Chu Dai sighed softly, suppressed the turbulent emotions in his heart, and stood up with his hands on his knees.

Gu Qingqing followed his movements and stood up, taking the candied green plums from the table. Her big, watery eyes followed him the whole time: "Are you going back to the toilet? I'll take you there."

"Okay." Chu Dai laughed dumbly. He wanted to say that he didn't really need care that much, but he didn't say it in the end.

Because he felt that he actually needed it.

Gu Qingqing followed him to the door, just in time to see Zhao Ze coming out getting dressed.

“…”

“…”

Chu Dai saw his hands trembling slightly as he buttoned his military uniform, and smiled, "Going back to the sanitation center?"

"Yeah." Zhao Ze turned around and closed the door to block out the sound from outside.

His wife is timid. She would be very embarrassed if she knew they were in the next room.

"Let's go together?" Zhao Ze coughed lightly, not intending to bring up the matter: "It's time for you to change your medicine."

"You go first, I'll stay with her." Chu Dai's eyes were gentle as they fell on the girl beside him, his eyes full of smiles.

Zhao Ze nodded and walked quickly towards the clinic. When his back was about to disappear at the gate of the military compound, he suddenly staggered.

Obviously he was not as calm as he had just appeared.

Chu Dai couldn't help laughing, and picked up Gu Qingqing, who was standing on tiptoe with half of her head sticking out to look at Sun Shufen's room, and said helplessly, "Let's go too."

"Oh, okay." Gu Qingqing withdrew her gaze and followed him closely with the jar of green plums in her arms.

The man was tall and had long legs, and he walked with big steps. In order to accommodate her, he deliberately slowed down his pace and the two of them walked side by side.

The moonlight is bright, shining all over the ground.

Gu Qingqing was walking on his left. As soon as they reached the playground, she suddenly said, "Brother."

"Hmm?" Chu Dai responded lazily, his eyes falling on the vegetable greenhouse set up in the open space in the distance.

"Are we... a couple now?" Gu Qingqing bit her lip and looked at him cautiously.

"Yes." Chu Dai heard her cautious and tentative tone, looked at the girl's big black eyes, and felt a little funny and distressed: "Tomorrow I will apply for marriage to Lao Guan. Do you want to write a letter to your family first?"

Now the application still needs to review the background of both parties, so it won’t be approved so quickly, so there is enough time for her to discuss it with her family.

"No, no." Gu Qingqing waved her hands repeatedly, holding the glass jar of green plums in her arms.

"My grandma and mom both know why I'm here. They said that the person my brother has chosen must be good. If I'm willing, I can just take her back and get the marriage certificate."

Chu Dai took the canned green plums from her arms, took out a handful of candies from his pocket and put them in her palm, "How about this, your brother and I will start our New Year's holiday this year on the 15th day of the first lunar month. I will take you back to the Southern Military Region to meet my family, and you can go visit your relatives."

"Why do we have to go back to the southern military region first?" Gu Qingqing peeled off the candy wrapper and said with some hesitation: "I want to take you home to meet my grandpa, grandma, father, mother, uncles and aunts first."

Chu Dai sighed deeply and looked at her helplessly.

The look in his eyes made Gu Qingqing feel unsure. What did he mean? Would he regret it and not want to meet her parents?

Just as she was daydreaming, she heard the man say with a smile: "Silly girl, don't you want a betrothal gift?"

Gu Qingqing almost jumped three feet high, and stuffed the peeled White Rabbit milk candy in her hand directly into his mouth, staring at him steadily with her big, bright black eyes.

It looked straight into his heart.

Chu Dai held the candy in his mouth and raised his hand to push back the messy hair on her forehead that was blown by the wind. Then the two of them walked slowly towards the bathroom.

Gu Qingqing's face was flushed. When he mentioned the betrothal gift just now, her brain was completely at a standstill. Her heart had already flown back to Datunzi Village, wanting to tell her mother the good news as soon as possible.

When they passed the canteen entrance and were about to reach the toilet, Gu Qingqing thought of what her mother had said at home, and asked him nervously, "Brother, my brother said he likes gentle and considerate girls, and my mother also said that soldiers don't like noisy girls. What about you? Do you also want a gentle, generous and good-tempered girl?"

Seeing her asking seriously, Chu Dai couldn't help wanting to laugh, but he laughed too many times today and the wound hurt.

Seeing that he was silent, as if he had acquiesced, Gu Qingqing became a little angry and kicked a small stone with her toes. With a "pa" sound, the stone flew onto the white wall outside the toilet, leaving a very faint mark.

Gu Qingqing quickly retracted her foot, looking at the smiling man beside her helplessly, and explained: "Actually, I can be very gentle sometimes..."

Chu Dai couldn't help it, his clear laughter melted into the evening breeze, he shook his head gently, and stopped teasing the girl: "I only want you."

"Ah?" Gu Qingqing was still in shock from his sudden confession of affection.

"I like you the way you are." Chu Dai pulled her arm towards him, making way for the wounded soldier with a crutch.

"Okay, stop standing here," Gu Qinglie had just changed the gauze on his arm from Zhao Ze, and when he came out he heard such corny words, and he got goosebumps all over his body.

He mocked Chu Dai: "Is this what you mean by not looking for a partner?"

Chu Dai followed suit, "Brother, I was wrong."

Gu Qinglie: “?”

"Hahaha." He laughed heartily, his eyes fixed on Chu Dai in disbelief, and said to Gu Qingqing beside him: "Sister, I am grateful to you for your help today. Old Chu, you have also suffered this day."

Chu Dai and he had the same birthday, both of them were born around seven in the morning. Because they couldn't tell the exact time of birth, they had been arguing over who was the older brother and who was the younger brother for the past two years.

