At noon, Han Zecheng returned to the guesthouse and had lunch with Su Ruo and Han Guo, and told her that the Gu family invited them to dinner.
He said, "You just came here and you are not familiar with the environment yet. If you don't want to meet so many outsiders now, I will have someone tell the Gu family. We will visit the Gu family after you settle down in a few days."
Su Ruo didn't think it mattered.
She already knew about the relationship between the Gu family and him, so she said, "General Gu is the leader and your elder. They invited us with good intentions, so of course we have to go."
After saying that, he bared his teeth and said with a sly smile, "Unless you are afraid that I can't handle it and make you embarrassed."
Han Zecheng glanced at her.
How could he be afraid that she would lose face? He was only afraid that she was too good... too good and he couldn't keep her.
He said, "I'm just worried that you don't like entertaining those people."
She used to like quietness... although it seems now that she might not be her true self at that time.
But no matter what, their relationship now is a bit special.
They are not a normal couple.
Going to meet those people would also mean walking into his life... He didn't know if she was willing to do that now.
He was thoughtful, but Su Ruo had never thought so much about it.
What she was thinking was that her time had skipped five years, and she had to quickly integrate into the current world so that she could feel down to earth.
So she shook her head and said with a smile: "No, since you have a good relationship with the Gu family, I think the Gu family must be good people."
Han Zecheng was a little stunned when he saw her curved eyebrows and eyes, but he didn't say anything more.
He really didn't know that Su Ruo was like this before going to the countryside.
He had never seen her so happy and bright before, and her smile seemed to be able to melt anyone's heart.
******
The Gu family’s house is very big and is decorated in a military style, simple and elegant.
Han Zecheng pressed the doorbell, but before the nanny could go up to open the door, Gu Yilin had already left his seat and went to open the door himself.
To be honest, he and Han Zecheng have been brothers for so many years, but he has never seen his wife and son. When asked, he refused to say anything. He was very curious.
After Han Zecheng said in the morning, "My wife is still young, don't bother her with trivial matters," he became even more curious.
When did Han Zecheng say such a thing?
No, when was he the kind of person who would say something like that?
But when he said that to you with that serious expression, it was obviously wrong, but you couldn't tell what was wrong.
So how could he not be curious?
He also wanted to know what was going on with his wife, who was already a mother of a four-year-old child.
As soon as he opened the door, it turned out that he still had his usual playful smile on his face.
But when his eyes fell on Su Ruo behind Han Zecheng, he paused, and then the smile turned into a dumb look.
"Yilin."
Han Zecheng called out.
The astonishment on Gu Yilin's face immediately turned into a big smile. He moved aside to the door, welcomed the people in, and said, "Come in, come in, I've been waiting for you for a long time."
He then introduced himself to Su Ruo in a familiar manner, saying, "Sister-in-law, I'm Gu Yilin, and I'm the best friend in Zecheng."
Su Ruo smiled at him and said, "Yes, I know. Brother Han told me."
Gu Yilin:......
This is so cute, soft and beautiful!
God, if it were him, he would protect her like this too!
No, he can't, he can't marry a wife like that!
He turned his head and glanced at Han Zecheng, thinking that this guy was too inhumane. He was his brother after all, so why was he hiding this from him?
But never mind.
He cheered himself up, closed the door and continued to invite people in, while calling out "Gu Yang, Gu Xu, come and greet the guests."
When he called out, two little boys rushed out from somewhere, one was six or seven years old, and the other was about the same age as Guoguo.
The two of them first called out "Uncle Han" politely, and then all looked at Han Guo.
Gu Yilin had clearly never seen Han Guo before, but he continued to introduce him to his two sons as if they were very familiar with each other, saying, "Gu Yang, Gu Xu, this is your uncle Han's son. He will be four years old in the new year. From now on, you will be brothers, understand?"
Gu Yang and Gu Xu had never seen Han Guo before.
But they were very familiar with Han Zecheng and admired him very much, so they felt quite close to this boy who looked very much like Uncle Han.
Gu Yang pushed the machine gun in his hand towards Han Guo and said, "Would you like to be my brother?"
Han Guo looked at the machine gun, then raised his head to look at Gu Yang and Gu Xu.
In fact, his father had already told him about these two people before he came. They looked pretty good and should be able to fight together. They would not be like Han Laibao who ran to complain to his grandmother after just a few moves.
He reached out to take the machine gun, then handed the truck in his other hand to the two men and said, "Exchange."
When Gu Yang took it and handed it to his brother Gu Xu, Gu Yilin stepped forward and held Gu Yang and Han Guo's shoulders with one hand each, saying, "Gu Yang, take Han Guo to play somewhere else."
So he sent three people away.
