"Although I have just experienced such a terrifying social death scene, I just can't suppress the curiosity in my heart. Please..."
Chengmei took another step closer. At this moment, she was calm and beautiful. Looking at Yucheng from an upward angle, his facial features seemed to be carefully carved like the moon just plucked from the sky, making Chengmei want to press close to him immediately.
"Excuse me, in your opinion, do we really just happen by chance?!"
"What?"
Yucheng looked at Chengmei carefully.
"Don't get me wrong, I wanted to talk about you standing in front of our house."
Because the words that followed gradually became blurry. It's too embarrassing to make excuses, so Chengmei really can't open her mouth.
"Well, how do I know where the new member's home is?" Yucheng explained dumbfounded.
"You see, I don't have any special job, let alone a fortune teller."
Scandals will eventually collapse as time goes by, so Yucheng's expression was calm.
"What you say makes sense. Maybe I've been too sensitive recently."
Seung-mei acted nonchalantly, as if it were someone else’s business. But deep down in her heart, she firmly believed that she and Yucheng must have some unknown past.
"Son-in-law! Son-in-law!"
Suddenly, something burst in with a loud noise, and then Yin Qingshan's tone and expression were as exaggerated as a drama actor. If all the lights were extinguished and only the spotlight was shined on her, it would definitely be a unique absurd movie. .
"Oh my God, Mom! Why did you run out again?!" As if acknowledging that her mother was immersed in playing alone and had forgotten reality and lost herself, Chengmei quickly closed her eyes and involuntarily pressed the button The two arms of Yin Qingshan walking towards him.
"You are so awesome! Even if the quarrel gets louder, I still have to let my good son-in-law eat first. Well, Chengmei is not sensible. I will talk to her later. These are the pickles that you forgot to take away just now, son-in-law."
Yucheng felt so guilty that he didn't even dare to look Yin Qingshan in the eyes.
"Son-in-law, why are you crying?" Yin Qingshan said confusedly, then fumbled for a tissue or handkerchief from his pocket. "Husband, mother-in-law, I really have to go!"
When Yin Qingshan heard the sound, he looked away blankly, raised his head, and looked at Yucheng's face reluctantly.
"Oh! Is it because you are too busy at work and haven't eaten well recently? I see that you have lost a lot of weight, especially your face is almost out of shape."
In order to hide her blushing expression, Seung-mei lowered her head. At this moment, an even more embarrassing scene of social death appeared. Yin Qingshan wrapped his arms around Yu Cheng's waist and pushed him against the wall.
"Mom!" Just as Yin Qingshan stubbornly continued to approach Yucheng's cheek with her clumsy and short steps, Chengmei gave a short scream. Yin Qingshan curled his lips, and then stood as if he was done. Return to the original position.
"Look how you've become so thin. You young people just don't take your body seriously. You talk about working overtime, but only those of us who have been here know that we can never make enough money from overtime work, and we will even take the lead. Empty our capital (bodies)." Yin Qingshan sighed sadly. When he raised his head again, his face looked like it had been splashed with red paint, and his eyes were red and swollen like blood, while Chengmei and Yucheng were nervous There was no time to breathe.
"Even if you have no appetite, you still have to eat well when it's time to eat. Even if you soak some rice in water and eat pickles or order a few drops of soy sauce for a few bites, it's still better than that instant noodles. You used to talk to Seung-mei During the quarrel, I squatted at the door and ate instant noodles. I really watched..."
Chengmei grabbed her mother's shoulders and reminded her softly several times, but her mother still kept complaining. In desperation, she had no choice but to wink at Yucheng.
"Hey, what do you mean? You dare to look down on your son-in-law in front of me!"
Yin Qingshan's breathing was rapid and weak. His chest was rising and falling rapidly, and it was obvious that he was in an extremely dangerous state of illness again.
"Mom, haven't you noticed that my colleague Agent Zheng has been scared out of office by you!"
In an instant, Yin Qingshan suddenly turned pale and shouted loudly. It felt as if the person closest to him had just passed away.
"Please leave quickly, let's go." Chengmei muttered to Yucheng with eyes pleading for help. Yucheng, who didn't want to cause any more trouble, could only turn around and leave the scene arrogantly.
On the way home, Yucheng once again recalled the details of his encounter with Cheng Yan and his mother-in-law:
"Brother-in-law, I've been dreaming about you lately.", "Son-in-law, I've been dreaming about you coming to see me lately, so I specially made you your favorite pickles."
Incredible things happened one after another, Yucheng was surprised and helpless. He suddenly stopped and turned around slowly. The familiar alley snaked out from the wall behind him again. From the depths of the alley emerged the old houses that were incompatible with the surroundings. Up close, it looks deserted. Suddenly, many red fonts that only Yucheng and Chengmei could understand appeared on the crumbling cement wall, but the moment Yucheng wiped his eyes, those words disappeared in the wind.
"Why do you always think about those fruitless things? But, mother-in-law and aunt, do they really remember me? Or are they just as sick and delirious as I was just now?"
