"Village Chief Shen is the uncle of my family who has no five blessings, so I call him Uncle Five." Shen Chengyi explained to her while resisting the urge to sleep.

"I see. That's how it is. Next time we come back, let's bring some gifts for Uncle Five as a way of repaying the favor of giving him the two old hens." Su Yuehua's eyelids became heavier and heavier, and she fell asleep at the end of her speech.

Shen Chengyi couldn't sleep, the changes in Su Yuehua in the past two days made him feel unreal.

The first ray of sunlight in the early morning enveloped the entire village. The rooster crowed twice before Su Yuehua climbed up from the kang and saw that Chen Chengyi had already gotten up.

"Chengyi, what time is it now?"

Shen Chengyi said softly, "It's almost seven o'clock, get up. We should pack up and leave."

"It's seven o'clock." Su Yuehua said and quickly put on her clothes.

By the time the two of them had packed up and walked out of the room, Bai Xiuying's breakfast was already ready.

Yesterday, she learned that the two of them would return to the capital today. She did not sleep all night and got up early this morning to prepare food for them on the train.

"Yuehua, I boiled ten eggs and baked ten pancakes for you and Chengyi. You two can take them with you on the road."

It's winter now, and the old hens at home are not very willing to lay eggs. It's good enough to pick up two eggs a day. There are children and pregnant women at home, so Su Yuehua doesn't have the nerve to accept them.

"Mom, leave the eggs for my sister-in-law to nourish her body. Chengyi and I..."

Before Su Yuehua finished speaking, Li Yumei rushed to say, "Sister-in-law, I am much stronger than you, I don't need to replenish myself at all."

Bai Xiuying was particularly pleased to see that the sisters-in-law got along so well, and said with a smile: "Your sister-in-law is indispensable at home. Our hens can collect eggs every day. After you leave, we will not sell the eggs laid by our family. We will save them for your sister-in-law to eat during her confinement."

Chen Chengzhong covered his red ears and walked in from outside, panting a little, "Chengyi, I've finished talking to Uncle Ma. He'll take you to the train station in a ox cart. You two should eat quickly! It's snowing outside now, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to walk on the road if it snows heavily."

The two had just finished breakfast when Old Man Ma arrived driving a ox cart.

Su Yuehua carried the luggage and followed Shen Chengyi out of the Shen family courtyard. She saw a lot of young men and women standing in front of Old Man Ma's ox cart.

A girl with pigtails and dark skin was pushed out by two other girls.

She looked at Su Yuehua and said shyly, "Comrade Su, my sister from the educated youth camp, let me thank you on behalf of everyone. These are the mushrooms and fungus we picked in the mountains in the fall. Please don't despise them."

As he said that, he stuffed the basket in his hand into Su Yuehua's hand.

Su Yuehua looked at the dried fungus and mushrooms in the basket. She wanted to refuse but couldn't say it. In the end, she couldn't bear to disappoint the educated youths and said, "Thank you."

As soon as she handed the basket to Shen Chengyi, a fair-looking male educated youth with glasses came over.

The male educated youth lowered his head and said shyly: "Comrade Su, I heard from everyone that it was you who saved me that day. If you hadn't given me that thing, I would have died."

"What the heck." Su Yuehua looked for a while before she recognized that the male educated youth with glasses in front of her was Lu Zhiqing, who was giving artificial respiration to Chen Chengyi that day.

She suppressed her laughter and said, "Lu Zhiqing, it was my husband who saved you that day. He gave you..."

Shen Chengyi's face was dark, he snatched the luggage from Su Yuehua's hand, and said coldly: "It's getting late, we should leave."

"Okay." Su Yuehua knew that Shen Chengyi didn't want to mention the fact that he lost his first kiss, so after saying goodbye to everyone, she got on the ox cart directly.

Then, Old Man Ma cracked his whip and the ox cart slowly moved forward against the flying snow.

Su Yuehua sat on the ox cart and watched the small mountain village go farther and farther away until it disappeared.

By the time the ox cart arrived at the county railway station, the snow had stopped.

Tuanjie Town is a small station and the train stops for a very short time. The two of them had a lot of stuff with them, so by the time they got on the train, they were already sweating from exhaustion.

Compared to the noisy hard-seat carriages, the sleeper carriages are much quieter.

Only the two upper bunks in the compartment where the two of them were were occupied; the lower and middle bunks opposite were unoccupied.

Su Yuehua slept for the whole afternoon, but found it difficult to fall asleep at night. As the train stopped, many people got on the train.

Just when Su Yuehua thought that no one would come into their box, a middle-aged woman walked in supporting an old lady with gray hair.

The old lady's neatly trimmed short hair makes her look particularly heroic.

Shen Chengyi took the luggage from the middle-aged woman and helped her put it on the luggage rack.

"Thank you, comrade." The middle-aged woman thanked him politely.

Instead, the old lady sat on the bed opposite Su Yuehua and stared at Shen Chengyi for a long time, until the train left, she asked, “Which unit are you from?”

There was no expression on Shen Chengyi's cold face. He simply ignored the old lady's question and turned around to climb onto the middle bunk.

The army has confidentiality regulations. The old lady asked Shen Chengyi which unit he was from right away. Su Yuehua was a little unhappy, but it seemed very rude not to answer when someone asked her a question, so she evaded the question and said, "My husband is a soldier in the capital."

The old lady didn't ask any more questions and just lay down to rest.

Su Yuehua was just about to lie down when she heard a child crying in the next box.

The old lady on the opposite bed was so disturbed by the noise that she sat up straight away.

The child's crying never stopped that night, causing dissatisfaction among the passengers in the entire carriage. The child's mother kept apologizing to everyone.

It was not until the second half of the night when the child fell asleep that the entire carriage became quiet.

When Su Yuehua woke up, she saw Shen Chengyi coming back with a teacup.

Shen Chengyi forced a smile on his tense face, "I heated the eggs with boiling water, you can eat them quickly."

“Let’s eat together.” Su Yuehua said, picked up an egg, peeled it and stuffed it directly into Shen Chengyi’s mouth.

Shen Chengyi's Adam's apple rolled, and as he swallowed the egg, his ears blushed slightly. He had never found eggs so delicious.

He swallowed and said, "I want more."

Su Yuehua didn't think too much about it and handed over the peeled egg in her hand, "Here you go."

Shen Chengyi stared at the egg in front of him with a little disappointment, and soon a barely perceptible smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, "My hands are dirty, you feed me."

“Okay.” Su Yuehua raised her hand and fed the egg directly to Shen Chengyi’s mouth.

Shen Chengyi's bite was a bit too big, and he bit Su Yuehua's slender fingers directly. His fingertips inevitably touched her lips, making him feel as if he had been electrified, and even his breathing changed instantly.

Su Yuehua felt her fingertips go numb and her cheeks get hot, so she quickly withdrew her fingers.

The two of them sat side by side, and Su Yuehua had just woken up, so she didn't pay any attention to Shen Chengyi's little thoughts.

The old lady sitting opposite them noticed their little actions and said in a serious voice, "Young man, you are not a real soldier!"