Chen Yinmei, holding firewood, stole a glance at Fu Shen before quickly lowering her head again.
After a moment, as if she had mustered up her courage, she raised her head and said with a hint of stubbornness in her voice, "Brother Fu Shen is back. Why doesn't he come home to live? I am the wife that you, my parents, have chosen for me. He should listen to you."
Su Yue was filled with surprise. Chen Yinmei meant that she was the wife that Fu Shen's parents had chosen for him.
No way, she thought Chen Yinmei was the twins' cousin.
They look so alike.
Fu Liugen snorted, "Then ask him why he doesn't go home to live."
The Fu Shen of today is no longer the Fu Shen they can control.
Before they came back, they all thought Fu Shen would still be as obedient as he was when he was a child.
When I came back, things were different; they had grown independent.
If he hadn't joined the army, he might have had to marry whoever Liu Xiuying told him to.
But since he didn't join the army, he had no value to them, and neither he nor Liu Xiuying would help him find a wife. It was none of their business who he married.
But the problem is that he went out to join the army, and he gets a salary of twenty or thirty yuan a month.
He earns more than three hundred yuan a year. Even if he earns it for ten years, he will have more than three thousand yuan in total. This money belongs to his family, and he cannot let it go unpaid.
Chen Yinmei knew this was her only chance, and with Wu Zhongjian present, she had to get to the bottom of it.
Otherwise, all her hard work over three months would be for nothing.
She bit her lower lip, "Brother Fu Shen..."
Fu Shen frowned, a hint of displeasure in his eyes, and decisively interrupted Chen Yinmei, "Please don't call me Brother Fu Shen, just call me by my name. I just said, I have a wife."
Chen Yinmei's heart broke, and her eyes reddened. "But your parents said that you came back to marry me."
If I don't marry her, won't she become a laughing stock?
Fu Shen said without hesitation, "They said it, you go and settle it with them, don't come to me."
Upon hearing this, Fu Liugen flew into a rage. "Fu Shen, what are you saying?"
What do you mean by "finding them to marry"? How could he and Liu Xiuying marry Chen Yinmei?
Fu Shen glanced at Fu Liugen, the boy who had beaten him the most since childhood, a complex emotion flashing in his eyes, and said coldly, "It means exactly what it says. I have a wife. Whoever finds her can marry her. Don't come to me."
He still remembers when he was eight years old, in winter, he and Fu Liugen went into the mountains to cut down dead wood for firewood.
Fu Liugen told him to hold the log at the other end while he chopped.
As he was chopping wood, Fu Liugen's wood-chopping knife suddenly flew towards him. If he hadn't dodged in time, the knife would have hit him on the head.
When he got home, he told Liu Xiuying, but instead of scolding Fu Liugen, she angrily berated him, "Why don't I just kill you? You can't even do one thing right. You're not getting any dinner tonight."
He went into the mountains alone, hungry and cold, and was almost killed, without receiving a single word of comfort.
He ran out, wiping away his tears, and saw Wu Guoliang, who had just returned from his grandmother's house.
Without asking any questions, Wu Guoliang simply stuffed all the candy in his hand into his hand and patted him on the shoulder, saying, "Take this and eat it. Wait here."
Wu Guoliang ran home and soon came out with two large, boiled sweet potatoes, handing them to him. "Take these and eat them. They were boiled this morning, so it's okay if they're a little cold, it's better than going hungry."
He ate the sweet potato before going back. Liu Xiuying and the others had already finished their meal, but the dishes and chopsticks hadn't been washed yet.
He might not be there for meals at home, but he's always the one washing the dishes.
They weren't in the main room, but they could hear voices coming from inside.
He took the bowls and chopsticks to the kitchen to wash them, drank a bowl of hot water, washed his feet, and went to bed.
He lived like this for twelve years.
Su Yue noticed that Fu Shen's mood had changed, so she gently tugged at his sleeve, her eyes full of concern.
Fu Shen glanced down at Su Yue and smiled.
Chen Yinmei was about to speak when Wu Zhongjian spoke first, his expression serious. "Fu Shen is already married, so don't bother him. Breaking up a military marriage is no joke. Your relationship with Fu Shen was decided by Fu Liugen and Liu Xiuying. Fu Shen didn't agree to it. If you're not satisfied, just like Fu Shen said, go and get married to Fu Liugen and Liu Xiuying."
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