Chapter 57 Liu Lihua and Captain Zheng

"How's your appetite lately?"

Shen Zhiyou thought Fu Chunmei was concerned about her, so she told him the truth: "My appetite is fine, but sometimes I want to eat something heavy, and sometimes I want to eat something light."

"ah."

Fu Chunmei was confused about this.

He also asked Shen Zhiyou's mother and mother-in-law whether the first child was a boy or a girl.

Shen Zhiyou now understood what she meant by asking this question and paused: "The first pregnancy was always a boy, but my mother was pregnant with me as the second child."

"Then your baby is most likely a boy!"

Fu Chunmei seemed proud when she said this and winked at Shen Zhiyou.

Shen Zhiyou: "....No matter if it's a boy or a girl, they are all my children, what's the difference?"

Fu Chunmei smiled.

All women are like this. They want to save face, but are also afraid that their first child may not be a boy, so they tell others that boys and girls are the same.

Wait until you give birth to a daughter and see if she still says this.

Fu Chunmei had no other problems except that she always felt that city people looked down on them and favored boys over girls. They were also quite nice to her. Shen Zhiyou pretended not to understand her meaning and smiled without saying anything.

Seeing her reaction, Fu Chunmei knew that Shen Zhiyou didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, so she changed the subject.

Mysteriously, he lowered his voice and said, "I heard that you have a good relationship with Liu Lihua. It was she who sent you to the hospital last time. Do you know what happened between her and her lover?"

Liu Lihua?

Liu Lihua’s lover Shen Zhiyou knows this.

His surname is Zheng, he is a battalion commander, about the same age as Gu Ye, but I heard from Gu Ye that he is also very capable.

However, there are only a few positions of regiment commander and deputy regiment commander in a military unit.

There are many excellent people, but if you want to move up, it’s not enough to just be excellent and work hard.

Sometimes luck is also important.

Who knows, when Fu Chunmei heard what Shen Zhiyou said, she shook her head and said, "What? Her husband could have been promoted. You may not know that Liu Lihua's family background is a bit problematic. We don't know where her parents are now."

"She was almost in trouble, but her husband came to pick her up and married her, so she didn't get into trouble. But because of this incident, her husband's original promotion was also put on hold."

Shen Zhiyou really didn't know about this.

But one could vaguely feel that there seemed to be something strange between Liu Lihua and her lover.

Especially recently...

She saw Liu Lihua not in a good condition several times.

But she and Liu Lihua are just ordinary colleagues.

I don't have any preference for prying into other people's privacy.

Liu Lihua didn't speak up, nor would she ask.

"I heard that Captain Zheng's mother is here, and she brought a cousin or some relative from the countryside with her."

Liu Lihua hasn't had a child for many years.

At this time, her mother-in-law brought a young female comrade over. Anyone with a discerning eye could see what she was thinking.

Although Shen Zhiyou herself likes children very much.

However, Shen Zhiyou was disgusted by the behavior of her mother-in-law Liu Lihua who brought a young female comrade from home even though her daughter-in-law was not pregnant.

The next day, Gu Ye sent Shen Zhiyou to the school gate.

Before leaving, she was asked to remember to eat the eggs. Shen Zhiyou responded, carried her bag and walked into the office, and found that Liu Lihua was already there.

The woman looked very haggard and her eyes were red.

Seeing her come in, he quickly wiped his eyes and said, "Teacher Shen, you are here. I didn't sleep well last night, so I just took a nap in the office."

After she finished speaking, Shen Zhiyou heard her stomach rumbling.

Liu Lihua's face turned red.

"I happened to bring eggs with me. I don't really like boiled eggs. You can have them."

Facing Shen Zhiyou's slightly worried eyes, Liu Lihua couldn't hold back any longer. She choked up, nodded, and took the egg. "I'll return it to you tomorrow. Thank you, Teacher Shen."

"It's okay, just eat, I'll go get a bottle of hot water."

I don’t like having people I’m not familiar with around when I’m crying, so after putting myself in Liu Lihua’s shoes, I decided to let her be alone for a while.

"Teacher Shen."

Liu Lihua smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm really fine, you don't have to go out."

She didn't want to tell anyone about those things.

It’s not that no one has asked her these days, but the more people ask her, the less she wants to talk about it.

Now that Shen Zhiyou respected her so much, she actually felt the urge to talk to him for the first time.

There were only two of them in the office.

She took Shen Zhiyou aside and told her what had happened at home recently.

It’s pretty much the same as what Fu Chunmei said.

The only difference is that the version Fu Chunmei heard was that Liu Lihua clung to Captain Zheng as if he were her lifeline and did not want to divorce even though she could not have a child.

But I heard it from Liu Lihua.

Liu Lihua was actually the one who took the initiative to divorce!

But Captain Zheng kept saying that he had promised her parents that he would take good care of her and that he would never divorce.

But Shen Zhiyou felt strange, "Don't you like Captain Zheng?"

Liu Lihua subconsciously wanted to refute, but when the words came to her lips, she changed them to: "So what if he likes me? I can't delay him."

"But you're both married. Captain Zheng is adamant that he won't divorce you, which means he still has feelings for you. Now that it's already like this, what's the point of delaying it? Does it mean that if you divorce him, he can move up the ladder and become the commander?"

Liu Lihua choked, "That's not what I meant."

"That's what it says."

Shen Zhiyou has a straightforward personality and what she fears most are stubborn people.

Liu Lihua was too twisted, but she was also a very nice person. Shen Zhiyou saw her eyes were red again and frowned: "Captain Zheng must like you. If you insist on divorcing him, isn't it a double blow to him?"

"You can't do what you promised your parents, and you can't keep the person you like. If I were Captain Zheng, I would be sick to death."

Shen Zhiyou likes people left and right, which makes Liu Lihua's ears red.

"Teacher Shen, how could you...how could he like me?"

She had dragged him down so badly that his mother told her every day that if it weren't for her, her son would definitely not be what he is now.

How could Captain Zheng not like her?

Several times when it rained, Captain Zheng came to bring her an umbrella.

After knowing that Shen Zhiyou came to be a teacher, he specifically asked Gu Ye to take better care of Liu Lihua.

Is this what you don’t like?

But when I think about it carefully, it seems that the two of them are indeed not like an ordinary couple like me and Gu Ye.

There was an indescribable strangeness in his words.

Shen Zhiyou suddenly had some incredible thoughts and asked in a low voice, "You two don't have that thing, do you?"

Liu Lihua: “……..Yeah.”