Chapter 26 Chapter 26 So, Chief Lu is eligible for a share...
When Liang Xin woke up, she was in the division hospital.
The first reaction after waking up was more like that of a hero in a movie, "Did the girl survive?"
The doctors and nurses in the ward all looked at her with admiration.
"Comrade, you almost lost your life in order to save others. After finally waking up, you are still worried about others. Tell me, if this is not a role model, then what is it?"
Liang Xin turned to look at Lu Chongfeng, whose eyes were bloodshot and his body was soaked. She was slightly surprised, "Why did I faint? That girl?"
Lu Chongfeng's throat was dry and he couldn't speak. His pounding heart slowly calmed down.
"That female comrade, because the commune doctor and nurse arrived and gave her artificial respiration, the water in her lungs came out." The doctor said: "She is still in a coma, but the water was choked out in time, so she shouldn't be in any serious trouble."
Liang Xin: "...What's wrong with me?"
"You held your breath for too long, and a small amount of water entered your lungs, irritating the bronchial mucosa and causing brain hypoxia, causing you to fall into a short coma." The doctor put away the notebook and said with a smile, "Once you wake up, it won't be a big problem. Stay in the hospital for a few days for observation, and you can be discharged if you are sure you are fine."
Liang Xin adjusted to the discomfort of waking up.
It was all well spent.
Lu Zewei frowned but still said nothing.
Because there were people around, he resisted the urge to touch Liang Xin's pale face and touched her wrist instead.
Liang Xin patted his hand to comfort him, "Thanks to you, otherwise that girl and I might have been swept away by the undercurrent."
My wrist was suddenly tightened.
Liang Xin frowned subconsciously and loosened the force on her wrist.
Suddenly, there was a flustered and hurried sound of footsteps at the door.
A middle-aged man in military uniform and a panic-stricken woman in a blue coat appeared at the door.
"Section Chief Lu?"
Lu Chongfeng turned around, paused slightly, let go of Liang Xin's hand, stood up and saluted: "Commander Yang."
Commander Yang returned the salute, walked into the ward, and saluted Liang Xin who was lying on the bed, "Comrade, thank you for saving my daughter."
Before Liang Xin could react, the panicked woman knelt heavily beside the bed and kowtowed, "Thank you, thank you!"
Lu Chongfeng quickly walked around and said, "Commander Yang, please ask my sister-in-law to get up."
Commander Yang frowned and pulled the woman up from the ground, "Go back and stay with Yang Tao."
"You're welcome." Liang Xin lay on the hospital bed and looked at the woman. "As long as she's okay, I'm glad."
The woman's face was full of tears. She nodded heavily, thanked him again, and walked out with her face covered.
"Comrade, Yang Tao fell into the water. Thanks to you and Chief Lu's timely rescue, he was able to save his life." Commander Yang looked at Liang Xin and said, "I can't thank you enough for your kindness, but I still want to say thank you."
Liang Xin's eyebrows moved, and she said slowly: "The heavy rain caused the river to swell, and the river bank is slippery. Be careful next time."
Commander Yang nodded, stretched out his hand to Lu Zewei and shook it firmly.
Two soldiers suddenly came in holding cameras. Before they could say anything, several more people holding cameras and notebooks rushed in from the door.
Lu Chongfeng strode forward, stopped everyone, and stood in front of the bed, "The patient still needs to rest."
"Comrade, I'm Wang Hong, a reporter at the base. When you and your family rescued people, I was the first to take photos of the heroes." Before being driven out by the nurse, the reporter in military uniform said frantically, "When you are convenient to accept an interview, please let Commander Yang notify me! Please think of me first!"
Liang Xin didn't ask what happened.
You'll understand it at a glance.
These days every unit is scrambling to find heroes and set up role models.
If she were a soldier, she could immediately join the party and be promoted, win the third-class merit, and become an advanced model by saving people.
She looked at Lu Chongfeng and said, "Go change your clothes first."
"There's no change." Lu Chongfeng held the corner of her quilt with both hands. "The car caught fire and our luggage was burned."
Liang Xin was slightly stunned.
A thought flashed through my mind that I realized as soon as I got to the river.
