Chapter 29

Seeing Lu Yu's move, Zhu Jun quickly stepped back.

Jiang Nian gritted her teeth and replied, "Yeah."

She jumped down with the help of Lu Yu's strength, her body swayed unsteadily, and Lu Yu held her waist. The man's palm pressed on her waist through the thin clothes for a moment and then withdrew his hand, and the hand holding her loosened.

He didn't ask Jiang Nian why she was on the tree, just said, "I'll go and do my work first."

Jiang Nian lowered her head and said, "Yeah."

After they left, Jiang Nian breathed a sigh of relief. When she looked up, she suddenly met Zhu Jun's gaze. Zhu Jun grinned, and seeing Jiang Nian lower her head with bad intentions, he put away his smile and scratched the back of his head.

Jiang Nian didn't have the heart to watch this farce anymore. She turned around and hurried back home, locked herself in the room, and felt that she had just made a big fool of herself.

It was lunchtime, and Zheng Hong's farce was over.

Jiang Nian made hand-rolled noodles and cold vegetables, and just as the rice was served on the table, Lu Yu came back.

She lowered her head and went to the stove to get chopsticks. When she turned around and came out, Lu Yu had just washed his hands. She put the chopsticks on the bowl: "It's time to eat."

Her voice was very low and a little uncomfortable.

Lu Yu picked up the noodles with chopsticks: "Sister-in-law, was it Sister-in-law Feng who took you to climb trees today?"

Jiang Nian raised her head for a moment, the words stuck in her throat and she didn't know whether to say it or not. In the end, she could only say ambiguously: "I won't climb trees next time."

Lu Yu said: "Climbing trees is very dangerous. If you fall down, you will suffer."

Jiang Nian nodded: "I know."

She ate the noodles in small bites, her cheeks were red, and she felt that she had never been so embarrassed.

The dining table was very quiet, with only the sound of Lu Yu eating noodles in big mouthfuls. He ate three bowls of noodles in a row. After eating, he put the bowls and chopsticks together, looked at Jiang Nian who still had his head drooping, and said with a smile in his tone: "Sister-in-law is very brave this time."

Jiang Nian: ???

She raised her head, her eyes full of doubt.

Lu Yu: "How dare you climb a tree in front of so many people."

Jiang Nian: ...

Lu Yu went to the team after dinner. Jiang Nian was cutting clothes and weighing cotton in the house. She ignored the footsteps outside. After a while, Feng Mei's voice came from the door: "Jiang Nian, are you making clothes?"

Jiang Nian pursed her lips and didn't answer. She asked

knowingly.

Feng Mei knew that Jiang Nian was angry with her, so she walked over and stuffed the two eggs in her hand into Jiang Nian's hand: "Don't be angry with me, I'm just afraid that Lao Song will scold me again. When he scolds people, he is like a bear, very scary."

Jiang Nian: ...

This is the first time I heard someone compare powerful to a bear.

She held back her laughter and returned the egg to Feng Mei: "Okay, keep the egg for the children to nourish their bodies."

Feng Mei smiled and said, "Just don't be angry."

After that, she sat down on the bed: "Do you know how the incident at Zheng Hong's house was handled?"

Jiang Nian asked, "How was it handled?"

Feng Mei said, "Captain Lu said he believed Captain Liu and immediately concluded that Zheng Hong was talking nonsense. Captain Lu took the initiative to return the fifty yuan to Captain Liu and asked Zheng Hong to apologize to Xu Yan. Guess what Captain Lu's mother said?"

Jiang Nian didn't say anything, waiting for her to continue. Feng Mei continued: "I didn't expect that Captain Lu's mother is such a sensible person. She gave Zheng Hong a lecture and then drove everyone else away, which saved my old Song a lot of trouble. Old Song was still saying at lunch that Captain Lu's family finally had a sensible woman. But when everyone left, I heard the old lady scolding Zheng Hong, saying that Zheng Hong brought shame to their old Lu family. Or maybe Zheng Hong's mother had concealed the fact that Zheng Hong had met Captain Liu before, and she would never agree to Captain Lu marrying her."

Now Zheng Hong's life at home became even more difficult.

But Jiang Nian felt that the anger was not big enough, as she had not yet reported the rumors that Zheng Hong had spread about her.

Although it was Kang Xiu who spread the rumors, it must have been Zheng Hong who came up with the idea behind the scenes.

Feng Mei saw the clothes made by Jiang Nian, picked them up and looked at them front and back, and said, "Oh my god, you have amazing hands. The clothes are so beautiful, even prettier than those sold in the supply and marketing cooperative."

