About the Author
Xiao Su is a professor at the College of Literature of Central China Normal University and a doctoral supervisor. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and a first-class writer. Counselor of Hubei Provincial People's Government. He has published five million words of novels in "People's Literature", "Harvest", "Writer", "Flower City", "Zhongshan", "Tianya", "October", "Beijing Literature", "Shanghai Literature" and other journals. He has published 5 novels "Wulipu", "University Story", "Growth Record", "Bitter Smile", "Courtship", 2 novella collections "Re-going to Niangshan Mountain", "Roadside Shop", 2 short story collections "Mountain People Outside the Mountain", "Black Light", "Dog Play", "Woman on the Wheat Field", "Chinese Love", "Golden Rice", "Suspender Shirt", "Maltose", "Our Privacy", "Crush", "Flower Quilt", "Pine Hair Bed" 12 kinds. There are also 3 theoretical monographs, including "Study Of Famous Masterpieces", "Theory of Literary Writing System", and "Contemporary Novels and Folk Narratives". He has won the 4th "Literary and Art Star" Award of Hubei Province, the 1st Pu Songling National Short Story Award, the 2nd Lin Jinlan Short Story Award, the 16th Hundred Flowers Literature Award, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Hubei Literature Awards, the 6th Qu Yuan Literary and Art Award, and the 5th Wang Zengqi Literature Award.
Visit your ex-wife
(Originally published in Flower City, No. 6, 2002)
One
As soon as I arrived at the mouth of the village on the rape slope, I looked around to find my ex-wife's home. To put it more precisely, it should be the home of the ex-wife's later husband. The principal of Lao Ya Middle School told me that my ex-wife's home was located under a ginkgo tree and was easy to see. Sure enough, it didn't take long for my eyes to see a tall ginkgo tree with all its leaves yellow, looking like thousands of yellow butterflies landing on its branches. There was an adobe house under a ginkgo tree, and I thought it must have been my ex-wife's home. The door of the adobe house was open, and from a distance it looked as if a person had lost a front tooth, revealing a black hole. There were two figures shaking on the dirt field at the door, because it was still two miles away, and I couldn't tell who those two figures were, maybe one of them was my ex-wife. My heart jumped and I felt something very special.
Seeing my ex-wife's home, my feet suddenly stopped moving. Because, at this time, my mood began to contradict again. In fact, for several days in a row my heart was at odds. Before I was admitted to college, I worked as a classroom teacher in Lao Ya Middle School for several years, so Lao Ya Middle School sent me an invitation card for this school celebration. When I left the provincial capital, I had the idea of visiting my ex-wife in Rapepo. At the time, the idea was very firm. As the saying goes, one day husband and wife Bai Ri En, although I transferred my affection after graduating from college and staying in the city, I became Chen Shimei, and I had a new love and abandoned my ex-wife, but I still have feelings for my ex-wife more or less, and this feeling is not indifferent because of the passage of time, on the contrary, it is like wine buried in the kiln, which lasts for a long time. To be honest, one of the important reasons why I was able to take time out of my busy schedule to attend the celebration of Lao Ya Middle School was that I wanted to take this opportunity to visit my ex-wife. However, when I talked to the principal about this idea in Lao Ya Middle School, the principal poured a bucket of cold water on my head, he said, divorced for such a long time, the ex-wife's mood has calmed down, don't you look at it again will disturb her calm mood? Besides, people have organized a new family, and you suddenly broke in for no reason, what will the current husband think? Also, at that time, you were originally happy with the new and tired of the old and abandoned her, and people hated you in their hearts, so didn't you go to see her now to find a scolding? The principal's words made sense, almost dispelling the idea of visiting my ex-wife. However, after the school celebration, I had a strong urge to visit my ex-wife in Canola Slope. For some reason, I just wanted to look at her, as if I couldn't be willing not to calm my nerves without looking at her. Just like that, I came from Lao Ya to Rape Slope. What I didn't expect was that now that I saw my ex-wife's home, there was a contradiction in my heart again.
