Sweet slice-of-life love story: Wife, Let's love again
Chapter 393 - 383: The Advancing Fishing Man

Chapter 393: Chapter 383: The Advancing Fishing Man

Luo River water was pounding against the levee, creating an endless sound of splashing. Qin Guanglin couldn’t swim, otherwise he’d definitely jump in and happily swim a few laps.

Not far away, the Fishing Men were sitting in groups of threes and twos. Under normal circumstances, Xiao Yu would definitely be one of them. He didn’t even bring a fishing rod today, so one could easily guess what was going on.

It was too common for a couple to have conflicts, little quarrels, and stumbling blocks happened in every family. Qin Guanglin didn’t think it was a big deal; even he and He Fang had argued.

"Small arguments are fine, but when it involves fundamental issues, you need to pay attention. If you just muddle through this time, the problem remains. If you don’t change, next time the same issue will cause an argument again, and the intensity will double."

Qin Guanglin, who was already a father, saw things very clearly. He patted Xiao Yu on the shoulder, playing the role of the adviser, "If you don’t change, there will come a day when it becomes unbearable, right up until you break up and leave."

Xiao Yu was startled, "Break up? What do you mean?...Surely not?"

"It’s very likely." Qin Guanglin said solemnly, "My eldest uncle specializes in divorce cases. During a casual chat, he mentioned that most divorces occur over trivial matters."

"..."

Xiao Yu looked at Qin Guanglin as if he were a big bluff.

"You don’t believe it?"

Qin Guanglin threw a stone from his hand, watching it spin and leap across the river surface before sinking into the depths, then he sat down and pompously said, "Just earlier this year, when my wife and I took Anya to He City, my eldest uncle had to rush out to work even during the New Year’s holidays... Do you know what he was busy with?"

"How would I know?" Xiao Yu was somewhat taken in by his vivid account.

"He was busy helping people get divorced! Didn’t I say that he specializes in these cases?" Qin Guanglin scoffed, "It was that couple, one desperately wants a divorce, the other stubbornly refuses... Do you know what the matter was about?"

"Get to the point! Always asking and asking, how would I know?" Xiao Yu was annoyed; this guy had become more and more verbose since having a daughter.

"Ahem..."

Qin Guanglin was used to talking to his daughter and now realized it really was quite cumbersome, so he simply said, "It’s about something trivial... The man doesn’t know how to ’close’ things, he really doesn’t know how at all..."

"Wait, wait, what do you mean by doesn’t know how to close?"

"Exactly that, he doesn’t close... His behavioral pattern is only half-complete, like when he opens a drawer to find something, once he finds it, that’s the end of his action—the drawer just stays there. Or when he fries something, after using soy sauce, he leaves the bottle open. And applying cream, once done, the bottle is just thrown there—caps seem invisible to him, once done, he doesn’t bother."

Qin Guanglin gesticulated as he explained, shrugging his shoulders, "Careless and inattentive, isn’t it a trivial issue?"

"Just because of that, they divorced?" Xiao Yu was utterly baffled.

"Yes, breakdowns start from little things. You can endure once, a month, even a year, but living together for ten, twenty years, having such trivial things constantly nagging at you, it could suffocate someone."

Qin Guanglin casually picked up a small stone and tossed it into the river, watching the water splash, and said, "So arguing is not scary, what’s scary is not resolving the issues after arguing. If the same problems recur, they’ll also accumulate with the previous anger, and when it accumulates enough, it’s time to break up."

Xiao Yu felt a sudden chill inside, the word ’break up’ weighed heavily, making him instinctively panic.

"Surely not..."

"It’s very likely." Qin Guanglin continued seriously.

The two straight men sat on the riverbank, facing each other.

"Actually... it’s nothing, I just bought a fishing rod." Xiao Yu scratched his head, intimidated by Qin, "She gave me three hundred yuan to buy it."

"And then?"

"Then she gave me the money, and I just bought it, just bought a Frostwind..."

"Wait, you bought what?" Qin Guanglin interrupted.

"A fishing rod, it’s called Frostwind, the feel is really super... cough, just a fishing rod."

"How much was it?"

Qin Guanglin asked directly. He wasn’t stupid. Zhou Nan gave Xiao Yu three hundred yuan, and Xiao Yu bought something called Frostwind—who names a crappy fishing rod worth just three hundred yuan something like that? He must be joking.

There was definitely a problem there.

"One... one thousand eight hundred," Xiao Yu muttered.

"..."

Fishing Man is really extravagant, Qin Guanglin marveled, "Where did you get the money?"

Before Xiao Yu could speak, he waved his hand, "Never mind, it must be your personal savings." He paused and looked at Xiao Yu as if he was looking at an idiot, "You bought it and just quietly used it, right? You didn’t go show it off to her, did you? Just hearing the name, you know it’s not simple. Do you think people are fools?"

"I’m not stupid!" Xiao Yu was exasperated, "Show off my ass. I just told her I bought a crappy rod for three hundred yuan!"

"Then why did you start arguing?"

"I don’t know... She recognized at a glance that the rod was one thousand eight hundred, I don’t know how she knew, I never mentioned it to her—"

Xiao Yu sighed miserably and grumbled, "Just my luck, and then she got angry... I saw it wasn’t going well, said I’d return it right away, then ran out and haven’t gone back yet, don’t know how to appease her."

"You were given three hundred, and you bought a rod for one thousand eight hundred to go fishing..." Qin Guanglin clicked his tongue in admiration, "Hey, can you make back the cost by fishing for a couple of years?"

"..."

"Really generous... that’s almost half a month of her salary, right?"

"Stop with the sarcastic remarks, tell me, how should I appease her?" Xiao Yu scratched his nose, hoping for some advice.

Qin Guanglin’s guess was right. They had a kid, Zhou Nan couldn’t work overtime, and she hadn’t found a better job, she was still a clerk with not much to do and a small salary. This fishing rod was almost half a month’s salary.

"Apologize."

"Of course, I know to apologize, but how should I do it? I can’t just stand there and say I shouldn’t have wasted money and have that be the end of it."

Xiao Yu was distressed, really regretted his impulsive purchase...

"Did you return it?" Qin Guanglin asked.

"Of course, I returned it. Otherwise, it would be at home making her angry every day, right? One thousand eight hundred... not too much, not too little, could have used it for our son’s tuition or something, buying a crappy fishing rod... it was quite inconsiderate."

Xiao Yu felt remorseful.

"Since you returned it, that’s the end of it. Take the money you got back plus the rest of your personal savings and store it for her, it’s not a big deal..." Qin Guanglin shrugged, as if the remarks about recent divorce and splitting up were not his.

"Ah... I’ll wait for her to cool off before going back. If she’s still angry now, what if she doesn’t accept my apology?"

"How could she not accept it? Are we not living together anymore?—If she is still angry, then just give her a good lesson, if once doesn’t work, do it twice, I guarantee she’ll come around."

"..."

"You can’t handle that, can you?" Qin Guanglin was curious.

"Get lost, you’re the one who can’t handle it!"