Chapter 82

"Where did you fall? Let me see." Jian Lu nodded to Wu Xiangchen, took the girl and sat directly on the beach. Seeing the girl pointing at her calf, she lifted up her trousers to take a look. The fall was not serious because there was a lot of sand, which cushioned the impact a lot, and there was not even a red spot.

"Okay, mommy will give you a blowjob, it won't hurt anymore."

"Hmm!" Shuangshuang looked at her mother blowing air on her, and gradually stopped crying.

"Does it still hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore." Shuangshuang had calmed down and just sniffed. She felt like she wasn't in any pain, but when she thought about the fall she just had, she felt so pitiful. Her voice was still hoarse and aggrieved. "Mom, hug me."

"Okay, Mommy will take you there." Seeing that her daughter was fine, Jian Lu picked her up and prepared to go to the adults. She then glanced at Wu Xiangchen's clothes, which were being used by both of them to wipe his tears and snot.

It was a nice white shirt, but the hem was wrinkled. She felt a little sorry, "Chenchen..."

"Aunt Lulu, I'll wash it myself later."

"Okay, then we'll go over there first, you guys have fun."

Cheng Zheng met several comrades who were also out with their families. He stood on the other side and talked for a while. When he came back, he saw the girl smearing on his wife, with the corners of her eyes and nose red.

You can tell at a glance that she has cried.

"Why are you crying, Shuangshuang?"

"I fell down and felt so wronged." Jian Lu passed the little meat ball to the man.

"Dad, look, where did you fall? Does it hurt?"

Shuangshuang has come to her senses now. It doesn't hurt, but she feels aggrieved. She pouts and nods. Her mother just comforted her, but now she needs her father to comfort her.

"Okay, my girl, you can't cry after falling down, right? Next time we fall down, we should get up there and keep running. We can't cry easily."

Jian Lu watched Cheng Zheng begin to brainwash his daughter. The child was only almost three years old, and he was already instilling the tenacious and unyielding spirit of a soldier's child in her?

Just as she was about to say something, she saw Shuangshuang swinging her legs and puffing her cheeks to ask her father, "When can Sen cry?"

Cheng Zheng was stunned, "Don't cry if you can."

Shuangshuang seemed to understand what was going on, but her father held her in his arms and threw her up into the air. Then she caught her up steadily, and after doing this twice, she started laughing.

"Happy?" Cheng Zheng put the girl down.

"Yeah!" Shuangshuang turned around to look for her brothers, then looked back at her parents, "We still have to go out and play."

"Are you still going? Aren't you afraid of falling?" Jian Lu wiped the girl's face again.

"The nest won't fall."

"Go ahead." Cheng Zheng likes to see children jumping around, not slouching. "Be careful, don't fall again."

Shuangshuang returned to the hide-and-seek team again and continued to run around on their two legs, laughing as they ran. Their laughter was as clear and moving as the sound of little bells.

Cheng Zheng was quite satisfied with his daughter-in-law and said to his wife, "Shuangshuang will follow me."

Jian Lu raised her eyelids and looked at him, "What? You also fell down and are crying?"

Cheng Zheng was choked by his wife. "I mean, she fell and came back soon after. She wouldn't cry for a long time. Our daughter is good in this aspect. She is easy to comfort."

"That's up to me. I'm easy to please."

"That's right." Cheng Zheng resisted the urge to pinch Jian Lu's cheek. There were a lot of people on the beach, so he had to be more restrained.

Shuangshuang picked up some shells from the beach and treasured them. In the following days, her mother took her to make shell decorations. They pasted beautiful shells on the cabinets at home, especially on her favorite piggy bank, where she pasted several shells in various colors, red, yellow, and white.

"Okay, stop sticking them on. These are enough. Otherwise, you won't be able to hold the piggy bank anymore. It's getting heavier and heavier."

Holding the piggy bank in both hands, he started thinking again, thinking that his third birthday was coming soon, wouldn't he get another red envelope?

"Mom, I need to collect money again."

Jian Lu didn't expect that she still remembered it clearly, "You are quite clever."

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On her third birthday, Shuangshuang was dressed up as a pretty little dumpling by her mother.

Two small horn braids were curled up, and her face was chubby and chubby. She had applied some fragrant lotion and both of them could smell the fragrance on their bodies, which was so fragrant.

She was wearing a goose-yellow sweater, and looked like a small flower, delicate and lovely.

Several families from next door came over for dinner, mainly the couple’s best friends.