Looking at my ex-wife's home, many questions that had to be answered immediately were placed in front of me. For example, how to call her ex-wife after seeing her, is it called her full name Qu Meifeng, or is it only the last two words like before we divorced? For example, what to say after meeting the husband of an ex-wife, what should he do if he expresses hostility? For example, it is almost noon now, if my ex-wife does not let me in her door, where will I go for lunch... These questions all gave me a headache, and I couldn't find a definitive answer for a while.
Just as I was besieged by these problems, a ridiculous hypothesis jumped over me. I think it would have been nice if I had a child with my ex-wife, and no matter who was sentenced to that child, he or she could solve those problems. But this assumption may always be hypothesis.
Because my heart was full of contradictions, I wandered around the village entrance for a long time. But in the end I decided to visit my ex-wife at all costs.
Two
From the entrance of the village to the vegetable patch of my ex-wife's house, I only walked for half an hour. My two dark, pointed leather shoes were like two small boats, racing along the mountain road, making me look like a man who had been away from home for many years and had returned to his heart like an arrow. I don't know why I was so desperate to meet my ex-wife, even I felt a little funny. For a moment I asked myself self-deprecatingly, if so, why did I abandon her so cruelly in the first place? The ex-wife's vegetable field was planted with nest shoots, and because of the fertile soil, the nest shoot stalks grew thick and tall, and the leaves were green as if they were going to flow oil. At a glance, I concluded that this was my ex-wife's vegetable patch, thinking that only my ex-wife could grow such a good nest shoot.
When I met my ex-wife, she was a cook at Lao Ya Middle School, not only cooking for the teachers of the whole school, but also growing vegetables. The vegetable field of Lao Ya Middle School is next to the canteen, and it is in that vegetable field that I am moving my ex-wife's heart. The ex-wife was just in her early twenties, combing two long braids, wearing a small flower jacket, remembering that there were also nest shoots planted in the vegetable field at that time, and the ex-wife was skillful, and the nest shoots she planted made people salivate. One evening, when my ex-wife bent down to pull the bamboo shoots, I saw a circle of white flesh under the small flower jacket behind her. At that moment, I had a heart for her. Then we got married. Unexpectedly, the country restored the college entrance examination system in the second year of our marriage, and I did not expect that I would be admitted as soon as I took the exam. If it weren't for the resumption of the college entrance examination or my failure to go to college, I think I would not have abandoned my ex-wife, then there would be one less marriage tragedy in this world.
I stood silently by my ex-wife's vegetable patch for a while. As I was looking back, a boy in his twenties and a girl of fifteen or sixteen came to his ex-wife's adobe house one after the other. The boy carried a basket on his back, and the girl carried a basket, and the pace was hurried, as if he was going to do something urgent. However, when they found me, the stranger, all four feet stood still at the same time. I was wearing a suit and tie and carrying a black suitcase in my hand, and they were obviously curious about my attire and look. The girl's eyes were particularly large, and the two eyeballs were like two black pills swirling in her orbit. I whispered to her, is this vegetable field from Qu Meifeng's house? The girl nodded stunned. The boy suddenly walked from behind the girl to the front, stared at my face and asked coldly, Who are you? I thought about it a little and said that I was an acquaintance of Qu Meifeng's former, and I came to see her by the way. The girl suddenly became excited when she heard my words, and said to me a little excitedly, Qu Meifeng is my mother! As soon as I heard the girl say that she was the daughter of my ex-wife, I couldn't help but get excited, and I suddenly felt that the girl had an indescribable sense of intimacy, and I was eager to reach out and touch her face. However, the boy was a little dissatisfied with the girl's performance, only to see him glare at the girl fiercely, and then quickly grabbed one of her hands and said, Go quickly, go to the lime factory late and close the door! Then I noticed a black mole hidden in the boy's left eyebrow, like an iron nail. The girl seemed to listen to the boy, and she left with the boy without saying a word. But at the bend in the mountain road, the girl turned her head and said to me, watch out for my dog! I listened to the heat in my heart, as if I had drunk a cup of hot wine. However, then I heard another sentence that made my heart chill, and I heard the boy say to the girl, ignore that person, he may be the Chen Shimei that the villagers said! These words were like a basin of ice water, pouring me cold.
