Hearing the sound of the door opening, Shen Xiu was taken aback, then realized there was still another person in the house.
Then ca endless rage. Great! He still knows how to co ho. What’s the use of calling once every three days? He doesn’t give her any money. Does he know how difficult this month has been for her?
"Why are you only coming back now?" she said with a sullen face.
Ye Qiu smiled apologetically: "There’s been new progress at the research institute, I really couldn’t get away. I’m sorry, I didn’t an to ignore you."
However, his humble stance did not extinguish Shen Xiu’s anger. She said discontentedly, "A month, we just got married and you disappeared for an entire month. Do you even care about at all?"
"I’m sorry, I really didn’t an to, that’s just how experints are, we can’t give up halfway."
"So you can just ignore ? Do you know how scared I was, not knowing anyone when I married and ca here? People who didn’t know would still think I’m single!" Shen Xiu was still yelling. She admitted she was doing it on purpose, only this way would increase Ye Qiu’s guilt towards her.
Ye Qiu said nothing, keeping his head down and letting her speak.
"You dare to ignore ? Do you think just because I married you, you can do whatever you want? I’m talking to you, at least make a sound!"
"What’s going on?" Suddenly, there was a knock at the door accompanied by a warm greeting from a middle-aged woman.
Ye Qiu got up to open the door, smiling apologetically at the visitor: "Sister Zhang, did we disturb you? I’m sorry, we’ll keep it down."
"It’s nothing." The visitor was Professor Zhang Peipei, their neighbor across the hall. She looked inside and, seeing Shen Xiu’s sowhat red eyes, sighed and walked in.
"What’s wrong? You two just got married, talk it out. How co you’re arguing after just a month of marriage?"
Ye Qiu, filled with guilt, looked dejected: "It’s all my fault, I made Xiao Xiu angry."
"What’s going on, tell ?" Zhang Peipei took Shen Xiu’s hand, "Don’t be upset, if you feel wronged, tell , Sister Zhang will stand up for you."
"It’s nothing major, we just got married and then he was gone for a month. I got upset, Sister Zhang, I’m sorry for disturbing you, I won’t be so loud in the future." Shen Xiu didn’t know that in this big city, neighbors would diate in quarrels, wasn’t this ddling?
"Not coming ho due to a contract?" Zhang Peipei frowned and asked Ye Qiu, "What is going on? Is Xiao Shen angry?"
Ye Qiu, sowhat helpless and at a loss, said, "There’s been new progress at the institute, I really couldn’t get away. Sister Zhang, can you persuade Xiao Xiu for , I don’t know what to do."
"Is it because of that?" Zhang Peipei too felt helpless, turned to persuade Shen Xiu, "Xiao Shen, don’t be upset, be careful, it’ll affect your health. It’s Ye Qiu’s fault for not coming ho after just getting married, but it’s understandable. People like them get so absorbed in their experints that they ignore everything else. But what can we do? It’s all for the greater good. We have to show support. My husband is in geology, he often doesn’t co ho either. Sotis he goes away to the deserts for several months without even a signal, I get angry too, but we can’t bla them, it’s all work."
Shen Xiu was bottling things up, wanting to get angry but unable to. She couldn’t say she was upset because of this, she would have preferred if Ye Qiu wasn’t around much. What upset her was that Ye Qiu didn’t give her any living expenses, yet she couldn’t voice this reason.
Seeing Zhang Peipei’s look urging her not to be upset, she begrudgingly nodded, "Sorry, Sister Zhang, I was too emotional. I lack security, so I care a lot about whether Ye Qiu cos ho."
"That’s normal." Zhang Peipei nodded understandingly. "The ti they spend on experints is out of our control. If you feel scared or lonely in the future, co to . I have few classes and plenty of free ti."
Shen Xiu lowered her eyes, smiling awkwardly, "Thank you, Sister Zhang."
"No need to thank , I’ll be happy if you can resolve any misunderstandings. I’ll head back now. Ye Qiu, make sure to comfort Xiao Shen well, and don’t talk back, okay?"
"I will, thank you, Sister Zhang." Ye Qiu gratefully smiled as he saw her out.
Zhang Peipei nodded. She knew what Ye Qiu was like; he wasn’t the type to argue. Earlier, she only heard Xiao Shen’s voice.
"I’m hungry, is there anything to eat?" Ye Qiu asked Shen Xiu with a calm face.
Shen Xiu opened her mouth wide, unable to understand how he could say this so confidently to her while she was mad.
Shen Xiu said nothing, and Ye Qiu continued, "I said I’m hungry, is there anything to eat?"
"You still expect to serve you?" Shen Xiu was even more furious, but this ti she suppressed her voice.
"What are you talking about? What era is this to still talk about serving soone? I finally get a break to co ho, is it too much to want to eat sothing you cook?" Ye Qiu said with a slightly confused and aggrieved tone.
"There’s no food left." Shen Xiu said sullenly, feeling that Ye Qiu was simply a blockhead, with whom there was nothing to discuss.
"How can there be no food left? Then what will you and Xiao Huan eat later?"
"What to eat? With nothing, we’ll just have to drink the northwest wind!"
"Then shouldn’t you hurry to buy so? Xiao Huan will be out of school soon."
"Buy, buy, buy, with what money?" Shen Xiu felt frustrated to her core. How could soone be so oblivious?
"You’re out of money?" Ye Qiu asked, startled.
Shen Xiu felt insulted, her face flushed with anger: "What, are you surprised? Am I supposed to have money? You know perfectly well that when I divorced Xiao Ze, I left with nothing."
"But don’t you have a job?"
Shen Xiu was almost internally injured with frustration. She couldn’t possibly say she married to live a good life and quit her job, could she?
"I resigned."
"Why?"
"The supervisor didn’t like and kept making things difficult for , can’t I choose not to tolerate her anymore?" Shen Xiu glared at Ye Qiu angrily.
"As long as you’re happy," Ye Qiu muttered quietly, then took out a wallet.
Shen Xiu’s eyes lit up a bit, looking at the flat wallet. Was this the mont he was going to hand over the bank card to her?
"Here, this is my last five hundred yuan, you can take it first."
Just five hundred? Looking at the thin stack of red banknotes, Shen Xiu did not reach out.
"What do you an by the last five hundred yuan?" she asked, taking a deep breath.
"You know I’ve always supported orphanages and impoverished students. The orphanage where I grew up has a child with congenital heart disease, and another with hearing issues. Winter is coming, and I need to prepare things for the cold, so I gave all the fifty thousand I had saved to Dean Zhang. There was still a few thousand in the bank card, but you know I gave your mother twenty thousand, and then there’s the monthly stipends for the poor students, so I only have this much left."
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