She touched them lovingly and said, "It's only half a month away from the end of the month. The female comrades from the state-owned embroidery shop should be back soon, right?"

Jiang Nian said, "Well, I'll go to the city at the beginning of next month to have a look." This time, the incident in Zheng Hong's family was quite a big deal

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Zheng Hong framed Captain Liu, saying that Captain Liu bullied her. It was rumored that she fabricated it, and she also renege on the fifty yuan that Captain Liu lent her. The news spread throughout the family compound in a short time, and people said all kinds of things.

Some said that Captain Liu and Zheng Hong were fighting each other, while others said that Zheng Hong was shameless and was thinking about the pot while eating from the bowl.

Zheng Hong's family spent a lot of money on Lu Zhijun's leg treatment. They didn't have much left, and they also paid Liu Qiang fifty yuan. Now the family is stretched to the limit. The old lady doesn't like Zheng Hong at all. She has been scolding and cursing Zheng Hong for several days. Zheng Hong was

wronged and went to Lu Guosheng. Lu Guosheng ignored her with a cold face. Even Lu Zhijun, who was lying on the bed, scolded her, saying that she was a shameless woman. That was her own son, the child she gave birth to, but she still scolded her like that.

Why did she go back and forth to Liu Qiang to borrow money in the past two years?

Wasn't it to let Zhijun eat more delicious food? He is now in good health, isn't it her credit?

Zheng Hong saw that no one in the family was kind to her, and she didn't dare to lose her temper anymore, let alone go back to her parents' home. She would rather stay here and suffer than go back to her parents' home to serve the whole family and work in the fields to earn work points. She finally got a little whiter, but she couldn't get tanned again.

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In the past ten days, Jiang Nian stayed at home every day to make clothes. The weather was getting colder, and the temperature difference between morning and evening was quite large.

She made a cotton-padded jacket for herself and a coat for Lu Yu. After dinner was ready in the evening, Lu Yu came back to eat. Jiang Nian took out the cotton-padded jacket and said, "Try it on and see if it fits. If not, I'll make some alterations."

Lu Yu looked at the clothes in Jiang Nian's hands and felt warm in his heart.

As far as he could remember, the only clothes he had worn were those made by Uncle Xu. Although the stitches were crooked, they did not freeze him and Xu Cheng. When he followed his mother before the age of ten, he also wore Xu Cheng's clothes.

In his memory, his mother's appearance had gradually become blurred.

Lu Yu calmed down and stopped thinking about the past. He put on the clothes Jiang Nian made for him. The size was just right, and the shoulders were just right: "It fits well."

Jiang Nian pulled the clothes for him, confirmed that it fit well, and smiled: "I will make you two more inner clothes according to this size."

Lu Yu nodded, lowered his eyes and looked at Jiang Nian's fluttering eyelashes: "Sister-in-law, thank you."

Jiang Nian took the clothes handed by Lu Yu, smiled softly, did not respond, turned around and went back to the room.

The next morning, Lu Yu went to the team after breakfast.

It was almost noon when Xu Yan came over and walked into Jiang Nian's room. She said with a smile, "I have to thank you. If it weren't for your idea, Liu Qiang wouldn't have asked for the money."

Jiang Nian glanced at the brown sugar and peach cakes on the table, smiled and said nothing.

Xu Yan sat down on the bed and whispered, "Guess how much money I have on me now?"

Jiang Nian raised his head to show his respect, "How much?"

Xu Yan couldn't help laughing, "Last time you asked me to pretend to lose the money and trick Liu Qiang into asking Zheng Hong for money. Add the money Liu Qiang gave me last time and the fifty yuan Zheng Hong asked for, and I have ninety yuan."

Ninety yuan in this era is a lot of money for a family, but Jiang Nian thinks it's not enough. Even if Liu Qiang recognizes Zheng Hong's face now, there is no guarantee that he won't be seduced by others in the future.

If Liu Qiang repeats the same mistake, Xu Yan will have to suffer.

She looked at Xu Yan who was happily thinking about money, and reminded her intentionally: "Don't tell Liu Qiang about your savings."

Xu Yan was stunned for a moment, thinking that Liu Qiang and Zheng Hong had completely broken up, and that her family was living a better life. She was still thinking about telling Liu Qiang about this, but after hearing Jiang Nian's words, she hesitated and asked: "What's wrong?"

Jiang Nian didn't say much: "Don't let Liu Qiang know how much money you have in your hands. You have confidence when you have money."

She didn't know if Xu Yan listened to her words, but she said everything she should say.

