Trivial Skin of Rebirth

At night, Xiang Xiaolong came back from playing dirty again.Unusual, his elder dad didn't cook him a lot of delicious food, his younger dad didn't write in the study, the atmosphere at home was a bit weird.

He went to take a shower full of confusion, and when he came out, Xiang Qingyun had already prepared the meal, there were no fresh dishes, they were all cold dishes, and even the rice was heated with leftovers from last night, because the leftovers were not enough for three people To eat, Xiang Qingyun ordered another vermicelli, and brought out a large pot of vermicelli in clear soup.

Xiang Xiaolong sat down at the table, his keen sense of touch prevented him from expressing any opinions on the dishes, but asked cautiously, "Where is daddy?"

Xiang Qingyun sighed: "You eat first."

At this moment, the bedroom door opened, and Ye Jiawen walked out with a tired face.Xiang Qingyun stood up awkwardly, glanced at the leftovers on the table, and said anxiously: "I, I'll go fry another egg."

Ye Jiawen said coldly: "No need, I don't have much appetite." He sat down at the table, poured himself a bowl of noodle soup, and stared at his bowl in a daze.

Xiang Xiaolong bit his chopsticks anxiously: "Dad, did you quarrel?"

Ye Jiawen smiled at him: "It's nothing, I'm not feeling well, I can't eat. You can eat." Looking at the dishes on the table, "If there's not enough, there are still biscuits in the cabinet."

Xiang Xiaolong bowed his head obediently to eat.The meal was very silent, only the sound of tableware colliding, but no one spoke, so Xiang Xiaolong even became civilized when eating, for fear of making a loud noise and making the atmosphere even more depressing .

After eating a bowl of rice, Xiang Xiaolong put down his chopsticks and said awkwardly: "Father," looked at Ye Jiawen, then at Xiang Qingyun, "I want to travel with my classmates, to Hainan, a dozen of us If you go with your classmates, it's a graduation tour..."

Ye Jiawen's state was a bit fuzzy: "Oh? Oh, when are you going? Don't you still want to go to Japan?"

Xiang Xiaolong said: "It's different, one is to go with my fathers, and the other is to go with my classmates. I want to go both!"

"Cough," Xiang Qingyun coughed softly, "How much does it cost?"

Xiang Xiaolong said: "I'll save some money, two thousand should be enough."

Xiang Qingyun cast his searching gaze on Ye Jiawen, and Ye Jiawen said expressionlessly: "Give me three thousand, and get more money, just in case there is any emergency. Hide the money outside, so as not to be caught by others." Touched."

Xiang Qingyun then said: "Okay, I'll go to the bank tomorrow to get the money for you."

Xiang Xiaolong smiled happily: "No rush, we'll go at the end of the month for a week, and we'll go to Japan with you when we come back! Hehe!"

After eating, Ye Jiawen went back to the room, and Xiang Qingyun followed in without even washing the dishes, and closed the door casually.Ye Jiawen sat on the bed and looked at him numbly: "What are you doing?"

Xiang Qingyun knelt down in front of him, held his hand, and asked awkwardly, "Baby, are you calm?"

Ye Jiawen sneered: "Is it useful to be angry? I am angry, can you get back the 4 yuan?" Without waiting for Qingyun to reply, he continued: "Qingyun, do you find it strange that after so many years, you The money thrown to them is not hundreds of thousands, but 10,000+, why don't I hold back like before, but get so angry?"

Xiang Qingyun said weakly: "No...you should be angry, I know I was wrong. But he is my younger brother, I am really... confused..."

Ye Jiawen shook his head: "No, even if he's not your younger brother, it's the same. You are like this. You are good to everyone, so you are the worst towards those around you. I figured it out. I'm also out of my mind. I'm stupid with you. Why do I bother to live frugally, I don't even want to buy a new dress all year round, I haven't traveled for more than ten years, live a hard life by myself, and save money for others to live a good life. Isn't it just as stupid as you? You are a good person, the biggest good person in the whole world, and you like to give money, so give me all the money, and Xiaolong and I will help you spend it."

Xiang Qingyun held his hand and pressed it to his face, not knowing what to say.

Ye Jiawen looked down at him, and said numbly: "I'll give you one last chance, you go and get the 4 yuan back, and promise that you won't send any money indiscriminately again, we can live as we want , I am still the same as before. Or, I have had enough of this kind of life, we will live in a different way, and I don’t have to plan and manage this house, we will live day by day, spend what you spend, spend what you spend It's over, the days are over, and there is no need to live any more."

Xiang Qingyun was about to speak hesitantly, when Ye Jiawen added: "Don't think I'm threatening you, I'm serious. I understand that whoever is shameless in this world lives well, and whoever is a moth eats well." Only fools will continue to be taken advantage of when they are full."