I didn't hate the boy though. His attitude toward me was something I deserved. Now that I think about it, I didn't actually have to divorce my ex-wife in the first place. Compared to my later wife, my ex-wife's appearance was not inferior, and she was a hundred times more virtuous than my later wife. The reason why I proposed to break up with my ex-wife at that time was that my vanity was at work. Of course, the excuse I was making at the time was to say that my ex-wife and I didn't have a common language. This phrase was so popular in those days that many men used it as a reason to abandon their wives. I remember that my first thought of divorce was in a movie theater in the provincial city, when I had just graduated from college and started working for half a year. The specific time seems to be that year's May Day Labor Day, I took my ex-wife who was still a cook at Lao Ya Middle School to the provincial city to play, and one day we went to the movies, and one of my female colleagues went with us. That movie was called "Red Dress on the Street", and when I came out of the movie theater door after watching the movie, I asked my ex-wife how she felt about this movie, and my ex-wife blurted out that the color of the dress was very good! The female colleague also heard her ex-wife's answer, and she couldn't help but laugh twice. At that moment, the idea of divorce suddenly climbed into my heart like a poisonous snake that had been lurking in the grass for a long time. Half a year later, I divorced my ex-wife, and the female colleague who ridiculed her took her place. I'll never forget the look my ex-wife had when I first filed for divorce, when she first opened her eyes wide and then opened her mouth widely. I thought she was going to cry out loud, but she didn't, only to see her slowly contract her upper lip and then bite her upper lip tightly with her lower lip, while she closed her eyes. I saw two rows of sparkling tears rolling down her eyelashes.
The recollection of the past is prone to a sudden change in people's mentality. Originally, my mood was uneasy, and looking back at some past events, I suddenly became frank and calm. Many of the previous concerns and worries vanished. I think that since I am ashamed of my ex-wife, I can tolerate and accept whatever I encounter in my ex-wife's place, even if my ex-wife scolds me, even if my ex-wife's husband beats me, even if my ex-wife's dog bites me.
Three
As I was about to pull out my leg from the vegetable patch and approach my ex-wife's adobe house, a man with a dry pipe suddenly appeared in front of me. He looked to be in his fifties, shaved his head, but with a mouth full of beards. He was obviously coming for me, and he was still far away from me and stared at me and asked, Are you Teacher Shi? I couldn't help but be surprised and asked, how do you know my surname is Shi? The man who smoked the dry pipe took another puff of his cigarette and said, Mei Feng saw you standing on the edge of the vegetable field for a long time, she thought you must be afraid of our dog, so she sent me to pick you up, in fact, our dog does not bite, just bark a little scary. From his words, I had already guessed his identity, but in order to be foolproof, I still asked in a tentative tone, this big brother... He didn't wait for me to finish asking, then he smiled and said, my surname is Sun, you can call me Old Sun, Mei Feng and you broke up and married me. I'm a big boss, and you as a college student can't compare, let you see the smile! After Lao Sun finished speaking, he laughed a little, and I found that he smiled very strangely, a little bit of the new daughter-in-law's shyness after seeing her in-laws. I immediately said to Lao Sun, you must not say this, it should be me who laughs!
