Chapter 6 Li Jianzhi This Li Jianzhi from Northeast China actually has a wife! ...

"Your aunt looked upset when she left? She even said I raised a good daughter." Qin Xiangxiang's father, Qin Wutong, works in a machine tool factory. He is tall and thin, wears glasses, and looks like a nice guy. He often cooks at home and helps his daughter pick up and drop off her children. However, even after cooking for more than ten years, his food is still not very good and he is not particular about it.

Qin Xiangxiang is a picky eater and doesn't like the food her own father cooks, but her son Li Qingfeng, this chubby boy eats everything, like a garbage can, and is chubby.

Qin Xiangxiang pouted and said, "Since I couldn't get any advantage, I just left."

"Mom, I smell meat! It smells like stir-fried meat!" The chubby boy stared wide-eyed at Qin Xiangxiang, clinging to her like a dog, sniffing her intently. "You smell like meat!!!"

His mom definitely hid some meat!

"What meat smell? You're smelling the wrong thing." Qin Xiangxiang changed the water for the pig liver again and asked her father, Qin Wutong, to cook pig liver and pork intestine noodles. She was going to get rid of the little fat boy and go back to her room to leisurely listen to the radio and enjoy life.

"Stay here and watch over your grandfather. Call me when you've cooked the noodles."

"Mom, you've hidden some food!!! Mom, you've hidden some food!!"

The chubby boy's eyes widened, and he was so angry he almost jumped up. "You're like a stepmother!"

"I'm going to tell Dad that you're a stepmother!"

Qin Xiangxiang said indifferently, "Do as you please. I'm planning to divorce your father. You can go with him to the island. There will be plenty of stepmothers waiting for you there."

The chubby boy usually takes Qin Xiangxiang seriously because his great-grandmother dotes on him. He doesn't respect his biological mother at all and always thinks that his mother is supported by his military officer father. He often threatens Qin Xiangxiang by complaining about her.

Qin Xiangxiang used to really fall for this, after all, being a military officer's wife was quite respectable, and she didn't want her son to complain to her husband and ask him to send her less money.

Now she's not afraid anymore. Let him do whatever he wants. In her dream, Li Qingfeng was always a bad boy who didn't respect his mother. He was naughty, talked back, and was impossible to control. He was always fighting and bullying people.

"Li Qingfeng, did you hear that? From now on, you're going with your dad. You're not allowed to eat anything from my house anymore. You won't get any of the pork liver noodles today either. Wait for your dad to come and pick you up." Qin Xiangxiang laughed as she spoke. How had she ever been so easily manipulated by this little brat, managing to kick him out of the house?

"You want to divorce my dad?" The four-year-old chubby boy was silly, but even though he was young, he knew what divorce meant. Moreover, his mother said she was going to send him away, to send him to an island, and that a stepmother was waiting for him.

"Yes, divorce your father."

Qin Wutong sighed and shook his head, but didn't say anything. He wasn't really willing for his daughter to marry a soldier, fearing that she would be constantly on the move. But seeing that his son-in-law, Li Jianzhi, was tall and handsome, he felt that he was a rare find and couldn't let him go. Later, his daughter stayed by his side, which was fine, but his son-in-law didn't come back to visit even once every few years... Perhaps it would be better if they got divorced.

If they divorce, the grandson Li Qingfeng will definitely go to his father's place. The daughter will think about it and since there's no son with her, it will be easier for her to find someone else to remarry.

My daughter is only 23, still young, and beautiful, so it won't be difficult for her to remarry.

When Zhou Aodong got home, she heard Qin Xiangxiang say she wanted a divorce. She agreed in her heart, thinking that her daughter had been living like a widow for the past few years and it was better to get a divorce sooner rather than later.

"Have you thought this through? If you really get a divorce, send Qingfeng to his father's place."

Qin Xiangxiang nodded, "Let's send the child away."

The usually arrogant and domineering chubby boy was now frightened. He didn't understand whether the adults were just trying to scare him or if they were really going to divorce him and send him to his father's place... But he had never seen his real father, only his father in photos.

"Mom, you're not allowed to divorce Dad! Great-Grandma said Dad is a military officer and he has a gun! He'll hit you."

