Chapter 121 Zhang Kang Can’t Cry Anymore

Taking Wang Ziru to Ma Tailor's Shop, Yang Xitang generously ordered Ma Tailor to make two sets of spring and summer clothes for Wang Ziru.

Then sew two more sets of clothes for Baoer.

"The material must be the best polyester!"

"My sister-in-law is pretty, so she should wear something more fashionable."

Tailor Ma is over fifty years old and has been a tailor all his life. He wears a pair of glasses and has a thin face. He holds a tape measure in his hand and nods in agreement to each of the customers' requests.

In the early 1980s, the original tailor shop had applied for an individual business license. Usually, there were some fabrics and samples on display in the shop. However, if you ordered clothes directly from the tailor shop, it would be a bit more expensive.

Because the tailor shop still needs to use cloth coupons to purchase cloth from the supply and marketing cooperative.

After coming out of the tailor shop, the two said goodbye outside the door.

"Sister-in-law! I really don't know how to express my gratitude to you. Please say thank you to uncle for me." Wang Ziru said sincerely.

Yang Xitang quickly held her hand and said with a smile: "You really don't have to be so polite. I didn't think so much when I asked you for help, and I ran to your house. Go back quickly, I am also worried that Xiao Wang can't handle it alone."

"Well, sister-in-law, please slow down."

Back at the armed forces department, Wang Ziru saw everyone coming in and out, and their expressions were not as relaxed as they were last week.

It seems like something big is about to happen.

From inside the small gray two-story office building, the sound of Zou Bu making a phone call could be faintly heard.

She hurried back to the canteen to help prepare lunch.

It was almost noon when Zou Bu was checking the enlistment lists of various towns in his office when he unexpectedly received a long-distance call from Han Suijing who was thousands of miles away.

"Comrade Han Suijing! I didn't expect to receive a call from you in person. Do you have any instructions?" Zou Bu immediately sat up straight, holding the microphone, looking like he was waiting to be assigned a task.

Normally, Han Suijing would not call the county armed forces department directly.

Since he called back personally, the matter must be complicated.

Han Suijing's clear voice came from the phone.

"These past two days, I called home and happened to hear my grandma mention that recently a lot of warriors from Cangnan County have returned to visit their relatives?"

Zou Bu looked quite serious and nodded subconsciously, "Yes! We have also seen some soldiers who came back to visit their families. Most of them said that they were not too busy in the army recently and took turns to go home to visit their families. Why did you call back specifically for this matter?"

"Yes!" Then, Han Suijing briefly talked to Zou's troops about the importance of guarding the border. He believed that guarding the border was a difficult matter, so he asked them to count how many soldiers were returning to their hometown from Yunnan Province to visit their relatives, but he did not disclose the confusing situation at the border.

Zou Bu was also a retired veteran. After receiving Han Suijing's call, he vaguely understood the other party's intentions. "We have also received the same notice from Xiong City. We have arranged personnel to go to several towns under Cangnan County to investigate the situation..."

During lunch, although Zou Bu was working at a tight pace, he thought of the call he had just received from Han Suijing himself.

When everyone was sitting together for dinner, he couldn't help but brag, "Today is such a good day! You may not know, but I just received a call from Han Suijing."

"Han Suijing? Zou Bu, are you talking about the second son of the Han family?"

"No way? He's such a high-ranking official and he called us. What did he say?"

"It must be guidance! By the way, he has been in the army for many years. Has he said when he will come back to visit his family?"

The brother and sister who were standing in the hall, helping everyone add soup, were stunned and looked at each other.

Wang Ziru found it a little unbelievable. With Han Suijing's current position in the army and having become such a high-ranking cadre, why did he still keep in touch with his hometown?

After dinner, Captain Tang drove Wang Ziru home.

When we arrived at Zhai's house, Zhai Ximo and his son had already been standing outside the fenced yard, looking towards the village entrance for the whole day.

Finally the person is back.

Captain Tang got off the car and teased Bao Er with a smile, "Do you miss your mom too?"

"Well, Dad wants it more than I do." The boy said seriously.

Hearing this, the burly man burst into laughter.

This made Zhai Ximo feel very embarrassed. This kid really knows how to tell the truth.

After watching Wang Ziru walk into the yard and into the house with the child, Deputy Captain Tang slowly put away the smile on his face and said seriously:

"Today I went to all the towns to notify them and asked them to go to the villages immediately to find out which provinces' soldiers have returned to visit their families. By the way, Ximo, if there is anything else that needs to be done at home, you should hurry up and do it."

"What do you mean?"

Captain Tang raised his index finger and whispered, "You are the leader, you should be able to sense some things."

"..." Zhai Ximo seemed to understand something from Captain Tang's solemn expression, and nodded and said, "If there is anything, notify me as soon as possible."

"Of course." Captain Tang patted his shoulder heavily.

This incident naturally made Zhai Ximo vaguely feel a sense of crisis.

He felt that the day of his return to the army was getting closer, so he quickly followed Captain Tang into the car and said, "Please take me to Zhang Kang's house. I have to inform him immediately. Tsk, I'm really worried that he won't be able to get married this time."

"There's nothing we can do about it. If the troops need you to return immediately, you have to go back immediately." Captain Tang said.

At this moment, the Zhang family was filled with joy.

Zhang Kang brought his fiancée Zhu Yan home.

The two of them went to buy some wedding supplies.

Zhang Kang's mother and sister-in-law were looking at the wedding supplies that Zhang Kang bought for the bride, a gorgeous red and colorful gold-threaded scarf.

The wavy-edged handkerchief and the square white pure cotton handkerchief are printed with gorgeous camellia flowers on the four corners, with some golden osmanthus flowers sprinkled in the middle, which is very festive.

