When the Li family in the county town received news of Zhou Cunming again, they knew that he had been sent to Yunnan Province by his own mother.
Li Yulan never expected that Zhou Cunming would say he liked her, but because they couldn't agree on the bride price, he actually went to join the army and never discussed marriage with her again.
Chen Suwen actually kept her word and sent her son to join the army rather than let him become her family's live-in son-in-law.
“It’s alright, he’s just a country boy. That boy is a country bumpkin who only finished junior high school and didn’t even finish high school. He’s not good enough for our Yulan.”
Hu Xiuying didn't feel sorry for Zhou Cunming at all.
He's just a country boy, why should her family be so eager to marry their daughter to him?
Their family is looking for a son-in-law to live with them, so there's no need to worry about it if the other party isn't sincere.
There are plenty of good men in the world, and plenty of men willing to be live-in sons-in-law in her family. Who does Zhou Cunming stand out from the crowd?
Although Li Yulan felt a little regretful and disappointed, just like her mother said, missing out on him was really nothing to regret.
Zhou Cunming's qualifications were not outstanding in any aspect, except that he was handsome and had a good height.
However, people from Shandong Province are naturally tall, so Zhou Cunming's height was not an advantage at this time.
Li Yulan had a good impression of Zhou Cunming, that was all; nothing more.
So when she learned that Zhou Cunming had really gone to join the army and given up the opportunity to marry her, she didn't care.
Finally, arranged by her parents, she married a young man chosen by her father.
The other person had attended high school and, through her father's arrangement, worked as a driver for a transportation team, working alongside her father.
How married life will be remains to be seen.
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After sending Zhou Cunming away, Chen Suwen and Zhou Qingyun were often teased by the villagers for sending their son away now.
They didn't even wait until the recruitment season before sending the people away.
They also wanted to ask Chen Suwen and her husband if there were any other ways for them to send their children to the army.
Their family also wanted someone to join the army.
Although soldiers are doing work that is almost like walking on knives and licking blood, the allowances are also very generous. Many families with many sons plan to send their less favored sons to the army.
Since Chen Suwen and his wife were able to send Zhou Cunming there, they must have had a way to send their son there as well, right?
"What's the point of you joining the army? There are so many procedures involved in recruiting soldiers these days. Does anyone think they can just go?"
"The reason my family was able to send Cunming over was through the path of our future son-in-law... If you can find a son-in-law who is a soldier or an officer, you can do the same."
Chen Suwen couldn't bring herself to say that she got her son into the army "because of her son-in-law."
She wasn't worried that it would affect Song Che's future.
Her son isn't a bad apple, but Song Che, the recommender, will be implicated.
Moreover, the prescriptions she had Zhou Cunming bring over were very practical and suitable for the military, so she believed that this stepping stone would allow the military to accept her son.
She also improved her son's physical fitness by giving him a medicinal bath combined with a strength-enhancing pill, which was able to develop some of Zhou Cunming's potential and make him much stronger.
Zhou Cunming used to have the strength of an average adult man, but now he can lift several hundred kilograms with one hand.
Given Zhou Cunming's physical condition and the prescription, she refused to believe that her son couldn't be enlisted in the army.
"If you don't have the ability to find a son-in-law as capable as me, then shut up. Who told me I'm so lucky to have such an outstanding daughter and to have found such an outstanding son-in-law?"
"Who told your daughters to be incompetent, not as good as my Aling?"
Chen Suwen was very satisfied with Zhou Ling, and her impression of Song Che was similar.
Chen Suwen recalled many of Zhou Cunming's problems from her previous life and hoped that after joining the army in this life, he would be influenced and trained by the army and be able to show more filial piety.
That guy put all his filial piety into his parents-in-law in his past life, and he was more biased towards his wife. When Chen Suwen and Li Yulan had conflicts, Zhou Cunming could never resolve them properly.
She only hoped that, under the influence of the soldiers in the army, this boy would understand that it was his parents who raised him, and that his parents who had been so devoted to him before he got married were the ones who truly loved him.
Don't forget your mother after you get married.
The people from the Guangming Brigade were intimidated by Chen Suwen's shamelessness.
They really couldn't find a good son-in-law like Song Che; he was not only good-looking but also a military officer.
It's truly regrettable that Zhou Ling beat them to it. Such a high-quality young man was snatched away by Zhou Ling.
"Why is Zhou Ling so lucky? Did she deliberately fall into the water to get that soldier to save her so she could force him to marry her?"
"The story about discovering human traffickers, being beaten by them, falling into the river, and being rescued by soldiers by sheer coincidence... that must be a lie, right?"
"She's an eighteen-year-old girl. Wouldn't human traffickers want to kidnap her and sell her to an old man in the mountains as a wife? Would they let her get away?"
"Since she's already knocked unconscious, we should definitely take her away. We don't need to worry about her calling for help and attracting others."
"So Zhou Ling is definitely lying. She wasn't beaten because she encountered human traffickers. She met some soldiers and used tricks to make them take responsibility for her."
"Why are you pretending to be so high and mighty now? Just seeing her makes me want to vomit... Don't you think so, Yuxue?"
Beside Zhou Yuxue, the second most beautiful woman in the Guangming Brigade, was a pretty young girl, about the same age as Zhou Yuxue.
She came out arm in arm with Zhou Yuxue, and after hearing about Zhou Cunming's situation, her envy and jealousy shifted to Zhou Ling.
If Zhou Ling hadn't had this soldier boyfriend, her second brother wouldn't have been able to join the army; he wouldn't have had any connections.
The thought of this made her even more jealous.
Looking at Zhou Yuxue's fair skin and beautiful face, she felt that Zhou Yuxue was more beautiful, and those who thought Gu Baobao was more beautiful were blind.
Zhou Yuxue lowered her eyes slightly, "Zhou Ling is lucky, what can we do? Who told us that our lives aren't as good as hers?"
Zhou Yuxue didn't have any romantic feelings for Zhou Ling, her cousin from the same clan with whom she had a rather distant relationship. She had been jealous of her, but she always felt that Zhou Ling was inferior to her, so she didn't take her seriously.
She had only seen Zhou Ling's boyfriend once from afar and had never spoken to him, so she wouldn't feel jealous at all.
But when exactly did Gu Baobao start dating her fellow educated youth from the educated youth compound?
Why didn't she receive the message?
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