Feng Yun half-hugged Hu Chunhua for the first time in a long time.
Chunhua is very thin. She has taken good care of herself during this period, but she is still thin, and her back is a little thin.
"It's okay, Chunhua. Mom is here, nothing will happen."
Generally speaking, when a man comes to propose marriage, the woman has to invite guests to dinner and also find companions.
But given the current situation at Old Hu's house, Feng Yun didn't plan to invite anyone over to entertain the guests. In that case, the meals at home would have to be cooked better.
No matter what, they had to make the Zhou family feel valued.
Hu Chunhua took Feng Yun's arm and said, "Mom, what are you thinking about life in the army?"
Feng Yun wasn't entirely sure, but she guessed she knew a little more than Chunhua did. After some thought, she said, "I heard that only soldiers of higher ranks can bring their families with them. Zhou Xiong's rank should be pretty good, so the army will allocate housing for them in the family compound."
“Is the house big?”
"I don't know about that, but there are so many people in the army, and there must be a lot of people in the family compound as well. Where there are a lot of people, there are a lot of things to do. Mom is not worried about anything else, but she is worried that you will suffer when getting along with others."
Hu Chunhua rubbed her face against Feng Yun's arm. "Mom, don't worry. I will try my best to protect myself."
"Well, Chunhua has grown up compared to before. Mom is much more relieved now."
Recalling what she had read in the newspapers before, that some wives of soldiers in the military family compounds had been bewitched and became spies without knowing it, she hurriedly gave instructions.
"Chunhua, remember, you're not here to make friends. Don't be afraid of offending anyone. I heard the country is constantly hunting down spies. Secrets are the hardest to get, but also the easiest place to get them is in the family compound. There are some people there you can't even tell if they're human or not. So, just focus on living your own life. Be wary of both inexplicable kindness and inexplicable hostility."
"Ah?" Hu Chunhua sat up. "Is it really that scary?"
Feng Yun also sat up and touched her cheek with a smile.
"Mom is just telling you what I'm thinking of in advance. I'm not trying to scare you, Chunhua. Where there are people, there are interests involved, there are entanglements, there are conflicts. This is not something you can avoid just because you're afraid."
Hu Chunhua exhaled, "Yeah, I understand."
The two lay down again. Hu Chunhua looked at the roof and said, "Mom, I can't bear to leave you."
Feng Yun faced her and gently stroked her hair. "Parents and children only have one journey together. Every child will leave their parents when they grow up. That's the process of growing up and it's unavoidable. As long as you can come back often in the future, that's enough."
Hu Chunhua hummed in a depressed tone.
As they chatted, they turned their attention back to what would happen tomorrow.
"Mom, can we go to Zhou's house to talk tomorrow? I'm always worried something might happen."
Feng Yun thought about it and said, "It's definitely not possible to go to the Zhou family. How can a woman rush to the man's house to discuss marriage? That will only make others look down on her."
But Chunhua's concerns are justified.
"How about this, if you're really worried, isn't Zhou Xiong driving? Let's go to the state-owned hotel to talk tomorrow."
"Okay."
Hu Chunhua felt relieved and soon fell into a drowsy sleep.
Feng Yun couldn't sleep. Hu Jianguo's problem must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise it would be a disaster sooner or later.
It seems that after the matter is settled tomorrow, I have to go find Huang Yunfang and ask her how things are going.
…
Early the next morning, Feng Yun asked Hu Guangcong to go to Hongdong Village to express her ideas. Zhou's parents thought Feng Yun was too nosy.
But thinking about the current situation of the Hu family, it might be really easy for something to go wrong if I went there, so I just agreed.
However, a meal at a state-owned restaurant will cost a few dollars, which is an additional expense.
At seven o'clock, Zhou Xiong drove over.
The military jeep driving on the road leading to Lishu Village attracted a lot of people's attention.
The children had never seen such a cool car before, and they excitedly ran to the village entrance to see it. Soon, all the villagers who had not left the fields also gathered around.
"Hey, who's this going to?"
"Who else could it be? To Feng Yun's house. Didn't Zhou Xiong say yesterday that he wanted to marry Chunhua? Could he be here to discuss the marriage today?"
"But where did he get the car? Most people can't afford it. Isn't he just a soldier?"
"Who knows? Why don't we just go and see for ourselves?"
The car couldn't go any further into the village, so Zhou Xiong got out of the car.
"Oh, it's really Zhou Xiong. Didn't you come here to propose marriage today? Why didn't you bring your parents?"
Zhou Xiong smiled but said nothing.
Guangcong told me this morning not to say anything more.
After a while, Feng Yun's family of four came out.
Hu Chunhua was wearing a red polka-dot skirt bought by Feng Yun. Her hair was braided into a centipede braid by Feng Yun, and tied underneath with two hair flowers that Feng Yun had sewn herself this morning.
This is something I learned in my previous life when I was braiding hair for a few children at Hu Guangjin's house.
Dressed like this, Chunhua looks even more charming and pretty.
After Zhou Xiong came out of her, he couldn't take his eyes off her.
Feng Yun walked closer and said with a smile, "You've come back to your senses."
Zhou Xiong's face flushed suddenly, "I..."
He opened the car door in a hurry, and Chunhua tried to sit in the back as if to avoid him. Feng Yun remembered how badly Chunhua was carsick last time, so he quickly pulled her to the passenger seat.
Chunhua was so frightened that she wanted to get up, but Feng Yun held her down. "You're prone to motion sickness. It's much better to sit in the front. Be obedient."
Feng Yun sat in the back first, followed by Hu Guangcong and Hu Guangcai.
After Zhou Xiong got into the driver's seat, he saw that Hu Chunhua was not wearing a seat belt, so he bent over.
When Hu Chunhua saw her like that, she was so frightened that her face suddenly turned red. "You, you, you, what do you want to do..."
It's no wonder Hu Chunhua thought too much. She didn't know she had to wear a seat belt. When she saw Zhou Xiong coming over, she subconsciously thought he was going to do something out of the ordinary, so she quickly put her hands on him.
The moment her palm touched his face, she immediately pulled her hand back as if it were burned.
You two looked at each other, both at a loss.
Feng Yun watched from the back row, covering one of his sons' eyes with one hand and saying, "Don't look."
But I was secretly delighted in my heart. It turned out that just like in TV dramas in the future, wearing seat belts and other things can create pink bubbles between two people.
Local dogs love to watch!
"Um, Chunhua, let me fasten your seat belt for you."
"What seat belt, you..."
"That's it." Zhou Xiong looked away with difficulty and pointed at the seat belt beside him. "There are seat belts on the driver's seat and the passenger seat. You have to fasten them to be safe."
Hu Chunhua looked in the direction of Zhou Xiong's finger, and her face turned red again, spreading to her neck.
"Oh, oh, so that's it..."
Zhou Xiong finally fastened the seat belt for Hu Chunhua, but when he saw Hu Chunhua's blushing cheeks, his throat moved unconsciously.
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