Esteban Zaragosa and Dulcina Calvo were asleep in their beds.
Pueblo Dulcina and Mother Dulcina peeked through the door and glanced at them.
Dulcina Village and Mother Dulcina whispering at the door.
Mother Dulcina: “It’s your fault, look what you’ve done to her! If they take you to court, I’ll see what you do!”
Dulcina Village: “You dare to take me to court? Then I will sue you for kidnapping my daughter.”
Mother Dulcina: “Heh, your daughter is a person, not an object, who can kidnap your daughter if you don’t agree?”
Dulcina Village: “I don’t care, he took our daughter, what’s wrong with me taking a few sticks?”
Mother Dulcina looked at the two children in the doorway, especially the wound on Esteban Zaragosa’s back, which was particularly noticeable.
“Look at what you have turned your future son-in-law into! It’s not your daughter who is heartbroken.”
“…”
Pueblo Dulcina pointed to himself, “… to me? Why are you so quick to turn around at the elbow. A moment ago you were saying that guy was a bad thing, and now you favor an outsider who kidnapped our daughter.”
Mother Dulcina glared at him: “Wasn’t it you who told me to accept it? I thought about it, Dulcina is pregnant, the baby can’t be aborted, and they said they were in love, didn’t they? Then Dulcina will have to marry him, and I can hardly accept him as long as he promises not to have any more dealings with that original wife of his.”
Dulcina Village: “Women turn over faster than a book!”
…
Towards evening Esteban Zaragosa woke up, looked at the girl lying on the edge of the bed and reached out to pick her up and put her to bed.
Dulcina Calvo woke up and rubbed her eyes, “Esteban Zaragosa, how are you, is your back still hurting?”.
Naturally, the back still hurt, but Esteban Zaragosa looked at Dulcina Calvo’s small, swollen face and frowned slightly.
Her face, which had been hit by Mother Dulcina, and a vague recollection that Dulcina Town had hit Dulcina Calvo’s back with a stick before she fainted.
Esteban Zaragosa put his arm around her, “Let me see your back.”
Dulcina Calvo blushed slightly: “It doesn’t hurt, it’s fine. You’ve been hit so many times and I’ve only been hit once, it’s very good…”
“We are not equal, I am a man.”
Esteban Zaragosa was so stubborn that Dulcina Calvo had no choice but to turn her back on him and take his coat.
Esteban Zaragosa saw a bright red mark on the tender white back.
“Pass me the ointment.”
Dulcina Calvo dutifully handed him the ointment and Esteban Zaragosa applied it, a bit shy despite the fact that they had been intimate many times.
“That, is it ready?”
She wanted to put her clothes back on, she always felt weird exposing her bare back to his eyes like this.
Esteban Zaragosa’s eyes deepened as he lowered his head and kissed her on the neck, pulled her dress aside and helped her put it on.
Knock, knock, knock.
There was a knock at the door and Mother Dulcina’s cold voice: “Dinner is served, come out and eat if you don’t want to starve”.
Dulcina Calvo crossed paths with Esteban Zaragosa.
Dulcina Calvo whispered, “Let’s not go out, I remember I have snacks in my room, let’s have a snack later, what if we go out to eat and argue with our parents, what if they hit us again?”.
Esteban Zaragosa is inexplicably cute when she looks like a little hamster.
“No, since we were called to dinner, it seems like they have to accept this thing about us being together.”
Esteban Zaragosa picked up Dulcina Calvo and the two got dressed and went to the living room.
Dulcina Calvo was shy, her small hands tugging at the corners of Esteban Zaragosa’s shirt.
Esteban Zaragosa nodded politely to Pueblo DulcinaMadre Dulcina nodded and spoke, “Tio, tía.”
Pueblo DulcinaMadre Dulcina were stunned, as if they had not expected Esteban Zaragosa to call them, after all, the boy, who had beaten Esteban Zaragosa like that in the afternoon, had not held a grudge and was polite enough to open his mouth and call.
Esteban Zaragosa’s goodwill in the heart of Pueblo DulcinaMadre Dulcina instantly went up a notch, plus points.
It was their own daughter, who still seemed to resent them, who had not called them since she left her room, had not looked them in the eye in any way, and was eating at the table like a little thieving hamster, silently pecking at her food.
Pueblo DulcinaMother Dulcina looked at each other for a moment, then Pueblo Dulcina spoke in a deep voice: “You …”
Just as she opened her mouth, Dulcina Calvo reflexively glanced at her parents.
Pueblo Dulcina frowned, “Why are you so nervous, just eat your food.”
How can you not be nervous, who knows what they will say when they open their mouths?
Dulcina Calvo put down the dishes and spoke first: “Dad, Mom, even if you get angry and think I’m ungrateful, I’m pregnant by Esteban Zaragosa and I can only be with him, and I love him and he loves me, you have told me since I was little that I must find someone who will make me happy for the rest of my life. Now I have found him, and that person is Esteban Zaragosa. ”
Mother Dulcina bows her head and eats, not paying attention, pretending not to hear.
Pueblo Dulcina looked at her daughter very seriously and coughed lightly, “Eat, don’t talk while eating, how many times have I taught you, why didn’t you remember?”.
Dulcina Calvo: …
Dad, when did you teach me not to talk about food and sleep?
At every dinner, Dad does most of the talking.
After dinner, Dulcina Calvo also seemed to have a vague sense of relief from her parents and offered to help Mother Dulcina with the chores.
And Pueblo Dulcina took one look at Esteban Zaragosa and called him in a not very kind tone: “You’re coming down with me”.
A man as intelligent as Esteban Zaragosa naturally knew that Pueblo Dulcina had something to say to him alone.
Esteban Zaragosa looked at Dulcina Calvo in the kitchen, and Pueblo Dulcina frowned and said, “That’s her own mother, can you eat her? Come downstairs with me.”
Esteban Zaragosa, in a rare moment of embarrassment, nodded slightly, “Good.”
When they arrived downstairs, Pueblo Dulcina took out her cigarette case and handed it to Esteban Zaragosa.
Esteban Zaragosa rarely smoked, and after being with Dulcina, the young woman did not like the smell of other people’s smoke, so Esteban Zaragosa simply gave up cigarettes.
For a man with as much self-control as Esteban Zaragosa, quitting smoking is not a difficult task and he can go without a single cigarette if he wants to.
But at that moment, Esteban Zaragosa was doing his father-in-law a favor by accepting the cigarette that was handed to him.
Pueblo Dulcina took a puff on her cigarette and swallowed, “How old are you?”
Esteban Zaragosa answered: “Thirty-two”.
Upon hearing this age, Dulcina Town frowned slightly, seemingly displeased: “Eight years difference with our Dulcina, is the age difference too great?
Pueblo Dulcina didn’t know whether to tell her or mumble to herself.
Esteban Zaragosa calmly replied, “I am eight years older than she is, I have tried all the difficulties she has not undergone before, and I am perfectly capable and competent to spare her suffering and worry. At my age, moreover, I shall be more tolerant of her than some of the boys who are beginning, and I shall be able to help her in all the difficulties she has.”
Pueblo Dulcina heard what he said and froze a little, then nodded, “Dulcina has the same personality as her mother, they are both quite strong-willed and haven’t suffered much, moving on, can you love your wife as much as your daughter?”
Esteban Zaragosa took a puff on his cigarette and looked straight into Pueblo Dulcina’s eyes with dark, brazen, sincere and serious eyes, “In this life, I will love my children with Dulcina, but I will love my children with her for her. Dulcina is the girl who will be with me for the rest of my life, and I will love her and protect her from the storm.”