Chapter 962 The Returnee's Notes 36
"You shouldn't stay in the human world any longer."
Even though she didn't know where ghosts went, the old lady talked about the underworld and the reincarnation of ghosts, but she herself had never seen it.
Xie Ning felt the same way, but she chose to believe.
For some reason, Xie Yuanfeng felt as if he were facing his superior officer when he stood in front of Xie Ning, this young girl.
“I just wanted to see her, to see Coco Lin.”
Perhaps it was that lingering attachment that brought him to her side, but the more he held onto it, the more heartbroken Xie Yuanfeng became.
Because he went to the battlefield with his unit, he returned home two years late, and then he saw that the woman he had chosen as his lover had become someone else's wife and had a child.
Xie Yuanfeng almost went crazy when he saw Lin Wen carrying her child while herding cattle. If she had married well, it would have been fine, but her husband was not only incompetent, but also gambled and abused his wife. Moreover, he didn't care about her and had another woman in his heart.
But in that era, what right did I have to take people back?
Xie Yuanfeng knew very well that Lin Wen had already waited for him for an extra year. In fact, if she had waited just one more month... just one more month would have been enough, and then his letters would have been sent back.
But there are no "what ifs" in life; once a chance is missed, it's gone.
Lin Wen herself could wait, but the gossip around her and the pressure from her family made her unable to wait.
If she didn't get married, she would have nowhere to go, because her sister-in-law couldn't tolerate her and kicked her out of the house. That's why her mother hurriedly chose a marriage for her.
None of them expected that the family Lin Wen married into would be so poor, and that everything she said before she married into the family was a lie.
But she had already married him, and there was no turning back.
Everyone advised her to follow her husband wherever he went, that life was all about making do, and that it was just a matter of being poor and having a fierce husband. They said that in the village, which husband didn't beat his wife?
"...Actually, she had thought about divorce and had even gone back to her parents' home. She was almost beaten to death there, but then she saw her husband taking her three children out for vaccinations. The children were crying so hard, it was so pitiful... She's always been soft-hearted. She doesn't love that man, but she loves her children."
So I've endured it until now.
Xie Ning turned her gaze to Lin Wen, Xiao Liu's mother, and seemed to see many people.
"If only I had insisted on taking her with me back then." At that time, he couldn't accept Lin Wen getting married, and he couldn't bring himself to steal someone else's wife. So he ignored his family's advice to get married and continued to fight on the battlefield, dedicating his life to the country.
The roar of artillery shells seemed to still echo in his ears, but when he opened his eyes, he saw the person he had been longing for day and night. However, this did not make him feel any better; it only intensified the pain in his heart.
Because what he saw was not the happy Coco Lin, but Coco Lin crushed by life and wantonly beaten by her in-laws.
Even though it was painful, he didn't want to leave.
“You have your own path to walk. Staying in this world will only harm yourself and Lin Wen. Since you still have some consciousness left, you should leave as soon as possible.”
After a pause, Xie Ning opened the umbrella and continued, "Do you want to see her?"
Actually, if Xie Yuanfeng wanted Lin Wen to see him, he didn't need Xie Ning's help.
"No, why hurt her? She's suffered enough." Words are like knives; over the years, even a thousand cuts wouldn't be enough.
In the end, Xie Yuanfeng did not follow Lin Wen away. Instead, he stood under Xie Ning's umbrella and went to a deserted roadside. Xie Ning took out an old military uniform, which he had worn in the base area, and burned it for Xie Yuanfeng.
"You always have to leave with some dignity. Look how spirited you are now."
Xie Yuanfeng seemed to realize something, then gave Xie Ning a military salute and gradually disappeared.
Take care on your journey.
Xie Ning returned the salute, his gaze passing over Xie Yuanfeng as if he saw even more people. Even after the founding of the nation, wars did not cease. In order to safeguard the integrity of the country's territory and sovereignty, tens of thousands of soldiers rushed to the battlefield.
A nation's peace is never given by others.
The wind stirred up the paper money, making it rise and fall, until it drifted to a mother and daughter. Lin Wen subconsciously looked behind her, feeling a sense of melancholy for some reason.
Xiao Liu, carrying a bag of meat, stopped in her tracks upon seeing this. "Mom, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing, it just feels like something's missing..."
"Impossible! I checked very carefully; nothing is missing!"
"Mom, you just said you were the best in your brigade, that you could throw grenades far and accurately, and that you were a great shot, so why didn't you join the army?"
“Your mother is too short to fit in.”
......
The old lady next door said I have a younger brother and an older sister. Is that true?
"Yes, they were all miscarried. We couldn't afford to raise them, and the authorities wouldn't let us have any more. You were all conceived by accident, but these four children are enough to slap those people in the face."
"Um?"
“Your mother fell into the water when she was a child, and everyone said that I could not have children. I didn’t get married until I was over 20 because no one wanted me.”
Actually, she was waiting for someone, but it was only a month short. Lin Wen thought of that young man who always loved to laugh. Did he know how hard she was going through?
He probably didn't know, since he left a long time ago.
Every year, the orchids bloom vibrantly through wind and rain, but the person who watched them with me is nowhere to be found anymore.
What's missed is missed; there's never a turning back on the path of life.
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