Jian Lu prepared a seafood feast, including seafood soup, blanched shrimp, drunken crab, spicy crayfish, and stir-fried clams. This month, the Women's Federation did not apply for a pound of pork, but it got three pounds of pig's trotters.

Of course, pig's trotters are not as abundant as pork, but they are better than nothing.

Jian Lu washed three pounds of pig's trotters, put them in a pot and blanch them, soaked soybeans prepared in advance for a few hours, heated the oil in the pot, added rock sugar and fried until golden, then poured in the pig's trotters and fried until they were dyed with sugar color, added various spices and continued to stir-fry, poured in a little rice wine instead of beer, added water to cover the pig's trotters, and finally added the soybeans soaked in advance.

Simmer the soybean pork trotters on low heat.

While the kitchen was busy, Jian Lu covered the pot and heard Shuangshuang saying "thank you" in a baby voice outside.

As the little girl expected, she received many red envelopes. Even some little brothers gave her red envelopes from their pocket money.

"Shuangshuang, do you have money this time? How much is in your piggy bank?" Liang Haisheng teased the daughter of Cheng Zheng's family. He only has one son, Dunzi, and he is really envious of other girls. They are so adorable.

His eyes rolled and he immediately shook his head, "I can't tell you. This is a secret."

Her mother taught her last time that these things at home cannot be told to others. She is no longer the carefree little girl who goes around telling the world how much money she has.

"Hahahaha, you've learned to hide things from us now." Liang Haisheng saw that this girl was really smart and laughed heartily twice.

The smell of braised pig's trotters with soybeans wafted into the living room. Feng Xiuhui carried the vegetable bowl to the dining table and called everyone, "It's time to eat."

Holding a stack of red envelopes, they ran to the kitchen to find their mother, asking her to keep the red envelopes for them, and even specifically reminded her, "Put it in a can."

"Okay, we'll go after dinner."

The protagonist of today is Shuangshuang. Everyone first clinked their wine glasses and bowls of seafood soup together to wish Shuangshuang a happy third birthday.

Shuangshuang was very happy. She had a bib around her chest and one section of the triangle tucked upside down into her clothes. In front of her were her own small bowl and spoon, and now she also had a pair of shorter chopsticks.

Recently, Jian Lu and Aunt Wang are teaching her how to use chopsticks. She holds the chopsticks in a frenetic manner, and both try very hard and strenuously, but she can just barely use it and doesn't want anyone to help her.

Her father put a small piece of pig's trotter skin and a few soybeans in her bowl, but the girl still rejected it.

"Dad, I'll send it for a while."

"Okay, okay, you eat this and you can eat the rest yourself."

They both worked hard, fighting with the disobedient chopsticks.

"Try this pig's trotter, it tastes delicious." Cui Yuhe hadn't eaten pig's trotters for a long time. The braised pig's trotters were bright red, elastic, glutinous, chewy, and fragrant, and paired with soft soybeans, they complemented each other perfectly.

Everyone put their chopsticks into the braised pig's trotters with soybeans and enjoyed it with relish.

"Lulu, you have an amazing job. You can get some fresh food from time to time." Cheng Hehua was really envious, but she couldn't write such good articles. Occasionally, she would sign up for an essay competition and get seventh or eighth place. She would be very satisfied if she could bring home some soapberry matches.

"It's very good. I heard that there is not a pound of pork this time, but three pounds of pig's trotters are not bad. They are just right for stewing." Jian Lu was eating the pig's trotters and felt that she was replenishing collagen.

In addition to this popular staple dish, seafood is also a regular on the table. Everyone is already used to how to eat it. When peeling the lobster, a small mountain of bright red lobster shells will be piled up in front of them.

Cheng Zheng picked up a blanched shrimp, carefully removed the shell and shrimp thread, and put it in the girl's bowl. Then he peeled two more for his wife and his mother.

They both ate the sweet and fresh shrimp meat, taking small bites with great pleasure.

Later, she simply didn't want to eat anything else and just wanted to eat shrimps. She still didn't want her father to help her peel them. She wanted to do it herself. However, her two little hands struggled for a long time but failed to peel off all the shrimp shells. She just bit the shrimps directly with her mouth.

"Shuangshuang, let me help you peel it?" Dunzi volunteered.

"No." Shuangshuang has her own stubbornness, and she can do it on her own.

Everyone at the table couldn't help laughing as they watched the little girl chew the shrimp so hard. It turned out that little babies are always likable no matter what they do.

