Chapter 57: Abandoning Wife and Son

Zhao Meihua’s abandonment of his wife and son was a ridiculous act.

Not long ago, so many things happened in her family, involving the town police and village cadres in mediation.

It didn’t matter if she didn’t learn well, she still went out to make people annoyed. How disgusting.

As Jiang Mingyue and the others came over, they happened to see Zhao Meihua walking away with her tail between her legs. She glanced at Zhao Meihua’s back and didn’t take him to heart.

Comrade Gu.” Someone called Gu Dongqing and said he had something to tell him.

Jiang Mingyue glanced at the other person and found that it was Zhao Tiezhu, who was several years older than her in the village.

According to seniority, her name is Brother Zhao Tiezhu. So when she saw someone, she smiled and said hello, “Brother Tiezhu.”

Zhao Tiezhu’s dark face suddenly lit up with flames, and he did not dare to meet Jiang Mingyue’s curved eyebrows. He turned his eyes away immediately.

“Ming Mingyue…”

She raised her eyes and wanted to look at Jiang Mingyue secretly, but Gu Dongqing blocked her in front of her and put his hand on Zhao Tiezhu’s shoulder. “Brother Zhao, what’s wrong?”

His voice brought the distracted Zhao Tiezhu back, and Zhao Tiezhu quickly remembered that he had a serious reason to stop Gu Dongqing. “Well, Boss Gu, I have something to say to you.” When Zhao Tiezhu spoke, his eyes indicated to Gu Dongqing that it was not convenient to say this in front of Jiang Mingyue and the others.

Gu Dongqing understood. He looked at the car not far away, “Wait for me, I’ll open the door.”

“Okay.”

Gu Dongqing walked over and opened the door, letting his grandparents and Man Yue sit in the back seat. Jiang Mingyue sat in the passenger seat. “I’ll go over there for a moment.” Gu Dongqing told her softly.

Out of sight from the back row, he reached out and pinched her cheek. This frivolous move earned Jiang Mingyue a blank stare. “You…”

Why don’t you go quickly?” she complained in a low voice.

Gu Dongqing smiled heartily, rubbed her hands again, and then left to find Zhao Tiezhu.

Arriving in front of Zhao Tiezhu, Gu Dongqing’s smile disappeared. He raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at the embarrassed man in front of him.

What’s the matter with you?

That’s right.” Zhao Tiezhu looked at the off-road vehicle not far away, and softly told how Zhao Meihua stigmatized Jiang Mingyue in the village.

Gu Dongqing frowned. Before he could speak, Zhao Tiezhu said, “Ming Yue had a hard time before…” The implication was that he didn’t want Jiang Mingyue to be married and still have such a hard life.

Gu Dongqing raised his eyes and his eyes fell on Zhao Tiezhu. His eyes are narrow and deep, with a deep color.

Glancing at Zhao Tiezhu, he caught a glimpse of Jiang Mingyue with a gentle smile inside the car from the corner of his eye. He didn’t know what they were talking about, and his expression softened. “Thank you.”

Gu Dongqing couldn’t understand the hidden emotion in Zhao Tiezhu’s eyes. He also understands that since his wife is so good, there must be many people who like her.

If he hadn’t been shameless enough and never gave up, I’m afraid his wife would have become someone else’s wife. Gu Dongqing recalled the past unintentionally and could only feel happy.

Jiang Mingyue and his four grandchildren didn’t say a few words before Gu Dongqing came back.

His expression was as usual, with no emotional changes visible, so Jiang Mingyue could not guess from his expression what Zhao Tiezhu said to him.

When Gu Dongqing started the car, she asked in a low voice, “Brother Tiezhu, do you have anything to do with you?”

Nothing. The man started the car and walked slowly on the road. “It’s so annoying to say that flies are so annoying. Let me find something to kill them. It’s just medicine.”

“Flies?” Jiang Mingyue repeated Gu Dongqing’s words.

Jiang Manyue in the back row looked suspicious, her little face was full of seriousness, “Where are the flies? It’s cold and there are still flies, so it must be brother Tiezhu who doesn’t care about hygiene.”

As soon as Manyue said these words, she was amused. Everyone in the car laughed. It was a joke about Manyue, not Zhao Tiezhu.

Jiang Mingyue also stopped her sister and told her not to talk nonsense, “Manyue can’t talk about Brother Tiezhu like that. Their family is in a special situation, we can’t talk nonsense.”

Everyone was poor in the past few years, and Zhao Tiezhu’s family was even poorer. Not only are they poor, but their family situation is very special.

His mother is from the village, and his father is an educated youth who came to their village in 1962 to join the team. She married Zhao Xiuyun in 1963, and at the end of the same year, Zhao Tiezhu was born.

In 1977, the college entrance examination was resumed. His father left the village and returned to the city after passing the college entrance examination.

People in the village said that when the educated youth returned, he repeatedly promised Zhao Xiuyun that he would come to pick up the mother and son after he had settled down. Zhao Xiuyun agreed without much thought.

Although people in the village said that the educated youth would not come back to the village after they left for the city, Zhao Xiuyun insisted on believing in him. She stayed in the village, working while waiting for her husband to come back.

In the beginning, they still had some contact, and she would occasionally receive letters from the city. Every time a letter comes, in addition to casual words of concern, there are also all kinds of endless complaints.

He said that life in the city was not easy, talked about the various difficulties he faced, and asked Zhao Xiuyun to wait a little longer. If you wait a little longer, he promises to be able to come back to pick up their mother and son…

The letters I received in the first year just meant waiting, and waiting. Others said that the educated youth had other thoughts, but Zhao Xiuyun continued to mail him things from time to time.

Every time I sent something, it was accepted, but they never said when they would pick up the mother and son to go to the city.

In 1979, Zhao Xiuyun’s parents had an accident while working in a mine and were trapped in a well. When they were finally rescued, they were already stinking.

Zhao Xiuyun called her husband’s phone number for the first time, hoping to ask him to come back to help with the funeral arrangements. But the answer she got was that there was no such person there and she said she made a wrong call.

With the help of her tribe and villagers, Zhao Xiuyun took care of her parents’ funeral arrangements and took Zhao Tiezhu to the city to find someone. Naturally, it was not found.

Not only was no one found, it is said that Zhao Xiuyun was scolded a lot. She, who was originally gentle, endured the discomfort and returned to the village with Zhao Tiezhu. She fell ill just after returning home.

Zhao Tiezhu, who was only 16 years old, dropped out of junior high school and shouldered the burden of the family on his shoulders.

His original surname was Hu, but he also changed his surname to Zhao. From now on, he will have nothing to do with anyone named Hu.

In 1980, Zhao Xiuyun fell down and became paralyzed in bed. He died in 1983. In the past few years, every time he passed by Zhao Tiezhu’s yard, he would indeed see some flies.

That’s because Zhao Tiezhu went to the fields and had no one to help him take care of his mother, so the hygienic situation was definitely not that good.

Now that Zhao Tiezhu is the only one left in the Zhao family, there must be nothing to say about hygiene.

After recalling this incident, their car also left the village. According to Jiang Mingyue’s idea, that Hu educated youth might have had another woman in the city…

Jiang Mingyue looked at Gu Dongqing who was driving seriously.

She originally planned to ask him something, but after thinking about it, she held back.

What’s wrong? There’s something on my face?