaolan, where did you go on vacation this time?" After dinner, Fang Peihua asked with a smile, "Did you meet any young talents during the trip?"

"Pfft!" Shen Xiulan couldn't help but laugh, "Mom, if you push us to get married, I'll leave right away. I'm staying in a hotel, and I won't come back home!"

"No urging, no urging, but you have to solve your personal problems, right? Do you have any ideas?" Fang Peihua really didn't dare to show off her face to this eldest daughter. The Shen family is what it is today, thanks to Shen Xiulan.

"Don't you just want to hold grandchildren? I have two! It's enough for each of you to hold one." Shen Xiulan and Li Yunhai had just returned from traveling. They were in a good mood and did not mind their mother's urging to get married.

Fang Peihua's face flashed with worry and disappointment, and she focused the conversation on her youngest daughter: "I asked you to help Xiaolan find a partner, have you found one?"

Shen Xiulan opened her suitcase, took out her clothes, prepared to take a shower, and said, "I looked for several, didn't she tell you?"

Fang Peihua followed her and said, "I didn't tell you, this kid! He's even more harsh than you! You had a date back then, but you still knew how to bring him back for a meal and let us check it!"

Shen Guoming coughed twice.

Fang Peihua quickly shut up.

But it's too late.

Shen Xiulan sneered and said: "Xiaoling did the right thing! I am a lesson learned from her mistakes! I was too young at that time and I believed in you too much! Otherwise, I would have been with Yunhai! How could Xiaoling dare to bring her partner home? Isn't she afraid that you guys will break her up?" ?"

Fang Peihua wanted to slap herself in the mouth.

Why is this mouth so weak?

It’s really a matter of which pot is not opened!
Shen Xiulan took the clothes and entered the bathroom.

Shen Guoming pointed at his wife and whispered: "Stop saying a few words! Xiaolan finally came home to live, don't drive her away again! How many years has it been? This is the first time she has gone home to spend the night!" "

Fang Peihua let out a long sigh.

She knelt down and helped her daughter pack her suitcase.

Suddenly, she was attracted by a thick stack of photos.

She thought it was taken by Xiulan while traveling outside, so she took it out to look at it.

"Oh, Guoming! This, this, this!" Fang Peihua looked at the photo and was horrified. She was even more frightened than seeing an alien!
Shen Guoming said in a deep voice: "Don't be so surprised! Don't mess with Xiulan's things, she loves to be clean!"

"Come over and take a look! Isn't this Li Yunhai?" Seeing that the old man couldn't come over, Fang Peihua had to sit next to him with the photos and said in a trembling voice, "Look! Look! Every photo is of the two of them. group photo!"

When Shen Guoming saw it, his reaction was not as big as that of his wife. He muttered: "Xiulan and Yunhai went on a trip together? Isn't that nothing? They are classmates, colleagues, and even friends. Maybe because of work problems What about a business trip?”

"You are stupid! Can't you see? They are so close! They are hugging each other! Look at this, mouth to mouth! Do you think this is blowing bubble gum?" Fang Peihua slapped her thigh and said, "I understand! I understand!"

Shen Guoming was also a little startled. He felt that these group photos were indeed a bit out of line, unlike what friends would do. Hearing this, he asked, "What do you understand?"

Fang Peihua looked in the direction of the bathroom and said in a low voice: "I have discovered a long time ago that Xiao Jin and Lele look a bit like Li Yunhai between their eyebrows! And, Li Yanjin! Li Yanle! And Li Yunhai's family The children are all named the same!”

Shen Guoming stared and said, "What then? What do you think?"

Fang Peihua felt a suffocation as if her heart had stopped. She held her heart and said after a while: "You have a stupid head? You still don't understand? Xiaolan is Li Yunhai's lover! There has never been a real break between them!"

Shen Guoming was stunned and hesitantly said: "Is this impossible? My Xiulan has been a good child since she was a child. How can she be someone else's mistress?"

