Romantic two people

Chapter 30: Peer pressure from full-time housewives



Chi Wei spent the whole week studying his mountaineering equipment.

From the brand, fabric and function of the equipment. During meal time every day, Chi Wei would pull Qu Fanyi to describe and evaluate the differences in clothing from various brands in detail, as well as his latest research and purchase results. For example, GORE-TEX fabrics are much better than PVC coated fabrics; for example, the three-layer clothing theory should be followed for outdoor use: the inner layer wicks sweat and dries quickly, the middle layer keeps warm, and the outer layer is windproof; and for example, the use of trekking poles can save 30% of the power and reduce the force on the knees by 22%...

Qu Fanyi especially remembers that on Saturday, she lined up for an hour with Chi Wei at the newly opened Arc'teryx flagship store in Wangfu Central, and then the two of them could go home with full bags of clothes. Chi Wei was rarely happy, so he asked Qu Fanyi to change into a jacket and pants, and then pulled her to stand in the shower together. When the shower head was turned on, the water poured down on their heads and shoulders with hats on, and then rolled down silkily. The two held hands and smiled at each other. Like two fools.

Chi Wei asked, "Isn't it great? Didn't you get wet at all? This waterproof fabric is awesome."

Qu Fanyi nodded and said, "It's really interesting. We don't need an umbrella on rainy days in the future!"

Chi Wei held her hand and promised, "In the future, we will wear this and go out in the rain on every rainy day."

At this moment, the sun was shining down near noon, and it was hot. Qu Fanyi held Chi Wei's trekking pole and silently complained about this professional in her heart - he was addicted to being a novice.

Chi Wei was really not good at climbing mountains. In his words, "Any exercise method that involves overcoming gravity to do work is his weakness." When he was in college, his class organized a climb to Mount Tai, and he fell behind. The person like a lighthouse in the distance was Lin Shan in a white dress. The winding mountain road stretched up, and Lin Shan was surrounded by people like stars. Later, after they fell in love, he recalled the experience of climbing Mount Tai together in college, and Lin Shan widened her eyes: "What? Why don't I remember you."

He smiled bitterly at that time, thinking how could you see me?

Now the person beside him became Qu Fanyi. She knew he climbed slowly, so she also walked slowly and waited for him. Sometimes she felt that she was walking too fast, so she simply pulled his hiking pole to drag him.

Chi Wei couldn't face it, so he said stubbornly: "Just walk, don't worry about me."

Qu Fanyi said she understood, but she refused to let go.

Chi Wei whispered: "Sticky."

But there was a smile in his tone.

After getting married, Chi Wei was drinking with Chen Zhuan and his friends. His brothers joked, "How is it? Are you having a happy married life?" At that time, Chi Wei's expression was a little subtle. After thinking for a long time, he said truthfully, "It's quite special - there is someone around you every day. You are like an ancient emperor. You give orders and she happily executes them. For example, if I say I want to eat Sichuan cuisine today, I will have a table full of Sichuan cuisine when I come back in the evening. If I say I want to invite my colleagues to a restaurant on the weekend, she will immediately choose a restaurant for me after I make the request... And you also know that no matter where you stand, she will always stand behind you obediently. My business is her business. The purpose of her life is to give for me... I have never experienced this before. I have experienced the taste of being an emperor."

"Tsk." Chen Zhuan nodded and said something heartwarming:

"You used to be a eunuch."

When Chi Wei and his wife finally climbed to the top of the mountain and joined everyone, they were greeted with applause. Everyone said, "In the future, we have to do this kind of activity with Chi Wei - full of a sense of accomplishment and self-confidence."

It was lunch time at this moment. There was a lawn outside the pavilion. It should have been overgrown with weeds, but it seemed to have been artificially processed to create a flat land suitable for picnics. There were mountains all around, and the trees all over the mountains were not completely bald. The afternoon wind blew away the clouds, and the sun hiding on the hillside came out. The blue world was filled with dark green and sparse red tree shadows.

The heat faded, and the mountain breeze blew, which was cool.