Lao Sun quickly took me to the door of my house. The tall ginkgo tree grew on the doorway dirt field, under which were placed two wooden chairs and an unpainted coffee table. A small flower dog crouched under a tree, and when he saw me coming, he didn't move, as if he didn't care about me. Old Sun pointed to a clean wooden chair and said to me, Teacher Shi should sit under this tree for a while, the house is very dirty, and then please come into the house after cleaning up. After Lao Sun finished speaking, he turned his head and shouted into the room, Mei Feng, come to the rare guest, make a cup of tea! I quickly sat down on the wooden chair, and then quickly set my eyes on the door of the adobe house. I thought I would soon see my ex-wife, and there was an indescribable excitement in my heart, as if a hammer was pounding on my chest with force, and the blow made my body tremble. I also quickly imagined what my ex-wife would look like. We haven't seen each other in twenty years, and I think she must be looking very different now than she was twenty years ago. Although the ex-wife at that time was not beautiful, she had good features, a slim figure, a high chest, a round ass, and exuded the atmosphere of youth and health. Twenty years have passed, and the current ex-wife is probably old. I couldn't imagine what it would be like for the ex-wife who was about to appear before my eyes. However, what surprised me was that my ex-wife had not been out of the house for a long time, and there seemed to be no movement in the house at all. Lao Sun also felt strange, he said to himself, why hasn't Mei Feng brought out the tea yet? When I went to pick you up just now, she was busy boiling water! As he spoke, he walked through the door into the adobe house.
After a while, Lao Sun himself came out with a steaming cup of tea. When I reached for the teacup, I asked lao Sun, what about her? I don't know why I suddenly used this title. Old Sun smiled thickly and said that there was no one in the house, only a cup of tea brewed on the stove, I guess she went to the vegetable field from the back door to pick vegetables, picked vegetables and came back to cook lunch for you.
I took a deep sip of tea. Maybe my ex-wife personally brewed it for me, I think the taste of tea is very good, full of fragrance, even the throat is sweet. Old Sun sat down with me under the ginkgo tree, and I saw him bend down and pick up a golden ginkgo fruit from the ground. He took the ginkgo biloba fruit and said to me that this fruit is quite valuable, it is said to be a very valuable Chinese medicine, and every year we pick up the fruit that falls after ripening, and then gather them together and carry it to the town to sell to the medicinal company. Our servants read all by these fruits for tuition.
I asked Lao Sun how many grades their servants were studying, and Lao Sun said that he was in junior high school in the town, and these two days the school was celebrating, so he came back from vacation, and at this time her brother went to the lime factory to carry lime, and she followed to carry some sand. Lao Sun then told me that she was studying very well and that she would go to the county town to attend high school next year, and said that her mother still wanted to train her to become a college student. I asked their son if he was still studying, and Lao Sun sighed and said that his son had not read anymore, he had a somewhat strange personality, he was originally admitted to the high school in the county, but he did not want to read, and almost killed Mei Feng! Mei Feng said that if her son finished high school, he would definitely be admitted to college, but his son said that he did not like to go to college, and he said that he was willing to plant a lifetime of fields on the rape slope. As I listened to My Grandson's words, the boy I met on the vegetable floor immediately appeared in front of me, and the black mole in his eyebrow was unforgettable.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and some leaves and fruits fell from the ginkgo tree. The yellow leaves are spread on the ground and look like oil paintings. Old Sun's eyes were fast, and he quickly picked up the fruits that were sandwiched in the fallen leaves and put them on the coffee table. I looked at the ginkgo biloba fruit on the coffee table and said that this fruit can not only be used for medicine, but also as food, and the big restaurants in the provincial city have this dish, which is said to be a big supplement. Lao Sun suddenly realized that this was the first time I had heard of it.
Four
While sitting under the ginkgo tree and talking to my grandson, my eyes kept looking at the door on the adobe wall. I thought that my ex-wife should also go home from the vegetable field, and I thought that when she came back from picking vegetables, she would first go to the dirt field at the door to say hello to me. However, I saw flowers in both eyes, and I didn't see my ex-wife come out, not even her shadow. I was a little anxious, and one moment I got up from the wooden chair, and then sat down again, and the two movements were repeated.
Old Sun saw that I was a little uneasy, so he handed me his dry pipe, and while wiping the mouth of the pipe with his hand, he said to me, Don't worry, Teacher Shi, the countryside is like this, there is nothing to entertain you. We don't have paper cigarettes at home, so you can smoke a bucket of dry cigarettes. I immediately put my hand on his dry pipe and said, "You're welcome, I don't smoke." Lao Sun did not give up, and said, Listening to Mei Feng, you are a smoker. I smiled bitterly and said that I smoked when I was young, and then I quit! Hearing me say this, Old Sun withdrew his dry pipe and installed a bucket of his own to inhale it, and thick smoke rose from his thick beard.
