Chapter 27

Jiang Nian's breathing tightened, and she was stunned for a moment. She blinked in surprise. Just as she was stunned, Lu Yu's hand suddenly moved heavily. Jiang Nian screamed in pain, grabbed Lu Yu's arm in revenge, and pinched him hard.

It hurts!

It hurts too much!

Jiang Nian felt that she was about to die from the pain.

Her mind was blank, and she had long forgotten what Lu Yu had just said. She just pinched the man's arm hard, thinking that this would share the pain with Lu Yu.

"It's done."

Lu Yu gently rubbed Jiang Nian's ankle, raised his eyes and glanced at the arm that had been pinched purple by Jiang Nian, and there was a smile in his eyes: "Try not to put any force on this foot these days, it will recover in a few days, I'll go get some water for you to soak your feet."

After saying that, he was about to stand up, but Jiang Nian was still pinching his arm.

Lu Yu pursed his lips and didn't say anything. After Jiang Nian recovered and let go of him, he stood up and walked out of the house.

Jiang Nian wiped the sweat from her forehead, bent down to look at her still swollen right ankle, reached out and touched it, it didn't seem to hurt as much as at the beginning, she tried to twist her ankle gently, although it still hurt a little, but not as much as at the beginning.

Unexpectedly, Lu Yu's method was quite effective. Thinking

of how she had just pinched Lu Yu's arm in revenge, Jiang Nian came to her senses and pursed her lips awkwardly, wondering if Lu Yu was angry? Would he think she was petty and deliberately retaliated against him?

After a while of hesitation, footsteps were heard outside.

Lu Yu came in with an enamel basin and placed it beside the bed, then stood up and walked out. Jiang Nian glanced at the tall and slender back of the man and swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth. She took off her other shoe and stepped into the footbath, only to find that it was not hot water, but cold water.

It was not the ice water in the well, but water that had been exposed to the sun for a day.

There were footsteps outside again. Jiang Nian blinked and looked up, and saw Lu Yu walking in with a bowl. He put the bowl on the ground, lit a small piece of paper with a matchstick and put it into the bowl, and suddenly a blue flame flickered.

Jiang Nian frowned in confusion: "What is this?"

Lu Yu said: "It can reduce swelling."

He dipped his hand in a bowl of white wine, held Jiang Nian's foot and put it on his knee again, which scared Jiang Nian so much that she wanted to pull her foot back, but Lu Yu grabbed her calf and made it impossible for her to break free.

"It doesn't hurt this time, just bear it for a while."

Lu Yu looked up at Jiang Nian's eyes that were a little red and swollen from crying: "Pinch me if it hurts."

Jiang Nian: ...

She pursed her lips and grabbed the sheets with both hands: "I can bear it."

After saying that, she glanced at the bruises on Lu Yu's arm with a guilty look, and looked out the window.

Lu Yu smiled silently, lowered his head and massaged Jiang Nian's ankle.

Jiang Nian found that it was just as Lu Yu said, it was not as painful as before, and she could still bear the pain this time. After rubbing for a while, Lu Yu let go of her hand, took the footbath away, and said, "Come down and try to walk a few steps."

"Walk two steps?"

Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment, and thought she had heard it wrong.

Lu Yu patiently repeated, "Try to walk two steps, it should be much better."

Jiang Nian put on her cloth shoes, stood up with the help of the bed, and when her right foot touched the ground, the pain she expected did not come, but only a slight pain. She tried to walk two steps again, and her ankle was only slightly painful, and there was no pain at all that made her unable to get down from the ground at the beginning.

She looked at Lu Yu in surprise, with a bright light in her eyes: "You can walk so soon! You are so amazing!"

Lu Yu looked at those sparkling pupils and lowered his voice: "Although you can walk, your foot still cannot bear any force. It needs to rest for a few days. I will buy some safflower oil tomorrow and massage your foot twice."

Jiang Nian nodded . "Yeah."

She sat down on the bed again, looked up at Lu Yu, and said from the bottom of her heart: "Thank you."

Lu Yu picked up the foot basin and said before leaving: "Brother has left, sister-in-law should look forward, brother will not feel at ease if you are like this."

Looking at Lu Yu's back, Jiang Nian pursed her lips and thought of what he just said.

- Sister-in-law, forget about brother.

Maybe he really wants her to let go of the past and live well in the present. Although she is not thinking of Xu Cheng, it means the same as what Lu Yu said.