Punishment warning.
She destroyed the original world and changed the punishment warning of the hero's counterattack route in the original book.
I thought falling into the river was a punishment, but when I woke up, I was fine, so I thought I was overthinking.
Now when she heard that the car was on fire, she immediately realized that the spontaneous combustion of the car was most likely a punishment warning from the world to her and Lu Chongfeng, who should have died.
It was only because she went into the river to save people and Lu Chongfeng rushed over that the crisis that should have happened was avoided.
"How's the driver?"
"Everyone is fine." Lu Chongfeng grabbed the quilt. "After you called for help, the driver and I ran towards you. After we rescued the people, we found that the car was on fire."
"I'm so sorry, Xiao Li, please go and prepare two sets of clothes for Section Chief Lu and Comrade Liang Xin."
After Commander Yang finished talking to the guard, he looked at the bed and said, "The troops have just relocated, and some equipment is being handed over. The inspection and maintenance were not timely, which is why you were so frightened as soon as you arrived."
Lu Chongfeng: "This was an accident. Commander Yang, don't blame yourself."
Commander Yang didn't look very well. He waved his hand and said, "The regimental building has been repaired. When you are discharged from the hospital, go to the barracks department to register and you can move in immediately."
Lu Chongfeng saluted and exchanged a few words. Commander Yang then looked at Liang Xin and said, "Comrade Liang Xin, you should have a good rest first. No reporters will bother you before you are discharged from the hospital. If you personally have no objection to the interview, please wait until the division headquarters and the local authorities have reached an agreement before accepting the interview."
Before Liang Xin could speak, Lu Chongfeng frowned, "What does this mean?"
"Rest first." Commander Yang patted Lu Chongfeng on the shoulder. "This matter cannot be explained in a few words. When Comrade Liang Xin can be discharged from the hospital and returns to the division headquarters, we will talk about it."
Lu Chongfeng saluted again, watched Commander Yang leave, and closed the ward door.
He turned around and saw Liang Xin looking at him with an indescribable expression.
Lu Chongfeng let out a long breath and walked to the bedside. However, his hands were no longer holding the corners of the quilt. Instead, he held Liang Xin's hands tightly and stared at her face.
Liang Xin suddenly smiled and said, "You are completely two different people at home and at work. When facing your colleagues, you are cold and serious."
Lu Chongfeng looked down at the soaked white shirt inside his military coat, let go of Liang Xin's hand, took off his military coat first, and after taking off the soaked white shirt, he put on his military coat again with his upper body bare, raised his hands and exhaled several breaths of hot air, rubbed his hands vigorously, and after they became slightly warm, he sat on the stool and held Liang Xin's hand again, "It's not hot and it's not cold anymore."
Liang Xin: “….”
Suddenly felt tired.
I feel sleepy.
"Are you sleepy?"
Lu Zewei put her hand under the quilt and looked up at the medicine in the saline bottle. "Sleep a little longer."
This comprehension ability is sometimes effective and sometimes not.
Liang Xin closed her eyes and suddenly thought of the car incident. "When I got off the car, I was carrying a bag full of money. When I went down to the river, I took off my bag and cotton jacket. Did you see it?"
"Here."
Lu Chongfeng turned around and pointed at the green satchel on the windowsill, and suddenly smiled, "What can I say about you? You don't even want your life, but you still care about money."
Seeing the backpack, Liang Xin was relieved. "You can't live without money. I took the bag down before I went down to the river because I wanted to leave the money for you."
After he finished speaking, there was no movement for a long time.
Liang Xin turned her head and just happened to touch his lips.
Cold and pale.
Liang Xin licked it.
Lu Zewei's arms that were supporting the hospital bed suddenly tensed.
The softness in my heart turned sour and its taste changed.
When they separated, Lu Zewei's lips and face had regained color and he no longer looked like a patient.
Lu Zewei: "How bold."
"Are there any more daring people who want to try?" Liang Xin lifted up the blue striped hospital gown with the hand that was not holding the IV drip, "Now you are a serious patient."
"Stop messing around!"
Lu Zewei's ears also turned red, his long eyelashes dodge, and he glanced outside nervously, "This is the hospital!"
