At this time, Lu Jiuchuan stepped into the room.

"Don't bother with them, they are young and ignorant."

I think the last sentence of the New Year greeting was probably directed at Lu Jiuchuan.

Luo Qianyu glanced at Lu Jiuchuan. This sentence sounded a bit humiliating. She was unhappy and didn't say anything.

Lu Jiuchuan sat down next to her.

She saw Lu Jiuchuan's hands clenched and then loosened, repeating this several times, before he said in a low voice:

"The father who wishes you a happy new year is my comrade-in-arms."

"We went on a secret mission together, and when we returned, he was captured."

His voice gradually became hoarse, and he almost spoke each word.

Luo Qianyu turned his head to look at him and felt that his eyes were empty, like a bottomless abyss.

His hands continued to clench and unclench.

"Stop talking, Lu Jiuchuan, I understand."

But Lu Jiuchuan seemed not to hear her words.

"I shot him with my own hands!"

His right hand began to tremble at a low frequency and high speed.

Just a few words, extremely cruel, exploded in Luo Qianyu's mind.

It was PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, something she'd had the same time she'd been shot in the head the first time.

She has also seen many people unable to survive, become crazy, and lose their humanity.

But the situations Lu Jiuchuan had experienced were different from those she had experienced. The people they were facing were enemies, and it was a life-and-death battle.

Opposite Lu Jiuchuan are his comrades-in-arms whom he can trust with his life.

She held Lu Jiuchuan's right hand, stood in front of him, and put her arm around his head.

A suppressed and low whimper of a man came from his waist and abdomen, so low that it was almost inaudible, but it could make anyone who heard it cry.

After only a minute or two, the sobbing stopped.

Lu Jiuchuan lowered his head and said in a hoarse voice:

"It is a soldier's duty to obey orders. I have no regrets! If I were captured, he would do the same thing as me."

"Taking care of each other's wives, children and the elderly is one of the oaths we all take before going on a mission."

"I'm sorry! I made you feel wronged because of this. Actually, I should have explained it to you clearly before registering, but I couldn't say it."

"I was so wrong. If you want a divorce, I'm willing to give you any compensation."

Luo Qianyu let go of his hand, took two steps back and sat on the chair.

His head dropped even lower.

Luo Qianyu said domineeringly:

"We're still preparing for the wedding, and you're asking for a divorce? Where's my face? Shouldn't I be the one to ask for a divorce?"

"It's not like I just found out today that you picked up two children. If you can't live with me anymore, you can leave me later."

It is said that feeling sorry for a man is the beginning of misfortune. She felt sorry for him, but she didn't know whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, so she didn't say anything definite.

Lu Jiuchuan seemed not to expect her to say that and looked up at her.

His eyes were red and misty.

Luo Qianyu turned her head away, avoiding looking at him:

"Let me ask you, where are your family members and your biological mother who are wishing you a happy new year?"

His voice returned to its usual coldness:

"I just sent money to their family every month at first, but later I heard that their grandfather had passed away due to a serious illness. Grandma couldn't bear the continuous blows and followed him."

"I went to their house and found that they had remarried with their biological mother."

"When we found them, the woman was trying to drown Henian, who was only a few months old. Henian was only two years old at the time and was crying out of fear."

"My comrades only spent a few days with him during the Chinese New Year. They died without even knowing the coming of the Chinese New Year. I must take care of them."

"So, I went through the adoption procedures for them that day."

After hearing this, Luo Qianyu wanted to curse. He couldn't understand such a mother.

She was also an abandoned child in her previous life, picked up and raised by a weird old man. How miserable she was.

"Okay, I got it."

"I don't know if I can be a competent stepmother, I can only try my best to get along with them."

She has already figured out whether the strange old man can apply her free-range model.

Thinking of the tortures that were worse than death, she gave up the idea.

She shook her head, but met Lu Jiuchuan's surprised eyes again.

"Brother and sister-in-law, get ready to go out and greet the guests."