She is living in this world now, so she should forget everything in the past.

After the movie ended, Feng Mei and Xu Yan came back. They learned that Jiang Nian had sprained her ankle, so they ran to her house to see her.

Feng Mei put Jiang Nian's stool on the ground and said, "I was wondering why you disappeared after going to the toilet. It turns out that you sprained your ankle. How is it? Is it serious?"

Xu Yan sat by the bed and looked at Jiang Nian's right foot. It was a little swollen and seemed to have been pinched. She guessed that it was Deputy Colonel Lu, so she smiled and said, "Deputy Colonel Lu is really attentive. I sprained my ankle two years ago, and Liu Qiang didn't care about me. I had to bear it for more than ten days before my foot healed. Now my ankle hurts a little when it rains."

When mentioning Liu Qiang, Xu Yan's tone was not as kind as before.

The two of them sat for a while and then left. Jiang Nian lay on the bed and looked at the door that Feng Mei closed for her. She felt that the pain just now was really like a nightmare. After the movie ended, everyone went back to their respective homes.

Xu Yan returned from Jiang Nian's house. Liu Jianye led Liu Jianwu to sit on the doorstep of the house. When they saw Xu Yan coming back, they ran over happily. Xu Yan touched their heads and asked, "Are you hungry?" Liu Jianye shook his head, "Not hungry." Liu Jianwu chuckled, "I'm hungry." Liu Jianye glared at him, "I think you were given to us by Aunt Jiang." Moon cakes." Liu Jianwu pursed his lips and looked at Xu Yan: "Mom, I want to eat moon cakes." Xu Yan put down the stool and walked to the kitchen: "I'll get them for you." She came out of the kitchen and happened to see Liu Qiang who had returned home. Liu Qiang went over and picked up Liu Jianwu and asked: "Did you enjoy the movie tonight?" Liu Jianwu hesitated and nodded: "Happy."

Liu Jianye just glanced at Liu Qiang and went to find Xu Yan. During this period, his mother and father did not quarrel, but he still could not forget the things that happened between his father and Lu Zhijun's mother in the past few years. Although he was young, there were some things that he always remembered.

His father would rather help Lu Zhijun's mother fetch water than see his mother working hard at home. Instead, he sat at the table as soon as he came back and let his mother cook and bring him water. When he thought of Lu Zhijun breaking his leg, Liu Jianye felt happy and relieved.

Liu Qiang put down Liu Jianwu and glanced at his eldest son who was a little estranged from him. He wanted to get close to him, but his eldest son always avoided him and ran to his mother as soon as he saw Xu Yan.

Xu Yan took a mooncake and broke it for the two children, half for each. After eating, the two children went back to sleep. She went back to the room to tidy up the bedding. Liu Qiang followed her in, got behind her and hugged her, and asked: "Why did you look so cold at Deputy Tuan Lu's house today? I didn't provoke you."

Xu Yan paused for a moment while grabbing the bedding, turned around and looked at Liu Qiang, and once again tentatively said: "When are you going to Zheng Hong's house to get the fifty yuan back? The New Year is just a few months away. If I get the money back, I can buy more fabrics to make two more new clothes for Jianye and Jianwu, so that we can eat better during the New Year."

Liu Qiang frowned and let go. Xu Yan was a little impatient: "Why do you mention her?"

Xu Yan's face turned cold: "Do you want this money?"

Liu Qiang also turned cold: "Zhijun's child just broke his leg, and the hospitalization cost a lot of money. His family is also short of money now. You ask me to go and ask for money now, isn't it embarrassing? Wait a little longer, wait until Zhijun's leg is healed before talking about it."

Xu Yan suddenly got angry and threw the bedding on the bed: "Shut up about Zhijun's child, he is Zheng Hong and Captain Lu's son, not yours. Your sons are Jianwu and Jianye. What does her family's difficulties have to do with me? I want my money, why should I look at them?!"

"That's my money!"

Liu Qiang yelled, his face looking a little ugly: "Can you stop making trouble? I will get the money back when it's due. Didn't I give you all my wages? What else are you dissatisfied with? You have to hold on to the matter of fifty yuan and make the family uneasy?"

Xu Yan's chest was shaking with anger. She found that every time when she mentioned asking Liu Qiang to ask Zheng Hong for money, he would make excuses and blame all the mistakes on her.

