Chapter 112: You smell gossip
Gu Qingyue immediately put down the handkerchief and picked up the gun placed beside him. Just as he walked to Lu Weiyi's side, he heard knocking on the door outside. The "bang bang bang" sound seemed to be particularly loud in the silent night, as if the man would not stop until the door was opened.
"I'll go out and take a look," Lu Weiyi said.
"I'll go with you," said Gu Qingyue.
"I'll go." Li Zhuang yawned and came out of the bedroom, following Lu Weiyi out the door.
I don't know when the strong wind outside stopped, and the snowflakes were falling down, higher than the ankles, and they made a crackling sound when I stepped on them.
"Hello, we are soldiers from the Qingyuan base. We are out on a mission and someone is injured. Can you open the door and save us?" When the people outside heard the sound of the door opening, someone immediately shouted.
Li Zhuang stopped not far from the door and looked at Lu Weiyi, asking him if he wanted to open the door. Lu Weiyi hesitated. There were seven people outside, all carrying guns. Two of them were carried by others, and it was unknown whether they were dead or alive.
"...Which legion are you from?" Lu Weiyi asked.
"The Third Legion, the soldiers under Commander Li Mu," the person outside answered immediately.
Lu Weiyi was not satisfied with this answer. Everyone knew that Qingyuan was now being rebuilt with the help of the Third Legion, and the person in charge was Captain Li.
Although he was talking to someone outside, he was still controlling Little Green Branch to watch the situation outside. When he noticed that two people standing by the door were trying to force their way in, he coldly reminded them, "If you don't want to die, I advise you not to move."
The person outside the door froze for a moment, not daring to make any more small movements. The man who had been talking seemed not to have heard what he meant, and said again, "Our captain is Major Li Qing, the son of Captain Li..."
"Master, who is it?" Lin Yimu and Ning Yuan didn't hear any noise for a long time, so they opened the door and asked.
"Oh, it's Li Qing from the Third Legion outside, saying..."
"Li Qing?" Lin Yimu walked over and asked softly, "Li Ming?"
"Yes, our captain is codenamed Dawn. Which unit are you from in there? Can you help us? Our captain is injured." The people outside were visibly excited and took a step forward.
Lin Yimu quickly walked past Lu Weiyi and opened the door. He looked around and saw Li Qing being carried on his back. He said with a slightly excited tone, "Xiao Qing."
Lu Weiyi had never seen such fluctuating emotions, let alone Li Zhuang. He gave Lu Weiyi a look to ask what was going on.
Lu Weiyi shook his head, but...
Lu Weiyi suddenly remembered what Zhuang Mingxu said many years ago when he asked him why Lin Yimu was injured and retired from the army. He said that he liked someone he shouldn't like.
While Lu Weiyi was reminiscing about the past, Lin Yimu had already taken Li Qing off the man's back and trotted into the room. The other few people followed closely, and only the man who had been talking the whole time was left. He said, "Thank you, brother. My name is Lei Jun, and everyone calls me Lei Zi. What's your name?"
"Lu Weiyi"
"Li Zhuang" Li Zhuang turned around and closed the door, then glanced at the road outside. The snow was already half knee-deep. He looked at their thin clothes and said, "Come in."
Lu Weiyi and Li Zhuang returned to the room. Ning Yuan inside had already finished talking to the other party about the unit number, and the man named Lei Zi was asking Lin Yimu if he knew Li Qing.
"I am...his former instructor," Lin Yimu replied hesitantly, his eyes fixed on Li Qing who was being examined.
"It's not serious. It's just the injury and blood loss, mostly from the cold." After checking the two unconscious people, Gu Qingyue said, "Just clean the wound, rest and recuperate, and you'll be fine."
Looking at the quilts wrapped around the two wounded and the thin clothes on the others, I felt it was a miracle that the others were still alive.
"Master, do you have any more clothes?" Lin Yimu asked.
Lu Weiyi nodded and was about to get it from the space when he heard Zhuang Mingxu, who was also woken up, sitting in a wheelchair at the bedroom door and say, "Xiaoyi, come here and I'll get it for them."
Lu Weiyi looked at him in confusion and followed him into the room. Zhuang Mingxu whispered, "Don't let on that you have space."
Lu Weiyi nodded, took out a few sets of cotton clothes from the space, pointed at Gu Qingji and Lu Xi and said to Li Zhuang, "Send them inside to sleep, let them sleep on the beds."
"Thank you"
"Thanks"
It was a very cold day, and they all put on several layers of clothes, which looked bulky but were not very warm. Even though the room was warm, several people still felt cold, and their hands that were holding on to the clothes were shaking violently.
"Brother Xi, can you help me make some ginger soup and get something to eat?" Zhuang Mingxu, who came out in a wheelchair, said to Xi Shi.
"Okay" Xishi turned on the induction cooker and took a look at their leftover hot pot soup base. He had originally planned to cook noodles for them early in the morning, "How about I use the remaining soup base to cook some noodles for them? They'll have something hot to warm them up."
"OK"
While cooking noodles during practice, Ning Yuan asked about the situation of these people and found out that they were indeed out on a mission, but it was not an open mission in the base, but they were out to gather information in advance.
The soldiers at the base do not have abundant supplies, and now they are being squeezed out by the Li and Gu families, making it even harder for them to survive. Li Mu knows of a national grain storage area, and thinks that if he can get it, it will ease their tension, so he asks Li Qing to take people out to investigate the situation.
