Chapter 231: How did you fall in love with me?
Chu Dai lifted the two kids to the ground and said, "Play by yourselves."
Tuan Tuan and Niannian were wearing woolen socks and stepping on the wooden floor. The two brothers looked at each other in bewilderment. Little Niannian realized that their father didn't want to play with them.
With a cry, he hugged the man's legs and looked up: "Daddy~Duck!"
I bought two rubber ducks at Suining Department Store. The two little guys played with them for a while on the rubber ducks and forgot about them when they got home. Now I remember them again.
"Downstairs," the man sighed, and carried the two clingy people to the bed again, and sat down beside the bed: "Ah Sui, go down and get it, it's on the sofa, children are quick on their feet."
Shen Sui knew that this was his excuse for being lazy, but he didn't say anything. He put down his pen, moved his stool back a step, and got up and went downstairs.
Gu Qingqing looked at the foreign language book without looking up: "In the future, when he is doing his homework, don't always give him instructions and interrupt his train of thought."
"What kind of thinking is needed to practice a few words?" the man said casually.
"Chu Dai!" The woman turned her head to look at him, with a somewhat dissatisfied tone in her voice.
"I was wrong. Next time I'll call him when he's free." The man pinched his son's face and asked her with a smile, "What book are you reading?"
"A brief history of Britain." Gu Qingqing thought of what Xiao Xiao had said before and asked him, "What do you think if I learn something again? Maybe I can work as a translator at a service station in the future."
"It depends on what you like," the man said disdainfully, rubbing his son's saliva on his clothes. "Tell me if you need anything. It's inconvenient for you to go out and buy it yourself."
"You don't object to me doing this?" Gu Qingqing looked at him with a smile.
The man was amused: "Why should I object?" He didn't have to worry about it at home. He said: "The college entrance examination may be resumed in the next few years. You can go back to school then. I will find a way for you every year."
"Forget it, what else can you think of?" Gu Qingqing picked up the book again: "But when my second brother comes, my mother may come over, but I don't know how long she will stay."
Thinking of something, she added, "My mother said that if we have another child, she will come over to help take care of the child."
The man met her gaze and raised his eyebrows: "I remember someone told me that they don't want to have children for the time being."
"Yes, let's take a closer look. Tuantuan and Nian Nian are still young now." Gu Qingqing looked at the notes on it, holding the book and sitting on the bed next to him: "I don't know a lot of them, can you teach me?"
"Okay." The man lowered his eyes and looked at the words on the book in her hand. Below the English was Shen Sui's translation in beautiful regular script.
When Shen Sui came in, he had two little yellow ducks in his hands. When the little fellow, who was originally crawling on his father's back, saw this, he threw himself directly onto his uncle, and made noises by pinching the rubber ducks with his little hands.
Seeing them giggling non-stop, Gu Qingqing also smiled.
As the days passed, the two little guys grew up.
May 6, 1975, the twenty-fifth day of the third lunar month.
beginning of summer.
"Second brother went back on the 21st day of the first lunar month, right? It's been two months now. Isn't it time for him to come to the military region?" After finishing lunch, Gu Qingqing took down the salted fish that had been dried in the yard and asked the man behind her.
Chu Dai had just returned from the Navy Headquarters, holding a string of salted fish that his wife had caught.
"Soon. I received his telegram yesterday. There will be a transfer order in the next two days." Gu Qinglie returned from the battlefield half a month ago and was slightly injured. He didn't dare to say it in the telegram because he was afraid that his sister would be sad if she knew about it. It was only after Chu Dai asked Guan Xun that he found out.
"Why don't we go pick him up? It's a good opportunity to visit the Construction Corps. You haven't been back for more than two years. Let's take Ah Sui and Tuan Tuan Niannian with us," she suggested.
The man knew she would say, "I took a week off."
Then he added: "I also asked for a week's leave for Ah Sui."
Gu Qingqing excitedly turned around and snuggled into his arms, hugging his waist, and looked up at him with a smile: "Really? I haven't seen Aunt Yu for a long time. Xiaotu should be studying in the border town, and Xiaoxu should also be studying in the red class of education?"
The man held the dried salt fish in both hands and moved his arms slightly to the side to avoid rubbing against her.
"Really. I don't know about that either. I don't know if the Corps has established its own primary school for its soldiers. There aren't many sisters-in-law who follow the army, so even if the school is built, no one would go."
There were only the two of them in the yard, and the two kids were taking a nap upstairs with their uncle.
It was not until two o'clock in the afternoon that Shen Sui went to school to continue his classes.
Gu Qingqing sighed in his arms: "The conditions in the Corps are not very good. Lack of water is a big problem. I guess now only Auntie is left with the army."
If Chu Dai was still there, she would definitely stay in the Construction Corps. At least her husband and brother would be there, everyone in the Corps was familiar to her, and she could talk to Aunt Yu.
Thinking about it this way, it seems to be better than the military compound, except that the conditions are too harsh.
We can only eat fish a few times a year, unlike Nanyang, where people live by the sea and fish and shrimp are very cheap, and ordinary people can afford them.
The couple discussed when to go to the train station. There was a train heading to Yancheng tonight, and to get to the Construction Corps from here one had to pass through Yancheng.
It just so happened that Shen Sui could leave directly after school and dinner in the afternoon.