There was a noise in the room, as if it were a woman's cough. My two ears were like banana leaves that had been hit by raindrops, sending out a wonderful tremor. My eyes quickly looked toward the gate, thinking that my ex-wife should come out anyway. But, once again, I was disappointed.
Lao Sun also heard the cough in the house. He said that Mei Feng had returned, and as he spoke, he entered the adobe house. Lao Sun came out less than two minutes after entering the door, and came out with a pack of paper cigarettes in his hand. He looked extremely excited and tore open the pack of cigarettes as he ran toward me. Lao Sun took out one and handed it to me, or Mei Feng was careful, she just ran to the village grocery store to buy you a cigarette. I was not going to pick up the cigarette in my grandson's hand, but as soon as I heard that my ex-wife bought it for me, my hands couldn't help but catch it. Lao Sun graciously lit a cigarette for me, and I took a full sip and then spat out a string of happy smoke rings.
The ex-wife still didn't come out. So I couldn't help but ask Lao Sun, what about her people? Old Sun paused for a moment and said, Oh, you ask Mei Feng, right? She was afraid that this time she really went to the vegetable field to pick vegetables. Next I lowered my head and asked, is she okay? Lao Sun said that she did not have any serious illness, that is, she was very thin, and the cheekbones on her face were so high. After breaking up with you that year, she was sullen for several years, and sometimes she secretly cried, because her heart was not happy, she ate less, and as soon as she ate less, she was thin, and she lost only eighty pounds in those years. Later, her mood gradually improved, but because of the heavy agricultural work and poor conditions in the countryside, although she grew a little better, she still looked very thin and weak, never exceeding a hundred pounds. As I listened to Lao Sun's story, my heart ached, like someone was holding a needle to prick my heart. After a while, I blamed myself and said, I am really sorry for Mei Feng! Lao Sun did not speak immediately, silently smoked for half a day before smacking his lips and saying, everything is fate, in fact, Mei Feng did not go to Lao Ya Middle School as a cooker when I met her, was planning to ask the matchmaker to give me a kiss, but you took a step ahead. At that time, you were a substitute teacher, and I was just a farmer who ploughed the land, although I liked Meifeng, but I couldn't compare to you, so I quit myself. Coincidentally, after Mei Feng married you, the matchmaker told me several girls, but I didn't look at any of them, and I kept playing with a bare stick. Unexpectedly, you got married and left again soon after, and Mei Feng finally married me. It seems that Mei Feng is destined to be my person. Mei Feng also believes in fate, when she just broke up with you, she hated you so much that she gritted her teeth, and later comforted herself and said, don't blame Teacher Shi, only blame your own life! Thinking like this, she doesn't hate you anymore, but often thinks about your goodness. She always told me that Teacher Shi was very gentle, never lost her temper with her wife, and sometimes encountered unpleasant things, at most she just didn't speak. Mei Feng also let me learn from you. I did learn a lot, and when I first married Mei Feng, I couldn't stop patting her on the table and hitting the bench. Since she talked about your gentleness, I have changed, never tapped the table, never hit the bench again... Old Sun said a lot later, but I couldn't listen to anything.
Five
A rooster's scream drifted from the roof of the adobe house. I was shocked and asked, why do chickens call like this? Lao Sun said that it may be Mei Feng killing chickens at the back door. In our countryside, there are no rare guests with mountain treasures and seafood, and the best hospitality is to kill the old hen. I immediately stood up and said, go and tell her not to kill the chicken, the hen will keep laying eggs. I often eat chicken in the provincial city, so I can just come to the countryside and eat some green vegetables. Lao Sun said, you are not welcome, Mei Feng is with your husband and wife after all, you come to see her so far away, she will not kill a chicken in her heart. Despite Lao Sun's words, I still lifted my feet and walked toward the adobe house, one was to stop my ex-wife from killing chickens, and the other was to see my ex-wife's face sooner.
