Chapter 57 Extra (II) What kind of marriage model is there...

Qiao Xiaozhen came back to this house with him for the first time. It was a large flat, very bright and with many rooms. There were two aunties, one responsible for housework and the other responsible for taking care of the children. The

aunt who took care of Xiaoxi and Aunt Wu were both very good, but after living in Shenzhen, they were unwilling to come over, so they had to find new ones.

Qiao Yihua said that Xiaoxi cried every day at first, and it took more than a month for her to adapt.

They were very polite when they met Qiao Xiaozhen. They came to reconfirm her preferences and tastes. Qiao Yihua had said it in a general way before, but a few years had passed and she had changed a lot. He himself would no longer be carefree like in his twenties and eat anything like her without any scruples. He began to pay attention to health preservation.

His taste began to tend to be fresh and light.

After dinner, the aunt took Xiaoxi for a walk, and Xiaozhen and Qiao Yihua wandered around the community. The surrounding environment was very good, and it was so quiet in the city.

After returning home, Qiao Xiaozhen lay on the bed. She had no scruples about him. She was thin-skinned. After taking off her clothes, she was left with pajamas.

Maybe it was because it was her first time sleeping on this bed, so she tossed and turned to get used to it.

"Are you uncomfortable sleeping with me?"

Qiao Xiaozhen smiled.

It wasn't uncomfortable, they should be together now. In the afternoon, Qiao Yihua said that they would get married soon. It was indeed a bit strange to lie down together after dinner for the first time.

Qiao Yihua took it for granted that she didn't understand and was not used to living together, so he explained: "You don't have to feel embarrassed or ashamed to say it. Even husband and wife need space, each of their own private lives, and no one can interfere."

"What do you mean?" She asked confusedly.

"First of all, people are independent individuals. They have their own work, ideas and hobbies. The frequency of doing things is different for everyone. You don't have to compromise."

Qiao Xiaozhen lay on the bed and looked at him: "Do you mean to sleep separately?"

Qiao Yihua talked about this matter very seriously: "It's not sleeping separately. If you are in a good mood or don't want to be disturbed by others, you can of course have an independent space to enjoy. For example, if you have work or business friends to chat, you can stay in a room and don't come out. If the housekeeper's meal today is not to your liking, you can also cook it alone. First suit yourself and then converge with others."

Qiao Xiaozhen tilted her head and asked: "Isn't that the same as before?"

"How is it the same? It's different." He denied: "You had psychological pressure before, but now you don't."

Qiao Xiaozhen discussed this topic with him very seriously: "Look, you used to have your own job and your own room, and so did I. When I was in school, I could live in the dormitory or go home. There were few opportunities to eat at the same time, just during holidays. We have never interfered with each other."

Qiao Yihua: "Of course it's different. After marriage, you need to fulfill your husband and wife obligations."

"You did what you had to do even though you had no obligation before."

Qiao Yihua pressed over and pretended to strangle her neck: "Did you do it on purpose?"

Qiao Xiaozhen said innocently: "No, that's how I understand what you mean. Otherwise, you can explain it again."

Qiao Yihua seemed to take a deep breath, "Marriage itself includes being with yourself and the outside world. When dealing with the outside world, at least maintain basic face, harmony and friendship. For yourself, do whatever is comfortable. For the next few decades of your life, it is difficult for everyone to accept being trapped in a room of a few square meters for half of the time, facing each other every day with no privacy or preferences. I will respect your every choice and decision, of course, the premise is to maintain it within the framework of marriage."

Seeing that she seemed to understand, he continued: "For example, there are a few rooms left in the house. You can choose a comfortable and free place. You don't have to face me every day and see my face."

"Then are we going to go AA in the future?"

Qiao Yihua: "AA what?"

Qiao Xiaozhen explained: "That is, um...how to say, for example, Xiaoxi goes to school and the household expenses, you and I will each pay half."

"If you want, you can. I have no objection. I respect that."

Qiao Xiaozhen pulled the quilt to cover half of her face, and then said, "Then I don't want to choose other rooms. This room is big and spacious. Can you sleep somewhere else?"

Qiao Yihua said very politely, "Okay, no problem. There is a second bedroom in the study. I can sleep there."

Qiao Xiaozhen pursed her lips and smiled, "Aren't we just living together? We pretend not to know each other in the company and at home. We also have to act harmonious and beautiful to the outside world. Brother, what kind of habit is this?"

