Double Life: My whole world is you

In the morning, grandma still ate the noodles that Yingying cooked. In addition to the cabbage, she also took out three eggs from the ceramic pot and fried three poached eggs. After the noodles were cooked, she served a large bowl and called it Chengqiao and sent it to my aunt.

Hearing the knock on the door, my aunt said fiercely, "Go find your grandma, don't bother me."

"Aunt, it's me." Cheng Qiao said calmly, "Grandma cooked noodles, I'm bringing them to you."

"No, I don't want to eat." My aunt-in-law's impatient voice came.

"Aunt, people are made of iron and steel. There's no need to be hard on yourself." Cheng Qiao smiled and said, "Aunt, I rarely have a day off. Please let me take care of Xiaoyang, otherwise he won't remember me when I come back next time."

My aunt didn't say anything, Cheng Qiao continued to act like a spoiled child, "Aunt, please! Let me take care of my little cousin!"

"Oh!" The aunt-in-law sighed, and Cheng Qiao heard the sound of her putting on slippers.

After a while, she opened the door and took the noodles. Cheng Qiao was still a little moved when she saw her haggard face. She probably had postpartum depression. Her uncle was not around most of the time, and he came back to stay for two days without any warm words. Her grandmother was almost two generations older than her.

Cheng Qiao used a blanket to pick up Xiao Yang who was lying on the bed, "Aunt, eat the noodles while they're hot."

After eating half of it, she put down her chopsticks and said to Cheng Qiao, "I know I shouldn't be mean to Yingying, and I shouldn't show your grandmother a displeasure, but I just feel really bad. I feel like there's no end in sight for this life."

Cheng Qiao, who was not good at comforting others, remained silent. She had not experienced the conflicts with her husband and mother-in-law after marriage. She just smiled and said a meaningless consolation, "Everything will be fine."

"What a coincidence. You must be careful when you get married in the future." My aunt-in-law said, "It's not important to be handsome. What's important is that he will care about you and be a caring person. Otherwise, your life in the next life will be like a stagnant pool of water."

[How should I respond to this?] Cheng Qiao blinked her big eyes, and when she saw that Xiao Yang didn't cry, she put him down again, "Well, aunt, I don't have anything to eat either. I'll go get some noodles."

"Go and eat! Don't worry about Xiaoyang and me. He won't cry as long as he is not hungry." The aunt-in-law waved her hand at her.

Cheng Qiao quickly returned to the kitchen and picked up a bowl of noodles from the stove. Grandma quickly asked, "Did she eat?"

"My aunt is eating noodles." Cheng Qiao answered while eating.

"That's good, otherwise the child wouldn't have any milk." Grandma seemed relieved.

"Grandma, I'll bring it over and talk to her." Cheng Qiao said.

Grandma nodded, "Bring her bowl down after you finish so I can wash it together."

Cheng Qiao brought a bowl of noodles to her aunt's room on the second floor. Her aunt was a little surprised to see Cheng Qiao return. She smiled innocently and said, "I really didn't eat."

"Just eat! Don't worry about me." said my aunt.

"Let me talk to you while we eat!" Cheng Qiao said, "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else."

Cheng Qiao pulled up a stool and sat beside her, looking at her as if she was listening carefully, "Aunt, sometimes it's not so sad if you just say it out loud."

My aunt put down her empty bowl, sat down and said softly, "I was 26 years old when I met your uncle, which was considered old. People of the same age around me already had two children. I was moved when I saw your uncle, he was very handsome, so after knowing each other for a few months, he said he wanted to get married and I agreed. In the months before marriage, we only met five or six times. Everyone said he was a good man, down-to-earth and hardworking, I think you will understand him after we get married."

Cheng Qiao nodded, "My uncle looks like Aaron Kwok, he is indeed very handsome."

"Before we got married, I also looked at looks." My aunt-in-law said, "I thought we could love each other for the rest of our lives after we got married, but I didn't know that marriage is the grave of love, not to mention that we don't have love yet."

"Many TV dramas are about marriage before love." Cheng Qiao responded appropriately after hearing what she said.

"TV dramas are just TV dramas after all, and life is reality." My aunt-in-law shook her head. "When we first got married, I went out to work with him for three months. He was unwilling to give me his money. Apart from the necessary money, he refused to spend a penny on me. I thought at that time that we had not been together for a long time, and things would change when we had a child."

Seeing Cheng Qiao looking at her without answering but listening attentively, she continued, "When I first became pregnant with Yingying, I reacted very strongly. After working for a few days, I quit and lived in a rental house. He probably disliked me for not doing anything at home, so he tactfully asked me to come back and gave me 500 yuan. He didn't come back for more than half a year and didn't call me once. He didn't come back until before the Chinese New Year, and Yingying was born the day before the Chinese New Year. In the half month since he came back, he not only didn't show any concern for me, but also didn't spend a penny on me."

Cheng Qiao saw tears in her aunt's eyes. She was not good at comforting people, but she still expressed her thoughts, "Well, aunt, is it possible that my uncle is just like this? He is reluctant to spend a penny on anyone, including my grandmother."

"He is so selfish. He keeps the money to himself and never spends it on his family. I don't know what he does with the money." My aunt-in-law said angrily.

"That's right, my uncle has been very stingy since he was a child." Cheng Qiao asked curiously after she finished speaking, "But aunt, I feel like you two have a good relationship, especially after Yingying was born."

"I was in pain for a whole day and night when I gave birth to Yingying, but when I saw him come in after the birth, I had tears in my eyes. I was touched at that moment and I felt that he loved me." There was a hint of happiness in my aunt's eyes.

"Of course my uncle loves you and this family." Cheng Qiao immediately followed.

"I'm not sure. He goes out on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year and comes back on the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month. I spend less than half a month with him every year, and we quarrel half of the time." My aunt-in-law smiled bitterly. "At that time, I thought it was because I didn't have a son, and that having a son would change things. But this time, when I told him the good news of having a son, he hung up the phone after thirty seconds and left three days after I came back."

"Aunt, it's just his personality. You shouldn't argue with him. Being frugal is both his weakness and his strength." Cheng Qiao comforted her. "Besides, the money he earns belongs to your family and will belong to Yingying and Xiaoyang in the future."

"I know, but it's really hard to live without a close friend during these long years." My aunt-in-law looked away sadly and said.

"Don't worry, next time my uncle comes back, I will let my mother and grandmother criticize him." After Cheng Qiao said this, she saw Yingying sticking her head out of the door and waved to her.

Yingying just looked at her aunt with some fear and didn't dare to come in.