Chapter 609: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 609: Deng Cuihua's Demand

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Time flew, and it was the next morning.

Liu Meiqi and Wang Erhai came out of the marriage room, having actually become sweet and intimate, as if last night's quarrel had never happened.

Their emotional relationship was very abnormal, yet for some reason they could always quickly reconcile after a bout of lovemaking.

In comparison, Wang Dashan and Du Xiaojuan were much more placid.

Perhaps because they didn't return to the county town until nearly four in the morning last night, they both looked very fatigued while eating breakfast now.

After finishing breakfast, Wang Erhai and Liu Meiqi together sent their maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother back to their hometown.

On the way back, Wang Erhai drove the car, Liu Shanshui sat in the passenger seat, and Liu Meiqi and her mother Deng Cuihua sat in the back row.

Originally Liu Meiqi wanted to sit in the passenger seat, but Liu Shanshui said he would get carsick sitting in the back, and insisted on sitting in the passenger seat.

Liu Meiqi knew her dad wasn't carsick; he just didn't want to sit together with her mom.

Liu Shanshui's feelings toward Deng Cuihua had already developed into a physiological disgust, a conditioned-reflex-like rejection and aversion.

The biggest difference between them and the newlywed couple Wang Erhai and Liu Meiqi was that although Wang Erhai and Liu Meiqi quarreled, they at least still had marital relations, whereas the two of them wouldn't even touch each other.

In this real world, that matter between men and women is actually very realistic.

Whether a man and a woman can still make it work, you only need to look at one point to know:

If they still have a sex life, then no matter how much they quarrel or make a scene, they can still continue on.

If they no longer have a sex life, then quarreling will inevitably lead to a bigger rift, and this rift cannot be repaired through any other means; the final outcome is predictable.

Only Deng Cuihua is still deadlocking over that breath of anger; any other woman would probably have divorced Liu Shanshui long ago.

"Daughter, you're married now, you have your own little family, but don't forget me, your mother."

Deng Cuihua suddenly grasped Liu Meiqi's hand, saying this sentence with a face full of sorrow.

Liu Meiqi really wanted to pull her hand back, but felt that would be too cruel, so she withdrew her hand slightly but didn't pull it all the way back.

She laughed dryly:

"Mom, rest assured, I will never forget you."

Liu Meiqi spoke words against her heart.

She indeed would never forget her mother, but in her heart she wished she could forget her mother completely and cleanly.

Because all the memories her mother brought her were either quarrels, or smashing things at home, or taking it out on her after losing an argument with her father.

So Deng Cuihua's current pitiable appearance could not gain her genuine sympathy.

After sending her parents back to their hometown today, she estimated she would rarely return to the hometown again; although the county town wasn't far from the hometown, not even an hour's drive, she just didn't want to go back.

If she didn't go back, her father Liu Shanshui certainly wouldn't go back either.

The only reason Liu Shanshui still stayed in this home was his daughter Liu Meiqi.

Now that the daughter was married off, regardless of whether he could divorce Deng Cuihua, he definitely wouldn't stay at home.

This resulted in the fact that for a very long period of time afterward, only Deng Cuihua might be left living alone in the hometown.

This was also why Deng Cuihua now had a face full of sorrow; she had actually already seen the loneliness she would experience in the future, she was afraid in her heart, she didn't want to face it alone, so now she was begging her daughter to come home often in the future.

"Meiqi, if there's any place you need Mom's help, just speak up; whatever I can help with, I'll definitely help. If you and Erhai have a child in the future, I can come over to help raise the child."

Deng Cuihua tightened her grip on Liu Meiqi's hand.

This was her only daughter, and also the only relative she could count on.

That husband Liu Shanshui was completely hopeless to rely on.

"Mom, the matter of having a child — the eight characters don't even have a single stroke yet; let's talk about it later... this car is a bit stuffy, I'll open the window a bit..."

Liu Meiqi found an excuse to open the car window, and took the opportunity to pull her hand out.

The way Deng Cuihua forcefully held her hand reminded her of Deng Cuihua's overbearing control over her at home all these years.

That feeling made her very uncomfortable.

"You two should hurry up and have a child," Deng Cuihua started urging Liu Meiqi to have a child, "Since you're married, you should start preparing for pregnancy."

Liu Meiqi said:

"It's not like you can have one just because you want to; besides, there are still many things to be busy with at work, and life pressure is quite high."

Liu Meiqi's meaning was very obvious — that is, temporarily not considering the matter of having a child.

But Deng Cuihua seemed not to have heard these words, or perhaps heard them but didn't understand what she meant.

This woman Deng Cuihua was just like this; she only acknowledged what she acknowledged. As long as someone else's words didn't match her idea, no matter how correct, she would oppose them or ignore them.

"You two make an effort, strive to get pregnant this year; also don't just have one, have a few more."

Deng Cuihua continued along her own line of thought.

"Mom, the family planning policy is still in effect now; even a second child isn't allowed, let alone having several more."

Liu Meiqi said this with a dry, hollow laugh.

At that time the second child policy hadn't been opened yet; if one completely followed the policy, indeed only one could be born.

However, the Family Planning Office's control at that time was already much looser than ten or twenty years ago; actually if you wanted a second child, no one would care.

Deng Cuihua, however, spoke firmly and convincingly:

"Why do you care about that policy? Back when enforcement was so strict, Erhai's parents still gave birth to their three brothers? Your dad and I were just foolish, just stupid, just dumb, too honest — whatever the regulations said, we followed honestly, not knowing how to be flexible at all; in the end, the ones who suffered losses were ourselves. If we had had one more child back then, our current life wouldn't be this wretched."

As she spoke, she sighed and groaned, blaming herself, silently wiping away tears.

This isn't her fault; one can only blame the cruelty of life.

If she had one more son, perhaps life really wouldn't have turned out like this.

She then looked at Liu Shanshui sitting in the passenger seat with eyes full of resentment:

"It's all your fault. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have ended up with only Mei Qi as our child!"

Liu Shanshui wore a baffled expression, utterly speechless:

"How is this my fault?"

Deng Cuihua said:

"You were the one unwilling to have another!"

Liu Shanshui was even more speechless:

"How can you blame me? Back then I worked at a state-owned enterprise. If we had an over-quota birth, I would have been fired directly."

Deng Cuihua said coldly:

"You only had one, and didn't you still get laid off afterward?"

Liu Shanshui rolled his eyes:

"How I got laid off, don't you know perfectly well?"

Liu Shanshui had actually resigned from his unit on his own initiative, because during that period Deng Cuihua suspected he was keeping a mistress outside, and every few days she would go to his workplace to cause a scene, making it so he really had no face to stay on. In the end, although the unit investigated and found him innocent, willing to keep employing him, he also had no face to continue staying.

"How don't I know perfectly well? That's what you deserved! You kept a mistress outside, violating morality. Your unit didn't want you anymore, you couldn't stay, so you could only resign!"

To this day Deng Cuihua still believes Liu Shanshui kept another woman outside.

Even though that other woman, she hasn't seen a glimpse of in twenty-plus years, she still firmly holds this view.

It's still that same sentence — she only believes what she believes.