Chapter 47

The man's waist and abdomen were thin and strong, and he looked tight and powerful.

Moreover, he had eight abdominal muscles!

Jiang Nian's heart was beating fast. She resisted the urge to reach out and touch him. She turned her head with a slightly red face and said, "Have you eaten?"

Lu Yu saw Jiang Nian's slightly red face, and his eyes were filled with a smile: "I have eaten."

After saying that, he turned back to the house and came out with his clothes on.

Jiang Nian sighed in her heart: You can look but not touch.

She went to the well to press water to wash her face, and she didn't stop until the heat on her face subsided. Lu Yu's voice came to her ears: "The water in the well is cool."

Jiang Nian said: "It's, it's okay."

She was deliberately using cold water to cool down.

Lu Yu looked at Jiang Nian's almost fleeing back, and the smile on his face deepened. He took a hoe and went to the west corner to turn the soil. When Jiang Nian came out after dinner, he asked, "Did you go to buy vegetable seedlings from Sister Feng?"

Jiang Nian put the vegetable seedlings in a cool place, lowered his head and said, "Yeah."

Lu Yu turned half of the soil and went to the group. Xu Yan came over in the afternoon. Jiang Nian found that Xu Yan had lost a lot of weight in two months. The meat she had eaten before was almost gone.

She sat in the yard, watching Jiang Nian sorting the silk thread, and smiled: "Jiang Nian, how have you been doing in the city these two months?"

Jiang Nian smiled and said: "Not bad."

Xu Yan didn't say anything. She used to chatter non-stop, but now she just sat there quietly, as if she was watching Jiang Nian sorting the silk thread, but also seemed to be distracted.

Jiang Nian frowned slightly, looked up at Xu Yan for a long time, but the other party didn't respond.

Her heart skipped a beat.

Could it be that Xu Yan was...depressed?

Jiang Nian was startled when she thought of this, so she put the silk thread in the basket and said softly: "Xu Yan, do you want some cakes? I brought some back from the market."

Xu Yan smiled and shook her head: "No."

Jiang Nian pursed her lips: "Where are Jianye and Jianwu?"

Xu Yan smiled again: "At home, both children are very well behaved and obedient."

The next part was basically Jiang Nian asking and Xu Yan answering.

Jiang Nian was more and more sure that Xu Yan's condition was a little bit wrong.

She regretted that when she left two months ago, when Xu Yan came to her and asked her what to do, she did not tell her the solution, but let her let it go. If she had known that letting it go would result in this, she would help Xu Yan again even if she was scolded by Liu Qiang.

Jiang Nian lowered her head, her eyes were a little hot.

She sniffed, resisted the urge to cry, took four candies from the house and handed them to Xu Yan. Xu Yan shook her head, and Jiang Nian smiled: "These are for Jianye and Jianwu."

When Xu Yan took the candies, Liu Jianye and Liu Jianwu came to Jiang Nian's house hand in hand. Liu Jianwu was young and didn't know anything. He smiled and called her Aunt Jiang. Liu Jianye was a little older, but he was only a seven-year-old child. The child's face was a little gloomy, and he said to Jiang Nian politely: "Aunt Jiang."

Xu Yan turned her head to look at them and waved, "Come quickly, mother will give you something good."

Liu Jianye and Liu Jianwu walked over, Xu Yan stretched out her hand, with four candies in her palm, and then said, "You two stretch out your hands, mother will give you two."

Liu Jianye looked at Xu Yan and smiled, "I listen to mother."

Jiang Nian turned her head to look at the door of the stove room, trying to hold back the tears in her eyes. Maybe it was all her fault. She shouldn't have interfered with Xu Yan's affairs from the beginning.

But if she didn't interfere with Xu Yan's affairs, Xu Yan would probably have married an old bachelor now. She suddenly felt that Xu Yan's plot line was either a dead end or a dead end. No matter how she changed, Xu Yan's ending would be the same?

"Xu Yan."

Jiang Nian called in a low voice.

After Xu Yan distributed the candies, she turned to look at Jiang Nian: "What's wrong?"

Jiang Nian hesitated for a while, but still didn't say: "Nothing."

"I'm going back, Jianwu is going to sleep."

