Chapter 99: You want to run away after kissing me? It’s not that easy…

Cheng Yang took Shi Xiaoai to the gate to register, and then the two of them pushed the cart into the campus together.

The campus of the Command Academy does not look very eye-catching from the gate, but its majestic atmosphere becomes apparent once you enter.

Facing the school gate is a long asphalt road with pine and cypress trees planted on both sides.

There are several training grounds beside the road. Behind the training grounds are several neatly arranged rows of red brick sloping-roof bungalows with huge red five-pointed stars nailed on the eaves.

"That row of bungalows is our activity room, open to the public during non-class hours. I heard that sometimes we invite experts to give lectures." Cheng Yang introduced to Shi Xiaoai as they walked.

"What are the houses in the rows behind used for?"

"That's the new student dormitory. The college has expanded its enrollment over the past two years, and has held several training courses for in-service cadres like us. The dormitories are no longer enough."

Cheng Yang pointed to the area in front of them on the right and introduced, "That's our cafeteria. There's a window facing the outside on the second floor. Do you think we should go to the cafeteria to eat or go back to the dormitory first? If you don't want to go, I'll call you back and we can eat in the dormitory."

It's already past eleven o'clock, time for lunch.

While the two of them were talking, several groups of cadets in military uniforms passed by them. It was obvious that they were all gathering in groups to go to the cafeteria for lunch.

Shi Xiaoai gently moved closer to Cheng Yang and asked, "Don't you need to go to dinner with me?"

Cheng Yang shook his head: "I asked for leave. I told the counselor that my family is coming, so I don't have to participate in any group activities today."

"Then let's go back to your dormitory first. I made some sesame pancakes this morning. You can add braised meat to them. Let's just eat something in the dormitory."

Shi Xiaoai thought for a moment and asked again, "Is your dormitory convenient?"

"Convenient." Cheng Yang smiled and said, "Our dormitory is a double room, with only Qian Yingming and I living there. You don't have to worry too much. He kept complaining that he hadn't seen you before!"

When Xiao Ai heard that she was living with an acquaintance, she felt a little more at ease.

Cheng Yang and his friends' dormitory wasn't far from the main road, and it took about ten minutes to walk there. It was a three-story building, all single rooms, with about twenty rooms on each floor.

Cheng Yang and his classmates’ dormitory is on the first floor.

The dormitory was about ten square meters, with a single bed placed on each side of the wall. There was a desk and a bench at the head of each bed, and two single wardrobes placed side by side at the foot of the bed.

Cheng Yang took Shi Xiaoai to sit in front of a bed, and went outside to get some water for her to wipe her face.

After wiping her face, Shi Xiaoai finally felt better.

She took out the sesame pancakes and thinly sliced braised pork she had brought from her bag and said to Cheng Yang, "I made this this morning. Have some."

Seeing that she still looked listless, Cheng Yang touched her head with a distressed look and said, "I'll go to the cafeteria to get some soup and we'll eat together. You need to eat something warm."

Shi Xiaoai nodded: "Come back soon."

There was a dependence in her voice that she herself was not aware of.

Cheng Yang came back quickly, but he didn't come back alone.

Entering the room with him was a man who looked a few years older than him.

As soon as the man entered the room, he said loudly, "Sister-in-law, I just heard Cheng Yang say you were here. Look at you, why didn't you say hello before you came? Otherwise, it would be great if we could borrow a car to pick you up!"

He spoke loudly, accompanied by hearty laughter. Xiao Ai knew without any introduction that this person must be the comrade Qian Yingming that Cheng Yang had mentioned.

She stood up from the bed and greeted the man.

Qian Yingming looked at Shi Xiaoai with a look of surprise.

He looked at Shi Xiaoai, then at Cheng Yang, then reached out and punched Cheng Yang on the shoulder, jokingly saying, "Where did you kidnap this little girl from? This sister-in-law...was she an adult when she married you?"

When these words were spoken, Xiao Ai and Cheng Yang couldn't help laughing.

"Get lost."

Cheng Yang slapped his hand away, then put the lunch box on the table and said, "I made a cabbage fried tofu and a seaweed egg drop soup. You can have some."

Shi Xiaoai couldn't sit down to eat right away, so she looked at Qian Yingming and said, "Brother Qian, will you eat with us?"

