Ye Nian'an and Chi Xinyao, accompanied by Zhang Cuihua, slowly walked towards their newly assigned military dependents' home with their three children.
Throughout the journey, Zhang Cuihua kept talking, recounting all the interesting stories and gossip about the families in the military compound, making everyone laugh continuously.
Just as they turned into the red brick building of the military dependents' compound, they bumped into a figure.
She was a woman in her early forties, with the most fashionable curly hair at the moment. She was wearing a Dacron floral shirt, with a military green sweater vest over it, and a women's watch on her wrist.
She was fairly good-looking, but there was a subtle arrogance and meanness in her eyes and brows, and her lips turned down, making her seem like someone who wasn't easy to get along with.
When the woman saw Ye Nian'an, who was surrounded by a crowd and whose appearance and temperament were absolutely stunning, her eyes visibly paused for a moment.
Immediately, a hint of undisguised jealousy and sourness flashed across her eyes.
She deliberately stood in the middle of the road, blocking everyone's way, and spoke in a sarcastic tone.
"Oh my, who do we have here with such a big entourage? Oh, it's just the new family member."
Her gaze swept over Ye Nian'an like a knife.
"She's quite... pretty. I just don't know if she's fit enough for work. We don't keep pampered young ladies like canaries in our military camp."
Zhang Cuihua's expression immediately turned sour.
The woman in front of me is Liu Lihua, the wife of the political commissar of the 74th Division.
Liu Lihua, relying on her husband's slightly higher official rank within the Party than Chu Zhenyuan, was used to throwing her weight around in the military dependents' compound and was a notorious troublemaker.
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