Entering the threshold of the door of the adobe house is a spacious hall house. The scene in the room was much better than I had imagined, and although the furnishings were very simple, with only a square table and four benches, they were very neatly packed and the floor was swept clean. Lao Sun also followed me into the hall, and he told me that this was all Mei Feng saw me and rushed to clean up. After walking through the hall for a while was the kitchen, I saw that the stove had been burning with wood, and the atmosphere in the pot was bubbling up, as if steaming rice. The kitchen door was the back door that The old man said, but it was tightly closed at this moment. I went to open it, but I couldn't open it, and the door was locked from the outside. I asked lao Sun, why can't this back door open? Lao Sun said that probably Mei Feng did not want people to disturb her to kill chickens. I begged my grandson to ask her to open the door, and I advised her not to kill the chickens. Lao Sun said that it was too late to persuade her now, the chicken had already lost its breath, and Mei Feng might be pulling the chicken's hair.
I smiled helplessly, and then returned from the kitchen to the hall with my grandson. There was actually a hallway between the kitchen and the hall house, and when I passed by it I was too hasty to pay attention, and when I returned, I found that there were many clothes hanging on the wall of the aisle. Among them was a date-red tweed coat, which caught my eye at once. I recognized at a glance that I had bought this tweed for my ex-wife when she got married, and she had worn it and had a wedding with me in the cafeteria of Lao Ya Middle School. When Lao Sun saw me looking at the jujube red tweed coat in a daze, he pointed to the tweed coat like a tour guide and said to me, this dress is Mei Feng's favorite, usually she is always reluctant to wear it, but only once during the New Year's Festival or when she goes to relatives. However, no matter how good the clothes are always torn, once Mei Feng wore this dress to wish her mother a happy birthday, on the way back was pulled by a thorn, pulled a hole, Mei Feng also cried bitterly. After the old man finished speaking, he stepped forward and took off the dress, and found the opening for me to take a look at. Lao Sun's narration made my heart more and more unable to calm down, like a pond surrounded by children, and children constantly threw stones into the pond, stirring up circles and ripples. Then I suddenly thought of the black leather suitcase I had carried with me, which contained a brand new sweater. It was bought specifically for my ex-wife the day before I left the provincial capital. I had planned to find an appropriate occasion to give it to my ex-wife alone, but now it seems that there is no need to avoid her husband's grandson.
The black suitcase was placed on the coffee table under the ginkgo tree. I hurried out through the hall, and then I carried the black suitcase to the hall, put it on the square table, and opened it in front of the old grandson. Instead of taking out the sweater first, I drew two thousand dollars from a brown paper envelope and divided it into two bundles and handed it to my grandson at the same time. I said, here are two thousand dollars, one thousand for your handmaiden to read, and the other thousand for you and her to keep pocket money. I thought that Lao Sun would accept my money happily, but I didn't expect that as soon as he reached out, he blocked my hand holding the money. Lao Sun said, Teacher Shi, I am not happy that you are like this! I began to think that he was being polite, and handed him the money again, but I didn't expect him to suddenly turn black and say, Teacher Shi, if you don't collect your money quickly, then I will issue an eviction order! He was loud and extremely unfriendly. I was stunned. I had to put two thousand dollars back in the envelope. After putting the money away, I took out the sweater and carefully said to the old grandson, you don't want money, but this sweater I bought for her, please accept it for her no matter what. Old Sun glanced at the sweater, and Tie Qing said with a face, I want to send you directly to Mei Feng, if she is willing to accept me, I will not object, I will say that I will not collect it for her. I groaned for a moment and said, Well, I'll just hand it over to her! After I finished speaking, I hurried to the kitchen with my sweater, thinking that my ex-wife must have killed the chicken and entered the kitchen at this time, I wanted to hand it to her face, if my ex-wife agreed, it was best to let her wear it for me to see on the spot. Who knows, I had just walked to the end of that aisle when I suddenly found that the door between the aisle and the kitchen was also locked. I couldn't get into the kitchen at all. Later, on a whim, I hung my sweater on the wall in the aisle where the clothes were hung.
