"I don't mind if it's too little. I can save as much as I want. Besides..." Chu Yue put the scattered money neatly together, smiled with a proud look on her face, "I have money."

As she spoke, she touched her pocket.

It's not an ordinary pocket, but three layers inside and outside. He carefully took out the money from a secret pocket at the innermost part of the clothes.

One hundred, two hundred, three hundred.

Three hundred dollars in total.

Lu Zhanlin's eyes moved slightly, and he looked at Chu Yue in disbelief. He didn't expect that his wife was actually a wealthy woman.

"Strictly speaking, this money is not mine, but yours."

Lu Zhanlin was puzzled, "Mine?"

"The money you sent over the years must be more than three hundred yuan. My stepmother and Chu Yaoyao spent a lot of it. I can't get it all back. I can only get this much. It's enough for our family to spend for a while, so you don't have to worry about the money."

Chu Yue spoke calmly and simply explained, without mentioning how difficult it was for her to get the money, which was like pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth.

Lu Zhanlin took a look at the money, then at Chu Yue, feeling mixed emotions.

This is a full three hundred yuan. If Chu Yue didn't say it, Lu Zhanlin would have no idea about it. She could have hidden the money and treated it as someone's private money.

He watched Chu Yue put the three hundred yuan together with the original twenty-three yuan, fifty cents and eight cents, just like their family of three, all gathered together neatly.

Lu Zhanlin said in a low voice, "Well, I'll do as you say."

The young couple was discussing the family's financial problems when they heard a loud report outside the door.

"Report! Captain Lu!"

Song Qi stood at attention outside the door and saluted, his posture straight and his young face quite serious.

Lu Zhanlin understood what was going on at a glance, and immediately stood up and walked out the door. Song Qi whispered to Lu Zhanlin, and Lu Zhanlin's expression became cold and serious.

He returned to the house, picked up the military cap placed aside, and said to Chu Yue, "Something happened in the army, I have to go there immediately. I will come back as soon as possible after the matter is settled."

"Okay, go ahead."

Just like that, Chu Yue watched Lu Zhanlin leave.

She put all the money and various bills back into the envelope, and suddenly found that there was a heavy object in the envelope. Because it was neither money nor bills, she had ignored it just now.

Chu Yue touched it through the envelope. It was round, hard, and cold, like a piece of iron.

Why did Lu Zhanlin put this thing in an envelope? He couldn't be carrying it close to his body to protect himself from bullets, right?

Chu Yue picked up the envelope, turned it over and shook it. The iron piece slipped out of the envelope and hit the table with a thud.

A flash of golden light passed before her eyes.

That is a medal.

Chu Yue was startled, and hurriedly picked it up to examine it carefully. She saw that the medal was in the shape of a five-pointed star, with the five large characters "First Class Individual Merit" engraved on it.

This thing is indeed related to bullets, but it is not bulletproof, but is exchanged for bullets.

The bullet that had grazed Lu Zhanlin's scalp and nearly took his life, and the blood all over his face, all he had fought for in his ten years, had earned him this glittering first-class medal of honor.

and!

The first-class military medal is made of pure gold!

Chu Yue took it in her hand and weighed it. It was heavy, at least thirty grams.

Gold is an expensive hard currency in any era, even in times of war and turmoil.

Coupled with the honor of first-class merit, this medal is worth a lot of money!

Lu Zhanlin just casually put it in an envelope and handed it to Chu Yue without even mentioning it.

"Does he trust me so much? Isn't he afraid that I will sell the medal as pure gold?"

Chu Yue looked at the golden medal and thought of Lu Zhanlin's appearance just now. She couldn't help laughing, but she had to admit that the man's reserved behavior made her heart warm.

She looked at the medal for a while, wiped it, took out her handkerchief, carefully picked it up, and put it away.

Then I started to clean the house inside and out.

Since it was already afternoon and it gets dark early in winter, there was not much time left and it was impossible to clean the entire house, so the first things I cleaned were the kitchen and bedroom.