Chi Wei rested in the pavilion for a long time before he recovered. Everyone was too lazy to go up the mountain anymore. After a round of inspection, everyone said, "This piece of land is good and suitable for camping."

Finally, it was time for camping. Sheng Yiqing immediately started to make arrangements and said enthusiastically, "We brought some oranges, and everyone can share them."

Before everyone could react, Qu Fanyi smiled sweetly at Sheng Yiqing, "Sister Qing, you are so thoughtful! By the way, I also brought some sandwiches, fruits and some snacks, and made hot coffee for everyone."

A bunch of people listened and widened their eyes, "Hot coffee ? You brought hot coffee with you when you came to climb the mountain? "

Chi Wei smiled, his tone was quite proud, "Well, she got up early in the morning to grind the coffee beans. We asked a friend to bring them back from Peru. The beans are called Geisha and taste great. And these sandwiches, although they are a bit rough, they are all made by her when she got up early. Last night we went to Sanyuanli to buy fresh shrimps and made our own shrimp paste."

As he spoke, he took out a huge thermos from his backpack, and Qu Fanyi also took out a disposable cup from her bag and gave one to each person.

The rich coffee flowed out of the thermos, bringing a burst of coffee beans.

After hearing this, everyone gave Qu Fanyi a thumbs up: "Great, great." "Chi Wei is so lucky!"

"It's a pity that the placemat I brought today was too small, otherwise the scenery is so beautiful, and everyone would enjoy sitting around it."

As soon as the voice fell, one of the ladies smiled and opened her mountaineering bag, "Coincidence? I brought a large picnic mat. Yesterday I thought that when we come here, everyone has to take a break, and it's good to have a place to stay."

Sheng Yiqing noticed that this lady was the only full-time wife on this trip. Her husband's surname was Jiang, and everyone called her Mrs. Jiang.

After saying this, Mrs. Jiang took out a stack of red and white checkered picnic mats from her bag, and with the cooperation of her husband and another wife, she quickly laid the mats.

"You are still foresighted!" Everyone gathered around with coffee in hand, surprised, and then saw Mrs. Jiang take out a Marshall stereo from her husband's bag.

"Since we are all here, we should have a sense of ceremony. The scenery here is great, isn't it nice to listen to music together?"

Everyone gave thumbs up to Mrs. Jiang, "You are so thoughtful." "Your husband is truly happy because you consider everything so carefully."

When a man marries a wife, it is a bit like upgrading equipment. The most considerate and capable wife is the SSR in the game, which is super rare. The process of obtaining props may be difficult, but at the moment of obtaining them, the golden light flashes, the special effects are full, and you will live a happy life from then on, which is enviable.

A beautiful and thoughtful wife is a luxury that is more noble than a watch or a car for a man.

"Oh, by the way, we also brought coconut milk." Seeing that everyone's attention was diverted, Qu Fanyi immediately took out a large box of coconut milk from Chi Wei's bag and shouted: "Everyone can add it to coffee and make coconut latte."

"Too fancy!?!" Everyone was attracted to it like a school of fish.

Qu Fanyi distributed shrimp paste sandwiches to everyone, saying, "Shrimp paste sandwiches are salty, and they taste better with a little sweetness."

Soon, music started playing on the other end, and Mrs. Jiang said, "I have some appetizers here, let's eat together."

Everyone looked over there again. Mrs. Jiang seemed to have brought several Lock & Lock transparent food containers, and she took them out from her bag one by one like bricks: "This is salami, this is pickled olives, this is pickled cucumber, this is mozzarella cheese, this is soda crackers... I don't know what flavors you like, I brought some ingredients, everyone treat it as a buffet..."

Everyone's eyes widened, but Mrs. Jiang's backpack was not empty yet. While talking, she took out the last food container: "This is arugula and cantaloupe, you can also eat it in it."

Speaking of this, she looked at Qu Fanyi standing beside her, and quickly said considerately: "Thanks to you for bringing coffee, this afternoon has become wonderful all of a sudden."

