Chapter 158: Prosperity 158: I just feel that you are too wronged...
"My position will be transferred after the military base is fully built." Chu Dai put Tuan Tuan in the cradle beside him, covered him with a small blanket, and took another bottle to make milk powder for his younger brother.
"The Southern Military Region is the headquarters of the military. My superiors have ordered me to be transferred back to the Navy Command Headquarters."
"Oh, we should be on the island for a short time, right?" Gu Qingqing was not surprised after hearing this. They had said before they came that it might take five or six years to leave the island, so even if they leave earlier, it wouldn't be much earlier.
"One year later." The man rubbed the bottle with his palms, and waited until the milk powder was even before handing it to the woman for his little son to eat.
"Ah?" Gu Qingqing was stunned. She originally thought it would be advanced by at most one or two years, but she didn't expect it to be so much earlier now.
"Brother, do you want to leave the island?" she asked.
Chu Dai nodded, "We have trained enough here, it's time to go to the battlefield."
After a naval military base is built here, warships will transport weapons here. The mission of Baisha Island is to defend and intimidate neighboring countries. If he perseveres here, he will just be a regiment commander who patrols the caves every day, which is not what he wants.
"We have to leave anyway, it doesn't matter whether we leave early or late. Wherever you are is our home." Gu Qingqing leaned against the head of the bed, feeling relieved.
The political review on the island was too strict, and it was extremely difficult for her to leave the island. She hadn't seen her parents for several years and missed them very much. If she returned to the southern military region, not only could she see Gousheng often, but she could also go home often.
It only takes half a day to get to Yancheng by train from Nanyang, which is very convenient.
The room was warm and the charcoal fire was almost burning. The man used pliers to pinch some charcoal from a small bag next to him and added it in.
After a while, Gu Qingqing asked again: "What is my brother's plan?"
"He won't leave the army," Chu Dai moved the stove to the bedside, put down the pliers and sat down, looking at the woman with a smile on his face: "He said that after winning a few more battles, he will apply to be transferred to the Southern Military Region to join us."
"Ah?!" This was something Gu Qingqing had not expected. She was surprised and delighted: "Then our family can be together in the future?!"
"Yes, just wait another year." Chu Dai undressed, changed into pajamas, lifted the quilt and went to bed. "My second brother will return to the Corps in the first half of the year. You may have a harder time then."
"It's okay. I don't have to do anything at home every day anyway. I can eat in the cafeteria every day. Ah Sui can help me when he comes home from school. And you're still here. You come home early now." She said with a smile.
Chu Dai leaned against the head of the bed next to her, "I just feel that you are too wronged."
"I don't feel wronged. You and my brother took care of Tuantuan and Niannian most of the time, and kept you awake late at night. I had a harder time when I was pregnant." As she spoke, she leaned into the man's arms, lowered her eyes and looked at her little son in her arms, and said softly, "I think you are a very good husband. Really, when I was pregnant, you thought of asking the military doctor to ask Xiao Zhao to buy me olive oil and wipe my belly every night. I really didn't expect it."
Chu Dai didn't say anything. He let her lean on his arms, stroking her hair with his big hands while listening to her.
"Actually, when I first met you, I thought you looked quite distant and not easy to approach. But when I saw that you got along well with my brother and could put up with all his nonsense, I knew you had a warm heart."
Maybe the environment was too comfortable. She was holding her little son in her arms, with her husband leaning against her back, and her older son sleeping in a cradle next to her. The fireplace in the room was burning brightly, and her tone was very leisurely.
"I really think you're great, better than any man I've ever met. You would accompany my father to the team to watch him show off with his uncles and aunts. You know that everyone in the village is jealous of my father, right? They praised him for finding a good son-in-law, and the cigarettes, alcohol, and candies used for the wedding banquet are probably still talked about by Aunt Guihua and the others after dinner."
Chu Dai just smiled silently. In fact, he felt that he had owed this little woman too much. He made her suffer with him on the island, and her elders were not around when she gave birth. Fortunately, Gu Qinglie was there, otherwise she would have been so disappointed.
She had been a treasure held in the palm of her family's hand since she was young, and her feelings towards her family were not the same as those of someone like him who came from an indifferent family. She didn't think it was a big deal if she didn't see Chu Yuan for a year or two.
This is the reason why she wants to leave the island. She can see her family more often, or bring her family over.
Her cousins are all good, and the Gu family are all down-to-earth and capable. It depends on whether they can be arranged a position in the army. The Southern Military Region is large and there are vacancies everywhere.
I didn't plan to tell her all this for the time being. After all, there's still a long time before we leave the island, and I don't know if there will be any changes in the future. I was afraid that she would be too happy for nothing.
The couple talked a lot this afternoon. The two kids didn't make any noise and went to sleep after eating. Gu Qingqing fell asleep leaning in the man's arms.
Chu Dai rested his chin on her head, put his right hand on her waist, and slowly closed his eyes.
The afternoon was even more lively.
Four or five people came from the Corps. Chen Jiefang and the others didn't even wait for Chu Dai to get up before they took the Spring Festival couplets written by Old Qin and pasted them everywhere. They even pasted a "Fu" character upside down on the small door of the storage room.
