Wei Baichuan looked at his wife's red eyes and quietly stayed with her.
He could pretend he knew nothing and ask nothing, as long as she was happy.
Not wanting Wei Baichuan to worry, Su Ti quickly composed herself and pretended to be nonchalant as she pulled him along to head out.
"Didn't you say you'd take me to the county town tomorrow? We haven't finished our work for today yet. The brigade leader has to go to the commune to collect grain this afternoon, so we won't ride the bicycles. We'll walk to a brigade that's closer."
After Su Ti finished speaking, Wei Baichuan indeed had no time to pay attention to anything else.
"Honey, besides Beiqiao Brigade which is closer, there's only Leishan Brigade left. Should we save it for last?"
Wei Baichuan figured that since they didn't have bicycles today, they could just walk a little further to a brigade, or even a slightly farther one. He could always push a cart with his wife there.
"Why?" Su Ti felt that the name of the brigade sounded familiar, but he didn't think much of it. He had been here for so long, so it was normal for him to have heard of the surrounding brigades.
“The Leishan Brigade and our brigade don’t get along. I didn’t know why before. No one in my family dared to mention it, and the brigade didn’t want to talk about it either. Later, I learned about it from the people in the mountains and they guessed the reason.”
"Back then, the girl from the Wei family married into the Leishan Brigade and gave birth to a son for that family."
"The person she stole was the only son of the village chief at the time. Later, a production team was established, and the village chief became the brigade leader. Later, his son also disappeared."
"The Leishan Brigade even came to the Yangliu Brigade to demand the release of the girl. It's estimated that they made a big fuss. The Yangliu Brigade also followed suit after learning that they had drowned the Wei family's girl in the pond."
"Because of this, Leishan Brigade and Yangliu Brigade became enemies. Later, after Wei Changgen took office, he would cause trouble for Leishan Brigade from time to time."
"Originally, Yangliu Brigade was richer than Leishan Brigade, but in recent years, Leishan Brigade has been holding back its anger and working very hard."
"Wei Changgen was only interested in scheming, so it's normal that the brigade was outdone under his leadership."
He had to go to great lengths to find out about these things. Everyone thought it was a feud between the two brigades, but it was actually all caused by one person.
"Is there a family surnamed Qi in Leishan Brigade?" Su Ti remembered that Wei Baidao's greatest reliance, the ancestral home of the sworn brother he recognized in his previous life, was Leishan Brigade.
"There are many people with the surname Qi in Leishan Brigade, and the current brigade leader is also surnamed Qi." Wei Baichuan was taken aback. Had his wife heard of this before?
"Is there a family with soldiers who are very successful?" Su Ti continued to ask. She had already snatched the job from the person in the mountains, and the one from Leishan Brigade was still a soldier.
Fortunately, it was still early. Her adopted brother from her previous life would appear a year or two later, by which time she would already be dead, and she would only see him in those scenes.
It's good that she does some research beforehand. Knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory. Now that the Wei family is desperate, who knows what might happen?
"Yes, he...if we count from that family...he's the son of that woman from the Wei family, should I call him uncle?"
Wei Baichuan didn't know how his wife found out about this; the Leishan Brigade was able to rise up because of this person.
"I heard he's doing well in the military, but I don't know his exact position. I also heard he caught the eye of a high-ranking official's daughter, so his position must be quite high now."
Wei Baichuan didn't hide it. Anyone who wanted to find out would know that their brigade leader had always said that their brigade didn't have anything worth mentioning.
Other brigades had soldiers and factory workers, but his brigade had nothing, which is why his wife was promoted.
The brigade leader is probably holding his breath because of all the setbacks the Leishan Brigade has dealt to him over the years.
"Does he have a son?" Su Ti was stunned when he heard Wei Baichuan say that. In other words, he and Wei Changgen were half-brothers.
So his son is indeed a brother of Wei Baidao by blood, but they share the same grandmother. But she thinks he shouldn't hate the Wei family, right?
Are the Qi family father and son really that magnanimous? They treat the brother born to their cheating mother so well, and even let their son and Wei Baidao become sworn brothers. What kind of happy ending is this?
"There's definitely a son. He was born in our brigade. That year, the Wei family girl from the mountains lost her mother, and the Qi family soldier came with his wife."
“I found out that his mother cheated on him back then, and he suffered all kinds of scorn in the brigade. It was this grandmother who raised him.”
"In the end, it was his maternal grandmother who enlisted him in the army. No matter how much he hated his mother, he still cared about his maternal grandmother. When his maternal grandmother passed away, he even brought his wife to the funeral."
"I don't know why, but the baby was born in our brigade, and the midwife from the brigade delivered the baby. I only found out about it later."
“When I first suspected that I wasn’t a child of the Wei family, the aunt who delivered my baby mentioned it. She said that I was born on the same day as him, almost one after the other.”
Wei Baichuan didn't know why his wife was asking about that family's son. He didn't know how many sons they had, but his eldest son was born on the same day as him.
Suti's eyes widened. She felt she had overlooked something important. How could it be such a coincidence?
"Are you sure that the child from the Qi family was born on the same day as you?" Su Ti immediately thought of how the Wei family treated Wei Baichuan.
It's rare to see parents showing such favoritism. If Wei Baichuan and Wei Changgen didn't look alike, they would have suspected that Wei Baichuan wasn't a child of the Wei family.
"I'm sure. Lots of people in the brigade know about this; it's not a secret." Wei Baichuan wondered what was wrong with his wife, seeing how excited she was.
"Have you met that...grandmother in the mountains? Let's call her that for now. Does Wei Changgen look like her?" Su Ti had never met the Qi family.
She remembered that when Wei Baidao's adopted brother appeared in her previous life, his father seemed to have already passed away.
Not much was said about him, only that his maternal grandfather held a very high position and was a very influential figure in Beijing.
"They look quite alike. She looks even younger than Huang Cuifen, and she seems to have lived a very comfortable life all these years."
Wei Baichuan thought that living in the mountains with his mistress was indeed very comfortable.
Sometimes he wondered what would happen if the Qi family found out she was still alive; he figured the two brigades would start fighting again.
If he knew about Wei Changgen's relationship with her, he wouldn't even dare to think about it. The Wei family would probably really be kicked out of the brigade, right?
Wei Baichuan didn't know what his wife was planning. Once that matter was exposed, they would definitely be affected.
Suti thought he was being too imaginative. But what if they were born of the same mother? What if both brothers looked like their mother?
What if Wei Baichuan is from another family? It would be quite normal for him to be an uncle like Wei Changgen, right?
She couldn't find a reason to stop imagining the things the Wei family had done for Wei Baichuan.
If he's her own son, how could she be so heartless? And that person from the Qi family in her past life recognized Wei Baidao—all of this is abnormal.
“Let’s go to Leishan Brigade.” Su Ti had a premonition that she was right.
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