Qu Fanyi heard this and quickly praised back: "Mrs. Jiang is still smart and thoughtful. I haven't eaten such fashionable food on the mountain yet."

The atmosphere quickly became warm.

Music started playing on the Bluetooth speaker, coffee was refilled, and the remaining ladies quickly took out cut fruits, self-rolled sushi, kneaded rice balls, braised duck necks and duck tongues, and handmade truffle chocolates made yesterday afternoon from their bags... In an instant, the red and white placemat was filled with all kinds of food, colorful and beautiful.

Sheng Yiqing had never seen such a scene before, and quietly took out half a bag of oranges and braised duck wings from her bag, and placed them tremblingly on the edge of the picnic blanket.

Everyone's food was laid out, and everyone couldn't help but take out their mobile phones to take pictures. Qu Fanyi also took out a SLR camera from her bag. Everyone was praising Qu Fanyi for being a professional even in taking pictures. Mrs. Jiang took out a bunch of flowers from her bag and put them in the corner. She smiled and said to Qu Fanyi: "Will this composition look better? I also have the habit of taking photos when I go out. I think Beijing in autumn is a bit solemn and lacks bright colors, so I brought a bunch of flowers. By the way, I also brought a reflector. Do you want it?"

Sheng Yiqing was shocked by this picture. She always felt that Mrs. Jiang could take out a universe from her backpack in the next second.

Qu Fanyi was stunned, but she had to admit it. She only said: "I have just started practicing taking photos. I mainly thought that I would try to be a blogger anyway since I am at home."

"Being a blogger! So fancy." The dentist's wife exclaimed.

"These days, if urban women don't work part-time as bloggers, they have less topics to talk about in social circles." The speaker is a lawyer's wife who works in a public institution. "I also have 700 fans on Xiaohongshu! Let's follow each other." "As a full-time wife, I have some hobbies. In addition to taking care of the family, I have to kill time." Qu Fanyi said, put away the camera, and flipped through her Xiaohongshu: "I'm just starting out. I've worked hard for a while but I don't have 2,000 fans. It's said that you can only get some resource exchanges if you have more than 5,000. Some brands will send you some clothes or daily necessities to try on." Everyone responded: "It's still possible! No wonder everyone wants to be a blogger now. You want us to be bloggers when we can be bloggers, right?"

Mrs. Jiang retorted: "Oh, it's very troublesome to exchange resources. You may not like the things they give you, but you have to write copy and take photos for those few hundred yuan, and you have to review them, and some readers will say that you are just eating rotten rice. Really, I was quite happy at first, but after a long time, I pretended not to see any promotions from me."

"Mrs. Jiang, how many fans do you have?" The lawyer's wife widened her eyes.

"It's just over 30,000." She waved her hand. The sun shone on her delicate smile, and her slender neck poked out from the short-sleeved quick-drying clothes of Arc'teryx.

The autumn scenery was sunny and windy. Walking around the pavilion, more than a dozen ginkgo trees dropped golden leaves in the wind. The speakers were playing relaxing jazz tunes, interspersed with a few rock songs. Everyone drank coffee, picked up a piece of salami, and talked about the market, investment, politics, and travel.

Sheng Yiqing was in a complicated mood.

It was noon now, and the mountain tops in the suburbs of Beijing were slightly chilly. Just when I was climbing the mountain, I was determined to win, but now I was relaxed, and my heels were slightly painful. Good Qu Fanyi noticed it, and quietly pulled Sheng Yiqing to the corner and said, "I brought a pair of portable slippers, do you want to change into them? Otherwise, you may hurt all day tomorrow."

After taking off the kitten heels, I found that most of my feet were red, and a small piece of skin was worn out on the heels. Qu Fanyi screamed, "Is it so serious?!"

Without waiting for Sheng Yiqing to react, she took out iodine cotton swabs and Band-Aids from her bag and carefully treated her wounds.

The breeze on the top of the mountain blew through the hair of the two women. A few meters away were men and women chatting happily. Chen Zhuan seemed to notice this. Seeing Qu Fanyi helping her, he looked at Sheng Yiqing and felt relieved.

