Chapter 7 Unworthy
"Who is this?" Song Yanzhou turned and asked Ye Qianjun.
Ye Qianjun said: "The military wife I met on the train might be from your military district. Would you like to take one with you?"
Song Yanzhou was very cautious: "Where's the letter of introduction? What's your husband's name?"
"Here, soldier comrade, take a look. My man's name is Zhang Tongmin." The woman hurriedly took out a letter of introduction from her bag and handed it to Song Yanzhou. Then she looked at Ye Mu behind Song Yanzhou and unconsciously clenched her fists.
Seeing these two soldiers protecting Ye Mu, she really couldn't help it, because she is the daughter of a bad guy!
After reading the letter of introduction she gave him, Song Yanzhou said, "Get in the car."
As soon as the back door was opened, the woman put her large package and the army green backpack she was carrying on the seat. All the seats were taken, so Song Yanzhou ignored her.
He has nothing to say about other people's women, and it is not his turn to teach them a lesson or give them a warning.
He took Ye Mu to the front and arranged for Ye Mu to sit in the passenger seat. Then he bent down to fasten her seat belt. Seeing the seat belt tighten her clothes a little, he realized that Ye Mu might be thinner than he thought, so he said:
"You can't untie this if you're not comfortable."
He closed the car door and got into the driver's seat. Ye Qianjun was outside the car window. He took out an envelope from his pocket and handed it to Ye Mu:
"This is the red envelope my brother gave you for your wedding. You will be a military wife in the future. Don't go out casually when you are alone at home. Just wait for Song Yanzhou to come back. Do you understand?
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Ye Qianjun didn't expect Ye Mu to understand what he said, and then he said to Song Yanzhou: "If you are worried, you can try to hold the money I gave to Ye Mu in your hands and give her some pocket money regularly."
"But if she doesn't give it to you, you can't snatch it away, or I'll teach you a lesson for my sister."
"Ye Mu is very well behaved. Be nice to her. She has suffered a lot. Her life shouldn't be like this."
Song Yanzhou naturally also knew what Ye Mu had experienced. It was because he learned about these things from his old leader, Mr. Ye, that Song Yanzhou chose to agree.
Hearing the worry in Ye Qianjun's words, Song Yanzhou said:
"Don't worry."
He doesn't talk much, but these three words are enough.
Ye Qianjun watched their car drive away, and then went to find a guesthouse to stay in.
The road was not very flat, but Song Yanzhou drove very steadily. He paid attention to Ye Mu's situation and kept the speed constant, neither fast nor slow.
The woman sitting in the back seat looked at the man and woman in front, bit her lower lip, and glared in the direction of Ye Mu.
Why could a bad guy marry a soldier? This is simply impossible. Is it just because she is a soldier's sister?
The soldier driving in front was more handsome than Ye Qianjun and looked better than Ye Qianjun. She really felt that Ye Mu was not worthy of him at all, not to mention the fact that Song Yanzhou turned around to check on Ye Mu while driving.
This made her feel extremely unhappy. She believed that the bad guys should be reformed in the cowshed like her parents.
She looked at Song Yanzhou's back for a long time, then spoke hesitantly:
"My name is Wang Jiangling. Comrade soldier, what's your name? Thank you for picking me up. It's so dark now and I don't have much money to stay in a guesthouse. It's not safe for a woman to be outside..."
No matter how overwhelming her hatred for Ye Mu was, her voice was soft when she opened her mouth, as if she was unable to speak, and she even stuttered a little in the first two sentences.
Song Yanzhou said succinctly: "Song Yanzhou, it's my duty."
Her voice was extremely cold, and she made no secret of her refusal to chat. Life is not easy for soldiers. Wang Jiangling was indeed the wife of a soldier in a unit in their military region. Coincidentally, her husband lived opposite his house. Of course, he couldn't just ignore her and leave her on the roadside when he met her.