“The real scene makes it more immersive.”
“.......”
Liang Xin looked at the man who was red from head to neck and smiled, "Hurry up and go to the bathhouse to take a hot bath, otherwise you will become sick again."
Lu Chongfeng took two deep breaths, not daring to look at Liang Xin. He stood there wrapped in his military coat for several minutes before he opened the door of the ward and walked out.
Liang Xin slowly withdrew her gaze and looked towards the ceiling.
Breathe a sigh of relief.
Punishment warning, generally only once.
This time he appeared unexpectedly, and saved people and avoided the crisis under unknown circumstances.
Generally speaking, there shouldn't be any danger for the time being.
At Lu Chongfeng's insistence, Liang Xin stayed in the hospital for a few days.
After a careful physical examination in the morning and making sure there was nothing wrong, I walked out of the division hospital.
Jiangkou Camp is where the 11th Division and 22nd Regiment headquarters are stationed.
The original site of the camp was built on the site of an old water village residence.
In those days, water bandits were rampant and the people were miserable, so they moved to the suburbs. Later, the Qing government sent troops to suppress the bandits. After the water bandits were suppressed, the original residents had already developed the suburbs into a new town, and this dilapidated water town was abandoned.
The original garrison moved here and preserved and renovated some intact houses as a family compound. New barracks were built along the old houses, and after many years, Jiangkou Barracks was gradually formed.
Section Chief Zhu of the Barracks Department personally took Liang Xin and Lu Chongfeng to the regimental building.
Lu Chongfeng kept observing Liang Xin's expression all the way. He did not see any disappointment on Liang Xin's face. Instead, he could see her interest all the way.
Liang Xin was indeed very interested. She had thought that the military barracks would be simple red brick and tile houses or stone houses by the sea. She had never expected that some of the family compounds here would be buildings from the Jiangnan water towns.
Even though the exterior walls of the house are made of a mixture of bricks and stones, the small green tiles on the roof, the overlapping green tiles on both ends of the ridge, the brick fences and wooden rafters inside the house, and the worn green brick and stone paths underfoot all give people the feeling of being in the south of the Yangtze River.
But there are only a small number of houses like this. A few rows of three-story red brick buildings ahead are obviously the regiment staff buildings.
Liang Xin suddenly stopped and looked at the long carved window on the right side of the river. It was not an ancient vertical long window, but a rare horizontal long window, about two meters by three meters. With sunlight shining through the long window, it could be seen that there was a vertical long hall inside.
The head of the barracks department immediately said, "I heard that there used to be a teahouse here, but it was converted into a wine shop after the pirates occupied it. The hall is not small, but the windows are large. It is close to the river, so it is damp and cold in winter, so it is uninhabitable."
Lu Chongfeng looked at Liang Xin motionlessly and asked, "Go in and take a look?"
Liang Xin nodded.
The main entrance consists of two small doors with black copper rings, and a Forever brand iron padlock fastens the two copper rings. At the entrance is a busy bluestone path, making it convenient for entry and exit.
With a "click" sound.
The iron padlock was opened, and what came into view was a long vertical hall with wooden walls on both sides and blue bricks on the floor. On the left was the long horizontal window that attracted Liang Xin. When she walked to the long window, outside the window was the quiet river surface filled with sunshine.
In winter, it is indeed a bit damp and cold.
But the entire camp is located near the Yangtze River estuary and borders the East China Sea to the east. The barracks are surrounded by mountains and the mountains embrace the houses. It is not much better than here.
There is no heating, and like Jiang Jing, we have to rely on the bed.
Hot water bottle, charcoal brazier, coal briquettes stove, salt water bottle, hot water bottle, and anti-freeze equipment.
"This is the front hall." The barracks chief walked to the back of the hall and set up a window, like a restaurant's food delivery counter. "This should have been the accounting office, but it's empty now."
Liang Xin stood at the exit and looked inside. It was a small room of about twelve or thirteen square meters.
"There's a bedroom across from me. There are only these two rooms."
