Chapter 25: It’s better to obey with some fierce words

"Alright," Jiang Xueyi glared at him. "Those who rescue people are heroes. It's not nice for us to speak ill of them behind their backs."

"What's wrong with that?" He Chengze muttered, "I'm a hero too, why didn't they think of this when they were insulting me?"

Jiang Xueyi pushed him into the bathroom and said, "Okay, hero, go take a shower. Look how dirty you are. It's like you rolled in the mud."

He Chengze raised his arms. Being soaked in the flood was just like rolling in the mud.

Jiang Xueyi brought him clothes and a towel: "Wet the towel and wipe your body. Don't let the wound get wet, otherwise it will get inflamed."

"Okay, housekeeper."

He Chengze smiled and hooked her nose, and before she could react, he quickly slipped into the bathroom.

Jiang Xueyi stood there and chuckled.

Even the most mature man has a childish side.

While He Chengze was taking a shower, Jiang Xueyi went to the kitchen to make him a bowl of noodles.

He must be hungry coming back so late.

Put the noodles into the pot and blanch them. At the same time, use oyster sauce, light soy sauce, vinegar, salt, sugar, minced garlic and sesame paste to make a salty and delicious sesame sauce.

Take out the noodles, drain the water and put them into the prepared large bowl. At the same time, pour in the prepared sesame sauce, finely cut cucumber, sprinkle with cooked peanuts and chopped green onions, and a bowl of fragrant sesame noodles is ready.

He Chengze came out of the shower and sniffed: "What smells so good?"

Jiang Xueyi glanced at him and saw that he was indeed obedient. He just wiped himself without taking a real shower. "I made you a bowl of sesame sauce noodles."

"It turns out to be sesame sauce noodles. I was wondering why this taste was so familiar." He Chengze mixed the sauce and noodles with chopsticks and said happily, "I haven't had this in a while. I miss it so much."

Jiang Xueyi: "Eat it while it's hot."

I put the noodles wrapped in sesame paste into my mouth. The rich aroma mixed with the crispness of crushed peanuts made my stomach full and my whole body warm.

He Chengze ate up all the sesame noodles, leaving only a shallow amount of sauce at the bottom of the bowl.

He looked up and saw Jiang Xueyi staring at him. He was stunned for a moment: "Is there something on my face?"

"Nothing." Jiang Xueyi held her face with her hands, her eyes sparkling, "I just think you're beautiful. I can't get enough of looking at you."

Especially the light blue stubble on his chin makes him look more manly.

He Chengze blushed and quickly picked up the bowl to cover it up, pretending to be eating noodles.

But there was nothing in the bowl, and all I could hear was the sound of chopsticks colliding with the empty bowl.

Jiang Xueyi tilted her head: "But aren't you a little darker?"

He Chengze touched his chin: "It's normal to be dark after being exposed to the sun and rain every day."

He changed the subject and pointed at the bandage on his chest and said, "This wound is not shallow. It won't leave a scar, will it?"

Thinking of having a crooked, centipede-like scar on his chest, he couldn't help but reveal an expression of disgust.

In the past, injuries and scars were inevitable during training and missions, but he didn’t think it was a big deal. But now it’s different. He has a wife, what if she dislikes him?

Jiang Xueyi: "It's okay to leave scars. It's a man's medal."

"Just don't think this medal is ugly when the time comes." He Chengze said with a smile.

He went to wash the dishes. Jiang Xueyi picked up Xiao Mi from the ground and tapped its black nose. "You little idiot, you didn't even call out when someone came to our house. What if it was someone with bad intentions? What would we do then?"

Xiaomi let out a cry, feeling very aggrieved.

How can the male owner be a bad guy~

He Chengze poked his head out of the kitchen and said, "You're really wronging Xiaomi. When it saw me come back, it wanted to rub against my trouser legs, but my clothes were dirty, so I didn't dare let it."

He added, "What about us mother and daughter? Have you given Xiaomi a son?"

Jiang Xueyi said confidently, "Don't underestimate Xiaomi. When the baby is born, I might even need it to help me take care of it."

She patted Xiaomi's head and said, "Xiaomi, don't you think so?"

Xiaomi: "Woof woof!"