When Wang Jiangling heard his name, her eyes suddenly lit up and she said:
"That's a nice name. Comrade Song, your family must be well-educated, not like us rural peasants who can't read or write and spend all day in the fields getting dirty. After I married Brother Zhang, I got a little better and can now follow the army. I finally came to the city. There are so many things I haven't seen before. Riding on the train is scary."
It seems that she has some kind of cultural worship. Her words are full of disdain and disgust for rural people. Although she is talking about us, the deep meaning behind her is that she wants to remove herself from them and not be included in them.
Song Yanzhou couldn't stand her words, and his brows frowned immediately. The coldness in his eyes became even more intense. He pursed his lips tightly and didn't intend to say anything more to Wang Jiangling.
Originally when we were at the station, I felt that Ye Mu was not easy to communicate with and would be more troublesome than I had imagined.
Now with the comparison of Wang Jiangling, his thoughts changed again. It was really good for Ye Mu to be so quiet. He himself didn't talk much.
There is no need to communicate anything at ordinary times. As long as she knows how to eat, sleep and go to the toilet, that's great.
At least it's better than Wang Jiangling in the back seat.
Without receiving a reply from Song Yanzhou, Wang Jiangling felt like she was sitting on a red-hot iron plate. She hesitated in the back seat, looking at Song Yanzhou from time to time, and then she was extremely entangled. After retreating several times, she spoke again, hesitantly:
"Comrade Song, do you dislike me? Actually, I want to tell you something. Is this Ye Mu really your wife?"
Song Yanzhou pursed his lips tightly. It was the first time he heard someone say that Ye Mu was his wife, and he felt a little strange.
"Yes." Song Yanzhou asked her coldly, "What do you want to say?"
He didn't want to say much to Wang Jiangling, but when it came to Ye Mu, he wanted to hear what Wang Jiangling had to say.
Wang Jiangling hesitated for a minute or two. Just when Song Yanzhou thought she would not speak and ignored her, Wang Jiangling suddenly seemed to have made up her mind and said to him:
"Comrade Song, have you been deceived? Ye Mu's parents are both bad elements. They were criticized on stage and sent to the cowshed for reform. You are such a good soldier, but you were deceived into marrying her..."
As she was talking, the car suddenly stopped. Song Yanzhou turned around and looked at her coldly and asked:
"Who told you?!"
This matter has been suppressed internally, and only a few people in Province H know something about it.
But those people didn’t know that Ye Mu had already married him!
Therefore, no one in Province F should know that the wife he had just married was a child from a family that was criticized!
Although this woman is also in Province F, the rural area where she lives is far away from the city where Ye Mu lives.
She shouldn't know all these things about Ye Mu!
His aura was so cold and imposing that Wang Jiangling's hair stood on end. When she heard his words, she subconsciously replied:
"She, she said it herself!"
"And, and, and, she is just a fool! Comrade Song, you will suffer after you marry her. A fool is ignorant and will cause trouble all the time. If she loses the baby when she is pregnant..."
Under Song Yanzhou's cold gaze, Wang Jiangling's voice became even quieter and more timid. She shrank her neck and shrugged her shoulders, not daring to continue speaking.
She hugged the army green backpack tightly in her arms, fearing that Song Yanzhou would suddenly hit her.
Song Yanzhou started the car again and looked at Ye Mu who was standing beside him. Ye Mu hadn't rested for the whole day and soon after getting in the car, he leaned against the seat, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
However, because the car was not very comfortable to sit in, she was in a half-asleep and half-awake state. When the car stopped, her consciousness sank and she fell into a deep sleep.
Unexpectedly, it was Ye Mu who told Wang Jiangling. Song Yanzhou's eyes darkened. If someone wanted to get information from Ye Mu, it seemed not impossible.
It was okay that she was just criticized, but the fact that she was arrested as a spy must not be spread, otherwise all their efforts would be in vain.
"Ye Mu has already severed ties with them, so you'd better not say anything nonsense."
Song Yanzhou warned Wang Jiangling coldly, and Wang Jiangling nodded in fear.
