Chapter 17 Update 1

He Hongyuan had anticipated all kinds of Lin Xiang's reactions, but he never expected that she could say such a sentence so casually.

The warm sunlight leapt onto her gentle eyebrows and eyes, and the golden dots in her eyes were like bright stars in the deep summer night, making people look into the depths of her soul.

He Hongyuan's heart skipped a beat and he was speechless for a moment. Fortunately, he suddenly heard a familiar voice, which interrupted their conversation.

"Old He, you are incredible! You are having breakfast with a female comrade so early in the morning?" Zhang Huafeng approached the state-owned hotel and looked at He Hongyuan with a hint of ridicule in his eyes, "This must be my sister-in-law! Hello, sister-in-law, I am Zhang Huafeng."

Lin Xiang was surprised to find that this comrade of He Hongyuan was actually the soldier who reported the traffickers to him on the train. However, he did not recognize him, after all, Lin Xiang on the train was a disguised person.

However, the word "brother-in-law" spoken by this soldier named Zhang Huafeng sounded a bit like gnashing his teeth.

Lin Xiang didn't know that as a single man, Zhang Huafeng could only comfort himself by saying that He Hongyuan also had no partner.

Good brothers walk together all their lives. Whoever finds a partner first is the dog.

He is willing to be a dog. He is ready to express his feelings to Yan Min, a female soldier in the art troupe, at the social gathering, hoping to break the paper and officially be together.

But now, with only a few days left before the social gathering, He Hongyuan already has a partner, which makes him feel really uncomfortable!

Among the three good friends, he is the only single man left!

Especially since he heard the guard beside Zhou Lu mention someone yesterday evening. He tried to gossip and make faces but was restrained by a look from He Hongyuan. He could only watch the person leave.

As a result, He Hongyuan actually has breakfast with a lesbian early in the morning!

The sun really rises in the west!

He greeted her and Lin Xiang turned around to look at him.

Zhang Huafeng looked at the two of them in shock. Even though he was mentally prepared, he didn't expect He Hongyuan's girlfriend to be so beautiful!

She just looks pale and a little weak. I wonder if He Hongyuan will make her cry. After all, this guy has made people cry many times because of rejecting the advances of lesbians.

He Hongyuan listened to Zhang Huafeng sitting down in a familiar manner, chatting with Lin Xiang from time to time, with an attitude of an elder brother who was about to reveal his secrets to his younger sister-in-law. His eyelids twitched, especially when every sentence he spoke was about his younger sister-in-law.

"Zhang Huafeng." He raised his leg and kicked his brother's stool leg, warning, "Don't yell."

"Why are you pretending?" Zhang Huafeng finally had a handle on He Hongyuan. "If she is not your type, how can you accompany her to eat alone early in the morning during your holiday?"

Recently, the military mission was completed, and He Hongyuan had just returned from an emergency mission, so he had a half-month vacation.

He Hongyuan: "..."

Lin Xiang couldn't help laughing when she heard this, especially when she saw He Hongyuan looking stunned.

However, she still explained: "Comrade Zhang, Comrade He and I are not in that relationship yet. We were just engaged as children many years ago."

"Oh, you've even arranged a baby marriage!" Zhang Huafeng's eyes lit up, and he turned to look at his brother with eyes full of envy, as if to say, "You're such a lucky boy."

Finally, He Hongyuan caught the man again, warned him not to go out and talk nonsense, and then drove him away.

After a busy morning, Lin Xiang took seven feet of cloth to a tailor shop to have it measured and tailored.

When the two returned to the guesthouse, they saw Zhou Yuezhu waiting downstairs.

"Cousin!" Zhou Yuezhu came to play with Lin Xiang. Only when she got closer did she see Lin Xiang's true face.

Compared to yesterday's disguise, Zhou Yuezhu's eyes almost popped out and her cherry lips couldn't close. She was really surprised.

"Cousin, you are so beautiful!" The little girl looked at Lin Xiang with great joy, and did not hesitate to praise her, "You are prettier than the female soldiers in the art troupe!"

She turned around and looked at her cousin He Hongyuan again.

Well, my cousin is tall and handsome, and he matches my cousin's charming and attractive appearance perfectly! It's really a delight to the eyes!

"Cousin, this is how you should act! This is how gay men should treat their partners~" Although he was only seventeen years old, he still made comments to He Hongyuan, which made He Hongyuan give him a cold look and then he fell silent.

Zhou Yuezhu held Lin Xiang's hand affectionately and muttered, "My cousin is more vicious than my dad!"

Lin Xiang smiled and turned to look at He Hongyuan. A faint smile overflowed from the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, which clashed with the displeasure and coldness in He Hongyuan's eyes. In the end, He Hongyuan looked away first.

"Zhou Yuezhu, it's perfect, why don't you take Comrade Lin Xiang to have a look around." He Hongyuan felt a little tired after this morning, tired from the inside out. He pinched his brows and just wanted to escape temporarily.