Fang Peihua was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. She kept looking at the photos and said, "What's impossible! We already have two children! There are also these photos. Look, which one doesn't illustrate the two of them?" Together? Oh, I should have thought of it a long time ago! No wonder this child has been refusing to go on a blind date or get married! It turns out that Li Yunhai is dragging her along!

Shen Guoming was speechless for a moment.

In a family like theirs, the daughter actually becomes the mistress of a rich man!

If this spreads out, their whole family will stop going out to meet people!

Fang Peihua was so anxious that her heart ached. She lay on the sofa and said, "I'll ask her when she comes out! Tonight, I have to get an answer!"

"Wait!" Shen Guoming waved his hand, and he thought more deeply, "You have a showdown with Xiaolan? Can she listen to you? Change her ways? If she refuses to leave Li Yunhai, what are you going to do? Are you not forcing her? Will you never return to this home?"

"I can't care so much!"

"Oh! You listen to my advice and put these photos back to their original places first, so that she doesn't find them. If anything happens, we'll talk about it later."

"The future? There is no future! It must be solved tonight! By the way, you call Xiuling and ask her to come back too."

"Why are you calling her back? She has to go to work tomorrow!"

"Which class should I take? I can't take this class! I want them both to leave the Sihai Group and stay far away from Li Yunhai! I still read it right. Li Yunhai is a half-hearted and philandering kid! It's okay. My Xiulan didn’t marry him in the first place!”

"Are you mad? Li Yunhai is worth hundreds of billions now! Who wouldn't rush to marry their daughter to him? Not to mention he is in his twenties now, he is seventy or eighty years old, and he wants to find an 18-year-old daughter. , and there are a lot of them!”

"Isn't it great to have money? If you have money, you can abuse other people's girls at will?"

"In fact, being rich is great! You have to admit it! Do you think it's a waste? Maybe others think it's an honor?"

Fang Peihua was speechless.

She looked at the photo in her hand in confusion, but decided to do what she wanted!
"Call Xiaoling! If you don't call me, I will!" Fang Peihua stood up, picked up the phone at home, and called her youngest daughter.

Shen Xiuling answered the phone.

She heard that her mother asked her to rush home now, but of course she was reluctant.

However, Fang Peihua had many means and weaved lies, saying: "Your father is dying. If you don't come back, you won't be able to see him for the last time!"

After saying that, she hung up the phone without giving her daughter a chance to ask questions.

Shen Guoming said in astonishment: "You cursed me to death? Why didn't you say you couldn't do it anymore?"

Fang Peihua sneered: "I just gave you a chance to curse me to death, but you refused!"

Shen Guoming was speechless.

Fang Peihua stuffed the photo back into the suitcase and said, "When Xiaoling comes back, we will solve this matter together!"

Shen Xiulan took a shower, changed her clothes and came out, throwing the dirty clothes into the washing machine. Suddenly she turned around, looked at her suitcase, and asked, "Mom, have you touched my luggage?"

Fang Peihua drank from the cup and said, "I'll help you sort it out."

Shen Xiulan looked at her mother's face, rolled her eyes, walked over quickly, packed the suitcase, and carried it to the bedroom.

Shen Xiuling came back faster than expected!
As soon as she entered the door and saw her parents well, she stamped her feet and said, "Mom! If you keep doing this, one day my dad will be seriously ill and I won't come back! The story of the boy who cried wolf can only be played once! I declare in advance that you If you force me to marry, I’ll leave now!”

Fang Peihua pointed to the seat next to her: "Come here, sit down!"

Shen Xiulan walked out and said with a smile: "Xiaoling, why are you back?" Shen Xiuling said angrily: "Ask your mother! She lied to me to come back!"

Fang Peihua said with a serious face: "I want to ask you something, please answer me truthfully! Xiaolan, what is the relationship between you and Li Yunhai?"

Shen Xiuling was startled and looked at her sister.

Shen Xiulan reacted very calmly.

She just discovered that her mother had looked through her photos.

In this case, she didn't intend to hide it anymore.

