Chapter 27 Chapter 27 You’re overdrawn.
Commander Yang was silent for a long time, his shoulders relaxed slightly, he looked at his daughter who was obviously afraid of him, then looked at his wife, and his shoulders suddenly tensed up again.
"After we got married, I was able to send my monthly salary back home. This has been going on for more than ten years. In the past few years, the organization did not agree with our separation and insisted on bringing them over to join the army."
Liang Xin: “….”
Lu Chongfeng asked, "Commander Yang, are you saying that you and your sister-in-law have been separated for more than ten years since you got married, and have never lived together?"
"They bought wedding supplies at home, sent out invitations, and forced me to get married."
Teacher Yang looked annoyed and couldn't help but take out a cigarette and smoke, "I asked her to leave, but she threatened me with her life. I refused to get married, so my parents threatened me with their lives. After we got married, I didn't want to sleep in the same bed with her, so they threatened me with their lives together. Later, I wanted to wait until the child grew up before thinking about divorce, but now the child..."
Xia Xia felt extremely embarrassed, her face full of tears.
"Since I have said more today without being polite." Liang Xin looked at Commander Yang, "I will say a few more words directly, Commander Yang, no matter how much you forced me back then, the child was born, but you are still so rebellious. Do you have other thoughts?"
"Other thoughts?"
Commander Yang took a puff of his cigarette and shook his head. "If you're talking about other women, no, never. I'm a soldier, and my mind is all on fighting and preparing for war at all times."
Xia Xia wiped away her tears and said, "Even if there is, I will not let him go. I can't let Yang Tao be without a father. A child without a father will be bullied by everyone."
Commander Yang's face suddenly fell.
Liang Xin picked up a piece of glutinous rice cake and put it in Yang Tao's bowl. "Yang Tao's father is still alive, but Yang Tao is almost driven to death by you guys."
The two people, immersed in their own thoughts, paused and immediately looked up at their daughter.
Yang Tao buried her head in twisting the corner of her clothes, her pale lips tightly pursed.
"I..." Xia Xia subconsciously looked at Commander Yang.
Teacher Yang looked at his daughter and subconsciously tried to speak in his usual tone. Suddenly, he remembered Liang Xin's question just now, and when he spoke again, his tone was lighter than ever before, "Yang Tao, why did you want to jump into the river?"
Liang Xin: “…”
Straight enough.
Yang Tao lowered his head and said nothing.
"You kid, say something!"
Xia Xia came over and grabbed her daughter's hand. "You are only sixteen years old. You have just gotten through the good days. How can you do such a stupid thing?"
Yang Tao hid next to Liang Xin and choked up, "Every day when it gets dark, I'm scared when I'm alone upstairs, and even more scared when I go downstairs, because your room and dad's room are like two dark coffins."
Xia Xia was stunned, tears welling up in her eyes.
"I, you, you all said that you didn't divorce me because of me." Yang Tao held Liang Xin's hand tightly and said boldly: "Mom, I don't want you to live like this. Will you divorce Dad?"
"nonsense!"
Xia Xia raised her voice: "We, we are living a good life!"
“Not at all!”
Yang Tao was almost in Liang Xin's arms, with her back against the person who pulled her out of the water. She felt an inexplicable sense of security in her heart. "I've seen your old photos. You were so beautiful. Grandma said that she had seen so many Qingyi and Huadan actors in many opera troupes, but none of them could compare to you. You're less than 40 years old now, but you look like an old lady!"
"you!"
Xia Xia's tears fell uncontrollably.
"Life without a dad is much better than life with a dad."
Yang Tao wiped away her tears and said, "I don't want to live with Dad anymore."
"How can you be so ignorant!"
Xia Xia was shaking with anger, "Have you forgotten how you were bullied by those people at home? When you were with your father, everyone was nice to you and no one dared to bully you, but you..."
"Commander Yang."
Liang Xin interrupted the argument between the mother and daughter and looked at Master Yang. "After the child was born, you didn't care about him for many years. Are you taking revenge on your sister-in-law?"
"He didn't ignore it. He sent me all his money."
Xia Xia said hurriedly: "I can't manage it during normal times because he is such a high-ranking official and manages so many people. During the New Year..."
Liang Xin interrupted again, "Sister-in-law, what do you want?"
Xia Xia was stunned again.
I couldn't answer it for a long time.
Liang Xin: "Then do you know what Commander Yang wants?"
Xia Xia was even more stunned, but responded: "He...he wants it. He wants a stable home base so that he can devote all his attention to the country."
Commander Yang let out a long breath.
Liang Xin asked: "Commander Yang, do you know what my sister-in-law wants?"
