Chapter 207 Commander Duan is very angry
At the Licun fork in the road, the mother and son got off the bus.
Commander Duan Jianshuo casually put his arm outside the car window, flicked the ash from his cigarette, and stared at his young wife with deep eyes, a little bit of sneer, "Your man is having an affair with someone else, and you still have the heart to like my uncle?"
The rising tone at the end of Commander Duan's voice seemed to be mocking her. Wang Ziru was holding the child and did not defend herself.
Her almond-shaped eyes curved, teasing him intentionally, as if she was joking with him. However, Commander Duan, who was meticulous in hearing rumors, actually believed them to be true.
She waved with a smile, "Commander Duan, take care."
The rough man glanced at the young wife again, a little irritated, "Don't talk nonsense in front of me in the future! Women who like my uncle have lined up from Yixi to Shangjing, so live your life well, young wife."
Baoer didn't understand what her uncle and mother were talking about, so she hugged her mother's legs and giggled.
A lot of soldiers were running over from the other side of the road, as if they were on a training march. The little boy shouted, "Mom, look, there are so many soldiers."
Wang Ziru looked at the direction they came from the town. It was noon, and she didn't know which company was training outside. She turned back to look at the jeep, wondering why Commander Duan was not in a hurry to get out. She waved her hand casually, "Commander, please slow down."
In the car, Commander Duan leaned against the back seat in a casual manner, his eyes never moving away. He just smoked and silently stared at his young wife who was standing next to the car with a beautiful smile.
The guard held the steering wheel with both hands and saw the troops returning from the training in the rearview mirror.
"Commander, are we going directly back to Kun District now?"
"Why go back to Kunqu? I still have things to discuss with Han Suijing! Let's go to the troops!"
"oh."
The guard stepped on the accelerator, and the jeep, which was extremely eye-catching on the road, slowly drove towards the military gate not far away.
After Commander Duan's car drove away from the fork in the road, the troops on the march saw the mother and son standing on the side of the road.
Zhai Ximo, who was out for the training with the group, unexpectedly saw his wife and children, who seemed to have just returned from the town.
"Dad! Dad!" The young guy was almost dazzled, but he spotted his dad among the warriors and rushed over excitedly.
Zhai Ximo was still a deputy head of the team, just following the team to supervise.
Seeing his son running over, he slowed down his jogging pace, caught his son's hand, and asked, "You went out to register in the morning, why did you come back at noon?"
The young man held his father's hand and said with a smile, "We had dinner in town and drank tea."
"You guys just came back from lunch in town?"
"Yes, my uncle also gave me some Coke, but it didn't taste good." Baoer frowned when talking about the Coke that Duan Yanzhi gave him.
Zhai Ximo's mood suddenly turned gloomy, and he looked at his wife standing on the side of the road: "Which uncle invited you to dinner?"
"It's the uncle who was sitting in that car. We came back together after dinner. Dad, don't you know Uncle Duan yet?" Baoer said happily, pointing at Commander Duan's jeep.
Zhai Ximo raised his chin slightly and just in time saw Commander Duan's jeep slowly driving into the military gate.
Commander Duan not only invited his wife and children to dinner, but also took a car back to the army with them?
The soldiers who kept running past the father and son happened to hear what the young man said. The warriors couldn't help but look collectively at the sister-in-law who was standing on the side of the road.
Commander Duan is the most terrifying man in the entire army. He dislikes everyone and yet he actually invites his sister-in-law to dinner for the first time.
Is it possible that Deputy Commander Zhai will be promoted again?
I heard this morning that Deputy Commander Zhai and Division Commander Wen were called to the office by the new leader for a talk.
Are these two the ones that the Ninth Division will focus on training?
This was the first time many warriors saw Wang Ziru. She had a beautiful and gentle face. No wonder Deputy Captain Zhai's tone was much lighter when he mentioned his sister-in-law.
Zhai Ximo slowly looked towards his wife, and their eyes met. His wife's happy expression made him feel uneasy.
It seems that the child was not wrong. She did have dinner with Commander Duan and asked someone to bring them back.
Zhai Ximo gritted his teeth secretly, walked over with his son, looked Wang Ziru up and down, and asked, "Is it Commander Duan who invited you to lunch at noon?"
"Yes! And Han Suijing, um, and..." Wang Ziru did not hide the man's intention as to who was in the Duan family and who held power over Yixi, but she deliberately left out the second half of the sentence.
"Han Suijing will also go to the town to have dinner with you guys..."
Zhai Ximo's face was cold and hard, and he glanced at his wife with a complicated expression. It was no longer displeasure, but a bit of resentment.
I thought to myself that it would be fine if you had dinner with another man, but you even took his son to ride in another man's car. Do you really want to piss him off to death?
"Why do you want to take someone else's car?" he asked with bloodshot eyes.
She didn't want to embarrass the man in public, but the next second, Wang Ziru put on a nonchalant look and snorted, "Do you still have any conscience? It's almost ten miles from the town to the army. Commander Duan is going back to the army. Is there any problem with giving us a ride back on the way?"
Zhai Ximo would get furious when he heard the name 'Han Suijing'.
He quickly thought about it in his mind and realized that it was very likely that Commander Duan had made an appointment with Han Suijing to have dinner together at a hotel in the town, and Han Suijing happened to see Wang Ziru taking her child to register for school. As a result, he might have invited the mother and child to have dinner together.
In this way, he owed a favor to Han Suijing and had nothing to do with Commander Duan.
However, Zhai Ximo felt that he was too careless. He clearly knew that Han Suijing, this important character, was a huge threat to their marriage, but he ignored it. He growled irritably, "Go home quickly."
