Chapter 128

Capital University is located in the northwest of the capital, outside the Fourth Ring Road. Shuangshuang's family and two classmates they met on the train met at the train station and went to the university to report together.

This prestigious school with decades of history is like a majestic lion, revealing its historical and cultural heritage everywhere. As soon as you see it, you will feel a sense of reverence from your heart.

"This university is really big. It looks like a very important one." Aunt Wang was supported by her husband as she walked forward. Although she was over seventy years old, she was still in good health and had nimble legs and feet.

"Mom, Capital University is really impressive. I heard that it is much larger than our university." Jian Lu turned her head to talk to her mother-in-law. The moment she stepped into Capital University, she thought of her alma mater which she had been away from for a long time.

Hearing this, Cheng Zheng recalled the days when he was studying in the military academy. Every time he stepped onto the university campus, he would always look back on his past learning experiences.

"The environment here is really great. Shuangshuang, please study hard in the future."

"Dad, I will definitely study hard!"

After a busy schedule of reporting as new students, assigning dormitories, and collecting dormitory keys and daily necessities, Shuangshuang said goodbye to her two friends and headed to their own dormitories.

Jian Lu looked at the young lady's dormitory. The living conditions there were much better than her own university dormitory eleven years ago.

There are relatively clean public water rooms and toilets on each floor, and there is a small bathhouse every three dormitory buildings. The bathhouse where Shuangshuang and her friends live is nearby, which is very convenient.

The dormitory still has the standard six-person room configuration, but the area, cleanliness, and newness of the dormitory are much better.

Cheng Zheng demonstrated his usual exemplary housekeeping style, and soon helped Shuangshuang make the bed and fold the quilt.

In the dormitory, three roommates who arrived early watched the new roommate's father, wearing a military uniform, tidy up a bed in no time.

The bed sheet was without a wrinkle, and on it was a quilt as soft as tofu. Looking at their own sheets, several roommates reached out and grabbed their own quilts, trying not to lose too badly.

"Hello, my name is Cheng Keying, and my nickname is Shuangshuang." Shuangshuang took the initiative to talk to her roommates and distributed candy to everyone.

Naturally, several roommates greeted me with smiles and introduced themselves to me one by one.

Jian Lu took out some pastries that she had brought with her from her bag and treated her two roommates to some. After they exchanged some pleasantries, they left.

"My family and I will be here for a few days and will be back before school starts. See you then." Shuangshuang said goodbye to her roommate.

"Okay, goodbye!" The three roommates who came early to drop off their luggage are all locals of the capital. After packing up, they also have to go home, as there is still a week before the actual start of school.

After completing the registration process, the family went to a three-star hotel near the school and booked a room. Traveling is much more convenient now than it was ten years ago. There is no need for a letter of introduction, and men and women living together do not need to provide a marriage certificate. All they need to do is show their ID cards.

After leaving the extra luggage at the hotel, the family went to the most famous roast duck restaurant in the capital for lunch.

A thin layer of dough wraps the roast duck dipped in sauce, and some shredded green onions and cucumbers are added. After being rolled into a small roll, you take a bite. The light fragrance of the dough and the sweetness of the sweet sauce first occupy your mouth, followed by the overbearing aroma of the crispy roast duck. The shredded green onions and cucumbers find their way into the huge taste bud network of meat and sweetness, emitting bursts of refreshing taste that relieves greasiness.

After eating a roast duck roll, the fragrance lingers on your lips and teeth. It is really delicious.

After lunch, Auntie Wang was still sighing, "Every place has delicious food, and they are all different."

"Grandma, let's eat here again later!"

"Okay!" Aunt Wang looked at her granddaughter, "You will study here in the future, come and eat whenever you want..."

As she spoke, she looked at her son and daughter-in-law, lowered her voice and said to her granddaughter, "Grandma has some private money, which I will give to you later. Don't let yourself suffer while studying outside!"

"Grandma, I have money, don't give me the money, keep it for yourself."

"Why would you keep it, grandma? I'm old now and don't have much to spend money on. It's better for you to eat more and stay healthy."