The barracks chief pointed to the room opposite the accounting office, walked through the middle corridor into the backyard, and there were two rooms on the left wall. "The left one is the kitchen, and the narrow one on the right should be the firewood room, or it could be a place to store wine. But there is also a basement in the narrow room. The basement is very large, and it feels more like a wine room."
Liang Xin walked across the weed-covered dirt road in the backyard and looked at the furnishings inside the kitchen: two large stoves, two large water vats, and a stone mill. There was no furniture, and the place was empty. There were spider webs hanging from the beams on the roof.
Without going in, he directly opened the bolt of the wooden door of the backyard.
“Squeak.”
The wooden door emits the sound of age.
There is a long and narrow stone path outside the door, and a few steps ahead are stone steps. Going down the stone steps is the river that surrounds it.
There was a woman who looked like a family member, squatting on the stone steps at the other side of the door, holding a mallet and beating a wet black and blue cotton jacket. He looked up at her for a few seconds, said nothing, and waved the mallet rapidly.
The barracks chief said, "That's the family of Deputy Battalion Commander Lei."
Liang Xin looked at Lu Zewei.
Lu Zewei raised an eyebrow, "Gone?"
Liang Xin: “….”
That's all.
Let’s take a look at the Tuanzhi Building.
Lu Zewei is a deputy regimental cadre, and his housing standard is three rooms of 80 square meters.
The barracks chief opened the allocated house, which had three bedrooms and a living room, with white and green walls and cement floors. It was cleaned neatly and had a square table, a wooden bed, and a chest of drawers already in place. There was a brand new honeycomb coal stove in the kitchen. Only curtains and daily necessities were not yet fully prepared, so the cadres and their families had to prepare them themselves.
A very ordinary cadre room.
On the contrary, the Jiangnan Teahouse is more unforgettable.
Liang Xin asked directly: "With Section Chief Lu's level, can he be assigned to that teahouse, or a house like that?"
The barracks chief and Lu Chongfeng were both stunned.
The barracks chief, in particular, was stunned for a long time.
I have only seen family members of cadres trying their best to lobby him to move to a building, and they want a house with a better orientation in the building. This is the first time I have heard of a family member asking for a downgrade in housing.
"Comrade, this is a regimental cadre building!" The barracks chief looked incredulous. "This is a building that people all over the country want to live in. It's a cadre building with a kitchen and bathroom in the room, and separate coal and toilet facilities. How could you want to live in that shabby...house that neither the battalion cadres nor their families want?"
"The teahouse looks attractive."
There are three rooms for regimental officers and two rooms for battalion officers. When the barracks chief introduced the house just now, he had already said that there were only two rooms. "So, which room is Chief Lu eligible to be assigned?"
"Of course."
The barracks chief, who usually had a slicked-back hair, was made to stutter by Liang Xin and looked at Lu Zewei.
Liang Xin also looked at Lu Zewei, always on guard against him saying something that might spread all over the place.
“It’s cold there.”
Lu Zewei looked at the newly allocated house and said, "There is no toilet yet. We need to go to the public toilet, and we have to go to the bathhouse to take a shower."
Liang Xin thought about it and decided that she would not be staying for just one or two days, but at least for a year.
Even if it is cold, it will only be cold for one cold day.
In spring, summer and autumn, living in the courtyard is definitely more comfortable than living here.
She leaned closer to Lu Zewei and said in a low voice, "You're hot."
Lu Chongfeng: “?”
Is he hot?
What he meant by being hot was that Liang Xin would have to sleep in the same bed with him and in his arms from now on...
Lu Zewei pressed his tongue against his left cheek to hide the upturned corner of his mouth.
"Toilet..." Liang Xin thought of the woodshed, "That house always needs to be cleaned up before people can live in it. Can we renovate it ourselves?"
Lu Zewei thought, "If we want to renovate it, we may have to pay for the materials ourselves and ask the brothers in the barracks department for help."
"If you want to pay, you have to pay."
Liang Xin walked closer, "That long window faces the river. There are no houses on the other side of the river. Put a small table next to the long window. When it rains, you can eat in the rain. When it snows..."
Snow......
Lu Zewei's whole body tensed up instantly.
The image of him holding her in his arms and standing in front of the French window appeared in front of her eyes. The moment the snow fluttered in, she shrank back and snuggled into his arms...
