Mrs. Tao was also stunned. She felt that she was quite strong, but could only carry a bucket of water at most.

Xiao Zhou is really strong as he can carry two buckets of water and still breathe so evenly.

"So Xiao Liu thinks you are too capable and can handle the troublemakers by yourself, leaving him with no room for skill and hurting his self-esteem as a man, so he doesn't want to continue." Li Xia concluded.

There are indeed men who think that women should be weak.

When encountering danger, you must panic and wait for his "heroic rescue", otherwise his self-esteem will be hurt.

Zhou Yunxing sighed: "That should be the case. In fact, my mother has already told me to behave more docilely.

I did as he said. It wasn't a special situation that day, and I didn't react for a while... My mother has been worried about my marriage, and I messed it up again this time. She will definitely scold me when I go back."

Zhou Yunxing's face wrinkled into a ball.

Li Xia said, "Xiao Zhou, in my opinion, I support you being yourself.

There is no need to change anything for the wrong person. You can change for a while but not for a lifetime. You should choose someone who likes you the way you are, instead of changing yourself for others. Besides, being strong is not a bad thing. Why should you change for others?"

Mrs. Tao also nodded and agreed:

"Yes, your sister-in-law Li is right. What's wrong with a woman being strong? It's not something to be ashamed of. Why should I change it? I am still strong, but I still got married. You are what you should be. I promise to find you someone better than Xiao Liu!"

Zhou Yunxing looked at them and suddenly laughed.

"My two sisters-in-law, you are so nice!"

She thought they were going to ask her to change, but unexpectedly they told her not to change anything and just be herself!

In fact, she herself thinks there is nothing wrong with being strong. She can do things that the men in the factory cannot do. Even the factory director says she is awesome!

"To thank you, let me do some work for you. I'm very efficient at work." Zhou Yunxing said.

Mrs. Tao and Li Xia asked her to take a rest, but she refused to listen and helped Li Xia turn over the fields.

Li Xia invited her to have lunch at her home.

When Li Xia was about to start making lunch, Gu Weicheng came back, followed by Hu Songlin.

She was holding a wild rabbit in her hand, saying that Hu Songlin had caught it on the hill behind, and asked Li Xia to cook it for her: "Sister-in-law, you are a good cook, and your cooking will surely be delicious."

Rabbit meat is very fragrant. Li Xia had eaten it when she traveled to Sichuan before. She planned to make stir-fried rabbit cubes.

Hu Songlin saw Zhou Yunxing and asked, "Sister-in-law, what is this?"

Li Xia introduced Zhou Yunxing to Gu Weicheng and Hu Songlin. Li Xia had mentioned this to Gu Weicheng before, and Gu Weicheng knew what was going on as soon as he heard it.

Zhou Yunxing said: "This rabbit is quite fat. I am pretty good at catching rabbits."

Hu Songlin raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhou Yunxing's petite figure: "How can a girl like you catch rabbits?"

Zhou Yunxing snorted, "Don't look down on girls. Maybe I'm even better than you."

Hu Songlin got excited: "You are better than me? I don't believe it, how about we compete?"

"Compared to what?"

"You are a woman, ladies first, what do you want to compare?"

"Then let's have an arm wrestling match!"

"Arm wrestling? Are you serious?"

Hu Songlin felt that Zhou Yunxing wanted to lose on purpose.

Zhou Yunxing nodded and said, "Of course I'm serious, come on!"

Zhou Yunxing rolled up her sleeves and put her hands on the stool. Seeing this, Hu Songlin quickly put his hands on as well.

At first, Hu Songlin didn't use much strength, and planned to give Zhou Yunxing some slack. He couldn't bully female comrades, so he had to give them a sense of participation.

Who knew that when it really started, we discovered that Zhou Yunxing was actually very strong!

"I won!" Zhou Yunxing stood up and said.

Hu Songlin underestimated his opponent this time and didn't use his real strength to compete, but he didn't play dirty either. He said, "You win, I admit defeat. You are quite strong, you are amazing!"

An An had been watching their competition from the sidelines. When she saw Hu Songlin lose, she said, "Uncle Hu, you are so arrogant that you lost to Aunt Zhou, right? Arrogance makes people fall behind, and only humility can make progress."

