Chapter 187 Why hasn’t he divorced yet?

Wang Ziru didn't expect her husband to persuade her as well. Although she was surprised, she smiled in a way that would not offend anyone. "Teacher Wen said that I should go home and discuss it with my sister-in-law."

"..." Zhai Ximo looked at Teacher Wen and said nothing more.

Duan Yanzhi, who was sitting not far from them, frowned. He didn't like anyone restraining his young wife's innocent romance.

If there is anyone in this world who dares to restrain her, it can only be herself. He didn't know what was going on just now. It was as if he was acting coquettishly in front of her out of habit, wanting Wang Ziru to go to the Wen family for a good meal together. He didn't really see her going to the Wen family to help cook.

"Okay! The women of the Wen family are not useless. How can they not cook?" Commander Duan scolded him irritably, and said unhappily, "Wen Yuan has a daughter who can help her mother cook."

"The commander is right. My daughter can also help her mother." Wen Yuan had offended the hot-tempered Commander Duan in some way. He did not look at the commander's expression carefully, but just followed his advice.

Han Suijing was slightly stunned. Who was it that just now yelled that the woman of the Wen family was a mess when cooking?

The wind changed direction so quickly.

He seemed a little unlike the grumpy boss he had known for years.

This little episode passed quickly.

During the meal, Wenyuan was in a particularly good mood. He teased Baoer and asked him, "Your father and mother just returned to the army and went to the front line to fight. Are you and your uncle scared at home?"

Suddenly, several pairs of eyes turned to the young man.

Baoer held a bowl of rice and sat next to her mother obediently. She blinked her bright eyes and looked left and right, "We have been hungry for several days..."

"Ah? Have you been hungry for several days?" Wen Yuan looked surprised.

Han Suijing and Duan Yanzhi also looked surprised and looked at Zhuang Jiahan who was sitting next to Baoer with a depressed look.

I thought, how can you go hungry with a child?

Han Suijing had anticipated that if she broke off the Han family's marriage proposal and married a commoner instead, she might encounter all kinds of misfortunes.

Look, even the child almost starved to death.

Zhai Ximo felt several eyes staring at him and said, "We went to Baiteng Town the night we returned to the army, and we didn't have time to buy a stove. My eldest brother didn't know the way to the town, so he must have suffered a little bit at home with the children."

"Aunt Xueru saw that we hadn't eaten, so she took us to the kitchen to eat steamed buns." The boy said loudly.

"Aunt Xueru? Is she the wife of a soldier living in the compound?" When Duan Yanzhi asked this question, the people sitting around the small table knew that he was not serious.

"They live in Li Village. When we rode our bikes to the intersection of Li Village this morning, we ran into that soldier who was entering the village to inform Cheng Xueru to go to the army to attend a condolence meeting." Wang Ziru forgot to avoid suspicion for a moment and reminded the rough man without thinking much.

Sure enough, Duan Yanzhi remembered that this was the case. In the morning, they rode their 28-inch bicycle to Li Village and found wild berries on the roadside.

The young wife was hungry and wanted to eat berries, so she asked him to work. He was in a good mood at the time, so he jumped to the tractor road and picked a handful of berries at random. Then the two of them stood at the intersection of Li Village and ate berries...

Originally it would have been better if this matter had not been mentioned, but the accusations from the men at the table gradually turned into shock!

But no one dared to ask in public why Commander Duan and Wang Ziru appeared in Li Village at the same time.

Zhai Ximo turned his eyes to his wife, and then carefully glanced at the commander again, "The girl Xueru that Baoer mentioned lives in Li Village. We are not at home this time, so we need her help."

Baoer seemed to sense that the atmosphere was unusual, and said childishly, "My uncle and I helped dig potatoes, and my mother went to Aunt Xueru's house and helped her cook, so we all ate potato rice at Aunt Xueru's house, which was delicious."

"Well, Comrade Xueru stayed at our house last night. I took Baoer to send her home in the morning. We ran into Grandpa Cheng digging potatoes in the fields, so we stayed and helped him dig potatoes for half a day."

