Just as Shiyue was engrossed in learning cooking skills with Cao Dalin, a minor incident occurred on Yunzhou Island.
When Shiyue returned to the island earlier, she also made a trip to the transport office responsible for delivering supplies to the island and brought back the latest batch of letters from the islanders.
Because Whale Island is still under secrecy and its address cannot be disclosed to outsiders, the letters they wrote home used their military unit numbers.
This code number is actually fictitious.
However, thanks to this designation, letters could always be delivered to the island.
After receiving the letter, Shiyue returned to the island and handed it to the communications officer of the Sixth Iron Battalion for distribution. After that, she forgot about it.
So much so that she was unaware that one of the letters almost caused a commotion on the island.
Here’s what happened:
Among the first group of people to arrive on the island was a man named Li Jishen, who was a student and assistant of Professor Zhu, a physicist.
Li Jishen's family was not well-off. His father had passed away early, and his mother was in poor health, requiring medication year-round. He also had a wife and a four-year-old daughter.
When Professor Zhu received the notice to go to the island, Li Jishen, as his most outstanding student, also volunteered to accompany his teacher.
Professor Zhu initially disapproved of the proposal, given his family's circumstances, but Li Jishen insisted.
He couldn't find a more suitable candidate, so he agreed.
Before leaving, Li Jishen left all of the 150 yuan one-time subsidy he received from the government to his family, and promised to send his entire salary back after settling down.
Li Jishen followed them to the island partly because he hoped to put his knowledge to practical use. After all, in this day and age, scholars like them didn't have much of a future outside.
Another point is that he did know the salary and benefits here were good.
Li Jishen hopes to save some money for his family over the next few years through his own efforts, so that his family can have a better life.
At least I don't have to struggle every day about my mother's medicine or a meal.
Li Jishen meant well, but because it involved confidential information, he couldn't explain the situation to his family.
He simply said he was going to work on a project with his teacher, and it might be several years before he could go home.
To reassure my family, there will be no danger, and the salary is quite high.
But he was too vague, and no one in his family really believed him.
As a result, in the second month after Li Jishen left, his wife's family objected and insisted that his wife divorce him.
He spread rumors everywhere that he and his teacher had been labeled and that they had been sent to a farm for labor reform.
They said their daughter couldn't stay with such a person for the rest of her life and had to cut ties with them!
No matter how Li Jishen's mother explained, it was to no avail.
She even took out the money her son had left behind.
This money gave his father-in-law's family even more reason to say that he knew he wouldn't be coming back, so he left all the money for his wife and children, which further proved that he would never return.
This is the breakup fee!
After repeated persuasion from her parents, Li Jishen's wife also wavered.
In the end, she actually wrote a letter severing ties with him and then left their home with her daughter.
Before leaving, he took all the 150 yuan with him, saying it was for his daughter's support.
Li Jishen's mother fell seriously ill because of this.
But at that time, Li Jishen had just arrived on the island, and things were not yet on the right track.
At that time, people were not even allowed to write letters home.
Therefore, he could be said to know nothing about this situation.
The old lady lay in bed for more than a month before she slowly recovered.
The first thing the old lady did after recovering was to find out where her son had gone.
The reason she didn't firmly stop her daughter-in-law from leaving was because she herself couldn't say for sure where her son had gone.
The old lady was actually afraid that her son had really done something wrong. She thought that if that were the case, there was no need to ruin her daughter-in-law's life.
As a result, when the old lady, still not fully recovered, went to her son's former workplace, Li Jishen's first letter home had just arrived.
Although Li Jishen was still unable to say where he was or what he was doing in the letter, he was still able to describe his life in some way.
Seeing the description of his living and working environment in the letter, I know that he is indeed doing a very important job with his teacher.
She also received two months' salary from her son, a total of 120 yuan. The old lady sat down at the entrance of her workplace and burst into tears.
The old lady took the letter and the money and went to her in-laws' house.
She wanted the family to see the letter, to let them know that her son had not done anything wrong and had not been sent to a labor camp.
The old lady also hoped that if her daughter-in-law was willing, she could bring her granddaughter back. With the salary her son sent, their future life would definitely be no worse than others!
Who knew that when the old lady arrived at her in-laws' house, it was just as her daughter-in-law was getting married again!
It turned out that the family had found her a new home not long after taking her back.
Today is a day for celebration.
The old lady was stunned on the spot.
But she quickly realized that even if her daughter-in-law was going to get married, she still had to bring her granddaughter home!
There's no reason why someone would get married without first informing their grandmother and bringing her granddaughter along!
So the old lady went to that family's house to argue with them.
The old lady didn't want to argue with the other party; she just wanted her granddaughter back.
But little did she know that on the very day her daughter-in-law decided to get married, that family gave her granddaughter away for adoption.
It was called adoption, but it was actually selling.
She sold her granddaughter to a family in the deep mountains to be raised as their daughter.
Later, a neighbor quietly told the old lady that what was called a daughter was actually a child bride.
It's difficult for families in the mountains to find wives. Many families with slightly better conditions will buy a girl from the foot of the mountain to raise, and then give her to their sons as a wife when she grows up.
Upon hearing this news, the old lady immediately started arguing with that family.
But that family has three sons and a bunch of other relatives.
How could a sick old woman like her possibly defeat that whole family?
A short while later, the family pushed him out.
If it weren't for the police intervention, she might have lost her life there.
The old lady had no choice but to write to her son, urging him to come back no matter what.
Even if it means her death, we must find their daughter!
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