Qian Xiaoyun

Back in the master bedroom, Ye Min asked Meng Zheng to pack his clothes and prepare to take a shower, while she picked up the letter on the desk and opened it to read.

The letter was from her best friend Qian Xiaoyun.

Although Ye Min didn't want to write a letter to tell Ye Jianping about An An's birth, it was instinctive to share her joy with relatives and friends.

She doesn't have many friends, and the only one who has been by her side for all these years is Qian Xiaoyun.

She and Qian Xiaoyun were classmates in junior high school. In the first year of junior high school, their relationship was average, they were just classmates who knew each other, but after being assigned to sit together in the second year of junior high school, they quickly became familiar with each other.

After graduating from junior high school, Ye Min failed the high school entrance examination and was arranged by Ye Jianping to work in a machine tool factory.

Unlike textile and garment factories where there are many female employees, machine tool factories have mostly men in the front-line workshops, and the few women who do manual labor. Ye Minjin works in the front-line workshop.

Although she was the daughter of the factory director, she did not receive any preferential treatment at work. In fact, because her father was the factory director, he had to set an example. In her first year at the factory, she was so busy that she had no time for herself. Every day when she got home from get off work, she felt hopeless about the future.

Qian Xiaoyun was also very busy that year. Although she was admitted to a technical secondary school because of her excellent grades, she had too many courses to study every day. She had to get up at five or six in the morning and go to bed at nine at night.

But they did not lose contact with each other. When they were busy, they would write to each other. On Sundays when they had time off, they would make plans to go to the bookstore or watch a movie together.

Qian Xiaoyun always encouraged Ye Min. Knowing that she was interested in medicine and had been reading Chinese medicine books as extracurricular books since she was young, she told her not to give up and see if she could transfer to the health room.

It can be said that without Qian Xiaoyun, Ye Min might not have found his direction in life until he joined the army and would still be busy in the front-line workshop.

Therefore, Ye Min has always been grateful to Qian Xiaoyun. No matter whether she was pregnant or gave birth, she was the first person she wanted to inform.

The letter to Qian Xiaoyun was written by Ye Min when she was still in the hospital. Although Donghe County is located in the southwest and is relatively remote, it takes about a week to send a letter to Jiangcheng even by express delivery.

But no matter how far away she is, it shouldn't take more than a month to receive a reply, so I have been wanting to write her another letter these few days to ask if the letter was delayed on the way or if something happened to her.

After opening the letter, Ye Min looked at the signature date first. Seeing that it was written a week ago, his heart sank.

Just as she values ​​her friendship with Qian Xiaoyun, Qian Xiaoyun also cares about her. If nothing unexpected had happened, it would have been impossible for him to not reply after receiving the letter.

I opened the letter again and read it from the beginning, and sure enough, something had happened.

Qian Xiaoyun graduated in 1966, and the Great Movement began in the second half of 1966, while the Up to the Countryside Movement did not officially begin until 1968. So after graduating from technical secondary school, Qian Xiaoyun was smoothly assigned to the finance department of the steel plant as an accountant.

In the second year at the steel plant, Qian Xiaoyun started dating a new technician.

But the technician's parents were both cadres, and Qian Xiaoyun's parents were in the food business before liberation, running a medium-sized shop, and according to class classification, they were small business owners.

Compared with the capitalists, the small business owners are not bad, but compared with the working class, the small business owners are not legitimate enough.

Moreover, after the public-private partnership, the store opened by Qian Xiaoyun's parents was incorporated into the food company, and her parents became ordinary workers who received monthly wages. Their family conditions were much worse than those of the technicians' families.

So when the technician's parents learned that they were dating, they strongly objected.

The technician was weak in character and did not dare to rebel against his parents, yet was unwilling to separate from Qian Xiaoyun. Under heavy pressure, he died at his workplace due to an accident caused by mental absent-mindedness during work.

When their son was alive, the technician's parents strongly opposed his relationship with Qian Xiaoyun, but when their son died, they wished that Qian Xiaoyun would remain faithful to him.

In person, they told people that although the two children did not succeed, they had already regarded the Qian family as in-laws and Qian Xiaoyun was their own daughter.

Behind their backs, they told everyone that Qian Xiaoyun had long been their son's, and had sworn in front of them that she would stay with their son forever, and told others not to have any ideas about her.

Due to their instigation, no one dared to pursue Qian Xiaoyun directly for the next four years. She was trapped in the past and never dated anyone again.

