Chapter 188 A Dignified Exit (Edited)

During the time that Huo Lanci was cooking, Zhang Wenqian had already witnessed Huo Lanci's intelligence and broad knowledge. He had to say that Xiaowu had a really good eye.

Good-looking, well-born, smart and capable.

If he were a woman, he would probably also fall in love with such an outstanding man.

After dinner, Zhang Wenqian asked to resign. Yu Wanqing thought about it, said goodbye to Huo Lan, and then walked Zhang Wenqian to the village entrance.

Zhang Wenqian glanced at the beautiful girl beside him and said, "I didn't expect you already have a date."

Yu Wanqing smiled and said, "The right time and the right person, of course, can't be let go."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Wenqian tightened his grip on the front of the bicycle. Right time, right person?

He pursed his lips and smiled. Only he knew that behind this smile was bitterness and sadness. He said, "You have a good eye. Huo Zhiqing is a very good person."

When Yu Wanqing heard others say that her partner was excellent, a smile appeared on her face.

"Of course."

When they reached the entrance of the village, Zhang Wenqian suddenly stopped. He looked at Yu Wanqing and hesitated for a moment before asking, "Do you plan to stay here as an educated youth?"

Yu Wanqing shook her head: "For now, it seems that this is the only place we can stay."

"You and Huo Zhiqing will get married sooner or later. If possible, there will be more opportunities in Beijing." After Zhang Wenqian finished speaking, he wanted to reach out and pat her shoulder like he did when he was a child.

As soon as I raised my hand a little, he controlled it forcefully.

He smiled and said, "Okay, go back quickly. If you need anything, go find Chunlei. Don't worry about it."

Yu Wanqing hummed and said, "Brother Wenqian, don't worry. I've never been the kind of person who would be polite to you guys."

Zhang Wenqian chuckled and nodded: "This is a good thing, keep it up."

After he finished speaking, he sat on his bicycle and waved to Yu Wanqing: "Okay, let's go back quickly."

"If you don't go back, someone will be waiting for you."

Yu Wanqing smiled and waved to Zhang Wenqian.

After riding for a distance, Zhang Wenqian stopped and turned around, and found that Yu Wanqing had already returned, and her back had become very small.

Two people, two different directions, two different roads.

He sighed, and finally ran away.

If it's slow, it's slow. There's no explanation, no reason. If it doesn't belong to you, you can't keep it.

He pursed his lips, rode away.

After he returned to the hospital, Zhang Chunlei kept staring at him left and right, hoping to stare a flower out of him.

Zhang Wenqian glanced at him and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Zhang Chunlei smiled faintly: "I wanted to see if you cried secretly behind my back."

"How is that possible?" Zhang Wenqian sat aside, staring at his brother who was a little whimsical: Even if he really wanted to find a place to cry, there was no way this kid would notice anything unusual.

I've known for a long time that this guy has bad intentions and is waiting to see me make a fool of myself.

Zhang Chunlei asked in a low voice: "Have you seen Yu Xiaowu's target?"

"I saw it." Zhang Wenqian leaned aside, staring at Zhang Chunlei, his stupid brother, with a half-smile: "So, do you think I will fight with Huo Zhiqing?"

Zhang Chunlei whispered, "Isn't this how a normal start should be?"

Zhang Wenqian sneered, waiting to see the joke on himself.

"Why would I fight with someone?" Zhang Wenqian thought his brother's idea was a bit dangerous. "Or, if you meet a girl you like in the future and she doesn't like you but has someone else, are you going to go and settle the score with her?"

Zhang Chunlei quickly shook his head: "No, we were talking about your business, why did you bring me into this?"

Zhang Wenqian shook his head: "No, we are not talking about you, but about something very important. I have to explain it to you now, otherwise I am worried that if you really encounter such a thing in the future, you will make a mistake in principle."

"There is nothing else between Yu Xiaowu and me except that I grew up with her." Zhang Wenqian stared at Zhang Chunlei and said seriously, "She is my sister's sister-in-law, so she is also half our sister. Apart from this relationship, there is no other relationship."

"Don't go to her and say nonsense."

He stared at his brother fiercely: "The most important point is that Xiaowu and Huo Zhiqing are a couple approved by their parents and will get married in the future. I must be crazy to go and fight with them."

Zhang Chunlei heard this and looked at his angry brother, sighing, "I'm not stupid, I just wanted to make you happy."

"Look at yourself. You are so cold that you almost froze me to death."

Zhang Wenqian wanted to say something, but someone pushed open the door of the ward and a middle-aged nurse said, "Comrade Zhang, your father called and asked your eldest brother to call back."

Zhang Chunlei quickly said, "Okay, thank you."

Zhang Wenqian glanced at Zhang Chunlei and said, "Take good care of yourself and don't overthink it. I'm going to call Dad first."

Zhang Chunlei nodded, and only when his elder brother completely disappeared from his sight did he dare to mutter, "I knew you would be scared and afraid to say it. I'm just worried that you'd hurt yourself."