Teacher Yang: "I asked her, she just wanted to marry me and have children."
After the words fell, Commander Yang looked at Liang Xin, "Do you know?"
Xia Xia and Yang Tao stopped crying and turned to look at Liang Xin at the same time, their eyes full of hope.
Lu Chongfeng also looked at Liang Xin curiously.
He couldn't guess.
Moreover, he knew that the organization had tried to persuade Commander Yang many times, using both soft and hard tactics, but none of them worked on him, and the organization could not guess the reason.
Liang Xin's expression was very serious. "Commander Yang, if my sister-in-law wasn't your child bride, and you met her, would you be willing to have a free love relationship with her?"
Commander Yang was startled and turned his gaze to Xia Xia.
Xia Xia also turned her head and looked at Commander Yang.
Their eyes met and they were both startled. The next second, they looked away at the same time.
"Commander Yang, this is what you want."
Liang Xin looked at Teacher Yang, "Is that right?"
Commander Yang's hand was burned by the cigarette butt and he shook it off in a hurry, his rough face looked extremely unnatural.
But he didn't refute.
Yang Tao was stunned. In her entire life, she had never seen the atmosphere between her parents be so...
For a moment, when Yang Tao looked at Liang Xin's eyes, they were like eyes filled with stars in the sky, twinkling and shining with admiration.
Not only did her aunt save her, she was also able to change her parents' bad relationship with just one sentence!
My aunt is the most powerful person in the world!
"What?"
Lu Chongfeng didn't understand, "Why is it right?"
Liang Xin continued, "Sister-in-law, if you were not Commander Yang's adopted daughter, but his biological sister, would you still only want to marry him and give birth to his children?"
Xia Xia frowned slowly, thinking to herself: "If I really am the sister of the family..."
The Yang family's living room was quiet for two full minutes, and the cigarette butt on the ground went out by itself.
Commander Yang kept looking at Xia Xia.
He had no idea that he had never looked at Xia Xia for so long in his life.
Xia Xia's eyes unconsciously moved towards Liang Xin, "...I, I..."
“No hurry.”
Liang Xin gently stroked Xia Xia's back, "Yang Tao, you are a grown-up girl now. You are much more sensible than your parents. Give them some time to grow up, okay?"
Although Yang Tao's face was still pale, she was more than ten times more energetic than when she first came downstairs. She showed Liang Xin two shallow dimples at the corners of her mouth and said, "Okay!"
"What?"
Lu Chongfeng entered the guesthouse and followed Liang Xin and asked, "What's going on? What's going on? What do they want? I really don't understand!"
Liang Xin looked back at him.
Nothing said.
Lie down on the bed.
Lu Chongfeng frowned. He noticed that Liang Xin seemed a little disappointed. He stood by the bed, frowned and thought for a long time, but still couldn't think of a solution. He was so anxious that he kept grabbing his hair.
"Your bookshelf is full of military books."
Liang Xin lay down in bed, "I don't have the talent, and I don't have the relevant knowledge in my head. I can't figure it out even if I scratch my head."
"Then tell me."
Lu Chongfeng brought the quilt from the other bed over, covered Liang Xin's quilt with it, and said seriously: "I want to understand."
Liang Xin looked at him for a while.
Suddenly she put her arms around his neck, pulled him in front of her, and kissed him on the mouth.
Lu Chongfeng is very good at kissing.
They separated briefly, Liang Xin's eyes were moist and her breathing was uneven. She looked at the small mole under his eye from a close distance, said nothing, and pushed him away.
But it didn’t push.
Lu Chongfeng held her hand and leaned over to continue kissing her.
Pleased dear.
"tell me?"
Lu Chongfeng pressed Liang Xin down and kissed the tip of her nose, "I want to know."
He was not so curious about Commander Yang and his family.
But now it concerns Liang Xin's hidden disappointment in him, and he really wants to understand this matter.
"It can only be understood, not expressed in words."
Liang Xin patted his shoulder and said, "Go to sleep."
Lu Chongfeng stood up, took off his cotton jacket and pants, and lifted the quilt with his upper body naked. As soon as he got into the bed, he hugged Liang Xin tightly in his arms, bent down to kiss her, but Liang Xin blocked his mouth with her hands.
“This is a guest house.”
".......What's wrong?"
"What's wrong?"
Lu Chongfeng thought of the wet sheets and hugged Liang Xin tighter.
The fiery heat rolled over from his hard chest, quickly melting the coldness of Liang Xin's hands and feet. She leaned against his neck and said, "You can't do that again. Once a week, and no more than an hour at a time."
Lu Chongfeng: “….”
"no!"