Hearing the loud and noisy voices outside, the man opened his eyes, his eyes full of helplessness.
Gu Qingqing yawned, put her little son who was sleeping soundly in her arms against the wall, covered him with a quilt, and put on her clothes under the quilt before getting up.
Tuan Tuan in the cradle was not awakened by the noise outside. Gu Qingqing knew that this was just a temporary relief, and there would be worries again at night.
Seeing the young couple coming out, Zhao Ze came over with his son in his arms: "Anian found some wild shepherd's purse in the back hill and is digging it with Bai Tao. Shall we make some shepherd's purse dumplings this afternoon?"
"All is fine." Gu Qingqing teased Xiao Yu'er for a while, then went to the kitchen to get a chopping board and flour. "You have strong hands, knead the dough, roll it, and chop the stuffing. I'll go to the back mountain to see how much they have dug, okay?"
"Sure, why not? When we were in the Corps, when the old man was too busy, he asked us to make dumplings together. We came from the Construction Corps, so who doesn't know how to make some pasta?" Chen Jiefang rolled up his sleeves, took a large basin and prepared to pour flour: "Oh, I just saw Doctor Yang coming here, did you call him?"
Gu Qingqing glanced at the man next to her and blinked, "Yes, wasn't she the one who delivered Tuan Tuan and Niannian? I thought of inviting her over for dinner. No one from her family is on the island, so it's a good opportunity to have some fun together."
"Oh." Chen Jiefang grinned, "I was wondering why she came here if she is not from our regiment."
Zhao Ze tutted his words and said deliberately: "Just because she is not with you now doesn't mean she won't be with you in the future. She doesn't have a partner. There are so many brothers in our regiment, there must be someone she likes."
"No way, how can a delicate girl like her be interested in a bunch of rough guys like us?" Chen Jiefang thought that military doctors were all educated people, like Zhao Ze, who had graduated from university.
"Who knows?" Gu Qingqing came out from the corner of the kitchen with a basket and a small shovel in her hand. "Brother, please keep an eye on Tuan Tuan and Niannian in the house. I'll go help first."
"Okay." Chu Dai responded, picked up a bag of peanuts from the table and started peeling them. He said to his comrades, "You guys knead the dough and roll the skin first, I'll chop the stuffing later."
"Okay, where's the boss?"
"I'm taking a nap upstairs. The two little ones at home are too noisy at night."
Gu Qingqing walked out of the courtyard and went around to the back hill. She saw Bai Tao and Xu Nian hiding on the hillside and whispering to each other. She walked over and asked, "How much have you dug?"
"You scared me." Xu Nian patted his chest and took a long breath: "Half the basket is full. Come on, let's dig more. I haven't had a bite of rice for a long time."
Gu Qingqing happily joined them and asked Bai Tao: "Where are Xiaoyang and Xiaorou? Didn't you bring them out?"
"Yu Chengdai is at home." Bai Tao pried up the shepherd's purse that was clinging to the ground and said, "His sister sent a telegram two days ago, and he sent money back out of pity, fearing that I would say that he was being particularly diligent these two days and was rushing to do all the work."
Yu Cheng is a very patriarchal man, or rather, most men in the army are very patriarchal. He won't even wash the dishes after dinner when he gets home. He will play with the children when he is in a good mood, but otherwise he will just sit there and do nothing.
Zhao Ze was already very good; he was often the one holding the children outside. Chu Dai was even better; after a mission he would stick with his two sons.
Gu Qingqing didn't know what to say. She looked at Xu Nian and remembered what she had said before, that one should not talk about other people's business, so she just shut up.
Xu Nian still sympathized with Bai Tao's words, and she couldn't help asking, "Who manages your family's money?"
Bai Tao shook the dirt off the roots of the shepherd's purse. "Yu Chengguan is in charge. He used to send money home every month, and the rest was put in the drawer. I need to take it myself."
"You have to take care of it." Xu Nian taught them, "These men don't know how expensive firewood and rice are until they are in charge of the household. Although we don't need tickets for rice, flour and oil on the island, don't we still need tickets for other things? They are different. They think they don't need to pay a penny to eat in the cafeteria. They have wives and children at home. If they give you an allowance, you should keep the money in your hands. If he wants to send money out, he has to go through you. If he wants to send twenty yuan, you should give him ten yuan, and it won't be so bad."
This is all her experience. Zhao Zezhi sent a lot of money home. My mother sent twenty yuan every month, and there were also various coupons. Not to mention the food distributed by the team, how could she eat so much by herself? It all went into the pockets of his two brothers.
Now it's a maximum of ten yuan a month, and she has no say on how it is divided. Zhao Ze receives more than seventy yuan in allowance every month, and she saves the rest.
Bai Tao remembered in her heart, "I will bring this up when I get home today. It just so happens that he feels guilty about me right now, so he will probably agree soon."
Gu Qingqing listened to them quietly beside them, her hands moving quickly, and she already had a handful of wild shepherd's purse in her hands.
After a while, her legs were numb and she couldn't help but stand up and threw the shepherd's purse into the basket at her feet: "Is it almost done? Sister Anian, you can make the filling for the shepherd's purse dumplings later. I don't know why the fillings for the dumplings I make are always dry."
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