Chapter 37

Li Xiaoxiao was afraid of hurting Shen Youran’s delicate feelings, so she had been holding back from asking. But now, the gossip fire was burning fiercely. She felt like she was going to be consumed by it!

This feeling of wanting to ask but not being able to was too uncomfortable.

Shen Youran didn’t care about any of that. She picked up the milk ball and went home in the afternoon, buying a piece of meat on the way.

After all, today was the day she was free from suffering, so she had to celebrate. She planned to make a pot of braised pork to go with rice.

When she got home, she saw Lu Yifan moving things out.

Lu Yifan was moving all his things. Starting today, he would be living with his parents.

Seeing Shen Youran and Junjun come back happily, Lu Yifan felt a little displeased. He warned again, “It’s one year, and it’s one year. Don’t try any tricks!”

“Can you stop talking nonsense?”

Shen Youran rolled her eyes. “The contract clearly states it. Do you need to keep saying it over and over again?”

Lu Yifan was choked. He was about to say something else when Shen Youran took Junjun back inside.

Seeing this, Lu Yifan felt like he had punched cotton. It didn’t hurt, but he felt suffocated.

Despite this, he still packed up his things and had someone help him move them back home. He was making the last trip when Shen Youran had already finished making the braised pork.

The aroma of braised pork wafted out of the kitchen. Shen Youran hugged Junjun and watched the pot. “Mommy will put some millet in later. It’ll be very fragrant if we simmer it together.”

“Can I eat more then?”

“Of course,” Shen Youran touched Junjun’s little nose. “After we finish eating, we’ll go for a walk outside to digest. That way, you can eat more.”

“Yay!”

The house was filled with the laughter of mother and son, and the strong aroma of food. Lu Yifan stood at the door, not knowing what to do.

He hadn’t realized that there were such warm moments in the house.

“Let’s go!”

Lu Yifan was still thinking when the people who helped him move things went downstairs. He could only follow them.

Oh well, they were already divorced. There was no point in thinking about it anymore.

Lu Yifan officially left. Shen Youran and Junjun had already started eating the braised pork rice. The braised pork was so fragrant that Junjun wanted to bite her tongue.

The two of them ate all the meat and rice. After they finished, they leaned back in their chairs, holding their stomachs.

“Mommy, what do we do when we don’t want to move?”

Junjun touched her little stomach. Shen Youran also touched her own stomach. “Why don’t we go for a walk outside?”

“Let’s go plant trees in the farmland!” Junjun quickly stood up.

Shen Youran nodded. Mother and son went into the space.

They worked in the farmland in the space for over an hour and finally felt like they had digested a lot.

Back in their room, they took a bath and went to bed. Shen Youran hugged Junjun. “Even if it’s delicious, we can’t eat so much anymore. Mommy will control the amount of food I cook a little bit.”

They had eaten everything because it was so delicious.

They almost burst!

“Okay.” Junjun was much more lively and cheerful than before. She hugged Shen Youran’s waist. “Mommy, can you tell me a story?”

Shen Youran told Junjun a story and put her to sleep.

The next day.

Shen Youran thought that Lu Yifan moving out wouldn’t affect Junjun, but the next day, as soon as she picked her up, she saw that half of the house was empty, and Junjun’s emotions suddenly erupted.

Shen Youran noticed Junjun’s emotions and went to comfort her.

Junjun reached out and hugged her neck, sobbing. “Mommy, will Junjun never have a daddy anymore?”

Shen Youran saw Junjun crying so sadly and gently stroked her head. “Didn’t Mommy tell you? Mommy will find a better daddy for Junjun.”

“Don’t be sad, okay?”

Shen Youran patiently comforted her. Junjun cried for a while, then looked up with tear-filled eyes. “Will there really be a better daddy? Will I become a child without a daddy?”

For Junjun, even though Lu Yifan wasn’t very good to her, she still had a daddy.

There were two children in the kindergarten who didn’t have daddies, and some of the other children would tease them.

“Yes, there will be,” Shen Youran picked up Junjun. “We’ll find a better daddy. The new daddy will let Junjun ride a horse and take Junjun to play, okay?”

After hearing Shen Youran’s words, Junjun was much happier.

“Okay, I’ll wait for the new daddy.”

Seeing the milk ball finally burst into tears, Shen Youran hugged her. “The new daddy will definitely appear.”