Xu Lang looked at his two sons. How come none of them together were as cute as this little girl?

After a lively party for most of the day, Aunt Wang and Cheng Zheng went to the door to see people off, and then both took their mother back to the house to put the money.

"10 cents, 5 cents, 20 cents..." Jian Lu opened the red envelope and told Shuang Shuang the numbers one by one, "Okay, here's a total of 83 cents."

"Wow~" Shuangshuang lay on the bed, half of her body on the bed, her legs waving back and forth in the air, "Mom, how much money do you have?"

Last time it was fourteen yuan and thirty-seven cents, plus this time's eighty-three cents, Shuangshuang naturally couldn't figure it out, so she could only wait for her mother to do the math.

"It's fifteen dollars and two cents in total." Jian Lu asked the girl to put the money in herself.

"Wow!" Shuangshuang blinked her big eyes, her eyes were clear, she already had fifteen yuan, "Mom, can fifteen yuan buy Sen?"

"You can buy a lot of things. You can buy a whole truck of shrimps that you like."

The more Shuangshuang listened, the happier they became. They now had a lot of money!

But she remembered something, put her finger to her lips, and said in a low voice, "Hush, don't spit it out."

"Okay, we won't tell anyone."

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After Shuangshuang’s birthday, the cold wind began to blow again. However, having experienced extremely cold weather in the north, Shuangshuang no longer felt that this was a big deal, as long as they didn’t have to wear a particularly thick cotton jacket.

When I got up early, my grandmother made me wear a thin cotton shirt, a thin sweater, black cotton pants, and a pair of black cloth shoes.

Early in the morning, Shuangshuang wants to go out to play.

"Dunjiguoguo!" It was early and Shuangshuang was full of energy, but they met brother Dunzi who was yawning.

Dunzi is already in the first grade of junior high school and has started to get up and go to school every day while rubbing his eyes.

"Shuangshuang, why are you up so early?" He still wanted to sleep more.

"I'm going out to play."

Dunzi didn't understand. Shuangshuang was such a silly little girl. When she went to school, there would be days when she would have to get up early, and she would miss her quilt then.

"Okay, I'm leaving now. Go play with Juanjuan and the others."

"Goodbye, Brother Dunji!"

Shuangshuang was like a sentry on guard duty, watching people coming in and out of the small building in the family compound, and kept muttering, "Goodbye, Brother Dongdong, Goodbye, Brother Hengheng, Goodbye, Brother Chenchen."

He turned around and went to play with Yuanyuan and Juanjuan.

Dunzi goes to school with Hengheng, Chenchen and Dongdong.

The elementary school and junior high school for children of military personnel are located next to each other, just a building away.

Now, Dunzi and Hengheng are in the building of junior high school, with the first grade on the first floor; Chenchen and Dongdong are in the building of fifth grade of elementary school, with the fifth grade on the fourth floor.

Next year, as long as they pass the exams, they will also move to the junior high school teaching building.

As soon as they arrived at the school, the four of them wandered around the school gate. Instead of going to the red brick teaching building, they left from the wall and sneaked out of the school through the back door via the nursery class.

Today, they made an appointment to have a fight with a group of boys on the fourth floor of their family's building, and asked their classmates to tell the teacher in advance that several of them were sick.

Carrying their schoolbags, they walked around the school mysteriously and sneaked back to the family compound. However, they did not take the main road because there were many people there and they would be exposed if they were seen by their parents or other military dependents. So they went in through the back door and climbed over the wall.

After the four of them landed, they went straight to their destination, which was an empty lot on the far right side of the family compound. They said that they would continue to develop vegetable fields there, so currently no work had started and there were few people there.

Feng Xiuhui was busy in the vegetable garden at the moment. When she saw Aunt Wang coming with Shuangshuang and a few children, she greeted them warmly, "Aunt Wang, can you bring them out to play?"

"Yes, are you busy?" Aunt Wang's hands itched just looking at farming and growing vegetables. If her son and daughter-in-law hadn't firmly stopped her, she would have also wanted to sign up for farming. She really wanted to give it a try.

However, the two of them sympathized with their mother's lifelong work and refused to ask her to find another job.

While watching the child, Aunt Wang talked to Feng Xiuhui and taught her how to turn the soil.

Shuangshuang was with several other children of similar age in the orphanage.

They like to play in crowded places, and a few children squat on the ground playing marbles.

