Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 64

Qin Rou, who had coaxed the children, hurled encouragement and compliments to Li Qinghua, which made her dizzy.

In addition, Li Qinghua found that she had indeed made rapid progress, and Qin Rou also presented a copy of her own story collection , which was ten short stories written by Qin Rou. After copying it, Qin Rou asked her to retell the story to her son Liu Yue every night. If she came across a word she didn’t know, she could look it up in the dictionary by herself.

Li Qinghua took the dictionary and stumblingly read the story. She found out that as an illiterate person, she really understood the two-hundred-word story.

She could read text!

It turned out that it was not that she was too stupid, but that Political Commissar Liu was not good at teaching.

Otherwise, when Liu Kai would teach her, she could never learn.

“You can’t compare to Xiao Qin at all,” Li Qinghua looked at Political Commissar Liu with disgust.

In the past, she thought that Political Commissar Liu was a God. In their small village, it was not easy to get a cultural person like Liu Kai, and Li Qinghua was very satisfied with marrying such a husband.

She could be said to have the best marriage in her village.

But her life was not as happy as she imagined. Although she had no worries about food and clothing, her husband picked on her faults every day and brought her to the family’s courtyard. Li Qinghua was indeed not as good as other military wives, not as good as Huang Xinying.

– You can’t catch up no matter what.

Living lazily every day, it was said to be comfortable, but in fact it was meaningless, just like the second-rate people in the village before.

Li Qinghua really wanted to change her previous life.

She made plans for a divorce.

Unlike Qin Rou, Li Qinghua couldn’t take the announcer exam. Her education level was not enough to be a teacher. Even if she wanted to be a nurse, she was afraid of needles. However, she recently found out that the nearby Haiken Farm was hiring several female drivers, so she signed up.

It may also be because of her recent “success in her studies” that Li Qinghua gained a little self-confidence. If she passed the training and assessment and was selected to be a female driver, then she would also be a person with a job.

As the job of driver did not have high requirements on the level of education, Li Qinghua really wanted to fight for this job. When she signed up, they disliked her small figure and didn’t want her to sign up, but she had the cheek to ask for a chance.

She was lazy in the courtyard for a few years, and had no other skills. She had the strongest ability to be cheeky, and finally made them sign her up, but she didn’t tell her husband.

It didn’t matter if she couldn’t pass the entrance exam. At least she would learn driving and when divorced, she might even go to the village to drive a tractor.

Yes, Li Qinghua had already thought about it.

“Let’s just divorce.”

Although she had given birth to a child, she was only twenty-five years old. She was the same age as Xiao Qin’s husband, and she was young. It was not hard to remarry.

The little abacus in Li Qinghua’s heart was beating loudly.

She even considered remarriage.

Li Qinghua didn’t communicate much with the locals there before. She followed Qin Rou to chat with some aunts in the villages in the past few days. She found even if her personal conditions were not very good, she was also a sweet pastry, more than enough to match a man there, or marry an educated youth.

She looked cute and one couldn’t tell that she had given birth to a child. If she remarried a local boy in the future, and he also had a jackfruit tree in his house, it would be fine. Although the house may not be as beautiful as the family’s courtyard, it was better than her life in the village.

The female educated youth who went to the countryside disliked the lack of culture of the local men, but Li Qinghua did not dislike it at all. She felt that it was better to have no culture. She had had enough of her husband who was too cultured.

The man may not despise anyone.

“Li Qinghua, what’s with your attitude? Are you really going to divorce me? If we divorce, you have to go back to your hometown.”

“Who said that I have to go back to my hometown, I can remarry on the island. There are so many men here who are not married, and I don’t dislike the second marriage.” 

What was more, the family there also had jackfruit  trees.

When Political Commissar Liu heard it, he immediately became furious. What did this woman say? Did she say she was going to remarry? Did she see another man?

“Is there some wild man out there who hooked up with you?”

“Let me tell you, he is guilty of sabotaging military marriages and will be imprisoned!”

“As long as I don’t agree to divorce, you can’t divorce me!!”

Li Qinghua glared at him, “Why are you so fierce? You wanted to get divorced first. What’s wrong with me finding a way out for myself.”

“I can’t live after a divorce? Of course I’m going to remarry, I have to find another way, find a man to warm the quilt!!”

Li Qinghua smiled, which was why she liked the island. People in her home village used to be conservative, and there were very few divorces. For a woman, letting her divorce was no different than killing her. She would be pointed at, but it was different there, so many of Zhang Tuan’s neighbours were divorced.

Therefore, Li Qinghua no longer regarded divorce as a rare event.

As a lazy person, she was also a very optimistic lazy person, she was easy to get satisfied with, she could eat whatever she had every day, and she was not picky.

She thought of the best in everything.

“You still dare to mention remarrying? How dare you say that?! Li Qinghua, as long as I don’t die, you can’t remarry!”

“You already like another woman, why don’t you allow me to remarry? As expected, what Xiao Qin said was right, you’re just eating in the bowl while peeping at the pot. You couldn’t marry who you liked, so you don’t let me go.”

“You stupid woman, who do I like?”

“You like Huang Xinying, every day you talk about her, but she is already married.”

“Fu’k!” Political Commissar Liu felt that one day he would be pissed to death by the woman in front of him.

“If I like other women, how could I tolerate a slacker like you bouncing around in front of me?!!!”

“Don’t you just despise me, I tell you, I despise you now!”

“Divorce means divorce, I want to remarry, I want to be like Xiao Qin, marry a twenty-five-year-old. Her husband is so good, and he can make steamed buns. The big steamed buns he makes are especially delicious!” Li Qinghu opened the door like a valve, and the next words jumped out in a series like a beam, “Look at you, you don’t even go into the kitchen, what’s the point of marrying a man like you.”

“Xiao Qin’s husband is young and good-looking, and he graduated from the military academy at a young age… He could make fences and accompany Xiao Qin to the movies…”

“It’s a shame that you are also a literate person. You don’t even have the ability to teach people to read. If you go to school to be a teacher, someone like you will wrong the children!”