Chapter 219
Qiu Zeming couldn't hide the fact that he was injured. He had just been discharged from the hospital and returned to the base. The splint on his hand had not been removed yet. He bought a ticket for tomorrow morning and was preparing to return to the capital to recuperate. Jiani would find out sooner or later.
Hearing that Qiu Zeming was injured, Zhou Jiani's heart tightened and her words became a little dazed: "Is it serious?"
Hearing the nervousness in her tone, Qiu Zeming quickly reassured her, "It's not serious. Just go home and rest for a couple of days."
Fighting the enemy on the front line for a long time is bound to cause injuries. He has used his strength to avoid the biggest risks and minimize damage and casualties.
Moreover, the battle plan he commanded was commended by his superiors, and while in the hospital, he used his left hand to organize it into a written report and submitted it.
Qiu Zeming didn't get complacent about this. He felt a little guilty when he heard the nervousness in his partner's voice. He said again, "Jia Ni, it's really not serious. Don't worry, I'll be more cautious next time."
Zhou Jiani couldn't help but speak with a nasal tone: "When will you come back? I'll pick you up."
Hearing a hint of tears, Qiu Zeming panicked on the other end of the phone, his mind buzzing. He had never been so nervous even when he led a few brothers to break through the enemy's encirclement. He said in a panic, "The day after tomorrow night, we'll be at Capital Station..."
Zhou Jiani was a bit emotional, but she quickly controlled her emotions and said, "Hmm," "I'll pick you up when the time comes."
What could Qiu Zeming say? He just agreed obediently.
Only after hanging up the phone did I realize that my back was covered in sweat.
On the other side, Du Yunxin also heard that Zhou Jiani was in a bad mood.
She had already cried a long time ago. Although as a family member, one should be mentally prepared for certain unexpected events, no matter how mentally prepared she was, when she actually heard that her son was injured, she still felt heartbroken.
"I've inquired in detail. Ze Ming was dragged down a slope while protecting his teammates and broke his arm. That's the most serious injury. The rest are just scrapes and contusions, but they're almost healed."
Zhou Jiani nodded, a little embarrassed: "I just couldn't control my emotions."
Du Yunxin patted her shoulder.
After dinner, Zhou Jiani stayed at Qiu's house for one night.
She had already asked for leave from her teacher and didn't have to go back to the dormitory at night. However, some students from two classes in their economics department had made an appointment to go to Miyun Reservoir for fun the next day, so she returned to school early the next morning, carrying a water bottle and the pancakes, boiled eggs and fried pickles that Aunt Fang had made for her that morning.
Zhou Jiani brought the fried pickles herself. They are easy to carry and go well with rice.
Even though she was mainly selling duck eggs now, Zhai's mother couldn't supply her with them. Zhou Jiani couldn't keep any for herself, and there wasn't a single duck egg in the warehouse.
However, before the exam, Zhai Hong told her that she could hand in more than 200 yuan after the exam.
Zhou Jiani discovered that the Zhai family was indeed a qualified supplier. They had sold so many duck eggs to her for such a long time, almost supplying them exclusively to her, but they never asked about the whereabouts of the duck eggs.
I don’t know if Zhai Honghuai ever wondered where so many duck eggs would end up after passing through Zhou Jiani’s hands, but she never questioned anything, not even a probing look!
But we cannot say that the Zhai family is careless. Both sides should carefully protect this relationship.
Selling the duck eggs to her is better than Zhai's mother selling them secretly bit by bit. After all, we are the buyer and the seller, and the payment is settled. No one will blame anyone else.
After playing with my classmates for a day, I rushed back to school before the sun set.
Everyone chattered about the train numbers they'd bought. Those on the same train agreed to meet in front of the dormitory building at a certain time. Some students weren't planning on leaving, so they stayed in the dormitory and planned to study together.
When they were almost at the bottom of the dormitory building, they saw a man with a child of six or seven years old waiting there from afar. The eldest sister Lu Minjuan's face changed immediately.
He was a man with a simple-looking face, dark skin and medium height.
The little girl next to him had dry and yellow hair and her cheeks were barely holding any flesh. She nervously tugged at the boy's trouser leg and looked curiously at the students walking towards them.
"Feng Ya." Lv Minjuan's tears instantly fell, and she rushed over and hugged the little girl in her arms.
"Feng Ya, why are you here?" Lv Minjuan lowered her head and wiped away her tears, hiding the complex emotions in her eyes. She stood up and looked at the man, questioning in a cold voice, "Huo Dajun, what do you mean by this?"
