Chapter 113 Chapter 113 Falling into the River

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhang Yuandong became busy. His troops began a combat readiness training lasting more than half a month, and they often did not go home for more than a week.

Lin Yue, with her four children, gradually adapted to life in the military compound. However, unlike when she was in the countryside, she did not fit in quickly and became friends with other military families. She could only chat with Wang Tingting and Xu Xiaodi next door.

The land division was finally settled. Lin Yue asked for a little more than one acre, a total of two plots of land. One plot was a little far away from the military camp, where crops could be grown, and the other plot was only a few acres, which would be used as a vegetable garden.

Although this piece of land is outside the military camp, it also belongs to the military area, so there is no need to worry about scoundrels coming to steal vegetables and crops.

Most of the families in the family compound signed up and reserved some land to varying degrees. Even several of the aunties living in the small Western-style buildings reserved a few acres for vegetable gardens.

While Lin Yue was plowing the land she had just been assigned with a hoe, she could faintly hear some people talking. At first she didn't pay much attention until a woman in her late sixties approached.

Lin Yue looked up and saw a familiar look in the man's eyes. Lin Yue was familiar with this look. Before she joined the army, she often saw it in the eyes of people in Xiaotian Village. As soon as Lin Yue saw her look, she knew that she was here to gossip, and if it was as she expected, the object of gossip should be her.

Lin Yue really didn't want to deal with such a person, but since the person had already approached her, she had no choice but to greet him: "Auntie Liu, your land has also been allocated here!"

Sure enough, Aunt Liu put her hands behind her back, walked up to Lin Yue, and said, "Ah, yes! Aunt Wanli, you really have to farm too! You are still so young, why don't you think about finding a job? I heard that the kindergarten is recruiting teachers right now, and it happens to be in the compound, wouldn't it be a good fit for you to go there?"

Lin Yue smiled and said, "Auntie, you really flatter me. Kindergarten teachers need a degree from a kindergarten teacher training school. How can I be qualified?"

"Oh, that's true. They want serious college students. Farmers like us who just work on the land are not suitable! Aren't the canteen cleaners also recruiting people? And there are also cleaners in the compound. There are so many jobs. What can you do that is better than farming?"

Lin Yue's face darkened. Let's not talk about the job of cleaning the canteen, which requires starting at 5 o'clock in the morning and working until 6 or 7 o'clock in the evening, without any time for yourself. Just talking about cleaning the compound, they don't recruit people to clean the sanitation, but to deal with the septic tank, which is called "dung digger". The army has clearly stipulated that male comrades must be recruited. Everyone knows this. Aunt Liu's mention of it is just to disgust people.

Aunt Liu was the mother of a battalion commander in the Fourth Regiment. She lived in the same building as Lin Yue. She was a chatterbox and liked to gossip about other people. She also liked to instruct young couples on how to live. Lin Yue never liked dealing with her, but she always liked to get close to her.

She didn't want to argue with the man, so she just said, "I have so many children to take care of at home, and I really don't have time to go out and look for another job."

"Oh, that's nothing! I see your eldest daughter isn't too young anymore, she can take care of the two little ones! Why should a girl go to kindergarten? Let her brother go by himself. It's just right for her to help you take care of the children at home, and you can go to work with peace of mind!"

Lin Yue's face darkened. She looked at the four children playing on the ground and said with a frown, "That won't work. Not only does my Lingling have to go to kindergarten, but in the future, as long as she wants to study, her father and I will support her to the extent that she studies. Our family is not that kind of feudal family!"

Aunt Liu acted as if she didn't see Lin Yue's scowl. Seeing that Lin Yue no longer paid attention to her, she went about her business, put her hands behind her back, and walked around in the field. After studying her work for a long time, she nodded in a serious manner: "Well, you do farm work quite well. They also said that you must not work in the countryside and can't even carry a hoe!"

Lin Yue was annoyed by what he heard, and he smashed a large rock buried in the ground with a hoe, and made up his mind not to bother with this man anymore.

Stone fragments were flying everywhere. Aunt Liu was busy dodging them, muttering unhappily, "You better be careful. There are people standing next to you. It's no joke if you hurt them!"

Lin Yue swung the hoe down again, and stone chips flew everywhere in an instant. Aunt Liu was so scared that she dodged in three or two steps and walked away cursing. Her movements were very agile, which was not like someone of her age.

Even after walking a long way, Lin Yue could still hear her saying, "No wonder the two children are so strong, it turns out that their mother is a demon!"

Lin Yue lifted the hoe and saw the big gap on it. She carried the group of people on her back and got a new hoe from the space.

Ling Ling had noticed the situation here a long time ago. When she saw Aunt Liu walking away, she ran over and asked with her face raised, "Mom, why did Aunt Liu say you are a Yaksha? Is Yaksha the one that Nezha killed? Why are you a Yaksha just because you are strong?"

