Chapter 53 Chapter 53 This is a family matter, he must be firm...
Seeing Su Yan's cheerful smile, Qin Zhanwu couldn't get angry. He had almost accepted reality. What if she didn't like him? After all, there weren't many couples in the world who liked each other. Aren't they still living together?
Seeing Su Yan like this, he began to feel that maybe Su Yan didn't dislike him as much as he thought. He felt happy in his heart, but he kept a straight face and said something like this: "This is so ugly, it's stuck all over the window. I can't stand it."
Su Yan took it and stuck it on the window. Frost had formed on the window, so she didn't need any glue or anything, just blew on it and it stuck. She snorted, "Of course, a dense patch wouldn't look good, so I'll just stick one on the window across from the sofa where you're reading. That way, you'll see it when you look up, and I'll avoid getting the cold shoulder from some people."
Qin Zhanwu said, "I can't stand it. How can I concentrate on reading if I look up and see such an ugly paper-cut?"
Su Yan had just finished pasting and was picking up the scraps of paper on the table. When she heard this, she pretended to peel it off: "Forget it, since you think it's too ugly and can't stand it, I'll just tear it up!"
Qin Zhanwu hurriedly pulled her back: "Alright, let's eat. If you keep messing around for a while, the food will get cold."
Su Yan smiled and decided not to tease him anymore, lest some people get angry and embarrassed.
It gets dark early in the winter, so after dinner and a while to digest the food, the two of them washed up and went to bed. Qin Zhanwu was reading a document, and Su Yan asked him about what was going on with Lu Yingzi's sister-in-law's family: "When I got off work today, my sister-in-law came to see me and said her brother had been arrested. Do you know what happened?"
Qin Zhanwu warned Su Yan, "Her brother stole things while you were away, and he should have been caught long ago. I let it go because we were relatives and I didn't want to affect your relationship with the two children. Now you don't plan to raise them anymore. If I don't teach him a lesson, I'm afraid he'll spend all the children's living expenses. Some people are just afraid of power, not virtue. It's useless to reason with them."
Su Yan was buried in the quilt, with only her head exposed. She sighed, "I don't care what my sister-in-law and brother do, but my sister-in-law is devoted to her parents' family. I'm just worried that she can't raise the two children well. I saw Yan Zi today. She was dirty and couldn't even eat enough. She was so pitiful."
Qin Zhanwu closed the document and asked, "Can you still continue to raise the two children without any regrets?"
Su Yan remained silent and asked, "Then what should I do? If anything happens to the two children, I will feel guilty."
Qin Zhanwu snorted: "What a big and soft heart." He was indignant. Su Yan was soft-hearted to others and couldn't bear to see them suffer, but was as hard as a rock to himself. She didn't even want to go with the army. I'm afraid she was still thinking about divorce after having a child?
Su Yan didn't know why he suddenly lost his temper, so she pulled his elbow and said in a coquettish manner, "Can you give me some advice?"
Qin Zhanwu had never been able to deal with Su Yan. He said, "There's no permanent solution, but a temporary one is fine. The problem lies with your sister-in-law. As long as she's willing to be independent and stop being sucked dry by her brother, it would be easy for her salary plus the monthly pension to support two children. But your sister-in-law is already feudal to the core, and there's no way to save her, so we can only use our brother."
Su Yan asked: "What method?"
Qin Zhanwu said, "His brother is a team leader at the factory. If we keep him at the police station for a few more days and have him talk to his boss, that might help him improve his behavior. However, this is a family matter, and if he refuses to change, we can't keep an eye on him at home every day."
After hearing this, Su Yan had no better idea and had to agree.
A few days later, Miss Yang Mo called. For some reason, she had originally agreed to come for dinner, but she had agreed the night before and then returned the next day, refusing to come. She only asked He Zhixiang to bring a letter about Qin Zhanwu.
At the time, Su Yan was eating at her sister-in-law's house next door. When she heard the phone ring, she came back to answer it with a white steamed bun in her hand: "Hello!"
Yang Mo said, "Excuse me, is this Comrade Qin Zhanwu's home? I'm Yang Mo. I might have to return to Fujian early, so I can't visit you. If he has time, please ask him to come to the train station at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Please tell him, thank you."
After saying this, he immediately hung up the phone without waiting for Su Yan to reply.
The sister-in-law next door came over and asked, "Who is it? Why does the tone sound so aggressive? Judging from the voice, it's a woman."
Su Yan seemed to have heard the name Yang Mo only once, when He Zhixiang mentioned it on the night of their wedding. She didn't know anything else about it. She was not interested in it and had never asked about it.
Su Yan and her sister-in-law returned to the dining table and said, "His name is Yang Mo. I think he's someone Zhanwu knew from his time in the Fujian army. I'm not too sure. He called and said he was going back to Fujian and asked Zhanwu to see him off. I think?"
The sister-in-law next door knew more about the situation than Su Yan herself. She was surprised and said, "Why did she call me? She's already married, and she's not ashamed of herself as a grown woman."
While bringing a bowl of porridge to Su Yan, he said, "You better be careful. Although we PLA soldiers are under the supervision of the organization and dare not easily violate discipline, it is not good to be watched by others. Don't you know that Yang Mo is an old acquaintance of your husband?"
