Chapter 17

Shang Nanchen was in a bad mood at first, but he was amused by her last sentence.

She really does praise herself all the time.

"Are you bragging like Wang Po selling melons?" Shang Nanchen walked into the house carrying the mixed shredded radish. He turned around to look at Jing Xian, and when she glared at him, there was finally a smile in his eyes.

Jing Xian wiped her hands and followed him into the house: "What's the matter? You bought it, but you're still not satisfied?"

“Very satisfied.”

Shang Nanchen's tone was serious, which made Jing Xian feel a little embarrassed.

She sat on the kang and said, "That's all, let's eat quickly."

They couldn't discuss matters at the children's biological mother and grandmother's home in front of the two children.

After dinner, the two children did not go out, but played on the kang.

Tomorrow weekend, we will have guests at home, which is related to Jingxian's work and the food problem of the soldiers in the army.

Jing Xian has to make preparations in advance.

Shang Nanchen was helping her in the outer room.

Among them, the pig intestines were the most difficult to clean. Jing Xian was afraid that Shang Nanchen would not be able to do it well, so she did it herself. Although it was troublesome, there was hot water and the stove was burning, so it was not cold at all.

"Are you just going to let your ex-mother-in-law off like that?" Jing Xian was a vengeful person.

If Tiedan and Fusheng were her children, she would definitely not let that old hag have an easy time.

When this matter was mentioned, Shang Nanchen's face turned ugly again: "I can't shoot her with a gun."

"Get the money back." Jing Xian said calmly, and Shang Nanchen stared.

Jing Xian thought he disagreed because he was a man who cared about his reputation, but Shang Nanchen asked in shock, "Can I get it back?"

"Why don't you come back?" Jing Xian has experienced the end of the world and has seen the world.

"She said she would give me 20 yuan a month for helping me take care of the kids." Shang Nanchen couldn't continue and looked at Jing Xian for help.

Jing Xian tutted her tongue, her face full of disdain: "You don't think that I've let you take care of the child for half a year and you won't say anything, do you? The child is not dead after all, right?"

"No, I give her twenty dollars a month so that she can take good care of my child!"

But when he thought of Tiedan and Fusheng's looks, Shang Nanchen was so angry that he wanted to kill them.

Otherwise, he would not have gone back to the army to report immediately and come back to find his wife with the report.

"You also said that you were raising the child in a good way. She will have to pay for bringing the child up like this." While Jing Xian was speaking, she secretly observed Shang Nanchen's expression and found that he did not think it was wrong. Instead, he looked in agreement. She took the opportunity to test him, "Your ex-wife took all your money and didn't want the child. What will you do if she comes looking for the child in the future?"

"She still has the nerve to come look for these two children?" Shang Nanchen felt that no one with a dignity could do this.

Jing Xian saw what he meant and asked with a half-smile, "You don't think she'll live a good life with others, do you?"

"What does she want to do if she can't live a good life?" Shang Nanchen didn't want to mention his ex-wife. There was no affection between him and his ex-wife.

"What if we can't make ends meet?" Jing Xian asked again.

"How is that possible? She had hundreds of dollars on her."

Shang Nanchen didn't know whether his ex-wife had saved any money in the past few years, but when they divorced, the bonus he carried with him, plus the money he had saved, totaled more than a thousand yuan.

He gave her all the money he had except the few hundred dollars he kept for himself.

How could she not be able to live like this?

Shang Nanchen met Jing Xian's chilly gaze, knowing that he was being tricked but not angry. He narrowed his eyes and leaned over to ask, "You didn't always want to ask me how much money I gave her, did you? After all, she gave birth to Tiedan and Fusheng. She was indeed wronged in the past few years. That money can be regarded as compensation, and it is also to buy off her relationship with Tiedan and Fusheng. If she had any dignity, she would not come to find the two children."

