In the evening, Gu Qingqing was cutting ginger in the kitchen. Chu Dai first washed the seafood with the sea water in the bucket, then scooped some clean fresh water from the side and washed it again. He did not pour out the water so that he could use it to wash dishes later.

Not only Gu Qingqing, it was also his first time facing such a water shortage situation.

The water in the pot boiled, and Gu Qingqing poured all the seafood into the pot and cooked them, and also threw the shredded ginger in, and then she covered the pot.

Then he turned to the man next to him and asked, "Is this okay?"

The man was wearing a thin army green shirt, which was the Army uniform he had brought with him earlier. He rolled up his sleeves twice, revealing a section of his fair forearms.

Hearing this, he lifted the lid of the pot with his slender fingers, looked down at the clams that were slowly opening, and then closed the lid again, saying uncertainly, "It should be okay."

He can't cook either.

The two of them looked at each other, and finally laughed at the same time.

Gu Qingqing took a step back, leaned into his arms, and asked, "Are you tired?"

"Not bad." Chu Dai hugged her slender waist from behind, slightly bent his head and rested his chin on her shoulder.

I don't know how she looks, she doesn't have much flesh on her body and she doesn't look very thin when she looks at her face.

Gu Qingqing placed her hand on the man's big palm at her waist and stroked his fingers. "I talked to Sister Anian today. When she gives birth, she can either go to the island in advance with the supply ship or Brother Zhao will deliver the baby. I think we should have the baby later."

How could the man not know that the little woman wanted him to accompany her and didn't want to leave the island. She was also embarrassed to let Zhao Ze deliver the baby, so she said she would have the baby later.

He chuckled in her ear, "There will be a new group of troops landing on the island in a while, and there will be a female military doctor accompanying them."

"Really?" Hearing this, Gu Qingqing's eyes lit up immediately. She turned around and burrowed into his arms, whispering, "...Then can we have a baby earlier?"

Chu Dai raised his eyebrows, "You want it?"

Gu Qingqing was too embarrassed to say it directly, and squirmed in his arms: "Today, Sister Anian asked me if you were... injured in the war, so we don't plan to have children for the time being."

The man laughed in anger, holding her waist with his left hand to prevent her from moving, and lifted her chin with his right hand to make her look directly into his eyes: "Did Zhao Ze tell her?"

“…I think so.”

"Oh." The man said in a calm tone, rubbing her chin with his fingers, and asked, "Don't you know if I'm injured?"

Gu Qingqing thought, oh no, he was angry.

She wanted to sneak out of his arms, but the man's hands were like iron clamps. She rubbed them twice but couldn't move, which made the man even more excited.

Sensing his reaction, Gu Qingqing dodged her gaze and glanced at the slightly shaking pot lid next to her, "The water is boiling!" and said, trying to push him away.

The man calmly released the hand that was pinching her chin and turned off the gas stove. "Continue."

"Where am I hurt?"

Gu Qingqing immediately admitted her mistake: "...Brother, I was wrong."

Chu Dai sneered, "How many days?"

Gu Qingqing was stunned for a moment, "What?"

"I'm telling you, this will take a few days." He glanced down casually. Gu Qingqing didn't know how this man could do such a vulgar thing with such innocent eyes.

"Today is the third day... there are still two days." Gu Qingqing knew what he meant and raised her hand to push the man's hard chest, "Move away, I'm uncomfortable like this."

Chu Dai held the man closer, almost clinging to him, and said slowly, "I feel uncomfortable too."

Gu Qingqing spoke faster than her brain and blurted out, "Because Brother Zhao said you can't do it?"

Sure enough, the man's eyes became more dangerous, his dark eyes staring straight at her, "No. You know whether I can do it or not. I feel uncomfortable because I can't do what I want to do."

Gu Qingqing: "...Brother, I know I was wrong. I'm hungry. Can we have dinner?"

"Did you cook?" Chu Dai kindly reminded her, "You just cooked seafood."

The two of them stared at each other for two minutes, and Chu Dai couldn't help laughing, "Let's go to the cafeteria to eat, there's still time."

Gu Qingqing glanced at the seafood in the pot and said, "Let's eat this later?"

"Well, if you can't finish it, you can make porridge tomorrow morning." The man loosened his hand on her waist, "I'm going to the bathroom."

"Oh," without his restraint, Gu Qingqing took the opportunity to counterattack: "It turns out that you were just holding it in."

Chu Dai looked back and said lightly, "Two days later, don't cry, I won't fall for it."

Gu Qingqing made a face at him: "Anyway, you can't do anything to me these two days!"

Five minutes later, the two of them walked out of the yard together. Chu Dai was holding a hot water bottle in his left hand and a bucket of water in his right hand.

Gu Qingqing subconsciously glanced under him and was caught by the man.

