sleepless tonight

Chapter 25 Incompetence
"Father, come down quickly, my mother and I will go down first." Chen Ke followed behind Tong Wangjun and turned to me.

"Well, I'll be down soon, you and mom go down first." I nodded.

The big and small bags contained the things of Chen Ke and Chen Le. I carried them out the door, and Tong Wangjun's car was already parked downstairs.

"Dad, I'll help you." Chen Ke got out of the car and took a package from me. After putting it in the car, she glanced at the things in the package, a little strange, "Dad, I'm wearing a A down jacket, why did you bring me another one?"

"Father is afraid that you will be cold." I said with a smile, put all the packages into the back seat, and said to Tong Wangjun, "Give me a hug, baby."

"I'm not cold, I wear a lot." Chen Ke said, showing me his sleeves.

The car drove, drove out of the community, followed the orange lights and entered a scene of feasting and feasting. The community where the rented house was rented was not the city center, but the place Tong Wangjun drove to was a bustling part of the city.

The lights intersected and there were many figures. Chen Ke lay on the car window, looking at the scene outside, very happy.

"Just here, let's go over and have something to eat together." Tong Wangjun stopped the car and said to me.

I hesitated for a while, looked at Chen Le in my arms, and nodded. I was a little worried about Tong Wangjun taking two children to such a crowded place alone.

There is a nice restaurant next to it. Judging from the outside attire, it has a petty bourgeois atmosphere. A person like me may never enter such a place in his life.

It's not that there's not enough money, it's barely enough to eat a tight meal, it's just that it's out of place.

"Let's go, Dad, I'm hungry. Listen, I'm screaming." Chen Ke took my arm and patted his stomach for me.

Chen Ke took my hand and walked a few steps aside: "Mom, hold me, let's have dinner together as a family."

Tong Wangjun glanced sideways at me, and took Chen Ke's hand.

"Miss Tong, are you here?" The waiter saw us, greeted Tong Wangjun actively, and gave me a strange look, but he was very smart and didn't ask further, "Do you want to eat something, or the previous menu?"

"En." Tong Wangjun responded, and then called to the waiter who turned around to serve, "Another serving of beef with green peppers, and another cup of hot milk."

"Okay." The waiter nodded, "Go and sit in the private room first, and I will arrange to serve you right away."

Two people, two children, asked for a private room.

Tong Wangjun and Xu Heng should come to this restaurant often.

Sitting on the soft chair, I feel a little nervous.

Food came quickly.

Tong Wangjun moved the green pepper beef in front of her, put it in front of Chen Ke and me, and gave the hot milk to Chen Ke.

"Why don't you eat?" Tong Wangjun glanced at me, "Hold the child for me, you eat."

"You can eat, don't worry about me." I shook my head, I had no appetite at all.

"Dad, eat beef." Chen Ke picked up a piece of beef and put it in my bowl, "Your favorite."

"Yeah." I smiled, "Eat quickly, I will go back with my mother after eating."

"Okay." Chen Ke nodded, "We'll go back together later."

After eating a meal for half an hour, after Chen Ke was full, Tong Wangjun put down his chopsticks and glanced at the untouched green pepper beef in front of me: "I'll pack it for you and take it back, so I can save myself cooking when I go back."

"No need." I shook my head.

"Waiter, pack the green pepper beef for me." Tong Wangjun ignored my refusal and called the waiter.

"There are many other dishes, do you want to pack them together?" The waiter glanced at the table.

"No need, just pack green pepper beef." Tong Wangjun said.

After getting in the car, after driving for a certain distance, Chen Ke turned his head: "Mom, you are going the wrong way, our house is not this way."

"This is going to mother's new house." Tong Wangjun said with a smile, "you will sleep with mother later, okay?"

"Mom's new home?" Chen Ke turned to look at me, "Dad, are you going too?"

Tong Wangjun was silent.

"Father will take you there." I replied vaguely.

Chen Ke's expression became a little sullen, and he didn't look at the scene outside the window any more. He sat in the co-pilot's seat with his head down, not knowing what he was thinking.

After more than ten minutes, the car entered a high-end residential area, Country Garden.

