"Xiaoli, this is too fast!" Lu He excitedly hugged Xia Xiaoli and said, "Xiaoli, it's only been half a year since we last met, and you actually married Battalion Commander Li Qingming. I really didn't expect this at all!"
“I didn’t expect this myself,” Xia Xiaoli said to Lu He.
Shen Qiaoyue came out of the kitchen.
"Lu He is back, and Aunt Wen is here?" Shen Qiaoyue happened to see Wen Ru coming in from outside, carrying fruit in her hands.
Wen Ru smiled and nodded.
"Qiaoyue, it's been a long time! You look even more gentle than before!" Wenru saw the changes in Shen Qiaoyue, from a young girl to a woman, through pregnancy and childbirth, and now she is a mother.
"I guess I've become a mother." Shen Qiaoyue didn't realize the changes in herself.
After Xia Xiaoli and Lu He finished hugging and let go, she asked, "Aunt Wen?"
"Xiaoli, congratulations!" Wenru was genuinely surprised to learn that Xia Xiaoli had gotten married.
"Thank you, Aunt Wen," Xia Xiaoli replied shyly to Wen Ru.
"Wen Ru is here?" Jiang Mingjing came out from inside and looked at Wen Ru, saying, "Your eldest disciple and youngest disciple are both here!"
The eldest apprentice is Lu He, and the youngest apprentice is Xia Xiaoli.
“So, you rushed over here to take a look!” Wen Ru continued his sentence.
"Dad Jiang, are you cooking? I'll help too." As soon as Lu He came back, she wanted to help with the cooking.
"You just got back, take a rest." Jiang Mingjing said, "Dad Jiang is about to start cooking, so if you rest a bit, we'll be able to eat soon."
"Okay." Lu He had just come from an academic conference and was indeed very tired. "Sister-in-law, didn't Da Nian and Xiao Nian come?"
“Xiao Nian is still asleep, and Da Nian is at Uncle Xu’s house,” Shen Qiaoyue explained.
"Then I'll go check on Xiao Nian," Lu He said, pulling Xia Xiaoli along to find Dan Nian.
Wen Ru put her things down, and Shen Qiaoyue poured her a glass of water on the table.
Shen Qiaoyue went back to the kitchen to help, and watching Jiang Mingjing's skillful movements, she couldn't help but ask, "Dad, do you cook often?"
“When I’m not working, I cook. I live alone in this house, so if I don’t cook, where will I eat?” Jiang Mingjing replied, his eyes constantly fixed on the vegetables in the wok, stirring them back and forth.
Shen Qiaoyue looked at her father-in-law, who was already over sixty years old, and realized that living alone was indeed lonely.
Wen Ru came in from outside and continued, "Ya Shi once said that when your dad was young, he could do anything. He always disobeyed his old superiors and was often punished by being sent to the mess hall to cook for everyone! Every time he was halfway through cooking rice, he would rush up to cook, but he would be pulled back down!"
After hearing this, Shen Qiaoyue looked at Jiang Mingjing in disbelief.
"What could I do? He wouldn't let me go. I was anxious watching so many wounded soldiers come down from the front lines. Later, I learned my lesson and wrote a self-criticism. The old leader then transferred me to the rear to protect the families!" Jiang Mingjing spoke of that story with reminiscence.
"He was also transferred to the rear, where he met Lu Chen's mother. In order to get married, he worked hard and strived for promotion so he could marry a wife." Wen Ru repeated everything Jiang Mingjing had said while helping to wash the dishes.
Wen Ru was a nurse at that time, and she had not yet met Liu Yashi.
"Sigh, let's not dwell on past glories!" Jiang Mingjing never imagined that so many years had passed by like this.
“Qiaoyue, I was introduced to your Uncle Yashi by your father and your second uncle,” Wenru said to Shen Qiaoyue.
"How so?" Shen Qiaoyue asked, her eyes full of curiosity.
“Back then, they came to the Kuomintang-controlled area and were discovered. I ran into them during their retreat, and I helped them cover up their past. I took them to my home to treat their wounds, and they stayed at my house for more than ten days. Your second uncle and your father were very impulsive when they were young!”
Jiang Mingjing smiled without saying a word, his eyes fixed on the food in the pot.
Shen Qiaoyue looked at Jiang Mingjing and realized he didn't seem like such an impulsive person.
“Your second uncle was a bit calmer, but your dad woke up the next day and said he wanted to get revenge, and the two of them started arguing.” Wen Ru recalled that time, “You have no idea how scared I was when I was just an intern nurse back then!”
Wenru was interning as a nurse in the city, and she thought about how the two of them had driven her to this point.
“I was just a nurse and didn’t know anything. They forced me to remove the bullet from Jiang Mingjing’s abdomen. I was so scared that I was sweating profusely!” Wen Ru said, unable to suppress her smile. “It was also those two who made me start learning and become a doctor from a nurse. It took so much effort and time.”
"She had just become an intern when we lured her away to our place. At that time, she was being forced to marry, so we told her we would introduce her to a good man. She was tricked into coming to the mountains to become a doctor for us. She cried in despair at that time!"
Jiang Mingjing will never forget those days.
“At that time, they brought over several single comrades and told me to choose one. I took a liking to Liu Yashi at first sight, but he didn’t want to. So I kept crying, saying that I had been tricked into coming to the north and that my family would think I had lost my reputation. I kept crying, and their leaders got scared or annoyed, so they made Liu Yashi my bodyguard to protect me, just so that we could develop feelings for each other over time.”
"It's a pity that Liu Yashi was so irresponsible back then, and you left in a fit of anger, even running away overnight!" Jiang Mingjing chimed in from the side.
"Hmph! If he had married me earlier, our children would be all grown up by now, maybe even grandmothers!" Wen Ru said arrogantly and angrily to Liu Yashi!
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