Xu Yan got up and took Liu Jianwu's hand. Jiang Nian looked at Liu Jianye and said to Xu Yan: "I want to stay with Jianye for a while, is that okay?"

Xu Yan nodded: "All right."

After Xu Yan and Liu Jianwu left, Jiang Nian said: "Jianwu, sit down, auntie wants to ask you something."

Liu Jianye was a little restrained. He hesitated for a while before slowly moving to the bench and sitting down. The look in his eyes when he looked at Jiang Nian didn't look like that of a seven-year-old child. It was a bit like he had experienced too many things, with a gloomy feeling of fatigue.

Jiang Nian squeezed the basket in her hand: "Jianwu, tell aunt, besides the one this morning, when else did your mother quarrel with your father?"

When the word quarrel was mentioned, Liu Jianye's eyes became noticeably fiercer.

He lowered his head and clenched his fingers hard. Jiang Nian looked down and saw that Liu Jianye was just like Xu Yan at the beginning. His fingers were all pricked. Some places were scabbed and bleeding. Jiang Nian reached out and held his hand: "Stop prickling."

Liu Jianye's body stiffened for a moment, and he whispered: "We had a quarrel a month ago."

Jiang Nian asked: "Does it have anything to do with Captain Lu and Zheng Hong?"

Liu Jianye nodded: "Well, after Mom was pulled back by Dad, Dad said that Mom wanted to marry Captain Lu and deliberately sprained her ankle in front of him. No matter how Mom explained, it was useless. Later, Dad rarely let Mom go out."

Although Jiang Nian couldn't see Liu Jianye's expression, she could sense his anger from the trembling of his little hand.

He continued, "Mom sits in the yard every day, and Dad ignores her every time he comes back. Mom now sleeps with Jianwu and me."

A seven-year-old child spoke clearly and logically as he told Jiang Nian everything that happened in the past month.

Liu Qiang not only pua Xu Yan, but also used cold violence against her.

No wonder Xu Yan became the same as before, but it was more serious than before. She thought before that maybe Zheng Hong was gone and Xu Yan had changed, and the life between Liu Qiang and Zheng Hong would be better, but she didn't expect the result to be like this.

"Auntie."

Liu Jianye looked up at Jiang Nian, his eyes were red, and there were tears in his eyes, but he forced himself not to let them fall: "Can you help my mother again?"

"I know that my mother was happy for a few months because you helped her. Can you help her again?"

The tears in Liu Jianye's eyes finally fell: "Aunt, my mother will die if she goes on like this."

Liu Jianye finally showed his childishness at this moment, crying and wiping his tears: "I can live without my father, but I can't live without my mother."

Jiang Nian couldn't help but tighten her grip on Liu Jianye's hand and couldn't say no.

After struggling for a long time, she finally said, "Okay."

Upon hearing this, Liu Jianye stood up and bowed deeply to Jiang Nian: "Thank you, auntie."

After Liu Jianye left, Jiang Nian was in a daze for a long time. Xu Yan's current situation can only be solved by leaving Liu Qiang, but if she does not leave Liu Qiang, she will definitely be married to an old bachelor by her family, and no matter which path she takes, it will be a dead end.

The only way is to make money by herself and treat Liu Qiang as air.

As long as she makes money by herself, she will have confidence and she won't have to look at Liu Qiang's face anymore.

Jiang Nian looked down at the silk thread in the basket and decided to go to the city to find Sister Ge in two days to see if she has any connections. If she has a job suitable for Xu Yan, she will consider this favor as something she owes to Ge Mei.

She wanted to make herself feel better, and didn't want to watch a living person around her go to a dead end.

Jiang Nian was embroidering a small embroidery in the afternoon, and it was dark when she started.

She went to the kitchen to prepare dinner, and Lu Yu came back after dinner. When the food was brought to the yard, Lu Yu found that Jiang Nian's face was not right, and her eyebrows were slightly wrinkled: "What happened?"

Jiang Nian came back to her senses and shook her head: "Nothing."

She took a bite of the corn cake, and before she could pick up the food, Lu Yu stood up and half-knelt beside her, reaching out to touch her forehead.

The man's breath suddenly rushed over, and Jiang Nian's calm heart couldn't help but beat a few times, and the warmth from the other's palm was on her forehead, with heat.

