Chapter 185 Because He Is My Husband
Happy times always pass quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was the day when Su Tang was about to leave the capital and return to the northwest.
People were coming and going in the train station, and the loud march playing on the radio could not cover up the sadness of parting.
Lu Xiao held Su Tang's hand tightly, stroking the back of her hand with his fingertips over and over again, his eyes full of reluctance.
"Be careful on your way, and telegraph me as soon as you get home."
His voice was low and barely perceptible, "All the food and drinks for the train are in your bag. Remember to eat when you're hungry. Don't skimp."
Su Tang felt sad and tried hard to put on a smile.
"I know, Captain Lu, you've told me this eight hundred times. I'm not a child, I can take care of myself. You have to eat on time even when you're in the capital, don't forget everything when you get busy."
"Um."
Lu Xiao agreed, but his eyes seemed to be glued to her and he couldn't get enough of looking at her.
"I will take good care of my family and wait for you to come back."
Su Tang stuffed Cheng An's photo into his hand and put her arm around his waist reluctantly.
For her, a day was so short that it passed in the blink of an eye.
Seeing that the departure time was approaching, Su Tang bit her lip and pulled her hand away: "I...I should get on the bus."
After saying that, she turned and walked away. Her eyes only turned redder when she could no longer see Lu Xiao.
It doesn’t matter, just wait a little longer and the couple will be reunited.
Just as she was about to walk towards the carriage, a figure suddenly blocked her way.
It’s Zhao Peng.
He had a look of false concern on his face, but his eyes flickered a little.
"Sister-in-law, are you leaving now?"
"Alas, sister-in-law, there's something I don't know whether I should say or not..."
Su Tang frowned, a sense of vigilance rising in his heart: "Comrade Zhao, if you have something to say, just say it directly."
Zhao Peng pretended to hesitate and lowered his voice, "Sister-in-law, it's not easy for you to go back and take care of the child alone... Captain Lu may have hidden something from you. I only know you're a good person and I can't bear to see you kept in the dark..."
"Lu Xiao is in the capital, but he's not alone. Many female soldiers from the art troupe are..."
The noisy voices around him seemed to quiet down for a moment as he spoke.
Su Tang was unexpectedly calm.
She looked calmly at Zhao Peng, who had a look of "I'm doing this for your own good."
"Comrade Zhao, thank you for your kindness. However, I know my own man better than anyone else. I have a good idea of what kind of person Lu Xiao is.
He was out there defending our country, and he was devoted to me and our children. He sent every penny he earned back home, and his heart was filled with his small family."
She paused, her eyes sharpening.
"It's you, Comrade Zhao, who has the time to worry about the unnecessary things between other couples. Why don't you spend more time on your own work and life?
Spreading rumors and causing trouble is not what a soldier should do.
I don't believe a single word you said. Even if there really is someone who doesn't know what they are posting..."
Su Tang said firmly, "I believe Lu Xiao handled this more efficiently than you can imagine. Because he is Lu Xiao, my husband."
These words made Zhao Peng blush, and the vague glances from people around him made him feel even more embarrassed.
He originally wanted to make things difficult for Lu Xiao, and it would be best if he could make the two of them quarrel. However, he didn't expect Su Tang to be so powerful. With just a few words, he exposed everything about him, leaving him with no dignity at all.
"You...you don't know how to appreciate kindness!"
Zhao Peng held it in for a long time before he could only squeeze out these words in a sullen tone. He turned around with a dusty face and disappeared into the crowd.
Su Tang snorted. She and Lu Xiao had been through so many ups and downs. If she could be instigated by one person to lose the ability to distinguish right from wrong, then all those things would have been in vain.
The train whistled and slowly started moving.
Su Tang leaned against the window, watching the tall figure on the platform getting farther and farther away until it turned into a small black dot, feeling empty in his heart.
Zhao Peng was humiliated by Su Tang and felt that he had lost face among his comrades. He felt a surge of anger in his heart that he couldn't swallow.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He felt that it was all Lu Xiao's fault. If it weren't for Lu Xiao, how could he say those words and how could he be humiliated by Su Tang like that?
This evil fire clouded his mind.
A few days later, he blocked Lu Xiao on the training ground under the pretext of training.
"Lu Xiao! Let's have a competition! What's the point of just testing your strength? Let's show you who's the best, whether it's a mule or a horse!"
Zhao Peng spoke in an aggressive tone, clearly looking for trouble.
Lu Xiao was instructing the new recruits and frowned when he heard this: "Zhao Peng, it's training time now, stop messing around."
"What? Are you scared? Afraid of losing face in front of your soldiers?"
Zhao Peng deliberately shouted loudly, attracting a lot of people's attention.
Lu Xiao's eyes turned cold: "How do you want to compete?"
"Let's have an obstacle course race! Whoever loses gets to call the other grandpa!"
Zhao Peng pointed to the difficult obstacle course not far away.
Lu Xiao originally wanted to refuse this boring bet, but looking at Zhao Peng's relentless look, he knew that if he didn't defeat him today, there would be more trouble in the future.
He nodded: "Okay, no need for betting, we can just spar."
The two stood at the starting point.
As soon as the whistle sounded, Zhao Peng rushed out like an arrow. At the beginning, he had a strong momentum and was almost on par with Lu Xiao.
But he was impatient and only thought about winning, so his movements became distorted.
When passing a high obstacle, he slipped in a hurry and failed to completely flip over. He lost his balance, screamed, and fell heavily from the nearly two-meter-high obstacle!
There was a crisp sound of "crack", accompanied by Zhao Peng's heart-wrenching howl, and his calf bent at an extremely unnatural angle.
The training ground suddenly became chaotic.
The military doctor arrived quickly and made a preliminary diagnosis, saying that the patient had a serious leg fracture.
After a detailed examination at the hospital, it was found that even if the wound healed, it would leave serious sequelae and would no longer be able to carry out high-intensity military training.
Zhao Peng lay on the hospital bed, his face ashen.
He never imagined that his momentary anger would lead to such disastrous consequences.
Not long after, the troops' handling results came out.
Because of injury, he was unable to adapt to military life and was discharged from the army.
All the jealousy, resentment and hatred turned into despair and regret at that moment.
He spread rumors and caused trouble in order to humiliate others, but ended up completely ruining his own future.
On the other hand, after this incident, Lu Xiao was temporarily transferred from the confidentiality force to other high-level forces.
Naturally, I had the opportunity to write a letter to Su Tang.
The correspondence between the two became more frequent.
In the letter, Lu Xiao briefly mentioned that Zhao Peng was injured and had to retire from the army, and his tone was quite regretful.
When Su Tang received the letter, he was teaching Cheng'an to read.
Although the children would only stare at her with their big innocent eyes.
She looked at the letter and raised her eyebrows slightly.
Training accident?
She thought of Zhao Peng at the train station, with his ulterior motives and unwilling expression, and her mind was clear as a mirror.
She wrote back, without mentioning Zhao Peng. She only wrote about trivial matters at home, interesting stories about her children, and one sentence: "Evildoers will be punished by God. Let's just live our own lives. Cheng'an and I miss you."
Not long after she sent the letter, she received a reply from Lu Xiao. Inside was a photo of him taken in Beijing, with a line of bold words on the back:
"Home is where my heart is. Wait for me to come back."
Su Tang placed the photo on the bedside, looked at the vast northwest sky outside the window, and smiled gently.
"Cousin, something big has happened. Look at this. Is this the Zhou Rui you mentioned before?"
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