Chapter 32 Consider the duality: Come with me to the island with the army. ...
A shipyard in Shanghai.
Political Commissar Wang asked the young man beside him curiously, "Have you told your wife about accompanying the soldier? Submit the application report as soon as possible... Actually, it's fine if you don't submit it. Just bring him over, and you can handle the formalities later."
Many things require reports and applications, and the whole process takes a long time. But there's always room for flexibility. If someone's family members go with them, the military should welcome them with open arms. How can they not provide them with a place to stay? If someone runs away, it will be too late to regret it, which would be a major incident.
We can settle the people first, and then complete the procedures later. That makes perfect sense.
Li Jianzhi: "I haven't said anything yet."
"You man... you're really more anxious than the emperor." Political Commissar Wang was speechless for a moment. Accompanying the army was such a big deal, and he didn't say so earlier. If he had said so earlier, it would have been easier to mediate and make concessions.
"Don't you want your wife to go with you?"
Li Jianzhi: "I'm facing a bit of a problem right now."
"How so?"
“She performed well in the textile factory. Her mentor praised her for her excellent performance and said that she would become a workshop director and possibly even a factory manager in the future. He also told me, a family member of someone working in the textile factory, to correct my attitude.”
"If I let her accompany the army, wouldn't that delay her becoming a factory director in the future?" Li Jianzhi blurted out, his tone subtly revealing a hint of boasting. Listen to how capable his wife is; she has the potential to be a factory director.
The husband benefits from his wife's fame; he's now living off her.
Li Jianzhi grew up in a family environment where the woman was stronger than the man. He himself didn't have that much male chauvinism, thinking that men must be stronger than women at home and suppress them. Besides, he grew up in Shanghai, where it was common for wives to earn more than husbands in ordinary families, so he was used to it.
Besides, decades later, stories about sons-in-law becoming popular in male-oriented fiction will also be common.
If I can be a kept man in the future, that would be a blessing.
Li Jianzhi felt that he was somewhat qualified to be a gigolo, after all, he had a good appearance and would take good care of his figure for the next few decades to be an elegant and proper good man.
Being in the military, it's unlikely he'd go into business and make money on his own. It's normal that he can't earn as much as his wife, but he can help her by buying land and property.
"You...you've been set up, haven't you?" Political Commissar Wang's lips twitched a few times; he tried to persuade the other party in a somewhat tactful way.
When he visited his wife's factory last time, the people there said she was lazy and pretentious. But when Comrade Li said this, he actually thought his wife had the potential to be the factory manager.
Have you been completely fooled?
At the same time, Political Commissar Wang felt a subtle jealousy. Could it be that what he heard that day was false? Did the young comrade in front of him really have a beautiful, virtuous, hardworking, and ambitious wife who would have the opportunity to be promoted to factory director in the future?
And this beautiful wife is just like Wang Baochuan (X), waiting for him to return in a cold cave for eighteen years. No, his wife is much better off than Wang Baochuan, she stayed in a "big city" for five years!
The child was born with a Shanghai household registration. They are so lucky. Even if they go with their spouse to the military, they don't need to change their household registration. Even if they do, it doesn't matter because Shanghai is their original place of residence, and they can transfer it back to their original place of residence at any time.
"What kind of set?"
Political Commissar Wang: "..." You can't just say that your wife might not be as outstanding as you think.
The young man is so pitiful. He joined the army at a young age and probably hasn't seen many women since he was a child. He and his wife have been living apart for a short time after getting married and haven't experienced the hardships of living together and raising children. That's why he thinks his wife is the best and most virtuous woman in the world.
“Observe your wife more closely. Sometimes, distance makes the heart grow fonder.” Political Commissar Wang paused and then said, “If you two lived together for a year or two, you might have different ideas.”
"The couple should communicate more. Stop guessing and just ask your wife what she thinks."
Li Jianzhi: "Then I'll ask tomorrow morning."
"Why did you choose this time?"
"What if she gets up still half asleep and agrees?" Li Jianzhi had been mentally preparing for the past day or two, hoping to hit the mark and trick his wife into leaving.
He was too selfish, jeopardizing his wife's future for his own selfish desires. No matter how you look at it, she was the one who suffered. If his wife were to consider and agree to go with him to the military base, he would definitely treat her well.
After finishing her night shift, Qin Xiang didn't get home until after 1 a.m. to wash up. She tried to catch up on sleep until 10 a.m. The thought of having to work night shifts all night after her day off made her heart pound unbearably.
She lay on the bed like a corpse, too exhausted to even try anything funny. Perhaps she looked too miserable working the night shift, and the man felt sorry for her, indulging her every whim.
"Li Jianzhi, my hands hurt and I don't want to hold chopsticks, you feed me."
"Li Jianzhi, I'm so tired, I don't want to wash my face, can you help me?"
"Li Jianzhi, I want to sleep for a while. Could you apply clam oil to my skin?"
...
