Chapter 168 His Mother Is Different From Others
Jiang Si recalled that Su's father had only made a few whistleblower calls to falsely accuse her, and was sentenced to five years of labor reform.
At that time, she was quite surprised, thinking that she would only be sentenced to a year and a half at most.
Later, Huo Tingzhou explained it to her. It turned out that in this era, military families were regarded as the strongest support for soldiers, and infringing on the rights and interests of military families would directly affect the morale of the army.
On a larger scale, this poses a potential threat to national defense capabilities.
Therefore, in cases like Xu's, where two people died and one was seriously injured, even if the other party was her mother-in-law, it is not a reason for her to escape punishment.
In an instant, many possibilities flashed through Jiang Si's mind.
But regardless of the possibility, it all comes down to Sister Xu not pursuing the matter.
Whether the decision not to pursue the matter was due to Xu's own consideration for family harmony or Lei's deliberate cover-up remains unknown.
Although subconsciously I felt that Deputy Commander Lei didn't seem like the kind of person who would be indecisive.
But Jiang Si had only met him once, and her understanding of Deputy Commander Lei was limited to knowing that such a person existed.
Jiang Si had no idea what kind of person he was in private.
Hu Meili seemed to be thinking about something, and her face turned quite pale. After a long while, she sighed.
Just as she was about to speak, a woman's voice came from outside.
"It's not that the military doesn't want to punish, but that they lack evidence."
As soon as she finished speaking, Xu Mingjuan walked in carrying a knife of meat.
She handed the meat to Weidong and said with a smile, "The pork belly is pretty good today. I managed to snag a piece. I'll make you one of my specialties for lunch later—twice-cooked pork."
This piece of meat must weigh two or three pounds; Wei Dong dared not accept it.
He only took the meat after Hu Meili spoke up.
The second son quickly moved a stool over, "Auntie, please sit down..."
Before he could finish speaking, the second son's eyes suddenly widened.
There were two schoolbags on the table.
"Brother, look! A schoolbag!"
"I heard it, I heard it."
Wei Dong touched his ear. "I'm not deaf. Could you please not shout into my ear next time?"
The second son nodded vigorously.
Then he looked at his mother with disbelief.
"Mom, where did this backpack come from?!"
Was he dreaming?
Thinking this, he pinched his older brother without a second thought.
"hiss--"
Seeing his older brother's face contorted in pain.
The second child breathed a sigh of relief; at least it wasn't a dream.
As if he had just thought of something, he immediately ran over and hugged Hu Meili's neck.
"Mom, I declare that from today onwards, you are the best mom in the world!"
"I will never make you angry again. I will do whatever you ask me to do."
Hu Meili was so tightly embraced by him that she almost couldn't breathe, and she slapped him across the face.
"Get your turtle claws off my neck!"
"Okay." The second son kept his word and was very obedient.
Perhaps feeling that his sincerity was not enough, he added another sentence while standing at attention.
"Mom, I promise I'll get at least 60 points next semester!"
Is getting a score of 60 something to be proud of?
Hu Meili was so angry she laughed. "With grades like yours, what do you even need a schoolbag for?"
The younger child's face instantly turned sour. "Then I'll try my best, okay? Can't I get 65 points next semester? Or 66?"
66 is already the limit; any more and it will kill him.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Si and Xu Mingjuan couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Hu Meili said, "But you have to work hard next semester, otherwise you'll be letting your Aunt Jiang down."
The second child: "Aunt Jiang?"
Hu Meili nodded loudly, "This schoolbag was carried back all the way from Beijing by your Aunt Jiang. Hurry up and thank your aunt."
The two brothers were taken aback for a moment, then quickly said to Jiang Si, "Thank you, Auntie."
Jiang Si smiled and nodded.
Hu Meili thought the two brothers were in the way, so she handed them her schoolbag.
"You have ten minutes to do whatever you want. After that, wash the vegetables in the kitchen."
"Okay, mission accomplished!"
After the two brothers returned to the house, Jiang Si looked at Xu Mingjuan with an embarrassed expression.
They were talking about someone else's family affairs, and the person in question overheard them.
"Sister-in-law, I'm so sorry," Jiang Si said.
Xu Mingjuan was stunned for a moment, then immediately smiled and said.
"What's the big deal? Our family's little affair has been the talk of the town in the compound for a long time."
"It's just that you arrived late and didn't know these things."
Speaking of this, Hu Meili interjected, "You know about that old hag's visit, right?"
"Yes, I heard it from people at work," Xu Mingjuan replied casually.
Thinking about the topics they hadn't finished discussing, she sighed.
She then spent a few minutes explaining in detail about her in-laws' family.
“Lei is the second oldest in his family. They have many children, and they’ve always lived a very frugal life.”
“He was always one of the top students in school, but his parents said they couldn’t afford to support so many children, so they stopped him from continuing his studies.”
"Fortunately, he was lucky. The following year, he was selected for the national conscription."
"But despite such a good thing, no one in the family was happy for him. His parents even wanted him to give the spot to his younger brother."
“Lei Zi didn’t agree because his parents hadn’t allowed him to come home for several years because of this.”
“If it weren’t for his hard work and the several merits he made that led to his promotion, his parents would never have acknowledged him.”
"Don't laugh at me, Sister Si, but before I married Lei Zi, he had no savings at all, except for a few changes of clothes."
Jiang Si found these words unbelievable.
Hu Meili was also extremely surprised, "Your Lei Zi's salary is not low."
The benefits and salary of the radar regiment were second only to those of the flight regiment.
Moreover, Deputy Regiment Commander Lei has been on many missions over the years, so how could he not have a single penny in savings?
"The salary isn't low, but it can't keep up with the fact that their family has five bottomless pits."
At this point, Xu Mingjuan's voice suddenly choked up.
"After his father passed away, his mother would find all sorts of ways to ask him for money, saying how difficult it was for her as a widow raising several children."
"She also said that Lei Zi is the only one in the family who is capable. If he doesn't help the family, how can she support such a large family on her own?"
"Lei Zi is soft-hearted. Before getting married, he sent all the money he had left home except for some for his own food expenses."
He told me about these things when we first started dating.
"He also told me everything about my parents' side."
“By then, his house in his hometown had already been built, and his younger siblings had all started their own families. He told his mother that after he got married, he would only send money back to support his family in his old age.”
Jiang Si asked, "Then his mother can't agree, right?"
Xu Mingjuan nodded: "But his mother is different from others. If this were given to other old ladies, they would definitely scold him for being an ingrate and for forgetting his mother after getting married. But his mother didn't say a word, nor did she come to the army to cry, make a scene, or threaten suicide."
"When we got married, she gave me a silver bracelet, and I was so touched."
"I still feel quite guilty, because I thought too badly of people before."
"After all, Lei Zi is also her own flesh and blood. It's really not easy for a woman like her to raise these children."
"So when I got pregnant and she offered to come and take care of me, I softened and agreed."
"In the months after she moved in, she took good care of me every day and cooked me different delicious meals every day."
"Everyone in the family compound says I'm so lucky to have such a good mother-in-law."
"I was stupid too, I actually believed it."
"It's funny to think about it now. Their whole family was used to asking for money."
"Now that Lei has cut off their source of livelihood, how could they possibly be willing to accept it?"
"But... I just didn't expect this person to be so ruthless."
Since entering the house, Xu Mingjuan had been suppressing her emotions.
Even when she was very sad, she only choked up twice, but at this moment she could no longer hold back.
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