"Then take me to the hospital. I'll go over and see if there's anything I can do to help." Qiao Xinyi was referring to Captain Cheng's funeral.
No matter how much Qiao Xinyi looked down on Captain Cheng in terms of marriage and family affairs, Qiao Xinyi admired him as a soldier.
An hour later, the car arrived at the hospital gate. Qiao Xinyi locked the bicycle and asked a nurse to find the way there.
People were already in the morgue. As soon as Qiao Xinyi approached, she heard Old Lady Cheng crying and cursing, as well as Accountant Du's crying.
"Fu Qingxiao." Qiao Xinyi spotted Fu Qingxiao in the crowd.
Not only Fu Qingxiao and the regiment commander, but also the division commander Ge and the chief of staff were present.
"How did you get here?" Fu Qingyi hurried over and saw the fatigue in Qiao Xinyi's eyes, so she asked her, "How many years have you found me?"
Fu Qingxiao and Qiao Xinyi were looking for her separately. As soon as he received the news, he followed the troops to the hospital and did not have time to look for Qiao Xinyi.
"Well, I met Li Jun and his men, and followed Li Jun's car to the hospital entrance." Qiao Xinyi asked in a low voice, "What's the situation here?"
Qiao Xinyi looked at the family of four kneeling in front of Old Lady Cheng: a married couple and two trembling children clinging to their parents.
Old Lady Cheng pointed at the two children and yelled at them for being evildoers, asking why they weren't the ones to be killed.
Because the cursing was too extreme, the chief of staff spoke up to stop it.
Mrs. Cheng turned around and scolded Accountant Du, calling her a tyrant. If she hadn't bought her milk powder for pregnant women, Captain Cheng wouldn't have passed by the river and wouldn't have encountered these things.
Accountant Du cried so hard that he was out of breath and could not stand steadily. He had to rely on the female nurse to support him.
Seeing that the frail female nurse was having a hard time helping, Qiao Xinyi walked over to take over from her.
"The dead cannot be resurrected. I know you are sad, but you must think about the baby in your belly and take care of yourself." Qiao Xinyi comforted her.
I don’t know what Qiao Xinyi said that offended Mrs. Cheng, but she turned around and started cursing at Qiao Xinyi.
"It's not your man who died, you say that so easily! You are not a good person. If you hadn't interfered, my son would have remarried Zhang Yuyu long ago. If they had remarried, he wouldn't have married this witch. If he hadn't married this witch, he wouldn't have passed by the river every day!"
Qiao Xinyi didn't expect that Mrs. Cheng and her new daughter-in-law didn't get along well, to the point that she kept calling her a witch.
Isn’t this the new daughter-in-law that she had found for Captain Cheng in her hometown that she was satisfied with?
"Aunt Cheng, I'll say less harsh words for the sake of Captain Cheng, but your old and confused nature does not mean that everyone in the family compound is old and confused."
"When Captain Cheng wanted to divorce, it was clearly you who instigated it. Before Captain Cheng and Zhang Yuyu got their divorce certificate, you were already looking for a new wife for him in your hometown, so why don't you blame yourself?"
"You are used to being unreasonable, so you are reluctant to blame yourself? If you are so good at finding causal relationships, if it weren't for you who caused Captain Cheng and Zhang Yuyu to have a hard time getting along, Captain Cheng would not have remarried and would not have gone to the river every day. So aren't you the culprit?"
Qiao Xinyi didn't scold too harshly for Captain Cheng's sake, but she didn't give Old Lady Cheng much face.
Accountant Du asked back in tears, "Who came to my house and lied to us that Old Cheng had been divorced for a while?"
Accountant Du found out when she was about to get her marriage certificate with Captain Cheng that Captain Cheng had not yet divorced when the Cheng family came to her house to discuss the marriage.
Captain Cheng got his divorce certificate a few days before he came back from vacation to go on a blind date.
Captain Cheng was aware of this by Accountant Du, but he never expected that his mother would keep it a secret from others.
If the whole village hadn't known about the marriage between the two families, Accountant Du didn't want to let her family be embarrassed because of her again. She had no choice, otherwise her marriage with Captain Cheng would not have been successful.
"If my son hadn't married you, you would never have gotten married in your life just because of your reputation!" Old Lady Cheng felt that she couldn't scold Qiao Xinyi, so how could she scold her daughter-in-law?
Accountant Du had a childhood marriage, but the boy did not grow up and died before he was 18 years old.
Later, she went to school and started dating a guy in a technical secondary school. They dated for two and a half years and were engaged and had set a wedding date. Then the man broke off the engagement because he wanted to marry someone richer.
Because of these two things, Accountant Du had a bad reputation in the feudal society in the countryside.
Many people in the village secretly said that Accountant Du had a bad fate. Old Mother Cheng thought that her son was a soldier, and that Accountant Du was young, well-educated, and had a decent job. When they met her on the street or in the village, they would politely call her aunt. Old Mother Cheng thought that a woman like Accountant Du was easy to control, so she hurriedly arranged for her son to marry her.
Before Accountant Du married into the family, Old Lady Cheng never thought that she had made a mistake in her judgment. The new daughter-in-law was even more difficult to control than the previous one who left her.
Because she has a job and can earn money, she speaks with a firm voice and will not tolerate any grievances.
Mrs. Cheng felt that Du would scheme against her and that he pretended to be good in front of her before marriage just to deceive her so that she could marry into the Cheng family.
But Zhang Xiaoyu remarried and married too well. Old Lady Cheng didn't want to be laughed at by her former daughter-in-law, so she pinched her nose and praised how good the new daughter-in-law was in front of others.
"I would rather be unmarried and stay at home as an old aunt than be a daughter-in-law to an unreasonable old lady like you!" Accountant Du was overwhelmed with grief when she thought of Captain Cheng's death, her becoming a widow, and a fatherless baby in her belly. Tears fell one by one.
"All right! Captain Cheng is still lying here, and you guys are fighting like black chickens! Is that reasonable?" Division Commander Ge couldn't stand it any longer, and yelled at Old Lady Cheng.
"Captain Cheng sacrificed his life to save his people. As Captain Cheng's mother, you should be proud of having such a son. Captain Cheng is a hero! If you keep making trouble and blaming this and that, you are discrediting the hero!"
Accountant Du was pregnant after all, and it was Old Lady Cheng who instigated the trouble and scolded whoever she caught, so Teacher Ge just looked at her without scolding her.
He turned to Qiao Xinyi and said, "Qiao Xinyi, before Accountant Du's family comes, please accompany her. You are both women, so please comfort her."
Qiao Xinyi nodded in agreement. After discussing the arrangements for Captain Cheng's funeral, Qiao Xinyi helped Accountant Du find a chair to sit on and wait.
Fearing that Old Lady Cheng would continue to cause trouble if she stayed here, Commander Ge and his companions took Old Lady Cheng back to the family compound when they left.
"The Cheng family and your family won't be here so soon, and you're still pregnant, do you want to go to the guesthouse to rest?" Qiao Xinyi asked, "You're pregnant, it's not a good idea to sit here all night. It's cold, and it won't be good if you catch a cold."
Accountant Du touched his belly and nodded slightly after a long time.
Upon hearing this, the regiment commander called Fu Qingxiao and another comrade to take the two to a nearby guesthouse and asked them to stay in the guesthouse to accompany the two female volunteers.
After getting the room key, Qiao Xinyi and Accountant Du lived together. Fu Qing came over to take a look and said, "I'm going home. I have to tell mom and the others not to wait for us, so that they won't worry if they see that we haven't returned home yet."
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