sbdcsierra Chapter 175 Qualifying Match (2)
Chapter 175 Qualifying Match (2)
This time, Chen Wangnan firmly objected: "Mother, you're already over 60..."
Although he looks quite robust, he doesn't seem to be at an age where he can go to war.
Gu Shijiu raised her eyebrows: "You look down on me?" She reached out and lifted the stone table in the courtyard.
Chen Wangnan: No, is this something that can be looked down upon or disregarded?
"In short, a woman in her sixties should not go to the battlefield."
Just as Shi Qi was about to say something in defense of Gu Shijiu, Chen Wangnan added, "Even an old man in his fifties shouldn't do that."
She suspected that her mother had been deceived by this suspicious man who was more than ten years younger than her.
Okay, the 50-something-year-old man shut his mouth.
I went anyway, sneaking away.
Since learning that Gu Shijiu had gone to the front lines, Chen Wangnan has scaled back his business operations.
Business is never easy during times of war.
What Gu Shijiu could protect when she was around, she might not be able to protect.
Chen Wangnan moved to the base area with his family's servants.
Since her mother believed that the ultimate victor was on the other side, she was willing to believe it as well.
Once you get there, it's no longer appropriate to wear gold and silver or have servants at your beck and call.
Chen Wangnan dismissed the servants in his household and filled the positions urgently needed in the base area.
Daya chose to join the army.
As for the family fortune they had accumulated, it had all been invested in the front lines and the base areas, and they didn't know if their mother would be able to use it.
She originally thought she would hear about her mother's achievements soon, after all, she was so capable.
But more than ten years passed, and until the war ended, she never heard from her mother or that man again.
I did encounter Chen Wangdong, who was in a surrendered unit at the time.
When the war of aggression ends and the civil war reaches its later stages, a large number of enemy troops always surrender.
Chen Wangnan was used to it.
Chen Wangxi had already passed away by then, but she was still quite happy to see her family again.
"Where's Mom?" Chen Wangdong didn't see anyone in her house.
“My children have all grown up, started their own families, and live right next door.” Chen Wangnan, who is over sixty years old, looks to be in good spirits.
Her current workplace is an agency under the Ministry of Finance: "As for my mother, I haven't seen her for a long time either."
Chen Wangnan told Chen Wangdong what had happened before.
Chen Wangdong: Why do I always hear some incredible news every time I meet with my family?
He also met Chen Wangxi and Qiu Niang's child, who is now in his forties and does ordinary work.
"I wonder if Qiu Niang is still alive," Chen Wangdong sighed.
War is real and cruel; even that rough and reckless girl has been killed, according to news from the front.
Chen Wangnan once again admired his mother's wisdom.
"Mother said that once the war is over, we can move back to our old town."
I reckon it'll be soon, then I can go find her.
If I were alive, I might still be able to see it.
Decades have passed, and those old grudges no longer seem so profound.
Chen Wangdong also wanted to go back; he ultimately preferred life in a small town.
Soon, their opportunity arrived.
The town was completely different from before; it was a ruin, in dire need of reconstruction, and only one in ten of the townspeople remained.
This area was originally occupied by the enemy.
Qiu Niang is gone too.
According to the elderly who are still alive, not two years after they left, Qiu Niang's uncle and aunt came to their door and insisted on taking her home.
This means they've found her another good match.
Qiu Niang was absolutely unwilling, but she didn't have any survival skills to begin with, and after a while, she even had trouble getting enough to eat.
In addition, more and more bachelors, widowers, and homeless people gather at her doorstep, looking around every day.
Even some married men aren't entirely honest with themselves.
Qiu Niang then realized that although she was nominally separated and living alone, she was actually still under the protection of the Chen family.
She made the wrong choice again; she should have just followed the Chen family.
Qiu Niang herself couldn't find a suitable match, and given her past, no respectable family was willing to marry her.
She was eventually married off by her maternal uncle's family to a merchant family as a concubine.
The merchant's family was only considered well-off; they couldn't compare to the Chen family.
The husband and wife are not difficult to please, but they have too much to do.
Qiu Niang used to think that the work she did at the embroidery shop was a lot, but compared to this job, it was nothing.
I get up before dawn to feed the chickens and pigs and clean the pigsty.
After that, I had to do housework, cook lunch, and occasionally tend to the vegetables in the garden and the fruit trees behind the house.
She also cooks dinner, and she can only go to sleep after eating and cleaning up.
Qiu Niang couldn't say anything either, because the lady of the house also worked outside.
A new textile factory opened in town, and the woman who owned the factory worked there as a textile worker.
Merchants travel all over the country, doing business selling goods from the north to the south.
They're gone for months at a time, and if they come back they're lucky to get ten days or half a month of rest.
Qiu Niang strongly suspected that their family just wanted to buy a maid.
The family had no children, so they bought a woman like her, who had already given birth, as a concubine.
Unfortunately, neither of the two women had a child before Qiu Niang died.
Everyone knows what the problem is, but no one has ever said it out loud.
No one knows how Qiu Niang died, because there was a war at the time.
People dying is a perfectly normal thing.
Whenever the townspeople heard a report that the Japanese were coming, they would hide in the nearby mountains.
Sometimes it wasn't the Japanese, but other armies.
In short, no matter who comes, the town will be ransacked.
After listening to the old man's story, Chen Wangdong and Chen Wangnan couldn't quite describe how they felt.
They led their children to follow government instructions and join the post-war reconstruction efforts.
Having a solid foundation, the Chen family gradually became wealthy over the next ten years.
At this moment, Chen Wangnan remembered his mother's words.
There has been no news of my mother. The government has helped search for her, but they still don't know where she went.
But her words have lingered in her mind all these years.
Countless past experiences have proven my mother right.
Chen Wangnan no longer wanted to think about how she went from being a shrewish mother who favored sons over daughters and treated her sons like her own life to the way she was later.
How did he learn such excellent martial arts skills that he had never shown before?
And who is that man who suddenly appeared, yet seemed quite familiar with my mother?
None of that matters. What matters is that when her mother makes her feel that the situation is not good, she needs to take action in time.
Chen Wangdong also passed away two years ago, and Chen Wangnan, who is eighty years old, has had a sense of foreboding for the past few years.
Ultimately, under her guidance, the Chen family began their second migration.
This time they went to Hong Kong.
Chen Wangnan didn't leave; she was too old to walk.
A few years later, Chen Wangnan died peacefully without illness.
The Chen family went through countless hardships to finally establish themselves in Hong Kong, and they always remembered Chen Wangnan's words.
The temporary retreat was to preserve manpower.
After getting through those difficult and confusing days, the Chen family returned to China with a large sum of money.
This time, they were determined to dedicate all their enthusiasm to building their motherland.
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