"It's normal that they are not seen on the island every day." Xu Nian took another sip of sugar water. "Your Captain Chu is the most senior official on the island, so it's inevitable that he will have some hardship."

"And what about Instructor Jiang?" Gu Qingqing shook her head: "He..." She wanted to say a few words, but in the end, she didn't say it out of heartache.

At around 3:00 p.m., Nian went back home, saying that he was feeling sleepy.

Gu Qingqing sent her to the doorstep before returning home, carrying the sauerkraut pot to the kitchen, washing her hands and going to the vegetable garden to weed.

Around eight o'clock in the evening, Gu Qingqing was sitting in the living room mending the man's clothes, because they were often scratched by the sharp edges of gravel in the cave. When going to the cave, the army no longer required them to wear military uniforms, just casual clothes.

Having learned a lot from the military wives, she is now quite good at sewing clothes. Although her stitches are loose and the thread goes astray, she is able to mend the holes in the end.

The woman sat under the orange light, mending her man's clothes carefully and earnestly. If Gu Qinglie was here, he would definitely be shocked.

His sister is not someone who can sit still. She will get up as soon as her butt touches the bench.

Chu Dai came back early today, which was a rare occasion. He saw this scene as soon as he walked to the door. He was stunned for a moment, then stopped and stood at the door looking at her.

He found that she seemed to have lost some weight. He didn't know if it was because she cooked for herself and seldom went to the cafeteria to eat or because she was too tired every day. Her originally round profile now had lines.

The man stood there, watching her sewing without moving. Gu Qingqing lowered her head and looked at the needle and thread for a long time. Her neck felt a little sore, so she tilted her neck to move it around. Out of the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of the elongated shadow on the ground.

Following the shadow, she saw the man looking at her with a smile. She uttered "Ah" and blinked in disbelief. Seeing that he was still there, she dropped the clothes and needlework in her hands and ran towards him.

"I'm dirty." Despite saying this, Chu Dai still held her in his arms and kissed her hair. "My wife is so virtuous."

"That's right." Gu Qingqing stood on tiptoe and kissed his lips unsatisfiedly, "I miss you so much. I haven't seen you for a few days. Do you have time to rest recently? Researchers can take over the class if they come here. I want to spend some time with you."

"It will take half a month." Chu Dai noticed a little red on her fingers, and Gu Qingqing quickly hid her hands behind her body.

Seeing the man's burning eyes, she said in annoyance, "I'm still not very good at sewing. I'll go learn from my sisters-in-law. The clothes they sew are all very good. You can't tell if they've been torn. I won't..."

Before she could finish her words, she was picked up by the man. The man had long legs, so he walked to the table in two or three steps and sat down.

Letting her sit on his lap, Chu Dai pulled her right hand which was hidden behind her body. Looking at it under the light, he saw more than a dozen cuts densely packed with needles. Without a careful look, it was not clear. If it were not for the bleeding, Chu Dai would not have noticed it.

"Brother." Seeing him holding her hand and not saying anything for a long time, Gu Qingqing became anxious and rubbed his chin: "I'm fine, it doesn't hurt."

How could she not know what the man was thinking, the regret and self-blame. She didn't have to do anything at Gu's house, but now she had to do everything with him.

Chu Dai held her hand, put it to his lips, and kissed it compassionately: "It hurts."

Gu Qingqing was stunned for a long time, her eyes slightly moist, she buried her head in his neck and gently rubbed it: "You suffered so many injuries when you were on the mission, many cuts, much more serious than mine, and you didn't tell me, don't you know that I feel sorry for you too."

"I'm a man." Chu Dai couldn't help but smile. He put his right hand around her waist and held her fingers tightly with his left hand. "You have thick skin and flesh, so you're not afraid of pain."

"But you are my man!" Gu Qingqing's eyes were filled with tears and her lips were pouty: "I feel bad."

Chu Dai sighed, lowered his head and kissed the woman's eyebrows and eyes, "I'll be more careful next time."

The two of them cuddled together for a while, and Gu Qingqing lazily nestled in his arms, smelling the scent of White Rabbit milk candy on him, which made her feel particularly at ease.

Since he went to Gu's house and got married, he seldom smoked and only carried candies with him, because Zhao Ze said that smoking too much was bad for the people around him.

Chu Dai rested his chin on her head, lowered his eyes to look at the woman in his arms, and asked her: "Do you want to go to bed first? I'm dirty, I'm going to take a shower first."

"No!" Gu Qingqing refused, "I just want you to stay with me." After saying that, the hand around his neck tightened even more.

The man's Adam's apple moved up and down, and he chuckled, "Okay, I'll stay with you."

The couple sat like this until after ten o'clock. Gu Qingqing told him about recent school events and that she had made a large pot of pickled vegetables. He liked sour food, so he could eat noodles with it in a month.

"Sister Anian asked me this afternoon when we were going to have a child. She's about to give birth but we haven't done anything yet... She said she was thinking of arranging marriages for the children."

The man listened to her patiently, and finally asked meaningfully: "What about you? What do you think?"

"I said you are too busy and have the energy but not the strength." Gu Qingqing blurted out without hesitation.

The man's eyes were dark, and he looked at her with a smile.

