The people from several families were quite far away, so they couldn't hear very clearly.
However, I understood the gist of it: Old Gu is getting married and doesn't like the third and fourth sons. He's worried that their arrival will affect his life with his new wife.
Got it!
Who is Gu Yong? Everyone in this military compound knows him.
The third and fourth sons are such promising children, and Jiang Yuan is such a good wife, yet they don't even like them. They only like the good-for-nothing eldest and second sons.
He was demoted to a lower-level position because of the eldest and second eldest brothers, and he still doesn't like the third and fourth eldest brothers.
There's no one more clueless than this!
Everyone was speechless, and secretly resolved that it would be best to avoid dealing with someone like Gu Yong in the future.
Fortunately, this person no longer holds real power, otherwise wouldn't he be a nuisance?
He also had to remind his wife and children that after Gu Yongxin got married, he should spend less time with other people.
Gu Yong had no idea that, just moments after being cursed to death by his two filial sons, his two older sons were outside further ruining his already precarious reputation.
On the contrary, because he was angry, he originally planned to choose from several other women with similar conditions who were introduced to him.
Without further ado, they directly chose the woman that Jiang Zhiyuan and his brother had bumped into that day, Dong Hongmei.
Of course, he was quite satisfied with Dong Hongmei's conditions. She was only thirty-six years old, worked at a flour mill in Beijing, and had a fifteen-year-old daughter who was still in school.
Dong Hongmei is gentle and mild-mannered. She was able to keep her job thanks to the factory leaders and the fact that her husband's nephew, who could take over the job, was not old enough.
This year, her nephew is old enough, and his family is pressuring her remarrying. She's a woman with only one daughter, and she's been forced into a corner, so she's thinking of remarrying.
Such a woman has no background and a gentle nature, making her the easiest to manipulate in front of him.
After his two previous marriages failed, Gu Yong was determined to find a gentle and kind woman. Although Dong Hongmei was not as good as the others in other aspects, she was the most gentle and weak-willed.
Once Gu Yong had made up his mind, he immediately asked someone to deliver a message to Dong Hongmei.
After returning home that day, Dong Hongmei was forced to come to her in-laws' house. She immediately regretted it, realizing that she shouldn't have been so reserved at the Gu family's house and should have agreed on the spot.
With Gu Yong as their backer, who in their former in-laws would dare to pressure them, mother and daughter?
So when the matchmaker came to deliver the message, Dong Hongmei immediately agreed.
The only condition is that you can afford to send her daughter to school, treat her daughter well, and arrange a good job or find her a good son-in-law in the future.
Gu Yong naturally agreed.
The two sides hit it off immediately and the wedding was held soon after.
Since it was their third marriage, the two went to get their marriage certificate, gave some candy to their neighbors, and that was considered a formality.
Dong Hongmei used to live with her daughter in a cramped apartment building allocated by the factory. Now that she could live in a two-story building, she couldn't wait to pack some things and was taken to the military compound by her orderly.
Everyone in the factory, as well as her former in-laws, knew that she had married a high-ranking officer in the military compound, and they were all astonished.
Who would have thought that Dong Hongmei, who has always been weak, would have this day?
The ex-husband's family, in particular, were terrified and dared not mention their previous job again.
The people in the military compound, on the surface, congratulated Gu Yong, but behind his back, they muttered that he was disrespectful for his age, wanting to marry a third wife at this age, and that he was shameless.
Many people felt sorry for the two brothers, Jiang Yuan and Jiang Zhiyuan.
They also felt that Gu Yong was really senile. At this age, he still didn't know how to keep his two promising sons in check, instead of offending them to death.
Are you really not going to rely on your son to break the pot and send you off in your old age?
In an instant, Gu Yong's reputation in the compound plummeted.
Not long after, Gu Yong had a chance to be transferred from a leisurely position to a slightly more demanding one, but with this reputation and Bian Jiang leading the way, the other people in the compound also objected, and all hope was lost.
However, for Gu Yong, having a young woman at home to take care of him, hot meals every day, someone waiting for him when he comes home, and a little girl calling him "Dad" makes his life quite enjoyable.
At least Dong Hongmei was truly docile, looking up to him. Both mother and daughter depended on him for survival and dared not disobey.
After learning all this from Bian Jiangkou, Jiang Yuan scoffed at it.
She had long seen through it all; Gu Yong loved himself the most.
He is kind to whoever worships him, loves him, and looks up to him.
This includes, but is not limited to, Jiang Yuan, Fang Dani, or Dong Hongmei.
I just hope Dong Hongmei is smarter and doesn't follow her example. It would be good if she followed Fang Dani's example and made more money off Gu Yong. Otherwise, once Gu Yong dies, the military region will take back the two-story building and everything else.
Dong Hongmei will have nowhere to live then. If she doesn't make plans early, she'll suffer later.
However, she wouldn't kindly remind Dong Hongmei, since she had to bear the consequences of her own choices.
Now that Gu Yong has a new home, he seems to have completely forgotten about Jiang Yuan and her two children. He no longer bothers them, nor does he try to reconnect with Jiang Zhiyuan and the others, nor does he think about his two grandsons whom he hasn't met yet.
Life at the Jiang family's place finally returned to normal.
Xu Ningyan later realized that something was wrong. She felt that someone was behind all of this, and after thinking about it, she guessed that it was her own husband's doing.
She secretly pulled Jiang Zhiyuan aside and asked him a question. Jiang Zhiyuan patted her head, smiled very subtly, then took a piece of candy and put it in her mouth, telling her to go play somewhere else.
Xu Ningyan chewed the candy in her mouth, silently swallowing her questions, and went to play with her son.
After years of changing seasons, Xu Ningyan finally graduated from university.
Over the course of those four years, she assisted Professor Xing in finally completing his research project, uncovering the mystery of a short-lived but brilliant dynasty that had vanished into the annals of history through clues found in various documents.
This discovery not only made Professor Xing famous, but also allowed Xu Ningyan to gain recognition in the eyes of these big names in the history field.
So after graduation, Xu Ningyan was able to stay at the university without any problems.
I became Professor Xing's teaching assistant and also pursued graduate studies.
If nothing unexpected happens, she will likely take the doctoral entrance exam after graduating with her master's degree, and after Professor Xing retires, she will probably become the youngest history lecturer at Peking University.
In a few years, she might become the youngest history professor in the province.
Jiang Zhixing also graduated, and because of his excellent grades, he was assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately after graduation.
Although he initially only did some translation and reception work, Jiang Zhixing was happy to do it.
Moreover, he performed exceptionally well. During an event hosting foreign guests, his keen observation allowed him to promptly identify a lapse in the work and perfectly rectify it, preventing a diplomatic incident from occurring.
This is why it gained the favor of those above.
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