Looking at the thin back of the man running to catch up with the team, Wang Ziru curled her lips, "What the hell, they don't even allow us to have dinner with them."
I had originally planned to go to Cheng's house in Licun, but it was too disappointing.
Wang Ziru went straight back to the troops with her child.
The family yard was empty and quiet in the afternoon, with cicadas chirping non-stop in the treetops.
Zhu Yan, a newly married young bride from the countryside who came to the family compound, had lunch at noon and had nothing to do after cleaning up the stove and dishes. She didn't have the habit of taking a nap, so she moved a stool and sat by the door.
Li Juan lived next door to her. After lunch, several military wives who used to be good friends with Li Juan, including Song Ling, Huang Chunmei and Lin Xiaowan, as well as a military wife whom Zhu Yan did not know, came to Li Juan's house one after another to chat.
At first she didn't pay attention to what the military wives were chatting about. In the past two days, the most intense gossip among the military wives behind their backs was probably the scandal between the eldest daughter of the Wen family on the fifth floor and Deputy Colonel Zhai.
As she listened, Lin Xiaowan said that the army would arrange jobs for the wives of soldiers in the family compound in the near future, and she should be on the list of those to be placed in jobs.
"It would be great if I could be given a job this time..." Zhu Yan thought excitedly.
Wang Ziru climbed to the third floor in one breath with her child in her arms, and vaguely heard the excited voices of Li Juan and several other military wives chatting on the fourth floor.
The military family compound in the 1980s was like a huge tube-shaped building, where people could hear each other's movements on the upper floors and in the corridors below.
Baoer was extremely excited when she thought that she could go to kindergarten tomorrow.
Following his mother up to the third floor, he said expectantly, "Mom, I kind of want to go to Li Village to look for my uncle. What should I do?"
Wang Ziru was already tired, and said unhappily, "Uncle will go back home after dinner. You can read comic books by yourself in the afternoon, and let mom take a rest."
"Okay! Uncle Duan said he would bring me picture books in the future."
"Ah? Did he really say that?" Wang Ziru looked at the boy in surprise. She didn't expect that Commander Duan, who was feared by the soldiers in the army, would become a close friend of her kid regardless of age difference.
The young man nodded with a smile, "Uncle Duan said that if you need anything in the future, tell him!"
Wang Ziru's lips curled up slightly. She would not accept gifts from men, but this gift was for her little boy.
Looking back, Wang Ziru felt that the rough man who was always unrestrained and uninhibited should like to play with children.
On the fourth floor, at the entrance of Zhang Kang’s house.
Zhu Yan was dozing off against the door when she finally heard Baoer and his mother talking on the third floor. She suddenly came to her senses, got up quickly, stood at the edge of the corridor and looked down at the third floor. She saw Wang Ziru holding a gauze bag in her hand, as if she had just returned from the town.
"Sister Ziru! Have you come back to register Baoer?"
Wang Ziru opened the door, answered, and looked back to the fourth floor. "I went to Li Village this morning and was delayed for a while. I just came back now."
"Oh! I'll come down to play with you for a while."
Without waiting for Wang Ziru to say goodbye, Zhu Yan turned around and locked the door.
When passing by Li Juan's house, Song Ling called Zhu Yan: "Hey, Zhu Yan, go ask Wang Ziru if the recent military resettlement work is true."
Zhu Yan choked for a moment, a smile on her lips, "Sister Ziru may not have heard about it. We two just moved into the military compound, and we don't know the news in the military as fast as you do."
"Oh! Who said her man is young? There is still hope for promotion. The army will definitely give priority to Wang Ziru in finding a job." Li Juan said sourly while playing with her curly hair.
Lin Xiaowan smiled warmly on her round face and looked at Zhu Yan, "Ask her husband. He must know about this."
"Lin Xiaowan, you don't know yet? I heard that Deputy Captain Zhai and his wife have separated. He was kicked out by his woman, and he sleeps with his eldest brother at night." Song Ling held a comb in her hand and slowly combed her beautiful curly hair.
Zhu Yan was stunned. "Who told you that?"
"We all live in the same compound, how can we hide this from others?"
Huang Chunmei smiled coldly, looking at others laughing at her, and said, "The army only has two opportunities for job placement every year, and this year is the last one. If Wang Ziru is not on the list this time, it means that Deputy Commander Zhai has made up his mind to divorce the country bumpkin and turn around to marry the girl from the Wen family upstairs."
"It's hard to say for sure! Deputy Commander Zhai is not a fool. During the years he and Wen Yiting have been dating, he has seen through his mother-in-law Su Hong's mind. If Su Hong likes a poor boy like him, she would have agreed to their marriage a few years ago!"
"That's right! Now that Wen Yiting has graduated from university and has such good conditions, how could Su Hong easily agree to let her marry a poor boy?"
Zhu Yan stood at the door of Li Juan's house, her whole body was in a state of confusion. As an outsider, she didn't dare to listen any further. It turned out that the relationship between Wen Yiting and Deputy Tuan Zhai was probably an open secret in the family compound.
Otherwise, how could Wen Yiting, who was still a young girl, have the courage to run to the Zhai family and openly provoke Wang Ziru.
Zhang Kang and Zhai Ximo are old classmates and comrades-in-arms for many years, so they must know about it!
Zhu Yan was very angry when she thought that Zhang Kang knew that Zhai Ximo had cheated in the army and had kept it a secret from Wang Ziru. She was hesitating whether to go to the third floor when she heard Wang Ziru's voice from downstairs, "Zhu Yan, come down and have some tea."