As he spoke, he gave a brief introduction to Yang Mo, saying that she was the daughter of a certain leader and a nurse in a military hospital. He had also asked the leader to introduce her to someone, but Qin Zhanwu did not agree.
The sister-in-law next door said, "Isn't your husband going back to Fujian in a few days? You'd better go with the army."
Are you going to Fujian in a few days? Su Yan didn't hear what Qin Zhanwu said, and only said to her sister-in-law: "I'm afraid I can't go. I went to the hospital today, and the doctor said I'm pregnant for just over a month." In fact, it has been more than two months, but it can only be said to be one month.
The sister-in-law next door said happily: "You young people have such good bodies. If you want a child, just do it." After saying that, she forgot to continue talking about Yang Mo.
When Su Yan returned, she heard her say, "When I came back this afternoon, the guard said there was a letter for you."
Letter? Su Yan thought about it and couldn't believe that anyone in the 1960s could write to her. She passed by the security guard on her way home from work and didn't see any letter for her on the blackboard. She walked up to the security guard on the first floor and asked, "Comrade, is there any letter for me?"
The man on duty was a man in his sixties who recognized Su Yan. "There is a letter from Shanghai, but Deputy Commander Qin took it away for you at noon. Why don't you go back and ask?"
Su Yan thanked him and walked towards home. Just then, she saw Qin Zhanwu coming from the corridor and asked, "The guard said there was a letter for me. Did you get it back?"
Qin Zhanwu nodded expressionlessly, walked into the house, took out a letter from the drawer and handed it to Su Yan.
Su Yan took it and saw that the address on it was Shanghai Normal University, while her own address was Jiangzhou Machinery Factory. Perhaps because Su Yan had recently been in charge of subscribing to newspapers and sending telegrams for the machinery factory, she was already very familiar with the post office, and they actually forwarded the machinery factory's letters to the military academy.
Su Yan felt that Qin Zhanwu was acting strangely today. Just as she was about to ask him about his trip to Fujian, she saw him pick up his things and was about to leave again.
Su Yan asked him where he was going, but he didn't answer. He just said that he would not be back for dinner in the evening and told Su Yan to go to bed early.
Su Yan picked up the letter. The envelope was intact and had never been opened. She took a pair of scissors and cut it open, and a photo fell out.
Su Yan picked it up. It was a black-and-white photo of Lu Yingzi and a boy. They were very close together, heads touching, with happy smiles on their faces. Both were wearing white shirts. If the photo wasn't so large, it could have been used as a marriage registration photo.
Su Yan turned it over and saw a line of words written on the back of the photo - When will we cut the candle in the west window together and talk about the night rain in Bashan?
Su Yan sat on the sofa, poured a cup of tea, and then opened the letter that was folded into a square. Inside was a small lantern cut out of red paper. It was the size of a palm and the craftsmanship was exquisite. It looked much better than the level of Su Yan's handicraft class.
Su Yan read the letter——
Dear Yingzi:
Have you returned home? How are you doing? I miss you all the time and want to know how you are doing.
I'm not sure if you will receive this letter, I just tried to send it to where your parents work, hoping that you can really see my feelings. When we graduated, you resolutely told me that you were going back to Jiangzhou and would definitely work in Jiangzhou in the future. If I can't go to Jiangzhou with you, then we will be separated forever.
I'm deeply sorry for my hesitation and for hurting you. I know your dream is to be a teacher, and I support your return to Jiangzhou. I have good news for you: I've already applied for a transfer. If nothing goes wrong, we'll be able to meet again next year when the peach blossoms bloom. Then, we can hold hands and watch the peach blossoms bloom by the river.
Dear Yingzi, if you receive this letter, please write me back to let me know that you are safe.
Finally, I hope that my promise can be exchanged for yours. I will send you the red lantern you want.
Signed at the end——Miss you
Su Yan's head hurt as she read. She flipped the envelope over and saw the sender's name—Chu Si. Su Yan didn't know this person at all. He looked like Lu Yingzi's former boyfriend. He said in the letter that he was transferring to Jiangzhou next year.
Su Yan took a sip of water to calm herself down, wondering whether she should write a reply letter, telling him that she was married and asking him not to come to Jiangzhou.
But it seemed that this person was very familiar with Lu Yingzi. My handwriting was completely different from Lu Yingzi's. If I rashly wrote a reply letter, I wondered if it would arouse suspicion? But if I didn't tell this person that I was married, I was afraid that he would really come to Jiangzhou to find me.
Su Yan and Lu Yingzi look alike, but that's only to outsiders. Lu Yingzi has a small mole between her eyebrows, Su Yan doesn't; Lu Yingzi has a birthmark on her stomach, Su Yan doesn't; Lu Yingzi likes salty foods, while Su Yan prefers lighter ones. Anyone familiar with Lu Yingzi would have no reason not to doubt these things.
Su Yan was just relying on the fact that people who knew Lu Yingzi were not around, or that they had no contact with each other like her sister-in-law, so she barely managed to avoid suspicion.
Su Yan couldn't help but sweat. How could she tell him not to come?
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