After Jiang Huaizhi was transferred here, he applied for a family quarters, which was very close to the General Political Department Song and Dance Troupe.

On the day of his transfer, he arrived at the door of Yu Nianbai's unit.

The sentry outside the gate recognized him, saluted, and opened the gate for him to pass.

Jiang Huaizhi walked to the door of the practice room, looked around, and saw a woman with a soft and graceful figure in the dance studio.

She looked natural and serious, and all kinds of difficult movements were easy for her.

Yu Nianbai loves dancing. Dancing is like her life, ever since the art troupe came to their village to perform.

She was a small figure, standing in the crowd, looking at the enthusiastic art soldiers on the stage. At that moment, it was like a small seed falling into the soil.

Dreams are also planted, take root and sprout at this moment.

Until today, the little seed finally blossomed and is waiting for the next stage, the flowering period of fruiting.

Jiang Huaizhi looked at the dancing figure and suddenly remembered the moment he first met Yu Nianbai.

She was like this too, standing on the stage radiantly.

It's just that the accident at that time made him think that Yu Nianbai was a vain and ambitious woman, and therefore he misunderstood her.

This caused him to have a prejudice against recitation.

Soon, the dance music ended and Yu Nianbai packed up his things and prepared to leave the dance studio.

Just as Jiang Huaizhi was about to reach the door, a man's voice came from the dance studio, calling Yu Nianbai.

"Comrade Yu."

Jiang Huaizhi stopped and looked inside through the window.

He was the man who was very close to Yu Nianbai last time.

Jiang Huaizhi narrowed his eyes and stared at them coldly.

Yu Nianbai turned around and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

The man's name was Xie Xusheng. He walked up to Yu Nianbai and asked her with a smile, "There are some parts of the play we are rehearsing this time that I am not very familiar with. Can I come and ask you if I don't understand something?"

Yu Nianbai was stunned for a moment, and without thinking too much, he smiled and nodded: "Of course, we are all in the same group. Only by helping each other can we present our play perfectly."

"Comrade Yu, thank you in advance. By the way, can I treat you to lunch at noon?" Xie Xusheng mustered up the courage to say this.

After saying this, he blushed and looked at Yu Nianbai quietly, waiting for her answer.

Yu Nianbai didn't expect Xie Xusheng to invite her to dinner, and she was about to refuse his kindness.

Before the words came out of my mouth, a deep male voice sounded at the door.

"If I don't come to see you, you won't go home for dinner?"

When Yu Nianbai heard this familiar voice, he looked up suddenly and his eyes fell towards the door of the dance studio.

At a glance, I saw Jiang Huaizhi standing at the door with a sullen face.

She looked away and said to Xie Xusheng, "He is my husband. He came to take me home for dinner."

After hearing Yu Nianbai's word "husband", Xie Xusheng was in a trance for a moment, and he finally came to his senses after everyone had left.

It turns out that the lesbian he likes is already married!

After Yu Nianbai came out, Jiang Huaizhi was no longer seen in the corridor.

She had no choice but to follow him.

It was not until she walked out of the training building that she saw the upright figure walking in front of her.

Yu Nianbai didn't say a word and trotted towards the figure.

By the time she ran to Jiang Huaizhi's side, she was already breathing slightly.

"Why are you here?" she asked, turning her head.

Jiang Huaizhi stopped and glanced at her: "I can't come?"

She shook her head: "No, what I mean is, weren't you transferred here? You don't have to report today?"

Jiang Huaizhi turned around and looked at the fair and delicate face in front of her. Because of jogging, many tiny beads of sweat appeared on the tip of her nose and her whole face was red.

He stared into Yu Nianbai's eyes and asked, "If I hadn't come here, how would I have seen this scene today?"

Yu Nianbai heard the irony in his words, and she explained, "The gay man and I are just colleagues, and I just told him clearly that you are my husband."

"Don't worry, I will never do anything to damage your reputation before we get divorced."

She was not angry, but instead assured Jiang Huaizhi word by word.

Jiang Huaizhi could see that Yu Nianbai had no interest in that gay man, but he was a man, and men understand men best.

Yu Nianbai couldn't see it, but he saw it!

The man had his eyes on Nian Bai.

When Jiang Huai thought of the look Xie Xusheng gave Yu Nianbai, a nameless anger surged out of his heart.

"Yu Nianbai, you'd better stick to your duties. Otherwise, even if you can enter the General Political Department now, I will send you back to where you came from!"

