Chapter 172 Notice Even if it’s not in a dream, I’m willing to do it.
A hasty knock on the door broke the stagnant atmosphere.
Zhou Yuesheng propped himself up and put some distance between them. The first thing he noticed was her watery eyes and messy hair. He was also dazzled by the half of her snow-white waist exposed to the air.
"I'm going on a mission. The key to the front door is on the table in the living room. You don't need to lock the door when you leave home." He said as he sorted Yu Zhile's clothes, his eyes unfocused. "The heating in the family compound starts at 7pm and stops at 7am. The cafeteria closes at 8am. The money and tickets are in the drawer in the living room."
The noise coming from the courtyard gate continued, and the dull knocking sound became more and more intense.
Yu Zhile's eyes gradually became clear, and then he sighed imperceptibly.
After learning that Zhou's parents had an emergency meeting, she had a premonition, so she asked him about the mission, but she didn't expect this moment to come so soon.
Their eyes met for a moment, and Zhou Yuesheng was the first to look away.
"I'm leaving. Go to bed early tonight." He turned his back to Yu Zhile, stiffly concealing his body's reaction.
Yu Zhile stood up and hugged him, resting his forehead on his back, and whispered, "Be sure to return home safely. I'll wait for you to come back."
Zhou Yuesheng didn't look back, but just shook her hand and then walked out quickly.
“Also, don’t be shy next time. Even if it’s not in my dream, I’m willing.” Yu Zhile shouted towards his back.
The slightly teasing tone made Zhou Yuesheng lose his pace and almost tripped himself.
Seeing this, Yu Zhile couldn't help but laugh, but after laughing he still felt depressed and walked out involuntarily.
"Brother Zhou, you usually only need thirty seconds, but this time you were two and a half minutes slower." The visitor said in surprise.
Zhou Yuesheng didn't respond, closed the gate, and took him to the training area.
"Brother Zhou, the light in your room seems to be on. Do you want to go back and check it? So as to avoid wasting electricity." The man continued.
Zhou Yuesheng still didn't respond. He looked back reluctantly and happened to see the lights under the eaves turned on. His heart was filled with emotions.
The north wind was howling, Yu Zhile held his military coat tightly, and waited until the sounds of conversation and footsteps completely disappeared before turning off the lights and going home.
After entering the house, she sat in the living room for a while, inexplicably thinking of the narrow and neat camp bed. She walked into the cloakroom and hung the clothes at the end of the bed in the closet.
When the clothes were shaken apart, a pale yellow handkerchief that had been washed so much fell to the ground.
Yu Zhile bent down and picked it up. She made it with scraps of cloth. She had lost it a long time ago and didn't expect to find it here.
When she saw the quality of it, some inappropriate scenes for children flashed through her mind. Her cheeks were hot. She stuffed the thing under the pillow, picked up some clothes at random, and went to the kitchen to boil water for a bath.
Coming out of the steamy bathroom, her face flushed, she felt sleepy and fell asleep immediately.
"One two one, one two one."
"If you shed a little more sweat in peacetime, you will suffer a little less injury on the battlefield."
The next morning, loud and powerful slogans spread from the training area to the family compound.
Yu Zhile was woken up and found that it was not yet six o'clock, so he fell asleep again. When he noticed the temperature in the room was gradually dropping, he lazily turned over and got up.
A few minutes later, she stared at the soft quilt in front of her in a daze for a long time, and finally realized that she was not good at folding tofu blocks. She folded the quilt in the usual way and took the money and went out.
At this time, the only people going to the cafeteria are those from the family compound. They are all old acquaintances, and the sound of them saying good morning to each other can be heard one after another.
Yu Zhile, with her outstanding appearance, became the focus of everyone. They cast inquiring glances at her, discussed her identity in a low voice, and some brave children even followed her and laughed.
"Le Le, here." Li Yun held Lan Yuanyuan's arm and greeted Yu Zhile, "Did you have a good rest in the family compound last night?"
After looking at the clothing style brochure last night, her friends quickly chose the styles they liked, but she hesitated for a long time, asking questions until late at night and decided to stay overnight.
She has a cheerful and lively personality. She quickly became friends with Lan Yuanyuan and also included Yu Zhile as her friend.
"Not bad." Yu Zhile responded with a smile, and cleverly changed the subject, "How was the selection of clothes?"
When talking about this, Li Yun was both happy and distressed, saying: "It's too hard to choose. I really want to order one set of each."
Yu Zhile remembered all the styles and gave some suggestions based on her preferences.
The three of them walked arm in arm and chatted happily.
The military families all knew Li Yun, and seeing that she had a good relationship with Yu Zhile, they became even more curious.
"Xiao Yun, these two girls look unfamiliar. Are they your friends?" As soon as they bought breakfast and sat down, someone came up to them to gossip.
Li Yun vaguely remembered that the other party was the mother of her father's old subordinate. She smiled and nodded, but did not take the initiative to mention the identities of Yu Zhile and the others.
Seeing that her indirect questioning failed, the old lady asked openly, "You two look like you can have children easily. Which chief's daughter are you?"
Yu Zhile and Lan Yuanyuan didn't like her gaze, and they frowned at the same time.
Li Yun was the same, but she didn't want to offend her elders directly, so she introduced them: "Teacher Wen's goddaughter, the other one is Battalion Commander Yu's daughter, and Deputy Battalion Commander Zhou's girlfriend."