Qian Yingming waved his hand quickly: "No, no, I've already eaten in the cafeteria. I just came to say hello. You two can talk, I'll go to the activity room. You guys can talk for a while, I won't be back at noon, I will go directly to class in the afternoon."

After saying that, he turned and was about to leave.

Cheng Yang called him, then picked up a pancake from the table, tore it open, stuffed a few large slices of braised meat into it, and stuffed some green pepper shreds specially cut by Xiao Ai into it and handed it to him.

As soon as the lunch box containing the braised meat was opened, a rich aroma wafted out. Looking at the sesame seed buns with meat in them, Qian Yingming was so happy that his eyebrows were not visible and he praised Shi Xiaoai again.

After seeing Qian Yingming off, the couple sat down to eat.

Shi Xiaoai is feeling better now, but her appetite is still poor.

She held the pot of soup and drank it slowly, mouthful by mouthful, without touching the sesame cakes or meat.

Cheng Yang tried to persuade her for a long time but to no avail, so he simply picked up the tofu and cabbage with his chopsticks and put them into her mouth.

Shi Xiaoai knew she couldn't refuse, so she took a few bites from his hand and then shook her head.

Cheng Yang's expression was filled with worry.

"How about I take two days off and go back to accompany you? Our classes are not very busy anyway," he said.

"No need, I'm just carsick. I just need a rest." Shi Xiaoai said as she rubbed her temples.

When she thought about having to take that bus back later, her head started to hurt.

Knowing that his wife must have something important to tell him, Cheng Yang ate his meal quickly. He finished eating not long after Xiao Ai put down the enamel pot.

After packing up, Shi Xiaoai told him what happened yesterday.

Cheng Yang didn't expect that so many things happened at home when he was away for only one day. His brows were tightly furrowed.

Shi Xiaoai comforted him, "These things are easy to handle. I can handle them myself. The main reason I came here today is to ask how much money you have now."

She paused and said, "I have some gold bars, as you know. If your money is not enough, I will go and exchange it for one."

Before moving the grapevines, Cheng Yang had been there when Shi Xiaoai took the box out of the flowerbed, and she hadn't thought of hiding it from him. Furthermore, the invisible door that was later added was designed by Cheng Yang and the workers.

Hearing her say this, Cheng Yang immediately said: "No, I have enough money."

As he spoke, he stood up and walked to the wardrobe behind the bed, opened the door and took out a manila envelope from a schoolbag inside.

He handed the envelope to Shi Xiaoai.

"There's 2,890 yuan in here. I was planning to take it back over the weekend. Since you're in a hurry, take it first."

Shi Xiaoai looked at the heavy envelope in her hand in surprise and asked, "How do you have so much money?"

She remembered that Cheng Yang had told her before that he still had nearly two thousand yuan in salary that he hadn't received, so how come there was more than nine hundred yuan more now?

"The bonuses for my previous meritorious service have been paid out. I have a second-class collective merit, a second-class individual merit, and a first-class individual merit, which adds up to exactly one thousand yuan," Cheng Yang explained.

"You can use this money to work for now. If it's not enough, I'll find another way. Although I lost my job allowance while I was in school, I still have 110 yuan a month. My expenses at school are very low, and we even get a food allowance. I'll take this money home every month."

"The money from the tea stall is enough to cover the normal expenses of the family. Save your salary first, just in case." Shi Xiaoai said.

"It's up to you. You are the boss of our family anyway, so you can handle the money matters." Cheng Yang said with a smile.

Shi Xiaoai originally thought that she could take back fifteen or sixteen thousand yuan, but she didn't expect to get much more than she thought. Now she has to change her plan.

She thought for a moment and said, "Let's take over this house. How about putting your name on the property deed? All this money is yours."

Cheng Yang frowned and asked, "What do you mean? What do you mean it's all my money? Isn't mine yours? Do we really need to divide it so clearly?"

Shi Xiaoai originally thought that she would have to rely on Cheng Yang for the money to buy the house, but she would most likely have to pay for the later decoration herself, so if she bought the house, both of their names could be written on the property certificate.

But now Cheng Yang has enough money of her own, and she is actually still reluctant to use the gold bars from the bottom of her heart, so she thought about just putting the house in Cheng Yang's name.

Anyway, they don't plan to separate now, so it doesn't matter whose name is written, right?

Even though Cheng Yang's name was written on it, she still used it.

But looking at his current appearance, he is obviously angry.

Shi Xiaoai pursed her lips and said defensively: "I can use it if I write your name, so why can't I write yours?"

