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So that's what happened. Chen Shengqing nodded and said nothing more.
The things in the package were taken out. There were seven cans of malted milk, five bags of milk powder, ten cans of yellow peaches and cantaloupes, seven cans of meat, a dozen sausages as thick as wrists, two pounds of dried mutton, two pounds of dried beef, three pounds of dried grapes and apricots, some dried snacks and biscuits, Hotan dates, fresh pears and walnuts, a simulated military truck and a small tank toy bought for Tianyou, etc., all filling up the bed.
"How much did it cost to buy so many things?" Yang Qiujin asked after she sorted and put the things away.
"It won't be much. It's all the military bills I saved up." Chen Shengqing knew what she was thinking. He took out a stack of bills from a package and handed them to her. "Don't worry about the bills. There is a reason why I couldn't come back these years. I have been carrying out secret missions. Every time I complete a mission, the country will give me subsidies and rewards. This money is a reward in addition to my salary. You can keep it. Buy whatever you want to eat or use yourself."
As soon as he entered the courtyard, he discovered that the clothes his mother was wearing and the small clothes that Tianyou had placed on the bed were all unpatched, and Yang Qiujin was still wearing the clothes she had given him when she married him seven years ago. The clothes in the elm wood cabinet in the room were also scattered here and there and were covered in patches.
He was used to seeing those well-dressed military wives in the military family compound. When he suddenly returned home and saw that his wife was still living such a hard life, he felt sorry for her from the bottom of his heart.
Yang Qiujin looked at him strangely: "Giving me so much money, why don't you divorce me?"
"Divorce? You want to divorce me?" Chen Shengqing was silent for a moment, "Are you still thinking about Ji Mingchen?"
At first, Yang Qiujin was dating Ji Mingchen, but Shi Fangfang schemed to steal their relationship, which caused a lot of controversy. At that time, he married her only because he was forced by both his parents.
Although there was no love between them, he remembered her fiery and fragile appearance, especially on their wedding night, when she shyly took off layers of clothes, and he found that her skin was not as honey-colored as her face, but was as delicate and white as the finest white jade, and could not withstand his slightest torment...
Now she was sitting in front of him with the same look as before, without any aggressiveness. Instead, she looked much more gentle and exuded a calm and gentle beauty that attracted his attention.
He really wanted to know how many things had happened to her to make her like this.
In the past, whenever she saw his gaze, she would either be afraid or fierce. It was difficult for her to be as gentle as she is now and talk to him normally.
Thinking of this, he looked at the clothes on the crib. Was it because she had given birth to a child and became a mother that her personality became more restrained?
Thinking of his son whom he had never met, Chen Shengqing's chest was filled with unprecedented warmth. This woman had been reluctant to marry him at first. On the wedding night, when he knew that she liked Ji Mingchen, he did not want to touch her. Unexpectedly, she took the initiative to touch him, crying and screaming in pain, while hugging his neck and asking him not to stop...
Later, when he joined the army, she cried out with red eyes, "Go! If you die, I will collect your body, remarry, and occasionally help you take care of your parents. Don't think that I will be a widow for you!"
Seven years had passed in a flash. She had stayed at home, taking care of his parents, seeing his father to his grave, and bearing him a son. She had not divorced him, nor had she remarried. She was still the same as always, saying one thing and thinking another.
"How dare you talk about Ji Mingchen." Yang Qiujin got angry when she talked about this. "Didn't Ji Mingchen work at the Capital Military District Hospital before? How come he came all the way back with you, and you even let him into our house. You know that he and I..."
"You know him quite well." Chen Shengqing's eyes were dark and his expression was complicated. "He was transferred to our border last year and was in the same camp as me. This time during the family visit, we were on the same route, so I took his car back."
"Isn't he a military doctor? How can he come back in a regimental vehicle?"
How could Yang Qiujin not know about Ji Mingchen? Shi Fangfang's widowed mother would often show off how good her son-in-law was in front of her mother, which made her good-tempered mother quarrel with Shi's mother many times. Yang Qiujin also blocked Shi Fangfang a few times and beat her a few times.
"He is not a civilian military doctor, but a professional military doctor with a military rank. He is currently at the deputy regimental level, which is higher than me, and he can drive the regimental car."
"It turns out that military doctors also have military duties."
Yang Qiujin didn't care about Ji Mingchen's level. She had some feelings for Ji Mingchen back then, but the two of them were not even close. All kinds of rumors were flying around, which directly cut off the little thoughts she had about Ji Mingchen. She didn't care whether Ji Mingchen was dead or alive.
She disliked Ji Mingchen, mainly because Ji Mingchen was having an affair with Shi Fangfang, the person she hated the most, and she actually didn't want anything of his.
However, Ji Mingchen gave her two cans of maltose, a large box of Soviet chocolate, and a large bag of White Rabbit milk candies. These things were precious things in that era, and ordinary people could not buy them without receipts.
Normally, Yang Qiujin would only buy a can of malted milk for her mother-in-law and son to mix with water throughout the year, but she herself would not drink a sip. She would only buy White Rabbit milk candy for Tianyou during festivals. Now that Ji Mingchen had given her these good things, she really was reluctant to return them to him.