Six
The sun on the dirt field was nice and the air was fresher than in the house. Old Sun took me to the ginkgo tree again. But this time we sat down and we had nothing more to say, as if we had finished.
After a while, the little flower dog suddenly stood up, shook his body, and then swung his tail to the edge of the dirt field. It turned out that it was to meet the ex-wife's son and handmaiden. The boy and the girl I had met once were walking up to the dirt field. The boy carried a basket of white lime, and the girl's basket was filled with grains of sand. They were all panting and sweating hot. The little flower dogs licked the hem of their pants separately with their tongues as if in consolation. I asked lao Sun, what did they come back with lime tisha? Old Sun looked at the walls of the adobe house and said that Mei Feng wanted to paint the walls.
The boy put down the lime and went to the side of the dirt yard. As he passed by me, he tried to glance at me when I wasn't paying attention, but I happened to be spotted again, and his gaze quickly dragged away. The girl poured grains of sand at the foot of the adobe house and entered the house carrying an empty basket. Not long after, the girl came out of the house again, and she shouted to the boy sitting on the side of the dirt yard, Brother, Mom told you to run to the supply and marketing agency to buy a bottle of wine. The boy didn't move, muttering, I'm not going! The girl froze for a moment and said, "Then I'll go!" She said and flew off the dirt field.
When the smell of chicken soup wafted out of the adobe house, the girl returned to the ginkgo tree with a bottle of wine. Lao Sun had been busy in the house for a while, and as soon as the girl returned, Lao Sun came out of the house. Old Sun called out to Me Teacher Shi and said let's go into the hall to eat. I was overjoyed to hear that I could finally see my ex-wife now.
I walked quickly into the hall. The square table in the hall was full of dishes, and the chicken soup was placed in the center, and the aroma was incessant. I also saw a bowl of fried ginkgo biloba. I was stunned and asked lao Sun, how did she know that ginkgo biloba fruit could be eaten? Lao Sun said while pouring wine, Didn't you tell me, I told Mei Feng again! My heart was suddenly hot, as if a hot spring had flowed into the atrium of my heart.
At the square table sat only me, my grandson and the girl, not the boy or his ex-wife. I asked the girl, why didn't your brother come to dinner? Girl frankly, he probably doesn't like you! I asked Lao Sun again, why didn't she come? Lao Sun said that the kitchen is not busy yet, and Mei Feng will come to toast you after she is busy. Lao Sun told us to eat first, and wait while eating.
However, after three rounds of drinking with my grandson, my ex-wife has not yet appeared. I couldn't hold on any longer, so I ran from the hall to the kitchen while I was drinking. However there was no ex-wife in the kitchen. The back door was wide open. I rushed out the back door and saw the boy sitting on a wooden bench in the back door eating, and the little flower dog sitting in front of the boy, and the boy kept feeding the little flower dog. I asked the boy eagerly, what about your mother? The boy ignored me and fed the little flower dog again. Lao Sun also came at this time, and he asked the boy, what about your mother? The boy said coldly that she had gone to someone else's house to have an affair. It was only then that I understood that my ex-wife had been hiding from me. She didn't want to see me at all! My heart suddenly felt like it had fallen into an ice cave, and it was extremely cold.
Seven
I didn't finish my meal. I picked up the black suitcase and hurried down the dirt yard of my ex-wife's house. I didn't even have time to say goodbye to my grandson.
As I ran away to the edge of my ex-wife's vegetable patch, the little flower dog ran toward me from behind unexpectedly, and before I could react, its shiny, sharp teeth took a lightning bite on my calf. Blood immediately flowed out. Just when I was in excruciating pain, the boy with the black mole in his eyebrows magically appeared in front of me, holding in his hand the sweater I had bought specifically for my ex-wife. The boy's eyes widened and he said to me with great seriousness, Father, my mother asked me to send you this sweater, and you just used this sweater to bandage the wound! The boy threw down his sweater and turned back.