However, when his mother asked in front of outsiders, he couldn't not answer, "No, we got married last year. At least when I was transferred at the beginning of the year, I hadn't heard that my sister-in-law was pregnant."

"Oh, that's good. His wife went with him to the military?" Aunt Chu asked again.

"Yes, after he transferred over there, I heard he was assigned a separate dormitory, and he brought his wife over with him," Lin Yuan said softly.

Zhao Huanhuan and Wen Yan were both eating with their heads down, but Lin Yuan and Aunt Chu's voices reached their ears.

Wenyan thought to herself, "It would be such a happy thing to marry a comrade from the People's Liberation Army!"

While eating, Zhao Huanhuan was also lost in thought. Unexpectedly, the voice of this cannon fodder male supporting character was quite charming, making one's ears feel numb.

Yang Man is really unlucky. She didn't want such a good man, but instead chose a spineless man like Gu Yifeng.

Yesterday, she saw Gu Yifeng carrying a load of fertilizer, yet he still managed to fall and scrape his knee.

In Zhao Huanhuan's opinion, Gu Yifeng, a weak scholar who couldn't lift a finger, was nowhere near as good as Lin Yuan, a man full of masculinity.

Although Lin Yuan doesn't look very fair, his skin has the wheat color typical of soldiers, a color Zhao Huanhuan called masculine in her previous life. It looks healthy and has a lot of masculine charm from any angle.

Thinking of this, Zhao Huanhuan looked up at Lin Yuan, just as Aunt Chu saw her. Zhao Huanhuan smiled at Aunt Chu and said, "Brother Lin Yuan won't lack a wife, Aunt Chu doesn't need to worry."

According to the original story, Yang Man also has a good friend, Hu Doudou. When Hu Doudou met Lin Yuan, she fell in love with the tall, handsome, and upright Lin Yuan and confessed her feelings to him. However, Lin Yuan seemed to dislike her and rejected her.

When he learned that his mother had set his sights on Yang Man, he didn't refuse. It seems he liked Yang Man's type: intellectual, aloof, and seemingly unattainable.

In fact, Zhao Huanhuan felt that the female lead was love-obsessed, and even felt that the author portrayed Yang Man as somewhat power-hungry.

Because the male protagonist Gu Yifeng's father is a minor leader in the government, Gu Yifeng's time as an educated youth here is just a transitional phase. Moreover, he has always had a crush on Yang Man, and he chose to come here because of Yang Man.

The poor Aunt Chu in the book was unaware of Yang Man and Gu Yifeng's relationship and thought that Yang Man and her son were the perfect match. Just then, Lin Yuan saved Yang Man, and the brigade leader stepped in to act as matchmaker for them, and the matter was settled.

In the book, on the day Yang Man and Lin Yuan got married, Gu Yifeng locked himself in his room and got completely drunk.

However, the author is his own mother, and she didn't let Lin Yuan and Yang Man become a real couple on their wedding night. Instead, Lin Yuan was sent away by a telegram from the army.

As a result, the tragedies and plot twists that followed were all the more numerous.

Aunt Chu smiled and nodded, "I hope so. This boy is already twenty-four, and he'll be twenty-five next year. By the way, Huanhuan, Yanyan, do you think there are any girls in our village who are suitable for Lin Yuan? Please recommend one to Aunt Chu."

"Mom, let's eat!" Lin Yuan called out helplessly.

His mother is blatantly making things difficult for them. Discussing his marriage in front of them, is that appropriate?

Zhao Huanhuan smiled and glanced at Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan looked up and met her smiling eyes, then coughed lightly. "Comrade Zhao, don't listen to my mom teasing you. I'm not that old, there's no rush. Some of our comrades are twenty-seven or twenty-eight and still not married, so there's no rush!"

Zhao Huanhuan smiled, nodded, and continued eating.

Whether he's in a hurry or not is his business; his parents have to worry about him.

As an outsider, I should just offer my opinion.

However, Zhao Huanhuan had already made up her mind that if Aunt Chu set her sights on Yang Man for Lin Yuan, she would definitely find a way to stop it and not let the Lin family really end up like the one in the book.

In particular, Lin Yuan was a true soldier in her heart, so how could she let him end up so tragically?

During the meal, Wenyan secretly glanced at Lin Yuan several times, and the more she looked at him, the more she felt that Lin Yuan was her type.

However, she noticed that Lin Yuan seemed to prefer Huanhuan, and she saw that Lin Yuan had looked at Huanhuan several times.

Come to think of it, who wouldn't like a pretty girl?

Moreover, Wenyan knew very well that among her group of female educated youth, Huanhuan was the prettiest one.

The meal ended with everyone lost in their own thoughts. Zhao Huanhuan and Wen Yan went to wash the dishes, but Aunt Chu took them away from them.

"You two cooked the meal, so you don't need to wash the dishes. You can go and rest!"

Zhao Huanhuan and Wen Yan exchanged a glance, smiled helplessly, and could only help clear away the dishes and chopsticks before going to the yard to clean up the trash left behind while picking vegetables and peeling potatoes.

After tidying up, the two returned to their room.

The Lin family has two main rooms. Lin Yuan lives in the east room of the main room, the two elders live in the west room of the main room, and Zhao Huanhuan and Wen Yan live in the west room of the Lin family's main room.

The south-facing room was used for cooking and eating, while the east-facing room was used for storing grain.

The Lin family's courtyard was not small. There were two fruit trees in the courtyard, and there was an empty plot of land to the east of the main house that had not yet been used to build a new house. It was probably reserved for Lin Yuan to build a new house when he got married.

After the two returned to the house, Wen Yan mysteriously pulled Zhao Huanhuan to a corner and whispered, "Huanhuan, do you like Brother Lin Yuan?"

Zhao Huanhuan was taken aback, and exclaimed "Ah!", not understanding what she meant by suddenly asking that question.

“Oh, right, Huanhuan, have you thought about finding a partner here? We just came to the countryside this year, and we don’t know when we’ll be able to go back to the city. If we wait until we go back to find a partner, I’m afraid all the people of the right age will be married, and we’ll only be able to find someone who’s been rejected by others or someone who is much older than us.”

"So?" Zhao Huanhuan looked at Wen Yan with a wry smile, unsure of what she wanted to say.

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