"Deputy Battalion Commander Zhou from Chief Zhou's family?" The old lady's voice suddenly rose.
Li Yun didn't understand and just hummed.
After getting a positive answer, the smile on the old lady's face froze and she hurried away without saying a word.
Yu Zhile found her reaction strange and asked about her identity.
"Wu." Li Yun thought hard for a while and said hesitantly, "Or He."
Without any confirmed information, this little episode just passed.
They finished their breakfast leisurely and arrived at the art troupe's training building fifteen minutes before the assembly.
Ye Xiu called everyone together for a short meeting, saying that art troupes from other military regions would arrive one after another starting tomorrow, reallocated the training venues, and finally gave everyone a good scolding.
Yu Zhile and Lan Yuanyuan's task was to go around the training rooms of each group, watch the girls rehearse, and adjust their styling details during breaks.
In the following two days, art troupes from other military regions participating in the performance arrived one after another.
The atmosphere in the training building gradually became tense, and the tension between the small groups in the cafeteria was even more intense. Every evening before dinner, they would take turns to compete with each other in singing.
"Good! Full of energy and spirit!" After Li Yun finished singing, someone at the door clapped and cheered.
Li Yun saw her idol Qu Rong also clapping, and her eyes lit up with excitement. She raised her head and saluted: "Thank you for the compliment, Commander."
As soon as she finished speaking, the soldiers stood up, saluted in unison, and shouted, "Hello, Commander Qu! Hello, Commander Zhou!"
Qu Rong and Zhou Dai simply returned the greetings, and the latter said cheerfully, "Everyone eat and drink well, and go all out in the competition."
"Give it your all! Break through your limits!" The roar was so loud that the roof tiles were shaking.
Yu Zhile looked at Qu Rong, smiled sweetly at her, and waved slightly.
Qu Rong noticed her little movement, her expression softened, and she turned sideways and whispered to the young guard who was two steps behind her.
The guard looked in the direction of Yu Zhile and nodded as he listened.
"Le Le, I envy you so much. You can see Aunt Qu every day from now on." Li Yun stared at the backs of Qu Rong and others with admiration in her eyes.
Yu Zhile joked: "Who told you not to like ice cubes?"
These days, she pieced together Zhou Yuesheng's image in the military region from the people in the art troupe, and the adjective they most often used was "cold".
"Alas." Li Yun's tone was full of regret, and she folded her hands together. "If Qin San was Aunt Qu's son, even if he was so busy that he could not be seen all day, I would chase him and make sure he could not escape from my Five Fingers Mountain."
Her friends were already used to her bold statements, so they just smiled and urged her to finish her meal quickly and go to training.
That night, Qu Rong's guard knocked on the gate of the family's house, bringing the news that Qu Rong had a tight schedule, and gave Yu Zhile a basket of fruit.
In the busy pace of life, time flies quickly and there are only two days left until the performance.
Today is the day when Yu Wanqin and her group arrive in Beijing. Yu Zhile and Yu Haiguang drove to pick them up.
"How do you feel about living here? Do you like the layout of the room?" Yu Haiguang asked.
The day after Zhou Yuesheng went out on a mission, he left a bunch of keys for Yu Zhile and went on a business trip to a neighboring province. He just returned to Beijing today.
"It's pretty good, I like it." Yu Zhile touched his nose.
In fact, she had only entered the room once and had never taken a close look at it.
Yu Haiguang noticed her guilty expression and knew it clearly, but he did not expose her.
The father and daughter chatted and soon arrived at the train station.
Chen Zhao had been picked up by Xiao Hu, while Yu Wanqin and the others were still waiting in front of the platform, with Qin Yunbai accompanying them.
"Sister." Yu Chi plunged into Yu Zhile's arms like a little cannonball, rubbing her face affectionately, "I miss you so much."
Yu Zhile patted his head gently, but his eyes fell on Qin Yunbai who was holding a potted plant, and said with a smile: "It is so easy and difficult to meet Professor Qin."
As soon as he said this, he knew that she saw through his thoughts, and he smiled and called her sister-in-law.
"The supply and marketing cooperatives in the military region don't have a wide variety of food and drink items. Why don't we go to the city first?" Yu Haiguang suggested.
Zhang Wenxin was not used to long-distance trains, and he looked listless and shook his head.
Hu Shuang was not very interested in shopping, and she hadn't seen her mother for a long time, so she preferred to go back to the military area directly.
"Uncle Yu, let's go shopping again next time." Yu Chuyue said.
Yu Haiguang agreed and gave the house key to Qin Yunbai, asking him to take Zhang Wenxin and Yu Chuyue to Yu Zhile's room to put their luggage.
The two cars drove in different directions at the fork in the road. A few minutes later, Yu Haiguang stopped in front of the largest supply and marketing cooperative in Beijing.
He and Yu Wanqin purchased oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and food, and asked Yu Zhile to take his younger brothers to buy snacks.
The candy counter was more than twice as big as the one in the Haidong Town Supply and Marketing Cooperative. It had a wide variety of candies on display, and many confused children gathered in front of the counter.
"Sister, I want two kinds." Yu Chi pointed out directly with a clear goal.
Yu Zhile asked the salesperson to weigh one kilogram each, and when he was paying the bill, he felt a strong sense of being watched from behind.
At the same time, the small conch that returned to Yu Chi's neck glowed faintly.
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