Be in low spirits

"It's only natural to ask your husband for money. What are you afraid of?" Li's mother has always wanted to persuade her daughter-in-law to keep her son's salary card in her own hands.

"Let me... try it." She threw the police uniform into the washing machine.

Before going to bed that night, she sent him a WeChat message: "Honey, I want to buy something but I'm short of money." He didn't reply. It turned out that asking for money was not a good thing.

When I woke up in the morning, there was a bank card on the bedside table. I opened WeChat and he replied: There is a bank card in the drawer, the password is. Then there was a 5200 red envelope with a note saying "voluntary gift" and several questions asking if it was enough? If not, ask for more. Then he fell asleep? I'll find a time to go home. The case is almost over. How about I go to the police station to find you tomorrow? Or you come to the team to see me? He didn't look at his phone again. You fall asleep every day when I get home. Why don't you miss me at all?

She threw the bank card into the drawer and got up to go to work. After get off work, she packed some food for him. He was not in the team, so Xiao Zhao pulled her aside and said, "Sister-in-law, you haven't been to the team for a month, and the boss is in a much worse mood."

"I got mad at you guys?"

"No, but your face looks stinky. Did you have a fight?"

"No, I guess he's been under a lot of work pressure lately. I'll ask him later."

She was sitting in the office waiting for him, and then she heard him cursing at Xiao Liu. He pushed open the office door impatiently and shouted at Xiao Zhao: "Investigate Zhou Yaming thoroughly, I don't believe it!"

Well, I was in a bad mood. When he turned around and saw his wife, he became sunny and asked with a smile: "Why are you here?" and closed the door.

"My parents said you haven't been home for a long time, so they asked me to ask you if you don't want that home anymore." She said as she took out the lunch box from the bag.

"Did my parents just say that?" He took the chopsticks and started eating.

"You have to do something with the money." She looked at him, and he seemed to have lost weight and had a beard on his face. "You haven't finished investigating the case yet? Don't you have time these days?"

"What? Did you miss me?" Counting the days, they had indeed met very little in this month.

"Dad said your birthday is coming soon and he wants to give you a gift. Is there anything you want?" Although the elders didn't want to celebrate his birthday, she took the money after all, so she had to mention it.

"Birthday?" He had never celebrated a birthday, and his birthday was in the middle of summer, not the beginning of winter.

"If you don't want to, that's fine." She expected his reaction.

"How can we not celebrate?" He nervously grabbed her hand, "No need for any gifts, just you are enough."

This guy changes his expression very quickly. "Then let's find a time to go out for dinner in a couple of days."

"Just eating?" He looked at her expectantly. "Just eating!" No one knew what was going on in his mind.

She used the money he transferred to her to treat two elders to a meal. Li's mother was still worried that she would cheat them, so she insisted on seeing that it was her son who transferred the money before she would leave.

"This kid is finally smart and even knows to transfer 5200." During the meal, it was unclear whether Li's mother was talking to her or Li's father.

"The money is all with you. I don't have a penny of my own money. How can I transfer it to you?" Father Li complained about himself.

"Then wouldn't you think about other things? For example... uh, showing some courtesy or something like that, right?" Li's mother also knew that she was being unreasonable.

"Yes, Dad, if you do this, Li Li and I will not be at home tomorrow night, so you can behave yourself." She took the opportunity to tell him her plan.

Father Li looked up at his daughter-in-law and asked, "Why? Is he working overtime again tomorrow?"

"No, we haven't been to the movies for a long time. Let's go out and see a movie." She said a little embarrassedly.

"That's right, it's what we should do." Li's mother agreed and winked at her husband.

At about one in the morning, Li Li came home from get off work. He glanced at his sleeping wife and prepared to take a shower and go to bed. When Li's father got up to go to the bathroom and saw him, he asked him to sit on the sofa and said, "Can you get off work on time tomorrow? Xiao Kong said that you won't be staying at home tonight."

"No one told me. Didn't you say it was your birthday?" He didn't know anything.

