Chapter 21
Jingxian's heart was beating fast. She had never experienced such things before, but she was not really a fool.
In her previous life, Old Lady Zhou wanted her to consummate her marriage with the fool.
The fool knew nothing and only knew to beat her.
Don't look at the fool's stupidity. He is tall and strong. She weighs less than 80 pounds, so she is not even a qualified sandbag. She was beaten by the fool all night and was dying. If the fool hadn't been tired and lay down to sleep, she would have been beaten to death by the fool.
Later, she arrived at the end of the world. A group of people saw that she was pretty and wanted to touch her hand, but she dodged them.
She asked for help from the people around her, but their eyes were blank and no one paid any attention to her.
She didn't know what the group was going to do, she only knew that if she didn't run away, she would end up in a terrible situation. However, those people were all superpowered, so she couldn't run away at all. She could only watch them surround her and try to tear off her clothes.
Jingxian was terrified.
She didn't dare to scream, and instinctively scratched her face. Her pretty face was covered in blood, which looked hideous and scary, causing those superpowers to curse at her.
The slightest smell of blood can attract zombies.
Those superpowers ran away, swearing.
The zombies really came.
Jing Xian thought she was going to die, but a group of soldiers in camouflage uniforms rushed in from outside, killed the zombies and brought her back to the base.
She has seen a lot in the end times, and naturally knows what happens between men and women. Many girls without superpowers will follow powerful superpowers in order to survive.
They have no scruples and vent their emotions anytime and anywhere.
Jing Xian went from being ignorant at first to becoming numb later on.
She was grateful to the soldiers for taking her back.
I also cherish my life.
A hot hand reached into the quilt, holding her hand, and said in a low voice: "I don't mean to doubt you, but before the result comes out, I..."
Jing Xian wanted to pull her hand back, but she didn't move. She pursed her lips and said softly, "I know."
There is nothing wrong with this.
Although it's unfair.
But also understand him.
"Jingxian, are you very angry?" Shang Nanchen is not a gloomy person, but he doesn't talk much usually.
Maybe the atmosphere is just right tonight.
He can say these words.
"As long as you don't betray the country, I will treat you well all my life." Shang Nanchen had already sworn in his heart after seeing the report from the investigation.
"Why would I betray my country?"
If she had never been to the end of the world and seen how great this country is at the end of the world, she might not have been so deeply affected.
Those warriors who are still ordinary people in the apocalypse and are willing to risk their lives to save others make her feel the safest.
"Shang Nanchen, I'm not angry, I just feel wronged. But I can't blame you for this, I can only blame us for not understanding each other before. You doubted me for the sake of this country, but it was just suspicion. At least so far, it has not caused any substantial harm to me. I just think something is strange."
"What's the matter?" Shang Nanchen was worried.
Jing Xian said, "If it was just my skills that made you doubt me, you should have tested me again later instead of being so gentle with me."
Only then did Shang Nanchen realize that she was really not angry anymore.
"I'm not going to let you go lightly. I asked someone to investigate you later, and it wasn't just a group of people. Moreover, I met Zhao Xiuzhi that day." Shang Nanchen's face didn't look good when this name was mentioned.
In the dark night, Jing Xian couldn't see, but when she heard him mention Zhao Xiuzhi, she intuitively felt that Zhao Xiuzhi was probably the troublemaker again.
"Did she tell you something?" Jing Xian asked in a cold voice. "Could it be that because I beat her that day, she came to you to complain? I was wrong because I beat her?"
Shang Nanchen noticed that Jing Xian was furious, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth: "You may not know that she is famous for her strength among us."
"able
How big is it?" Jing Xian thought it couldn't be that extraordinary.
"He's stronger than Captain Wu."
Shang Nanchen finished speaking and heard Jing Xian's breathing hitch.
He couldn't help but imagine Jing Xian's appearance at this moment. Her beautiful eyes must be wide open, her teeth were clenched, her face was puffed up with anger, and she looked like she was holding her breath.
"Why didn't you tell me that when you introduced me?" This was a bit unreasonable.
"That's not all. When I came back that day, she stopped me and said a bunch of nonsense."
"What?"
"It's about a pretty girl who was very strong. She was discovered by the female comrades in the factory. She was a female spy."
