Chapter 199 The True Meaning of Marriage
Su Wan smiled and nodded. After thinking for a while, she couldn't help but ask, "Other people have wives and children, and they all have warm beds. Don't you want to have children sooner?"
"A child can only be born when our relationship is good. Our relationship is fine now, but as a father, I hope she can be born when we are ready, and I don't think now is the best time."
After saying that, Chen Yuan held Su Wan's hand tightly. "Wan Wan, marrying me has already made you feel very wronged. How can I let you get pregnant and have a child alone? I hope I can participate in the days of nurturing a new life together."
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Marriage is a matter between two people, and having and raising children is naturally a matter between two people.
Su Wan's eyes were sore.
She actually thought a lot during this period, and felt that it was not impossible to have a child under special circumstances, especially what her sisters-in-law said, which she still remembered in her heart.
If something really happened to Chen Yuan, she would definitely regret not leaving him a descendant.
As if he could see what Su Wan was thinking, Chen Yuan patted the back of her hand.
"I know many people in the compound say they want to give their men a child, to leave behind an heir, in case something goes wrong while they're on a mission and let them down. But I didn't marry you just to have you bear a child. At the very least, I shouldn't let you bear the hardship of childbirth and raising a child alone, so don't worry about it. Trust me, I'll be fine, and we'll have children when the time comes."
"I……"
As Su Wan spoke, her voice became even more choked up. "You've been so good to me. I don't know what to say now. I always feel like I haven't done enough."
"Whether you're a wife or a daughter-in-law, you've done an exceptional job. Don't underestimate yourself, and don't listen to what others say. In my heart, you truly are the best in the world."
Chen Yuan gently wiped away the tears from the corners of Su Wan's eyes.
His eyes were gentle and affectionate, as if he wanted to drown her in tenderness and protect her gently.
Su Wan hummed softly and reached out to hug Chen Yuan's waist tightly.
"You're so nice to me, I really feel pressured."
"You are my wife. If I don't treat you well, who should I treat well?"
Chen Yuan sighed softly, "I told you, you don't have to feel too burdened. In my heart, you deserve the best."
He patted Su Wan's back and said, "If we have to care about who contributes more in the family, then you are the one who contributes more at all times. I can't just take advantage of it and think you're not doing well. Other men don't have my good luck to find a wife who can make money and treat her in-laws well."
After saying that, Su Wan also laughed.
She leaned in Chen Yuan's arms and felt very comfortable.
Recalling something, she asked, "What day is it today?"
"May 26th."
"Was there an earthquake in Shanghai a few days ago?"
"There was indeed an earthquake, and it was quite large. Why are you asking about this all of a sudden?"
Su Wan replied dryly, "It just suddenly occurred to me that this happened. I've been living in a daze these days and felt like I'd forgotten something. I only just remembered it now."
According to my memory, the earthquake occurred on the night of the 21st, and it seems that the trajectory has not changed.
That means the Olympics can't be wrong either.
Thinking of the sensation of winning the first gold medal at the Olympics, she felt that the sportswear brand should be a sure thing.
After all, we invested two million in goods. If they are not available, the money will not be wasted, but the goods will definitely not be sold that quickly.
Chen Yuan didn't think much about it, he just felt that Su Wan was concerned about those things.
In the next few days, Chen Yuan rested and recovered from his injuries.
Su Wan stewed chicken soup for him every day and told his brothers the news of his discovery. Only then did she feel at ease to continue taking care of him in the army.
During this period, all the sisters-in-law came to the house to inquire about Chen Yuan's situation. Sister-in-law Wei even brought a slaughtered chicken.
In June, the weather in Guangdong Province is getting hotter.
The early-ripening watermelons had already started to be sold. Su Wan drove out early in the morning and bought a few snakeskin bags of watermelons. He also exchanged all his meat coupons for pork and bought two bighead carps weighing seven or eight kilograms.
She wanted to give a watermelon to every household. After all, when her sisters-in-law came a few days ago, they brought some eggs or vegetables they grew, so she had to return the favor.
She took three watermelons and gave them to the sentry, and then sent them out one by one. She even gave two more to Mrs. Wei.
When she carried the watermelons up again, there were only two bags left.
Chen Yuan is still recuperating at home. The military doctor comes every day to change the dressing. His legs have improved a lot in the past two days, and at least he can move around for a while.
When she went in, Chen Yuan was sitting on the sofa watching TV.
When he saw her coming in with a watermelon, he wanted to help, but was stopped by Su Wan.
"Your leg injury has only just healed. You can't do heavy work now, as it will affect your leg injury."
"It's only now that I can be pampered like this in the army. I'm not that pampered on normal days. Don't worry, my legs are fine. Even if you asked me to go to the battlefield right now, I can..."