Juanjuan threw a marble casually, trying to throw it into the hole, but the marble started rolling in the wrong direction. Juanjuan chased it, but because of her age, she could only run slowly and watched the marble fly far away.

"Oh my god!" Shuangshuang felt like she was a big sister at the age of three, and she ran forward until she reached the bend in the vegetable patch, where she picked up the disobedient marble.

There were some rustling sounds in their ears, and they looked up. Oh, wasn't that Brother Dunzi and the others in the distance?

"Dun..."

"Hmph!" Dunzi and his friends had just come back from their journey, preparing to retrieve the "weapons" they had hidden yesterday, when they happened to run into Shuangshuang. "Shuangshuang, go back quickly, and don't tell anyone you've seen us."

Shuangshuang’s little head didn’t understand, didn’t his brothers go to school in the morning?

Why are you back again?

"Brother Dunji, are you guys done with school?"

"Ahem." Dunzi wanted to say that they had skipped school, but Shuangshuang was only three years old and they couldn't spoil the child. So he made up an excuse and said, "The teacher had something to do today and let us go early."

"Oh~" Shuangshuang understood. Then the brothers can play with them. "Play marbles! Come and play marbles."

"No, no. We have something else to do." Dunzi knew his mother was nearby, so he lowered his voice and said, "Shuangshuang, don't tell anyone about our early dismissal from school, especially your Aunt Xiuhui."

"Why?" Shuangshuang didn't understand again.

Dongdong was anxious, "Shuangshuang, don't worry about it, just leave it like this! Dunzi, hurry up, everyone will leave soon. Hurry up!"

"Okay, okay, grab your things and go!"

They squatted on the ground, holding the marble in their hands, and watched their brothers take the marbles with them and run off in one direction.

"Sangsang, explain to me, why did you become so fat after being swollen?" Juanjuan finally waited for someone to come back.

"I saw Brother Dunji." Shuangshuang and Juanjuan walked back together. She still didn't understand what was going on. "But Brother Dunji said I can't tell anyone."

Feng Xiuhui, who was working nearby: ???

"Shuangshuang, did you just see Dunzi?" Feng Xiuhui frowned, knowing that these kids had skipped school again!

"Yes, but Brother Dunzi won't let me tell you. I can't tell you, especially not to Aunt Xiuhui."

"Okay, Auntie gets it." Feng Xiuhui looked in the direction where Shuangshuang had just walked out, put down the hoe in her hand and went there.

Shuangshuang scratched her head, wondering what Aunt Xiuhui knew. She didn't say anything.

.....

That night, at the Cheng family dinner table.

Cheng Zheng was picking up food and just put it in his mouth when he heard ghosts howling next door. He looked up at his wife and said, "What's going on outside? It sounds like Dunzi and the others are howling."

Jian Lu and Aunt Wang looked at each other, then at Shuangshuang eating happily, and replied to Cheng Zheng, "Dunzi and his friends skipped school to fight, and were discovered. They are getting beaten now."

"Hey, these kids are skipping school to fight?" Cheng Zheng smiled, not caring too much. "That's normal. How can kids of this age sit in the classroom and study peacefully? We also skipped school to fight back then."

Aunt Wang echoed her son's words and said, "That's right. At that time, I asked Shitou to carry a bag of sweet potatoes to school, and then this man went back home and took a nap."

Talking about the past when he was young, Cheng Zheng didn't care much. "Old Liang and the others shouldn't be too harsh. Just talk to him. Even though he is strict with his son now, he used to skip school with me. He hates classes the most."

Jian Lu put a petal of cauliflower into the bowl of her daughter and said to Cheng Zheng jokingly, "You are not saying these sarcastic words to yourself, are you? Let me ask you, if your daughter also skips school to fight in a few years, what will you do?"

Cheng Zheng's eyes suddenly turned cold, "Who dares to hit my daughter?"

Jian Lu: “…”

Is this what I mean?

"Then I'll skip school and go out and play, what will you do?" Say it another way.

"Just teach her well. You can't hit her, right?" Cheng Zheng couldn't imagine hitting a little girl like Shuangshuang. How about stir-fried bamboo shoots with meat?

impossible!

Speaking of skipping school, Jian Lu thought that Shuangshuang would be over three years old next year and could go to the nursery class. The nursery class is equivalent to the kindergarten in later generations. It is a good thing for children of this age to interact with children of the same age.

"After the Chinese New Year, let's enroll Shuangshuang in the Nurturing Class. They will be almost ready to go to school." Anyway, the Nurturing Class does not discriminate according to learning progress. Its main function now is to take care of children, and they can start school in the first half of the year.

