"I know. Our two families live so close, and he told us all along." Gao Qian pointed to the house next door, which was only separated by a wall. "Just yesterday, Captain Xiong told me to go with him to pick up the bride."
"You promised?"
Gao Qian nodded. "I agreed. Given the relationship between our two families, I have to agree. What about you? Commander Xiong and your Captain He are in the same regiment. Did they say they would contact you about picking up the bride?"
Yun Qiao shook his head: "I don't think they'll look for me. I have an average relationship with Captain Xiong's new wife."
If Han Rou wanted to find her, she could have told her when they met at the field office bus station last Sunday morning.
Yun Qiao himself didn't really want to go.
"You are educated youth from the same company, so your relationship should be very close. Why is it just average?" Gao Qian asked curiously.
"There are a lot of educated youth in our company. There are over 30 female comrades alone," Yun Qiao explained. "And Han Rou and I weren't from the same group. I went to the countryside in 1968, and she only came last year. We rarely interacted at first."
"So, do you think Comrade Han is easy to get along with?" Gao Qian glanced at Nuannuan in the room and said worriedly, "I'm a little worried that she won't treat Nuannuan well in the future."
Gao Qian sighed and said, "When I first came to join the army, Nuannuan was still in her mother's belly. Nuannuan's mother was a very gentle woman, but she had a bad fate. Not long after she gave birth to Nuannuan, she became pregnant again. She was seven months pregnant when she suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage caused by eclampsia during pregnancy. Both the mother and the child died."
"I was also at the hospital, holding Nuannuan, waiting outside the operating room. When the tragic news came out, Nuannuan had fallen asleep in my arms. She wasn't even a year old at the time, lying unconscious in my arms, unaware that she would never have a mother again."
"There's only a wall between my house and Captain Xiong's. I've watched Nuannuan grow up little by little. She's about the same age as my daughter. I see her as my own daughter."
"Although I knew that Captain Xiong was young and would marry a new wife sooner or later, when that day finally came, I couldn't help but worry about Nuannuan."
In just a few words, Gao Qian sighed several times. Yun Qiao could hear that she was really worried about Nuannuan's future situation.
Yun Qiao patted her shoulder and comforted her, "You don't have to worry too much. You live next door to look after her, and there are also Women's Federation cadres supervising her. Even if Captain Xiong married a stepmother for Nuannuan, he wouldn't dare treat her badly."
"I hope so." Gao Qian said, and couldn't help but sigh again.
I’m afraid that my stepmother will pretend to be nice to Nuannuan in front of others, but do something behind their backs.
Judging from her initial impression of Captain Xiong's new wife, whose surname was Han, she was a pretentious person.
"After all, a stepmother isn't my biological mother, and we can't demand that she treat me as our own child. I just hope she's a good person and can treat Nuannuan better in the future."
An Xiaomei listened for a while and almost understood the whole story. Seeing Gao Qian's frown, she advised her, "Little Sister Gao, I think you are too worried. Why do you assume that the stepmother must be bad? Besides, even if the stepmother is a bad person, there is Nuannuan's biological father watching over her. With the biological father in charge, the stepmother wouldn't dare to do anything."
"Xiaomei, you don't understand." Gao Qian glanced at An Xiaomei dimly, her eyes revealing a sense of vicissitudes and helplessness, "With a stepmother, you also have a stepfather. What's the point of having a biological father? When the stepmother gives birth to a new child, the previous child might even be disliked and an eyesore if they stand aside."
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