Chapter 32: The Troublemakers of the 1980s 2: Reaching a Consensus
Shen Qian's mind was working very fast. She didn't care about marriage or husband, nor did she care what the man in front of her would be like in the future.
What she cares about most is how to better complete the mission in this world.
The system task hasn't been released yet, but according to the routine of the previous world, it will most likely require her to raise the two children well so that they don't end up as cannon fodder with her. Since she has to raise the children, it is always more convenient not to divorce than to divorce.
There's nothing wrong with the two children staying with their biological father, but isn't he disabled? Even if her mother-in-law agrees to help take care of them, there will definitely be times when she can't take care of them. After the divorce, at most she'll have more free time to make money, but if she wants to take care of the children nearby, it's definitely better not to divorce.
Besides... although the original book plot in her mind did not contain much information about the original owner's ex-husband, she only knew that after their divorce, Zhou Shengmo did not remarry, but died of physical weakness ten years later.
But considering that this man was willing to give all the 3,000 yuan compensation he received to his ex-wife even though he was disabled, there is no problem with his character.
Shen Qian made the decision not to divorce, and there was no psychological barrier.
We are all people who are used to doing tasks, so in this case we must choose the optimal solution.
However, after she made the proposal, Zhou Shengmo did not react at all. He just looked at her with surprise and inquiry.
Shen Qian could only bite the bullet and continue, "I've been at home these past few months, but it wasn't what you thought it was. I...did consider divorce."
The original owner was a troublemaker. She couldn't lie and say she had never thought about it. No one would believe her.
Sure enough, Zhou Shengmo's face turned a little paler, but he still stared at her, motioning her to continue.
"But after thinking it over, I've already married you and have two children. I can't find anyone better if I divorce you, so I want to give it another try... Living with you might make it harder for you to take care of the children, and I'll find a way to make money. You can also bear with me for any mistakes I made in the past. What do you think... is that okay?"
Chen Qian had just arrived in this world, and was afraid that saying too much would lead to more mistakes, so he could only say a few words.
Of course, since the other party had already proposed divorce, Shen Qian also gritted his teeth and added: "If you still feel it's not okay, let's discuss divorce."
Zhou Shengmo really didn't expect Shen Qian to say this. He suddenly thought of a possibility, his face darkened a bit, and his tone was colder than the winter air: "I don't need your sympathy."
Chen Qian was speechless: "You think too much. If I leave you, I will find another one. If you leave me, I will find another one. It's not easy. Besides, it's not good to leave all the children to your mother. Let's just live together."
Zhou Shengmo stared at her face, but couldn't see any flaws on her face.
Yes, her concerns are reasonable.
Zhou Shengmo's expression looked a little better, but he only believed at most 10% of what he said to her about living a good life. She probably did have some plans in her mind, but he didn't know what they were, and he didn't want to know.
He is a disabled person, so what is there for people to care about him?
Maybe it was his status as a resident of the provincial capital, maybe it was the monthly disability allowance, or maybe it was the housing benefits promised to him by his superiors. No matter what it was, he should be thankful that he still had something that she could covet.
He had no reason to refuse, but he couldn't be happy.
She is still too young and doesn't know how sad it is to be with a disabled person. She may soon realize that she has chosen the wrong path and should find a normal man while she is still young.
Without the two children to tie her down, she could still find another...
Zhou Shengmo lowered his head, his bangs covering the emotions in his eyes. He was not someone who would easily get entangled, so he made a decision immediately.
"Just as you said, we can live together. You don't have to rush out to earn money. I get a 150 yuan subsidy every month, and the army will also allocate us a bigger house. We shouldn't have any problems with living..."
Shen Qian saw that he was letting go and was about to react, but she heard him say, "However, if you regret it, you can file for divorce at any time. I won't stop you. I will still give you the money I promised you, and I will raise the child."
Shen Qian: "Okay."
After talking so much, he still hasn't given up the idea of divorce.