I stared at the three words at the gate of the community, and felt a little hot.

"You can carry things up by yourself, I won't follow you up." I handed Chen Le in my arms to Tong Wangjun.

Chen Ke silently picked up her schoolbag and came over to hold my hand.

"You can take this home, and you can eat it when it's hot." Tong Wangjun gave me the packaged green pepper beef, "A Ke, come here with mom."

Chen Ke tightened my grip: "Father, let's go together."

I didn't take the food in Tong Wangjun's hand, and looked down at Chen Ke: "From now on, you will stay with mom, okay? Be obedient, and call dad if you have anything to do."

Chen Ke shook his head, tears flowed out, and his other hand grabbed me tightly.

"Didn't you like eating this very much before?" Tong Wangjun looked down at Chen Ke, and then looked up at me.

"Taste will always change." I said flatly, squatting down, "Ake, Dad can't take care of you well, so I will stay with Mom from now on, live in a big house, and still have a car."

"No, no, I want to follow Dad." Chen Ke simply hugged my leg.

"What about mom? Don't you want to be with mom?" Tong Wangjun said.

"Mom is also needed. Mom and Dad are together, and our family is together." Chen Ke turned her head and looked at Tong Wangjun again.

"A Ke, you know, my mother and I are divorced, and we can't be together after divorce." I told Chen Ke, "Dad has no money, you have to go to school and eat..."

"No, I don't spend money recklessly, I really don't spend money recklessly." Chen Ke twitched with tears on his face, and took out three one-dollar banknotes from a small pocket of his schoolbag, " Dad, look, you gave me five dollars that day, and I still have three dollars. I won’t spend a lot of money, so don’t want me.”

My heart was strangled by one hand, and my lungs seemed to be pulled out alone, soaked in the water, feeling extremely depressed, and secretly cursing myself for being incompetent.

Tong Wangjun tilted his head and wiped his eyes.

I hugged Chen Ke tightly: "Hey, stay with Mom. If you miss Dad, call Dad. Dad will come to see you, okay?"

"No, I want to be with my father." Chen Ke hugged me, not letting go.

"You have to be obedient. You said you would stay with your mother earlier. Why are you disobedient now?" My voice became louder.

"You lied to me, you don't want me anymore, you want to give me to my mother, I don't want it, I don't want to eat, I want to go back, I want to go back with my father." Chen Ke raised her head and said.

I was silent for a while, and then I broke Chen Ke's hand with a cold face: "Follow mom, or I will spank your ass, you know?"

Chen Ke's hand was tightly grasped, and it took me a lot of effort to break it open. I was sweating in such a cold day.

"No, no... woo... no, dad, don't go." Chen Ke cried and wanted to hug my leg.

I picked her up and handed her to Tong Wangjun: "Take her."

Tong Wangjun grabbed Chen Ke, but Chen Ke was still struggling, his clothes were twisted together, his shoes fell off, and his face was covered with tears and snot.

"Don't move, if you move again, you'll hurt Xiao Le." I looked at Chen Ke in a deep voice, "Xiao Le is better off with a cold, if you fall again, believe it or not, I'll beat you up?"

Sure enough, Chen Ke didn't move, but she still kept crying, her voice stopped halfway through the convulsions, and her head trembled.

"Take care of her." I glanced at Tong Wangjun, turned my head and left.

"Father." Chen Ke shouted from behind, his voice hoarse.

I didn't look back, endured the tingling pain in my heart, and left in a hurry.

Tong Wangjun yelled something from behind, but I didn't hear it clearly. At this moment, my mind was full of the image of Chen Ke crying, and I couldn't tolerate other things.

Walking all the way, the cold wind was blowing on my face, it was cold and stinging, but I didn't care at all, just let the wind blow me, which could make the pain in my heart a little lighter.

I don't know how long I walked, it didn't feel long, I went back to the rented room, fell on the bed, looked up at the ceiling, not knowing what I should do next.

My whole soul seemed to be stripped out, and my spirit was gone.

My life seemed to lose its meaning.

I lay outside the window until the sky gradually brightened, and I didn't fall asleep. I took out a cigarette and lit it, and smoked vigorously.

(End of this chapter)