"He won't hit me, so don't worry about it." Qin Xiangxiang pinched his chubby little face. "You should learn to say a few nice words and learn how to please your stepmother."

"You always say I'm a stepmother. If you speak sweeter, you'll have an easier time making a living under the nose of your real stepmother in the future."

The chubby boy was frightened by her words and cried, "Mommy, I will be good, I don't want a stepmother."

Qin Xiangxiang found it amusing to see the arrogant, chubby boy with tears streaming down his face. She knew this kid was incredibly difficult to deal with; he would scribble on her door, smash her window with stones, and had never done anything good since he was a child, always being mischievous and annoying.

Qin Xiangxiang hates him the most for not being clean.

“Mom…” The chubby boy, who usually has a good appetite, didn’t eat much of the pork liver noodles at night. Ever since he heard his mother say that she was going to get a divorce and send him away, he has been very helpless and followed Qin Xiangxiang’s side.

Qin Xiangxiang ate rice balls and sugar cakes while listening to the radio. He didn't dare to make a loud noise and sat obediently on the small stool.

Qin Xiangxiang was genuinely startled to see him so docile.

But it was no use. She and Li Jianzhi were bound to get a divorce, and once they did, the Li family would definitely take the child away. She had nothing to say and could only pretend she didn't have this son.

Anyway, he never liked her as his mother.

Qin Xiangxiang took a shower that night and applied something to her face. There was a loud knocking on the door. She opened it and saw a chubby little boy in his pajamas looking at her pitifully.

"Mommy, I feel nice and clean after my bath, and I want to sleep with you."

The night outside was cool and still, and the child's eyes shone brightly in the dim light.

After all, she was her own flesh and blood, and Qin Xiangxiang couldn't be so heartless.

"Come in."

"Mom, you're not getting a divorce?"

Qin Xiangxiang carried him to the bed: "When your father comes to pick you up, I'll make you something delicious."

"Waaah—Mom, please don't get a divorce."

The setting sun hung on the sea, turning the water a brilliant gold. Countless fishing boats returned to port, gathering on the sea like stars. Meanwhile, huge warships were moored in the naval port.

A man in a snow-white military uniform stepped off the warship. He took off his hat, and the evening breeze gently blew the hem of his clothes. His handsome face was bathed in a brilliant golden glow under the setting sun.

"Captain Li, your wife from Shanghai sent you a telegram."

"I'm going to see Political Commissar Wang," the man said without changing his expression.

"Perhaps... you should take a look at the telegram first." The clerk lowered his head, recalling the expression on the face of the female soldier who delivered the telegram earlier. This matter had probably already caused quite a stir in the family compound.

Li Jianzhi frowned: "What telegram?"

The clerk handed him a telegram, which the man in military uniform took and read. It read: "Li Jianzhi, I want a divorce."

Li Jianzhi put his hat back on, and the clerk cautiously looked up to peek at his face, trying to read a ripple in his expression, but there was none.

However, he was unaware that a huge uproar was brewing beneath that icy facade.

Li Jianzhi silently read that line of text again in his mind.

—Damn, I actually have a wife!

Li Jianzhi, a 36-year-old naval lieutenant colonel, joined the army at the age of 18 after passing the entrance exam for military academy. With 18 years of military service and 14 years of cadre service, and having spent more than a decade at sea, Captain Li, who had long since honed his skill of keeping his emotions hidden to perfection, found it difficult to maintain composure.

Upon waking up in the morning, Li Jianzhi, who was on patrol duty, found himself transformed into Li Jianzhi, a naval officer in the 1970s. He kept a straight face, thinking he was probably the male protagonist of some kind of online novel, shining brightly fifty years ago and becoming a rising star fifty years later...

Fifty years later, the navy is powerful, with aircraft carriers being built at an unprecedented rate, and can now roam the world freely. Fifty years ago, the navy was still very weak. But for ambitious men, this was also an opportunity to show their skills and witness their motherland grow stronger day by day.

Despite the harsh conditions, Li Jianzhi was quite excited. His mind raced with ambitious plans, and he was eager to make a big splash. The first priority was to upgrade the equipment. Although the technology was rudimentary at the moment, he had many suggestions for shipbuilding. Upon hearing that the division commander was going to purchase warships, Li Jianzhi quickly sent a report and made a phone call to express his thoughts...

