Old man Xu's death was not very dignified, and the matter became known to everyone in the compound. His two sons took him back to the countryside and gave him a simple funeral.
Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Even though Old Man Xu had done so many things that had wronged their mother in his life, the two brothers still gave him the last bit of dignity.
After the funeral, when Liu Qin was busy sorting out the valuables in the house, people from the army came. Listening to the purpose of the several people in military uniforms standing at the door, Liu Qin didn't know what to say for a moment. She didn't know whether she should feel sorry for herself or envy the two sons of Old Man Xu. She had always thought that Old Man Xu was hers. He was in poor health, old, and had been under her command for so many years.
I never thought she would be the self-righteous fool! What a fool! "Come in." Liu Qin ignored them and sat down on the sofa.
Several cadres looked at the messy living room and the unpacked luggage, looked at each other without saying anything, and opened the file bag in their hands, "Mrs. Xu, we came here this time because we were entrusted by Mr. Xu to announce his will. According to regulations, his children must be present when the will is announced. However, we went to find Mr. Xu's two children, and they were unwilling to come..."
"I understand. Just say it directly." Liu Qin interrupted the person who was speaking and fiddled with her nails. The calmer she appeared on the surface, the more tormented she was inside.
Several people looked at Liu Qin's appearance and didn't know how to evaluate this couple who got married halfway. Xu Lao's move also made people at a loss for words.
"Ms. Liu, according to the contents of the will left by Mr. Xu, you can continue to live in the house in the compound. Mr. Xu's savings totaled 8,600 yuan, which will all be given to the two brothers of the Xu family. As for the family's savings and cash, he didn't know the exact amount, those are all yours. There are also some of his relics, but the two brothers of the Xu family said they don't want them." After saying that, several people looked at Liu Qin's expression and didn't dare to stay in the house any longer. They found an excuse to leave.
Eight thousand yuan, eight thousand yuan. This number rang in Liu Qin's ears over and over again as if it was recorded. When she married Old Man Xu, the country was in chaos and he had long since stopped caring about things. In her opinion, the little money he made helped her two brothers find jobs, bought a house for her family, and helped his two sons find jobs and houses. In addition to the usual household expenses, she never brought a penny of her salary home.
"I originally thought I was being unfair to you, Old Xu. We're husband and wife, and you didn't even leave me any leeway!"
Liu Qin thought about it and felt really pitiful. Old Man Xu said that she could continue to live in the house in the compound. The houses in the compound were not meant to be bought or sold. The most she had was the right to live there, provided that she could not remarry. But she was only in her thirties!
Many of the furniture in the house were originally part of the house, and she had no right to dispose of them. It seemed that the only thing that belonged to her was the clothes and shoes in the closet. Thinking of this, Liu Qin ran upstairs quickly, opened the bottom layer of the closet, pried open the wooden board and took out a passbook with 1,500 yuan in it - the belongings she had saved for ten years!
Liu Qin knew that once Old Man Xu died, she would no longer be able to stay in the hospital. No one would give her face anymore. If she was asked to work as a nurse again, it would be better to kill her!
On the day Liu Qin left the compound with her full luggage, no one saw her off and no one stopped her. She called a tricycle and did not go back to her parents' home. Instead, she rented a small courtyard in the south of the city. She sold everything that could be sold at home. She had been married to Old Man Xu for so many years and lived a life of luxury. She had several new sets of clothes every season, so Liu Qin looked like a girl in her twenties at the age of thirty.
When people in the compound heard about her again, Liu Qin had already gone to the south with a small businessman who traded goods between the north and the south.
The small park in the compound became lively again because of this news.
"I'm telling you, if this half-married couple isn't sincere, it won't last long. Look, even until his death, Old Man Xu was still thinking about his two biological sons, leaving nothing for Liu Qin..."
"Hey, hey, hey, what you said is not right. Liu Qin can't live in the compound by herself. If you ask me, she probably doesn't dare to live there anymore. Aren't the houses going to be redistributed? Who applied for it?"
"One is so old, the other is so young. In the beginning, one was after money and the other after sex. Old man Xu and Liu Qin each got what they wanted. It's just that they were unlucky. If the old man had lived another ten or twenty years..."
Rumors always spread the fastest. Even though one of the two main characters everyone was talking about was dead and the other had left the capital, their stories in the compound were still a favorite topic of conversation after dinner.
There are more than one or two men in the compound who abandoned their first wives and remarried like Old Man Xu. In the past, no one took it seriously, or they talked about it in their hearts and behind their backs, and no one ever brought those things to the surface. But now it is different. Military families always despise men's infidelity. For many days, those who are getting married for the second or third time, no matter whether they are generals or regimental commanders, dare not go out late or come home early. The reason is that the eyes of the aunties and ladies in the compound are too dazzling, and sometimes they want to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
Of course, they are not the only ones having a hard time. Their wives and children, as long as they were not formally married in the past, used to greet everyone out of consideration for face, but now the military families in the courtyard are afraid that the word "disdain" is written on their foreheads.
For a time, all the families involved in marriage in the compound were extremely low-key. No matter if they were looking for a partner or marrying off their daughter, the investigation into their partner's character was so thorough that they almost dug up their entire family history.
Those people in the compound who used to get along well with Liu Qin naturally used similar means to get to the top. They were used to being domineering and arrogant in the unit, and now they were repeatedly reprimanded by their own boss, and some were even forced to resign.
When the Shen family was having dinner together, they talked about the recent situation in the compound. Shen An Ning was stunned. Although the affairs of Old Man Xu were also quite big in his previous life, it was really not to this extent. It seems that the atmosphere in the compound is so serious now!
But this is also a good thing. In the previous life, there were many jokes in the compound because of the property disputes between the stepmother and the original wife's children. Although they did not spread outside, they were almost known to everyone. After all, everyone's relationship network is interconnected.
Shen An Ning also looked down on those who abandoned their original wives and remarried. What they said about true love and similar interests were all bullshit they said because of lust!
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