Chapter 194 The matter is over, I return to my family home
The crisis for Xiangyang Brigade was resolved. The troops dug many trenches to guide the accumulated water into the sea.
Amidst cheers from the villagers of the production team, the soldiers and medical team members boarded special vehicles and headed back.
Upon arriving in the town of Dongming Island, Qi Jingchuan led his men to take Pang Xiaoyue, who had spread rumors, and Tang Qiuxia, who had damaged collective assets, to the law enforcement team, instructing the staff to enforce the law impartially.
Then he went to the military base to report on the details of his work during this period. According to him, he probably won't be able to come back tonight.
Cen Yan's bicycle was at the health center, so she followed the group back to her workplace first, and then rode her bicycle home to her family compound.
It was late at night, and when she returned to the family compound, it was quiet everywhere. If she hadn't been busy all day and felt sticky all over, she would have gone straight to sleep.
Cen Yan closed the door and went to the kitchen to boil water. She then carried the bucket into the bathroom and took a nice hot shower.
When she lived in the countryside, she didn't miss anything except the separate bathroom in her home.
Taking a bath in the production team was fine; you could just pull up a curtain in a corner and wash. But going to the toilet meant going to the village's public dry toilet.
A dry toilet is a small cubicle built next to a pigsty using a few wooden planks, with a pit and two planks placed next to it.
When people needed to relieve themselves, they would squat on it, and eventually, they would flow into the septic tank along with the filth from the pigsty, becoming fertilizer for the production team to use for farming.
Cen Yan still feels a bit scared when she thinks about it now. At the time, she was afraid that she might accidentally fall in and become a special accident for the entire production team.
Now that she's home, the bathroom is spotless. When Qi Jingchuan hired someone to help her build it, he even spent a lot of money buying tiles.
A tungsten filament lamp, mounted on the floor and walls, can illuminate the entire bathroom with its refracted light.
Cen Yan came out after taking a shower when there was a knock on the door.
"Sister-in-law Cen, when did you get back? We saw a light coming from your yard from upstairs and thought it was on fire, so we came to check. It turned out to be the light from a yellow light bulb."
Aunt Tang and several military wives stood outside the door, smiling as they looked at Cen Yan. "You seem even more beautiful now that we haven't seen you for a while. How come you can support people while you're in the countryside?"
Others who go to the countryside get darker and uglier, but Cen Yan is different; she's as white as the clouds in the sky, and even a tungsten light bulb can't make her skin look yellow. It's quite enviable.
Cen Yan didn't expect her sisters-in-law to come so late. "Thank you for your concern, sisters-in-law. I just got back half an hour ago. I was thinking of washing up and resting early, so I didn't come to say hello to you."
"It doesn't matter whether we say hello or not. You must be tired from going to the countryside. Since there are people at home and it's not a fire, we'll head back now and chat another day when we have time." Aunt Tang waved her hand, not wanting to disturb Cen Yan's rest.
So even though they had things on their minds, they didn't ask at this time, and let Cen Yan rest properly first.
Cen Yan dismissed her sisters-in-law, closed the door, and went back to her room to rest in her spatial dimension.
With Qi Jingchuan not home, it was impossible for her to sleep alone outside, and the family compound was not absolutely safe either.
The next morning, Cen Yan woke up at around 10 a.m. As usual, there was a hot breakfast on the table. It seemed that Qi Jingchuan had come back that morning, but seeing that she was still sleeping, he didn't wake her up.
After having breakfast, Cen Yan took a basket, took out all the Seven White Ointment she had accumulated over the past few days, covered it with a cloth, and prepared to go to the black market to see how her business was doing.
As soon as they opened the door, they were caught red-handed by Aunt Tang and her sisters-in-law.
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