Over there, Pei Tingyu kicked Qu Mingjun several times. In the military family building, Si Yang listened to Qiu Xia taking the initiative to talk about her past with Qu Mingjun.
Qiu Xia's family and Qu Mingjun's grandfather were from the same production brigade. Once, Qu Mingjun's mother accidentally fell into a reservoir after returning to her parents' home and nearly drowned. It was Qiu Xia who came back from collecting grass for pigs who saved her.
Qiu Xia was thirteen years old at the time. As a farmer's child, she had to grow up early. Not only did she take care of her parents and a group of brothers and sisters, she also kept the house clean.
When the Qu family went to thank her, they found that she was very generous in her dealings with others and not at all petty.
Although Qiu Xia's appearance is not particularly bright and attractive, she is definitely pretty and decent.
Qu Mingjun's parents believed that Qiu Xia would be a good wife and mother in the future, so they decided to arrange the marriage between Qu Mingjun and Qiu Xia.
When Qiu Xia and Qu Mingjun were 20 years old, they held a wedding banquet and got married.
On the wedding day, he was drunk and consummated the marriage with Qiu Xia in a daze.
When he woke up the next day, he regretted it so much that he even thought Qiu Xia had deliberately seduced him while he was unconscious.
Just two days after getting married, he said something happened in the army and ran away back to the military region.
Qiu Xia was left in her hometown to live with her parents for two years.
During these two years, Qu Minjun never went back home once except to send money.
Although the two had little interaction before marriage, Qiu Xia had a traditional personality and took the initiative to take on the responsibility of taking care of her parents-in-law and doing housework after getting married.
Qu's parents praised her highly, but not to the same extent as Qu Mingjun.
Qu's parents have been looking forward to having a grandson, but their son doesn't even want to go home. How can this be possible?
After sending him several letters urging him to take leave and go home without success, Qu's parents simply decided to send Qiu Xia to a military compound.
At that time, Qu Mingjun had just been promoted from company commander to deputy battalion commander, and was able to apply for the qualification for his family to accompany the army.
In this way, Qiu Xia lived in the military compound under the arrangement of Qu's parents.
But she lived here for two years, and Qu Mingjun only came back every day to have dinner with her. They slept, one in the bedroom and the other on a camp bed in the front hall.
They have been married for four years, and after their wedding night, they never had a second time together.
Qiu Xia has become a joke in the compound now, and everyone uses her inability to have children as a topic of conversation after dinner.
At first, she thought about explaining to others that it was not that she was infertile, but that her husband had not slept with her twice in four years.
How is she going to give birth alone?
But if you think about it carefully, wouldn’t it be a bigger joke if this kind of thing were to be told to others?
So now she basically never goes out, and spends all day locking herself in the house knitting sweaters and making cloth shoes...
Si Yang glanced at the pile of cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles piled on the wardrobe, and felt a little sympathy and admiration for this silly girl.
Qiu Xia mentioned to Si Yang the female soldier in the art troupe named Zhao Xueman.
Zhao Xueman met Qu Mingjun more than three years ago. She is an excellent student in art. Not only is she beautiful, she also has a moving voice when singing and a graceful dance.
Compared with the beautiful and sweet-singing Zhao Xueman, a housewife like Qiu Xia who only knows how to take care of the family behind her husband is naturally pale in comparison.
"I don't know what's wrong with me. Why doesn't he just look me in the eye?" Qiu Xia buried her head, her white knuckles pulling at the corner of her clothes, her eyes filled with aggrieved and confused expression.
Si Yang knew that it wasn’t that Qiu Xia wasn’t good enough, but that Qu Mingjun didn’t know how to appreciate what he had.
In comparison, Qiu Xia and Zhao Xueman seemed too ordinary, as ordinary as a glass of boiled water, colorless and tasteless.
But Zhao Xueman is like orange soda in June, fresh and attractive, making people have a strong desire for her.
The so-called "the more you can't get something, the more crazy and agitated you will be."
Qu Mingjun could always drink boiled water, so he didn't realize its value. He also didn't understand that people wouldn't die without soda, but they couldn't live long without boiled water.
Si Yang had never met Zhao Xueman, and didn't know what kind of person she was, so he didn't want to tell Qiu Xia too much for the time being.
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