Lu Yu frowned: "It's not burnt."

Jiang Nian lowered her head uncomfortably, biting the steamed bun she had swallowed: "I'm fine."

Lu Yu stood up and sat opposite her, his dark eyes fixed on Jiang Nian's face: "Is there something on your mind? You can tell me, don't keep it to yourself."

Jiang Nian felt that after coming back from the city, Lu Yu's attitude towards her seemed to be different. He was closer to her and more concerned about her than before.

She thought for a while, and decided not to tell Lu Yu about Xu Yan and said: "It's really nothing."

"Does it have anything to do with Xu Yan?"

Lu Yu looked at her.

Jiang Nian didn't expect Lu Yu to guess right: "Yeah."

She hesitated for a moment before telling Lu Yu what Liu Jianye had told her today. She lowered her head and poked the potato with chopsticks, saying, "I sometimes wonder, what did Xu Yan want by marrying Liu Qiang for so many years? Women don't necessarily have to choose only marriage, they can also have many choices."

But women in this era have too few choices, and most of them still have to marry a good man.

If Xu Yan left Liu Qiang, she would be worse off than she is now.

Lu Yu narrowed his eyes slightly for a moment, and looked at Jiang Nian with a look that was more elusive and profound: "Sister-in-law is right, women can also have their own jobs, just like sister-in-law."

Jiang Nian looked up at him: "What?"

Lu Yu said: "Who did sister-in-law learn embroidery from?"

Jiang Nian suddenly became alert: "I said before that I have liked embroidery since I was a child, but I didn't have the opportunity when I was a child. I only have the opportunity to touch these things when I came here."

"Yeah."

Lu Yu lowered his head, not knowing whether he believed it or not. Anyway, Jiang Nian was still quite panicked.

"Jiang Nian."

The man lowered his head and spoke in a low voice.

This was the first time that Lu Yu called her name when they were alone. Jiang Nian's back was sweating coldly, and her hand holding the chopsticks tightened and tightened. After swallowing twice, she said, "What's wrong?"

Lu Yu raised his head and looked at Jiang Nian, "We are not uncle and sister-in-law."

"I know."

"You are still very young."

Jiang Nian couldn't figure out what he meant, "Then what?"

Lu Yu's eyes were as dark as mist, "If you want to remarry, I won't stop you."

Huh? ?

Jiang Nian didn't know how the topic turned to this. They were clearly talking about Xu Yan, why did they suddenly bring it up to her.

The courtyard was quiet, and the sound of Lu Yu's chopsticks hitting the bowl was very crisp.

Jiang Nian had a complicated meal. After she finished, Lu Yu stood up and put the dishes in the stove, washed the pots and bowls, and boiled water for Jiang Nian to take a bath. He added dry firewood to the stove and turned to look at Jiang Nian who was sitting in the yard in a daze.

Although the old professor's words were ambiguous last time, he heard it.

No matter how smart a person is, it is impossible for him to extend the methods of making multiple kinds of pastries based on a few pastries mentioned by others. The year he dealt with Uncle Xu's funeral, he went home and ate the meal cooked by his sister-in-law, and the taste was completely different from that cooked by Jiang Nian.

The experience of Xu Yanjia and Zheng Hong could not have been caused by the dull, taciturn, timid and cowardly sister-in-law. The sister-in-law in the past was foolishly filial. How could a person completely abandon more than 20 years of family affection in half a year and turn to be cold and ruthless and rational to ask for debts from the Jiang family?

During the two months that Jiang Nian stayed in the embroidery manor, he tried Ge Mei indirectly. It is impossible for a person to have such good embroidery skills without a master to teach, and to know many kinds of needlework and hook patterns. The

sister-in-law in front of him did pretend very well at the beginning.

But a person's nature will be slowly released invisibly. Lu Yu didn't know who she was, but she was indeed Jiang Nian.

Jiang Nian sat in the yard for a while, and only came back to her senses when she heard the sound of Lu Yu pouring water.

She stood up and looked at Lu Yu who walked into the kitchen with a guilty conscience. She always felt that he seemed to know something, especially those deep black and sharp eyes, as if he could see through her disguise. Jiang Nian pursed her lips and ran into the house.

