While eating, Gu Qingqing would occasionally look up at the man sitting opposite her. He had a white bandage wrapped around his right wrist and his bony fingers were holding the chopsticks. He ate neither fast nor slow without making any sound.

It formed a sharp contrast with Gu Qinglie who was chewing the crunchy carrot skin next to him.

The way Gu Qingqing eats at home is not much different from her brother Goudan. She glanced at the man opposite her who was chewing slowly, his cheeks bulging. He took four or five bites to finish a potato that could normally be eaten in two bites, which left Gu Qinglie stunned.

Is this still his sister? !

After finishing his meal, Gu Qinglie washed the lunch box, wiped the water off his hands on his butt, and dragged the girl behind Chu Dai.

"Let's go see a movie!"

There isn't much else in the Corps, except for a lot of open space.

The huge playground was filled with people. Gu Qingqing looked around and saw that they were all soldiers about the same age as her brother, and some were about her age.

There were two bamboo poles standing on the playground with a large screen hung on them. The projectionist of the art troupe was adjusting the projector. The generator was humming, and the lights were shining on the large screen, making the playground bright.

"Comrades!" a short-haired female soldier said playfully, "The movie is about to start, everyone please find a place to sit down and don't move around!"

Gu Qingqing was pulled by Gu Qinglie to the front row, sitting next to Chu Dai, with her brother on her right.

She turned around and looked around, and saw Sun Shufen holding Xiaotu and Xiaoxu, with Xu Nian following beside them.

Xiaoxu shook his legs in her arms, and Sun Shufen put him down.

Yu Xu staggered to a crowded place and squatted behind them, where he was talking. The young soldiers saw him and kept teasing him.

Xu Nian looked a little strange, and she didn't say anything even when Sun Shufen laughed and scolded Yu Xu as a bad boy.

Gu Qingqing was about to stand up when Gu Qinglie’s big hand held her back: “The movie is about to start, stop running around, why can’t you sit still?”

Gu Qingqing: “…” Okay, Goudan, you’ll feel uncomfortable if you don’t say something insulting to me, right?

They were sitting on a long bench, and from time to time someone would move a bench over to push it together. Gu Qinglie was squeezed again and again, and Gu Qingqing was already leaning against Chu Dai's arm, with her legs tightly against his legs.

The man's hot body temperature burned into her heart through the thin cloth. Gu Qingqing's body stiffened slightly and she dared not move.

Noticing her strangeness, Chu Dai wanted to ask the people next to him to sit further away, but when he looked up, he saw that the surroundings were as crowded as a can of sardines, with no space between shoulders.

Gu Qinglie swore, "Don't come over here! Go get a stool! Why don't you just sit on my lap instead of squeezing here?"

Even so, the soldiers who kept joining in kept squeezing them and forcing them to move.

Gu Qingqing's entire body weight was almost on the man. She raised her head quietly and only saw his sharp jawline.

The man seemed unaware, his back straight, his hands on his knees.

The movie started, the noisy laughter stopped, and everyone focused their attention on the screen.

Gu Qingqing also suppressed the strange feeling in her heart and stared straight at the curtain.

The film tells the story of a soldier who has been guarding a small island on the border of his motherland alone for ten years. His wife gave birth and raised the child at home alone. When the child was ten years old, he cried and wanted to see his father. His wife took him out to sea on a boat, but they encountered a storm...

Gu Qingqing's heart had been in her throat since they went out to sea. When the waves came, the woman protected the child tightly with a fearless look on her face.

"No matter how strong the wind and waves are, they can't stop us mother and daughter from running towards you." This was the first sentence the woman said to her husband after she arrived at the island after going through so much hardship.

Gu Qingqing's heart seemed to be gently pricked by something. She turned her head subconsciously and looked at the man's resolute and thin profile.

"It's really not easy to be a military wife." Someone suddenly took the lead in expressing his feelings.

Soldiers contribute to their country, and military wives contribute to their families.

After the movie ended, Gu Qingqing led the applause. Chu Dai glanced at her calmly and also extended his hand.

The deafening noise gradually faded away, and the soldiers carried the stools back to the quartermaster's office. Perhaps moved by the movie, Yu Fugui held his son and daughter in his arms, and smiled as he talked to his wife. It was obvious that Sun Shufen was also very happy.

As for Xu Nian, she left quietly after the movie ended, and even Gu Qingqing didn't notice her.

"Brother Adai!" A voice as clear as an oriole rang in her ears. Gu Qingqing looked up and saw a short-haired female soldier with lively eyes and eyebrows.

It was the seat that the art troupe had just asked everyone to sit in.

Chu Dai stood up, with a smile on his face: "Why are you here again?"

Bai Rong stuck out her tongue at her, put her hands behind her back and said, "What's the matter? You can come but I can't?"

"No." Chu Dai said, "You come here too often, isn't Uncle Bai going to tell you off?"

"I came to the border to encourage my comrades under the organization's arrangement. He can't say anything to me."

Gu Qingqing listened to their conversation and thought of the childhood sweetheart mentioned by the young warrior, and was almost sure of the identity of the person in front of her.

However, his childhood sweetheart's personality seems to be similar to hers, except that she is not as white as her, not as thin as her, and does not look as pretty as her.

Gu Qingqing summed up her life and felt a little disappointed. She raised her hand and patted Gu Qinglie's arm while he was talking to his comrade, and said listlessly, "Brother, I'm sleepy and I'm going to go back to sleep first."

"Go ahead." Gu Qinglie waved his hands and had no time to pay attention to her.

Gu Qingqing took two steps, turned around and saw Chu Dai still chatting with his childhood sweetheart. She sighed and returned to the military compound in the moonlight.