Cheng Zheng had never thought about this, but when he recalled carefully, it seemed that the children of other comrades in the army were sent to the seedling training class when they were two or three years old. "Is Shuangshuang willing to go?"

Some children are unwilling to leave home to go to the nursery class and they cry and make a fuss for a long time.

"Whether you're willing or not, you have to give it a try. You should get to know more kids."

The two of them agreed that they would go to the nursery class in the spring of next year to ask, and if it was suitable, they would register their daughter and send her in.

At this time, the neighbors were cooking fried bamboo shoots with meat, but Dunzi was no fool. He ran away after being hit twice, yelling for mercy, and went to Hengheng's house next door.

As a result, as soon as I reached the door, I bumped into Hengheng's younger brother Yuanyuan.

"Brother Dunzi, my brother is being scolded!" Yuanyuan couldn't hold back her laughter and wanted to drag Brother Dunzi to see the excitement, "Come and see!"

"Xu Xiangyuan, are you making fun of me again?" Hengheng glared at his brother, what a heartless man.

"Brother, you're going to get beaten soon, I'll go to the clinic to get you some medicine!"

"Xu Chaoheng, you better reflect on yourself! You still skip school? You're just in the first grade and you're skipping school." Xu Lang was furious.

That day, several children were punished, and the only one who got away with it was Wu Xiangchen.

Wu Feng always felt guilty towards Wu Xiangchen, thinking about how he had let his mother down in the past and how his wife he later married was not nice to their child. Now that his child was skipping school, he couldn't just beat him up like Liang Haisheng did, but could only teach him well and talk to him.

"Chenchen, Daddy is busy with work, and no one at home can take care of you. This is Daddy's problem. I often ask you to stay at Dunzi's house for a while. But you guys can't have a bad academic performance together if you have fun together. You will also have to take the entrance exam next year, so don't delay your studies."

Wu Xiangchen was calm and did not make any excuses for his truancy. He just made a promise, "Dad, I will definitely be admitted to junior high school, don't worry."

Wu Feng was relieved to see his well-behaved son. He had always been a good student. "Dad will definitely believe what you say!"

On the other hand, Dongdong was almost kidnapped that year, so Zheng Shuyun was usually strict with the child.

"Dongdong, you've grown up now, why aren't you as obedient as you were when you were little? You're skipping school? You're not attending classes and you're fighting. Do you want to piss off your dad and mom to death?"

"Mom, I only escaped this time! Just this once!"

"What if you sneak out and encounter kidnappers?"

Dongdong had a vague memory of the kidnapping incident a few years ago, and only vaguely felt that it was a bit scary. "I know, it won't happen! We are really good!"

"Awesome?" Zheng Shuyun felt that her son was troublesome. How awesome could a few little brats be? "Go to class honestly in the future. If you skip school again, I will tell your dad about this."

Dongdong was relieved to hear that his father would not be told. If his father knew, he would definitely be beaten.

"I know, Mom, don't worry!"

The four boys were disciplined by their families and then went to class obediently. They did not dare to do anything wrong again. Even the base that they had conquered with great difficulty in the past six months was occupied by others.

Shuangshuang didn't know that she had accidentally caused her brothers to suffer a lot of losses, and she still ran around happily every day.

He even said something irrelevant, "Brother Dunzi, why aren't you fighting? I'm the leader!"

Dunzi picked up Shuangshuang, rubbed her little face, and said helplessly, "Still fighting? You little rascal, disband! Our group is disbanded."

The two leaders puffed their cheeks and said, "Why did they disband so suddenly?"

"No, next time we fight we must not let Shuangshuang see us. This little girl can't tell which side is hers." Hengheng also pinched Shuangshuang's fleshy arms, what a little bad boy.

Dong Dong looked at Shuang Shuang and smiled, "Shuang Shuang, from now on we will not let you tell anyone anything, not even a single word. It doesn't mean that once you have said it, you can't say it again, understand?"

Shuangshuang looked at Brother Dongdong blankly. What was Brother Dongdong saying?

“Forget it.” Chen Chen was amused by Shuang Shuang’s bewildered expression. If he continued, the little girl would be confused. “Who chose this place? Shuang Shuang actually saw us. We have to find another place to hide next time.”

"Dunzi chose it." Hengheng pointed at him.

Dunzi was anxious. Why did he blame himself? "No, I just mentioned two places. You all voted for the one behind the vegetable field. Especially Dongdong. He was the most excited and wanted to vote there!"