After all, fire cannot be contained in paper!

"What is the relationship between me and him? Don't you already know?" Shen Xiulan said calmly, "Yes, it is the kind of relationship you think of!"

"Clang!"

Fang Peihua grabbed Shen Guoming's porcelain cup and slammed it to the ground!
Shen Guoming was startled, shrank back, and said, "If you want to throw it, throw it at yourself. Why are you throwing at me? What should I drink tea with?"

Fang Peihua glared at him.

Shen Guoming is honest.

Fang Peihua pointed at her eldest daughter and said: "Do you have face? Do you want face? You said this so lightly! Do you think we are all dead? What are you not good at? You imitate others - "

She couldn't say the word mistress.

Shen Xiuling opened her mouth into an O shape in surprise.

She thought to herself: My sister is finished now!
Shen Xiulan said calmly: "It is said that you only know how kind your parents are when you raise a child. It is indeed only now that I understand how kind you have been to me in raising me. However, you have raised me for more than ten years, but you have ruined me for decades." Happiness! I am an adult now, and I make my own decisions about my own life.”

Fang Peihua said solemnly: "Are your wings stiff? I can't control you anymore?"

Shen Xiulan's face was terrifyingly calm, and she said: "You can control it, just tell me, how do you want to control it?"

Fang Peihua said: "Resign! Leave Li Yunhai and don't interact with him anymore!"

Shen Xiulan nodded: "Okay, I agree!"

Shen Xiuling shouted: "Sister, are you serious?"

Fang Peihua said: "Xiaoling, you do the same, resign! Don't make a living in Sihai Group anymore!"

Shen Xiuling wanted to cry but had no tears.

Shen Xiulan was still so calm and said: "Okay, I can promise you! I can leave Li Yunhai, or I can leave Sihai Group. I now have two children, and my monthly expenses are more than 5,000. You also know that from frugality to luxury It’s easy to go from luxury to frugality. I will take Xiao Jin and Lele to live at home tomorrow. I won’t work anymore, so you can support them!”

Now it was Fang Peihua's turn to be stunned!
Five thousand a month?

Even if they sell the old couple, they still won't be able to sell the living expenses!

Shen Xiuling chuckled and said, "Yes, there's me too! I'll come home to live too, and I can spend a thousand a month!"

Fang Peihua said: "This? This is not possible! You still have to go out to work."

Shen Xiulan said: "Okay, where to work? Can you help us find one? Are there three hundred? Or five hundred? Enough for us to eat meat? Or enough for us to drink soup? The two children have to go to school, can you pay for the tuition? Xiao Jin I go to Xizhou International Foreign Language School, and the annual tuition is 30,000 yuan, which is unavoidable! Lele goes to the provincial government kindergarten, and I have to pay a school selection fee of 10,000 yuan every year because I got it through a trusteeship. If you don’t want to eat or drink, where will the 40,000 come from?”

Fang Peihua was dumbfounded!

Shen Xiuling said: "Mom, I don't have to buy cosmetics or brand-name clothes, but I have to eat and drink! I have to eat meat with every meal!"

Fang Peihua had a heartache just now, and now she has a headache!
"Do you have to pay so much tuition? Then, you can't study in another school?" Fang Peihua muttered, "There are many good schools around here!"

Shen Xiulan said: "Okay, you can go and transfer to another school! I don't have the shame to do it! From now on, I will lie down at home, eat your food, live your life, and use your food. I have wanted to retire for a long time. I have someone to support me, so why bother to work? ?”

Fang Peihua pointed at her, her hands shaking with anger: "Are you trying to force me to death?"

Shen Xiulan shook her head and said: "Mom, don't worry, Xiao Jin, Lele, and I will definitely die before you. The three of us will starve to death! If you don't believe me, try it. With your retirement salary, should we drink the northwest wind? ? What if the southeast wind blows one day? Wouldn’t it even be possible to drink from the northwest wind? "

Shen Xiuling covered her mouth and smiled.

She admires her sister so much!
What a great move to advance before retreating!