Zhang Kang has a new partner. After spending the past two days with Zhu Yan, he feels that this girl is perfect for him.

After getting rid of the haze of Chen Pingping's breaking off the engagement, he was discussing wedding matters with his family. "I'm a warrior, and I don't plan to have a wedding that's different from others in the village. I plan to have a formal wedding, then borrow a bicycle from the city and pick up the bride from Zhu's house."

Zhu Yan blushed and was too embarrassed to say anything more.

When the Zhang family heard Zhang Kang's idea, although they thought it was too trendy, no one objected.

"As long as you two like it, we have no objection. It's just that the bride and groom can't walk as fast as you on your bicycles while carrying the dowry," said Zhang Kang's mother.

In the early 1980s, wedding cars were not popular in rural areas. In the villages, weddings were carried to the bride's house by manpower.

The wedding procession usually walks to the bride's home and then carries the dowry back to the groom's home.

If Zhang Kang brought the bride back on a bicycle, he would definitely ride one after the other in the wedding procession, and the newlyweds would have to wait until the dowry arrived before they could get married.

Just as the Zhang family was divided over the matter of marriage, the jeep arrived.

Zhang Kang was called out by Zhai Ximo and talked to him alone for a while.

“…That’s what I mean, be mentally prepared!” Zhai Ximo said.

"Hiss! Can't I have the wedding this time?" Zhang Kang looked sad. He was really worried that he wouldn't be able to have the wedding at home. If that was the case, what should he do?

Let the bride wait for him at home for a few months or years?

Which woman is willing to wait that long? Wang Ziru’s ex-boyfriend’s breaking off of the engagement is a bloody example.

Zhang Kang returned to the house, the excitement on his face had long gone, and he was about to cry, but he couldn't tell his family anything.

He thought of holding the wedding earlier, but how could he tell his family? The Zhu family had already set the wedding date as the eighth of next month.

…

Wang Ziru took the child back to the side room and waited for a long time. She was lying down and almost falling asleep when she saw the man enter the room.

"What were you talking about with Captain Tang? You've been talking for so long!"

"Captain Tang and I went to Zhang Kang's house, and then I asked him to send me back." Zhai Ximo's lips curled up into an arc of righteousness. He walked to the bed and sat down. He looked at his son sitting on the bed playing with his own socks, and ignored him.

He held his wife's hand, and asked with a righteous look, "Did you meet anyone you knew when you went to the city to visit Yang's family yesterday?"

"What? Are you still jealous?" Wang Ziru lay on her side on the bed, stunned by the look of deception on her face by the man, but her mind couldn't help but think of Han Dixing's handsome figure.

She was clear-headed. The Zhai family was a rural family, and could not be compared to the Han family, a family of city officials who relied on suppliers.

To put it simply, there is a huge gap between the two.

When she looked up, she found the man staring at her with resentful eyes. Wang Ziru curled her lips and said, "I found that you also like to make blind guesses."

"I'm just asking casually. By the way, are you going into the city tomorrow?" For the first time, Zhai Ximo realized the feelings he had for the woman in his heart. It was not just the responsibility he had five years ago, but deep love, so he didn't like anyone to disturb him and his wife.

"Probably. At least within a week. Zonghao can't handle it alone."

"Tomorrow morning I will go to the city with you and take Baoer to her grandmother's house."

Bao Er immediately heard his father's arrangement and was stunned. "Dad! Are you going to the city and don't want to take me with you?"

"Dad is going to the city with Mom to do some work. It's not convenient to bring a kid like you along. Be good and go to grandma's house to play tomorrow. Didn't you say there are a lot of kids in the village?"

The little guy pouted his little mouth and threw himself on his mother, hugging her tightly, as if he was afraid that she would run away.

The couple seemed to have not seen each other for many days and chatted about family matters. Wang Ziru learned that her eldest brother Zhai Qingsong had divorced Liu Xiangqin, causing a huge commotion and even took Zhaodi away.

"Are they really leaving?!"

Zhai Ximo nodded and told his wife what happened after she went to the city yesterday.

That night, at the Liu family in Hulu Village.

No one expected that after Liu Xiangqin divorced and returned to her parents' home, the matchmaker came to propose marriage that night.

Liu Fugui and Zhao Hong were eager to marry their sister off as soon as possible. On the one hand, they could receive a large sum of money as a betrothal gift, and on the other hand, their family would not have to support two outsiders who were eating idle meals.

Seeing the matchmaker coming to his house to propose marriage as promised, Liu Fugui politely invited him into the house.

The other party was Hu Wangcai, a bachelor from the next village. That bachelor had been married before, but he had a bad temper when he was young. After drinking, he beat his wife and she ran away. She has been missing since then.

"Sister Xiangqin, don't look at Hu Wangcai as a bachelor, he is a good worker and is definitely eight hundred times better than your previous man."

"Will he still beat his wife?" Liu Xiangqin asked.

A few days ago, I heard my sister-in-law Zhao Hong talking about this. She also asked around at her parents' home and heard that Hu Wangcai had a woman before, but he beat her away.

Liu Xiangqin is somewhat resistant to emotions, but she is not stupid. If she marries again in the future, she will definitely marry a man better than Zhai Qingsong.

The matchmaker kept praising the bachelor, saying, "He changed a long time ago, and he is definitely not any worse than the eldest son of the Zhai family."

"I've already said that after you get married, you will be the head of the family. As for Zhaodi, he will treat her like his own daughter. If you are pregnant in the future, and give birth to a baby in a year or so, won't the man be very happy? He will definitely treat you like his own daughter-in-law."

Liu Xiangqin was moved by what the matchmaker said and agreed to meet the bachelor.

"We don't need to pick a date, it's tomorrow! If you like each other, you can get married right away! We have already arranged everything except finding a wife." said the matchmaker with a smile.