Chapter 3 Don't Mind
"Laidi, this young man surnamed He is no match for Zhao Qingsong. Do you still remember your aunt Zhao's third brother? He will soon be promoted to group leader, which is at the same level as the county chief. You will enjoy a good life if you marry him. No one in the village will dare to look down on our Qin family anymore..."
"He's married for the second time."
"It's okay to be married for the second time. His first wife is from the city and they don't get along well. So they can just get divorced. Men tend to like new things and hate old things. And our third child is good-looking, so there's no need to worry..."
"He has a baby."
"The kids are still young, the older one is five years old, the younger one is two years old. As long as you treat them well, isn't it true that the grace of giving birth to them is greater than the grace of raising them?"
Qin Lai Di sneered in her heart. How could being a stepmother be so easy? Especially since she had a bad temper, her stepchildren were all cunning and she had to endure a lot of hardships, not to mention that they turned against her after they became adults. She was simply skinned alive!
"Hey, you little bitch, why are you contradicting me? You've lived through a lot of hardships. You have food, drink and status. What else do you want from a bicycle?"
Qin Lai Di stiffened her neck, with a thousand words in her mind, but she couldn't say them at this moment. Suddenly, her eyes turned, "But I heard that he is very 'filial' and sends 40 yuan of his 48 yuan salary back home every month?"
It seemed like a joke said by a little girl, but the worldly-wise Qin Guihua's face changed instantly - "You, who told you that?"
In her previous life, Qin Lai Di only knew about Zhao Qingsong's "filial piety" after she got married. "Last time when I was washing clothes by the river, Zhao's aunt said it herself. She was very proud and said that the five green brick and tile houses in the family were all built with the money sent back by the third son."
Qin Guihua moved her lips and said, "Marry a man to get clothes and food. If a man is too filial, then the woman will have a hard life!"
"Silly girl, with our conditions, it's already a blessing to find someone like Zhao San. What a pity, why can't this sugar cane have sweetness at both ends?"
She was even thinking in her heart, if she could warm Zhao San's heart, could she also keep her salary.
Qin Lai Di smiled bitterly. Perhaps all girls in the world who are willing to be someone's stepmother have this kind of lucky mentality. But some people's hearts can never be warmed in a lifetime. What Zhao Qingsong lacks is not love or a wife, but a housewife and a free nanny.
"Grandma, I don't want to be a nanny. I want to be a doctor in the future and buy you a big house and a car to take care of you in your old age."
Qin Guihua loved to hear this and smiled so hard that her teeth were showing. In all her years, neither her husband nor her sons had ever said such words to her, except for the third child, the little third child who had grown up in her arms.
Qin Lai Di was ready to add fuel to the fire, "Grandma, do you still remember the lonely old lady in the courtyard of my eldest brother-in-law's house?"
"What does it have to do with her?" The eldest granddaughter Qin Ailan's in-laws lived in the compound of the county steel factory. She had been there several times and had seen with her own eyes how pitiful the lonely old lady was.
"I heard from the neighbors that the old lady was a good girl, but unfortunately she married a man ten years older than her as a second wife. Her ex-wife was just divorced, and no matter how good she was to her stepchildren, the children still only stayed with their biological mother. The old man also felt sorry for the children, and was afraid that the stepmother would treat his and his ex-wife's children badly if she had her own children, so he secretly went for a sterilization. Grandma, do you know what a sterilization is?"
The smile on Qin Guihua's face disappeared again.
If a man already has one son and one daughter, he does not have high requirements for having children, especially if he eats rationed food and has only one job. The more sons he has, the more intense the competition will be. Housing is also more tight than in rural areas. Rural people do not like to have more sons to earn work points.
"I don't know what kind of surgery it was, but the old man was very smart. He later saved money to buy his son a house, a bicycle and a wife. Every time the old lady got sick, he said he had no money. He almost drove her to death several times."
Qin Guihua: “…” Her face was expressionless, but her fist was stiff.
"What's even worse is that when the old man got sick, the old lady took care of him for several years. But when the old man died, his stepsons and stepsons kicked her out of the house. She had to live in a shed by the family wall and look for food in the garbage dump every day. Did you see her last time?"
Qin Guihua could no longer hold back her anger: "Bah!"
"This old man is so bad, he is such a piece of shit!"
Qin Lai Di gritted her teeth, these were all things she had experienced personally in her previous life.
If she had not sorted out Zhao Qingsong's belongings after cremation, she would not have discovered the sterilization operation form. She was still wondering why it was so easy for others to get pregnant but she could never get pregnant in her entire life. If she had not gone to the street office to seek justice after being driven out, she would not have known that the Beijing house she had lived in for decades was quietly transferred to her stepson by Zhao Qingsong as early as the year the property certificate was issued.
If Zhao Qingsong wants to be a good father to him, then he should lock up the three of them, father and son (daughter), and don't let them come out to harm others.
Qin Guihua had completely given up on Zhao Qingsong at this point, but - "I heard that you were given a job when you followed the army. What a pity that job opportunity was wasted. It would have been better if you had studied hard or had a skill."
"I have a skill, grandma."
Qin Guihua glared at her and said, "Let's talk about serious matters. Don't interrupt."
"I'm serious. I can be a doctor in the future."
In 1966, an old doctor named He came to the village. It was said that she was a doctor from a large hospital in Beijing. Because she was naughty, she always followed the old man around. When the old man was sick, she secretly helped to deliver food and water several times. The old man taught her medical skills for several years.
Later, she followed the army to Lenghe Town. After her step-son and step-daughter went to elementary school, she had nothing to do. However, she was selected by the Logistics Department to participate in a training course for grassroots medical and health personnel. Although she only studied for half a year, with her previous foundation and good policies, she was actually assigned to the factory health center as a doctor, where she worked for several years.
