Chapter 146 Han Suijing's younger brother came to help pick up people

The Zhang family still had a last wave of guests who had not left. In rural weddings, there would usually be a small number of relatives who lived farther away who would stay at the Zhang family that night.

In the dead of night, Zhai Ximo suddenly went to Zhang's house again, and there were more than a dozen people sitting in the fire room playing cards.

Among them were several single comrades who did not return home.

Seeing Zhai Ximo hurried in, he was about to invite him to join, but he heard him say in a serious tone: "Go home and pack your bags immediately. We just received a notice from the army asking all of our soldiers who are going back to their hometowns to visit their relatives to return to the army as soon as possible."

"Did the troops come to notify us? Hiss... Zhang Kang is in big trouble. He got drunk at night and I'm afraid he hasn't woken up yet." One of the more experienced warriors dropped the cards in his hand, stood up, and looked in the direction of the new house.

"I'll go call him. You guys hurry up. If you live far away, the comrades in the armed forces can take you home."

Before everyone could fully react, Zhai Ximo had disappeared outside the door and went straight to knock on the door of the new house.

It was Zhu Yan who opened the door.

The bridal hairstyle on Zhu Yan's head was still tied up, and it was obvious that she was not asleep at all.

After hearing what Zhai Ximo said, asking her to wake up Zhang Kang and then pack her luggage to return to the army, Zhu Yan was extremely shocked, "Going back to the army so soon?"

There is still a month or so left until the end of the three-month vacation.

She would really become a widow the day after her wedding.

The shock on Zhu Yan's face gradually turned into despair. She was so confused that she couldn't even cry.

"Oh! I have good news for you." Zhai Ximo was about to turn around and leave when he suddenly remembered that Captain Tang had specifically mentioned that the army had called and asked the wives of soldiers to go to the front line for support. "Captain Tang just said that our army is still short of female hygienists. You can take advantage of this opportunity and go back to the army with Zhang Kang and go to the front line with him..."

Among this group of old comrades, the only wife of an army soldier who followed the army was his Wang Ziru, and the other was Zhu Yan.

There was no way Wang Ziru could go with them, after all, there was a baby under four years old at home who needed to be taken care of.

"I'll go, I'll go." Zhu Yan's despair suddenly rekindled. With such a good opportunity, she did not hesitate at all even if it meant going through fire and water with her husband.

"Then hurry up and pack your bags. We'll be on the train for two days and two nights. Prepare some dry food to eat on the train."

After Zhai Ximo reminded him of these things, he thought about it and then walked into the bridal chamber and slapped Zhang Kang twice to wake him up.

"Hey! Hey! Are you awake? If not, I'll give you two more..."

"Stop, stop, stop! You little brat, you just take advantage of others' misfortune, right? How dare you hit me in the face on my wedding night?" Zhang Kang woke up in a daze. He was not fully awake yet, but he could feel the burning pain on his fat face from being hit.

After Zhai Ximo came out of Zhang's house, he and Captain Tang immediately sent a few of his comrades home.

Then notify them one by one.

The road conditions in each village are different. The road leading into the village is winding. Another comrade lives on the top of the mountain, and the road only leads to the bottom of the mountain.

Holding a flashlight, Zhai Ximo climbed up the slippery path to the top of the mountain to inform his comrades.

When I got home, it was already light for a while.

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Looking at the man biting a pancake in big mouthfuls, stubble appeared on his stern face.

Wang Ziru stood beside the earthen stove, making pancakes, feeling heartbroken.

She and her uncle worked all night to prepare food at home. The man worked even harder, running around all night, and his eyes were filled with red bloodshot.

Wang Ziru was happy to think that Zhu Yan could go to the army with them this time. "Zhu Yan is going to such a faraway army right after getting married. It may take some time for her to adapt to the life there."

"This is the fate of a military wife, isn't it the same for you?" The man glanced at his wife. If his elder brother wasn't under his nose, he would have wanted to hug the woman. He felt a little sorry for her.

This time, she also followed the army to suffer, not to enjoy the good life with a man.

"After you eat the pancakes, go wash up. The water is already boiling in the pot. You will be able to eat the noodles soon. After you finish eating the noodles, lie down for a while."

Zhai Ximo took another pancake from the porcelain bowl and said, "How can we have time to rest? The Armed Forces have contacted the Dongfeng truck, and it will drive to the town to pick us up soon."

Zhai Qingsong dressed Baoer and asked, "Old Third, do I need to bring my bedding too?"

"You can bring some, but don't bring anything too bad or too worn out. Just bring a slightly better quilt. When you get there, you'll need to spend money to set up your new home. So take everything you can from home."

Wang Ziru said quickly: "Brother, bring your carpentry tools with you."

"By the way, we should also bring along our hoes and sickles for growing crops. When we get there, we still need to find a way to open up some land to grow vegetables."

Zhai Ximo sighed unhappily, "It is forbidden to bring such things on the train."

"Ah? You're not allowed to bring it? We're hiding it in the sack so no one can see it."

"Who do you think I am? Those things are worthless. We will need to go to the town to buy them later." Zhai Ximo ate three sweet pancakes in a row and clapped his hands. He naturally put his arms around her waist and shoulders, "The pancakes are good. Comrade Ziru did a great job."

"Give me a bonus at the end of the year." Wang Ziru turned her head and said with a smile.

Zhai Ximo: "...from now on, all wages will be handed over."

Turned around and took the child out to wash.

The father and son squatted on the grass next to the chicken coop behind the house. Baoer held an adult toothbrush in his little hand, with a circle of toothpaste foam on the edge of his mouth. "Dad, we have finished eating the hens."

