Chapter 4

Most of the people in the car had left, and Lu Yu left with his bag on his back. Jiang Nian followed him with her head down, wondering what happened after she fell asleep. She looked up at Lu Yu's tall back, pursed her lips, and didn't ask.

According to the original owner's personality, if she asked, he would definitely be suspicious. It would be better to pretend nothing happened.

They arrived in the city at 1:30 in the afternoon, which was just right for lunch.

Lu Yu took Jiang Nian to the state-owned hotel for dinner. Jiang Nian looked at both sides of the street from time to time. There were no high-rise buildings like the New Century in this era, nor wide roads and cars. The clothes of people in the city were just better than those in the countryside. There were no self-operated stores at this time, and all the stores had state-owned signs.

Lu Yu ordered two bowls of shredded pork noodles. Jiang Nian sat opposite him, glanced at Lu Yu and lowered her head.

He was not wearing a military uniform, but a white shirt and military green pants. No matter where he sat, his back was straight. Lu Yu ate noodles quietly, with no expression on his face. Jiang Nian couldn't guess what he was thinking.

She was still afraid that Lu Yu would abandon her.

The first person she saw in this era was Lu Yu, and he was the only one she could rely on. If he got angry and left her alone, she didn't know what to do next.

After thinking for a while, she asked, "Am I causing you trouble?"

After Jiang Nian asked, she cursed herself in her heart.

She asked knowingly.

Lu Yu stopped eating noodles and looked at his sister-in-law sitting opposite him. She lowered her head and ate noodles in small bites. From his angle, he could only see her head. Thinking that she might have heard what the old lady said to him just now, he explained: "Sister-in-law, don't take what I said in the car just now to heart. It was the old lady who misunderstood our relationship. I said I would take care of you, and I won't break my promise." After

hearing her, Jiang Nian breathed a sigh of relief.

Regardless of whether others misunderstood or not, at least he promised in person that he would not break his promise. Before finding a way to get back, Lu Yu was her only support.

After dinner, she rushed to the train station. It was almost three o'clock. She sat in the waiting room for a while and got on the train.

Lu Yu bought two lower berths. Jiang Nian wanted to lie down as soon as her butt touched the berth. Fortunately, she resisted the urge to sit by the window, hunched her shoulders and stayed quiet. Lu Yu put away his luggage and glanced at Jiang Nian, who was looking down. "This train will arrive at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. If you are tired

, lie down for a while." Jiang Nian nodded and remained sitting.

Lu Yu went to get a kettle to get some hot water. People were getting on one after another, and the carriage seemed crowded. The trains of this era were still old-fashioned green trains, but it was good to have a bed, which was better than sitting all night.

Jiang Nian lay on the berth, closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, trying to isolate herself from this place.

The train rumbled loudly.

As dusk fell in the sky, the lights in the carriage came on. Lu Yu took out pickled vegetables and steamed buns from his bag and said to Jiang Nian, "Let's deal with it for one night. We'll arrive tomorrow morning."

Jiang Nian took the steamed buns and said, "It's already very good."

She had no appetite, but it was already very good for the original owner, who had only eaten white flour steamed buns a few times since she was a child. After dinner, Jiang Nian drank a cup of hot water handed to her by Lu Yu and went to sleep again.

She felt like she was like a pig after she came here, either eating or sleeping. The train arrived at nine o'clock the next day

. Lu Yu led Jiang Nian out of the train station, and someone waved at them from a distance: "Deputy Regiment Lu, Deputy Regiment Lu!" The person was Zhu Jun from the army, also a soldier of Lu Yu. When he ran up to him, Lu Yu frowned: "We are training here, why are you here?" Zhu Jun smiled and said: "Captain Song knew you were coming back today, so he asked me to drive to pick you up." He glanced at the woman standing next to Lu Yu. The woman had a gauze wrapped around her head and lowered her head. He looked at Lu Yu with an inquiring look: "Deputy Regiment Lu, don't you introduce her?" It was rare to see a woman next to the deputy commander, and he was quite curious. Lu Yu said: "This is my sister-in-law." Zhu Jun's face changed, he knew Deputy Regiment Lu's sister-in-law. Deputy Commander Lu went back to his hometown for a funeral. The old man in the family died a few years ago. Now Deputy Commander Lu's elder brother has also died, so there is only a widow left. Deputy Commander Lu must be worried about his sister-in-law staying alone at home, so he brought her here. No wonder he asked the leader to approve a house before he left, saying that his family members would follow the army. Zhu Jun said, "Hello, sister-in-law, my name is Zhu Jun." Jiang Nian raised her head and was about to smile, but suddenly remembered that the original owner was afraid of people, so she lowered her head and replied, "My name is Jiang Nian." Although Jiang Nian only raised her head, Zhu Jun still saw her appearance clearly. She had white skin, curved eyebrows and bright eyes. She looked beautiful even without smiling. If it were his sister-in-law, he would not be worried about her being alone at home. Lu Yu and Zhu Jun chatted about other things. The three of them walked out of the train station and got on an old jeep to the military unit. The military unit was far from the city and it took four hours to get there. Zhu Jun left first to return the car. Lu Yu carried a big bag and took Jiang Nian along the road to the family building. Jiang Nian looked around as he walked. The military unit was well organized and he could hear the majestic training sounds of the soldiers. As they walked in, the appearance of the family building appeared in Jiang Nian's eyes. There were rows of neatly arranged courtyards. Two or three military wives were walking together on the road. One of them was familiar with Lu Yu. Her husband and Lu Yu were often together. Seeing a woman following him, she asked curiously, "Deputy Colonel Lu, who is that?" A quick-talking military wife said, "Do you even need to ask? It must be the new wife that Deputy Colonel Lu brought home." "Bullshit!" The military wife who spoke first elbowed her, "Deputy Colonel Lu came home to visit a funeral, not to get married." Jiang Nian: ... As expected, there is gossip everywhere. Lu Yu was afraid that Jiang Nian would feel uncomfortable, so he looked at Feng Mei and explained, "Sister-in-law, don't misunderstand. This is my sister-in-law. All the Xu family members are gone. It's not safe for my sister-in-law to be alone at home, so I brought her to the family building. The neighbors are taken care of by the sisters-in-law, so I feel relieved." When Feng Mei heard that it was Deputy Regiment Commander Lu's sister-in-law, she knew whose daughter-in-law she was. She immediately glared at the military wife who had just talked nonsense, and said to Lu Yu, "Two days ago, Zhu Jun They were cleaning the yard, and I asked him what he wanted to do in the yard next door, and it turned out that your sister-in-law was coming." She looked at Jiang Nian again, and saw that she lowered her head and ignored everyone, so she swallowed the words of greeting. Thinking about it, her husband had just died, and she came to this unfamiliar place with Deputy Colonel Lu. If it were her, she would not be in the mood to talk: "You should take your sister-in-law back." Lu Yu nodded at her and walked away with Jiang Nian.