This big brother is good in everything except being competitive and taking on everything by himself.

Whether it is family or work, he strives to do his best.

He never complains of being tired, but he can see that his elder brother is actually very tired.

Ten minutes later, Zhang Wenqian came back.

Zhang Chunlei quickly asked, "Brother, what does Dad want to talk to you about?"

"My father told me to go back quickly because there is news from Beijing." Zhang Wenqian chuckled, "They want to stop me. I want to see who has the ability to tie my feet."

When he said this, a fierce look flashed in his eyes.

Now they are facing internal and external troubles; they are just living too comfortably.

That's why there are so many complicated calculations.

Zhang Chunlei frowned and asked quickly, "You, what do you want to do?"

"Are you really planning to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and be stationed abroad?"

Zhang Wenqian nodded: "You already knew this a long time ago."

"No." Zhang Chunlei tried to sit up, but it agitated his wound, causing him to gasp in pain. "Brother, it's very chaotic and dangerous out there right now, and they look down on us Chinese. If you really stay abroad, you'll encounter more hardships than in China."

Zhang Wenqian was silent for a long time before he looked at Zhang Chunlei and asked, "Are you afraid of death?"

Zhang Chunlei rolled his eyes and said, "If you are afraid of death, you won't join the army."

In Zhang Chunlei's view, dying for protecting his motherland and people was a worthy death.

Zhang Wenqian nodded: "Yes, if I was afraid of death, I wouldn't join the army. If I was afraid of hardship and danger, I wouldn't want to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."

He patted his brother's shoulder and said, "Like you, I have my own pursuits."

He had done so much just to wait for this day.

Zhang Chunlei frowned: "What about Xiaowu? Are you really going to accept your fate?"

I still want to keep my eldest brother here.

Zhang Wenqian looked at Zhang Chunlei as if he were a fool: "Your head is injured too?"

"Xiaowu has a partner now and will get married in the future. Everything about her will naturally be decided by her and her husband."

He sighed in his heart and thought secretly: Fate has never chosen me.

So why bother showing up and causing trouble for her?

He understood the difficulty of being forced to do something against one's will, and naturally hoped that Yu Xiaowu could be free, after all, she was the girl he had watched grow up.

The wisest choice is to step aside.

Zhang Chunlei looked at his elder brother and thought to himself: Is this the quality of a politician with the potential to climb up the social ladder?

If it were him, he might not be able to do it.

After seeing Zhang Wenqian off, Yu Wanqing stayed outside for a while before returning home.

In fact, she was not completely unaware. In the original owner's memory, Zhang Wenqian took good care of her. The original owner might not understand it, but she, as an outsider, understood that Zhang Wenqian liked the original owner.

He showed up today, probably just to take a look, and then leave in a dignified manner.

This is actually quite good.

Huo Lanci looked at Yu Wanqing who came in from outside with a tired look on her face. He stepped forward and hugged her into his arms, and asked softly, "What's wrong? You were fine when you just went out."

Yu Wanqing shook her head, hugged his waist and said slowly: "It's nothing, it's just that I worked a little too hard today, and after dinner I went out of the village for a walk before coming back, and now I'm even more tired."

Huo Lanci lowered his head and looked at her: "Then go back and have a rest. You don't have to go to work in the afternoon. Sleep until you wake up naturally. Don't worry about dinner. I'll cook."

Yu Wanqing nodded repeatedly: "Okay."

“It’s a very happy thing to have someone cook for you.”

Huo Lanci chuckled when he heard this: "Then you will always be happy."

Thinking of the man today, Huo Lanci's eyes flashed with relief. No matter how good some people are at disguising themselves, when they see a girl they like, their eyes will still betray them.

Through chatting, he realized that Zhang Wenqian was a very capable and excellent person.

Fortunately, he is the eldest sister-in-law of the Yu family's brother, and he and Wan Qing will never be together. Otherwise, with such a powerful person by Wan Qing's side to accompany her growing up, he would have no chance at all.

Huo Lanci said: "The things Comrade Wen Qian sent include a few bags of milk powder, a few kilograms of White Rabbit milk candy, and maltose."

It is impossible to buy so many things at once in Nanfu County.

It must have been brought by Zhang Wenqian from Shangyang.

Yu Wanqing was silent for a moment, then nodded: "Brother Wen Qian knows that I have low blood sugar."

The original owner's favorite was White Rabbit Milk Candy, so Zhang Wenqian never bought other candies as a substitute.

The next day, Yu Wanqing and Huo Lanci asked for leave to go to the county town. After arriving, they first went to the meat processing factory to find Chen Heping, and used the back door to buy a few pounds of ribs, a few pounds of pork belly and two pork elbows.

After returning to his second brother's house, he first cooked some pork ribs soup, and then took the soup to the hospital to visit Zhang Chunlei. After arriving at the hospital, Huo Lanci went to the doctor to learn about Zhang Chunlei's injuries.

