Chapter 25

Qiao Wei woke up the next morning and tried to turn over but failed. There was an arm still around her waist.

When she tried to get up, the arm tightened and held her back.

The man's kiss fell on her shoulder.

Qiao Wei patted the hand on her waist in a daze: "No breakfast today..."

"It's okay, I'll go to the canteen of the camp to eat. You guys go to the canteen of the compound to eat." The man didn't mind.

Qiao Wei hummed and was about to fall asleep again, but suddenly her mind cleared up and patted him: "Let go! I have to change the toilet paper, otherwise the bed sheets will be stained with blood!"

Qiao Wei could accept even the dry toilet, but she really lost for women's products.

There were no sanitary napkins, none!

Women's menstrual products are a kind of rectangular knife paper similar to toilet paper, pink. Qiao Wei didn't sleep well today because she woke up twice last night instinctively. She realized that she had to change the bedsheets, so she had to get up to change the bedsheets. Her sleep was cut into several parts, and she couldn't get up in the morning.

She got up and put on her clothes, and turned around to see something on the bed: "Huh? This is..." She

almost asked what it was.

The details of life are already instinctive to a person, and are body memories. There is no need to remember them in the mind specifically. Therefore, the memory of life details is not easily triggered, and is much slower than the memory of major events.

Fortunately, it was activated in time. The bed is covered with a small mattress, which is used during menstruation to prevent the sheets from getting dirty. Because the sheets, especially the large mattress under the sheets, are very troublesome to wash if they are dirty. This kind of small mattress is relatively easy to take apart and wash.

"I was wondering why I felt something last night." Qiao Wei muttered.

She didn't turn on the bedroom light at night. She turned on the lamp in the study to change the paper, and then turned off the light before entering the bedroom. It was true that she felt vaguely that there was something on the bed.

But it was not made by her. When she went to bed yesterday, there was only a cool mat on the kang.

"I made it for you." Yan Lei sat up and looked for clothes.

He had been sleeping in a vest for the past two days. Qiao Wei took it off last night, and he slept with his upper body naked. When he stood up, his muscles were clearly visible.

Qiao Wei's eyes circled around the man's narrow waist, put on her clothes, leaned over and quickly kissed him on the cheek: "Thank you."

After the kiss, she felt like she was going to bleed, so she hurried out.

Yan Lei leaned back on the kang, watching her back disappear.

Until now, it still feels like a dream last night.

I have never had such an experience in my life, the first time since the beginning of time.

I am an old man, I have suffered poverty and hunger, I have been on the battlefield, I have carried artillery and been shot, and I have fought with the enemy with bayonets. But last night I was as hot and uncontrollable as a young boy.

But... this is my wife, so what if I lose control in front of her.

Yan Lei smiled and rubbed his face, and got up.

Pushing the door to the yard, my mood was as refreshing and bright as the morning light.

Qiao Wei is not bright at all, let alone refreshing. The experience of using pink sanitary napkins is terrible. She put on a thick layer of them. The menstrual belt is super uncomfortable. It's

really depressing.

Yan Lei washed his face, wiped off some water, and asked with concern: "What's wrong? Do you have a stomachache?"

Female soldiers in the army enjoy menstrual leave just like female workers. Yes, the reason why menstruation is called menstrual leave is because working women can enjoy three days of leave when they have their period, and this leave is called menstrual leave.

There are also female soldiers in the army, and female soldiers also have stomachaches, and their faces are pale when they ask for leave. As a leader, Yan Lei still knows about it.

"That's not the case." Qiao Wei sighed, "It's just uncomfortable."

Yan Lei has seen menstrual belts and sanitary napkins before, and no one can be comfortable with such things tied to them. But he really couldn't help her with this matter, so he could only comfort her: "If you feel uncomfortable, just lie down in the house."

After thinking for a while, he said: "Don't cook today. Go to the cafeteria to eat. Don't cook in the evening, I'll get you food from the cafeteria."

Qiao Wei, who was in her period, didn't want to do these jobs at all. In the original world, she could just order takeout. There is no takeout here, but fortunately there is still a cafeteria.

She happily agreed: "Okay." She

also actively prepared lunch boxes. Aluminum lunch boxes are such a thing, and every family has several. She took them all out and put them in a net bag for Yan Lei: "Put the rice and vegetables separately."

