Letter

Although Meng Cheng didn't understand why Ye Min's attitude suddenly changed, she was the one who understood lesbians and knew Ding Yang's standards for choosing a partner. She insisted that they were not suitable and the blind date had to be called off.

Although Ding Yang wanted to find a partner, he was busy and it took half a month for him to find out the result.

Meng Cheng, who was blocked, showed an expression of being speechless after hearing this. He hesitated for a moment before saying, "I have talked to Xiao Ye about this matter, but you should know that marriage is a major event in life and you need to make a careful choice."

Ding Yang nodded in agreement: "Well, what you said makes sense, what about this matter?"

"There's no one suitable for now," Meng Cheng said to comfort her, "but don't be too discouraged. Love is something you can't force. Relax, maybe fate will come one day."

Ding Yang was able to wait until he was 26 or 27 years old, which shows that he is more casual about marriage. After hearing what Meng Cheng said, he remained calm and said, "Okay, then you and your sister-in-law can help me keep an eye out. Let me know if there is a suitable person."

Originally Meng Cheng was still a little hesitant about whether he should talk to Ye Min again about arranging a blind date for Qin Fang and Ding Yang.

It's not that he had set his eyes on Qin Fang and wanted to match her up with Ding Yang, but that day Ye Min gave a long speech about their similarities, but when it came to saying that they were not a good match, she couldn't provide any solid evidence.

But after hearing what Ding Yang said, Meng Cheng gave up the idea.

Although Ding Yang is the battalion instructor and is mainly responsible for the ideological education of the soldiers in the battalion, when it comes to actual performance, the division of labor for each position is not that clear.

If soldiers in the camp are injured accidentally during missions or training, it’s OK if the injury is minor, but if it’s serious, their leaders will inevitably go to comfort them. So they have to go to the clinic several times a year, not to mention the many times they go.

Qin Fang had been assigned to the local health center for nearly two years and had been working in the emergency room all the time. Logically, the military officers had had dealings with her quite a few times.

He is already married, so he would deliberately keep a distance when interacting with young lesbians. But Ding Yang is single and young and energetic. If he is interested in her, he would not have no impression of her at all.

Even if it was a work situation, he was only thinking about the injured. He even met Qin Fang on the day of An An's full moon party.

At that time, he already had the idea of ​​finding a partner. Even if he was not so tasteless as to stare at young girls, he should not have ignored them completely.

If he had paid attention and had some thoughts, he wouldn't have reacted like this today. On the contrary, since he doesn't seem to care much now, it means he is not interested in people.

If it's boring, there's no need to force people together.

So Meng Cheng said, "It's okay to let Xiao Ye help you find someone, but there are only so many unmarried girls around her. If you really want to find one, you might as well write to your parents and ask them. They know the background of the person they are introducing."

Ding Yang nodded in agreement, but Meng Cheng didn't know whether he took it to heart or not. He didn't ask too many questions, after all, this was a major event in Ding Yang's life. As a friend, he could give advice and help introduce people, but he was not allowed to make decisions for him.

Both of them were busy with work, so they just chatted about this matter during lunch. After lunch, they returned to the office and quickly got busy with their own work.

Meng Cheng didn't have to be on duty today, so he left at six o'clock in the afternoon. After leaving the regiment headquarters, he hurried to the division headquarters.

He was tall and had long legs, and one step he took was enough to push Ye Min two steps, so they arrived at the clinic just after 6:10.

The pharmacy was not busy today. Feng Aiyun had already gone off work. Ye Min did not leave, but she was not busy working either. She held her crying daughter in her arms and comforted her softly.

Meng Cheng walked in and saw his daughter's eyes were filled with tears. He asked distressedly, "Why is An An crying so hard today?"

Ye Min said helplessly: "When she woke up, several people came to get medicine, but I ignored her and got angry."

"An An, don't be angry, daddy will hold you." Meng Cheng said as he took his daughter and started walking around while patting her back. The soothing rocking soothed the little girl to a certain extent, so even though her mouth was still smirking, she had stopped crying.

Seeing her daughter stop crying, Ye Min breathed a sigh of relief, picked up her bag and left with Meng Cheng.

Except for the pharmacy and logistics, other departments in the health center have morning and evening shifts, so although it takes a while to get off work, there are still people busy in the center.

The patients coming and going were all military personnel. Although they were not necessarily from Mengcheng Camp, or even knew him, after seeing the military uniform on him, almost everyone they met would stop and salute him.

Meng Cheng would also return a military salute when he saw this, but because he was holding the child in his arms, the salute would inevitably look a little informal. Of course, no one would care about this.

Walking out of the clinic, what comes into view is a flat and wide cement road with trees planted on both sides, but they are not tall enough and their branches are not thick enough to achieve the effect of blocking out the sun.

So as soon as they looked up, they saw the beautiful scenery. The sun was about to set, and the sky was carefully dyed with orange from deep to light, as if even the clouds seemed to become shy.

