Everyone's eyes instantly focused on Tong Xiaolan who was speaking.
Yang Meifeng, who was standing next to Tong Xiaolan, was startled and quickly poked her sister-in-law, "Xiaolan, what nonsense are you talking about?"
Is this sister-in-law crazy? Captain Lu is her man's immediate superior.
Her man had endured for so long and was still a company commander. This time, Lu Zhengxu was promoted for meritorious service, and it seemed that her man would also have a chance to move up. If the sister-in-law offended Captain Lu...
Yang Meifeng gave Tong Xiaolan a warning look and said in a low voice, "I asked you to stay here to look for a date, not to cause trouble for your brother. Watch your mouth!"
After she finished speaking, she smiled at the military families around her and said, "My sister just came from the countryside and has never seen the world. She is talking nonsense. Sisters-in-law, don't take her words seriously."
Tong Xiaolan was so angry that her face turned red and her eyes were red. She puffed out her cheeks, wiped her tears and ran towards the veterans' families' compound.
"Hey..." Yang Meifeng wanted to call her, but the person had already run away.
She had no choice but to quickly pick up her son and go home.
As soon as she arrived at the door of her house, she heard Tong Xiaolan crying in the house, and Yang Meifeng suddenly felt a headache.
"My brother told me to stay in the military area to look for a partner, but she said in front of so many people that I was from the countryside and had no experience. She just wanted to ruin my reputation so that I couldn't find a good partner, wuwuwu..."
Tong Xiaolan burst into tears again.
Feng Suyun's face darkened as well. "Did she really say that in front of so many people? She is really rebellious! Don't pay attention to her. When your brother comes back, I will tell him to punish her!"
On the other side, Chen Jiao's family of four got busy immediately after returning home.
Soon, the rich fragrance from their house spread across half the courtyard.
Li Junhua had just come out of Chen Jiao's yard picking vegetables when a few military wives approached him mysteriously.
"Sister Li, what are Captain Lu and his family cooking? It smells so good."
Li Junhua said frankly: "This smell is definitely the smell of cooked meat."
"Tsk tsk, how many preserved foods must be cooked to make it smell so good? It's only just after the Chinese New Year, and her family has already cooked and eaten all the preserved foods. There's still a whole year left to live!"
"Just look at the way Captain Lu is dressed and looks, he doesn't look like a man who can live a normal life!"
Several military wives immediately started talking.
Li Junhua glanced at a few people. When she first met Chen Jiao yesterday, she also looked down on Chen Jiao's coquettish appearance.
But after talking with Chen Jiao today, she knew that Chen Jiao was not the kind of frivolous and tactless person.
It's these people who have nothing to do all day long, and they just talk about other people's gossips behind their backs.
She looked at Zhang Fengxia and Jiang Siyu who had just spoken with a cold face, and said coldly: "Are you living a good life at home? People eat their own food, and they can cook as much as they like. How does it bother you?"
The positions of Zhang Fengxia and Jiang Siyu's men were not as high as Qian Guangrong's, so he was in the wrong for talking about others behind their backs. After being rebuked by Li Junhua, he did not dare to say anything more.
After Li Junhua left, Zhang Fengxia looked at her from behind and rolled her eyes. "Why is she pretending to be serious? Didn't she stop saying bad things about people behind our backs?"
Jiang Siyu immediately responded mysteriously, "Don't you know? Lu Zhengxu won first-class merit last time he was injured. He was not promoted before because he became a vegetable. Now that he is back, the higher-ups are going to promote him directly to the head of the group. By then, his rank will be higher than her deputy head of the group. Wouldn't she have to rush to curry favor with him?"
Zhang Fengxia raised her eyebrows with a look of understanding and said, "No wonder she didn't dare to say a word when I saw Chen Jiao bullying her precious sister and making her cry yesterday!"
Chen Jiao knew nothing about what was happening outside.
While Lu Zhengxu was cutting the cured meat and putting it on the plate, she began to blanch the cabbage in the bone soup, make a cold dish of shredded vegetables, and stew meatballs with lettuce. She also made twice-cooked pork and a spicy boiled pork slices.
After they brought the dishes to the table, Liu Haibo also arrived with his comrades who had helped them clean the house.
When Liu Haibo and several of his comrades saw Lu Zhengxu and Shen Jiao, they immediately saluted, "Hello, Battalion Commander, hello, sister-in-law!"
Chen Jiao smiled and said, "Hello, you are at home, not in the army, so don't be polite, just sit down and eat!"
Lu Zhengxu also nodded slightly to them.
Liu Haibo and the other six soldiers took their seats.
After Lu Zhengxu and Shen Jiao sat down, Liu Haibo said, "Sister-in-law, let me introduce you. This is Comrade Wang Qiang. He is from the kitchen team. He helped select the pots and pans for your family."
Wang Qiang immediately stood up and greeted her, saying in a loud voice, "Hello, sister-in-law!"
Wang Qiang is not tall, but very fair. Compared with the other soldiers, he is a little chubby. His small round face looks white and chubby, very cute.
Chen Jiao quickly replied him with a greeting.
Liu Haibo continued to introduce the remaining four, whose names were Tong Dayi, Huang Minghui, Guo Jinlong, Jiang Longjun and Wu Jiaming.
The four of them were soldiers in Lu Zhengxu's camp. Among them, Guo Jinlong, Jiang Longjun and Wu Jiaming were relatively young, with short military service, and their families were not yet eligible to accompany the army. Guo Jinlong was already a volunteer soldier with 15 years of military service, and his family also came to accompany the army, living in the veterans' family compound outside.
Tong Dayi is Lu Zhengxu's deputy battalion commander. In recent years, Lu Zhengxu has been on missions outside, and he is in charge of the camp affairs in the military region.
If their camp is compared to a home, then he and Lu Zhengxu are the one in charge of the interior and the other the outside.
Chen Jiao felt that the name Tong Dayi was somewhat familiar, but for a moment she couldn't remember where she had heard it.
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