"Okay, okay." Zhou Yuezhu spread her hands and took the opportunity to "blackmail" her cousin, "Let's go out and play, cousin, please treat us to a meal~"

Finally, Zhou Yuezhu received the five yuan and two kilograms of grain coupons provided by He Hongyuan, and happily set off with Lin Xiang.

Zhou Yuezhu is seventeen years old this year. She is a lively and cheerful girl with delicate features, thick eyebrows and big eyes. When she smiles, her eyes look like two pear-shaped curls, which makes her very cute.

The first time Lin Xiang saw her, she knew that this was a child who grew up happily in her original family, and her eyes were full of light.

Zhou Yuezhu, who was simple-minded, stuck out her tongue at Lin Xiang: "My cousin looks fierce and cold, but he is actually not that scary. Look, this is the first time he spends money on a girl, cousin."

"Yuezhu, you should call me Xiangxiang first." Lin Xiang thought about it and decided not to irritate He Hongyuan. "He didn't want to acknowledge this childhood marriage in the first place."

Zhou Yuezhu almost jumped up and down, thinking that her cousin was really confused! But due to Lin Xiang's insistence, she could only change her words first, but she still encouraged Lin Xiang to take down her cousin!

He Hongyuan was troubled by the sudden arrival of his adopted daughter-in-law, but fortunately Zhou Yuezhu came to help. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the two of them leaving together.

For some reason, in front of this childhood marriage candidate, the lesbian who had always refused to show any mercy and used quick and decisive measures turned out to be like a fist hitting cotton, with no effect at all.

When I left the guesthouse and returned to the single dormitory, I saw many military personnel coming and going. Even if they were chatting and laughing the last second, they would always salute and greet He Hongyuan solemnly when they met him.

The soldiers under his command were all very afraid of him, because He Hongyuan did not show any personal feelings during training and was always ruthless.

But at this moment, even the strategists began to worry.

He Hongyuan's single dormitory was in the building for officers above the battalion level. Unlike the multi-person dormitories for soldiers below the battalion level, they lived in single dormitories. Although the place was not very big, it was quiet at least.

But someone didn't intend to let him rest in peace.

"Congratulations Hongyuan!"

He had just returned to his room and was lying on the wooden bed in frustration when he heard a few bangs. The dormitory door was pushed open with force and Zhang Huafeng and Jiang Weijun rushed in.

Jiang Weijun had obviously heard some gossip from Zhang Huafeng: "Do you really have a date? You're really good!"

He Hongyuan turned over and said lazily, "I told you to stop talking nonsense... that was decided by my mother, I didn't agree."

"Are you a human being?" Zhang Huafeng immediately got angry and kicked his wooden bed. "Such a beautiful girl took a train thousands of miles to come to you, are you really going to send her back?"

Jiang Weijun nodded in agreement: "What a fucking inhuman!"

He Hongyuan: "..."

Zhang Huafeng continued to fan the flames: "It's not easy for a little girl to come here, and you are still making excuses. Maybe she is crying right now!"

He Hongyuan frowned slightly when he heard this. He thought of Lin Xiang, who was so disguised that no one could recognize her, chatting happily with other passengers on the train. After a moment, he thought of her blinking her bright almond eyes at him this morning, her thick and curly eyelashes trembling, and fearlessly saying that she was more handsome than in the photo...

Is she crying now?

Why doesn't he believe it?

Lin Xiang really wouldn't cry. She was happily strolling around with Zhou Yuezhu. As a guide, Zhou Yuezhu was much better than He Hongyuan. She was warm and considerate.

On the other hand, He Hongyuan is really a sawtooth gourd.

The two had lunch at a state-owned hotel. Zhou Yuezhu rushed to pay the bill and the food coupons, claiming that it was his cousin who paid the bill.

Lin Xiang had been at the naval base for most of the day, and wandering around like that inevitably attracted a lot of attention. In the morning, because He Hongyuan was there, many military wives didn't dare to come forward to inquire, but now that there were only two young girls, many people came over.

"Yuezhu, whose relative is this? I saw her walking with Captain He this morning. She's so pretty!"

Lin Xiang's appearance was too eye-catching. If she had been wearing the unwashed disguise yesterday, no one would have cared. But now that she was walking around with such a pretty face, it was hard not to attract a second glance.

She knew that He Hongyuan was still disgusted, so she immediately winked at Zhou Yuezhu. Zhou Yuezhu curled her lips, swallowed the fact that Lin Xiang was He Hongyuan's girlfriend, and just changed her words to say that she was a relative of the He family.

Everyone became excited when they heard this.

Captain He’s relative is so beautiful!

This is not a popular commodity!

"Comrade Lin Xiang, do you have a date?"

"What kind of person are you looking for? My son is serving in the army here."

"My brother is the battalion commander, and we can get a room after we get married!"

…

"No, no, no." Zhou Yuezhu felt a headache after hearing this. This was her cousin's wife, how could she let them take her away!

Lin Xiang: “…”

The people here are so enthusiastic!

But it's also true that the army is full of men, and there are a lot of unmarried singles, so there are not many women to be seen on a normal day, let alone someone as beautiful as Lin Xiang. When she was walking on the road, she happened to meet a few new recruits who were on leave. They turned back to look at Lin Xiang after walking a few hundred meters.