After reacting, she quickly explained: "I didn't tell others about our sex life, nor did I say you were incompetent, it's just... oh, it's just that you've been too busy lately, and you've been missing all day, so I can't give birth to a child by myself."

“Oh,” the man nodded, “blame me.”

"Brother!" Gu Qingqing wriggled in his arms and said, "You know I don't mean that. I love you very much, you know that. You have something to do now, so I won't cling to you and become a hindrance."

The more she talked, the more outrageous it became. Chu Dai directly covered her soft lips. Listening to the hesitant sounds coming out of her mouth, the man sighed.

“It’s a bit lacking in strength.”

After Gu Qingqing heard it clearly, her eyes widened.

So he is admitting that he is not good enough?

Chu Dai's fingers brushed the corner of her lips, and he leaned back slightly, trying to find support against the back of the chair to rest for a while. Because he pulled the wound, he frowned slightly.

Although it was only a fleeting expression, Gu Qingqing still caught it. After being together for so long, she almost knew this man's personality. He seemed casual and could say anything, but in fact he had a very stubborn temper and would bear the hurt by himself without saying a word.

Gu Qingqing jumped off him and tried to lift his clothes.

Now that the weather was warmer, the man was wearing a long-sleeved military uniform. She lifted the clothes up and saw tiny scratches crisscrossing vertically and horizontally.

The wounds were neither deep nor long, but there were so many of them that they looked scary.

She pinched the hem of her clothes with her hands, her eyes red.

"Chu Dai! You promised me last time that you would tell me if you got hurt, but you didn't keep your promise."

"I really forgot this time." Chu Dai felt her cool fingertips caressing his back, and could sense the woman's cautiousness, fearing to hurt him.

"Zhao Ze applied medicine to me, but I didn't feel anything and thought it was healed." These cuts were made a few days ago. Every time he came back, it was late at night and she was already asleep.

It's impossible to wake her up again because of such a small matter. She is very tired every day now. She has seen how naughty those boys on the island are. Even their own parents can't control them, and now they leave everything to her.

Just thinking about it makes him feel worried about his wife.

Gu Qingqing slowly stroked his back with her fingers and didn't say anything for a long time.

Suddenly, a cold liquid hit his back and burned his heart.

Chu Dai quickly turned around and pulled the woman into his arms. Seeing the tears in her eyes and her silent expression, he felt so distressed.

"I have the wrong wife."

Seeing that she still didn't say anything, he sighed and thought of something to divert her attention: "I brought you something. It's in the backyard."

"I don't want to eat it." Gu Qingqing finally spoke. She thought it was another wild fruit.

This man himself was covered in wounds, but he still thought about her every day and always brought her food no matter how late he came home. The more she thought about it, the more pain she felt.

"No." Knowing what she was thinking, the man pulled her up and smiled mysteriously: "I think you will like it."

Gu Qingqing didn't know what he had done, but she couldn't resist her curiosity. She thought she would settle the score with him later and had already made up her mind to give him a bath.

And he didn't allow the man to turn off the lights, because he wanted to see how many new wounds he had.

Chu Dai didn't know that the woman was already thinking about how to take off his clothes, so he took her to the backyard. There was a moon in the sky, so it wasn't too dark.

There was a bamboo cage next to the vegetable plot, which he had borrowed from the quartermaster department. Something was moving inside the cage.

Because he was by her side, Gu Qingqing was not afraid. She also knew that this man would not want to scare her. To make sure it was not a soft bug, she moved a little closer and squatted down to take a look.

"This is..." She was stunned for a moment when she saw the long tail feathers, and then she said in surprise: "Wild pheasant?!"

Chu Dai also squatted down with her. The man was tall and had long legs, so even when squatting he was much taller than her. "Yeah, I just happened to see it. Didn't you say that there were caterpillars in the cabbage and no chickens were pecking at them? I caught two for you."

The man said it lightly, but Gu Qingqing knew it was definitely not that simple. There were also pheasants in the mountains behind the educated youth site in Datunzi Village, and they were particularly difficult to catch. Pheasants were much more agile than Goudan, and they would sneak into the forest directly when they heard footsteps.

It disappeared in an instant.

She reached out to play with the pheasants and found that they were listless and not very active. "I have never tamed pheasants before, so I guess I can't keep them alive, right?"

"That's perfect. I'll kill it and give it to you as a supplement." Chu Dai stood up, holding his knees. "Is there anything to eat at home? I'm a little hungry."

"Let me make you an egg pancake." Gu Qingqing pulled his wrist and stood up. "Will you help me knead the dough?"

"I want to take a shower first." The man hesitated for a moment, but continued, "Smell me. I stink. I'm afraid I'll stink you."

Gu Qingqing didn't buy it and followed him to the front yard: "It's okay, I don't mind you, you're my man, I still like you no matter how smelly you are, be good, come with me to the kitchen."

Gu Qingqing grabbed his arm and said with a smile: "After eating the egg pancake, take a walk for a while, and then I will help you take a bath."

Chu Dai: “…” Finally he understood why Gu Qinglie said his sister had a dog-like face.

Before, they were so angry and crying, as if they would never see each other again for the rest of their lives, but now they are smiling and acting like a loving couple. I wonder how many cuts he has on his body later.