Is it cool to transmigrate to South America? Zhu Xianhai's answer is: it's very cool.
After all, 19th-century South America is still a place where cowards vie for hegemony, a land ful...
War brings destruction and death!
War also brings changes, changes in the lives of many people.
It's not just men that change, it changes women as well.
After the war broke out, when men cheered and went to the battlefield, women's lives were also changed. When lovers were drafted into the army, girls took the initiative to marry them.
Everyone's life was changed by the war.
For Chen Jingyun, her life has changed. A year ago, she was just a student in a girls' middle school and was still busy with her schoolwork. In her spare time, she would chat with her neighbor's brother through the window.
They were childhood sweethearts, playing together since they were young. She followed him like a follower, and she didn't even know what her life would be like without him one day.
Until last March, when that day came, Chen Jingyun couldn't even remember the details. That day, he told her that he had signed up at the conscription office and would soon become an imperial soldier and go overseas.
Faced with this sudden news, Chen Jingyun couldn't imagine life without him.
"When we were little, you said you would marry me when you grew up. Let's get married!"
Until now, she still clearly remembers what she had the courage to say that day.
He agreed.
The families of both families agreed. In fact, when she was very young, someone joked that she was his unmarried daughter-in-law.
From the engagement to the wedding, there were only two weeks!
In peaceful times, such a short period of time was simply impossible. At that time, a gap of at least five or six months would be acceptable. But the outbreak of war changed everything, and everything happened as fast as lightning.
At that time, he had been so anxious that he kept rubbing his hands, wanting to postpone the wedding so as not to drag her down. After all, on the battlefield, swords and guns were blind, so an engagement was enough, and as for marriage, it was better to think about it again, even her mother said so.
But she was naturally strongly opposed to her mother's suggestion, and she said immediately that she wanted to get married! And right away.
In order to get married before he left, their wedding was very simple and took only three days to prepare. Then, the only obstacle was the Palace of Happiness - there was a Palace of Happiness in every Ming city, where newlyweds registered their marriages. On the surface, it was set up to reduce extravagance and waste at weddings, and it was a place specifically for young men and women to hold marriage registration ceremonies. But in fact, it was to compete with the church for the right to hold weddings.
Over the years, Happiness Palace has become the inevitable choice for people in the Ming Dynasty to hold weddings. However, reservations are required. During that period, Happiness Palace was the busiest place in the Ming Dynasty except for the conscription office. Soldiers who were about to go to the battlefield and their lovers received blessings from the mayor, relatives and friends there.
When Chen Jingyun went to make an appointment, the appointments there were already scheduled for several days later. She broke into the mayor's office and asked for a "plus sign". Faced with the girl who broke in, even the mayor could not stop the young lovers.
So, under the auspices of the mayor, she got married to him as she wished, and accepted people's blessings in the Palace of Happiness like other people. After the outbreak of the war, the whole empire was immersed in the rising patriotic enthusiasm and excitement. People thought that the war would end with just one battle, and young people who were afraid that the war would end soon hurriedly signed up for the army, and also hurried to marry their loved ones.
They get married, go to war, fight a battle, and return victoriously, full of glory and military merit. They will be beside their wives, kiss them, and share with them what they saw and heard after the battle. When they grow old, with their children and grandchildren around them, they will share their wartime experiences with their children.
Everything seems to be so perfect...
They had love, gained honor and harvested happiness.
But war is cruel, but no one has ever seriously considered it.
In just a few days, the girl became a soldier's wife. After just a few days, the soldier went to war. After a few months, the woman who had not yet enjoyed the joy of newlyweds became a widow again. Widowhood followed the newlywed life. Sometimes, they would be either panicked or happy to find that they would soon become mothers.
Once again, lying on the hospital bed, Chen Jingyun thought of her husband. She had just become a mother, and she looked at the child sleeping peacefully in the crib beside the bed, her face filled with happiness, but with a hint of worry.
"You know, I miss you so much..."
In those short two weeks, everything happened in a hurry. She had no time to think seriously, and even no time to shed tears. She was just immersed in the joy of her wedding. Then what?
Like many others, he went to war.
After he left, she found that she was no longer alone, she was pregnant. Now, they have been apart for ten months, and she is not only a wife, but also a mother.
"Jingyun, has Dawei written to you recently?"
"Well, I write every day,"
Nodding, Chen Jingyun said.
"Mother-in-law, when you get home, check the mailbox to see if there's a letter from Dawei. I haven't seen any letters from him in the past few days, and I feel empty inside."
Hearing this, the mother-in-law said quickly.
"Hey, look at my memory, Jingyun, you should have a good rest first. I will definitely check it out when I get home. Dawei is worried about you and writes you a letter every day. It's always a good thing."
Yes, one letter a day is always enough.
For those who went to war right after their wedding, letters connected their feelings and were also the witness of their love.
Looking at the baby in the cradle, Chen Jingyun chuckled.
"Si Nian, do you miss daddy? Yes, mommy misses him too. Let's wait for daddy to come back together, okay? Later, mommy will hold you and take a picture to send to daddy..."
Looking at her daughter who was teasing the child, the mother's face was full of love and a little bit of sadness, her lips trembled slightly, but she didn't say anything. She just prayed silently for her daughter's happiness in her heart, praying that Guanyin Bodhisattva would bless her and bless her son-in-law to come back safely.
As for the mother-in-law standing by, she was so happy that her face turned red - she had a grandson!
But when she thought of her son who was at the front, a trace of hidden worry flashed across her brows, and she couldn't help complaining in her heart. Not to mention that the war would be over soon, the children had rushed to the front line as if they were afraid that they would not be able to reach the Northern Territory and the war would end. But now it has been more than a year, why hasn't it ended yet...