“Yes, I’ll go check the medical records,” Su Yueya said.
Every soldier who comes to see a doctor, whether or not they are sick, will be recorded.
With too many medical records, Su Yueya couldn't keep flipping through them. She only glanced at this year's records and found that no battalion commander surnamed Zhou had ever come.
"Perhaps he's strong and healthy, and has never been sick," Su Yueya said, somewhat disappointed.
“If we don’t have it, we don’t have it. Actually, sis, I don’t think it has anything to do with us…” Qiao Xinruo said hesitantly.
She found it strange that he was so keen to find this Battalion Commander Zhou.
It would have been one thing if she hadn't known that someone had a crush on her, but now that she does, it's hard for her to pretend nothing's wrong.
“How can it not matter? Maybe that person is your future husband!” Su Yueya said, determined to find him, and persuaded him, “I know what you’re thinking: just because someone likes you doesn’t mean you like them back, right?”
"But think about it, we've read quite a few novels. According to the plot, since this Battalion Commander Zhou was written into the story and even had this scene of being impersonated by Leng Yinghong, I feel that he's not just a passerby. There must be more to this story!"
"It's just that Leng Yingying was too careless. She must have skipped around while reading. If she had looked carefully, she definitely would have noticed the foreshadowing..."
Qiao Xinruo: "..."
She was speechless, feeling that her sister was going off on a tangent.
After returning home, Su Yueya took the initiative to ask her older brother about this Battalion Commander Zhou.
"His surname is Zhou, and he's a battalion commander?" Qiao Shouyan pondered.
"It seems there's someone surnamed Zhou, what's his name... right! Zhou Changgen, Yueya, do you need to see him?"
Su Yueya's eyes immediately lit up.
Zhou Changgen!
"Brother, what kind of person is this Battalion Commander Zhou? Do you know him? What's his personal background like?" Su Yueya asked in rapid succession.
Qiao Shouyan was puzzled, not knowing why his sister suddenly asked about Zhou Changgen, but he still told her everything he knew.
"Battalion Commander Zhou has a good reputation; he's reliable, honest, and kind. He gets along well with everyone in the army, and his subordinates are very supportive of him. I heard he's especially good to his wife; ever since he brought her to live with him—"
"What?!" Su Yueya's expression changed instantly. "He has a wife?!"
“Yes, Zhou Changgen is over forty years old. Is it strange that he has a wife?” Qiao Shouyan pondered Su Yueya’s expression and began to have some uneasy thoughts. “Yueya, Zhengjun isn’t dead. He will come back. Do you have feelings for this Zhou Changgen? He’s forty years old…”
Su Yueya: "..."
"Big brother, what nonsense are you spouting!" Su Yueya was so angry that she punched her older brother without holding back.
She's really quick-witted; she was just asking a question, yet she managed to think in that direction.
"Then why are you asking about him?" Qiao Shouyan asked, puzzled, rubbing the spot where his sister had hit him earlier.
It didn't hurt, but I really felt wronged.
"Don't ask me yet. I'm not asking about Zhou Changgen. I'm asking about a battalion commander surnamed Zhou. His age... well, he's probably around the same age as me and Xinruo, maybe a few years older. But he's definitely unmarried, though he might be getting married soon. Think about it carefully. Do you remember anyone like that?"
Qiao Shouyan: "..."
He was full of curiosity, but Su Yueya wouldn't tell him, insisting that he think about it first.
"I can't think of anything. Does this person really exist?" Qiao Shouyan asked doubtfully. Could it be that Su Yueya created a person by selecting the criteria herself?
"Yes! There definitely is, but I don't know who it is, so I thought I'd ask you," Su Yueya said.
Since Su Yueya asked specifically, it means that finding this person was meaningful.
Qiao Shouyan racked his brains, but no matter how hard he tried, he still couldn't figure it out.
It's normal that Qiao Shouyan wouldn't be able to figure it out if it were just an ordinary soldier, but the other party is already a battalion commander, so it's impossible that Qiao Shouyan hadn't heard of him at all. If he still can't figure it out, then there's only one answer.
“No, Crescent Moon, are you sure this person is from our unit? We don’t seem to have a Battalion Commander Zhou who meets your criteria,” Qiao Shouyan said.
A single word awakened me from my dream!
Su Yueya then realized that there was no confirmation that Battalion Commander Zhou was from their unit, and that he might not even be here.
“Oh right, there are two military units in the capital,” Su Yueya said.
Qiao Xinruo was also there. She didn't participate in the conversation at all, but she heard her sister asking about her older brother, and she almost laughed when she heard that Zhou Changgen was married.
“One in the south, one in the north, maybe they’re from the unit in the north,” Qiao Xinruo finally said.
“I can confirm that our unit does not have the Battalion Commander Zhou you are looking for,” Qiao Shouyan then looked at Qiao Xinruo, his suspicious gaze shifting between his two younger sisters. “So, you also know this Battalion Commander Zhou? So, why are you two looking for him?”
“It should be the one to the north.” Su Yueya nodded at her sister.
"Forget it, there's really no need to ask..." Qiao Xinruo said.
If it were just a matter of asking her older brother, then she would ask; it would only take a moment. But now that it involves another unit, she felt it was unnecessary to make such a fuss.
The two sisters continued talking to themselves, without answering Qiao Shouyan's question at all.
He was furious.
Is this something you use and then throw away?
When I asked him earlier, he kept calling me "big brother," but now that I've found out he's not from their unit, I'm just ignoring him.
Every family has its rules, and today he's going to show his two younger sisters how strict those rules are!
"What do you two mean? Are you pretending I don't exist and that you can't hear me?" Qiao Shouyan questioned, suspecting that his two younger sisters had been corrupted by their second brother and no longer respected him as their elder brother.
"How could that be?" Su Yueya quickly reassured him.
For some embarrassing reasons, Qiao Xinruo neither comforted her older brother nor answered his questions.
What was she supposed to say?
She herself found it all very strange!
"Brother, don't be in a hurry. Actually, we inquired about this Battalion Commander Zhou, and he has a crush on Xinruo, but—" Su Yueya was interrupted by Qiao Shouyan before she could finish speaking.
"Having a crush on Xinruo?" Qiao Shouyan turned his head and looked at Qiao Xinruo in shock.
The other person shrugged and spread their hands, responding with a helpless expression.
"What's going on?"
"Don't rush me, I'm not finished yet. Actually, I heard it from Leng Yingying's inner thoughts. This Battalion Commander Zhou, for some reason, has a crush on Xinruo, and he knows that Xinruo has a birthmark on the back of her neck. Coincidentally, Leng Yingying's younger sister, Leng Yinghong, the one I told you about who tried to drown Leng Yingying, also happens to have a birthmark on the back of her neck. She's impersonating Xinruo and has become this Battalion Commander Zhou's 'white moonlight'..."
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