Fu Liren found the voice familiar and couldn't help but take a closer look at the woman's face.

"Qiu Ju? You...what are you doing..."

"My aunt brought me here. She said you were divorced and wanted me to go around with you..."

As Qiu Ju spoke, her voice became softer, with a hint of shyness on her face that didn't seem to be in keeping with her age.

"Qiu Ju, what are you talking about? Where is your man?"

Qiu Ju and Fu Liren were from the same village. Qiu Ju was one year younger than Fu Liren, and they grew up together, so they could be considered childhood sweethearts.

After growing up, the two of them began to have some feelings for each other. Old Mrs. Fu watched Qiu Ju grow up. Although she was not very pretty, she was very hardworking and good at housework. Most importantly, she had a big butt.

As the old saying goes, women with big butts can give birth to children, so Mrs. Fu treated her as her future daughter-in-law.

The biggest dream of Mrs. Fu, who has been a widow for a lifetime, is to find a woman who can give birth to children for her son, so that she can give birth to more grandchildren and make their Fu family prosperous.

After they grew up, she asked someone to go to Qiu Ju's home to propose marriage, thinking it would be a done deal, but unexpectedly Qiu Ju's mother rejected it outright.

The reason was that Qiu Ju had a cousin who worked in the next county, and because both of them were working, there was no one to take care of the child.

Both her parents-in-law had passed away, and she couldn't rely on her natal family, so she went to Qiu Ju's house and asked her to take care of their two children, and they would arrange her marriage in the future.

I promise to find Qiu Ju a farmer who can eat commercial food, and I will never let her go back to the countryside to farm again.

In this era, for a rural girl to marry a city man who ate commodity food was a matter of great honor to the family.

After being persuaded by everyone, Qiu Ju also agreed.

Although Fu Liren is a good man, if I marry him I will have to farm in the countryside for the rest of my life, exposed to the wind and sun, without the ability to eat good food or wear good clothes.

If I could marry a successful city guy, I wouldn't have to work hard in this life anymore.

So Qiu Ju followed her aunt to marry a city man.

When Fu Liren learned about this, he was furious and secretly signed up to join the army without telling Old Lady Fu.

He was just trying his luck at the time. As a country boy, he had no other options, so joining the army was the only option for him.

If I could perform meritorious service on the battlefield and come back alive, I would definitely be promoted, and that would be a relief.

When Mrs. Fu first learned that he was going to join the army, she cried bitterly. She had such a son and had treated him like a baby since he was little, always afraid that he would get hurt.

Being a soldier means fighting in wars. She didn't dare to think about what would happen. If that happened, she might not be able to survive.

She never dared to think that her son would rise step by step from squad leader to company commander, and then to battalion commander, which was considered a great honor for the Fu family.

Fu Liren met Liu Yan during the march.

At that time, he was still a squad leader. When he camped in a village, many villagers spontaneously provided them with food.

Liu Yan was from that village. He was slightly injured at the time. One of his arms was pierced by a bullet shell. Because there was no medicine and the weather was a bit hot, the wound became infected and began to swell and fester.

When Liu Yan's father was alive, he knew a little about medicine. There was no doctor in the village, so when someone was sick, they would run to their house and ask his father to get some herbal medicine for them.

So Liu Yan also learned a little from her father.

Knowing that they would set off early the next morning, Liu Yan couldn't bear to see the soldiers defending their country continue to move forward with swollen arms.

But the family just happened to be lacking a medicine for reducing swelling and inflammation.

After much thought, Liu Yan made a decision. That night, she ran to the river alone with her hands in hand, risking being attacked by wild animals, and brought back the medicine.

When she came back, it was already late at night. She quickly put the medicines together and crushed them, then ran to the entrance of the village where they were staying for the night and explained the situation to the soldiers on guard.

A soldier led her to find Fu Liren who was sleeping soundly, woke him up, and applied the medicine to him.

When Fu Liren woke up early the next morning, he clearly felt that his arm had become much looser.

When they were about to leave, the villagers came over spontaneously with food to see them off.

Liu Yan was also in the group. When she saw Fu Liren, she asked him if he was feeling better.

After learning that the redness and swelling had subsided a lot, she happily took out a small cloth bag from the food basket and opened it to find several kinds of herbs.

It turned out that Liu Yan was afraid that his wound would not be treated well in one go, so she packed some of each of those herbs and told him to change them again on the way.

Fu Liren was quite moved at the time, and after thanking them, they left.

I thought I had just met a kind-hearted girl and we would never have any interaction again in this life.

Unexpectedly, when they came back, they took the same route and stayed in Liu Yan's village that night.

When the two met again, they were no longer strangers.

Because there were many injured, the order was to rest for a few more days before leaving.

In this way, the two had the opportunity to get to know each other.

Liu Yan's parents died early. As the only person in the village who knew a little medical knowledge, she voluntarily joined the team caring for the wounded.

Therefore, she had more opportunities to meet Fu Liren. When she had nothing to do, she liked to ask Fu Liren about what was happening on the battlefield.

Fu Liren was also willing to talk to her, and the two became more and more familiar with each other.

After leaving the village, Fu Liren couldn't help but think of Liu Yan.

Later he wrote a letter to Liu Yan, and Liu Yan wrote him one in reply.

After a few exchanges of letters, Fu Liren confessed his love to Liu Yan.

During these two years, Liu Yan also developed feelings for Fu Liren, and the two naturally came together.

At that time, Liu Yan's mother had also passed away. Because they had no money, her only brother became a live-in son-in-law.

Liu Yan, who lived alone, was also eager to find someone to rely on. Fu Liren proposed to her in a letter, and she immediately ran towards him with her household registration booklet in her pocket.

Liu Yan was pretty, and Mrs. Fu was quite satisfied with her at first.

After the two got married, Mrs. Fu kept talking about having a grandson every day. She started to get anxious when she saw no movement from Liu Yan after three months of marriage.

After a year, there was still no movement, and Mrs. Fu was extremely worried.

As a result, after all this trouble, I lost the child I had finally conceived.

At this point, Mrs. Fu could no longer tolerate Liu Yan.

She was driven back by her son the day before yesterday and happened to meet Qiu Ju who was back at her parents' home. When they were chatting, she learned that Qiu Ju's husband was sick and passed away.

Mrs. Fu perked up all of a sudden and asked Qiu Ju indirectly whether she was still planning to marry again and who would raise the child.

Because she knew that after Qiu Ju married into the city, she gave birth to two big fat kids in one go.

She was attracted by Qiu Ju's ability to give birth to a child, so she expressed her thoughts without hesitation.

In recent years, Qiu Ju also learned from her mother's family that Fu Liren had become a battalion commander and received a lot of subsidies.

Much higher than the salary of her dead man.

Plus, the two of them had that intention before, so she agreed immediately.

Hearing Fu Liren asking about her man, Qiu Ju's eyes suddenly turned red, "My man...he...he is gone."