Chapter 25: Pure Gold, First Class Merit
"I don't mind having too little money. I'll have more if I save it. Besides..." Chu Yue neatly stacked the scattered money together, smiled with a smile on her lips, and said proudly, "I have money."
As she spoke, she felt her pocket.
It was not an ordinary pocket, but three layers inside and three layers outside. He carefully took out the money from a secret pocket at the innermost part of the clothes.
One hundred, two hundred, three hundred.
A full three hundred dollars.
Lu Zhanlin's eyes moved slightly, and he looked at Chu Yue in disbelief. He didn't expect that his wife was actually a wealthy woman.
"This money is not mine, but yours."
Lu Zhanlin was puzzled, "Mine?"
"The money you sent over the years must be more than just three hundred yuan. My stepmother and Chu Yaoyao spent a lot of it. I can't get it all back, so I can only take this much. It's enough for our family to spend for a while, so you don't have to worry about the money."
Chu Yue spoke calmly and explained simply, without mentioning how difficult it was for her to get the money, which was like pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth.
Lu Zhanlin took a look at the money, then at Chu Yue, feeling mixed emotions.
This is a full three hundred yuan. If Chu Yue didn't say it, Lu Zhanlin would have no idea about it. She could have hidden the money and treated it as someone's private money.
He watched Chu Yue put the three hundred yuan together with the original twenty-three yuan, fifty cents and eight cents, just like their family of three, all gathered together neatly.
Lu Zhanlin said in a low voice, "Well, I'll do as you say."
The young couple was discussing the family's financial problems when they heard a loud report outside the door.
"Report! Captain Lu!"
Song Qi stood at attention outside the door and saluted, his posture straight and his young face quite serious.
Lu Zhanlin understood what was going on at a glance and immediately stood up and walked out the door. Song Qi whispered to Lu Zhanlin, and Lu Zhanlin's expression became cold and serious.
He returned to the house, picked up his military cap, and said to Chu Yue, "Something happened in the army, and I have to go there immediately. I will be back as soon as I am done."
"Okay, go ahead."
Just like that, Chu Yue watched Lu Zhanlin leave.
She put all the money and various bills back into the envelope, and suddenly found that there was a heavy object in the envelope. Because it was neither money nor bills, she had ignored it just now.
Chu Yue touched it through the envelope. It was round, hard, and cold, like a piece of iron.
Why did Lu Zhanlin put this thing in an envelope? He couldn't be carrying it on his body to protect himself from bullets, right?
Chu Yue picked up the envelope, turned it over and shook it. The iron piece slipped out of the envelope and hit the table with a thud.
A flash of golden light passed before her eyes.
That is a medal.
Chu Yue was startled and hurriedly picked it up to examine it carefully. She saw that the medal was in the shape of a five-pointed star with the five big words "First Class Individual Merit" engraved on it.
This thing is indeed related to bullets, but it is not bulletproof, but is exchanged for bullets.
The bullet that had grazed Lu Zhanlin's scalp and nearly taken his life, and the blood all over his face, all he had fought for in life and death for ten years, had earned him this glittering first-class medal of honor.
and!
The first-class military medal is made of pure gold!
Chu Yue took it in her hand and weighed it. It was heavy, at least thirty grams.
Gold is an expensive hard currency in any era, even in times of war and turmoil.
Coupled with the honor of first-class merit, this medal is worth a lot of money!
Lu Zhanlin just casually put it in an envelope and handed it to Chu Yue without even mentioning it.
"Does he trust me so much? Isn't he afraid that I'll sell the medal for pure gold?"
Chu Yue looked at the golden medal and thought of Lu Zhanlin's appearance just now. She couldn't help laughing, but she had to admit that the man's reserved behavior made her heart warm.
She looked at the medal for a long moment, then wiped it, took out her handkerchief, carefully picked it up, and put it away.
Then I started to clean the house inside and out.
