After learning that Lu Zheng would spend the New Year at the old house, Jiang Shiyue hesitated and changed direction again, driving towards the military hospital.

Lu Zheng's family members all have Chinese citizenship, so it is expected that they will come back to celebrate the New Year.

She and Lu Zheng could barely be considered friends, and it would be a bit too much to visit someone else's home without permission, so she changed her route and went to the hospital to try her luck.

We agreed to work together, and after saying hello to Mr. Qiao Si, I have to tell Lu Zheng as well.

If Lu Zheng can't be relied upon, then she can only cooperate with Mr. Qiao Si.

Jiang Shiyue thought that she would be responsible for finding sources of goods in the south, Mr. Qiao Si's people would be responsible for transporting them back and taking care of the market in Yincheng, and Lu Zheng would be responsible for exports.

When I arrived at the hospital, I didn't see Lu Zheng in traffic, but I ran into Li Chuntian who was on duty.

Li Chuntian was very happy to see Jiang Shiyue, and took her and Yangyang to the hospital cafeteria for dinner.

"I'm sorry I had to ask you to come here with me." Li Chuntian smiled apologetically, "My office isn't a good place to chat."

"That's great." Jiang Shiyue said, "I can even have a meal with you."

"Even the patients find our food bland. It's nothing compared to the food in your flight squadron."

Jiang Shiyue smiled and didn't respond.

In fact, she had only eaten the food in the flight squadron canteen very rarely.

The only time I ate in the cafeteria was during these seven days of being locked up.

But as a prisoner, she had no right to choose her food and had to eat whatever was given to her.

I was feeling anxious and couldn't eat anything.

After I got home, some of my slim-fitting clothes looked a lot bigger, probably because I lost weight.

But it’s not easy to say these things to Li Chuntian.

"Why didn't your Chen Shanhe come with you? Isn't he on vacation? He came and called Lu Zheng two days ago, and I don't know where he went!" Li Chuntian pouted and complained.

Jiang Shiyue could hear some complaints in her tone, but could only apologize: "I don't know. I was sick a few days ago and was confused the whole day. I don't know what he did."

"Ah?" Li Chuntian looked at Jiang Shiyue in the light from the window. "You didn't look well. Are you feeling better now?"

As he said this, he subconsciously reached out to take Jiang Shiyue's pulse.

Western medicine requires a stethoscope, but she didn't bring it with her.

Jiang Shiyue dodged it calmly and said with a smile: "It was just a minor cold and it's already healed."

Even without taking Jiang Shiyue's pulse, a Chinese doctor could tell that she was fine. Li Chuntian didn't ask any more questions and continued to complain, "Men are unreliable! They still run around when you're sick..."

Jiang Shiyue's eyelashes trembled, and she lowered her head to eat, but her vision was a little blurry.

"But..." Li Chuntian had complained enough and suddenly changed the subject, "They probably didn't hide out to eat, drink and have fun. When Lu Zheng came back, he looked like he'd been to a refugee camp. He had an unshaven beard and looked haggard."

Jiang Shiyue was slightly stunned.

She didn't seem to have looked at Chen Shanhe carefully since she came out, but he had shaved his beard, tidied his appearance, and his eyes... seemed to have a lot of red bloodshot?

Jiang Shiyue shook her head, getting rid of these thoughts. They were about to get divorced, so these things didn't matter.

When parting with Li Chuntian, Jiang Shiyue left some of the gifts given by Mr. Qiao Si for her.

I went to Director Yu’s office in the afternoon to pay New Year’s greetings.

Director Yu was very happy to see Jiang Shiyue, and told her that the underwear sold very well before the New Year, especially the hunger marketing which was very interesting. Although it seemed that less goods were sold, it actually increased customer stickiness and purchasing desire.

"You are my lucky star. Please come to our department store more often in the future."

Jiang Shiyue said a few polite words and then left Director Yu's place.

Finally, I took a walk around the garment factory, first visited Director Chen and then went to see Chen Yuanyuan and the others, and brought gifts to everyone.

In our country, the most important things in doing business are the culture of human relations and the culture of drinking.

These were the friends she made when she first started out. She couldn't become alienated from them just because she had become successful. Life was so long, and who knew who might need whom in the future.

It was dark when Jiang Shiyue came out of the garment factory, and he returned to the hotel.

On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, we first went to the family compound of the repair camp.

Those sisters-in-law were also her friends, and Jiang Shiyue felt that she would most likely not come back in the future, so this was also a farewell to everyone.

Mengmeng's mother kindly invited Jiang Shiyue to have lunch at her home.

At the dinner table, in addition to thanking Jiang Shiyue for helping her sisters-in-law, they also recalled the past and looked forward to the future.

During this period, Chen Shanhe had to be mentioned.

Jiang Shiyue listens more and speaks less.

When they left the compound, Mengmeng's mother pulled Jiang Shiyue aside, looked at her and asked, "Did you have a fight with Captain Chen?"

"Um?"

"Have you been wronged?"

Jiang Shiyue was very curious about why Mengmeng's mother was so sure that she and Chen Shanhe had a quarrel, but she didn't want to admit it and was too embarrassed to ask.

It was Mengmeng's mother who took the initiative to speak up and clear up the confusion: "I don't mean to gossip about you and Captain Chen. I just care about you because I consider you a friend. Don't blame me for your state. Any sister-in-law in this compound who is not a newlywed can see that there is something wrong."

Jiang Shiyue touched his face and said, "Is it so obvious?"

She feels that she is a person who is more secretive.

"It's not that you didn't hide it well, it's that we've all been through too much. The term 'military wife' sounds glorious, but only we know what life is like behind it. We don't even dare let others know when we quarrel, for fear that others will say we are low-minded. When the child is sick with a fever, I have to take care of the family and the child alone. They can't be relied on and sometimes even hold us back, but we can't complain a word, otherwise they will say we are inconsiderate and unworthy of being a military wife. But we are women after all! There will always be times when we are wronged and can't bear it anymore."

Jiang Shiyue listened silently, lowered her head, blinked, and her eyelashes became wet.

"But being able to have a good quarrel is a luxury. When ordinary couples quarrel, smashing pots and pans and breaking heads is fine. But what about us? Take me for example. It's not that I haven't had a quarrel with Xu Rushan, but in the middle of the argument, before I could vent my anger, he would just walk away, saying that he had something urgent to do and wanted to call out someone. I would just hold it in..."

"Your flight squadron is worse than ours. Their jobs are already too dangerous. A quarrel will affect their mood, and flying a plane at a time like this is even more dangerous."

Jiang Shiyue's shoulders trembled, but he still didn't say anything.

"Alas! A sister-in-law from a flying squadron I knew...she's long since returned to her hometown. She had a lifelong regret. They had a fight the night before, and the next morning she was so angry she didn't even cook dinner for her husband. That same day, there was an accident, and her husband never came back."

Jiang Shiyue looked up suddenly, with two clear water marks on her face and her eyes were still wet.

Mengmeng's mother took out a handkerchief from her pocket and handed it to Jiang Shiyue. "I'm not telling you this to scare you, but to tell you that no matter how glorious their profession seems, there is also a lot of sadness behind it. I'm not advising you to be more considerate of Captain Chen. I just want to say that if it's just a quarrel, especially when there is a misunderstanding, talk it out. If there is a quarrel, quarrel on the spot. We are different from other wives. If we can't hold the boat in our hearts, we will regret it for the rest of our lives."