The cotton swab touched the wound and felt a slight electric shock, but Qu Fanyi's movements were gentle and delicate. She took the slippers out of her bag and handed them to Sheng Yiqing, smiling, "Sister, next time you go out to play, remember to check the group announcement."

"...I was too busy this time and forgot." Sheng Yiqing rolled up her hair.

"It's okay. I'll send you the precautions in advance in the future. There won't be any misunderstandings."

Sheng Yiqing was silent, looking at Qu Fanyi's face, and a strange tenderness rose in her heart.

This feeling is magical. Afterwards, Sheng Yiqing and Qiu Zining reviewed the situation. This was the first time she felt the power of a "virtuous wife" up close. In the past, she looked at it from the perspective of a bystander, but today, when she was gently and properly taken care of by Qu Fanyi, she admitted that she had the urge to be with Qu Fanyi for the rest of her life at a certain moment.

"She seems like a mother, but she is an upgraded version of a mother. She will never discipline you, but take care of you devoutly."

However, Qiu Zining still sneered at that time: "Nanny is the simplest job. Their work has no depth and can be replaced by anyone. You will understand after chatting with them. They are all a group of women who only know how to do manicures and hair."

However, what Qiu Zining did not expect was that Sheng Yiqing's anxiety was magnified in the subsequent "chat".

"I've been so busy recently!" It was Mrs. Jiang who spoke after the meal, "I'm going blind from studying those insurance reports and policies every day."

"What's so busy? Did you find a part-time job?" Sheng Yiqing was shocked-I don't even work to this extent.

"Configure family insurance." Qu Fanyi interrupted, "I've also been studying it recently. We need to configure critical illness insurance for the main source of income for the family. At the same time, we also need to configure medical insurance and accident insurance. In addition to these consumption-type insurances, we may also need to consider investment-type insurance, including our future retirement and children's education funds. Fortunately, Chi Wei is in the hospital, so we don't have to worry much about medical care. Because of writing this, I have several notebooks." "I really envy you two doctor families." Mrs. Jiang covered her forehead and looked at Qu Fanyi, "Recently, the Insurance Law is about to issue new regulations, and the policy is tightening. I have studied several analysis reports and consulted some professional institutions. I plan to enroll in a class for research." "Everyone likes to go to class, and I am also trying to go back to school." The speaker was the lawyer's wife. "Is your job in the state-owned enterprise not good? It pays a lot, has little work, and is close to home. Why do you go back to school?" asked the dentist's wife. "I'm planning to take the doctoral exam! I just found out last month that my supervisor has been promoted to a doctoral supervisor. I thought, I might as well get close to him and get his doctorate. Anyway, our work is easy - it's mainly for the children."

"What do you mean?" Qu Fanyi.

" For the future schooling of the children. I've been thinking about whether to change houses or go to an international primary school. I've done most of the strategy..."

At this point, Mrs. Jiang interrupted with a bright look in her eyes: "Have you also done the strategy for international primary schools? God! You're progressing too fast. Regarding children, I was bored a few days ago and only did a research on obstetrics and gynecology hospitals. I haven't even studied prenatal education. Please send me a copy of the information on international primary schools when the time comes."

The lawyer's wife made a gesture to calm down and said to Mrs. Jiang generously: "No problem, I've also joined a few discussion groups, and I'll add you in when the time comes." She looked at the whole audience again, lowered her voice, and said: "I'm fine. I'm also a member of a few discussion groups. ... not a member of a few discussion groups. I'll add you in when the time comes." She looked at the whole audience again, lowered her voice, and said: "I'm not a member of a group. I'm not a member of a group. I'm not a member of a group. I'm not a member of a group. I'm not a member of a group. I'm not a member of