"So beautiful." Ye Min couldn't help but sigh.

Meng Cheng asked: "Stand here and watch for a while?"

Ye Min shook her head: "We still have to cook when we get home, and we've had enough time to enjoy the beautiful scenery along the way."

After saying that, Ye Min took the lead and stepped onto the straight concrete road. Meng Cheng followed with his daughter in his arms. The two walked towards the setting sun side by side.

…

Because Ye Min walked slowly, the two did not return to the family compound until 6:30. Before entering the gate, they were stopped by the guard on duty at the gate and told that there was a letter for them.

"Is it a letter from Xiaoyun?" Ye Min said as he walked into the guardhouse and found the one with his name on it from the letters piled on the table.

Soon, she found the letter, and it was indeed from Qian Xiaoyun. But when she was about to leave with the letter, she saw another letter with Meng Cheng's name on it, so she reached out to take the letter and said, "Someone sent you a letter."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Min saw the signature on the envelope: Ye Jianping.

The smile gradually disappeared from her face.

Meng Cheng, who was standing outside the pavilion, was confused. Seeing her standing there motionless, he asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Ye Min shook his head and walked out with the letter. He didn't pick up the letter until he entered the compound. He said in a light tone, "Dad sent you a letter."

Meng Cheng paused and said, "Last month I wrote to Dad and told him about An An's birth."

"oh."

After a brief conversation, the two remained silent.

After a quiet dinner, Ye Min asked Meng Zheng to take care of her sister while she packed her clothes and went to the bathroom.

As the weather got hotter, the bath water cooled down more slowly. Ye Min took a long bath. After drying her body, she found that the skin on her fingertips was wrinkled. She clasped her hands together and rubbed them for a long time. Seeing that it was useless, she put down the towel and continued to put on her clothes.

After putting on her pajamas, Ye Min put the dirty clothes aside, poured all the water in the bathtub into the bucket, opened the bathroom door and prepared to take it out to dump it out.

But after the door opened and she just picked up the iron bucket, she felt her hands were empty. She looked up and saw Meng Cheng, who had appeared out of nowhere, had walked to the sink with a wooden bucket in his hand. He bent down and poured out the water in the bucket.

When he was done, he came back and asked, "Is there any more water?"

Ye Min pursed her lips, turned her head away without saying anything, and just took two steps back.

Meng Cheng walked past her into the bathroom. The bathtub was still half full of water. He was too lazy to waste time, so he just picked up the bathtub, walked to the sink, repeated the previous action, and then rinsed the bathtub clean.

Carrying the bathtub back to the bathroom door, he paused and did not go in directly. He put the bathtub against the wall and whispered, "I'm sorry."

Hearing this, Ye Min's tears instantly welled up.

When Meng Cheng saw this, he rushed forward to hug him, but it would have been fine if he didn't come over. Once he came over, Ye Min couldn't control her emotions and punched him with her fists.

The two were close to each other, and Meng Cheng was not on guard against her, so even though she was not very strong, every punch made him groan. But he did not bother to cry out in pain, but dragged and half-carried Ye Min to the bathroom, apologizing to her repeatedly: "Minmin, I'm sorry, it's my fault..."

Neither of them said sorry, but they both knew it was because of the letter.

Ye Min and Ye Jianping's relationship was never close, because the latter was so absorbed in his work that he didn't care about his family. Her biological mother passed away early, and she had been living under the care of her stepmother, which was very difficult. Naturally, she couldn't get close to this man who didn't care about her.

But people can't help but have some admiration for their biological parents. Although Ye Jianping was unreliable, he did not lean towards his later wife or his children.

Because of his attitude, although Ye Min's stepmother always targeted her secretly, she never dared to go too far. Therefore, she was just treated coldly during her growth, but was not abused like some motherless children.

So for a long time, although Ye Min knew intellectually that Ye Jianping was irresponsible, she found it difficult to resent him emotionally, and even couldn't help longing for fatherly love.

It was not until Meng Zheng was born that her stepmother, who had promised to take care of her during childbirth, was absent, and her father remained indifferent when he learned about it, that she completely gave up on Ye Jianping.

Originally, Ye Min thought that even though Ye Jianping was irresponsible, he was still her father after all, and he had raised her for so many years. Even if he gave up, the basic decency between father and daughter still had to be maintained.

There would be no shortage of greetings during the holidays, and she would not hide the fact that she was having a child from the other.

But one thing she learned after joining the army made it difficult for her to maintain this dignity.

This matter is actually related to Mengcheng.

Seriously speaking, Ye Min and Meng Cheng can be considered childhood sweethearts and have known each other since they were young.

But they were all marginalized people in the compound. Her mother died early, and her stepmother took charge of the family. Meng Cheng was even worse off. Both his parents died early, and he was raised by his uncle and aunt.