After simply washing up with some water, the temperature outside began to drop. Gu Qingqing was shivering with cold and quickly took the basin back into the house.

She closed all the windows, didn't turn on the lights, and sat on the edge of the bed.

The Corps had its own diesel generators and every room had light bulbs, but she didn't want to use them. She looked at the photos in her hands in the light of the moon.

The man's features were exactly the same as in the photo, just as high-spirited and rebellious.

The photo even softens his temperament a bit.

She still remembered the man's eyes, which were closed for rest in the car this morning, and then suddenly opened. His dark pupils were so deep that she felt as if she was being stared at by a ferocious wolf.

There were many things in her mind. Gu Qingqing fell asleep in a daze, holding the photo in her hand. She woke up once in the middle of the night, lay on the bed, pulled the quilt over her, and continued to dream.

I slept until noon and finally felt refreshed.

"Qingqing!" Seeing her stretching her back, Sun Shufen hung clothes on the bamboo pole. "Your brother brought you food this morning. It's on the windowsill. He came again at noon. He ate the breakfast and left the lunch there."

"Hurry up and wash your face, brush your teeth, and eat your meal."

"Oh, okay!" Gu Qingqing rubbed her eyes, took the aluminum lunch box on the windowsill into the house, opened it and saw two pieces of scallion fried eggs. The scallions were tender green and the eggs were golden yellow. Gu Qinglie's portion was probably left for her.

There was also some braised beef with potatoes and pickled radish skins on the side, and some pickled cabbage.

Gu Qingqing smelled the fragrance of the food and was really hungry. She trotted to wash up, rubbed her hands, and sat down at the table to prepare to eat.

The sauerkraut was fermented to perfection and almost made her teeth fall out from the sour taste. Gu Qingqing frowned and grimaced as she ate her rice, putting the sauerkraut in the rice.

This was the scene Chu Dai saw when he came in. It was the first time he saw someone eating in such pain. The watermelon in his hand fell on the table with a clang.

Gu Qingqing looked up blankly.

"Sister," Chu Dai said with a smile in his eyes, "Your brother asked me to give you the melon."

Gu Qingqing wiped her mouth quickly, stood up and pulled out a stool for him: "Sit down."

Chu Dai shook his head slightly, "I have something else to do, you continue eating."

Gu Qingqing said "Oh" and felt a little disappointed.

But when I thought that the watermelon was sent by him, I couldn't help but feel happy.

I’m sending you a melon today, who knows, you might find someone tomorrow!

Chu Dai walked to the door, then suddenly took two steps back and said, "Your brother asked you to leave some for him."

Gu Qingqing nodded obediently: "...Okay, thank you brother."

The man's tall figure gradually disappeared at the gate of the courtyard and headed towards the training ground.

After Gu Qingqing finished eating, she twirled the rice grains that fell on the table with her fingers and put them to her mouth, muttering: "It seems to be early rice."

She held the watermelon in her hand and weighed it. It was quite heavy. She wondered where Goudan got it from.

Thinking of sharing the watermelon with Aunt Yu and Sister Anian later in the evening, Gu Qingqing fetched a bucket of water and soaked the watermelon in it.

After finishing all this, she clapped her hands and glanced at the open space in the backyard. Gu Qingqing thought of something and went back to the house to find out the list of vegetables that were easy to grow in sandy soil that Brother Meng Nan had written for her. She put the seeds she brought in her pocket and went to the quartermaster's office to borrow a hoe.

Bai Rong happened to be passing by the backyard and wanted to go to the cafeteria to get some hot water from the back road. She saw the little girl who sat next to Brother Adai yesterday digging the soil with grunts.

She walked over curiously, looked for a while, and couldn't help asking, "Hello, comrade, what are you doing?"

"Hello," Gu Qingqing raised her hand to wipe the sweat off her face. Seeing Bai Rong's expression of surprise, she said with a bright look in her eyes, "Growing vegetables! Loosen the soil and sow the seeds."

Although she admired her idea, Bai Rong couldn't help but remind her: "Apart from winter melon, pumpkin, sweet potato and potato, no other vegetable seedlings can grow here."

"Hey, let's try it, what if it grows out?" The girl smiled sincerely, her eyes clear and bright.

Bai Rong laughed: "Okay, I wish you success, I'm going to the cafeteria now."

"Okay, go ahead and get busy."

After she walked away, Gu Qingqing continued to bend over and plow the ground.

Yu Tu and Yu Xu ran to the backyard to play. Seeing Gu Qingqing there, Yu Tu led her brother over and asked in a soft voice, "Is Sister planting vegetables?"

She is almost ten years old, and at her age in the village she can earn half the work points of an adult. She has cut grass to feed pigs in exchange for centimeters, and has also helped the production team to herd cattle, and has done a lot of work in the fields.

"Yes, I want to grow some vegetables for the brothers in the army." Gu Qingqing wanted to rub the little rabbit's head, but when she saw the dirty soil on her hands, she smiled dryly and withdrew her hands. She turned her eyes and set her sights on the little boy next to her.

"Xiao Xu, are the candied green plums delicious?"

Yu Xu clapped his hands and said in a childish voice: "Delicious, delicious, let's finish it!"

"Does Xiaoxu still want to eat?" Gu Qingqing coaxed.

"think!"

"How about this, Xiaoxu comes to this vegetable patch every day to eat, and I'll give Xiaoxu another can of green plums, okay?"

Gu Qingqing didn't know that the Corps fed the pigs themselves, and was worried about the fertilizer, so she could only watch Yu Xu helplessly.

"Okay~Xiao Xu comes here every day!"