Before he could finish his words, he saw Su Wan's aggrieved expression and was instantly speechless.
"It's my fault. I shouldn't have neglected my legs. Don't worry, I'll rest now."
Hearing this, Su Wan's expression looked better.
She took the watermelons out of the bag one by one and placed them in a cool corner.
"Do you want to eat some watermelon now? I'll cut you some slices."
"You must be tired after going out so early. Sit down and rest for a while. I'm not in a hurry to eat watermelon."
"I also bought some meat and fish. I'll make you a fish head and tofu soup. I think you seem to be tired of chicken soup these past few days, so I'd like to give you a change of pace."
"It's not that I'm tired of it, it's just that I drink chicken soup every day, and my sisters-in-law say I've eaten all the chickens in the compound."
This is not an exaggeration at all. Su Wan buys a chicken every day to nourish Chen Yuan. The sisters-in-law don't raise many chickens, but seeing how much Su Wan loves her husband, other people in the compound are very envious and say that Deputy Commander Chen has married a good wife.
When the other sisters-in-law heard this, they also felt mixed emotions.
If they have money, they will naturally be willing to give it to men!
But they don't have that much money on a daily basis. Not only do they have to send their salary back to their husband's family, but they also have to support the family and save some for their children's dowry in the future. They wish they could split every penny into three parts.
Everyone knew that Su Wan was not short of money. She opened a clothing store and her business was very good. This was no secret in the military camp.
The other sisters-in-law also wanted to, but they didn't have the ability to do so.
"That's because you feel sorry for me. Look at how much weight I've gained in over a week. You can tell how good my wife is to me."
Chen Yuan had been injured many times before, how could he have received such good treatment?
Basically, he ate better when he had just had surgery and had someone to take care of him. After he was discharged from the hospital, he ate the army's communal meals. Now he can't gain weight even if he wants to. The little weight he has gained is because Su Wan has done her best to buy him various blood-boosting supplements.
"You are my man, if I don't feel sorry for you, who should I feel sorry for?"
Su Wan finished speaking cheerfully, and Chen Yuan suddenly asked, "Has Sister Wei returned to work at the clothing store?"
"Well, Captain Wei hasn't been on many missions since he came back. She said she felt sick when she saw Captain Wei and Wang Mei flirting with each other. Her injuries are almost healed, so she wants to stay at the hotel."
There are two shop assistants in the store. Mrs. Wei is the store manager this time. When she is not busy, Xiaohua will help out. Su Wan is not worried.
Whenever there is something happening in the store these days, Su Jianguo will call her and ask for her opinion.
Even when he was not in the store, Su Wan was still in charge of the overall situation.
"That's fine. Instead of being bullied here, it's better to live in the store. Besides, Wei Ping doesn't seem to have restrained himself recently. I heard that a sister-in-law saw them interacting, and he doesn't back down at all."
"Why don't you punish him?"
Su Wan felt very angry, but helpless.
"It's usually impossible to get involved in family matters too much. It's not that the higher-ups don't want to intervene, but who can say for sure what's going on between a couple? They're having such an ugly fight right now. What if things suddenly get better one day? What do you think the leader should do?"
This kind of thing is not without precedent. When two people are not on good terms, they really fight to the death and both say that they don't want to live with each other.
But if the two of them really want to be together again one day, they will say that the leaders above are meddling in their affairs.
In the end it will only make things difficult for the leader, who will be unpopular both inside and outside.
"But what Wei Ping did was already a crime."
Su Wan spoke angrily.
"It's hard for ordinary people to define this kind of thing, let alone a company like ours. Unless Wei Ping wants a divorce, the entanglement between them will only get deeper and deeper, not to mention they have a son together."
"This is so unfair to women."
"So, don't get married too early. Having children is also the right choice. Men say a lot of nice things when they first get married, but people's hearts need time to test. You don't need to have children too early. You must make sure that this person can truly love and care for you for the rest of your life. It's not too late to have more."
"You're saying that... Aren't you afraid that I might do the same to you later?"
Su Wan raised her eyebrows and asked him.
Chen Yuan held her hand and shook his head gently. "No matter what time it is, I will let you test me. But if you think I'm not a man you can entrust your life to, you can point it out at any time, and I will reflect on what I have done."
He spoke so seriously that Su Wan was stunned.
After a long while, she replied, "You are so serious that I don't know what to say."
"Women are inherently the weaker party in marriages. Many people think that bearing children is a woman's nature, but that's no reason for us men to look down on it. It's just that Wei's wife and others give too much and don't let their men participate, so they feel like they're the only ones contributing at home."
"Giving their wives a few dozen yuan a month seems like they've fulfilled their responsibilities and obligations as husbands."