Suddenly, the blood rushed to her head, and she yelled: "When Zheng Hong comes back, I will go to her house to ask for money!"

"You dare!"

Liu Qiang glared at her, gritting his teeth and said: "If you dare to go to Zheng Hong's house to ask for money, go back to the countryside tomorrow. You can afford to lose this man, but I can't!"

Xu Yan pushed Liu Qiang angrily: "Okay, you think I'm embarrassing now? What did you do before?"

Liu Qiang pushed her away: "You crazy woman who is messing around."

After saying that, he turned around and went out again.

Xu Yan stood in the room in a daze, looking at the empty door, and then she covered her face and cried. She knew this would be the result, but it was still a humiliation. She shouldn't have had hope in Liu Qiang.

Liu Jianye leaned on the window and watched Liu Qiang turn around and walk out of the house. He gave the mooncake to Liu Jianwu and went to Xu Yan's room.

Liu Qiang stood at the door of the house and saw Captain Song coming back from outside.

Although it was dark, the moon was very bright tonight. Liu Qiang saw that Captain Song's face was not very good and his eyebrows were wrinkled. He wanted to say hello, but he was afraid of being scolded, so he turned around and went back home.

Captain Song heard the sound of the door closing, looked up, and walked past the family courtyard in a row, quietly.

He touched his head, and returned home to see that it was dark in his son's room, so he returned to his own room and saw Feng Mei lying on the bed, holding Song Xiangdong's schoolbag in her hand and constantly flipping through it, as if she wanted to see a flower.

"What's wrong with you today?"

Captain Song took off his shoes and asked.

Feng Mei didn't even look at him, and turned her back to him.

Captain Song: ...

When he came back from the training ground, he called Feng Mei, and Feng Mei turned around and looked at him and left, once again humiliating him in front of the boys in the regiment. The problem was that he didn't know how he had offended his wife.

Captain Song came back depressed, turned around and pushed Feng Mei's back again: "What's wrong with you? Can you say something?"

Feng Mei moved inside so that Captain Song couldn't poke her.

Captain Song: ...

"Hey, this is fucking weird!" The next morning, when Jiang Nian woke up, Lu Yu had already prepared breakfast

.

She looked at her ankle, which had swelled up a little, and it was not as painful as last night.

She put on her cloth shoes and found that she could use a little more force on her feet when she walked out of the house.

When the horn sounded, Lu Yu came out of the kitchen and saw Jiang Nian standing at the door of the house: "Sister-in-law, don't cook at noon. I'll get lunch from the canteen."

Jiang Nian thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay."

She washed the dishes after breakfast, limped back to the house, took out the cloth she bought from the market from the cupboard, cut it according to her own size with a wooden ruler, made the pattern first, and when her feet were healed, she went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some cotton. At noon,

Lu Yu came back from the canteen with an aluminum lunch box, bringing two dishes and a bowl of porridge, as well as two white flour buns. After she finished eating, she took them to the well and washed them.

He packed up his aluminum lunch box and saw Jiang Nian sitting in the yard. After thinking for a while, he asked, "Sister-in-law, do you know what happened to Sister-in-law Feng these two days?"

Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment: "What happened to her?"

Lu Yu said, "Captain Song came to the team to find me today and asked me to ask you, Sister-in-law Feng has been ignoring him these two days. Is there something wrong?"

Jiang Nian finally understood and pursed her lips to prevent herself from laughing.

She lowered her head and tugged at the corner of her clothes, whispering, "When Sister Feng comes over, I'll ask her."

Lu Yu said, "Okay."

After Lu Yu left, Jiang Nian couldn't help laughing. When she heard footsteps outside, she quickly stopped laughing. Seeing that it was Feng Meimei who came in, she almost laughed out loud again. She suppressed her smile and asked, "Sister Feng, what happened to you these two days?"

Feng Mei said, "What happened?"

Jiang Nian pursed her lips, hiding a smile in her eyes, "Just now Lu Yu asked me to ask you what happened these two days. Captain Song is worried about you. He has been restless in the team these two days."

Feng Mei's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she walked over to sit next to Jiang Nian: "Really? What else did Deputy Commander Lu say?"

Jiang Nian said: "He said Commander Song was worried that something had happened to you, but you ignored him, so he told Lu Yu about it and asked me to ask him about it."

"Sister Feng, I think Captain Song really cares about you. If anything happens to you, he will be more worried than anyone else."

