Chapter 850: I haven’t seen you for a few months. Have you grown taller?

Fang Xiuli came to the southwest with the army because of Tan Siqi's job transfer, but she was not used to the hard life here and could not forget the colorful days in the capital, so she found reasons to go back to the capital for a few months whenever she had time.

The Chinese New Year a while ago was a legitimate reason.

Fang Xiuli took her five-year-old daughter to the provincial capital, took a train back to the capital.

After two months away, Fang Xiuli finally returned reluctantly after being urged by Tan Siqi's continuous phone calls.

When Fang Xiuli returned to the capital before the New Year, she brought nothing with her except her daughter. Now she came back with two suitcases packed with large and small bags. The suitcases were so heavy that she could not lift them, so she had to ask the guards to bring them in.

Fang Xiuli was dressed in fashionable clothes when she was in the capital. Now that she appeared, she immediately became the focus of the compound.

From the hair to the dress, to the stockings and shoes on the feet, for many simple sisters-in-law, these are just rare things that they have never seen in their lives.

After seeing this from Fang Xiuli, I felt like I had broadened my horizons and gained some knowledge.

It's not just Fang Xiuli, even the little girl Tan Rourou standing next to Fang Xiuli is so pretty and delicate that she looks out of place.

Tan Rourou had two long pigtails, wore a red cape suit, white socks and red leather shoes, and looked like a little princess walking out of a picture magazine.

The sisters-in-law hadn't seen Tan Rourou for a long time and missed this beautiful girl, so they couldn't help but praise her.

"Rou Rou, I haven't seen you for a few months. Have you grown taller again?"

"Our Rourou is just beautiful. There's no girl prettier than her in the entire compound. I'm not used to Rourou being away these days."

"Rou Rou, let me see your red cloak. It's so beautiful. What material is it made of?"

As Li Dahua was speaking, she naturally reached out to touch the red cloak that Tan Rourou was wearing.

However.

"You're dirty! Don't touch me! You'll ruin my clothes!"

Tan Rourou looked unhappy and turned her head away from Li Dahua's outstretched hand.

Li Dahua was an adult after all, but she was slapped in the face by a five-year-old girl. Her face immediately lost its shine, and she stretched her hands in the air, feeling embarrassed and not knowing what to do.

The sisters-in-law around felt as if they had been slapped in the face when they saw what happened to Li Dahua. Their smiles froze at the corners of their mouths, and the atmosphere instantly turned cold. They didn't know what to say.

Because Tan Rourou could be avoiding Li Dahua's hands, disliking Li Dahua's dirtiness, or she could be disliking them.

They are from the same world as Li Dahahua, but Tan Rourou and Fang Xiuli are not.

In the end, Fang Xiuli smiled and tried to lighten the mood for her daughter. "Rou Rou didn't mean it. She's just a germaphobe and she was in a bad mood. On the train, she wanted some candy, but I didn't let her, and she got mad at me."

These words could be considered an explanation, but there was no apology in them, and Fang Xiuli did not lecture her daughter. They were just some polite remarks.

The sisters-in-law understood it in their hearts, but they had to give everyone a way out through Fang Xiuli's words.

"Rou Rou is in a bad mood, no wonder..."

"It's normal for children to have tantrums. They'll be fine after a while..."

Li Dahua apologized to Tan Rourou in a low voice, "Rou Rou, I'm sorry. I was careless just now and shouldn't have touched you."

Tan Rourou raised her fair little face, her pointed chin raised. Without even glancing at Li Dahua, she turned to Fang Xiuli and said, "I don't want to be here. I want to go home! Back to my grandparents' house!"

"Rou Rou, didn't mom tell you that we're going to stay here for a while? Time flies. We'll go back to grandpa and grandma's house during the Dragon Boat Festival."

Fang Xiuli has calculated the time for her next return to the capital. It is only a few months away from the Dragon Boat Festival. She can take her children back for summer vacation and stay for the whole summer.

But this arrangement obviously could not satisfy Tan Rourou.

The little girl still looked unhappy. She snorted at Fang Xiuli, then turned around and walked away in her red leather shoes.

The clattering sound of footsteps felt like they were stepping on everyone's heart.

Only Fang Xiuli looked indifferent, as she was used to the little girl's willfulness and rudeness. Her daughter was naturally more delicate and different from ordinary people.

Fang Xiuli fixed her hair and adjusted her skirt, then remembered something important. "Is Sister Song home? I haven't seen Sister Song since I came back. I have a lot of things to give her."

She looked down on everyone in the compound equally, except Song Hongmei.

Fang Xiuli is very clear about the importance of these things.

The sisters-in-law hurriedly replied, "Sister Song, she went to work in a nearby village again. This time the situation is more complicated and she got stuck. She has to stay in that village for seven days and won't be back until next week."

"But don't worry, Sister Song isn't going alone this time. Sister Chu is accompanying her. The two of them can take care of each other, and they will definitely be back soon."

After hearing this, Fang Xiuli replied in a calm tone, "Is that so..."

Since Song Hongmei was not in the compound, there was no one worthy of Fang Xiuli's special attention. As for who the "Sister Chu" that her sisters-in-law had never heard of was, Fang Xiuli didn't care at all, as if she hadn't heard it.

Fang Xiuli thought for a moment and said, "Since Sister Song is not here, I will wait until she comes back before visiting her. I will go see Meijiao first. I don't know how she is doing recently."

"Comrade He has returned to the capital, Xiu Li, didn't you know?" Wang Xiu Lan blurted out and asked.

As soon as these words came out, the expression on Fang Xiuli's delicate and nonchalant face finally changed.

"Back to the capital? When did she go back? How come we didn't know?"

"Not long ago, just a few days ago."

Communication and transportation were very inconvenient these days. It took at least three or four days, and at most seven or eight days, to travel from the southwest to the capital.

When Fang Xiuli set out from the capital, He Meijiao happened to leave the compound. Both of them were on the road, one going south and the other going north, and they just missed each other perfectly.

In addition, the reason why He Meijiao left the military camp was always shameful, so she held her breath and didn't tell anyone, so Fang Xiuli naturally didn't know.

Fang Xiuli was completely unprepared. When she suddenly heard that He Meijiao had returned to the capital, her subconscious reaction was disbelief, and then suspicion.

"Why did Meijiao suddenly come back to the capital? She told me before that she would marry Lu Zhanlin, and she even lived in the same compound with me and continued to be my best friend. Tell me, what happened? Why did Meijiao leave? Even if she wanted to go back to the capital, she couldn't have told me without telling me. Did someone bully Meijiao during my absence?"