Lu Siman's clear voice came from far outside.

Lu Jiuchuan stood up, straightened his clothes, and stood in front of her, standing straight.

"Comrade Luo Qianyu, I promise you that if I marry you, I will be willing to work like a cow or a horse, and I will protect you for the rest of my life."

Luo Qianyu looked at his resolute and cold face and replied:

"Comrade Lu Jiuchuan, practice is the only criterion for testing truth, and this also applies to marriage."

He nodded heavily:

"clear."

Luo Qianyu's eyes turned into crescents when she smiled.

Lu Siman's urging voice was heard outside again.

The two walked out side by side, and Lu Siman laughed and joked:

"Brother, you and sister-in-law have such a good relationship. You don't want to come out after you go back to your room."

Lu Jiuchuan strode away.

Lu Siman took Luo Qianyu's arm again:

"Sister-in-law, don't think my brother is silent. He is shy. Look at his ears and neck, they are red."

Luo Qianyu followed Lu Siman and laughed out loud behind him.

His strides became longer.

However, the yard was only this big and he couldn't run far, so he stopped at the gate.

Luo Qianyu walked to his side with a smile on his face and stood there, teasing him deliberately:

"The tips of your ears are still red."

The red spot on Lu Jiuchuan's ear tip spread to his neck.

Ten tables for the banquet were quite a lot, and they couldn’t fit in the yard, so six tables were set up on the open space outside the yard.

The children of Wangshan Brigade played games around the table, adding a lot of joy.

The adults came back from the fields under the leadership of the team leader, all with sad looks on their faces.

Even if the crops blown down by the typhoon are saved, their yields will be sharply reduced, and the broken windbreak trees need to be replanted, which is a lot of work.

However, when they came in front of the newlyweds, they all smiled and congratulated them.

The team leader took out some papers and registered the gift money for Lu Jiuchuan. The more generous ones would give one or two dimes, while some were stingy and gave two or five cents. All of them had to be written down so that they could be returned when others did things for them in the future.

Luo Qianyu's two sisters also came with their husbands and children and generously gave a one-yuan gift.

The elder sister Luo Panlai and her husband were honest and said to her sincerely:

"Third sister, congratulations."

The second sister, Luo Yingxi, married better and looked most like Wang Cuifang. She looked around and said:

"It's done pretty well, and it's considered a great success in the brigade."

Luo Qianyu responded indifferently and asked them to sit down with their families.

Uncle Luo, third uncle, and grandmother, who had not been seen all morning, also came.

Only Luo Baogen came from Luo Dashan's family, and they came empty-handed to eat and drink.

The people at the same table couldn't stand it and laughed at him:

"Hey, there was no one there when I sent the bride off, but now you have the nerve to come to the wedding banquet?"

"You were all away last night, so you don't know about the glorious deeds of your Luo Laoniu, right? Let me tell you about it."

Those people spoke very loudly, causing everyone in the room to laugh.

The Luo family had been ridiculed for the entire morning and were now too embarrassed to even raise their heads.

Luo Panlai and Luo Yingxi came from Nanhe Brigade and Hongwei Commune respectively, and they didn’t know what was going on.

After drinking some wine, those people brought up the matter of Luo Dashan and Luo Qingman to make fun of them.

The words become more and more unpleasant.

The second brother-in-law found out what happened and threw his chopsticks on the spot and got mad at Luo Yingxi:

"Who are you? You've lost all your face. Why are you still drinking at the wedding? Go back."

After saying that, he ran away, and Luo Yingxi hurriedly followed.

Luo Panlai and his wife looked left and right, then followed after him.

The old lady of the Luo family couldn't help it, she jumped up and started scolding those who were making fun of her.

"You don't sleep with your wife at home? Everyone looks like that when they are naked. Either they have two extra pieces of meat on their chest or two extra pounds down there."

"Or do you envy my mountain because you don't have that much meat?"

The loudest second-rate guy stood up and spat:

"You damn old woman, try saying that again?"