Upon hearing this, Feng Mei clapped her thigh and laughed, "Oh my, this is exactly what I want. I didn't expect that he is really worried about me."

Jiang Nian showed a curious look. Seeing this, Feng Mei leaned close to her and whispered, "I think Xu Yan used this method to treat Liu Qiang, so I want to try it on Old Song too." After saying that, she felt a little embarrassed and said to Jiang Nian, "You can't tell Xu Yan this, I'm afraid she will laugh at me." Jiang Nian held back her laughter and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely help Sister Feng

."

Keep it a secret."

Feng Mei whispered in Jiang Nian's ear, and Jiang Nian's eyelids jumped: "Sister-in-law Feng, this is not good, right?"

Feng Mei snorted: "What's wrong with it?"

Jiang Nian: ...

That night, Lu Yu went to the clinic to buy safflower oil. After the two had dinner, Jiang Nian went back to the room first. After a while, Lu Yu came in with safflower oil. He lowered his eyebrows and looked at Jiang Nian's feet on the bed: "I've bought safflower oil. I'll rub your feet again."

The room was not big to begin with, and Lu Yu was tall and had long legs. The room seemed even more cramped when he came in.

Jiang Nian's heart skipped a few times for no apparent reason. She pursed her lips and took off her shoes and socks. Lu Yu half-knelt beside the bed, held Jiang Nian's right foot against his knee, poured safflower oil on his hand, and began to pinch the injured part of her right foot.

It didn't hurt at first, but the pain came back with this pinch.

Jiang Nian muttered a few times in pain, and her fingers grabbing the sheets were exerting more force. Lu Yu's voice was low and steady: "Sister-in-law, just bear with it a little longer, it will be fine in a while."

Jiang Nian cried in pain, she sniffed, and didn't breathe a sigh of relief until the severe pain slowly eased.

Lu Yu also had a thin layer of sweat on his forehead. Looking at the snow-white little feet in his hands and listening to his sister-in-law's groan of pain, he felt like it was a kind of torture. He didn't dare to use too much force in his hands, and could only use his skill to help her pinch the wound.

In the dead of night, Jiang Nian's hot little feet were in his hands, and her faint humming was in his ears. Lu Yu's Adam's apple rolled a few times, and he poured a little safflower oil into his palms again, and rubbed it gently this time.

The light of the bulb was warm yellow and dim, casting a slanted dark color on the man.

Jiang Nian lowered her head and looked at Lu Yu who was half squatting at her feet. From her angle, she could see that the man lowered his eyebrows, pursed his thin lips, and his angular and handsome face was a little cold. She blinked and her eyes fell on the little foot wrapped in the man's palm.

His hand was big enough to hold her whole foot.

The injured part of the ankle was warm, and the place where the other's fingers touched was a little itchy as if a feather had brushed it. Jiang Nian suddenly curled her toes uncomfortably and wanted to retract her foot.

"It's almost healed."

Lu Yu held her wrist, and in the dark room, he responded in a low and dark voice.

"Lu Yu! Lu Yu! Something bad has happened! Hurry, hurry, Mei Zi has fainted from a stomachache!"

The loud voice of Captain Song suddenly rang out in the quiet night. Before Lu Yu had time to let go of Jiang Nian's feet, Captain Song had already rushed in. He staggered and grabbed the door frame, and saw the uncle and sister-in-law in the room.

The sister-in-law was sitting on the bed with one bare foot.

The brother-in-law was half-squatting on the ground, holding the sister-in-law's feet in his hand. He was stunned for a moment, turned his back to them, and his voice was still so urgent: "Mei Zi has fainted, you go to the military district to borrow a car, I will carry her to the hospital first."

After that, he ran away.

"Sister-in-law, go to sleep first. I'll go check on her."

Lu Yu let go of her hand, stood up, said something and walked out.

Jiang Nian wanted to say something, but she held back. She sat on the bed and stretched her neck to look out the window. Lu Yu had already left the courtyard, closed the courtyard door and left. Captain Song's anxious voice rang out from outside.

"How could this person faint when she was fine?"

"If anything happens to her, what will happen to our family!"

The voice became farther and farther away, gradually disappearing in the moonlight.

Jiang Nian: ...

She felt that Sister Feng played a little too much this time.

Jiang Nian waited until midnight and didn't wait for Feng Mei and the others to come back. She couldn't stand it anymore and fell asleep. Captain Song and the others came back at dawn, and the noisy sound woke Jiang Nian up.