"Oh, you still blame me?"

Dongdong pushed Dunzi, but was hit back by Dunzi with his double fists.

Shuangshuang was so happy watching the four brothers quarreling, their laughter sounded like the sound of clear silver bells, "Fighting, quarreling!"

Yuanyuan suddenly popped up from nowhere, "What's going on?"

The four older brothers felt a headache when they looked at three-year-old Shuangshuang and four-year-old Yuanyuan.

Until before the Chinese New Year, Dunzi and his friends did not challenge anyone to a fight again. They could only play some boring games like pinball, hoop rolling and picture taking.

Until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, a happy event suddenly took place in the compound.

These kids finally became lively and can ask for candy when there is a happy event!

"Shuangshuang, let's go." Dunzi shouted at the door of Cheng's house. He was the leader of the children and was ready to take everyone to ask for wedding candy.

Today is the wedding of Deputy Brigade Commander Wang's family. Wang Jin and Qian Hongzhuo are getting married.

Jian Lu was still uncomfortable with Qian Hongzhuo, so naturally she didn't go. However, for such a happy event, many neighbors in the family compound wanted to join in the fun, and there was nothing they could do as everyone naturally loved to go and share in the joy.

As for Shuangshuang, the little girl didn't know anyone and just liked to play with everyone. It was all fun, so Jian Lu didn't plan to restrain her.

"Go ahead, follow Brother Haodunzi."

Both nodded obediently.

Jian Lu instructed again, "Dunzi and Chenchen, you guys should take care of Shuangshuang and Juanjuan. They are still young."

"I know, Aunt Lulu, don't worry!"

A group of children set off. Jian Lu looked at them and could only sigh that happiness is sometimes so simple, and sometimes all you need is a piece of candy.

On the day off, Aunt Wang made breakfast early in the morning and went out to the supply and marketing cooperative to queue up to buy vegetables. Jian Lu and Cheng Zheng took the two of them with them. Now that the children were out, the two of them had some rare free time.

"Did Shuangshuang follow Dunzi and the others?" Cheng Zheng had just washed his face and there were still a few water drops on it. He wiped it with a towel and it was clean.

"I left. I was so anxious that I just wanted to eat wedding candy."

"Hey, they're not that active even though there's candy at home." Cheng Zheng is too far away from his childhood. Now he doesn't understand these kids at all.

"Is it just for candy? You just want to join in the fun. It's more fun when there are more people."

Jian Lu sat at the table to eat breakfast. There were two bowls of corn porridge on the table. The corn flour was cooked into a thick and sweet taste. It was paired with the steamed buns made by her mother-in-law and pickled salted vegetables. The taste was just right.

After Cheng Zheng finished cleaning up, he sat down too. The two of them sat facing each other while eating, chatting from time to time.

"Does Deputy Brigade Commander Wang really agree to this?" The noise from the other side was loud and there were bursts of booing from time to time, which reached Jian Lu's ears.

She always felt a little strange. How could Qian Hongzhuo marry Wang Jin again in this way?

Cheng Zheng raised his eyelids to take a look at his wife, and then slowly told her what he had just heard, "Wang Jin might be pregnant, and Deputy Brigade Commander Wang can't do anything about it."

"Ah?" Jian Lu was stunned as she held the remaining piece of steamed bread. This...she's pregnant before marriage?

You have to know that in this era, getting pregnant before marriage is a taboo, and both men and women can be treated as hooliganism.

"How did you know? If this matter gets out, it will be dangerous for the Wang family."

"That day, Lao Wei and I went to the health hospital to visit the injured soldiers. Lao Wei wanted to go see his wife. Zhou Yan happened to be transferred to the obstetrics and gynecology department to help that day, and we saw Wang Jin coming out of there." Cheng Zheng and Political Commissar Wei understood everything at once. No wonder Deputy Brigade Commander Wang, who had been reluctant about their relationship before, suddenly agreed and said that they should hurry up and get married.

"This is too worrying..." Jian Lu was worried about Deputy Brigade Commander Wang. She was really pregnant, and Wang Jin was determined to marry Qian Hongzhuo. It was indeed appropriate for them to get married as soon as possible. There was really no other way.

Cheng Zheng stood up after finishing his breakfast and fed his wife the last bit of steamed bread she had been holding onto while listening to gossip. "Okay, don't worry about them. Eat quickly. After that, we'll go out for a walk."

