Chapter 28
Tang Yaocan was right. They had divorced a long time ago, five years ago, and it was Zhang Jiefang who mentioned it.
When they first met, Tang Yaocan looked down on Zhang Jiefang.
Zhang Jiefang has been average-looking since she was young. She is not tall. Her family is from a rural area. There are seven brothers and sisters in total. She is the fourth, just in the middle. Her father does not love her mother, and her brain is not good at reading. I stopped going to school in the second grade of junior high school and worked odd jobs in state-owned restaurants to make ends meet.
Tang Yaocan was a regular worker at the Tieling Cement Paper Bag Factory at the time, with high wages and good benefits. He had no brothers in the family, only two sisters, and the conditions were quite good.
In order to "capture" Tang Yaocan, Zhang Jiefang rushed to the Tang family every day to work. In the middle of winter, she washed the sheets and sofa covers with icy water. Her fingers were so cold that they were like carrots. It took more than a year. Over time, he finally won the favor of his parents and entered the Tang family as he wished.
In the second year after her marriage, she joined a paper bag factory to make paper bags. Although she was only a temporary worker, Zhang Jiefang was extremely contented and she smiled even to bed.
But she couldn't laugh for long. As soon as she gave birth to her son Tang Jiwen, she was hit by a wave of layoffs, and the couple lost their jobs.
At that time, laid-off workers all over the Northeast were eager to break their heads for even the job of sweeping the streets. Zhang Jiefang was so angry that she simply carried her child and dragged Tang Yaocan to run to S City to find a way to survive.
Zhang Jiefang was able to endure hardships and was able to bend over. She first washed dishes in a restaurant, working 14 hours a day, earning 580 yuan a month. Later, she saw how much she could earn from bathing, so she went to Jiang Xiaoping's place to work as a bathing girl. 20 years younger.
But since Tang Yaocan was laid off, he worked hard as a security guard for less than two weeks. He still found it embarrassing, "I'm not a fucking guard dog!"
Since then, he has never worked a day or earned a penny. He relies entirely on Zhang Jiefang to earn money for support. Of course, he does not touch housework. "I am a grown man. Do I have to clean tables, sweep floors, and nurse children?" You can pull it down!"
But even so, Zhang Jiefang never thought about divorce. She always felt that no matter what she said, she had to give her son a complete family. Having a father is better than not having one, right?
But Zhang Jiefang was not without her grievances, especially when she was so tired after taking a bath all day that she had trouble raising her hand to take out the key to open the door. Tang Yaocan, who had been lying at home all day, would only complain about her being late when she came back.
"Do you want to starve my son and me to death? As soon as you go out, do you forget that there are people at home who are waiting for food?"
Zhang Jiefang would quarrel with him at the beginning. When the quarrel got so fierce, they would even stab each other with knives. Her son was so frightened that he cowered to one side and cried until he hiccupped.
The quarrel stopped later, mainly because it was useless to argue. After the quarrel, Zhang Jiefang still had to do the work, and she paid for the things that were broken.
Zhang Jiefang made up her mind to divorce when her son was admitted to high school. She accidentally discovered that Tang Yaocan had secretly raised a woman outside with her hard-earned money! Naturally, she was so angry that she ran to settle the score with that "wild woman". By coincidence, she blocked Tang Yaocan in the room with her.
When Zhang Jiefang was just asking about that "wild woman", she raised her voice a little higher and banged the table louder. Tang Yaocan rushed up and punched her in the chest. Zhang Jiefang naturally didn't hesitate and picked up the table. The half-full electric kettle hit Tang Yaocan on the head.
That day, if that "wild woman" hadn't stopped her, Tang Yaocan's head would have been smashed like a rotten watermelon!
"... Feeling distressed?" Zhang Jiefang panted and threw the smashed electric kettle on the ground, and kicked Tang Yaocan who was lying face down on the ground groaning in pain. She squinted her eyes and looked at the person in front of her who was only 30 at most. A "wild woman" in her early years.
The woman's face is pale, her hands are tender, and even her toenails are painted with red nail polish. She speaks softly, almost crying, and her voice is soft. She and Zhang Jiefang have been arguing all day long. It's completely different from the action of starting a fire and wanting to lift the roof was very thin, and her waist was not as thick as Zhang Jiefang's thighs. Her skirt was swinging around her body. Zhang Jiefang subconsciously turned her head and looked at herself in the full-length mirror. She was as burly as a man.
Zhang Jiefang couldn't help but think that if she were a man, she would definitely not like herself like this.
"He... told me that he was divorced. Sister, I really didn't know that all he spent was your money."
The woman took off the gold bracelet and necklace, and tremblingly wanted to hand them to Zhang Jiefang, but was afraid that Zhang Jiefang would hit her, so she carefully placed them on the corner of the table closest to Zhang Jiefang.
"It's quite heavy!" Zhang Jiefang picked up the bracelet, shook it in her hand, and estimated that it weighed more than 20 grams.
She squeezed hard, but the bracelet didn't move at all. Zhang Jiefang sneered and threw the bracelet back on the table. The woman looked at her at a loss, obviously not realizing that the bracelet and necklace were fake.
Zhang Jiefang didn't break up with the "wild woman", but took Tang Yaocan's hair and went home. She wanted a divorce, and Tang Yaocan who she beat so hard didn't even have the guts to say "no", but he didn't agree to cleanse himself. When you leave home, you have to divide half of the house.
"I've made inquiries. This house is worth at least 300 million. If you give me 100 million, I'll get out immediately!"
Zhang Jiefang didn't have 100 million, unless she sold the house, but she couldn't bear it at all. She had worked hard for decades and earned such a house, and she planned to keep it for her son to marry.
In the end, Jiang Xiaoping helped her find a lawyer and get a divorce agreement, in which the property rights of the house were divided equally.
Originally, it was promised that Tang Yaocan would move out, but as soon as the agreement was signed, he refused to move out.
"Renting a house outside costs at least [-] to [-] yuan a year. I don't have any money. If you pay, I will move!"
In the end, the two divorced and still lived under the same roof without leaving home.
Zhang Jiefang thought that this was fine. She was originally afraid that the two of them would divorce. If it affected her son's study, it would be more than worth the gain. In order to prevent her son from becoming suspicious, she even made up a reason why the two of them slept in separate rooms. She did not admit it. I don't think Tang Jiwen noticed it at all.
As for that "wild woman", Zhang Jiefang bumped into her again half a year later.
She went to the Huaihai Road store to help train new employees. As soon as she got out of the subway station, she saw the "wild woman" handing out real estate flyers and free paper.
The temperature was cooling down that day, at least ten degrees below zero, and the wind was cutting people's faces like a knife. Passersby were all walking in a hurry, and no one paid any attention to the tissues she brought to her, and Zhang Jiefang was no exception.
Zhang Jiefang cursed "I should" in her heart and continued walking forward. However, after taking only two steps, she found a little girl of about four or five years old sitting in a corner sheltered from the wind.
(End of this chapter)