She's been acting so lazy and difficult, yet this man still has no complaints. He probably feels sorry for her because working the night shift is too hard and genuinely cares about her, thinking she's been wronged.
Waaah, what a good man.
Therefore, she was certain of one thing: this damned man was tall and strong, and he truly never hit women. He had never laid a hand on her, either in her dreams or not, so she could rest assured.
No, the current Li Jianzhi is much better than the Li Jianzhi in my dream. He treats her so well that she's almost reluctant to get a divorce.
But he can't have a daughter, and they are characters in a book. Will things change when he meets the female lead, Lin Xiuqin?
To divorce or not to divorce?
"Think about it, are you up yet?"
The man walked into the room and sat down next to her. Qin Xiangxiang barely opened one eye to look at him and realized that her hand was being held tightly in someone's hand.
"Think about it, after spending these past few days together, I want to have a serious talk with you."
Qin Xiangxiang lay there like a corpse: "Go ahead and say it."
"After reflecting on this for the past few days, I feel deeply sorry for you. I feel like a bastard. The first day I came back, I actually brought up divorce. I'm such a jerk."
Qin Xiangxiang: "..."
Actually, she almost burst out laughing that night.
“Your grandma and aunt’s families all bullied you, and the people in the old apartment building also bullied you. If you get divorced, I don’t know how much grievance you will suffer and how much gossip you will endure. You didn’t slap me back then… You really suffered too much.”
Qin Xiangxiang could only remain expressionless. She finally understood what this man was thinking. Very well, he felt guilty towards her. Don't blame her for taking advantage of her.
"We won't get a divorce, we'll never get a divorce. Let's get along well, and I'll treat you and our son well."
Qin Xiangxiang: "????!!!" You big jerk!
Are you trying to play this game with her?
Recalling the events of the past few days, and considering how kind she had been to him, Qin Xiangxiang immediately slapped him in anger.
"You hit me?" Li Jianzhi was stunned.
Qin Xiangxiang revealed her true nature: "I'll hit you if I want, so what?"
If you're so capable, go ahead and hit her back. She immediately put on a show of rolling off the bed and breaking her leg.
"Good hit." Li Jianzhi took her hand and rubbed it against his cheek. "You should have hit harder."
Qin Xiangxiang: "?"
"Wife, does your hand hurt?" Li Jianzhi rubbed her wrist. He was really worried that Qin Xiangxiang was holding back her anger and needed to vent it. The strength a woman uses to hit someone is like a kitten waving its claws, just tickling.
Besides, a beating is a sign of affection, and scolding is a sign of love; without beatings and scoldings, there is no love.
Our ancestors used to say "flirting and teasing".
"It hurts so much!" the little drama queen said dramatically.
"Then let me rub it for you."
Qin Xiangxiang: "..."
Li Jianzhi gently massaged her wrist, saying, "Have you studied physics? Forces are reciprocal. If you hit me, you also experience force and it hurts."
Qin Xiangxiang wondered if he had read so much that his brain had become messed up; what the hell is this about the mutual effects of force?
"I don't understand physics."
Li Jianzhi sighed and said, "It's okay if you don't understand, it's enough that I do. I'll teach you when I have time later."
Forces act in pairs, and at the same time, everything is a unity of opposites, possessing two sides.
It's like he married an illiterate wife and worried that the couple wouldn't have anything in common in the future—that's one aspect. But from another perspective, marrying an illiterate wife means having a lifetime to personally teach her about culture, which is also a kind of marital fun.
From a male chauvinist perspective, the latter is quite sweet and satisfies a man's ego.
It's okay if she doesn't want to learn. She just needs to be patient and persistent. She believes that where there's a will, there's a way. On this point, Li Jianzhi never doubts himself.
Li Jianzhi is a man of firm will. You should know that back then, despite his mother's crazy and irrational accusations and obstruction, he resolutely chose to attend military school and has been in the army ever since.
His wife was unwilling to learn, so he tried to find solutions from multiple angles. For example, after the couple had sex at night, they would lie close together and wait for the afterglow to fade, and he could quietly recite math and physics formulas in her ear.
I can teach her Chinese, math, English, physics, chemistry, biology, history...
Sending his wife food every day was too monotonous, so Li Jianzhi decided to go to Xinhua Bookstore to pick out a few books as a gift. He remembered that there was a set of "Self-Study Series on Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry" published by Shanghai Publishing House in the 1960s, which had a total of seventeen volumes. It was the best self-study reference book when the college entrance examination was reinstated in 1977.
I could buy a set of these books and give them to my wife as a surprise gift to mark our love. When I'm old, it would be something to be proud of to tell others about it.
She might not like it then, but that's okay, she'll like it later.
Falling in love with math, physics, and chemistry is as simple as breathing.
In the dead of night, while on the warship, Li Jianzhi would dream of the days when he took the college entrance examination. He enjoyed writing a math test paper every day. Even after graduating and working for many years, he would still download the past years' college entrance examination math questions from various provinces and cities and do them carefully.
"Think about it, come with me to the island with the army."
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