Chapter 47 Chapter 47 I won’t do this next time.
Liang Xin looked at him gritting his teeth and put a hot towel on his face. "Okay, stop being angry. Are you hungry?"
"You must be hungry."
Lu Chongfeng heard about this after finishing the night training of the division leaders and rushed to the station. "You didn't eat much tonight, right? I'll go cook for you."
Liang Xin nodded and was suddenly pulled into Lu Chongfeng's arms.
Feel the vibrations in his chest and the voices coming from above his head.
"I won't be like them."
“You don’t have to compare yourself to them.”
Liang Xin leaned against his chest and said: I won’t compare you with others. ”
There was a long silence in the darkness.
Lu Chongfeng said: "...Am I so special in your heart? Uniquely special?"
Liang Xin: "...I'm hungry, let's make some food."
The lights-out signal had already sounded, and all the lights in the family compound were off.
Two candles were lit in the kitchen. The candlelight was dim but had a comforting power.
Liang Xin's heart gradually calmed down. She looked at the steam coming out of the steel pot on the honeycomb coal stove, opened the lid, grabbed a handful of noodles and put them into the boiling water, stirred them with chopsticks, covered the pot again and simmered them for a while.
Soon, the lid of the pot was pushed open by the boiling white smoke.
Lu Chongfeng opened the lid and threw the washed coriander into the pot.
The fresh scent of coriander mixed with the aroma of noodles makes the kitchen warmer.
Liang Xin put a spoonful of lard, soy sauce, chili rings, pepper powder and sesame oil into two enamel bowls, put the noodles in the soup, and the soup turned into a clear red sauce with a few drops of sesame oil floating on the soup, making people salivate.
At noon, they added Farewell My Concubine to the noodles as a topping, and they slurped down the steaming hot soup noodles.
Lu Chongfeng took the bowl to the sink outside and washed it.
Liang Xin walked out of the bathroom and smeared the remaining vanishing cream on the back of her hand.
Lu Chongfeng walked in sideways and took out a flashlight. "What's wrong? Why are you unhappy that I didn't follow you in?"
"I'm not happy at all."
"I feel like you are unhappy. Why?"
Lu Chongfeng followed Liang Xin into the room and asked, "Are you still thinking about Instructor Song's family?"
"No."
Liang Xin threw back the quilt and went to bed. "It's just that I haven't been able to go to the bathhouse to take a good bath for a few days. I think it's a bit troublesome to take a bath at home."
Lu Chongfeng was puzzled, "Then why don't you go to the bathhouse and take a good bath?"
In the candlelight, Liang Xin glanced at him sideways, "What do you think?"
Lu Chongfeng frowned slightly and thought for a long time, "The water in the service center's bathhouse is very low? Not hot? Or did someone bully you there?"
Seeing that he had raised his eyes and was about to go find someone to settle the score, Liang Xin unzipped the collar of her pajamas.
Lu Chongfeng was suddenly dazzled by the whiteness and his breathing paused.
The sight moves down to the deep cleavage that is covered by the white cotton bra...
"You, you wait for me, or, or just forget it?"
Lu Chongfeng carefully considered each word, "It's not that I don't want to, I really want to, it's just that you've been up so late, I'm afraid your body can't take it, it's really not that I don't want to, I'm willing to be with you like this every day, the main thing is..."
".......Shut up."
Liang Xin suddenly sat up and pointed at the red marks on her snow-white skin, "Can't you see it?"
Lu Chongfeng was stunned and took a closer look.
"...Is it necessary to look so closely?"
Liang Xin pushed her pajamas off her shoulders again, "Even if you stand outside the door, you can see everything clearly, right?"
Lu Chongfeng gently touched the red marks on the snowy skin with his hand and pursed his lips, "I won't do this next time."
"There won't be a next time."
“.......”
Lu Chongfeng lifted the quilt, squeezed onto the bed from Liang Xin's side, and hugged her in his arms.
"Take a look."