It seems to prove that it is really an expert in taking care of children.

The two returned to the bedroom.

He Chengze picked up the bib on the bedside table: "Is this for the baby?"

"Yeah." Jiang Xueyi's eyes sparkled as she picked up a treasure to show him, "Isn't it cute?"

"It's cute." He Chengze raised his eyebrows and said, "But isn't it a little too girly?"

These little whales and big white geese look childish. According to his aesthetic taste, they should be made of green cloth with a big five-pointed star embroidered with red thread, and it would be best if the five big characters "Serve the People" were printed on them.

He told Jiang Xueyi about this idea with great excitement, and said, "Is my idea good?"

Jiang Xueyi: ...

Comrade Xiao He is just a little guy, why does he serve the people?

She tugged at the light cord: "Sleep!"

Just go to sleep. As soon as Jiang Xueyi lay down on the bed, she was hugged by a pair of strong arms.

The man's breath came over her like an overwhelming force.

She nestled in his arms.

He held her in his arms, carefully avoiding her bulging belly.

He stroked her hair and asked, "Did you miss me during the few days I was away?"

Jiang Xueyi tapped her finger. "Do I miss you? I'm busy making a bib for Xiao He, taking Xiaomi for a walk, and often visiting Liu Lu's house. I don't have time to miss you at all—"

Before he could finish his words, his mouth was blocked.

He used the tip of his tongue to pry open her slightly opened lips, and kisses filled with hormones covered her, as if to pour out all the suppressed thoughts he had suppressed during the days of fighting floods on the front line.

Jiang Xueyi responded to his kiss shyly, with small sounds coming out of her lips.

The sound made her want to cover her face with a pillow or find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

He Chengze chuckled and put his hands on her waist through a thin layer of clothes.

He didn't stop until he touched the bulging pregnant belly.

Jiang Xueyi rested her head on the pillow, her black hair was disheveled, her eyes were charming, and there was a faint smile hidden in her eyes.

He Chengze took a deep breath and whispered in her ear: "...like that night,...help me"

Realizing which night he was talking about, Jiang Xueyi's face flushed.

Turning sideways, only half of her fair face is revealed, and her chin is small and lovely.

She didn't say whether she agreed or not.

He Chengze thought, no reaction means consent, right?

He boldly pulled her hand down.

She was like a frightened bird and immediately retracted her hand.

"Don't be afraid."

He held her hand and taught her.

Teach her little by little, just like the best teacher treats a student, until she has covered it all and mastered all the rhythms.

In the end, it felt like I was in the clouds.

Every cell in my body is rejoicing, from my toes to the roots of my hair.

That kind of extreme pleasure is hard to describe in words.

After it was over, He Chengze hugged Jiang Xueyi tightly, reluctant to let go.

"Are you tired?" He rubbed her palms and wrists carefully.

Jiang Xueyi was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes and hummed twice in a daze.

I don’t know what I’m saying anymore.

It was He Chengze who was holding her and whispering something in her ear.

She couldn't hear clearly, she only vaguely heard something like "...I miss you, I love you..."

Before she completely closed her eyes, she was still thinking, this man is really shameless, he says everything.

-

The sun showed up and the sunlight spread all over the ground.

When Jiang Xueyi woke up, there was no one beside her.

She had just put on her slippers, making a slight noise, when He Chengze's face appeared at the door.

The man looked refreshed: "Awake?"

Jiang Xueyi said "hmm" lazily.

Just as I was about to go to the bathroom to wash up, he had already brought me a basin filled with hot water, a towel, and a toothbrush: "I'll help you."

Jiang Xueyi let him wipe her face, but she did it herself when it came to brushing her teeth.

After finishing this, I glanced at him.

The man's handsome face was sunny and bright: "Come to the living room, I made you something delicious."

Sure enough, men who are satisfied in that aspect are easy to talk to.

It was worth it for her to put so much effort in yesterday.

As Jiang Xueyi walked, she recalled that she had seen it somewhere in her previous life.

A large part of the reason for divorce between couples is due to sexual disharmony. If that aspect is harmonious, they can make up after a fight and talk things out.

They should be considered harmonious, right?

When I got to the living room, I saw that there was indeed some delicious food.