I didn’t expect that. I really didn’t expect that.

Gu Qingqing listened to Goudan's increasingly frantic laughter, her face full of worry, "Is my brother crazy? Should I go find Brother Zhao?"

"Sister, you can't do this. You haven't even gotten married yet and you're already turning your elbows outward." Zhao Ze came out with a smile, met Chu Dai's teasing eyes, and pushed his glasses embarrassedly: "Don't you want to change the medicine? Come on."

Chu Dai followed in, and Gu Qingqing wanted to follow, but was pulled back by Gu Qinglie, "Sister."

"What?" Gu Qingqing was unpleasant, even a little fierce.

In fact, these two men are not good people. One of them is going to live in the island without saying a word, and the other one is also hiding his intention to apply from her.

"Girl, don't be too proactive." Gu Qinglie took a piece of candy from her hand, peeled it and put it in his mouth, chewing it under his sister's unexpected gaze.

"Men must be kept hanging, and their desire to conquer cannot be satisfied."

Gu Qingqing inexplicably thought of what Captain Guan said about the eagle, and she asked softly, "Then should I be more restrained?"

Gu Qinglie smiled, put his arm around the girl's shoulders and walked towards the military compound. Seeing her turning back every few steps, he straightened her head again and said, "There will be plenty of opportunities to see it later. Tell me, what did you two talk about last night? This guy even called me."

Gu Qingqing was still a little embarrassed to mention him in front of her family, and whispered, "He said he would go to the regiment headquarters to apply for marriage tomorrow, and also said that you should take your annual leave and go to the southern military region first, and then return to Datunzi Village with us."

Gu Qinglie was a little puzzled, "Why don't you go back to Datunzi Village first?"

"He said he wanted to prepare a betrothal gift." Gu Qingqing pinched the candy between her fingertips, feeling a little shy.

"Hey." Gu Qinglie slapped his head: "I almost forgot about this."

Many times, his precious sister did not give him the feeling of a girl. As a result, now that his sister is about to get married, he still has no feelings at all, and it's like his brother's marriage.

If grandpa and grandma knew about this, they would definitely beat him up.

Gu Qingqing rolled her eyes at him and said, "You better explain to me why Brother Zhao said you were going to Baisha Island."

"It's a long story..." Gu Qinglie sent her back to the military compound and told her exactly what he had said to Chu Dai that afternoon.

"I suspect this guy has been thinking about you for a long time," Gu Qinglie felt a little sad and unhappy: "He is just afraid that he will die in the war one day, and you will marry him and become a widow, and their Chu family..."

At this point, Gu Qinglie stood in awe: "The Chu family is full of loyal and brave people. They are worthy of the country and the people, but they are not worthy of their own women and children."

Gu Qingqing was also silent. After a while, she said softly, "But I am willing, brother. I am willing."

"Yes, I know." Gu Qinglie raised his hand and gently scratched her nose, smiling: "So, Chu Dai is yours."

After returning to the military compound, Gu Qingqing still felt as if she was walking on air. Xu Nian just happened to come back from the public bathroom in the backyard with a washbasin and soap. He had just finished a shower and his hair was wet.

"My dear?"

Gu Qingqing raised her head, tilted her eyes and smiled: "Sister Anian, I'm getting married!"

Although Xu Nian was surprised, he did not think it was strange considering Captain Chu's behavior in the cafeteria at night. He just did not expect these two people to progress so quickly.

She hung the washed clothes in the basin on the bamboo pole to dry, and said with a gentle smile: "Congratulations, Qingqing, you got what you wanted."

Gu Qingqing couldn't sleep, so she sat in the yard and watched her shaking out the clothes to dry them neatly. "Thank you, Sister Anian, have you and Brother Zhao made it clear?"

"Yeah." After hanging up the clothes, Xu Nian sat down next to her and looked up at the moon: "He said he regretted leaving me alone at home and should have let me join the army earlier."

Xu Nian looked at the girl who was resting her hands on her knees and holding her face, and said, "I have been married to Brother Ze for five years. We can only see each other for half a month every year when we visit relatives. Our relationship was not so deep before."

"Brother Ze was a college student supported by his brothers who cut back on their clothes and diet. Later, he studied medicine and joined the army." Xu Nian tilted his head slightly, leaned on Gu Qingqing's shoulder, and continued: "Qingqing, no matter in the past or now, you know how honored and proud it is to have someone in the family in the army. In fact, when his mother came to visit the army before, she had already found a girl from the art troupe for him."

"Zege and I are from the same village. His mother looked down on me and thought that the city girl in the art troupe was better than me. But Zege still married me against his mother's wishes."

At this point, Xu Nian's heart softened: "We have been together less and more than together these years. I thought we were just an ordinary couple living together. His mother saw that there was no room for change, so she drove me to the Corps to visit relatives every year and asked me to go back with a child."

Gu Qingqing patted her back gently, silently comforting her.

"My dear." Xu Nian held her hand in return: "Captain Chu is going to the island, and Brother Ze is going too. I will definitely go with him. What about you? Have you made up your mind?"

Gu Qingqing knew that Xu Nian was not simply asking her whether she had decided to go to the island with Chu Dai, but whether she was really sure to follow him in the future.

Baisha Island was too desolate. As expected, it took ten years for construction on the island to show initial results. The first group of people who arrived on the island could not be transferred back in a short period of time.

This means that they have to spend their entire life on the island from the time their children are born until they grow up.

Gu Qingqing nodded, "Sister Anian, I've made up my mind."

"I'll follow him for the rest of my life."

At the gate of the Military Compound, a man stood in the shadows with his back straight.

He held the food and meat coupons in his hands and curled his lips silently.