She got up, put on her cloth shoes and walked out of the yard, then she heard Captain Song cursing, "Are you fucking full? What do you have to do? Are

you bored?!" "You scared me!"

"If it weren't for the fact that you're my wife, I would really want to beat you to death with a wooden stick! Get out of here!"

She didn't hear Feng Mei's voice, but she heard Song Xiangdong and Song Xianghong crying and calling for their mother in the yard. Feng Mei then said, "Mom is okay, don't cry."

Jiang Nian:...

She sighed and was about to turn around and go back to the house when she bumped into Lu Yu who was opening the yard door.

Jiang Nian was not embarrassed, and asked calmly: "I was half asleep and heard the voice of Captain Song. How is Sister Feng?"

Lu Yu's eyebrows were a little tired. He paused for a moment before saying: "Sister Feng is fine. Sister-in-law, go back to sleep."

Jiang Nian said: "It's good that she's fine."

She pursed her lips, secretly glanced at Lu Yu's slightly frowned eyebrows, turned back to lie down in the room.

After dawn, Lu Yu went to the team after breakfast. Not long after, Feng Mei came and started talking about what happened last night as soon as she saw Jiang Nian. She originally wanted to test whether Old Song cared about her, so she pretended to have a stomachache and deliberately fainted. Who knew that Captain Song would anxiously call Lu Yu to borrow a car from the military district.

Hearing this, Jiang Nian asked curiously, "What happened in the end?"

Hearing the swearing voice of Captain Song this morning, she knew that Feng Mei had messed up the show, but she was still curious about how she messed up.

Feng Mei smiled awkwardly, her face flushed a little: "Old Song carried me in the car and called my name all the way. He carried me to the hospital. I don't know what the doctor was holding and pressing my stomach. I felt itchy, and I couldn't help laughing and woke up."

Jiang Nian: …

Actually, Captain Song and Mrs. Feng only have minor quarrels, but they have cared for each other for more than half of their lives, just like an ordinary couple, and not quite like Liu Qiang and Xu Yan. She thinks Feng Mei doesn’t need

to go through all this. But she can’t say these words to Feng Mei, but after this incident, she thinks Feng Mei should calm down.

Sure enough, Feng Mei smiled and said, "I won't bother myself anymore. After what happened last night, I can see that Old Song cares about me and is worried about me."

Jiang Nian smiled and said, "Captain Song has always cared about Sister-in-law Feng. It's just that Captain Song is an official after all, and he cares more about his face in public. That's why he treats you differently. You see, when Captain Song came to find Lu Yu last night, he was so anxious that his face turned pale."

Feng Mei felt happier.

But then she changed her mind and thought of something else. She looked at Jiang Nian, hesitated for a moment before saying, "You..."

Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment: "What does Sister Feng want to say?"

Feng Mei exclaimed, "Oh my!": "I'll just say it straight. I heard from Old Song this morning that when he came to see Lu Yu last night, he saw Lu Yu holding your feet..."

She didn't say the rest.

Jiang Nian: ...

She stretched out her right foot and explained, "Lu Yu used safflower oil to massage my feet."

Feng Mei smiled and said, "Xu Yan and I came here yesterday and we all knew about it. But Old Song didn't know about it, so he said something about that."

She paused, glanced at Jiang Nian's face, and seeing that she was not unhappy, she continued, "I think you should keep some distance from Deputy Commander Lu. If someone with ulterior motives spreads something, it will be your spine that will be hurt. Although there is nothing wrong between you two, some people don't think so."

In fact, Feng Mei had some hidden thoughts.

Although Jiang Nian is the sister-in-law of Vice Colonel Lu, it is only in name. If Vice Colonel Lu and Jiang Nian both have feelings, it is not impossible for the two to get married. But she still wants to leave Jiang Nian to Song Bai. Her temperament and character are to her liking. It is a close relationship for the two to be sisters-in-law.

Jiang Nian pursed her lips, lowered her eyes and looked at her right foot which had swelled a lot: "I have taken what Sister-in-law Feng said to heart."

She raised her head and smiled, and said nothing more.

What Sister-in-law Feng said is not unreasonable. Just like the last time she and Zhu Jun had something going on, the family courtyard spread all kinds of rumors. If it happened to her and Lu Yu, she herself would not care, but she was afraid that it would affect Lu Yu's future.

