"Just divorced like this?" Tan Shuangxi murmured before he could recover for a while. The word divorce was not new to him and he heard it often, but this was the first time that an acquaintance got divorced.
"What can we do if we don't leave?" Father Chen blew out a smoke ring and sighed, "My parents came to persuade me, and my brother and sister-in-law also came to persuade me. I said that Caiwang is an honest farmer, and his family is well-off.
, my parents-in-law are not unruly people either.
What a bad thing! I just can't defeat her! After all, this is the "law" of the Senate. As long as one party proposes, the two parties can reconcile. Even if the family does not agree, she goes to the county court and the result is not the same.
Might as well save some dignity."
Tan Shuangxi still didn't recover from the shock, and just nodded silently. Some people in the army often talked about things like "your wife dumped you" and "get divorced when you go back", but the Senate has policies.
, protects military marriages, so divorce is rarely heard of.
"Didn't this woman already have a crush?" Tan Shuangxi suddenly remembered the puppet show "One Dollar" that he watched to promote the freedom of marriage. The heroine in it was like this.
"That's about it." Lao Tongsheng said, "It's just that she doesn't admit that there is an affair outside. She only says that she and Cai Wang don't get along and can't get along. There is always a sense of shame in the girl's family."
"If you have a sense of shame, you won't get divorced."
"I think they just dislike the poor and love the rich!"
"There is a wild man!"
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The "News Center" immediately fell into the condemnation of "Cai Wang's sister-in-law". In this matter, everyone felt that Cai Wang did nothing wrong. In short, everyone's opinion was that Cai Wang was "unlucky".
"...My daughter-in-law ran away and I lost a lot of money in vain!"
"bride price?"
"It's the bride price." Father Chen put out the cigarette butt that was about to burn his fingers, "Sixty yuan! His wife's family was only willing to refund half of it. His father begged everywhere, and I helped his family get through, and finally the villagers
Come forward and go to the town office together to file a complaint. The town’s Judicial Department reconciled with both sides, and finally returned with two-thirds of the offer.”
"Think about it, twenty yuan is just gone. How many yuan can Cai Wang's family save by digging in the soil in a year? She is a girl's family, and she got away with twenty yuan after working for a year!
The world is really going downhill!" Old Tongsheng was indignant.
Tan Shuangxi didn't know what to say. He rarely heard of such shocking things in the army, and it was somewhat difficult to accept it at the moment. Suddenly he remembered the agreement he had made with Yang Zhaodi, and he felt as if he had eaten a fly.
Sense. Isn’t this girl doing some tricks to deceive and use him?!
He suddenly fell into uneasiness and suspicion, and his expression suddenly changed. After a few random words, he walked away.
Tan Shuangxi wandered aimlessly along the river, calming down. He thought about it, Yang Zhaodi didn't lie to him originally, and as for the promise, it didn't really matter. After all, no one came to ask him whether it was successful or not. What if?
If he asked, he would just give an ambiguous answer. Besides, he could have reported to the political office a month or two later that the two had broken up - even if they were married, they could get divorced, but not when they were in love.
People break up?
Besides, his marriage was guaranteed by the Senate, so he didn't have to worry about it. Thinking of this, his originally depressed mood became somewhat lighter.
My mood relaxed and my steps became much more relaxed. As I was walking through a field, I suddenly saw a familiar figure in front of me, repairing a leak on the ridge of the field. I looked closely and saw who it was if it wasn't Cai Wang!
Cai Wang's figure looked a little lonely under the sunlight. His movements were skillful and powerful, but Tan Shuangxi could feel a trace of fatigue radiating from him.
Tan Shuangxi quickened his pace, walked behind Cai Wang, and called softly: "Cai Wang."
Cai Wang's body trembled, and he turned around with a surprised expression on his face. A trace of complicated emotions flashed in his eyes, but they were quickly replaced by a smile. "Double happiness? You're back!" There was a hint of surprise in his voice.
A little hoarse, but more of a surprise.
The two hugged tightly, and then Cai Wang took a step back and looked Tan Shuangxi up and down.
"Looking at you, you look more and more like a soldier." He said with a smile, and then looked at it again, "Everyone said that you have been promoted..."
"The acting platoon leader is still a soldier." Tan Shuangxi also smiled. He patted Cai Wang on the shoulder, "You are becoming more and more like an old soldier."
Cai Wang is one year older than him, and has lost the greenness of youth. The work in the fields has made his body burly and also carved wrinkles on his skin.
The two looked at each other and smiled. Cai Wang pointed to a stone on the ridge of the field and said, "Here, sit down." They sat down and Cai Wang took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, handed one to Tan Shuangxi, and took one himself.
root.
Tan Shuangxi saw that his cigarettes were the cheapest white-shell cigarettes produced by mass manufacturers, and he wanted him to smoke his own, but he was afraid that he would misunderstand, so he took out a match and lit it.
"Repair the canal?"
"Well, there is less rain now, so it's time to do some repairs." Cai Wang said, "This year, my family has acquired more than ten acres of land, and we will do a lot of work next year."
