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Although Ye Min and Meng Cheng were talking about learning martial arts, martial arts cannot be practiced without a good body, and physical fitness must also keep up.

Therefore, Meng Cheng's training plan for Ye Min was to run for half an hour every day, and then gradually increase the time after half a month, while adding horse stance training and lower body training. When the physical fitness is improved and the lower body is trained, he will start learning military boxing, and then practice other things after he has mastered it.

Ye Min had no objection to the training plan made by Meng Cheng. He was in charge of this area in the army and had a lot of experience. So after listening to it, he just asked him to make a training plan for Meng Zheng as well.

Meng Zheng is young, and training too hard would affect his growth, so the training plan Meng Cheng made for him was basically two-thirds less than Ye Min's.

When Meng Zheng first learned that he would have to get up early to run in the future, he felt dizzy. But when he found out that his mother had to run for half an hour every morning, and he only needed to run for ten minutes.

After the comparison, Meng Zheng felt that he was not that miserable after all. He reluctantly agreed to the physical training.

Ye Min and Meng Cheng were both people who acted on their words. They made a plan the night before and got up at dawn the next morning, digging Meng Zheng out of bed.

After washing up, Ye Min took Meng Zheng out for a run.

Meng Cheng was in charge of training in the camp and always set an example, so there was no need to rush in the morning. In addition, An An was still sleeping and he couldn't leave her alone at home, so he didn't go with them and stayed at home to make breakfast.

He and Ye Min rarely cooked at home in the morning. They usually went to the canteen to buy food. First, the food in the canteen was good and cheap, and the cost of eating in the canteen was not much more than eating at home.

Secondly, the canteen chef provides a wide variety of breakfasts to cater to the tastes of the people in the compound, including steamed buns, steamed bread, noodles, and fried dough sticks. The breakfasts are different every week, which is more comfortable than eating at home.

The third reason is that they don’t have enough time. Both he and Ye Min have jobs, and they have to cook, do housework, and take care of the children when they get home. They only have time to chat and cultivate their relationship at night, and they have to go to bed at least after 10:30. If they sleep for eight hours, they have to sleep until at least 6:30 the next morning.

Ye Min goes to work at 8 o'clock. If he works late, he has to arrive at the camp at 8 o'clock. If he works the early shift, he has to arrive at 6 or 7 o'clock. It takes about ten minutes to walk from home to their respective units, which only leaves about an hour.

During this hour, they not only have to wash themselves, but also have to get up and take care of the two children, leaving them 20 minutes to half an hour for breakfast. It is really too late to do it themselves.

Today, because they were going to exercise, the family got up half an hour earlier than usual. Meng Cheng calculated that there was enough time, so he cooked a pot of porridge and made a few egg pancakes.

So when Ye Min finished running, she smelled an alluring aroma as soon as she entered the yard. She limped into the kitchen and asked, "Have you cooked breakfast?"

"I cooked porridge and made egg pancakes." Meng Cheng pointed to the iron pot between the two iron pots on the earthen stove and asked, "There is hot water. Do you want to take a bath?"

Ye Min didn't like to exercise much before. She always fell behind in morning exercises when she was in school. She hasn't exercised much in the years since she left school, so her physical fitness is really not very good.

She just ran for half an hour. She was only running in the first ten minutes. In the middle ten minutes, she ran not much faster than walking, and in the last ten minutes, she was basically walking.

But even so, she was still out of breath after running, and her clothes were soaked with sweat.

So after hearing what Meng Cheng said, she nodded without hesitation and said, "Okay."

After saying that, Ye Min went back to the room to find clothes. Meng Cheng helped her get water. After she found her clothes, she went straight into the bathroom to wash her hair and take a shower.

Because of the tight schedule, Ye Min didn't dawdle as usual, and it only took her about 20 minutes to wash her hair and take a shower. After washing, because she didn't have much time, she just piled up the dirty clothes and planned to wash them again when she got home at noon.

After wiping her hair, she went out. It was already seven o'clock. Breakfast was already on the table. Meng Cheng was sitting at the table holding An An. When he heard the noise, he looked up at Ye Min and said, "Come over and have breakfast when you're done."

After saying this, he scooped up a spoonful of porridge, blew it cool, and fed it into the girl's mouth.

As An An grew up day by day, she became dissatisfied with just drinking milk. Whenever she saw adults eating without feeding her, she would burst into tears.