Su Ruo was deeply impressed by this unconventional way of greeting.
Guoguo hasn't met other members of the Gu family yet.
At this time, everyone who was originally sitting on the sofa had stood up.
There are many members of the Gu family. Except for Commander Gu, almost everyone else is here... Like Gu Yilin, they are all curious about Han Zecheng, the daughter-in-law who came from their hometown.
Just now, when Gu Yilin was establishing initial friendships among the little boys, the Gu family had already taken a look at Su Ruo and Han Guo.
Of course, the focus is still Su Ruo.
There is no doubt that everyone was more or less shocked.
Because they really didn't expect that the wife Han Zecheng married in the countryside would be like this...
It would be fine if she was just ordinary pretty, but the key point is that she is too pretty, and she has that bookish and delicate air in her bones. Not to mention the country girls, even the ones they come into contact with on a daily basis are rarely like this... This is not a girl that an ordinary family can raise.
So how can we not be surprised and astonished?
Zeng Yaohong had already come forward to invite Han Zecheng and Su Ruo to sit down, and then said with a smile: "Old Gu is still in the study. I'll go and ask him to come down. You guys sit down first."
Everyone introduced themselves and waited for General Gu to come down soon. There was still some time before dinner, so everyone sat on the sofa and chatted.
Everyone was talking while looking at Su Ruo.
But even under such gazes, Su Ruo remained calm and composed, spoke naturally and generously, and was quiet but never made people feel cramped.
So what you see at first glance is definitely not an illusion.
Zeng Yaohong said, "Xiao Su, I wonder what your plans are after joining the army? Although taking care of Comrade Xiao Han and the children is also very important, we women should also have our own careers. Did you have any work when you were in your hometown?"
Su Ruo grew up under the watchful eyes of her stepmother and was very sensitive to people's true feelings, false intentions, kindness, malice, and words.
Especially to a certain extent, Zeng Yaohong and her stepmother Lin Wanhua should be the same kind of people.
But she didn't care at all about what Zeng Yaohong was thinking.
She smiled and said, "I used to be a teacher in a commune primary school, and that's why I couldn't join the army. But now the country has resumed the college entrance examination, so I quit my teaching job and plan to concentrate on the college entrance examination."
Everyone was stunned... Taking the college entrance examination?
But they soon realized.
It turns out she was a teacher before. No wonder, she doesn't look like someone who does farm work all day.
Zeng Yaohong was also surprised.
She asked, "Resign from your public office and take the college entrance examination?"
"Xiao Su, are you sure? Although the college entrance examination has been resumed, I heard that the number of places this year is very limited, but there are a lot of people applying for the exam... After all, it has been suspended for ten years, and there are a backlog of students who want to take the exam. I think the admission rate is very low."
Su Ruo was confident that he could be admitted to university.
After all, her memory stopped five years ago, when she had just graduated from high school.
She had always been an excellent student in school.
But she wanted to go to the nationally renowned Qingdao University, so she didn't dare to be arrogant.
She smiled and said, "Who can say that they are sure? It's just a try. It doesn't matter if you fail. Just study hard and take the exam again next year."
Su Ruo looks particularly beautiful when she smiles.
Because without the past five years, it seems especially clear and bright, without the slightest impurities or worries of life.
Who would have thought that Han Zecheng's lover would be such a pure and beautiful girl?
At this time, Gu Yilin's wife Yu Wan suddenly interrupted and said, "Su Ruo, where are you from? Your accent doesn't sound like Deputy Head Han's. It's a bit like mine."
Su Ruo smiled and said, "I was born in South City."
"No wonder, I was also born in South City."
Yu Wan smiled and said, "I lived there for more than ten years, and only moved to the provincial capital when I was about to graduate from elementary school."
Because of this relationship, the way Yu Wan looked at Su Ruo changed from the original politeness and distance to a more friendly and gentle look.
"Aren't you from Comrade Xiao Han's hometown?"
Zeng Yaohong asked, "Then how did you get to know Comrade Xiao Han and marry someone so far away?"
Now that educated youth are everywhere in the world, this question is actually very easy to guess, but Zeng Yaohong asked this question just to find out more clearly.
Su Ruo knew that if she didn't say it now, countless people would ask her in the future.
And there's nothing to hide.
She said politely, "I met Comrade Han when I was sent there as an educated youth."
It turned out to be an educated youth.
This time everyone finally understood it thoroughly.
Zeng Yaohong looked at Su Ruo and something else suddenly flashed through her mind.
When she saw Su Ruo in the guesthouse before, she felt something was strange about her... No, it wasn't just because she was good-looking.