Gu Qingqing held the man's waist and raised her head to talk to him. The man answered with a smile. The girl standing outside in the yard dug her nails into her palms and finally called out softly, "Brother Adai."
The smile on Gu Qingqing's face faded, and she stepped out of the man's arms. Seeing the girl standing at the gate of the courtyard, she thought to herself that she was finally here.
Bai Rong has never left the military compound since she returned to it during the Chinese New Year, nor has she performed with the art troupe. Xiao Xiao said that it was her family who asked her to get married before going out.
Gu Qingqing already had a premonition that she would find trouble with Chu Dai.
Thinking of this, she took the salted fish from the man and said, "I'll go to the kitchen and pack these."
Chu Dai avoided her hand and said, "It's too heavy. I'll carry it. Let's go together."
Neither the couple mentioned the person outside the door.
Bai Rong bit her lip and called out again, "Brother."
Chu Dai's face was slightly tense, and he thought of something. He said in a calm tone: "Come in."
Gu Qingqing said nothing about this.
Bai Rong followed her into the living room. Gu Qingqing and the man went to the kitchen to put the salted fish away, and also made a cup of tea and brought it to the girl.
Chu Dai suddenly felt a little flustered.
Putting it on the coffee table, she said to the man in a calm tone: "Chu Dai, you guys chat, I'll go see the child."
In the Chu family, except for Chu Yuan and Qin Zhou, she didn't dare to call them by their names. As for the other four men, two adults and two children, they felt nervous every time they heard her call them by their full names.
Gu Qinglie also said: "Apart from facing Gousheng's face, I am most afraid of Qingqing calling my name. I'm not lying to you, it makes me shudder."
Chu Dai's whole body was stiff. If he let her go now, he didn't know how to coax her at night. Just when he was about to open his mouth, the woman walked upstairs briskly, as if something was blocking her from behind.
The man seemed helpless, yet there was a hint of indulgence and pampering in his eyes.
Bai Rong saw all the changes in his eyes, but she didn't touch the enamel cup on the tea table. She lowered her head and whispered, "Brother Adai, can you help me?"
Chu Dai looked at her and was silent for a long time without saying anything.
Bai Rong twisted her fingers and said to herself, "My father wants me to marry the son of an uncle in the war zone. I don't want to, brother. I really don't want to."
"If my brother were still here, he would definitely stand by me and help me."
Chu Dai's mind flashed with Bai Yan's face and he closed his eyes. After a while, he opened his eyes again, his face expressionless: "But A Yan is gone."
Bai Rong's movements suddenly stopped, as if she couldn't believe that he would mention her brother in such a cold tone.
"Brother Adai..."
"Can't you solve it?" The man looked into her eyes with his sharp eyes, and saw through her easily: "Uncle Bai and Aunt Bai only have you as their only daughter. If you really don't want to, will they force you?"
Bai Rong's lips trembled, and she wanted to say something but it got stuck in her throat and she couldn't utter it.
"Or maybe you made some impossible demands on them, which is why Uncle Bai and Aunt Bai were so stubborn and insisted on marrying you off immediately, regardless of the objections of their only daughter."
Chu Dai obviously didn't want to say anything more. "Rongrong, for your brother's sake, I can help you, but you have repeatedly used A Yan to threaten me and try to take advantage of my guilt towards him. I know all this."
Bai Rong's face turned pale and she bit her lip as she looked at him.
The brother Adai in her memory is not like this.
"No matter what you are thinking, every time you mention A-Yan, the affection we had when we were young fades a little. I can help you this time, but there won't be a next time."
Chu Dai said, "I used to plan to prepare a dowry for you when you got married, but now it seems that it is useless and you don't really treat me as your brother. So let it be. If you have any problems in the future, you can look for Ah Zhao. He has no family, so there is no need to avoid suspicion."
Before going up the stairs, he turned to look at her and said, "Ayan would be very sad if he saw you like this." After that, he went upstairs without looking back.
The sound of powerful footsteps gradually faded away on the wooden stairs. Bai Rong covered her face, lay on her legs, and sobbed.
She knew that Chu Dai was completely drawing a line between them and her, and she could never come to see him again.
Gu Qingqing went to the third floor to take a look. Shen Sui and the two little guys were sleeping soundly. She closed the door gently and went downstairs.
Chu Dai pushed open the bedroom door and saw the woman sitting on the edge of the bed with her eyes downcast, holding a well-preserved old photo in her hand.
He walked over and pulled up a chair to sit opposite her.
"What are you looking at?" I followed her gaze.
Gu Qingqing handed the photo to him without saying anything.
The man took it and raised his eyebrows after seeing it clearly: "Me and Goudan?"
It was the photo taken in the Construction Corps that was sent back by Gu Qinglie.
He looked quite frivolous in the photo. He was young and ignorant at that time and thought he could conquer everything.
Now I can't help laughing when I look at it: "I don't feel anything when I look at this photo, how did you fall in love with me?"
"Good-looking." Gu Qingqing thought for a moment and said, "The best-looking person I've ever seen is my eldest brother, until Goudan sent me this photo."
Chu Dai glanced at Goudan in the photo again and said, "There is a slight difference in appearance between the second brother and the eldest brother."
Gu Qingqing said nothing, her eyes fell on the photo in his hand.
The man couldn't help but ask: "Why don't you ask what Bai Rong told me?"
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