"Out of consideration for our years of working together, I've repeatedly given you face, but since you're shameless, don't blame me for not giving you face."
"What do you mean"
Zhao Meilan had a bad feeling, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it, so she just asked...
"On the first day of the Lunar New Year in 1951, did a woman say to you, 'Since that's the case, then do it this way. First, befriend this Liu Linjuan. Once you're familiar with her, if Li Zilong can return alive from the battlefield, then when the time is right, take action. If Li Zilong is a lecher, then everything will be simple. If he is a lecher, then it's easy too. Isn't there that kind of drug? Find an opportunity to make it a fait accompli."
He'd have to divorce Liu Linjuan for his future, then marry you instead, wouldn't that make you successful? Isn't that what you did?
"You, you, how did you know?"
"If you don't want people to know, then don't do it in the first place. Do you think I'm really that stupid? Someone who usually doesn't even look at me would suddenly show up uninvited with a gift. Who would believe I don't have an ulterior motive?"
Besides, I knew about your plan before this. If I were still foolish enough to take the bait, all my more than ten years of revolutionary work would have been for nothing; I would have died under enemy fire long ago.”
Zhao Meilan hadn't expected Liu Linjuan to know everything and just watch her jump into the trap. Liu Linjuan was setting a trap for her. But it was too late to refute it now, because her confession had already been revealed to everyone. She pushed Liu Linjuan aside, squeezed through the crowd, and ran out.
Now, besides Aunt Zhou, many other people in the ward are standing aside watching in surprise. No one expected that this Comrade Zhao Meilan would try to force herself on someone after her confession failed, and the key point is that the original wife caught her in the act.
Aunt Zhou held me in her arms, looked at everyone in the room, and without saying a word, quickly went to the bedside and placed me on it, saying:
"Commander Li, come and see this. This is your chubby daughter, and this is the chicken soup that Sister Wu simmered over low heat last night."
"Dr. Liu, please make some for Commander Li to drink later. I'll take them out first."
After saying this, Zhou Tao put down the baby he was holding, let her sit on the bed, turned around and took the earthenware pot from Xiao Fang's arms and put it down, then left with the group.
Liu Linjuan ignored her daughter who was standing in front of the bed, and instead ladled a bowl of chicken soup from the earthenware pot. She sat on a stool in front of the bed and began to feed her husband the soup spoonful by spoonful.
During this time, she and her father stared at each other, no, not exactly small eyes, but rather one big and one small, neither willing to give in, just staring at each other. Liu Linjuan, watching this, exclaimed:
"Alright, senior brother, this is our daughter's first time meeting you. She's a bit inexperienced, so don't scare her."
Upon hearing this, Li Zilong realized his mistake and said, "That's right."
"Oh, then get your daughter a bowl of chicken soup and a chicken leg."
"Alright, go ahead and eat. She won't go hungry. She's already eaten a chicken leg and drunk half a bowl of chicken soup at home."
"Then save the other chicken leg for our daughter when she gets hungry."
"Okay, I'll save some for him," Liu Linjuan agreed, knowing her husband had just started eating meat and didn't dare give him too much.
"Wait a minute, make your daughter a cup of formula."
"No need, save that for you to nourish your body."
"What do I, a grown man, need to supplement my body with? Besides, there's always malted milk powder."
"That won't do."
"Why not? That formula is even harder to buy than malted milk powder. You can't always get it even if you have the money. Our daughter is still so young, let her drink it."
Liu Linjuan thought about it and agreed. She figured she could just buy a few more hens to nourish her husband, so she said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
She never expected that her first meeting with her father would be like this. A man lying in a hospital bed, in dire need of care and nutritional supplements, would give her such precious milk powder. She didn't say anything, but took a step forward and took his hand.
When she first touched her father's hand, he excitedly told her mother:
"Wife, look."
"I see. Don't underestimate our daughter just because she's young; she's very smart. She can't talk much yet, but she can say some basic things. Come here, honey, this is Daddy. Say 'Daddy' to him."
I thought it would be difficult for me to call him "Dad," but I didn't expect it to be so easy for me.
"dad"
"Oh, my daughter."
Dad quickly agreed, and while watching me playing obediently there, he said to Mom:
"Wife, pack your things later. Tell me everything that's happened since I left, down to the smallest detail, especially about that madman from earlier," she said through gritted teeth.
"Okay, let me explain slowly."
Mom said that she told her everything that had happened in the past two years without hiding anything: Zhao Meilan, Qian Xiaocui, Sister Wu, and the fact that she had taken the four siblings, including Shen Dong, as her apprentices. She also mentioned taking two apprentices at the hospital. Only at the end did she realize that everything Zhao Meilan had done that day was part of her mother's plan. That day, Dad had just come out of the operating room when Aunt Zhou approached Mom and said that Zhao Meilan, after seeing Dad's expression, had said to Aunt Zhou:
"Sister, here's my plan. My senior brother is still unconscious. We'll wait until he wakes up and can be moved to a regular ward before we do it. Right now, he should be lying in bed. There are two people, Xiao Fang and Xiao He, guarding outside, so no one else can get in. Once he's moved to a regular ward, only Xiao Fang will be left outside. I'll go back when I have time. You can call Xiao Fang out; he knows Zhao Meilan. Let Zhao Meilan in then."
"But it takes you at least half an hour to go home for a meeting."
"It's alright. I'll probably be back soon, then you can call Xiao Fang out again."
"OK"
"Since she's so interested in another woman's husband, then she shouldn't blame me."
Why blame you? It's his impure intentions.
And so Zhao Meilan followed her mother's plan step by step. If she hadn't been so kind-hearted, this wouldn't have happened. Destroying someone else's family is immoral. Besides, her parents were in a military marriage, so this was a crime, and she would have to go to a military court.
The mother had no idea that her daughter was listening intently, but the father, who had been staring at me, had already noticed. However, he didn't stop her, thinking that it wasn't a bad thing for his daughter to know more.
He didn't intend to raise his daughter to be a spoiled brat who didn't know the truth. It was good that his daughter was well-behaved and sensible, but she also needed to understand some things in the outside world. Just like his wife, he wanted her to be able to make quick decisions when she experienced the separation and death of her father at a young age, which was a hundred times better than those so-called older sisters and young ladies who only knew about love and romance.
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