When Captain Zhao heard what Gu Ye said, he couldn't help but look worried, "You can't do this, your body will collapse! You don't want your sister-in-law to come back and see you like this, right!"
Gu Ye's face showed pain, "No! She won't come back! I forced her to leave! She thought I was going to divorce her and she wouldn't come back!"
Captain Zhao patted Gu Ye on the shoulder and said, "Let's go! I'll drink with you!"
After coming down from the earthquake relief site, except for the few days when Gu Ye was injured and hospitalized, he never gave up looking for Jiang Yue, but there is still no news of Jiang Yue.
Captain Zhao watched Gu Ye become depressed and anxious, and become more and more haggard day by day, but he was powerless to do anything.
When he was at the division headquarters, Gu Ye trained hard during the day, exhausting himself every day. However, even so, he still couldn't sleep at night and would think of Jiang Yue as soon as he closed his eyes.
Later, Battalion Commander Xu and Battalion Commander Wang found Political Commissar Tang and cried to him that if they continued to train like this, Gu Ye would be fine, but they would be trained to death.
It just so happened that the military district was launching a week-long training course for regimental commanders, and Political Commissar Tang hurriedly sent Gu Ye over in order to let him relax a little, and also let his soldiers relax a little.
But Gu Ye was not so tired during the day and could not fall asleep at night. No matter whether his eyes were open or closed, he could not help wondering where Jiang Yue was now, whether she was in any danger, and whether she would cry out of fear alone.
So during the past few days in the military district, after the daytime training, Gu Ye would go to Captain Zhao for a drink. He had to get himself drunk so that he could relax and get some sleep.
Captain Zhao and Gu Ye have a life-and-death friendship. Captain Zhao is much older than Gu Ye and has always treated Gu Ye as a younger brother. Seeing Gu Ye so depressed, Captain Zhao felt bad.
The two men went their separate ways. Captain Zhao went to the cafeteria to buy food and snacks, while Gu Ye went to the service center to buy two bottles of white wine. There were a few people in front of him waiting to pay, so he stood back.
Gu Ye heard someone talking on the phone nearby. He didn't pay much attention to it at first, but when he heard the person speaking in Zhejiang dialect, he took a few more glances.
Jiang Yue got off the train in Zhejiang Province, and no one knew where she was now...
Bao Dazhuang had just received a letter from home, which was again written by his sister-in-law who was in elementary school, and the handwriting was neat.
The letter told him that Tang Xiaomei had changed her name to Tang Jiaojiao. Bao Dazhuang had no right to interfere with his sister-in-law changing her name, but the letter also said that his son Bao Qiang and daughter Bao Xiaojuan also wanted to change their names, which Bao Dazhuang could not understand.
Letters take too long to get back and forth, so Bao Dazhuang didn't care about the phone bill and quickly ran to the service center to make a phone call to ask what was going on.
There was no telephone at home, so they usually called the post office switchboard, and then the people at the post office switchboard ran to their home to call for help.
Bao Dazhuang hung up the call and waited for more than ten minutes. When he thought Tang Jingjing had arrived at the post office, he called again.
"Jingjing, I received the letter. Why did they change their names one by one?" Bao Dazhuang asked hurriedly after hearing Tang Jingjing's "Hello" from the other end.
"Da Zhuang, I think the names Qiangzi and Xiaojuan are too ordinary, so I asked Jiang Yue to help me pick two nice names. Listen, Bao Qing and Bao Qin, aren't they much better than Bao Qiang and Bao Xiaojuan? And Jiang Yue said that when they go out in the future, people will know they are brother and sister as soon as they hear their names!" Tang Jingjing explained gently on the phone.
"Jiang Yue? Is that the girl you met on the train mentioned in your letter? Well, okay, she does seem prettier than Bao Qiang and Bao Xiaojuan." Bao Dazhuang had already read the letter and knew that there was a guest at home recently, a girl. According to his sister-in-law, she was very beautiful, but Bao Dazhuang didn't quite believe what his sister-in-law said.
The sister-in-law was only ten years old, and she thought everyone was pretty. But there were messages from the second and third sons of the Tang family on the letter, and they all praised the girl named Jiang Yue, which made him curious.
"I saw in your letter that the girl helped you make money? Is that true?" Bao Dazhuang asked again.
"Of course it's true, how could it be false?" Tang Jingjing now talks endlessly about making money. In the past, when she occasionally called, she felt bad about the phone bills, so she would quickly finish what she wanted to say and hang up. Now that she has money, Tang Jingjing can't wait to share it with her husband and doesn't care about the phone bills anymore.
"Oh, so crayfish is actually lobster. How come it was renamed? You said it in the letter. I didn't even think it was lobster. Isn't it delicious? Are you kidding me? Is there really anyone who buys this to eat?"
Bao Dazhuang was talking on the phone with Tang Jingjing. He was speaking in dialect. Although Gu Ye could recognize that it was the Zhejiang dialect, Bao Dazhuang spoke too fast and it was difficult for people who didn't understand the Wu dialect to understand.
So even though Bao Dazhuang mentioned the name Jiang Yue, due to the different pronunciations, and someone was talking to Gu Ye here, and Gu Ye was paying the bill, he didn't understand.
It was also a coincidence that the person who was talking to Gu Ye was also from Zhejiang Province, and was a fellow villager of Bao Dazhuang. Seeing that Bao Dazhuang had finished his call, he raised his hand and said hello, "Dazhuang, what were you talking about with your wife for so long!"
When Bao Dazhuang saw Gu Ye and his fellow villagers, he immediately stood at attention and saluted, "Hello, Gu Tuan! Hello, Zhang Tuan!"
Gu Ye and Captain Zhang returned the gifts. Gu Ye was in no mood to listen to other people's happy stories. He gestured to Captain Zhang and turned away with two bottles of wine.
Bao Dazhuang and Zhang were also walking and chatting, and he said happily: "My wife said that she made money selling crayfish at home, and asked me to keep the allowance next month to buy some food and daily necessities for myself, and I don't need to send it back home!"
Captain Zhang asked curiously: "Crayfish? Is it shrimp?"
"No, it's crayfish. There are a lot of them in the fields - ah, Gu Tuan!"
Before Bao Dazhuang could finish his sentence, he suddenly saw Gu Ye, who had just walked away, suddenly appear in front of him, and his facial expression became extremely terrifying. He was immediately frightened and didn't know what he had said wrong.
"Did you just say crayfish?" Gu Ye's Adam's apple rolled. His nerves were extremely tense at this moment. His bloodshot eyes were filled with anticipation, but also with fear. He was afraid that he had heard it wrong. If that happened, his only hope would be shattered again.
"Yes, I did say that..." Bao Dazhuang didn't understand what was wrong with the three words "crayfish" and looked at Captain Zhang for help.
"Gu Ye, don't get excited. Did something happen?" Captain Zhang patted Gu Ye's tense shoulders.
Gu Ye just stared at Bao Dazhuang and asked nervously, "Who taught you to call lobsters crayfish?"
"Ah, Gu Tuan, how did you know that someone taught you?" Bao Dazhuang was stunned when he heard this, but he still answered honestly: "It was a girl my wife met on the train. She said it was crayfish, and she also taught my wife how to make thirteen-spice crayfish and garlic crayfish to sell..."
At this moment, Gu Ye only felt a "boom" in his head, and something seemed to explode in front of his eyes. For a moment, there was darkness. He only felt his heart pounding against his chest wildly. His hands were clenched tightly, and he could no longer hear what Bao Dazhuang was saying.
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