Yan Lei said "I know." He left with the net bag.

When he arrived at the intersection where he got on the bus, Captain Zhao also came.

He saw Yan Lei holding several lunch boxes in his hands and asked, "What are you doing?"

Yan Lei said, "I won't cook tonight. I'll bring them food from the cafeteria."

After being reminded by her uncle, Lin Xixi didn't dare to come out to bring breakfast to Yan Lei today. But Captain Zhao was thinking about this.

He deliberately asked, "Have you had breakfast?"

When Yan Lei said, "No, I went to the cafeteria to eat," he immediately said, "Look, your sister-in-law is still thinking about me when I'm away. She said she was worried that little Yan didn't have breakfast. Blame me, I said my wife Yan is there, you don't have to worry about her. I should have brought you some earlier."

No matter what his niece said, he had to help consolidate that it was Sister Yang who cared about Yan Lei, not Lin Xixi. So as not to affect his niece's reputation.

In fact, Yan Lei didn't think much about it. He and Captain Zhao were comrades-in-arms. He called Sister Yang his sister-in-law. In Yan Lei's eyes, their niece Lin Xixi was a junior.

He really regarded himself as an elder.

He smiled and declined: "Sister-in-law, don't worry about me. I am not without a wife. The one in our family was not feeling well today, so I didn't let her make breakfast."

Captain Zhao thought to himself, you are just pretending to be rich. Everyone knows that your wife is a lazy woman. She makes you eat in the cafeteria every day and live like a bachelor.

But you don't hit someone in the face, and you don't expose someone's shortcomings when you scold him, especially when he is lying to his niece. He quickly continued what Yan Lei had said: "That's right. Old women just like to meddle in other people's business. It's really embarrassing for Xiao Qiao. I'll tell her later."

When Captain Zhao said this, the other people naturally looked at Yan Lei.

Others had said this to Yan Lei before, and Yan Lei usually kept silent or smiled. Qiao Weiwei's reputation among military families was not good, and her popularity was not good. It was not just one or two days, it was an objective fact.

But Yan Lei and the new Qiao Wei entered a new stage yesterday. The intimate touch and kisses last night were still lingering in his mind.

He felt deeply that Qiao Wei had really changed after coming back this time, and he really wanted to live a good life with her. If he heard others belittling Qiao Wei in words and deeds, Yan Lei would resist, and he didn't like others to see Qiao Wei in this way.

"My sister-in-law is good in every way," he said, "but she likes to worry too much. My wife is indeed a little bit coquettish, who calls her a city girl? It doesn't matter whether she is shameless or not, she followed me, and I promised not to let her suffer. It doesn't matter whether she cooks or not, it's not like she can't eat in the cafeteria."

Although Yan Lei was smiling when he spoke, Captain Zhao and several others could hear that his voice was different from before.

It was subtly different.

Yan Lei was the youngest among the captains, but he left home at the age of fourteen, and his life experience was no less than that of Captain Zhao and Captain Ma. Moreover, they were at the same level, and his level was higher than the two battalion commanders. Being a

captain at such a young age, his future prospects were probably the best among everyone.

So although Captain Zhao and Captain Ma both called him "Little Yan" because of his young age, no one could really regard him as an innocent young man.

It was really strange. Everyone knew that Yan Lei and his wife didn't have a good relationship, so why did they suddenly start to protect Yizi?

What else could Captain Zhao say? He was already feeling guilty because of Lin Xixi's ambiguous behavior, so he could only confirm that his wife was "meddling in other people's business": "That's right, I'll talk about her later."

The men got into the car one by one, just like any other morning.

But as soon as driver Zhang released the clutch and stepped on the accelerator to start, he glanced in the rearview mirror and suddenly said, "Captain Zhao, is that your niece?"

"Ah?" Captain Zhao stretched his neck to look, "Where is she? Where is she?"

"She's gone. I just saw her in the rearview mirror." Driver Zhang muttered, "I might have seen it wrong."

"Old Zhao's niece is very pretty." Captain Ma asked with a smile, "Is she engaged? Do you want to recruit a niece-in-law in the army?"

"Yes, yes." Captain Zhao took out cigarettes and distributed them to everyone, "Keep an eye on them for me. If anyone has outstanding young men under your command, keep them for my family."