Hu Songlin laughed: "An An is right, Uncle Hu accepts your criticism!"

In the kitchen, Li Xia had a full view of the situation outside. She said to Gu Weicheng who was helping to wash the vegetables:

"Weicheng, what do you think of Xiao Zhou? Are they a good match for Lao Hu?"

Gu Weicheng nodded: "He looks good, but I don't know what Lao Hu is thinking. He is now the most troublesome person in our regiment. Political Commissar Shen has done a lot of ideological work on him. He hasn't been accepted after so many dates. Let him be."

He didn't have time to care about Hu Songlin, as he was more concerned about something else.

Gu Weicheng suddenly lowered his voice and asked, "Wife, is your period over? Today is the seventh day..."

Li Xia glanced at Gu Weicheng.

Tsk, this bastard, is he counting the days?

"Seven days, it's been a whole week, my dear..." The bastard started to act like a spoiled child.

Li Xia said helplessly: "You are really born in the Year of the Ox. You can't rest for a moment. Look, your period is only seven days, and you can't wait. You even said you want to have another daughter. That's a ten-month pregnancy. Can you bear it?"

Gu Weicheng had never considered this matter before, but now that Li Xia brought it up, he began to face it.

Ten months, more than three hundred days.

I haven’t been able to touch my wife for more than 300 days…

Before Li Xia joined the army, he didn’t think there was anything wrong. Life just went on like this, and he seemed to have never thought about women.

But ever since I tasted it, I've been itching to have it.

It must be that his wife is just too charming.

As soon as An An fell asleep at night, Gu Weicheng carried her to the next room.

In fact, it is troublesome to carry the baby around every day. Gu Weicheng wants An An to sleep in a separate bed from them, but the last time he tried it, An An had a nightmare at night.

Li Xia felt sorry for the child, so she said forget it and wait until An An was older.

The next day, I felt refreshed.

In the afternoon, the letter from the newspaper arrived.

This time it was much faster than last time, probably because the newspaper office had two different mailboxes.

One is for first-time submissions, and the other is for submissions from veteran authors. The newspaper gives priority to manuscripts from veteran authors, so it was published so quickly this time.

When I opened it, I found there were eighty yuan inside!

It’s a full twenty dollars more than last time!

The letter from the newspaper said that the quality of the article was still very high. After a meeting, the editorial department decided to upgrade Li Xia to their highest level of author fee, which is eight yuan per thousand words.

Li Xia was calculating in her mind that if she could guarantee to write four articles a month, she would be able to earn 320 yuan in royalties a month.

Three hundred and twenty yuan is the annual salary of an ordinary worker.

Li Xia counted the money and felt very happy. She felt that she was not far from becoming a rich woman.

…

The news that Li Xia went to work in the propaganda department of the army gradually spread among the family members, and Chen Lina also heard about it.

"I didn't expect that Captain Gu's wife was so capable that she could join the army's propaganda department. I heard that this is the most difficult place to get into. I heard that her articles were even published in newspapers."

"Her articles are so well written, Wenyan, you might as well ask her for advice, so that you don't have the headache of revising the manuscript every day." Chen Lina said to her sister-in-law Su Wenyan.

Su Wenyan was already annoyed from revising the manuscript, and she became even more angry when she heard Chen Lina mention Li Xia.

"I won't go. Who knows where she copied the manuscript from? I don't want to go to her even if I am fired!" Su Wenyan said unhappily.

Chen Lina had good intentions, but she didn't expect Su Wenyan to get so angry.

She frowned and went out without saying anything. When Su Wenbin came back, she told him about this.

"I mean well. If Wen Yan doesn't want to go, then she can just not go. Why get so angry?

Wenbin, I'm not imagining things, but why do I feel that Wen Yan is particularly hostile to Captain Gu's lover? There was obviously no dispute between the two of them before, but Wen Yan has no hostility towards Captain Gu, and she even specially delivered breakfast to Captain Gu last time.

Then I thought about how Captain Gu saved Wen Yan on the train. Could it be that Wen Yan had fallen in love with Captain Gu since then? "