As for why Uncle and Aunt Meng Cheng were willing to raise Meng Cheng, it also had something to do with Ye Min's father.

Before his death, Meng Cheng's father was Ye Jianping's subordinate, and he died on the job, so Ye Jianping has always felt guilty about it.

Because Meng Cheng was still very young when his father passed away, he could not work, and the pension was not enough to live on. There were also many people in the Meng family who wanted to take his job, so he was in a very difficult situation.

After meeting the Meng family, Ye Jianping obtained Meng Cheng's consent and chose the relatively kind-hearted Uncle Meng to take over, and asked them to agree to support Meng Cheng. In the following ten years, Ye Jianping did not forget to criticize them every now and then because he was worried that Uncle Meng would turn against Meng Cheng after he got a stable job.

Later, when Meng Cheng graduated from high school, he faced the important choice of whether to work or continue his studies. It was Ye Jianping who helped him make the decision and let him apply to military school.

In contrast, Ye Min graduated from junior high school.

Ye Min has been a top student since she was young, and her grades have always been among the best. In addition, her mother is a Chinese medicine practitioner, so her future plan is to graduate from high school and go to college to become a doctor.

But unfortunately, she caught a cold and had a fever the day before the high school entrance examination. The next day, her mind was a mess and she had no idea what she had written on the exam.

When the test results came out, she unsurprisingly failed to get into high school.

According to her idea, she wanted to repeat a year, but her father never paid attention to her, and her stepmother interfered, so she just let it go and rudely decided her future.

In the past, Ye Min always liked to find excuses for Ye Jianping's neglect of her, thinking that he was busy, he had his own difficulties, and that he actually still loved her in his heart.

But when she knew that Ye Jianping had done his best in Meng Cheng's life choice, and after comparing her high school entrance examination results, he nonchalantly decided to let her participate in the work, she could no longer deceive herself.

At that moment, she wished she was not his daughter.

From that day on, Ye Min unilaterally cut off contact with Ye Jianping. She had no intention of telling him about An An's death, but she did not expect Meng Cheng to write a letter to that person.

Actually, it is normal to think about it. As a father, Ye Jianping is extremely irresponsible, but as a leader, everyone will say that he is a good person. During those years, Ye Jianping did his best for Meng Cheng.

With Meng Cheng's ability, he might be able to succeed anywhere, but without Ye Jianping's help during those years, he would never be where he is today.

It is normal for him to be grateful. Only an ungrateful person would refuse to acknowledge those favors after becoming rich.

And if Meng Cheng was an ungrateful person, they would never have gone on a blind date, let alone gotten together.

This time when An An was born, she felt resentful and didn't want to tell that person, but Meng Cheng, as a son-in-law and as a younger generation who was deeply indebted to the other party, could not stay out of it.

It's just that many things can be understood rationally, but emotionally it's hard not to feel aggrieved. Listening to Meng Cheng's apology, Ye Min couldn't help but bite his shoulder.

It was already mid-May, and Meng Cheng had already changed into a thin summer military uniform. Ye Min bit him with all her strength, and even through the clothes, a deep tooth mark was left on his shoulder, causing his body to slightly stiffen.

But he quickly adjusted his posture, holding her waist with his left hand, lowering his shoulders to make it easier for her to vent, and holding her face with his right hand, and whispered, "If you don't want me to contact Dad, I won't write to him anymore."

Meng Cheng has been exercising for a long time, and his muscles are as hard as rocks. Ye Min bit it hard at first, but her gums started to feel sore after a while.

Hearing this, she loosened her gums, turned her head away to wipe away her tears, and when she spoke again, she had calmed down and said, "No, just do what you have to do, and don't let me see the correspondence."

"But I want to make you happy."

The light in the bathroom was dim because the lamps were not bright enough, but they were so close that if they looked carefully they could even see each other's faces.

Then Ye Min saw the truth in Meng Cheng's eyes. She didn't know whether it was because of heat or shyness, but the temperature on her face gradually rose, and the atmosphere in the small space became gradually ambiguous.

They had been married for four and a half years, but they did not have much time to be intimate. After all, they were apart more than together in the first three years. So when Ye Mingang joined the army, the way they got along was no more natural than that of ordinary friends.

After they got to know each other, Ye Min became pregnant again not long after. She could only be looked at but not eaten. During that six months, Meng Cheng got up in the middle of the night to take cold showers more often.

Once the fire starts, there is a tendency for it to spread across the whole land.

When Meng Cheng wanted to go further, Ye Min reminded him, "I haven't recovered yet."

Meng Cheng froze, and after a long while he scratched his short hair, let go of the girl in his arms, and gritted his teeth and said, "I'll take a cold shower."

Hearing his gnashing teeth, Ye Min couldn't help but chuckle, but before she could laugh for two seconds, someone, who was angry out of shame, grabbed her back, pressed her against the wall and gave her a hard kiss before letting her go: "Let you laugh!"

Ye Min: “…” Childish!