After arriving at the military area, Song Yanzhou stopped the car, woke up Ye Mu, and then held a flashlight to light the road from behind. He was carrying Ye Mu's suitcase in one hand, and he also took half of Wang Jiangling's luggage, carrying Wang Jiangling's big bag which contained something unknown.
After reaching the floor, he put Wang Jiangling's things at Zhang Tongmin's door and knocked hard.
"Zhang Tongmin lives here. Wait for him to open the door."
After saying that, he turned and went to his room, opened the door with the key, and saw Ye Mu following him like a little tail growing behind him.
It’s much less troublesome than Wang Jiangling.
Song Yanzhou led Ye Mu into the house. Wang Jiangling was still waiting there. Without the light of the flashlight, the surroundings suddenly became dark.
Wang Jiangling patted the door again, turned her head and looked at the light pouring out from below the entrance of Song Yanzhou's house, feeling more and more aggrieved and dissatisfied.
After the banquet in Sijiu City, Song Yanzhou returned to Province F. He arrived earlier than Ye Mu and spent half a day cleaning up. Naturally, their rooms were separate.
He took Ye Mu to her room. The room was very simple. It was summer, so there was a cool mat on the bed and a brand new thin quilt. There was nothing else.
"Should I help you pack the things in the suitcase or should you pack them yourself?"
Song Yanzhou asked as he put down Ye Mu's suitcase.
Ye Mu turned around and grabbed her suitcase. Song Yanzhou understood what she meant, put the suitcase beside her bed, and turned to leave.
Ye Mu opened the suitcase and took out the things inside.
This is a package my parents sent me. I have no place to put the remaining clothes after taking them out, so I might as well put them in the suitcase.
Song Yanzhou came in with a small bucket of water. Seeing her movements, he put the bucket of water next to the bed and said:
"I'll collect the rest tomorrow."
He suddenly realized that as a woman, should Ye Mu prepare a cabinet for her?
He only had two sets of military uniforms. After sweating during training every day, he changed them off, washed them, and hung them on the balcony to dry. Now that the weather was hot, they were dry before evening. Then he changed into another set the next day and hung them up again.
In winter, you only need to put clothes at the head of the bed, and there aren’t many, so he didn’t think of it at the first time.
Although the house in the military subdivision was not small, it was not very big either. He had specially separated half of the bedroom to use as a study.
In fact, Ye Mu's room was originally his room. He tidied it up today and moved all his things to the study. He placed a simple bunk bed in the study and just made do with it for now.
"Wash your feet first. I'll put the toothbrush I bought for you in the kitchen. Then it's time to go to bed today."
Song Yanzhou was always cold to others, but he tried his best to be less cold to Ye Mu. However, he still sounded cold when he spoke, because he was worried that Ye Mu would not listen to him.
But he didn't expect the effect to be much better than he thought. Ye Mu looked at the bucket of water with some confusion and roughly understood.
In fact, she wanted to take a bath in the bathtub to clean her whole body, have a good bath and relieve her body fatigue.
But this condition seemed like a pure daydream for her.
She sat down on the edge of the bed without saying a word. Now that things had come to this, she could only kneel down and thank fate for giving her another life. She didn't want to choose anything else.
She had just sat down and was about to put her feet on her legs to untie her shoelaces and take off her shoes when the tall green figure in front of her suddenly squatted down and grabbed the foot she had just lifted off the ground.
Song Yanzhou had been watching Ye Mu's movements and noticed that she seemed to want to go in and wash her feet with her shoes on, so he quickly stepped forward to help.
In this era, people don't know much about autism. When he was in Sijiu City, he went out to ask his brother who was a doctor about the situation and only then did he have some predictions about Ye Mu's condition.
"Take off your shoes first, then wash your feet." His voice was very clear, with a hint of indelible coldness, which always gave people a sense of distance and inaccessibility, but Ye Mu saw that this person was helping him take off his shoes.
