Chapter 84: Gap

Mom was drowsy watching TV. Seeing me come back, she pursed her lips at my room and whispered a rebuke, "Why are you back at this time? You didn't say a few words all afternoon, I'm afraid she's angry."

I comforted my mom and said, "It's fine. I'm busy. I'll just explain it to her clearly."

"I know you're busy, but no matter how busy you are, remember you have a home, right?" Mom quietly pointed at the tightly closed door and said, "It's right for a man to be busy outside, but you just brought her back and left her at home for a day without caring, what kind of thing is this."

I said, "There are some things you don't understand, I'm also helpless."

"Go and coax her quickly. She didn't eat much dinner and went into the room early." Mom turned off the TV, stretched, yawned, and went into her own room.

I pushed the door, but it didn't move, so I whispered, "Bing'er, it's me."

There was a movement inside, and then Xue Bing opened the door with a face full of anger, pulled me in without saying a word, pushed me onto the bed, stared fiercely into my eyes, and said, "Do you know what time it is now?"

I closed my eyes and said, "Almost one o'clock, right?"

She wrinkled her nose and smelled me, frowned, and said, "A smell of alcohol, who did you go drinking with?"

I opened my eyes and teased her, "Of course, drinking with beauties."

She raised her hand and slapped me, making my face burn with pain. I got anxious, pushed her away, and said in exasperation, "Why are you hitting people?"

"I just want to hit you!" She fell dejectedly on the edge of the bed, and a few tears fell from her eyes.

When a woman cries, my heart becomes incomparably soft. I hugged her shoulders and said, "It's my fault. I'm sorry, Bing'er, I shouldn't have left you at home."

She became even more sad under my comfort, crying with her shoulders heaving. I had nothing to say, so I had to sit on the side and cry with her.

After crying for a while, she raised her head and looked at me, saying, "I'm not blaming you for leaving me at home. Chen Feng, a man should be out there, but he must remember his home."

I said softly, "It's my fault, really, it's my fault. Bing'er, I swear, this will never happen again."

She laughed through her tears and said reproachfully, "Why don't you go wash up."

Seeing that the rain had cleared and the sun had come out, my mood became incomparably good. I deliberately lay on the bed and said, "I'm too lazy to move, I'm exhausted."

She pulled me up hard and said, "You're not washing, right? If you don't wash, you'll sleep on the sofa outside tonight." As she said this, she was about to push me out the door. I hugged her waist, rubbed my face on her lower abdomen, teased her, and said, "You despise me, right?"

"I just despise you. Are you washing or not?"

Seeing her serious face, I laughed and said, "Baby, wait and see how I deal with you later."

Her face blushed at my teasing, and she pushed me away, saying, "Whether you wash or not is up to you."

Seeing her shy appearance, my heart felt like it was filled with honey.

After washing and returning, she was already in the quilt. The night air in Xiangnan after autumn was heavy, and cold frost drilled in through the cracks in the door, spreading thinly across the room. She closed her eyes slightly, and her red face was covered in a cloud of black hair.

I kissed her lips lightly and said, "Bing'er, do you miss me?"

She rolled her eyes at me and said, "No."

"Really don't?" I said.

I said, "Wife, I handed over the company to the enterprise office." I didn't say that Meizhu opened a new store. I still don't know what's going on with this store, but I just feel in the dark that this store must have something to do with me, and the relationship is very big.

"It's good that you handed it over." Xue Bing thought I was reluctant and said softly, "Feng, we both have salaries, we don't rely on doing business to eat. You're not a businessman, so hand it over early and be at ease."

I laughed and said, "Wife, don't think I don't know how to do business. If I didn't do business in Suxi Township, your school playground might still be a piece of yellow mud."

"What does the school playground have to do with you? Donating so much money at once, aren't you afraid of people talking behind your back?" Xue Bing sat up half-wrapped in the quilt: "I shouldn't have come to find you in the first place. I knew you would pay, Secretary Liu was right. You've never had good intentions toward me."

She laughed, suddenly pinched my chest hard, and the pain made me gasp.

I immediately shouted grievances. I said with infinite grievance, "When have I ever not had good intentions toward you?"

She didn't speak, stuck to my body and said, "Women have intuition, do you know that?"

I suddenly remembered the bankbook in my pocket, got up, took it out, shook it in front of her, and said, "Wife, look what this is?"

She glanced at it, reached out and grabbed it, flipped through it, and her eyes grew bigger than apricots. She stared at me in disbelief and said, "Feng, where did you get so much money?"

I said, "Bing'er, don't worry, this money is clean."

She didn't answer my words, flipped through it again and again, counting the string of zeros after the numbers on the bankbook like a child. After counting several times, she said affirmatively, "200,000?"

I nodded, wanting to take the bankbook, but she held it tightly and wouldn't give it to me, her face full of excited red.

In front of a woman, the most face-saving thing for a man is money. Money can give a man confidence and give a woman security.

"You won't sleep with it, right?" I teased, "It's all ours, are you afraid it will fly away?"

Seeing her obsessed look, I freed my hand, scraped her nose, and said, "Little money fan, you can't find north with this little money?"

She opened her eyes, kissed me quickly on the mouth, and said, "Feng, I've never seen so much money in my life. Why don't we take it all out tomorrow and count it, okay?"

I was amused by her words, and this kind of fantasy of a little woman made me feel a burst of sadness and worry.

I kissed her and said, "Wife, I support your idea, but it's not convenient. It's better to keep it in the bank. If you need money, just take it out."

She smiled happily, pressed the bankbook under the pillow, hugged me with both hands, and a head of green silk covered down, blocking my eyes. Tenderness and sweetness surged up instantly.

Xue Bing asked me, "Feng, who were you drinking with tonight?"

Seeing that I didn't speak, she pushed me and said, "Not saying, right? If you don't say, don't even think about it."

I got anxious and blurted out, "No one else, just my aunt, Wu Qian, and Meizhu."

"All women?"

"And Wu Qian's husband, Section Chief Fu Zhen."

"If you want to sing, why didn't you call me?"

"Wife, you are professionally trained. If you go, how would they dare to sing?"

"That's true. Just talking about singing, husband, I won't lose your face." She was full of tenderness, and confidence permeated her face.

"Is Meizhu still at the company?"

"No, she opened a shop herself."

"Where did she get the money to open a shop?"

"I don't know."

She pushed me away and stared into my eyes, saying, "Say, did you give her the money?"

I smiled bitterly and said, "No, really not."

"Not saying, right?" She turned to the side. I wanted to pull her back, but she resisted me with all her might.

I said, "Meizhu is your cousin, after all. You should be happy that she opened a shop."

She turned back and said word by word, "Chen Feng, I know Meizhu is my cousin, so I know what kind of person she is. We grew up together, and Sister Jinling and I know better than you what kind of person she is."

"What kind of ideas can she have?"

"Lots of ideas." She said, warning me, "You are not allowed to associate with her in the future."

I said inexplicably, "You are relatives."

"So what if we are relatives? As long as she has crooked ideas about me, I will make her look bad." Xue Bing said steadily, "We'll go back to Suxi tomorrow morning, sleep."

A trace of coolness emerged from the soles of my feet. Her attitude caught me off guard. Does Xue Bing have a prejudice against Meizhu? If she knew about Jinling and me, what would she do?

I felt that there was already a gap between us, and this gap was pitch black without a trace of light. And I felt that if this gap was not filled in time, it would become larger and larger, so large that it could not be repaired. ===== CHAPTER 85 =====