Huo Dajun lowered his head, his tone revealing his honesty and sincerity. With a thick Henan accent, he said, "If you don't send money home, my family can't afford it anymore, so my mother asked me to send it to you."
Lu Minjuan's hand hanging by her side was trembling slightly, and she forced herself not to hit anyone.
The classmates who had returned from the trip were all stunned. Zhou Jiani quickly recovered and went over to say softly, "Boss, I see the child's lips are dry. Can I take her upstairs to drink some water?"
Although she didn't know what the story was, she felt that the eldest brother wanted to kill the man, and the quarrel scene should not be seen by the children.
Lu Minjuan handed her daughter's hand to Zhou Jiani and whispered, "Fengya, go with this auntie to drink some water. Mom will be up in a moment."
The little girl was a little nervous and turned to look at Huo Dajun: "Dad——"
Huo Dajun turned his head away.
Zhou Jiani coaxed softly, "Auntie has some snacks, Fengya, do you want some?"
The little girl swallowed, and Zhou Jiani coaxed her back to the dormitory.
Downstairs in the dormitory, Lv Minjuan sneered and asked, "Back then, when I wanted her, you were so stubborn that you refused to give her to me. Why are you sending her here now? Aren't you just causing trouble for me?"
Huo Dajun didn't answer her, but asked in a muffled voice: "Why don't you send money home?"
She didn't send money home. Some people in the village said that Lv Minjuan had a boyfriend in college, and his family was well-off, and she spent all her money on him...
His mother was so angry that she called Lu Minjuan a slut at home and insisted that he send his daughter over to see the man she was dating now that this was the slut that the Huo family didn't want.
Why can they raise a little girl while Lu Minjuan can find a college student as her man while studying in the city?
Huo Dajun always listened to his mother, so he sent his daughter over.
Lu Minjuan lowered her head slightly, almost laughing out loud, but when she looked up again, resentment was in her eyes again: "Why should I send money home? This child is not mine. I only sent money and food to you because you tricked me into living here. Let me ask you again, what is your intention in sending Fengya here? Do you want to abandon the child to me?"
Huo Dajun remained silent at first.
He was reluctant to part with his daughter, but his mother didn't want to raise her anymore. His current wife had given birth to three more children, and it was true that she couldn't afford to raise them. More importantly, his mother didn't want to see Lu Minjuan living a comfortable life.
"You mean, you don't want Feng Ya anymore, and the child will belong to me from now on?"
Huo Dajun fell silent again, and Lv Minjuan shouted, "Speak!"
Huo Dajun shrank back and uttered a muffled "hmm".
Lv Minjuan opened her backpack, pulled out a pen and paper, and quickly wrote a few lines. She wrote the same message on two sheets of paper: "Signature."
"What is this?"
"Do you dare to sign the abandonment agreement? If you don't, you're a loser. Just send the child back and don't bother me anymore."
How could Huo Dajun dare not sign? His mother said that he had to leave the child to Lu Minjuan, and his wife also said that if he took the little girl back, she would not live with her and would take her three sons back to her parents' home.
Yes, Huo Dajun straightened his back. He has three sons. If there is one less person to eat at home, his three sons can have one more bite to eat.
But why did he have to sign this book? Huo Dajun was a little nervous for a moment, but he couldn't stand Lu Minjuan's sarcasm: "If you don't dare to sign, take Fengya back and don't interfere with my studies..."
Huo Dajun took the pen and clumsily signed his name.
Lu Minjuan kept a copy for herself, folded it up and put it back in her schoolbag. She sneered and pointed in the direction of the school gate: "Okay, I'll keep the child. You can get out of here. I don't want to see you, a loser. Otherwise, I'll find someone to beat you up."
After going to the countryside, she was not satisfied with the life of working in the fields. She has been actively studying in her spare time, hoping to achieve some results and do something more meaningful.
Her hard work was widely praised, and many aunts and sisters in the village wanted to match her with a man, but Lv Minjuan had no time for that. Her mind was only on work.
But one winter, when she was cleaning the river dam, she slipped and twisted her ankle. Huo Dajun, who was next to her, quickly supported her and called other female educated youth to help. He sent her to see the village barefoot doctor.
Somehow, gossip about the two of them started spreading in the village. In addition, Lu Minjuan had offended many villagers because she refused the blind date at that time, and she was annoyed by the rumors. She was dizzy for a while and thought that the worst that could happen was to get married.
Huo Dajun is honest. Honest people often give people a very reliable feeling. Besides, she can work with peace of mind only after she gets married.