The two tacitly agreed not to mention divorce again. Yang Qiujin counted the money and found that there was more than 1,200 yuan. She was shocked and said, "Oh my God, there is so much money. How much hardship, how much fatigue, and how much blood must you have shed to get such a subsidy."
"It's okay, it's all over." Chen Shengqing heard the pain in her words, and his heart softened.
When he was in the camp, he often saw the families of his comrades and colleagues complaining that their husbands did not earn enough money to support the family. Whenever their comrades received any extra subsidies or rewards, they would only sigh at how much money they had and would never think about how much they, the soldiers, had to pay to get the money.
Yang Qiujin looked carefree, blunt and straightforward, but in fact she was thoughtful and considerate of others, which touched him deeply.
After a long time of feeling cared for and in a warm and safe environment, Chen Shengqing relaxed his mind. The fatigue from days of riding in the car surged over his body, and his eyelids twitched uncontrollably.
"Have a sleep for a while before getting up." Yang Qiujin counted the money and saw the fatigue in his eyes. She quickly tidied up the things on the bed, let him lie down on the bed, covered him with a quilt, and prepared to go out.
"Qiu Jin." Her hand was held by his broad, strong, and rough hand.
Yang Qiujin's heart trembled at the warmth of his hand. She turned around and looked at him, "What's wrong?"
"Qiu Jin, thank you, thank you for waiting for me for so many years and for keeping my home for me." Chen Shengqing's deep eyes were full of tenderness. He looked at her sparkling eyes with a smile on his lips, "You made me feel that all those years I spent in the army were worth it."
Yang Qiujin was startled by the gentle look he had never shown in front of her. Her face felt hot. She uncomfortably opened his hand and said, "You're welcome. I just don't want to give you the money."
Went out in a hurry.
Chen Shengqing curled the corners of his mouth, this woman who says one thing and thinks another.
After she left, the room became quiet. From a distance, there was a faint smell of rice cooked by his mother. The quilt covering him was warm and thick, with the same faint scent of soap as Yang Qiujin. Chen Shengqing felt a warm current flowing in his heart. His eyelids felt as if they weighed a thousand pounds, and he slowly closed his eyes.
Yang Qiujin walked out of the west room and went into the kitchen. "Mom, let's cook dinner later. Shengqing is asleep and I don't know when he will wake up."
The distance from the border to their province is over a thousand kilometers. Judging from Chen Shengqing's tired look, they must have traveled all night. Even a god could not stand sitting in the car for several days and nights.
"Okay." Li Xiu'e immediately put out the fire in the stove, and seeing her daughter-in-law taking out a bunch of banknotes to give to her, she hurriedly stopped her, "Qiu Jin, what are you doing?"
"Shengqing gave me 1,200 yuan, I'll give you half of it." Yang Qiujin handed the counted bills to Li Xiu'e.
Yang Qiujin never kept anything to herself when it came to money. She believed that a family should live as one. No matter how much money Chen Shengqing gave her, she didn't need to hide it or guard against her mother-in-law. She had to give her what she deserved.
Li Xiu'e sighed slightly. Many times, Yang Qiujin's understanding and rationality made her feel distressed. She didn't know what she was thinking in the past that she actually looked down on Yang Qiujin.
Reaching out to take the bill, Li Xiu'e only took one hundred yuan and pushed the rest back into Yang Qiujin's hands, "Silly child, San'er is willing to give you all the money because he wants you to be the head of the family. I'm already old and my mind is muddled. What if I lose so much money? This is the money that San'er has earned through so many years of hardships. You keep the money and buy whatever you want. You don't need to ask an old woman like me for my opinion."
"Mom, you have to say this. When I run away with the money, don't scold me behind my back." Yang Qiujin joked, put the money away, and planned to deposit it in the county when she had time. Then she turned around and discussed with Li Xiu'e, "I divided the things Shengqing took into three parts. Two are for my eldest sister and second brother's families, one is for my mother's family, and the rest is for us to eat."
"It's up to you. Mom has no opinion."
In fact, with Yang Qiujin's hot-tempered and vengeful personality, when her mother-in-law fell ill, her eldest sister-in-law and the second wife insisted on dividing the family property and refused to give the old lady money for treatment, so she had to bear all the consequences by herself. Now that Chen Shengqing has returned, she is not willing to give them the things that T brought with him.
However, Chen Shengqing and her two siblings had a good relationship since childhood. When Grandpa Chen was alive, the siblings were apparently nice to their mother-in-law. If she didn't give them some of the things, she didn't know what they would say to her, so she reluctantly gave them some.
"Third sister-in-law, third sister-in-law?"
As the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were talking, there was a knock on the door. Yang Qiujin and Li Xiu'e looked at each other, and when they recognized the voice of Tian Chunlian, the second wife, they both curled their lips.
Normally, the second branch has no contact with the third branch from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. But not long after Chen Shengqing entered the house, Tian Chunlian took the initiative to visit. She saw Chen Shengqing coming back with a lot of things, so she came to ask for money.
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