"My mom only cooked us a few eggs and three ears of corn, and we have to spend the night on the train! It's true that different people have different fates!" Shen Qiaoyue couldn't help but tease.
While eating, Jiang Jinyao said, "I heard that Xiaoli didn't do much housework after she got married. Your mother-in-law did all the washing dishes. She's so lucky!"
They thought their husbands were already very good to them, and they never expected that Li Qingming would be even more gentle.
Xia Xiaoli ate her meat in small bites and explained shyly, "No, you two are the happiest. The whole family compound envies Commander Lu Chen and Commander An Lude. They treat the two sisters-in-law very well too."
"Who knows where those two are in the remote mountains right now!" Jiang Jinyao complained.
Anlude, who was training in the far north, suddenly felt a chill.
"Speaking of them, I wonder how they are?" Shen Qiaoyue began to miss Lu Chen. "I wonder if he's sleeping and eating well over there. Lu Chen's stomach problems are getting worse; he gets stomach aches easily if he doesn't eat!"
Shen Qiaoyue felt sorry for Lu Chen. He couldn't get enough to eat when he was a child, and now that he finally has the means to start a family, he still has to go to that place.
"I heard that production has decreased over there, so there's probably not much to eat. Brother and Anlude won't be doing well in terms of food." Jiang Jinyao was also worried about Anlude, but little did she know that Lu Chen and Anlude were stationed on the same border. There were many mountains and forests, and hunting in the mountains after training every night was a regular occurrence. Food was not a concern at all.
The only ones who felt wronged were Shen Qiaoyue and her friends, who sometimes couldn't even get a bowl of white rice at home.
Pumpkin leaves are used to make soup, millet rice, mixed grain rice, and some other staple foods.
The supply and marketing cooperative sold very few things, mostly vegetables, and even eggs were rationed; a family of three could only buy one egg.
Shen Qiaoyue raised two hens next to the pigsty. Just because they were raised together, it looked like a lot of chickens, and she was often visited. The number of chicks that hatched could not exceed three.
With tears in her eyes, Shen Qiaoyue could only give the remaining chicks to others.
I just hope these days will pass quickly.
At night, when it's time to sleep, the two children sit there playing.
"Sister-in-law Qiaoyue, Da Nian and Xiao Nian are almost a year old, right?" Xia Xiaoli couldn't sleep and watched the two children playing, and then the children slowly started fighting.
"Yes, it will be a year in three months, and the baby will be one year old too!" Shen Qiaoyue looked at her child with eyes full of maternal love. "I never thought I would become a mother so soon after getting married!"
"It's good to become a mother earlier. When your child grows up, you'll still be young and able to have your own life." Xia Xiaoli had already begun to imagine Shen Qiaoyue's future life.
As Shen Qiaoyue thought about her future life, she couldn't help but smile slightly!
"Xiaoli, what are your plans? When are you going to have a baby? Has your mother-in-law been pressuring you to have one?" Jiang Jinyao, who was listening upstairs, asked Xia Xiaoli, who was in the lower bunk, with curiosity.
Shen Qiaoyue also cast a curious glance at her.
“My mother-in-law says that as long as the marriage is happy, that’s all that matters. She doesn’t get involved in having children, and she doesn’t feel any burden if she doesn’t have any! She says that she’ll have someone to take care of her in her old age anyway!” Xia Xiaoli said, a smile never leaving her lips.
Such an open-minded mother-in-law is indeed hard to find.
Shen Qiaoyue and Jiang Jinyao were filled with envy!
When I went to sleep that night, I locked the private room from the inside.
When Shen Qiaoyue was sleeping at night, she could clearly sense that someone outside wanted to come in.
She became increasingly alert, wondering if it was some kind of thief.
Shen Qiaoyue sat up in bed, staring at the door of the private room, and nervously swallowed.
Xia Xiaoli, a light sleeper, also woke up. She hurriedly grabbed her bag behind her back and picked up her water bottle to use as a weapon.
Shen Qiaoyue looked at her two sleeping children; she couldn't let the thief in.
She took a stick out of her bag. It was a short stick, a rolling pin. When she was out and about, this was the only thing she could use for protection.
Xia Xiaoli stared nervously at the door, watching the latch, which was about to be pried open.
Despite her nervousness, Shen Qiaoyue tried her best to calm herself down.
Xia Xiaoli lifted the kettle, thinking that if anyone came in, she would just throw it out.
Shen Qiaoyue also gripped the rolling pin tightly, and Jiang Jinyao woke up at this moment.
I initially thought it was too noisy, but after getting up, I saw that Xia Xiaoli and Shen Qiaoyue were both in battle mode.
Jiang Jinyao was so frightened that she climbed down from above.
She looked out through the small hole, but there was no one there.
"Don't be afraid. They're just some trained kids. They're specifically trained to be pickpockets. They have drugs on them. They'll drug us and rob us when we open the door. Or they've got their eyes on the two kids next to us. As long as we don't open the door, we won't fall for their trick. The door is very sturdy; it's usually impossible to pry it open."
Jiang Jinyao whispered to Xia Xiaoli and Shen Qiaoyue.
"Will they be here together?" Shen Qiaoyue asked nervously, extremely anxious upon hearing that they might be coming for her child.
Jiang Jinyao said, "It's okay. As long as the door isn't opened, nothing will happen. The patrol officers on the train will come over soon, and they will definitely leave. We can just report it to the train police."
Seeing this, Shen Qiaoyue had no other choice but to accept it.
Xia Xiaoli nervously took a sip of water. Jiang Jinyao gently patted Xia Xiaoli's shoulder and comforted her, "It's okay, nothing will happen. You two go to sleep. I'll stay here and watch over you."
After what happened to Shen Qiaoyue and Xia Xiaoli, how could they possibly sleep?
I can't fall asleep sitting on the bed.
Shen Qiaoyue looked at the child, and after a while, the commotion outside stopped.
This gave them a slight sense of relief!
This was also Shen Qiaoyue's first time traveling far from home, and she never expected to encounter such a thing.
After relaxing, Shen Qiaoyue slowly fell asleep. Seeing that Shen Qiaoyue was asleep, Xia Xiaoli also fell asleep quickly.
Thankfully, everything turned out alright, but Jiang Jinyao suffered the most. She desperately needed to urinate and held it in for a long time until she heard other passengers outside noticing that the flight attendant was buying breakfast nearby. After confirming that the danger had passed, Jiang Jinyao finally went to the restroom.
When he came back from class, he saw that the child was already awake. Da Nian sat up and stared at Jiang Jinyao who had just returned from outside.
Jiang Jinyao was instantly charmed by the baby's chubby cheeks.
She picked up the child and began to soothe him, whispering, "Are you hungry?"
Before he was even fully sleepy, he fell asleep instantly in Jiang Jinyao's arms.
Jiang Jinyao hadn't slept all night; she was extremely sleepy at this moment.
After daybreak, we'll arrive at our destination in a few minutes.
Shen Qiaoyue and Xia Xiaoli got up to pack their luggage, holding their child, and waited to get off the bus.
After a day and a night, we finally arrived in Beijing.
When the train arrived at the station, many people got off, but Shen Qiaoyue and the others wanted to wait until there were fewer people before getting off.
Jiang Minghe and Jiang Mingjing came to pick up the person at the same time.
Seeing all sorts of people get off the bus, and not seeing the person they were waiting for, they became very nervous and exchanged glances.
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