After saying that, Jiang Huaizhi left with a cold face without looking back.

Yu Nianbai did not respond at all to his warning.

She always kept in mind that she and Jiang Huaizhi were just partners. During the one year of cooperation, as long as she behaved herself and survived until the day of divorce, Jiang Huaizhi would never dare to do anything to her again.

Since then, Jiang Huaizhi never returned to the family compound, but Yu Nianbai always remembered what Jiang Huaizhi said, asking her to move back to the family compound.

Anyway, Jiang Huaizhi was not in the staff quarters, so she could breathe a sigh of relief.

Life goes on like this, neither salty nor bland.

Until the Spring Festival is approaching.

The General Political Department has been very busy during this period, preparing for the Spring Festival Gala.

This year, every household sat around the TV, waiting for New Year's Eve to watch the Spring Festival Gala on TV.

Yu Nianbai's program was also performed on the Spring Festival Gala.

During this period, Yu Nianbai rehearsed day and night in the General Political Department and did not even return to the staff quarters.

Fortunately, Jiang Huaizhi did not go back either.

As the Chinese New Year is approaching, he has a lot of things to do.

But Jiang Minke still called and asked him to bring Yu Nianbai to her place to celebrate the New Year.

It was also with Jiang Minke's reminder that Jiang Huaizhi realized belatedly that tomorrow was New Year's Eve.

He said a few perfunctorily, saying that they planned to spend New Year's Eve alone and then go to Jiang Minke's place on New Year's Day.

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Huaizhi put down the work at hand, stood up and walked towards the General Political Department.

It was dark outside at this time. When he arrived at the General Political Department, he found that all the buildings inside were brightly lit.

The sentry explained that tomorrow was the Spring Festival Gala and everyone was busy rehearsing. These days everyone had been eating, drinking, defecating and urinating in the practice room, rehearsing the program over and over again.

Jiang Huaizhi walked to the outside of the training room where Yu Nianbai was.

Watching the busy figures moving around inside.

Finally, I saw Yu Nianbai in the crowd.

Her movements were still smooth and flowing, and even though she had already done them extremely well, she never got tired of it and practiced them over and over again.

Jiang Huaizhi then noticed that Yu Nianbai had lost weight recently!

There wasn't much flesh on his body to begin with, and now there's even less flesh on his face; even his chin has become pointed.

Someone suddenly called him from behind, and it was this voice that interrupted Jiang Huaizhi's attention.

He turned around and saw it was the head of the group.

The team leader had already noticed who Jiang Huaizhi was looking at, and he couldn't help but praise him with a smile on his face.

"Commander Jiang, Nianbai is a really good talent. Even though she has only been here for a short time, she has already become the mainstay of our General Political Department! Tomorrow night's Spring Festival Gala will definitely be wonderful!"

Jiang Huaizhi was a little surprised: "She's also going to participate in the Spring Festival Gala tomorrow night?"

The head of the group kept smiling: "Why doesn't she participate in the rehearsals day and night? Not only does she participate, but she also participates in quite a few programs. Our group cannot do without her."

This was unexpected for Jiang Huaizhi.

He originally thought that Yu Nianbai was able to pass the interview and join the General Political Department just by luck.

But it was only after the team leader's praise that Jiang Huaizhi finally understood.

Yu Nianbai was surprisingly popular during his time in the General Political Department.

"Everyone has worked hard these past few days. She has lost a lot of weight. Commander Jiang, give her some extra nutrition when you get back. Don't accuse me of neglecting her in the group."

Jiang Huaizhi naturally heard that the captain was just teasing him.

But Yu Nianbai has indeed lost weight.

Thinking of this, Jiang Huaizhi asked the team leader: "When will they finish?"

The team leader looked at his watch and said, "It will probably take another hour."

"Do you have the key to the cafeteria?" Jiang Huaizhi asked.

After the regiment commander called a soldier to ask for clarification, he said to Jiang Huaizhi, "I do have the key, but the canteen staff have all gone off duty. Commander Jiang, have you not eaten yet?"

Jiang Huaizhi shook his head, asked the team leader for the key, and then walked towards the cafeteria.

The cafeteria was pitch black and the door was locked. After Jiang Huaizhi opened the door and went in, he went straight to the kitchen.

He opened the freezer in the back kitchen and took out a piece of meat to thaw it. Then he took out flour from the cupboard and started kneading the dough on the chopping board.

