Rebirth in the 50s: The Couple with the Hidden Space novel Chapter 1216

Chapter 1216: Chapter 1089: Reminiscing the Past

"Do you remember the year when our elder brother was in the provincial city for training?"

Zhang the Second gave him a contemptuous look, "Can I forget about our elder brother’s matters?"

"Don’t rush, this is complicated. Calm down first."

Zhang the Second clenched his fist. He had a feeling that once his younger brother finished speaking, many things would make sense.

"That year, I happened to go home. Liu Yi and May 1st had not been born yet. Jiao Jiao and I took Ping’an to our elder brother’s school. I saw that all the female classmates around him were competing and jealous.

I took the chance to probe our elder brother when no one was around. He said there was a young girl who was sticking to him but he wasn’t interested. He said, even if his wife wasn’t great, he still had four kids.

When we were sending him back to school, it was still class time. There was a girl standing at the gate looking at us. Later I found out she was the one.

That year, our mother might have sensed that elder brother didn’t really want to continue, or something else. She often went to the school with our father, bringing Xi Zi and his siblings to visit elder brother.

Maybe elder brother couldn’t hide something from our father, who found out and had a talk with him. I don’t know the details. It was just that the couple who normally didn’t speak suddenly went to the provincial city with elder brother and his wife for two days the next day."

Zhang the Second frowned thoughtfully. That year, his parents were acting like crazy, running to the provincial city every week, sometimes urging him.

That explains it!

"Later, I realized that our elder brother really fell for that girl. Otherwise, with how tight-lipped he was, unless I said I would investigate, he wouldn’t have revealed anything for fear of exposing the girl."

Zhang the Second nodded repeatedly in agreement, "Exactly! If he doesn’t want to talk, no amount of prying would work. I used all my interrogation methods, and he just asked if we were really brothers, or he’d say, ’Second brother, let me be quiet.’"

Zhang Guoqing was quite speechless about his elder brother, "But I didn’t listen to him. A girl inexplicably sticking to elder brother, who knows what her intentions are?"

Zhang the Second wasn’t surprised, "What was the investigation result?"

"Young and beautiful, an eighteen-year-old university student, and her father was a cadre. Our elder brother, although good-looking, had a wife and four kids. If you were me then, what would you think?"

Zhang the Second’s eyes almost popped out in shock. His elder brother was something, no wonder he didn’t fancy even little widows; he had already experienced better.

"At that time, I thought the girl was too scheming. Knowing elder brother had a wife and kids, if he divorced to marry her, what was she after? I even suspected it was a setup by her father for profit. Even if her father was good, without such intentions, how could he allow his daughter to marry someone like elder brother."

"Before I finished investigating, our father somehow persuaded elder brother, and elder brother took his wife to show off at school for two days, so I didn’t care much afterwards and went back after playing for a few days at home."

As Zhang Guoqing spoke, he hesitated, wondering if he should mention the next part. If Zhang the Second got pushed, anything could happen for his brother’s sake.

Zhang the Second stared at him, "Go on, it can’t be just this. You told me not to tell anyone, not even elder brother."

Zhang Guoqing rolled his eyes at him. Insightful now? Who was it that was rambling incessantly just now?

"By the winter of ’69, that girl still hadn’t married, and her family was encountering some trouble. By coincidence, Jiao Jiao caught wind of it and helped to transfer her entire family to the South."

Zhang the Second froze upon hearing this, then quickly counted on his fingers, "1969, now it’s 1978, 19 years. Adding the initial 18 years, does this mean she’s 37 now?"

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