After returning home, Jin Qiaoqiao did not even think about the small bag of cakes she had brought from her uncle’s house, but she went straight back to her room.
Where did the change begin?
Jin Qiaoqiao lay on the bed and began to ponder this question.
A few years before Kuang Aijun’s ‘accident’, his and Zhang Youdong’s development in the army was the same as in the previous life.
The only difference was that the choice of wife changed. She married Zhang Youdong, while Ye Wu married Kuang Aijun and gave birth to a pair of twins after marriage.
That’s right, children!
Jin Qiaoqiao’s eyes suddenly widened. All the changes seemed to have started after Ye Wu became pregnant.
Because Ye Wu had children that she didn’t have, the Kuang family was very obedient to her.
After Kuang Aijun ‘sacrificed’, she was not treated badly as she was in her previous life.
On the contrary, in order to let this daughter-in-law stay in the Kuang family and take care of the two children, the Kuang family not only gave her all of Kuang Aijun’s pension, but also asked the army to find a way to arrange a job for her.
As for why Kuang Aijun didn’t die when he should have died, Jin Qiaoqiao also had a reasonable guess.
Because he had more concerns in this life. He had a pair of such lovely children at home, which made him not want to die nor dare to die. His desire to survive was much stronger than in the previous life.
Perhaps it was because of this thought that Kuang Aijun escaped this disaster.
Jin Qiaoqiao thought about the scenes that she had just seen with her own eyes. Kuang Aijun was so gentle to Ye Wu, maybe it was because Ye Wu gave him two children, right?
She couldn’t admit that Ye Wu was better than herself and didn’t want to admit that Ye Wu was luckier than herself, so she attributed all the changes to the two extra children in this life.
“It must be because of the children. It must be like this.”
Jin Qiaoqiao murmured to herself and then couldn’t help covering her belly with her hands.
Three years had passed, but she still hadn’t conceived a child because Zhang Youdong was too busy.
After being promoted to platoon leader, perhaps to express his care and concern for his soldiers, Zhang Youdong had repeatedly allocated his vacation to the new recruits who had just joined the army, so he himself didn’t have much vacation. Therefore, the number of times he went back home had become increasingly rare.
Last year, in order to get pregnant as soon as possible, Jin Qiaoqiao also made a scene at home, took out 50 yuan from Old Mrs. Zhang, and then asked the captain to issue a letter of introduction to visit Zhang Youdong in the army.
She went for fifteen days at that time, but Zhang Youdong was busy with training and was often so tired that he just wanted to sleep when he returned to the guest house.
The couple only tried to have a baby a few times, and Jin Qiaoqiao finally returned home disappointed.
Fortunately, Jin Qiaoqiao had the cover of living apart from her husband. Even though Old Mrs. Zhang was quite dissatisfied with her daughter-in-law’s inability to conceive, she could not beat or scold her. She could only say a few indirect complaints.
But after the incident last year when Jin Qiaoqiao asked for money to join the army but still failed to get pregnant, Old Mrs. Zhang became more and more dissatisfied with her inability to get pregnant.
Other people in the village also felt that even though Zhang Youdong did not come back to visit his relatives many times, Jin Qiaoqiao had not been able to get pregnant for six or seven years, which meant that there was indeed something wrong with her body.
Because she had no children, Jin Qiaoqiao suffered a lot of injustice.
“I must get pregnant quickly.”
At this moment, in Jin Qiaoqiao’s view, all the misfortunes in her previous life came from the fact that she and Kuang Aijun had no children.
If she and Zhang Youdong did not have children in this life, she might follow in the footsteps of her previous life.
The child was too important. If Zhang Youdong was not in the army and could not leave, Jin Qiaoqiao would have wanted to tie him up and release him after she got pregnant.
“It will be soon. It will be fine after Youdong gets promoted.”
Jin Qiaoqiao comforted herself.
Zhang Youdong was about to be promoted to company commander soon. When the time came, she would ask Zhang Youdong to apply for his family to accompany him in the army.
When the time came, she would not have to endure the injustice of Old Mrs. Zhang and several sisters-in-law.
The most important thing was that if she was closer to Zhang Youdong, she didn’t believe that she would not be able to get pregnant.
When she had a child, she would be able to persuade Zhang Youdong to reduce the money he sent home and make more plans for their own small family.
Thinking of this, Jin Qiaoqiao felt a little relieved.
Jin Qiaoqiao, who had cheered up, finally remembered the bag of cakes that she brought back from her uncle’s house. She got up from the bed and walked to the main hall to take the bag of cakes back.
The economy developed rapidly in later generations, and even Jin Qiaoqiao, who was not doing well in her previous life, had eaten a lot of good things. The peach cakes that were extremely rare in the eyes of people of this era were not tasty at all in the eyes of Jin Qiaoqiao who came from later generations.
But who made her live such a poor life for six or seven years? In these years, Jin Qiaoqiao’s appetite had almost become tasteless.
Not to mention some cakes that were still intact, even if they were all cake crumbs, she would hide them to herself and eat a handful when she was craving them.
You can support your lovely translator and your favorite novel by buying me a cup of Ko-fi ( ˘▽˘)っ♨
I will really appreciate it. ❤️❤️❤️
Lucien On ABRWF Chapter 34.1