"Mother-in-law, why don't you stay for a meal before you leave?"
Song Yu politely tried to persuade her to stay, but Chen Suwen was not polite at all and insisted on staying for dinner.
In the evening, Mr. and Mrs. Song returned home.
Song's father, Song Xiuming, was also a soldier. He held a high position and was quite busy, but he didn't need to go on missions as often as Song Che and the others, so he could go home every day to have dinner with his family.
Song's mother, Li Guishu, was also a soldier. She was not a civilian employee; she was a frontline combatant when she was young, and her job became easier after she rose to a higher rank.
It was because she had been on the front lines that Song Yu was born with poor health. She was injured in the early stages of her pregnancy, and Song Yu was quite strong to give birth.
"My mother-in-law is here. It's been so long!"
Li Guishu was not surprised when she saw Chen Suwen. Just because Chen Suwen hadn't come to the Song family in the past two years didn't mean she hadn't come before.
Before Zhou Ling joined the army, she would visit the Song family every few days, so Li Guishu was very familiar with her.
However, she was quite busy with work, and in the past, when Chen Suwen came over, she didn't have much time to "accompany" her mother-in-law with pleasantries.
Chen Suwen nodded to Li Guishu, "My dear in-law, you're still so busy. You're truly a role model for us women."
There are many female soldiers like Li Guishu who were once frontline combatants, but we rarely hear about them afterward.
Basically, most of the stories about soldiers I heard later were about men.
Just like in many period novels, the soldiers are mostly male, and there are very few female soldiers, and they are rarely depicted.
Chen Suwen admires Li Guishu for being able to persevere for so many years and still hold a high position.
Anyway, Chen Su asked her if she was really capable.
She could fight, but she needed political acumen to reach Li Guishu's current position, which Chen Suwen knew she couldn't do.
During the apocalypse, she was an excellent combatant, but she was neither a captain nor a member of the base's higher-ups. Wasn't that because she couldn't handle these things?
Of course, Zhou Qingyun was similar. Although he and his wife were not so easily fooled, they were not so clever as to be able to manipulate others.
It is truly admirable that Li Guishu, a woman, has achieved what she has today.
Hearing Chen Suwen's praise, Li Guishu couldn't help but smile. "My dear mother-in-law, you speak so kindly. What kind of role model am I? There are many women who are more outstanding than me."
Although Li Guishu is proud of her current achievements, she also knows that there are many people who are more outstanding than her, so she is not arrogant or complacent.
“But you are one of the outstanding women I know, and I don’t know any women who are more outstanding than you.”
Because Chen Suwen greatly admired Li Guishu, she treated Li Guishu well when they chatted, and Li Guishu enjoyed it very much. The two of them were very engrossed in their conversation.
Seeing his wife's happy expression, Song Xiuming didn't disturb her. Instead, he asked his son about his plans, "You've been transferred to the capital. What are your thoughts?"
His daughter-in-law got into Tsinghua University and is studying there. He won't interfere with her future or her plans.
But he still cared a lot about his son Song Che. He hoped that his son could take a step further after being transferred to the military region in the capital.
Song Xiuming himself will probably stay in Guangdong Province for the rest of his life, but he hopes his son can go further and achieve greater things, since he is able to go to the capital.
"What else can we do? Be conscientious and dedicated, and fulfill the duties of a soldier," Song Che replied.
Song Xiuming nodded. "You and your daughter-in-law aren't planning on having another child?"
As they chatted, Song Xiuming couldn't help but urge them to have more children. His second son already had a son and a daughter, but he still felt it wasn't enough.
The eldest son's family has four children, the third son's family has two, but the second son's family has only had two children over the years.
Song Xiuming felt it was still a bit too little.
Yes, Song Yu and Su Huiling have only been married for a little over two years and already have two children.
It's not like Song Chen and Song Qing are twins, but rather she had two children.
Although Su Huiling's situation of getting pregnant with her second child shortly after giving birth to her first child is very harmful to the mother's body.
But since they themselves don't care, Chen Suwen won't interfere too much either.
She's neither her daughter nor her daughter-in-law. If she says anything more, people will say she's meddling.
Although Zhou Ling didn't understand why her sister-in-law was so careless about her health, having a second child so soon after giving birth to her first, she knew that if she said anything, people would say she couldn't stand seeing her sister-in-law doing well.
“Dad, the family planning policy is quite strict now. I have Chen and Qing, that’s enough.” Song Che didn’t say anything about worrying about his wife’s health and preventing her from having children. Instead, he directly brought up the family planning policy.
Family planning is becoming increasingly strict, although it hasn't reached the level of the 1980s, where anyone found to have exceeded the birth limit would be fined, or pregnant women would be forced to undergo induced labor.
But it's not that there's no rumor at all. Zhou Ling didn't plan to have any more children before, but now that she's been admitted to university and will have to focus on her studies, she can't afford to get pregnant again.
Pregnancy is harmful to both body and mind, and studying is also harmful to both body and mind. Song Che doesn't want anything to happen to his wife.
He already has two children, Song Chen and Song Qing, who are both smart and healthy, so he doesn't need to have any more.
"It's not easy to raise too many children. My wife is currently in college and doesn't have a salary. My salary is just enough to support them all."
"How can we possibly raise all the children if we have more?"
Just like his older brother's four children, it's not that he can't afford to raise them with his older brother's allowance, but it's unlikely that he can raise them well.
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