Introduction to the work
The day Su Wan married into the Shen family, everyone in the village said that she had gotten a huge advantage.
Shen Yan was the first man from ten miles away to drive a military jeep. He was the battalion commander at the age of twenty-seven, and the stars on his epaulettes were so dazzling. Many girls asked people to talk to matchmakers, but he didn't respond to any of them. However, the Su family broke off the engagement and replaced Su Wan with the marriage. He nodded.
Everyone said that Su Wan had a good fortune. He survived from the stepmother's hands and fell into a lucky nest.
But Su Wan knew that this marriage had nothing to do with her from beginning to end. Shen Yan married her because he was stationed at the border all year round and needed a woman to support his family. Who is not to be married to? Just in time she came.
On their wedding night, he gave her the kang and made the floor himself. I returned to the team the next day and had been away for more than half a year.
Su Wan grew vegetables, raised pigs, and served her mother-in-law at home. She kept the three adobe houses clean and bright, and there were flocks of chickens and ducks in the yard. My mother-in-law's old problem of leg pain hasn't happened all winter, and she always says to everyone that her daughter-in-law is more considerate than her own daughter.
Shen Yan's letters come once a month, with only a few words. Su Wan's replies became thicker and thicker, writing about the vegetable garden, about the old sow giving birth, and about how her mother had eaten two bowls of rice.
He never replies.
Until that winter, Su Wan became pregnant. Shen Yan rushed back from the border defense and stood at the entrance of the hospital for a long time. Looking at the newly built chicken coop in the yard, the bacon hanging under the eaves, and the diaper pieces floating on the clothesline, this man who had been silent for most of his life finally said a word.
Su Wan remembered it for the rest of her life.
"This family is prosperous because of you."