After leaving the roast duck restaurant, the family went shopping in the capital's most prosperous street market. Jian Lu's shopping instinct was awakened, and she bought a lot of clothes for her daughter. The styles of clothes in the capital were indeed much more fashionable than those in H City, and it was really dizzying to choose from.

Not only did she buy things for her daughter, but Jian Lu also bought a few shirts and jackets for Cheng Zheng, and a silk shirt for her mother-in-law, which is cool for the elderly to wear.

Of course, she didn't forget herself and picked out a few skirts before stopping.

In the evening, Jian Lu met with her old classmates. After graduation, Sun Shangmei got married to her boyfriend and returned to the capital to develop. Now they both work in public institutions and live a good life.

"Sister Lulu! It's been so many years since we last met." Sun Shangmei is still the same as she was ten years ago. Although she has matured a lot and is now a mother of a child, she is as happy as a child when she sees an acquaintance.

"Xiao Mei, it's been many years since we last met. You haven't changed at all."

"You are the one. How come you are still so beautiful!" Sun Shangmei invited Jian Lu's family to sit down. Today, she and Xu Jun booked a private room in the most popular restaurant in the capital to treat old classmates to dinner. "Is this Shuangshuang? Oh, you were still a little kid back then, and you are so big now? You are getting more and more beautiful, just like your mother. Aunt Wang, please sit down. Brother Cheng, too, don't be polite."

Xu Jun is over 30 years old and shows some signs of weight gain. Sun Shangmei scolded him for drinking too much at work and asked him to learn from Cheng Zheng and exercise.

"Xu Jun, Xiaomei is right. You need to exercise more, or you'll have a beer belly in the future." As they were old classmates, Jian Lu didn't bother to be polite with him and started to joke with him directly.

"Hey, our unit is really helpless. We have to drink and eat every now and then. Many things have to be discussed over the table." Xu Jun also often said that he is not as young and vigorous as he was in college. His figure is a little out of shape. It's not easy to run around all day. "I try to exercise."

"Come on, Brother Cheng, this is the first time we meet, let's have a drink. My daughter Xiaomei and I are both classmates of Jianlu. We went to the same school. I didn't realize it before, but now I really cherish this friendship."

"Let's do it." Cheng Zheng and Xu Jun were drinking and had something to talk about.

On the other side, Jian Lu and Sun Shangmei had a lot to talk about, ranging from work troubles to parental gossips. Sun Shangmei's main topic was the current housing problem.

"The house allocated to us by our unit is small. Now Xu Jun and I, along with our child, are living here as a family of three. Then my mother-in-law and father-in-law said they would come and squeeze us in for a while. That's fine, but Xu Jun's eldest brother and his wife and their family are also coming! You don't know how crowded it will be."

"Why do they all come to live in your house?" Jian Lu asked curiously.

"The courtyard house they live in originally belonged to a landlord who was taken over by the state. It was then relocated to the lower levels of society, so the courtyard house was confiscated and rented out to everyone. Now, after so many years, the landlord's descendants have gone through a lot of trouble to get the courtyard house back, and now they want to sell it. Once they sell it, the tenants inside will have to move out." Sun Shangmei sighed, "It will be difficult to rent a house for the time being, so my parents-in-law and their family will have to squeeze into our house first."

"Selling the courtyard house?" Jian Lu temporarily ignored Sun Shangmei's other complaints and became more interested in this matter.

When she went to the capital, she and Sun Shangmei stayed at Xu's house for a few days. The courtyard house was well maintained, with three courtyards, good layout, bright, and a lake opposite. The greenery was also good. If it was sold...

"Do you know how much that person sold it for?"

"I don't know. I heard it costs tens of thousands. It's very expensive!" Sun Shangmei and Xu Jun are both civil servants. Their salaries are not bad, but their family savings are far from tens of thousands.

"Please ask around for me. I want to buy some." Jian Lu picked up a meatball and said calmly.

Sun Shangmei's eyes widened. "You want to buy a courtyard house?"

