Chapter 180 Matchmaking

Cheng Xueru looked at the silent Zhuang Jiahan, who was staring blankly at the three not-very-fat pigs in the pigpen. It was obvious that he was very envious of the three fat pigs of the Cheng family.

The girl moved her mouth, but in the end she said nothing.

After feeding the pigs, Cheng Xueru took Zhuang Jiahan into the house to get a bowl of soybeans.

"We still have some soybeans at home. I'll take them to the troops and see how Bao'er's mother prepares them for us when she comes back."

"I've been eating your food these days, and I feel bad about it."

Zhai Qingsong was speaking from his heart. What Cheng Xueru took them to the town to buy was just a stove and beehive coal for cooking.

All the food they ate came from the Cheng family. When Cheng Xueru's grandfather heard that he was staying in the army with his nephew, the old man was very kind and refused to take any money from him.

After packing the soybeans, Cheng Xueru found a cloth bag for food and asked Zhai Qingsong to hold the bag. "It's okay. You two can't eat much. We had a good harvest last year, so we still have some food. Besides, Peng Zhengyu and I got married last year, and he gave me his monthly salary in the army..."

The girl scooped three bowls of rice from her own grain bag. When she mentioned her husband who had left her not long ago, her mood suddenly became sad again.

Zhai Qingsong planned to wait until his brother and sister-in-law came back, and then find an opportunity to give the genius food money to the Cheng family.

Seeing that the girl's eyes were red again, he did not dare to say anything. He carried the food and soybeans and went out, "I'll go to the field to talk to your grandfather."

Cheng Xueru followed him out, stood in the main room, and nodded.

She watched the man quickly walk out of the yard and go to the fields to find her grandfather.

"Bao Er, are you reading a comic book? Let's go back to your house and prepare dinner while your mother waits for her to come home."

"Okay."

The boy followed suit and quickly closed the picture book, put it back into his pocket, stood up from his pony, and happily stood outside the door waiting for Cheng Xueru to close the gate.

There are troops stationed on both sides of Li Village. Normally, the doors of every household in the village do not need to be locked. Most of the villagers are working in the nearby fields, so they just close the doors and hang the padlocks on them.

Cheng Xueru closed the door, picked up some food in one hand, and went to the vegetable garden in front of the door to pick a small pumpkin to take with her.

"Auntie, my uncle is divorced, did you know?" Baoer was waiting obediently on the ridge outside the vegetable garden. When he saw Cheng Xueru picking pumpkins to take to the troops, he pulled a dogtail grass from the roadside and asked.

The girl just came out of the vegetable field and walked to the edge of the field with a big stride. Her almond-shaped eyes were stunned for a moment, "How come a little kid like you suddenly wants to talk about adult things?"

After spending time with the little guy these days, she discovered that Baoer was particularly smart.

When his parents were not at home, he stayed with his uncle and did not cry or make a fuss, except for the first few days when his parents left the army, when he cried tears of hunger.

Bao Er held Cheng Xueru's hand and said with a smile, "My mother said that she would find an aunt like her for my uncle in the future."

"Really? Your mom is quite nice."

"Then...Auntie, do you think my uncle is good?"

The girl didn't react yet, and nodded frankly, "Your uncle is hardworking and has a good personality, so of course he is good."

"Then will you marry my uncle in the future?"

"..." The girl blushed. These past few days, Baoer always mentioned his uncle whenever he saw her, intentionally or unintentionally. If she didn't know Zhai Qingsong's character, she would definitely misunderstand that these words were definitely taught by adults to deliberately test her.

Based on her understanding of Zhai Qingsong, that man was so loyal and honest that he would blush if she said one more word.

I would never say anything nonsense in front of a four-year-old kid.

"What? Are you trying to be a matchmaker for your uncle?" Cheng Xueru's cheerful and open-minded personality made her unable to hold back her smile.

Even though Peng Zhengyu had just left, she couldn't possibly think about the future.

But everyone knows that she is still a grown-up girl and remarrying is a done deal.

Bao Er raised her childish face and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Auntie, my uncle is really hardworking. He gets up early every day to work and he likes children very much."

"And Sister Zhaodi followed her former aunt to marry someone else." The young man was very observant, probably because he grew up in the village. Seeing that Cheng Xueru didn't say anything, he continued, "That aunt won't let Sister Zhaodi return to our Zhai family..."

Cheng Xueru looked up at the man walking towards them from the other side of the field, took a deep breath, lowered her head, and whispered, "Your uncle hasn't said he wants to find a partner yet, so don't say anything more, kid."

Zhai Qingsong walked over from a distance and greeted the villagers of Li Village along the way. The old and young people in the village liked him very much.

"I told your grandfather that you will be staying in the military compound tonight."

"oh."

"Uncle, do you like Licun?" The young man asked as he walked, holding Cheng Xueru's hand when he saw his uncle finally coming back.

Zhai Qingsong had no idea that his nephew was such a clever kid. "I like him. When your mother comes back, I'll have to find something to do. I can't play with you every day."

"Then you can come to Li Village and help Auntie farm."

"ah?"

Zhai Qingsong didn't understand what was going on. He looked at Cheng Xueru in particular and said with a simple smile, "You are still kind-hearted. You know how to thank Aunt Xueru."

"That's not what I meant, uncle." Baoer let go of Cheng Xueru's hand, ran to the front, turned around and looked at the two of them, "Uncle, you and Aunt Xueru should get married. I will come to Li Village to visit you during my holidays."