Before, An An was too young, and Ye Min and Meng Cheng were worried that ordinary food was not nutritious enough, so they ate separately to avoid being seen by her. It was not until the Chinese New Year, when An An was ten months old, that they started feeding her some liquid food from time to time.

Ye Min wiped her hair until it was dry, then sat down at the table. Before picking up the chopsticks, she pinched the lady's face and said, "Is An An eating?"

The little girl was in a good mood while eating. She grinned at Yemin, then quickly opened her mouth, signaling her father to continue feeding her.

Ye Min also drank a mouthful of porridge and reached out to touch Meng Zheng. Although he was young, he liked to run around and his physical fitness was not much worse than Ye Min. Running for ten minutes was a piece of cake for him.

He wasn't sweating much at the time, and it had been almost an hour since he finished his workout and came home. Although his back felt hot, he wasn't sweating much, so Ye Min didn't let him take a shower or change his clothes.

After dinner, Meng Cheng put the dishes away in the kitchen, while Ye Min took An An back to the room and continued to dry her hair while watching her playing on the bed.

At 7:35, the couple packed up and first sent An An to the Ding family, then sent Meng Zheng to the seedling nursery class, and then went to the unit together.

It was a new day and Ye Min still had no patients, but she looked calmer than yesterday.

The reason was simple. Before yesterday, although she knew she might not live long, she did not know the exact year or cause of death, so it was inevitable that she did not feel the reality of the matter.

And just like some of the viewers on the screen, she also felt that their family had been getting better little by little over the past six months.

As the saying goes, "A gentle town is the home of heroes." Although she is not a hero, and the stability of the past six months is not to the point of being a gentle town, but a stable life for too long will indeed make people more dull and gradually lose track of the priorities.

Previously, she thought her career dream was the most important thing, so she was excited about her successful job change and worried about having no patients.

But after seeing the barrage and learning the cause of death, Ye Min changed his mind.

She now feels that the most important thing is to survive, and career dreams have to be put aside for the time being. After all, people are about to die, so what is the point of talking about career and dreams?

Of course, she won't abandon her career because of this.

She is still several years away from her death as described in the original novel, and practicing martial arts is not something that can be achieved overnight, so her goal in the next few years is to work hard and make money on the basis of improving her martial arts skills and striving to live longer.

In short, because of the change in her mentality, Ye Min was very open-minded about the fact that there were no patients for the time being.

…

Just like Meng Cheng said, many difficult things are no longer a problem once they have been started.

After the first patient Ye Min saw went home, he followed the doctor's instructions and rested for a few days. After taking medicine, his throat pain went away and his hoarseness disappeared within a few days.

So after he recovered, Ye Min soon had a second patient.

This patient was also from Mengcheng Camp, but he was not arranged by him, but was introduced by the first patient. Moreover, his illness was quite similar to that of the first patient, also with throat discomfort, and after examination, it was confirmed to be pharyngitis.

It sounds like these two patients are in great trouble, but actually there are quite a few such cases in the army, because army training often requires shouting at the top of one's lungs, and the company sings songs to see who can sing the loudest, which is quite taxing on the throat.

Therefore, there is a great demand for drugs such as Sterculia lychnophora in health clinics.

This person had a common disease and no other health problems, and the prescription Ye Min prescribed was nothing unusual.

But for the patients, there is nothing unusual. They come to see Ye Min for treatment, and as long as the medicine works, they think she is a capable doctor.

Next time a friend falls ill, they will think of Ye Min and recommend her to their friends.

So gradually, more and more people came to Ye Min for medical treatment.

Of course, the number of patients Ye Min handles is incomparable to that of other doctors in the institute, and most of the patients who come to her for treatment are mild illnesses, generally sore throats, inflamed gums, and colds and fevers are considered serious cases.

People who have injuries from training would basically not come to Ye Min for help. Firstly, not to mention Mr. Dong, even the other two Chinese medicine doctors have more experience in this area than she does. Secondly, she is a woman after all, so it is not very convenient for her to go there.

After knowing the reason, it would be a lie to say that Ye Min was not depressed at all, but it’s not the case to say that she was very sad either.

Although doctors do not discriminate between men and women, patients are in different positions and will inevitably care about whether the doctor is male or female. So while injured male soldiers tend to seek medical treatment from other doctors, female soldiers and military wives in the compound tend to seek treatment from Ye Min unless the disease is difficult or complicated.