It’s because of her appearance and temperament, which don’t seem like she can be raised in an ordinary family...even ordinary cadres’ families can’t produce someone like her, her temperament is different.
She said, "So Xiao Su is an educated youth from there. What do your parents do? Are there any other people in your family?"
Han Zecheng frowned.
Su Ruo did not answer immediately.
There was a moment of silence in the living room.
Then Su Ruo smiled and said, "My father is a school teacher, and my mother died when I was a child."
The smile was very faint, obviously just a polite one.
But no one could pick anything.
After all, she is saying that her mother died when she was a child. What kind of enthusiastic expression do you want from her?
Zeng Yaohong wanted to ask something, but then Commander Gu suddenly spoke.
He said: "It is good to take the college entrance examination. Young comrades can respond to the call of national policies and keep making progress. This is an excellent quality."
End of topic.
Even if Zeng Yaohong wanted to ask further, she knew what her husband Gu meant.
So the topic returned to the college entrance examination.
Yu Wan smiled at Su Ruo and said, "Speaking of the college entrance examination, my sister has also signed up this time. Reference materials and books are in short supply now, and it is not easy to buy them even in the provincial capital, so a group of people have set up a study mutual aid group to share materials and learn from each other. They also invited a former teacher from the provincial capital to give everyone an hour of lessons and tutoring every afternoon. Su Ruo, if you are interested, I will let my sister take you to participate next time to see if it helps."
Of course Su Ruo was interested.
Although she was confident about the college entrance examination, no one knew why the college entrance examination had been suspended for ten years. She only had a few reference books. If she wanted to review, she had to find books to review. But now it was just as Yu Wan said, reference materials were in short supply, and it could be said that it was hard to find a book, and you couldn't buy it even if you had money.
And there are teachers to guide you, who can give you some direction, which will make things more efficient.
So she thanked Yu Wan gratefully and said, "Then I'll trouble you, sister-in-law."
Yu Wan smiled at her, something flashed in his eyes, but he said nothing more.
Perhaps everyone except Zeng Yaohong had good intentions. Even Zeng Yaohong, although she had other thoughts, she organized this dinner tonight just to tell everyone that her niece had no interest in Han Zecheng and that everyone had misunderstood her before. Naturally, she was also very enthusiastic about Su Ruo, so there were no other problems during the dinner.
Han Guo quickly became friends with Gu Xu and Gu Yang.
Su Ruo also asked Yu Wan for a lot of details about the military kindergarten. She heard that although it was a military kindergarten, the education there was not old-fashioned. On the contrary, the teachers would play various modified military training games with the children that were not available outside. The children liked them very much. Su Ruo was moved and decided to take Han Guo to have a look another day.
******
After Han Zecheng and Su Ruo left that night, Yu Wan sighed in the room and said, "Zecheng is very nervous about his lover."
She smiled bitterly and said, "I originally thought...ah."
She is a woman and is very sensitive to some details.
Although Han Zecheng didn't say much the whole night, his attention was always on Su Ruo. When her mother-in-law asked Su Ruo questions, Su Ruo didn't seem nervous, but he stood by as if he was afraid that she would be unhappy. If he hadn't frowned later, her father-in-law would not have interrupted her mother-in-law's questioning.
Gu Yilin knew Han Zecheng many times better than Yu Wan did. He could certainly see how worried Han Zecheng was about his young wife.
After all, he could say something as cheesy as "she's still young"...
But he had no interest in discussing this with his wife.
He lay on the bed and said nonchalantly, "That's his wife. If he's not nervous, who would be nervous? Aren't I just as good to you?"
Yu Wan rolled her eyes at him; she was feeling conflicted.
She sighed again and said, "I just thought of Nianxue and felt sorry for her. She has never let go of Zecheng over the years. This time she mustered up the courage to divorce. She must still be hoping to reconcile with Zecheng."
She originally thought there was still a chance, but now it seems impossible.
Even when Nian Xue and Han Zecheng were together, she never saw anything special in the way Han Zecheng looked at Nian Xue.
I used to think it was because Han Zecheng had a cold personality and he treated everyone like that, but now I know it was just because of the wrong person.
Thinking of this, she felt even more upset for Zhou Nianxue.
Gu Yilin's playful and lazy expression disappeared, he sat up, looked at his wife, and said with a rare serious expression: "Is she pitiful? She saw that the Han family was in a bad situation and chose someone else. Who can she blame now? Ah Wan, don't be confused."
"Still making peace? Are you crazy?"
Yu Wan:......
She was embarrassed by what Gu Yilin said, and muttered, "Do you think I am such a fool? I just... after all, we have been friends for so many years, and she had no choice back then."
Gu Yilin sneered, and Yu Wan knew what he meant, so she didn't say anything more.
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