"Where are you looking?" Chu Dai said lazily, "Look at the road."

She smiled bitterly and looked away, but she was thinking about how to torture him in the evening.

They arrived late and there were not many people in the cafeteria. Chu Dai went to get some rice and hot water and would go home to eat later.

Gu Qingqing was waiting for him at the door and happened to see the little boy she met in the afternoon eating a bran bun.

She smiled and called out, "Little nephew."

The little boy looked up blankly, and when he saw it was her, he felt relieved, "Auntie! It's you."

Gu Qingqing ruffled his hair and asked, "Where's your sister? Why didn't she come to dinner with you?"

"My mother cooked rice and steamed seafood at home. It's not cooked yet, so I came over to get a steamed bun to fill my stomach. Auntie, are you coming to get some rice too?"

"Yes." Gu Qingqing replied.

The little boy looked around and asked, "Auntie, you are here to join the army, right? Who is your man? Let me see if I know him."

Gu Qingqing didn't expect that a little boy of seven or eight years old would directly say the three words "your man". She was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

She pointed at the serving counter and said, "The one wearing the army green shirt, the best looking one, is my man."

Looking in the direction she pointed, the little boy saw a tall, thin man with long legs and a straight back. He curled his lips and said, "Your husband must have eaten all the food for you."

It took Gu Qingqing a while to realize what he meant, and she chuckled, "Yes, my man loves me so much that he doesn't want to eat and saves his food for me."

Chu Dai came over and saw the adult and the child chatting enthusiastically. He put the lunch box in Gu Qingqing's hand and asked, "Do you know each other?"

Gu Qingqing shook her head and said, "I met him this afternoon."

The little boy looked up at the man. He was not afraid and said to Gu Qingqing, "Your man is quite handsome. I will go fishing with Erpang and Xiaohuan tomorrow morning. I will bring you some seafood then. Where do you live?"

"The one at the back of the North District, next to the mountain." Gu Qingqing said as she reached out and took out a handful of candy from the man's pocket and stuffed it into his hand: "This is your reward in advance, little nephew."

"My family is also in the North District. Are you from the Corps?" The little boy took the candy and put it in his pocket, holding a half-eaten steamed bun in his hand, and asked in confusion: "I haven't seen you in the Luzhong Corps."

Chu Dai couldn't help but look at the little boy twice more. He saw a familiar shadow on his face and almost knew whose child he was.

The son is more likable than the father.

Gu Qingqing couldn't help rubbing his head again, and the little boy didn't avoid her. She liked this little guy very much and said, "We are from the Construction Corps. Have you heard of us?"

"Of course. I grew up in the army. Everyone in the vicinity knows the corps. It's the Construction Corps stationed on the border. In a few years, I will enlist in the Construction Corps. Then..."

At this point, he got stuck and said in frustration, "You guys are like my father. You've all been transferred to the Navy. I won't be able to visit you in the future."

It suddenly went dark in front of his eyes, and a shadow slanted down, blocking his light.

The little boy looked up and saw the man next to him who hadn't said much bend down slightly, spread out his palm, and put it in front of him.

The little boy looked down and was a little surprised: "What is this?"

In Chu Dai's palm was a wolf head armband. He smiled and said, "It's from the Construction Corps. Here it is for you."

The little boy hesitated for a moment, and then met another pair of smiling eyes. Gu Qingqing said softly, "I have a brother who is in the construction corps. I will go to visit him in the future. When I can leave the island, you should also join the army. I look forward to seeing you in the corps, little nephew."

This time he didn't hesitate, he grabbed the armband from Chu Dai's hand, ate his steamed bun and ran out, turning back and shouting incoherently: "Then it's settled! My name is Zhang Ta!! Don't forget it!!!"

Gu Qingqing and Chu Dai smiled at each other, and the couple went home to eat together, one holding a lunch box and the other carrying a thermos and a bucket of water.

The sea breeze was very cold at night. Chu Dai saw her shrink her neck and moved forward a little to stand beside her.

Gu Qingqing couldn't help but smile when she saw his actions.

After returning to the yard, Chu Dai first put the hot kettle in the kitchen and took the bucket to the bathroom.

Although water resources were in short supply, they would come out of the hidden cave of the anti-nuclear bomb speedboat every day covered in mud and could not sleep without taking a shower.

The commander of the reinforced battalion has already reported this to his superiors, asking them to dispatch scientific researchers to dig holes on Baisha Island to see if there are other fresh water resources underground.

"Brother! Come and eat quickly, it will get cold soon." Gu Qingqing shouted in the sleeping room.

"Here it comes." Chu Dai glanced at the covered pot, was silent for a moment, and decided not to mention this matter tonight.

