As the sun sets, the armed forces camp is doing drills. The team members hear that Lu Shiyi has brought his girlfriend to hold an engagement party. From the minister and the political commissar to the team members on the mission together, they are all curious about Su Jin. Lu Shiyi is a cold stone in the camp. Even the arrogant flower of the art troupe and the best female military doctor in the hospital cannot get a glance from him.
Lu Shiyi only needed to glance at the train station to protect the person under his wings.
The female military doctor came to Northeast Province following Lu Shiyi's footsteps. She and Lu Shiyi grew up in the same compound and have liked Lu Shiyi for more than ten years. Even Lu's mother advised her not to follow Lu Shiyi anymore, but it was of no use.
In the hospital, the young nurses heard what the soldiers said and quickly told the female military doctor.
"Doctor Chen, Vice Minister Lu is bringing his girlfriend here for a checkup. I heard she's an educated youth from the Fourth Brigade." The nurse saw that Chen Chen's smile had faded and spoke faster. "After the checkup, Vice Minister Lu is going to treat everyone to a dinner. He said the engagement party will be held at the Armed Forces Headquarters."
After saying that, the nurse made an excuse to go for rounds and left the office directly to Chen Chen.
Chen Chen called home and found an excuse to chat with his mother. His mother told him that Lu's mother admitted in the courtyard that Lu Shiyi had found a partner from Jiangsu and Zhejiang in Northeast Province. The Lu family asked the couple to get engaged in Northeast Province and return to Beijing to hold the wedding banquet when they have a vacation.
"Mom, I heard that. I didn't come to the Northeast Military District Hospital for Lu Shiyi." Chen Chen's eyes were red, and he replied calmly, "I couldn't get more opportunities to practice in the General Hospital. Many people say that I relied on the blessings of my ancestors to achieve such achievements. In the Northeast Military District, it all depends on my own medical skills."
Chen Chen told her mother that Lu Shiyi was cold to her, and she didn't want to give up as long as he didn't find a partner to get engaged.
Lu Shiyi is getting engaged today, and Chen Chen's pride doesn't allow her to interfere in other people's feelings.
"Xiaochen, if you make up your mind, find someone who understands you. You've grown up now, and your parents don't have to make decisions for you in everything." Mother Chen gave the decision-making power to her daughter.
"Don't worry, Mom. There are also military officers from the imperial capital here. My market is still good." Chen Chen comforted his mother.
Chen Chen hung up the phone and decided to attend Lu Shiyi's reengagement banquet, as a way to put an end to his young love.
In the cafeteria of the Armed Forces Department, Lu Shiyi personally wrote a notice with a brush, requiring all soldiers to attend the engagement banquet today. Many military wives in the family compound heard the news and envied Lu Shiyi's attitude of valuing Su Jin. Some even gossiped about it out of jealousy.
"The engagement party is so grand, you think you've found a golden phoenix!" Aunt Hu pouted, dissatisfied with Lu Shiyi for inviting guests but not his family. "It seems like he's just using the engagement party to curry favor with them?"
Captain Hu's wife was sitting on a small stool picking vegetables, complaining in her heart about her mother-in-law's nonsense. She said that Lu Shiyi and Su Jin's engagement party didn't pay enough attention to the woman, and that Captain Hu's engagement party was just a sham.
"Aunt Hu, from what you said, the engagement party of Captain Hu and his sister-in-law was very lively, right? It must have been more lively than the engagement party of Vice Minister Lu?" Neighbor Qi Shan's daughter-in-law sneered.
Hu Teng and Qi Shan are in a competitive relationship, while Qi Shan has a closer relationship with Lu Shiyi. After Hu Teng sent his mother and daughter-in-law to join the army, Qi Shan and his wife could always hear quarrels on the other side.
Aunt Hu is not careful with her words and has caused trouble for Hu Teng many times because of her words. This time, Aunt Hu uses filial piety to control the couple.
"Who says it's not? My son Tengzi's engagement banquet was one of the best in the village." Aunt Hu has always been proud of the grandeur of her family's engagement banquet and wedding banquet, and no one in the village could surpass it.
Qishan's wife sneered and compared the engagement banquet in the village with this one. She didn't know where Aunt Hu got her confidence from.
"Mother-in-law, please stop talking. Vice Minister Lu is from the imperial capital, and his girlfriend is from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. They are all from big cities, different from our village." Hu Teng's wife smiled bitterly.
"You are so heartless! My son spent 200 yuan to marry you, but your family didn't care about you at all." Aunt Hu saw her daughter-in-law trying to resist and started crying again.
When Ruan Tao heard her mother-in-law talking about the betrothal money again, she bit her lip tightly. She had given the money to her brother for his marriage, so the Ruan family really couldn't give her too much dowry.
"Who doesn't give a betrothal gift to the natal family? And Aunt Hu is still trying to get something for nothing? I remember my sister-in-law brought two thick quilts as a dowry, and didn't Aunt Hu give her daughter one?" Ning Lu, Qishan's wife, couldn't stand Aunt Hu and said sarcastically, "My Dashan family won't bring both my mother and my sister-in-law to join the army. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law have both said that they are decent people and don't want to interfere with the young couple."
Ning Lu often asks Ruan Tao to deal with Aunt Hu. In order to prevent his wife's reputation from being ruined by Aunt Hu and Hu Xiaomei, Hu Teng can only endure it for a while.
"Xiaolu, let's go out first. My sister-in-law is going on a blind date today, and I think mother-in-law will have a lot of instructions for her." Although Ruan Tao was very patient with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, she was not the kind of person who would not fight back when bullied. "It's my family's fault. We gave it to my eldest brother for his wedding, so we can't bring all the betrothal money back. I wonder if my younger sister's betrothal money was all taken back to her in-laws."
"How can that be possible? Who will pay back the money for the daughter's wedding to the husband's family?" Aunt Hu immediately got furious when she heard what Ruan Tao said.
As soon as the words fell, many people who stopped to gossip started to talk about it. Aunt Hu's double standards were really enough. She didn't want her daughter-in-law to give a betrothal gift to her parents' family, making them raise their daughter for nothing. She also didn't allow her daughter to bring too much dowry, and even used her daughter-in-law's dowry for her daughter.
Everything Aunt Hu did was despicable.
"Why did Captain Hu ask my mother and sister to come?" asked the military wife outside the fence. "This is the first time in the family compound that my mother and sister are here."
Most of the military wives were urged to come here by their mothers-in-law, hoping to reunite with their husbands more often and give birth to a child for them.
"My mother-in-law said that there are no good blind date candidates at home, so she asked my sister-in-law to go on a blind date with a military officer." Ruan Tao said helplessly. Aunt Hu hurriedly yelled at Ruan Tao to shut up.
Ruan Tao's words made the other military wives laugh disdainfully: "Sister Ruan, please remind Captain Hu that he always makes Auntie suffer. It's probably going to be soon... The current situation is still a bit bad."
The families of the armed forces are very united and do not want anyone in the family compound to be taken away for some reason.
Ruan Tao was also educated, and after hearing the reminders from the military wives, he decided to talk to Captain Hu about it in the evening.
"I see Vice Minister Lu's yard has been cleared. I guess my sister-in-law will come when she's old enough," Ning Lu reminded everyone. "Our sister-in-law is a high school graduate, the most educated sister-in-law in the yard."
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