She was never inferior to any other woman.

However, Qiu Hualan’s words indeed angered Xie Lingzhi, blocking her up completely. "You..." Qiu Hualan was right in this matter; her son was indeed behaving oddly towards Qiu Hualan, but no one knew why.

It seems like she needs to go back and ask properly.

As a rural woman, what’s there to be sad about?

Though Xie Lingzhi was infuriated, once the matter of her daughter’s hospital transfer was sorted, Qiu Hualan was surprised that Mei Langchi actually paid so much money for her daughter, with the refunded amount being over 110,000 yuan.

However, she dared not touch this money, for a slightly better psychiatric hospital in S City is not cheap. She hoped these funds would last until her daughter gets better. She believed that her daughter would definitely recover.

Du Guangjun made arrangements with the receiving hospital, directly hired a vehicle from the local hospital, and left alongside them to S City. It was a week later when Ye Qing was settled.

Having received news about Ye Qing, Qiu Hualan made a call to her hometown. But she didn’t tell them the truth, just said she was busy and not in the country.

The folks back home weren’t going to come here anyway, so it didn’t matter how she explained. With her daughter’s situation handled, Qiu Hualan sought Du Guangjun’s opinion, and seeing he did not mind the matter, their wedding took place smoothly.

From then on, Qiu Hualan spent her days listening to music with Du Guangjun, picking up the kids, occasionally visiting the hospital to see her daughter, living quite comfortably.

Qiu Hualan thought that doing nothing all the time wouldn’t be right, so she planned to find some leisurely work.

After thinking it over, the couple decided to set up a stall at their doorstep, selling sugar cakes, sesame balls, fried dough sticks, and vegetable dumplings in the evenings as people returned from work. In two to three hours a night, they could cover expenses and still have some surplus.

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In the blink of an eye, five years have passed....

Little Star is about to start middle school. She did well in the exams, initially eligible for the city’s key middle school, but Han Yi couldn’t bear to let his daughter live in the dorm, so she directly attended the military zone’s middle school. Over the past few years, their compound’s middle school has improved significantly, with a high admission rate. Sister-in-law Jiang’s eldest son, Jingqing, has enrolled in the key high school.

Meanwhile, Dingding has been in kindergarten for half a year now, and dropping off and picking up kids within the compound is more convenient.

With the kids growing up, the family’s two-bedroom apartment became too cramped. Han Yi applied to the team for a three-bedroom, two-living room apartment, which was newly built last year.

Lin Wan especially sought Ying Han’s help with the renovations. Ying Han is now co-opening a renovation company with others outside. Entering the 1990s, commercial properties surged.

Many people stopped waiting for their units to allocate housing and started buying properties out of pocket. So renovation work couldn’t keep up with demand.

In the past two years, Lin Wan took advantage of the low prices and bought two or three units. She also had Ying Han help refurbish them before renting them out.

Recently, the newly allocated apartment from the army had just finished being refurbished, and Lin Wan was busy moving. Besides that, Lin Wan bought a new item for the home – a computer.

Just becoming popular, it was still the small screen, big-head kind. With a computer, it would be more convenient for her daughter’s future studies and research. Most importantly, Han Yi was currently learning to use computers. Their army needed to embrace new technology, and many tasks were now computer-controlled.

Take her cousin-in-law, for instance, who returned from studying in M Country and immediately moved with Gu Lin’s husband to the tech management level.

Han Yi now no longer led the shooting team, directly elevated to political commissioner, commissioned.

Of course, Lin Wan didn’t spend money on this computer; instead, Hu Dong shipped it from Shanghai for her. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Hu Dong made some money after following Wu Liu on two trips to E Country that year. After graduating, he ventured into his own business, starting first with small electronic appliance products, then ventured abroad with Yang Kui Bao and set his sights on computers, thinking they were promising. That’s when he started in this industry.

It’s been two years now since Hu Dong has been in the IT business, and he has resources, some friends in S City, either in industry and commerce or the courts, prosecutors. Most of the government computers were supplied by Hu Dong.

Over in Z City, administrative committees, district governments, some departments were heavily supplied too.

Computers were a novelty then, with huge profits, making a thousand yuan per sale was the minimum. So, currently, Hu Dong was doing well in Shanghai.

In a few years, times have developed rapidly, her brand was renowned nationwide, in constant demand. The factory on S City’s side barely kept up with the demand from the North.