And the most fundamental reason for this is that her medical skills are inferior to others. Just like the wives of soldiers in the compound would abandon men and women and seek treatment from Dr. Dong when faced with difficult and complicated diseases, if her medical skills were as good as Dr. Dong's, she believed that the male soldiers would also be more willing to seek treatment from her.

You still need to learn more and practice more to accumulate more experience.

As the work gradually got on track, Ye Min's physical training also gradually showed results.

When she first started running, she would walk at least half the time in half an hour. Half a month later, she was able to run the entire distance. By the end of March, her running time had increased to 45 minutes, and she would do horse stance for 15 minutes.

The horse stance seems easier than running, but you will realize how difficult it is when you actually practice it.

The first time Ye Min did the horse stance for only ten minutes, and she felt exhausted by the end. Her legs felt weak when she walked that day, as if she was walking on cotton.

This even caused an oolong.

At noon that day, Ye Min had lunch at Qian Xiaoyun's house as usual and then went home to wash clothes. As soon as she put soap on the clothes, Liang Juan came over with a bowl and asked in a low voice, "You and Meng Cheng, have you been getting along well recently?"

Ye Min didn't understand what she was talking about at first, and said in confusion: "We are fine."

"I know you're all good," Liang Juan lowered her head and ate two mouthfuls of rice. She looked up and saw that Ye Min didn't seem to understand what she meant. She coughed twice and said, "I mean, although you're young and have a good relationship, you'd better be more careful about that. It's harmful to your health, you know?"

After hearing this, Ye Min finally realized that something was wrong, but she suspected that she had guessed wrong. Although the topics between married women were quite explicit, it shouldn't be that serious, right?

But Liang Juan didn't expect that she didn't say anything, so she asked suggestively: "Do you understand what I mean?"

Ye Min finally stopped rubbing the clothes, lowered her head and coughed a few times before she said in embarrassment: "Meng Cheng and I are fine, we are taking it easy."

Liang Juan looked at her with an expression that said, "You still don't want to tell the truth." Ye Min felt helpless and said, "Sister-in-law, please speak frankly."

"Okay." Liang Juan nodded, approached Ye Min and asked, "Is it inconvenient for you to walk these two days?"

"No..." Ye Min didn't finish her words, she realized what was going on and immediately didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I did that during exercise, what are you thinking!"

"Don't give me that! You've been running for a long time, why didn't I see you limping before?" Liang Juan felt sorry for Ye Min, "This Meng Cheng is the same, he knew you were going to run in the morning, why didn't he take it easy? I tell you, don't indulge him just because you are young and shameless, the more you are like that, the more men will take advantage of you! They are arrogant when they are young, but they are all downhill after they are over 30, I tell you!"

Even though lifestyle issues are being dealt with very strictly at this time, in fact, people who are close to each other, colleagues and friends will inevitably talk about these things. Ye Min also talked about this with Qian Xiaoyun before the latter married Ding Yang.

Although judging from the comments, Ding Yang's character is not a big problem and he has a promising future, there are many other problems between husband and wife besides these.

Whether a man behaves in one way outside and another at home, whether the couple’s life is harmonious, and whether he can have children are all things that need to be considered.

The Book of Songs says, "A man's love can be broken, but a woman's love cannot be broken." Yeh Min deeply agrees with this, and it is always the same in real life. Most men's passion comes and goes quickly, while women are relatively slow to warm up, so even if men invest more at the beginning of a relationship, women are always the ones who are hurt more deeply when it ends.

The same is true in marriage. A very simple example is that in life, if a woman is infertile, the marriage will mostly end in divorce, while if a man is infertile, he will mostly choose to adopt a child. Moreover, women will take the initiative to put the label of infertility on their husbands to avoid being laughed at.

If Qian Xiaoyun encountered such a thing and followed her heart to make such a choice, Ye Min would not object, but if she did so for the sake of others' opinions, she could not agree.

Qian Xiaoyun lived an unhappy life in her previous life, and Ye Min doesn't want her to continue to compromise in this life.

So before getting married, Ye Min brainwashed her. To sum it up, she should put herself first in everything and kick the man out as soon as possible.

But Ye Min felt that there was a difference between what she had discussed with Qian Xiaoyun at the beginning and what Liang Juan was discussing with her now.

At that time, she was worried that Qian Xiaoyun would sacrifice herself in the marriage, and Liang Juan was worried that she... well, when you think about it this way, there doesn't seem to be much difference.

