Chapter 102 Captain Lu, who is this?
"Isn't this Zeng Xianguo?" Lu Jingchen asked calmly.
"Zeng Xianguo." The woman repeated the name, as if she was thinking, and after a moment she said as if she suddenly realized something:
"You mean Zeng Xiaodao." After that, her voice became louder:
"Dead, died a long time ago, it's been a few years."
Hearing her lightly say "dead a long time ago", Lu Jingchen frowned and his face darkened.
The woman seemed to be unaware of the other person's expression and continued to speak loudly:
"Oh, this house has been sold to my family for more than a year..."
After hearing this, Lu Jingchen frowned even more and asked:
"Where are his wife and children?"
"Here, go in this way, the small mud house at the back is their home." The woman pointed to a small road beside her.
"Thank you." Lu Jingchen said, and without saying anything else, he pushed the cart into the small road.
Seeing Lu Jingchen walking forward, Xia Qingling quickly stepped up and followed him.
After listening to the conversation between the two, she quickly understood why Lu Jingchen brought her along. As a grown man, he would inevitably be gossiped about by others when he came to visit a widow. Bringing her along would prevent others from criticizing his sister-in-law.
Lu Jingchen and Xia Qingliu had both walked away. The woman was still standing at the intersection, stretching her neck to continue looking, as if her eyes were glued to Xia Qingliu.
"Chunhua, what are you looking at?" At this time, a woman passing by with a hoe on her shoulder asked the woman who was leaning over to look.
"Look, another soldier just went to Ah Zhen's house." The woman named Chunhua smiled and said meaningfully.
"Ah, it's not the same guy who said he wanted to marry her last time, is it?" The woman looked curious, put down the hoe on her shoulder, and prepared to continue gossiping.
"It doesn't look like that, this one is taller and more handsome, and he brought a woman with him." Chunhua retracted her gaze and said, "
That should be someone her husband knew in the army before. I think Ah Zhen is the same. It would have been great if she had gone with that soldier last year. Anyway, her parents-in-law are dead, and there is no one to take care of them. I don't know what the orphan and widow are doing here? They raised the child to be stupid, but he looked quite smart when he first came back." The woman holding the hoe said regretfully.
Hearing the conversation between the two, an old woman who lived in the yard below came forward and said:
"Ah Zhen also has a miserable life. She was a nice city girl, but she fell in love with that eccentric Zeng Xiaodao, and insisted on marrying him no matter what. Now that she saw that the man finally changed his mind and had some success as a soldier, he suddenly passed away. Alas, she could have lived in the military compound with her children, but the two old people suddenly fell ill, so she had no choice but to bring the children back to take care of them? Later, her parents-in-law died, and after being rejected as a soldier, they never came again. Now she is alone to take care of such a tiny child. How can she live in the future as an orphan and a widow? "
"Some people are born to be scumbags. Haha, they don't know how to enjoy the blessings in front of them..." The woman named Chunhua curled her lips with a look of sarcasm.
"Chunhua, you can't say that. When they sold this big blue-tiled house to your family to save money, you bargained down the price to a very low level!" The old man couldn't stand it anymore and said, "
How can it be low? I think the feng shui of her house is not good. If it weren't for the pity of them being an orphan and a widow, so small and sick, I wouldn't have been willing to buy it!" "
I think you're just selling it cheaply. You've lived here for a few years, and your family is fine and everything is going well, right?"
While they were talking, Xia Qingliu and Lu Jingqi had already walked to the mud house the woman mentioned.
The house was very run-down, with a broken eave, and it looked like it was about to fall down. The house was also small, and was completely blocked by the green-tiled house in front. No wonder he couldn't see anything from outside just now.
Looking at the house, Lu was shocked, and a complex emotion flashed through his eyes. He shouted into the house in a deep voice:
"Sister-in-law."
He called out, but no one answered. After a while, he called out again, and soon, a woman in blue homespun clothes walked out of the side door quickly.
When the woman saw the tall military green figure, she was stunned for a moment, and then she immediately came forward with joy and said:
"Oh, it's Captain Lu, come in and sit down." The woman was a little excited, and her words were a little unclear. She warmly invited the two people into the house.
The woman looked less than 30 years old, with good facial features and a good figure, but her skin was a little dark and rough due to long-term labor. Although her clothes were patched, they were washed very cleanly. The only thing that was not harmonious was that she had a lot of white hair on her head at the age of more than 20 years old.
Xia Qingli followed the woman into the house and saw that the furniture in the house was very shabby, but it was tidied up. It was obvious that the hostess was a very hardworking person.
A moment later, Lu Jingqi also walked in. He was nearly 1.9 meters tall, and when he entered the low house, the house immediately seemed cramped.
He put the things he bought on the table. When the woman knew that he bought clothes for herself and the children, she thanked him vigorously and said that it was a waste of money.
After they sat down, the woman quickly poured water for the two of them. When she handed the water to Xia Qingxing, her eyes fell on her face. She was pretty, with a slim figure, and her gestures were very elegant. She asked Lu Jingzhen uncertainly:
"Captain Lu, who is this?"