It was not until the end of last year that Qian Xiaoyun met a middle school teacher through an introduction. Under the enthusiastic pursuit of the other party, her attitude gradually softened.

Before Ye Min gave birth to An An, she received a letter from Qian Xiaoyun revealing that the high school teacher had proposed to her and she might start a new life.

Ye Min was very happy after reading the letter. In the letter she sent back after giving birth, in addition to informing Qian Xiaoyun of the good news of An An's birth, she also expressed her support to Qian Xiaoyun and asked her to write to her after the wedding date was confirmed to let her know that she would go back to attend the wedding.

But in this letter, Qian Xiaoyun said that she had broken up with the middle school teacher.

When Meng Cheng finished his shower and walked into the master bedroom, he saw Ye Min holding an open letter, frowning as if thinking about something. He sat down next to her and asked, "What did Comrade Qian say in the letter?"

Although Meng Cheng had been in the army for a long time, he had returned to Jiangcheng several times in recent years. Although he was not very familiar with Qian Xiaoyun, they had met several times and knew each other.

And every time she finished reading Qian Xiaoyun's letter, she would share the non-private parts with Meng Cheng. After receiving Qian Xiaoyun's letter last time, she happily told Meng Cheng that she might return to Jiangcheng to attend the wedding this year.

So she didn't hide it this time, frowning and saying, "Xiaoyun and Teacher Qi broke up."

Meng Cheng was surprised: "Break up? Didn't you say before that they were going to get married?"

"Dad! I want to take a bath!"

Meng Zheng's voice suddenly came from outside the door. Meng Cheng was thinking about his wife, so he said without raising his head, "Go wash."

Meng Zheng shouted: "There is no water!"

Meng Cheng was helpless. He got up and went to the bathroom to give Meng Zheng a bath. After settling the little ancestor down, he returned to the master bedroom and asked repeatedly, "Last time she wrote to me and said she might get married. Why did they suddenly break up?"

"I don't know, I guess something went wrong." Ye Min rubbed his brow and said, "I thought it was strange before. Every time I wrote to Xiaoyun, I would receive a reply in less than half an hour, but this time it took more than a month..."

Ye Min could no longer sit still and stood up, saying, "No, I have to call her and find out what happened."

"It's dark now, where are you going to make a call?" Meng Cheng stopped Ye Min and said comfortingly, "Although it's more than half a month late, Comrade Qian can reply to this letter to you, which means that her personal safety is not a concern. Take a look at the return address written on her envelope."

Ye Min quickly took out the envelope: "It's from her unit."

"Since it's the unit, it means her job hasn't changed. The change in her marriage may be due to a problem with the gay man." Meng Cheng pointed out, "Since she's fine, you can contact her anytime you want. But now the post office is closed, and you can't make a call even if you go there. Instead of wasting time on this trip, you might as well think carefully about what to say when you call tomorrow. She's a lesbian, and she must feel bad about this. You're asking too directly..."

Meng Cheng didn't say the rest, but Ye Min understood what he meant. She sat down slowly and said, "You're right."

After sitting there blankly for a while, she looked up and asked Meng Cheng, "You said they were all fine before and were about to get married, why did they suddenly change?"

Meng Cheng didn't know much about Qian Xiaoyun, but from the few words Ye Min revealed, he was able to piece together a rough outline and said, "I guess it has something to do with the family of her previous boyfriend."

"Why are they still haunting me?" Ye Min looked annoyed, but she quickly remembered, "No, Xiaoyun said that she knew all this before Teacher Qi pursued her, and she also said that she didn't care."

"He may not care about Comrade Qian's past, but what if those things are related to his future?" Meng Cheng reminded, "You said before that the man's father seemed to have been promoted to the director of the Revolutionary Committee?"

Ye Min thought about it: "You mean, Teacher Qi was frightened by them?"

Meng Cheng said: "It may also be that Comrade Qian does not want to drag him down."

[It’s over. Now when I look at the couple, I feel like they both look like they are from a book.]

【Why? 】

[I know, because Meng Cheng guessed the reason why Qian Xiaoyun and the teacher broke up]

[Is this written in the original book? Why didn’t I know about this? Did I read a fake book?]

[Haha, not many people noticed this detail. This incident was only mentioned when Qian Xiaoyun appeared, so it is easy to miss it.]

[I read the original novel and found that Qian Xiaoyun was also very miserable! It was obviously because the Jiang family did not agree with her and their son being together that the technician died, but they pushed all the responsibility onto Qian Xiaoyun and asked her to take care of their son. They even ruined several of her good marriages for this, causing her to not get married until the Great Movement was over and the two old men of the Jiang family were imprisoned.]