“…”
Jing Xian was speechless.
She knew that Zhao Xiuzhi was stupid, but she didn't expect that Zhao Xiuzhi was not just stupid.
Jing Xian sneered: "It wasn't just a coincidence, was it? You were testing me on purpose, weren't you?"
"Don't be angry, I have to be careful." Shang Nanchen smiled ingratiatingly, reached out to pull Jing Xian over, and hugged her through the quilt.
"Let go!"
Jingxian was really angry this time.
She raised her foot and kicked Shang Nanchen: "Don't touch me."
"Be gentle, don't wake the child." Shang Nanchen approached her with a thick face, hugged her tightly and refused to let go, "Jingxian, this is also for your own good. If Zhao Xiuzhi goes out and talks nonsense, or reports you out of her mind, it will be troublesome even if you explain it clearly."
Shang Nanchen felt somewhat proud.
The young wife he married was pretty, capable, and even good at housework. Apart from anything else, her cooking skills were absolutely unmatched. Moreover, she was also very good to the two children.
At least she's much better than their biological mother.
If these two guys turned out to be ungrateful people in the future, he would crawl out of his grave even if he died to teach them a lesson.
Jing Xian calmed down and asked in a bad tone, "What about my work?"
"You can go to work tomorrow." Shang Nanchen didn't dare to say it at first. He waited until Jing Xian was almost coaxed before telling her the surprise.
How could Jing Xian not sense his evil intentions?
"You are awesome, Shang Nanchen. You listen to an old woman outside and don't trust the person next to you. So the trust between us is almost zero." Jing Xian was really angry. After she said that, Shang Nanchen immediately apologized honestly.
"I was wrong. You can punish me in any way you want." Shang Nanchen suddenly whispered in her ear, "How about you punish me by giving me more sons?"
Jing Xian pushed the person away in an instant.
Shang Nanchen was caught off guard and was pushed down. He heard Jing Xian grit her teeth and say, "Stop dreaming!"
"You are my wife, I am not dreaming." Shang Nanchen was in a good mood for some reason.
"Although I don't want to hit you, it's really too stupid. It's fine that you are so soft-hearted to your ex-wife and mother-in-law, but why do you let me live a hard life with you?" Jing Xian seized the opportunity to put eye drops in her eyes.
To prevent his ex-wife and ex-mother-in-law from coming to him one day.
Shang Nanchen said seriously, "I think I delayed her."
"Didn't she do it of her own free will? Did you point a gun at her and force her to get the marriage certificate with you?" Jing Xian scolded angrily, "She made her own choice, she regretted it, and she did something that was unfair to you. You didn't beat her up, which meant you spared her. And you gave her all the money? If you're not stupid, what else can you say?"
Jingxian felt really angry.
"Yes, yes, I'm stupid! This time, I'll give you all the money!" Shang Nanchen learned it all by himself, "From now on, you have the final say in everything in our family."
Jing Xian still didn't move.
Shang Nanchen thought for a moment and then said, "I'll discuss all matters with you, what do you think?"
For the first time, Jingxian experienced what respect meant.
She was just being willful for a moment, but Shang Nanchen was not angry. He coaxed her patiently and assured her. Moreover, he really realized his mistake.
"sleep!"
Jing Xian turned over, pulled the quilt over herself, and turned her back to Shang Nanchen.
There was a look of ease at the corners of her mouth that she herself didn't even notice.
Shang Nanchen also turned to look at her, his eyes sparkling.
The next morning.
Jing Xian got up early and cooked a pot of noodles with big bone soup.
The two children found that the atmosphere at home had improved. Although they couldn't tell why, they could clearly feel it.
Sitting at the dining table, Jing Xian looked at the smiling Fu Sheng and asked curiously, "Why are you grinning so foolishly so early in the morning?"
Fusheng shook his head and said in a baby voice, "Nothing?"
Tiedan peeled the egg and said frankly, "Isn't it just that you two don't quarrel anymore?"
Jing Xian's face froze, she looked up and glared at Shang Nanchen, and said uncomfortably: "Fight? When did I fight?"
"How should I know?" Tiedan said, "You two haven't spoken to each other in the past two days. If that's not a quarrel, what is it? Don't think I don't know that there are many kinds of quarrels among you adults."
