After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 424, Episode 460: Eating melons while beachcombing (Part 4)
“You all know a little about Deputy Battalion Commander Feng. He is a very responsible person. Although he did not marry Wang Qiaohua voluntarily, he was really good to her. Before he could accompany her to the army, he was afraid that Old Lady Feng would treat Wang Qiaohua badly, so he would send her money and tickets separately every month. Whenever the army issued anything good, he would also send it to Wang Qiaohua.”

At this point, Aunt Xiao got excited. She was there on the day the Feng family made a scene and heard a lot of news: "Did Wang Qiaohua send all the money and gifts that Deputy Battalion Commander Feng sent to her to her parents' home?"

She remembered that Deputy Battalion Commander Feng, who was usually seen as an honest man, slapped Wang Qiaohua across the face with his eyes almost popping out of their sockets. He was really angry, and the slap made Wang Qiaohua's phone screen fly off, and half of her face was visibly swollen.

At that time, Deputy Battalion Commander Feng scolded Wang Qiaohua: 'I don't care who you give the things I gave you separately to, but why did you send the things I gave to my daughter back to her parents' home?'

Speaking of Deputy Battalion Commander Feng's daughter, the six-year-old child looked like she was only two or three years old. She was so thin that her eyes looked deformed and protruding. It was really frightening to see her at the time.

After Wang Qiaohua passed away, Deputy Battalion Commander Feng never remarried. He raised his daughter alone. The little girl who was like a mutant when she first arrived has now been nourished by Deputy Battalion Commander Feng into a plump and fierce little girl. If she hadn't recalled those events today, she would have forgotten how pitiful the little girl looked when she first arrived on the island.

Thinking about it this way, it's actually a good thing that Wang Qiaohua died.

Li San Niang: "That's right. All the girls from the Wang family over there are the same. Before the two of them had children, Deputy Battalion Commander Feng would send ten yuan to Wang Qiaohua every month. Fearing that Old Lady Feng would scold them, my father would go to collect it for them and then personally hand it to Wang Qiaohua."

They had cloth coupons, grain coupons, and so on. I wouldn't say I could afford a new outfit every month, but I could buy a piece of cloth every two or three months to make a new outfit. I certainly didn't lack rice cakes or anything like that.

But Wang Qiaohua's life in the village was incredibly difficult. She never got new clothes, not even for the New Year, and food was even scarcer. When she was six months pregnant, her belly wasn't even showing. When the baby was born, it was only the size of my palm, and its cry sounded like a cat's meow. The midwife cursed at her, said some really nasty things, cursing Xiao Liu, oh, that's Feng Fuying, calling him a good-for-nothing, cursing him for neglecting his wife.

“It’s not that he didn’t care. During the months she was pregnant, my dad went to pick up packages more than ten times. He even sent two cans of rare milk, malted milk powder every month, and candy, etc. There were many things that we country folk had never even seen before. How can you say he didn’t care?”

Li San Niang grew angrier the more she thought about it, her eyes practically spitting fire.

Aunt Xiao and Sister-in-law Li were both stunned!
Both of them are military dependents, both have stayed at home, and both have given birth in their hometowns. They experienced both pregnancy and childbirth without their husbands by their side.

As military dependents, when they choose to marry soldiers, they are all mentally prepared to face such a situation. They will feel wronged and sad, but they will not really blame them because they know that their husbands are protecting the greater good, which is more important than their own small family.

But none of their husbands gave them milk and malted milk powder while they were pregnant!
He even sent money and tickets to his wife separately, so she could afford a new outfit every two or three months...
Compared to this, I can't keep my own man.

Li Sanniang continued, "When I was pregnant, I couldn't bear to eat or drink anything myself, so I sent it all to my family. I starved myself during my pregnancy, but I fattened up my whole family, especially my brother's son. He wasn't even as fat as the pigs raised in the village."

"It also ruined Xiao Liu's reputation. My father went door to door talking about it, afraid it would affect Xiao Liu." "At that time, we were at war with a neighboring country. Xiao Liu went to the battlefield, and we couldn't contact him. My father said that if Xiao Liu came back alive, he would definitely be credited, and we absolutely couldn't let him be burdened by the reputation of neglecting his wife and children. If Xiao Liu sacrificed his life, it would be even more unfortunate that Wang Qiaohua tarnished the martyr's name."

So when rumors started circulating in the village that were unfavorable to Deputy Battalion Commander Feng, Li's father, despite his limp, went door to door to clarify the situation. He was the one who collected the packages, signed the remittance slips, and personally handed them to Wang Qiaohua. The brigade leader can testify to this.

"About six months after the child was born, my father finally got in touch with Xiao Liu. But at that time, Xiao Liu was seriously injured, especially with a piece of shrapnel stuck in a very dangerous place in his brain. It was not curable in Northeast China, so he had to go to Beijing. But even if he went to Beijing, the hospital there did not dare to guarantee that it could cure him. So my father did not dare to tell him about the family. He only told him that he had a daughter."

Deputy Battalion Commander Feng was severely injured, not only in the head but also all over his body. Doctors in Beijing were not confident they could cure him. No, it wasn't a matter of treatment, but rather that doctors at the time were not confident he would survive, because he was hit at a relatively close distance. Twenty-one shrapnel fragments were later removed from his body, and the shrapnel in his brain required three surgeries to remove, each time teetering on the brink of death.

Upon learning that Deputy Battalion Commander Feng was injured, Li's father immediately went to take care of him. Deputy Battalion Commander Feng did not know Wang Qiaohua, but he knew Li's father, his mentor, very well. Although his mentor did not say anything, he could guess from his mentor's reaction that the family was definitely not as peaceful as his mentor had described.

Thinking of his mother's character, and also wanting to provide multiple layers of protection for his newborn daughter, he had no choice but to entrust all his belongings to Li's father, feeling ashamed of his master's teachings and the countless times he had saved his life, in order to keep his situation a secret and regularly provide living expenses for Wang Qiaohua and her daughter.

After Deputy Battalion Commander Feng was transferred to the hospital in Beijing, where no one was allowed to accompany him, Li's father did not continue to follow him.

After that, Li's father lost contact with Deputy Battalion Commander Feng. A year later, Li's father passed away. By then, Li San Niang had already followed her husband to the army, so Li's father could only entrust the matters that Deputy Battalion Commander Feng had entrusted to the battalion commander.

The captain told his wife about it, but his eldest son overheard it. His eldest son was not a good talker and let it slip, eventually reaching Wang Qiaohua's ears.

Then Wang Qiaohua's family members would come to the brigade leader's house to make trouble every few days. In remote rural areas, the disturbances were not just about arguing; they were about fists and even weapons.

The brigade leader's family was so upset that they could barely make ends meet, and the trouble even affected their in-laws. They couldn't take it anymore and had no choice but to return all the money and coupons to Wang Qiaohua.

The rest is self-explanatory: all the money and coupons ended up in the pockets of Wang Qiaohua's family, while Feng Fuying's daughter, who should have benefited from them, didn't get a single penny.

Deputy Battalion Commander Feng's injuries required three years of treatment, during which he was in a state of near-vegetative state for two and a half years.

When he woke up, his hands and feet had not fully regained their flexibility, and war broke out again with the neighboring country. He once again resolutely rushed to the front line.