And he pressed her against the curtains, snowflakes falling on her flushed, sweaty face...
If it is a long window...
Suddenly, a dowry painting appeared in front of my eyes, showing a couple in love on a mat in front of a long window...
No matter how he thinks, he is an indecent person!
Lu Zewei tilted his head and coughed twice. After thinking seriously for a long time, he looked at the barracks chief and said, "My family is willing to live over there, so we'll live over there."
"Chief Lu, Comrade Liang Xin, are you sure you want to live there?"
The head of the barracks department came over, looking puzzled, "That place is not even as good as the ordinary battalion officer family housing, the family members are not willing to choose it, this is the regimental officer housing, do you want to reconsider it?"
Liang Xin said, "I was born and raised in the countryside. It's not a one- or two-day thing for me to follow the army. The backyard is very big. I want to turn it into a vegetable garden and raise some chickens and ducks."
The barracks chief looked at Liang Xin with a more friendly expression than before, "So you want to grow vegetables, Comrade Liang Xin. I never thought that you are so young, but you are so good at living. You can live in a regimental cadre's house, and you don't forget your roots at all. You are simple and hardworking."
Liang Xin smiled but said nothing.
Lu Zewei: “….”
Although I already had a feeling that he would be the simple and hardworking person.
But I am still looking forward to it and even want to move in as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, it’s just the beginning of winter.
After the barracks chief learned of Liang Xin and Lu Chongfeng's wishes, he took away the key to the regimental officer's quarters. He needed to discuss with the leaders again before deciding whether the teahouse could be allocated to Lu Zewei.
The transport company had not yet delivered the luggage, and we were originally planning to stay at the division headquarters guesthouse.
Liang Xin had just laid down on the bed when there was a knock on the door. Lu Zewei put down the kettle and went to open the door.
"sister in law?"
Liang Xin heard the noise, sat up and looked outside. There was a woman outside the door wearing a blue cloth shirt, standing nervously at the door with her hands clasped in confusion. When her eyes met Liang Xin's, she gave an unnatural but kind smile.
"Comrade, I want to invite you to dinner at my home."
Lu Zewei turned sideways and said, "Sister-in-law, please come in."
When the woman came in, Liang Xin recognized her as the family member of Commander Yang. She had just woken up in the hospital and saw the person who had collapsed and was in tears. She also knelt down to her. She quickly sat up and shouted, "Sister-in-law."
The family of Commander Yang bowed and nodded, "Comrade Liang, Comrade Liang Xin, I'm sorry, I have been in the hospital taking care of Yang Tao these days and didn't have time to thank you. I have cooked dinner at home, please come with me to eat."
Liang Xin looked at Lu Zewei, who shook his head, "No need, the canteen will be open for dinner soon, and there is also a small kitchen in the guesthouse."
The woman was nervous and stammered when she spoke to Lu Zewei, but she felt very comfortable when she spoke to Liang Xin. She subconsciously looked at Liang Xin and said, "Yang Tao, Yang Tao was also discharged from the hospital today. Comrade Liang Xin, you are our family's lifesaver. The dishes at home are ready."
Liang Xin: "... Starfruit?"
"Yang Tao is my daughter. She is the one you went down to the river to save."
“.......”
Liang Xin stood by the bed, thinking.
Star fruit.
It can't be a coincidence.
When we get to Teacher Yang's home, we'll ask for the names of Teacher Yang and his family members.
Yang Gang, Xia Xia.
Liang Xin rubbed her temples.
Yang Tao, Wei Yuanyang's second wife.
The second female protagonist, who was supposed to appear eight years later, actually appeared earlier and was saved by her.
This rescue completely messed up the plot again.
The relationship between Wei Yuanyang and his second wife is a redemption relationship.
Before meeting Wei Yuanyang, Yang Tao had a bad reputation. People all over the country would point at his nose and curse him whenever they met him.
Because she jumped into the river three times, and failed to die three times, but instead killed two good young men who tried to save her.
The third young man is Wei Yuanyang.
Now, Yang Tao jumped into the river for the first time and was saved by her.
Not only did she not die, but Yang Tao did not implicate the first good young man.
