Chu Dai sat down next to her and passed the chopsticks to her. He felt a little annoyed and didn't say anything for a long time.
Gu Qingqing was still wrapped in a quilt, eating slowly with her lunch box in her hand, not even glancing at the man next to her.
Not hearing her chattering, Chu Dai felt that the meal was not as delicious as before. He suddenly put down his chopsticks and coughed lightly.
Gu Qingqing glanced at him and asked, "Did you get a fish bone stuck in your throat?"
"No." Chu Dai stood up, took the enamel cup and poured a cup of hot water and handed it to her, "Wife, I was wrong."
Gu Qingqing was biting on a shrimp cake. When she heard him give in, her eyebrows curved. Restraining the smile on her lips, she deliberately said coldly: "You know I'm not feeling well, but you still ask Brother Zhao for so many things. Are you afraid that I will pester you for more in the next few days? Do you not want to have a baby with me at all?"
Seeing that she didn't take the water cup and continued to talk for a long time, Chu Dai's Adam's apple moved up and down, and he was a little bit at a loss. He explained: "No, I just happened to run into him and thought that it was almost used up. How about not wearing it next time?"
"What if we have a child? Don't you want one?" she threatened.
"It's not that I don't want to, I just want you to get used to the island first. You saw Xu Nian before, she was vomiting a lot and lost a lot of weight. I was afraid that you wouldn't be able to adapt to the climate when you first arrived on the island, and I didn't want you to suffer. Wait a little longer, be good."
Hearing his coaxing tone, Gu Qingqing finally couldn't help but lie on the table and burst into laughter, her almond-shaped eyes curved into crescents. Seeing her like this, Chu Dai realized that she was teasing him.
He stretched out his hand and pinched her little face: "Okay, you are getting braver. How about I return these things to Zhao Ze, and we won't need them in the future."
Gu Qingqing climbed up his arms and hugged him tightly.
"I'm sorry, brother. I'm still young. You can't do this."
Chu Dai snorted and laughed, "She's not young anymore. At this age, she can be the mother of two children."
Gu Qingqing rubbed his shoulder begging for mercy, her slender fingers rubbing the blue stubble on his chin, "Are you going on a mission tomorrow? Shave today?"
"Can you help me?" The man lowered his eyes and glanced at her.
"Forget it," Gu Qingqing shook her head, "I don't know how to do it."
"I'll teach you." Chu Dai became interested. "Do you dare?"
"Why would you be afraid?" Gu Qingqing stiffened her neck. "Go and fetch the hot water first."
Chu Dai looked at the leftover rice in his lunch box and nodded: "I'll send the lunch box down later and do it together."
"Then hurry up." Gu Qingqing was a little embarrassed, "I really want to take a shower." She felt very uncomfortable and unrefreshed because of the sticky feeling on her body.
Chu Dai quickened his eating speed and caught a glimpse of a grain of rice at the corner of her mouth. He wiped it lightly with his fingertips and stuffed it into her mouth.
Gu Qingqing chewed it subconsciously.
The man really smiled this time, his eyes and eyebrows were animated, he stood up to pack his lunch box, and kissed her nose before leaving: "Wait for me five minutes."
Gu Qingqing actually raised her watch and said, "It is thirty-five minutes now, Comrade Captain, the countdown begins."
"Yes, Chief." Chu Dai carried the lunch box and went to the kitchen to get a bucket of water. His footsteps disappeared outside the living room.
Gu Qingqing slowly got up from the bed. Her clothes were still in the luggage bag. She found the clothes she wanted to change and put the rest into the closet.
Chu Dai has stacked them very neatly, so just put them in one pile.
Glancing at the four small cardboard boxes at the bedside, she quickly ran over, picked up the small boxes, stuffed them at the bottom of the closet, and covered them with a man's long coat.
When the man came back, the quilt on the bed had been made flat, and she was standing on tiptoe to stuff the luggage bag onto the top of the cabinet.
After standing on tiptoe for a long time, she still couldn't push it up. Chu Dai stood behind her and watched for a long time. Gu Qingqing turned around and said, "Brother, help me!"
She wanted him to put it on her. A man is tall and has long legs, so it would be easy for him to do it.
Unexpectedly, the man grabbed her waist with both hands from behind and lifted her up.
She dazedly pushed the suitcase bag into the gap between the top of the cabinet and the ceiling, then looked down at the man.
"elder brother……"
Chu Dai chuckled, then carried her to the bed.
He unbuttoned his military uniform and hung it up on a hanger from the closet. "Want to take a shower now?"
"Yeah." Gu Qingqing came back to her senses and took the white cotton and linen clothes from the bedside. She thought of something and walked past the man in front of the closet, opened the drawer, and took out the cotton strip under his burning gaze.
The man raised his lips slightly, and when he saw her face flushed, he stopped teasing her and just said, "Put the changed ones in the tub and soak them in the bath water. I'll take care of it."
"I can wash it myself." Gu Qingqing's face became even hotter. "I'm embarrassed for you to be like this, brother."
Chu Dai saw her pretending and exposed her directly: "I know, you should go to the balcony after washing and drying it, right? Remember that."
Gu Qingqing threw herself into his arms, hugged his waist and smiled, "Ah, I can't hide anything from you, thank you brother, you are the best."
Chu Dai rubbed her hairy head and said, "If you have anything to say, just call me. There's no need to be so polite, my wife."
"I know."