In the afternoon, someone from the guard room outside the army came to the family compound to look for Jiang Nian.

The man was wearing a military uniform and stood straight. He stood outside the gate and shouted to the inside: "Comrade Jiang, someone is looking for you outside."

Jiang Nian heard the voice and walked out and asked: "Who is looking for me?"

The police soldier said: "It's a woman. She said she is from the state-owned embroidery house and wanted to come to see you and talk to you about something."

Jiang Nian didn't expect it to be her.

She smiled and said: "I'll go over now."

She followed the police soldier to the police station outside the unit. From a distance, she saw a woman looking in the direction of the unit. She was wearing a brown shirt and gray wide pants, old-fashioned black buckled leather shoes on her feet, and had short hair to her shoulders. You can tell from her dress that she is a strong woman.

Ge Mei waited outside the unit for more than ten minutes, but she didn't see the police soldier and the female comrade who could embroider come over.

She turned her head and looked to the east, and saw a policeman and a female comrade walking quickly.

The female comrade was wearing the most ordinary clothes and pants, and the most common black cloth shoes on her feet. She had two braids, but her face was surprisingly beautiful, with white and smooth skin, curved eyebrows, and eyes as bright as pearls. At her age, she has seen many beautiful girls, but this female comrade with such unique temperament is the first time.

Seeing the person approaching, Ge Mei did not put on airs, and smiled and said, "You must be Comrade Jiang."

It was not a question but an affirmation.

Jiang Nian smiled and said, "My name is Jiang Nian. May I ask your name?"

Ge Mei was really surprised. She initially thought that the female comrade who was embroidering was an older woman, about her age. But after she returned to the state-owned embroidery shop, Zhang Xiao told her that she was a young and beautiful girl. She was surprised for a while at that time. Unexpectedly,

she saw her in person and found that she was not only young and beautiful, but also seemed to be a bit cultured in her words and deeds.

Ge Mei suppressed the surprise in her eyes and smiled, "My name is Ge Mei. I am older than you. You can call me Sister Ge."

Jiang Nian was not unfamiliar and called Sister Ge with a smile.

She asked the police officer, "Can I bring Sister Ge in?"

The police officer said, "Someone in the regiment needs to sign before

they can let you in." Jiang Nian hesitated and wanted to tell Ge Mei that she would go back and call Lu Yu. Unexpectedly, she saw Captain Lu by chance, so she took two steps over and said, "Captain Lu, can you sign for me? I want to take my sister in to talk. It's a bit far from here to find Lu Yu in the regiment, so I'd like to trouble you."

Lu Guosheng glanced at Jiang Nian in surprise. He had heard that Deputy Commander Lu's sister-in-law was introverted, didn't like to talk much, and was timid. Back then, Zheng Hong had bullied people so much that she banged her head against the wall and tried to commit suicide.

He didn't refuse: "Yes."

Jiang Nian smiled and said, "Thank you, Captain Lu."

After Captain Lu signed, Jiang Nian took Ge Mei into the army and walked straight into the family courtyard. Ge Mei looked at the family courtyard, then looked at Jiang Nian and asked, "Are you a soldier's family..."

She paused and didn't ask any more.

Jiang Nian said, "My brother-in-law is the deputy commander of the regiment. My husband died a few months ago, and I am the only one left at home. He was worried about me being alone at home, so he brought me to the army and let me live in the family courtyard."

So that's it.

Ge Mei walked into the yard and saw the door curtains hanging on the door at a glance. One was embroidered with bamboo and the other was embroidered with plum blossoms. The plum petals were bright red and gorgeous, with snowflakes, which was very artistic.

She walked to the door curtain embroidered with plum blossoms and exclaimed, "Did you embroider this?"

Jiang Nian said, "Yes."

Ge Mei looked at the door curtain embroidered with bamboo again. Although she knew it was embroidered by Comrade Jiang, she was still very surprised. She didn't expect a country woman to have such good embroidery skills.

She asked Jiang Nian some questions about embroidery techniques, and Jiang Nian told her one by one. Not only that, she also talked about some embroidery methods that she had never come across before. So she looked at Jiang Nian a few more times and smiled, "Comrade Jiang, it's really a waste of your talent to live here."

She took out a piece of cloth and a drawing from her handbag and handed them to Jiang Nian: "I came here this time to see you, and secondly, I want you to embroider this drawing. This drawing was ordered by a boss from Gangcheng who came to our city to find a state-owned embroidery shop. I want you to have a try."

Jiang Nian took the cloth and the drawing and glanced at the words on the drawing: "Sister Ge thinks highly of me. She gave me an important task as soon as I arrived."

