Chapter 163: The Widow of the Military Wives
Chapter 163: The Widow of the Military Wives
"Weimin's wife, there's a letter for you!"
Zhang Weimin's wife Shan took the envelope from the postman amid everyone's teasing. She did not run away, but carefully tore open the envelope.
"Weimin's wife, what did Weimin say to you?"
The old aunt and the young wife came over, and because they knew that the original owner was weak-willed and would not drive them away, they read the letter sent by Li Weimin openly.
"Weimin's wife, can you read? We learned a few Chinese characters in the literacy class. Let us read them to you~."
"Bah, Weimin's wife needs you to help her read letters? After all, she graduated from elementary school, so she's better than you."
"Hey, if we were born later, we could go to college!"
"You're still in college? You can't even write your own name, and you still want to go to college? Are you dreaming?"
While the two aunts were arguing, someone had already snatched the letter from Zhang Shan's hand.
Unfortunately, there was no money or ticket in the letter, only a few crooked lines of words.
"Weimin's wife, Weimin adopted five children of his comrades in the military camp. You became a mother without any pain!"
Li Weimin is 38 years old this year. He had a wife before, but because Li Weimin could not go home often and could not bear the loneliness of staying alone in an empty house, she ran away with someone else.
The original owner was Li Weimin's second daughter-in-law. Before she entered the bridal chamber, Li Weimin was urgently recalled. She was away for three years and adopted five children during that time.
Although he had reached the level where he could apply to join the army, he never reported it and left the original owner in the village to take care of his parents and younger siblings.
It was not until three years later that Li Weimin was reported to have had extramarital affairs that he took the original owner back.
After the original owner passed away, Li Weimin left his five children to the original owner's care, while he himself had to help his comrades' wives and children solve various difficulties.
The original owner just moved to another place and worked like a slave.
When Zhang Shan came, it was the wedding night. The groom abandoned his bride to go to the battlefield. The original owner was heartbroken and had sudden heart palpitations.
Three months passed in a blink of an eye. Not only did Zhang Shan not take care of her in-laws, but she cried at every turn.
Seeing her like this, Li's mother didn't want to torture her. After all, she was worried that her daughter-in-law would run away again, and her son might be without a wife and children in this life.
When Zhang Shan returned home, Li's mother was standing at the door, looking at her unkindly, "Did you instigate my son not to send his allowance home, or did you embezzle all the allowance? Hurry up and give me the allowance. You've got a wife and you've forgotten your mother's stuff!"
Zhang Shan took the letter out of her arms, and Li's mother snatched it away. Not seeing the money and the ticket, her eyes were fierce.
"Where are the money and tickets? Where did you hide them?"
"You shameless little whore, how dare you encourage my son to be disrespectful to his mother? Be careful or I will divorce you!"
Zhang Shan rolled her eyes secretly. She didn’t have a marriage certificate or a marriage report. What kind of wife was she?
"Mom, Weimin said in the letter that he has adopted five children. From now on, all his allowance will be used to raise the children and cannot be sent home."
Zhang Shan had a sad face. Li's mother was illiterate and did not believe it. She handed over her eldest grandson and coaxed him to read the letter with two candies. Only then did she realize that what Zhang Shan said was true.
"It's all your fault, you unlucky thing. My son was fine before you married me. How come he became someone else's son after you married me? He doesn't send money home, what should we do? My darling grandson still needs to study and take the college entrance examination!"
The original owner was weak in character and felt very guilty about her past life, so she was willing to endure the consequences and worked harder to reduce the pressure at home and help her husband fulfill his filial duties to his parents.
But this will only make them worse and control the original owner more tightly.
"Mom, do you think Weimin doesn't want me anymore? Otherwise, why is he so eager to adopt his comrade's child before I give birth?"
Li's mother, who tricked Li Weimin into marrying her, also felt guilty, "How would I know that?"
"No, I'm going to find him!"
She went back to her room, packed some clothes, and took away the "dowry" that the original owner had brought.
Li's mother couldn't stop him, and when she reached the door, he was gone.
"Mrs. Yang, have you seen my wife Weimin? How come she disappeared in a flash?"
Mrs. Yang shook her head. "Where can she run to?"
Li's mother didn't say anything, and thus missed the opportunity to catch Zhang Shan.
When Zhang Shan came out of the captain's house and reached the village entrance, Li's mother was nowhere to be seen.
It was 2:30 in the afternoon, and we could still catch the last donkey cart in the team.
The breeze blew and the dust flew, but Zhang Shan did not feel sad. Instead, she felt unprecedented freedom.
Zhang Shan arrived at Li Weimin's base only after she had spent almost all of her "dowry".
"Hello, comrade. I am the wife of Li Weimin, the deputy commander of the XX Battalion. Can you help me ask him to pick me up?"
The guard picked up the phone. Not knowing what was said on the other end, he looked up at Zhang Shan frequently, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself, and then handed the phone to Zhang Shan.
"Weimin, I'm Zhang Shan. You said in your letter that you adopted five children. I was worried that you couldn't take care of them, so I came here."
There was no sound from the other side for a long time before a sentence came. "Wait at the door!"
After waiting for about two hours, it was already dark, but Li Weimin still hadn't come out to pick her up.
At night, Zhang Shan quietly went in to check on the situation, only to find Li Weimin sleeping soundly in the home of his good comrade.
My goodness, your wife is freezing outside, but you are sleeping so soundly here.
He quietly unbuttoned Li Weimin's clothes, then set a fire in the kitchen and left quickly.
"Oops, it's on fire!"
As the fire grew bigger, Li Weimin didn't care that he was not wearing any pants, and he came out carrying Lin Ruyue, who was wearing thin clothes.
When the military families and comrades nearby came out and saw them like this, they were all stunned.
