Ye Zhen looked exhausted, rubbing her face with her hands. Then she sighed and leaned against the bench with her bent back, her head resting weakly against the wall, her expression full of weariness.
"Sister Ju, thank you for coming to see me and my parents, you know?"
Suddenly I don't want to get married anymore. I feel so tired. How can people be so selfish?
Cuiju had no intention of prying into other people's family affairs and didn't know how to offer advice for a moment. Fortunately, Yezhen didn't need her to respond.
"My brother is such an outstanding person, how could my sister-in-law be so ungrateful? She actually betrayed him!!!"
When Cuiju was discussing the true meaning of the word 'betrayal' in this sentence, Ye Zhen spoke again.
"Ha, the funniest thing is that my brother suddenly came back and was caught red-handed in their little home."
When that man was discovered, instead of showing any remorse, he mocked my brother, saying he was unfit to be a husband.
“My brother is stationed in the Northwest. It’s a luxury for him to come back for a week a year. He knows he’s letting my sister-in-law down.”
So this time, after finally getting a vacation, I didn't even visit my parents; I went to my sister-in-law's workplace residential compound first.
And what happened? My sister-in-law was actually in bed with her childhood sweetheart, and it was already 8 PM!
In their love, they even sent their child to her parents' home.
What's even more infuriating is that during the argument, the man actually said that the child wasn't my brother's.
It's not about the two of them; if their families hadn't objected, they would have been together long ago.
As she spoke, Ye Zhenke started to cry.
"My little niece is someone our whole family has doted on and protected as she grew up!"
“We raised them for three years. My parents raised them with great care, but my sister-in-law only took care of them for a few days.”
She said she wasn't our child, and that's how she denied everything?
Before my brother could even say anything, she brought up divorce and wanted to take the children with her.
Cuiju never expected that so many things would happen to the Ye family in just a few days.
"Where is your brother now?" When she arrived, no one was home.
His parents are both in the hospital, where did he, a grown man, go?
"After the divorce, he left. He kept it a secret. If my sister-in-law hadn't come back to get her things, we wouldn't have known they were divorced."
Perhaps out of guilt, and because she had some conscience, she returned all the wages and allowances my brother had earned over the years.
She even kowtowed to my parents, saying she was sorry to us, but the child really wasn't ours.
The reason I married my brother was because my parents pressured me.
Now that she's been discovered, she's lost her reputation.
She planned to take her child with her to the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps on the frontier. Before leaving, she brought her child over and kowtowed.
Upon hearing this, Cuiju actually felt a little sympathy for Sister-in-law Yezhen.
“My parents couldn’t take it and both fell ill. When I went home to get my savings book, I found that my sister-in-law had used her own salary to add 2,000 yuan to the book. She really felt guilty towards my parents, and maybe she was also thanking my brother for letting go so readily.”
"From what you're saying, you don't resent her?"
"When I was running around the hospital all by myself, with no one to help me, I was filled with resentment."
But these past few days, as I've reflected on everything that's happened over the years, I've come to realize that apart from this one mistake, my sister-in-law hasn't done anything to wrong us.
She is filial to her parents-in-law and does all the housework at home. The only thing she doesn't like is taking care of children.
Compared to my brother, she's more like my parents' daughter, because she was the one who took care of them when they were sick.
On the other hand, neither of my brother nor my younger brother can be relied upon.
My parents couldn't accept it all at once, not entirely because of her betrayal, but because they felt they had lost their daughter-in-law and granddaughter.
Having spent so many years alone in an empty house, with her childhood sweetheart by her side to care for her, it's perhaps inevitable that her heart would stray.
"I don't believe the child is that man's. My sister-in-law is the kind of person who wouldn't do such a thing."
She must have felt her reputation was ruined, and that leaving the child behind would be a lifelong shadow, so she thought it better to take the child with her.
She was forced to marry Ye Fan back then, but she must have had the idea of living a good life with him, so the child is definitely a legitimate child.
However, she didn't realize how difficult it was to be a military wife; year after year, she felt empty and lonely.
Once someone takes advantage of the situation, especially if it's your first love from your youth, you'll immediately fall for them and be unable to extricate yourself.
From the time her first child was three years old until now, when no more children have been born, you can see how busy Ye Fan has been.
"My brother came back this time because he gave birth to a battalion commander, which qualified him to accompany his wife to the military base. He wanted to come back and pick up my sister-in-law, but..."
Ye Zhen felt even more distressed: "Good days were just around the corner, why couldn't she hold on a little longer?"
"What does that man do?"
"He was a fitter at the machine factory, a technician, and his salary was not low. His ex-wife died of illness, and he spent a lot of money on her medical treatment."
Putting all that aside, he's a man of great loyalty and affection, and he grew up with my sister-in-law, so perhaps there really is some affection between them.
Tang Cuiju patted Ye Zhen on the shoulder: "The one who is most hurt is probably your brother. His letting go is truly admirable!"
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