[More than that, because she was already over 30 at the time, Qian Xiaoyun had few options for a partner, so she hastily found a returned urban youth. It turned out that the man was not only a mama's boy, but his mother was also extremely mean, and only knew how to torture her daughter-in-law. Qian Xiaoyun lost her child and never got pregnant again. As a result, the man not only did not feel sorry for his wife, but also secretly found a mistress. After being discovered, he said to Qian Xiaoyun in a particularly righteous manner that since she could not give birth, she could not allow others to give birth to his children.]

[Fuck! I almost forgot the original plot, but after reading this description, I got my fists stiff! ]

[What happened to Qian Xiaoyun in the end? He won't be frustrated until the end, right? ]

[Don't worry about the previous part. Qian Xiaoyun got a script of a comeback. After she found out that the man was cheating on her, she divorced him immediately and quit her job to start her own business. Later, Meng Zheng beat someone up, and it was she who paid for the gangster's family to write a letter of forgiveness, so that he could spend fewer years in prison.]

When Meng Cheng said that, Ye Min was skeptical.

Although she knew that the Jiang family couple were very nice, all they had done in the past was spread rumors.

At that time, the main way for young people to get together was blind dating, and matchmakers acted to bring two families together. People like Qian Xiaoyun, who were surrounded by rumors, would rarely be considered by matchmakers.

Qian Xiaoyun herself was a little depressed and couldn't get over it. She was not willing to get to know unmarried young men, so before Teacher Qi showed up, she had never discussed marriage leave with anyone.

Correspondingly, the Jiang family does not need to threaten others.

It was not until last year that Qian Xiaoyun finally came to his senses and mustered up the courage to agree to a blind date introduced by her family elders. She met Teacher Qi and they successfully got to the stage of discussing marriage.

Seeing that she was about to get married, the Jiang family naturally couldn't sit still and used their power to threaten Teacher Qi to back down. It might also be as Meng Cheng guessed, that the person being threatened was Qian Xiaoyun.

And judging by the bullet screen, this is not the last time, but the beginning.

Thinking about how Qian Xiaoyun had wasted his life until he was over 30 because of the Jiang family and ended up with such a result, Ye Min couldn't help but clench his fists.

She thought, maybe she should do something.

…

The idea that Ye Min came up with was actually quite simple and not very original. She planned to introduce Qian Xiaoyun to someone in the army.

This was not a sudden idea of ​​hers, but a solution she came up with after careful consideration.

Although Technician Jiang's father's rank was not high, he was only the director of the district revolutionary committee. But now was a period of great movement, and the revolutionary committee had great power. They could just put a hat on someone and take that person away from the unit.

When necessary, cross-regional law enforcement is not a problem.

It can be said that in Jiangcheng, unless Qian Xiaoyun can find a target of higher level than Jiang's father, no one dares to confront Jiang's father easily. Even if there is such a person in Chicheng, with Qian Xiaoyun's personality, he may not be willing to drag the other party down.

If not for this, Qian Xiaoyun in the original novel would not have been single until he was in his thirties and would not have gotten married until Jiang's father was imprisoned.

There were two turning points in Qian Xiaoyun's fate. One was that she was dating Technician Jiang and was targeted by his parents after his death. The other was that she chose the wrong man after the Great Movement ended.

Theoretically speaking, the former has already happened, and the latter is easier to change. Ye Min has already known through the barrage that the educated youth returning to the city are unreliable. It will not be difficult for her to keep a close eye on Qian Xiaoyun and keep her away from the man in her previous life.

The problem is that Ye Min doesn't know how long he can live.

Although the barrage only mentioned that Meng Cheng was dying, Ye Min had thought that if she was still alive when Meng Zheng took the college entrance examination, she would definitely not let him donate his blood to support the Xu family's daughter's education.

This was not based on the idea that she knew her daughter was switched, but rather that as a mother, no matter how difficult the situation was, she would not make the choice of letting one child give up his or her future to support another.

Raising children is the responsibility of parents, so even if she has to sell everything she has and rely on debt to make ends meet, she will support both children instead of passing the responsibility to the child who has a greater responsibility.

Besides, college lasts for four years in total. If he grits his teeth and gets through it, the family's financial situation will improve when Meng Zheng starts working. No matter how you look at it, this option is better than letting him drop out of school.

So whether from an emotional or rational point of view, Ye Min felt that Meng Zheng dropping out of school was very inconsistent.

