Zhou Yanyan is pregnant.
So many years have passed, and Zhou Yanyan feels that her life is not easy. It is really not easy for her. She has set her eyes on an educated youth who went to the countryside, just to wait for him to take her back to the city. Who would have thought that so many years would have passed before she could go back to the city with him.
If it weren't for her strong request, Zhan Mingkang would have been reluctant to return to the city. He felt it was nice to live together in the countryside.
Zhou Yanyan was very angry. She felt so disappointed in him. Why did she fall for such an unmotivated man in the first place
But Zhan Mingkang was the most affectionate among those educated youth. He was the best to her, never left her, and was especially good to her. Except for his lack of ambition, there was no other fault of Zhan Mingkang.
The more Zhou Yanyan invested her heart and soul in Zhan Mingkang, the more she was reluctant to extricate herself, causing herself to sink into a quagmire. At first, she thought that in one or two years, he would take her back to the city... But how many years had passed!
In 1980, she finally saw the light of day. She returned to the city with Zhan Mingkang, pregnant. She wanted to get back all the losses she had suffered over the years.
"I want to get married in a grand ceremony. Kangdi, how many years have we been together? How many years have passed since we met? You can't let me be laughed at by others."
"I want the three new popular items now. I want a refrigerator, a washing machine, and a TV!!!"
Zhou Yanyan was pregnant, and she was not willing to just follow him back to the city and get married like that. Damn it, Zhou Yanyan was going to be mad.
Seven or eight years later, farmers were free to leave the land without restrictions. Even if no one took her to the city, she could have gone there. But because of Zhan Mingkang, she still wasted two more years in the countryside.
Who can understand the resentment in Zhou Yanyan's heart
She didn't dare to vent her anger on Zhan Mingkang. She wanted to get the debt back from Zhan Mingkang's parents. It was only natural that the father should pay the son's debt. Wasn't Zhan Mingkang's father a cadre? He had to pay money to open a shop for Zhan Mingkang so that the couple could live a good life!
"Your sister opened a teahouse. We need your father to invest money so that we can open a teahouse!"
Zhou Yanyan made a scene in the Zhan family, making them extremely upset. Zhan Bo and Zhu Jiaorong did not welcome this country girl at all, but she was pregnant, and Zhan Mingkang still looked very affectionate and moved.
Zhan Mingkang felt sorry for his sister Yanyan: "Sister Yanyan and I have been through so many hard times in the countryside, and it took a lot of effort to finally get our happiness back. I am sorry for her..."
Zhou Yanyan wanted to buy three new items for her marriage, and she had some requirements. She didn't want an ordinary single-door refrigerator, which only cost four or five hundred yuan. She wanted a large double-door refrigerator, which cost fifteen hundred yuan. As for a washing machine, she didn't want one that cost one or two hundred yuan. She wanted an imported one that cost four or five hundred yuan. As for the TV, that goes without saying. She wanted an imported one that cost more than a thousand yuan!
All adding up, these three new pieces of wedding equipment alone would cost three thousand dollars.
Zhu Jiaorong was so angry that she rolled her eyes, thinking that this bitch really dared to ask for such a high price.
In addition to the three thousand yuan, they needed several thousand more to invest in opening a teahouse - this would completely empty the savings of Zhanbo and his wife over the years.
Zhu Jiaorong was angry at first, but then she rolled her eyes and said to Zhanbo, "It's not easy for Xiaokang to go to the countryside for so many years. Now he's getting married, shouldn't his brothers and sisters give him some support, eight hundred, one thousand each? Pingping has money."
Zhan Bo thought about it and he called Zhan Aiping and asked her for money: "Now that your brother is getting married, shouldn't you give some money?"
Zhan Aiping ignored him: "I only have one brother, and he got married eight hundred years ago."
"How can you be so heartless? Are you still a human being?"
Zhan Aiping said: "My mother died not long ago, and you married a stepmother. Are you a human being?"
"You you you you—" Zhan Bo felt like his clothes were stripped off in public, left naked and laughed at by everyone. His daughter's words completely tore everything apart.
"Do you still recognize me as your father?"
"You're killing me with laughter, Zhanbo. You should ask, 'Since when did you stop recognizing me as your father?'" Zhan Aiping said, "Let me tell you, Mingzhao and I no longer consider you as our father. You should just pretend that we are not your children. If it weren't for the fact that Zhao hadn't gotten married before and the incident was too embarrassing and affected his work and marriage, now that he's married, he's become a father and even got into college, to be honest, we don't care whether you're our father or not."