Zhai Qingsong didn't know what was wrong, but he felt it necessary to stand up and say something to prevent others from misunderstanding his sister-in-law.

Han Suijing's face turned very dark. He probably figured out something from the family's eager words to defend themselves.

In the morning, when his angry boss saw that he was being entangled by Xu Changhe's wife, he went to the army alone to wander around. He might have borrowed a bicycle from a soldier in the army to go for a stroll. As a result, he met Wang Ziru who was going to Li Village on the way.

"Hehe," Wen Yuan sensed some awkwardness in the atmosphere and calmly changed the subject, "So it was Aunt Cheng Xueru who helped you! That girl is such a good girl. Whoever marries her in the future will be so happy."

Duan Yanzhi chewed a mouthful of food and said, "You live in a compound, and your wife doesn't even have this much awareness. Would your uncle and nephew die if you help them?"

"No wonder you are still a teacher at your age! It seems your wife's awareness is not that good either."

Being ridiculed by Commander Duan in public, Wen Yuan laughed awkwardly twice: "The wives of the soldiers in the compound may be afraid of gossip. After all, Deputy Colonel Zhai is a man. If he were a woman, there would definitely be someone to help him."

Wang Ziru disagreed with this statement. "Speaking of women, right? After I came back, I heard that the woman living next door to us had no compassion at all."

"Who is the woman who lives next door to you?"

Wang Ziru glanced at him, without saying Zhao Cuilan's name, but sneered:

"She knew that we had just moved into the family compound, that both adults had gone to the battlefield, that our child was only four years old and had not eaten for two days, but she never thought of giving my son a home."

"Hungry for two days?" Duan Yanzhi suddenly had an impression that he seemed to be answering a call from Han Suijing that day.

The young wife and her husband suddenly broke into the office and said they wanted to call home.

It seemed that she said that day that the child might not have eaten at home.

Thinking of this, Commander Duan's face turned red and he felt a little sorry.

"Later, when Miss Xueru came, she asked her to borrow two beehive coals, but she refused. Later, Cheng Xueru took her elder brother to the town to buy beehive coals for the stove, and then the family started a fire."

"Humph, now we have a stove at home. We don't have to worry about those mean aunties upstairs laughing at us for being country bumpkins who don't know how to use beehive coal." The young man was very angry.

Wang Ziru patted the boy on the shoulder and said, "It's okay. You're lucky you didn't starve to death."

The two men sitting opposite, Han Suijing and Commander Duan, had different moods.

Han Suijing kept calm and chewed his food silently. He recalled the days when the battle in Baiteng Town was the most intense, when he was in the four towns of Heshuo.

The man's heartstrings snapped, as if years of accumulated resentment towards her were snapped.

Before he knew it, tears welled up in his eyes.

At first, he just gave her a few instructions over the phone, asking her to finish high school well and learn more knowledge so that she could be useful in the future when she joined the army.

She didn't like it, and from then on she never answered his calls or replied to his letters.

She also told her grandmother that she felt he was strong and overbearing, forcing her to learn this and that, as if she was not worthy of being his wife if she did not learn those things.

She suspected that he had other intentions in the army and looked down on her because she was a country girl.

Not long after, she was determined to break off the engagement. The family she was going to marry into was so poor that he could hardly imagine. How did she survive that kind of life for the past five years?

Han Suijing felt truly heartbroken at this moment.

Since she was following the man to the army, and she knew that she had a four-year-old child at home, what on earth could she do by following him to Bai Ting Town?

Previously they were hundreds of kilometers apart, but now they were face to face and could not express themselves as they wished. Han Suijing couldn't help but blame the woman opposite him for pretending to be calm. She was obviously so weak that she could not do anything, but she still followed a man to the battlefield.

"This man is so important to her?!" He was madly jealous...

Looking at the couple sitting close to each other, the two men opposite them felt unhappy in their own way.

