If you look back at Qiu Zining's Weibo one or two years ago, it is definitely not the same style as now. At that time, feminism was not so popular. The concept of independent women was not as deeply rooted in people's minds as it is now, but people gradually stopped pretending to be virtuous and began to think about how to control men, work, and everything that stood in their way in a woman's way. At that time, Qiu Zining's Weibo and public account wrote a detailed article on how to control the mother-in-law. In the article, Qiu Zining talked about it: "Many mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships are essentially involuntary female competition. The mother-in-law feels that the daughter-in-law has taken away her son, and the daughter-in-law does not want to share her son with the mother-in-law. The most typical problem is - if your mother and I fall into the water at the same time, who will you save? This question can be so widely circulated because everyone believes from the bottom of their hearts that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are in a competitive relationship. "
"And the idea of solving female competition is also very simple - don't let the mother-in-law think you are a competitor, but tell her that you are not here to destroy this family, you are here to join this family, not only did you not take her son away, you even let her gain a best friend. You can accompany her shopping, give her gifts, care for her, love her, give her a bouquet of flowers, so that her heart that has been working for a man for a lifetime can be comforted because of you."
So the gift she brought to Sun's mother when they met for the first time was roses, and the LV old flower scarf that she gritted her teeth and bought in six installments.
After all the operations, Sun's mother smiled. She took Qiu Zining's hand and called her Ningning.
Qiu Zining, who was in high spirits at the time, immediately informed Sheng Yiqing of the news. In the hot pot restaurant, she held chopsticks in one hand and a colander in the other, chatting and laughing: "You said you and Chen Zhuan are together, have you met your mother? I tell you, my method works every time."
Sun Yixun echoed: "Our Ningning does have a way. Before, my mother always felt that her job was not good enough and she had no household registration, so she had some thoughts in her mind. I tried to arrange for them to meet several times, but she was not very happy. She finally agreed to meet once, and now, she is being manipulated."
Qiu Zining winked at Sun Yixun. Elbowed Sheng Yiqing, "So you, hurry up and learn."
Chen Zhuan just smiled and said, "No need. We haven't told our parents about this yet. Besides, my mother is so happy to know that I've found a partner. If Sheng Yiqing is really willing to be her daughter-in-law, there's no need to give gifts. She can come to my house empty-handed and call me auntie, and my mother will give her a big red envelope and a gold bracelet with both hands."
Chen Zhuan said it unintentionally, but the smile on Qiu Zining's face froze.
Sheng Yiqing quickly smoothed things over, "Every mother is different. You refused to find a partner before, which made your mother so anxious. I guess as long as it's a girl, your mother will be very satisfied."
The hot pot was bubbling, and the duck blood and duck feet were just cooked, but Sun Yixun suddenly left the table with a mobile phone--
"Hello?"
It was Sun's mother who called, and she was busy introducing Sun Yixun to the neighbor's daughter for dinner. The mother's tone on the phone was as it should be. Sun Yixun was stunned for a second before reacting: "What are you doing? Asking someone else for dinner, what does Ningning think?"
Mother Sun said, "Oh, your Ningning won't be so stingy. Emotional bloggers are very open-minded. You have watched this sister grow up since she was a child. What's wrong with you asking her out for dinner? It's not like you are forced to date her!"
Sun Yixun quickly glanced at Qiu Zining's position, walked away two steps, and lowered his voice: "Why are you here again? Don't you like Ningning very much?"
"That blogger is good. But you have to think about it, why does he obey you in everything? Why is he so good to us? It's because he found you and he made a profit, so he tried his best to curry favor with you. This Ningning is not ignorant, on the contrary, she is too sensible. Older women, their hearts are full of love. She has a lot of eyes. In addition, her job is not good, I have also hinted that she should take the civil service exam, but she always plays dumb. "
Sun Yixun quickly glanced at the distance again, frowned and lowered his voice, holding back his anger: "So every time I talk to you about marriage, you say you are not in a hurry? If you don't like her, just say it directly."
"Hey hey!" Sun's mother was also anxious, her voice rose eight degrees: "It's not that I don't like her. Well. Her conditions are not good, but the girl is okay. She is so good to you and me. There is no need to break you up. Isn't it good for you young lovers to be together? Anyway, men are not in a hurry, and it's not you who is delayed! But for us, as long as we haven't gotten married, this matter is not settled. We can still see a better one, right!"
As she said this, the phone vibrated-it was Sun's mother who quickly pushed a WeChat message and a photo.
"Okay, okay, take a look for yourself. If you want to add it, add it. If not, just go with Ningning."
The dialog box just pushed over a strange face, but also a familiar face - because people always say that beauties always look alike.
It was a young and energetic face, with bright eyes looking through the screen. It seemed to say to every man: "Come and lie to me! I am simple, young, and believe in love."
"Her name is Yuyu. She just graduated from college this year. What a coincidence that her workplace is just downstairs from you." Sun's mother sent another message.
