Chapter 10: Being alone and sharing

The moment the door opened, a fresh and elegant scent of jasmine came in, the white curtains fluttered, and on the table opposite the door, a pot of jasmine was in full bloom.

The fragrance of flowers... turned out to be coming from there. It was

the first time that Lu Weiguo walked into a woman's room, which was different from the masculine atmosphere of the men's dormitory.

Shi Tingyu's room was full of refinement and fragrance, just like her.

Lu Weiguo did not sit down by her bed, but pulled out the chair in front of the desk and sat down facing her.

A week ago, they were strangers who met for the first time, and a week later, they became a family in the household registration book.

Such a change made the two feel inexplicably different and indescribably subtle.

Both parties sat there, speechless for a while.

Lu Weiguo felt that he had to say something. His eyes fell on the plaster head on the desk, and he was a little curious.

"Is this a foreigner?"

Shi Tingyu was stunned for a moment and almost didn't react.

Let's not talk about the plaster head of David on the rotten street in the future. Basically, everyone who studies art has seen it. Just say that the more than three-meter-high stone sculpture of David can often be seen on some things.

When Lu Weiguo asked this, she remembered what era it was.

At this time, let alone the naked statue, few people have seen this head sculpture.

"This is David, um, Michelangelo's sculpture."

Lu Weiguo was a little confused.

Shi Tingyu thought for a while and said, "It's a prop I use when I paint."

Now Lu Weiguo understood.

"Can you draw?" He quickly found the starting point for the topic.

The people he met who could draw were basically from the Propaganda Office. They would write big-character posters on the walls and draw propaganda paintings.

The paintings were all of majestic people with red cheeks wearing military uniforms or workers' clothes.

"Well, painting is my profession."

Lu Weiguo had never thought that Shi Tingyu's profession was painting. Could she be a painter?

Many thoughts flashed through his mind at once.

She was good at the fine arts, but he was good at leading troops to fight.

Two unrelated people were tied together like this. Would there be any problems in their future relationship?

Perhaps because Lu Weiguo had not spoken for a long time, Shi Tingyu pondered the interaction between the two just now and had a guess in his mind.

"Painting is something I'll do before I return home. If I have time, I'll paint a portrait for you."

For some reason, Lu Weiguo felt relieved.

So what if their interests and professions are unrelated? Some of his comrades-in-arms married female soldiers from the art troupe, and some married teachers or doctors and nurses in hospitals. Their professions were unrelated, but they all lived very well.

Seeing Lu Weiguo nod, Shi Tingyu seemed to feel a lot more relieved. She expressed her own opinion: "It's good for husband and wife to be in different fields. They will admire each other, which is conducive to..."

She wanted to say that it is conducive to emotional harmony.

But thinking of the current trend, she shut up.

Even if she didn't say it, Lu Weiguo understood the meaning of her words. The embarrassment on his face flashed away, but Shi Tingyu saw it.

She didn't say that she could see through people's hearts like studying psychology, but she likes to observe others.

Painting creation is not done behind closed doors. In modern times, she likes to go to crowded parks or streets to watch people coming and going.

At that time, she felt that every flower was a world, every tree was a universe, and every person in a hurry had his own life as the protagonist.

Joys and sorrows, ups and downs, are happening every moment.

So her figure paintings are very vivid and lively.

She also likes to observe animals, plants, landscapes and weather. As long as it can be painted, she likes to stare at it and study it.

Knowing that the other party was uncomfortable, Shi Tingyu talked about other topics.

"Do we need to go back to your parents?"

Talking about his family, Lu Weiguo's face became softer, "I don't have much vacation now, and I don't have enough time, so I won't go back for now."

"Do you have annual leave this year?" Shi Tingyu asked, "If you do, we can go back during the New Year."

"It depends on the arrangements at the end of the year." Lu Weiguo said, and then he reached into his pocket and took out something.

Shi Tingyu looked closely and found that it was a passbook.

Lu Weiguo handed her the passbook, "This is the money I saved from joining the army over the years. In addition to the 120 yuan I give to my parents every year, there is also the betrothal money left for you and the settlement fee for buying things. The rest is all here."

Shi Tingyu took it without any pretense, opened it, and was shocked by the number on it.

It was as much as 8,000.

The Shi family was able to save so much money because of the three people and the high salary of their parents, but the other party was not.

Based on his monthly salary of 101 yuan, it would be more than 12,000 yuan in ten years, but he was not a battalion commander from the beginning.

I learned from the previous chat that he was promoted to battalion commander three years ago.

To be honest, Shi Tingyu was surprised that Lu Weiguo could save so much money.

The two families did not discuss the amount of betrothal gifts and dowry.

Shi's father and mother gave all their belongings to their daughter, so the money was left to her.

They were not short of money, and they did not care about the amount of betrothal gifts, so naturally they did not ask.

But Lu Weiguo wrote it down.

He didn't quite understand these marriage customs and procedures, but he knew about the betrothal gifts and that he had to buy things before the wedding.

Recently, one of his comrades-in-arms was getting married, and he heard them talk about it every day. He thought that he had the ability to give these things, so he would not let Shi Tingyu go without them.

"Do you have time later? The military housing was delivered together with the marriage report. I'll take you to see it later. If you see anything you need to buy, I'll take you to buy it."

Shi Tingyu's eyes lit up when he heard that the house was delivered.

"What kind of house did you apply for?"

"Two bedrooms, one living room and a yard." Lu Weiguo said, and added, "Originally, I could have been assigned a building, but I had to wait." Shi

Tingyu was very satisfied, "The small yard is good, the place is spacious, I can grow some vegetables in the yard, and I don't have to share the toilet with others, and the kitchen doesn't have to be cramped at the door of my own corridor. It's really good."

Nowadays, the corridor of the tube building is connected to the end. Everyone likes to put the coal stove at the door of their own house. Looking around, every family has a stove. When cooking, they can't turn around in the corridor.

Not to mention the public washroom at the end of the corridor, which is a clean place shared by an entire floor. It is normal to queue up for washing in the morning, and you have to queue up for going to the toilet.

After listening to her, Lu Weiguo's eyebrows relaxed a little.

He was worried that she liked to live in a building like other military wives.

After the two of them had talked for a while, they set out for the military district family compound.

The research institute family compound was not far from the military district family compound. The weapons research institute where Shi's father worked was under the Jinling Military District, right next to the military district, so the family compound would naturally not be far away.

It took the two of them about 20 minutes to walk there.