Since it was already afternoon and it gets dark early in winter, there was not much time left and it was impossible to clean the entire house, so the first things to be cleaned were the kitchen and bedroom.
The kitchen is used to boil water and cook, and the bedroom is where you will sleep tonight, so it is the most important.
As for the rest, just clean them up slowly later, and they will always be cleaned up.
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While Chu Yue was busy, the people in the compound were also busy.
A group of people gathered outside Wang Chunling's house. They were not there to see Wang Chunling and the child, but to wait for He Meijiao to come out.
"Is the medical worker here Comrade He? Why choose her when there are so many other people to look for? What if Comrade He meets Captain Lu's lover and they start arguing?"
"It's too late to worry about this now. I just saw Comrade He coming out of the new house assigned to Captain Lu! Didn't you see? Her eyes were red."
"Is she crying? That's not right. Comrade He is such a person, how could she cry? Did she lose the argument? Or was she bullied by Captain Lu's lover?"
"I think it's very likely. Have you forgotten this morning..." The military wife raised her arm, made a knife-like gesture, and gritted her teeth. "Captain Lu's wife just knocked Mrs. Li unconscious with just this one move."
Thinking of Chu Yue's cold and decisive scene, the sisters-in-law gasped at the same time, as if Chu Yue had hit them directly.
On the first day Chu Yue arrived at the compound, she left an image of a ferocious tigress in the minds of her sisters-in-law.
Right at this moment.
"He's out, he's out! Comrade He's out." someone shouted.
He Meijiao came out of Wang Chunling's house wearing a white coat and carrying a medicine box. As soon as she walked out of the yard, her wrist was grabbed and she was pulled to the side.
After all, Wang Chunling needs to rest, and you can't talk about what a woman in labor does outside her door.
"What are you doing? Why are you pulling me?" He Meijiao frowned, looking disgusted. "Stop pulling me. You've wrinkled my clothes."
The wife of the soldier who had pulled the man away quickly apologized, "Sister He, I'm so sorry. I have rough hands and great strength. I didn't mean it."
Someone nearby couldn't contain their curiosity and hurriedly asked, "Comrade He, Commander Lu really does have a lover in the countryside. She's here with the troops and just arrived at our compound today. Have you seen her?"
"Humph, so what if I saw her? So what if I didn't?" When Chu Yue was mentioned, He Meijiao sneered, "She's just a woman from the countryside."
He Meijiao's words made the sisters-in-law around her smile awkwardly.
Because most of them had lived in rural areas before, He Meijiao's mockery of Chu Yue's background was the same as mocking them.
However, He Meijiao's father's identity was not ordinary. This was known to the entire compound and even the entire military region. Even though the sisters-in-law were angry, they did not dare to say it out loud.
He Meijiao raised her chin proudly and glanced at the sisters-in-law around her with squinted eyes.
She asked first, "Have you all met her? What do you think of her?"
"Well... you can't compare to Comrade He, of course. But the woman that Captain Lu likes must be extraordinary. Today, Wang Chunling had a difficult delivery, and it was Captain Lu's wife who delivered her."
"Yes, yes, yes! She was the one who delivered the baby. The bloody scene was terrifying to me, but she remained calm and unfazed."
"If it weren't for her today, Wang Chunling and her child would have been dead."
He Meijiao frowned as she listened and interrupted, "What did you just say? She was the one who delivered Captain Zhou's lover?!"
The sisters-in-law nodded and said, "We saw it with our own eyes."
impossible!
How is that possible!
He Meijiao couldn't believe it and denied it in her heart.
She had just checked the large incision made by Wang Chunling's cesarean section. The incision was straight and neat, the length was just right, and even the sewing lines on the incision were neat and tidy.
This is a level that only doctors with four or five years of clinical practice can achieve. How could Chu Yue, an ignorant peasant woman from the countryside, possibly do it!
He Meijiao refused to believe it no matter what, and said disdainfully, "She's just a seductress who can only seduce men. How could she possibly perform surgery to save someone? I don't believe it!"
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