We had dinner at Wu Lanhua's home in the evening. Aunt Lu, using her real name Li Qing, had a great conversation with Wu Lanhua and said frankly that she liked her straightforward personality very much.
"Oh, auntie, let me tell you, I used to be very calculative. I would be jealous for a long time if someone got a penny more than me."
Wu Lanhua smiled and shook her head, "Nian Nian is still the most capable one in our family. Since the family split up, I have been following her. Our lives are getting better and better, and there is more hope for us. Let alone a penny or two, I would be willing to cook for her every day."
This is the reason why Ruan Niannian feels more and more at ease with Wu Lanhua. She knows how to be grateful and wants to repay the favor.
After dinner, Wu Lanhua sent them back together and explained to Aunt Lu, Lu Zhien and Lu Zhili: "Our He Hui knows everything. If you want to go out for a walk, just let him take you. The other kids are all very obedient. Just call whoever you want to take out to play."
Li Qing was so happy about the warm attitude of not treating them as outsiders that she couldn't stop smiling. She said frankly that just because of her personality, she wanted to settle down here.
"My Zhien is busy at work. He is a senior technical worker in the steel plant. The factory cannot do without him. He has taken a few days off to accompany me. He will be back in two days. Zhili, on the other hand, can stay with me here for a while. Her temporary job is not busy and she will go back. I have to trouble you, my third sister-in-law, to take care of her."
Li Qing told Wu Lanhua what they had agreed on and asked Lu Zhien and Lu Zhili to temporarily change their surnames to Li, following hers.
She is good at judging people. Most of the people in this family are big mouths. If you tell her, basically everyone in the village will know about it.
With Ruan Niannian's identity as her aunt as a cover, and Lee Ji-eun's identity as a senior technician at the steel plant, they will be safer here.
After changing their clothes and tying their hair into pigtails, who could still recognize them as members of the Lu family?
After sending Ruan Niannian home, Wu Lanhua looked at Pei Qinggang's room twice more, resisted the urge to put her ear close to listen to the noise, and went home after staying for a while.
Pei Yuanzheng and Pei Qingyang were on night shift and did not return home until the early morning after finishing their shift.
When Pei Qinggang woke up early the next morning, he had recovered a lot of energy. Wu Xinghua had just finished cooking porridge and was washing the bloody clothes that Pei Qinggang had taken off yesterday in the yard.
Pei Qinggang squatted down beside her, a look of pity flashing in his eyes, "Thank you for your hard work, Xinghua."
"It's okay." Wu Xinghua kept moving her hands, raised her head and looked at Pei Qinggang with a smile, "Go and do your work. We are not strangers. I am the one you got married to."
Her words made Pei Qinggang feel relieved. He looked around to see that no one was riding him. He lowered his head and kissed Wu Xinghua on the lips, "Wife, wait for me to come back."
After saying that, he turned and walked out.
After being kissed, Wu Xinghua stopped washing clothes and just stood there smiling foolishly. They didn't do anything last night. Pei Qinggang just held her in his arms and slept all night.
Now this kiss can be regarded as a breakthrough in their relationship.
Moreover, he called her wife. It was the first time after getting the marriage certificate. They are not far from becoming a real couple now, right?
What Wu Xinghua didn't know was that as soon as Pei Qing went out, he met Li Zhien who was coming back from her morning run.
The first time he saw Lee Ji-eun, a sense of crisis surged in his heart.
Lee Ji-eun is good-looking and has a good figure. In the past, she would definitely be the type that Wu Xinghua would like, but now... he is not so sure.
"Hello, comrade. I'm Li Zhien, Ruan Niannian's cousin. I'm staying here for a few days." Li Zhien extended her hand to Pei Qinggang.
Pei Qinggang put his hand on him, "Hello, I'm Pei Qinggang."
Thinking of the test that Zhai Ligang had made on him when he came before, he couldn't help but put more strength in his hands.
"Hmm?" Li Zhien was confused for a moment and increased the strength of her hands.
Political Commissar Lu has given him military training since he was a child, and his physical fitness has never declined. Although he has devoted himself to scientific research in recent years, he has never given up fitness. After all, he has a father who likes to nag.
Although I don’t know why Pei Qinggang has inexplicable hostility towards him, Li Zhien was taught since childhood that: I don’t bully others actively, but I can’t be bullied either.
Judging from the strength alone, Lee Ji-eun is definitely not as good as Pei Qinggang, but she is not bad either.
After learning this, Pei Qinggang felt an even stronger sense of crisis. He didn't even want to put on a show and left home with a gloomy face to go to work.
He originally wanted to take it slow and slowly develop feelings with Wu Xinghua, so that at least she wouldn't just be attracted by his face.
First he made a marriage certificate to tie her to his side, and then step by step he let her fall into his trap so that she could never get out.
Perhaps influenced by the fact that his mother abandoned him, Pei Qinggang has no good feelings towards women who are weak-willed and give up easily, such as Zhang Hongyu.
On the contrary, Wu Xinghua remained persistent despite his repeated rejections, which made him feel that Wu Xinghua might really be the right one for him.
But now he no longer cared about testing or not, sincerity or not, or whether they were suitable for each other. He had to show some real ability to seduce Wu Xinghua so that she would not have time to pay attention to other men.
No, I have to ask Pei Yuanzheng when Ruan Niannian’s cousin will leave.
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Breakfast was still meat porridge, side dishes and eggs. Wu Xinghua planned to make some dumplings for Ruan Niannian in the next two days to improve her diet, and she mentioned it while eating breakfast.
Pei Yuanzheng nodded. "Last time, each family sent us some wild boar meat. We didn't eat it at the time, so we pickled it with salt. We can wash some and make dumplings with it. It will definitely be delicious."
"Wild boar meat is nutritious. Stew it and add more ginger. Nian Nian will definitely eat it without the fishy smell." Li Qing said quickly.
Her apparent purpose of coming here was to relax and take care of Ruan Niannian, so naturally she had to revolve around Ruan Niannian.
Ruan Niannian just nodded without saying anything. She had no experience anyway, so she just watched them do it.
After finishing the meal, Ruan Niannian found a chance to ask Wu Xinghua how she felt last night.
Wu Xinghua blushed, "No, he just slept with me in his arms all night yesterday."
"Ah? Is that so?" Ruan Niannian's tone was full of disappointment. They had slept in the same bed and were a legal couple, so how could nothing work out?
Then he thought about the blood on Pei Qing's body when he came back yesterday, so he went to ask Pei Yuanzheng what happened in the commune.
Pei Yuanzheng's face was a little solemn. "The commune has been a little uneasy these days. Yesterday afternoon, when Brother Wolf was patrolling the streets, he came across an incident in the alley where the stalls were set up. An old man was beaten and covered in blood. He sent the man to the commune clinic, but he couldn't be saved."
"So fast?" Ruan Niannian took a deep breath and suddenly realized that it was already mid-September, which was when the chaos in her previous life began.
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