Sweet slice-of-life love story: Wife, Let's love again
Chapter 394 - 384: Fishing Man Cried

Chapter 394: Chapter 384: Fishing Man Cried

Watching the row of Fishing Men seated in the distance, Xiao Yu’s eyes revealed a look of envy.

"What’s the point of getting married anyway?"

It’s exhausting, busy, raising kids, supporting a family, and no time to play with the things you love. Isn’t that just asking for trouble?

"Then get a divorce," Qin Guanglin couldn’t be bothered with him.

"Why would I get a divorce?"

Xiao Yu shook his head like a rattle, "It’s already done..."

"Yeah, it’s already done. Why think so much? Just charge ahead. Seeing the kid makes you happy, doesn’t it?"

"It’s alright."

"Do you enjoy it when you ’deal with her’?"

"...Damn it, I’m going back. I won’t sit with you." Xiao Yu patted his butt, ready to leave.

It’s just a lousy fishing rod. A bamboo stick with a string attached will do the same.

"You’re leaving just like that?" Qin Guanglin called out from the riverbank.

"I’m off."

"Weren’t you going to treat me to a meal?"

"Eat my shorts, maybe next time."

"Wait a second," Qin Guanglin called out again.

"Hmm?"

"Come here..."

Qin Guanglin gestured, "Don’t rush back. Wait until around three or four o’clock, take the refunded money and buy a couple of pounds of ribs or something. Get whatever she loves to eat, and bring some extra back..."

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"How come you’re so skilled at this?!" Xiao Yu’s view of him had completely changed.

"Alright, go on," Qin Guanglin said and didn’t say more. He watched Xiao Yu excitedly return to his car and then sat by the river alone for a while before slapping his hands and standing up.

When two people live together, they need to make each other happy. Otherwise, it’s better to be single.

He wandered over to where the Fishing Men were seated in a row. The largest fish in their little red buckets was only as big as a palm. Giving up on the idea of bringing back a fresh fish, Qin Guanglin drove home. He Fang and Gu Xiaoqing hadn’t come back from shopping yet, and he guessed they would eat out. He sent a message to ask, and sure enough, they weren’t coming home for dinner.

Seeing it was a little after four o’clock, he couldn’t be bothered to cook either. After tinkering around in the studio for more than half an hour and feeling hungry, he went to the kitchen, rummaged around, and shortly after, left the house with a plastic bag to gather locust flowers.

The big locust trees in the community were lush and grew quite well. Having lived there for eight years, he often picked some to make pancakes when he felt bored in the summer. Qin Guanglin learned a few tricks from He Fang, simple and quick, and they tasted good. Just heat the oil and sizzle them until golden on both sides.

"I left two pancakes for you in the pan."

By the time He Fang came back, Qin Guanglin had already eaten his fill and was wiping the frames of the pictures hanging on the wall.

He Fang sent her daughter to turn on the TV and squeezed into the kitchen to grab a pancake for a snack, munching on it, "This is all you’re eating tonight? Laziness will be the death of you."

"I felt like eating it, so I did. What does that have to do with being lazy... huh? You see the cloth in my hand?"

"Hmph, it’s not the same thing."

The guy isn’t too fussy about food; he’d make do when he’s on his own. He Fang opened the fridge to take a look and said, "Want me to cook something else for you?"

"No, I’m full, I made more than ten, and I only saved two pieces for you."

Anya looked at He Fang, and began to drool again. A four-year-old child wants to bite into anything they see, and seeing He Fang eating so deliciously, she instantly lost her interest in watching TV.

"This is shit... ow!"

Qin Guanglin was about to repeat his old trick, but He Fang slapped his hand away. The pancake had cooled down, and it was too hard for Anya, who could only pinch off a small piece for her daughter to try.

"Did you just stay at home all day today? Didn’t go out?"

"Nope, I went out and about with Xiao Yu. He got caught hiding private savings and was too scared to go home, so I had to scare and bluff him into going back... Hey, do women get very angry when they find out a man has been hiding private savings?"

Qin Guanglin had always kept a part of the money for his own use with the ’blue and green software,’ while the rest was handled by He Fang. He had never run into the situation where there was not enough money, nor had he thought about private savings, so he couldn’t help being a little curious.

After thinking for a moment, He Fang said, "Well, it depends on the situation. If it’s hiding a few hundred thousand always ready for a divorce..."

"Stop, stop, stop, that would be hiding wealth, not bloody private savings at all. I mean hiding only a few hundred or several thousand yuan."

"That wouldn’t anger me, it’s actually quite amusing... It should be like this." He Fang smiled, "Zhou Nan told me that she knows where that buddy of yours keeps his money. Occasionally having a good smoke or going out drinking with friends – it’s vexing to always ask the wife for money, so even when things got tight in the past couple of years, she never touched his savings."

"What’s so amusing about that?"

"It’s fun watching him sneak around... Why don’t you try hiding some too?"

"Can’t be bothered." Qin Guanglin smirked, having no particular hobbies that needed money, so it made no difference to him whether he managed it or not.

... Xiao Yu surely needed to be kept in check. If Zhou Nan didn’t manage the money, he could impulsively buy something any moment, like rods instead of saving.

"It seems that she was just pissed about him buying that rod, spending one thousand eight hundred on a fishing rod... Tsk, quite extravagant. Definitely need to discipline him properly. The kid just started elementary school, and there will be plenty of expenses in the future."

"One thousand eight? Did he return it?"

"Yes, I made him buy two pounds of ribs to apologize... Heh, he should be enjoying it right now." Qin Guanglin said, and he too started to crave it, "I’ll buy some ribs tomorrow as well, and stew a big pot."

After a pause, he looked at He Fang, who seemed to know something, and suspiciously asked, "What are you smiling about?"

"Nothing."

"You definitely know something, spill it."

"Hold on..."

He Fang took out her phone and searched for a moment, "One thousand eight hundred for a fishing rod, is it this ’Rin... Kaze Fuyu’?"

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"How do you even know about this?!" Qin Guanglin was shocked, time travel... wasn’t omniscient, right?

Knew about their own affairs was enough, but even the details of someone else’s fight? What was bought?

"What are you thinking?" When He Fang saw him with wide eyes, she knew he had misunderstood. She tapped a few times on her phone screen, and Zhou Nan’s voice message played.

"Fangfang, do you think this rod that’s over two thousand is too expensive? After much thought, I still find that the one thousand eight hundred one is better. We don’t need anything fancy for catching lousy fish, and he doesn’t catch much anyway, it’s just for fun..."

Qin Guanglin was stunned, "What’s this?"

After thinking it over carefully, he got the picture, and instantly understood why Xiao Yu couldn’t bluff his way through this. He was seen right through by Zhou Nan, who didn’t even fish, about how much the rod cost.

"These past few years have been pretty tough; now that life’s a bit more comfortable, Zhou Nan sneakily chose a fishing rod from your buddy’s shopping cart that he’d saved for a long time without ordering." He Fang shrugged like Qin Guanglin, "She was planning to give it to him for his birthday next month... What a shame, I’d be pissed too."

Qin Guanglin smacked his lips, not knowing what to say.

The poor guy was really done for, now not knowing if the rod would still be gifted, and his private savings gone too.

Such a shame indeed...