Liang Juan had good intentions, she just made a mistake.

Thinking of this, Ye Min straightened his face and said, "You misunderstood. It was really because of my exercise. Before, I only ran. Recently, I started to practice horse stance after running. But you should also know that horse stance is not very good-looking, so I practiced at home and didn't go out."

This was also because the main room of her house was spacious and she could stand in a wide horse stance, but she did not expect that it would cause a series of misunderstandings.

Liang Juan was stunned when she heard this. She blinked her eyes and licked her lips. "Is it really the horse stance? Not something else?"

"Really." Ye Min nodded affirmatively, "Nothing else."

Liang Juan coughed twice and recovered after a while: "No, why are you practicing horse stance for no reason?"

There is nothing wrong with practicing boxing, and after this incident, Ye Min has discovered that Liang Juan is really imaginative! If she doesn't explain it clearly to her, when she starts practicing boxing, if Meng Cheng accidentally hurts her during the instruction, the next day there might be news of his domestic violence in the compound. So she said, "I want to practice boxing."

"Practice boxing?" Liang Juan was stunned and looked Ye Min up and down. "Why do you want to practice boxing? Could it be that Meng Cheng..."

"Stop!" Ye Min hurriedly stopped him, "Don't let your imagination run wild! My desire to practice boxing has nothing to do with Meng Cheng. I just hope that when he's not around, I can protect myself and my child."

"You think too much. How could Meng Cheng not be here?" Liang Juan stopped laughing as soon as she finished speaking.

Although the border has been much more stable in recent years, the men in the compound have all been on the battlefield. Not to mention those from far away, when Ye Minsheng and An'an were together, one of the men who went on the mission with Meng Cheng was seriously injured.

It's really hard to say.

Of course Liang Juan didn't say this out loud, as it was unlucky. She thought for a while and said, "It's fine if you want to learn it. And if you learn it, maybe I can mention it to Director Li and let all the military wives in the compound learn it, so that they don't have to gossip about it when they have nothing to do."

Ye Min hadn't thought much about it before, but when she heard this, she couldn't help but frown: "You came to me to talk about this, could it be that someone is gossiping about it in front of you?"

"Ahem, two people did say that, but don't worry, I've already criticized them." Liang Juan suddenly looked a little uncomfortable, "I will explain to them what happened later, so that everyone won't have any random thoughts."

Ye Min: “…Okay.”

…

Although Liang Juan agreed to help explain, the effect would definitely not be very good if she just talked about it, so after running the next day, Ye Min did not go into the house, but stood in horse stance in the yard.

Meng Cheng didn't know what was going on, so he asked in confusion, "Didn't you say you didn't want anyone to see it?"

Ye Min panted and said, "I now feel that I must let people see my hard work!"

Although Meng Cheng was puzzled, he did not say much. He walked over and adjusted Ye Min's posture, saying, "Bend your legs a little more, so that your calves and thighs are at 90 degrees."

As he adjusted, the beads of sweat flowing out of Ye Min's hairline became noticeably larger.

Meng Zheng, who was standing by and watching, opened his mouth wide. He felt that his father was so strict and his mother was so pitiful. He then thought that he would also have to start horse stance next month.

Oh, he is dying!

After correcting his wife's movements, Meng Cheng glanced at Meng Zheng, whose expression was full of different colors, and asked, "Why? You want to try it too?"

Meng Zheng stood up quickly, straightened his chest, raised his head and shook his head: "Report to Dad! I don't want to try!"

"...Go see if your sister is awake."

"Yes, sir!" Meng Zheng said in a loud voice, and then quickly fled from the training ground.

Meng Cheng laughed and shook his head, glanced at Ye Min, and quickly went back into the kitchen.

Ye Min stood in the yard for a while, and Liang Juan came out of the kitchen next door. Seeing her movements, she walked to the edge of the yard and asked loudly: "Xiao Ye, are you exercising?"

Ye Minshi didn't have the energy to answer, just nodded slightly. Liang Juan saw it and said quickly, "You practice, you practice." After that, she turned around and went into the house with the food.

Liang Juan was thinking about what she had promised Ye Min, so after breakfast, on the way to the Women's Federation, she promoted Ye Min well. When she got to the unit, she told her colleagues about it: "Xiao Ye looks gentle, but she is actually very strong. For example, when it comes to changing jobs, most of us would never think of it. Even if we do, we would think of the difficulties before taking action and would not dare to start easily. But she made up her mind and rushed forward. Not only did she get the recognition of Director Yao in a few months, she also passed such a difficult assessment and successfully changed jobs."