Xiang Qingyun was a little unhappy because of his words: "Don't say that, Qingtian and the others are really living a hard life. He only has 3000 yuan a month, and he has to support his children's education and live. He is really in trouble, so he came here. Talk to me."

Ye Jiawen said coldly: "I don't want to hear you say this. It's useless to argue with you. You think that others are miserable. They earn 3000 yuan and should live a life of 3 yuan. You earn 1 yuan, but You should live on 800 yuan. Anyway, you are an iron man, you can carry it, and I deserve it if I follow you, so I will carry it with you. I’m sorry, I don’t want to do it anymore.” After saying this, he lay down on the bed, no matter what He didn't listen to what Qing Yun said again.

The whole night, Ye Jiawen hardly fell asleep, his mind was always thinking wildly, recalling the events of these years.He and Xiang Qingyun have lived really hard for so many years.In the beginning, they went to S City to work, doing all kinds of hard work, finally saved some money, and proposed to Qingyun to do business, so they started to engage in wholesale.In the first two years of doing business, he really made some money. Ye Jiawen was far-sighted in this regard. He said he wanted to buy a house to settle down, but in the end he bought a two-bedroom house, and the bank loan was repaid four months a month. Thousands, it will take 20 years to pay back.Later, Xiang Qingyun proposed to start a tea business, and he did it, and lost money, which was still within the acceptable range; in the end, he was cheated out of a large sum of money, and the others ran away with the money, but he became a penniless stinky bastard , and owed more than 20 yuan in debt.When paying off the debt, they almost sold the house, but Ye Jiawen refused to sell it, saying that the debt could be repaid slowly, and it would be difficult to get another house when the house was gone.As a result, the two of them began to honestly go to public institutions to find jobs to earn wages and repay the money. When the debts were forced to be the worst, every day someone would pour blood on their doorsteps, print bloody handprints, and send them razor blades and bloody photos. They all gritted their teeth, tightened their belts to live, and finally paid off their debts, and started to save money for their small family, but caught up with Xiang Xiaolong who had reached the rebellious stage of the second year of middle school, quarreling with them every day, calling them disgusting, and I ran away from home a few times.Finally, Xiang Xiaolong became sensible and began to know how to love others. He also had a house and a car. Ye Jiawen thought that the dawn of happiness had already come to him, but the dark cloud of 4 yuan was suddenly weighed down heavily. , leaving him breathless.

Once upon a time, Ye Jiawen was a carefree child who had no concept of money.But now, because he has lived so many fearful days without money, he has become very sensitive to money. Saving money is like his life. He knows that it is so difficult to survive without money.

Just two days ago, he thought he saw the dawn of happiness, but in fact it was just a fog.When the fog dissipated, in front of him was an abyss called pain left by life, which was bottomless.

The next day, Xiang Qingyun hesitated again and again, but still called his brother.Although it was difficult to say, he still asked whether his brother could return the money.As he expected, Xiang Qingtian yelled on the phone, saying for a while that you are going to kill us by doing this, and then saying that the money has already been given to relevant people in the school and it is impossible to get it back.Probably Xiang Qingtian also knew that his brother would not do such a thing as asking for money, Ye Jiawen must have forced him to ask for it, so he began to criticize Ye Jiawen, saying after a while that Ye Jiawen didn't treat his relatives as relatives at all, After a while, he said that Ye Jiawen and them were not a family at all, and asked him to figure out who was his closest relative.Angrily, Xiang Qingyun scolded his younger brother on the phone, telling him that although you don't have a sister-in-law, Jiawen is more important than your sister-in-law!As a result, Xiang Qingtian said that the money could not be repaid, and he put the phone down.

A few minutes later, Xiang's mother called and scolded Xiang Qingyun again, saying that Luo Ye Jiawen was troublesome, and that she was a husband and wife, but she didn't regard Qingyun's younger brother as her own. Look, my brother, men live with men but there is no good result.Xiang Qingtian asked his mother back in a very sad way, then have you seen Jiawen as your own son?

After hanging up the phone, Xiang Qingyun's mood sank to the bottom.He knew that it was impossible to get the money back, but if not, how would Ye Jiawen explain it?Xiang Qingyun is such a person. At this time, he doesn't blame his brother, mother, Ye Jiawen, heaven and earth, but himself.He blamed himself for not taking his and Ye Jiawen's money to his younger brother without authorization, and blamed himself for not being able to, because 4 yuan, which might be just money for someone else's meal, caused a mess in his family.He didn't give Jiawen and Xiaolong the best life, and he couldn't support his younger brother to make a fortune together, all because of his own lack of ability.