Ge Mei said: "Since you came to the state-owned embroidery shop to find me, it means you are interested in cooperating with me. If the boss of Gangcheng is satisfied with this embroidery, then our business will be done. The reward is 100 yuan, 50 yuan of which will be handed over to the city, and the remaining 50 yuan will be split 50-50. What do you think?"

She did not hide anything and put all the benefits on the table.

Ge Mei is a serious businessman. In this era, there are no self-employed people. All businesses must be state-owned. Half of the money earned must be handed over to the state. Jiang Nian can imagine that after starting a self-employed business in the future, Ge Mei may have a wider path.

However, it will take another ten years to implement the self-employed business.

She doesn't know how many years it will take to realize the world in the book, but the background of the book is also a period novel, so it should be similar to reality.

Since Ge Mei said it was a 50-50 split, she naturally had no objection. After all, the pictures she embroidered had to be sold through Ge Mei's state-owned embroidery shop. If she sold them privately, it would be considered speculation, so she smiled and said, "Okay."

After the deal was settled, Ge Mei also put aside her businessman's face and sat in the yard to talk to Jiang Nian. Jiang Nian then realized that something had happened in the state-owned embroidery shop, and she hurried back. It happened that Zhang Xiao, the female comrade Jiang Nian had gone to see that day, told Ge Mei about Jiang Nian's visit, so Ge ​​Mei came here to find her.

Ge Mei wanted to catch the afternoon bus back to the city, so she left after talking for a while.

Jiang Nian stood up and sent Ge Mei away from the army. The two walked on the road and met the wives of soldiers passing by. They walked and stopped, and looked at Jiang Nian and Ge Mei from time to time, all wondering who this woman was.

After leaving the army, Jiang Nian watched Ge Mei walk away before turning back. On the way, he met Kang Xiu who was returning from the supply and marketing cooperative. Kang Xiu also saw Jiang Nian and thought about how Jiang Nian had caused her to go door to door to give "lectures". Now when she went out, there were still people pointing fingers at her behind her back.

Kang Xiu's face was not good. She glared at Jiang Nian sideways, turned around and left.

Jiang Nian walked behind Kang Xiu, looking at her back: "I know you didn't know about that incident at first. Someone told you about me, which attracted your attention."

Kang Xiu turned around and glared at her: "How did you know?"

Jiang Nian pursed her lips to hold back her laughter. She really guessed it right.

She walked forward along the tree-shaded path. Kang Xiu followed her and kept repeating in her ear: "How did you know?"

Jiang Nian said: "I know you are jealous of me. You have always wanted to marry your sister to Song Bai, but Sister Feng refused. But Sister Feng wanted to marry me to Song Bai, which made you feel unhappy, so you always disliked me."

Kang Xiu snorted coldly, her face was not looking good all the time. She was just jealous of Jiang Nian. Why could a widow be in Sister Feng's eyes, but her sister who had never been married could not be in her eyes?

To put it bluntly, Jiang Nian must have used some despicable means on Mrs. Feng.

Jiang Nian glanced at Kang Xiu: "The only person in the family compound who is at odds with me is Zheng Hong. She took advantage of the absence of Deputy Regiment Lu to fabricate the affair between me and squad leader Zhu, but she was afraid that the truth would be revealed in the end and she would get into trouble, so she wanted to find someone to be the scapegoat."

As soon as these words came out, Kang Xiu's footsteps stopped.

She turned her head and looked at Jiang Nian, her lips trembling, and it took a long time to utter a sentence: "Who told you?!"

Jiang Nian said: "Anyone with a discerning eye can see it at a glance, but you are the only one who can't see it, and you are used as a gun and become the laughing stock of the whole family compound." After speaking, he didn't even

look at Kang Xiu's expression again, turned around and left.

Kang Xiu was a fool. She was afraid that if she said it too obscurely, she would not understand. It was better to say it directly so that she could wake up.

Kang Xiu looked at Jiang Nian's figure getting farther and farther away. Her face changed from ugly to gloomy. She clenched the basket in her hand. Her resentment towards Zheng Hong reached its peak.

Jiang Nian was right. At first, she was just jealous of Jiang Nian. She never thought of making up rumors about her and squad leader Zhu. It was Zheng Hong who told her when she asked her to go together that Jiang Nian seemed to be hooking up with squad leader Zhu. If this matter was made a big deal, Jiang Nian's reputation would be ruined, and then Sister Feng would give up the idea of ​​introducing Jiang Nian to Song Bai.