Qiao Yihua: "People living in this world are originally It's very tiring, and requires all kinds of roles. I hope marriage won't be your shackles, nor will it be our bondage. "

He might be afraid that Qiao Xiaozhen would back out, or he really had some marriage experience, but he didn't see the expression on the woman lying on the bed, and whether she was speaking in a sarcastic tone. Xiaozhen said, "Oh, I think it's better for us to be brothers and sisters. It's free, just like what you said. If I have to hand over the little money I earn, how long will I be poor? If I ask you for money as a brother and sister, you must give it to me. Xiaoxi Kindergarten costs so much. I thought about it and it's not suitable for marriage and dating."

"What?" Qiao Yihua said, "What are you talking about? You are already a mother."

Qiao Xiaozhen pretended to be very ignorant and said, "Why don't you call me aunt."

Qiao Yihua slapped her directly, but it was across the quilt.

"You hit me." Qiao Xiaozhen stood up and knocked her chin on his shoulder and said, "I think your marriage experience is not very reliable."

Qiao Yihua spoke so earnestly and sincerely, but she still looked distrustful.

"You understand it yourself. There's no point in saying more."

Xiaozhen: "Okay, I understand."

Qiao Yihua put on his pajamas and lay down. He was really polite and understood the ways of husband and wife. He slept on the other side of the bed. The bed was really big and would not interfere with each other's space.

Xiaozhen looked at his back and "snorted" and turned her back to him.

Then she suddenly sat up.

Qiao Yihua probably realized that she was unhappy at this time.

"Why? Aren't you going to work tomorrow? It's past eleven o'clock now."

Xiaozhen "snorted" again and lay down: "I understand what you mean."

"What do you understand?" He turned around and looked at her. He was still a child with a temper even though he was getting older.

"Anyway, I understand. You think having a wife and a girlfriend is a burden. It's best to be like the eldest wife in ancient times, managing the housework and not asking about anything else, and it can't delay you from finding a mistress or a lover outside."

What's the connection?

Qiao Yihua was confused: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Nothing?" she said, "You treat me like this anyway, you are not genuine and sincere, I don't want to marry you."

"Qiao Xiaozhen!" He pressed forward, put his arms around her waist and pressed against her: "Did I ask you to figure this out? What are you thinking about?"

She looked very innocent and said: "Then what do you want me to understand? I am short-sighted and have never been married. I don't know clearly or understand, and I haven't seen through your nature for all these years."

Qiao Yihua loosened her arms and lay back flat. Feeling that it was not appropriate to talk about this matter too radically, she said: "Let's talk about this later."

There was silence for a few seconds.

With her hands around his waist, she put her head on his chest and said softly, "I really want to sleep with you tonight, can I?"

She was really sweet, and I didn't understand the woman's thoughts and intentions at all all night. I could only see this kind of straightforward expression.

Qiao Yihua quickly hugged her in his arms, rubbing her back with his hands, his heart melted, and his voice was just as tender: "Any time is fine." They

kissed each other in the office last time, and now they can finally be entangled. Rubbing

his face again and again, I don't know how to hug her to relieve the longing and possessiveness for so many years.

Finally, the lips kissed, and all the previous conversations were dissolved in an instant, just to vent emotions. The tips of their tongues intertwined for a long time, and the strong breath lingered in the whole room, and their bodies pressed together as if to merge into it.

"When is a good time?"

Unfortunately, it was just two days after the menstrual period.

Qiao Xiaozhen smiled: "I don't know, in a few days."

Qiao Yihua was not afraid that the two of them would get hot when they were pressed together, and he wanted to hug her and crush her. Xiaozhen slowly fell asleep under his gentle caress.

In fact, his rhetoric about the true meaning of marriage was useless.

Qiao Yihua hadn't enjoyed such a good face and treatment for a long time, so naturally she would say something very corny, such as "You smell really good, what shampoo and shower gel?"

In fact, there was no brand of shampoo, just put it in the bathroom, and it was the smell of her breath and the smell of her body that blended together and it was very charming when applied on the head.

Although he joked at the beginning that it was okay to be together for money. She acted very into the role and was very sincere and liked him very much. Every night she had to curl up next to him to fall asleep.

Maybe it's been a long time since she forgot that they used to hug each other after doing it, even if they didn't do anything during pregnancy, they would hug each other.

"Come with me to Xi'an from next Monday to Wednesday."

"What for?"

Qiao Yihua stroked her face: "What do you think? Getting married."

"Ah?" She looked embarrassed, "Do I need to take three days off? Why not go on the weekend?"

Qiao Yihua: "Who will take care of this on the weekend?"