Zhai Ximo looked back at the empty chicken coop and said, "Your mother was very foresighted. We had to return to the army right after we finished eating the five hens."

"Dad, Mom said we're going to take a train tomorrow, right?"

"Yeah! Probably not tomorrow. If it's fast, we'll have to sleep on the train tonight."

Baoer's eyes were clear and full of curiosity about riding a train. "I like riding a train."

"Huh? Then you're not allowed to make noise on the train." Zhai Ximo felt an inexplicable headache when he thought about the hustle and bustle on the train. Every time he went to the toilet, many seats would be occupied by other passengers. Along the way, there would always be quarrels and fights in the carriage due to disputes over seats.

Looking back, he saw his elder brother also going back to his room to pack his luggage. Zhai Ximo said loudly, "Brother, please bring less luggage."

Zhai Qingsong had never traveled far, and had never experienced the hardship of carrying large bags on his shoulders and back while riding on the green train in the early 1980s.

He thought for a moment and said, "At least bring a quilt."

"Go back and get your quilt and mattress out first. I'll help you pack after I finish brushing my teeth."

"oh."

Soon, the father and son finished washing up and went to their uncle's room.

Zhai Ximo found some nylon rope and wrapped his eldest brother's bedding tightly using the same packing method used by troops in field marching backpacks.

Use another cloth bag to hold a few clothes.

"It's a waste to leave your newly built brick and tile house empty. Let Mom move out and cook in your stove room. If she wants to raise a pig, it will be convenient." Zhai Ximo came out of the west room and said to his eldest brother.

Zhai Qingsong nodded, "Well, I originally wanted to give it to the second child, but since you said so, I'll give it to mom."

It's not like Zhai Ximo is blind to the fact that in the more than one month since he came back from the army, the second brother and his wife have only been concerned about their own family of four and have never said anything good for my mother.

Even if the eldest brother allowed them to move to the new stove room to cook, they might not return it to him when he returned home in the future.

Wang Ziru cooked four bowls of noodles, fried an egg in each bowl and sprinkled some soy sauce on them.

"Wow, mom, how did you make it? The eggs smell so good." Baoer sat on the small chair at the stove, as if he had never eaten fried eggs before. He took a sniff with his little nose, and his eyes lit up.

Wang Ziru went outside and called the two men in for breakfast, then returned to the stove room and sat down to eat noodles. "This is called fried eggs. Try it. You'll definitely like it."

Baoer can eat with chopsticks by herself. She picked up the golden fried egg and took a bite in her little mouth. "It's delicious."

Seeing two men coming in to eat noodles, Wang Ziru said, "I have six eggs at home. I plan to make them into tea eggs and take one to each of us on the train."

"Six tea eggs, how did you manage to give one to each person?" the man smiled.

"There are also Zhang Kang and Zhu Yan."

Zhai Ximo suddenly realized it, but he also remembered, "Zhu Yan must have some red eggs. Let them bring all the red eggs on the way for us to eat together."

Wang Ziru smiled and blinked. With Zhu Yan's housekeeping nature, she would probably bring not only red eggs, but also a big bag of wedding candies from her parents' home.

Not long after breakfast, Wang Zonghao and Chen Pingping arrived at Hongmei Village together.

Zhai Ximo had already packed his luggage, and he and his children stood outside the yard waiting for people from the county to come down and pick them up.

The little guy saw them from a distance, "Dad, look, that's my uncle and Pingping."

Baoer excitedly ran down the slope to greet his uncle and aunt.

When he saw his uncle, Baoer hurriedly told him and his uncle that they were going to the army.

"Are you going to the army today? Why is it so sudden?" Wang Zonghao handed the cloth bag to Chen Pingping, picked up his little nephew, walked up the slope, and when he saw his brother-in-law, he asked him if he was going back to the army.

Zhai Ximo nodded, "You two actually came over to give us wedding candy."

"Brother-in-law, we didn't hear in advance that you were going to the army today, so we didn't prepare anything for you..." Chen Pingping felt that the matter was too sudden. Logically speaking, since her sister-in-law was going to such a faraway army with her children, her parents' home should send them some food.

"You guys sent us wedding candy, and your sister made some dry food overnight. It's fine to take with you on the road."

Wang Ziru was busy packing some of her own things. When she saw her brother and sister-in-law coming over, she asked, "Have you had breakfast?"

"I ate it! But sister, we really didn't hear in advance that you were in such a hurry to return to the army, so we can only take these two bags of wedding candies with us and eat them on the way." Wang Zonghao said.

Knowing that my sister and her family were going to join the army, the newly married couple were not in a hurry to go home.

Chen Pingping also helped her sister-in-law pack her luggage.

Outside, someone from the armed forces came to pick them up to gather in the county town.

Wang Zonghao helped carry the luggage out and saw a familiar jeep parked in the yard. He also saw that it was Captain Tang who came to pick them up, so he asked, "Isn't this car from the Armed Forces?"

"Hey!" Captain Tang just jumped out of the car, "Hiss..., you recognized this?"

“Is this Han’s car?”

"Do you know Han's car?" Captain Tang was surprised.

Wang Zonghao didn't have the nerve to confess that he had borrowed this car yesterday and went to Zhang's house to do some heavy work.

Zhai Ximo looked surprised, stuffed his things into the car one by one, and asked, "Did the armed forces run out of cars, so they borrowed the Han family's car?"

"You guessed it right! This time we all have to go to the countryside to pick up people. How can the armed forces' equipment be enough?"

When Captain Tang met them and sat in the driver's seat, he said excitedly, "Not only do we not have enough cars, we also do not have enough people. Look, Han Suijing's younger brother has driven his uncle's car to help us pick up people. If you are lucky, you will meet him when you arrive at the meeting point."