"Oh! Fortunately, someone is willing to help you. The child is fine. Tomorrow night, the projectionist will come to the troops to show movies. A front-row seat will be reserved for you." Commander Duan laughed loudly in a rough voice. His tall figure bumped into Han Suijing. "Arrange a few movie screenings for the troops."

"Yeah." Han Suijing nodded mechanically.

In the early 1980s, open-air movies were still a popular entertainment activity that everyone participated in enthusiastically.

The troops also have movie projectionists who are responsible for showing movies in rotation among each unit.

For a child like BoA who had never seen a movie twice in his life, his eyes were suddenly filled with a strange light.

Wenyuan was even happier than Baoer. For a lively event like watching an open-air movie, all the adults and children in the family compound would bring their ponies to the playground, and the scene was really lively.

His daughter has decided to become a female arts soldier in the army, so she will have something to talk about with the new leader or Commander Duan.

at the same time.

In other families in the courtyard, the women have no mood to cook or eat.

Even the children were lying on the ground at the entrance of the third floor stairs, waiting to see the commander and the new leaders up close when they came down.

Zhang Kang returned to his family compound after get off work. As soon as he reached the fourth floor, his wife was also in the corridor. She looked downstairs and shouted, "Is the meal ready? Are you still playing?"

"Aren't you going to the cafeteria to eat today?" Zhu Yan was shocked, as if her husband had caught her in something.

I thought he went straight to the cafeteria to eat after get off work.

"Even if I eat in the cafeteria, you have to eat too. It's already so late, and other people are eating, but we're still left with nothing."

Zhu Yan smiled softly, pulled Zhang Kang into the house, and said, "Sister Ziru has guests at her house today, and they don't have enough bowls and chopsticks, so she borrowed our new bowls. Also, we lent her the pot we bought."

"No way? Old Zhai entertained guests and didn't invite us to dinner, but he knew to come to our house to borrow bowls and chopsticks."

All the women in the compound saw it. Wang Ziru was entertaining guests at home.

Not only did I borrow bowls and chopsticks from Captain Zhang’s house, but there seemed to be enamel pots, tea cups, and enamel plates in the bamboo basket…

The military wives also saw how little money the Zhai family had. They didn't even have bowls, chopsticks or teacups to entertain guests.

But Wang Ziru was very capable. She managed to get the powerful leader of the army to her home for dinner. Her husband wanted to move up in the career ladder, and all he needed was a meal.

"Stop talking! Sister Ziru has been taking care of the child, and it hasn't been easy for her to live in her husband's family these past few years. I heard from Wang Zonghao that Sister Ziru got married in a hurry, and her parents didn't prepare any dowry for her, so..."

Zhang Kang narrowed his eyes and asked, "What else did that bastard Wang Zonghao tell you?"

"You want a beating, right?" Zhu Yan knew that Zhang Kang was not really looking for trouble, so she punched him coquettishly.

"Forget it, I'll just go to the cafeteria to get food. Even though the food in the cafeteria is not as tasty as the food I cook at home, it's better than going hungry."

Zhang Kang took a lunch box and a big bowl, hummed a tune, and went downstairs excitedly to the cafeteria to get his meal.

As he ran to the stairs, he ran into a girl in a dress.

"Hey, isn't this Wen Yiting? Is your school on holiday?" Zhang Kang recognized Wen Yiting. He used to go to the playground to watch their training. He especially liked to follow behind his old comrade Zhai Ximo and ask him questions for no reason.

Wen Yiting had her long hair curled into a small braid on top of her head, pinned with a bow hairpin, and she was wearing a small crocheted vest over her satin dress.

Seeing Zhang Kang, the girl smiled faintly, "Captain Zhang, you are so forgetful. During the winter vacation, I told you that you have graduated this semester."

"Oh, sorry, I forgot."

Wen Yiting took a small step closer and asked in a low voice, "Didn't you say last time that Deputy Colonel Zhai was going to divorce his wife in the countryside when he returned home to visit his family this year? Why did he bring her to the army? Does he not plan to divorce?"