"It's true that I said you were taken advantage of." It was impossible for Jing Xian to not be angry. She was a human being, and everyone has selfish desires.

If Shang Nanchen hadn't given all his money to his ex-wife, her life wouldn't be so tight. Even if she wanted to supplement the health of her family, she had to find money from other places.

But I just felt unhappy for a moment.

"Write a letter to your ex-wife and ask her mother to give up the money. It's a total of 120 yuan for half a year. Tiedan and Fusheng have become so skinny in half a year, they must not have spent even 20 yuan. We don't want more, just return our 100 yuan and compensate the two children 200 yuan. It's a total of 300 yuan, let her pay it back directly. If she doesn't give it, we will sue her for adultery. Nowadays, adultery will be sent to reform school."

After Jing Xian gave her idea, she looked at Shang Nanchen.

Shang Nanchen opened his mouth, but finally asked, "Is this possible?"

"Why not? I remember Sister Lijuan said that you had fought in the battlefield and made contributions. Your ex-wife and her current husband had an affair behind your back, which is a serious crime. They could be used as an example and even shot. Do you think you should pay the money?"

Jing Xian stared at Shang Nanchen. Shang Nanchen finished thinking, stood up and said, "I'll go write the letter now."

"Go ahead, and don't worry about tomorrow."

Shang Nanchen looked back at the smiling Jing Xian and thought she was really amazing. This method was something that most people couldn't think of. Most people thought that just making a scene to vent their anger was enough.

She even wants to pull out the tendons and skin people.

I have to say, it feels so good.

Shang Nanchen wrote the letter very quickly and showed it to Jing Xian after he finished.

This surprised Jing Xian very much.

She didn't refuse, she took it and looked at it, her eyebrows slightly raised. Shang Nanchen's letter was clearly written, concise and clear, without a single word of nonsense. Moreover, the key points could be seen at a glance.

"You write well, and your handwriting is beautiful." Jing Xian asked in surprise, "Have you ever been to school?"

"I graduated from high school and attended a military academy." Shang Nanchen felt that Jing Xian looked down on him. "I started school early. I finished junior high school and high school when I was less than fifteen years old. At that time, the military academy came to recruit soldiers. I was tall and looked more like eighteen than fifteen. In addition, I had just graduated from high school, so they wanted me. I attended a military academy, and then the war broke out, so I signed up and went to the battlefield."

Jing Xian was a little curious about what happened next, so she asked him hastily, "That's it?"

"My grandmother was worried that I would die on the battlefield and have no offspring, so she urged me to get married. I happened to be back for a few days, so I got married. The day after my wedding, I received a telegram and was sent to the battlefield again. When the war was about to end and we returned with the army, I found out that she was having an affair with someone else. I had no feelings for her, so I divorced her."

Jing Xian thought he was in the army, but he never came back, which led to their divorce.

It turned out that he was on the battlefield.

"Later, I received another mission and went to the battlefield again. This time I was away for more than half a year. When I come back, you will know what happened next." Shang Nanchen covered his face. He learned from the letter that he had two sons.

In every life-and-death situation, he just wanted to survive, after all, he had never met his two sons.

He asked for it back from King Yan again and again, only to find that his wife was gone.

Shang Nanchen didn't blame his ex-wife, but his ex-mother-in-law shouldn't have treated his son like that.

This is a heavy topic.

Jing Xian looked at the tough man with bloodshot eyes. She folded the letter and handed it to him: "Go to the post office early tomorrow morning and mail the letter. We will calculate the time and give her half a month. If she doesn't transfer the money, we will let her know why the flowers are so red."

"No, are you really going to report it?" Shang Nanchen was quite sad at first, but now he is not sad anymore.

He felt that after being with Jing Xian for too long, he couldn't be sad anymore.

His gaze towards Jing Xian softened unconsciously.

Soldiers who have been to the battlefield have some problems in their hearts, but they have no way to solve them, and they don't know how to solve them. There are too many soldiers, and the superiors can't take care of them all.

