FSC [QT] Chapter 85.1

Twelve years later—

“Have you heard from Third Grandma Xu that her second son will be back with his children to visit in a few days? So many years have passed, and his and Cao Ni’er’s children should be grown up now, right?”

“Yes, when Cao Ni’er joined the army, the two children were still little. The last time they went back to their hometown to visit relatives was three years ago. At that time, the two children were already like little adults. The boy was handsome and the girl was pretty. They only picked the good parts of their parents. And Cao Ni’er, I haven’t seen her get old in so many years. I can tell at a glance that she has never suffered or endured hardships. I don’t know how she is now.”

The women working in the fields were talking to each other.

“When she was not married, Jin Qiaoqiao looked prettier than Cao Ni’er. But now, although Jin Qiaoqiao’s life is not bad, she still has a mother-in-law who often makes her angry and a man who tries to smooth things over. She looks older and not as young as Cao Ni’er.”

“Yes, that’s why fate is something that no one can predict until the last moment.”

Thinking back to the beginning, Ye Wu and Jin Qiaoqiao had similar starting points.

The man Ye Wu married was powerful, and she was pregnant, so she lived better than Jin Qiaoqiao in the first few years. But later, Kuang Aijun ‘sacrificed’ and Jin Qiaoqiao came from behind and suppressed Ye Wu.

At that time, everyone thought that Ye Wu would never be able to compare with Jin Qiaoqiao in this life.

Who knew that Kuang Aijun could come back alive under such circumstances?

Now the gap between the two families was getting bigger and bigger.

Kuang Aijun had been promoted all the way and was said to be a colonel. Considering his current age, this was quite remarkable.

Zhang Youdong was demobilized and returned to the local area eight years ago. He was lucky because he had made meritorious service and had a fellow villager and teammate Kuang Aijun to help him make connections.

He was transferred to a food factory with relatively good performance as the security captain. He was in charge of seven or eight people and his salary was equivalent to that of an ordinary fourth-level worker. His monthly salary was even a few yuan higher than when he was a soldier.

It was just that there was no room for promotion for the security captain, unlike in the army, where he could still have ambitions.

At first, Zhang Youdong couldn’t adapt to life after leaving the army, but gradually, he got used to the peaceful and stable life outside the army, especially when he was demobilized and returned to his hometown.

The food factory was in the next town. It only took less than an hour to ride a bicycle back and forth between home and the factory. Later, when public transportation was opened, the time spent on commuting was even less.

Zhang Youdong felt satisfied with having a stable job and being able to spend time with his family.

In the eyes of the villagers, Zhang Youdong was also good enough, and Jin Qiaoqiao was also luckier than most women in the village.

But, people were afraid of comparison.

Jin Qiaoqiao had been compared with Ye Wu since she was a child, and it was no exception after she got married.

She was lucky enough, but she was still a little worse than Ye Wu, who became the wife of a colonel, not to mention that Jin Qiaoqiao had only given birth to a daughter in these years.

Now the family planning policy has reached them. Unless Zhang Youdong did not want a stable job, the couple would not be able to have another child.

Old Mrs. Zhang gave Jin Qiaoqiao a cold look every day because of this matter, and the villagers felt sorry for her.

“I think what you said is wrong. Does Comrade Ye Wu’s excellence depend on her man? Comrade Ye Wu herself has made us women proud.”

Some young wives nearby were a little angry when they heard that the old women only discussed the men they married when discussing Ye Wu and Jin Qiaoqiao all day long, but not their own abilities.

“Comrade Ye Wu is a very good teacher. Third Grandma Xu said that in the year when the college entrance examination was resumed, there were 18 college students in Comrade Ye Wu’s class, and three of them were admitted to Peking University and Huaqing University. Comrade Ye Wu’s daughter is also the youngest champion of the college entrance examination in China. She herself has published articles in many newspapers and magazines, which shows that her excellence is no less than her husband.”

“That’s right. Now men and women are equal. The Chairman also said that women can hold up half the sky. How can we judge the quality of our women’s lives by men alone?”

Although Ye Wu didn’t come back often, her legend still remained in the village.

The main reason was that Third Grandma Xu couldn’t hold back her words. She was a little vain and liked to show off.

She liked to tell the villagers about her son and daughter-in-law’s good achievements. Therefore, sometimes the villagers remembered the achievements of Kuang Aijun and Ye Wu more clearly than the person involved.

Moreover, Ye Wu was a thoughtful and generous person.

Although she did not return home to visit her relatives very often due to Kuang Aijun and her own work, she never forgot to send some teaching materials back to her hometown.

In the year when the college entrance examination was resumed, it was those precious teaching materials sent back by Ye Wu that came in handy.

The Hongxing Commune had the largest number of college students among all the communes, and the educated youths assigned to the Hongxing Commune at that time also benefited from it.

 

 

 

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