After get off work, Xiang Qingyun came home and saw Ye Jiawen had come back, sitting on the sofa staring at the TV in a daze, the TV was not turned on.Walking over to Qingyun, squatting in front of him, holding his hand, looking up at him, and sincerely said: "Baby, I called Qingtian today, and he said that the money has been handed over to the school and I can't get it back... …Don’t be angry, listen to me carefully, this time I really know that I was wrong, I have reflected on it. If the 4 yuan is not returned, I will try to earn it back, and I will work more overtime in the future. Work harder, do more private work, I can endure hardship, and I will do my best to let you and Xiaolong live the best life."

Ye Jiawen shook his head sadly: "Look, you still don't know what I want. I don't want you to live hard, nor do I want a lot of money. I just want our little life to be warm and happy, not one day. You have to be judged and divided up. Qingyun, I don’t want you not to talk about family affection, but if you don’t save the poor, the relatives in your hometown are a bottomless pit that can’t be filled. We are not Bill Gates, we only earn so little money , I only paid off the creditor's debt a few years ago, and the mortgage will be repaid for ten years. I beg you, before you do things, think about me and Xiaolong more, not about others."

Xiang Qingyun said: "I will, I always think of you, baby, I love you."

Because Xiang Qingyun didn't ask for the money back, Ye Jiawen was very angry. He felt that he was really at a loss, and it would be better to spend the money on others than on himself, so he went to the IKEA home store on Monday, planning to buy something for his family. nice one.The TV in their home is still a bulky and heavy one, instead of the popular LCD screen. When he went to his colleague's house, he had long been envious of those thin TVs that could be hung on the wall.

He visited several counters and saw many brands of LCD TVs. He liked the big wide screen very much. The colors were very clear and comfortable to watch, and it could also be used as a display screen for a computer desktop.In the end, he took a fancy to two models. One was from Samsung, and the price was 6000 yuan, and the other was from Sharp, which was cheaper and cost 6000 yuan.[-], the price alone can be ruled out. If they really spend this money, they will only have [-] deposits left. Life is too unsafe, not to mention there is a child who needs to spend money at home; more than [-] He stood in front of the counter and hesitated for a long time, looking at this channel for a while, trying that game for a while, wishing to take it apart and study it. Finally, even the waiter got impatient and asked him, sir, do you want to buy it? , he still shook his head and left empty-handed.He heard the waiter snort loudly behind him.

On the way out of IKEA Furniture City, Ye Jiawen was thinking, if he knew he would have bought an LCD TV earlier, for 4 yuan, he could have bought two Samsung and one Sharp, and Xiang Qingyun and himself in the room Hang one, hang one in the living room, hang one in Xiaolong's room, anyone can watch whatever they want, and there is no need to grab the TV to watch it.Now, it was all thrown into the water, and he didn't even see a blister.

On the way home by subway, the subway was very crowded. Standing next to him was a man with body odor. The smell of body odor made him dizzy, but the place was so crowded that he couldn't even move his seat. , I had to bear it with a stinky face.There seemed to be a hand touching his ass behind him. I don't know if it was his illusion. What's so good about an old man's ass?Maybe it was because the car was too crowded and there was no place for his hand, so he pouted and turned around, staggering that hand.But that hand quickly followed his thigh, touching it once and for all.

Ye Jiawen got angry, but he couldn't turn around and slap someone like a little girl and call him a pervert, so he had to hold back until the bus arrived, and full of anger, he pushed the crowd away from the crowd and squeezed towards the door, shouting: "Let's go!" Let, let go, I want to get off!"

When pushing past a fat middle-aged woman, the woman gave him a hard push and shouted meanly: "Nong Ze Chi, push and push! If you want to get out of the car, you will come out sooner!"

Ye Jiawen endured not to argue with her, and continued to squeeze out, and finally squeezed out before the subway doors closed.

Immediately afterwards, he changed to Line [-]. While waiting for the train, his mind was distracted. He got on the subway and drove two stops away. It was on the same platform, and he got on the wrong train in a daze.I had no choice but to get off the bus and take the bus back, and take Line [-] again.

Back in the community, he saw his polo car parked downstairs, which meant that Xiang Qingyun had come back from get off work.When he passed the POLO, he found a piece of paint on the rear of the car, like a scratch, he couldn't help being shocked, and hurried upstairs to look for Qingyun.

Xiang Qingyun was cooking in the kitchen, when he saw Ye Jiawen rushing in, he turned his head and smiled at him while turning over the spatula: "Baby, where have you been?"

Ye Jiawen asked furiously, "Why was the car scratched?"

Xiang Qingyun was stunned, and turned down the gas a little: "I was rubbed by a novice on the way home from get off work. Wait a minute, I'll cook the dishes and tell you."

Ye Jiawen didn't wait, and asked anxiously, "Whose fault? Did you get paid?"