She had this idea after hearing what Zheng Hong said. Whenever squad leader Zhu went to Vice Tuan Lu's house, she would secretly follow him and exaggerate what Jiang Nian cooked for squad leader Zhu today and what the two of them did. Thinking of her going

door to door to explain to people that day and Zheng Hong's face of watching the show, Kang Xiu's anger rose instantly. She picked up the basket and ran directly to Zheng Hong's house. This stinky woman treated her like a piece of wood, she couldn't swallow this breath unless she cursed back.

It was just time to cook, and the sky was dyed with a red glow.

Jiang Nian walked home leisurely and met Captain Lu on the way. Thinking of Captain Lu signing for her just now, she smiled. Captain Lu's eyes paused on Jiang Nian's face for a few seconds, his serious face was a little stiff, and he just nodded at her.

The two passed by.

Jiang Nian sighed in her heart: Captain Lu, I'm sorry, your family may be in trouble again later.

Just as she passed Zheng Hong's door and was about to reach Feng Mei's door, she heard Kang Xiu shouting angrily at the top of her voice: "Zheng Hong, get out of here! You mean-spirited bad woman, you deserve to die a miserable death, you have no shame, get out of here!"

Feng Mei heard Kang Xiu's voice and rushed out, and saw Jiang Nian standing at her door, so she asked curiously: "What's going on?"

Jiang Nian also She shook her head with a puzzled look on her face: "I don't know."

Xu Yan also heard Kang Xiu's loud voice, and ran out with a spatula in her hand. Seeing Feng Mei and Jiang Nian outside the door, she asked with great interest: "What happened to Zheng Hong's family?"

Jiang Nian: ...

Feng Mei said: "Let's go and take a look."

Kang Xiu's voice was very loud, and the military wives and aunts, as well as the children around, ran out to watch the excitement. Zheng Hong's family was once again surrounded by onlookers.

Xu Yan held a spatula in one hand and grabbed Jiang Nian with the other: "Let's go, let's go and watch the excitement."

She couldn't go to this matter today, otherwise she would be dragged into it.

Jiang Nian covered her stomach and frowned slightly: "You two go first, I'll go to the toilet first."

"Okay."

Xu Yan let go of her, and ran over with Feng Mei.

It was noisy outside, but the courtyard was very quiet.

Jiang Nian returned to the house, spread out the drawing paper sent by Ge Mei and looked at it carefully. It was a small picture. If she embroidered it quickly, it would be finished in about ten days. She put away the embroidery and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

Xu Yan suddenly ran over from the gate, yelling: "Oh my, my pot is burnt!"

Jiang Nian: ...

The sky gradually darkened, and Jiang Nian pulled the light cord in the kitchen.

There were still many dishes from the private plot, so she fried three more dishes, heated up five white flour steamed buns, and cooked a tomato egg soup. Just as the meal was ready, Lu Yu came back. Jiang Nian took two plates of dishes and walked out, and saw Lu Yu washing his hands by the well.

She put the plates on the table, and Lu Yu stood up and said, "Sister-in-law, please sit there, I'll take the rest."

"Okay."

Jiang Nian was not polite, and sat on the bench, listening to the noise outside. It seemed to be quiet, but she was not anxious to know what happened to Zheng Hong's family. Tomorrow, Sister Feng would definitely come over to tell her.

This really made Jiang Nian guess right.

The next morning, Feng Mei came after breakfast. Before she even entered the house, she started shouting, "Jiang Nian, Jiang Nian, do you know what's going on at Zheng Hong's house?"

Jiang Nian was sitting in the yard embroidering. When she saw Feng Mei coming over and leaning against a tree trunk, she smiled and said, "What happened?"

Feng Mei snorted, "I really underestimated that woman Zheng Hong. She has a vicious heart. Even my husband Song said last night that Zheng Hong is a very cunning woman." "It's true, it will harm Captain Lu sooner or later."

Jiang Nian said: "Captain Lu and Zheng Hong have been together for seven or eight years, they can't be separated."

Feng Mei clapped her hands: "Oh, now they are really separated."

Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment: "What's going on?"

Feng Mei ate too much in the morning and burped, and continued: "Kang Xiu went to Zheng Hong's house to make trouble yesterday because Kang Xiu spread rumors about you and Zhu Jun before. It was Zheng Hong who Kang Xiu was the one who instigated her behind her back, and she was fooled by Zheng Hong like a fool. Yesterday, Kang Xiu scolded Zheng Hong for a long time at her home, and everyone in the entire family compound knew about it."