Since getting married and having children, the two of them have rarely had any leisure time together.

After washing the dishes and locking the door, the two set out and went straight to the beach.

When the two of them had just confirmed their relationship and were in love, they often came to the beach. If you continue walking to the left, there are fewer and fewer people, and you can only see a large rock standing by the shallow beach.

Cheng Zheng took a few steps onto the boulder and reached out to pull Jian Lu up.

The two sat down side by side again, shoulders touching, facing the blue sky and sea, feeling the slightest breeze blowing past, bringing the smell of the salty sea to their faces.

Jian Lu tilted her head and leaned on Cheng Zheng's shoulder, her eyes sweeping across the boundless sea. The blue waves were rippling like a gentle painting slowly undulating.

"I remember the first time you brought me here, you held my hand."

Cheng Zheng recalled slowly, it seemed like this, "It is natural to hold the hand of your partner."

"Shameless." Jian Lu snorted and moved her head. "The second time I came here, you picked a coconut for me to drink."

"You remember it so clearly?"

"Of course!"

Jian Lu straightened up, looked into Cheng Zheng's dark eyes and said, "I remember it clearly. Don't mess with me, or I will owe you for the rest of your life."

Cheng Zheng thought his wife was really adorable at this moment, with her eyebrows curved, she was prettier than the moon in the sky.

"Okay, then remember this for the rest of your life."

The two stayed at the beach for more than an hour before they got down from the boulder and slowly walked back along the beach.

When he arrived at the gate of the family compound, the sentry at the gate raised his hand and saluted Cheng Zheng as usual, "Captain Cheng, there is a letter from your family."

Cheng Zheng took the letter and saw Jian Xin's name on the sender's side of the envelope. He then handed it to his wife and said, "It's from your third sister."

Jian Lu calculated the time. This was not the regular time for her and her third sister to send letters. How come the letter came suddenly?

Is there something big happening at home?

Jian Lu opened the envelope directly, glanced at the letter, and her expression changed immediately.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong at home?"

Jian Lu looked up and replied in surprise, "My father and the fifth son of the He family were arrested."

In the letter, Jian Xin mentioned that during the Chinese New Year last year, Jian Hualin and Jian Junhong somehow managed to go to the county town to engage in speculation and profiteering.

At first, they went out early and came back late every day. Fortunately, it was winter and the farmers were very idle. There was nothing much to do in the production team, and not many people noticed their whereabouts. They only gradually discovered that the Jian family had become wealthy, and they could eat meat every few days. The aroma of pork wafted to the next door, and it was so fragrant that the neighbors couldn't eat.

Everyone even joked that Jian Hualin had picked up money from somewhere, but at that time no one thought of speculation.

Later, the two simply stopped going to the fields, saying that they were going to spend money to buy work points at the end of the year. Even if the team leader disagreed, the two didn't care. No one was there during working hours, which made the team leader so angry that he cursed at him.

Jian Xin and her eldest and second sisters all mentioned this matter, and the three sisters even went back to their mother's house to visit. However, their mother didn't know what they were doing and only said that it was indeed very mysterious.

Then a month ago, Jian Hualin and Jian Junhong suddenly disappeared for a few days. Zhang Cuixia couldn't sit still anymore when she saw that her husband and son hadn't returned home, so she asked the team leader for help to see if something had happened to the two of them.

For this matter, the team leader organized the young men in the team to search everywhere, even in the mountains. But they never found the two men. Finally, a few days later, the Revolutionary Committee came to inform them that the two men had committed speculation and profiteering and had been arrested.

Farmers usually just farm honestly in the countryside. They had never been arrested for any crime before, so they were terrified when they heard about this.

"Speculation?" Cheng Zheng frowned when he heard this word. His father-in-law and nominal brother-in-law were arrested for speculation? "They also got involved in these ways?"

Jian Lu has no feelings for these two people, but she is worried about whether it will affect Cheng Zheng. After all, he is a soldier, and the army has strict requirements on the families of soldiers and their spouses.

"It's okay. This won't affect me. But your dad..." Thinking of what his father-in-law had done, Cheng Zheng, as a son-in-law, should have been concerned, but his mood was indescribably complicated. "Let's call and ask?"

"OK."

No matter what, Jian Lu also wanted to know what the situation was.

Cheng Zheng took his wife and went to the post office. The telephones in the army's communication room were monitored to prevent anyone from having any improper contact with the outside world. This time it was related to the crime of speculation and profiteering. Jian Lu was worried that it would cause trouble for Cheng Zheng, so she would rather go out and spend money to make a phone call.