"Bao'er, what are you talking about? Uncle is going to slap you." Zhai Qingsong was frightened and scolded the child, and hurriedly explained, "Children are ignorant and say nonsense. Miss Xueru, please don't take it too seriously."

At that moment, Zhai Qingsong trembled with embarrassment and dared not walk side by side with the girl. His hot face soon seemed to be on fire.

Cheng Xueru looked at Zhuang Jiahan as he hurriedly explained and deliberately avoided her gaze. A breeze blew, blowing the hair on her cheek.

The girl was not ignorant of romance, and she caught up with the man in a few steps, "I have a good relationship with your family, Brother Zhai, I think you are a good person, if, I mean if you don't have anyone else, maybe we can try to get along..."

"Bang!"

Zhai Qingsong froze and turned his head to look at the beautiful girl in front of him in surprise.

He wouldn't even dare to dream of such a beautiful and capable girl.

Not to mention that he is a divorced man with nothing. How can he give others happiness?

“Pah, pah, pah!”

Baoer felt that he had done something great. After a brief surprise, he ran over and clapped his hands.

"Uncle, please agree. My father said that if you want to marry a beautiful wife, you have to take the initiative. That's how he married my mother."

…

Zhai Qingsong was in a complicated mood: frustration, excitement, and impulse. All possible emotions were quietly playing out along the way and fighting in his mind.

He took Cheng Xueru and Baoer back to the military compound, intending to avoid talking to the girls as much as possible.

As the three of them were about to enter the family compound, they saw the soldiers from the army's logistics department busying around.

Someone saw Zhai Qingsong and shouted, "Brother Zhai, you are back."

"Ah? What's up?"

A soldier from the logistics department ran over excitedly, greeted Cheng Xueru, and said, "Brother Zhai, we just went to your house to deliver rice. You are finally back, so I will go back and deliver the things to you."

Zhai Qingsong was confused. "What rice?"

"Hey, Brother Zhai, you may not know that Bao'er's mother made great contributions on the battlefield this time. Commander Duan specially rewarded your family with 100 kilograms of rice and 10 kilograms of rapeseed oil. By the way, Captain Zhang's wife also received a reward..."

Zhai Qingsong was quite shocked. Did his brother and sister-in-law make contributions on the battlefield?

And received a special reward from the commander?

Zhai Qingsong was extremely excited. Now the family would have no shortage of food. He came to his senses and pulled the young comrade to his side. "The Zhang family's food should wait until Zhang Kang and his family come back before they can collect it. Please help me bring my brother and sister-in-law's food."

"That's fine."

The three of them stood there, extremely happy.

Cheng Xueru rubbed the boy's head and said with a smile, "Bao'er's mother is very hardworking. She even received a reward from Commander Duan."

The three of them hurried upstairs and went home to prepare to welcome the rice and rapeseed oil delivered to the Zhai family by the Logistics Department.

It was the weekend, and the women and children in the courtyard were at home.

The children playing downstairs heard the conversation between the logistics department warrior and Zhai Qingsong.

Many military wives who lived in the same compound soon heard about this, but they didn't believe it at first.

At this moment, in Xu Changhe's home on the fifth floor, several military wives were playing cards.

Several children ran in and told their mothers about it. The military wives who were playing cards with Liao Fengjiao almost popped their eyes out of their heads when they heard it.

"How is that possible?!"

"Commander Duan gave the Zhai family a rice reward?"

"That's Commander Duan!"

"Liu Chunli, didn't you say that Deputy Colonel Zhai's women were just there to make up the numbers?"

The person who asked this question was Liao Fengjiao, and this woman was very dissatisfied with the army's allocation of the house on the third floor to the Zhai family.

When she learned that Zhai Ximo had applied for his family to accompany the army and needed a house, she hinted that the Zhai family occupied the best house in the family compound and that Zhai Ximo's military rank did not deserve that house.

Since Liu Chunli failed to go, she started spreading rumors in the family compound, saying that Wang Ziru wanted Zhu Yan to go with her, so she acted like an activist on purpose to show off.

He threw the cards in his hand directly onto the table and said, "Let's go! We'll find out if we go and take a look."

Several military wives immediately came out of Xu Changhe's house and happened to see several soldiers carrying bags of rice and bottles of oil hurriedly walking into the family building downstairs.

Liao Fengjiao looked gloomy and glared at Liu Chunli, "What else can I expect from a woman like you?"

All the military wives in the entire family compound revolved around Liao Fengjiao.

Licking the woman in the chief's house in various ways.

Now, it seems that Liao Fengjiao’s family is no longer the only one in control of the family compound.

Liu Chunli looked very bad, and her mouth trembled violently, "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

The soldiers carried rice and rapeseed oil and delivered them to the Zhai family in great joy.

"Brother Zhai! Congratulations on your family getting so much rice. Here are 100 kilograms of rice and 10 kilograms of rapeseed oil. Please count them and then sign here." A warrior smiled and handed the list to Zhai Qingsong.

Zhao Cuilan, who lived next door, was completely confused. All the men had gone to the battlefield, and the women and children at home had no idea what was happening on the battlefield.

She walked to the door of Zhai's house and saw several bulging bags of rice and cans of rapeseed oil placed in the small living room. This scene had a huge impact on her.

With so much white rice, steamed rice will be so delicious.

Zhao Cuilan smiled and said, "Little comrade, why do you give so much food as a reward to their family? Do we have any at home?"