The two Zhao brothers have been released, but Wang Dazhi is still locked up inside.
The Wang family is now living in dire straits.
After staying at his daughter Wang Dahua's house for only a few days, the whole family moved out and into a dilapidated house without heating.
Although Wang Dahua endured the disdain from her in-laws and sent them some winter supplies, the Wang family was old and young, so how could they possibly live comfortably?
Once Grandma Wang's health improves, Grandpa Wang, who is quite old, will still have to go out to find work to earn money.
But now, more and more educated youth are returning to the city, and young people with education are still waiting to be assigned jobs and can't even get a chance to do anything easy for someone his age.
Old Wang was exhausted and mistreated, and he didn't earn much money, but even so, he had to grit his teeth and keep going.
Otherwise, their family would have been completely cut off from their livelihood.
Wang Dazhi, who was undergoing reform, was naturally unaware of all this; he was still trying to get through his hard times.
Wang Dazhi was selfish by nature, so why would he care about his family? He even complained that his family wasn't supportive enough to get him out of this place of suffering.
Zhao Qinglan had long since forgotten about Wang Dazhi.
It was only after receiving Sui Wenjing's letter that he remembered the Wang family.
However, the Wang family is now just a thing of the past for her. She doesn't want them to take up any more of her energy; she just wants to focus on living her current life well.
The snack shop had finally been open for a month, and on the day of the profit-sharing, Zhao Qinglan went to the city early in the morning.
She wasn't in a hurry to go home today.
I helped out at the shop until closing time in the afternoon before finally getting to settle the accounts with my mother and sister.
Because I used to settle accounts and deposit money every few days, it's still easy to calculate now.
Seeing how skillfully her younger sister uses the abacus, Zhao Qinglan felt ashamed of herself.
After all, by the time she started doing business to make a living in her previous life, everyone was already using calculators to do accounts, and abacuses were rarely seen.
The abacus is probably only found in abacus interest classes for children.
Indeed, practice is the best way to hone one's skills.
After tallying up the month's revenue, Zhao Qinglan received a little over three hundred yuan.
Her mother and sisters each received more than one hundred yuan.
However, the three women still have all their money in the same bank account, and they have no plans to separate.
Actually, Zhao Qinglan did suggest that they open two more savings accounts to avoid any unnecessary trouble in the future, but since they didn't, Zhao Qinglan didn't say anything.
Zhao Qinglan was overjoyed to receive such a large sum of money.
Because it's time to settle accounts and distribute profits, all the snack shops closed early.
However, Zhao Qinglan did not return to the military family quarters that night; she stayed there instead.
If she doesn't come back, Li Huai and his three children will naturally have to take care of their own meals.
Zhao Qinglan isn't coming back because she's in a hurry to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a watch first thing tomorrow morning.
She had prepared the watch ticket in advance.
In retrospect, it was all thanks to Li Huai.
These days, tickets for big-ticket items are scarce. Fortunately, Li Huai knows a lot of people, so he had his friend Zhang Yu get one from the capital and send it to him.
It's very inconvenient not having a watch to tell the time. Zhao Qinglan had been longing for this for a long time; otherwise, would she have been so excited that she would have stayed in the city instead of going back?
Seeing how much she cared about the watch, Li Huai regretted not buying one for his wife.
Early in the morning, Zhao Qinglan arrived at the entrance of the supply and marketing cooperative and waited.
There were many ordinary people like her waiting for the supply and marketing cooperative to open, and some even argued about who should go first and who should go last.
Fortunately, watches are considered big-ticket items, and not many people buy them on a daily basis, so Zhao Qinglan wasn't in a hurry.
However, she still took it for granted. As soon as the supply and marketing cooperative opened, Zhao Qinglan went straight to the watch counter, only to find that there were only two watches left from the most common brand.
This watch isn't cheap either, and Zhao Qinglan wanted to buy one that she really liked.
She was a little down because she couldn't find a watch that suited her taste.
When I got back to the military family compound, the smile on my face was gone.
After all, it's something I've been longing for for so long, and I couldn't buy it. It would be a lie to say I wasn't upset.
When Li Huai came home from get off work and saw that she was in a bad mood, he immediately had an idea.
"Qinglan, don't be discouraged if you can't buy it. I'll have someone buy it for you from the capital, no, from Shanghai."
"Is that okay?" Zhao Qinglan's eyes lit up.
Although she had an understanding of the future trends, she didn't know anyone at the moment, so it was normal that she couldn't buy the rare watch.
"Of course, just leave it to me."
Zhao Qinglan immediately gave all the money she had saved for the watch to her husband.
No one knows who Li Huai contacted, but about ten days later, a brand-new Shanghai-brand women's watch was placed in front of Zhao Qinglan, which made her extremely happy.
Seeing his wife's happy expression at receiving something she liked, Li Huai felt a sense of realization at the same time.
During this time, Zhao Qinglan would occasionally cook something delicious and deliver it to Wei Hong, who lived in the dormitory.
Wei Hong was extremely grateful.
Although she encountered some bad people and things, she still felt a lot of warmth.
Zhao Qinglan continued to be close to Wei Hong, which naturally made Battalion Commander Qu even more displeased with her.
Because Zhao Qinglan had remarried after her divorce, Battalion Commander Qu blamed Zhao Qinglan for his wife's insistence on divorce, and hated her intensely.
However, he is currently busy with his own affairs and has no time to worry about anything else.
Battalion Commander Qu did consider asking someone to help mediate, but the people he found either refused outright or, unable to refuse, said they would try it themselves, and in the end, nothing came of it.
Seeing that his marriage was really coming to an end, Battalion Commander Qu came up with an idea.
The day after Zhao Qinglan received the watch, two people came to the military family compound.
It was an elderly woman, accompanied by a rather young woman.
As soon as the old lady arrived, she said that she was Qu Jianshe's biological mother. After the guards verified her identity, they let her in.
When Qu Jianshe saw his mother, he was initially quite happy, but he was surprised to see a somewhat familiar-looking girl following behind her.
"Mother, why did you bring Xiufen along too!"
Grandma Qu's face hardened. "What? I just arrived, and you already want to kick us out?"
"No, Mother, I asked you to come to help. You take Xiufen with you, this, this."
"What are you talking about? If Xiufen hadn't come with me, do you think I could have gotten here so easily? You should be thanking Xiufen."
After Battalion Commander Qu brought the people home, while Zheng Xiufen was tidying up in another room, Old Mrs. Qu immediately pulled her son aside and told him her thoughts.
"She's been a hen for years and hasn't laid a single egg. Why would you let her come back? You should take this opportunity to leave her."
"Mother, I sent you here to persuade Weihong, why are you making things worse?"
"Mother, why are you making things difficult? Xiufen is much younger than Weihong. Look at her bottom, she can definitely have children. Mother will find you a younger and more capable wife. You should be happy about that."
After his mother said that, and thinking about Xiufen's young face, Battalion Commander Qu softened a bit.
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