The golden pancake is inlaid with green chopped green onions, and the aroma is fragrant. It is a scallion pancake.

Jiang Xueyi blinked: "Where did the onions come from?"

"Did you forget?" He Chengze laughed, "Those planted on the balcony."

Jiang Xueyi picked up a piece of scallion pancake, ate it until her mouth was full of oil, and said with a smile: "You, as soon as you came back, you missed my scallions."

She has been worried about He Chengze these days and has no time to take care of the vegetables on the balcony.

Fortunately, the varieties we chose are easy to grow. They will grow as soon as they are exposed to the wind and some water is needed.

Glancing at the balcony, I saw that the green onions had grown lush and green. Even though some of them were used to make scallion pancakes, there was no sign of them having been picked.

He Chengze also ate with relish.

Thinking back to when Jiang Xueyi said she wanted to grow vegetables on the balcony, he thought she was a little unrealistic.

Now I see that these vegetables are grown really well and are very convenient.

I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect, but the scallion pancakes made with scallions I grow myself are a hundred times more delicious than those sold outside.

Jiang Xueyi wiped the oil off her hands with a handkerchief and caught a glimpse of the white bandage on his chest.

It's a bit dirty now, and the bandage is crooked. I think the situation was urgent when it was bandaged, and the person who did it didn't take it very seriously.

She said, "After breakfast, let's go to the hospital to see a doctor. Your wound has been soaked in water and there may be a risk of infection."

He Chengze raised his eyebrows. He had been through serious injuries before. "It's no big deal. I can just apply some medicine and bandage it myself later."

Jiang Xueyi's eyes widened like a kitten with its fur standing on end. "Do you think you're made of iron?"

He Chengze said with a playful smile: "I consider myself a blacksmith." He added, "A man's bones should be like the refined iron in the furnace. Only through quenching and hammering can it be sharpened into a blade. On the battlefield, no one can come out unscathed."

This guy is like a hard copper pea that can't be broken by hammering.

Jiang Xueyi softened her tone and simply followed his words, saying, "Isn't your army the most particular about obeying orders?"

She raised her eyebrows and raised her chin slightly: "Now, your superior orders you to go to the hospital immediately, otherwise-"

"Otherwise what?"

He Chengze was looking forward to her continuing.

It would be best to say something fierce and ruthless.

For example, otherwise, she would put it on... to seduce him... but not give it to him.

Just thinking about it makes my cheeks blush.

He Chengze looked away, not daring to meet her gaze, for fear of revealing something.

Jiang Xueyi was still urging him to go to the hospital: "Go ahead, just go. It's just right. I've been counting fetal movements for a while now, and it's time to give the doctor some feedback."

"You can go."

He Chengze raised the corner of his mouth and lowered his voice: "Unless, you help me..."

"You!" Jiang Xueyi's neck was stained with a light red, like the sunset glow on the horizon, so beautiful. "That's too much! You're pushing it too far!"

He Chengze raised his eyebrows, a rare evil expression on his tough and upright face: "If you don't agree, I won't go."

He stood up and walked into the house: "Anyway, my skills in applying medicine and bandaging have never been good, so this is a good opportunity to practice."

Jiang Xueyi bit her lower lip lightly, her voice as soft as a mosquito: "I... can't I promise you?"

He Chengze tapped his face with his fingertips: "Pay a deposit first."

The original novel described He Chengze with words like heroic, upright, and incorruptible. Jiang Xueyi didn't see any of that. He used all his cunning tricks to take advantage of her.

She stood on tiptoe, leaned in closer, and kissed him on the cheek.

Just as I was about to leave, he grabbed my waist and deepened the kiss.

Jiang Xueyi panted softly and pushed him: "If we don't go to the hospital now, we'll be late."

They don't talk much about the affection between them.

When they arrived at the military hospital, Jiang Xueyi first accompanied He Chengze to the surgery department.

The doctor in charge of the consultation was a male doctor named Chen. He wore a pair of black glasses and looked very gentle and refined.

Jiang Xueyi: "Doctor, please help me take a look."

He Chengze took off his coat, untied the bandage, revealing the hideous wound underneath.

Doctor Chen examined the patient and frowned, "Patient, have you experienced fever, chest tightness, shortness of breath, or changes in body temperature since your injury?"