The soldiers didn't say anything, they just kept it to themselves and gritted their teeth to get through it.

Shang Nanchen thought that if they could all marry a wife like Jing Xian, perhaps they would be able to gradually recover from the trauma of the post-war period.

"Of course." Jing Xian calculated the bill for him, "They just think you can talk to them.

It's different now, you have me, I will help you get justice."

"What about yours?"

Jing Xian didn't expect Shang Nanchen to ask this. She hesitated for a moment and decided to test Shang Nanchen. After all, truth will come out someday. Saying it earlier would also show that she was honest.

"I have avenged myself."

Jing Xian noticed that although he was surprised, there was no disgust in his eyes. She even frowned and asked, "How did you deal with it? Will it have any impact on you?"

"Report! I reported them to the Revolutionary Committee in a letter."

“…”

Shang Nanchen opened his mouth wide, and after a while he said, "You are really willing to sacrifice your own family for the sake of justice."

Jing Xian has never considered herself a member of the Jing family.

She and grandma are a family.

"Although I stayed in the Jing family for a short time, I know that there are many bad things in the Jing family." Jing Xian listed them one by one. "Zhou Huifang is speculating and profiteering, Jing Daming is having an affair with the young widow upstairs. They all have ideological problems, and it is only a matter of time before something bad happens. I am helping them by doing this, otherwise there will be trouble in their family in the future."

Shang Nanchen's expression was indescribable, "You are really kind."

"Thanks for the compliment."

Is he exaggerating?

Shang Nanchen didn't find Jing Xian disgusting at all when he saw her like this. Instead, he thought it was good.

The purpose of life is to live happily.

Early in the morning.

Shang Nanchen had breakfast, helped Jingxian put the pig on the brine, and went to the post office with the letter. After leaving the post office, he went to the market to find Jingxian.

Jingxian brought her two children to the place where seafood was sold with familiarity.

Sure enough, the fisherman came to sell seafood again.

The bucket in front of me is full of oysters, shrimps, abalone, sea cucumbers, etc.

"Are these still the same prices as last time?" Even though the price has tripled, it doesn't require a ticket. Jing Xian can afford it.

The fisherman asked in disbelief, "You really want all of them?"

"I want both. Can you also send me home?" Jing Xian took out the money and handed it to him, saying with a smile, "You know where my home is, right?"

"Yes, yes."

The fisherman's name was Liu Haizhu. Liu Haizhu loaded the things on the cart and pushed it towards Jingxian's house.

Jing Xian looked down at the two little guys drooling and said with a smile, "We bought a lot of shrimps today. I'll make you something more delicious for lunch."

"Mom, shall we go home now?" Fusheng asked expectantly, his little hands inside the hand warmer.

"I'm not going back. I'll go to the grocery store and buy two pieces of tofu. If there are soybeans, I'll buy some more. We can make two pots of tofu at home before the New Year." She wanted to try how much tofu she could get out of the soybeans she had grown.

Eating more tofu is good for your health.

This winter, she had no idea how to get some vegetables. She couldn't just eat the same vegetables every day. She started eating potatoes, cabbage, and sauerkraut in October and continued until the beginning of spring.

Not to mention children, even adults can’t stand it if they eat too much.

As Jing Xian walked to the entrance of the grocery store, she saw Shang Nanchen walking towards her from a distance.

"I just bought all the seafood and had them delivered to our home. Go to the grocery store and buy some tofu and beans if they have any. I'll be going back first."

Shang Nanchen nodded: "I'll go buy it."

When Jing Xian reached her home, she saw a lot of people gathered at the door. She knew what they were looking at without asking.

"Hey, Captain Shang just married this young wife and bought so much junk?"

Zhao Xiuzhi said loudly, "Don't talk nonsense. What's broken? People treat these broken things as treasures!"

The young wives around burst into laughter.