Feng Mei saw that she really took it to heart, so she continued: "When Song Bai comes back at the end of the year, you can meet him and marry him. Then you can follow Song Bai to the military division. Then no one can say anything about you and Deputy Regiment Commander Lu."

Jiang Nian: ...

She glanced at Feng Mei, saw the joy in her eyes, and was even more speechless.

How much does Sister Feng want her to marry Song Bai as soon as possible?

After Feng Mei left, Jiang Nian sat in the courtyard and thought a lot.

Her household registration is still in the countryside, and she was able to live in the family compound because Lu Yu's taxi application was approved. Even if she could earn money for the state-owned embroidery house, she could not live in the city if her household registration was in the countryside, otherwise she would be driven back to the countryside as a vagrant, and it would be better for her to die than to live in the countryside and earn work points by working in the fields.

The only person she can rely on now is Lu Yu.

At lunchtime, Jiang Nian went to the vegetable garden to pick some vegetables, cooked three dishes for lunch, and stewed some rice. Just as the rice was ready, Lu Yu came back from outside.

Jiang Nian walked out of the kitchen with a dish tray and saw Lu Yu standing by the well, bending over and washing his hands. The man had long and straight legs, and because of the bent posture, his clothes slipped down, revealing a thin waist.

She pursed her lips, quickly looked away, brought the dish tray to the dining table, turned around to get other dishes from the kitchen, and took two steps before Lu Yu stood up: "Sister-in-law, sit there, I'll get the rest."

He wiped his hands, turned around and went to the kitchen, brought out a dish and two bowls of rice and put them on the table.

Jiang Nian ate quietly without raising his head once. Lu Yu was a man of few words, and Jiang Nian also spoke little during this period. For a while, the only sounds in the courtyard were the chewing sounds and the crisp sound of chopsticks hitting the bowl.

Lu Yu raised his eyes and glanced at Jiang Nian, feeling vaguely that his sister-in-law was a little bit unwell today. After finishing a bowl of rice, he went to scoop another bowl. When he came back and saw that Jiang Nian still had half a bowl of rice,

he asked, "Are you feeling unwell, sister-in-law?" Jiang Nian was thinking about other things and didn't pay attention to Lu Yu's question for a while. It was not until he asked the second time that she raised her head and shook her head, "No."

Lu Yu: ...

He finished his meal and looked at Jiang Nian's right foot: "I'll massage your foot again tonight and it will be almost healed."

Jiang Nian shook her head almost subconsciously: "I'm already well, no need to massage it anymore."

After that, she felt that she was She refused too quickly. She bit her chopsticks and raised her head slightly, only to be met with the man's dark, inquiring gaze. She immediately lowered her head, trying to cover up her guilt. She whispered, "Really, no need."

Lu Yu placed his palms on her knees and stared at Jiang Nian, "Did sister-in-law hear anyone say anything gossipy?"

Jiang Nian shook her head quickly, "No, I just don't feel any pain in my feet anymore."

Seeing Jiang Nian put down his chopsticks after eating, Lu Yu stood up and put away the dishes. As he left, he said, "You have to complete the three-day treatment, otherwise your feet won't be completely healed. I'll massage your feet when you come back tonight."

After that, he held the bowl and went into the kitchen.

Jiang Nian looked at Lu Yu's straight and slender back, and felt that he seemed to be quite stubborn sometimes.

She got up and went back to the house, took out the cloth from the cupboard and continued to cut it. After a while, Lu Yu's voice came from outside the house: "Sister-in-law."

Jiang Nian's hand holding the scissors trembled, and she turned to look at Lu Yu standing outside the house. The man was tall and almost completely blocked the light from the door. He stood against the light, and Jiang Nian could not see the expression on the man's face. She nervously held the scissors tightly: "Is there something wrong?"

Lu Yu looked at her. Looking at Jiang Nian's drooping eyelashes, his gaze fell on the hand holding the scissors tightly, and his cold voice became a little warmer: "Sister-in-law, don't worry about what others say, just do your own thing. If someone uses this to bully you, I will help you solve it."

Jiang Nian's eyes shrank slightly, and he pursed his lips. After a long time, he nodded: "Okay."

Lu Yu smiled: "I'll go to the team."

After Lu Yu left, Jiang Nian sat by the bed for a long time. Feng Mei's words lingered in her ears, and Lu Yu's voice lingered in her ears. She didn't care what others said, but she was afraid of getting Lu Yu into trouble.

