Chapter 701 Letter From Berlin

"Good morning, Mrs. Bertha, this is a letter from your husband from the front line. Thank you for your husband and your family's contribution to the head of state and the country. If you need anything, you can contact me at any time. You know our Call me and I'll be happy to help."

She reached out and took the envelope handed over by the postman in front of her. Mrs. Bertha, who had already remembered that today was the day to send letters, suddenly reacted.

"I almost forgot what day it is! Please wait, I have a letter that needs to be sent."

"Okay, Mrs. Bertha, I'll wait for you here. There's no rush."

She quickly ran back to her room and took out an envelope that had already been sealed. Mrs. Bertha, who seemed a little anxious, quickly returned to the door of the room for the second time and handed the things in her hands to the one who was still waiting there. Postman.

"Okay, should I send it to your husband as before?"

The postman took the envelope with both hands and asked Mrs. Bertha polite questions as always. For more than a year, Mrs. Bertha almost only wrote letters and sent letters to her husband. Although asking questions like this was part of her duty, it was still a bit redundant.

"Yes, please send it to my husband, just like before."

Letters sent to the front line will have dedicated military personnel responsible for checking the numbers and distributing addresses. As a postman, all you have to do is transfer the letters to the military.

"Understood, Mrs. Bertha, have a nice day, and I'll deliver the letter to where it belongs."

Looking at the postman's hurried figure disappearing around the corner of the stairs, Mrs. Bertha, who missed her husband quite a bit, felt a little lost for a moment.

The last time Colonel Weeks went home to visit relatives was more than a year ago, and he never came back since he went to the Russian battlefield.

Her husband's letter at the beginning of the year described the Russian winter as very scary. A sudden drop in temperature in just one night could freeze to death in the ice and snow, and countless people were left disabled by frostbite. This inevitably made the sentimental Mrs. Bertha Worried about her husband's life.

Fortunately, Colonel Weeks said in the letter that everything was fine. He just caught a cold in the Russian capital of Moscow, but he had completely recovered before the arrival of spring, and there was no need to worry about it now.

Colonel Weeks would send a letter home every month, sometimes with a photo of himself on the front line in the envelope, just to prove to his wife that what he said was true and everything was fine.

After returning to the room, Mrs. Bertha sat at the desk and opened the envelope. The letter paper that smelled of pen water immediately slipped out and fell on the table. The long-awaited message and handwriting were immediately unfolded and fully presented. before.

"I don't know what to say anymore, dear, you know it's a headache for me to write to you every month. But don't get me wrong, my headache is how to make you believe that I'm here Everything is fine on the front line. How can you and the two children feel reassured about everything about me? The first news I want to tell you is the same as before. Everything is fine on the front line. "

Although the impression left on the enemy and even his subordinates on the front line is always with the word "cold", in real life, Colonel Weeks is actually a very caring person, especially her remarried wife and the two A child who has no blood relationship with him.

Yes, Colonel Weeks is not a man with a perfect family, at least in the eyes of his colleagues and others.

Colonel Weickers's current and only registered married wife, Bertha, is his childhood sweetheart who grew up with him. However, Mrs. Bertha's identity is somewhat special. She is Weickers, a member of the Junker aristocracy. The daughter of a maid in Colonel Si's house.

The relationship between Weikes and Bertha became an alternative in the eyes of the elders in the family.

Especially Weeks' lieutenant general father, he even did not hesitate to beat this precious son who he had been reluctant to touch with a finger since he was a child, forcing him to give up his relationship with Bertha and follow his own arrangements: harmony is the same. The only daughter of his old comrade-in-arms from a noble family was getting married, thus realizing a bundled marriage in terms of family interests.

Fed up with the aristocratic life, Weeks refused. He rushed out of the mansion and left the mansion where he had lived for more than ten years. Then he signed up to join the army and ran to the battlefield to fight for His Majesty the Kaiser.

Unable to resist his precious son's father, he made a certain compromise. The matter of family marriage was temporarily put on hold until after the war. However, the only love affair with Bertha was something that the lieutenant general's father would never tolerate. The bottom line of concession.

My father, who valued military honor very much, would never tolerate his only son marrying the daughter of a servant, especially when this servant was his own servant!

