Chapter 126 It’s all Han Suijing’s fault

All of a sudden, several pairs of eyes in the kitchen were filled with surprise and looked out the door.

Now even Zhai Ximo knew that his mother favored his elder brother the most. When she heard that his elder brother wanted to go with them to such a faraway unit, she was panicked.

Mrs. Liu rushed in angrily, pointed at Zhai Qingsong and screamed, "Qingsong! You have to take care of me until the end of my life. I won't allow you to follow me to the army."

"Mom, you are only in your fifties and can still farm for a few more years. When I come back from Yun Province, I will not go anywhere else and will take care of you until the end of your life." Zhai Qingsong said with a serious face.

"No! I don't allow you to go, do you hear me?"

Mrs. Liu was completely panicked, especially afraid that her eldest son would be taken away.

Rushing to Zhai Qingsong, she raised her hand and pounded on his shoulder, crying and cursing: "Who on earth instigated you to do this? Going to such a far place, if something happens to you, how can I, as a mother, survive?"

"Hiss." Zhai Ximo pursed his lips, looking impatient, "Mom! Can you say something nice? Who instigated my brother? He's almost thirty years old, and he can't make his own decisions and do something?"

"I won't listen! I won't listen to anyone. You two have bad intentions. You took Liu Xiangqin away and now you want to take Qingsong away? You are dreaming."

Wang Ziru ignored the crazy woman, walked out, and went straight back to her room to sleep.

Originally, she had been thinking about this matter seriously, wondering whether she could find a more tactful excuse to make her brother give up the idea.

I was worried that he wouldn't be able to get used to the living conditions in Yunnan Province at his age if he went out to work.

However, the more her mother-in-law slandered the couple, the more she secretly made up her mind to find a way to bring her uncle to the army no matter what.

Firstly, it will allow my uncle to start a new life. Maybe he can meet a nice woman, get married and have children.

It also lets the old man experience the loneliness and pain of not having children to take care of him!

Wang Ziru took off her clothes, crawled into the quilt, covered her head and slept comfortably, not caring how fiercely the family quarreled.

Maybe it was because I went to the city to help with cooking during the day, and because I was running back and forth, my breathing soon became even as I lay on the bed.

Even when the man went into the room with the child to sleep, she didn't wake up at all.

Zhai Ximo washed the child's face and feet, and held the child in his arms and sat at the stove. The hot fire in the stove warmed the child's little body, and the little boy rubbed his eyes, "Dad, I want to go find Mom..."

After putting the child on the bed, he rolled over and fell asleep obediently with his back to his mother.

Zhai Ximo sat alone in the stove room, warming himself by the fire, thinking about his elder brother's affairs. Finally, he decided to send a telegram to the army first, reporting on what was happening at home. If the army allowed it, his elder brother could be given a new environment, and he would surely be reborn.

After an unknown amount of time, he washed his face, got up, and went back to his room to sleep.

I blew out the kerosene lamp and found that it was pitch dark in the room. But it was already mid-March and the cold moonlight shone through the bright tiles on the roof.

This allowed him to see his wife's peaceful sleeping face more clearly.

He still remembered that when he first met her, he didn't observe her appearance carefully.

Upon careful observation, he found that his wife was not only beautiful, but also had a faint body fragrance that kept him awake.

Wang Ziru felt someone staring at her in a daze. She suddenly woke up and saw a face in front of her. She subconsciously reached out and pushed it away, "Why are you not sleeping in the middle of the night and secretly watching me?"

"No." In the darkness, Zhai Ximo looked at his wife's tense face, frowned, and slowly lay down.

Wang Ziru then realized that she was resting her head on his arm. She was about to move away, but the man hugged her and said, "You're not thinking about that again, are you?"

"…Bao'er is asleep too, so it's not impossible." Zhai Ximo took over his wife's complaints, hugged her tightly, and asked, "What do you think about my brother's matter?"

Even a fool can understand what the man means, what else can Wang Ziru say?

"It's up to you. When Captain Tang sends us back, you go home first. I thought the eldest sister-in-law of the Luo family asked me to do something, but it turns out she wanted to tell me about my eldest brother..." Wang Ziru turned her back to the man and told him what she had heard from the eldest sister-in-law of the Luo family in a few words.

She knew very well that Zhai Ximo valued brotherly love, especially with his eldest brother who was taciturn, dull and hardworking.

My eldest brother's shortcomings are obvious, but he also has many advantages.

"In the past few years, you were not at home and I had no one to support me. So every time your mother punished me, it was my eldest brother who stood up to persuade your mother. So you asked me, who in this family treats us well? Besides you, there is my eldest brother."

The second brother and his wife never cared about such things.

They only care about whether their family of four has food to eat and clothes to wear.

Suddenly, the man hugged his wife tightly with his iron arms.

He said in a deep voice: "Leave this to me. I know what to do."

A few days ago, he was worried that his wife would go to the county town to help her brother-in-law cook and would run into the Han family. Now he has a new worry.

…

The next morning, in a gorgeous small Western-style building on the old street of the county town.

A pleasant smell of rice wafted through the small western-style building. The Han family got up very early. Except for old lady Han, everyone else in the family had to go to work.

President Han and his wife went downstairs early to have breakfast, and then took a bus to go to work at the hospital.

The only exception is the third child, Han Dixing. He works in a bank and does not have to get up early to go to work like his parents. He is always half an hour late in coming downstairs.