Besides, although Huo Dajun is honest and dull, he works hard and has a lot of strength. As long as the two of them work hard, their lives will not be bad.
It was only after getting married that I realized that although he was really honest, he also had no opinions of his own and listened to his mother in everything.
She was also destined to never be the good wife and mother her mother-in-law envisioned her to be. She herself was not the type of person to be humble and submissive, and she had major disagreements with her mother-in-law after marriage.
Every time this happens, the honest man shows his infuriating side. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hold their waists and argue with each other, and the man shrinks like a quail under the wall.
His mother yelled at him to control his wife. In rural areas, this kind of "control" usually means encouraging men to beat their wives.
Huo Dajun didn't dare to hit her. He kept grumbling and asking her to give in to her mother-in-law...
Especially after Lv Minjuan gave birth to a daughter and refused to get pregnant immediately to give birth to a son for the family, her mother-in-law threatened her to drink pesticides and instigated her to divorce Huo Dajun.
Huo Dajun, an honest man, just stood there with his head down and said nothing.
When Lü Minjuan asked him what he meant, Huo Dajun grunted and said, "A woman must give birth to a son, whether it's early or late..."
Lu Minjuan felt disappointed.
During the first quarrel, everyone in the village came to persuade them, and the two did not get divorced. However, Lv Minjuan was already disappointed with Huo Dajun and devoted herself to her work. After the child was two years old, her mother-in-law saw that there was no movement in her belly, and she threw a tantrum and forced her son to divorce Lv Minjuan.
The Huo family didn't want their daughter, but she wanted to take her daughter away to raise. However, the old woman refused to agree, thinking that only by keeping the child could she control her and force her to give money and food.
Lv Minjuan was indeed being manipulated. Besides being unable to argue, she also faced the reality that no one would take care of her child. She could only scrimp and save every month to pay child support to the Huo family.
But the Huo family did not expect that Lu Minjuan's luck would improve after the divorce. Her previous achievements laid a foundation, and she actually climbed up step by step.
The better she became, the more the Huo family became a joke, but Old Mrs. Huo was stubborn because her son's new wife had given her a big fat grandson.
Although she became a cadre, Lv Minjuan was unable to take her daughter out because she was busier and faced many challenges and difficulties. How could she take care of her child if she couldn't even take care of herself?
But she never gave up wanting to bring her daughter out, and she had indeed gained experience after working as a cadre for several years, and it was impossible for her to act rashly like before.
The more you argue with the people from the Huo family and the more you show that you care, the more they feel they can control you. So after arriving in the capital, Lu Minjuan forced herself to harden her heart and did not pay a penny to the Huo family.
"So, you made up rumors about yourself and tried to pass them back to the team that went to the countryside before, just to make them develop some kind of twisted mentality and ruin your life?" Zhou Jiani looked at the dormitory leader in astonishment.
Lu Minjuan wiped her tears, sniffed, and gently patted her daughter, who had fallen asleep on the bed. She felt her daughter's ribs, which were so tactile. Tears welled up again, and she nodded and smiled. "I created a false impression, making them think I was having a good time out there. That old woman definitely didn't want me to have an easy time. The more comfortable I was, the more she couldn't swallow her anger. So, she let her cowardly son send her daughter to me."
Tian Yuan broke out in a cold sweat. "Although this method is good, it's too risky. What if they don't send it here, but..."
Tian Yuan stopped talking. Although what he said was unpleasant, it was not impossible for it to happen.
What if they just abandon the child somewhere or even sell him/her?
Lu Minjuan was not without worries, but she could not think of a better way. She could only take advantage of her ex-in-laws' resentment towards her to achieve her goal. However, she was not completely unprepared.
She took out her handkerchief, twisted her nose, and said, "Do you really think I didn't do this for any favor?"
Those who helped her spread the "rumors" in the village would naturally help her keep an eye on the Huo family's actions.
Not only will they stare, they will also follow.
Lu Minjuan said, "My friend should have followed me to the capital quietly. I'll pack up and go look for her outside the campus. Could you please help keep an eye on Feng Ya?"
Liu Guixiang nodded: "Go quickly, we will be there when the child wakes up."
Lv Minjuan went to wash her face. When she left, Zhou Jiani followed her and stuffed twenty yuan into her pocket: "If you don't need it, you can return it to me. But if you have some money on you, it will be helpful if you have other plans."
Lu Minjuan's eyes were red again. She didn't refuse and pressed her pocket: "Jiani, thank you!"
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