Liang Xin pointed at his steel-like arms and said, "You've caught me and I've exposed myself. Every time I do this, I hug, bite, grab, and... "
The sound stopped abruptly.
Lu Chongfeng buried his head in Liang Xin's neck, "...I didn't mean it."
Liang Xin kicked his legs away and moved to the side. "Anyway, it's because of you that I can't go to the bathhouse to take a bath every day."
"I understand."
Lu Chongfeng was still buried in Liang Xin's collarbone. "Ordinary houses lack boilers, and there is not enough hot water supply and drainage treatment capacity. The regimental officer building has showers, but no vegetable garden... I will help you solve this problem tomorrow."
The next morning, Lu Chongfeng came back from drill and brought back an oval wooden bathtub.
Liang Xin was brushing her teeth. Lu Chongfeng held the bathtub and placed it at the bathroom door. He turned it upright, pushed it into the door, and placed it against the wall.
"Where did you get a bucket like that?"
Liang Xin wiped her mouth with a towel and looked at the oak bathtub that could completely submerge the body. There was also a stool inside for taking a bath, which made her a little surprised.
Noticing Liang Xin's satisfaction, Lu Chongfeng immediately smiled and said, "I've already asked someone to make a wooden barrel. Now you don't have to go to the bathhouse, you can have a good bath at home!"
Already?
Liang Xin was slightly stunned. No wonder he said so confidently last night that it could be resolved tomorrow.
It turns out that I had already noticed that she was not very comfortable taking a bath?
Lu Chongfeng picked up a headrest and clamped it on the side of the tub. "This way you can lean on it while taking a bath. Also, this is a hanging basket. You can hang it on the side of the tub to put soap and towels. This is an external footstool. The tub is relatively high, so it's more convenient for you to step on it. But when you come out after taking a bath, you still have to call me. I'm afraid you might fall down accidentally."
It would be best if he carried the baby out to Liang Xin.
Lu Chongfeng didn't say this, as he had a feeling that something bad would happen if he said it.
But thinking of Liang Xin getting all white and pink from the soaking, and smelling like soap...
"What is this pipe for?"
Liang Xin asked in silence and looked back.
Lu Chongfeng immediately came back to his senses, took the pipe, walked forward to lift the bathtub, and installed it on the drain. "This is the drain pipe. After taking a bath, point this pipe to the toilet, and you can drain the water without moving the bucket."
Liang Xin nodded, "Very convenient."
Lu Chongfeng stood up and clapped his hands, picked up a wooden ladle and put it in the hanging basket, "From now on, I will boil an extra pot of water for you every day, and you can take a bath whenever you want."
Liang Xin looked at the tub and suddenly said, "It can accommodate two people."
Lu Chongfeng was stunned, looked at Liang Xin, then looked at the bathtub, and his body slowly tensed up.
Liang Xin chuckled, "Why are you so easily amused?"
Lu Chongfeng: “….”
He wants to know too!
Lu Chongfeng had already gone to the tofu shop to buy sesame seed cakes, fried dough sticks and tofu pudding.
But Liang Xin specially cooked some poached eggs in sugar water and placed them in front of him.
Lu Chongfeng understood the meaning instantly, which was rare. This showed that Liang Xin was very satisfied with the bathtub she made for him!
As soon as Liang Xin entered the bakery in the morning, Shi Lanzhi arrived.
"It was too late last night, I didn't ask you for details."
Shi Lanzhi pulled out a chair and sat down. Suddenly she turned around and looked at the three people who were just starting to get busy in the bakery. "Do they know what's going on?"
Liang Xin shook her head. "I was worried yesterday that Instructor Song would secretly observe us and see if there was anything unusual, so I didn't tell them yet."
"Know what?" Li Mao put down the yellow basin and looked at the two curiously, "What's going on?"
"Explain it to them slowly."
