sleepless tonight

Chapter 10 You Are So Handsome
Chen Ke looked up at me.

"It's that beautiful aunt who lives next door. You met her one day. Go ask her to come over for dinner." I thought Chen Ke was not clear, so I said something again.

"I know." Chen Ke said.

"You know why you don't go there, the food is going to be cold." I set the bowl and chopsticks, and said to Chen Ke who was still not moving.

"Father, are you going to find me a stepmother?" Chen Ke suddenly asked me.

I paused.

An eight-year-old child actually knows these things?
"Why stepmother and not stepmother, who told you this?" I said.

"Don't try to lie to me. I just know that you are so handsome and young. You just divorced my mother and let other women eat at my house. You must be looking for a stepmother for me." Chen Ke Seriously.

My daughter actually praised me for being handsome. Children can't lie. In this way, am I really handsome?
I can't help feeling a little sweet in my heart.

"I borrowed the rice you ate yesterday from this aunt's house. I borrowed something from someone else. Should I express my gratitude?" I squatted beside Chen Ke and said to her softly.

Chen Ke thought for a while, then nodded: "Should."

"Well, that's right. That's why I asked you to call this aunt and invite her to our house for dinner. This is called reciprocity, you know?" I continued.

"Then aren't you planning to find a stepmother for me?" Chen Ke seemed relieved and said to me.

"No, this aunt also has a child and a husband, how can she be your stepmother?" I said, touching Chen Ke's head, "Go now."

Chen Ke ran out, and I heard a knock on the door.

"Auntie, my dad asked you to come to my house for dinner." Chen Ke's voice said.

I took a look outside, just in time, the woman leaning against the door also glanced into my room, I smiled at her, then lowered my head to pick up a rag, and wiped the tables and chairs.

"No, I'll eat at home, thank you, kid." The woman refused.

"Dad, Auntie said she won't come to eat, let's eat by ourselves." Chen Ke ran back.

"Go and wash your hands." I put down the rag and said to Chen Ke, "I mixed hot water in the kitchen basin and washed my hands with the water in the basin."

Out of the house, I personally knocked on the door of the woman next door.

"What's the matter?" The woman opened the door, saw me, and asked.

"I made a few simple dishes, and the meal is enough. Go to my house to eat." I said, "Your leg is injured, and it is not very convenient to cook by yourself, so there is no need to bother."

The woman didn't speak, and seemed to be hesitating.

"Don't think too much, neighbors care about each other, besides, I still have two children at home, so I can't do anything to you," I said.

"What do you want to do to me?" The woman replied to me, then turned and walked into the house.

I sighed and shook my head, this woman is too shameless.

"Wait for me for a while, I'll take the key." The woman paused, then turned to me and said.

It turned out that she was going to get the key, and I thought she refused.

"Okay." I answered.

"Your house is really messy." The woman took the key, entered my room, and said unceremoniously.

"Hehe, there's no way, it's just like this without women." I laughed, and pointed to a stool, "Sit."

After serving Chen Ke and the woman a good meal, I served another bowl for myself, and the three of them sat at the small square table.

After a meal, I didn't say much. The woman ate a bowl, thanked me, and left.

Very polite.

This kind of politeness makes people feel a sense of unfamiliarity.

The distance between people is not so easy to get close. Although there is a little intersection between me and women, it is still too early to be close.

However, I didn't care, I didn't think about getting closer to women.

Inviting a woman to this meal is just to feel sorry for her.

A woman, driving a small car that is considered good for white-collar workers, lives in a room of more than 160 square meters, looking at the scenery, but in fact, she is the only one in the huge room, giving people the feeling that it seems deserted some.

My home is better, it’s a bit messy, but all the living utensils are complete, and the size is indeed a bit small, but I have two daughters with me, and I feel very warm.

Chen Ke went to school after dinner, I washed the dishes, and walked to the flyover with Chen Le who had slept for a while.

"Here?" Brother Zheng saw me, greeted me, and took out ten yuan from his pocket, "Two people bought four pairs of shoes, and I sold them for two pairs for five yuan."

"Thank you very much." I am sincerely grateful, "Come on, have a cigarette."

"Stop smoking, the one you gave me hasn't been smoked yet." Brother Zheng pointed to his head.

He still has the cigarettes I gave him this morning stuck in his ear.

Zhongnanhai, which costs ten yuan a pack, is not an expensive cigarette, but it tastes good. For a smoker whose finger is dyed yellow, he will not keep it for a long time.

"Why, don't you agree?" I asked.

"Quit." Brother Zheng said.

"You are already fifty, and your hands are dyed like that. I am afraid that you have made a lot of determination to quit smoking?" I hugged Chen Le and asked.

"I can't help it. Smoking is harmful to your health. If you don't quit, you have to quit." Brother Zheng sighed, sat beside me, took the cigarette from his ear, put it on his lips, and sniffed it.

"Are you kidding me, an old smoker, still cares about his own health?" I said with a smile.

Smoking is harmful to health, everyone knows this truth, but for most smokers, yes is yes, but until the day when you lie in the hospital bed, you still have to smoke.

"My daughter is sick, and if I have another illness, who will save her?" Brother Zheng put the cigarette back to his ear, staring out of the flyover with empty eyes, "I was originally healthy, why did I suddenly have that kind of pain?" sick?"

"What's the disease?" I became depressed all of a sudden, I didn't expect him to have this difficulty.

"Leukemia." Brother Zheng's eyes were red, "It's really a crime, I smoke every day, why didn't I get it, instead it fell on my daughter?"

"In half a year, it's time for the college entrance examination. A good person, who is too thin to be human, has to suffer so much torture."

"Her mother is taking care of her in the hospital?" I don't know how to comfort him, but it's not good to say nothing at this time.

Brother Zheng sat on the cold ground with his legs bent and wiped his eyes.

"Run away." He said two words lightly, without any emotion, as if he had seen through it, "I insisted on it at first, but when I sold the house, she left."

"Hehe, I'm not afraid of your jokes, brother. My woman is more than ten years younger than me. When I got married, my family was not bad. I had a house, a car, and savings. She was introduced by someone. She is beautiful. Young again."

"I'm not good looking. You are not as handsome as my brother. You just have some money. I know what she likes in me. Now that I have no money and she runs away, I can understand."

Brother Zheng patted me on the shoulder: "Brother, listen to my advice, there is only one reason why a woman broke up with you, and that is that you are not rich enough."

"But you're okay, you're still young, work harder, you can stand up."

I smiled and didn't answer his words.

I ran out of money, set up a stall on Tianqiao, my wife ran away again, my daughter is still in the hospital, brother Zheng is already a poor man, I don't want to argue with him anymore.

I disagree with his statement.

No matter how many women recognize money, some women recognize feelings after all.

I firmly believe.

Otherwise, what's the point of getting married?

In the evening, I was about to close the stall when a person stopped in front of my stall.

"Chen Jin?" The man said in surprise, his voice full of surprise.

I looked up and was surprised to see this person: "Wu Dong, why are you here? What a coincidence."

Wu Dong was my classmate in high school. In fact, it’s not just high school. From the first year of junior high school to the third year of high school, Wu Dong and I were classmates.

To the extent that the two get along well, they can pool money together to buy binoculars, peeping at the night view of the girls' dormitory on the opposite floor, and for two consecutive weeks, the two of them will share three steamed buns a day.

"I'm back, I came back last week, and I'm working in the business district opposite." Wu Dong said, looking at me a few times, "Why did you set up a stall on the Tianqiao? Come on, let's find a place to gather, there are a few more with high school classmates."

"By the way, Logan is also here."

(End of this chapter)