Jiang Chen looked at Gu Jiuyan who had arrived late and teased him, "Old Gu, you're finally here. I thought you were reluctant to leave your pregnant sister-in-law and had temporarily backed out."
Gu Jiuyan didn't answer but asked, "Do you think I look like someone who would desert the battlefield?"
"It doesn't look like it, it's just..." Gu Jiuyan walked closer, and Jiang Chen saw the swollen right half of his face and asked curiously:
"But why does your face look like you've been beaten? Could it be that your sister-in-law disagreed and you two had a fight at home?"
"You're seeing things." Gu Jiuyan lied seriously.
There was no way he could tell Jiang Chen that the mark on his face was caused by his wife accidentally hitting him during a secret kiss.
"How could I be wrong? I can see a fly ten meters away, not to mention your face that is swollen like a steamed bun." Jiang Chen shouted, and everyone else's eyes were focused on Gu Jiuyan.
Facing so many people looking at him, Gu Jiuyan, unable to bear it any longer, growled, "Jiang Chen, shut up."
Jiang Chen looked at the furious Gu Jiuyan and knew that he had guessed right. He leaned in and whispered:
"Old Gu, what's there to be embarrassed about getting beaten by your wife? My wife knew I was leaving, and she kept pulling me last night, saying she wanted to leave another child for our Jiang family. My legs are weak now."
Hearing this, Gu Jiuyan looked Jiang Chen up and down, and finally his gaze stopped at Jiang Chen's crotch, with contempt in his eyes.
That's right, it was contempt. Jiang Chen wouldn't be wrong. He subconsciously clamped his legs together and asked unwillingly, "Old Gu, what did that look mean just now? Do you look down on me?"
"I'm glad you know." At this moment, compared with Jiang Chen, Gu Jiuyan's self-confidence as a man was overflowing.
Oh, what a damn desire to win.
Jiang Chen was completely furious and started to talk madly at Gu Jiuyan, his mouth dry and his throat smoking.
Gu Jiuyan closed his eyes tightly and fell asleep without knowing when.
When the furious Jiang Chen saw the sleeping Gu Jiuyan, he felt like he had punched cotton and was so angry.
When he calmed down, he became sad again and missed his wife and children at home.
Depressed and unhappy.
Gu Jiuyan and his friends needed to take a bus to the train station, go directly from Beijing to Guangzhou, and then transfer to a boat from Guangzhou to Qiongzhou Island... In short, they had to go back and forth on the road all the time.
Gu Jiuyan and Jiang Chen were arranged in the upper and lower bunks, while the others were in another carriage.
Taking advantage of the fact that there were no outsiders around, Gu Jiuyan took out the amulet that his wife had asked him to give to Jiang Chen from his pocket.
It was a small amulet, so ordinary that Gu Jiuyan could not find anything unusual about it no matter how hard he looked at it.
But thinking of his wife's mysterious side, his hand holding the amulet unconsciously tightened.
Perhaps, he and Jiang Chen can come back alive and safe.
When Jiang Chen came back from the bathroom, he saw Gu Jiuyan sitting by the window in a daze, thinking that he was thinking about his wife and children again.
"Old Gu, my sister-in-law is under the care of Aunt Gu and Teacher Shen. She will be fine. Don't worry."
"Old Jiang, do you think we can come back alive this time?" Gu Jiuyan asked this question inexplicably, which directly silenced Jiang Chen.
After a long moment, Jiang Chen pursed his lips and spoke with difficulty, "Whether we can come back alive or not, this mission must be completed, right? We've already lost too many of our brothers in this."
He was determined to die on this mission.
"We have been brothers for so many years. As long as I am alive, I will never allow anything to happen to you." After saying that, Gu Jiuyan threw the bright yellow amulet in his hand towards Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen subconsciously reached for it. When he saw what he was holding, he smiled.
"Old Gu, what era is this? You're still practicing feudal superstition. Aren't you afraid of being seen and arrested?"
He was afraid that others would hear what he said later, so he lowered his voice and spoke very quietly.
Unexpectedly, the next second, the originally nonchalant Gu Jiuyan suddenly became serious: "What if I say it can save your life?"
"Old Gu, you are joking with me again..." Jiang Chen looked at Gu Jiuyan's overly serious face and suddenly couldn't say the word "joke".
As far as I can remember, Lao Gu never jokes about his life.
In other words… all of this is true? Jiang Chen struggled to remove his gaze from Gu Jiuyan and shifted it to the bright yellow amulet in his hand.
No matter how you look at it, it's just an ordinary amulet.
"Jiang Chen, I never joke with people. You must keep this thing."
Seeing Gu Jiuyan so serious, Jiang Chen also put away his playful thoughts: "Old Gu, thank you brother."
"I don't want anyone else to know what happened today except you and me." His wife risked her life to give him the things, so he naturally couldn't put her in danger.
Her secrets, her magic, must never be known by anyone else in this world except him.
Otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable!
"Don't worry, I, Jiang Chen, am definitely not that kind of person."
Jiang Chen and Gu Jiuyan smiled at each other, the tacit understanding they had been together for many years had already been reached.
On the first day that Gu Jiuyan left, Shen Yunshu, who had not yet come out of the dream, was a little depressed. Seeing that she was in a bad mood, her family members did not dare to mention the name Gu Jiuyan in front of her.
The day after Gu Jiuyan left, the depressed Shen Yunshu's appetite improved a little, and Grandma Gu happily ran to the kitchen to make her a pot of old hen soup.
Just when the whole family thought that Shen Yunshu would continue to be depressed, Shen Yunshu suddenly cheered up. When she woke up in the morning, she took a mat and gestured around in the yard.
Mother Gu was worried that the baby in her belly would be hurt, so she stepped forward to persuade her. Unexpectedly, Shen Yunshu said that it was yoga and was good for the baby in her belly.
Later, she even asked Gu's mother to practice with her.
Mother Gu couldn't bear to see her daughter-in-law sad, so she joined her in playing around. But after a week of practice, she felt that the fat on her belly had gone down a little.
It was like discovering a new world. Every morning, with all her hair tied up behind her head, Gu's mother would follow Shen Yunshu and practice... yoga.
Grandma Gu felt itchy when she saw this, but when she thought about how she was old and was fooling around with young people, she was afraid of being laughed at by outsiders, so she suppressed the urge in her heart.
Shen Yunshu, who was seven months pregnant, looked like a big ball from a distance. Combined with her slender limbs, it was hard not to be a little scared.
No matter how loose her clothes were, they couldn't hide Shen Yunshu's bulging pregnant belly.
Shen Yunshu, who always stayed at home, suddenly felt a little bored. After dinner, accompanied by her mother and mother-in-law, she took a walk in front of her house.
She didn't dare go anywhere far away. Shen Yunshu would get tired after walking a few steps with such a big belly.
When Shen Yunshu was walking home, he was seen by Hao Chunhong, the famous loudspeaker in the courtyard.
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