The couple worked together in the kitchen. After Fan Hua stewed the braised pork, she began to prepare cold dishes, while Zhao Yilu was cutting chicken pieces and making hand-rolled noodles according to Fan Hua's requirements.

With Zhao Yilu's help, Fan Hua felt much more relaxed. Seeing that it was getting late, Fan Hua quickly drove Zhao Yilu out of the kitchen and said, "It's almost done here. Go wash your hands and get ready to receive the guests. I can handle the rest myself!"

Zhao nodded and left the kitchen. After a few hours, Fan Hua heard voices coming from outside.

She looked over and saw that it was the tall, square-faced, dark-skinned First Company Commander Chen Zhigang whom she had met yesterday. Next to him stood a shorter, baby-faced, energetic and capable young man. Fan Hua guessed that this man must be Third Company Commander Wang Yingjie.

One of them was carrying a bottle of wine, and the other was carrying a bag of eggs. They were warmly welcomed into the house by Zhao Yilu.

Fan Hua, wearing an apron, came out and greeted everyone with a smile: "Comrades, please sit outside for a while. The food will be ready soon!"

This was the first time Wang Yingjie had met Fan Hua. He was stunned for a moment, then immediately smiled and said, "Don't worry, don't worry. Thank you for your hard work, sister-in-law!"

Chen Zhigang immediately smiled and said, "That's right, don't worry, Battalion Commander Jiang hasn't arrived yet."

Fan Hua nodded and went back to the kitchen to work.

Aunt Chu had already returned to the bedroom with her two children, fearing that they would disturb the officers' conversation.

When the braised pork was ready and about to be taken out of the pot, voices were heard outside again.

While Fan Hua was taking the dishes out of the pot, she tilted her ear to listen to the noise outside.

I heard Zhao Yilu's somewhat surprised voice: "Commander Lu, Battalion Commander Jiang, please come in quickly!"

"You kid, when you invite people to dinner, you only care about inviting people from your own battalion, but not me. Fortunately, I met Battalion Commander Jiang the other day and came here with him. Don't blame me for coming uninvited!" said a middle-aged man generously.

Zhao Yilu chuckled, "How could that be? It's my honor to have you here! This dinner was a last-minute decision and was prepared a bit hastily. I was afraid you were too busy and that a last-minute notification wouldn't be appropriate, so I didn't invite you!"

"Hahaha, there's nothing inappropriate about that. If you want to eat for free next time, remember to call me!"

"Of course, of course!" Zhao Yilu promised immediately.

Fan Hua had already guessed what was going on from these few words. It seemed that the head of the army had also come. She looked at the remaining ingredients and quickly decided to stir-fry another dish with chicken blood and spinach.

After everyone sat down, Fan Hua came out of the kitchen with two plates of cold dishes and placed them on the table.

She said openly, "Hello, Commander, Hello, Captain Jiang, Hello, Company Commanders! I'm Fan Lihua, your beloved companion along the way. Thank you all for coming to support us. We just moved into the military compound a few days ago, so we haven't prepared much. We've only made a few simple home-cooked dishes. Please don't mind. Eat more and enjoy yourselves!"

Upon hearing this, Commander Lu Haifeng burst into laughter and said to Zhao Yilu, "No wonder you insisted on being transferred to Yangcheng and submitted an application for your family to accompany you as soon as you were promoted to company commander. It turns out it was all because of Comrade Fan! Comrade Fan is really great. You're so lucky!"