Unless she was already dead when Meng Zheng was admitted to university.

With both parents dead and no one to rely on, Meng Zheng gave up the university he had been admitted to and started working early to support his sister's education. Logically, this problem could be solved.

Although she had already guessed her own fate, just as she knew Meng Cheng would not live long but was unsure whether she could save him two years later due to missing information, she was also unsure whether she could change her fate and survive.

And because she didn't know when she died, before Qian Xiaoyun got married or after she got married, she was not sure whether she could stop Qian Xiaoyun from marrying the bastard in the original book.

Therefore, Ye Min had no choice but to choose the difficult option and take the current situation where Qian Xiaoyun was being targeted by Technician Jiang's parents.

But the parents of the Congjiang technician were able to put all the blame for their son's death on Qian Xiaoyun. Moreover, now that they were living in a new society, they tried every possible means to make her remain faithful to their son. It seems that this couple is not reasonable people.

Even if Jiang's father is not all-powerful in Jiangcheng, he is definitely not someone that a small person like Qian Xiaoyun can fight against. If Qian Xiaoyun continues to stay in Jiangcheng, he is likely to follow in the footsteps of the past and future.

But it’s not easy to leave Jiangcheng.

At that time, household registration control was very strict. You couldn't just settle down wherever you wanted. Even if you wanted to travel far away, whether by train or staying in a guesthouse, you needed a letter of introduction. If you didn't have it, you might be arrested if you encountered the security team.

If Qian Xiaoyun wanted to settle down in another city, there were only two options: one was to apply for support for the Third Front Construction, and the other was to marry someone from outside the city.

The difficulty with the former lies in the fact that the Third Front Construction itself is led by the government. When Qian Xiaoyun submitted his application, even if it did not go through Jiang's father's hands, they would definitely receive the news at the first time and make some adjustments.

The difficulty of the latter is that Qian Xiaoyun's ancestors for three generations were all from Jiangcheng. How could she find an outsider to marry? Moreover, as a young girl, she married to another place alone. If she was lucky, it would be fine. But if she was unlucky and fell into another hell, her life in the future might not be as good as if she stayed in Jiangcheng.

But if Qian Xiaoyun could marry into the army, all the problems would be solved.

Although there are many procedures for military marriages, after the application is submitted, the army will send people to the woman's registered residence to investigate the situation, and the news may leak out during the process and reach the Jiang family. However, no matter how powerful the Revolutionary Committee is, its jurisdiction is limited. No matter how far Jiang's father extends his power, he can only do whatever he wants in Jiangcheng. He has no power outside the province.

Moreover, the army is different from ordinary units. The leaders have survived brutal wars to get to where they are today. They are not afraid of the people in the Revolutionary Committee.

Not to mention that they were not from the same province, even the leaders in the Donghe County Revolutionary Committee did not dare to confront the troops easily.

Although the army is also a strange place for Qian Xiaoyun, she and Meng Cheng are both here. Here, they are her relatives and will not watch her being bullied.

As for who to introduce to Qian Xiaoyun, Ye Min has also thought about it, and the first choice must be Ding Yang.

Just like Ding Yang trusted Ye Min and therefore asked her to introduce him to someone as soon as he decided to find a partner because he trusted her, Ye Min trusted Meng Cheng and therefore believed in the character of Ding Yang, who could become his best friend.

If she can successfully bring these two people together, she will be able to change Qian Xiaoyun and complete Ding Yang's task at the same time, killing two birds with one stone.

Oh, and the comment said that in the original novel, Ding Yang's ex-wife would abandon him when he was in the most difficult time. And because the novel does not mention Ding Yang's ex-wife's name, no matter who Ding Yang marries, that person may abandon him in the future.

Except Qian Xiaoyun.

The bullet screen said that Qian Xiaoyun married a returned urban youth in her previous life, so she could not be the woman who abandoned Ding Yang in her previous life. Moreover, she is gentle and kind, and never despises the poor or bullies the weak. If they get together, if Ding Yang encounters difficulties in the future, she will definitely not abandon him, but choose to go through it with him.

In this way, it is not only Qian Xiaoyun's personal destiny that has changed, but also Ding Yang's.

The problem is that although Qian Xiaoyun meets Ding Yang's standards for a spouse, her hometown is Jiangcheng. Because Ye Min had never thought of introducing friends from her hometown to Ding Yang before, she had never asked him if he had any requirements in this regard.

At the same time, although Ye Min felt that it was not Qian Xiaoyun's fault to date Technician Jiang, women in the world are always harsh. She was not sure whether Ding Yang would mind Qian Xiaoyun's past.

