Zheng Ya's feelings for Xu Qi are actually understandable.
First of all, Zheng Ya was a bachelor in all three of his lives, nearing adulthood, and longed for true love.
Putting aside the fact that he is a single person on Earth and the Qian Yuan Continent, an orphan, he yearns for love and family, and fantasizes about finding a lover.
However, in this previous life, there was a generation gap between him and his grandmother. He enjoyed the warmth of intimacy but could not experience the taste of love.
My father juggled two jobs and was extremely busy, so he couldn't give me the fatherly love I had in my previous life.
Longing for one's birth mother and giving her maternal love and affection can turn into resentment?
This has led Zheng Ya to be reborn three times in human form, and she genuinely longs for a partner to share her life with.
Secondly, the customs of the Qian Yuan Continent are unique, advocating that its people enter another world to reproduce and leave behind a legacy.
Because humans living on the Qian Yuan Continent live in constant fear, they have always survived by being preyed upon by demons and monsters. Even if there are towns to defend, they cannot stop the attacks of countless demons and monsters. Fortunately, the demons and monsters fight each other, giving humans a chance to survive in the cracks.
Therefore, the tradition of families in the Qian Yuan Continent advocates having many children and raising many children.
The idea that people should propagate their offspring to the stars and the sea to continue life implies an intention to use population to conquer the stars and the sea.
However, no one explains these things; it all depends on personal interpretation.
In addition, they advocate that their people cultivate supernatural abilities and bring back people from other worlds to aid the native humans.
This requires personal strength to develop the ability to create otherworldly beings with special abilities, gain the approval of the Tower of Babel, and then bring them back to the Qian Yuan Continent.
Zheng Ya hasn't thought about this yet; it's too difficult.
Finally, Zheng Ya was furious about Wu Wei causing a fiancée scandal and decided to find a wife to retaliate.
Let's see who suffers then.
What young person doesn't have a temper?
Besides, in this parallel world, in this era, there's no such thing as dating. Most people meet once through matchmaking, and if they feel it's a good match, they get married.
Comparatively speaking, getting a divorce will lead to criticism and backbiting.
The neighborhood committee will also provide criticism and education to both parties involved in the divorce.
In short, if you get married because you like someone, you get married. But if you get divorced, you're labeled as someone who disrupts social unity and stability, acts like a hooligan, or is immoral. If you want to live a peaceful life again, you can only dream about it.
Therefore, Zheng Ya felt threatened after Wu Wei's outburst. If leaders at all levels pleaded for him and Director Wang pressured him to marry Wu Wei, he would be caught in the middle and would be in a bad situation if he divorced her. What should he do?
Under these circumstances, Zheng Ya felt that by finding a wife and getting married, he could break all the rules about pleading for favors and shatter Wu Wei's illusions.
So Zheng Ya took a liking to Xu Qi, and the two wandered through the mountains and forests, confiding their feelings to each other.
You wouldn't know unless you told her, but once you did, Zheng Ya felt incredibly fortunate and sorry for what Xu Qi had gone through.
In a way, Xu Qi is a tragic figure.
Born during the Japanese invasion of China, he came from a prominent family. His grandfather was a scholar who passed the imperial examination in the Qing Dynasty and served as a county magistrate in the Republic of China. However, he was dismissed from his post by his superiors and returned to his hometown to farm because he was dissatisfied with the warlords' harm to the people and spoke up for them.
The family, a scholarly family, was forced to close the gate when the Japanese invaders entered the village. Xu Qi and her parents escaped. Her mother, a member of the Bajiquan sect, pushed her father, carried her over the wall, and then, together with her grandparents, perished with the Japanese invaders.
To ensure her safety, her father endured hardship and traveled to other places.
During this period, she participated in the War of Resistance against Japan. Her father was injured and took her to seek medical treatment everywhere.
She eventually settled in Xujiazhuang. To let her father pass away in peace, Xu Qi did not choose a man from the village. Instead, she went outside the village and brought back a handsome scholar to marry, so that her father could see her get married and fulfill his last wish before he passed away.
The pale-faced scholar was bullied by the villagers and had no backbone, which made Xu Qi look down on him. She then made excuses about observing mourning and slept in a separate room from him.
