Chapter 5

Let Yan Xiang go and play by herself. Qiao Wei did not find Yan Lei in the main room. She stepped out of the main room and saw an aluminum kettle on the coal briquette stove under the eaves at the door, boiling water.

Qiao Wei, who was used to all kinds of small electrical appliances and small personal items, looked at the aluminum kettle and felt that it was big.

Looking around, there was movement in the west ear room.

When she went over, she saw that the doors and windows were open and a figure passed through the window.

She walked in and found that the ear room was the kitchen, which had a square stove. It was a very traditional wood stove with a bellows, a seven-print iron pot on the stove, and many bottles and jars.

Yan Lei had already taken off his green military uniform, wearing only a white I-shaped vest, holding a white iron bucket, and pouring water into a large iron basin in the house.

As soon as Qiao Wei came in, she saw the muscles on the man's arms bulging, feeling particularly powerful. The muscles in his body made the I-shaped vest full, his shoulders were broad, and his waist was tightly tied with a belt.

I didn't see the front, but you can imagine that his abdominal muscles must be at least six if not eight. His legs are also very long.

With such a figure, if he were to post some half-revealed videos in the future, he would be able to make money just by relying on his muscles.

Qiao Wei asked, "What are you doing?"

She took a look and saw that the bucket and basin were big.

In this era, all the daily necessities were prepared for the "family", unlike in later generations when many of them were for one person's own use, so they all looked big.

Especially the basin on the ground, Qiao Wei knew it was a bathtub.

There were many memories of Yan Xiang bathing in this basin in her mind.

Yan Lei looked back at her. He had been surprised by Qiao Wei again and again today.

In the past, his wife was very cold to him, and she hardly spoke to him in the past year. But today, it was not the first time that she took the initiative to speak up. She even took the initiative to remind him to give cigarettes to the driver.

After what happened with the technician, her temperament changed drastically, as if she had become a different person.

Yan Lei retracted his gaze, poured all the water in the metal bucket, turned around and walked out: "The water is already burned for you."

He was about to go out with the bucket, but Qiao Wei did not make way.

Yan Lei frowned and looked at her. Qiao Wei also looked at him.

The two were very close, their breathing could be heard. If Yan Lei took another half step forward, their bodies would be touching.

Familiar stranger.

For Yan Lei, this was sleeping in the same bed but dreaming differently and treating his wife coldly. For

Qiao Wei, she even had the memory of having sex with him, but it didn't feel real.

The two just looked at each other. What

did she want to do? They were already home, and she still wanted to quarrel? Did she still want to continue to fight for a divorce?

Yan Lei did not back down. He was not at fault in this matter. He had nothing to fear.

But after staring at each other for a while, Yan Lei felt that although her eyes were strange, she did not seem to want to continue to fight for divorce. Moreover, she took the initiative to say "go home" in the hospital.

Yan Lei decided to take a step back. He said: "The bathhouse is closed today. If you really want to take a bath, go tomorrow. You can only take a bath at home today." After all,

a bath in a tub is not as good as a shower.

The new military compound has running water and a public bathhouse with a boiler. Military families can take a bath with a bath ticket without spending any money.

But it takes a long way to walk there from the old family area. If you live in the new military compound, you won't have such trouble. There is a bathhouse right outside your home, and there is also a small square. They show open-air movies every month and it is very lively.

The new compound is still full of red brick and tile houses, which looks particularly impressive. Unlike the old district, which is all renovated from old rural houses in the past, it is far inferior.

His wife has always been upset about giving up her quota for the new district for him.

She blocked him, and if she didn't want to continue to make trouble for a divorce, was she angry about this again?

His words also activated Qiao Wei's memory of these specific things. But she didn't care about these.

She looked at Yan Lei, so close to him, this is the man who will live with her in the future. But in fact, she has very little cognitive information about him in her mind, and it seems to be covered by a cold gray filter.

Those subjective information are meaningless to her, she has to get to know Yan Lei in person.

Male protagonist.

The male lead is worthy of being the male lead. Looking at him from such a close distance, his thick eyebrows, nose bridge, figure and muscles are all impeccable.

Qiao Wei raised her hand and pressed Yan Lei's chest. It was very hard. Then she touched his arm, which was also hard.

Yan Lei looked at her with strange eyes, suspecting that she was too stimulated and mentally abnormal.

Qiao Wei withdrew her hand and sighed, "So healthy."

She said, "I really envy you."

Yan Lei suspected that she was mocking him. She always disliked him for being uneducated. So when she said something inexplicable now, he suspected that she was scolding him in a way that he couldn't understand.

Just like the letters that the technicians wrote to her, they were full of inexplicable words that he couldn't understand at all.