Qiao Xiaozhen sighed: "I'm almost counting down, and if I take three more days off, I will definitely be eliminated at the end. There's less than a month left." She clenched her fists and whispered: "Or you can open a back door for me, please."

Qiao Yihua saw her pretending to be pitiful, and smiled: "You can pick any job you want. Since you have followed the rules for so long, why do you still need a back door?"

"Weren't you strangers before? Now we are about to become another kind of relationship. It's a normal back door, please."

"Is it very tiring?"

Qiao Xiaozhen said, "Not very tiring, but I feel that if it is fair competition, it would be fine. The company leaders always discriminate against candidates based on their academic qualifications. At the beginning, it was clearly stated that candidates with a bachelor's degree or above, more than two years of experience, and postgraduates would be given the opportunity to relax the conditions. I meet the requirements, but why do I always feel that candidates with low academic qualifications cannot understand the company spirit and waste time. Don't I know what the spirit of your company is? Really."

She rarely complained about these things, but women, especially those who have worked for a few years and are looking for a new job, look at age and academic qualifications. In fact, what Qiao Yihua said at the time was right. The brand promotion of the trade fair was based on her beauty, experience and drinking skills before she agreed to come to compete for internship.

Who knew that she would be more motivated, become a real worker, work overtime to do copywriting, and sell the most and do the best when traveling to trade fairs. Although her English is not the best, she can communicate fluently.

At first, she got along well during the internship, but gradually, because she reconciled with Qiao Yihua, she got off work early, was not at her workstation at noon, and said that she had a boyfriend and did not communicate much with the team, so the leader's score plummeted. It

is indeed very unfair.

How should Qiao Yihua comment on this? There are many things at the grassroots level that are not his turn to worry about, and there is no need to report all such things in detail. However, every time he emphasizes in a meeting that wages should be paid according to ability and promotions should be based on ability, it is inevitable that there will be omissions.

"I will let Li Zheng report tomorrow."

Li Zheng is her department manager, not her direct superior, so pillow talk is quite useful.

Xiaozhen continued: "You recruited 15 people, 10 boys and 5 girls, and ranked the four girls after the top ten. What is your intention? The last time I went on a business trip to Guangzhou, it was obviously that the last ones were men. They didn't understand anything and couldn't speak English well. Do you think it's great to be able to drink? Brother, does your company still need to drink now?"

Qiao Yihua smiled and said, "No, I drank enough back then. I know what you said. I didn't just run out the performance tasks bit by bit. The competent ones get more. I have always had this attitude. I will discuss this matter in detail in the meeting."

He was using words to balance work and her emotions. "Do you like this job very much?"

Xiaozhen thought about it, frowned again and said, "Not really, but work can indeed realize the value of life, and the value of life is satisfaction. I understand why you love work so much. If I have a company, I'm afraid I'll be bald."

"You have such an idea, which makes you more conscious. If you don't adapt, you can stop doing this job, and you don't have to come here, so why force yourself. You don't need to worry about life problems, just do whatever makes you happy, and don't have any more burdens."

After hearing this, she really dared to be happy. When she was a child, she had a good life but didn't know how to spend it. In the past few years, she was used to being frugal and didn't dare to think about what a good life was.

Sometimes when people grow up, they have to bow their heads for life, and bowing their heads is a mountain of gold and silver. Xiaozhen arched her back in his arms again and again, and couldn't help sighing that things are impermanent, and material life is the first priority.

They didn't tell anyone about their marriage, and asked the assistant in Shanghai to do some things first. On Monday morning, Xiaoxi flew away before she woke up.

The process is that if the two want to get married, they must first dissolve the foster brother-sister relationship, and then re-register for marriage after dissolution.

Qiao Yihua was afraid that she would change her mind at the last minute these days. After all, he could never guess a woman's mind, especially this one. Today she was passionate and tomorrow she was cold as ice. The sooner they did it

, the sooner they would end it. The dissolution of the relationship went smoothly. In fact, a DNA medical certificate was enough.

As for where the household registration was, Qiao Yihua had purchased the houses in Shenzhen and Shanghai under the name of Xiaozhen in the household registration book, so it was easy to go anywhere.

However, they wanted to get married immediately after the dissolution of the relationship. For convenience, they made separate households with the same address.

After getting the marriage certificate, they would still be in the same book. When he was getting married a few years ago, his assistant had already made the procedures and arrangements in advance. Now the procedures have not changed much, but they rely more on computers. They can just go there and sign.

The dissolution of the foster sibling relationship and the marriage certificate were all completed in one day.