The kitchen is used to boil water and cook, and the bedroom is where you sleep tonight, so it is the most important.

As for the rest, just clean them up slowly later and they will always be cleaned up.

…

While Chu Yue was busy, the people in the compound were also busy.

A group of people gathered outside Wang Chunling's house. They were not there to see Wang Chunling and the child, but to wait for He Meijiao to come out.

"Is the medical worker here Comrade He? Why did you choose her when you could find anyone else? What if Comrade He meets Captain Lu's lover and the two of them start quarreling?"

"It's too late to worry about this now. I just saw Comrade He coming out of the new house assigned to Captain Lu! You didn't see it, her eyes were red."

"Is she crying? That's not right. Who is Comrade He? How could she cry? Did she lose the argument? Or was she bullied by Captain Lu's lover?"

"I think it's very likely. Have you forgotten that this morning..." The military wife who was speaking raised her arm, made a knife-like gesture, and gritted her teeth fiercely, "Captain Lu's wife just did this and knocked Mrs. Li unconscious."

Thinking of Chu Yue's cold and decisive scene, the sisters-in-law gasped at the same time, as if Chu Yue had hit them directly.

On the first day Chu Yue arrived at the compound, she left an image of a ferocious tigress in the minds of her sisters-in-law.

Right at this moment.

"He's out, he's out! Comrade He's out." someone shouted.

He Meijiao came out of Wang Chunling's house wearing a white coat and carrying a medicine box. As soon as she walked out of the yard, her wrist was grabbed and she was pulled to the side.

After all, Wang Chunling needs to rest, and you can't talk about something behind the scenes of a woman who has just given birth.

"What are you doing? Why are you pulling me?" He Meijiao frowned with a look of disgust, "Stop pulling me. You've wrinkled my clothes."

The wife of the soldier who pulled the man away hastily apologized, "Sister He, I'm so sorry, I have rough hands and great strength, I didn't mean it."

Someone nearby couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked, "Comrade He, Commander Lu really has a lover in the countryside. She came to accompany the army and just arrived at our compound today. Have you seen her?"

"Humph, so what if I saw her? So what if I didn't see her?" When Chu Yue was mentioned, He Meijiao sneered, "She's just a woman from the countryside."

He Meijiao's words made the sisters-in-law around her smile awkwardly.

Because most of them had lived in rural areas before, He Meijiao's mockery of Chu Yue's background was the same as mocking them.

It’s just that He Meijiao’s father’s identity is not ordinary. This is something known to the entire compound and even the entire military region. Even if the sisters-in-law are angry, they dare not really say it out loud.

He Meijiao raised her chin proudly and glanced at the sisters-in-law around her with squinted eyes.

She asked first, "Have you all met her? What do you think of her?"

"Well... you can't compare with Comrade He, of course. But the woman that Captain Lu likes must be extraordinary. Today, Wang Chunling had a difficult delivery, and it was Captain Lu's wife who delivered her."

"Yes, yes, yes! She was the one who delivered the baby. The bloody scene scared me even when I saw it, but she didn't show any fear at all."

"If it weren't for her today, Wang Chunling and her child would have been dead."

He Meijiao frowned as she listened, and interrupted, "What did you just say? She was the one who delivered Captain Zhou's wife?!"

The sisters-in-law nodded one after another, "We saw it with our own eyes."

impossible!

How is that possible!

He Meijiao couldn't believe it and denied it categorically in her heart.

She had just examined the large incision made by Wang Chunling's cesarean section. The incision was straight and neat, the length was just right, and even the sewing lines on the incision were neat and tidy.

This is a level that only doctors with four or five years of clinical practice can achieve. How could Chu Yue, an ignorant peasant woman from the countryside, possibly achieve this!

He Meijiao refused to believe it no matter what, and said with disdain, "She is just a seductive woman who can only seduce men. How could she perform surgery to save people? I don't believe it!"