"Sister-in-law."

Lu Yu called her as soon as she reached the door.

Jiang Nian grabbed the door frame and turned stiffly to look at Lu Yu: "What's wrong?"

Lu Yu came over with a few sticks of firewood. He was very close to Jiang Nian, looking down at her with a smile in his eyes: "Are you full?"

As he spoke, the burning breath lingered between the two people's nostrils.

Jiang Nian tightened her grip on the door frame for a few minutes, looked at Lu Yu's dark eyes, shook her head, and nodded: "I'm full."

Lu Yu walked past her into the house and added some dry firewood to the brazier: "Lighten up the fire so it won't be cold when you take a bath later."

"Oh."

Lu Yu fiddled with the brazier and said: "You don't have to worry about Xu Yan's affairs. There are some changes in Liu Qiang's position here."

Jiang Nian breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and asked: "What changes?"

"The higher-ups have issued a transfer order. Liu Qiang will often be training outside in the future. He may only come back once a month or two. It is best for him and Xu Yan to separate."

Lu Yu added: "Have you ever thought about asking Sister Ge for help to find a job for Xu Yan?"

Jiang Nian sometimes really suspected that Lu Yu was the roundworm in her stomach.

Lu Yu stood up and looked at Jiang Nian: "The only capable person you know here is Sister Ge. I guess you might ask Sister Ge to help Xu Yan. She can't help with this matter. Liu Qiang's mother is far away from here. There are still several grandchildren to take care of at home. Xu Yan's mother is not reliable. Even if Xu Yan is arranged to find a job in the city, what about the two children? Do you think Xu Yan can leave two children?"

Jiang Nian pursed her lips and didn't say anything.

She didn't think about these, but only thought about how to help Xu Yan.

A shadow fell in front of her eyes. Jiang Nian blinked and looked at Lu Yu's feet next to her. The man's legs were long and straight, very close to her. Jiang Nian raised her head in confusion and found that Lu Yu was almost touching her.

Jiang Nian subconsciously took two steps back. Lu Yu grabbed her wrist and pulled her in front of him. His fingertips rubbed Jiang Nian's smooth skin for a few times, and said in a hoarse voice: "There is a bench behind, don't touch it."

"Oh."

Jiang Nian curled her fingers, trying to ignore the itchiness and discomfort on her wrist. She wanted to shake off Lu Yu's hand, but then she heard him ask, "Have you ever loved Xu Cheng?"

Jiang Nian raised her head and immediately replied, "Yes!"

She felt that she had replied too quickly, and it was a bit obvious, so she slowed down her voice, "Of course I did. He is my husband, my man. If I don't love him, who else can I love? Lu Yu, don't worry, even if you just said you agree to my remarriage, I will not remarry, I will definitely... "I will make your elder brother a widow, so you don't have to worry about me getting married again."

Lu Yu lowered his head a little more, and his breath was on Jiang Nian's face: "What if I want you to get married?"

Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment, looking at Lu Yu who was so close to her. If he lowered a little more, they could kiss each other. Jiang Nian's heart suddenly seemed to be out of control, almost jumping out of her throat, a terrible, absurd idea emerged from the bottom of her heart.

Lu Yu seemed to be a little bit wrong with her.

Once this idea came out, it grew like a crazy weed. She blinked and felt that everything in front of her was a bit absurd and a bit unreal.

Lu Yu loosened his grip on Jiang Nian's hand, fearing that he would scare her away if he continued to talk, so he said, "It's cold outside, go back to the house first, I'll get you some bath water."

Jiang Nian took her hand back in a daze, turned back to the house and sat on the edge of the bed, looking down at the place where Lu Yu had just held her hand.

The skin felt like it had been burned by a branding iron, burning and itchy.

She pursed her lips and raised her eyes to look inside the house. Lu Yu was carrying water to pour into the bathtub. The man was bent over, his white shirt was tied tightly around his waist and back, showing the outline of his well-proportioned muscles. She thought of the first time she met Lu Yu, the man was very sensible to her, and he always spoke and acted in a sensible way that a brother-in-law should have, and would never go beyond that.

But now it seems to be different.

