Chapter 28

Jiang Nian first measured Lu Yu's shoulder width. The two were very close to each other, and their breaths were faintly entangled in the air.

Lu Yu's steady breathing gradually tightened, and his dark eyes fell on Jiang Nian's beautiful face. Her skin was very white, and you could see the white fluff reflected in the light. Her eyebrows were curved, and her lips were pink. Especially her eyes, when she smiled, it seemed like she was hiding bright stars.

Very beautiful.

"Stretch out your arms."

Jiang Nian said softly.

Lu Yu swallowed a few times: "Okay."

He sat on the bench, stretched out his arms, and looked forward. Through a thin layer of clothes, he could clearly feel a hand measuring his arm back and forth. The slight touch was like a feather brushing across the lake, creating layers of ripples that were difficult to control.

Lu Yu tensed up and tried his best to ignore the strange feeling coming from his body.

After Jiang Nian measured his arms, she went to measure the size of his back shoulders and back. Finally, she took out a tape measure and asked Lu Yu to stand up. She was focused on measuring the size. She stretched out her arms to wrap around Lu Yu's thin waist and passed the tape measure in her left hand to her right hand.

Lu Yu looked down at the pair of slender arms passing by him, pursed his lips and looked towards the bedroom, breathing a little lighter, until Jiang Nian finished measuring his legs and said "OK", he felt as if he had been pardoned, and ran out of the courtyard before Jiang Nian stepped back.

Jiang Nian: ???

She blinked, looked at the tape measure that was pulled to the ground, and frowned in confusion.

What's wrong with him?

Outside the courtyard, Captain Song met Lu Yu in front of him and called him. When he saw Lu Yu stop, he quickly chased after him and told him about the instructions issued by the superiors in the past few days. Halfway through, he looked up and said, "Hey, why are your ears so red?"

Lu Yu coughed lightly and said, "Just got bit by a mosquito."

Captain Song said, "Oh." Jiang Nian has been making clothes at home these days

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She will cook when Lu Yu is about to come back, and calculate the time to see when the boss lady of the state-owned embroidery shop will come back.

There has been no trouble in Xu Yan's family and Zheng Hong's family these days, but Lu Yu is a little bit wrong.

Jiang Nian found that Lu Yu would intentionally or unintentionally avoid her every time he saw her. Sometimes, when they were eating at the same table, Lu Yu would quickly run back to the bedroom, making her look like she had caught the flu. As

dusk fell, Jiang Nian sewed the last corner of her clothes and finally made a dress for herself.

She went to the bedroom to finish cooking, but before Lu Yu came back, she heard Liu Qiang's roar from Xu Yan's house next door.

Could it be that Xu Yan had started it?

Jiang Nian ran to the corner of the wall, stood on the tree stump, and leaned over the wall to look over. Xu Yan was sitting on a bench, covering her mouth and crying softly. She dressed up beautifully today, and her sitting posture was much more ladylike than usual. Her crying was also emotional.

Especially artificial.

"I don't know where the money went, I feel so sad, Qiangzi, what should we do next?"

Xu Yan raised her head, grabbed the corner of Liu Qiang's clothes and pulled it gently, blinked her big wet eyes and looked at Liu Qiang, then stood up and held Liu Qiang's hand with both hands, shook it gently, bit her lower lip, and said pitifully: "I'm sorry, I was wrong, please don't be angry, okay? I will feel sad if you are angry."

After saying that, her fingers still pinched Liu Qiang's palm.

Jiang Nian: ...

She shuddered, thinking that Xu Yan has now mastered it without a teacher, and even she will believe it after playing this set of plays.

Liu Qiang helped Zheng Hong so much at first, because deep down he liked the kind of women who were artificial and talkative like Zheng Hong. Liu Qiang was a male chauvinist, and he liked the kind of women who were born to rely on him and felt that they couldn't live without him. On the contrary, he didn't have any initial feelings for Xu Yan, who was a woman who quarreled every other day and had a straightforward temper. Zheng Hong just fell into this trap, pestered Liu Qiang, and tortured Xu Yan for two years. After all,

Liu Qiang and Zheng Hong had met before, and Liu Qiang liked Zheng Hong at first. It was because the Zheng family broke off the engagement that he met Xu Yan again and married her.

Xu Yan now used this trick to coax Liu Qiang. Liu Qiang looked at Xu Yan's pitiful and aggrieved look, tears on her rosy and beautiful face, and her eyelashes trembling. Liu Qiang's anger and urge to scold her suddenly subsided.

He sighed and held Xu Yan's hand: "It's lost, so you have to keep a close eye on the money in the future. Our family depends on this money to live."

If the money was lost in the army, it might be found, but Xu Yan said that it was lost on the way to the supply and marketing cooperative, so it can't be found.

Xu Yan walked forward two steps, leaned into Liu Qiang's arms, nodded, and said softly: "I knew you were the best to me."

Liu Qiang smiled and patted her on the back: "Okay, stop crying. Your salary will be paid in half a month. I will give it to you then. Remember to keep the money safe."