Zhan Aiping sneered a few times: "To be honest, the reason I've been able to keep in touch with you until now is because I want to see how miserable your Zhan family can be."
"Now that I know Zhan Mingkang has found you an unlucky wife, I am so happy."
It was useless for Zhan Bo to call his daughter, nor was it useful to call his son Zhan Mingzhao. As for calling his stepdaughter Zhan Aijia, that was even more useless. Zhan Aiping didn't recognize him, and Zhan Mingzhao didn't recognize him either. As for Zhan Aijia, there was no need for her to recognize him.
"How could they be like this? Why did they suddenly turn against each other?" Zhanbo's face turned cold. Why did it become like this? Why did it seem as if overnight, his children no longer recognized him
Obviously, he was the envy of many people before. His eldest daughter married well and her husband was an officer. His eldest son was admitted to university and gave him a big fat grandson... How did it become like this now
Zhu Jiaorong was so angry that she shouted, "She went to their workplace and school to make trouble. How shameless is she? How can she be disrespectful to her parents? She is really rebellious."
Zhanbo refused: "No, no, no, absolutely not, this cannot happen. After this incident - how can I live my life as a human being?"
Zhanbo was a cadre, no matter how big or small, how could he do such a shameful thing? Would it be good for him to make a fuss? He couldn't ruin his current reputation. In their courtyard, many people envied him. He had two daughters who were married well and a son who was admitted to university. If he went out and made a fuss like this, he would lose all his face.
Zhan Bo said: "You can buy a refrigerator, just buy a single-door one, and buy a black and white TV, so that he can be spoiled."
"Why open a teahouse? Let him work in a canning factory."
Zhan Bo and his wife called Zhou Yanyan in and told them all these things. Zhan Mingkang disagreed and he didn't want to work, so the position in the cannery fell on Zhou Yanyan. Zhou Yanyan made a fuss for a long time, but she was finally satisfied.
Zhan Bo said: "You two should move out after you get married."
Zhou Yanyan said earnestly, "That won't work. Xiaokang came back to take care of you two in your old age. If I go out with him, who will take care of you?"
Zhou Yanyan didn't want to move out alone. She had heard from Zhan Mingkang that Zhu Jiaorong was a very "virtuous" woman. Now that she, Zhou Yanyan, was a decent person with a job, she straightened her back.
She needs a mother-in-law to help her with laundry, cooking and taking care of the children. It's impossible to get rid of her.
Zhou Yanyan and Zhan Mingkang moved back to the Zhan family's home. They got their marriage certificate during the New Year. It was not until Zhou Yanyan moved in that Zhu Jiaorong realized how lazy this country daughter-in-law was. She did nothing at home, didn't know how to lend a hand, and was very inconsiderate.
Zhu Jiaorong kept making indirect accusations for a long time, but Zhou Yanyan ignored her and didn't listen.
Zhou Yanyan is a shameless person. If she wasn't shameless, she wouldn't have hooked up with Zhan Mingkang at this age. Having been an old girl in the countryside for many years, she has heard all kinds of nasty words. If she heard any of Zhu Jiaorong's insults, she would change her surname to Zhu.
The country folk cursed even more harshly.
Zhanbo has been a hands-off boss at home. He is too lazy to take care of things. He is regretting that he should have been nicer to his son and daughter earlier.
Zhu Jiaorong went to find her son Zhan Mingkang and said, "You marry me a wife and you want me to serve her? Is that reasonable?"
Zhan Mingkang was adamant. He felt sorry for his sister Yanyan. He tried to persuade Zhu Jiaorong, "Sister Yanyan has had a hard life. We all lived through hard times. You followed my dad and lived a life of luxury. How could you know how hard it was for us in the countryside?"
Zhu Jiaorong rolled his eyes. It was this woman who deceived him.
*
In 1981, Gu Sheng and Zhan Aiping regarded the day they received their marriage certificate as their wedding anniversary and invited Wang Youli and his wife to dinner. Gu Sheng was cooking in the kitchen, Shen Liqing and her family's fish all came over, and Wang Youli asked Zhan Aiping to help with his hair.
Over the years, his baldness has become more and more serious. There is a bald spot on the back of his head. He wants to shave his head like Captain Jiang.
This hair is a pain in a man's heart.
Shen Liqing said: "We have been married for ten years. I really envy your husband, Mr. Gu. I was wrong about him at the beginning."
"Old Wang is all talk and no action, but Director Gu in your family is down-to-earth and a good husband."
Wang Youli blew his beard and glared: "If I knew that Lao Gu was such a person, I would have stayed away from him from the beginning. He is such a jerk."