Chu Dai casually washed his hands in the basin of clean water he had used to wash the seafood, and strode towards the bedroom.

Gu Qingqing was already sitting on the bed, and considerately left half the space for him.

He went over and sat next to her. Before he could pick up the chopsticks, the lunch box was already in front of him. Gu Qingqing picked out the braised fish and the shredded pork in pickled mustard tuber for him.

The man was somewhat flattered and surprised, "You haven't done anything to let me down, have you, my wife?"

Gu Qingqing stuffed the chopsticks into his hand and said, "What are you talking about? I feel sorry for you! It's right to feel sorry for your man. Look how tired you are today, covered in dirt. You didn't even take a break when you got home and just went through all the trouble with me. It's not like I didn't see it."

"That's right. But you should keep the meat for yourself next time." Chu Dai chuckled and said, "I'm afraid that my brother will say that I've made you skinny."

Gu Qingqing was somewhat speechless, "Don't act like you're afraid of my elder brother. Don't think I don't know that you two had a fight the day we went to the Aircrew Kitchen to eat when we first arrived at the Southern Military Region."

"I was the one who got beaten up." Chu Dai slowly picked out the bones from the fish and put the fish back into her lunch box. "After all, I married her, so I have to take it all."

"You sound so pathetic," Gu Qingqing was amused by him. She looked at the fish in the lunch box, poked it with her chopsticks, and said, "Let's eat with bowls from now on."

"All up to you." Chu Dai had no objection and said casually, "Do you like that little guy today or do you want a child?"

"No, I just think he's very interesting. When we first met, he told me where there are lots of seafood on the beach and said he would send me some seafood tomorrow. Don't you think he has a good personality?"

Chu Dai agrees with this point, "Indeed, his personality is better than his father's."

Seeing him eating pickled mustard tuber, Gu Qingqing couldn't help but stretched out her hand to pinch his face. There was no meat at all. "Do you know his father? Before, this little guy even said openly and secretly that you were too thin and that I ate your share of the meal."

"The company commander from the Luzhong Corps came here. We have worked together in combat before." Chu Dai smiled and said, "It will be a blessing for the family if the wife is a little fatter. You can tell him next time. I want to do it myself."

"If you want to tell me, the way he looked at you today, he wanted to join the Construction Corps right away and be your brother. Don't think I didn't see it." Gu Qingqing was eating big mouthfuls of rice. Thinking of the fact that he still had the Corps armband, she asked incoherently, "Is it okay to give that armband out? Will there be any confidentiality regulations or something?"

"No," Chu Dai gave her the shredded pork from his lunch box and took the vegetables from her lunch box. "Will you take a bath tonight?"

"Yes." Gu Qingqing said embarrassedly, "We haven't washed the clothes we took off last night yet." She suddenly felt that she was so lazy. Other people's wives were very diligent. Today, when she passed by another yard, she saw quilts and a lot of clothes being dried inside, filling up a bamboo pole with clothes for adults and children.

But she guessed that the quilts were taken out to dry in the sun, and some of the clothes were probably wet by the kids when they went to the beach and were hung out to dry. The water here was not enough to wash so many clothes.

Chu Dai didn't really care and ate his meal leisurely: "After you take a shower, put the things you need to wash in the bathroom and I'll wash them."

"I'm so embarrassed." Gu Qingqing still said the same old thing.

Chu Dai just snorted and laughed, he had seen through her a long time ago: "Eat quickly, I'll bring the lunch box over tomorrow morning."

"Okay!" Gu Qingqing smiled happily and ate the fish that the man had picked out the bones from.

After dinner, Chu Dai cleared the table and poured the remaining water from washing seafood in the kitchen into the backyard.

Chu Dai just came out to clean up the fish bones and saw her squatting in the corner. He asked casually, "What are you going to plant?"

"Chinese cabbage and peppers are the most durable." Gu Qingqing pulled him over and gestured to him, "I want to dig a reservoir here and store some rainwater when it rains. I'll use it to water the vegetables later."

Chu Dai nodded, "You want my help?"

"Brother is so smart. I haven't returned the hoe to the quartermaster department yet, so..." In the moonlight, her big dark eyes looked at him brightly, as if there was a star in her eyes.

"I understand. I just finished my meal and wanted to do some exercise. I helped you dig the reservoir, right?" Chu Dai shook his head and smiled, "You say you love your man, but in your heart you've been thinking about how to make me work for you without stopping."

Gu Qingqing smiled and tiptoed to kiss the corner of his mouth. "There's still some seafood in the pot. I'll give it to you after you finish digging the reservoir. I'm going to return the hoe tomorrow morning. I'd like to ask if there's any plastic film to pad the reservoir so it won't leak."

"..." Chu Dai looked down at her helplessly. He originally thought he had escaped.

Okay.