They walked out of the grove hand in hand, and Lu Zhengting first took Lin Qingyan home.
When they reached the gate and were about to part ways, Lin Qingyan let go of Lu Zhengting. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, she hooked her arm around Lu Zhengting's neck and lowered his head, saying, "Let me kiss you again."
Lu Zhengting immediately bent down so that she could reach his lips. Lin Qingyan savored the taste for a while before letting go of him.
"Alright, you can go now."
Lu Zhengting then understood what it meant to "discard something when you no longer need it".
But he willingly allowed his wife to manipulate him like this, and he enjoyed it immensely.
Before Lin Qingyan entered the room, he quickly kissed his wife on the lips again, and only left after watching her walk inside.
When Lin Qingyan returned home, her mother-in-law and Lin Zhiheng were still awake.
Grandma Lin sat on the kang (a heated brick bed), her eyes wide open, looking quite energetic.
Lin Zhiheng said, "Sister, my mother-in-law hasn't seen you come back yet. No matter how I try to coax her, she won't sleep. She says she has to wait for you to come back so you can coax her yourself before she'll sleep."
Lin Qingyan said, "It's good that you haven't slept. I have something to tell you."
"What is it, sister?"
When Lin Qingyan went out, she said she was going to see Lu Zhengting. Could it be that what she was talking about was also related to Lu Zhengting?
Lin Qingyan said to them, "I have some news to announce. Zhengting and I have started dating and will be getting married soon. Zhengting said that after we get married, the three of us will accompany him to the army."
Grandma Lin had no objections at all. "No matter where we go, as long as she can go with the girl, that's fine."
"Mother-in-law, Zhengting will be your grandson-in-law from now on. Aren't you happy to have a grandson-in-law? Aren't you excited?"
"Happy, happy, happy! I have another person I can boss around, how could I not be happy?"
Lin Qingyan smiled slightly, "He'll be happy if you're willing to order him around."
Seeing that Lin Zhiheng was hanging his head and not saying anything, Lin Qingyan asked him, "Xiaoheng, what's wrong? Don't you want to go to the military region with us?"
"No, no." Lin Zhiheng shook his head, then looked at Lin Qingyan and discussed with her, "Sister, what I wanted to say was, could I join the army like my brother-in-law? I don't want to go there and do nothing; I want to be a more useful person."
"You want to join the army too?"
"Yes, I have always admired Brother Lu and I really want to become someone like him."
“I won’t object to your wish; in fact, I’ll be happy for you. But you need to think it through. Military training is very tough, and the battlefield is very dangerous. Are you still determined to join the army?”
“I’m going,” Lin Zhiheng answered firmly. “I’m not afraid of any of this. I’ve endured so much hardship before. Sister, please let me go. I won’t let you down.”
"Okay, Zheng Ting will probably be going back to his unit in a few days. Once he gets back, he'll submit a marriage application to his superiors. After the application is approved, he'll come back again. When do you plan to go with him?"
Lin Zhiheng was mindful that there was still an elderly woman named Lin at home, and he and his sister needed to take care of her.
"Sister, when your brother-in-law comes back, let's go to the military region together with him."
"Okay, I'll tell Zhengting."
Grandma Lin seemed to understand their conversation. "Girl, Xiao Heng, even if the three of us go to the military region, we can still be together, right?"
"Yes, Mother-in-law. We will always be together."
Lin Qingyan suddenly thought of He Lanlan and asked Lin Zhiheng, "Joining the army is no small matter. When are you going to talk to Lanlan about it?"
"I'll talk to her about it when I have time."
The captain's house
Lu's mother was eager to know the outcome of her son's confession, so she hadn't gone to sleep yet.
Li Qinqin, preoccupied with gossip, didn't sleep either, and sat with her in the living room.
When they saw Lu Zhengting return with a beaming smile, they knew that things were almost certainly settled.
Lu Zhengting told his mother that he and Lin Qingyan had agreed to get married soon and that Lin Qingyan would accompany him to the military base.
Mother Lu was overjoyed. "Good, good, good, it's finally done! It's finally done! Now that you're married and going to join the military, I'll be waiting to hold my grandson!"
Lu Zhengting coughed lightly: "Mom, you already have a grandson, why are you in such a hurry to have another one?"
Suddenly, Lu's mother remembered Lu Zhengting's injury; there was still one spot that hadn't been properly treated.
"Qingyan is such a good girl, she doesn't even look down on you. Alright, alright, Mom isn't in a hurry to have a grandson, you two take your time, Mom won't rush you."
Midnight, Jinshi
Several people wearing red armbands and carrying torches suddenly rushed into the home of an official.
"Someone reported you for possessing contraband. Men, search us!"
They searched the cadre's home and found a box of books and a dressing box. Inside the dressing box lay a pile of gold and silver jewelry, as well as a pure white phoenix jade pendant.
Mopantun Brigade
Lu Zhengting's leg injury has basically healed completely. He can not only walk freely, but also jump and run.
During the day, he wanted to spend time with his wife, so he spent most of his time at the clinic.
Sometimes I would go to the fields to help the Li family earn work points, or I would go for a walk in the mountains.
The last time I came to the mountains was last summer. Now it's spring, and the scenery is even more beautiful than in summer.
But he had no time to appreciate the scenery; his purpose in coming was to hunt wild game to nourish his wife and the rest of the family.
He took out his slingshot and successfully shot down two adult pheasants. Suddenly, he saw a fat gray rabbit and shot it with the slingshot. But the rabbit was very resilient and did not die. Instead, it scurried into a pile of dead branches.
He quickly walked to the pile of dead branches and pushed aside the withered branches with his hands to see if the rabbit was still inside. However, he did not see the rabbit, but instead discovered a pair of stone doors hidden under the dead branches.
His attention was quickly drawn to this, and he forgot about catching the rabbit for a moment, because he discovered that there was a groove on each side of the stone gate, and the pattern in one of the grooves was exactly the same as the phoenix mold he had found on the mountain last time.
He then looked at the groove on another stone door and saw that it was a pattern of a flying dragon.
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