Xu Yan raised her head: "But what should I do in the next half month? There is no rice or grain at home. It's not enough to just eat the vegetables from our private plots."

Liu Qiang said: "I will borrow some money from Deputy Headquarters Lu tomorrow. "

Xu Yan cried again, her cry was low, she felt wronged and pitiful, she wiped away her tears and said uncomfortably: "You have borrowed money from Vice Colonel Lu now, and when your salary is paid at the end of the month, you have to send some money back home, and give some to my parents' home, and then return the rest to Vice Colonel Lu, we don't have much left, you see how thin Jianwu and Jianye are, I wanted to buy some eggs for them, our children are growing up now, we can't treat them badly, Jianye will also have to grow up next year. Going to school costs money..."

At this point, Xu Yan stopped crying, raised her head and looked at Liu Qiang pitifully: "You are the pillar of our family, what do you say we should do?"

Liu Qiang rubbed his face and said to Xu Yan: "It's okay, I'll think of a way, you take your son to bed first."

Without Liu Qiang's promise, Xu Yan did not give up and wanted to continue talking. Seeing that it was almost time, Jiang Nian jumped off the wooden block and shouted to the other side of the wall: "Xu Yan, are you home?"

Xu Yan replied when she heard it . She said for the first time: "I'm here."

She wiped her tears and glanced at Liu Qiang. That look was filled with tears and grievances, which made Liu Qiang's heart soften. Liu Jianye leaned on the window and looked at Liu Qiang. After thinking for a long time, he said softly: "Dad, I want to eat peach cake."

Liu Qiang heard the voice of his eldest son and turned his head to see his eldest son looking at him eagerly. He hadn't heard his son mention what he wanted to eat for two years. Liu Qiang said: "Dad will buy it for you tomorrow."

Xu Yan said, "I'll go next door and see what Deputy Colonel Lu's sister-in-law wants me to do."

Liu Qiang nodded, "Go ahead."

Inside the wall of the next courtyard, Jiang Nian pulled open the light rope in the yard and sat on a bench under the tree. Seeing Xu Yan running over from next door and sitting next to her, she asked in a low voice, "Why are you calling me? Is there something wrong?"

Jiang Nian's voice was also very low, "I called you to stop you from continuing. Some things should be stopped at the right time. If you continue, you will only make things worse."

Xu Yan said, "Oh," and asked, "What do you mean by making things worse? " "Clumsy?"

Jiang Nian:...

She said: "For example, Captain Liu originally wanted to ask Zheng Hong for money, but you kept pestering him, and he became irritated and lost the intention."

Xu Yan understood: "Fortunately you called me, otherwise I would have made things worse."

She was a little unconvinced: "Do you think Liu Qiang would really ask Zheng Hong for money?"

Jiang Nian held her chin with both hands and looked at the gate of the courtyard. After thinking for a while, she was not very sure: "I don't know, it depends on these two days."

Xu Yan left, and Lu Yu came back.

He was holding two large bunches of grapes in his hands. Jiang Nian's eyes widened when she saw the grapes. She couldn't help but stand up and trot over, unable to hide her smile in her voice: "Where did you pick the grapes?"

Lu Yu said: "I bought them from a fellow villager in the next village. I tasted one and it was quite sweet."

He handed the grapes to Jiang Nian and saw Jiang Nian smiling, so he continued: "If you like them, I'll buy some in two weeks. I'll buy some tomorrow."

Jiang Nian nodded: "Yes."

Her favorite fruits are watermelon and grapes, and stinky durian. However, she can't eat durian anymore, but watermelon and grapes are fine. She went to the well to get some water to wash the grapes, and said to Lu Yu: "The rice is in the pot, you can bring it out."

Jiang Nian washed the grapes, put them in a small enamel basin, and ate them one by one on a small stool.

Lu Yu said: "Eat some rice first and then eat grapes."

Jiang Nian happily agreed: "Yes."

She picked up the chopsticks and ate a few bites of food, with a smile between her eyebrows. Lu Yu's eyes inadvertently stayed on her face for a few seconds. He found that his sister-in-law would be much happier than usual when she met the food she liked.

Not only that, she was also much more lively than when she first came to the army.

Jiang Nian raised his head and bumped into Lu Yu's dark eyes. He was stunned for a moment, looked down at his clothes, and touched his face, thinking that he was stained with dirt. He asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Lu Yu lowered his eyes and said, "Nothing."

After dinner, Lu Yu took the initiative to wash the dishes. He stood at the window of the kitchen, watching Jiang Nian sitting on the bench, eating grapes comfortably, and a smile appeared on his face.

Jiang Nian ate a little too many grapes at night, and went to the toilet several times at night. The next day, he didn't get up when the horn sounded.

She got out of bed around noon. Lu Yu heated up breakfast in the pot. She ate a few bites and was about to go back to the house to make clothes for Lu Yu. Feng Mei ran in from outside, grabbed her arm and ran: "Hurry, hurry, there's a fight at Zheng Hong's house, let's go and see what's going on."

Jiang Nian: ...

She staggered two steps when she was pulled: "Why is there a fight?"