Shang Nanchen: “…”
Jing Xian: “…”
This naughty kid is really...sharp!
"We're not quarreling, but I haven't finished my work, so I've been worrying about it." Jing Xian closed her eyes and talked nonsense, and also gave Shang Nanchen a subtle wink.
Shang Nanchen was planning to increase Jing Xian's importance in the two children's hearts, so he said cooperatively: "Your mother is the pillar of our family. I didn't dare to talk to her because I was afraid of making her unhappy."
Jing Xian raised her head suddenly and looked at Shang Nanchen in surprise. She didn't expect Shang Nanchen to say that.
Maybe this is what the old man meant by respect and love!
No matter what, Shang Nanchen kept her in his heart.
Before her grandmother died, she said to her, "Jingxian, when you get married, don't be willful. Make sure you live a good life and don't let outsiders laugh at you. Don't worry about your parents looking down on you. We must fight for our dignity!"
Jing Xian suddenly lowered her head, blinked hard, and tried hard to hold back the tears that were welling up in her eyes.
She will live a good life and will never make a fool of herself by anyone.
"Dad, so you are afraid of my mom?" Tiedan asked in surprise.
Fusheng cheered beside him and looked at Jingxian with admiration: "Mom, you are amazing! You are even better than grandma!"
Jing Xian frowned: "Isn't grandma amazing?"
"Not at all!" Tiedan had a fierce expression, "She bullied us because I was young and didn't hit women. She didn't dare to hit us until we grew up. She didn't even dare to hit grandma. Grandma scolded her every day!"
"That's right, that's right!" Fusheng said happily, "My dad is afraid of you! Mom, you are so amazing!"
Jing Xian glanced at Shang Nanchen teasingly, thinking that Shang Nanchen would be unhappy, but Shang Nanchen didn't look embarrassed at all and was concentrating on eating.
"My dad is such a thief, he actually ate it secretly! Hurry, it will be gone if you don't eat it now!" Tiedan cried out that he had been cheated and lowered his head to eat the noodles.
Fusheng followed suit.
Fortunately, it’s winter now and the food cools down quickly, otherwise the two kids would have been scalded.
After dinner, Shang Nanchen had to go to the army and Jing Xian had to go to the hospital.
She found Shang Nanchen's unused military schoolbag and put the book and the two children's textbooks in it. She planned to take the two children to the hospital.
Shang Nanchen watched her packing her things, ignoring the expectant looks of the two young men, and said, "Why don't we send them to my sister-in-law's house next door. Sister-in-law Ma Shufen doesn't go to work, so she stays at home, so she can help take care of the children."
"No need." Jing Xian said, "I'm working here, in a formal unit. If you don't transfer, I'll have to work here forever. Even if we send the child to school at the beginning of the year, it will take nearly two months. It's okay for you to ask someone to help look after him for a day, but forget about two months."
"Give me some money?" Shang Nanchen said.
Jing Xian still shook her head: "If it's someone else, it's ok, let's forget about the neighbor. He is the battalion commander, and you are also the battalion commander. You let his family take care of your children, and you pay him. How are you going to say this to Battalion Commander Zhang in the future?"
She thought Shang Nanchen was really a big fool.
You can tell from the way he treated his ex-wife.
Shang Nanchen was
He was not unhappy about being scolded, as he felt that what Jing Xian said made sense.
"You two should listen to your mother and don't run around." Shang Nanchen was afraid that his sons would cause trouble for Jing Xian, so he warned the two kids.
Tiedan wanted to play at home by himself, but he knew Jingxian wouldn't let him.
Fusheng looked at Jingxian with admiration and replied with a smile: "I won't run around!"
"Okay, hurry up, I have to go to work." If you don't leave now, you will be late.
Although my home is quite close to the hospital, it still takes more than ten minutes to walk there.
The snow outside had not melted yet, and I couldn't walk fast with two children in tow.
Jingxian put the teacup into the cloth bag and pushed the two boys out.
Shang Nanchen locked the door, took one key for himself and gave the other to Jingxian. He followed Jingxian and they walked to the intersection before they separated.
This family area has everything and is equivalent to a small town.