Shi Lanzhi glanced at the door of the bakery, got up and locked it, then walked back and whispered, "Daya left too hastily. She doesn't know anything and there's no way she can outsmart Instructor Song. Although she's smart and told you about it in the end, you need evidence for everything. Otherwise, words alone are not enough. Once the organization starts investigating, Instructor Song can make excuses at will!"
The three people from the bakery came over immediately.
Xia Xia asked worriedly, "What happened to Daya?"
"I knew something was wrong!" Li Mao pulled out a chair and sat down. "Why did this girl leave without saying anything? She said her grandmother was critically ill and her mother was critically ill. Why didn't she just go back home!"
“Soldiers’ time is not their own.”
Zhong Xuelian said: "I was not speaking for him, what happened?"
Liang Xin simply picked out the key points and summarized them.
After hearing this, the three of them were stunned.
Li Mao suddenly stuttered for a long time and opened his mouth several times, but didn't utter a single word.
“Outrageous!”
Zhong Xuelian's eyes widened. "This is the first time I've heard of such a person!"
"This..." Xia Xia couldn't believe it. "Instructor Song did this? This... This is totally unbelievable. He, he looks quite polite!"
“I just know too much!”
Shi Lanzhi said angrily, "He didn't do anything serious, but thought of such a despicable thing. Now let's not talk about how despicable he is. Liang Xin, what do you say about the evidence?"
"I was just about to tell my sister-in-law about this."
Liang Xin washed her hands and walked to the long case before whispering, "Sister Daya thinks he will ask his family to cooperate with this matter. I estimate that if there is no news for a week or half a month, he will probably write again to urge us. Sister-in-law, if we can intercept his letter, we will have evidence."
"What if he doesn't write it?"
Shi Lanzhi added: "What if he sends a telegram or makes a phone call?"
"A telegram can only contain a few words. Besides, a telegram needs to be dictated to the telegraph operator before it can be sent out. He would not choose this method."
Liang Xin said: "Sister Daya said that their hometown has not yet had electricity. The chance of making a phone call cannot be said to be zero, but it seems very small."
"He must have written a letter." Zhong Xuelian said, "He must have written such a shameful thing in a letter, sealed it, put a stamp on it, and mailed it. No one except his family can see the contents of the letter."
"OK!"
Shi Lanzhi stood up and said, "Don't stare at me. Be careful not to alert the enemy. I'll go find someone from the post office to keep an eye on this matter."
Liang Xin reminded: "You also need to pay attention to the post office outside the 11th Division."
"you're right."
Shi Lanzhi slammed the table and looked at Xia Xia and said, "We have to tell our old Zheng and your commander Yang about this matter, to prevent him from running away!"
Shi Lanzhi left in a hurry.
"What a despicable thing!"
Li Mao couldn't help but said, "I told you long ago that the whole family of that man is not good people. They all sucked blood from Daya. What luck can such a rotten thing have in being an official? I think maybe Daya was destined to be an official's wife, so he had luck in being an official. Otherwise, he would have been eliminated and would have returned to the production team to be a farmer!"
Zhong Xuelian hissed, "You are such a liar. That's why Liang Xin didn't tell us yesterday. Otherwise, looking at you like this, I think the truth has already been revealed."
"Yes, yes." Xia Xia pulled Li Mao to sit down. "We can't talk about this anymore. I think it's just like what Liang Xin said. He is secretly watching our reactions!"
Li Mao covered his mouth and looked at Liang Xin.
"Just do what you should do normally, just like before."
Liang Xin asked, "Who's going to deliver the goods today?"
“I’ll go!”
Li Mao raised his hand, "I'm going to go out for a run to cool off!"
Liang Xin smiled and said, "Let's get to work."
I went to work as usual, and after work I went to Deputy Commander Zhu's house for cultural tutoring.
There was nothing unusual about any of them.
However, the family members felt something was wrong.
I came here mainly for Liang Xin.
Another woman in her fifties sat down in front of Liang Xin and complained to her for most of the day.
