Chapter 6 He said he couldn't
After hearing Lu Xiao's words, Su Tang smiled and said thank you softly.
Early the next morning, when Su Tang woke up, Lu Xiao was gone.
The place where he had lain had been tidied up by him.
Su Tang sat up and stretched, preparing to go to the cafeteria with Zhang Cui to get food.
By the way, ask Zhang Cui if there is any place to buy things nearby.
She didn't want to go to the cafeteria and be looked down upon anymore. She wanted to work hard to feed herself.
On the playground, Lu Xiao had just finished training and was about to go back to wash up when he was stopped by Chang Jia.
"So energetic? How's that? Does your wedding night feel good?"
Hearing Chang Jia's teasing and seeing him making faces, Lu Xiao kicked him directly.
Fortunately, Chang Jia dodged quickly.
"You're so angry, it seems like last night wasn't very good."
"This Miss Capital is just a show-off, not even as good as my country wife."
Lu Xiao has been single for so many years and finally got married, but he is still not satisfied. His life is too hard.
"Are you free?"
Chang Jia was frightened by Lu Xiao's cold gaze, but still kept smiling.
"I'm not idle, I just saw that you looked so bad, so I wanted to show some concern for my old comrade."
He leaned in closer and lowered his voice: "I heard that Su Tang was asking around in the logistics department about the vegetable market? Could it be that Miss Jiao wants to cook for herself?"
Lu Xiao paused while wiping the military water bottle, and the stubbornness hidden in Su Tang's eyes yesterday emerged in his mind.
His Adam's apple rolled, and he picked up the kettle: "She can do whatever she wants."
He has no control over what Su Tang wants to do.
Everyone told her to be more obedient, and he was here to help her solve these problems.
"Tsk tsk, that's not something a newlywed husband would say."
Chang Jia suddenly lowered his voice, "Old Lu, you're really not worried about Su Tang... If she continues like this, I'm really worried that it will affect you."
Before he could finish his words, Lu Xiao turned around and strode away, his tall figure forming a sharp silhouette in the morning light.
In the cafeteria, Su Tang was poking at the bland cabbage in his bowl with a spoon.
Zhang Cui sat down opposite her with a lunch box and spoke mysteriously.
"Sister, I heard there's a service station here where you can buy things with tickets."
Su Tang's eyes lit up, and he quickly said, "I have nothing to do today, why don't we go take a look together?"
"Okay, I happen to be short of something at home, let's go take a look."
"But there's no one to look after the old one at home, so we have to take care of him."
Hearing this, Su Tang waved his hand to indicate that it didn't matter.
Zhang Cui's child is very well-behaved. She can't be woken up when she falls asleep. She cries a few times when she is hungry, and continues to sleep after she is full.
Su Tang had never seen a child weirder than Zhang Cui's.
The two of them were talking and laughing while eating. Su Tang caught a glimpse of a few women gathered in a corner whispering, and they looked at her from time to time.
She gripped the chopsticks tightly, her nails pinching out crescents in her palms.
This kind of gaze has never stopped since the day I stepped into the family compound.
They didn't know how many times they called Su Tang "Miss" in private.
"Ignore them."
Zhang Cui patted the back of her hand soothingly, "By the way, Brother Lu took the team to training at five this morning. I heard they even added weighted running."
She winked and said, "Was it last night..."
"sister in law!"
Su Tang's ears turned red and he quickly changed the subject. People in this era speak as fiercely as tigers.
She eats both meat and vegetables, which makes her, a modern person, feel embarrassed.
After the two finished their meal, Su Tang made another meal for Lu Xiao.
When she returned, Lu Xiao had not come back yet, so Su Tang wrote a message for Lu Xiao on the notebook with a pen.
-Buy at the service station and return at noon.
After finishing writing in the language familiar to this era, Su Tang took various tickets, put on an inconspicuous bag, and went to find Zhang Cui.
When Lu Xiao came back, he saw the words on it and couldn't recognize them no matter how he looked at them.
It looks familiar, but something is wrong?
Su Tang forgot that she was still using traditional Chinese characters at the moment, and Lu Xiao couldn't understand the simplified Chinese characters she wrote at all.
If Lu Xiao hadn't gone to ask the neighbors, he wouldn't have known where they were going.
Looking at the words on the notebook, Lu Xiao felt helpless.
Miss Capital's handwriting is really beautiful, but I don't know what country the words are from.
The neighbor scratched the back of his head and explained, "Brother Lu, this is called simplified Chinese. I heard that some people in big cities out there are secretly using it."
Lu Xiao stroked the edge of the paper. Su Tang's handwriting was so powerful that it could be seen through the back of the paper. Just like her, it exuded a spirit of not giving up.
He clearly knows that he comes from a poor family, yet he still dares to be so brazen. He is truly fearless of death.
Although he thought so in his heart, Lu Xiao tore up the paper and threw it into the trash can.
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The wooden door of the service station was pushed open and the bell on the door rang crisply.
Su Tang held the ticket in his hand and scanned the enamel pots and coarse cloth socks on the shelves.
There were a few bags of coarse grains piled in the corner. Just as she was about to reach out, she heard a sarcastic sneer behind her.
"Hey, isn't this the capitalist's daughter?"
Three women came over carrying bamboo baskets. The one leading the group had her hair tied up and her face was so dark that it was hard to tell what she looked like.
Zhang Cui immediately stood in front of Su Tang and said, "Wang Guifang, let's talk it over nicely!"
Wang Guifang wasn't afraid of Zhang Cui at all. She just snorted coldly, "I heard Captain Lu doubled the weight during training today? What? You married a pretty face and you're taking your anger out on a soldier?"
The whispers of the people around him came like a tide. Su Tang dug his nails into his palm and suddenly caught a glimpse of the tin cans on the shelf.
"Sister Zhang, isn't your child coughing?"
She suddenly turned around and said in a clear voice: "Here are cans of pear paste, which is perfect for moistening the lungs."
Without waiting for Wang Guifang to react, Su Tang had already tiptoed to reach the cans on the top shelf, revealing a slender waist under his blue cloth shirt.
This made many people jealous, as they had never seen anyone as handsome as Su Tang.
She spoke softly and it sounded so nice.
Wang Guifang snorted coldly, swung her scarf and walked towards the door: "Pretending!"
Zhang Cui heaved a sigh of relief after they left. "I was worried you'd start arguing with them."
Su Tang stuffed the can into the cloth bag and his eyes fell on the brown sugar behind the counter.
"I'm wasting my time arguing with them. We're here to buy things."
I had an argument with Hu Jianjun yesterday because he took my food coupons and refused to give me food.
She didn't lose anything today, so why bother? "Sister-in-law, buy two more kilograms of brown sugar."
"Oh, this can of food is quite expensive. I can't afford brown sugar."
Zhang Cui was a little distressed at first, but the child had indeed been coughing a lot in the past two days, so it would be okay to buy some pear paste.
But this brown sugar is a rare commodity, and she is reluctant to give it away.
"Okay, I'll buy it and give it to Lu Xiao."
Hearing this, it was Zhang Cui's turn to be stunned: "Brother Lu, a grown man, still needs to drink brown sugar water?"
Isn't this drink for women?
Could it be that Brother Lu really has some problem?
Thinking of Lu Xiao's cold face and his physique, Zhang Cui felt an inexplicable chill.
It seems that appearance is not the only factor.
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