She snorted twice again: "Don't you know, Zheng Hong's face was as embarrassed as a monkey's buttocks, otherwise if it was Captain He who took Kang Xiu away, Kang Xiu could have scolded her for a long time."

She looked at Jiang Nian and smiled: "To be honest, I haven't seen enough. "

Jiang Nian: ...

She pursed her lips to hold back her laughter, thinking of what Feng Mei had just said about Captain Lu and Zheng Hong's separation, and asked: "Are they separated now?"

Feng Mei said: "Captain Lu was really angry this time, and sent Zheng Hong back to her parents' home overnight, and also told the police soldiers outside the unit not to let her in if they saw Zheng Hong. I think Zheng Hong will not be able to come here anymore in the future."

So that's it.

But going back to her parents' home was indeed like a nightmare for Zheng Hong.

Zheng Hong has two older brothers and one younger brother, and they are all married. The family has not been divided, with more than ten people, big and small. After marrying Captain Lu, she did not come to the family compound, and stayed at home all the time, earning work points in the fields and serving the whole family. Later, Lu Zhijun insisted on coming to the family compound, and Zheng Hong did not want to stay at home anymore, so she talked to Captain Lu. Later,

she lived in the family compound with Captain Lu, and stayed there for two years, making Xu Yan's family restless.

Now she was sent back to the Zheng family by Captain Lu overnight. As a sister-in-law who was driven home, Zheng Hong's life in the future will be even more difficult.

Jiang Nian can only say that all this is Zheng Hong's own fault.

After Feng Mei finished speaking, she saw the embroidery in Jiang Nian's hand and marveled: "Your hands are so magical."

She came over and sat next to Jiang Nian: "The woman yesterday is the owner of the state-owned embroidery shop. Did she give this to you?"

Jiang Nian looked at her: "How did Sister Feng know?"

Feng Mei smiled and said: "I talked to her in the hospital. When she came with you yesterday, I leaned over the wall to see it. She said that this embroidery can It's only 100 yuan, but it's only 25 yuan in your hands. But I think it's a lot. You can earn 25 yuan for embroidering a picture. "

She sighed again, "It's a lot."

Jiang Nian smiled and said, "This is all thanks to Sister Feng. If you hadn't helped me pull this thread, I wouldn't have earned this money. When I get the reward, I will definitely buy you two pounds of meat to thank you." First he

praised Feng Mei, and then promised to cut meat for her.

Feng Mei was very happy, not to mention how happy she was: "If there is anything good in the future, I will still think of you first."

Jiang Nian pursed his lips and nodded, with a smile in his eyes.

Jiang Nian has been embroidering at home these days. Although she rarely goes out of the front door or walks outside, she knows everything about what is happening outside.

The main reason is that Feng Mei comes to see her every day. If anyone in the family quarrels with whom, whose chicken is lost, or whose son is beaten, Feng Mei will tell her everything, treating her as someone she can talk to about anything.

Since Zheng Hong left the family, Xu Yan has become a completely different person. After

finishing the embroidery, Jiang Nian plans to go to the market tomorrow to hand over the embroidery to Ge Mei.

It was getting dark, and the warm yellow light bulbs were lit in the courtyard.

Jiang Nian was cutting vegetables in the kitchen. The light from overhead fell down, blocking the cutting board. She moved to the side and saw Lu Yu coming in from the corner of her eye. The man was tall and had long legs. As soon as he came in, he blocked most of the light.

It was a bit cold now. Jiang Nian had already put on a thicker coat, but Lu Yu was still wearing a thin military uniform.

She cut the vegetables and put them on the plate. She looked at Lu Yu who was sitting in front of the stove and lighting a fire. The orange flames were clearly jumping on the man's handsome face. He added a few firewood to the stove. He seemed to notice her gaze and looked at her.

Jiang Niancuo met his gaze unexpectedly, she pursed her lips and asked, "Is there any bus going to the city these two days?"

Lu Yu asked, "Sister-in-law, is she going to the city?"

Jiang Nian lowered her head and said while cutting meat, "I have finished the embroidery pattern that Sister Ge from the state-owned embroidery shop gave me, and I am thinking of sending it to her tomorrow."

But she didn't want to take the bus, as it was too crowded, and she might meet someone with dirty hands and feet.

Lu Yu looked at Jiang Nian, the warm yellow light fell on her head, her hair was scattered on her temples, and some hair fell along her chin to her slender white neck. Lu Yu's eyes couldn't help but glance at her body, and he felt that his sister-in-law was a little plumper than when she first came to the army.

But she was still very thin, especially when she wore an apron, which outlined her thin waist.

