Chapter 81 Ex-Partner
"What's going on? Who was robbed?"
The military representative who arrived asked.
Xu Wumei had calmed down and replied, "It was me. Comrade, I was standing at the entrance of the department store. My ex-boyfriend put his shopping at my feet and asked me to watch it. As soon as he left, this person rushed out, grabbed the things and ran away. I shouted 'Catch the robber!' and chased him from that direction."
Xu Wumei pointed as she spoke, revealing her original location and the route she had taken.
Xie Yun interjected, "As soon as everyone heard someone shouting 'Catch the robber,' they gathered around to help. This man ran over here and fell. Then we all stood here watching him while someone ran to fetch you."
The military representative looked at the bloodstains dragged across the ground, twitched his lips, and asked, "What's going on?"
Xu Wumei was embarrassed. "I was suddenly robbed and was terrified. I didn't know what to do at the time. I just wanted to catch the bad guy and send him to you. I grabbed his feet and dragged him for two steps..."
A military representative squatted down, looked at the robber's back, turned him over, and saw his face which was rubbed bloody, and fell into deep silence.
He placed his hand on the man's neck and felt his pulse. "He's still alive. He probably fell unconscious."
In fact, it was more likely that he was kicked unconscious by enthusiastic people. He saw the footprints on the back of the man's neck. However, a robber deserved to be kicked twice. Since the people didn't want to get involved, forget it. He had just slapped away the footprints when he turned the man over.
The man was still unconscious, but still alive. Although the wound on his face looked scary, it was only a superficial injury and not dangerous. The military representative was no longer in a hurry. He turned the man over face down again, took out a hemp rope to tie up the robber's hands and feet, and then began to question the people around him, trying to get more details.
But it was no use, because things happened so suddenly and quickly, and before anyone could react, the robber had already fallen there.
In that split second, there are no details!
The military representative said to Xu Wumei, "Check to see if anything is missing. If not, we'll register what he stole and then take him away."
Xu Wumei said, "These things belong to my ex-boyfriend. He left them for me to look at without telling me what they are. When he comes out of the department store, you can ask him."
A military representative asked, "What's the name of your ex?"
After he finished speaking, he felt something was wrong and repeated it again: "Ex-boyfriend?"
Xu Wumei spoke each word with a strong voice: "Just now he was my boyfriend, but now he is not. So he is my ex."
The military representative laughed and said, "Comrade, you were robbed because it was the robber's fault, not your partner's fault. You can't blame him and disqualify him from being your partner just because you were robbed. Of course, he didn't protect you well, so that's his fault. You can just criticize him. If that doesn't work, we'll criticize him on your behalf."
Some people also tried to smooth things over with a smile, asking Xu Wumei not to blame him, after all, nothing had happened.
At that time, people still believed that it would rather demolish ten temples than destroy a family relationship.
Xu Wumei turned to everyone and said loudly, "It's not because of this.
He and I are engaged and will be getting married soon, but we have never met before.
Yesterday, he came to my house for the first time and told me to go to the department store today to buy me some clothes.
Whether I buy him clothes or not doesn't matter; I just want to spend some time with him. He's a soldier, having just returned home the day before yesterday and heading back to the army after the Lunar New Year, so he doesn't spend much time at home. Unexpectedly, when I went to his house this morning, he told me he wanted to bring his sister along. Great, my future sister-in-law is coming along, I welcome her.
But he rode his bicycle, the one next to me with the license plate [East Province 10583], and came first with his sister, letting me walk behind him. When they arrived, they waited for me at the entrance of the department store.
I had a good temper and agreed. My mother always told me that it is a blessing to suffer a loss, and to give in when necessary. Family members should not care too much about things, and a harmonious family will bring prosperity.
I walked for more than four hours from home and waited for him at the door of the department store. After waiting for a long time, he came out of the building and put a pile of things he bought at my feet and asked me to look at them. Then, he and his sister went in again to buy clothes for his sister.
Leaving me outside alone to face the robbers.
He didn't say a word of concern to me.
That's not all. Before he came back, his mother and sister had me working at his house: nursing his two sisters-in-law and washing diapers for his nephews. Everyone else was just sitting there chatting and talking, and they left me, their daughter-in-law, to work. It was winter, and I wasn't even allowed to use warm water.
His sister is fifteen or sixteen years old, but she doesn't earn any work points, doesn't help when the oil bottle falls, and is full of schemes. She only thinks about how to bully me. How can I marry into a family like this?
cannot!
I'll cancel the engagement when I get back!
I respect him as a soldier, and I agreed to this marriage because he is a glorious soldier. I am willing to be a military wife, to stabilize his homeland and allow him to defend his country without worries.
But the prerequisite is that he and his family must treat me as a human being, not as a beast of burden, not as a slave!
Now it's a new society, everyone is equal. It's an honor for him to be a soldier, and it's also an honor for me to be a farmer at home. I earn my living with my own hands, and I'm no less than him. I will never go to his house and suffer this humiliation!
As soon as Xu Wumei finished speaking, an auntie shouted, "Well said! Serving in the army is an honor. We all contribute to the country by doing other things. Just because he's in the army doesn't mean his family can treat you unfairly. It's better not to marry a man like that!"
The crowd chattered and talked a lot.
The military representatives did not expect this to be the case. The former partner's behavior was indeed disheartening, and his family was indeed confused.
A military representative said: "Everyone, listen to me, this has nothing to do with whether he is a soldier or not. Even if he is not a soldier, his family will still be like this. This is a matter of human nature."
Xu Wumei only agreed with this statement 80%. Indeed, this was a problem with the character of the Zheng family, but if they didn't have the status of military officers, they wouldn't be so arrogant.
However, she smiled and said, "I understand. I still respect soldiers. It's an honor to be a soldier and an honor to be a military family member. This is a special case for their family. Let's not let one bad apple spoil the whole pot of porridge. The vast majority of our soldiers and military families are good people. Without them, we wouldn't have the good life we have today."
The military representatives were pleased with Xu Wumei's attitude, so they stopped talking about her partner. But waiting around wasn't going to cut it, so one of them said, "Go inside the building and shout over the loudspeaker to this ex-partner..."
He then asked Xu Wumei: "What was your ex's name?"
"His name is Zheng Guoqiang."
"Okay, let's go call this Zheng Guoqiang."
However, before they could do anything, Zheng Guoqiang and Zheng Lanping arrived.
Zheng Lanping rushed forward and started accusingly, "Xu Wumei, what's wrong with you? Didn't I tell you to wait at the entrance of the department store? Why are you here? I didn't see you when I left the house, and I thought you'd run off with your stuff."
Her tone was full of a condescending sense of superiority, and she obviously did not put Xu Wumei on an equal footing, which made people frown.
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