Kyoto

Commander Chen and his mother were about to send a telegram to their son when they received a telegram from Political Commissar Ye of the Ganshi Military Region praising them for finding a good daughter-in-law. Commander Chen glanced at it and laughed when he saw Political Commissar Ye praising his own daughter-in-law.

Mother Chen looked at each other in bewilderment.

What happened to Political Commissar Ye and his wife?

One of them praised their daughter-in-law, saying how good she was to her son and grandchildren. The other one said that her daughter-in-law abused the children and was a vicious daughter-in-law. Chen's mother didn't know who to believe.

However, Chen's mother still had some judgment and knew that Liu Shujuan's telegram was most likely not as reliable as the one from Political Commissar Ye.

Mother Chen also remembered that Liu Shujuan had wanted to introduce her niece to her son.

Maybe Liu Shujuan deliberately belittled her daughter-in-law in front of her to make her have a bad impression of her.

The more Chen's mother thought about it, the more she felt that this was the case, and she no longer had any good feelings towards Liu Shujuan or Liu Jiao's niece.

Commander Chen saw that Mother Chen was finally relieved and said with a smile, "I said that our son's vision would be good. You don't believe in our son's vision, and you don't believe in mine. If my daughter-in-law is not good, how can I agree to their marriage? Our daughter-in-law must be good!"

Mother Chen still had a good impression of Shuying, her daughter-in-law, and nodded: "That child should be a good one!"

Chen's Courtyard in Northwest Military District, Gan City

Shuying didn't know what happened in Kyoto. In the evening, Zhou Shengtian came to inform her. Shuying was picking vegetables in the kitchen.

I learned from Zhou Tuan that her husband drove to the county town in the evening, so there was no need to wait for him for dinner.

Shuying wondered why this man suddenly went to the county town. Since he went to the county town and it was so late, he probably ate at the state-owned hotel, so she would not make his share.

"Sister-in-law, what are you going to cook for dinner?"

Knowing that her husband went to the county town, Shuying only planned to make a bowl of steamed egg and a bowl of minced meat and eggplant. Zhou Shengtian had eaten the dishes cooked by Chen Tuan's wife, and he still can't forget her cooking skills, especially the spicy rabbit meat, which was really amazing.

Zhou Shengtian has wanted to eat for free these days, but now everyone is starving, so he feels embarrassed to do so.

Before Zhou Shengtian left, he suddenly asked, "Sister-in-law, I want to ask you something. Has the daughter of Political Commissar Ye left the military district?"

Zhou Shengtian felt a little embarrassed when he asked this question.

When Shuying saw Zhou Shengtian's embarrassed look, he thought that Zhou Tuan had taken a fancy to the daughter of Political Commissar Ye?

Zhou Shengtian really took a liking to Ye Shuning. When Political Commissar Ye brought people to his house a few days ago, Zhou Shengtian took a liking to her.

Just hearing that the other party was leaving the military area today, Zhou Shengtian guessed that the other party probably didn't think highly of him.

Zhou Shengtian felt a little disappointed. After hearing Political Commissar Ye calling on Chen Tuan's wife to persuade people to stay, Zhou Shengtian wanted to know whether they had left the military region.

Upon learning that Zhou Shengtian chose Ye Shuning instead of Liu Jiao, Shuying praised him for his good taste.

He immediately smiled and said, "Zhou Tuan, Sister Ye has not left the military area. By the way, the reason she wants to leave the military area is because you met Comrade Liu, and she doesn't want to avoid suspicion!"

Zhou Shengtian was afraid that the shadow of the tree might misunderstand him, so he quickly explained, "I have never met Comrade Liu before. Comrade Liu is very generous and has never been interested in me!"

Zhou Shengtian hesitated as he looked at the shadow of the tree, with a conflicted look on his face, not knowing whether he should tell her that Liu Jiao's crush is on Chen Tuan?

As soon as Shuying saw Zhou Shengtian's expression, she knew that he must know that Liu Jiao had taken a fancy to her man.

No wonder Zhou Shengtian didn’t take a fancy to Liu Jiao.

In the end, Zhou Shengtian did not tell Liu Jiao that she liked Chen Tuan. He just asked her to keep an eye on Liu Jiao before leaving. After all, Chen Tuan was married, so if the female comrade wanted to dig her out, she had to wait until the next life. He would not cause trouble for his sister-in-law.

After Zhou Shengtian left, Shuying prepared dinner and took the children to eat dinner. Then she took the children to take a bath and wash their hair.

When Chen Xi was not around, Chen Yi was still very well-behaved and especially dependent on Shuying. At first, he asked why his uncle hadn't come back, but after dinner, he felt hungry again, so Shuying took out the red date cake that he had made in the afternoon when he was bored.