Chen Qian complained in her heart that this man was really stubborn, but it was good that the matter was not finalized. If she felt that divorce was better in the future, she would choose divorce without hesitation.
"But I also have a condition." Shen Qian said.
Some things still need to be made clear to Zhou Shengmo in advance, as she is too lazy to waste words on it in the future.
Zhou Shengmo understood clearly, and there were indeed conditions: "Tell me, just mention any conditions you have."
He would agree to anything he could give now. After all, he owed her. If she didn't divorce him, he would owe her even more in the future.
Zhou Shengmo thought she would put forward some material conditions. His family conditions were average, but still better than hers.
Unexpectedly, Shen Qian said, "Since I have agreed to live with you and not divorce you, I will try my best to correct any mistakes I made in the past. Can we put the past behind us and let it go? Don't bring up the past again and again."
The air was stagnant for a moment at this moment.
The corners of Zhou Shengmo's lips twitched slightly: "... just, this?"
"That's it."
Zhou Shengmo was a little skeptical about life. What kind of petty-minded person was he in her heart? She had no other demands except for a divorce, but only proposed the condition of not bringing up the past.
He suppressed the urge to cough again and held it in for a while before nodding: "Okay, I promise you."
This time, the promise was much more serious than before.
Shen Qian saw that his attitude was okay, so he thought for a moment and asked, "Where are the two children?"
"At my mom's place, my eldest brother and his wife come over to deliver food every day, and they'll come again soon, but they may not have prepared anything for you."
"It's okay, I'll make something for myself later." Shen Qian was about to say that she wanted to take the two children back, but suddenly remembered that he had been coughing all the time: "How are you feeling now? Where do you feel uncomfortable?"
Since the two of them were going to live together and raise a child together, he couldn't just be so sick. Shen Qian couldn't just ignore it.
Zhou Shengmo hadn't spoken so much since he fell ill. A gloomy look gathered between his brows: "It's okay, it's just that I've been lying down for so long. It's not a cold and it's not contagious."
Shen Qian knew that he had misunderstood, so he didn't say anything more.
"We'll take the two children back and raise them ourselves. Do you have any objections?" Shen Qian asked again.
Only then did Zhou Shengmo finally realize that his wife was really different.
She used to be eager to leave the two children to his mother, and she would go back to her parents' home for a month or so each time. This time he was injured, and she didn't come back for more than four months.
Today she said she would not divorce him and wanted to live a good life with him. She also asked him to send the children back to raise them herself.
He opened his mouth, then remembered that he had just promised to let go of the past. Instead of bringing up the past, he just shut up and nodded: "If you want to take care of her yourself, just bring her back. Just don't think it's too hard."
Seeing him lying down with his eyes closed, Shen Qian looked like he didn't want to continue chatting with her. She wanted to leave, but couldn't help asking, "Your legs will be inconvenient in the future, so didn't you buy yourself a wheelchair?"
Zhou Shengmo opened his eyes, pursed his thin lips, and just stared at her, as if he wanted to poke a hole in her face with his eyes.
Shen Qian touched his chin and thought to himself, why is this person so weird? He should just answer whatever I ask. What is he looking at?
She turned, opened the window, and said, "You've been lying in bed for a long time. If it's not a cold, then it's damaged your lungs. Conditions are limited at the moment, so I'll ventilate you first. You should sit up more often. It might help with your cough."
Zhou Shengmo's eyes flickered slightly. The doctor had also told him this, but he had been in low spirits and depressed in the past few months, so he had no time to care about this.
Shen Qian turned around again, looked at him and said, "If you don't have a wheelchair, you should buy one so that you can go out and bask in the sun more conveniently in the future."
She was still waiting for his answer, but she didn't expect Zhou Shengmo to close his eyes again and ignore her.
Shen Qian: “…”
How did the original owner have two children with such a wooden man?
She complained wildly in her mind.
I heard the man mutter, "Wheelchairs are hard to buy. I need someone to bring them from Shanghai, and they're four or five hundred yuan, which is really expensive. I don't want to buy one, and even if I do, I can't get out. This is on the third floor."
