Time Travel Article: My parents divorced at the beginning

The next day at noon, outside the Hongqi Commune Post Office, an old lady with wrinkled face and wearing an old-fashioned patchwork skirt and a skinny, dark-skinned man about 1.75 meters tall wearing a similarly patched short shirt paced back and forth in front of the telephone counter. These two people were Gu Qingyu's grandmother, Li Dahua, and uncle, Gu Ping.

"Mom, you said the village chief was right, right? Why hasn't he called yet? Could he be a scammer? I haven't even met the second son's wife, so I don't know what happened so suddenly."

The man kept nagging the old lady, which annoyed her so much that she slapped the man on the back several times. The sound was painful and even scared people passing by.

"Mom! Why did you hit me? I didn't say anything. I was just waiting anxiously!" The man continued to nag while rubbing his back.

"Shut up, what can happen? Why are you in such a hurry when the time comes? Wait!" Li Dahua said impatiently to her troubled eldest son.

Li Dahua was actually unsure, because the second son of the Gu family, Gu An, had been away from home for more than ten years since he joined the revolution and joined the army to fight the Japanese invaders when he was a teenager. In the past few years, due to the constant war, he had no news and she thought he was gone.

It wasn't until the liberation of the country that a letter arrived from Beijing. The second son briefly recounted his years in the army, describing his current post as a regimental commander in the Kyoto Division. He then informed his parents that he had been introduced to Duan Xuezhi and had married her. He asked for their understanding because they hadn't settled down yet and couldn't bring their new wife home to visit. Finally, he assured them that he would send a monthly sum to support their retirement.

The second son is not dead and has married a wife and is an officer in the army. Li Dahua and Old Man Gu are so happy. But this time, his daughter-in-law suddenly sent a telegram and asked someone to pass on a message. Li Dahua is scared! Soldiers live with their heads tied to their belts. I hope nothing happens to the second son.

Just when Boss Gu and Li Dahua were getting anxious, they heard someone shouting from inside the counter.

"Is Li Dahua from Gujia Village here? Call me!"

"Hey...I'm coming!" Li Dahua agreed hurriedly. She had finally gotten the call she had been waiting for.

"Hello? Is that the second son's wife?" Li Dahua shouted loudly.

On the other end of the line, Duan Xuezhi was startled by the sudden loud voice. She pursed her lips, frowned, and held the receiver further away from her ear. Then she cleared her throat and said, "Mom... ahem... Mom! I'm Xuezhi. Did Gu Ping mention me to you?"

"Yes, why didn't you tell me? The second son wrote to me saying that he got married and she's a great doctor in a field hospital!" Li Dahua said with a grin.

"Last time, my second son wrote to me saying you were pregnant. Have you given birth yet? Is it a boy or a girl?"

"Ahem..." Duan Xuezhi felt a little uncomfortable after hearing this, and then continued, "Mom, it's a girl, just one month old, her nickname is Lili, and her real name is Gu Qingyu."

"Mom, the north is not stable this year. Gu Ping went to the front line with the troops two months ago, and I will soon go to the front line with the field hospital. So I can only ask someone to send Lili back to our hometown and let you two help raise her for us." Duan Xuezhi continued.

"Ah... the second son has gone to the battlefield... you have to go too... this..." Li Dahua didn't react for a moment. Why did her son and daughter-in-law have to go to the battlefield when the whole country had been liberated?

Li Dahua calmed herself down before continuing, "Second son's wife, since he's a boy, there's nothing we can do about it. We have to obey the army's orders, isn't that right? But you just gave birth to a baby. Can you talk to your superiors and ask them to consider our family's situation? The main thing is that the baby is too young and hasn't been weaned yet."

"If you are too shy to say it, I will go to Beijing tomorrow to talk to your leader. Our second son is already in his thirties and has such an only child, and the child is still so young. The leader can't be so unreasonable and let you go to the scene. If something happens to you two on the battlefield, what will happen to the child? Isn't this bullying?" Li Dahua became more and more excited as she spoke, and she wished she could roll up her sleeves and go to Beijing tomorrow.

"Mom! Listen to me, I asked to go on my own initiative. No one tried to stop me. Don't even mention looking for the leader." Duan Xuezhi said to Li Dahahua impatiently.

"And I've already asked someone to help. The 2:00 PM train will arrive in Ping'an County in four days. Someone will come find you and hand Lili over to you. I'll wire you 200 yuan later as Lili's support."

"Ah... Second son's wife, what are you thinking? What could be more important than the child? We're at the scene." Li Dahua's heart suddenly sank as she spoke. On the one hand, she was worried about the indiscriminate use of weapons on the battlefield, on the other hand, she felt sorry for her granddaughter, and she simply couldn't understand why Duan Xuezhi had to go to the battlefield.

When Gu Qingyu found out why Duan Xuezhi insisted on going to the battlefield, he couldn't help but sigh that it was so ridiculous.