Chapter 248 "Why are you panicking? I won't eat you."

The light from the flashlight in the car illuminated her silhouette. Wang Ziru looked up and gulped down a bottle of Arctic Ocean orange-flavored soda.

Leaning against the car door, Commander Duan chuckled and said leisurely, "I'm such a big man standing in front of you, and you don't recognize me?"

"Who? Are you talking about yourself?" Wang Ziru's pupils were surprised, and she poured more soda into her mouth until she fully reacted. She sprayed a mouthful of soda directly onto the grass beside the road, "You've been making a fuss for a long time, are you kidding me?!"

"Oh, so you only understand what I said now?" He put one hand on the roof of the car, looked at her, and said unhappily, "It's me."

Wang Ziru was so frightened that she took several steps back. If the commander hadn't held her back, she would have missed a step and fallen into the paddy field by the roadside.

"Why are you panicking? I'm not going to eat you."

"No, Commander, do you think Mrs. Duan misunderstood me? I don't have any romantic feelings for you..."

Commander Duan sneered and raised his eyebrows casually, "Really? I don't believe it. Could it be that I am outdone by Han Suijing?"

"Stop making trouble. I just got divorced and don't want to cause trouble." Wang Ziru walked to the car door and pointed at the treasure house inside the car. "Do you have any other delicious food in the car? I'm a little hungry."

"Do you have any biscuits or Coca-Cola? I'll get them for you." When Commander Duan heard his wife was hungry, he turned around and got food from the car. "Can you digest compressed biscuits for dinner?"

"Is it the compressed biscuits that your troops eat in the wild?"

"Well! I'll give you some ordinary biscuits," Commander Duan took a bag of ordinary biscuits from the car. In fact, as soon as Wang Ziru saw the English on the bag, she guessed that it was imported biscuits.

Looking at his little wife who looked like a foodie, eating a biscuit and drinking a soda right under his nose, he lit a cigarette and said, "My mom will really be here tomorrow. Tomorrow is Monday. I will drive you to school in the morning."

"No need to go to that trouble! You can just take the army car."

"No, if you run into my mom on the way and get scolded by her, you should come with me tomorrow and don't be left alone."

"Are you so worried that I'll be punished by Madam Duan? You're too timid." Wang Ziru finished half a bag of biscuits and returned the rest to the man. "If I run into Madam Duan and she sprays me, I'll just explain it to her."

Commander Duan pulled her to him, looked her up and down, and then said slowly, "Mrs. Duan is not someone you can get rid of with just a few words. Don't go anywhere tomorrow. Just stay with me."

"No, you're being so serious, Mrs. Duan won't really come here, right?"

"Is my uncle's words true?" Commander Duan closed his eyes slightly, looking relaxed. "Of course, don't be afraid when you see Madam Duan. I will handle it."

"You can handle it and let your mother come to me for trouble?"

Wang Ziru was a little amused and pushed the man away. She picked up a military water bottle from the back seat, opened the lid and drank a few sips of water. "Did you say something nonsense when you got home?"

Commander Duan leaned against the car, tilted his head, and chuckled: "I'm not talking nonsense, it's just that my mother overheard me talking to my uncle..."

"What weird things did you say?"

"I told my uncle," he leaned against the car and turned to face her, a little nervous, "I told my uncle, I want to, oh, no, I want to marry you."

"And, and,...marry me?!" Wang Ziru's body was trembling, and her voice was shaking slightly unconsciously. She stammered and couldn't utter a complete sentence.

"Yes!" His lips moved slightly, and he threw the cigarette in his hand to the ground and stomped it out. Now that it was already said, he took advantage of the situation and said, "Marry me! If you give me a happy family, I will do anything for you."

Is this an illusion? Why is my love life so popular recently?

Wang Ziru stared at the man opposite her for a while, then raised the soda in her hand and took two sips.

Her voice was trembling. She had just started to like the commander, but he had discovered it. She tried to save face and said, "Did you misunderstand me in some way, Commander?"

"Let's not talk about the fact that Han Suijing and I had a relationship before! If a divorced woman like me with children dared to have thoughts about a man of your status, I'm afraid the Duan family would be shaken, right?"

Commander Duan laughed brightly, "I don't know whether there was an earthquake in the Duan family, and I don't care! But it's true that Mrs. Duan was shocked. So, she would rather risk being kicked out of the Duan family and come all the way to find you."