He Chengze answered them one by one.

Doctor Chen said, "The situation is better than I thought, and the recovery is faster than expected." He added, "It's just that the stitches on this wound have come apart, which doctor sewed them for you?"

He Chengze said sheepishly: "I was on a mission at the time. The situation was quite serious and time was quite urgent, so I found a local barefoot doctor to stop the bleeding and sew up some stitches."

Doctor Chen shook his head and sighed, muttering something.

He put on gloves and picked up the instruments from the metal tray. "I need to sew you up again and clean out the dead tissue. It might be a little painful. Can you bear it?"

After saying that, he joked to himself: "Soldiers shed blood and sweat, but not tears. They have to endure the pain. I will try to be gentle."

He Chengze laughed. This doctor was quite humorous. "Since you said so, come on."

Dr. Chen first removed the old stitches with scissors, then used tweezers to grab the scabby stitches and pull them out.

Jiang Xueyi quickly covered He Chengze's eyes: "Don't look."

He Chengze took her soft little hand with a smile: "I'm not afraid."

There were many bloodier scenes on the battlefield, so he was not scared by this small scene of stitches.

He is not afraid, and she is even less afraid.

After all, he has been struggling in the apocalypse for several years.

The wound was treated and stitches were started.

He Chengze stared at Doctor Chen stitching while muttering, "Doctor, how are your stitching skills?"

This kind of sewing and mending work has always been done mostly by women.

It’s hard for patients to trust the skills of male doctors.

He Chengze looked at Doctor Chen with a bit of disgust. He thought that Doctor Chen would not sew the wound crookedly, otherwise it would look like a centipede when the wound healed.

really.

Doctor Chen said casually, "It's just so-so."

He Chengze's Adam's apple rolled uneasily: "Are you using me as a training ground?" He added, "If I were alone, it wouldn't matter if I were a little ugly, but now that I'm married and have a family to support, I have to pay attention to my appearance."

Jiang Xueyi glared at him. What was going on? When did she ever say that she would dislike him? It was obviously just his imagination.

Wow, I’m even worried that my wife will dislike me.

Doctor Chen grinned and said, "That's right." He added, "How about I embroider a peony for you? I guarantee it'll be neater than the patch on your camouflage uniform."

He was joking, but He Chengze thought about it seriously.

Reminiscent of Jiang Xueyi's aesthetic when making bibs for babies...

He turned to Jiang Xueyi and asked, "How about embroidering a big white goose?" He then said, "Or, listen to the doctor and embroider a peony. As long as you like it, I'm fine with it."

Jiang Xueyi faced Doctor Chen's 'weird' look, her cheeks flushed slightly, and she stamped her feet, saying, "Doctor, please ignore him. Just sew a 'one' on his wound. If he keeps arguing, sew a few crosses on it."

He Chengze yelled, "That's not a good look."

Afraid that if she stayed any longer, He Chengze would really pull her aside to seriously consider what to sew.

Jiang Xueyi turned her head and said, "I'm going to the obstetrics department. After you finish your stitches, wait here for me."

"Hey." He Chengze responded and turned to continue chatting with Dr. Chen.

"Done." Doctor Chen straightened up and rubbed his shoulders. "I'm almost done with the stitches. I have another patient waiting. Please wait two minutes. I'll come over to finish you off."

He Chengze was very sensible: "Go ahead and get busy. Thank you for your hard work."

"Squeak--" the sound of the door closing.

Then someone came in quietly. After she sat down, He Chengze frowned and asked, "Is it you?"

It's like a sesame seed falling into the eye of a needle, what a coincidence.

Isn’t this the little nurse who was nosy last time and said that he and Jiang Xueyi were like siblings?

Tian Hui's eyes lit up. She didn't expect that He Chengze still remembered her.

It seems that she must have left a significant impression on him, otherwise he would not have been so impressed by her.

Her voice was sweet, and every word seemed to be coated with honey: "You still remember me."

He Chengze said meaningfully: "Impressive."

That’s what she said!

"I'm here to help you with your stitches. Doctor Chen is too busy, so I'm here to lend a hand." Tian Hui picked up the needle and sewed slowly. "Don't worry, although my stitching skills are not as good as Doctor Chen's, I am still one of the best among nurses."