“Okay!”

…

The news of Shen Youran and Lu Yifan’s divorce quickly spread throughout the entire military compound.

Even Mo Xiaoyun came over to ask about the situation.

Shen Youran laughed. “It’s true. We got a divorce. After all, our marital relationship wasn’t very good. Why should we keep dragging each other down?”

“Youran,” Mo Xiaoyun thought she was sad. “Even if you leave him, you can find someone better.”

“Of course!”

Shen Youran raised her eyebrows. “I’ve always been confident in myself. But it’s also about fate. Before that person comes along, I’ll just be a good soldier.”

Mo Xiaoyun looked at Shen Youran’s confident expression and believed that she was telling the truth.

“That’s good, that’s good. I saw that the two of you were just going through the motions before. It’s good that it’s like this now. Can Junjun accept it?” Mo Xiaoyun chatted with Shen Youran for a while, and knowing that both she and her son didn’t have any sad emotions, she was completely relieved.

Mo Xiaoyun genuinely cared about Shen Youran and her son, but other people were different.

After all, there were many family members who accompanied their husbands to the military compound. Most of them came from villages, and they loved gossip.

In this era, everyone thought that divorce was a disgraceful thing.

It was embarrassing to get a divorce.

After all, many people had witnessed their marriage back then. And most people in this era had the same idea. Once you got married, you had to stay together for life. Even if your life was difficult or your relationship wasn’t good, you had to stay together.

There were no obstacles that couldn’t be overcome. Instead, if you got a divorce, people would point fingers at you and gossip behind your back.

So some women would rather die in their husband’s family than get a divorce.

The news of Shen Youran’s divorce spread like wildfire, causing many military wives to gossip.

“Why is she so foolish? Doesn’t she think it’s embarrassing?”

“I say she’s really had a lot of misfortune!”

“It’s unbelievable. I’ve never heard of anyone getting a divorce in all these years. When a divorced woman goes back to her parents’ house, her family can’t even hold their heads up!”

“She should have left our compound after the divorce. But you know what? She joined the army! Now she’s in the army, and she’s still living in Captain Lu’s house. They say she’ll be allowed to stay for another year.”

“Ah? Then Captain Lu is pretty good.”

“But isn’t there a son? The son is with his mother, so he must still take care of their living arrangements.”

“No, I really don’t understand. They have a son, why get a divorce? Isn’t that irresponsible to the parents and the child?”

“Who knows? The child is pitiful. He’ll be a single-parent child now. How will he ever get a wife?”

…

At first, it was just simple gossip. But after they found out that Lu Yifan had moved out and left the house for them, the story became even more outrageous.

One morning.

Shen Youran took Junjun to the army. As soon as they came down from the building, they heard a few military wives sitting together, munching on sunflower seeds and talking about this matter.

“Look, they’re coming down!”

They probably saw Shen Youran, so they all looked up. After watching her come downstairs, they pointed and whispered.

“Who gets a divorce nowadays? And Captain Lu doesn’t even want the child. She must have done something terrible.”

“Yes, she must have done something terrible. That’s why things ended up like this. Otherwise, Captain Lu wouldn’t have done this, right?”

“I’ve never seen a father who doesn’t want his child. Maybe…”

The voice trailed off, and everyone could guess what they meant.

Shen Youran didn’t want to bother with them, but seeing Junjun lower his head, she was unhappy. She walked over and confronted them. “Stop talking nonsense, okay?”

“We got a divorce because our relationship wasn’t good and we couldn’t go on. That’s why we got a divorce. It’s not because either of us did anything wrong.”

After Shen Youran finished speaking, she rolled her eyes. “Instead of gossiping about other people, you should go back and see if you’ve washed your pots! You have nothing better to do!”

She was about to leave.

One military wife was unhappy and stood up directly. “That’s impossible! There’s no father who doesn’t want his child. Maybe you did something terrible, and now you’re lying to us!”

“Who gets a divorce nowadays? Don’t you think it’s embarrassing?”

Shen Youran was about to leave, but when she heard the military wife’s words, she turned back. “Whether he wants his child or not is none of your business!”

“You’re so nosy about other people’s divorce. You even point fingers at them. Why don’t you go eavesdrop? Wouldn’t that be faster? You only know how to gossip behind people’s backs. Are you a gossip?”