In addition, Qian Xiaoyun had just ended a relationship, and Ye Min was not sure if she could get over it so quickly. Moreover, although Qian Xiaoyun had many unsatisfactory things in Jiangcheng, she had a decent job and a good salary. Ye Min was not sure if she would be willing to give up everything and join the army.

Because of many considerations, Ye Min did not go to the post office to call Qian Xiaoyun the next day. It was not until the evening that she told Meng Cheng about her idea and made up her mind after listening to his opinion.

Meng Cheng didn't think all of Ye Min's concerns were a problem.

Meng Cheng believed that if Ding Yang had any requirements for the woman's nationality, he would have told him when he told him the criteria for choosing a spouse. Since he didn't mention it before, it means he had no requirements.

What's more, Ding Yang had asked him before whether Ye Min had any sisters, but he gave up the idea only when he told her that she had a stepsister with whom she had a bad relationship. This shows that he is quite willing to find a girl from Jiangcheng.

Meng Cheng, like Ye Min, did not think Qian Xiaoyun had a problem with her past, so he thought Ding Yang would not mind. Meng Cheng thought that if Ding Yang was such a confused person, they would not have become close friends.

As for Ye Min's concerns about Qian Xiaoyun, Meng Cheng was helpless and could only offer a suggestion: "Maybe you can write a letter to invite her to stay with the army for a while."

Ye Min suddenly became excited and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Didn't she say she wanted to be An An's godmother? But she hasn't seen An An since she was born, right?" Meng Cheng reminded, "Besides, her life has changed. Maybe she just wants to come out and relax."

Ye Min was enlightened and started thinking: "You mean that I should invite her to stay for a while in the name of visiting An An, arrange for her to meet Ding Yang, and then decide whether to arrange a formal blind date based on their reactions. This way, everyone will be happy and the two of them will not be interested in each other and will not be embarrassed?"

"almost."

Ye Min thought about it and realized that as long as Qian Xiaoyun could walk out of the shadow of the past, it didn't matter whether Ding Yang liked her or not. Even if he didn't want to, Meng Cheng still had other comrades.

Meet a few more people, there will always be the right one.

Thinking of this, Ye Min no longer hesitated: "I will call Xiaoyun tomorrow."

…

Qian Xiaoyun, who was far away in Jiangcheng, had indeed not had a good time recently, and the reason was indeed related to the changes in his relationship.

Although she and Teacher Qi had only known each other for a short time and their feelings were not that deep, his encouragement did rekindle her desire for married life and gave her the illusion that she could also be happy.

But she forgot that illusion means unreality, so she indulged in it.

So when the illusion was exposed, she was hit by a wake-up call and realized that some people do not deserve happiness.

In fact, she had already realized this when, with the comfort of her relatives and friends, she got over the shadow of her ex-boyfriend's death and finally made up her mind to start a new life and agreed to go on blind dates. However, her plans were repeatedly ruined by the Jiang family. It was not that difficult for her to accept this again.

It's just that the Jiang family's revenge was too fierce. Under their propaganda, she was once again caught up in public opinion. To the point that now no matter who she sees talking, she suspects that the other person is talking about her.

At this time, only the news that her best friend had given birth to a daughter could give her some comfort.

She wanted to reply when she first received the letter, but at that time she had just separated from Teacher Qi and was immersed in confusion about the future. She could not reply to the part in the letter where Ye Min suggested writing to her in advance after the wedding date was set, so she kept putting off replying.

It was not until May that she calmed down and made up her mind to tell Ye Min that she and Teacher Qi had broken up.

After sending the letter, Qian Xiaoyun was still very nervous. She was afraid that Ye Min would comfort her, and she was also afraid that the other party would write to ask for details. So when her colleague in the communication room told her that there was a call, and she rushed to the door of the communication room, she suddenly stopped and hesitated whether to go in to answer the call.

It was not until her colleague noticed her and told her to answer the phone that she took a deep breath and walked into the communication room. She picked up the receiver that was placed aside to prevent the call from being disconnected and said, "Hello?"

"Xiaoyun, it's me." Ye Min's voice came from the other end of the phone.

Qian Xiaoyun said: "Yes, I know."

"The phone call is expensive, so I'll make it short. You haven't seen An An since she was born. Do you want to come and see her?"

Qian Xiaoyun was stunned: "What?"

Ye Min repeated in a gentle voice: "What I mean is, do you want to come to the army to visit your goddaughter and stay for a while to relax?"