Back to the 1990s: Holding the spiritual spring and striving for a well-off life

Chapter 424: Illuminating Like a Beam of Light
But how come when he opened his eyes, his wife became Huo Beixi's wife?
Is it because he came back late?

Hua Xiali pretended to take out the key from the Lingquan space from her clothes pocket and opened the gate. Because she had come back to clean up before, this place was not overgrown with weeds and in a dilapidated state like in her previous life.

The three people walked in together, each thinking about different things. Jian Nan was thinking about his and Hua Xiali's life here in their previous lives, while Huo Beixi was thinking about his childhood. In fact, he was not born into a loving family. He was ten years older than Hua Xiali and was born in 1961.

His father was a soldier. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was the man that young girls and wives most wanted to marry. His mother was not from the countryside but from the city. For some reason, she was exiled to this village.

No one knows what happened, but his father and his mother got together. However, the month he was born in was full of doubts, so his father treated him averagely, and his grandparents weren't very nice to him either.

His father was away from home all year round, and there was almost no father-son relationship between them, and their relationship was also average. His mother put all the blame on him, often making him kneel and beating and scolding him.

He still remembered one year, when he was about ten years old, at noon one day, his mother made him kneel in the yard again and hit him on the back with a broom. Suddenly, a little girl of a few years old rushed over, opened her arms and protected him like an eagle protecting a chick, "Don't hit Brother Beixi..."

The little girl called out his name the first time she saw him. She knew him, knew his name, and she was even very familiar and understood him.

Later he learned the name of the little girl: Hua Xiali, born on July 11, 1971.

It was also because of Hua Xiali and Jian Nan's "past life" that Huo Beixi realized that Hua Xiali had also been there and had illuminated his adolescence like a beam of light.

It’s just that the time Hua Xiali’s soul went back to the past seemed too short, because he only saw it twice, once when he was beaten in the yard, and another time in the bamboo forest. He asked her, what are you doing alone in the bamboo forest, aren’t you afraid?

She said mysteriously that she wanted to break bamboo shoots to eat, and carefully told him how to cook them to make them delicious. This was also the reason why he asked for the bamboo forest behind the house when the land was divided in the 1980s.

It turns out that their fate was planted long ago.

Huo Beixi suddenly reached out and grabbed Hua Xiali's hand. Hua Xiali looked back at him suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

"I just want to hold your hand." Huo Beixi said with a smile. He held Huo Qian in one hand and Hua Xiali in the other. He didn't know when Hua Xiali went back to his childhood to save him. She definitely didn't remember, so he didn't say it. Otherwise, she would definitely feel owed. Why did she only go there twice? Why didn't she help him more?

Jian Nan walked forward step by step, his mind full of memories of living here in his previous life. He really hoped to come here again with Hua Xiali to live out his years, but he knew that Hua Xiali would definitely not give him this opportunity again.

"Wife, are you curious about my family?" Huo Beixi asked.

Hua Xiali raised his eyebrows, "Are you finally going to open your heart to me?"

"When have I not opened my heart? My door has always been open to you." Huo Beixi said, and then Huo Beixi slowly told her about his family affairs.

His father is a soldier who is rarely at home, and his mother is a city girl who was exiled to a mountain village. It is exactly the standard configuration of military marriage stories of the period, a city girl and a rough soldier. But reality is reality, not period stories, and it is impossible to be as good as described in period stories, with the male protagonist being brainless and the female protagonist being naive. Reality is not like that.

City people and country people have different living habits and are different in all aspects. When they are together, they can produce good sparks, but they can also produce bad sparks.

The sparks that came out when Huo Beixi's parents got together were not good ones.

When Mr. Huo is not at home, Mrs. Huo lives with Gongping at home taking care of the child. The picky in-laws and heavy housework make this beautiful city woman collapse, so she starts taking her anger out on the child.

More than ten years later, Mr. Huo died in the line of duty. Mrs. Huo took the money, abandoned her children and parents-in-law, and returned to the city, never to return again.

Huo Beixi was just like Lu Xiaozhi. At a young age, he had to shoulder the responsibility of supporting his grandparents. However, Huo Beixi had it a little easier than Lu Xiaozhi because his grandparents did not bother him and they died relatively early.

When the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, Huo Beixi should have been sixteen years old and could have taken the exam. However, his grandpa and grandma Huo died of illness in those years, so Huo Beixi did not take the college entrance examination until the 1980s.

Although Grandpa Huo and Grandma Huo were ill when the land was divided, they were not dead and were counted, so Huo Beixi's family also got land for three people.

There are also rice fields here, but Huo Beixi did not take the rice fields. Instead, he took the mountains and hilltops. That’s how he got the six acres of mountain land and a hilltop covered with bamboo.

After hearing what Huo Beixi said, Hua Xiali realized that Huo Beixi actually had such a childhood and grew up in such an environment. He felt heartbroken, but fortunately everything was over.

Hua Xiali didn't know that she had made the greatest contribution to this "everything is over", but if Huo Beixi didn't tell her, she would have no way of knowing about this.

The three of them walked around Huo Beixi's old house and then came to the yard. It was obvious that the yard had been taken care of by someone, and that person was Hua Xiali.

"Wifey, are we going to make this place the same as it was in our previous life?" Jian Nan asked very naturally. The main reason was that they had lived together for a lifetime in their previous life, and it couldn't be changed now.

"Jian Nan, do you want to be with us forever?" Hua Xiali raised his eyebrows. "Even if I want to come here to retire, it's not with you. What does it mean for you to come here?"

Jian Nan is two years older than her and is not even twenty-five yet. He is also going to inherit the Jian family's catering group. It is unrealistic for him not to get married. Anyway, he will inevitably have to get married and have heirs in the future, so he might as well go home as soon as possible and find a girlfriend to get along with.

"I want to follow you all my life, is that not okay?" Jian Nan looked at Huo Beixi proudly. It didn't matter if Hua Xiali didn't want to divorce and marry him. Huo Beixi wouldn't live long anyway, and he was the only person in the world who could accompany Hua Xiali for the rest of her life.

He just has to wait, he can afford to wait.