At that time, enemy agents were roaming around and the security forces were insufficient. The pale-faced scholar went up the mountain to chop firewood and encountered enemy agents. In order to cover Xu Qi, he was shot and killed by the enemy agents.
The gunshots alerted the villagers, and the enemy agents abandoned the pregnant woman they had kidnapped and fled.
Xu Qi then carried the pregnant woman home on his back.
That night, the pregnant woman gave birth to a daughter prematurely, but died due to severe injuries and excessive bleeding after childbirth, and because there were no doctors nearby.
So Xu Qi adopted the daughter born to the pregnant woman under his own name, because in those days, boys were valued more than girls, and no one in the village was willing to adopt a girl.
From that time on, Xu Qi looked down on the people of Zhuangli.
If any responsible man offered to raise her baby, she would choose to marry him.
Xu Qi and the unmarried man from Xujiazhuang didn't get along, which sowed the seeds of future problems.
Zheng Ya's appearance gave Xu Qi hope.
Unfortunately, the old village chief wanted to help the villagers solve their marriage problems. Ignoring the villagers' humiliation, he forced Xu Qi to choose a man to marry.
In a fit of anger, Xu Qi rushed to Hongqu Commune to get a certificate and left Xujiazhuang, with no intention of ever going back.
After learning about Xu Qi's life experiences, Zheng Ya felt very lucky and that she had struck gold.
For Zheng Ya, he hopes to find a wife who has experience and stories, who understands human relationships and is not easily bullied or deceived, and who will end up arguing with him.
After all, living in a beastly courtyard house, one couldn't possibly handle it without some cunning and shrewdness.
Don't you see that Lou Xiao'e ended up being locked up by Old Lady Long, and that Sha Zhu had a relationship with Lou Xiao'e? Years later, Sha Zhu rejected Lou Xiao'e and his own son, and even sucked Lou Xiao'e's blood. Was Lou Xiao'e really stupid?
One can only say that some people's methods are so clever that one has to admire them.
Zheng Ya wasn't afraid, but he couldn't guarantee that his wife wouldn't be fooled or misled!
Especially if you marry a naive and inexperienced woman, you're almost guaranteed to be fooled.
Isn't Qin Jingru a perfect example?
To get back to the point, Zheng Ya was very satisfied with Xu Qi. After confiding in each other, they strolled through the mountains and went hunting.
It was lunchtime.
Inside the steel rolling mill, Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong huddled together, sat down on the grass outside the canteen, and began to discuss their conversation while eating: "Uncle, do you think my wife can persuade Jia Zhangshi to call the police?"
"The old lady wouldn't say anything wrong."
Think about it, the old lady said that Zheng Daotong once scolded Lao Jia and even arrested Lao Jia and put him in solitary confinement in the security department, making him write a self-criticism. Everyone in the compound knows about these things.
Old Jia is a master of all sorts of swindling, cheating, theft, and gambling, and he knows all about Jia Zhangshi, who is his wife.
So why didn't Jia Zhangshi suspect that Zheng Daotong could easily arrest and prosecute Old Jia?
In fact, Lao Jia doesn't make any major mistakes, but he keeps making minor ones.
Zheng Daotong had no reason to arrest him, but Jia Zhangshi, unaware of the inside story, would mistakenly believe that Lao Jia was helping Zheng Daotong accept bribes, which is why she asked Zheng Daotong to protect Lao Jia.
"Besides, Jia Zhangshi is greedy and can't stand seeing others have money. If she sees Zheng Ya receive tens of thousands of yuan and gold bars, she'll destroy them if she can't have them. Do you think she won't call the police?" Yi Zhonghai explained to Liu Haizhong.
Actually, it was all a trick by Granny Long to mislead them, deliberately pushing Jia Zhangshi out as a scapegoat.
They were trying to incite Jia Zhangshi to call the police and kill Zheng Ya. If they failed to kill Zheng Ya, he would retaliate against Jia Zhangshi instead of them.
Killing two birds with one stone—who made Jia Zhangshi reap all the benefits, without taking any responsibility or losing money?
He angered Old Lady Long and wanted to kill Jia Zhangshi so that Jia Dongxu could be made to recognize Yi Zhonghai as his godfather, thus implicating Old Lady Long in caring for him until his death.
Clearly, Jia Zhangshi's continued existence would be detrimental to the retirement of Old Lady Long and Yi Zhonghai...
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