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The moon tonight is very curved, like a corner of the hook in the sky, hanging on the treetops in the park.
Sun Yixun also unscrewed the plum wine in his hand, looked at Qiu Zining, and said with some self-mockery, "Why didn't you want to marry me later? You have money? That's right, I don't know how much money you make a month now. You must despise me as a stinking worker."
Qiu Zining just lowered his head and smiled: "Sun Yixun, have you ever been absent in the more than one year we have been together?"
"Ah?" Sun Yixun was stunned, "What absent?"
"For example, besides me, you also dated others and met new women, and you were also thinking, if it wasn't Qiu Zining, if you changed someone, would your life be better?"
"No! How could it be possible?!" Sun Yixun shook his head violently and denied it flatly: "After I was with you, I never thought about being with others."
Qiu Zining raised her eyes and looked at him quietly. She suddenly began to believe: Sure enough, men are always weaker than women. The shackles on them are too heavy, and they can never face the flawed self in the shadow.
At that time, Sun Yixun, of course, added Yuyu's WeChat.
Of course, he also told himself that he just made a mistake that all men would make. But when a mistake is made by all men, it is no longer just a mistake, but the nature of men.
Since he made a mistake, Sun Yixun would not allow himself to make only a little mistake - he not only added Yuyu's WeChat, but also chatted with her all night; he not only chatted with her, but also made an appointment with her to meet.
Qiu Zining found out.
Every dinner, she watched Sun Yixun chatting on his phone as if nothing had happened, and his ugly face would smile from time to time; he began to pay attention to his dressing, cutting hair, shaving, and planning to buy a new shirt; he even started watching idol dramas, and occasionally commented on who was more handsome between Wang Yibo and Wang Hedi; even in the dialog box with Qiu Zining, there were many cute emoticons that were not seen on weekdays.
The traces of a third person appeared faintly in their world.
Qiu Zining became terrified. Became uneasy. She waited for Sun Yixun to fall asleep with her eyes wide open every night, and then sneaked into his phone to check the chat records between him and Yuyu. Fortunately, the scope of their chats was limited to ambiguity, and he was just carefully trying and comparing, thinking about which life might be better.
That was when Qiu Zining was most helpless. Her boyfriend who loved her deeply had cheated. An emotional blogger began to search the Internet for "What should I do when a man cheats?" "How to handle a man with a job?" "How to deal with a third party?"
I didn't expect that the first article I searched was my own.
It was Qiu Zining a year ago. At that time, Qiu Zining, who was writing in a rented house with high spirits, said to Qiu Zining, whose eyes were red because of a man who was cheating on her: "What else can you do if a man cheats? There is only one way - let him get out as far away as possible."
"You don't understand."
A year ago, Qiu Zining said again: "Then talk to him. Force him to make a choice. Anyway, you want to marry him so much."
"I dare not force you."
"Marrying a woman is really boring." Qiu Zining a year ago was very disappointed.
"You don't understand." She repeated it again.
Qiu Zining locked the screen and forced herself to close her eyes. The sound of Sun Yixun's long breathing was in her ears. She thought this man should be very happy? Being loved and given by a woman, enjoying the warmth, and being able to understand and test each other with another woman, enjoying passion.
Just in the third month of Sun Yixun's passionate chat with Yuyu, and in the days when Qiu Zining was close to collapse, Sun's father's 60th birthday came.
Sun Yixun, who had originally promised to hold a grand celebration, suddenly stopped talking about it. Qiu Zining asked him humbly: "What are your plans for this Friday?"
Sun Yixun pretended to be stupid: "What?"
Qiu Zining blinked and continued to ask: "Your mother's birthday!"
Sun Yixun seemed to have forgotten about it and relaxed: "Oh! I thought it was a big deal. My mother said she didn't plan to hold a grand celebration and wanted to keep it simple. Just have a meal with those childhood friends. You can find a place to play on Friday night, drink with your girlfriends, and don't go with the elders."
"Then will you go?" Qiu Zining's tone cooled.
"Alas, I can't help it. As a son, I have to go."
Qiu Zining didn't fall asleep that night. She couldn't count how many nights she couldn't fall asleep. She still sent Sun Yixun out every day, wearing the old loose home clothes with loose threads, tying her hair loosely, without makeup, and without covering her nasolabial folds and sagging contours. On Friday morning, Sun Yixun took a rare and careful look at Qiu Zining through the mirror and said, "Baby, you look a little old."
That night, desperate and helpless Qiu Zining did something, something that she still thinks is stupid when she thinks back on it:
She tried every means to find the restaurant where Sun's father celebrated his birthday, and found that it happened to be opened by a friend of the nugget owner. So she asked him to give her a chance to work as a temporary worker and be a waiter for one night. She didn't know what she was going to do, but she knew that she didn't want to be kept in the dark. Of course, she hoped that this was indeed just an ordinary family gathering, and she was just being suspicious.