Another staff member of the Women's Federation nodded in agreement: "Indeed, I heard that when she first started seeing patients, she didn't see any patients for several days in a row. If it were me, I would have been panicked, but I saw that she was quite calm and not panicked at all."

"She has real skills, why are you so nervous? There are many people who come to her for treatment now!" Liang Juan continued, "When she started running, I thought she was just in a whim. Who would have thought that she would stick to it for a month and now she is even standing in a horse stance. Oh, there is one more thing."

"What is it?"

"Xiaoye is young and afraid of looking ugly, so she did the horse stance at home a few days ago, and only changed to do it in the yard today."

As for why they changed the location, Liang Juan didn't intend to say it, but her colleague had heard the rumor and understood the reason after thinking about it. She said with a smile: "This is true!"

Liang Juan had never discussed this with her colleagues, and she didn't know that they had heard the rumors before, but she understood the reason as soon as she heard the voice. She said helplessly, "I think these military wives in the compound are just idle. We really should find something for them to do!"

My colleague felt the same way, but couldn't help but sigh: "What could he possibly be looking for?"

Liang Juan said, "I plan to wait until Xiaoye has achieved some results in her boxing practice, then I will mention this to Director Li and ask all the military wives to come and learn."

"Learn boxing?" My colleague pondered and said, "I don't think it's reliable. First, it's too tiring. Second, I can't see any use for it at the moment. It's hard to mobilize the enthusiasm of the crowd. It's better to organize other activities."

Liang Juan was a little disappointed, but then she thought about it and felt that the problem raised by her colleague was indeed there. She thought about it and said, "What kind of event do you want to hold? A literary performance, a storytelling session, or a competition?"

Literary performances require special skills and have high requirements for participants. The storytelling session is too small and the military wives are too busy. My colleague thought about it and said, "I think a competition will work."

…

Influenced by Director Li, the people under the Women's Federation were very decisive in their work. Just two days after Liang Juan and her colleagues discussed finding something for the military wives to do, the Women's Federation posted a notice.

The notice roughly said that the Women's Federation would soon hold a table tennis competition in the compound. The participants were limited to military wives. The competition would last for three weeks. The champion and runner-up would receive rewards, namely ten kilograms of rice, five kilograms of noodles and three kilograms of coarse grains. It was hoped that military wives would sign up and participate.

As soon as the notice was posted, the family compound was in an uproar.

That’s ten kilograms of rice!

In those days, the amount of food that each person could eat per month was rationed. For unemployed military wives, the monthly food ration was only 23-4 jin. Because people in Yunnan Province ate more rice, the proportion of rice would be higher, but generally less than 10 jin, after all, there were also noodles and other coarse grains.

Ten kilograms of rice is enough food for an adult for half a month.

Although the prizes for the second and third place winners are not that generous, they are food in addition to the monthly ration. Especially for families with many children, these few pounds of food can greatly reduce the burden of the month.

So after the notice was posted, all the wives of soldiers in the family compound rushed to sign up, regardless of whether they knew how to play table tennis or not. The few table tennis tables next to the basketball court were occupied by the wives of soldiers practicing from morning to night.

But Ye Min did not rush to sign up for the table tennis tournament. On the last day of March, she and Meng Cheng appeared in the photo studio with their two children again.

The last time their family came to the photo studio was in early May last year, when An An had just turned one month old. It was also on the day of the photo shoot that she learned that both Meng Cheng and she would die soon.

During this year, she learned the cause of her own death and began to work hard to survive, but Meng Cheng's cause of death remained a mystery, so she was still not sure whether she could save him next year.

Although she had considered that by the end of the year at the latest, if there was still no relevant information on the barrage, she would persuade Meng Cheng to change his career and leave Pingcheng.

By then, Meng Cheng will have a greater chance of surviving.

But Ye Min didn't dare to guarantee whether he could survive. All she could do was to bring her family to take more photos with him while he was alive.

The barrage said that last year was the first time, and possibly the only time, that their family took a family photo, but she just didn't want to believe in fate and always wanted the plot to deviate further from the original novel.

It was the first time last year and the second time this year. She hopes there will be a third, fourth and countless times in the future.

“Crack!”

Ye Min thought so when the photo was frozen.