Jian Lu is a person who is quick-witted and quick-witted. It was such a coincidence that she happened to encounter such a thing. It was as if the courtyard house was waving to her. How could she miss it?

After returning to the hotel, she discussed with Cheng Zheng and decided to give the courtyard house to Shuangshuang as a guarantee. Of course, she couldn't tell him because the prices of courtyard houses in the capital would skyrocket in the future, and a courtyard house could easily cost hundreds of millions.

Shuangshuang has always thought of herself as a little rich woman. She has saved about 500 yuan since she was a child. In addition, since she came out to study this time, her parents and grandmother have given her money respectively. Now she has 1,000 yuan in her passbook!

For a college student to have a savings of 1,000 yuan was probably rare in the entire Capital University in 1989.

Little did she know that before long, she would have another courtyard house under her name.

The family went to see the courtyard house. Jian Lu was very satisfied and quickly negotiated a price with the owner. In the end, she bought the courtyard house for 70,000 yuan and prepared to transfer it directly to the name of her daughter.

However, it took some time to complete the formalities at the Housing Authority. After paying the deposit, it was a few days before the start of the new school year, so they took a train to visit their hometown.

After school started, Shuangshuang went to the housing management office twice and finally transferred the courtyard house to their own name.

Shuangshuang, who owns a courtyard house, actually doesn't feel it is real. It seems that the courtyard house is not as valuable as the one thousand yuan in her passbook.

The courtyard house is still rented out, but the tenants changed from paying rent to the housing management office to paying rent to Shuangshuang. There are a total of six families living in it, and the rent of each family ranges from 15 to 25 yuan, so the total rent collected each month is 116 yuan. With the 50 yuan living expenses that her mother plans to give her each month, Shuangshuang has a disposable income of 166 yuan a month.

She is really a wealthy woman.

When I entered university, everything was new and the outside world seemed to have undergone earth-shaking changes.

The first thing to come is the military training three days later.

There was no military training when Jian Lu was in college. However, in the past two years, all major universities have started military training for freshmen, and they have invited soldiers from nearby military corps to serve as instructors.

I heard it's very serious.

The students were a little scared, wondering if they would get hurt.

Shuangshuang gets along well with her five roommates, three of whom are from the capital, and three are from other places. They are of similar age, basically between 18 and 20 years old.

The waiter below Shuangshuang is a girl with a round face and a good appetite. She always orders one more dish when she gets her meal. The waiter opposite Shuangshuang is the oldest student in the dormitory, who usually regards herself as everyone's elder sister.

"Shuangshuang, someone is looking for you. They say they're from the Chinese department." The dormitory leader Xiao Jiaping came into the room and brought the news.

"Oh, I get it!" Today is Sunday, a day off. Thinking that military training will begin the day after tomorrow, everyone wants to take a good rest and relax for the last time.

Shuangshuang made an appointment to go out for dinner with two friends she met on the train. Of course, the main purpose was to accompany Lu Shanfang to meet the new recruit Yang Hongsheng.

The military district where Yang Hongsheng was located was only ten bus stops away from Capital University. The three of them took the bus to the destination and met the new recruit at the gate of the military district.

"Comrade Yang Hongsheng, how did you get so sunburned?"

Lu Shanfang fell in love with Yang Hongsheng at first sight on the train, but who would have known that only half a month had passed and he had become several shades darker.

Yang Hongsheng scratched his head in embarrassment, "It's the training of the army. The training for us new recruits is very strict."

The four of them chatted and laughed as they went to eat. Each of them had a bowl of noodles with soybean paste and ordered another bowl of shredded pork with green pepper. At the table, Yang Hongsheng couldn't stop talking about the hardships of training.

He was only seventeen years old, and he trained intensively for more than ten hours every day, even having to be on standby at all times for sleep. After half a month, he was almost skinned.

"You guys are working too hard." Lu Qianshanfang felt a little distressed and gave Yang Hongsheng a piece of shredded pork with green peppers. "Eat more to replenish your body."