"What the hell am I talking about? It's like I'm cursing someone!" Yucheng was suddenly stimulated and his mind went blank. He couldn't remember what to ask himself. After frantically hitting his head twice, he could only stare at the thick black clouds above his head with a pale face.
"But, having said that, Cheng Yan's incident happened too early, and I know it very well. When did the mother-in-law get that stubborn disease?"
Yu Cheng combed his disheveled hair with his hands, then took two or three steps back. When he looked up, Cheng Mei's window was still lit. Even on the far away slope, figures in the windows could be seen shaking, but none of the owners looked down, as if all this was Yucheng's imagination.
"It was probably two years ago. At the beginning, she was just in a trance. It was all because I was too busy and didn't take good care of her, but one day it suddenly became so serious."
Looking at the safe box of pickles in his hand, Yu Cheng felt desolate in his heart. After wandering under the dazzling street lights for a while, Yucheng finally saw his home in the last time and space. When he opened the door, he saw Yucheng humbly talking on the phone.
"It's you, branch manager. I've just finished working overtime, and now I'm on the snack street closest to my work." "Look what you said, if you call me over, of course I have to rush back without stopping! After all, I'm As your clan-level subordinate, you still need to have this kind of ideological awareness."
Yucheng looked as if he had just taken a shower at home, with a bath towel wrapped around his waist, and his buttocks had just been lifted up on the bed before he jumped back.
"I'm at the door of the unit now. After eating this burrito, I'll work overtime and fighti
g! "
Suddenly the shadow reflected in Yu Cheng's eyes became as huge as a giant. Yucheng quickly turned around and looked at the entrance.
"Where are you going now?"
Chengmei seemed aggrieved, her eyes were red, and it looked like tears were about to fall. Despite this, Yucheng still stared back at her expressionlessly, his tightly closed lips still looking stubborn.
"Every day, I know how to check the post, don't you bother me! Hey, you see for yourself, it's the phone number of our branch manager Cui Inhyuk!"
Yucheng had no choice but to deal with Chengmei in a tone of no big deal, but Chengmei still blocked him and refused to let him go. Yucheng suddenly felt that his self-esteem had been wounded, so no matter whether the other party said anything or not, he was He looked furious.
"Well, I really have something to discuss with you. My mother seems to..." Chengmei said incoherently.
"It looks like it's not an urgent matter! Don't block the way. I really have to leave now."
After listening to Yu Cheng's tone, which was as calm as the surface of a lake and as light as white water, Chengmei actually wiped her tears gently.
"Then tell me quickly. What terrible thing happened again?!"
Yucheng stared at Chengmei for a full 3 seconds before confirming that it was not a normal confusing behavior. Then he took out the nail clippers from his briefcase in a super exaggerated manner and cut his nails absentmindedly while showing off his coloratura soprano. .
"Well, I'm just a little worried. When my mother called me during the day, she said that she couldn't remember things lately."
Chengmei made the most pitiful expression on earth and came closer to Yucheng.
"Isn't my mother-in-law always very forgetful? Not only her, I am also reckless sometimes, especially when I work overtime until late at night, and I also suffer from road fever! Okay, just do whatever you need to do, I want gone!"
Yucheng pushed them away resolutely, but found that he couldn't escape from Tathagata's hand no matter how hard he ran, because his wife Chengmei was looking at him with resentful eyes.
"What is this? My mother is already over 60 years old. Can she be like you?!"
Yucheng's anger suddenly surged to the top of his head. He was just about to say something back to Chengmei, when Chengmei wiped her tears with her hands covered with black ash again.
"Please, please stop making trouble, okay? I'm so busy today that I can't even take care of myself! If you don't believe it, you can find a job by yourself, and see for yourself whether anyone can be leisurely Let’s drink tea, stay up, and play games! Forget it, you won’t understand even if I tell you. Let’s do this, you can take her to the hospital tomorrow morning, and I’ll reimburse you later. That’s alright!”
The door clicked open again. Looking at Yu Cheng's swaggering figure. Seung-mei burst into tears suddenly.
"I'm sorry, it's all my fault. I've been looking for various reasons to ignore you since we got married." Yucheng silently stretched out his hands, but he couldn't help Chengmei, whose face was full of tears. So he had no choice but to stay quietly by Chengmei's side. Suddenly, Chengmei's expression was completely different from usual. She knelt down at Yucheng's feet as if she was about to faint. Her whole body twitched and she beat the ground with her fists. After a while, she suddenly stood up and screamed into the void with a breathless voice. The house was shouting...
A blue-gray car stirred up yellow dust next to Yucheng, and Yucheng's thoughts came to an abrupt end.
At this moment, he was sitting silently on the cold bench next to the fitness track, swinging his feet that could not touch the ground back and forth, and a gust of cold wind blew between his swaying legs.
"Could it be...that it started from that time?", "Oh my god! I actually don't know at all! How could Chengmei be allowed to endure it silently for so long? I'm sorry, I'm really sorry..."
Late at night, when the night falls, regret rolls in like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves... Now Yucheng is crying loudly into the empty night just like Chengmei did just now. Suddenly, Yucheng seemed to be suffering from aphasia and tightly covered his trembling lips...