Tan Shuangxi knew that Cai Wang's family didn't have many laborers. Apart from his parents, Cai Wang had a sister who was already married, and she also had a little brother who was only over ten years old, so he was not considered a strong worker.
"Your family has little labor, can they grow it?"
Cai Wangsheng lowered his head, took a few puffs of cigarette silently, raised his head and said: "Originally, there were more than forty acres. This time, my father and I discussed it, and we will lease another ten acres of land, and add up to sixty acres of land. We are awesome.
I originally had one, but this time I made an agreement with Tiandihui to take out a loan to raise another one. Taking advantage of the good grain market in the past few years, we can harvest more grain and earn more money."
"This is too hard, can you handle it?"
"You have to grit your teeth and work hard even if you are busy. There is nothing you can do. You have to make up for the shortfall." Cai Wang sighed, "By the way, what are your plans when you come back this time? I heard from Mr. Chen that this time the veteran
You can retire."
Tan Shuangxi sighed, "I don't plan to come back just yet. The war still has to be fought. I'll spend time with my family first."
He paused, "What about you? What are your plans?"
Cai Wang smiled bitterly and said, "What plans can I have? Let's just live like this." His eyes fell on the fields in the distance, with a trace of confusion in his eyes.
Tan Shuangxi looked at him and felt a little uncomfortable. He knew that Cai Wang had not had an easy life in the past two years, and he wanted to help him, but he didn't know where to start.
"I heard that your wife..." Tan Shuangxi hesitated for a moment, but still brought up the matter.
Cai Wang took a deep breath from the cigarette and exhaled it slowly, his eyes a little blurry. "Yes, she left." There was a hint of helplessness in his voice.
Tan Shuangxi was silent for a while, and then said, "It's quite unfortunate for you to have to deal with this."
"Unlucky." Cai Wang shook his head, "When we were talking about getting married, I said that she graduated from Fangcaodi Junior Primary School, and later she studied by herself and got an A diploma. I also think it's quite beautiful. I have someone in my family who can write and do math.
As a woman, will the family business be prosperous in the future?"
"Didn't you say you didn't want to when we met?"
"After the wedding, the matchmaker said that the girl's family was willing. It was good when we first got married, but later she said she wanted to try again and get into an agricultural technical vocational school. I think that's fine, being knowledgeable is not a bad thing. Just look at the world.
The agricultural technicians here are all from agricultural technical schools. They are particularly good at farming. I asked her to study hard and we can take more care of the work at home."
"Then what?"
"I filed for divorce as soon as I passed the exam." Cai Wang's eyes were a little red, "Double Happiness, you probably don't know, it was like a bolt from the blue. I never dreamed that everything was fine the day before..."
Tan Shuangxi didn't know what to say for a moment. In the past, when he watched acting and listened to storytelling, there was often a plot about "the top scholar and abandoning his wife who is a loser". Unexpectedly, a similar plot was actually reversed and happened to him.
Hair on the body!
He suddenly thought of those puppet shows and inspirational stories that often happened in small books, and now they were happening in front of him. But the men in the stories were always ignorant, violent, arrogant, bullying the weak and afraid of the strong... and Cai Wang was just an ordinary farmer. Maybe
He is not smart and has no sense of humor, but he is definitely not the "bad man" in the puppet show.
"Don't be sad..." He struggled to squeeze out a word of comfort, feeling weak and powerless himself.
Cai Wang shook his head, "It's okay, it's all over." He turned his head and looked at Tan Shuangxi, "How are you in the army? I heard you made a lot of contributions."
Tan Shuangxi smiled: "He is still a whole person after all!"
Cai Wang said: "I heard that the troops suffered heavy casualties in the front. Four people have been killed in the three villages in the salt field, and one person was killed in the village. Recently, two seriously wounded people came back, and they were both disabled...
…”
"In war, there are always casualties." Tan Shuangxi was a little confused. He was reluctant to mention what happened on the battlefield. Although everyone wanted him to tell battle stories after he came back, in order not to spoil the fun, he always chose some interesting ones.
Talking about things and experiences in other places.
"I wanted to go to the army last time. I heard they said the military pay was high and there were military subsidies. I wanted to be a soldier for three years to help pay back the famine that has been caused in the past few years." Cai Wang said, "
Then I thought about it again, if I die and become disabled, even if there is a pension, my father and brothers will not be able to support this business..."
Tan Shuangxi didn't know what to say, so he just said: "You have thought carefully." In order to ease the somewhat solemn atmosphere, Tan Shuangxi talked about the life in the army and all the interesting things on the Northern Expedition. Cai Wang listened with interest. Time is passing by.
As their conversation passed quietly, the sun gradually rose, and its scorching sunlight filled the earth.
"Let me help you work." Tan Shuangxi felt that sitting and chatting like this would delay his work.
"Okay, just give me a hand." Cai Wang did not refuse.
The two men repaired the channel together. Tan Shuangxi soon broke out in sweat and simply took off his shirt, wearing only a double-breasted jacket. He had not done farm work for a long time and was a little unfamiliar at first. As he continued to work, the memories deep in his body seemed to disappear.
When I came back, the more I worked, the easier it became. Tan Shuangxi felt very happy and felt a lot more comfortable.