"It's okay. We can finally take a day off after half a month of training. Our company commander will go to help lead the college students in military training and won't be able to watch over us anymore." Yang Hongsheng was a little happy when he said this. "Thank God. It's a relief for those college students who have been through so much."

"Is your company commander so scary?" Shuangshuang was eating the noodles with fried sauce. The noodles were chewy and the fried sauce was rich. The combination was very delicious. She ate half a bowl before slowing down.

"It's scary. We are trained very strictly." Yang Hongsheng drank a mouthful of noodle soup and continued, "But our company commander doesn't look scary. He looks quite friendly. Who would have thought that he is so cruel and ruthless!"

The last four words were spoken in a suppressed voice.

The more Fan Siting listened, the more scared she became. She had always been physically weak. "Will military training be particularly tiring? I'm worried about fainting."

"It shouldn't be that serious. The military training for you college students is much easier than ours. As long as you don't run into someone like our company commander, he will probably let you go."

"Yang Hongsheng!" A voice suddenly came from the door of the restaurant.

Yang Hongsheng looked back and saw that his comrades had arrived. After entering, several of them made faces and blushed at several young and beautiful female comrades.

"These are college students from Capital University. One of them is from the same hometown as me, so we got to know each other."

"Boy, you're not going to find a girlfriend just after you get here, are you?" His comrades pulled him aside and joked.

"How could that be!" Yang Hongsheng immediately retorted, "I'm here to serve in the army! What kind of person am I dating?"

......

Soldiers came in one after another to eat, and soon two more soldiers came.

"Hey, hey, the company commander and the deputy company commander are here!"

This restaurant is close to the military area and has delicious food. Soldiers love to come out for a bite to eat during holidays.

"What are you standing here for?" The speaker was the deputy company commander of the second company, Lu Fengnian, a typical northern man, tall and strong, with rough features. He looked a bit fierce, but had a good personality.

At first, the recruits thought that Captain Wu looked kind and easy to talk to, while Deputy Captain Lu had a fierce look and must be not to be trifled with. However, they found out that they were totally wrong after getting to know each other for a short while!

The one person whom no one should mess with is Captain Wu.

"Report to the deputy company commander, we are here to have dinner!" During the holiday, everyone and the deputy company commander were laughing and joking, "but we ran into Yang Hongsheng having dinner with several beautiful lesbians!"

"Tsk tsk, he's not honest!"

"Enough, enough, you all look so unbecoming." Lu Fengnian gave them a cold look, but he couldn't help but look into the restaurant out of curiosity. He indeed saw several lesbians at Yang Hongsheng's table.

After being in the army for a long time, the soldiers are surrounded by men and can get excited even when they see a female mosquito, let alone a female comrade.

"Yang Hongsheng is really quick." He has no target!

He turned around and looked at his partner who came to eat with him - the captain of the second company, Wu Xiangchen, and said, "Let's go, Brother Chen."

Wu Xiangchen took off his military cap and casually placed it on the dining table, revealing his handsome face. The two of them ordered a large bowl of fried noodles and two egg pancakes each. For a while, the only sound in the restaurant was the sound of slurping noodles.

"I'm not saying this, but the commander really wants to transfer you to lead the military training of college students? That's like using a cannon to kill a sparrow - a waste of talent."

"It's the commander's order. How can I disobey the military order?" Wu Xiangchen smiled and said nonchalantly, "Forget it. You continue to lead the new recruits. The training tasks later will be much easier. You can handle it alone."

"You have an easy life in college, but it's hard for me!"

At the dining table not far away, Yang Hongsheng saw his company commander and deputy company commander had also arrived. He stood up and greeted them before coming back.

Several female comrades were curious and looked back one after another, wanting to see what the company commander that Yang Hongsheng had always been afraid of looked like.

"Yang Hongsheng, who is your company commander?" Fan Siting asked him.

Lu Shanfang saw a man who looked a bit fierce at first glance, "It must be the big one, he looks a bit scary."

As for the other soldier who only showed his side face, he looked good-tempered. How could a handsome man be scary?

"You guessed wrong. The handsome guy is our company commander."