"So, you should never have such thoughts in the future. A good family requires the joint efforts of both husband and wife. The birth and growth of a child require the father's participation, not your unilateral efforts and responsibilities."
Su Wan felt like her heart was about to stop, and there was a bit more admiration and love in her eyes when she looked at Chen Yuan.
Even though people have been calling for gender equality and women holding up half the sky since the 1980s, many people do not think women can accomplish anything great. They rather regard women as their accessories.
After a heart-to-heart talk between the two, Su Wanzhen felt that Chen Yuan was a rare good man.
His respect for women is truly ingrained in his bones, and every time we chat, he is so gentle and emotionally stable.
Until mid-June, Su Wan was with Chen Yuan in the army.
On June 17, Su Jianguo called her.
"Little sister, the sportswear pattern is ready, do you want to come over and take a look?"
"When are we going?"
"If you're not busy, these two days are fine. I have time these two days."
"Then I'll go over tomorrow. Chen Yuan is out training the new recruits. I'll talk to him when he comes back."
Su Jianguo clicked his tongue twice, "You are now under the strict supervision of your husband. How is your brother-in-law's health these days?"
"He's fine now, and his leg is almost healed. As long as he takes good care of himself in the near future, he'll be fine."
Hearing this, Su Jianguo also breathed a sigh of relief.
During this period, they were all worried that something might happen to Chen Yuan's legs.
After hanging up the phone, Su Wan put the chicken in the pot and stewed some chicken soup. She then cut the eggplant and soaked it in water before picking the beans.
Lin Wu is coming home for lunch today, so she has to cook a few more dishes.
After picking the vegetables, she took the flour and prepared to make dumplings.
She was not idle during this period in the compound. When she had nothing to do, she followed the sisters-in-law in the compound to learn how to make buns, dumplings, and prepare fillings.
After hard work, the buns and dumplings she makes now taste very good. Even Chen Yuan praised her for her ability after eating them a few times.
This morning she went to buy five pounds of mutton, intending to make dumplings.
Chop the mutton and green onions together, then add some seasonings to remove the fishy smell, and the taste will be very good.
When rolling out the dough, she also added some lard, which made the dumpling skin more chewy and less likely to break, and the cooked dumplings were whiter, plumper and more delicious.
After she finished wrapping the dumplings, she fried the vegetables first.
The weather is hot, so it doesn’t matter if you prepare the dishes in advance, they will still be hot after waiting for half an hour.
By the time she had finished cooking the dishes and brought them to the table, and was boiling the dumplings, Chen Yuan and Lin Wu had arrived. Not only Lin Wu had come, but also the political commissar and several regiment commanders and deputy regiment commanders who were standing behind her.
They looked at Su Wan and politely called out, "Comrade Su Wan."
"The chief is here, hurry up and sit down!"
Su Wan quickly asked them to sit down. "I'll just cook two more dishes. You guys eat first. My dumplings will be ready soon."
With Chen Yuan in charge, Su Wan quickly put all the dumplings into the pot and cooked them.
Five pounds of mutton was used to make about three hundred dumplings. Because there were so many people, she cooked all the dumplings and sliced the fish she had eaten in the afternoon to make boiled fish.
Everyone sat down at the table only after she had prepared the food.
Looking at the table full of fragrant food, the political commissar joked, "Comrade Su Wan's cooking skills are getting better and better. We can hold a cooking competition in our army someday, and she will definitely take first place."
"I can't do that. My sisters-in-law are better than me, so I can only do my best."
Everyone happily began discussing. A bit drunken, Deputy Head Wu lamented, "Looking back now, reform and opening up was truly the right decision. At least we can eat and wear warm clothes now. Thinking back to when we were starving, it's hard to believe we can still live so comfortably and even enjoy a drink."
"That's not true. When I was little, I never had enough to eat. Even during Chinese New Year, we rarely ate meat, and we couldn't eat as much as we wanted. Now, although I can't eat whatever I want, at least I have enough food to eat."
Everyone has experienced hard times, so they feel satisfied as long as they have enough to eat.
When they first joined the army, they had to eat sweet potatoes if they wanted to have enough to eat.
You can only eat rice and steamed buns when doing tasks, because eating sweet potatoes will cause you to fart easily, which will easily expose your position when doing tasks.
When talking about those difficult days in the past, there is a subtle sadness and bitterness mixed in with the laughter.
Everyone knows that the future will get better and better, but they dare not gamble, so the actions to crack down on smugglers are getting stronger and stronger, and they also hope to eliminate those forces as soon as possible to ensure healthy development in the future.
After eating and drinking enough, everyone left.
Su Wan was about to clean up the dishes but was stopped by Chen Yuan.
"I didn't tell you in advance today, so I asked them to come back for dinner. You worked so hard to prepare so much food, so I'll take care of the cleanup. You should go and get some rest."
