Chapter 159 Do you want to participate in the cultural performance?
After the aroma of the braised food wafted out, everyone continued to do other things.
The only difference was that compared to last time when Su Wan worked alone for almost a whole day, all the sisters-in-law were present at today's dinner. Even Sister-in-law Wei took a day off after hearing the news and stayed to help. However, since there were so many people, she didn't squeeze forward.
While everyone else was making dumplings and chatting, Sister Wei came up to Su Wan and asked quietly, "Wan Wan, you didn't even tell me you were treating me to dinner. I almost forgot you were going to work this morning."
Su Wan smiled embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, Sister Wei, I went to bed too early last night and forgot about it."
Hearing this, Wei's wife winked and said, "Captain Chen just came back yesterday. I can understand that. My husband even told me that Captain Chen might be getting a promotion."
"I don't know yet. I'm just treating everyone to a simple meal to thank you for your help."
"How could we have helped? Actually, you're the first woman in our compound to leave the house and become independent. Everyone is envious of you. But you don't live in the compound all the time. If you did, you'd know that living in a compound is bound to involve a lot of family matters, and there are even arguments every day."
They all live in the same compound, so conflicts and quarrels are inevitable. It's actually not that bad for them to live here, as there aren't as many disputes as in other places.
The main reason is that Mrs. Qiu manages the business well. She talks to everyone from time to time. The army has also reclaimed all the vegetable fields in front, giving them more land to cultivate and more housework to do. When people are busy, they naturally don't have much time to think about other things.
"Sister-in-law, is business in the store good these past two days?"
Mrs. Wei nodded and said excitedly, "The store has recently received a batch of new goods. I don't know how the second boss found the source of goods. Those skirts are really beautiful. If I were a little girl, I would want to buy a new one every day without repeating it."
"My second brother's taste has definitely improved over time."
When Su Wan talked about this, she was all smiles.
She also felt that her second brother's aesthetic taste had improved, and He Jun's summer clothes were getting better and better. He no longer sold many of the popular items to the public, but instead gave them to her store to sell first.
This also led to the fact that the same styles as those in Su Wan's store were not available in many places. By the time other stores found the fabrics to copy, the clothes in their store had almost been sold out.
Mrs. Qiu came forward and smiled at Su Wan, "Xiao Su, what are you and Xiao Fang talking about hiding here?"
"Sister-in-law, we didn't talk about anything, just a casual chat."
"I see your relationship is getting better and better..."
As she spoke, Mrs. Qiu took Su Wan's hand and asked, "Xiao Su, the military art troupe wants to buy some clothes. Can I go to your store someday?"
"Of course, sister-in-law, please describe what kind of clothes you want. If my store doesn't have them, I can go to the wholesale market to help you look for them."
Mrs. Qiu smiled and said okay, "It's mainly because the art troupe has to perform their talents during the holidays. As you know, everything in the army has to be carefully calculated. If there's something you like, you have to charge me less."
This was said as a joke. All expenses of the art troupe must be reported.
Su Wan knew that Sister Qiu was jokingly trying to attract more business for her, so she nodded and replied, "Sister Qiu, if you choose, I will charge you the cost price."
She is a businesswoman, so of course it is impossible for her to give all the things to the army art troupe without charging a penny.
You can charge less, but you can't charge nothing at all.
Mrs. Qiu seemed to remember something and asked her, "You haven't seen any military performances before, have you?"
"I don't think I've ever seen it. I'll definitely watch it next time I get a chance."
"Isn't this a coincidence? The art troupe will be performing on May Fourth Youth Day. You can come and watch it."
Hearing this, Su Wan said apologetically, "I'm sorry, sister-in-law. Chen Yuan and I should go home on May 4th. He has a ten-day vacation, and we plan to go home to visit him. He hasn't been home for almost two years."
Only then did Aunt Qiu remember.
With some regret, he said, "That's such a shame. I was thinking that we could have some fun together in the art troupe. You could also try to get in and perform in the troupe."
Su Wan waved her hands quickly.
How could she possibly go to the art troupe to perform?
Others sing for money, but she sings for her life.
If others knew that she had such a lethal weapon, she would probably be singled out and criticized every time the art troupe had a performance.
Once upon a time, there was a military wife in our army named Su Wan. During a performance by a certain astronomical troupe, she went on stage and sang a song that made the children cry so loudly that they frightened them to tears...
Just thinking about it makes me feel so embarrassed!
Mrs. Qiu saw the resistance in her eyes and said in surprise, "I thought you really liked performing. I see you have a nice voice. You should be good at singing and dancing."
"Sister-in-law, I really can't do this!"
"Why is it not working?"
Sister Wei suddenly said, "Don't underestimate the girls in the art troupe. They're all talented. The girls in our family compound are not bad either. Every year when we perform, we, the sisters-in-law, never fall behind."
"Of course not. We even hold a dumpling-making competition every year in our army."
After listening to these words, Su Wan felt that life in the military camp was not as boring as she had imagined.
Mrs. Qiu and Mrs. Wei kept talking beside her, and Su Wan was listening intently.
After a long while, she smiled and said, "I didn't expect life in the family compound to be so colorful. Next time I really want to watch how everyone performs. Maybe I can even enter a cooking competition."
"We haven't held a cooking competition. We usually hold a dumpling-making competition here. The best dumpling-making competition last time was held by Deputy Battalion Commander He's family."
Su Wan still remembered Deputy Battalion Commander He’s family. The sisters-in-law all called her Chunhua.
She also came today, but sat very low-key in the corner and made dumplings with other sisters-in-law.
Seeing Su Wan looking over there, Mrs. Qiu said, "Something happened at Chunhua's house some time ago, and she doesn't like to talk much anymore."
"No wonder..."
Su Wan opened her mouth before continuing, "I remember my sister-in-law used to be quite talkative, but the two times she came back, I didn't seem to see her in the compound much."
"Two months ago, my child was playing on the street when he fell down onto a large rock. He almost lost his eye. Luckily, there were other children with him at the time, otherwise he might have lost his eye."
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