After dinner, Lao Tan asked Lin Yan if he wanted to see the injured child. Lin Yan said that everything had been arranged and there was no need to go.
Seeing that Lin Yan was in a good mood, Lao Tan said, "Let's go out for a walk as a family of three tomorrow."
"No, I have no money. Your son has made 50,000 yuan, and the family has no money. My younger brother got married before the Spring Festival." Lin Yan said.
"I don't have any money to make," Lao Tan said, and then asked, "Is my little brother going to get married at home?"
"It's not at home, it's at his father-in-law's place in Nanjing," Lin Yan said.
"Have you set a date yet?" Lao Tan asked.
"On the sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month------can you go?" Lin Yan asked.
"I can't say for sure now, so try your best to go."
"It's okay if you don't go------I'm going to give my mother 20,000 yuan. She said she has 30,000 yuan, which is exactly 50,000 yuan. It's not good if she gets less when my son gets married------Let's take another 10,000 yuan.
A dollar gift.”
Lin Yan seemed to be asking for Lao Tan's opinion, but in fact it was already decided.
Lao Tan didn't want to argue about money, so he said, "Okay, it's up to you."
"Tomorrow Jiaheng and I will go back to my mother's house. My mother asked me to discuss something."
"OK------"
Lao Tan nodded, feeling somewhat unhappy - he was still thinking about the three of them going out for a walk.
"Yanhua doesn't have a child yet------" Lin Yan suddenly said.
"No." Lao Tan was stunned and asked, "Why do you still care about her?"
"Ask------I don't care what you do outside. You can sleep with women. Don't let me know. But the money has to be handed over to the family. Jiaheng goes to school and is admitted to college. There will be many places to use money in the future.
Here we go, marry a wife, start a family, buy a house, buy a car------going to high school is the most expensive, at least 30,000 a year, and playing basketball will cost more------"
"I know--but you don't mean what you mean. Why do you want to sleep with a woman?" Lao Tan asked with a cold face.
"Don't think I don't know - let me tell you, it doesn't matter what you like -" Lin Yan said.
"You——" Lao Tan was furious and asked, "Are we still husband and wife?"
"No. Didn't I tell you? You can be as cool as you want outside, just don't let me see you. I won't be angry either. I have my son. If it doesn't work, you can go find the lady and I won't stop you."
"Are you speaking human language?" Lao Tan cursed.
Lin Yan said nothing, got up and went back to her room.
Lao Tan was breathing heavily, his chest was heaving as if it was about to explode, and the word "divorce" immediately popped into his mind.
Can I still live this life?
Is this what life is like?
How do you get a wife like this?
Sick, purely sick!
At this time, his son Jiaheng came out of the room and said, "Dad, come with me downstairs. I want to eat skewers."
"What time is it?" Lao Tan said angrily, but he still looked at the quartz clock on the wall, it read eight ten.
"It's still open. The one downstairs in Da Chuan is open," Jia Heng said.
Lao Tan was angry and didn't want to stay in the house, so he went downstairs with his son.
When I went downstairs, I changed the environment and breathed in the cold air. I felt a little less angry and my breathing became less severe.
"My mother sometimes seems to be ill," Jiaheng said.
Lao Tan knew that his son was comforting him, which was very helpful, but he said, "Don't talk about your mother like that."
"------I don't want to go to my grandma's house tomorrow, she has to ask me to go------"
"Your grandma misses you too."
"I know my grandma misses me, but my little sister is also unwilling to go. She is a bit annoying."
Jiaheng is talking about his uncle's girl, the two children are the same age.
Lin Yan's eldest brother and his wife work in Beijing, and the old lady takes care of their children at home.
"Aren't you two doing well?" Lao Tan asked.
"It was good when I was a kid, but now------she's a bit annoying------"
Lao Tan smiled and said to his son: "Your mother and I are fine. We won't fight. As long as you study hard."
"I will definitely study hard. I may not be able to get into a famous university, but I will definitely be fine in an ordinary university. In fact, my mother is also very tired. Sometimes she snores when she sleeps." Jia Heng said.
"Well, your mother is tired------your mother loves you and loves you------" Lao Tan's heart softened.
"Sometimes I want to eat kebabs, and my mother buys them for me before she goes upstairs from get off work------she doesn't like eating them yet, so she just buys them as much as she wants------"
"Buy more today too."
"Dad, let's go upstairs after we finish eating. You drink, and I'll drink with you."
"good--"
My son is too sensible.
The son ate with gusto. While eating, he kept telling himself happy stories at school and on the basketball court. Old Tan was a little moved and his eyes were moist as he listened.
How can I not be happy that my son is using his own way to resolve the quarrel between his parents?
For the sake of my son, I can't divorce, which is what my son wants.
The next day, Lin Yan took her son back to her parents' home, and Lao Tan came to the office building.
Yanhua and Zhang Li are here, Zhongqing is resting, Zhang Xiangdong and Qin Lili are preparing for their wedding and have taken a short vacation. The office staff are also on vacation.
The office building looked deserted.
The three of them chatted for a while and went to see the store of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital around noon. The house had been negotiated, but the rent was due in two months. The current boss wanted to work for another two months and hand over the work after the New Year.
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There was no rush anyway, so Yanhua agreed.
Nowadays, restaurants are home-cooked restaurants. The business is not bad, but the money is definitely made, it just depends on the amount.
Lao Tan looked carefully inside and outside the store and was very satisfied. The store covers an area of more than 400 square meters, on the first and second floors, and is suitable for an open kitchen model.
This place is close to the Taishan Road store. When the three of them looked at the store and were about to go there, Zhang Li's phone rang and she received bad news - her father had passed away.
The old man lives in the countryside and has always been in good health with no illness or disaster. He drank two glasses of wine happily last night and did not wake up after falling asleep.
Although he left peacefully, he was so hasty that his children were caught off guard and extremely sad.
Lao Tan and Yanhua accompanied Zhang Li back to her hometown and helped arrange the funeral of the old man.
The eldest son of Zhang Li's family, Zhang Li, has a younger sister and a younger brother. The younger sister and she were born to the same mother. Her mother died early, and her father married his stepmother and gave birth to a younger brother.
Although she and her younger sister and stepmother are not very close, they are not her biological mother after all, so they are somewhat estranged from each other. She has also gone back to visit the elderly during the Chinese New Year and holidays in recent years.
When the old man was able to do business, his family was relatively well off, so there was no need for the two sisters to complement each other.
The stepmother is good to the father, and the younger brother has started a family and has a boy.
It stands to reason that this is the time for old people to enjoy their happiness. Who knows------
When a person gets old, it will feel better if he is a child who is sick and passes away. At least he is taking care of him and there is no guilt. But if he leaves like this without any warning, he feels ashamed of the old man and misses him very much.
After the old man was buried and the funeral was completed, Yanhua and Lao Tan accompanied Zhang Li back to the provincial capital.
The three of them had not had much rest in the past few days. Lao Tan asked Yanhua to go home and helped Zhang Li upstairs.
After entering the house, Zhang Li lay on the bed without taking off her shoes, with a haggard and sad look on her face -----
Lao Tan helped her take off her shoes, straightened her up, pulled the quilt over her, and said softly: "Let's have a sleep."
Zhang Li was indeed tired. She had barely slept a wink in the past few days and her whole body felt as if she was exhausted.
Although I closed my eyes, I couldn't sleep.
My daughter misses her father.
Tears came out of the corners of his eyes and fell silently.
Lao Tan used a towel to wipe away her tears.
"Old Tan, I have no father------"
Lao Tan stroked her hair and comforted her silently.