The two went to the post office, paid the money and connected the phone. After waiting for a while, they finally contacted Jian Xin.

Just standing by and watching, Cheng Zheng waited for a moment and saw his wife hang up the phone.

The two of them didn't talk in the post office, and only started talking about the content of the phone call after they walked out.

"My third sister said that my father and his cheap son are likely to go to jail." Jian Lu didn't expect that these two people were so bold as to engage in speculation.

The supervision is so strict nowadays, and it is very dangerous to engage in speculation. Even if you are lucky and have not been caught in the past few times, luck will not always be on your side.

When Jian Lu first traveled through time, she had considered the matter of speculation and profiteering. After all, in the time-travel-themed novels she had read before, the protagonist could make a fortune through speculation and profiteering as soon as he traveled back through time. That was a smooth sailing. But Jian Lu thought about the difficult mountain roads and how she had to gamble on whether she had the halo of the protagonist. Perhaps she would have to live in fear every day in the future, so she decided to give up.

Who would have known that now his nominal father and brother have been arrested because of this matter.

"Speculation and profiteering are dealt with very severely, and the judgment is based on the amount involved. If the amount involved was small, they might not have to stay in jail for too long."

"Well, it's okay for my dad and his illegitimate son. It's good to have a lesson, but I don't know about my mom..." Jian Lu has complicated feelings towards her original mother, Zhang Cuixia.

It is obvious that this person is used to being oppressed by Jian Hualin and regards Jian Hualin as the boss in everything. Now both people in the family have been arrested, and no one knows how Zhang Cuixia is doing.

Thinking back to the day when she left home to come to the island five years ago, Zhang Cuixia didn't say much but secretly stuffed five dollars into her pocket. Jian Lu was a little touched.

"I'll give my third sister fifty yuan to buy something for mom. My dad definitely won't leave her any money. If my dad doesn't come back, she might not even have enough to eat."

"Okay." Cheng Zheng and Jian Lu immediately turned around and walked back, preparing to go to the post office to remit the money.

Just as he arrived at the door of the post office, Cheng Zheng suddenly heard someone calling him.

"Captain Cheng! Captain Cheng!"

Cheng Zheng asked his wife to go in to remit the money, and when he turned around, he saw the fisherman Yang Laoer.

Cheng Zheng had saved him before when he fell into the water after his boat capsized while fishing at sea. Yang Laoer had always been grateful to Cheng Zheng, and it was he who took the lead in handing over the torpedo they salvaged last time.

"Brother Yang, what's wrong? Why are you so anxious?"

Yang Laoer ran breathlessly all the way to Cheng Zheng. Ever since he captured that big guy last time and handed him over to the troops and received some praise, Yang Laoer was very excited. The reward was secondary. The main thing was that it seemed like he was helpful to his superiors. He always felt that he was different!

He is a powerful fisherman, no longer an ordinary fisherman.

When he goes fishing again, he not only hopes to catch more fish, shrimps, crabs and other things, but it would be great for everyone if he could catch a little more, and maybe it would be useful to the country!

Previously, some fishermen were captured by foreign navy and almost died. They were rescued by Captain Cheng and his soldiers.

Recently they went out to sea again, and not only did they have a rich harvest, but Yang Laoer carefully checked the remnants of the huge net. After one cast of the net, he would usually catch a lot of messy garbage, all useless stuff.

But Yang Laoer was unwilling to give up. He always felt that there might be some good things left by foreigners. As a result, this time he really found something with unfamiliar words on it.

"Captain Cheng, take a look at this." Yang Lao Er handed over a palm-sized object with some incomprehensible symbols on it. "Is this some advanced weapon or something? Are the words on it foreign? Can it be useful to the troops?"

Cheng Zheng looked at the brown long object in confusion. He guessed it was made of copper, but it was already rusty and did not look like a weapon. As for the words on it, he did not recognize them, at least not English or Russian, two languages ​​he had probably seen before.

"What is this...?"

After collecting the money, Jian Lu came out of the post office and found her man talking to the fishermen. She walked over and saw that both of them were staring at something in Cheng Zheng's hand. She took a quick look and felt that something was wrong.

"It's useless? Hey, I thought I had found some treasure from the sea, so I rushed over and happened to see you on the street."

"It's probably not a weapon, but it feels quite old..."

"This..." Jian Lu felt something flash through her mind, "Is this a cultural relic?"