Anlude promised that he would submit a marriage application as soon as he returned home, and then apply for a house in the family compound.

Song Ting told An Lude to spend more time with Jiang Jinyao and wait until he recovered before taking the bus back to the army.

Unfortunately for An Lude, his marriage application got stuck at the stage of getting his signature from his superiors.

Shen Yuanyi left the military region, and the new leader has not yet arrived.

But everything that needed to be prepared was prepared. Of the three items, the radio tickets were the hardest to find, and he had to ask many people before he could find them all.

A week has passed, and the marriage application still hasn't been approved because the supervisor is still handing over work at their original post.

Jiang Jinyao was already feeling anxious while waiting for the marriage application to be submitted to her work office.

Shen Qiaoyue was drawing a new design.

"Yaoyao, what do you think of this drawing?" After Shen Qiaoyue finished drawing it, she wanted to show it to Jiang Jinyao.

Looking up, Jiang Jinyao was stunned.

"Yao Yao!"

Jiang Jinyao only reacted when Shen Qiaoyue called her again.

Looking at Shen Qiaoyue, I felt a little guilty.

"Are you in a hurry?" Shen Qiaoyue knew that Jiang Jinyao was getting anxious. She and An Lude were getting married, but the report was stuck at the next level above Liu Yashi.

"My mom has been calling me every night these past few days to urge me to stop, so I don't dare answer her calls anymore!" Jiang Jinyao hurriedly made up an excuse to brush it off.

How could she not be anxious? She was in the midst of excitement when suddenly there was no follow-up. How could she not be nervous?

Shen Qiaoyue smiled and said, "Who told you to submit your report on the very day my uncle was transferred? The new leader hasn't even arrived yet."

"I'm just too excited, but also scared!" Getting married is all about the excitement and the wait before the wedding is really long.

“You were sullen before because your father didn’t agree, but now that he does, you’re starting to get nervous and scared!” Shen Qiaoyue sighed. “When I got married, I didn’t have time to think about these things. I just nodded in agreement and was dragged to register our marriage the next day. My family and Lu Chen were all afraid that I would change my mind.”

She finds the memory of that time funny.

"It's funny to think about it!" Jiang Jinyao laughed and joined in the teasing. "Back then, An Lude was a blind date that my uncle introduced to Jiang Jinjing, but my uncle disliked him and replaced him with Lu Chen! In the end, the man Jiang Jinjing disliked married you, and the man my uncle disliked is about to marry me. We even worked together and became good friends."

Sometimes, I feel like my luck is just unbelievable!

Shen Qiaoyue teased, "Isn't it great? We can work together and commute to get off work together. I heard the houses in the family compound are all ready, just waiting for the marriage application to be approved so you can move in. Do you want to go to the family compound to take a look after you get off work?"

"I'm not married yet, isn't that inappropriate?" Jiang Jinyao said, but the smile on her face was very honest.

Shen Qiaoyue couldn't help but tease, "What's wrong with it? The house was originally prepared for you and An Lude. What's wrong with it? The wedding room should definitely be decorated by the two of you. You can trust An Lude's aesthetic sense. If there's anything missing, you should go and take a look, and then go to the city together to buy it."

Thinking back to when Shen Qiaoyue and Lu Chen got married, the kitchen was built on the spot.

"Also, the kitchen is really important, as are the water room and the bathroom. You need to check them carefully! It will be inconvenient to live here if you wait until after the wedding to fix them." Shen Qiaoyue, being an experienced person, felt it was necessary to tell Jiang Jinyao this. "Also, you should take a look at the room layout. If it's decorated by a man, it will look like a military dormitory. It looks like it's been washed and cleaned, not like a place for a human to live."

Jiang Jinyao saw that Shen Qiaoyue's words were so logical and reasonable.

Suppressing a laugh, she leaned closer and asked, "Is it because you don't like the room Lu Chen decorated?"

Shen Qiaoyue glanced at Jiang Jinyao and complained, "That room was decorated by the sister-in-law from the family compound. I didn't want to get along with him before, and we were in a rush to get married, so a lot of things were pieced together from different places. I changed it little by little to my liking after we got married."

Shen Qiaoyue and Lu He spent several days transforming their home into a cozy little home.

“You’re right. Today is Saturday, and tomorrow is Sunday. I’ll go check it out. If anything is missing, I can arrange it in the city with Anlude tomorrow,” Jiang Jinyao added.

"So now you can work properly, right?" Shen Qiaoyue asked again.

Jiang Jinyao scratched her ear guiltily and then got back to work.

Shen Qiaoyue finished her day's work and went home.

Lu Chen rode his bicycle to pick up Shen Qiaoyue as usual.

Upon returning home, Shen Qiaoyue was greeted by the delicious aroma of chicken soup as soon as she entered the house.

Lu He returned from the city and made chicken soup.

Lu Chen and Chen Qiaoyue had stable jobs and high monthly wages and food rations, so they had meat at every meal.

After dinner, Lu He had to go back to the city to work.

When military vehicles enter the city, they ask the drivers to give them a ride for a while.

As luck would have it, the driver entering the city today was Chu Lin.

As the deputy division commander's bodyguard, he needed to go into the city to pick someone up, so Lu He rode in his car back to the city.

Lu He didn't say anything on the way, sitting in the front seat and looking at Chu Lin.

He looked really good in his military uniform; he had matured a lot compared to the naive Chu Lin he was before.

Lu He also heard from her brother Lu Chen that Chu Lin had achieved outstanding results during training and was temporarily assigned to be Shen Qiaoyu's bodyguard.

"Have you...eaten dinner yet?" Lu He noticed that it was just the two of them in the car, and it was too quiet.

Chu Lin's expression was as cold as ever.

"I ate at the cafeteria tonight," Chu Lin replied casually.

"So... are you still eating dumplings?" Lu He was carrying two boxes of dumplings, one for her late-night snack and the other for Aunt Wen.

It's just a habit. Aunt Wen said that Lu He's dumplings are delicious, so whenever she has time to come back, she makes dumplings and brings a box back for Aunt Wen when she goes back.

"I'm not hungry, you can keep it." Chu Lin refused Lu He's offer. He felt embarrassed to take food from someone else; these days, being able to eat one's fill was already a great blessing.

Lu He didn't say anything more. The sky gradually darkened, and the streetlights illuminated the way ahead. Lu He kept looking ahead.

"Now that you're in the army, no one should bully you anymore, right?" Lu He was really curious and asked, trying to find a topic to talk about.

Chu Lin did not expect Lu He to ask such a question.

"No, thank you for bringing me medicine last time." Chu Lin wasn't actually bullied in the family compound or in the military base; it was before he lived in the family compound that he was bullied by those people.

Upon hearing his second sentence, which was not directed at anyone else, Lu He was instantly delighted and said, "It's okay, as long as you weren't bullied."

Hearing Lu He's voice, Chu Lin felt inexplicably happy; Lu He was showing concern for him.

He quickly regained his usual serious expression.