But have you caught my mother?

Shen Xiulan has long since ceased to be a monk under Wu!
She can handle so many powerful foreign businessmen with ease. Why is she still afraid of her mother?

Fang Peihua held her forehead and said, "Can't our family support ourselves?"

"It's no problem to support yourself, but who will support Xiao Jin and Lele? How about you find a good family and see who wants me and my two children? Let me get married again! I only have one request, my current living standard, You can’t surrender! Why else would you marry and endure hardship? Or marry and become someone else’s servant?”

"You, you kid! You've made your mark, haven't you?"

"Yes, Mom, I am indeed prosperous now! You can afford to buy a house, wear silks, and not worry about money just because I am prosperous! What was our home like before? There were 365 days a year. I worry about not having enough money 364 days a day! I have such a good job now, and you ask me to resign? You are my mother, of course I have to listen to you, but what should I do in the future? Can you give me some advice? , we still have to think about it in the future, right?”

Shen Xiulan's words were like a thousand arrows piercing her heart, leaving Fang Peihua with no room to fight back.

"If you don't resign, that's fine!" Fang Peihua could only do the next best thing, "Is it possible to cut off contact with Li Yunhai?"

"Okay! I promise you. Is there anything else you can do?"

"You agree now? No more words? No more demands?"

"Don't mention it. Obey unconditionally."

"You don't want to do it in secret, do you?"

"Then you will live with me and supervise me? From now on, when I go to work, you will follow me. Because when I go to work, I may date Yunhai. When I go on a business trip, you will also follow me, because I may also date him when I go to work. He's going to the bathroom, and you have to follow me, because I might have a date with him in the bathroom."

"This, this? Don't you mean to make us angry?"

"Then what do you think we should do? This won't work, and that won't work either. I'd better listen to your arrangements!"

Fang Peihua is completely at her wits end!

Only then did she realize that she was just a retired old woman with a meager pension. Why should she arrange for a daughter with an annual salary of hundreds of thousands?
Fang Peihua was silent, suddenly feeling ten years older!

"I can't arrange it for you! I don't care about you!" Fang Peihua waved her hand impatiently, "Just do whatever you want! I'm out of sight, out of mind!"

Shen Xiulan's eyes flashed with tears, and she said with a slight choke:
"Mom, I know I was wrong, but there are some mistakes that I can't look back on. From the day I decided to give birth to Xiao Jin, I knew that my whole life was ruined. I can no longer live a normal woman's family life. You You should blame me, this is your responsibility. You want to pull me back, I understand, you are doing it for my own good, but I really, really can't go back!"

Fang Peihua looked at her daughter in surprise.

Shen Xiulan let tears flow down her face and said with red eyes: "I have made a big mistake! I failed your training and education for me. I am an unfilial daughter! I am sorry for you! You accused me of being greedy for money. Well, it’s okay to say that I’m indolent! I don’t blame you, just think that I got married and then got divorced!”

Fang Peihua suddenly felt very sorry for her daughter. She held her daughter's hand and asked, "Xiaolan, tell your mother honestly, how are you doing?"

Shen Xiulan nodded vigorously: "I live a very happy life. Yunhai treats me very well. He gave me everything except the marriage certificate. I know this is not good, but I love him! I love him deeply! Even if this For the rest of my life, he can't be with me, and I can't live without him! It's not that he can't live without me, it's that I can't live without him! It's not that he is pestering me, but that I am coveting everything he gives me! ! I, I’m lost!”

Fang Peihua sighed and asked: "Then have you ever thought about what to do in the future? You are young and beautiful now, of course he likes you, but what about the future?"

Shen Xiulan shook her head and said: "Mom, I have two children. I will raise them to adulthood, just like I can support you now. They will also care and love me in the future. And I will save a sum of money for myself. I don't need to The child comes to support me. Dad, Mom, I am very unfilial, but I beg you, help me! No matter whether it is destruction or happiness, I will not have a river to turn back to!" (End of this chapter)