Jiang Yue raised the wine glass with both hands, bowed, and toasted the old squad leader. She said solemnly: "Brother Shi, don't worry, I will treat Ningning well. Ningning is my biological daughter! Gu Ye and I will take good care of Ningning and raise her to adulthood!"
Gu Ye looked at Jiang Yue, his eyes trembling, his chest swelled, and the love in his eyes almost overflowed.
"I will also be good to Gu Ye, and love and respect him all my life!" Jiang Yue poured another glass of wine, toasted the old squad leader, and bowed again to the grave.
"Jiang Yue!" Gu Ye's cold eyebrows were dyed red, his mouth was pursed, and his Adam's apple kept rolling up and down.
At this moment, he was deeply shocked.
Jiang Yue said in a very disappointing tone: "Gu Ye, don't be too happy too soon. I said this with a premise!"
Gu Ye: "...what?"
"The premise is that Gu Ye cannot betray me!" Jiang Yue said this to the old squad leader's tombstone, and said coquettishly, "Brother Shi, please testify for me. If Gu Ye betrays me, then this oath will be invalid!"
As soon as Jiang Yue finished speaking, the leaves of the pine and cypress trees beside the tomb shook. There was no wind at this time, but the branches of the pine and cypress trees were shaking, as if the old squad leader had really heard her and was nodding in agreement with her words.
Jiang Yue and Gu Ye looked at each other, and both were touched.
"I swear, I will never let Jiang Yue down in this life! If you break this oath, call me--" Before Gu Ye could finish his words, Jiang Yue held his mouth.
"Don't say those unlucky words! I believe you!" Jiang Yue said anxiously.
If it were in the past, Jiang Yue might have joked with Gu Ye jokingly, but today, this is the Martyrs' Cemetery, and the atmosphere is particularly solemn.
Jiang Yue didn't want Gu Ye to swear an oath. She herself was an unknown existence that science could not explain. Even though she believed in Gu Ye, she was still afraid that the bad things she said would come true.
Gu Ye grabbed Jiang Yue's hand and stared at her deeply, his eyes as distant as the starry sky. "I, Gu Ye, swear on my military status that I will never let Jiang Yue down in this life!"
The voice is powerful.
Jiang Yue's eyes also turned red, and her heart seemed to be gripped by something, swelling. She understood that this oath was already the highest level for Gu Ye, because he valued military status more than his life.
The two looked at each other, their eyes entangled, and they both saw the deep affection for each other in each other's eyes.
The couple poured the remaining wine in the bottle into the wine glass and placed it in front of the old squad leader's tombstone.
"Sergeant, next time we will bring Ningning to see you, and bring some good wine and delicious food, and we will have a good drink!" Gu Ye looked at the tombstone and told the old squad leader in his heart: Don't worry, my wife takes good care of Ningning!
On the way back, Gu Ye still carried Jiang Yue on his back.
"I can walk by myself!" Jiang Yue shook Gu Ye's arm and acted coquettishly with him.
She knew that he felt sorry for her, but the atmosphere here made her, who was usually pampered, perk up.
"It doesn't matter, they won't mind!" Gu Ye knew what Jiang Yue was thinking. He touched her face, which was cold from the wind. Seeing the blue color under her eyes, he felt distressed.
Jiang Yue lay on Gu Ye's back and took one last look back. In front of the old squad leader's grave, she seemed to really see a man in military uniform waving goodbye to them with a smile.
"Gu Ye, where is Ningning's mother?" In silence, Jiang Yue asked, "She, she is gone too?"
In the original book, Gu Ye was just a background character, not to mention Ningning and her biological parents. Ningning was only mentioned as the orphan of Gu Ye's comrade-in-arms, and was briefly mentioned. When Pei Xueyun first married Gu Ye, there were two chapters describing how she treated Gu Ye, her adopted daughter, well, and thus won Gu Ye's heart.
But later Pei Xueyun went to college and lived apart from Gu Ye for a long time. Gu Ye had no role to play, and Ning Ning never appeared again.
Hearing this, Gu Ye paused. Jiang Yue lay on his back, and her eyes could clearly see that his jaw was tightened.
"No, she's still alive!" Gu Ye said in a low voice.
Jiang Yue caught the hidden meaning in Gu Ye's tone, "Where is she now?"
"Can you speak?" she asked again.
Gu Ye was amused by Jiang Yue's cautious tone, "There's nothing that can't be said!"
"Ningning's mother has been sent to a mental hospital." After laughing, Gu Ye's voice became even lower and the corners of his mouth drooped, showing that he was in a bad mood.
Jiang Yue was stunned. "What? Madhouse? What happened?"
Gu Ye was tall and had long legs. He walked step by step with Jiang Yue on his back, neither fast nor slow. But because of his big steps, he could already see the memorial hall in front of him.
"They had just been married before we went to the battlefield. My sister-in-law was already pregnant at that time. No one expected that the squad leader would sacrifice her life. My sister-in-law gave birth prematurely due to excessive grief. Her parents took her away and forced her to remarry. The child was left to the squad leader's parents."
Hearing this, Jiang Yue could already imagine the scene: a husband who died in battle, a daughter who was born prematurely, an unkind family, all the misfortunes were piled on this woman.
Jiang Yue could imagine what she had gone through, and her emotions must have been greatly stimulated.
"Did you adopt Ningning later?" Jiang Yue asked.
"Well, the squad leader's parents are old and can't take care of such a young child. Besides, Ningning was born prematurely and was in poor health. She fell ill every other day, so I took her away and sent her to the hospital where she stayed for a long time." Gu Ye said in a low voice.
"Is Ningning's mother still in the mental hospital? Have you visited her?" Something suddenly flashed through Jiang Yue's mind. She clutched Gu Ye's shirt tightly, and her lips turned pale.
"I met her once last year. She didn't recognize anyone, including Ningning." Gu Ye seemed to have recalled some bad memories, with a frown on his face.
"What's wrong? Jiang Yue? Why are you crying?" Gu Ye felt his shoulder was wet. At first he thought it was raining, but when he looked up, the sky was clear. He then realized that it was Jiang Yue crying. He stopped nervously and asked, "Are you feeling unwell?"
"It's okay, let's go!" Jiang Yue couldn't explain why she suddenly wanted to cry. She put her hands on Gu Ye's shoulders, but her eyes and nose were sore and unbearable.
Gu Ye was worried, so he quickened his pace and soon arrived at the parking lot in the square.
As soon as Jiang Yue's feet touched the ground, she threw herself into Gu Ye's arms, hugged him and started crying.
Gu Ye was wearing a white shirt, and a large area of his chest was wet. Seeing Jiang Yue crying like this, he panicked, "Is it hurting somewhere? Let me see!"
"It hurts here!" Jiang Yue grabbed Gu Ye's hand and pressed it on her chest, crying out of breath, "Gu Ye, I'm sorry, I always thought you didn't touch me because you didn't like me! Wuwu... I blamed you and said I wanted to be a young widow... Wuwu..."
It was not until today when Jiang Yue heard Gu Ye talking about what happened to Ningning's mother that she suddenly understood Gu Ye's painstaking efforts.
He knew that he was about to go on a dangerous mission, and his life and death were uncertain. He didn't touch her because it was really for her own good. Otherwise, her fate might be the same as Ningning's mother.
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