Naturally, it is impossible to be notorious.
But if there is a second and third time...
"Liang Xin, what's wrong?"
Liang Xin stood by the stove with a bowl of rice and was distracted for a long time. Teacher Yang's family called her back and said, "Maybe you are sleepy."
Xia Xia quickly took the bowl from Liang Xin's hand and said, "Go sit down. We don't need your help in the kitchen."
Liang Xin said nothing, picked up a bowl of fried bacon with garlic leaves and dried tofu, and walked to the restaurant.
Commander Yang’s home is a two-story red brick building in the family compound.
Different from the general's building in the military compound, this is a two-story ordinary civilian building with a fenced yard.
There are two rooms on the first floor, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom.
There was a square table and a row of wooden sofas in the living room, but nothing else.
Maybe it was because there were not many decorations, so it felt a bit cold as soon as I came in. Even though there were food on the table, it still felt very cold.
Liang Xin had just sat down when a little girl came down from upstairs. She timidly glanced at Teacher Yang, then passed Lu Zewei and looked at Liang Xin. She lowered her head, tugged at the corner of her clothes, and didn't come over or say anything.
Teacher Yang: "Come over and thank your aunt."
Yang Tao walked to Liang Xin with her head down the whole time, her voice quieter than a mosquito, "Aunt, I'm sorry."
Liang Xin looked at the childish face and asked, "Are you feeling better?"
Yang Tao buried his head almost in his chest and nodded.
Liang Xin smiled and said, "We are all blessed with good fortune, so we can be discharged from the hospital safely and celebrate the New Year."
When Yang Tao heard this, he slowly raised his head, but when he saw Xia Xia coming out of the kitchen carrying dishes, he immediately lowered his head again and hid next to Liang Xin.
Liang Xin calmly pulled away the stool beside her and asked, "Among so many dishes, which one is the most delicious?"
Yang Tao lowered his head and pointed at a plate of glutinous rice cakes.
Liang Xin picked up the chopsticks and picked up a round golden piece of glutinous rice cake. "Are you going to eat it just like this?"
Yang Tao shook her head, nodded, and then shook her head again, "Dip it in brown sugar, dip it in pepper and salt, or eat it directly."
Commander Yang frowned and said, "Sit down and eat."
Yang Tao, who was not afraid of death, was so frightened when he heard his father's words that he trembled all over and sat beside Liang Xin tremblingly.
Liang Xin doesn’t like brown sugar, so while biting the original glutinous rice cake, she thought about Yang Tao’s family background in the original book.
After Yang Tao was rescued by Wei Yuanyang, Wei Yuanyang married her on the pretext of being responsible.
Because he started out as a rescuer, and the person he rescued was the notorious Yang Tao. After being reported in major newspapers, he became a hero, which just happened to wash away the bad rumors about him that he was climbing up the social ladder and eating the poor.
Even after he married Yang Tao, and even though Yang Tao's father was the director of the Jiangjing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Wei Yuanyang's immediate superior, there was no talk of him trying to climb up the social ladder. Instead, everyone said he was a true hero who saved women.
Later, Yang Tao's father accidentally beat Yang Tao's mother to a cripple.
Xia Xia took the case to court, causing a huge uproar.
The person who mediates has always been Wei Yuanyang.
Although no results were achieved through mediation in the end, even though Xia Xia took the initiative to write a letter to the Party Committee requesting the revocation of the punishment against her husband, she took the main responsibility on herself.
However, Yang Gang insisted on asking the organization to sentence him to prison, and the court finally sentenced him to five years in prison.
Everyone says that Wei Yuanyang is kind-hearted and affectionate, which is why he never leaves Yang Tao, the unlucky guy.
Wei Yuanyang gained a good reputation for being loyal and righteous, and after he completely turned around and became a big boss, his third wife came to him with a pregnancy report and forced Yang Tao, who had not given birth to a child for Wei Yuanyang for many years, to divorce him.
Wei Yuanyang's partners not only did not blame him, but applauded him instead.
In the end, Yang Tao agreed to divorce, and was sent to a foreign sanatorium by Wei Yuanyang with her disabled mother.
