Chapter 779

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Yao Xueqin had just hung up Li Jiahong's call when Wang Erhai sent her a WeChat message, saying he had arrived at the entrance of her residential complex.

Yao Xueqin hurried downstairs to meet him.

She discovered Wang Erhai was actually carrying a plastic bag.

She hurriedly asked:

"What did you bring?"

Wang Erhai smiled and said:

"An old hen."

"What?" Yao Xueqin was somewhat stunned. She had imagined Wang Erhai might give her flowers, give her exquisite little gifts, but she just hadn't expected Wang Erhai would give her an old hen.

"Brought it from the hometown. I don't have cookware at my place, so I brought it here for you to stew. You shouldn't mind, right?"

Wang Erhai asked like this.

Yao Xueqin's mind turned around at once. She hurriedly said:

"Of course not. How could I possibly mind? But my cooking skills are average. If it doesn't taste good, you mustn't blame me."

Then she asked a sentence that seemed very casual:

"Your parents still don't know that you and Mei Qi are in the middle of a divorce?"

This was the most core piece of information Yao Xueqin captured from inside the gift Wang Erhai brought.

"Haven't told them. I'm afraid they can't accept it."

Wang Erhai gave an embarrassed laugh.

Yao Xueqin continued to ask:

"Is it that they can't accept you and Mei Qi divorcing, or that they can't accept Mei Qi aborting the child in her belly?"

Wang Erhai sighed:

"Both, I guess. My parents both like Liu Meiqi a lot, especially my dad. He actually thinks Liu Meiqi is even better than my Eldest Sister-in-law. When he learned Liu Meiqi was pregnant, who knows how happy he was. So, today I went home once, and he even specifically told my mom to kill an extra old hen to bring down for Liu Meiqi to stew soup and drink. Now that Liu Meiqi and I have fallen out like this, this old hen definitely can't be given to her to stew soup anymore. Throwing it away would be a pity, so I planned to send it over to your place."

"I see." Yao Xueqin nodded, then looked at Wang Erhai with sympathetic eyes:

"Then you being sandwiched in the middle is pretty difficult too. If you ask me, initially you should have done your utmost to stop Mei Qi from going to abort the fetus. That way, at least there would be an account to give the family. But now things have come to this, saying more is useless. We can only look forward. What are your plans for the future?"

Wang Erhai gave a helpless bitter smile:

"What plans can I have? Take it one step at a time. If I can quickly find a new girlfriend, and quickly get her pregnant, and bring her back for my parents to see, maybe it can quell their anger. Otherwise, if they know the truth, they'll really be angry. But right now I just want to focus on my career. I have no mind for those things."

Yao Xueqin didn't say anything more, only said:

"Hurry up and come upstairs. I'll help you stew this old hen right now. Stewing from now until evening, for dinner we'll eat this old hen stewed soup!"

Wang Erhai nodded:

"Good, good!"

So the two went upstairs together, returning to the room.

Yao Xueqin immediately went into the kitchen and busied herself.

Wang Erhai wanted to go help, but Yao Xueqin wouldn't let him.

"You just rest outside. You're a grown man. A pair of hands is for earning money, not for cutting vegetables. So no need for you to enter the kitchen. I can handle it myself."

These words of Yao Xueqin could be said to have spoken right into Wang Erhai's heart.

Making him involuntarily compare Yao Xueqin and Liu Meiqi.

You have to know, when he was together with Liu Meiqi, Liu Meiqi basically never cooked. Even last year during Spring Festival, the whole family came to their house in the County Town to eat New Year's Eve Dinner — such an important occasion — and Liu Meiqi didn't go cook either. It was Wang Erhai alone busy running back and forth.

When he was together with Liu Meiqi, he really had to both earn money and manage the kitchen. Sometimes even the house cleaning had to be done by him, and the household laundry also had to be washed by him.

Even with all that, Liu Meiqi was still dissatisfied in various ways, picked faults in various ways, verbally belittled him in various ways.

He naturally didn't spoil Liu Meiqi either. When angered, he directly cursed back. When cursing wasn't enough to vent, he directly hit Liu Meiqi.

If hitting still wasn't enough to vent, he went into the Bedroom and fiercely solved it.

Almost every intense quarrel needed to be solved in bed.

But this was only a temporary physiological solution. In reality, the contradictions were always there.

That is to say, they actually never truly went to solve the problems. This is also the fundamental reason why they got along more and more stiffly, quarreled more and more.

Liu Meiqi had once naively thought that as long as she got pregnant, she could solve everything.

But reality told her that pregnancy would instead accelerate the triggering of contradictions, and could not alleviate them.

She should have known this result long ago, because the internet has long reported who knows how many times about men cheating during their wives' pregnancies.

Pregnancy is not a trump card for salvaging a relationship. It's more like the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

"Really don't need me to help? I can help you prep."

Wang Erhai took the initiative to offer help.

Yao Xueqin said:

"If you really have nothing to do, then help me peel the ginger skin, and also prepare some scallion segments."

"Good, good!" Wang Erhai smiled. "Where's the ginger?"

"Right in the second shelf of the Refrigerator."

Wang Erhai went to get the ginger, skillfully scraping the skin with a small knife.

Yao Xueqin glanced over, then praised:

"Your peeling technique is pretty good."

Wang Erhai said with a smile:

"Of course. You might not believe it, but I can peel an apple skin in one continuous strip."

Yao Xueqin asked at this time:

"When you and Mei Qi are together, who usually does the cooking?"

Wang Erhai just said:

"If I have time, then I do the cooking."

Yao Xueqin asked again: "What if you don't have time?"

Wang Erhai chuckled:

"If I don't have time, then we just order takeout. Anyway, expecting Liu Meiqi to cook is simply impossible."

Yao Xueqin smiled:

"You have to be tolerant of Mei Qi. Some people are born not liking to cook, some are born liking to cook. Mei Qi is the former, I'm the latter. When I visit Mei Qi's place, I'm always the one cooking. No choice, personality decides, it's hard to change."

This is where Yao Xueqin's cleverness lies. She would never say anything belittling Liu Meiqi to Wang Erhai's face; on the contrary, she would persuade Wang Erhai everywhere to be magnanimous and forgive Liu Meiqi.

This made her shape an image of a very tolerant, very kind personality in Wang Erhai's heart.

To tell the truth, under the circumstances of not knowing the real situation, which man who encounters a woman like Yao Xueqin wouldn't be infatuated?

The various behaviors she displayed, to a man, were simply perfect, without a single flaw.

But upon careful thought, one would realize that it is precisely because she is perfect to the point of having not a single flaw that Yao Xueqin must be acting it out.

Because if she really were this perfect, how could her ex-husband possibly have divorced her?

Sometimes being too perfect is actually a kind of imperfection.

It's just a pity that Wang Erhai at this very moment was going through an emotional low, his spirit needed to seek warmth, his IQ wasn't high either, and he couldn't analyze Yao Xueqin's various behaviors very calmly and clearly, to the extent that he was blinded yet completely unaware.