"I had a hard life since I was young. I was born in a time of war, I didn't have enough to eat or wear warm clothes. I finally got married and gave birth to six children, but only four survived. I raised them with great difficulty, and only the second one is decent. At home, I was bullied by my eldest daughter-in-law, and when I came to the military camp, I had to look at the face of my second daughter-in-law. Director Liang, what's the point of having so many children? In the end, they all forget their mothers after they get married!"
Liang Xin was knitting a sweater and didn't respond.
"Director Liang, you are kind-hearted. You are the softest. If I had a daughter-in-law like you, I would laugh to death!" The woman blew her nose and wiped it on the sole of her shoe. "I have a miserable life. From childhood to old age, no one has ever loved me or treated me well. They only think about themselves. They can't even count on their own sons. Fortunately, I still have some strength. Director Liang, please have pity on me and recruit me into your bakery. I will help you knead dough and deliver goods every day, okay?"
When several family members in the living room heard this, they immediately looked towards Liang Xin.
One of the eyes looked at Liang Xin with particular nervousness.
Liang Xin didn't even look up, but she knew the gaze came from the second daughter-in-law of the woman who had been complaining for a long time, the family member of Deputy Battalion Commander Sun of the 3rd Battalion of the 22nd Regiment. "Aunt, the bakery is recruiting workers, which is not my responsibility. You have to go find the logistics director or the quartermaster director."
"You are the factory director. It's up to you to decide whether to hire someone or not."
Deputy Battalion Commander Sun's mother wanted to hold Liang Xin's hand, but Liang Xin suddenly sped up her knitting and she failed to hold it.
"Good factory director, great hero, I know you have the best heart. Look at me, my life is much harder than those wives of officials. They can eat well and wear warm clothes without working. If I don't fight for my life, I will have to starve to death. You pity them, but you should pity me. I have a hard life..."
The women howled.
The family members of Deputy Battalion Commander Sun were worried and looked at Liang Xin nervously.
Liang Xin remained indifferent and continued knitting a sweater.
After a while.
The mother of Deputy Battalion Commander Sun, who was crying without any rain, covered her face with her hands and saw through gaps between her fingers that Liang Xin picked up the knitting needles, scratched her scalp, and continued knitting. She did not respond at all and did not join in the conversation. Finally, she could no longer cry and turned away.
The family of Deputy Battalion Commander Sun breathed a sigh of relief.
"What a fuss." Li Mao came over with his homework book. "I heard that after this aunt came for a month, Deputy Battalion Commander Zhao's family lost several pounds. I was really afraid that you would give in out of pity."
Liang Xin said: "Do you think I will help everyone?"
Li Mao was stunned. "Don't tell me, if it weren't for what happened today, I would have thought you would help those in need!"
Suddenly, Deputy Battalion Commander Sun's mother went out and grabbed a handful of melon seeds. She came back and asked, "Director Liang, I heard you've been married for several months? How come you're still pregnant?"
Liang Xin chuckled, "What's the noise?"
"A child!" Deputy Battalion Commander Sun's mother spat out the melon seed shells and said, "Other people get pregnant in one or two months at most after getting married, but it's been almost half a year and you haven't gotten pregnant yet? You have to give birth to a child quickly, the sooner the better."
Liang Xin smiled and said, "Wouldn't it be like your miserable life if I gave birth to a child?"
Deputy Battalion Commander Sun’s mother choked instantly.
Liang Xin said again: "Aunt, since you advised me to have children, it means that having so many children will be useful in the end. So you were just pretending to be pitiful just now?"
Deputy Battalion Commander Sun's mother had a melon seed stuck in her throat.
Liang Xin sighed, "Aunt, you are such a good actor, you are really good at pretending. You almost tricked me into going to the logistics director. Fortunately, you came back and told me all this."
Deputy Battalion Commander Sun’s mother: “….”
His face turned blue and then white, and then white and then blue.
The melon seeds feel like a fishbone stuck in the throat.
Then, she heard the old sisters she met after coming to the military camp pointing at her and whispering.
I suddenly felt that the empire I had fought so hard to build would be destroyed today because of Liang Xin’s few words!