The waiters all wore black tops, red trousers, and duckbill caps. Qiu Zining specially matched a mask and deliberately applied dark foundation to her skin, looking thin and sallow. Outside, there were sounds of pots and pans in the kitchen. Several waiters came out of the bathroom, holding hands and whispering. Qiu Zining tied her hair behind her head, put on work clothes and stood in front of the mirror. She couldn't help but gasp - "It's so fucking ugly."
When she thought about herself dressing up as a waiter and serving tea and water for an ordinary man on Friday night just to marry herself off, a sense of sadness surged in her heart.
But soon, she stifled her hypocrisy and quickly told herself: It's okay, catching the adultery is important.
The private room of Sun Yixun's family was not difficult to find. The person who reserved it was Sun Gou's last name and the last four digits of his mobile phone number. She wrote down the name of the private room and kept an eye on the kitchen to ensure that after three rounds of wine, when everyone was the most lively and relaxed, she could carry the dishes and enter the private room respectfully. Her purpose was simple - look around, then look at the seating order, and if she was lucky, she would hear a few words revealing the relationship between the characters, and then it would be a success.
It was her turn. Qiu Zining held a large basin of Dongpo pork elbows, the stewed pork elbows soaked in thick soup, the residual heat came through the porcelain basin, her heart was pounding, afraid of being discovered, and even more afraid of discovering something. When she pushed open the door of the box, the room suddenly became quiet, and four middle-aged people were sitting at a large round table. Qiu Zining's heart suddenly tightened.
Fortunately, the four middle-aged people just glanced at her and continued their conversation.
It was a strange woman who spoke: "I remember Yixun had a girlfriend before?"
"Oh, that doesn't count. The girl is good, graduated from a 211 university in Beijing, and is a blogger. I have always liked Yixun and pursued her for a long time, but Yixun didn't agree."
It was Sun's mother who spoke.
Qiu Zining lowered her head, put a large basin of pork elbows on the edge of the dining table, and began to slowly turn the turntable, trying to find an empty seat. Her peripheral vision fell on the surroundings, and she found that the two seats opposite were only filled with bags and coats, empty there.
"The two of them have been out for so long?" The one who laughed was the strange woman.
"Yixun and Yuyu have been on good terms recently. I asked him several times, and he always said that he went home after dinner with Yuyu." It was Sun's mother who spoke. The waiter paused while turning the tables. Fortunately, no one noticed.
"Yuyu has just started working, and the two of them are in the same office building, so it's only natural that they should take care of each other."
Qiu Zining's eyes fell calmly on the cake in the center of the turntable, and the glass-textured black swan stood gracefully in the square cream cheese cake.
She finally found a large empty space on the turntable, picked up the pot of pork elbow, and put it on the turntable.
She skillfully put away the remaining plates, turned around and went out, gently closing the door of the box.
The corridor covered with a gorgeous red carpet was very long, and the decoration was also old-fashioned. Qiu Zining walked quickly, holding the plate in her hand and lowering her head, so she accidentally bumped into a couple.
The girl cried out "Ouch", and she raised her eyes quickly, but bumped into a familiar, very beautiful face. She quickly apologized and said in a low voice: "Sorry, sorry."
Then, a familiar voice sounded from behind: "Watch the road. Be careful."
It was Sun Yixun.
A 30-year-old emotional blogger, what storms have she not seen? She has already built a complete set of defense mechanisms in her heart. And she is ready to go off at any moment worth being angry. The more angry she is, the calmer she appears.
So she heard her voice was very calm, of course she couldn't speak too calmly, and said to the man in a rough voice: "Sorry, sorry, didn't you dirty your girlfriend's clothes?"
Sun Yixun smiled and waved his hand: "It's okay, it's okay." Of course he didn't recognize her.
The two stopped looking at her.
Sun Yixun said: "The elders are going to KTV in a while, do you want to go for a walk together? Watch a movie or something?"
Qiu Zining, who turned around, heard this and his hands froze.
Yuyu just smiled, pointed to the front and whispered, "I'm going to the bathroom."
"Okay." Sun Yixun put his hands in his pockets, stood there, and looked at her gently: "Go ahead. I'll protect you with my eyes."
Qiu Zining continued to lower her head, holding the plate and walking in the opposite direction, quickly slipping into a corner, then she secretly poked her head out, looking at her boyfriend's not handsome back, trying her best to pose a handsome posture, looking at the figure of another woman affectionately.
"Ha."
She smiled briefly for a second. She suddenly remembered what she had said to him: "Sun Yixun, do you know which time I was most moved by you? When we just met not long ago, you sent me home. One time, after I walked a few meters, I turned around and found that you were still standing there looking at me. I asked you why you didn't...
Let's go. You said you would protect me with your eyes. At that time, I thought this man was so cute when he was stunned. "
So of course he remembered it in his heart.
You see, men will remember every charming moment you praise him, and then apply it to another new woman like a formula.
"Ha."
She wanted to laugh again. But then she heard the friction sound of the plates gently colliding. She was stunned for a moment before she reacted. It was her, her hands were shaking slightly.
This restaurant is too cold. She thought.