"Hey, Dong Qiangqiang, who are you calling?" Duanmu asked doubtfully on the phone, "Are you listening to me? Why can't I hear what you say intermittently? Are you running?"
"If something happens now, I'll call you later." Dong Qiangqiang didn't bother to explain too much, and at the same time chased in the direction of the moving figure.
"Hey, hey, I haven't finished talking yet. Tell me immediately after you have chosen the option. I'll..." Before Duanmu finished speaking, Dong Qiangqiang hung up the phone without any explanation.
Just as Dong Qiangqiang was striding through the streets, a motorcycle sped past him and almost hit Dong Qiangqiang. He subconsciously dodged to avoid it and shouted loudly: "This is a sidewalk. How do you drive?"
The motorcyclist drove forward without looking back, while making a crude finger gesture.
Dong Qiangqiang then remembered that he wanted to chase Jin Yuan, and hurriedly jumped back to the middle of the road. When he looked in the direction where the figure was moving, he saw a black shadow flashing suddenly next to a drugstore dozens of meters away, and then disappeared. .
Dong Qiangqiang ran after him, but when he ran outside the pharmacy, his figure had long since disappeared without a trace.
He beat the wall with his hand in despair and walked back in frustration.
Hearing Hualing mention the words "bad habits", Tong Lele suddenly became very cautious.
Although her head still feels dizzy from time to time, she knows in her heart that even if she is a close friend, she must be cautious when speaking. Some things are okay to ask, and some things are best not to be asked.
Although the two were close to each other for some time in the past, now she and Hualing are just ordinary friends.
She didn't want to get to the bottom of it, which would make her look gossipy, so she could only pretend to be nonchalant and say "oh" to signal that Hualing was listening carefully.
Hualing looked at the food on the table, wrapped his fingers around the corners of his clothes, hesitated for a few seconds, and then said word by word: "He often goes here."
Tong Lele knows that the meaning of a in the dictionary is "casino". A in Germany is a small entertainment city like Las Vegas in the United States. It has all kinds of things, including card gambling in the popular sense, and many entertainment projects such as singing, dancing, and magic.
"He might be playing the violin inside, and you misunderstood him." Tong Lele explained. In the first two years after arriving in Germany, she occasionally went to work in a company on weekends, but she was introduced by a labor agency.
"No, no," Hualing shook his head in disappointment, "I saw him on the card table..."
"Maybe he's just doing it for something new? People who have just arrived will inevitably be curious about this." Tong Lele could only find an excuse.
"I thought he was curious at first, but later I found out that he went every week, very regularly, but he would also go to class and work part-time. When it was most serious, he didn't even work, and he only went to class for two days. After three days of fishing, his test scores were also very poor. He was completely different from when I met him before." Hualin sighed, "I tried to persuade him several times, but he didn't listen. He also said, 'Get rich by gambling big'. Such nonsense as "getting rich, gambling, enjoying life and nourishing one's character". I argued with him several times, but every time he gave in and said he would never go there again. But after a while, his old ways would sprout up and he would go there secretly behind my back. "
"How do you know he sneaked away again?" Tong Lele asked suspiciously, "You... followed him?"
Hualing nodded sheepishly: "Later, I thought that it would be okay to keep doing this, so I asked him to take a semester off and go to Europe to travel and relax. You know, many of us learn music since we were young, when others were playing. We were either studying music theory or practicing piano, so we didn’t have much time to relax and have fun. I think he may have been a person with a lot of psychological pressure since he was a child. In addition, the exams here in Germany are so strict, so it is inevitable for those who fail the exam. I will feel lost and depressed. Anyway, I have graduated and it is no problem to support the lives of two people. You know in Germany, after getting married, the cost of living for two people is much lower than that of one person. Plus the scholarship and the money I saved before With the money from his part-time job, he is now taking some odd jobs in performances, so he can live on. I think he can take a semester off and relax before studying again, so he may not go to that place again."
"Then what?" Tong Lele couldn't help but ask, "What happened to him after he came back from the trip?"
"It's still the same." Hua Ling's eyes were full of disappointment, "In other words, dogs can't change their eating shit."
Tong Lele didn't know what to say for a moment. Her life experience didn't allow her to give any substantive suggestions.
"Later I finally figured out that some things are more important to him than me." Hualing said lightly, "So I want a divorce."
"Divorce? This? Is there no room for negotiation?" Tong Lele immediately remembered the ancient saying "It is better to demolish a temple than break up a marriage" and subconsciously advised, "Maybe he is just obsessed for a moment, and if you..."
"No, I can see clearly that he will not change. And he has not passed the exam. He will never graduate in this life..."
"It's not a big deal if you can't graduate. Life is a long-distance race, and that diploma can't..." Tong Lele said earnestly.
"Lele, I understand all the truth you said, but you are not the person involved. You don't know the feeling of grief that is greater than death."
Tong Lele shut up immediately. Indeed, it is always easy to preach to others, but only your feet know whether the shoes fit properly.
"But I don't understand. You have savings and a job. Why do you still need to borrow money?" Tong Lele thought of Hualin's performance yesterday and felt puzzled.
"In the beginning, the amount of money he played was relatively small, but later it became larger and larger, and he lost more and more. In addition to living expenses, most of the money was used to pay off debts. You don't know, every time I go there to pay and receive Man, what does it feel like in my heart?" Hualing's tears fell silently and in large drops, which made Tong Lele feel distressed.
After she cried for a while, Tong Lele gently put the napkin into her hand.
"When I filed for divorce from him for the first time, he firmly disagreed. He swore that he would never gamble again, and that the two of us would live a good life. I, I believed him. But it didn't work out three times. After a month, he went back again. When I mentioned it to him for the second time, he didn’t say that he couldn’t leave, but he said that he would let me ‘borrow’ him a sum of money, and he would pay me back when he makes money later. I know this money There is no difference between lending it to him and giving it to him, but I just wanted to get divorced as soon as possible, so I agreed. It’s just that the amount he asked for was a bit large, and I couldn’t afford that much at the moment. I wanted to pay in installments, but he firmly disagreed. I guess he may owe money outside. It's hard for me to tell my parents about this kind of thing. My grandma is over 90 years old. If she knows that I want a divorce, she will have a heart attack."
"That's why you did it yesterday..." When the words came to her lips, Tong Lele suddenly woke up and did not continue to say the word "kneel down".
"I also heard the news that you found the cash box. I think we know each other. Can I borrow some from you? I can write you an IOU. It's no problem."
Tong Lele thought for a while and asked, "How much does he want?"
"fifty thousand."
"So much?" Tong Lele was surprised. She thought it was only a few thousand marks.
"Originally it cost 100,000," Hualing said with a wry smile, "This is still the negotiated price."
But Tong Lele couldn't come up with 50,000 marks. She had already agreed to a lot of loans.
Seeing Tong Lele's expression of embarrassment, Hualing said hurriedly: "I know none of you have that much money. If you don't have 50,000, you can have 5,000. I can afford it, but... it just takes longer."
Tong Lele was about to express her position when she suddenly heard someone behind her say: "So you are here."
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