Liang Xin couldn't help but yawn again.
She is obviously just a cannon fodder, so how can she be inseparable from the main storyline?
Lu Zewei kept looking at Liang Xin and asked with his head down, "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
The family of three at the table all looked over.
Liang Xin looked at Commander Yang slowly, "Commander Yang, do you always act like an official when you eat at home?"
Everyone at the table was suddenly stunned.
Xia Xia was so scared that her chopsticks fell to the ground and she quickly bent down to pick them up.
Yang Tao, for once, kept her head raised, looking at Liang Xin with surprise written all over her face.
Commander Yang was stunned and didn't respond for a long time.
After a while, he coughed, "Did I...?"
Lu Chongfeng looked at Commander Yang and said, "Yes, but all your senior leaders are like this. Their authority is even more serious at home than in the army."
Teacher Yang: “….”
Liang Xin put the chopsticks on the bowl. "Your house is actually in a wind shelter. The teahouse I went to this morning said that the family members didn't want to stay there because it was too cold. I think your house is even colder than the teahouse. This coldness comes from you. There is no heat at all. I am so cold that I can't even eat."
Yang Gang's big face with rough skin looked a little dull.
It was the first time someone had said that to him.
Xia Xia and Yang Tao's breathing became nervous and they clenched the chopsticks tightly in their hands.
Lu Zewei tilted his head to glance at Liang Xin, and without paying attention to Commander Yang's expression, he quickly picked up a piece of hot glutinous rice cake for her.
Liang Xin picked up the chopsticks and suddenly asked slowly, "Sister-in-law, does Commander Yang usually hit people at home?"
Commander Yang said seriously: "I would never hit a woman!"
"He, he didn't." Xia Xia shook her head hurriedly, "Really not, we didn't even have a fight."
Liang Xin looked at Yang Tao next to her. Yang Tao glanced at his parents and lowered his head.
"You kid."
Xia Xia said nervously, "If you do this, your uncle and aunt will misunderstand your father. What will happen if this gets out?"
Yang Tao whispered: "No,...they never talk at home."
The table was silent again.
Yang Tao continued: "They have never lived in the same room."
Commander Yang's face turned cold.
Xia Xia lowered her head in embarrassment.
Lu Zewei grabbed Liang Xin's hand from under the table and comforted her, "Commander Yang, sister-in-law, my family member is young and speaks directly. I don't have any other intentions."
Liang Xin scratched his palm.
The big hands clenched tighter.
Commander Yang slowly let out a heavy breath, "Our affairs cannot be explained in a few words."
Xia Xia lowered her head in an almost identical manner to Yang Tao, and she didn't seem to intend to say anything.
Liang Xin turned her head and glanced at Yang Tao.
Yang Tao's face was pale, and she bit her lips. It was unknown whether it was because she had died once before, or because she was next to Liang Xin who had just saved her life, that she suddenly felt a courage that she didn't usually have. "My mother was a child bride. My father didn't want to marry her, but he was forced by my grandparents to marry my mother."
"Starfruit!"
Xia Xia looked up at her daughter in disbelief, her eyes full of embarrassment, "Why are you so bold today..."
Liang Xin understood what Yang Tao meant. "When I went down to the river to save Yang Tao, she refused to be rescued. Even when I pulled her almost out of the water, she was determined to kick me away."
The Yang family's living room suddenly fell silent.
Xia Xia looked at Yang Tao in shock, tears welling up in her beautiful but dry eyes.
There was also a hint of surprise in Commander Yang's eyes, and he looked at Yang Tao as if he didn't recognize his daughter at all.
They always thought that their daughter fell into the water accidentally and never thought that she committed suicide.
Yang Tao fell into an unprecedented state of tension and anxiety.
Liang Xin lowered her head and said, "Don't be afraid."
Yang Tao seemed to have found his backbone in an instant and squeezed next to Liang Xin.
Lu Zewei: "Commander Yang, my family members usually never meddle in other people's affairs. This time, they risked their lives to rescue Yang Tao. Do you understand what she meant?"
Liang Xin looked at Lu Zewei in surprise. She didn't expect that he would speak to the senior leader of the division in such a tone.
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