Liang Xin raised the corners of her eyes and looked at him.
Lu Chongfeng: "...Before you joined the army, you asked me if I wanted to do this every night. I said yes."
“You’re overdrawn.”
Liang Xin had just finished speaking when her hand was grabbed and slid down. When it was almost there, she quickly clenched it into a fist.
"......I mean, you overdrew me so many times."
Lu Chongfeng buried his head in the crook of Liang Xin's neck and rubbed her earlobe with his nose as straight as a dangerous peak. Liang Xin shrugged her shoulders because of the itch and couldn't help laughing. She tilted her head and bit his earlobe on the upper side. The two bit each other's ears, and slowly bit each other's mouth corners. He drew the lip line with the tip of his tongue, pried open her lips, and lingered with her tongue tip quickly and slowly.
"The luggage will arrive tomorrow."
Lu Chongfeng sucked Liang Xin's lower lip and negotiated, "Use my shirt under you."
Liang Xin disagrees.
Lu Chongfeng continued to kiss her ingratiatingly, "Once."
Liang Xin had no chance to refuse. Her lips were sealed tightly and her hard chest pressed her so tightly that there was almost no gap.
There was a rustling in the quilt, and a small white dress was thrown onto the bed next to mine.
Liang Xin was left with only a rolled-up cotton sweater on her body, with a white shirt stuffed haphazardly underneath her.
Lu Chongfeng bit the small floral pattern on his sweater and said, "I won't get cold this way."
Liang Xin's hands ran through his hair, and the light from the ceiling made her brows frown from time to time.
Even without a sweater, she wouldn't feel cold.
Lu Chongfeng liked to hug her tightly. It would be more like strangling her rather than hugging her, using his muscular arms to hold her against his chest.
Most of the time, she would lean against his chest and bite his arm. Usually, he was afraid of hurting her teeth, or had other thoughts, so he would turn Liang Xin's face away, put his arms somewhere else, and look at her with burning eyes.
Just like now, Liang Xin bit her lips and made no sound. Every time this happened, he would lower his head and pry open her teeth, but would not stay for long because he wanted to hear her make a sound.
As soon as Liang Xin spoke, she could feel his chest trembling and sweat boiling.
Lu Chongfeng took the military jacket and wrapped Liang Xin in it from the front. He hugged her and asked in her ear, "What does Commander Yang want?"
Liang Xin tilted her head back and rested it on his sweaty neck.
The raised neck was like delicate sweet white porcelain glaze. Lu Chongfeng pressed his lips against it, kissed it, and hugged the trembling Liang Xin tightly, very persistently, "What is it?"
Liang Xin held onto his arm tightly, listening to his stubborn and heavy breathing. When he bit her throat, her nails dug into his muscles. She couldn't help but said, "...free love."
Lu Chongfeng lifted his sweaty hair and looked down at Liang Xin's face. "Free love?"
He understands this.
Why was Liang Xin disappointed?
Once the first half of the night passed.
Lu Chongfeng thought about the second half of the night.
I figured out that he and Liang Xin did not have free love and got married directly.
New Year’s Eve.
Liang Xin slept until the afternoon, lying on her side on the pillow, looking at the five-pointed ice flowers on the window glass, unwilling to get out of bed.
There were two aluminum lunch boxes on the desk in the guesthouse. She remembered that Lu Chongfeng had brought her lunch at noon, and she just wanted to sleep and didn't want to get up to eat.
It’s New Year’s Eve and I’m still working.
Liang Xin yawned and vaguely recalled that Lu Chongfeng said that the division cafeteria would prepare a New Year's Eve dinner in the evening and that a movie would be shown in the auditorium.
After putting on a cotton-padded jacket, Liang Xin sat for a while before supporting herself on the bed and standing up.
I was standing in the bathroom brushing my teeth when there was a knock on the door.
"Chief Lu's family, I'm the front desk receptionist. Chief Lu sent the training section chief to take you to dinner."
"Hold on."
"Don't worry, take your time. Secretary Xi is waiting for you downstairs."
Since someone is waiting, Liang Xin naturally can't come slowly.
New year, new atmosphere.
Liang Xin put on the new cotton-padded jacket made by her mother-in-law. The outer and lining were made of grass green twill cotton cloth. She draped the red triangular tassel scarf she had always worn over the jacket.
One green and three red pieces, the most common combination in the military camp: a military uniform, a red five-pointed star, and two red armbands.
Liang Xin was a sea of green and red. When she walked in the camp, many soldiers turned around to look at her.
Once they see her appearance clearly, the soldiers will unconsciously slow down their pace.
But none of them were rude glances, it was just a sudden amazement that made me look more naturally.