She stayed in the hotel bed and kept sending text messages to ask when she would be back.

He didn't reply.

An hour later, she heard the door open.

She snorted several times.

"You know I hate typing and sending messages the most. I just happened to meet my high school teacher on the street and we chatted for a while."

Xiaozhen sat up and asked curiously, "Who is it? Not my teacher, right?"

"No, but he knows you. I told Xiaozhen and I that we were here to get the marriage certificate today, and he was quite surprised."

"Why were you surprised?"

Qiao Yihua took off his clothes, bent down and kissed her on the face, and continued, "Well, who knows?"

Then he went to take a shower.

The teacher was not surprised but felt that they were not suitable. His words were very old-fashioned, similar to Professor Zhou's, and he felt that they were not suitable to be wives.

It seemed that in the eyes of outsiders, the wife behind a successful and famous man must be well-educated, a wealthy lady, highly educated, well-mannered, and all kinds of words.

Who knows what the truth is? Did Diana want to remove her crown? Do wealthy families in Hong Kong really treat each other with respect?

Qiao Yihua was really afraid of the word "treating each other with respect". Since childhood, she has watched how the play was performed and how indifferent she was at home.

Qiao Yihua smiled and did not refute. She just said to the teacher, "Teacher, our children are all big. "

After a brief chat, he made an appointment to visit the teachers for dinner tomorrow and came back soon.

After taking a bath and going to bed, he was really polite. He pulled open another quilt and continued the previous topic: "Tomorrow at noon, I want to invite some teachers from junior and senior high schools to have a meal. You can go with me."

Qiao Xiaozhen was still "humming" and staring at him like a child.

"Did I provoke you again?"

Xiaozhen kicked off her quilt and pouted.

He finally understood a little bit of the spirit and pulled her to lie in his bed. She

was very easy to coax, completely different from before, rubbing her head against his chin.

"From now on, we should sleep in each other's arms."

"Okay."

This is a feeling that is hard to explain. Everything that can happen between men and women has happened to them before, and they have slept together many times, but it is not as daily, stable, and solid as it is now.

"What did you say just now?" She leaned on his chest and asked.

"Let's go see the teacher together."

"Are you not leaving today for this?"

Qiao Yihua said softly, "No, I'm going to replace my second-generation ID card tomorrow."

Xiaozhen immediately stood up: "Yes, I would have forgotten it if you didn't say it. When I used it a few days ago, they said they had to swipe their ID card. I asked what to swipe, and I was confused."

She mumbled and repeated the experience, and finally praised him for being thoughtful and liked him very much.

"Why are you so cute?" He rubbed her face, "Why are you so cute?"

"It's not cute, it's beautiful. I'm not suitable to say cute."

"Why not? In my eyes, you are always a spoiled and cute little girl."

She really is like a kitten, soft and comfortable against his body, and occasionally licks his cheek, but Xiaozhen kisses his chin.

The two of them lay in the quilt, hugging each other, talking about insignificant things, and occasionally kissing deeply for a while when they are in the mood, but they didn't do anything on the first day of getting the marriage certificate.

After a while, he asked again: "The house may be demolished at the latest next year, do you still want to live here?"

Xiaozhen opened her eyes wide, "Why does it have to be demolished?"

"The times are developing, and the real estate industry is booming. Old places will be demolished."

Xiaozhen sighed: "Oh..." Soon she smiled slightly and said: "I used to be very sad, but not now."

"Why?" He instinctively continued to ask.

"I'm sad because I have your memory. I think you were the best back then and wouldn't bully me. Now you don't have to, you don't bully me anymore."

Qiao Yihua stroked her face with his hand: "Are you silly?" He

kissed her forehead.

How will they get along after becoming husband and wife? They had never discussed it before they got married. Before they got married, they slept together a few times when they were together. Xiaozhen always hugged him tightly and kept talking about trivial things. He hadn't noticed this problem before.

But he liked her like this, liked to be proactive, hugged, and needed by her. He liked her to tilt her head and

ask him to kiss her when she was about to fall asleep. It could be a light kiss or a deep kiss, but it had to be good night.

They slept together for the first time in the name of husband and wife.

They didn't do anything.

The next day, Qiao Yihua and Xiaozhen took photos and changed their new ID cards. They left their addresses and waited for the new ID cards to be mailed to their homes half a month later.

Xiaozhen thought about it and decided to accompany him to meet the teachers. This group of retired teachers were old, some were sick, and some had unstable legs and feet. Not many people came, and they didn't drink much. After a while of greeting, they all went home.