Chapter 8: A Mistake

“The reason she was making such a big commotion was to attract the leader’s attention and then plead for mercy and sell her misery.

Unexpectedly, before she could finish her words, the leader put on a stern face, ‘Even if the marriage application is late, you can’t be so unreasonable. This is the military headquarters, not a village, let alone a vegetable market.’

Shen Mingzhi was stunned, ‘What marriage application?’

She wanted to make a big scene so that the leader would take this matter seriously and release Jiang Shaochen and Jiang Guofu.

She didn’t expect this man to talk about a marriage application!

Shen Mingzhi carefully looked at the man in front of her, who was about fifty years old. Apart from a few strands of white hair between his temples, the man didn’t look old at all.

The badges on his chest and shoulders showed that he was indeed the leader.

Several soldiers were following behind the leader.

Shen Mingzhi noticed their eyes, and their gazes were scrutinizing and somewhat contemptuous.

She didn’t expect someone to say it directly.

“I always thought Jiang Shaochen would be with Song Wanyin from the cultural troupe, but I didn’t expect him to marry such a countrywoman. It’s really a flower stuck in cow dung!”

“Isn’t it? Jiang Shaochen is so promising.”

“If Song Wanyin knew that Jiang Shaochen didn’t want her and was going to marry such a countrywoman, she would probably be so angry that she would die. Did she step on some dog shit?”

‘What dog shit luck, she has means. Look, she can howl like this at the military headquarters, it’s even more so in the Jiang family!’

‘All of you shut up.’

At the leader’s command, these people didn’t dare to speak anymore.

However, the way they looked at Shen Mingzhi was cold and contemptuous.

The two men who had been discussing earlier were also subdued by the leader’s aura and didn’t dare to speak anymore.

Shen Mingzhi pursed her lips and said in a low voice, ‘I don’t quite understand, Jiang Shaochen…’

Those two men clearly said they were going to shoot him.

And people from the military headquarters came to take away Jiang Shaochen and Jiang Guofu, saying they were going to investigate. As a result, the leader and these people said that Jiang Shaochen was going to marry her.

What was going on?

But before she could finish her words, the leader interrupted her again, ‘You came here just to have Jiang Shaochen marry you, why are you pretending to be stupid now?’

The leader’s eyes weren’t so friendly, and let alone the people behind the leader.

Jiang Yinyin interrupted at this time, ‘She just mentioned it, and everyone knows her identity, so my brother and my dad are okay, right?’

Jiang Yinyin was still worried about her second brother and dad.

As for Shen Mingzhi, whether she was misunderstood or shot, it had nothing to do with her, and it had nothing to do with the Jiang family.

But because there were so many people, she couldn’t say it.

But Shen Mingzhi faced the leader very calmly, ‘I just lost my husband and was kicked out by my husband’s family. I’m helpless, and the will my husband left me is of course my last guarantee. I just said that casually at the time, I just wanted to protect myself and the child in my stomach first.’

Seeing that the leader didn’t speak, Shen Mingzhi continued, ‘Then it’s inconvenient for a pregnant woman like me to live in the Jiang family. In order to live there more appropriately, I didn’t think too much.’

‘But since things have come to this point, and I’ve given birth to my children, you always say you want to treat martyrs well and treat widows well, so it’s not too much to arrange a place for me to live, right?’

The leader narrowed his eyes, ‘You’re not going to marry him?’

Shen Mingzhi’s thoughts changed so quickly, was she really afraid and changed her mind, or was she deliberately taking a step back?

Shen Mingzhi smiled and said, ‘My relationship with my husband was so good, how could I really think about marrying Jiang Shaochen. I just said that casually, I wanted to deliberately scare the Jiang family, I was just afraid that they wouldn’t care about me. I didn’t expect that they would not only be willing to take care of me… but also be willing to marry me, and help me sign…’

At the end, Shen Mingzhi raised her hand to wipe away her tears, and her voice choked up instantly.

At this time, tears were the most sensational and the most touching.

At this moment, the leader was really surprised, ‘You and Zhang Ping had a good relationship?’

You see, Zhang Ping, he was…

Seeing the leader like this, Shen Mingzhi was puzzled, ‘What’s wrong, is it not okay for me to have a good relationship with my ex-husband? If we didn’t have a relationship, what would I have given birth to his children for?’

She didn’t know whose children the twins she gave birth to were.

She only remembered that it was very cold that day, the man was as hot as a fireball, she was cold and approached the man, but was penetrated by pain.

The leader couldn’t help frowning, ‘Zhang Ping didn’t submit a marriage report to you, your marriage with Zhang Ping wasn’t established at all.’

Did this woman really not know about Zhang Ping’s character and that incident, or was she pretending not to know?

Shen Mingzhi was stunned when she heard this.

‘Then if my marriage with Zhang Ping is not valid, then I can’t receive subsidies as a widow?’

Shen Mingzhi still had a headache.

It was fine if she couldn’t find the children’s biological father, but now her husband in name was not her husband.

What was her fate? Why were others rich or princesses when they transmigrated, but what about her? No father, no mother, no husband, and now she couldn’t even rely on her only backer.

She was a woman who had just given birth to two children, how was she going to survive in the 1980s?

The leader said, ‘Although your military marriage with Zhang Ping is not valid, Jiang Shaochen just submitted a marriage application, and his spirit is worthy of praise.’

The leader’s eyes were full of praise and recognition for Jiang Shaochen.

Shen Mingzhi was stunned, ‘Marriage, didn’t you say you were going to shoot Jiang Shaochen?’

The person who was going to be shot submitted a marriage application, so he wasn’t going to be shot?

What was going on?

The leader frowned seriously, ‘I never said from beginning to end that I was going to shoot Jiang Shaochen.’

‘Then you…’

Shen Mingzhi turned to look at the two men in military green uniforms she had seen as soon as she entered the door. She was very puzzled, ‘Then who did you just say was insulting a martyr’s widow and was going to be shot?’

One of the men scratched his head embarrassedly, ‘We were talking about someone else, not Commander Jiang and them.’

Shen Mingzhi: “…”

After all that, it was a misunderstanding!

The few shouts she had just made were in vain!

Since Jiang Shaochen didn’t have to be shot, she didn’t need to stay here anymore.

She looked at the leader, ‘Since Jiang Shaochen is not going to be shot, then I’ll go back.’

Zhang Ping didn’t submit a marriage report, so she wasn’t a martyr’s widow. In this era where everything required official seals and proof, even if she talked until her mouth was broken, no one would recognize and pity her.

Then she might as well leave early and find a way out, maybe she could find a way to survive.

Unexpectedly, the leader stopped her, “Jiang Shaochen is a good spirit, he can actually keep his promise to his dead eldest brother, and even said that even if you didn’t come to him because of Zhang Ping’s will, he would never stand idly by if he met you on the road. I have approved his marriage application, you guys prepare and have the wedding.”