Unexpectedly, they encountered heavy snow on the way back. The place was already deserted, and it was summer now, so where could they find warm clothes? They searched several houses but all they got were some summer quilts and the like. They originally wanted to hold on and go directly back to the base, but the car broke down on the road, so they had to come to the village for shelter.
"We went to three houses but no one opened the door, so we had no choice but to take action," Lei Zi explained to Lu Weiyi their previous little tricks.
Lu Weiyi sat on the edge of the sofa, resting his head on Zhuang Mingxu's shoulder, watching Gu Qingyue treating the wounds of the two injured people. He nodded when he heard the voice, indicating that he didn't mind.
After all, their physical strength at that time was not enough to defeat himself and Li Zhuang, especially when the two of them had already discovered that they were making some small moves, they might just be defeated if they attacked.
"Do you know him?" Lu Weiyi asked Zhuang Mingxu in a low voice.
The warm breath sprayed on his ears, making him feel itchy. For Zhuang Mingxu, who had been eating and drinking well all day but had not had the conditions to eat meat for a long time, this was an unintentional and naked teasing. He helplessly turned his head to look at him, kept a little distance, raised his hand to grab his hanging hand, nodded, and said, "I've met him a few times."
"Them?" Lu Weiyi looked in the direction of Lin Yimu and Li Qing and asked silently.
Zhuang Mingxu nodded after a moment, then shook his head.
Not understanding what it meant, it was obviously inappropriate to ask further, and Lu Weiyi did not continue to say anything.
Li Qing remained alert subconsciously. Just as the five people here finished their meal, he woke up over there.
The first person that caught his eye was Lin Yimu, which instantly made the sharpness in his eyes disappear. After a look of surprise, his lips trembled for a long time, and he whispered, "...Instructor", and his eyes turned red.
"Hmm," Lin Yimu smiled and rubbed his head gently, "You are the captain, why are you still acting like a child? Do you want to show off in front of your teammates?"
Lin Yimu had never spoken like this, let alone others, not even Lu Weiyi, who had been taken care of by Lin Yimu for more than ten years in his two lifetimes. Suddenly, everyone in the living room fell silent, staring at the two of them intently, as if waiting for gossip.
Li Qing pursed his lips and said nothing, staring at Lin Yimu without blinking. That look seemed to carve into people's bones. Lin Yimu couldn't stand being stared at by him for a while, especially with so many people in the living room staring at him vaguely.
"Aren't you going to sleep?" Lin Yimu asked.
Lu Weiyi: "I have to take care of the person with fever."
Gu Qingyue: "I need to take care of the patients."
Ning Yuan said righteously: "I want to build relationships with my comrades."
The five people who had just met didn't understand what kind of emotional connection there was, and they all looked over, but Ning Yuan was too thick-skinned.
Zhuang Mingxu was embarrassed: "...I..." He glanced at Lu Weiyi who was obviously eager to see gossip, pressed his forehead and smiled, but he couldn't find an excuse.
Xi Shi: "I'll wait for the ginger soup to boil a little longer and then go to bed."
There was a traitor in the living room. The other four people immediately looked at Xi Shi. Xi Shi looked at them in confusion, "You... want to drink too?"
Several people shook their heads at the same time. It was everyone’s job, so let them betray it if they wanted. We couldn’t afford to offend them.
Finally, it was Lin Yimu who broke the atmosphere. He coughed lightly, stood up and served a large bowl of the remaining mushroom soup noodles. He helped Li Qing to sit up carefully and said, "Eat something to warm up first."
One ate in silence, the other watched in silence. Lu Weiyi, who thought he could see some gossip, felt bored after staying for a while. It happened that Lu Xi and Gu Qingji's fever subsided, so Lu Weiyi simply took Zhuang Mingxu back to catch up on his sleep.
When he woke up again, only Zhuang Mingxu was left lying in the room with him. He had obviously been awake for a while, staring at the ceiling, wondering what he was thinking. When he noticed the movement of the person in his arms, he turned around and smiled, "Awake?"
Lu Weiyi nodded, "Where's Aiyi?"
"Lu Xi took him to have breakfast." It was a rare moment of alone time. It was snowing outside and there was no need to go out to find supplies. Zhuang Mingxu cherished the moment very much and held Lu Weiyi in his arms and did not let him get up.
"Hmm?" Lu Weiyi couldn't break free, but he didn't dare to touch his legs too hard.
"Lie down for a while." Zhuang Mingxu kissed Lu Weiyi on the forehead.
In fact, he wanted to kiss him directly, but for some unknown reason, he always felt it was inappropriate.
Lu Weiyi shook his head and said, "I have to go out later." The heavy snow will only last for a few days, and he still needs to collect snow water, so he can't delay.
Zhuang Mingxu: "What do you want to collect? There's a lot of snow outside and we can't drive. Why don't we wait until the weather is better?"
"I want to collect some snow and save it. It might be too late if I wait any longer." In order to have purer crystal cores to use in the future, it doesn't matter if I'm busy all day.
"Collect snow?" Zhuang Mingxu handed him the down jacket and started to put on his clothes.
"Save it for later." Lu Weiyi tidied himself up, helped Zhuang Mingxu put on a pair of thick cotton pants, and carried him to the wheelchair.
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