The clerk quickly handed the bowl that Nie Qiuping brought to Qin Hanshi with both hands.
He played with it for a while, then put it in a brocade box and took it away.
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Nie Qiuping took Qingsi to a small restaurant that was clean but not big. The mother and daughter ordered two or three dishes.
Although I have money now, there will still be many days when I will use money in the future.
Nie Qiuping told Qingsi: "Qingsi, when we get home, don't tell anyone that we have been in the county, and don't let anyone know that our family sold a bowl, do you understand?"
Qingsi nodded: "Don't worry, Mom, I know what I know and cannot let others know."
Although Qingsi looked young, she knew in her heart that there were not many people in the village who were kind to her mother and daughter.
The reason is just because her mother is beautiful, those women will tell their children not to play with her. Qingsi herself knows this.
She would not tell others that her family was rich.
"Be good, eat quickly. After dinner, mom will take you to buy clothes."
Qingsi's legs swayed on the bench happily: "Wow, I have new clothes to wear."
Other families in the village always had new clothes to wear during New Years and holidays, but in her memory, there were very few new clothes to wear, and she always picked up the leftovers from her sister-in-law.
Qingsi feels that this is the happiest day since she was born.
After dinner, Nie Qiuping took Qingsi to the Civil Affairs Bureau.
The Civil Affairs Bureau has a special consultation office. After Nie Qiuping sat down, she looked embarrassed. After hesitation, she still asked: "Hello, comrade, I want to ask about divorce."
In the 1990s, in such underdeveloped counties, divorce was a very shameful thing. Few people would get divorced unless they really couldn't survive.
The clerk sitting opposite was a young girl, very fashionably dressed, as if she had just started working.
Nie Qiuping didn't even look at her before she sat down. When she heard she said divorce, she raised her head curiously: "What, you want a divorce?"
Nie Qiuping bit her lip and nodded: "Yes... I want to ask about divorce."
"Then tell me why you divorced, and where is your husband?"
Nie Qiuping said to Qingsi: "Qingsi, you play at the door first. Mom will be out soon. Don't run around, okay?"
Qingsi nodded: "I know, mom."
After her daughter went out, Nie Qiuping said: "My husband has not come back for two or three years. It should be said that since I married him, I have not seen him more than 10 times. I think it is almost the same as being a widow. He is in the city." He married another man, and he has a son and a daughter. Over the years, I have helped him support his parents and his sister-in-law at home. You can tell by looking at the clothes my daughter and I are wearing. Our family is so poor that we can’t let the blame go. But after so many years, I didn’t see him passing a penny home, so I don’t know what the point of following him would be.”
Nie Qiuping knew that in this place, when talking about divorce, she had to make the other party sympathize with her, otherwise, others would just look down on her from the bottom of their hearts.
However, after Nie Qiuping finished explaining the situation at home, the young woman looked angry: "You are really a scumbag. That is to say, he cheated on you not long after you got married, but why did you think of divorce after so many years? .”
Nie Qiuping lowered his head and said: "I... I didn't know before that he had already formed another family outside, and I still had illusions about him."
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