Officer Qian from the logistics department of the division personally went to the Chu family's courtyard and solemnly read out the final decision of the division's party committee to Ye Nian'an and others.
When the results were announced, everyone in the Chu family courtyard smiled from the bottom of their hearts.
"Good! Well handled! That's how it should be!"
Chu Zhenyuan slapped his thigh, his face full of relief and satisfaction: "The army is the army, with strict discipline, and we will never tolerate evil!"
Ye Nian'an smiled and nodded, saying to Officer Qian, "Thank you for making this special trip, Officer Qian. We will follow all national laws and military regulations, and we fully support this outcome."
Her words were neither humble nor arrogant, neither proud nor impatient, which not only expressed her attitude but also demonstrated her broad-mindedness, making Qian, the manager, even more respectful.
"Of course! Of course! Comrade Ye, you are a man of great principle and a role model for us to learn from!"
Officer Qian waved his hand repeatedly, then couldn't help but sigh, "Speaking of which, it's Comrade Ye who is both brave and resourceful. If it weren't for your decisive action and devising a plan to expose their conspiracy on the spot, who knows what kind of mess those two wicked women would have made of us!"
"Now they've reaped what they sowed, it's truly gratifying! All the military wives in the compound who suffered at their hands are overjoyed this morning, like it's New Year's!"
The three little ones listened in a daze, but they understood the most crucial sentence—the bad guys have been arrested!
"Yay! The bad guy got arrested by the soldiers!"
Dada was the first to cheer, waving her little fist with excitement on her face.
"Great! No more Auntie Big Flower scolding Mommy!"
San San clapped her little hands and added in her childish voice.
"They deserved it!"
Er'er's little face was tense as she coolly concluded, mimicking an adult: "If you do bad things, you should be punished!"
Just then, the courtyard gate creaked open, and Zhang Cuihua rushed in, her voice preceding her arrival.
"Sister Xinyao! Sister-in-law Niannian! I heard! Those two troublemakers have been arrested! Is it true?!"
When she saw the smiles on Qian and Ye Nian'an's faces, she knew that the matter was settled. She immediately slapped her thigh and smiled so broadly that her eyes disappeared from her grin.
"Oh my God! This is truly a blessing from heaven! Now our military dependents' compound is finally quiet! Tonight, I'll definitely have your brother Zhang cook a couple of fancy dishes, and we'll have a good drink to celebrate!"
Zhang Cuihua's two "troublemakers" also ran in, grabbing Dada, Er'er, and San'san's hands and trying to rush out.
"Big brother, two two, three three! Let's go! Let's go to the back mountain to raid bird nests!"
"Stealing bird nests is so boring! I'll take you to catch fish in the stream!"
The three little ones, having never seen anything like this before, instantly brightened up and turned to look at Ye Nian'an, their eyes filled with longing.
"Go."
Ye Nian'an smiled and patted their heads: "Stay with your brothers, be careful, and don't go too far."
"Yay!"
With a cheer, the three little ones followed Zhang Cuihua's children, like three happy little rockets, and "whoosh," they dashed out of the yard and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Zhang Cuihua looked at her two naughty boys and shook her head helplessly. Then she said to Ye Nian'an with envy, "Niannian's wife, your three little treasures are so well-behaved and sensible. Unlike my two, they're practically reincarnations of bandits!"
As everyone was chatting and laughing, a series of hurried and heavy footsteps suddenly came from outside the courtyard gate.
Immediately afterwards, a tall and imposing figure rushed in, covered in dust and with barely concealed anxiety!
"Nian Nian!"
The person who arrived was Ye Hui, who had just returned from a mission!
He was still wearing his training uniform, and his face showed some fatigue, but his hawk-like eyes were filled with raging anger and lingering fear!
As soon as he entered the room, he rushed to Ye Nian'an, grabbed her arm, and looked her up and down, his voice trembling.
"Niannian! Are you alright?! I heard! I heard as soon as I got back! Those two damned women actually dared to poison you! Where are they?! I... I'm going to settle the score with them!"
Although he was still a new recruit, he didn't have the murderous aura that comes from being tempered in mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
But the purest bloodlust and protective instincts of youth made his muscles tense, his fists clenched so tightly they cracked.
He exudes an impulsive energy that says, "I'll fight anyone who dares to touch my sister!"
Ye Hui was truly afraid.
He was assigned a task this time—to drive to a military train station a hundred miles away to pick up a very important leader.
The round trip took two days of bumpy travel before we finally managed to get the person safely to their destination.
Who knew that as soon as the car entered the division headquarters, he heard this earth-shattering news!
My own precious little sister was almost harmed by someone using vicious methods in the military family compound!
How could he not be furious! How could he not be afraid!
That soaring anger instantly swept away all the fatigue he had accumulated over the past two days and two nights!
"Second brother, I'm fine, don't get agitated."
Ye Nian'an grasped his hand in return, feeling the heat of his palm and the slight trembling caused by his anger, and a warm current flowed through her heart.
She gently comforted him, "Look, I'm perfectly fine, aren't I? Those two bad guys have already been dealt with by the military; they got what they deserved."
"Dealt with them? They got off so easily?!"
Ye Hui was still red-faced and furious: "They deliberately murdered military family members! It's a serious crime! They should be dragged out and shot!"
"Alright, alright, Ah Hui."
Chi Xinyao stepped forward and patted his shoulder, feeling both sorry for him and amused: "Just like Niannian said, it's all in the past. Those two women have received their due punishment. They've been disfigured and will have to go to jail. Their lives are over."
"You just got back from a mission, you must be exhausted. Sit down and rest."
With everyone taking turns to soothe him, Ye Hui's almost explosive anger finally subsided.
Just then, a steady, loud, and energetic voice came from the courtyard gate again.
That voice carried undisguised, overwhelming anger and deep concern!
"Outrageous! This is utterly lawless! Thank goodness Niannian is alright, otherwise they would have been executed hundreds of times over!"
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw a middle-aged man with a square face and an imposing presence, wearing a crisp military uniform and carrying a shining star on his shoulder, walking in with his hands behind his back.
Although he was over fifty, he stood up straight and walked with a powerful stride. The aura of authority he exuded, honed through countless battles and countless soldiers, was almost identical to that of Chu Zhenyuan!
The moment Ye Nian'an saw who it was, her eyes instantly welled up with tears.
All the surprise and the strength she had put on in front of others turned into a choked cry filled with deep affection for her child at this moment.
"Uncle Li!"
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