The Pretty Military Wife

Liang Xinyue didn't know what to say.

She had no memory of this. Maybe she was really young at that time, and the child must have fallen asleep in the middle of the night. She didn't care about the adults' emotions, right?

But...was this guy so naughty when he was a kid? He seems like a very stable elder brother, so why is he naughty like him?

Seeing Liang Xinyue's disbelief, Zhou Guoliang laughed and said:

"Come on, I'll show you something and you'll believe it."

Zhou Guoliang led him along the lakeside and there was a small arch bridge. Zhou Guoliang bent over and looked on the guardrail beside the arch bridge:

"Look for it. I can't remember which brick it was. Anyway, we used a knife to carve my name, your brother's name, and Zhu Sanwa's name on it. There are three of us here."

Liang Xinyue really bent down to look for it, and sure enough, she found a brick with some crooked words carved on it. After all these years of wind and rain, the words on it were no longer clear.

I can still vaguely see the Chinese character "国" in Zhou Guoliang's name and the Chinese character "梁" in his brother Liang Jun's name, but the other characters are not very clear.

Liang Xinyue was just about to say that she had found it, but then she thought that the current Liang Xinyue could not recognize words and seemed to have never been to school.

She swallowed the surprise she found and said hesitantly:

"is it this one?"

Zhou Guoliang went to the other side, ran over to take a look, and laughed:

"Yes, yes, Xinyue, these are the words carved by your brother."

Liang Xinyue smiled. Zhou Guoliang pointed at his own name and wrote it again stroke by stroke:

"Remember, this is my name, Zhou Guoliang. When I get back to the army, I will teach you how to read when I have time."

"Ah."

Zhou Guoliang was very happy. He didn't expect that he really found the traces of his childhood left here.

This is my hometown and my childhood.

"Do you think your brother and I were naughty when we were little? We came all the way here to play."

"Let me tell you, we heard from our teacher that trains make a clanging sound when they are running, so we wanted to know if the wheels of trains are round. If they are round, how can they make a clanging sound?"

"At the time, we thought that the train wheels must not be round. Only square wheels would make such a noise when they rotate and fall. Then someone said that we could see the train in Dayang County, so we wanted to come and see it."

"Your brother, Zhu Sanwa and I asked along the way to get to this county town. It was already noon when we arrived. We were very hungry, so we drank a few sips of water from this porridge. It was smelly and not as good as the water in our country fields."

"Then we forgot about watching the train and just walked around the park. Then we realized the sky was not right, so we turned back. It was dark before we were halfway there, and we took the wrong road, so we got back late."

"That night, the three of us were beaten to a pulp."

Liang Xinyue looked at Zhou Guoliang and recalled the past, with a truly happy smile on her face.

Everyone looks longingly when they recall the stupid things they did as a child.

Liang Xinyue smiled and asked:

"Were you very close to my brother then?"

Zhou Guoliang nodded and said:

"Actually, when I was seventeen years old and moved to our county town, I asked your brother to go with me. But it seemed that your grandma or your grandpa was very ill that day, so he didn't go. I was gone for ten years before I came back."

Liang Xinyue sighed silently in her heart:

Human destiny is like this. One choice may determine your entire life.

If my brother had followed him back then, he might also be a soldier now.

Now, ten years later, my brother feels happy at home, coaxing his silly sister-in-law and looking at his two sons, and Zhou Guoliang has become the head of the group.

The past ten years he spent outside must have been extraordinary.

Perhaps, his title of captain was also gained at the cost of blood and life.

Everyone gets as much as he puts in.

The difference between the now high-spirited Zhou Guoliang and his elder brother is that they lead two different lives.

Zhou Guoliang sighed and said:

"Tell me, why didn't I think of getting to know you properly then? I remember your brother always mentioned Yue'er, and he was referring to you. After we got beaten that time, if we ran a little further, your brother would say he wanted to go back. He said he had to look after Yue'er, otherwise he would get beaten."

"At that time, Zhu Sanwa and I hated this sister named Yue'er because she always delayed our playtime."

Liang Xinyue searched through her memory but could not find any vivid memories related to Zhou Guoliang. The only thing she remembered was Zhou Guoliang's disappearance.

Someone from their family came to their house.

Afterwards, my brother was depressed for many years. Until... until he got married.

Liang Xinyue thought for a while and organized her words before saying:

"I can't remember when you were a child, but...but ten years ago, you disappeared, and your parents came to our house and scolded us. I remember. They said that my brother must know where you are, and that my brother must have harmed you by not telling you."

Zhou Guoliang was stunned for a moment, then his face darkened.

He knew his mother's temper. If that were the case, he didn't know how many unpleasant things she must have said to him at that time.

Liang Xinyue added:

"My brother said he didn't know at first. Then, he stopped laughing. He told my father while he was working that if he had followed you, he would have known where you went."

"Later, someone talked about... the idea of ​​a replacement marriage. My brother... my brother didn't want me to have a replacement marriage. At that time, everyone thought you were dead, and my brother didn't want me to be a widow for the rest of my life."

"My mother said that your sister needs someone to take care of her for the rest of her life."

Liang Jun was scolded by Liu Jinxiu. Liang Jun blamed himself for the disappearance of his friend, so he accepted Liu Jinxiu's scolding as if he had tacitly agreed.

Therefore, everyone in the Liang family subconsciously believed that Zhou Guoliang’s disappearance was really related to Liang Jun.

"Then my brother stayed with me and cried all night, and then we got married again."

Zhou Guoliang didn't know that there were more things to come.

So, Liang Jun has been blaming himself for his disappearance. That's why he wanted to help take care of his silly sister.

They also sent Xinyue to their home. And the people in their family tortured Xinyue like this, is it because her mother still believed that Liang Jun had harmed her?

Zhou Guoliang suddenly felt very uncomfortable.

Suddenly he reached out and hugged Liang Xinyue, holding her tightly in his arms, buried his head on top of Liang Xinyue's head, and said with a sob:

"I'm sorry, I don't know. Really!"

Liang Xinyue also figured out what he meant by "sorry", and just sighed and said:

"It's all over. The best outcome is that you're back and my brother has a family."

Then he said silently in his heart: It’s a pity that Liang Xinyue didn’t wait for you to come back.

Zhou Guoliang's heart was pierced by Liang Xinyue's words. He didn't expect that Liang Jun had to bear so much because of his disappearance.

Most importantly, it caused Xinyue to suffer.

After this incident, they lost the mood to continue shopping. The two of them didn't talk much and returned to the guesthouse in a depressed mood.