"By the way, Wenyan, you just said you wanted to move out of your old place, why?" Zhao Huanhuan asked Wenyan.
This is also the original owner's best friend here. Now they both want to move out of the original landlord's house, and she thinks they can discuss it.
Wen Yan looked around and whispered, "The family I live with has three sons. I always feel like they all stare at me like they're their daughter-in-law. I'm a little scared. I also overheard them whispering that in some poor places, where people can't afford to get married, several brothers in a family will share one wife. It's called 'shared wife.' Just thinking about it makes me feel terrified."
Zhao Huanhuan was dumbfounded. "Sharing a wife? This is a new society now, isn't that illegal?"
Wenyan shook her head helplessly, "Huanhuan, do you think you can reason with them in this remote place? Especially for us girls, protecting ourselves is the most important thing."
"That's true. Actually, Yan Yan, to be honest, I'm a little scared too. I always hear footsteps lingering at the door at night. Luckily, I lock the door as soon as I enter the house every day."
"And I've noticed that the landlord's son keeps staring at me, and his gaze is really creepy." Zhao Huanhuan shuddered at the thought.
It's afternoon now. They were originally going to hoe corn in the south of the village this afternoon, but Zhao Huanhuan thinks it's more important to change their accommodation first.
Zhao Huanhuan stopped Wen Yan, who was leading her south of the village, and suddenly said, "Yan Yan, why don't we go find the brigade leader and tell him we want to move to another house? If the house is big enough, we can live together, and then we won't be so scared."
Wenyan's eyes lit up. "Let's go, let's go now!" She really didn't want to stay at that house anymore.
When the two of them arrived at the brigade, the brigade leader was sitting in his office, legs crossed, drinking tea.
Upon seeing the two of them arrive, he quickly put his legs down, sat up, adjusted his collar, and asked with a smile, "Comrades, is there anything the brigade can help us with?"
Wen Yan bit her lip and glanced at Zhao Huanhuan. Zhao Huanhuan said, "Captain, would it be alright if we changed our accommodations?"
"Why? Housing is very tight in the village. Whose house are you two living in now?" the brigade leader asked seriously when he heard that they wanted to change landlords.
"I'm staying at Zhao Wu's house," Wen Yan said softly.
“I’m staying at Hao Qiang’s house,” Zhao Huanhuan said.
"Then why change?" the captain asked seriously.
A woman was about to knock on the door to come in when she heard people talking inside, so she stood quietly to the side and waited.
"We can tell you the reason, but it's just our suspicion. Please keep it a secret, Captain. We don't want to get into any trouble ourselves. Can you keep it a secret for us?" Zhao Huanhuan put on her best acting skills at this moment. Her face turned pale instantly, and she lowered her head and said softly, looking like she had suffered a great injustice.
Wen Yan was also very cooperative and quickly cooperated with Zhao Huanhuan's performance. Her face turned pale and tears welled up in her eyes. She then quietly recounted her ordeal.
Zhao Huanhuan also expressed her doubts and fears, and then she said, "It's not that I don't want to marry someone from our village. If I meet a kind person, I'm willing to consider it. But I'm really afraid of the landlord's son. I had a nightmare last night. I dreamt that he strangled me to death and said that even if I died, I would have to have his children..."
The captain's expression became even more serious as he listened to the two men's words.
They were all from the village, and he knew those two families quite well. Their sons were indeed a bit lecherous and had bullied girls from other villages before, but they wouldn't dare to mess with girls from their own village.
The team leader slapped his forehead. "I didn't think this through. I didn't consider this when I was arranging your accommodations. Now that I know, you can go to work first. I'll go ask around this afternoon to see if anyone has a spare room and reserve one for you. I'll come find you."
"Okay, Captain, you must keep this a secret for us, otherwise we're afraid they'll retaliate if they find out why we moved," Zhao Huanhuan pleaded in a low voice, while taking off the copper bracelet from her wrist and placing it on the table.
This was given to her by her mother before she left, saying it was passed down from her grandmother. Although it was made of bronze, it still held family significance, and she could look at it whenever she missed her family.
The captain glanced at it and was about to speak when there was a knock on the door.
The captain glanced at it and gestured to Zhao Huanhuan, "Quickly put it away. It wouldn't look good if someone saw it. I'll do my best to handle things. I don't want anything bad to happen to my brigade."
Zhao Huanhuan quietly put it away again.
In the original book, this brigade leader was considered a decent person; at least he never harmed these educated youths.
"Come in!" the captain said as she put it away.
The door opened, and a woman came in.
Upon seeing her, the captain stood up with a smile. "Oh, it's Sister-in-law Lin. You've come to collect Lin Yuan's letter, haven't you?"
Sister-in-law Lin smiled. "Yes, Captain, is there?"
"There's a letter. The postman delivered it this morning, and I was just planning to send it to you this afternoon!" The captain quickly opened the drawer, took out a letter, and handed it to Sister-in-law Lin.
"Thank you, Captain. I knew Yuan'er's letter should have arrived by now." Lin San's wife took her son's letter with a beaming smile.
The brigade leader said with a smile, "No need to thank me. It's an honor for our village that Lin Yuan can stay in the army. Our village is a well-known old revolutionary village. It's a source of pride for all of us that this generation has children who can carry on the traditions of the old revolutionaries."
The captain was very good at using official jargon, and his words were very eloquent. Zhao Huanhuan secretly gave the captain a thumbs up in her heart.
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