Zhou Yuezhu sincerely sighed: "I have to tell my cousin to hold on tight, otherwise he will lose such a beautiful daughter-in-law!"

Lin Xiang's eyebrows curved when she heard this, and she couldn't help tickling her. The two little girls started to play around on the path under the trees.

Towards evening, Zhou Yuezhu once again invited Lin Xiang to her home for dinner. Lin Xiang had just prepared gifts for the Zhou family. After all, she was in a hurry yesterday and had no time to prepare anything, so she went back to the guesthouse and prepared an oil paper bag.

"Is your cousin going?" Lin Xiang asked.

"I wanted to call him, but he said he couldn't come." Zhou Yuezhu curled her lips.

The Zhou family was friendly and enthusiastic towards Lin Xiang, He Hongyuan's childhood sweetheart. They also took extra care of her, as they thought it was Aunt He who asked them to do so.

Lin Xiang had dinner at Zhou's house and presented the peach cakes and orange candies she had prepared as well as three salted duck eggs pickled by Aunt He to express her gratitude. Feng Li asked Yuezhu to pack a handful of wild red fruits picked from the mountains for Lin Xiang.

Although it was said to be a red fruit, Lin Xiang recognized it at a glance, it was a lychee!

Under the bumpy red shell is the crystal clear flesh, which is juicy, sweet and delicious.

Lin Xiang was overjoyed, thanked him and left with the lychees in her arms.

But not long after she walked out of Zhou's house, she ran into three lesbians.

Each of the three was beautiful in her own way. She knew one of them, Shen Chunli, who sat next to her on the train.

But it is obvious that Shen Chunli does not know herself at all.

After all, my face has completely changed.

"Sister Jingjing, don't worry. He Hongyuan's girlfriend really looks..." Shen Chunli comforted her cousin, "Anyway, she's far inferior to you."

Today, Meng Jing heard that He Hongyuan sent a lesbian to a guesthouse last night, and today he went to the supply and marketing cooperative and ate at a state-owned hotel with a particularly beautiful lesbian.

Although there were rumors that she was a relative of the He family, probably a cousin, Meng Jing didn't believe it. She went to Zhang Huafeng to inquire, and after some questioning, she got the truth out of him.

The daughter-in-law that He Hongyuan had chosen for his family is here. Her name is Lin Xiang!

Meng Jing's heart was almost broken. She had always liked He Hongyuan, so how could she accept that he would marry an arranged woman?

But the cousin Shen Chunli who came to visit said that she met a girl named Lin Xiang on the train who claimed to be visiting relatives in the 119th Division. From all the information, it can be matched. She should be the one He Hongyuan married as a child. However, Shen Chunli tactfully reminded that Lin Xiang looked scary. She was definitely not the person who was with He Hongyuan this morning.

The two of them discussed coming over to take a look, but they discovered that another suitor of He Hongyuan, Jiang Xiurong from the cultural troupe's opera team, had heard their conversation and immediately jumped up and down, wanting to also go over to see who He Hongyuan's target was!

Just then, the three of them came in unison and happened to meet a very beautiful lesbian coming out of Zhou's house.

Meng Jing looked at the unfamiliar female comrade, and wondered, "Could she be the one that Captain He is dating?"

Jiang Xiurong also stared at Lin Xiang warily, her silent agreement self-evident.

Only Shen Chunli denied it directly when she saw this extremely beautiful lesbian: "No, I've seen Lin Xiang before, her face is dark yellow and has pockmarks, it's not her!"

Meng Jing did not give up and asked the strange female comrade: "Comrade, are you here to visit relatives? Are you He Hongyuan's childhood sweetheart?"

Lin Xiang was asked unexpectedly, and then she looked at the two lesbians who were staring at her covetously, and felt that this scene was a little weird.

He Hongyuan doesn't seem to be interested in women, maybe he has too many romantic partners!!!

…

In the military dormitory, Zhang Huafeng knew he had poked the basket, and hurried into He Hongyuan's room: "Old He, I... I accidentally told Meng Jing that your date was here, and Jiang Xiurong heard it, and they said they were going to look for Lin Xiang!"

He Hongyuan was writing a political ideology report in the room. He paused when he heard this.

"It's over, it's over. Are Meng Jing and Jiang Xiurong going to deal with Lin Xiang?" Zhang Huafeng muttered, "They both love you but can't get you, so they're going to trouble Lin Xiang."

"Shut up and go back. Keep your mouth shut from now on." He Hongyuan just thought it was noisy.

After sending Zhang Huafeng away, He Hongyuan still seemed to hear those words lingering in his ears, especially when he thought that Meng Jing was Yang Lu's niece and Jiang Xiurong was the daughter of a leader, both of whom were from wealthy families and had bad tempers.

And Lin Xiang...came to this unfamiliar place all alone.

With a swish sound, He Hongyuan pushed the wooden chair away, stood up, threw down the unfinished report, turned around and left.