He obviously didn't want to talk anymore, so Shen Qian stopped arguing with him and came out of the bedroom.
Chen Qian was thinking in his mind, wheelchairs are so expensive at this time, four or five hundred is equivalent to the annual income of an average family.
But for a disabled person, without a wheelchair she would be trapped in bed. Zhou Shengmo was willing to give her the three thousand yuan directly, but was reluctant to buy a wheelchair for himself to improve his life.
Of course, one of the reasons he mentioned was that it was inconvenient to go out because he lived on the third floor.
Shen Qian only realized at this time that they had been chatting for a long time, but why hadn't the golden finger of this world appeared yet? She was still wondering when the system spoke.
[This mission: Raise your two children, and change the wrong direction of their upbringing and their original cannon fodder fate in the original book. Goldfinger: Undetermined. Difficulty of this mission: B level.]
Shen Qian was a little puzzled. She was the cannon fodder villain in the book. As long as she didn't make trouble, the two children would not have offended the protagonist of the book in advance. Why was this world more difficult than the previous one?
The system said: [In the original book, the original owner's family, in-laws, and even the original owner herself favored sons over daughters. After the original owner's ex-husband passed away, the children were left to their mother's care. The son was pampered like a treasure, developing a lazy and gluttonous nature. His inherited wealth was squandered, while the daughter was long neglected. Later, the male protagonist schemed against her and married her to a gangster, leading a miserable life. Now that the two children are still young, if you choose not to divorce and raise the children with you, there's still a chance to reverse the situation. However, the more difficult the task, the greater the points reward for completing it.]
Shen Qian: “…”
Oh my goodness, that's how it is...
Therefore, she made the right move by not getting a divorce. At least the system did not say that her ex-husband himself was patriarchal, so the difficulty of the task was still controllable.
Although the monthly subsidy was not much, in the 1980s when the average monthly income per capita was only a few dozen yuan, Zhou Shengmo was considered lucky to get 150 yuan a month. It was enough to cover the food, clothing, and living expenses of a family of four and the upbringing of two children.
It’s just… it’s enough now, but it won’t be enough in ten years. The future is an era of rapid change, and she doesn’t want to sit back and enjoy all the money.
As for Zhou Shengmo, although he is disabled, he is the biological father of the children after all. With him around, completing the task should be less difficult.
Just as Shen Qian was about to ask the system about his golden finger in this world, he heard the system say:
[You currently have 1000 points, and you can choose your own cheat code in the points mall.]
Shen Qian was shocked. It turned out that starting from the second world, the golden finger could be purchased in the mall.
She quickly opened the mall in her mind to check. There were many types of cheats in the mall, and everything was available.
She was very satisfied with the super-rich system that appeared in the previous world. With such a universal golden finger, why would she still worry about not being able to make money in the 1980s?
However, after she found the Godly Rich System, she saw that the Godly Rich System, which exchanges the favorability of the target for investment funds, actually requires 100,000 points to redeem!
Oh my god! This is simply a money grab!
[In the previous world, you were still a novice, so you were given a free trial. Cheats in the Points Mall are priced based on their functionality. Currently, the missions in this world are not very difficult, so you can choose not to redeem any cheats and save your points to use in more difficult missions. If you don't use cheats, you'll earn more points by completing missions.]
Shen Qian screened through the 1,000 points in her hand. The only golden fingers she could buy at the moment were the food stall system, which could be exchanged for cooking skills based on the stall sales, and the traditional Chinese medicine system, which could give her various rewards after treating patients.
She can cook all kinds of delicious food, so the food stall system is a bit useless. As for the traditional Chinese medicine system, she has worked as a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner in previous missions, but she has no medical background in this world. Rashly choosing this cheat will cause a big bug, and she needs to frequently explain to others where her medical skills come from.
Shen Qian thought about it and closed the points mall. She didn't plan to buy any cheat codes in this world, so she would keep the points as long as possible.
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