Chen Yi had only eaten egg cakes but had never eaten red date cakes. When the red date cakes were taken out, Chen Yi became very curious. She no longer thought about her uncle and followed him like a little tail.

Shuying cut a small piece for him to taste. Chenyi took a bite and waited for the sweet taste of red dates to fill his mouth. His fair and tender face was full of satisfaction. His big round eyes looked at Shuying brightly: "It's delicious! Auntie!"

"As long as it tastes good!" Seeing that the child liked it, Shuying cut off a large piece and put the rest in the cupboard.

Take the kids to sit in the front yard to enjoy the cool air.

Chen Yi was eating red date cake while Shuying continued to knit her woolen pants.

Chen Yi took a few bites and saw that his aunt didn't eat the date cake, so he took the initiative to put the date cake to her lips. Shuying only took a bite and stopped eating, letting him eat it by himself.

At this time, there was a knock on the door.

At first Shuying thought it was her husband who had returned, so she got up quickly and waited until she heard a strange female voice coming from outside: "Chen Tuan, are you home? Are you asleep?"

Shuying walked over and opened the door. Standing outside was Mrs. Liang. She had a basket on her right hand and was holding a slightly chubby boy in her left hand.

There are not many chubby children nowadays. Shuying took a closer look. Liang Goudan felt a little shy and hid behind Mrs. Liang.

Chen Yi recognized Liang Goudan and said to his aunt while eating date cake, "Aunt, I know him. His name is Liang Goudan. He likes my schoolbag very much! He touches my schoolbag every day! If I don't give it to him, he will snatch it and carry it on his back!"

Chen Yi said this with his cheeks puffed up and he was breathing heavily.

Mrs. Liang felt very embarrassed when she heard this, and hurriedly told Shuying why she came: "I'm from the Chen Tuan family, I'm so sorry, my child has seen your child's schoolbag these days and likes it very much. He keeps asking to make a schoolbag for him. I have no choice but to come and ask you for a favor!"

Mrs. Liang was afraid that Shuying would disagree, so she quickly said that she had already bought the cloth, and it would not be free to ask her to help make the schoolbag, and she had the final say on the price.

From the tone of Mrs. Liang, Shuying knew that the Liang family was not short of money, otherwise how could the child be raised to be so plump and white? Besides, it was very rare to find a family willing to take out a piece of cloth to make a schoolbag for a child.

Shuying hurriedly asked Mrs. Liang to bring the child in.

After Mrs. Liang brought the child in, she looked around and saw a vegetable garden in the front yard. It seemed that Chen Tuan's child was delicate and capable, and a virtuous person.

Mrs. Liang thought to herself that at first she thought that Captain Chen was just like Deputy Captain Fang, who married a wife who could do nothing just because of her looks.

But she had heard many people praising Chen Tuan's cooking skills in the past few days.

Just then, Mrs. Liang saw what kind of pastry Chen Yi was eating. She had never seen such a red pastry before.

Not only did Mrs. Liang take a curious look, Liang Goudan also kept glancing at the date cake in Chen Yi's hand while Chen Yi was enjoying it so sweetly, swallowing his saliva.

Perhaps it was because the jujube cake was too fragrant, Liang Goudan couldn't help but hurriedly said, "Grandma, I want to eat it too!"

Mrs. Liang looked embarrassed, and then she heard Liang Goudan say, "Auntie Chen Yi, I have a lot of food at home. Can I exchange my delicious food for a piece of this food at yours?"

Liang Goudan boasted to Chen Yi: "I have White Rabbit and delicious egg cakes at home."

Chen Yi snorted coldly: "I've already eaten it!"

As he said this, he glanced at Liang Goudan with pride, opened his mouth and took a big bite of the date cake, and said to his aunt: "Aunt, I don't want to give it to him. He said that the food you cooked is unpalatable, so I won't give it to him!"

Liang Goudan was so greedy that he said hurriedly, "Who told you to always say that your aunt's cooking is so delicious, but you don't give me any!"

From the quarrel between the two children, Shuying roughly knew what was going on, and hurried to the counter to cut a piece of red date cake for Liang Goudan to eat.

Pastries and other things are not cheap, and Mrs. Liang is not one to take advantage, so she asked Shuying to count the money.

With so many cakes, Shuying couldn't figure out how to calculate the cost. She pursed her lips and smiled, "Sister Liang, it's not a big deal to just give the children some cakes!"

She asked Mrs. Liang to bring out the cloth so that she could take a look.

The cloth that Mrs. Liang brought was also a piece of military green cotton cloth. Shuying took a quick look at it and thought it was enough to make a small schoolbag.

Shuying asked Liang Goudan what kind of schoolbag he wanted to make.