After leaving the guesthouse, passing the auditorium and several training grounds, I saw the service center and the cafeteria, and further back was the family compound.
Aren't you going to the cafeteria?
Liang Xin glanced at the steaming cafeteria, but Secretary Xi did not stop and continued to follow.
We followed him all the way to the Shuixiang family compound and stopped in front of the teahouse.
"Comrade Liang Xin, I'm leaving first."
Liang Xin: “?”
Looking at the back that was impatiently walking away, and then looking at the two small doors with copper rings, the Forever brand iron padlocks that were originally hanging on the two copper rings were gone, and the door eaves seemed to have been swept, becoming clean and tidy.
“Squeak.”
The two small doors were opened, and Lu Zewei in a green coat gradually appeared in the gap between the doors. Under the faint sunlight, he and the red lanterns under the eaves formed a scene from the poetic Jiangnan region.
He smiled gently, and the faint sunlight seemed to become dazzling and scorching in an instant.
The chill that Liang Xin had felt along the way was completely dispelled, and she felt warm all over.
"New Year's Eve, welcome home."
Lu Zewei reached out and pulled Liang Xin into the door. With a "creak", he closed the two small doors and suddenly covered Liang Xin's eyes.
Liang Xin, who had already finished reading, said: “…”
Lu Zewei held Liang Xin in his arms from behind, blindfolded her and walked forward, "Be careful with the stairs, there are five floors in total."
In fact, Liang Xin could clearly see the stairs from under her hands, but she followed his instructions and stepped up slowly.
"We are in the living room now. Don't worry." Lu Zewei whispered in Liang Xin's ear: "The room on the right is our new house."
Liang Xin was pushed forward by him, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised.
"I'm going to let go." Lu Chongfeng released his hand that was covering Liang Xin's eyes, and then he put his arms around her waist. "Time is running out, so this is the only way."
After Liang Xin adjusted to the light briefly, he looked up at the room.
There was a double wooden bed covered with a bright red quilt with a dragon and phoenix pattern on it. There were two bedside tables with drawers on the left and right sides. Against the wall was a leather box brought from the Jiangjing Military Region compound with several quilts stacked on it. There was a double happiness character pasted just above the headboard, and there was also a happiness character pasted on the wooden window glass. Looking up at the incandescent lamp, there were several strips of red paper hanging on the lampshade.
Simple, but joyous.
It really looks like a new house.
Liang Xin smiled, "It's the New Year, not a wedding."
Lu Chongfeng took Liang Xin's hand and walked back to the living room. "This is our first new home. Let's decorate it as a newlywed home."
Every corner of the long hall was cleaned. Liang Xin's favorite long window had not only been cleaned, but also painted with new wood paint. When she got closer and smelled it, the smell was not very strong. It was obviously painted no more than a day ago. Therefore, a square table was placed far away in the middle.
Opposite the long window are two simple sofas and a wooden coffee table. On the coffee table is tightly placed plexiglass, and on the glass is an enamel tray with peanut candy, brown rice candy, rice dumpling candy, melon seeds, peanuts, and sesame cakes.
The dim sum was also covered with a piece of red paper with the word "happiness" written in brushstrokes.
There were tall and low cabinets and a chest of drawers against the bedroom wall, and the black and white TV and radio that had been brought into the house were placed on them.
It is very convenient to watch it while sitting on the sofa or at the dining table.
Liang Xin walked around and saw that a desk had been placed in front of the window of the former accounting office. A pile of military treatises was piled on the desk. From the side, she saw Rommel's memoirs and Zhukov's memoirs.
There were scattered luggage behind the desk, which had not yet been packed up.
Lu Chongfeng: "I plan to use this room as a study."
"What does it smell like?"
Liang Xin looked towards the kitchen. "Braised pork?"
"You have a good nose." Lu Chongfeng continued to hold Liang Xin's hand and walked towards the backyard kitchen. "After the meeting in the morning, I went to pick up the luggage and move it. After moving the luggage, the people from the barracks department came to help clean the house. I went to the service center to get the pork that I asked them to save last night. It wasn't much, only two pounds. The director of the service center specially gave me the pig's offal, and the cafeteria also gave me half a pig's head. I put them together and stewed a pot of meat in a big pot."
Liang Xin walked into the kitchen. The walls had been painted, looking brand new. The two large stoves were also replaced with new iron pots. The stove outside was gurgling and emitting white smoke with the aroma of meat, while the stove inside was emitting the aroma of rice.
"The braised meat includes pig head, pig ears, pig intestines, stomach, tongue, braised eggs, and dried tofu. This is my first time making it, so I don't know if it tastes good, but the director of the service center said that if you put these sauces in, even if you braise a pair of work shoes, you can eat ten big steamed buns."
