Time Travel Article: My parents divorced at the beginning

The grandparents and grandchildren happily walked hand in hand to the post office and saw Zhang Caifeng busy at the counter from a distance. Yes, it was Zhang Caifeng, Li Jianguo's daughter-in-law.

Li Jianguo was a platoon leader before he retired from the army, so he was assigned to the county armed forces department after his retirement. At the same time, his wife Zhang Caifeng was also assigned to work in the county post office as a family member.

"Aunt Zhang!" Gu Qingyu waved to Zhang Caifeng from a distance, calling sweetly. Zhang Caifeng looked up and saw the Gu family's grandparents and grandchildren. She quickly put down the things in her hands and invited them to come in and rest. "Cousin, Qingyu, I guessed you would be coming soon, come in!" Zhang Caifeng picked up Gu Qingyu and hugged her.

Qingyu was a little shy after being picked up so suddenly. She patted Zhang Caifeng's arm and said, "Aunt Zhang, please put me down. I've grown heavier and it's tiring to hold me in your arms."

"Oh my... my dear, how come you are so sensible!" As she said that, Zhang Caifeng kissed Gu Qingyu's little face several times, making Gu Qingyu's whole face and neck red.

"Cousin, Jianguo said this morning that if you didn't show up today, he would call someone in town to tell you to come to the county."

"The day before yesterday, Anzi called Jianguo and asked him to inform his family that he and his younger brother and sister-in-law would be back after National Day once they were done with their work."

"This time, not only did I get a remittance slip, but I also got a registered letter." Zhang Caifeng took the letter and remittance slip from the drawer and gave them to Li Dahua. Li Dahua took the items, signed her name in the register, and chatted with Zhang Caifeng for a few minutes before leaving.

"Caifeng, I won't disturb you from working. I still have to go to Sun's house to visit her aunt." Li Dahua said as she took Gu Qingyu's hand and walked towards the street. After just two or three steps, Li Dahua slapped her forehead and remembered. She let go of Gu Qingyu's hand, turned around, took out a large cloth bag from her backpack and walked towards Zhang Caifeng.

"Here! It contains some dried vegetables I dried in the sun. I almost forgot to give it to you while I was talking."

"Cousin! You can't accept this. Old Li has told me so many times! Take it to Xiaoyue's house." When Zhang Caifeng came out from the counter, the two grandparents had run far away.

Li Dahua was impatient with Zhang Caifeng's pushing and pulling, so she threw the things directly on the counter, turned around, picked up Qingyu and left quickly.

"Caifeng, your relative always brings you a big bag of things every time he comes, unlike the relatives from my hometown Lao Wang, who won't stop coming without taking something back!" said the colleague next to her sourly.

Zhang Caifeng ignored her colleagues' sarcasm. She watched the old woman's brisk pace, feeling both helpless and amused. She always struggled to get the upper hand over her. After packing up her things, Zhang Caifeng returned to work. She planned to bring more food with her next time Lao Li went to the countryside. She'd heard the malted milk recently added to the shelves at the supply and marketing cooperative was quite good, so she'd buy some for her family back home to try.

Gu Qingyu was a little curious. Since his parents would be back after the National Day, why did they write a registered letter back to their hometown? On the way, Gu Qingyu asked her grandmother, "Grandma, can you let me see the registered letter first?"

"Why rush? Let me read it and then we'll go home. We can read it when we get home." Li Dahua knew her granddaughter could read, but she felt that the letter was a little strange. She planned to secretly read what was written in it first, and then consider whether to show it to her granddaughter. Her granddaughter was really smart and had always been very righteous since she was a child.

Whenever Li Dahua visited the county post office, she would stop by to visit her daughter, who was married there. Gu Xiaogu had been married to the Sun family for three years and had given birth to two boys, effectively establishing herself firmly within the family. Furthermore, Gu Xiaogu's in-laws and husband were both honest and kind people, and the family lived in perfect harmony.

Li Dahua had no worries about Gu Xiaogu. Every time she came, besides visiting her two little grandchildren, she would bring some country products, such as local eggs, for her daughter and in-laws.

"My dear relatives, how's your family doing lately? The busy farming season is over, right?" Sun's mother asked Li Dahua to hurry into the house and sit down. "Xiaoyue, let me chat with you and pour two glasses of water for Qingyu."

"Hey, here they are!" Gu Xiaogu brought two glasses of water from the kitchen into the main room and handed them to Li Dahahua and Gu Qingyu.

The tiny Qingyu sat on a stool and took a sip from the cup of water that Gu Xiaogu had given her. Hmm? Sweet! Gu Xiaogu must have put sugar in it, so Qingyu squinted her eyes happily and took another big sip.

Li Dahua was chatting with her mother. "Oh, everything is fine at home. The weather has been good in recent years. As long as you are not lazy, you can basically have enough to eat."

"That's good! But we heard in the county that they're going to set up some kind of mutual aid society. What's that all about?"

"Some people, having just been allocated land, stopped working hard and ended up being lazy and unable to survive. Now they're selling their land again."

"I heard that this time the cooperative allows us to invest in it with our land and operate it in a unified manner. We can all work hard together to have a better life." Li Dahua told Sun's mother what the villagers had been discussing recently.

"Yes, there's news coming out from our county now that other cities are already encouraging public-private partnerships. My old man went to a meeting the day before yesterday, and many self-employed people from our county were there. The people from the neighborhood office said they'd let us know first."

"Mom, do you think we should ask Brother Jianguo what's going on? What should we do?"

"No rush, we are all from a small family, we just need to follow the main group. If the in-laws are worried, let Xiaoyue and her husband go to Jianguo to inquire about the situation." Li Dahua felt that the current situation was nothing, a new country, a new atmosphere, at least life would be better than before the founding of the country.

Just now, when she was resting at her aunt's house, Gu Qingyu saw that her grandmother's face looked unnatural after she finished reading her father's letter. On the way back with her grandmother, Gu Qingyu saw that her grandmother's face was getting more and more gloomy, and she didn't dare to ask to read the letter.

But she wondered, could it be that her father was injured on the battlefield? At this moment, Gu Qingyu had not yet imagined the series of bloody events that followed.

By the time they got back to Hongqi Town, it was almost four in the afternoon. There were no rides back to the village, and Gu Qingyu's legs wouldn't allow her to go back. Li Dahua picked up Gu Qingyu and placed her in a large backpack. The two of them walked slowly back toward the sunset.

When Gu Qingyu and the others returned home, the Gu family had not yet eaten and were waiting for them to come back and have dinner together. Zhang Zaohua took the large backpack from Li Dahua and carried Gu Qingyu out of it.

Today's dinner consisted of steamed pumpkin, stir-fried chives and peppers, and sweet potato rice. At the table, Gu Ping asked the old lady if her journey had been smooth, but Li Dahua was in a bad mood today. She gave a brief reply and then fell silent.

Everyone knew that something was wrong with the old lady, so they all turned their eyes to Gu Qingyu.

Uh... what should Qingyu say? Could it be that my grandma is upset because she read my dad's letter? Maybe, maybe my dad is injured or disabled?