Before Liang Xin left, Deputy Battalion Commander Sun's family member ran over and said, "Comrade Liang Xin, thank you."
"That's nothing to thank for."
Deputy Battalion Commander Sun's family member said, "You don't know how much my mother-in-law can torture people. She treats us like a spoiled child, and she also destroys our reputation outside all day long. If it weren't for you, the leaders would have talked to us. Also, thank you for not letting my mother-in-law go to work in the bakery. If she had stayed, I would have had a miserable life!"
Li Mao looked at the painful faces of Deputy Battalion Commander Sun's family and couldn't help laughing out loud.
After Lu Chongfeng finished his training, he came to pick her up with a flashlight. Liang Xin said goodbye to the family of Deputy Battalion Commander Sun and went to meet him.
Half a month later, Shi Lanzhi walked into the bakery with excitement, holding a letter in her hand, and successfully intercepted the letter sent by Instructor Song.
Liang Xin didn't read the letter, she just asked, "What's in it?"
"I saw it." Shi Lanzhi said angrily, "He urged his father to tell Daya to find someone to have a baby as soon as possible, and he also pointed out a few people. Among them were the sons of landlords, the sons of rich peasants, the sons of rightists who were sent down, and the sons of capitalists. In short, none of them were good people!"
Li Mao cursed: "He just has bad intentions! It's impossible that he wants to have a son!"
Nearly ten days later, Shi Lanzhi intercepted another letter, "I think that's enough. If we wait any longer, he will have to think of another way."
Liang Xin nodded.
At the beginning of summer, Wang Daya reappeared in the 11th Division with her daughter.
I only got home for one morning.
That afternoon, Instructor Song went to the regiment headquarters to find the regiment leader and told him that his family member had committed adultery with the son of a capitalist who had been sent down to the countryside and that she was pregnant. He requested the organization to investigate and handle the matter.
"brute!"
Wang Daya shouted at the top of her lungs, her eyes nearly bleeding as she looked at Song Xiaofeng, "I, I'm sorry, you!"
Liang Xin covered Xiaoya's eyes and ears, "Daqiang, can you take your sister out to play?"
Daqiang was confused and stunned for a second, then he grabbed the little girl from behind and staggered out in his arms.
The leaders of the 22nd Regiment, including Captain Shen and Political Commissar Ji, cadres of the Family Committee, and staff of the bakery all gathered at Instructor Song's home.
Instructor Song didn't even look at his daughter as she left. He pushed his glasses expressionlessly and said, "How have I ever let you down? I felt bad for you working as a delivery driver in the bakery, and I gave you most of my salary so that you could go back to your hometown and enjoy life. But you did this behind my back."
Political Commissar Ji stopped Zhong Xuelian who was about to speak, stepped forward and said, "Old Song, are you really going to do this?"
Instructor Song said, "Political Commissar, I've already shown you the pregnancy report. If it's not true, which man would rush to take the blame for such a thing?"
Captain Shen looked serious, "So what are you going to do?"
Lu Chongfeng walked in, followed closely by the leaders of the division.
Instructor Song was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect to attract the leaders of the division headquarters, and he hesitated for a moment.
But I remembered that I had just gone to the division hospital to see a doctor to check my pulse.
Then he thought about how he had always communicated with Wang Daya orally and wrote letters to his father, and Wang Daya was illiterate.
"I want a divorce!"
Wang Daya's body trembled for a moment, and before she could calm down, she heard Song Xiaofeng say again: "After the organization investigates thoroughly, find the adulterer and send him to the public security bureau!"
"Adultery is a hooligan crime." Shi Lanzhi said, "At least ten years in prison. If you send your adulterer to jail, what will Daya do?"
Instructor Song's face showed anger and reluctance, "The adulterer must be sentenced! As for her... She is the mother of my daughter. I don't know what to do. I just want a divorce, and leave everything else to the organization."