"Then if your name is written on it, I can't live here?" Cheng Yang asked back.

The tone was very stiff.

Seeing that he was really annoyed this time, Shi Xiaoai had to take a step back and said, "How about writing both of our names on it? So it'll be owned by both of us?"

Afraid that the man would still be unhappy, she grabbed his sleeve and tugged at it, saying, "Just write our names. I want to have something we can share."

These words were said with an inexpressible intimacy.

Then, Cheng Yang's heart seemed to be gently knocked by something, knocking a small hole, allowing the warm and soft voice to enter.

Sweep away any hidden unhappiness.

He only felt that his heart and all the bones in his body became soft.

He lowered his eyes to look at Shi Xiaoai and snorted, "When did you learn to say nice things to coax people?"

Shi Xiaoai's lips curled up, and she raised her chin proudly: "You don't want me to coax you?"

She herself didn't know when she learned it, maybe just now?

Just when she was most helpless and lonely, this person appeared in front of her as if from the sky, bringing her an unprecedented sense of security.

Make her feel at ease, make her willing to let down her guard in front of this person and show her softest side.

Cheng Yang stood up from the stool, turned around and sat on the bed.

He reached out and picked up Shi Xiaoai, placing her on his lap.

The two had never been so close before. At the beginning, Xiao Ai was a little embarrassed and her whole body became stiff.

She tried to push him with her hands, but the man's arms were too stiff to move.

She lowered her head and looked at the man, and then found that his eyes were full of tenderness, and her tension slowly dissipated.

Shi Xiaoai softened her body, put her face on the man's shoulder, and nestled her whole body in his arms.

Cheng Yang hugged her like this and said, "Xiao Ai, you said the other day that we should do our own things in various fields and no one should interfere too much with each other. I agree with this. Without your permission, I will not interfere in your career.

But I disagree with your clear division of finances. We're husband and wife, and we should be one. I know you're a good earner, and you'll undoubtedly earn much more than I do in the future, but I don't mind that.

"No matter who earns the money, isn't it all ours? As long as we use it ourselves, is there any need to divide it so clearly? If you distance yourself from me now, will you still ignore me if something happens to me one day?"

Shi Xiaoai reached out and twisted his arm: "Nonsense!"

Cheng Yang smiled and hugged her tighter. "It was my fault before. No matter what the reason was, I did make you and the children suffer. But from the bottom of my heart, I really never thought of not giving you the money. Every penny I earned was saved for you and those two little ones to spend.

This is the meaning of my hard work outside for so many years.

But who knew that I finally had the chance to hand it over, and you were so ungrateful that I couldn't even give it to you."

As he spoke, his voice was filled with deep grievance.

Seeing him like this, Shi Xiaoai somehow remembered the way he acted coquettishly with her before.

Seeing the handsome and tall man in military uniform looking at her with resentful eyes, as if he had suffered a great injustice and was waiting to be plucked, she suddenly couldn't help but want to laugh.

At the same time, I felt a warm feeling in my heart.

Seeing her like this, Cheng Yang deliberately frowned, tightened his hand on her waist, glared at her and asked, "Am I wrong?"

Shi Xiaoai was finally amused by his appearance and laughed out loud.

She put her arms around the man's neck, hugged him tightly and said with a smile, "Yes, yes, you are right. I was wrong. From now on, your money is my money, and my money is still my money. I will spend it freely!"

As she said this, she tilted her head back and kissed the man on the face.

Cheng Yang's body stiffened slightly, and the cheeks and ears that she had kissed slowly turned a shade of red.

Shi Xiaoai jumped down from his arms and said, "Okay, now that we've finished talking, I have to go back quickly."

But before she could even stand firmly, the man pulled her back.

Cheng Yang looked down at her with a serious expression.

Being trapped in his arms, watching his earlobes gradually turn red and transparent, Shi Xiaoai found it even funnier.

She twisted in his arms and struggled to get out.

Cheng Yang hugged her tighter.

Then he leaned over and whispered in her ear: "Xiao Ai..."

His voice was low, and his breath poured into Shi Xiaoai's ears, adding a bit of warmth.

Shi Xiaoai blinked and hummed.

Cheng Yang's eyes were fixed on her lips, which were as moist and soft as peach petals, and his voice became lower and lower.

He said in a voice that was almost whispered, "You want to run away after kissing me? It's not that easy."