After Jiang Huaizhi joined the army, he started living independently, doing all the laundry and cooking by himself. Although his cooking skills were not very good, as long as the food was edible, it was fine.

He simply made a bowl of hot noodle soup, put it directly into the cafeteria bowl, and went out of the practice room with the noodles in his hands.

The lights were still on inside and the rehearsal had not yet ended.

Jiang Huaizhi opened the door, and under everyone's gaze, he met Yu Nianbai's eyes, and he said to her expressionlessly.

"come out."

Yu Nianbai was surprised to see Jiang Huaizhi here, but he still left the training room obediently.

Before she could ask, Jiang Huaizhi pointed to the side.

"Sit there and eat."

Yu Nianbai looked in the direction of his finger and saw a wooden table and chair that had been placed in the corridor at some point.

There were bowls and chopsticks on the table, and steam was coming out of the bowls.

She walked closer and saw that it was a bowl of steaming noodles.

"What is this?" She turned around and looked at Jiang Huaizhi in confusion.

Jiang Huaizhi remained expressionless. He said, "I told you that we can't let anyone notice anything unusual outside, so go eat quickly."

Yu Nianbai understood. He wanted her to cooperate with him in playing the role of a loving couple in public?

She thought about it, walked forward, sat down, picked up the chopsticks, and started eating the noodles obediently.

Jiang Huaizhi turned around and looked at her. Yu Nianbai was very quiet throughout the entire meal, and every move he made did not make the slightest sound.

She had half a bowl left at the end and couldn't eat any more. She looked up at Jiang Huaizhi, as if she wanted to discuss something with him.

"I really can't eat anymore," she said.

Jiang Huaizhi walked forward and saw that there was still more than half a bowl of noodles left. He frowned suddenly and said, "Is it unpalatable?"

Yu Nianbai shook his head: "No, I have a small appetite recently. I will vomit if I eat more."

Jiang Huaizhi glanced at her from head to toe: "What's wrong? Do you think you look good now that you are thin?"

Yu Nianbai didn't know what he had done to displease Jiang Huaizhi again.

She never thought she was good-looking, let alone that she looked good when she was thin.

"Are you angry?" Yu Nianbai couldn't guess what he was thinking, so he just asked directly.

Jiang Huaizhi did not answer, but asked again: "Do you want to continue rehearsing?"

She nodded and said, "We're going to be on TV tomorrow night, so we need to rehearse a few more times."

He raised his chin and motioned her to go in: "Go in, finish the queue early, I'll wait for you here."

Yu Nianbai was a little surprised: "No, go back and rest."

Jiang Huaizhi raised his eyes and glanced at her: "It's New Year's Day, and you want me to go back alone?"

Yu Nianbai understood, and still said the same thing, that she had to manage her image well outside.

"Then wait for me for a moment, I'll be quick." Yu Nianbai said nothing more and turned to go into the practice room.

Jiang Huaizhi sat in the seat where Yu Nianbai had just sat. Without any disgust, he took the chopsticks she had used and ate up the remaining half bowl of noodles.

He washed the dishes and put them back in the cafeteria. When he finished all this and came back to the practice room, Yu Nianbai had already finished his rehearsal.

He put his clothes back on and waited at the door of the practice room.

"Yu Nianbai, here." Standing at the stairs, Jiang Huaizhi called her.

Yu Nianbai raised his head, looked at Jiang Huaizhi, and walked towards him.

Neither of them spoke a word as they walked down the stairs side by side.

As soon as I walked out of the training building, white snowflakes began to fall from the sky.

There are small white spots on both of their heads.

Jiang Huaizhi reached out and took off the scarf from his neck and stopped her.

"Wait."

Yu Nianbai stopped and watched him walk up to her and wrap the scarf in his hand around her neck.

He circled it twice, until his hand completely covered her chin, and then he withdrew his hand with satisfaction.

"It's snowing, keep warm, or you'll get sick tomorrow and miss the TV appearance."

After being reminded by Jiang Huaizhi, Yu Nianbai became much more obedient and did not dare to take off his scarf.

The two walked towards the family compound.

It was already early morning of the next day. Fortunately, there were street lights on the roadside where they were. Under the light of the street lights, the two black shadows were elongated.

The snowflakes fell on the ground, like a floor covered with soft white goose down.