After disembarking from the warship, Li Jianzhi intended to go to Political Commissar Wang to explain the situation, but unexpectedly received a divorce invitation letter that seemed to be sent by "his wife".

Li Jianzhi: "..." That's outrageous.

He must have time-traveled, right? It seems he traveled to an alternate era? He became Li Jianzhi of this era, and in 1970, this body was 29 years old, seven years younger than him, a deputy regimental-level cadre, also named Li Jianzhi, who looked exactly like him. There were also several familiar names around him, with the same names and appearances, but their personalities were strange... It's probably some parallel universe?

That's all. This Li Jianzhi of 2025 is thirty-seven, no, he's thirty-six years old. He's from Shanghai, born in 1988. He grew up in Shanghai and is a city soldier. He could be considered a rich young master. Joining the army and attending military academy was purely out of hobby. His mother is a native of Shanghai and is also the kind of typical and extreme Shanghai old lady that you see on the internet.

When Li Jianzhi was a child, his mother worked in a public institution, and his father was a university teacher. Later, in the 1990s, the mass layoffs did not affect his parents, but the trend of going into business and going abroad influenced his mother, especially after being influenced by the TV series "Love Story in Beijing" broadcast on Shanghai TV. The passionate and unrestrained love, urban beauties, and modern buildings... His mother was spurred to go into business and succeeded. The family became wealthy, and his parents' marriage came to an end. For his mother, his father's monthly salary could not even buy her a coat, or even a meal she treated her clients to. She felt that her husband was not ambitious. His father could not stand his mother's extravagance and frivolity. After the divorce, they each started new families.

At that time, Li Jianzhi was attending an extremely expensive private boarding school. After his parents divorced, he lived with his mother. His mother hoped that he would study abroad, but he wanted to join the army. He applied to a military academy on his own, which made his mother very angry. She always said that he was useless and that he could earn a lot of money in a year of military service.

At first, his mother hoped he would drop out of school and leave the army every year. She even had the audacity to give him a mental illness diagnosis so he could drop out. Later, as his military rank rose and Shanghai's housing prices skyrocketed, turning the city into a metropolis, his mother stopped causing trouble and stopped longing for foreign countries. She had more money than she could spend, so she started showing off her officer son everywhere and nagging about whose daughter had married a country bumpkin from the US.

"If my son hadn't insisted on joining the army back then, I wouldn't have inherited so many houses, hahaha..."

His mother initially wanted him to study abroad and move the whole family overseas. Later, her son went to military school, and his mother remarried and had a new family. He also has a younger sister. Considering her son's situation, they ultimately stayed in China.

Back in the early 2000s, his mother was still indignant. She kept seeing others sell their houses in Shanghai and run abroad. She thought that after her son joined the army, it would be difficult for him to immigrate abroad. So she could only buy houses and land here. At that time, there was no purchase restriction policy. So she bought a lot of commercial properties in Shanghai, thinking that she would collect rent in the future. At that time, many people were running abroad and selling off their properties. She was also in the group for people going abroad and picked up a lot of low-priced properties and shops.

By 1718, his mother was overjoyed. Some of the houses she owned were demolished and others appreciated in value, while the people who sold their houses and went abroad back then had assets that were not as good as the house she owned.

Li Jianming also owns several shops, which his mother bought for him years ago. The largest one has an annual rent of five or six million yuan and is rented to commercial banks. He himself does not have high material desires. His years in the military have made him accustomed to a simple life. He doesn't have many places to spend money and feels that these things are a burden. He also has to fill out an asset survey form every year.

After his comrades learned that he was from Shanghai, they would tease him by calling him "Shanghai native" or forward him trending internet memes: "XXXX, sell this thing to people from Shanghai at a higher price."

The plate should be large, the quantity small, and a blade of grass added to any empty space... Sell it to Master Hu for 8,800.

Although it was just a joke, every year when Li Jianzhi went home to visit his family, he could feel a kind of bewitching aura coming from his mother's house... It really made him open his eyes every time.

Let's leave those aside for now.

He's almost thirty-seven and still a bachelor. Even a Shanghainese like him doesn't have a wife, but this Li Jianzhi from Northeast China actually has one!

Fog Grass.