After Instructor Song finished speaking, he thought he would see a lot of understanding and sympathetic eyes, but he found that except for Wang Daya, everyone was very emotional and looked as if she wanted to kill him.
The other silent people all had complicated and cold expressions.
"You demanded that the adulterer must be sentenced."
Liang Xin said: "The adulterer has been sentenced, how can Wang Daya escape?"
"Even if you sign a letter of apology and escape the sentence, what about your reputation?" Shi Lanzhi asked, "What about the reputation of your daughter's mother? What about your daughter's life?"
"Are you blaming me?"
Instructor Song suddenly choked up. "I know your Family Committee is the support of the family members, but the reason why the Family Committee exists is to take good care of the soldiers' rear and let the soldiers have no worries at the front. How can you help everyone without distinguishing right from wrong? I am the victim! She cheated on me and got pregnant with her lover! She is shameless, you should figure it out!"
Liang Xin continued: "Have you ever thought about your daughter?"
"She didn't think about it!"
Instructor Song suddenly yelled, "When my daughter grows up, she should be blamed! I didn't ask her to be shameless and do such a thing. I am the biggest victim! I have suffered such a great humiliation. Do I have to swallow my anger and live my life for the sake of my daughter, or even raise the bastard in her belly?"
Wang Daya suddenly rushed forward and wanted to slap Instructor Song. She raised her hand and then put it down again, her eyes full of hatred, "I find it dirty to hit you!"
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
Lu Chongfeng suddenly stepped forward and slapped Instructor Song twice.
Before Liang Xin could react, Instructor Song was thrown to the ground.
Lu Chongfeng looked at the confused Song Xiaofeng with cold eyes, "I'll beat you in this military uniform!"
Shi Lanzhi took out the envelope and threw it at Song Xiaofeng's face. "The organization has given you a chance, more than once, you bastard!"
As soon as Song Xiaofeng picked up the envelope, his pupils trembled visibly, and the blood color on his face from the slap faded away in an instant, turning pale. "How...how could this be in your hands?"
"Old Song, you've been a soldier for fifteen years!"
Political Commissar Ji said: "As a soldier, how could you do such an unreasonable thing?!"
"Political Commissar Ji..." Song Xiaofeng climbed up. He had lost the spirit of a soldier in his bones, and even his military appearance was gone. "What, what is going on? She, she is pregnant!"
"That was a fake report I made at the division hospital!"
Shi Lanzhi pointed at Song Xiaofeng's nose and cursed, "You beast, you are so vicious! Daya took care of your parents and raised your younger siblings with all her heart, but you not only repaid her with hatred, but also forced her to death. You are an executioner who kills people without shedding blood, and you still want to pretend to be a victim. How can there be a cadre like you in the military camp!"
Zhong Xuelian had been patient for a long time, and finally seized the opportunity to say: "What kind of cadre is this? He is not even worthy of being a human being!"
Li Mao: "Worse than pigs and dogs!"
Song Xiaofeng looked at Wang Daya in disbelief, "You, you are not pregnant? You...you didn't do what I said? I don't believe it! I request the organization to investigate, she..."
"One month ago, when you sent Sister Daya away, she bought a train ticket and came back that night."
The leaders of the division headquarters have seen it with their own eyes and know clearly what kind of person Instructor Song is. Liang Xin doesn't want to hear any more insulting words about Wang Daya.
"Sister Daya and Sister Xiaoya have been living in the home of Secretary Huang of Xiahe Brigade, and are being taken care of by Secretary Huang's family and his two daughters-in-law. Instructor Song, before you are expelled from the party and demoted to civilian status, I really want to ask you, why did you do this?"
Wang Daya's trembling bloodshot eyes pierced over.
Everyone present also focused their eyes on Song Xiaofeng.
Song Xiaofeng was still between disbelief and complete collapse. His head was buzzing, his heart was overwhelmed by panic, his legs had begun to tremble, and he was completely unable to answer Liang Xin's words.
Lu Chongfeng suddenly said: "He must be in love with someone else!"
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