Everyone laughed.

Yan Lei took the cigarette. Whether Lin Xixi appeared outside the car just now or whether driver Zhang saw it wrongly, it had nothing to do with him. But he saw driver Zhang looking back in the rearview mirror, and he knew what was going on. He stuck his chin out to the driver's seat and said with a smile: "Then you take a look at our Xiao Zhang first." Knowing

how to drive a car is a skill, a promising skill that can make a living. Even if he changes his career in the future, he won't have to worry about finding a job. Xiao Zhang is also good-looking, so he can be considered a high-quality young man.

Captain Zhao laughed: "You have to see it all. A girl from one family is sought after by hundreds of families. You have to compare prices before buying something."

Everyone laughed. Driver Zhang also laughed.

The jeep took the men to the battalion headquarters.

Driver Zhang didn't see it wrong. The person he saw just now was Lin Xixi.

Lin Xixi stuck her head out again, and the green jeep had gone far away with a cloud of dust. It was so suspenseful, she was almost seen by her uncle just now.

She watched the car go away. She bit her lip.

Although they lived very close, she had little chance to see Yan Lei, so how could she develop feelings with him?

She thought of what she had just seen, that several men were all wearing green military uniforms, but Yan Lei was the tallest, youngest, and most handsome.

He was only in his twenties, but he could ride in a small car like these middle-aged men. From the perspective of Lin Xixi who had lived her life again, she certainly understood which of the men had a better future. This was later proven.

It's a pity that she was young and ignorant. Such a good marriage was right in front of her, but she despised the man's age and second marriage. She

was so stupid when she was young. She pursued love or not. When she got old, she was still a greasy and rotten man. She didn't make much money, and she went home like a corpse, doing nothing.

Yan Lei is old now, he has a special car to go in and out, and there are guards around him. What a style!

Thinking of the fact that she was not even willing to come to Yan Lei for a blind date in her previous life, and she didn't know who Yan Lei married for the second marriage, and who was the woman who took his place as the wife of an official, Lin Xixi's eyes were red.

How can she get rid of that damned Qiao Weiwei who is not dead, and I wonder if she has also been reborn?

Lin Xixi hurried back to Captain Zhao's house. Sister Yang was grabbing Yingzi and asking, "Where is your sister?"

Just as she asked, she saw Lin Xixi coming back from outside. Sister Yang asked, "Where have you been?"

Lin Xixi was very calm and said with a smile, "I went to check on the jeep."

She went over and held Sister Yang's arm affectionately, "Auntie, I see that driver is quite young. Is that the driver who picks up my uncle and his family when they go to and from work? What's his last name?"

"Zhang," Sister Yang said, "Little Zhang is very promising. He can drive. Whether he is promoted in the army or transferred to civilian work, he will have a job."

"I see that car can pick up several people at a time. It's not just for my uncle?"

"Of course, only division-level cadres have special cars. I don't know if your uncle will ever get to ride in a special car." Sister Yang smacked her lips.

Who doesn't want to live a good life? Who wants to move up?

Lin Xixi's eyes sparkled, and she asked, "What if my uncle wants to go to the provincial capital? Can he use the government car?"

"Of course he can. Just prepare a pack of cigarettes for Xiao Zhang." Sister Yang told her, "But don't make a fuss. Just use it, don't make a fuss about it."

After a pause, she added, "Everyone does this. It's not just your uncle. This car is meant to serve everyone."

Lin Xixi smiled and said, "I understand."

She went into the kitchen to serve porridge to her cousins.

Sooner or later, there will be several cars, or even more than one car, to pick up and drop off the cadres. But each driver picks up fixed people, which means that when Yan Lei went to the provincial capital to pick up Qiao Weiwei, he should have taken Xiao Zhang's car.

Xiao Zhang, maybe he knows something.

It would be great if he could prove that Qiao Weiwei, the slut, had eloped with someone, and try to make this known. If everyone knew that Qiao Weiwei had cheated on Yan Lei, how could a man tolerate such a thing? They would

definitely get divorced.

Back then, she followed her educated youth husband back to the city, but she just smiled at the neighbors and chatted casually, but her mother-in-law pointed at her and called her a slut, and her husband slapped her in the face and told her to behave herself in the city.

She didn't believe a man could tolerate such a thing.