Although she was taking the same courses as other doctors in the training class, she worked very hard and learned better than her peers. After just six months of working, she had more patients than other experienced doctors. Word of mouth spread and her medical skills became a living signboard in the clinic at that time. There were even patients from the city who came to see her specifically for her reputation.
Those years were probably the happiest years of her life.
He has a respectable job, a good salary, good achievements, and has been promoted twice in a row, and is about to become the director of the entire health center.
Unfortunately, because she was busy with work and neglected to discipline her stepson, Zhao Haiyang started fighting, and Zhao Haiyan was bullied by children of the same age and cried every day. The teacher called the parents every few days, and she was very annoyed.
Therefore, Zhao Qingsong, who was often away from home on missions, stopped her from going to work. He promised to give her two-thirds of his salary and solve any difficulties in life. She only needed to help him take care of the two children.
He did it, and the child miraculously turned around and became a top student in the class, but who cares about what she lost?
Thinking of this, Qin Lai Di clenched her fists. Whoever wants to be the stepmother can be the stepmother, but she will definitely be the doctor!
Qin Guihua saw that she was determined to leave, and thought about the good things about He Liansheng. Although he had a disability in his legs and feet, at least he had a stable job in a big city, and her granddaughters would be able to eat rations when they went there in the future. So she reluctantly took out a few pieces of paper from her chest.
"I was afraid of having too many dreams at night, so I forced it on him."
Qin Lai Di opened it and saw that it turned out to be He Liansheng's letter of introduction and household registration booklet. What's more, the reason stated in the letter of introduction was that he was here for a blind date and marriage... She suddenly remembered that in her previous life, old He seemed to have come to Shilan Province once. Because a batch of important equipment was stolen in their factory, he, as the technician who handled the case personally, needed to be responsible for recovering it, and he even wrote a letter of introduction to cover up his tracks.
But he was too embarrassed to say it at the time. For a young man of his age, it was hard to find a common excuse to come from a faraway province.
"Grandma, please go to the brigade and get me a marriage introduction letter. We'll be waiting for you at the entrance of the village."
Qin Guihua was stunned by her words and hadn't come to her senses yet. She went wherever she said.
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He Liansheng was also unable to recover from the shock.
He looked at the girl in front of him with a rosy face and two shiny black braids hanging on her shoulders. Her round eyes stared at him without blinking. "You are..."
"It's your daughter-in-law." The Zhao family joked.
He Liansheng's handsome eyebrows wrinkled slightly, and his mood was unclear. "Little sister... comrade, come here for a moment."
He called them aside and made sure that no one else could hear them talking, then he said seriously: "This is a misunderstanding. Saving you is just a piece of cake. I can't take advantage of someone in danger..."
Qin Lai Di was amused in her heart, "Fool, you said in your last life that you didn't take advantage of others' misfortune, but I was already a widow at that time, why did you still hide it? This hiding has ruined your lifelong happiness, you deserve it!"
"That was me taking advantage of someone's misfortune."
He Liansheng's handsome face froze. He was tall, with fair skin, black hair, and just the right amount of depth in his facial features. He was a typical oriental handsome guy. But in this era of aesthetics that advocated square faces, he did look a bit like... well, a pretty boy.
But what about the figure, hehe.
"Let me formally introduce myself. My name is Qin Lai Di, and your name is He Lian Sheng, right?"
"Yeah." Looking at the white and tender little hand stretched out in front of him, he couldn't hold it no matter what. He had actually seen how white she was.
When she was rescuing people underwater, her clothes were soaked and floated up. She wore thin clothes in summer, and he accidentally saw it, so he felt guilty. When Qin Guihua forced him to introduce the letter of introduction and household registration booklet, he still gave them to her.
Although he was not an old-fashioned person, he was also empathetic. The Zhao family had just exaggerated the situation of this lesbian in the village. They said that she was an old maid who could not get married and that she had dated many people but all failed. The villagers said very unpleasant things about her. If people knew that her privacy had been seen by the opposite sex, it would be even more difficult for her to get married in the future... He didn't mind, but he could understand.
"You may not know my true situation..."
"I know you are from Beijing, you are 23 years old, a veteran, your parents are in Beidahuang, and you work in Haicheng, right?"
The girl was very pretty and spoke crisply and clearly, which made He Liansheng slightly stunned.
But it only took two seconds. "My left leg is disabled. Do you... mind?"
"I don't mind." Because he was injured while saving his comrades, this is a medal for defending his country.
Moreover, as long as she was around, she would definitely find a way to cure his leg.
"I don't like children, and most lesbians wouldn't accept them..."
"I accept it." Now you say you don't like children, but why did you become unable to walk when you saw a child in your previous life? Even if you are a DINK, I will force you to change. Just wait!
"Can you take responsibility for what you say?"
Lai Di narrowed her eyes, like a cunning and beautiful little fox, "Yes."
Seeing the clarity and determination in her eyes, He Liansheng was never one to drag his feet. "Then do you mind if we get married as soon as possible?"
There are clues about the stolen equipment, and several other comrades are still waiting in the province. He can't delay and must leave tomorrow at the latest. He speculates that the bad guys transported the equipment to Shilan Province in order to go abroad from the north or northwest. Once they go abroad, it will be too late to save them.
This batch of equipment was sent to Haicheng No. 2 Factory as samples for exhibition, but it was stolen in the factory... If it can't be recovered, the whole factory will be in trouble. What makes him even more unbearable is that these are the fruits of the labor of the Long people themselves. Even if it costs his life, he must get them back.
"No problem."
"good."
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