Before Mr. Zhang's son got married, he remodeled and renovated the yard outside the villa. After the renovation, the temporary new yard is full of scenery.
In the villa area, many newly renovated people in the courtyard will call special garden trimmers.
In the early years, Zhang Zong's yard was mostly lawn except for trees and flowers. In the spring and summer, the grass on the lawn is almost half a month before it is trimmed. Autumn and winter are slightly longer.
At that time, Zhang always changed into his overalls and pushed the lawn mower to mow the lawn. After each weeding, the smell of grass wafts through every corner of the villa.
After the new yard was renovated, Mr. Zhang's family hired professional pruning workers to come to the yard every week to pull grass, clean the fish pond, change the water for the fish pond, and trim the flowers and trees.
Every time three or four people come over. Because I also go to clean the yard every Sunday. Inevitably there will be contact with them.
There is a person in charge of garden trimming, surnamed Kong, who is about 40 years old, super good figure, because of work reasons, with a dark face. The workers called him Old Hole.
He had the keys to the villa and would talk to me every time he came with the workers. Added my WeChat by the way.
After Zhang Zong's son got married, he and his bride went to settle in the United States. A year later, Zhang Zong's daughter-in-law was pregnant and about to give birth, and Mr. and Mrs. Zhang traveled thousands of miles to the United States to take care of the child for several months and did not return home.
I didn't clean it during that time.
Lao Kong sent me a message saying: I have something to go to the field during this time, and I have brought the key with me. You go to Zhang Zong's house to clean, can you help add a little bait to the fish pond.
I said: Can't help, I didn't clean. Mr. Zhang they all went to the United States, and I didn't have the key.
Old Kong said: Ah, then I will find another way.
A few days later, he sent another message saying: What are you doing?
I said: Rest at home today.
He said: Miss you.
I was confused and said: Why? What about your wife?
He said: One man is too lonely. The wife ran away and married someone.
So he told me he had a daughter who had just gotten married last year and that he was 56 years old. He was a soldier when he was young, and when he returned from the army, he came into contact with the garden and took up the work of pruning the garden.
I said, "I thought you were in your 40s." Looks quite young.
He said he actually had a woman, he called her "wife," but she wasn't married to him.
The "wife" liked him so much that she jumped up the stairs to commit suicide for him, but in the end she didn't divorce his husband. Lao Kong divorced his ex-wife because of this.
I smiled and said: This is also called "wife"?
He said: This is also very good, how free I am! There are no constraints. I think whenever I go to her then go to her.
Me: Isn't her husband away?
Him: She runs a supermarket and is doing very well, and her husband has not come out of his hometown.
I replied with one: Haha!
I said again: My husband is coming home. Then the excuse ended the chat.
After this chat, I haven't talked for a long time.
After many months, Zhang Zong and they went home. I also went back to cleaning every week. I found out that the yard trimmers had replaced someone else.
The hostess said: This time I went to the United States, no one in the yard was trimmed for a long time, and the trees in the yard grew out of shape. The ground was covered with moss. Don't be a former trimmer.
After another half a year, at the door of a villa not far from Zhang Zong's home, I met Lao Kong. Only to see him drive a temporary new black Honda car, sitting on the car is a woman, looks about 40 to 50 years old, although not so delicate, but also still charming.
And Lao Kong himself seems to be slightly blessed.
Listening to the tone and attitude of speech between them, it feels that the relationship is not ordinary.
I just went to take out the garbage not far away, saw him smile, took the garbage and went back to Zhang Zong's house.
When he saw me, he walked over to me and greeted me warmly: Are you still working at Mr. Zhang's house?
I said: Yes, it's still there.
Him: We are too busy working elsewhere, and Zhang Zong's family has long since stopped working.
Me: I know.
Him: You can do it in the same place for so many years. Explain that you are a good person.
I laughed again.
Looking at the woman in the car in the distance, I asked him softly: Is that your "wife"?
He said: Which "wife"?
I said: Didn't you say she jumped off the building for you?
Old Kong smiled and said, "She!" I broke up with him long ago. She has a husband, or not to contact her.
I asked, "Who is that woman?"
He said: "She is my current wife." We've been together for over half a year.
I sighed.
Then the woman called. Ask him if he's okay.
Only to hear him suddenly shout loudly in Mandarin: What are you in a hurry!! Don't see that I'm okay? I will naturally come over when I do things well!!
I was so frightened that I quickly said: Why are you so fierce to your wife?
He said: It's okay, I told her, I speak like this is how loud it is. She is an out-of-towner, and now she is idle at home every day and refuses to cook. I can't always be a man who is busy every day and then go home to cook for her to eat, right? We don't think it will last long.
He also said: She must come out with me today, because she is too idle, leave her alone. You see if there are any friends who are about the same age as you, and if there is a suitable one, help me introduce it.
I said, "I'm almost married!" Since you are good with her, get along well! Being together is also fate. Since you are together, you are happy to live a good life, and if you really can't get by one day, it is better to get along, right!?
He smiled and didn't say anything.
So I said, "I've got to clean up." Go back soon, your "wife" is in a hurry!
After saying that, he went into the villa and hurried to work.
A long time has passed. Not sure if they're still together now.
In the emotional world of men and women, men's vows, women's lies, are an invisible sword, always when you are defenseless, will give you a fatal gentle knife.