“Let me tell you about the tricks used by the old team leaders. The one who taught me before was a team leader named Zhang. He said that before getting married, you have to pretend to be cultured in front of girls. You don’t smoke or drink. You have to be cultured… Once you get the girl, can you still get a divorce after you get married?” After so many years, Wang Youli finally spoke out what was in his heart.
He is indeed not as righteous as he appears to be.
Wang Youli had everything planned out, planning to trick his wife into getting him first, but then "Gu Yaojin" showed up unexpectedly. He took it seriously and tried to be a good husband, but she brought him trouble for ten years.
He was forced to be a good husband.
Shen Liqing said: "I had my own thoughts back then. I was lazy, greedy and didn't like to work, so I thought about finding a fool to marry. I thought officers were easy to deceive, so I asked them to write a letter of guarantee. This idiot, when he finds out my true nature, I will piss him off to death."
"Do you remember that when I came to the family compound, I acted like a good person for a few days and even cooked a table full of dishes?"
Shen Liqing said, "I was thinking that marrying a soldier would make divorce difficult. As for him daring to hit me, even though I'm lazy, I still have some strength. Well, I've made up my mind, Xiao Zhan, I don't want someone with the physique of your Lao Gu. As for someone like Lao Wang, I can beat him so hard that his front teeth fall out with one punch."
Zhan Aiping was speechless: "You two have been married for ten years and you are tired of each other?"
He came to their tenth anniversary and acted like the big bad wolf.
Shen Liqing said, "You are already an old married couple, what else is there to hide? Can you still get divorced? The child is already so big."
Zhan Aiping said: "That's right."
Wang Youli asked secretly, "What about you two? What were your thoughts when you got married?"
Zhan Aiping's heart moved, thinking that there were all these people waiting, just to trick her and Gu Sheng into talking, so they took the initiative to expose themselves there.
Zhan Aiping said: "Since so many years have passed, I will tell you the truth. I found out that I liked him when I was a teenager, but I was too proud to say it because many outsiders thought that our relationship was not good at that time."
"After graduation, he went to Yunnan Province. Actually, I filled out an application, saying I wanted to go to his place... But the teacher didn't tell me. He took the initiative to keep me in Shanghai. The teacher was very good to me. I always regarded him as my father. I was embarrassed to let him down."
"The teacher treated me differently. Many people were jealous of me and were waiting to see me make a fool of myself. I was very concerned about other people's opinions at that time... Later, something went wrong during the operation. I was hit hard and felt sorry for the teacher. I always wondered if others were laughing at me behind my back. That's when I met He Mingzhang."
"He pursued me. He is a man who knows how to please people. Before his true colors were revealed, he was very considerate and caring. He said he fell in love with me at first sight and agreed with me in everything. I have rarely been treated so gently. Under his entanglement, I agreed to date him and get married."
"I have another man in my heart. I don't love him, but because he is so nice to me and because of his sweet words, he said that he has given a lot to me, but I don't care about him, which hurts him and makes him sad. I was too stupid before and I believed him, so I always feel guilty when facing him—"
Talking about the past again, Zhan Aiping didn't feel too sad, nor did she find it difficult to talk about it anymore. She did have some little thoughts at that time, and that's why someone took advantage of her.
Later, Zhan Aiping saw many netizens advising young girls online, saying: If you can't marry the person you love, then marry someone who treats you well.
This sentence is so deceptive.
Only when you truly believe it will you realize how deep you are in the quagmire.
Having someone in your heart but being with someone you don't love is torture in the end. No matter how good the person you don't love is to her, she still doesn't love him. In the end, she will just feel mostly guilty and feel unhappy.
If you meet someone with bad intentions who pretends to be nice to you, you will be even more unlucky, because he will take advantage of this pretense to gain benefits from you.
However, thinking back on the past, she couldn't say she was particularly angry or regretful. Meeting a scumbag when she was young was not a big deal. Zhan Aiping was enjoying her single life after kicking He Mingzhang away in her previous life.
Life is not just about love, and a woman does not have to be a mother.
If you cannot marry the person you love, if you do not really want to marry him or her, there is no need to be swayed by public opinion and follow the crowd to get married, start a family, or become a mother. In fact, being alone for the rest of your life can be pretty satisfying.
It's also nice to have a twilight romance when you're old.
Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "I love him, so I married him."
Gu Sheng came out with a plate of food and said calmly, "That's right, me too."
Wang Youli groaned, "You don't even know how long you've been eavesdropping, and you're only coming out now."
"Look at what kind of dish you are serving?!!!"
"It's burnt, it's burnt, Mr. Gu, your dish is burnt."
(End of this chapter)