Lin Ruyue’s husband hadn’t even passed his seventh day of mourning when these two got together, and there was something strange in their eyes.
Lin Ruyue blushed and stepped out of Li Weimin's arms, only to remember that her six children were not born yet.
"Weimin, Dabao and the others haven't come out yet, go and save them!"
Li Weimin did not hesitate. After putting Lin Ruyue down, he ran into the house, carrying two on his back, two hanging in his arms, and holding one under his armpits on the left and right, and then ran out of the fire scene.
It was already past four in the morning. Li Weimin took Lin Ruyue and seven others back to his home and settled them down. He happened to meet Li Dazhuang who came out to get some water to drink.
"Dad, didn't you go pick up mom? Why are you back so late? Where's mom?"
Li Dazhuang was very unhappy when he heard that his adoptive father Li Weimin had married a country bumpkin again, but since he was living under someone else's roof, he had to at least give his country mother some face.
However, no matter how hard he looked, he couldn't find the country bumpkin. Instead, he saw Lin Ruyue, whom he disliked very much, and Lin Ruyue's children.
Li Dazhuang rolled his eyes. This woman was really like his mother said, a vixen who seduced people all day long.
Only then did Li Weimin realize what he had forgotten?
I went to help Ruyue's sister change the light bulb, forgot the time, and accidentally fell asleep, so I forgot about Zhang Shan.
Li Weimin was about to go out when he saw Lin Ruyue coming towards him. Her eyes were red and she was wearing a clean and tidy white coat. She looked beautiful and fragile under the light.
"Weimin, I'm sorry to have delayed you from picking up your sister-in-law. If we stay here, will she misunderstand something? I'd better leave. The fire is out. We can go to bed after we clean up. We won't disturb you anymore."
As she spoke, she picked up the youngest child, Liubao. However, as soon as Liubao was in her arms, he burst into tears.
"Liubao, don't cry, Liubao, don't cry..." While comforting Liubao, he looked at Li Weimin cautiously. Li Weimin had no intention of driving them away in the first place, and it was even more impossible for him to drive them away now.
Li Dazhuang drank some water and went back to his room to sleep, while Lin Ruyue moved into Li Weimin's room as she wished and slept in his bed with her six children.
Just as Li Weimin was about to go out, Liubao started crying again. He spent the whole night either coaxing Liubao or Wubao. Dabao and the others also pestered him and wouldn't let him leave.
Just like that, Li Weimin forgot about going out to pick up Zhang Shan.
Zhang Shan froze outside the door for a whole night. The next day, she met a car, explained the situation, and followed the car in.
After driving for more than ten minutes, we arrived at the campsite.
At this time, there were guests coming to Li Weimin's house.
"Political Commissar Zhao, why are you here? Have you investigated the fire last night?"
Political Commissar Zhao looked at Lin Ruyue's busy figure in Li Weimin's kitchen and didn't know what to say for a moment. "Weimin, if you have an idea, we will agree to it. It's just that you didn't even report it. You guys..."
"Report? Political Commissar, are you talking about the marriage application report? I have already submitted it, didn't you see it?"
"handed in?"
He certainly didn't see it.
Lin Ruyue in the kitchen was also listening to the conversation between the two people outside. When she heard about the marriage proposal, she panicked and dropped the spatula.
The two people outside didn't pay attention to the accident inside, but Lin Ruyue's eyelids were twitching violently, and she felt that something bad was going to happen.
Lin Ruyue was a cleaner in the office building. When she was cleaning Political Commissar Zhao's office, she saw Li Weimin's application, secretly stole it away, and threw it into the fire. Therefore, Political Commissar Zhao did not see Li Weimin's application.
The political commissar misunderstood and thought that the marriage application was from Li Weimin and Lin Ruyue. "When did you submit it? You are too impatient."
Li Weimin smiled innocently and said, "I submitted it a month ago when I came back from a mission and explained the situation to the organization."
Although he doesn't like his new daughter-in-law very much, he still has to shoulder his responsibilities as a man and a husband.
a month ago?
At that time, Lin Ruyue's husband was still dying in bed. Did they have an affair at that time?
The political commissar's expression was serious and his eyes were sharp. "Li Weimin, you..."
At this time, there was a sound from the door, and a thin, dark woman wearing a tattered flowered jacket and carrying a lot of bags walked into the yard.
"Brother Weimin, Brother Weimin, are you home?"
Li Weimin slapped his head and forgot about Zhang Shan again.
The political commissar looked left and right, wondering why he had never seen a woman like this before.
"Weimin, who is she to you?"
Zhang Shan didn't give Li Weimin a chance to speak. "I'm Weimin's wife. Hello, uncle."
The howl Zhang Shan had just made at the door attracted all the military wives nearby. They all looked at Zhang Shan and then at Lin Ruyue.
"I heard that Deputy Battalion Commander Li got married again. Is this his new wife?"
The legal wife was drinking in the cold wind outside all night, but the intruder came in and acted as the hostess in the kitchen.
These military wives didn't like Lin Ruyue very much. "So it's my sister-in-law, Deputy Battalion Commander Li, this is what you did wrong. I heard that my sister-in-law arrived yesterday afternoon, but you didn't go out to pick her up. If the car purchased by the kitchen team hadn't come in, she wouldn't know how long she would have had to wait."
"That's right. You left your own wife out in the cold for someone else's wife. That's what's wrong with you."
You don't like a nice virgin girl, but prefer a mature wife, right?
Li Weimin had no way to refute and looked at Zhang Shan awkwardly, "Why didn't you call me?"
"I don't know if the guard made a mistake, or if you, Weimin, tripped over this vixen?"
"Zhang Shan, stop talking nonsense. You are slandering Ru Yuesao's innocence."
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