What is unexpected is that His Majesty the Kaiser, who aspired to the stars and the sea, was defeated, and he was defeated by his own people stabbing him from the inside.

Weeks' lieutenant general father became ill because he could not bear such a huge blow.

When he was dying, he hoped to see his precious son fulfill his wish and marry the daughter of his old comrade-in-arms to complete the family marriage.

However, due to the double blow of the failure of his first love and the trauma of war, Weeks, who already had a somewhat distorted personality, never returned home to see his father again, even though he knew that his father had passed away soon.

After his father's death, Wex, who returned home to inherit the family business, tried many ways to find Bertha and her daughter who had been expelled by his father, and even used his family connections and paid some price to find them.

Joy and pain sometimes coexist.

It took Wex three years to finally find Bertha, who he had been dreaming about, in a small rural village in Ruhr. However, Bertha had married a big and strong worker because of her mother's death and life, and had two children.

After receiving the news, Wex was almost trembling with anger. He, who never smoked, smoked 8 boxes of cigarettes that night and almost exploded his lungs. But the more painful it was for Wex, the more satisfied he felt at the moment.

It was from this time that Wex, who had suffered repeated blows in life, hated those workers who were sweaty and smelly. This was a morbid psychological distortion and not just class hatred.

When Wex was about to see Bertha for the last time and then say goodbye to his past, he saw a scene that he could never endure at the door of Bertha's home in the village of Xiaxia.

The dirty and mean worker, who was covered with the sour smell of sweat from just getting off work, actually picked up a stick as thick as his arm and chased Bertha.

The two children were so scared that they sat on the ground and cried loudly. The reason for all this was simply that the dinner made by Bertha was not to the taste of the reckless man.

Wex knew very well that Bertha, who had learned maid skills from her mother since she was a child, actually had very good cooking skills.

Similarly, Wex, who had already erupted like a volcano, knew that the reckless man's life had come to an end.

Wex shot and killed the reckless man who "used a weapon to try to kill his wife". Through some reasonable family means, he escaped all punishments and legal trials. Even the local newspapers published the news that a major of the National Defense Forces was brave and brave to fight against the villains.

The wedding of Wex and Bertha was blessed by their colleagues. Halder, as the highest-ranking general present, sent his own personal blessing to Wex.

"I have heard your story, Major Wex. I think I respect and admire your courage to pursue love! Congratulations, you are a brave soldier who dares to do and take responsibility."

The beautiful love story of a couple who finally got married after going through hardships has come to an end here.

Wex, who is sometimes "schizophrenic" on weekdays, will only become extremely gentle in Bertha's warm haven. He always treats Bertha's two children as his own. To outsiders, this is a very enviable family of four.

"I think I will probably go back before Christmas, dear. The Russians continue to resist in this city named after their evil leader, but our army and soldiers are more loyal, brave and powerful! It won't be long before we can put an end to everything here!"

"I will become a general! Then continue to be promoted, I will surpass my father who is full of mistakes! I will give you and the children the best life! No matter what, I will try my best to come back alive from the battlefield, no matter what means and what price I pay."

"I will use all my life's strength to love you and the children! Make up for everything I couldn't do when I was young! Even on the battlefield in Russia, I always miss and love you, and it will never change."

A not-so-long family letter ends here.

Mrs. Bertha, who had just put down the letter, had her clothes wet with tears. She suddenly felt that she might be the happiest woman in the world.

She has a husband who is about to become a general and loves her forever, and two children who are about to grow up and are also deeply loved by her husband. As a senior military family, she is surrounded by the wealth and glory, so that she can always feel the existence of her husband.

For a maid's daughter, such a life is already a gift from God and something she can't expect. She has no reason not to be grateful for it and feel satisfied.

Outside the room, two children, a boy and a girl, who were on holiday and didn't go to school today, showed their little heads and smiled at their mother. The two more attentive children knew that today was the day when their father would send a letter back every month.

"Did Dad say when he would be back?"

Her gentle and slender hands brushed the little heads of the two children on her knees one by one. Before the two children saw it, Bertha wiped away her tears and smiled and answered with a smile.

"Soon, Dad said he would be back before Christmas and would bring gifts for both of you!"

Later, a neighbor heard that the laughter coming from Colonel Wex's house on that day was something that had never been heard in more than a year.