Lu Chongfeng lifted the lid of the wooden pot, and the aroma of meat immediately filled the whole kitchen. "The rice pot is filled with steamed bacon and sausages brought from home. Oh, and Deputy Battalion Commander Lei from next door gave us a plate of dumplings. I'll stir-fry some vegetables and braise two fish. I'll eat one and save the other for tomorrow. That means we'll have plenty every year."
After Lu Chongfeng finished speaking, he found that no one responded. He turned around and saw Liang Xin looking at him.
"move?"
"move."
Lu Chongfeng raised the corner of his mouth, put down the pot lid, walked over to observe Liang Xin's face, "You didn't cry, so you're not moved."
Liang Xin: "No matter how touched I am, I won't cry."
Many images of Liang Xin crying appeared in front of Lu Chongfeng's eyes. His jaw suddenly tensed and he quickly turned his eyes away.
"Why don't you ask me to clean up with you?"
When Liang Xin said this, if you observe carefully, you can hear the tremor in the word "tidy up".
Lu Chongfeng was thinking about the more impactful scene and didn't hear it for a moment. "I thought about it all night yesterday and understood what Commander Yang's sister-in-law wanted."
Liang Xin: "...You didn't sleep all night thinking about Commander Yang's sister-in-law?"
Lu Chongfeng: "That's not what I meant!"
Liang Xin chuckled, "What did you figure out?"
"Sister-in-law actually wants a home and the Yang family, not Commander Yang." Lu Chongfeng came closer to Liang Xin and asked, "Am I right this time?"
Liang Xin looked at his face approaching and found some of the youthful heroism on the face of the little boy in the photo frame on the first floor of the Lu family.
"That's right."
Lu Chongfeng held Liang Xin's hand and raised his chin slightly, "So I prepared the house before the New Year."
Liang Xin: “?”
What a train of thought.
Although I didn't understand it, I was able to move into the house I liked on New Year's Eve.
Liang Xin still liked this surprise very much.
"Thanks....."
"Then, we can fall in love freely."
Liang Xin: ".......what?"
"Free love."
Lu Chongfeng looked at Liang Xin and didn't find that she was no longer disappointed. Instead, he found that she looked at him as if he were a fool. "......Why are you looking at me like this again? Don't you want to have a free love relationship?"
Liang Xin picked up the tongs.
Lu Chongfeng immediately took a step back. "If you don't want to do it, then don't do it. Why do you hit someone?"
Liang Xin raised the tongs.
Lu Chongfeng immediately closed his eyes, ready to be beaten, but he heard the sound of fire tongs stirring firewood, "...You scared me."
Liang Xin had gradually gotten used to his ability to understand, so she didn't continue the topic. "Do you know what free love is?"
"I asked, it's just a date, watching a movie, going to the park, and reading together."
Liang Xin turned around: "You want to talk?"
Lu Chongfeng nodded, "I want to."
"Okay, let's talk."
Seeing Liang Xin suddenly smile, Lu Chongfeng immediately raised the corners of his lips.
He is talented in this area!
Although I only got the answer last night after repeatedly questioning Liang Xin.
But he immediately implemented free love today, and as expected, his leader was immediately satisfied!
"We'll go to the movies tonight. I have a meeting tomorrow morning. After the meeting, I'll bring back other things to do in the evening. During the day, we'll go around the camp and have a date."
Liang Xin nodded, and used the fire tongs to stir the ash at the bottom of the pot in the stove to make the firewood burn more vigorously.
Seeing her blushing face, Lu Chongfeng was excited. "Let's pretend that we are not married yet and are a couple in love. We will do whatever they do in their free love life. We will not miss anything and will make up for it all."
Liang Xin glanced at him and asked, "How long will it take?"
An encouraging look!
Lu Chongfeng felt that he really had a talent for love.
After just one night of thinking, he taught himself and became a successful apprentice.
Lu Chongfeng was proud, excited, and expectant. "I originally planned to date her for one or two years, but I heard that some people date for three to five years. We can't be sure we're worse than them, so we'll date her for seven to eight years. After the movie, we'll go for a walk. Young lovers love to go for a walk the most."
"Seven or eight years?"
"Seven or eight years!"
"Very good, I'll do as you say. Also, there is another important point during the period of free love when we pretend not to be married."
Liang Xin put down the tongs and smiled, "We can only meet in broad daylight. When we meet and date, we can only hold hands. We are not allowed to touch or hug each other, and we are not allowed to sleep together at night. Now, the countdown begins."
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