Jiang Jun left the college without looking back, riding her bicycle quickly all the way, deliberately not wearing a mask, letting the wind dry her tears and let the cold wind blow away her sadness.
She wanted to leave everything here far behind.
It was already late at night when I got home, and my grandparents and Xiaolan were still awake.
Hong Guizhen's eyes were filled with tears. "Dani'er, the division headquarters sent someone home with a message saying your dad will be home within a week. Oh, that's great, your dad is fine!"
Jiang Jun had been suppressing her grief for several hours, but suddenly she could no longer hold it in and threw herself into Hong Guizhen's arms, tears streaming down her face.
The grandfather and grandson hugged each other and cried.
Hong Guizhen cried and comforted her: "Dani'er, it's good that your father is back. You can go back to work, and Xiaolan can go back to school. Good days are back."
Jiang Yun cried even more sadly.
Thinking that the whole family will soon have to leave the military compound, without shelter from the wind and rain, and with an uncertain future; thinking that Jiang Yonghua will lose his good job, and Zhang Xiuying will also be fired and sent home, a family of four will have no jobs and have to live in the same room, this is not a good life at all, the future is worrying!
Jiang Lan cried softly and asked, "Sister, I'm going to school tomorrow. Are you leaving again?"
Jiang Jun raised his head suddenly: "No, don't go to school tomorrow. I'll take you out to play."
I'm about to leave here, and I'll go to some places I haven't had enough fun in.
The next morning, before Jiang Jun took Jiang Lan out, Zhang Xiuying came back.
What was different from the past was that Zhang Xiuying came back angry, and she was targeting Jiang Yonghua: "Where's Xiao Jiang? Where did he hide?"
Hong Guizhen was stunned. She didn't understand why Zhang Xiuying was not only unhappy about Jiang Yonghua's return, but also looked like she was looking for someone to settle a score with. "Xiao Jiang hasn't even come home yet! Yingzi, what's wrong with you?"
Zhang Xiuying gritted her teeth, her expression grim. "My company said they want to fire me! I've worked so hard for a year and was about to get a raise, and he's actually trying to make trouble for me!"
Hong Guizhen was shocked: "Fire you? What did they say?"
Zhang Xiuying slammed the table: "He made a mistake, a big mistake! Now it has implicated me!"
Jiang Jun hated Zhang Xiuying's arrogance. "You were the one who falsely accused him! Why didn't you just say you were the one who caused the trouble? Why didn't you just say you got my dad into trouble?"
Zhang Xiuying glared, "When is it your turn to butt in this family...? So, you're still here! Did they fire you?"
Jiang Jun clenched his fists in anger: "Whether I'm fired or not, I won't blame my dad!"
Zhang Xiuying sneered: "Humph, that sounds nice. I asked you to go to the countryside, will you go?"
Jiang Jun sneered back, "Don't worry about where I'm going!"
Zhang Xiuying slammed the table again: "Where's Xiao Jiang? Call him out! If you have the guts, stop hiding from me!"
Hong Guizhen wiped her tears and said, "Oh, yesterday the leader sent someone to say that Xiao Jiang would not be back for a few days. Why is he hiding from you? This is his own home! At this time, you don't comfort the child, but are still making a fuss. You, you, what can I say to you..."
Zhang Xiuying slammed the table and stood up. "Okay, then I'll come back in a few days and get to the bottom of this. Why would he implicate me?!"
After Zhang Xiuying rushed out of the house like a gust of wind, Jiang Lan sneaked out from the inner room and asked quietly, "Sister, is something really wrong with our father? Didn't they say that he would be back soon? You never go out. Is it really because you were expelled? If the principal won't let me go to school, will he expel me too?"
Jiang Jun breathed a sigh of relief. Sooner or later, everyone would know about Jiang Yonghua's affairs, so it would be better to tell it now to avoid everyone being caught off guard and crying everywhere.
"Yes! Our dad is leaving the army, and I'm gone from my old job. You can still go to school, but you don't have to be in the army anymore."
Jiang Lan's face turned pale, and after a long while she said, "I don't want to go to school anymore. I just want to stay home."
I didn’t want to go to school before because I wanted to play and didn’t want to do my homework. Now I don’t want to go to school because I feel it’s embarrassing that something happened to my dad and I’m being laughed at and looked down upon.
Jiang Yun thought about it and said, "You still have to go to school. Didn't you hear me? If you don't go to school, you'll be sent to the countryside!"
Jiang Lan shook her head. "I don't want to go to the countryside! I still want to be a soldier. I still want to join the art troupe."
Jiang Jun looked at Jiang Lan with approval. Zhang Xiuying had just made such a fuss, but Jiang Lan hadn't come out to make trouble, hadn't shed a tear, and had even asked so many crucial questions. He gave Jiang Lan a thumbs-up:
"Then go to school. No matter what others say, if you're uneducated, no one will want you in the army. If you can't stand being teased, how can you stand being interrogated by the enemy?"
Jiang Lan bit her lip: "Sister, when can I go to school?"
Jiang Jun smiled: "As soon as our father comes back, you can go to school."
Zhang Debao listened for a long time and finally understood what was going on: "Dani'er, if something happens to your dad, will he still be able to work?"
Back home, soldiers who deserted and made mistakes and were discharged and sent home became ordinary farmers or mountain dwellers without wages. They were also used as negative examples by many people to scare their children: If you don’t study hard, you will be like so-and-so, with no future!
Jiang Jun shook his head: "I don't know either. I have to wait for my dad to come back."
Hong Guizhen could only wipe away her tears: "If you really have no job and nowhere to go, then come back to Laoyinggou with us. If we have something to eat, you will definitely be there too."
Jiang Jun: "Grandma, just look at Zhang Xiuying. How can my dad go back to Laoyinggou with you? Zhang Xiuying has only been working for a year and has only earned a few dollars, and she's already slamming the table and glaring. If we go back to Laoyinggou, she'll definitely bully us to death!"
With Zhang Xiuying's character, if she lost her job, she would use this as an excuse to blame Jiang Yonghua for the rest of her life. Going to Laoyinggou, which is Zhang Xiuying's territory, she relies on her mother's family to have many people, and there are always quarrels and noises. I'm afraid there will never be peace at home.
Zhang Debao sighed: "What should I do? Sigh!"
Jiang Jun spread his hands and said, "What else can I do? If Zhang Xiuying doesn't want to lose her job, then she can just divorce my dad!"
Many simple-minded people, after being instigated by others and getting carried away, would come back and draw a line with their families. Many of them divorced and severed parent-child relationships. Some even personally dragged their relatives or spouses onto the stage to criticize them.
Hong Guizhen shuddered: "Divorce? Yingzi will not divorce Xiaojiang. Xiaojiang is the person Yingzi loves most in her life."
Jiang Jun was speechless. Zhang Xiuying was so arrogant just now, and she didn't like him at all.
Jiang Yun, who had never been in love or married, underestimated Zhang Xiuying's performance.
The day Jiang Yonghua returned home, Zhang Xiuying caused such a commotion that the two of them lost all the affection between husband and wife.
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