Feng Mei was anxious to see what was going on, and her mouth was like a clapperboard, speaking very quickly. "Captain Liu went to Captain Lu's house to ask for money. Zheng Hong refused to admit that Captain Liu had lent her fifty yuan and scolded Captain Liu for embezzling her family's money. She also said that Captain Liu bullied her when Captain Lu was away, which made her feel very wronged. Captain Liu can't explain himself now. Zheng Hong insisted that Captain Liu had bullied her before. Xu Yan also went there and almost had a fight with Zheng Hong. Captain Lu also almost had a fight with Captain Liu."

Jiang Nian: ...

It's really messy.

She and Feng Mei ran to Zheng Hong's house. There were many military wives and aunties outside who came to watch the excitement. The two of them could only see rows of heads in front of them. Feng Mei patted her thigh regretfully and said, "Oh, why are there so many people?"

She looked around and pulled Jiang Nian to the crooked tree opposite Zheng Hong's house and said, "Come on, let's climb up and take a look."

Jiang Nian: ...

Feng Mei must see the excitement, and she would feel itchy if she didn't see it. She climbed up the crooked tree by grabbing the trunk. She stood so high that she could see the whole scene in Zheng Hong's yard clearly, so she waved to Jiang Nian and said, "Come and see, it's clear."

Jiang Nian listened to Liu Qiang scolding Zheng Hong and became curious. She grabbed the crooked tree and was pulled by Feng Mei to stand on the trunk and look across.

Captain Lu's face was dark and ugly, and the old lady's face was also very ugly. Zheng Hong stood by the well, her clothes were twisted, her hair was messy, and there was a slap mark on her face. No one knew who hit her. Liu Qiang's face was red and his neck was thick. He pointed at Zheng Hong and told her what excuses she had used to ask him to help her fetch water and do chores in the past two years.

He helped her for two years out of kindness because Captain Lu was not at home and he knew Zheng Hong. He didn't expect that she would bite him back, saying that he was a soldier after all, and he would never do such a heinous thing as bullying her even if he died. Don't let Zheng Hong put the blame on him. He was upright and the regiment could investigate.

He has been a soldier for so many years, and if he asks himself, he has never done anything beyond the line.

If you ask who hates Zheng Hong the most now, it is undoubtedly Liu Qiang.

Xu Yan stood next to Liu Qiang, her hair was also a little messy, but she was much better than Zheng Hong. Liu Qiang knew to protect Xu Yan and not let Zheng Hong, that crazy woman, bully Xu Yan. Captain Lu gritted his teeth, and seeing that Zheng Hong was still chattering nonstop, he yelled angrily: "Shut up!"

The shout was quite loud, and Zheng Hong was startled.

"Captain Song and Deputy Commander Lu are here--"

one of the military wives shouted. Feng Mei exclaimed, "No, no, let's go down quickly. I have to go in to persuade them to stop fighting. If Old Song knows that I'm watching the fun here, he'll scold me again."

After saying that, she jumped down first, and didn't care about Jiang Nian. She rushed into the crowd and shouted, "Make way, make way. I'm going in to persuade them to stop fighting. I've been in our group every day." If we quarrel and hear about it, it will have a bad impact."

Jiang Nian: ...

Her eyelids twitched, and she was about to jump down while holding onto the tree trunk, when Zhu Jun's voice suddenly came from the side: "Sister-in-law, why are you here?"

Jiang Nian was startled, and lowered her head while holding onto the tree trunk, and saw Zhu Jun and Lu Yu looking up at her. Captain Song who was walking over also saw it, and was stunned for a moment and said: "Why are you climbing up the tree like a monkey?"

Jiang Nian: ...

She grabbed the tree trunk awkwardly, her face flushed. She cursed Feng Mei in her heart, pursed her lips and couldn't say a word for a long time.

Zhu Jun smiled with pursed lips, but didn't dare to say anything.

Captain Song went to Zheng Hong's house anxiously. If it was just a quarrel between two women, it would be fine, but now it involves Lu Guosheng and Liu Qiang, and also the fact that Liu Qiang bullied Zheng Hong. This is a violation of military discipline and has a great impact. It must be handled properly. If it's not handled properly, it may even be reported to the political commissar. If the matter is really made big, their regiment's bonuses and subsidies this year will be lost.

Thinking of this, Captain Song wanted to give Captain Liu and Captain Lu a beating. They only cared about the soldiers under their command all day long, but didn't take good care of their wives, and they were causing trouble outside every day!

Jiang Nian was so embarrassed that she could dig a hole in the ground to get in.

She pursed her lips and tried not to look at Lu Yu. She held the tree trunk and wanted to jump down. Zhu Jun walked up to her and said, "Sister-in-law, I'll help you."

He stretched out his hand to Jiang Nian. Jiang Nian felt embarrassed at this time. She was not as good as Feng Meilisu, and she was afraid of falling down if she jumped from the crooked tree. So she stretched out her hand to Zhu Jun's hand, but before her hand reached over, it was held by Lu Yu. The man supported her and said, "Come down, I'll help you."