Chapter 116 The martyrs’ children include daughters!
Huang Zheng's wife ignored her mother-in-law. She looked at Commander Tan timidly, her fingers tugging at her sleeves unconsciously: "Commander, I will not remarry. I just hope you can make the decision for me to divide the pension equally. I didn't get a penny of the pension that was given to me at the beginning. In the past three years, I was either beaten or scolded in their house. My daughter didn't even taste candy."
"No, if anyone dares to touch my money, I will die in front of you. Zheng'er, you are gone at such a young age, and you don't care about your old parents. They bully us!" The old lady cried with tears and snot.
The five-year-old daughter of the Huang family hugged her mother's legs tightly and hid behind her mother in fear.
Huang Zheng's wife pursed her lips, reached out and gently touched her head. She was obviously shrinking but still mustered up the courage: "If they don't share the last pension with us, then my daughter will break off relations with the Huang family in the future, and I will not help Huang Zheng with his old age."
A group of people gathered at the office door.
When Chen Tang heard this, he thought that his sister-in-law was quite smart.
If their daughter breaks off relations with them, Huang Zheng's parents will not be able to control their daughter. You know, child brides are not popular in rural areas nowadays, but there are many cases of girls being sold by their families at the age of twelve or thirteen to forty-year-old bachelors.
Looking at the aged face of Huang Zheng’s wife and the clothes of his child that have been patched again and again, it is clear that the two of them did not have a good life in the Huang family.
If Huang Zheng's wife had a weaker character, her daughter would have been squeezed dry by her grandparents.
But the people around her didn't seem to think the same as she did.
Tian Xiaotian muttered quietly: "This is too much. How can a hero like Huang Zheng have such a wife? If I don't give him money, she won't support his parents. She is obsessed with money."
"Yes, it is our younger generation's responsibility to support the elderly. Huang Zheng's wife didn't give birth to a son for the Huang family, and now she wants her daughter to sever ties with the Huang family. She has absolutely no sense of shame. If I were her, I shouldn't take the pension, and I shouldn't remarry. It belongs to someone else's son, and should be given to the parents. Why give it to a girl? Are you going to take her to someone else's family in the future?"
"You are going too far. What's wrong with being a daughter? Women can hold up half the sky. This is Comrade Huang Zheng's only offspring."
"Zhou Qiaolan, you are talking without any hesitation. Your mother-in-law is so patriarchal. How can you still say that women can hold up the sky? I don't see that you love your two daughters that much."
The members of the Women's Federation couldn't stand it anymore and started to shout down.
"What's wrong with your thinking? I've caught you. Tomorrow you will be educated. Do you know what the children of martyrs are? Children of martyrs include daughters. Their daughters must have a share of the pension."
"That's right. We are all educated people. How can we still discriminate against women?"
Those people explained awkwardly: "We are not saying that we won't give money to our daughter, but listen to this, Huang Zheng's wife won't support his parents if he doesn't give her money. If she gives him money and then remarries, she also won't have to support her parents. It's obvious that they want money but don't want to take responsibility."
Chen Tang: "If the relationship is not severed, what if Huang Zheng's parents arrange a marriage for their child and use the gift money to sell the person?"
Everyone was silent.
Soon someone said: "The local government will take care of her. She is the descendant of a martyr. How could she be sold?"
Chen Tang continued, "The most difficult thing to break in this world is family affairs. The grandparents are willing, and the child was raised to be timid. He was coaxed into agreeing. I think their intention is not to sever ties, but to divide the family.
A five-year-old girl, her pants are a lot shorter, and her clothes are not as good as those of the two old people. If the family is not divided, all the money will be in the hands of Huang Zheng's parents. The child probably won't even get a piece of meat to eat."
When everyone saw the little girl's timid nature and her clothes that were so torn that they couldn't be any more torn, they felt complicated.
This old couple doesn’t seem like good people either?
Huang Zheng's wife listened to the discussions behind her, glanced sideways at Chen Tang, then lowered her head and tugged at the corner of her clothes unconsciously, not knowing what she was thinking.
Huang Zheng's parents cried loudly, pointing at Huang Zheng's wife for being heartless, and said that the child must stay in the Huang family anyway, and the pension can only be given to their Huang family, and that the woman cannot be given a penny.
Commander Tan listened to the whole process and finally asked them to stay in the guesthouse to rest before discussing the matter.
Shen Tang took this opportunity to catch up with Huang Zheng's wife.
"Hello comrade, this is what I mean. I am from the Propaganda Department. I want to write an article about Comrade Huang Zheng's heroic deeds. I want to ask you something about Comrade Huang Zheng's life. Is that okay?"
The woman was dressed in gray and had a low self-esteem. She bit her lip and nodded slightly: "Okay..."
"Why are you asking her, comrade? You are asking me. I am Huang Zheng's mother. I worked hard to raise him. He is the one I love the most. I know everything about his childhood."
Mrs. Huang interrupted the woman, took a few steps to Chen Tang, looked her up and down, her eyes lit up: “Comrade, are you married?”
Chen Tang was stunned. She didn't expect that Mrs. Huang would still care about whether she was married or not at this time.
But she still nodded: "Married."
Mrs. Huang was a little disappointed, and then asked, "Do you have money to ask this?"
Chen Tang smiled awkwardly: "No, just a few simple questions."
Old Mrs. Huang lost interest when she heard this. She didn't know what a promotional draft was and thought that only someone with money would come and interrupt her daughter-in-law.
Seeing that she ignored him and left, Chen Tang felt relieved and followed Huang Zheng's wife into the reception center.
The woman was not familiar with the reception center, so Shen Tang went to get some water and poured it for her to drink.
She sat on a stool, holding her daughter who was sitting obediently in her arms, and whispered like a mosquito: "My name is Xia Meng."
Chen Tang praised without hesitation: "Your name is really nice."
Xia Meng lowered her head shyly: "Huang Zheng gave it to me."
Chen Tang took the opportunity to ask about their past.
There was not much trouble between the two. Xia Zhaodi and Huang Zheng were from the same village. They were elementary school classmates and grew up together. They were childhood sweethearts.
Huang Zheng joined the army at the age of sixteen, and Xia Meng had no contact with him since then. Coincidentally, when Xia Meng's parents wanted to sell her to a remarried old bachelor in the village who had beaten his wife to death, Huang Zheng suddenly came back from vacation, gave some money to her parents, and married her.
To marry a wife in the countryside, it only costs a few dollars for two pieces of clothing and a meal for everyone.
But Huang Zheng spent a full fifty dollars to marry her, so Huang Zheng's parents always disliked her.
They had been married for five years. The other party came back twice in the first two years, and in the third year they received the notice of Huang Zheng’s sacrifice.
Xia Meng was really devastated at that time. She had never had a good life since she married into the Huang family, and of course she hadn't had a good life in her parents' home either. But she had hope in her heart, always feeling that if she endured a little longer, things would get better.
She regarded Huang Zheng as the light and hope of her life, hoping that he could lead her out of this devil's den.
But suddenly, she received the news that Huang Zheng had died.
At that moment, she felt like the sky was falling.
Huang Zheng's parents regarded her as a jinx. After taking away all the pension, they kicked her and her out.
If she had not received the letter from the army, she might have just lived a leisurely life by working hard to grow vegetables at the foot of the mountain with her daughter.
Three years later, she no longer had the energy to care about why the sacrificed Huang Zheng was brought up again.
The only thing she was thinking about was how much money she could get this time and how she could get Huang Zheng's parents to let her daughter go after getting the money.
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