They quickly returned to the staff housing building. Yu Nianbai's nose tip was red from the cold and he couldn't help sneezing as soon as he entered the door.

Jiang Huaizhi frowned, turned on the light and said to her, "Go back to your room and lie down."

Yu Nianbai shook his head, his tone somewhat stubborn: "I just sweated during the rehearsal, I have to go take a shower."

She said, went back to her room, got some change of clothes and went to the bathroom.

Soon the sound of running water was heard in the toilet.

Jiang Huaizhi glanced at the closed door, frowned, said nothing more, and turned to go to the kitchen.

Fortunately, there was a piece of ginger in the kitchen. Jiang Huaizhi cut a few slices of ginger, took out a can of brown sugar from the cupboard, and boiled a bowl of brown sugar ginger water.

When the soup was ready, Yu Nianbai still didn't come out. Jiang Huaizhi walked to the toilet door, knocked and shouted.

"Yu Nianbai, are you done washing?"

There was only the sound of running water, and no response was heard.

Jiang Huaizhi frowned, realizing something was wrong, and quickly went to the drawer in the room to get the spare key.

It was not until he opened the toilet door that he was greeted by a shroud of white mist. Yu Nianbai was sitting in a wooden barrel with his eyes closed.

The hot water had already reached her neck and was almost reaching her chin.

Jiang Huaizhi's brows tightened, and he reached out to carry her out of the barrel.

I patted her cheek and only then did I feel the heat.

He kept calling Yu Nianbai's name, but she showed no sign of waking up.

Jiang Huaizhi didn't care about the difference between men and women. He wiped the water drops off her body, carried her back to the bed in the room, covered her with a quilt, and rummaged through the drawers and cabinets, and finally found the antipyretic medicine in the cabinet.

The large tablet was difficult to swallow, so Jiang Huaizhi had to crush it into powder, mix it with brown sugar and ginger water, and coax her into drinking it.

The originally bitter pills became swallowable after being soaked in brown sugar water.

It’s just that the brown sugar water with ginger slices added to it, after drinking it, a spicy taste lingers in the throat and the entire mouth.

Yu Nianbai frowned for no reason.

Jiang Huaizhi saw that she had a rare expression on her face, and his tense face relaxed a little.

After tucking the quilt in for her and getting up to leave, she seemed to notice something and suddenly reached out and grasped Jiang Huaizhi's hand.

"It's hot. It's uncomfortable."

Jiang Huaizhi lowered his eyes to the hand that was tightly holding his, looking at Yu Nianbai's still red face, and then thought that she would be on TV to perform on the Spring Festival Gala tomorrow.

Jiang Huaizhi softened his heart again, reached out and patted the back of her hand, bent down and came closer, and spoke to her softly.

"I'll get you a basin of warm water to cool you down."

Yu Nianbai was so delirious from the fever that she couldn't hear clearly what the person next to her was saying. She only remembered that the voice was very gentle and it made her relax her nervous emotions. She felt at peace for a rare time.

Seeing that she had let go of his hand, Jiang Huaizhi stood up and walked out of the room. When he came back in, he was holding a basin of water in his hand.

Jiang Huaizhi didn't sleep much the whole night. He either changed her water and wiped her body, or got up from time to time to test her body temperature.

It wasn't until the sky turned pale that Jiang Huaizhi could no longer hold on.

When Yu Nianbai opened her eyes, she felt like she was reborn. She didn't remember anything that happened last night.

It was not until she saw Jiang Huai lying on the recliner beside her that the messy and vague memories of last night flooded into her mind like a flood.

She remembered that Jiang Huaizhi had fed her medicine, wiped her body to cool her down, and took care of her all night last night.

But today, she is fine, but Jiang Huaizhi collapsed from exhaustion.

Yu Nianbai felt a little guilty. They were clearly in a cooperative relationship, and she should be grateful that Jiang Huaizhi treated her like this.

When Yu Nianbai covered Jiang Huaizhi with his quilt, he also opened his eyes at this moment.

The man's eyes were as cold as ever.

Yu Nianbai paused for a moment and explained, "I was just afraid you might catch a cold so I covered you with a blanket. Also, thank you for taking care of me last night."

Jiang Huaizhi stood up, not showing any appreciation: "Yu Nianbai, after all, it was me who recommended you to the General Political Department. I just didn't want you to get confused last night and affect today's program and make me lose face. Don't think too much."