Lin Yue was annoyed. "This is insulting language. Don't learn it!"

"Is it bad to be strong? Why do we get scolded for being strong?"

Lin Yue squatted down, looked at her at eye level, and guided her: "Then think about it, if you met a bad guy, would you like to be stronger or weaker?"

"If I had more strength, I could beat up the bad guys, or find a chance to escape! Mom, I can run really fast!"

Lin Yue nodded and praised, "Well, Lingling is the best! If someone is pinned by a big rock, do you think it is better to have more strength or less strength?"

"It would be better if I had more strength. I can move the stone!"

"By the way, I also think it's good to be stronger. It can protect myself and others."

Ling Ling still didn't understand: "Then why did Granny Liu still call you Yaksha?"

"That's because she hasn't experienced the benefits of being strong, and thinks women should be weaker."

Lingling nodded: "Just like she thought that since I am a girl, I should not go to school and should just work at home. Several girls in her family are all in her hometown. Grandma Liu said that they have never been to kindergarten, not even to elementary school!"

Lin Yue responded while carefully observing Lingling's expression. He felt relieved when he saw that she really didn't care.

In the distance, the group of people, centered around Aunt Liu, were talking head to head, chattering about something. They would look over here from time to time, and one could tell what they were talking about at a glance.

Suddenly, everyone heard a noise of children. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a little boy stumbling over, shouting something incoherently. Lin Yue knew something must have happened. There was a large river in that direction. She was afraid that a child would fall into the river, so she threw away the hoe, told Ling Ling and Wan Li to keep an eye on the children and not to run around, and rushed towards the direction of the little boy.

Sure enough, she guessed correctly. Although she didn't hear what the little boy shouted, she didn't need to. When she ran closer, she saw two children standing on the river bank. Both of them were panicking. One of the younger children was holding a long wooden stick and stretched it into the river vigorously. The other one was about ten years old and had taken off his shoes and socks, ready to go into the river.

Lin Yue looked into the river and quickly called out to stop them, but he did not slow down and rushed into the river without hesitation.

The river was not shallow, and the tap water in the family yard flowed from here. In the center of the river, there were two small black heads floating up and down, and they were about to sink. Lin Yue didn't care about anything else, and plunged into the water, swimming quickly towards the two people.

On the other side of the river, a nearby duty soldier also heard the noise and ran over from the other side. He knew how to swim better than Lin Yue and swam towards the two children faster than Lin Yue. Lin Yue was originally worried about how she could bring the two children to shore at the same time with only two hands. Seeing someone coming to help, she breathed a sigh of relief.

When the two of them brought their two wet children ashore, they found that the group of women gossiping had all arrived. One of them was Auntie Liu's precious grandson, and the other was Zhang Jian, who went to the same kindergarten as Lingling Wanli.

Aunt Liu threw herself on her precious grandson, crying and wiping away tears, and a group of people gathered around her to comfort her. The child finally came to his senses and cried loudly in his grandmother's arms. But Zhang Jian was all alone, with only three children who couldn't squeeze into the other side, and two adults who were sitting on the ground gasping for breath and recovering their strength.

Lin Yue and the orderly looked at each other and smiled. Seeing that the grandfather and grandson next to him had not finished crying, and both of their clothes were wet, Lin Yue wrote down their names and serial numbers, and immediately picked up little Zhang Jian. He could no longer work in the fields, so Lin Yue walked to the end of his own field, greeted the children in the field, and went directly back to the courtyard of his family.

Ling Ling and Zhang Jian had always been at odds, but when she saw him nestling in his mother's arms, she immediately became angry and ran over, loudly asking, "Zhang Jian, why did you let my mother hold you?"

Lin Yue knew the child's temper and explained, "He just fell into the river and is weak now. I am holding him because I want to take him to the hospital."

When Ling Ling heard this, she was stunned for a moment, then said embarrassedly: "Oh, then, then just hug him first!"

Lin Yue freed one hand and patted her head. Wanli also came up at this time. She held little Sisi in one hand and her brother in the other, looking like a little dad. Lingling felt a little embarrassed, so she went over to pick up Sisi and apologized to her brother: "Wanli, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have left my brother and sister to you just now."

Seeing that the two children were indeed able to take care of their younger siblings, Lin Yue walked ahead with Zhang Jian in his arms with peace of mind.

After what happened with Ling Ling just now, Zhang Jian finally calmed down the uneasiness in his heart. He curled up in Lin Yue's arms and was able to answer a few of Lin Yue's questions.

It turned out that he had just boasted to Xiaoqiang from Liu's family. Both children said they could swim, but neither believed the other. They were so anxious that they were encouraged by the other to jump into the river. It turned out that neither of them could swim. If there were no other children watching the excitement by the river and the river was not turbulent, the two might have been washed away by the water.