Hearing this, Wang Ziru slapped her forehead and asked, "What is going on?"

After a while, she said seriously, "Haven't you heard that Han Suijing and I have reached an agreement?"

"You mean, if he doesn't marry, you won't marry?" Commander Duan chuckled. "Are you really going to stay with him forever? Didn't you say you have no feelings for him anymore?"

"well!"

Things have just calmed down with Han Suijing. Commander Duan, please don't cause any trouble for me.

Wang Ziru raised her cheeks and drank the soda in one breath. Just as she was about to throw away the empty bottle, the empty bottle in her hand was taken away by Commander Duan.

He put the empty bottle back in the car, turned around, and said sternly: "I've already confessed my feelings, why don't you say anything?"

"commander."

"You say." Commander Duan looked at her.

"First of all, thank you for your kindness, but I have decided not to get married, so after communicating with Han Suijing, I decided to raise the child together."

"Not getting married?" Commander Duan frowned, his eyes suddenly raised, "Can't let him go, or can't reject him?"

Wang Ziru couldn't explain it clearly, and feelings were something that couldn't be forced.

After seeing Han Suijing's expression that day, could she still have any other fantasies about herself?

It's totally impossible.

She couldn't just sit there and watch anything happen to Han Suijing. The child needed a father, and he needed a strong father to support him.

Then again, the Duan family is known as the number one family in western Yi. Commander Duan is the eldest grandson. Once she has met his uncle, she knows how high the Duan family's status is in Yun Province. It may be beyond her reach and imagination.

The eldest grandson of the Duan family, who holds a high position in the military, marries a divorced woman with children.

If this were to happen, she would not be able to stay in Yun Province anymore.

Although deep down, she really likes this carefree man...

"I'll go back first," Wang Ziru didn't dare to look the man opposite her, afraid that he would see through her thoughts. After saying that, she turned around and was about to leave.

Commander Duan held her back and said, "You only need to tell me one thing, do you have me in your heart?"

"...Commander Duan, you are a good person."

"Is it as simple as being a good person?"

Wang Ziru pretended to be calm, facing the reluctance and anger in his eyes, her voice floating:

"You are of noble status, and the woman who is worthy of you must be either rich or noble, but definitely not an ordinary woman like me. So, Commander, please don't fight against your family. Marriage will be happier if it can get the blessing of your family."

The expression on the man's face could not be seen clearly in the backlight, but his dark gaze was fixed on her.

Seeing her turn around and walk out with her back to him, Commander Duan's voice came out of his mouth, "Now I tell you, I will make my own decision about my marriage. After we get married, we will not live in Dali, but in Kunqu. Do you have anything else to say?"

Wang Ziru smiled happily and turned to look at the man with one hand in his trouser pocket.

"You should go back to the dormitory and sleep early so that you can be energetic to face Mrs. Duan tomorrow. I'm going back first."

"Let's go back together in the car."

"No, I didn't know what you were thinking before, Commander. Now I know. I definitely can't ride in your car anymore." After Wang Ziru finished speaking, she strode out towards the dim light of the military gate.

Commander Duan stood where he was, staring blankly at the figure that was getting farther and farther away.

Get in the driver's seat, sit down, and turn on the headlights.

Suddenly, a beam of bright headlights dispelled the darkness on the road ahead.

He clearly saw the figure walking further and further away, as if he was burying his head and wiping away tears...

At the sentry post, the sentries all knew that Wang Ziru had gone out with Commander Duan. Now they saw Wang Ziru coming back alone, with her face buried, and seemed to be crying as she walked. The two sentries were completely stunned.

Xiao Li, who happened to be standing under the electric pole, also saw Wang Ziru come back first.

Just as I was curious, I saw a jeep coming back.

Commander Duan drove the car back to the unit and sat in the driver's seat without turning off the headlights. He just leaned back and looked ahead.

Xiao Li walked over tremblingly and opened the car door. "Commander, my sister-in-law seems to be crying? Did you have a fight?"

"Did she cry?" Commander Duan was startled, his throat seemed to be tightly strangled by an invisible hand, and he struggled to squeeze out a few words from between his teeth, "Are you seeing things?"

I was outside just now and thought it was an illusion.

It turned out that she really cried.

"Of course she cried. I was standing right here. She was crying as she walked in. I thought you scolded her. You didn't, did you?"