Thinking of this, he became angry again and snorted, "You're sick."

He squeezed out.

Now only the new district has running water, the old district has no running water. There is not even a hand-operated well in the town, and the people in the town have to fetch water from the pond. The more diligent people will go to the farther river, where the river water smells less and tastes better than the pond water. Some families also have traditional windlass wells.

In the old family district, each family dug a hand-operated well in the yard using the equipment of the army.

Every time the man pumped the well, you could see the bulging muscles on his back and arms, which was pleasing to the eyes.

Qiao Wei leaned against the kitchen door and watched.

Yan Lei brought another bucket of water over.

She pulled up her collar and smelled it, and asked, "Do I smell?"

Yan Lei stopped and asked, "Did you take a shower in the provincial capital?"

He stared at her sharply.

Qiao Wei looked straight at him, her eyes not dodging, and said, "I didn't even change my clothes."

The atmosphere seemed to have changed slightly.

Yan Lei's eyes were a little different from before. He said nothing more and walked towards the kitchen.

This time Qiao Wei gave way and didn't let him squeeze her again.

The sound of pouring water came from the kitchen.

The male protagonist is worthy of being the male protagonist. He can be set up as having a poor family background and being uneducated, but he is certainly not stupid.

So, your wife has not had an improper relationship with other men, you can rest assured.

The kettle on the coal stove was bubbling with steam.

Qiao Wei walked over. There is information in her memory about how to use these things, but just like watching movies and videos, only the eyes have learned.

When facing it, she is still a little at a loss.

Yan Lei suddenly came over from behind, picked up a piece of cloth stacked several layers from the windowsill, padded the handle to lift the kettle, and covered the stove with an iron hook.

He also brought the hot water to the kitchen.

Qiao Wei went to the bedroom to get clean underwear and outer clothes, and then got a towel and went to the kitchen.

In summer, the water doesn't need to be too hot, as long as it's not cold.

Although the large iron basin for bathing was specially made, it can't be compared with the bathtubs of later generations. Sitting in the basin, the water can only reach above the waist.

There is definitely no shampoo or shower gel. The soap box contains a piece of cut soap.

The army distributes a bar of Lighthouse brand soap every month. It is a particularly large bar, only a circle smaller than a brick. For convenience, it is cut into slices when it is distributed to the family.

In this era, it is a good thing, and many families are reluctant to use it for bathing and washing hair. But for Qiao Wei, it is a very bad experience.

Soap is not good for the skin.

Halfway through washing, Yan Lei suddenly came in again.

Qiao Wei subconsciously covered her chest with her arms, turned her back to look at him.

But Yan Lei didn't even look at her, and put a pot of freshly boiled hot water on the ground next to the bathtub: "Cool yourself."

After saying that, he went out without even looking at her.

Well, Qiao Wei was upgraded from a lonely terminal patient to a painless mother, and now she is an old couple, touching her left hand with her right hand.

Qiao Wei smiled and shook her head.

After washing, Yan Xiang was scooping water with a tin scoop next to the hand pressure well to rinse his feet. The child's feet are white and tender, and they are cute to look at.

Qiao Wei asked, "Do you want to take a shower?"

Yan Xiang said, "No, Sister Lin helped me take a shower yesterday."

Qiao Wei said, "Oh," and asked, "Where's your dad?" Yan

Xiang said, "He went to get food."

"Where? The compound?"

The battalion headquarters has a military canteen. The military compound also has a compound canteen.

"No, Aunt Yang's house, Sister Lin cooks for us."

"Oh."

Qiao Wei said, "Oh," and was about to enter the main room, but suddenly something flashed through her mind, and she stepped back: "Sister Lin?"

She asked, "Who is Sister Lin?"

"I don't know. Aunt Yang asked me to call her sister." Yan Xiang finished speaking, and added, "Sister Lin calls Zhao Dada uncle and Aunt Yang sister-in-law."

Qiao Wei was surprised by Yan Xiang's intelligence. He couldn't confirm the identity of "Sister Lin", so he provided Qiao Wei with all the information he knew.

Through the information he provided, Qiao Wei already knew who "Sister Lin" was.

How could the heroine's surname be Niu or Ma? Of course it had to be a famous romantic surname like Lin Su Shen Gu.

Lin Xixi, the reborn heroine of this article, is Yan Lei's second wife and Yan Xiang's well-known stepmother.

It turns out that she has appeared so early.

Qiao Wei thought again, oh, is the hero going to meet the heroine?

Just as she thought so, there was movement at the gate of the courtyard. Yan Lei came in with two lunch boxes, followed by a young girl.

The girl was holding an enamel basin, her eyes gurgling, and she looked at Qiao Wei suspiciously: "Is my sister-in-law really back?"