Jing Xian arrived at the hospital and asked the two children to wait for her in the security room. She went upstairs to report and complete the formalities. After completing the formalities, she went directly to the pharmacy on the first floor to work.
She had done this before in Shengshi First Hospital, so it was easy to get started in this hospital. She asked the two children to sit at the table and write, while she checked all the medicines in the pharmacy.
Jing Xian thought she needed to put some thought into it, but she found that she seemed to have a photographic memory.
After checking all the Chinese medicines in the pharmacy and looking at all the Western medicines, she remembered clearly what she was looking for.
This surprise made Jing Xian feel relieved rather than ecstatic.
At least she doesn't have to spend more time on this and can get straight to work.
The work in the pharmacy is neither busy nor tiring.
Jingxian was very satisfied with this job, and her salary was the same as Shang Nanchen's, 80 yuan a month. With this 80 yuan, life at home was much easier. Families with two working parents generally lived quite well.
When Jingxian has nothing to do, she teaches the two children how to read and write.
The rest of the time is used to write medicinal diet recipes.
The recipes for medicinal diets were all what she had seen in the end times. Now she wrote down all the recipes she had seen. Who knows, they might be used someday.
After get off work at noon, Jingxian took her two children home.
On the way, I met Liu Cailan again. Liu Cailan looked at the schoolbag on Tiedan, her eyes flickered, and she asked with a smile: "What are you doing?"
"What delicious food are you going to make for lunch?" Jing Xian didn't answer. She intuitively felt that she didn't like Liu Cailan very much.
Liu Cailan didn't ask, but took the bowl and said, "What else can we cook? Just eat some sorghum rice and stew some Chinese cabbage."
"Then go back and cook. We'll go home too." Jing Xian secretly poked Tiedan on the back.
Tiedan was very excited and shouted, "Mom, I'm hungry. Let's go home and have a meal."
Jing Xian looked at Liu Cailan embarrassedly and walked quickly home.
When they reached the second door and saw that Liu Cailan was no longer there, Tiedan asked in a low and proud voice, "Mom, did I perform well?"
"very good!"
Jing Xian didn't want to talk to Liu Cailan, nor did she want to make close friends with such a person. But Liu Cailan was a little too enthusiastic, saying hello every time they met, as if they had a good relationship.
Liu Cailan stood at the door, watching Jingxian walk away, and then turned around and went in after a while.
Her boyfriend didn't come back at noon, so Liu Cailan ate her meal and went to Zhao Xiuzhi's house with a piece of clothing that needed mending.
"Is your sister-in-law home?"
Zhao Xiuzhi shouted from inside the house: "Come in quickly!"
Liu Cailan walked in quickly and saw Zhao Xiuzhi sitting on the kang, looking in a good mood.
Liu Cailan's eyes twinkled as she said enthusiastically, "I just happened to be making a piece of clothing, and I thought it would be boring to do it at home, so I came to find you."
"Come on. I don't have any classes this afternoon, so I don't have to go to school." Although Zhao Xiuzhi works at school, when she doesn't have classes, she doesn't stay at school and goes home directly.
Liu Cailan said enviously: "You have a really good job. Unlike me, I don't have a suitable job and can only stay at home every day."
"That's okay, I'll go to school tomorrow and we'll learn
Is the school cafeteria still hiring? I’ll let you work there when the time comes.” Zhao Xiuzhi’s sewing skills weren’t very good, so Liu Cailan usually helped her mend her clothes.
At this moment Liu Cailan came. He pretended to pick up the book and put the clothes he was about to sew aside.
"If this really works out, I will come here every day to sew clothes for my sister-in-law."
Liu Cailan really wants to go to work.
Although Zhao Xiuzhi's condescending tone made her uncomfortable, she was still very grateful to Zhao Xiuzhi. She had been trying to curry favor with Zhao Xiuzhi for so long, and finally got something in return.
"Then I don't need you to do it. I can sew by myself. The main thing is that you cook delicious food, and going to the cafeteria is also for the good of those children."
"No matter whether this succeeds or not, I would like to thank my sister-in-law first." Liu Cailan was good at speaking and made Zhao Xiuzhi very happy.
Zhao Xiuzhi said: "It's not a big deal."