"I've been idle at home lately and I'm not tired at all. You should go and rest for a while. Your legs aren't fully healed yet, and standing for too long isn't good for you."
"Don't worry, I usually sit down during drills. My superiors are very concerned about me and haven't assigned me any extra tasks. I'm really not feeling unwell right now."
Chen Yuan pushed Su Wan onto the sofa before going to clean up the dishes.
Looking at his busy figure in the kitchen, Su Wan suddenly felt that such days were really happy.
After Chen Yuan finished washing the dishes, Su Wan told him that she was going to Yangcheng.
"If you have something to do, go ahead and do it. If you're in a hurry, you can leave a letter for me on the table. Your matter is also very important. Besides, you've been staying at home with me all this time, delaying many things. How can I keep you here with me all the time?"
"We are husband and wife. Making money is not as important as your health."
Su Wan spoke seriously, and Chen Yuan looked into her eyes, the love in his gaze growing deeper.
"I know you love me the most, but I hope you love yourself a little more."
Chen Yuan lowered his head and kissed Su Wan on the forehead.
The weather was too hot some time ago, and Su Wan was so hot while cooking in the kitchen that her body was drenched in sweat. She simply installed an air conditioner in the living room to ensure that both the living room and the kitchen had air conditioning.
After telling Chen Yuan about this, I cooked chicken soup in the rice cooker that night. The next day, after getting up, I served the soup and cooked rice in advance. I also fried two dishes and put them on the table before leaving.
She hadn't left the compound for a long time. Without Wang Mei deliberately picking on her, she got along very well with her sisters-in-law.
Wang Mei has been very well-behaved recently, perhaps because Wei Ping and Zhang Tao are both out on missions. She stays in her room every day and doesn't go anywhere.
Because of her affair with Wei Ping, the sisters-in-law in the compound hardly interacted with her, and naturally they didn't care when she came out.
In the summer, some things will smell bad if they are not stored properly.
Wang Mei hadn't come out to wash clothes for several days, and there was an indescribable smell in her room, like rotten eggs, which made people feel nauseous.
If it weren't for the occasional noises coming from her room, people who didn't know would have thought something had happened to her.
Wang Mei did have an accident, but it was not a matter of life or death. Rather, she had an unspeakable illness in her private parts.
She didn't know what was going on, but she had been feeling itchy somewhere on her body for a few days. When she realized something was wrong, small bumps seemed to have appeared.
At first, she just applied some medicine, but as the weather got hotter, she felt more and more uncomfortable there, especially at night when she was sleeping. She would scratch it until it almost bled but she still couldn't stop.
She is a married woman, she can't really be clueless.
Knowing that I might have a heart disease, I felt anxious and angry, so I could only take the money and go to a small clinic on the street to see a doctor.
After taking some medicine, she felt okay at first, but after two days of good days, and after having intimate relations with Wei Ping again before going on a mission, she felt that her condition seemed to be getting worse. Even after taking a shower and applying medicine, it seemed to be of no help.
Wang Mei was really panicked!
Because the doctor at the small clinic told her that she cannot have sex now, which may make her condition worse.
But she didn't take it seriously, because she felt there was nothing wrong after applying the medicine, so she was lucky.
She felt more and more uncomfortable, and she was also afraid.
She went to the small clinic again two days ago, and after the doctor examined her, he shook his head at her.
"You're taking it too seriously! Didn't I tell you not to have sex? Why didn't you listen?"
After the doctor finished speaking, he said to Wang Mei very seriously, "Your condition is very serious. We need further examinations to determine the treatment plan. The more serious the situation is, the higher the cost will be. You need to prepare two or three hundred yuan. I will do my best to cure you."
"What do you mean by trying to cure it?"
When Wang Mei heard this, her temper flared up.
For some reason, she has been in a very bad temper recently. Any little thing can ignite her, and her temper will become even more violent.
Because the medicine was too expensive, Wang Mei was reluctant to spend the money and forced the doctor to prescribe medicine for her, intending to continue applying the medicine at home.
Fortunately, Zhang Tao was extremely disappointed with her, so he sent both children to boarding school and asked Wang Bin and others to help send living expenses every month. He would not go home except during the winter and summer vacations.
In the past two days, Wang Mei felt that she seemed to be getting more and more uncomfortable. From time to time, a smell came out of her body, which was even more unpleasant than before.
When Su Wan left, she had just finished applying the medicine and was about to wash the clothes she had worn over the past few days. As she walked to the sink, the faces of the sisters-in-law around her changed when they looked at her.
The rotten smell of eggs made the sisters-in-law not even want to talk and they all ran away.
Wang Mei snorted and cursed, "What do you mean? As if I really want to chat with you guys."
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