In the year when he was promoted to company commander, Xie Changzheng thought about letting his wife and daughter apply for military service, but the harsh life on the border eventually made him give up this idea.
Xie Changzheng once stationed troops on a small island, which was an important strategic base. However, due to its special terrain, there were very few resources on the island, and all living supplies were transported by boat.
Once, there was a heavy fog at sea, and the ships could not leave the port. When they got the news, there were only a few supplies left on the island.
They relied on the remaining two days of supplies to survive for more than a week, digging vegetable roots and fishing in the sea.
The most difficult thing was the lack of water resources. They only had one mouthful of water a day, but they had to guard their posts as usual to prevent enemy raids.
This experience was not the worst Xie Changzheng had ever experienced.
Military wives can live in relatively stable urban areas, but on the border, even the best conditions are limited, and military wives face great risks. Once they cannot defend, the cities on the border will inevitably be the first to fall into the war.
For various considerations, Xie Changzheng ultimately did not submit an application for his family to join the army.
However, in the production team, everyone thought that it was a victory for Miao Fengmei, who cried, made a fuss, and then threatened to hang herself.
Xie Changzheng knew that his mother had all kinds of problems, but in his opinion, although his mother was a little partial, it was extremely limited.
When he was a child, life was difficult. Miao Fengmei would rather starve herself and divide a mouthful of food into three portions so that the three brothers could have enough food and clothing. Xie Changzheng remembered this kindness in his heart.
Later, he served in the army and could not go home for three to five years, while his two brothers often stayed with their mother.
Xie Changzheng could feel that his mother was not as close to him as before, especially when he sent more and more money home. His family’s enthusiasm for him was more like welcoming a close guest rather than welcoming a family member.
As for his youngest sister, who was about the same age as his daughter, it was natural for his parents to value her more.
It is said that distance creates affection. But Xie Changzheng felt that because of the distance, the relationship between him and his parents and brothers had become distant. That was why his mother favored his two brothers.
Xie Changzheng could understand that, but in his opinion, no matter what, his parents and brothers would not treat his wife and daughter badly because of the allowances he sent home.
Every time he went home to visit his family, his parents and brothers behaved very well.
They would steam a bowl of egg custard and share it with all the children. However, there was a lot of work to do at home and in the fields, so his wife, daughter, sisters-in-law, and nieces inevitably had to share a lot of the burden.
He spent little time at home, so all he could see were these superficial things.
His wife and daughter were timid and honest and never dared to complain, which made him miss the few opportunities to know the truth.
All along, Xie Changzheng thought that his wife and daughter lived a good life. With their brothers taking care of them, he could rest assured that they would not be bullied by outsiders in the village.
It was not until he returned home with a disability and saw his crazy wife and his daughter who had only a fragment of her body left, that Xie Changzheng realized how blind and stupid he had been before.
He mistook jackals for relatives and left the two people he should have protected the most among these jackals, leaving them to be eaten alive by them.
Xie Changzheng spent the rest of his life staying with his crazy wife and living in self-blame and guilt. He cut off all ties with the people over there and watched them coldly as they walked toward their own death step by step.
But seeing those people heading toward their dead end, he did not feel any pleasure in his heart. Because he understood that no matter whether the murderer got retribution or not, his daughter would never come back.
Others said that his wife was crazy, but the later it was, the more Xie Changzheng felt that he, who seemed sober, was actually crazier.
When he was just reborn, Xie Changzheng was still questioning the time of his rebirth. He remembered that his daughter was seriously injured and died during this period, and then she was thrown into the back mountain by this group of people.
His hometown was poor and even the commune did not have a telephone installed. Xie Changzheng wanted to contact his relatives in his hometown, but he could only do so through telegrams and letters. By the time people in his hometown received the news, his daughter’s body might have been cold.
Xie Changzheng could only make preparations for both situations. He sent a telegram to his hometown and set out on the journey home despite his injuries having not yet recovered. In his heart, he was always hoping for a glimmer of hope.
In this life, he wanted to compensate his daughter and make up for all the debts of two lives.
In his previous life, when he returned home, his wife had already gone crazy. He could only unravel the truth from the villagers’ stories and his wife’s confusing words.
Fortunately, he arrived in time.
At this time, his daughter rolled down the hillside the night before and was still breathing.
However, his wife and daughter, who should have been locked up at home without treatment, had gone to the county town.
This obviously did not match Xie Changzheng’s memory.
He had a bold guess in his mind.
Perhaps, there was more than one person who was reborn.
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Translator’s Comment:
Well, let me tell you that there are more than 2 people who got rebirth 😆
2 people have been confirmed. Can you guess the last one?
Not Ah Wu, of course. She is a special case.
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Lucien On ABRWF Chapter 43.2
Men such as XCZ really have this one common unawareness: they have blind trust that their mother will treat their wife well when it’s obvious that she didn’t agree with their choice of wife-to-be. Just because she finally agree to their wish (to marry the girl), they think the problem has been solved. After making the time bomb ticked, they left the mother-in-law daughter in-law alone without being a mediator, letting them grind each other with resentment, frustration, and suffering. And they thought all of these unnecessary harms were the norm…until it exploded in spectacular way.