"I'm not crazy!" Commander Duan immediately understood that she had him in her heart.

But she didn't expect him to confess suddenly, especially before she and Han Suijing had figured things out, so she could only reject him.

It seems that this matter will have to wait until Han Suijing returns from his business trip.

That night, late at night, Mrs. Duan and her daughter-in-law arrived at the town where the Ninth Division was located.

The group could only stay in a guesthouse first.

After entering the guesthouse, Mrs. Duan dragged her tired body and said angrily, "I'll punish that woman when I see her tomorrow! She made me bump around on the road all day."

"Mom, go to bed quickly so you can have enough energy to deal with that woman tomorrow." Su Yinyin said flatteringly.

After the driver completed the check-in procedures, he personally sent his mother-in-law to her room. When the door was opened, Mrs. Duan's eyes almost popped out when she saw the guest room of the guesthouse, which was so simple that it was not even as good as the woodshed in the Duan family mansion.

I looked so disgusted that I couldn't even go to sleep even though I had to hold my nose.

Su Yinyin also saw the furnishings in the room: a bed and a desk with a drawer, that was all.

"Yinyin, don't go to other rooms. Just sleep here with me."

"Ah? Mom, are we two sleeping in one room? It's so crowded."

"I've never stayed in such a shabby guesthouse in my life. Can you bear to let me live in such a place alone? You must stay with me."

Su Yinyin had been sitting in the car for a whole day and was so tired that she wanted to lie down and have a good sleep.

She is not as delicate as her mother-in-law, and when she goes out, she is definitely not as comfortable as at the Duan family.

I had no choice but to share a bed with my mother-in-law.

The next morning, Wang Ziru hurriedly took her child to the assembly point for the military vehicle to send the child.

Fu Jiqiu ran over to find them and said, "Auntie, the commander's car is here to take us today. Hurry up, the car is parked at the door."

Wang Ziru wanted to refuse, but Baoer and Fu Jiqiu were already running hand in hand happily towards the jeep parked at the military gate.

After a pause, Wang Ziru followed him over. For the first time, she didn't see Commander Duan.

Xiao Li drove them to the town school.

Wang Ziru sent the two children to the classroom. When she came out, Xiao Li was still waiting for her outside the school gate. "Sister-in-law, get in the car."

"I, I want to hurry up to the town and buy some things." Wang Ziru's eyes flashed. She didn't want to be embarrassed by running into that man on her way back.

Xiao Li suddenly came over and whispered, "Sister-in-law! Madam Duan arrived in town last night and is staying at the guesthouse. You'd better hurry back to avoid any disturbance if you run into her in town."

"What do you mean? I didn't provoke her, why are you arguing with me?"

"Sister-in-law, I'm just an errand boy. If I don't do the things the commander ordered me to do, I'll be scolded when I go back."

Wang Ziru looked at the villagers and vendors who were gradually gathering on the street.

"Wait a moment, I'll go buy two rice cakes to take back."

Wang Ziru went to the rice cake shop, bought three hot rice cakes, wrapped them in paper, and got on the car back to the army.

"Xiao Li, please stop at the fork in the road ahead. I won't go back to the army for the time being. I'm going to Li Village to play." Wang Ziru said as they were approaching the Li Village fork in the road.

Xiao Li was slightly stunned, and then said in surprise: "Sister-in-law, did you know that the commander didn't have breakfast, or did you bring snacks for him?"

"Why are you mentioning him again?" The car stopped at a fork in the road. Wang Ziru glared at Xiao Li unhappily, thinking that this guy was becoming more and more outrageous, and she would keep her distance from them in the future.

After getting off the car, Xiao Li waved his hand, stepped on the accelerator, and drove away.

Wang Ziru, holding a rice cake wrapped in paper in her hand, walked into the slope that led to Li Village. Before she finished walking up this slope, she saw a figure who was unlikely to appear here.

"Commander, why are you playing here too?"

Commander Duan was riding a bicycle at an intersection, practicing his technique of keeping the bicycle on two wheels without falling. He raised his eyes and snorted, "Can't you see I'm fishing?"

"When you say fishing, are you talking about me?"

"You also brought me some food? What is it?"

He noticed Wang Ziru holding a rice cake in her hand, and turned around to point at the fishing rod placed by the small river next to her. "There are small fish in this stream, so I went out fishing early. What, do you finally think you are a big fish?"