So thin that he could control it with one hand.

Lu Yu tightened his grip on the firewood, lowered his eyes, and hid the slightly unbridled look in his eyes: "The day after tomorrow, a purchasing car from the military region will go to the city. I'll ask them to take the embroidery to the state-owned embroidery shop and give it to Sister Ge."

When Jiang Nian heard that she didn't have to take a car to the city, a bright smile suddenly appeared in her eyes: "Okay."

Her tone was brisk, and her voice was crisp and pleasant.

Lu Yu stuffed the dry firewood into the stove, raised his eyes and glanced at Jiang Nian again.

After dinner, Lu Yu boiled some hot water. Now that the weather was cold, Jiang Nian didn't need to use a big bathtub every day. She just used a small basin to fill with hot water to wipe her body. At night, she lay in bed, looking at the moonlight outside the window, and gradually fell asleep.

She slept in a daze until midnight, and heard the sound of knocking on the door outside.

It seemed like someone was calling Lu Yu.

Jiang Nian rubbed her eyes, climbed up and wrapped herself in the quilt, stretched her neck to look out the window, and saw Lu Yu striding out of the house. There was a policeman standing outside the door. She didn't know what he said to Lu Yu, and the two left quickly.

She suddenly lost her sleepiness and felt a little uneasy.

After waiting for almost an hour, Jiang Nian heard a baby crying outside. She quickly put on her clothes and went out. As soon as she walked into the yard, she saw Lu Yu coming in with a baby in his arms and a bucket of malted milk in his hand.

She was stunned for a moment, and looked at Lu Yu with a little more inquiry.

All of a sudden, all kinds of fantastic plots popped up in her mind.

Is this Lu Yu's illegitimate child?

The biological mother couldn't raise the child, so she sent him to the army?

Lu Yu noticed the inquiry in Jiang Nian's eyes, frowned, and walked over with the child in his arms: "It's Li Fangda and Wu Ying's child."

Jiang Nian: ???

She took two steps forward and looked at the baby in Lu Yu's arms. It was the same child she had seen in Wu Ying's arms last month. But how did this child appear in the army?

Where were Li Fangda and Wu Ying?

The child was crying non-stop, and Lu Yu had never taken care of a child before, so she was at a loss for a moment.

"Give it to me."

Jiang Nian reached out and took the baby from Lu Yu's arms: "She seems hungry, you make some maltose for her first."

Lu Yu was as if pardoned: "I'll go right away."

Jiang Nian carried the child into the house and heard the child crying loudly, tears as if they didn't want money. Fortunately, she went there to play for a month when her cousin gave birth. Seeing her cousin take care of the child for a month, although she still didn't understand, she should be able to imitate.

She held the child and coaxed him for a while, and whispered: "Don't cry, or the big bad wolf will come."

As soon as she finished speaking, the child cried even harder.

Jiang Nian: ...

What should I do?

She wants to cry too.

Lu Yu brought a bowl of malted milk over. Jiang Nian picked up the child and wanted to cry but couldn't: "He cried so hard."

Lu Yu rarely saw Jiang Nian showing such a cute and innocent look. There was a little smile in his eyes and he was no longer flustered: "You hold the child, I will feed the child malted milk."

Jiang Nian nodded and picked up the child. Lu Yu held the bowl to the child's mouth. The child who was crying just now stopped crying as soon as he smelled the malted milk. He smacked his lips and drank the warm malted milk bit by bit.

Children in the new century usually drink breast milk and formula, but Jiang Nian saw the child smacked his lips so skillfully to drink malted milk. He guessed that it was because Wu Yingnu was not hydrated enough and fed the child complementary food for a long time.

The child was probably very hungry, as she drank more than half a bowl of soup and refused to drink the rest. She turned her head away and whined, staring at Jiang Nian with round eyes, then rolled her eyes and looked at Lu Yu, pouting as if she was about to cry again.

Jiang Nian suddenly felt overwhelmed.

She raised her head to look at Lu Yu, and then she realized that they were very close, so close that they could almost feel each other's breathing.

Lu Yu also raised his head to look at her, and their eyes met. Jiang Nian clearly saw her own shadow in the other's dark pupils, with loose hair, rosy cheeks, and pink lips. She pursed her lips and was a little speechless.

Lu Yu was also stunned. He could clearly smell the breath from Jiang Nian. He coughed lightly, lowered his eyes to avoid Jiang Nian's gaze, and wiped the child's mouth.

"Sister-in-law, you may have to work hard during this period."

The man put down the bowl and swaddled the child.