He Chengze glanced at the crooked line.

Really? I can't tell.

Tian Hui pretended to be casual and said, "By the way, where did you get this injury?"

She bit her lower lip lightly, with a hint of confusion and annoyance.

Calculating the time, this was the time He Chengze was injured and hospitalized, but he was obviously seriously injured and couldn't even move.

That way she would have the opportunity to take care of him personally, feed him, and wipe his body...

How come this time it turned out to be a minor injury?

He Chengze said casually: "I was on a mission and accidentally..."

"What kind of mission?" Tian Hui asked hurriedly.

He Chengze met her gaze and said coldly, "Why are you asking so many questions?"

Here it comes again, here it comes again, this kind of nosy behavior again.

If the backgrounds of the nurses in the military hospital had not been checked, he would have thought that Tian Hui was a spy sent from the other side.

Tian Hui: "No, I was just asking." She added, "You're on a flood relief mission, right? I heard it from the soldiers in the corridor."

Her tone was like a little woman, with a hint of admiration: "You were injured while doing disaster relief. It's heroes like you that I admire most."

"Are you done?" He Chengze said in a calm tone, "If you're done, hurry up. Since you know there are more than a dozen soldiers waiting outside to change the dressings, why don't you go and help them?"

Tian Hui's smile froze for a moment, then a gentle arc appeared on the corner of her mouth: "They have other nurses to take care of them. You have a special status, so of course I have priority..."

"Special status?" He Chengze tugged at his collar. "So my injury is more serious than those soldiers who carried sandbags for three days?"

He pointed at the long line of wounded soldiers at the end of the corridor, his voice colder than ice: "You only care about my rank of regimental commander. Can you see their worn hands and festering feet?"

Tian Hui's eyelashes trembled violently, and she forced a smile: "What you said is so hurtful... I just simply admire heroes..."

"Admire the hero?" He Chengze retorted, "Then why don't you finish your work quickly and go change the bandage for the young soldier with a broken bone on the bench. He's been waiting since eight in the morning, and his lips have turned white. Or, in your eyes, only the commander's injury deserves priority."

He sneered, "In your eyes, heroes are divided into different levels."

"I, I didn't..." Tian Hui took a half step back and bumped into the cabinet, gasping in pain.

Her psychological quality is also not to be underestimated, and she reacted quickly.

Tears welled up in her eyes: "It's so hurtful for you to say that. I'm just a dedicated nurse who wants to contribute to the hospital."

He Chengze wanted to say something else when Jiang Xueyi came out.

She had been watching the show at the door for a while.

He Chengze is a man after all. It is inevitable that he would appear to be a little narrow-minded and bullying if he argued with a young and tender nurse.

It wouldn't sound good if it got out.

Jiang Xueyi smiled and said, "Oh, what are you talking about?"

Tian Hui reluctantly called out "sister-in-law" and said righteously, "Please judge for yourself. What did I do wrong?"

She came to help He Chengze with stitches out of kindness, and couldn't find any mistakes.

Even if the director of their military hospital came, he couldn't say a word against her!

Jiang Xueyi raised her eyebrows, very surprised. Why did Tian Hui feel that she would stand on her side?

Should we say that she has a good protagonist mentality and thinks that the whole world should revolve around her?

Tian Hui continued to argue, chattering non-stop: "I helped someone and even caused something to go wrong, and the hospital doesn't pay me for overtime."

Jiang Xueyi raised her eyebrows, her voice gentle but every word resonant: "Comrade Nurse, I think my wife is right. As a nurse in a military hospital, your duty is to save lives and heal the wounded, not to seek special treatment here."

She slowly walked up to Tian Hui, seeing her evasive gaze, and her voice became more serious. "I just walked around the corridor and saw many soldiers quietly queuing up despite being injured. They're doing their best on the flood-fighting front, and now that they're injured, what they need most is timely treatment and sincere care. And you, because of my lover's position, want to prioritize service over them. This is disrespectful to the soldiers and a desecration of your duty."

He Chengze stared at Jiang Xueyi intently, his eyes glued to her, unwilling to leave for a moment.

At this moment, she seemed to be glowing in his eyes.