"Hey, don't you know when your birthday is? It's my and your mom's wedding anniversary. I want to spend some time alone with your mom, but I'm embarrassed to tell Xiao Kong, do you understand?" He poked his son's wrist.

Li Li looked as if he had suddenly realized something. "Oh, I see."

"Hey, give me some money."

"Where do I get the money? I have two mortgages to pay off. Doesn't my mom give you pocket money?"

"Oh, I know you have it, so I transferred 5200 to Xiao Kong right away. I have to buy a gift for your mother. Hurry, just give me ." The father and son were rummaging in the living room late at night.

"I... I have even less money to give it to her. This is all I have in my wallet." As he said this, he took out more than 200 yuan from his wallet. Seeing that he had left some for himself, Li's father snatched the wallet and took out all the money at once, saying, "Come on, give it all. You're so stingy even with your own dad." After emptying the money, he went back to his room and went to sleep.

"No, Dad, please leave some for me, even more than ten dollars will do! Tsk." He flipped through his empty wallet and shouted in a low voice.

The next morning, he received a task to cooperate with the anti-drug police in a drug bust. It seemed that he would not be able to get off work on time tonight. He sent a WeChat message to his wife, sighed, and went to deploy the plan.

Kong Zhixi saw the WeChat message but didn't reply, thinking that she would go to pick him up after work, so she would have to wait for him every now and then.

She packed dinner for him at the restaurant and took a taxi to their team. Not many people were there, so she sat in the office playing with her phone. It was already past 11pm when they came back, and the food in the lunch box was cold. She fell asleep on the table.

The leader of the bureau saw her lying there and called Li Li, but no one answered. She put the things he brought in the conference room and sat there playing with her phone waiting for the team to come back.

The group came back in a hurry. Xiao Zhao and Liu Yanjun complained about the anti-drug team as they walked. The leader of the bureau came out of the meeting room and asked them to keep their voices down. "Okay, I know you've been working hard. Xiao Li, go check it out. Your wife must have been waiting for a long time."

His eyes suddenly lit up and he quickly ran to the office. He quietly opened the door and saw her lying there with a bag of lunch on the table.

There was a commotion in the hall and she was woken up. She looked up and saw him standing in front of her. "Are you back? Have you eaten?"

"Didn't I tell you not to wait for me?" He asked her while half squatting, touching her hair.

"I've given the house to my parents, and I'm just sitting around doing nothing. Have you eaten? I'll heat it up for you." She picked up the bag and went to heat up the food.

"I'll do it. Let's go back and rest after dinner." He picked up the rice and heated it up.

She walked to the hall and saw the leader of the bureau. She wanted to go back, but the leader saw her and called her, "Xiao Kong, come on, come on, let's eat together. I brought them some midnight snacks."

"I've eaten." She didn't know when this person came. She was a little embarrassed. She didn't know whether to return it or not.

"It's very hard for a dual-income family, right? Xiao Li will be given a day off soon, let's have a meal together. How old is the child? Is he being taken care of by the parents-in-law?"

Why does this person keep asking more questions? "Uh... it's quite..."

"Isn't it tiring? We haven't seen each other properly for a month." Li Li heated up the meal and walked to her.

"Hey, are you blaming me? Eat quickly and then go back to have a rest." The leader invited us to have a midnight snack.

After dinner, the two prepared to go back together. Kong Zhixi said in the car: "I told my parents that I would not go home tonight, so I booked a hotel outside. I brought you some clothes to change."

"It is still necessary to buy a house." He glanced at the hotel name and drove over.

"Is there something your parents don't want to tell me? Why are they using your birthday as an excuse to lie to me?" Before going to bed last night, she glanced at the marriage certificate and realized that his birthday was not at this time.

"Ah, you found out. It's their anniversary. Dad asked me for some money last night."

"How about I return the five thousand dollars to you?"

"What are you talking about? I still have more than 5,000 yuan."

"Dad asked how much money you took? I will transfer it to you?"

"No, I have money." After parking the car, the two checked in.