How to Thrive in the ’60s

"I'm from Qinghe County, my surname is Gu, and my name is Gu Niannian, which means ten years in ten years. My mother's name is Zhang Chunni..."

Following Gu Shinian's words, Zhou Minghui's complexion gradually became ugly.

Of course he had heard of Zhang Chunni's name, and he also knew that Gu Shinian was two months younger than Gu Mingzhu, the child born after Zhang Chunni left the Gu family.

Looking at the child whose name and gender he didn't know back then, standing in front of him at this moment, he said calmly that his name was 'Ten Years'. The metaphor implied in the name was like a sharp sword piercing through him, which made Zhou Minghui feel embarrassed for a moment.

Zhang Chunni must have hated Zhou Mingjuan for naming her child Ten Years, right?

Thinking about it, I married into Gu's family for ten years, gave birth to two children, and still carried one in my stomach. I finally survived the war-torn days. I just moved into the compound of the military area, and I haven't had time to use the name of the wife of the political commissar. No sooner did she gain a foothold in the compound, her family, including the man, was snatched away by her cousin in a shady way.

It can be said that Zhang Chunni followed Gu Huaiqing through ten years of fearful hardships, but at the end of the hardships, his cousin picked ready-made peaches.

It was also Zhou Mingjuan's good luck to meet Zhang Chunni, who was more stubborn and disdained to entangle with Gu Huaiqing to the end. If it were any other woman, she would either risk her life to fight Zhou Mingjuan to the end, or hang herself with a rope at the gate of the military compound.

At that time, regardless of whether Gu Huaiqing can secure the position of political commissar, even Zhou Mingjuan will be drowned by the spittle of everyone in the family courtyard...

Although Zhou Mingjuan did the immoral things, as a member of the Zhou family, Zhou Minghui still blushed and felt unable to lift his head when he met Gu Shinian's calm eyes.

No way, who made their old Zhou's family raise a shameless girl like Zhou Mingjuan?

Seeing Zhou Minghui's embarrassing face turn green and then pale, and when his lips were tightly pursed, Gu Shinian smiled again: "I changed my name last year to time."

"'Shi Nian' is quite good, better than ten years." Zhou Minghui rubbed his face uncomfortably, and then asked, "In Shi Nian, Comrade Yun Shuilian ignored me because I was Zhou Mingjuan's cousin because of?"

"Not entirely." Seeing the slightly nervous expression on Zhou Minghui's face, Gu Shinian simply said clearly:

"Zhou Mingjuan went to Qinghe County last year and brought Gu Guangzong, my eldest son who had been raised by my mother for seventeen years, back to the provincial capital. I wrote a statement to sever the father-son relationship with Gu Huaiqing, have you heard of these things?"

Gu Shinian finished talking about the good deeds Zhou Mingjuan had done in a few words.

Zhou Minghui was angry and ashamed, blushing, and it took a long time to suppress the shame in his heart and said, "No wonder Shuilian refused to talk to me... I was just transferred to the Fenyang Armed Forces Department last year, and I didn't do it during the Chinese New Year." Back home, I haven’t heard about it. If I had known earlier, I..."

"I knew you would not be able to stop Zhou Mingjuan." Gu Shinian smiled mockingly, "This is a matter for our Gu family. Gu Huaiqing is the political commissar of the military region, and Zhou Mingjuan is now the political commissar's wife. Even if you knew earlier, why would you Is your identity blocking Zhou Mingjuan?" Just because you are a small officer in the Armed Forces Department?

Zhou Minghui's face became even uglier, and it took a long time before he spoke with difficulty:

"Actually...our family and Zhou Mingjuan's family have had very little contact. Our family adopted from Zhou Mingjuan's family more than ten years ago. In the past few years, our family has stayed in Fenyang, with Zhou Mingjuan's family. The home is far away, and there are not many contacts.

It was only after returning to the provincial capital in 1950 that I heard about Zhou Mingjuan and your father. It’s just that they are separated by a room, and the two sides had some disagreements over the matter of the house... The most my grandfather can do is to restrain the people in our room.

Regarding Zhou Mingjuan's wrong doings, my grandfather, as the elder next door, cannot directly intervene. Of course, Zhou Mingjuan was already with Political Commissar Gu when he returned to the provincial capital, so even if my grandfather wanted to, it was too late.

At that time, no matter what you say, what happened back then was Zhou Mingjuan's fault.

It's because our Zhou family didn't teach a good girl..."

When Zhou Minghui spoke, the expression on his face was very sincere, and he talked about his relationship with Zhou Mingjuan very frankly and generously. He also revealed in his words that the Zhou family's first family and the second room had a dispute because of the house, and they didn't have much contact with each other. He even stood firm during the conversation, saying that what happened back then was Zhou Mingjuan's fault, and he didn't intend to cover Zhou Mingjuan at all.

Regarding Zhou Minghui's sincere analysis, Gu Shinian didn't take it seriously.

He didn't care why the two families of the Zhou family had conflicts, and he didn't care whether Zhou Minghui apologized for Zhou Mingjuan.

Just like Zhang Chunni never needs Zhou Mingjuan's apology, their family will never accept any form of Zhou Mingjuan's apology. those sufferings.

Just like at this moment, he just wanted to know if Zhou Minghui was reliable?

In the future, after Zhou Mingjuan is transferred to the lower levels and reformed, can the Zhou family disassociate themselves from this married woman, Zhou Mingjuan?

If Zhou Mingjuan insists on going back to her mother's house, can the first wife of the Zhou family draw a clear line with the second wife immediately?

The most important point, has the Zhou family's eldest family had a relationship with Gu Huaiqing over the years?

Gu Shinian didn't hide his thoughts, and directly put these questions in front of Zhou Minghui one by one.

Knowing that the first wife of the Zhou family had never been in contact with Gu Huaiqing, and that the first wife and second wife had become more and more distant over the years, Gu Shinian felt a little relieved.

At present, it seems that Zhou Minghui is fairly upright and clear-headed. He is indeed a good marriage partner.

Since Zhou Minghui is not bad, Gu Shinian doesn't plan to meddle in the future, and he doesn't intend to let Yun Shang continue to meddle. Whether Zhou Minghui and Yun Shuilian can go so far depends on his own ability.

After Gu Shinian left, Zhou Minghui stood alone under the streetlight for a long time, until a patrolman approached from a distance, Zhou Minghui threw away his cigarette butt, turned around and walked down the road...

……………………………

Yun Chang woke up and found that she was lying in Lin Wenlan's arms, not on the train, but in a speeding car.

If it hadn't been confirmed that Lin Wenlan was her real mother in this life, Yun Shang would have thought that she had been kidnapped.

How could there be any reason to change the means of transportation quietly without waking her up?

This feeling is simply too weird.

Seeing Yun Shang sitting up in a daze, Lin Wenlan rubbed Yun Shang's slightly sweaty forehead, then turned on the kettle and let her drink some warm water.