In the afternoon, Jiang Nian had cut the sizes of her clothes. When Lu Yu came back, she would measure the sizes for him. After two days, she would go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy cotton and come back. Then she could start. As dusk

fell, footsteps and voices could be heard from time to time outside the courtyard.

Jiang Nian made dumpling soup, corn cakes, and stir-fried vegetables for dinner. She took a sip of the soup and looked at Lu Yu opposite her: "I'll measure your size later and make you some cotton-padded jackets for winter."

Lu Yu: "Okay."

After dinner, Jiang Nian went back to the room first, took out a wooden ruler from the cupboard and put it next to her. After washing the dishes, Lu Yu came in with safflower oil. He glanced at Jiang Nian, who was sitting on the bed with her head drooping, then walked to her feet, half squatted, and naturally held her feet against his knees. He poured some safflower oil on his palms, pressed them on Jiang Nian's ankles, and began to massage her feet.

This time it was not as painful as the previous two times, but Jiang Nian still grabbed the sheets nervously and tightened her toes, fearing that the sudden pain would come in the next second. Lu Yu's fingers pressed over her ankles and slid to the soles of her feet to press.

The room was quiet and dim, and from time to time Jiang Nian's soft cries of pain could be heard.

Lu Yu's voice was much hoarse than before: "It's almost healed."

He poured some safflower oil into his palm and applied it to Jiang Nian's injured area. His eyes fell uncontrollably on the white and slender calf in his palm, which was dazzlingly white. His curled fingertips pressed on the smooth skin, which inexplicably felt hot.

He held his breath, let go of Jiang Nian's little feet, stood up and said, "Okay."

Jiang Nian moved her feet and found that it really didn't hurt this time. She smiled and raised her head, and saw that Lu Yu had already gone out.

She paused for a while, and when she was about to put on her cloth shoes, she saw Lu Yu coming in with a basin of hot foot washing water, put it next to her feet, and said, "Soak for half an hour. If the water is not hot, I will add some hot water for you."

Jiang Nian nodded gently, "Okay."

When she finished soaking her feet, it was already nine o'clock. Jiang Nian yawned, picked up a wooden ruler, put on her cloth shoes and walked out, thinking of measuring the size of Lu Yu, but Lu Yu said, "Some other time."

He put down the foot washing basin, did not look at Jiang Nian, turned around and went back to his room.

Let's do it another day. She was also sleepy. Jiang Nian had been resting her feet at home these days. After three days of foot massage by Lu Yu, she could jog without any problem.

