After He Yanzhi left, Guan Wanxin nodded in satisfaction. "Yanzhi is a thoughtful and considerate child. Don't be fooled by his cold demeanor and lack of words. He's very perceptive and knows exactly what we need. A man who does more than he says is reliable."
Guan Wenru raised an eyebrow. "Grandma, what are you trying to say?"
Guan Wanxin chuckled, "Grandma wants to say... Good luck! I really want this grandson-in-law. Your current tactic of retreating to advance is quite good."
"Grandma, you're really something else. Nothing I do can hide from you."
Guan Wanxin stood up with a smile, "I raised you myself, you'd better practice hiding it from me."
She began to take a closer look at the house. Compared to the courtyard house they lived in in Beijing, this house looked rather dilapidated.
Guan Wenru understood something from her grandmother's expression. She smiled and explained, "We're lucky. The family housing here was only built a little over a year ago, so it has a kitchen and a toilet. Many family housing complexes don't have toilets and kitchens."
However, the toilets here don't have shower rooms; they're just small areas with only a sink and a squat toilet.
It's really not convenient for her and her grandma to take a bath!
Fortunately, there is a large public bathhouse in the family compound, which is open to military families every Wednesday and Sunday.
They can usually just take a quick shower at home, and then go to the public bathhouse for a proper scrub on open days.
He Yanzhi heated the kang (a traditional heated brick bed) because he thought they had been up and about all morning and needed a good rest.
But at this moment, Guan Wanxin felt neither sleepy nor tired.
After she and Guan Wenru quickly packed their things into the room, they went out for a stroll.
As expected, this family compound will be where they live for the next ten years or so.
In her previous life, Guan Wenru lived in this family compound for many years, and she knew everything about it very well.
As she strolled around, she introduced the exhibits to her grandmother.
Their current unit, the 12th Division, is stationed in Sunan County, Gansu Province, located on the northern foothills of the Qilian Mountains.
This area boasts natural landscapes such as snow-capped mountains and glaciers, forests and grasslands, rivers and waterfalls, Danxia landforms, and deserts and Gobi, and will become a popular tourist destination in a few decades.
Even China National Geographic magazine hailed this place as the "darling of the Qilian Mountains," which shows just how beautiful it is.
This area is primarily a livestock-based economy, so theoretically there shouldn't be a shortage of meat. However, in winter, the lack of pasture grass leads to a low survival rate for cattle and sheep.
In addition, since we are now in a planned economy era, herders cannot slaughter cattle and sheep at will, otherwise it would be considered an encroachment on collective assets.
As Guan Wenru introduced the place, she kept an eye on her grandmother. After walking for more than 20 minutes, they had only explored half of the area. "Grandma, are you cold? Do you want to go home and rest for a while?"
"It's not cold. We've been lying in the guesthouse for too long the past two days, so it's good to take a walk today and explore the whole place."
"Okay, then if you feel tired or cold, you must tell me."
This place is remote; apart from the medical team in the compound, there are no hospitals nearby.
It would be terrible if Grandma got sick.
Guan Wenru continued walking forward, arm in arm with Guan Wanxin.
This is, after all, a family compound of a division headquarters, and many military families live here, so the facilities are relatively complete.
There are not only primary schools here, but also junior high and high schools.
Besides the school, there were also medical teams and military propaganda teams here.
The propaganda team and the cultural troupe of this unit are different. Generally speaking, the members of the cultural troupe are all soldiers with official positions.
Most of the staff in the military propaganda team are military dependents.
They only receive a fixed salary and are not part of the military establishment, so they are not considered soldiers in the true sense.
Maowa's mother, Xiahenazi, is the director of the propaganda team.
While Guan Wanxin and her granddaughter Guan Wenru were strolling around, Xia Henazi, who was on her way to the propaganda team's office, saw them and quickly came over to show them around the new environment.
Most of the military dependents in the compound knew Xiahenazi and would greet her when they met on the road.
Xiahenazi would also introduce them to Guan Wanxin and Guan Wenru, who were new to the compound.
Before long, almost all the military dependents in the compound knew that Commander He's wife had brought her grandmother to join the army.
Many military dependents were curious about what Regiment Commander He's wife looked like, so whenever they had free time, they would come to Guan Wenru's house.
These women brought some things with them when they came; some brought radishes they had stored at home, some brought cabbages, and some brought pickled vegetables.
After exchanging pleasantries, Guan Wanxin and Guan Wenru accepted the gifts.
After all, we'll be living in the same compound from now on, and we'll see each other all the time, so we'll need to maintain social relationships.
In March, the Northwest was still very cold, so people didn't sit and chat in the courtyard. The grandfather and grandson could only invite everyone to sit in the living room inside the house.
There was no sofa in the living room, but a large kang (heated brick bed).
Guan Wenru had added firewood before leaving, so the kang (heated brick bed) was warm. She invited everyone to sit down and chat.
After everyone sat down, Guan Wenru went into the kitchen.
Her online store has more items than a large supermarket.
She took out a packet of tea leaves from her storage space, along with a very unassuming tea set, and brewed a pot of tea for everyone.
She also took a handful of fruit candies, but the candies had writing and dates on the packaging.
She could only open them one by one and place them on a clean ceramic plate.
As she carried the things out, Li Xiuhong, the wife of the division commander, immediately waved her hand, "Oh dear, we just came to sit for a while. Don't be so polite, Yan family. You've made us afraid to come over."
With a smile, Guan Wenru placed the items on the small table on the kang (a heated brick bed). "I'm just pouring some water for my sisters-in-law. This plate contains some fruit candies that my grandma and I brought from Beijing. They weren't packaged when we bought them, so please make do with them. Yanzhi and I got married so suddenly that we didn't have time to give out wedding candies to everyone, so this is a good opportunity to make up for it."
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