"Grandma, two days ago I went to Yang's house to celebrate Uncle Yang's birthday. Guess who I met?" Han Dixing walked into the dining room with a handsome figure. Seeing grandma sitting at the dining table eating breakfast, he smiled and walked over to sit down.

Old Mrs. Han lifted her curtains and glanced at her grandson. "Just tell me directly. You've kept me guessing so early in the morning."

"Hehe..." Han Dixing buttoned up his suit and sat on a mahogany chair opposite his grandmother, smiling brightly, "You're right. Even if I let you guess, you can't guess the answer."

Old Mrs. Han raised her head and looked at her grandson, "Are you talking about the marriage of Yang Weixian's eldest granddaughter?"

"You also know that Yang Weixian has always wanted to marry into our Han family, but you didn't like his eldest granddaughter. So, is he using the birthday banquet as an opportunity to embarrass you in public again?"

"No! Everyone knows that I'm dating someone, so why would I be so ignorant as to bring that up?"

"Who did you run into, kid? Your old classmate?"

"Not really," Han Dixing smiled meaningfully, "I came back a little late that day, so I didn't tell you. In fact, I didn't know until I went to Yang's house that day that Yang Xitang specially invited a chef to help them prepare a birthday banquet, but you also know that chef."

When Han Di told his grandmother that he was going to meet Wang Ziru and her brother at Yang's house, old lady Han showed some surprise on her face.

"I didn't expect that after so many years, I would still meet Sister Ziru." Han Dixing said with a smile.

Speaking of this, Mrs. Han felt upset and just continued to eat.

Han Dixing saw that his grandmother looked unhappy, so he asked cautiously, "Are you still angry with Sister Ziru for breaking off the engagement?"

"Oh, how can you blame her for this?" The old lady raised her head, tutted, and scolded her grandson from a distance, "If you want to blame someone, blame your second brother!"

"Why blame my second brother?"

"Have you forgotten? During those years, Han Suijing went to the army and rarely sent letters home for a year or two." The old lady's face was full of resentment, and she poured out everything at once. "Besides, there are female soldiers in the army. I heard that there are even female pilots."

"What's wrong with having female soldiers? There is no relationship between her and my second brother." Han Dixing thought his grandmother's idea was cute. His second brother went to the army, so he couldn't not talk and communicate with women.

"You are not a woman, so you don't understand women's minds! You said that he went to the army and didn't come home for several years. People at home didn't know what his situation was like in the army. Women instinctively felt that there was something wrong. If they met a man they could catch, wouldn't they..."

Han Dixing feels that his grandmother is the spiritual center of the Han family and never favors her grandson.

He deliberately mentioned that the Wang family broke off the engagement five years ago, just to test whether the elders were dissatisfied with it. To his surprise, not only was his grandmother not dissatisfied, but she also scolded her grandson for joining the army and not knowing how to go home to visit his family, and did not blame others for breaking off the engagement.

"Well, it seems that they are not destined to be together!" sighed the old lady, and suddenly she felt that the breakfast in front of her was no longer delicious.

Han Dixing wanted to explain for his second brother, but felt it was unnecessary. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Didn't the Yang family invite Sister Ziru to help with the birthday banquet? Yang Weixian was also very generous and asked Yang Xitang to take Sister Ziru to the Ma Tailor Shop to make two sets of clothes for her and the child as a reward."

"Well, actually, grandma, I was thinking, since Sister Ziru did nothing wrong back then, can our two families get along again?"

Mrs. Han was stunned and looked at her grandson with complicated eyes, "What do you want to do? She already has a partner."

The old lady wasn't too old to have blurry eyes, she was able to see that her face was almost blossoming with smiles when her grandson mentioned Wang Ziru, she was so happy that even her eyes and eyebrows relaxed.

Han Dixing smiled modestly, "I know about this. I heard that after she married into that family, her boyfriend went to the army to serve. He just came back to visit his family recently. It won't be long before she will also follow him to the army to serve."

"Then what do you want to express by telling me so much?" The old lady stared at her grandson helplessly.

"Oh, it's like this. My second brother had a few books at home when he was young, and he liked them very much. Every time he called me recently, he always mentioned those books to me. I was thinking, should I ask Sister Ziru to help take them to the army and give them to my second brother?"

After a while, the old lady said sullenly, "I knew you had bad intentions."

Now, I have the chance to meet that girl Wang Ziru.

However, the grandchildren's little tricks could not be hidden from the old lady's eyes. "Which books are you talking about? Where are they? Let me see them."

"Oh, grandma, these are all foreign language books, you can't understand them." Han Dixing's clear voice fell slowly.

The old lady pretended to be calm and said, "Don't cause any trouble, kid."

After having breakfast with his grandmother, Han Dixing went upstairs to his bedroom. On the desk in the room, there were several yellowed old books. They were indeed foreign language books, which his second brother had read when he was at home. But the key point was the content inside, which contained notes written by his second brother himself.

Another point is that the date on each note was written by Wang Ziru back then.

He found two pieces of brand new kraft paper and, with the skillful technique of a drugstore clerk, wrapped up the books like a thick brick. He then tied them up with a hemp rope, put them in his bag, and went downstairs to the bank to work.

Old Mrs. Han noticed that the bag in her grandson's hand seemed heavier than usual. She knew there must be something inside.

She followed Sun Zi out of the living room and asked, "Han Dixing! Are you going to look for that girl today?"