Man in thirties

Chapter 9 The Wish to Eat Fried Chicken

But in the end, he released his hand and turned away.

Matt was right. He was a worker, but Matt was the foreman. His words could let David lose his part-time job easily. He had nothing to fight against the foreman.

Moreover, Josie and the kid in her belly needed money. He couldn’t lose his part-time job on impulse.

During the day, many things happened one after another, which made Daisy feel very uncomfortable as he just worked in society.

It turned out that it was so difficult for a man to raise a family, and he had to face such sudden pressure to earn money to support his family.

When passing the store downstairs, David bought a pack of cigarettes worth two, took out one and lit it, squatted in the corner and smoked.

The pungent smell of smoke entered his throat, and David coughed violently. But compared with the hard work, this smell was really nothing.

After staying downstairs for a long time, David stomped the cigarette butt and opened the door as if nothing had happened.

He smelled the food on the table.

Looking at the clean room and the busy back of Josie in the distance, he was no longer calm.

The world outside was indifferent, but the home was warm.

For a moment, David's eyes turned red...

After all, he didn't cry in front of Josie. He went to the bathroom wiped his tears, and then came out to have dinner with Josie happily.

The bitterness and tiredness of the day dissipated in this meal.

In the evening study time, David found that he had encountered a bottleneck. It was difficult to understand the core principles of the stock market from books. He remained confused for three hours.

"David, it's getting late. It's time to rest." Josie put an old coat over David.

At this time, it was more than one o'clock in the morning. David was still staring at the screen.

"You sleep first, and I'll watch it a little longer." David scratched his hair and replied.

He was sleepy as he was busy in the company every day, and had to move as a part-time job after work.

David was very tired.

But looking at Josie's growing belly and remembering that the rent p*****t deadline was coming soon, he couldn’t sleep.

Josie didn't speak. She turned on the gas stove and prepared to cook noodles for him.

She had been like this for several days. David didn’t sleep, so she accompanied him.

"Josie, go to bed first. You can't stay up late now." David advised.

Josie said, "You are the pillar of our family now. If you don't sleep, how can I sleep?"

David was speechless about her persistence, but he was also moved. This woman could be regarded as a model of a good wife. If she didn't meet him, she should be very happy.

Considering the health of the child and Josie, David finally turned off the computer and secretly decided to sleep before 12 p.m.

Early the next morning, David came to the company worriedly, but found that Amy took a break today.

"David, you also take a break this afternoon." The group leader Chris Jones came over and said, "But in the morning, clean my seat first carefully."

David went to work for two days. It seemed that Chris regarded him as the cleaner, and let him rest all day. In this way, it was obvious that he was bullying David.

David nodded. Amy's business was not over yet. He didn’t want to cause more trouble. So he accepted it.

David left work early in the afternoon, He happily bought half a chicken which had been cleaned to let Josie eat better. She was in urgent need of nutrition this month.

However, at the entrance of the alley, he happened to bump into the aggressive Jessie.

"David, why don't you pay the rent when you have money?"

"Jessie, I've just found a job. I don’t have no money. Please wait..."

"You have money to buy the chicken, but don’t have money to pay rent?" Jessie directly interrupted David and said.

"I just want to tone her body. Half a chicken is only twelve."

Jessie sneered,

"Don't use Josie to fool me. She's pregnant and needs to mend her body. I have parents and a kid. Don't we need to mend our bodies?"

"The rent must be paid tomorrow!"

Then Jessie angrily left. He didn't know who she was angry with, but in a word, David was the victim.

Just in the morning, David sold some mineral water bottles sorted out when he was cleaning the company for 20 or 30.

With the money from moving before, it was about 300 in total.

But he owed Jessie two thousand.

For a moment, David began to worry again. What should she do? Did he really need to sell blood?

As the saying went, short of money troubled people? At this point, David really had no other way.

When he returned home dejected, Josie saw the chicken in his hand and was delighted.

They hadn’t ate meat for half a month. As a pregnant woman, Josie couldn’t suppress human's most primitive desire to eat even no matter how she restrained herself.

"David, thank you. I really want to eat fried chicken."

Half a chicken could make Josie happy, and David was even sadder.

"OK, I'll make you fried chicken!"

David suppressed his irritability and forced a smile. He made a delicious meal for Josie.

Josie looked happy, "OK, thank you, honey."

Then David was panicked in his heart because in his memory he and Josie always called each other’s names.

Josie called him that, which was recognition and encouragement for him.

For a time, David felt that he had much more responsibility. As a man and Josie's husband, he must ensure her safety.

David began to bury himself in cleaning up the chicken while Josie began to assist him from time to time.

However, after tearing the chicken, the two found that the edible oil in their home had already run out. They couldn’t make fried chicken.

Josie quickly said,

"Well, let's eat steamed chicken. The book says that pregnant women can't eat too greasy food."

David was even more depressed. He couldn’t satisfy such a good woman’s wish to eat fried chicken.

"Josie, don't worry. When I get paid, we'll go out and have a good meal!" David said, and hurriedly began to make steamed chicken.

But because of restlessness, he poured oil into the frying pan with an empty oil bottle!

"Hon... David, don't you want to make steamed chicken?" Josie asked suspiciously.

"Ah!" At this time, David found his absurd behavior.

"Yes, steamed, steamed..." Looking at the messy stove, David was sad and suddenly felt helpless.

He took a deep breath, dropped the empty oil bottle, turned and walked to the balcony, lit a cigarette and rubbed his red eyes.

Seeing this, Josie hurriedly came over and asked, "David, what's the matter with you? Do you have a bad day in your company?"

David shook his head, "Nothing."

But after getting along for so long, Josie knew that David was worried, and she became serious, "David, I'm your wife. If something happens, we'll solve it together. You don't have to bear it alone."

Looking at Josie's beautiful face, David hesitated for a moment and finally said,

"Just now I ran into Jessie. She saw the chicken I bought, so she thought we had money and said we had to pay the rent tomorrow..."

Josie frowned when she heard this.

For a moment, they were silent.

After a while, David said first, "Don't worry. I still have a way. I'll talk to Jessie again. Then later, I'll get paid. If it doesn’t work, I'll..."

David didn't say the last sentence. If it didn’t work, he would sell blood!

Josie shook her head, "Forget it, don’t beg her. Her kid needs to go to school. She is very kind that she gave us so many days."

"When I was dismissed from the company, the company gave me 3000 as liquidated damages, which were all stored in the card. Withdraw all later."

Josie said, looking very calm. But her eyes showed her worry.

David didn't notice it and was surprised, "Really?!"

If they really had 3000, they could solve the current problem. As long as he got paid, the hard days would come to an end.

Josie nodded and said nothing, but put a brand-new bank card into his hand.

"I haven't seen this card." David asked in puzzle.

"It's new. Go and get the money and buy a barrel of edible oil by the way."

David felt relaxed and went to get the money happily.

Josie looked at his back and her eyes looked complicated.

The money was not given by the company at all, but...