"Your wife's cooking is so delicious, even better than what's in the cafeteria, and she's beautiful too. You don't know how many people envied you after you came back yesterday. I'll be so lucky if I can marry someone like her."
Lu Shiyan asked in a low voice: "Do you want to marry?"
Gu Yan casually replied, "Yes, yes." Seeing that Lu Shiyan's face was not very good, he quickly added, "No, no, no, I'm talking about the type of wife like yours, not your wife. Don't bully your friend's wife."
"What if she's not my wife?"
Gu Yan was choked.
"No way, did you guys have a fight? You were fine yesterday. You're not upset that we ate too much last night, are you?"
Before he could reply, a girl's gentle voice came from the front:
"Here, which one do you want to eat?"
Lu Shiyan obediently handed over the plate and pointed at two dishes. Xu Zhiyi filled it up for him and even pinched his fingertips when he took it away.
His fingertips tightened slightly, and looking at her smiling face, his heart felt even more bitter. She was so good to him, he should plan more for her.
While eating, Gu Yan noticed that Lu Shiyan was in a bad mood, but he didn't dare to say anything more.
When the meal was almost over, the man opposite who had been silent all this time suddenly asked a question:
“I have a friend…”
Gu Yan swallowed the rice stuck in his throat. His intuition told him not to take another bite. He looked at the other person who seemed very hesitant.
Gu Yan smiled and said, "What happened to your friend?"
His intuition told him that this friend was not a friend.
Lu Shiyan put down the chopsticks in his hand, looked into his eyes and said:
"I have a friend who had to divorce his wife due to some uncontrollable factors. Do you think his wife would hate him?"
Ever since Gu Yan met Lu Shiyan, he never said any nonsense. This friend couldn't be him.
He didn't remember Lu Shiyan taking on any dangerous mission. Could it be a secret mission?
He glanced around and said in a low voice:
"Are you going on a mission?"
I shouldn't have asked this question, but his brother said it, and it was a mission with a high probability of death.
Lu Shiyan lowered his eyes again, knowing that he was overthinking it, but his own situation was not much better, so he clenched his fists slightly.
"Forget it, just pretend I didn't ask."
Gu Yan, as if he had received some great mission, put down his chopsticks, patted his chest and said to Lu Shiyan:
"Don't worry, from now on, sister-in-law will be handed over to me. I promise to complete the task."
Lu Shiyan felt uncomfortable again. This discomfort started when he asked for divorce yesterday.
He thought, it turns out that he is also selfish. He knew that he would be a burden to her, but he still wanted to drag her into the addiction.
Before he could think about it, he received a telegram from home as soon as he returned to the office.
There are 10 words written on it.
"Grandma is in trouble, bring your wife back quickly."
His heart was suddenly gripped with sorrow. Since his family had sent him such a telegram, it proved that his grandmother was indeed seriously injured.
His parents were very busy when he was born, so he was raised by his grandparents before he joined the army.
My feelings for my grandma are naturally self-evident.
Ignoring my morning pretentiousness, I went straight to the cafeteria to find Xu Zhiyi:
"My grandma's in trouble, and we need to go back. I'll go to the train station this morning to buy tickets and leave tomorrow. Can you take some time off?"
Xu Zhiyi looked at the man opposite her who looked a little nervous, and knew at a glance that her grandmother's condition might be very serious. She nodded quickly, believing that she should not leave any regrets about such things.
What's more, his grandmother had been quite nice to him before.
Lu Shiyan looked at her gratefully and planned to drive the military jeep to buy two train tickets later.
When he was driving, he suddenly met Zhang Yong. He stopped his hand just as he was about to start a fire and said to the people outside through the car window:
"Brother Yong, can you help me get two sleeper tickets?"
He remembered that before, people from the team who came to visit their families and couldn't buy sleeper tickets would come directly to him. Logically speaking, he was a soldier and had special treatment, but he was just afraid that the sleeper tickets would be sold out when they got there.
Zhang Yong raised his eyebrows and looked at him. Those military wives bought sleeper tickets before because they had children. Lu Shiyan was a soldier, so what did a hard seat mean to him? It must be for his wife.
Thinking of the meal last night, he licked the corner of his lips.
"Okay, I'll go with you."
In the afternoon, Lu Shiyan arranged the team's affairs and returned home.
There was some noodles at home, and he was satisfied eating them all by himself with the leftover sauce from yesterday.
Knowing that Lu Shiyan was in a bad mood, Xu Zhiyi specially cooked a few more dishes in the kitchen in the afternoon in exchange for her right to leave work early.
When I came back, I saw Lu Shiyan standing there cooking noodles, staring blankly at the pot, with an indescribable look of fatigue on his face.
She still remembered that when she first came through, this kind of expression would never appear on his face. At that time, he was still dignified and had the dignity of a nobleman and the fortitude of a soldier.
Thinking that he had just accepted the fact that he was impotent, and then he heard the bad news about his grandmother, his heart seemed to be filled with a tingling pain.
I realized that I was actually feeling sorry for the man, and I silently told myself that feeling sorry for the man would bring me bad luck for the rest of my life.
Noticing her gaze, Lu Shiyan came out of his daze and said to her:
"You're back so early, have you eaten yet?"
Xu Zhiyi shook his head and pushed him out:
"Let me cook, and you go pack your luggage for tomorrow."
This place is not too far from home, and it only takes a day and a night to get there by train.
Lu Shiyan did not leave the kitchen. He had originally planned to just eat some noodles, but since Xu Zhiyi was back, he had to have some side dishes.
"What are you eating? I'll go wash it."
Xu Zhiyi took a look and saw that there was a crispy fish in the jar. He could just stir-fry some quick spicy and sour cabbage shreds.
"Then go wash the cabbage."
When the food was served, Lu Shiyan felt that today's noodles were even more delicious than yesterday's, and his depressed mood dissipated a little.
Xu Zhiyi always felt that the atmosphere was a bit dull, watching him eat noodles in silence:
"Can you tell me about grandma?"
Lu Shiyan's expression froze, and Xu Zhiyi thought he had touched a sore spot, so he quickly said, "It's okay if you don't tell me."
Lu Shiyan finally spoke, and in her slow narration, she could feel how important her grandmother was to him.
She was a little conflicted. What if her grandmother's illness could be cured with the spiritual spring water? Should she use it?
Logically speaking, she tacitly intended the spiritual spring water for her own use. Even if Lu Shiyan was not sick, she would not take it out. Today, when she served him noodles, she secretly put two drops in to see if it would help him.
After dinner, Xu Zhiyi would steal a glance at Lu Shiyan from time to time. She would be covered in mud after drinking the spiritual spring water, but she gave him less today, so she didn't know how it would affect him.
Lu Shiyan was washing dishes when he felt a stinky smell around him. Could it be that a mouse had gotten into the kitchen?
He hurried to finish washing the dishes, but before he could find where the dead mouse was, he realized that the stench seemed to be on him.
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