Yu Nianbai nodded. She didn't think too much about it. She said, "I know. Thank you. I'm going to the group to prepare now. Do you want to sleep a little longer and catch up on your sleep?"

Jiang Huaizhi didn't say anything, and Yu Nianbai didn't bother him any more. After changing his clothes, he hurried to the General Political Department.

After Yu Nianbai left, Jiang Huaizhi didn't continue sleeping.

Last night the group leader invited Jiang Huaizhi to watch the performance.

Jiang Huaizhi did not refuse and arrived at the Spring Festival Gala on time in the evening.

The group leader reserved a front-row seat for him.

There was total silence until the show started, until the lights came on and the surroundings were all red with joy.

What Jiang Huaizhi didn't expect was that he would see Yu Nianbai during the opening hosting part.

She was wearing a red dress, her face was rosy and shiny, and her face was full of smiles.

She speaks clearly and her voice has a unique flavor, and she made the opening speech very vivid, lively and beautiful.

Jiang Huaizhi was slightly stunned. This was unexpected for him.

Not only him, but even the audience in the stage were whispering and couldn't help but praise Yu Nianbai.

After the opening remarks, the first performance of the day began.

Group dance performed by Yu Nianbai's group.

Looking at the woman dancing on the stage, Jiang Huaizhi was dazed for a moment, as if he had returned to the scene when he first met Yu Nianbai.

Yu Nianbai was also like this at that time, radiating brilliance and charming on the stage.

He looked at Yu Nianbai who was walking towards him in a dance dress. Jiang Huaizhi frowned and didn't understand what she wanted to do for a moment until she swung her sleeves.

A small thing fell right towards him. Jiang Huaizhi reached out to catch it and spread it out to take a look.

It is a candy wrapped in red paper.

Not only did he have candies, but Yu Nianbai also had a lot of candies hidden under his sleeves. With a wave of his sleeves, the candies fell onto the audience.

When the dance ended, Yu Nianbai smiled and explained: "New Year, new blessings. I hope that all friends who received the New Year candies will have a safe and smooth life in the new year, and live a sweet and happy life."

Jiang Huaizhi opened the candy wrapper and put the candy into his mouth. Soon his entire mouth was filled with the sweetness of the melted candy.

Yu Nianbai also saw Jiang Huaizhi's actions off the stage. She smiled at him and quickly left the stage.

It was not until the end of the Spring Festival Gala that Yu Nianbai finally breathed a sigh of relief and almost fell asleep in the dressing room backstage.

It was the head of the group who called her at the door: "Nianbai, the party has ended perfectly today. You should go back and have a good rest. Have a good New Year's Day in the next few days. There is nothing to do in the group, so you can relax and have fun."

Yu Nianbai stood up and turned around to say something, but the regiment commander smiled and said, "Go quickly, Commander Jiang can't wait at the door."

"He hasn't left yet?" Yu Nianbai was a little surprised.

She originally thought Jiang Huaizhi would not stay for long.

The regiment commander said, "You haven't left yet, how can Commander Jiang dare to leave?"

Yu Nianbai didn't explain. She quickly removed her makeup and left the backstage. Sure enough, in the dim aisle, she saw the figure carrying her on his back.

Hearing the noise behind him, Jiang Huaizhi turned around and looked up at her: "Let's go home." "

Hearing the words "Let's go home", Yu Nianbai felt a little dazed. He always felt that these four words sounded a little strange when they came out of Jiang Huaizhi's mouth.

Yu Nianbai didn't react until he stretched out his hand.

Jiang Huaizhi said: "Thank you for the candy, it's really sweet. I misunderstood you before."

Yu Nianbai's eyelashes trembled, and he asked, "Before?"

Jiang Huaizhi smiled and shook his head. How could a person who had been caught in the rain but was still willing to share a candy with everyone do something that would destroy his own reputation?

It was also at that moment that Jiang Huaizhi finally understood why he had such strong emotional fluctuations only when it came to Nianbai.

It turned out that as early as the moment he first saw her, he had a different attitude towards her.

"Let's put the past behind us. New year, new hope. Let's all look forward and go home." Jiang Huaizhi didn't give her a chance to hesitate and reached out to hold her hand.

He took her and walked towards the family compound.

Maybe Yu Nianbai doesn't have any feelings for him now, but as long as it is a person or thing that Jiang Huaizhi has identified, there is nothing he cannot get. He believes that within the one-year contract period, he will change the duration of this contract to a lifetime.

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