The woman who just said Lu Yu was going home to marry a wife was called Kang Xiu. She turned her head to look at Jiang Nian who was following Lu Yu obediently with her head down, and then turned to Feng Mei and said, "Look at her hanging her head and looking so sad."

Feng Mei glared at her: "What's the matter? Her husband died, so you should laugh at everyone you see?"

After hearing this, several military wives laughed out loud and said something to Kang Xiu.

"What do you think a widow does?"

"That's right, it's not easy for that woman either."

"Mind your own business, it's too lazy to mind others."

You said nothing, Kang Xiu blushed and didn't say anything.

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Arriving at the courtyard, Lu Yu took the key to unlock the door.

Jiang Nian followed him in and took a general look at the small courtyard. The walls on three sides were not high. There were two sleeping rooms on the east side and two rooms on the south side. From the outside, you can see that one is the stove room and the other is for sleeping. There is a pressure well near the stove room. The yard had been cleaned in advance and it was quite clean inside.

Lu Yu said, "Sister-in-law, you sleep in the first room on the east side. I will sleep in the room next to the stove room temporarily. I will move to the dormitory when you recover from your injury." He took out Jiang Nian's things from his military green bag: "When I left, I left money for Zhu Jun and the others. They have bought everything that can be bought at home. You can go back to your room and rest."

Jiang Nian nodded, took the cloth bag that Lu Yu handed to her, and went to the first room on the east side.

She understood what Lu Yu meant. He was afraid that people would gossip about them living together.

Just after taking two steps, she heard a noise from the next yard.

The woman's sharp scream was piercing even through the wall, and the curses were even more unpleasant.

"Liu Qiang, you son of a bitch, I'm going to fight you! You have the guts to flirt with Zheng Hong, but why don't you publicize it in the team? Publicize that you, Liu Qiang, eat from the pot and look at the bowl, and publicize that you, Liu Qiang, are a dog man who is thinking about other people's wives!"

"If you talk nonsense again, I'm really going to beat you up!"

"Come on! Beat me up, whoever doesn't beat me up is a grandson!"

The quarrel was unbearable.

There were footsteps outside, heading to the next yard. It was the children and women of the neighbors who were watching the excitement. Everyone knew that Captain Liu’s family had a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every five days. There was no peace.

The door was closed, and Jiang Nian could not see outside. She could only hear the children and women talking, saying that Liu Qiang’s family had quarreled again.

Lu Yu frowned and put down the big bag: "I'll go over and take a look."

Jiang Nian nodded while holding the cloth bag. When Lu Yu went to the next door, she raised her bright eyes, ran to the wall, hugged the tree stump that rolled at the corner of the wall and put it under her feet, and peeked over the wall to see the excitement.

There was nothing she could do.

She also had a gossipy heart.

In the next yard, Captain Liu's face was slapped by Xu Yan, leaving several bloody marks. Lu Yu came over to pull the two apart. Seeing Lu Yu coming over, two elderly mothers-in-law also came over to try to stop the quarrel. For a while, the yard was very lively.

Xu Yan's hair was messy and her clothes were twisted. She cried and cursed: "I gave birth to a son for your Liu family, but you flirted with Zheng Hong behind my back. If there were no outsiders around, you would have slept with her!"

The words became more and more unpleasant.

Liu Qiang gritted his teeth and pointed at Xu Yan's nose: "If you keep talking nonsense, I will tear your mouth off!"

Xu Yan walked over with her chest puffed out: "Come on, tear it off! Today I will see if you dare!"

The two elderly mothers-in-law pulled Xu Yan away, and Lu Yu pulled Liu Qiang away, and separated the couple to advise them.

Jiang Nian listened to Lu Yu's strict reprimand of Liu Qiang, and listened to Xu Yan's chatter about the trivial things that Liu Qiang and Zheng Hong had done a few years ago. She was listening intently, and suddenly she met Lu Yu's eyes looking at her.

Jiang Nian: ...

She quickly lowered her head, jumped off the wooden block, and whooshed into the first room on the east side.