"Ah?" Lu Shanfang and Fan Siting were a little surprised. They couldn't tell.

They both followed Lu Shanfang's line of sight and saw a soldier facing them sideways. He had an upright posture while eating, and half of his face had distinct angles and curves. At first glance, he looked like a handsome soldier.

For some reason, she always felt that this person looked familiar.

After finishing a bowl of fried noodles, they paid the bill and left. Lu Shanfang and Yang Hongsheng walked in front, while Fan Siting and Shuangshuang were a little slower.

When passing by the table of Company Commander Yang Hongsheng and Deputy Company Commander, Fan Siting secretly glanced at the two of them. When she looked at Company Commander Yang Hongsheng's face, she suddenly blushed and immediately looked away.

"Fangfang, Shuangshuang, what do you think we should do about military training? I feel tired just thinking about it now."

As the few people were talking and leaving, Wu Xiangchen was eating the last bite of noodles. Upon hearing this, he paused with his chopsticks in his hand.

Lu Fengnian was quick to notice his pause and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

Shuangshuang? Wu Xiangchen thought of the milk dumpling from many years ago.

I guess they have the same name.

The little sister whom I haven't seen on the island for many years, judging by her age, should be around seventeen or eighteen years old.

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Capital University’s military training came with the hot autumn weather.

The weather, which was about to cool down, suddenly changed and the sun shone brightly, making it extremely hot.

The students cursed a few times, thinking that this day was intentional and they had to be roasted.

Shuangshuang's class in the Journalism Department is gathering and waiting for the instructor to arrive.

I heard that this year the school cooperated with the military region and invited soldiers to be instructors, which made the students very worried.

"Hello, students. I am Wu Xiangchen, your military training instructor for half a month..."

They were standing in the last row of the girls' team. She was tall, perhaps because she drank milk and ate eggs since she was a child, which made her several centimeters taller than other girls of the same age. The weather was hot, and the sun made her little face hot, as if it was covered with a blush.

Her breath was filled with hot air. In the front, the military training instructor's voice was clear and powerful, which drew her attention back.

Wu Xiangchen, she felt that the name sounded familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere before.

But I can't remember.

"Now we will start the roll call. Everyone please answer."

"Li Hua."

--"arrive."

"Cui Xin."

--"arrive."

…

Wu Xiangchen was holding the roll call book that the head of the Journalism Department had just sent him. The scorching sun did not seem to shake his posture. He still scanned every student with a sharp gaze, without any discomfort.

He had an excellent memory and he could already remember every student's name and face by the time he called the roll.

Looking at the few remaining girls' names, my eyes suddenly stopped on a name that seemed familiar.

After hesitating for a second, he spoke again in a deep voice, "Cheng Keying..."

"arrive."

Shuangshuang heard her name and immediately replied. She remembered that this person was Yang Hongsheng's company commander, the handsome and strict one.

She thought that she must behave better in front of others so as not to be caught with her braid.

Wu Xiangchen's gaze fell on the girls in the third row who answered, Cheng Keying, Shuangshuang.

The second female student from the left in the third row was considered tall in the class, with slender limbs. When Wu Xiangchen saw her for the first time, he thought of Shuangshuang when they were little.

The newborn twins are chubby and always sleep on their stomachs. They sleep for a very long time every day. Sometimes they are not well-rested when they sleep and their hands and feet will kick unconsciously.

At that time, Wu Xiangchen had just experienced a vicious stepmother and stepson, and his father had to go on missions from time to time. What he liked most was to visit the little girl from his neighbor Aunt Lulu's house.

The soft white dumplings always calm people down, bring peace of mind, and easily make people smile.

Unexpectedly, the little girl has grown up so much. She has lost her baby fat and is now tall and thin with an oval face and a pretty appearance. I guess she was exposed to the sun too much, and her little face is red.

After not seeing her for more than ten years, Wu Xiangchen glanced in that direction and could hardly recognize her.

"Okay, let's start the military training. First, count one by one, and then stand at attention."

After three days of military training, the flowers of the motherland seemed like eggplants wilted by frost, and each one was exhausted and on the verge of collapse.