Yu Wanqing went to the ward first, and when she arrived she learned that Zhang Wenqian had left Nanfu this morning and was rushing back to Shangyang.

Yu Wanqing was a little surprised: "Is it so sudden?"

"My father called the hospital and urged him to go back quickly, saying that he had something important to discuss with him." Zhang Chunlei also felt helpless. Although he complained about his elder brother in his heart, the two brothers were rarely together. When he was injured, the two brothers finally had a chance to reunite, but his elder brother had to rush back to Shangyang.

"Who is taking care of you in the hospital now?" Yu Wanqing looked at Zhang Chunlei worriedly.

"The county committee has arranged a young man to look after me. We will be returning to Guangdong soon. You don't have to worry. Minor injuries like these are common for me." How can one not get hurt or bleed while on a mission?

Either he bleeds or his comrades bleed, even sacrifice is normal.

To put it bluntly, when he chose to join the army, he was ready to sacrifice himself, and every extra day he lived was earned.

Yu Wanqing quickly took out the insulated lunch box she brought with her: "I brought two bowls of soup for you, drink it while it's hot."

Zhang Chunlei's eyes lit up when he heard this: "I am so lucky. I am a bit disappointed that I didn't get to drink the soup you made yourself."

He wanted to drink the soup and eat the meat just by smelling the aroma, but he was required to eat a light diet during this period and could not eat many things.

He leaned over to take a look and exclaimed, "Xiao Wu, did you put the herbs in to make the soup?"

He smelled a faint medicinal aroma, which made him feel happy.

Yu Wanqing hummed: "Drinking a few more bowls will help your wounds heal."

"I've brought all the herbs. I'll have someone make soup for you every day." Yu Wanqing handed a bowl of soup to Zhang Chunlei. "My fourth brother was injured during a mission last year. After he came to the Five-Star Brigade, I helped him recover."

Zhang Chunlei nodded repeatedly: "Okay, thank you Xiaowu."

"Why are you here alone? Who is your partner?" He and Xiao Wu had been chatting for a while, but Huo Lanci had not been seen. Did Xiao Wu come alone?

Yu Wanqing sat aside and said with a smile: "Ah Ci, go find your attending physician to understand your situation."

Zhang Chunlei sighed in his heart when he heard this: It’s not unfair that Big Brother lost.

Huo Lanci not only had a good family background, good looks, and intelligence, but he was also magnanimous in his dealings.

It really covers all aspects.

Zhang Chunlei raised his thumb and said, "You have a really good partner."

He had no choice but to admit it. Big brother had indeed lost. He lost in the relationship between the two of them, and he lost because Huo Lanci appeared at the best time.

Yu Wanqing raised the corners of her lips and smiled. She wouldn't believe that this guy didn't know that Zhang Wenqian liked the original owner.

After knowing his elder brother's thoughts, he could still openly praise Aci, saying that the two brothers were well-educated and had good temperaments.

She sincerely hoped that Zhang Wenqian could find his own happiness.

"Brother Chunlei is the same." Yu Wanqing also raised her thumb and praised with a smile.

The two looked at each other and laughed.

When Huo Lanci came in, he saw the two people laughing and asked curiously, "What are you laughing at?"

Yu Wanqing looked at Zhang Chunlei: "Just now, Brother Chunlei said that you are a very good person."

Huo Lanci smiled faintly and sat next to Yu Wanqing: "Thank you, you are also a very brave comrade."

The two stayed in the ward for half an hour before leaving.

After leaving the hospital, Huo Lanci looked at Yu Wanqing and said, "Shall we go tell our second brother to go home for lunch?"

Yu Wanqing nodded: "Let's go."

Huo Lanci rode his bike and took Yu Wanqing to the outside of the Cabinet Committee building, and happened to see Zhou Chengye standing not far away. Next to him stood a girl of about eighteen or nineteen. No one knew what she had just said to Zhou Chengye, but he looked sour.

Yu Wanqing suddenly heard her second brother say to the girl: "I remember I have told you very clearly that I have a partner. Even if I don't, I will not marry a relative of the Huang family. I hope you will not come to me again."

"Your presence brings me trouble."

Zhou Chengye looked at Yin Xiaoting coldly: "I really don't want to see you at all."

After finishing speaking, she was about to go back to work. Yin Xiaoting heard Zhou Chengye's words and tears kept falling: "Brother Chengye, we..."

"Shut up." Zhou Chengye looked at Yin Xiaoting coldly: "Don't call me Brother Chengye, I'm not your brother."

"There is no "us" either. I am me and you are you."

"Don't think I don't know what's in your mind. Your elder brother and his wife are behind my elder sister-in-law asking me to marry you. Their purpose is to control my Zhou family through you two sisters." Zhou Chengye thought of the Huang family's malicious calculations and couldn't help but sneered: "Just because you are stupid doesn't mean that my elder brother and I are also brainless."

"You want the Zhou family, but you don't even consider whether you are worthy enough."