Liu Cailan felt even more upset. She lowered her head to sew clothes and asked as if she had just remembered, "Sister-in-law, are Captain Shang's two children able to go to school?"
"No, what's wrong?"
"When I was cooking lunch today, I came out to clean up the mess and saw Captain Shang's wife and their two children coming from the school. One of the children was carrying a schoolbag with books in it. I thought they were both going to school." Liu Cailan smiled embarrassedly, "I wanted to ask her why they were willing to send their children to school at such a young age. Isn't it too early? But she didn't tell me the truth."
Zhao Xiuzhi was immediately furious: "Their two children definitely did not go to school."
"Really?"
Liu Cailan couldn't help but wonder what Jing Xian was doing.
Zhao Xiuzhi said proudly: "I tell you, she won't stay here for long and will be driven away."
"How did sister-in-law know? Is there some secret?" After Liu Cailan said this, she stared at Zhao Xiuzhi strangely with a somewhat odd expression.
Zhao Xiuzhi said vaguely: "You don't need to know this."
After Liu Cailan finished mending Zhao Xiuzhi's clothes, she went home.
As soon as he entered the door, he was kicked out.
She was caught off guard and lying on the cold ground. She didn't dare to scream. She got up from the ground, went into the house, and honestly told the man inside: "I went to Zhao Xiuzhi's sister-in-law's house to ask about work."
"Liu Cailan, it's not that I can't afford to support you, but you just stay at home and don't go anywhere." Chen Baomin came back early after finishing his work and found that Liu Cailan had gone out again.
He waited at home with a gloomy face, and only came back when it was almost dark.
Liu Cailan whispered, "I won't go there anymore."
“Don’t cook yet.”
Only then did Liu Cailan turn around and go out to get firewood.
She rubbed her belly, limped to the backyard, scraped off the snow, picked up the wood underneath, and headed in the direction of Jingxian's house, with no expression on her face. If someone saw this, they would definitely find it creepy.
When Jing Xian got home from get off work, it was almost dark.
Shang Nanchen came back earlier than her and had already heated up the meal.
When the rice was cooked, Jing Xian discovered that Shang Nanchen had stewed two abalones and potatoes.
"You can cook?" Jing Xian was quite surprised.
Shang Nanchen said: "There are a few men here who can't cook. The eldest men get up and cook in the morning."
Looking at the surprised expression.
Shang Nanchen said: "You can get up later tomorrow morning, I will make breakfast."
"OK."
Jing Xian didn't refuse.
She didn't know who told her that men should not get used to things. If they get used to them, they will be the ones who get tired.
At night, the child fell asleep.
Shang Nanchen sat on the edge of the kang and soaked his feet. Jing Xian found some cloth strips to sew a schoolbag for Fusheng. There was only one military schoolbag, which Tiedan carried. Fusheng's schoolbag had to be remade.
Boys are not allowed to carry backpacks with patterns, so Jing Xian found some blue and black cloth, and made a backpack with a wide striped pattern, thinking of the appearance of some backpacks she had seen in the end of the world.
She placed the sewn schoolbag next to Fusheng's pillow.
Shang Nanchen glanced at her, his eyes softening: "You haven't even started school yet, and you're already preparing for this?"
"They have been going to the hospital with me these past few days. It's impossible for Tiedan to have a schoolbag and Fusheng to not have one, right? Both children should use the same one, but I don't have the conditions for that now. I'll try to give one child one too."
Jing Xian has never been treated favorably by fate, but she has been able to maintain a kind heart until now, all thanks to the teachings of the elders in the village before she was eighteen years old.
They told her not to give up in the face of adversity and to remain kind and have a bottom line at all times.
the next day.
When Fusheng woke up in the morning and saw his new schoolbag, he screamed with joy.
When she was leaving the house, she ran into Gousheng coming out of the house and showed off to him, "My new schoolbag, my mom sewed it for me, isn't it nice?"
Gousheng was full of envy. Just as he was about to say something, he saw Jingxian coming out of the yard, making a face at Fusheng and running away.
Ma Shufen also came out to send her son off. Seeing Jingxian taking the two children out, she asked in surprise, "What are you doing so early in the morning? Are you sending the kids to school?"
"Go to work."
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