Ye Jian did not want to know who was the man who did not take responsibility and left without letting her mother hear from him again. She only knew that her parents were happy after they got married.
Just as her mother had written in her diary, the two poor people lived like good friends. They worked together during the day and slept in different beds at night, but they could chat all night.
She also knew that her father actually liked another woman in the village, but because of his health, he could only watch the woman get married to another man and become a mother.
[When I received the news that Xinfan had died in a foreign land, I wanted to fight my mother-in-law to the death. It was her who forced Xinfan to die in a foreign land. It was her favoritism that caused Xin Fan to leave with his illness… I wanted my mother-in-law to pay with her life, but before I could do anything, I had to return to the army.]
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[I have to face a mission that I know will cost me my life. I have no choice because I’m a soldier. I obey orders and accept arrangements. I have no other choice.
[I’m not afraid of sacrifice, but I’m afraid that there’ll be no one to take care of my young daughter. I made a very bold choice. When everything was decided in the meeting, I stood up and told the prime minister loudly that if I sacrificed myself for the army, they had to take care of my daughter. That way, as long as the prime minister agreed, my daughter would be well taken care of even if she were to lose me.
[I also told my comrades to help take care of my daughter. I don’t ask for her to live a life of luxury. I just want her to live a peaceful life. It doesn’t matter if she doesn’t know that she has an irresponsible mother like me. I just want her to grow up safely and never know those dirty and ugly things. I want her to grow up happily.]
Seeing this, Ye Jian smiled with tears in her eyes. Her mother was a fearless female soldier who was not afraid of sacrifice. She was a great mother who was tender and gentle to her.
A peaceful life… Her mother had wanted to exchange her last gamble for a stable life, but Ye Jian failed in her previous life. Her mother must have been deeply disappointed.
She would not let her mother down in this life!
Ye Jian, who had never seen Sun Xueqing’s belongings before, looked at the two journals again and again. The fire in the stove was extinguished, and the water in the copper pot was cold. At last, Ye Jian had memorized the two journals.
After putting the journals back into the leather bag, Ye Jian then picked up a yellow booklet. The edges of the booklet were wrinkled from being read too many times. This was the manual of the army’s regulations.
Ye Jian, who was flipping open the manual, looked at the rules and regulations. She seemed to be able to imagine her mother reading the manual seriously too.
The manual was a little thinner than the current manual. Ye Jian finished reading it in less than an hour. She did not close the manual and stared at the words that were underlined. Her calm gaze slowly changed. It was as sharp as the tip of a sword.
Smuggling, drug trafficking… Violation of discipline… These words were all underlined.
Her mother was sacrificed because of this!
The people who caused her death were not punished. They even climbed higher. In order to cover up their crimes, they even erased her mother’s life… ‘Mom, your sacrifice won’t be for nothing. The person who caused you to die will definitely be captured!
‘I’ll finish what you didn’t get to!’
After putting all the items back into the leather bag, Ye Jian sat in the kitchen and rested for a few hours. She left Shuikou Village at five in the morning.
When she reached the entrance of the village, she turned around and looked at the peaceful village. After retracting her gaze, Ye Jian strode away without looking back.
A storm was brewing in front of her, and she was just watching!
