Wen Ling happily led him home, but her face turned unhappy when she saw Lu Cheng moving things downstairs.
She said with a stern face, "Ningning, why are you buying so many things? Do you have money but nowhere to spend it?"
"Aunt Zhou, these are all gifts from Lu Cheng. Isn't it normal for a new son-in-law to bring gifts?"
Qin An Ning's words made Wen Ling so happy that she could hardly suppress the smile on her lips.
"If you want to laugh, just laugh. Why are you pretending to be so reserved?"
The original Aunt Si came over after hearing the news.
"I'm just happy, what's wrong?" Wen Ling raised her chin, feeling very proud.
Aunt Si was talking to Wen Ling, but her eyes fell on Lu Cheng.
Nian Nian came back and said that Lu Cheng was a handsome man and would be good to Ningning. She thought he looked good, but she still had to observe how he would treat Ningning.
Qin An Ning introduced the two of them.
Lu Cheng stood up and greeted politely, "Hello, Aunt Si. Ningning always said that you and Uncle Si treated her like your own daughter. Thank you for taking such good care of her."
Aunt Si nodded in satisfaction and said, "In our hearts, Ningning is the same as Nian Nian. If you bully Ningning, we will not be polite."
Lu Cheng quickly expressed his stance, his attitude sincere as if he was facing some important national event, "I know, I love Ningning so much, how could I bully her."
"Okay, let's talk upstairs. What does it look like to stand at the door? If someone doesn't know me, they might think I don't like the new son-in-law."
Wen Ling came out to smooth things over, and several people helped carry the things.
Seeing several jars on the ground, Wen Ling couldn't help but ask, "What are those?"
"I made this medicinal wine for my uncles. It's good for their hidden injuries."
They all came from the battlefield, so who doesn’t have some hidden injuries?
When the weather changes, the pain is unbearable, but I have no choice but to endure it.
Lu Cheng couldn't buy the glass bottle for soaking medicinal wine, so she had to use a jar to store it.
Don't be fooled by its ugly appearance, it uses only the best medicinal materials. This jar of wine is almost priceless.
"You are such a thoughtful kid."
Aunt Si didn't expect this jar of wine to cure the hidden injuries on the men. They were all knife wounds and wood wounds. Some of them even had shrapnel in their bodies that couldn't be removed. How could they be healed so easily?
But the child’s thoughts are the most important.
After chatting for a while upstairs, Wen Ling hurried to buy groceries, muttering, "I don't know if I can still buy meat now."
Aunt Si heard this and said unhappily, "I bought some meat this morning and will bring it over later.
If you want me to get the meat, just say it directly. You know you can't buy meat at this time. Is it fun to beat around the bush?"
Wen Ling didn't get angry and laughed, "Who knows if you've eaten lunch? If you have, I'll tell you how embarrassed you'll be."
"Okay, go buy some groceries. I'll go find Lao Si and ask them to come back early in the evening."
"Come over tonight and eat together."
"Do I need to tell you?"
Although the two of them bicker from time to time, you can actually tell that they have a very good relationship.
"Aunt Zhou, we'll go grocery shopping with you."
Qin An Ning gave the vegetable basket to Lu Cheng and walked in front with Wen Ling.
The military compound is well-equipped with a medical clinic, supply and marketing cooperative, vegetable market and so on.
It’s not far from the family area.
Now that the weather is hot, some unemployed family members will get together and chat.
Some people who knew Qin An Ning would greet her when they saw her, especially when they saw Lu Cheng behind her, they would always ask a few questions, so she didn't walk fast along the way.
When they arrived at the vegetable market, Guo Xinhua's mother happened to be buying vegetables and was in line in front of them.
She saw Qin An Ning couldn't help but frown at first, and then greeted Wen Ling as if nothing had happened, still looking gentle and kind.
"An Ning, Xinhua is an ignorant child. I have already punished her. Please don't bother with her.
This child was not raised by me since childhood, and I was negligent in his education. I would like to apologize to you here."
Qin An Ning's expression remained unchanged, and she said calmly, "Mrs. Guo, there's no need to be like this. After all, Guo Xinhua was like this the last time I came."
What I mean is that you apologized last time, but it was still the same afterwards?
There is no need to bring up useless things, as they will only make you a laughing stock.
"She said I didn't care. After all, I wasn't in the army and I only came here occasionally to visit Uncle Zhou and the others.
But Mrs. Guo really needs to pay attention to Guo Xinhua's education. After all, her class ideology is truly unacceptable."
A trace of gloom flashed across Mrs. Guo's eyes, so fast that it was almost invisible to the naked eye.
Then she sighed and said earnestly, “Xinhua is straightforward and doesn’t think too much before speaking.
She grew up in the countryside, and our family is a military family, so how could she have class ideology? An Ning, you must have misunderstood."
Qin Anning shrugged indifferently, "If you say so, then so be it."
Mrs. Guo punched the cotton, her face changed in anger, and she stopped talking to Qin An Ning to make herself bored.
When it was Mrs. Guo's turn, she bought a bundle of leeks, two onions, two pounds of eggs and a piece of tofu, with a total price of one yuan and forty-nine cents.
Hearing the price, Mrs. Guo frowned unhappily, "Subtract one egg."
The salesperson at the vegetable stand was also a little unhappy. These vegetables were ordered by Mrs. Guo herself, and the weight had to be changed. She had to weigh them again and calculate the money. Doesn't this increase her workload?
"Even if you're the captain's wife, you can't be so hard on me, right? We have to weigh it and then subtract it. Everything has to be recalculated."
"I don't care. Just add an egg or an onion."
Anyway, it can’t be at this price.
The salesperson had no choice but to angrily weigh another onion. Only then did Mrs. Guo pay and leave.
On the way back, Lu Cheng was in deep thought and didn't say much.
Qin An Ning found an opening, pulled him aside and asked, "What's wrong with you? You haven't been feeling well since you came back from the vegetable market."
Lu Cheng glanced at Wen Ling and Aunt Si who were busy in the kitchen, and said in a low voice, "Ningning, I don't know if I'm being too suspicious, but I think there's something wrong with Captain Guo's wife.
Look at her at the vegetable market today. She had already chosen what she wanted to buy, but just because she heard the price, she refused to do anything and insisted on adding or subtracting money to change the price.
Do you remember how much she used to spend on groceries?
Qin Anning recalled that she was right next to him at the time and heard it clearly, "One dollar and forty-nine cents."
"Yes, that's the price. Just pick the good stuff and pay for it.
But she disagreed. I think she was sensitive about this number.
As far as I know, people who live a simple life are particularly averse to the numbers 4 and 9.”
Qin An Ning almost cried out in surprise, and quickly covered her mouth, then asked in a voice that couldn't be any lower, "You mean, she's someone who lives a simple life?
That's not right. If she was just a normal person, how did she pass the political review?"
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