She subconsciously wanted to dodge. It was okay for a robot, but she naturally couldn't adapt to a living, unfamiliar person squatting in front of her and taking off her shoes.
Song Yanzhou sensed her resistance, and quickly took off one of her shoes, then grabbed the ankle of the other foot.
Ye Mu was very thin, and as soon as he held it, he could feel the bones at his ankle through the thin fabric of his pants.
His actions did not allow for resistance, and Ye Mu was no match for him in strength, so he took off his shoes and put his feet in the bucket to soak.
"Don't move." Song Yanzhou was worried that she would mess around and get water everywhere. This was the water he had boiled before leaving and put in a kettle.
After adding cold water, it was not so hot, just enough to relieve her fatigue.
Soaking her feet before going to bed can make her feel more comfortable when she wakes up the next day.
After making sure that Ye Mu would not move, Song Yanzhou rarely agreed with Ye Qianjun's words.
Ye Mu was much more well-behaved and obedient than he had imagined.
It seems that her autism is not as serious as he imagined, she just can't speak.
He took Ye Mu's shoes out, then came back with a pair of new sandals and placed them beside the bed.
Ye Mu soaked his feet for a while and couldn't help yawning. It should be a little too late now, right?
Song Yanzhou reached out to test the water temperature, then took out a towel with a few holes in it, took her feet out of the bucket and wiped them dry.
Ye Mu: ...
There's no need to go to this extent, it would be awkward.
Especially when Song Yanzhou asked her to place her feet on his squatting thighs through a towel and wipe them carefully, she suddenly felt like she was being served like an ancestor.
Strictly speaking, people of Song Yanzhou's generation should be her ancestors.
Ye Mu: Asking my ancestors to wipe my feet will shorten my life.
Whenever she retracted her feet, Song Yanzhou would hold her and not let her retreat.
He said nothing, and Ye Mu didn't say a word either. There was only silence all around. Ye Mu felt that the silence between the two of them was a little weird.
Song Yanzhou's movements were also unfamiliar and a little uncomfortable. He had never done such a thing before today, but looking at Ye Mu's appearance, he always felt that she could not take care of herself, so Song Yanzhou had to take the initiative to take responsibility.
As long as he is in this house, he will take good care of Ye Mu. This is his promise and his responsibility.
"Brush your teeth." After wiping his feet, Song Yanzhou picked up the bucket of water and walked out, holding Ye Mu's hand and walking out together.
The small arm under the palm of his hand was softer than his own muscles and fit perfectly into the palm of his hand. Compared with her arm, Song Yanzhou felt that the palm of his hand was hard.
But with a little force, he could clearly feel the bones in her arms.
Still too thin.
Song Yanzhou squeezed the toothpaste and handed it to her, and he also took the water from an enamel cup. The only thing left was to teach her how to brush her teeth.
He watched for a while to make sure Ye Mu knew how to brush his teeth, then said coldly:
"Don't play with water."
Then he went to pour water. Ye Mu: "..."
She had the feeling that Song Yanzhou treated her as a mentally retarded person.
At this moment she had to say that she was "blind" and didn't know what was good for her at the train station just now.
Song Yanzhou looked cold, but this sense of responsibility surrounded her just like the atmosphere that surrounds the earth in all directions without any blind spots.
She was still planning how to make her autism gradually become more normal, but Song Yanzhou had already regarded her as a weak and helpless little chicken.
Ye Mu: I am really looked down upon by others.
After brushing his teeth, Song Yanzhou pulled her back to the room and urged her to go to bed.
He turned off the lights and closed the door when he went out. The light from the living room shone in from the gap in the door. Ye Mu looked at it for a while, then closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Song Yanzhou sat in the living room for a while and looked at her door with mixed feelings.
There was a new woman in the residence, and something seemed to have changed, but Ye Mu's appearance made him feel as if nothing had changed.
He took off his military cap, unbuttoned it one by one, and walked out of the living room with long legs...
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