After returning to the dormitory to rest, Shuangshuang lay on the bed, with her roommate's complaints in her ears.

"It's so tiring. My skin is almost sunburned from standing in military posture."

"My legs are so sore."

"Can you please ask Instructor Wu to relax a little? Is it necessary to stand at military posture and march in such a standard manner?"

"That's too cruel, Instructor Wu. He looks so handsome, but I didn't expect him to be so cruel!"

The roommates were murmuring to each other, and Shuangshuang joined in, condemning Instructor Wu for his cruelty, and then fell asleep in a daze.

After getting through the first few days, the students seemed to have reached a subtle reconciliation with military training.

The military training ended that morning and everyone was singing loudly, and they actually found some fun. When we heard Instructor Wu say that it was time for dinner, we all rushed to the cafeteria, fearing that we would be late and there would be no food. When we ate the food, we felt that happiness was so simple.

Shuangshuang has had a big appetite recently, mainly because the training is too tiring and consumes too much physical energy. Fortunately, she feels that she has inherited her father's military heritage, so her response to training is better than others.

Several roommates went to wash their lunch boxes after dinner. Shuangshuang followed closely behind them, found an empty faucet, and started washing their lunch boxes with the cool running water.

After a while, the classmate who was washing the lunch box left, and another person came to take over immediately.

Shuangshuang caught a glimpse of olive green out of the corner of his eye and took a quick look. Wow, it was Instructor Wu from his class!

How could they pretend not to see each other when they met? They both took the initiative to greet him, "Hello, Instructor Wu!"

Wu Xiangchen washed the lunch box, stood up and looked at Shuangshuang, "Shuang... classmate Cheng Keying, hello."

"Instructor Wu, have you finished your meal?" She knew that the instructors were always the last to eat, but she didn't expect him to be so quick.

"Um."

A breeze blew through the air, lifting the strands of hair around Shuangshuang's ears. Shuangshuang reached out to tidy up her hair and said, "Instructor Wu... then I..." and left.

Before she could utter the last two words, she suddenly heard someone on the other side speaking.

"Are you from H City?"

"Yes." Shuangshuang wanted to ask how did you know, but when she thought of the terrifying company commander described by Yang Hongsheng, she pursed her lips and decided not to chat with him.

However, the person on the other side seemed to have opened up.

"I also spent several years in H City."

"Really?" Shuangshuang couldn't help but looked at Instructor Wu with a little more friendly eyes. Isn't this like being half-fellow villagers?

"My name is Wu Xiangchen..." Wu Xiangchen really wanted to say something else, but he also wanted to see if this person would react.

Shuangshuang looked at Instructor Wu suspiciously. Why did he say his name again? "I know, Instructor Wu. You mentioned it on the first day."

Wu Xiangchen curled his lips, feeling helpless. She had completely forgotten about him. What a heartless person. In the past few years, he had carried her on his back so many times and bought so many candies for her.

Now, I have grown up and have completely forgotten myself.

"Instructor Wu, I'll be leaving first. My roommate is waiting for me." Shuangshuang felt that Instructor Wu was a little strange. Why was he smiling and seemed a little helpless at the end? There was also something wrong with the way he looked at her.

You don't want to punish yourself by standing in military posture, do you?!

I'd better slip away first.

He held the lunch box tightly in both hands, raised his legs and walked around Instructor Wu, but after taking two steps he heard a voice.

"Sangsang."

Shuangshuang paused, suspecting that she had heard it wrongly. This nickname was used when she was one or two years old and couldn't speak clearly. At that time, her parents wanted to correct her, but they never succeeded, so they just let it go.

Only those who were close to the family compound knew this name, and it had not been used for many years. How did Instructor Wu know it?

Shuangshuang slowly turned her head and saw Instructor Wu looking at her and calling out to her again.

"Sangsang, you really don't remember me?" Wu Xiangchen looked at her solemnly.

The author has something to say:

Chenchen: You actually forgot about me.

Shuangshuang: You can’t blame me~ You’ve been gone for so many years QAQ