The voice was like an important intelligence exchange in a spy movie: "But now I have found a good way to save the country in a roundabout way. You don't need to buy a school district house, and you can also get a good school - go to a famous school to be a teacher." First, get a doctorate from your mentor, and then naturally seek a position as a university faculty member, and then use the benefits of university faculty members, and your baby can go from the affiliated kindergarten to the affiliated primary school, the affiliated middle school, and finally jump into the university. "Medical care and education, one must be solved." Mrs. Jiang looked at several people: "You see, you have solved the medical resources, we can only work hard to stabilize the educational resources." Sheng Yiqing didn't notice that Mrs. Jiang's words had completely excluded her and Chen Zhuan, but was shocked by this great plan. She looked at Mrs. Jiang: "So you have planned your career for your child to go to school?" "Yeah." The lawyer's wife tilted her head: "This is one of the key considerations. But on the other hand, I also want to go back to school. I have 4 months of vacation a year, and I am in sync with my child. " "So when do you plan to have children?" Qu Fanyi looked at the lawyer's wife. "We are still in the pregnancy preparation stage." The lawyer's wife looked at her husband, "We have only been married for two years. I hope we can have a tiger baby next year."

"If the topic is here, then let's just make it public--" Mr. Jiang quickly answered, and he gently put his arm around his wife's waist: "This one in our family is more than three months old!"

"Wow!"...

Amid the cheers, Qu Fanyi was silent, and she glanced at Chi Wei. Chi Wei seemed not to notice that his phone vibrated and a text message came in. He was staring at his phone in a daze.

Fortunately, the topics were passed one after another, from parenting to the next long vacation. The wives had already prepared a travel guide for two people, including the most cost-effective flight and hotel and local food, drink and entertainment recommendations. In the conversation, it was revealed that several people have joined the "Most Beautiful Wives Group". In addition to the wives, the group members also include future wives who are determined to become wives. In addition to sharing life tips and family health information, they also share various types of nail and eyelash extensions, resort hotels and cheap and quiet housekeeping service personnel...

And Sheng Yiqing, from beginning to end, is like a mute.

The autumn afternoon sun shines on everyone. The grass is green, the sky is blue, and the fallen leaves are yellow. However, these colors are not as dazzling as these wives. Their light shines from their eyes into their hearts. Sheng Yiqing, who was dressed out of place, secretly straightened his back——

Peer pressure, peer pressure.

This word has always been running through Sheng Yiqing's 30-year-old life. Sheng Yiqing, who has always been "the child of other people's families", felt what it means to be "the wife of other people's families" as never before. Qiu Zining was right. In such occasions where wives gather, women need to dress up and match well to try to outshine others. But she was also wrong. In such occasions, the standard of outshine others is no longer the appearance, clothing, brand bags and figure of women as individuals; but the thoughtfulness and consideration of a woman as a family member and the value she can create for the family.

This is completely unfamiliar peer pressure from a group of newlywed wives.

She took a deep breath.

I just felt lonely.

Yes, that's a normal marriage, right? The husband and wife give to each other towards a common goal, and make contributions together, so that the steps of the two people will always move forward in the same direction and at the same frequency.

She had always thought that marriage was a wrestling match, with the husband and wife standing at both ends of the rope, pulling each other until the winner was decided, or that marriage was a subway, where they got on the train together, sat quietly until the station arrived, and then got off separately. But did Sheng Yiqing suddenly start to reflect today, is there another possibility?

Marriage is a walk side by side, tying the two people who have signed the marriage contract together, like an ancient game of three-legged walking, heading in the same direction, you need to cooperate, understand, persist, and not abandon, so that you can keep moving forward and see better scenery.

It should be a lifelong contract where everyone prospers together and suffers together.

It should be built with love, make a vow to share wealth and adversity in this life, and be willing to sacrifice your life for each other.

The older generation is right, marriage is sacred.

And I, with my playful marriage model, insulted its sacredness.

"Chen Zhuan——"

The wind rolled over the jungle all over the mountains and brushed their hair. In the sound of music, young couples chatted, played cards, and played Frisbee, laughing constantly. It was a rare weekend for everyone to relax from the city to the mountains. Sheng Yiqing, who was sitting on the side, took out her phone and edited her WeChat. She said: "Let's get a divorce."


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