She was about to praise her man for his kindness when she heard him ask slowly:
"Where's the stuff on the bedside table? Huh?"
Gu Qingqing stepped out of his arms and picked up the clothes on the bed: "I'm going to take a shower. The water will be cold by the time I'm done. Do you want some?"
"Keep it." The man replied lazily.
Gu Qingqing went to the bathroom next to the kitchen. She tried the water in the bucket with her hand and found that it was a little hot.
The man must have gotten cold when he brought it back, so he deliberately added less cold water.
His attentiveness made Gu Qingqing feel inferior. Many times she had never thought about it so much. Her personality was a bit like Goudan, rough but meticulous, but she was more careless most of the time.
Chu Dai and Gu Canyang are more thoughtful and considerate people.
She poured some water out from the basin, leaving some for the man to wash his face, then took off her clothes and started taking a bath.
It took me half an hour to finish washing, and I felt dry and refreshed after changing clothes.
She rubbed the changed cotton strips briefly with a little water scooped from the wooden barrel, and then put them aside for the man to wash.
After doing all this, she slowly returned to the room. The man was leaning against the head of the bed, holding a black hardcover notebook in his hand and a pen in his right hand.
Gu Qingqing held his legs and leaned him onto the bed, looking sideways at the notebook in his hand: "What are you writing? Is it a battle plan?"
Having said this, she quickly turned her head away and stopped reading.
"No, I'm writing to my elder and second brothers to let them know I'm safe." Chu Dai held her waist and let her sit on his lap. He showed her the notebook and said, "There will be a supply ship coming tomorrow. I can take it back with me. Do you have anything to say?"
Gu Qingqing looked at him in a daze, the corners of her mouth twitched, but in the end she said nothing.
How can this man be so good?!
Thanks Goudan!
Chu Dai didn't know what the little woman was thinking, so he handed her the notebook and put the pen in her hand. "I'll go wash up first and think about it slowly. There's no rush."
“…Okay.” Gu Qingqing got up from him, watched him take the clothes out, and lay on the thick quilt with her notebook in her arms, smiling foolishly.
Chu Dai took a quick shower, less than ten minutes. After showering, he used the water in the bucket to scrub the things she had taken off with soap. He glanced at the clean water in the washbasin next to him and raised his eyebrows slightly.
His wife is very considerate. At least she left some water for him to wash his face.
After washing up, I took the water to the backyard and poured it out.
He thought of something and went back to the room to take the suitcase down from the top of the cabinet.
Gu Qingqing looked at his actions, somewhat confused.
Soon, the man took out a plastic bag from his side pocket, untied it and took out the red scarf and...
She was silent for a moment.
After the man went upstairs to dry the clothes, she returned the notebook and pen to him and said, "It's done."
Chu Dai didn't even look at it. He put it on the small table beside him, turned off the light, got on the bed, held her in his arms, put his left hand on her belly, and said softly, "Go to sleep. I'll bring you food tomorrow morning. You have to go to the cafeteria to eat at noon. I won't be back until the evening."
Tomorrow we will start building a hidden warehouse for anti-atomic speedboats. Except for Zhao Ze, everyone will have to go to build the military.
"I know. Just do what you should do. I'm not a child." Gu Qingqing hummed comfortably, nestled in his hot embrace, closed her eyes and said, "I have things to do too. I'll loosen the soil in the yard tomorrow and try to grow vegetables."
"Okay." Chu Dai rested his chin on her head and moved his hands slowly. "If there are no tools in the yard, go to the quartermaster's office to borrow some. It's a good opportunity to walk around the island and get familiar with the terrain."
"Is there a military restricted area on the island?" She suddenly raised her head: "I'm afraid I might have entered it by mistake."
"Not yet. It's a wasteland everywhere. But there are a lot of bugs. You have to be careful." Chu Dai said, "In the future, if you see a place guarded by soldiers, just don't go there."
"I remember it!" Gu Qingqing also felt sorry for him as he had been tossed around on the sea for a whole day, taking care of her in everything without even taking a break himself.
She put her arms around the man's waist and patted his back gently, "Be good, go to sleep. You have to get up early tomorrow."
Chu Dai's eyes gradually darkened. He responded, stared at her profile for a long time, and hugged her tighter.
The next morning.
When she woke up, there was no one beside her. When he got up, he did not forget to roll the corner of the quilt inward to make it firm. Gu Qingqing leaned against the head of the bed, yawned, rubbed her eyes, got up, washed, and then finished the breakfast the man brought back.
Two fist-sized sauerkraut meat buns and a bowl of fish fillet porridge.
After eating, she simply cleaned up, took her lunch box and thermos to the cafeteria, washed the lunch box and filled it with hot water.
A chubby man in a navy uniform and a white cotton bib came out and greeted her with a smile: "How was your meal? Did you like the food?"
Gu Qingqing nodded, her brows curved: "It's delicious, the food on the island is so good."
The man was very amiable when he smiled. He put all the lunch boxes away neatly and said, "The troops have enough supplies, and there will be more tomorrow. There is plenty of fish and meat on the island. Just eat as much as you can. We don't have anything else on the island, but plenty of food."
"I'm the squad leader of the kitchen team. Just call me Lao Zhu. If you need hot water in the future, you can tell me first and I'll save it for you."
"Okay, thank you, squad leader Zhu."
Because of this incident, Gu Qingqing felt that life on the island was so happy. After saying goodbye to Lao Zhu, she strolled to the quartermaster's office and brought back a hot water bottle and a hoe.
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