The hand was very small and tender, as if it would break if he used the slightest force.

"I'm here to get a pen. I asked Sister Tao to help me see what else needs to be added to the list. There are quite a lot of things to buy." Li Xia didn't expect that her action would make Gu Weicheng so nervous, and he directly grabbed her hand.

If he hadn't reacted quickly and stopped in time, her hand would have been in danger.

Fortunately, he didn't use any force, he just grabbed her hand.

"It was a subconscious action. I hope I didn't hurt you?" Gu Weicheng said apologetically.

In fact, he has been alone all these years, and his wife is thousands of miles away, and she is not used to having intimate interactions with others.

A hand reached out and he subconsciously grabbed it.

"It's okay, you stopped in time, it doesn't hurt." Li Xia shook her head.

Come to think of it, this was their first time holding hands.

Um, if this counts as holding hands?

"Here's the pen." Gu Weicheng took the pen and handed it to Li Xia. He noticed that the back of her hand was slightly red and frowned.

I must have hurt her, he thought in annoyance.

Li Xia took the pen and walked over to Mrs. Tao to write. She wrote whatever Mrs. Tao said.

"You have been married for so many years, and your relationship is still so good. It's great that you can stay together for so long just holding a pen." Mrs. Tao couldn't help but sigh.

Li Xia and Gu Weicheng had their backs to her just now, and she thought their actions just now were affectionate.

Li Xia: “…”

If she said that Gu Weicheng treated her as an enemy just now, would Mrs. Tao believe it?

Mrs. Tao mentioned every detail, including needles and thread, chamber pots and the like, for fear that they would forget to buy something.

It was a long list that filled an entire page.

Li Xia checked it again and added the things he wanted to buy, and then it was considered finished.

Everything is ready, just waiting to go to the city for a big shopping trip tomorrow.

After Mrs. Tao left, they had almost finished packing. Gu Weicheng took Li Xia and An An to the cafeteria to eat, and then sent them to the guesthouse.

Thinking that this was the last night staying in the guesthouse, Li Xia felt much more at ease when she looked at the thermos on the table.

Finally she had to leave. If she didn't leave now she would feel numb all over.

An An was exhausted from weeding during the day and fell asleep right after dinner. It was Gu Weicheng who carried her all the way back.

Since he couldn't take a bath, Li Xia took off his dirty clothes, asked Gu Weicheng to pour a basin of water, wiped his body, changed him into clean clothes, and then put him to bed.

"What time do we leave for the city tomorrow?" Li Xia asked.

Gu Weicheng said, "Seven in the morning, it will take three or four hours to drive to the city. If we go too late, I'm afraid we won't be able to buy everything. I will apply for a car from the army, otherwise there will be too much stuff to bring back."

Li Xia: "Okay, An An and I will wait for you downstairs then, and you should go back and rest early."

"Wait for me for a moment. I'm going to the dormitory to get something and will be back soon." Gu Weicheng said.

Li Xia didn’t know what he wanted to get and why he had to go back so late, but she still nodded and waited for him to come back.

Gu Weicheng moved very quickly, running to and fro. It usually took him half an hour to walk back and forth in 20 minutes today. The key point was that his physical fitness was very good, so he didn't breathe heavily.

Li Xia thought, if it were her, she wouldn’t know how panting she would be.

"What is it?" Li Xia asked curiously when she saw that Gu Weicheng didn't have anything in his hand.

Gu Weicheng said, "Stretch out your hand."

Li Xia stretched out her hand, and Gu Weicheng took out a small tube of medicine from his pocket, squeezed out some and rubbed it on the back of Li Xia's hand: "This medicine was prescribed by the military clinic when I was injured before. It works very well."

During the training camp, he got a large abrasion on his back while trying to save his soldiers. He used this medicine to heal it.

His hands were strong and he was afraid of hurting Li Xia, so he was very careful when applying the medicine.

Li Xia wanted to say that her hand really didn’t hurt anymore. It just hurt a little when he pinched her hand, but it was fine afterwards.

In the eyes of these soldiers, is this just a minor injury?

But when she saw the sweat on Gu Weicheng's forehead, she let him go.

He specially ran back to the dormitory to get medicine for her, and even though he was sweating profusely, he still applied the medicine on her. She couldn't refuse his kindness.

Gu Weicheng held one hand in his palm, and with the other hand he took out a handkerchief from his pocket, stood on tiptoe and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Gu Weicheng paused and looked at her.

When their eyes met, Li Xia looked like a student caught by the teacher for being distracted in class, and said with a hint of surreptitiousness: "I saw that you had sweat on your forehead, so I wiped it for you."

"Thank you." Gu Weicheng said.

Not sure if it was Li Xia's illusion, but Gu Weicheng's voice became a little hoarse and low...

Li Xia said, "You don't have to say thank you. As a family, we always support and help each other. It's too formal to always thank each other in the future. What do you think?"

Li Xia was born into a very reserved family.

Her parents always thank each other and act so formally, not like a family.

Later they divorced, started new families, and never visited Li Xia again.

They went from being a single family to a family of three.

"You're right." Gu Weicheng agreed. "Actually, I have sweat on my neck too. How about you wipe it for me?"

Okay, now you’re really being rude.

Li Xia looked at him, smiled and asked him to raise his head, and wiped the sweat off his neck.

Not out of breath, but sweating a lot.

Gu Weicheng felt Li Xia's slender fingers touching his neck. Her movements were light, but they gave his body a different feeling.

At the corner, the female soldier at the front desk just walked up the stairs. When she saw the scene in the corridor, she was so scared that she hurried downstairs again.

When it was time to get off work, her colleague on the night shift came over, and she quickly pulled him aside and said, "Guess what I just saw?"

"What did you see?"

"Captain Gu and his family were in the corridor, one applying medicine to the other, and the other wiping sweat off the other. Wow, I never realized that Captain Gu and his family had such a good relationship.

You don't even know, what's the wound on Captain Gu's family member's hand? There's not even a cut, just a little red. My hand gets red when I hold a pen for a long time."

"No way? You didn't see it wrong? I remember that there was a soldier in the art troupe who got a small cut on her hand and started crying, and Director Gu criticized her for being delicate."

"I was surprised because I didn't see it wrong."

"I never realized that Captain Gu dotes on his family members so much."

"Everyone had previously speculated that their relationship was not good, so his family had been unwilling to join the army. It seems that everyone was wrong."

"Hey, Captain Gu's wife is so lucky. She married Captain Gu, who is so handsome and dotes on his wife. Why can't I meet such a good man?"