Liang Goudan just took a bite of the date cake. It was full of date fragrance, fragrant and fluffy. It was so delicious, even better than his egg cake. Liang Goudan's eyes lit up while eating it, and he replied to Shuying: "I want a small schoolbag like Chen Yi's, and I want an extra big five-pointed star!"

Chen Yi snorted coldly.

Shuying pursed her lips and smiled: "Okay!" She then asked her child to take out the small schoolbag and show it to Mrs. Liang.

Chen Yi quickly finished the date cake in his hand, went to the bedroom to get his small schoolbag and put it on his back.

He walked back and forth in the main room on his short legs, with his chest puffed out, looking so proud.

It was the first time that Mrs. Liang saw the small schoolbags made by the Chen Tuan family. Before that, her grandson had always asked for schoolbags for the Chen family’s children, saying how beautiful they were, but she didn’t care much about it.

I didn't expect that this small army green backpack with shoulder straps would have a red five-pointed star sewn on the outside.

Ouch!

How come Chen Tuan is so clever and skillful? Why is this school bag so beautiful?

No wonder her children kept thinking about it every day and kept urging her to buy cloth.

Mrs. Liang no longer thought it was a waste of cotton cloth, and immediately agreed to make it according to the model of this schoolbag.

Liang Goudan's eyes were also glued to the small schoolbag on Chen Yi's back. He was extremely envious. However, when he thought that he would soon have a small schoolbag too, he was not so envious anymore. He stared at the shadow of the tree, wishing that she could conjure up a schoolbag immediately.

It is impossible to conjure up a schoolbag.

Shuying asked Mrs. Liang to bring the child to pick it up tomorrow evening.

"It's okay, Mr. Chen, take your time, my child is not in a hurry!" Mrs. Liang was very embarrassed.

Liang Goudan took Mrs. Liang's polite words seriously, and was so anxious that he scratched his face and rushed to the tree shadow and said, "Auntie Chen Yi, don't listen to my grandma. I'm anxious! I'm so anxious!"

This made Shuying burst into laughter. Seeing Liang's embarrassed expression, Shuying hurriedly said, "Okay, I'll make it for you tomorrow!"

"Oh, daughter-in-law of the Chen family, I'm sorry to trouble you!" Her grandson said everything that should and shouldn't be said, and Mrs. Liang didn't know what to say.

After ordering a schoolbag, Mrs. Liang took her child and left.

Before leaving, Liang Goudan said to Chen Yi: "Chen Yi, I will have my own schoolbag from now on, and I will never steal yours again. Whatever your aunt makes, can you share some with me?"

Chen Yi refused without even thinking.

This was the first time Mrs. Liang had seen her grandson so shameless. She was too embarrassed to stay at the Chen family, so she hurriedly took the brat back to the Liang family.

After Mrs. Liang and Liang Goudan left, Shuying asked the child if he had washed his hands. Chen Yi, looking guilty, hurried to the kitchen to wash his hands.

After washing her hands, she cut the cloth, checked her watch, and put the child to bed.

The child fell asleep quickly, and Shuying leaned against the back of the bed, knitting her trousers and waiting for her man.

It was almost ten o'clock when he heard the sound of cars and movement outside the courtyard. Shuying yawned and hurried to open the door.

This time when she opened the gate to the courtyard, her husband finally came back.

A military green jeep stopped at the door and Chen Xi just got out of it.

"Why are you so late?" asked Shuying.

From her husband, Shuying learned that it was her parents-in-law who sent a large luggage to the military area, but this place was too remote, and the things sent from Kyoto could only be delivered to the county town, so she had to go there to pick them up in person.

He drove to the county town specially to get it this evening.

Shuying wanted to help carry the luggage as it was a bit heavy, but Chen Xi didn't let her and told her to go back to sleep first.

"Have you had dinner?" Shuying asked casually.

I thought the man must be eating at the state-owned hotel in the county, but when I asked, he found out that he wasn't eating. Shuying simply went back to the kitchen to make him something to eat temporarily.

Chen Xi carried the luggage sent from home and the quilts he got from the county town into the main room one by one.

It’s inconvenient to cook or steam rice so late.

Shuying Gancui made a simple version of mixed sauce noodles for the man.

While mixing the noodles, cut the cucumber into shreds and pick up a few green leaves, then put them in a large bowl.

There was some meat sauce left in the cupboard, so Shuying stir-fried it with soybean paste and sweet noodle sauce, poured the meat sauce on the white noodles in a large bowl, and mixed it evenly with cucumber shreds and green leaves.

Shuying took a bite and found it tasted especially delicious.

After putting out the fire and washing the pot, she took it out and placed it on the table in the living room.

When Shuying came out, he saw the man carrying a large box of the boss's luggage into the main room, and then carrying in two thick quilts. He was surprised.

"How did you get this?" Shuying asked hurriedly.