The Widow and Her Five Children Marry a War Hero

Su Qingyuan opened her eyes to find herself pinned in the snow. Her former mother-in-law waved a noose and shouted, “You got my son killed and still think you can run? I'll sell you to a coal mine for corn!”

Her daughter, so thin she was little more than skin and bones, had cried herself hoarse in her arms. Su Qingyuan pulled out the bullet hidden in her sleeve, the only “dowry” in the supply drop box, along with a bloodstained military marriage certificate. The man in the photo had sharp features, as if he might burst right out of the paper.

“My husband is a People's Liberation Army soldier, Gu Zheng!” she shouted in desperation, not knowing those words would become a death sentence.

The Li family made their threat: They would make her disappear within 72 hours!

But no one expected the supply drop box to contain more than ration coupons. It also held a document specially authorized by the central government. The Su embroidery stitches she used to mend military uniforms turned out to have embroidered a secret map from the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. Even the Guanyin clay she'd chewed contained rare earth elements that could save lives!

The biggest shock came when the pregnancy test report revealed five gestational sacs, leaving everyone at the local clinic speechless: She was pregnant with quintuplets!

When the iron-blooded soldier Gu Zheng returned through a storm of artillery fire, this was the scene that greeted him: His little wife was using her military family ID to smash her former mother-in-law's copy of the Marriage Law. Behind her, four children nearly grown were waving ration coupons and shouting, “Catch the embezzling rat!” And in her arms, she was carrying a belly full of quintuplets.

“Reporting to you, Company Commander Gu,” his guard said, struggling not to laugh. “Sister-in-law says if you don't get here soon, she'll take her quintuplet army and dig up the Li family's ancestral graves!”

Gu Zheng took off his medal of merit and placed it in her hand, his Adam's apple bobbing. “Wife, I'm good at tearing down houses. As for having children... shall we learn together?”