After breakfast, she was going to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some cotton. Xu Yan came to find her and wanted to go with her. Xu Yan also bought some cotton to make two winter cotton-padded clothes for the two children. As soon as they walked out of the family compound, they ran into Zheng Hong and Lu Zhijun who had returned from the hospital. Captain Lu held Lu Zhijun in his arms, and Zheng Hong followed him with a cold face. Walking with them was an elderly lady, who also had a gloomy face. She scolded Zheng Hong as she walked, saying that she didn't know how to live, that she couldn't even take care of a child, and mentioned a bunch of Zheng Hong's bad habits. Zheng Hong was most afraid of the old lady. The old lady was the boss in the family. The sons and father-in-law in the family listened to her, and the daughters-in-law didn't dare to talk back to the old lady. Zheng Hong lowered her head with a cold face, and didn't talk back no matter what the old lady said. Jiang Nian took a look and knew without thinking that this person was Captain Lu's mother. Captain Lu frowned, turned to the old lady and said, "Okay, stop talking." The old lady muttered a few more words and then stopped talking. In this family, the sons and daughters-in-law are afraid of the old lady, but the old lady is afraid of the son she gave birth to. This child has been more sensible than the other children in the family since he was young. Although he has a dull temperament, he understands a lot of principles and can sometimes reason with her. Xu Yan snorted coldly and said, "You deserve it." Jiang Nian pursed her lips and said nothing. When Mr. Lu Guosheng heard Xu Yan's voice, he looked up at her, then looked straight ahead, and walked home with Lu Zhijun in his arms. On the contrary, Zheng Hong seemed to have found a punching bag. She glared at Xu Yan fiercely and cursed, "You crazy girl, what are you humming about?!" The old lady glanced at Xu Yan, then at Zheng Hong, and said, "Don't you think you have embarrassed my son enough? Get out of here and go home!" Zheng Hong choked with anger, stomped her feet and ran home. Xu Yan laughed out loud, but she suddenly met the old lady's eyes. The old lady didn't say anything, she looked away and followed Captain Lu back. Jiang Nian looked at the old lady's back as she left, turned around and continued to walk towards the supply and marketing cooperative with Xu Yan. At that glance, Jiang Nian had an inexplicable feeling in his heart that Captain Lu's mother seemed like a sensible old lady. Xu Yan said beside him: "I think Zheng Hong is a bad person and she deserves it!" The two went to their private plots for a while, and then went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy cotton. When they came back from buying cotton, it was almost time for lunch. Xu Yan held the big cloth bag and glanced at Jiang Nian: "I had a quarrel with Liu Qiang again a few days ago." Jiang Nian asked: "What was it about?" Xu Yan said angrily: "It's still because of asking Zheng Hong for money. Every time he mentioned this, he quarreled with me and said that if I dared to ask Zheng Hong for money, he would let me go." Her eyes turned red with grievance, and she asked Jiang Nian: "Do you think we can't get this money back?" Jiang Nian pursed her lips, and she really felt that Liu Qiang was a very hateful person. She guessed that Liu Qiang was too embarrassed to ask for it, after all, Captain Lu didn't know that he lent Zheng Hong fifty yuan, otherwise, with Captain Lu's personality, he should return the money. If Liu Qiang asked for it, there might be a conflict between the two families. But in the final analysis, it still depends on Liu Qiang. She looked at Xu Yan's listless look, hesitated for a moment, and finally gave her an idea. She whispered in her ear. Xu Yan widened her eyes in shock: "Is this okay?" Jiang Nian said: "It will benefit you in every way. Give it a try and maybe it will work?" Xu Yan smiled and said: "Okay, I'll try it when I get home." Jiang Nian was afraid that she would be too anxious and reveal her true colors, so he instructed: "Let's talk about it in a few days ." "Go to Liu Qiang and tell him that there is no rush in these few days." Xu Yan said, "Okay, I'll listen to you." In Xu Yan's heart, Jiang Nian was her military advisor, who led her out of the swamp step by step. If it weren't for Jiang Nian, she would still be quarreling with Liu Qiang every day, and she would still be feeling aggrieved because she had no money. But now, not only did she rarely quarrel with Liu Qiang, but Liu Qiang's salary was also given to her.

After returning home, Jiang Nian made lunch first, ate a few bites and left some for Lu Yu, then went back to her room to sort out the cotton, and decided to make a coat for herself today. Jiang Nian opened the cupboard to take out the cut fabric, and saw the curtain stacked in the corner.

She had been so busy with clothes these days that she almost forgot about the curtain.

She embroidered two door curtains, one with plum blossoms for herself and one with bamboo for Lu Yu. Just as she was thinking of waiting for Lu Yu to come back and let him hang them on the door, Lu Yu came back from outside. Jiang Nian walked out with the curtains and saw Lu Yu standing by the well washing his hands: "Shall I hang the curtain on the door of your room later?"

"Okay."

After washing his hands, Lu Yu went to the second room on the east side, got a hammer and nails, and came out to hang the curtain for Jiang Nian's room first, and then went to hang the one for his room. He was tall, so he could do the job without a stool.

Jiang Nian glanced at the door curtain embroidered with plum blossoms and bamboos, and smiled: "It's really beautiful."

Lu Yu's eyes fell on the green bamboo leaves on the white cloth, turned his head and looked at Jiang Nian who was smiling: "Sister-in-law's craftsmanship is very good."

Jiang Nian was praised by someone, and said: "That's right."

After saying that, she felt something was wrong, and turned around to see Lu Yu with a faint smile on his lips. Her face suddenly blushed, turned around and said: "Don't leave after dinner, I will measure your size and make two sets of clothes for you."

Lu Yu: "Okay."

Jiang Nian returned to the room, took out the cloth and sorted it out, and heard Lu Yu's voice coming from outside: "Sister-in-law, I'm done."

"I'm here."

Jiang Nian picked up the ruler and ran out of the yard, and saw Lu Yu standing upright under the tree. She walked over and realized that there was a big height difference between her and him, so she pursed her lips and whispered, "Bend your waist, otherwise I'm afraid I won't measure it accurately enough."

Lu Yu's eyes flashed with a smile, and his voice was low and magnetic: "Okay."