Jiang Nian came back to his senses, lowered his head and asked, "How did the child get here?"

Lu Yu frowned, "The police soldier said that a woman secretly put the child outside the army and ran away. He ran over to pick up the child and saw a piece of newspaper rolled up on the child with my name written on it, so he came to find me. I will go to the city tomorrow to inquire about the address of Li Fangda's cousin, and send the embroidery to the state-owned embroidery shop."

Jiang Nian nodded, "Yes."

The woman who put the child outside the army should be Wu Ying, right?

If it was Wu Ying, she really couldn't understand why Wu Ying did this? And what about Li Fangda?

Why didn't he stop it?

The child whined for a while and fell asleep. Jiang Nian had never taken care of a child before. She held the child in her arms and lay on the bed. She didn't know where to start. She could only rely on her memory of how her cousin took care of the child. She let the child sleep in the bed and gently placed her palm on the child's body and patted it.

Lu Yu came in with a thermos and saw Jiang Nian lying on the bed, her hair hanging on her shoulders and her arms exposed. She was slender and fair. He looked away uncomfortably, afraid of waking the child, and lowered his voice: "I put the thermos and maltose on the cabinet. Sister-in-law, call me if you have any problems."

Jiang Nian said: "Yes."

It was still early, and Jiang Nian supported her head with her palms, drooping and falling asleep again in a short while. But she didn't dare to sleep too soundly, after all, she didn't sleep well, and was afraid that she would touch the child when she fell asleep. When it was dawn, the sleeping child suddenly burst into a loud cry, which scared Jiang Nian so much that she sat up suddenly and looked at the baby lying on the bed, still a little confused.

"What's wrong?"

Lu Yu's voice came from outside the house.

Jiang Nian rubbed her eyes and said in a languid voice: "He must be hungry. Come in and give him some more malted milk."

She picked up the child, put her palm behind the child's swaddling clothes, and felt a wetness.

Jiang Nian: ...

She turned her head with a stiff neck and saw a wet spot on the place where the child had just lain.

Lu Yu finished the malted milk and looked in the direction of Jiang Nian's sight, and also saw the urine stain.

Lu Yu: ...

He coughed lightly: "The child must have wet his pants and is feeling uncomfortable."

Jiang Nian lowered her head, bit her lower lip, then put the child on the bed and said to Lu Yu: "Feed him malted milk first, I'll cut some cloth for him to pad."

Fortunately, she had kept the discarded cloth when she made clothes before, so she could make a few diapers for the child.

Lu Yu picked up the child and fed him malted milk bit by bit. He looked up at Jiang Nian who was standing by the cupboard cutting cloth with a pair of scissors and said, "I'll go find Sister Feng when it's daybreak and ask her to come over to help. I'll try to go early and come back early." After Jiang

Nian finished cutting the cloth, he turned around and walked to Lu Yu, nodded and said, "Okay, Sister Feng has experience and knows a lot."

After the child finished drinking the malted milk, Lu Yu put him on the bed and reached out to uncover the swaddling clothes on the child. It was not until a foul smell spread that the two realized that the child had defecated.

Jiang Nian took two steps back, holding the diaper, and for the first time, she looked at Lu Yu with a pitiful look: "I, I don't know how to do these."

Lu Yu took the cloth from her hand, and his low voice softened a little: "You go get a basin of hot water, I'll clean it up." "

Okay!"

Jiang Nian turned around and ran out. Seeing her walk without hesitation, Lu Yu was stunned for a moment, and then a smile appeared in his eyes.

The child kicked his two short and thick legs, smiled at Lu Yu with his round eyes, and Lu Yu held the child's feet with one hand, wiped his little butt with a cloth, waited for Jiang Nian to bring hot water, wiped him clean with a cloth, and finally changed him into a clean diaper.

He took the small mattress and diapers to the yard, washed them with well water and hung them on the rope. The horn sounded, Lu Yu washed his hands, went to the kitchen to quickly prepare breakfast, and brought the child over to let Jiang Nian fill his stomach first.

After breakfast, Lu Yu said, "I'll go tell Sister Feng that I'll ask for leave from the group and go to the city later."

Jiang Nian walked in the yard holding the child: "Okay, then you come back soon."

She really couldn't take care of the child alone, and she was afraid that the child would poop again, and she couldn't handle it alone.

Lu Yu nodded: "Yeah."

When he went out, he looked back. There were vegetables planted in the yard. Jiang Nian was walking slowly under the tree with her child in her arms. From his angle, he could only see her profile. Under the morning light, there was a beautiful tranquility.