Xiang Qingyun turned over the vegetables in the pot, and said slowly: "Wait outside, it will be ready soon, I will tell you slowly."

Seeing his reaction, Ye Jiawen's heart was half cold.But the pot was hot, so he had no choice but to force himself to go out with the little reason left, forcing himself to sit on the sofa and wait.

Five minutes later, Xiang Qingyun came out wiping his hands with an apron, took off the apron, and hung it on the kitchen door.

Ye Jiawen sighed: "Tell me, what's going on?"

Xiang Qingyun sat down opposite him, and put his hands on his knees like a primary school student: "On the way home, I met a novice, a woman. When I first started on the road, she didn't control the distance between the cars. She rear-end, it's not serious. She is solely responsible for rubbing off a piece of paint..."

Ye Jiawen asked him: "She is fully responsible? Did she pay for it?"

Xiang Qingyun lowered her head in confusion: "She...is a female college student, young and a novice, she kept crying after hitting a car..."

When Ye Jiawen heard this, he felt blood rushing from the top of his head to his feet.

Xiang Qingyun's voice became softer: "She cried so much that I was too embarrassed to let her pay it... It was only a few hundred yuan, so I told her that I had insurance and asked the insurance company to pay, so..."

Ye Jiawen wanted to cry but had no tears: "It's not her skin that rubbed off a piece of paint. Why is she crying? If I cry with you, can you give me 4 yuan? Did you find an insurance company?"

Xiang Qingyun said: "I searched, I searched, but the insurance company's procedures are too troublesome, and they can only insure part of it. It takes too much time and energy to spend a few hundred dollars. I think about it..." It is indeed In this way, for small bumps and scratches on the road, the owner will solve the loss in private if the loss is less than [-].Only when the collision is serious and the loss is tens of thousands, do you have the energy to issue a bunch of certificates and toss with the insurance company.

Ye Jiawen felt exhausted.This is actually just a trivial matter. If it was before, he probably shook his head and let it go. After all, the money is not too much, and it is not the first day he knows Xiang Qingyun's temper.But now, with 4 yuan of grievances accumulating, he is very unhappy.But he didn't get angry with Xiang Qingyun any more, instead he vented his anger on himself and smoked cigarettes all night in silence.Before going to bed, Xiang Qingyun passed the balcony and found that the ashtray that had just been dumped in the morning was full of cigarette butts again.

Two days later, Ye Jiawen took advantage of the opportunity when everyone was having dinner, and said to Xiang Xiaolong, "Xiaolong, there is something my fathers want to tell you."

Both Xiang Qingyun and Xiang Xiaolong put down their bowls and looked at him with the same confused expression.

Ye Jiawen said slowly: "It's about traveling to Japan. Your dad and I have some important work to do in August, so we may not be able to go. We know you really want to go to Japan, so we discussed it , sign up for a group, can you go by yourself?"

Xiang Xiaolong was stunned for a moment, and said very sensiblely: "If you have something to do, let's go after the winter vacation. I'm not in a hurry. It's boring to go alone. Let's travel together as a family."

Ye Jiawen was silent for a while, squeezed out a smile, and stretched out his hand to rub Xiaolong's hair: "Good boy, then we won't go this summer vacation, we will go next winter vacation or the next summer vacation. Anyway, I promised you, I will I will definitely take you there."

After dinner, Xiang Qingyun washed the dishes, and Ye Jiawen took Xiang Xiaolong downstairs for a walk.I don't know if the elevator went down too fast or what happened, but the moment Ye Jiawen stepped out of the elevator, he felt dizzy and fell headlong.When he woke up, he saw Xiang Xiaolong kneeling beside him anxiously, shouting helplessly, "Dad, what's wrong with you, don't scare me!"

Ye Jiawen sat up moaning while holding his forehead.He asked weakly, "What happened just now?"

Xiang Xiaolong said with tears in his voice, "As soon as you got out of the elevator, you suddenly started to convulse all over, and then passed out."

Ye Jiawen exhaled slowly, asked Xiang Xiaolong to help him up, waved his hands, and smiled comfortingly: "It's okay, low blood sugar, it's an old problem."

Xiang Xiaolong saw that his strength gradually recovered, he was able to walk on his own, and he looked normal, so he gradually calmed down from the fright.He said worriedly, "Dad, shall I take you to the hospital?"

Ye Jiawen said: "No, what the doctor can do is give me some glucose. Hypoglycemia is a lack of sugar. Let's go, let's go out and buy some chocolate." He has never liked going to the hospital. Well, maybe minor ailments can heal themselves without seeing a doctor. Another thing is that it is common for hospitals to charge indiscriminately now. It costs hundreds of dollars to go there, so there is no need for this.