Volume 4: Return of the Dead Chapter 0100: Fright
After closing the heavy security door, Li Jinsheng felt as if all the strength in his body had been drained away. Perhaps it was because he seldom exercised on weekdays, his legs began to tremble uncontrollably.
"call--!"
After letting out a soft breath, Li Jinsheng locked the door, then changed his shoes and went into the house.
I casually pressed the switch by the door, and the chandelier in the living room suddenly lit up, emitting colorful lights that were bright but not dazzling.
The living room is luxuriously decorated. Opposite the door, there is a sea tank with fish and shrimps in it, ready to move. They are slowly floating to one side following the rhythm of the swaying corals.
Throwing his briefcase on the circular sofa, he turned and walked towards the kitchen, then took out a bottle of iced juice from the double-door refrigerator, unscrewed the lid and drank it.
This home is the place that makes him most proud so far. The house is very big, with three bedrooms and a living room. The interior decoration is also extremely luxurious. Some of the more expensive home furnishings were chosen, which is in line with the saying in the movie: don't seek the best but the most expensive.
He walked carefully to the bedroom with the drink, gently pushed the door open and looked inside. In the darkness, a curled up figure was faintly visible on the bed.
Seeing that his wife was already asleep, Li Jinsheng did not disturb her. He carefully closed the door again and returned to the living room.
He has a low level of education and started working after finishing junior high school. He has tried many jobs at a young age and finally settled in sales. His early training made him smooth and eloquent, so his sales performance has always been very good. He was promoted to sales manager last year because he is good at handling relationships with leaders.
Although the sales manager's monthly commission is impressive, his family background is limited. They are all from a small county and are simply unable to afford him to settle down. According to traditional concepts, he will have to remain single for the rest of his life.
The so-called settling-in fee refers to a house. Everyone knows that a necessary condition for marriage is to have a house, and this thing is precisely the biggest executioner of breaking up couples.
How many couples fail not because of separation or emotional discord, but because they cannot afford the down payment or cannot pay off the mortgage.
In fact, if you think about it calmly, it is no wonder that the woman always wants to see if there is a house. Nowadays, houses, especially in larger cities, even small ones cost around 300,000 yuan. Moreover, such small houses do not give you a city hukou at all. In addition, it is very inconvenient even if you have children in the future, as the children will not even have a little space to move around.
Let's buy a big house. The price is ridiculously high, often more than one million, and ordinary people can't afford the down payment. In other words, even if they can afford it, the monthly payment is enough to make people lick their boots. Even if they get to the level of manager, I think they can't do anything else every month, and the little money they earn goes to support the house.
In the end, after paying off the loan by living frugally, I looked back and realized that I was already in my thirties, but I still didn’t have money for my children’s schooling or for my future marriage. I then fell into the same vicious cycle again.
So, a house can ruin an entire family, not just the father.
Li Jinsheng was also troubled by this problem for a long time at that time, but he was lucky. The person he found was a local. Although the person looked ordinary, even a little ugly, his family conditions were relatively good. With the mentality that he was inferior to others and could not be more picky, he did this.
The wedding house and its decoration were all provided by the woman, and he spent almost no money in the process.
His wife is also a salesperson, a manager of some size, and like her, she is always busy and exhausted. They don't have a house to worry about, and they don't have children yet, so they spend whatever they earn and live a life of luxury . He thinks it won't be too late to save money after they have children.
He turned on the TV and watched it for a while out of boredom. He found that it was either a romantic soap opera or a shocking drama about the War of Resistance. He was shocked by the crispy outside and tender inside, and the fat was not greasy...
At this moment, he suddenly thought of something and took out his cell phone from his briefcase. He pressed the screen for a long time but it didn't respond. It was obviously out of power. He plugged in the charger and waited for a while, but still couldn't turn it on. Finally, he was too lazy to wait, so he simply turned off the TV and walked into the bedroom.
Fatigue had already come over him by now, and Li Jinsheng rubbed his eyes vigorously. Afraid of waking his wife, he climbed into bed in the dark.
My wife is petite and usually curls up when she sleeps, but that doesn’t take up much space.
He gently stroked his wife's body with his hand, and the moment he touched it, he felt a chill.
"Lili?"
He called softly.
"Well... go to sleep."
Hearing his wife's murmured response, he still felt a little uneasy, but his worries were finally put to rest. Without further reply, he turned over and turned his head to the side.
The night became quieter.
While sleeping, Li Jinsheng suddenly woke up inexplicably. He was in a state of extreme wakefulness and had completely lost his previous sleepiness.
Without his cell phone, he didn't know what time it was, but there was a faint light by the window, and it seemed that dawn was almost approaching.
At this time, he noticed his wife. She still had her back to him, her short curly hair spread on the quilt, making her look very cute.
Seeing this, he couldn't resist the desire to show affection, so he raised his body and slowly moved his head forward.
Looking past his wife's curly hair, he faced his wife's face from a bird's-eye view.
But that face...is not her wife's at all!!!
It was the face of a child, but at the moment it was not sleeping quietly, but had its eyes wide open, staring at him!
"ah--!"
Li Jinsheng opened his eyes with a scream, and cold sweat was clearly visible on his forehead.
"It was a dream. It really scared me to death."
The sky was already bright, but the dream was so frightening that the timid man lost all desire to sleep. He subconsciously looked at his wife beside him, and his heart started beating wildly again.
My wife’s sleeping position…is still in that position.
Curled up with her back to him, he couldn't tell whether she was asleep or awake!
Li Jinsheng swallowed hard, raised his body again, and slowly leaned towards his wife's face.
Finally, his wife's face came into his sight.
Thankfully, my wife's face didn't change at all.
He stepped back to his side and patted his forehead gently, feeling stupid for having such a thought. He was no longer sleepy and no longer forced himself to sleep. He simply got off the bed and walked out of the bedroom in his slippers.
The windows in the living room were open, so the temperature was lower than in the bedroom. He shuddered, walked to the power source with his shoulders hunched, and pressed the power button on his phone.
The phone's screen lit up, and then it went into working mode.
I wanted to turn on the phone and leave, but the phone suddenly vibrated a few times. I looked at the screen and found it was a text message.
The sender of the letter above was his wife, and the time was around 12 o'clock yesterday. I think she was asking why he hadn't returned yet.
Thinking of his wife's thoughtfulness, he clicked on the text message, and then his smiling expression froze.
"Honey, I can't go home today. I called you but your phone was turned off. No one answered when I called home. Stop fooling around outside and hurry home."
My wife said she would not be back at night, so who is the person sleeping next to me!!!