At this moment, her mind was clearer than ever. When

did Lu Yu start to treat her differently? Was it from the time she moved to the state-owned embroidery shop?

If Lu Yu had not just said that he wanted her to want to get married, she would not have thought about it this way.

After the splashing sound of water disappeared, Jiang Nian blinked, and when Lu Yu stood up,

she quickly turned her head to look at the window. At this moment, she became more alert than ever. Even when looking out the window, she could still feel that Lu Yu glanced at her before he left.

After the door was closed, Jiang Nian breathed a sigh of relief, quickly took a shower, and crawled into the quilt, falling asleep with a complicated thought.

The next day, Lu Yu had already prepared breakfast. When Jiang Nian walked out, Lu Yu looked up and shouted, "It's time to eat."

Jiang Nian paused and said, "Okay."

After dinner, Song Bai and Tang Ze came. As soon as they entered the yard, they saw Jiang Nian sitting on a bench.

Song Bai smiled and said, "Sister-in-law."

Tang Ze called out, "Sister-in-law." Song Bai

frowned and hit Tang Ze in the abdomen with his elbow. Seeing Tang Ze bend down in pain, Song Bai gritted his teeth and said, "Who are you taking advantage of?!"

Jiang Nian: ...

That elbow was not light, she felt the pain for Tang Ze.

Tang Ze's brows wrinkled in pain. He stood up and kicked at Song Bai, but Song Bai dodged to the side. So he cursed, "I'm taking advantage of you. I'm older than you. Why shouldn't I call you sister-in-law? Should I call you sister-in-law like you do?"

Song Bai nodded, "I have no objection to you calling me sister-in-law."

Song Bai and Tang Ze have been comrades-in-arms for many years. It can be said that they don't know each other without fighting. Now they are in the same regiment and have more time to spend together. They have a small fight every three days and a big fight every two days. Captain Tang always scolds them every time he sees them, but after the fight, the two of them are like close friends again.

"Sister-in-law."

Song Bai walked over, took a few candies from his pocket and put them on the table: "Eat them."

Jiang Nian looked up in confusion, Tang Ze said for Song Bai: "I just bought them for Xiangdong and Xianghong, you can try them too."

"Thank you."

Jiang Nian lowered her head, took a candy and put it in her mouth. Song Bai looked at Jiang Nian's white fingertips and thought that sister-in-law's fingers were as white as candy wrappers, so beautiful.

Lu Yu came out of the kitchen after washing the pots and bowls, saw a few candies on the table, walked over and grabbed a handful, and said: "Eating too much candy will cause tooth decay."

Song Bai: ...

Tang Ze: ...

Jiang Nian looked at the few candies that disappeared from the table without thinking too much. At the same time, she felt that Lu Yu was right. Eating too much candy would indeed cause tooth decay. She suffered greatly from it. In the new century, she was terrified every time she went to the dentist.

Especially when she heard the sound of teeth drilling, her scalp was numb.

Jiang Nian looked at Lu Yu's figure disappearing at the gate of the courtyard, and it took her a long time to come back to her senses.

She patted her face, got up and went back to the house to embroider. She embroidered a small part of the small embroidery pattern. She forgot the color of a few parts of the drawing paper. She got up, opened the cabinet and took out the large cloth bag. When she took the drawing paper, her hand touched the fabric of the large embroidery pattern and felt something was wrong. She took it out and took a look, and her eyebrows frowned immediately.

Sister Zhai made a mistake for her.

Jiang Nian went to the police station outside the military unit and called the state-owned embroidery house. It was Zhang Xiao who answered the phone. When she heard Jiang Nian's voice, she smiled happily: "Sister Jiang, you finally called us!"

Jiang Nian smiled, talked to Zhang Xiao for a few words, and finally said: "Can you ask Sister Zhai for me, did she pack the wrong embroidery for me?"

Zhang Xiao knew that embroidery must not be confused. The embroidery fabric for each embroidery pattern must be selected according to the embroidery pattern. The material and color she took were different, so she asked into the compartment: "Sister Zhai, did you mix up your embroidery with Sister Jiang's?"

Zhai Peipei's voice came from the compartment: "Let me see."

She opened the cabinet, took out the box and took a look, and exclaimed: "I really took the wrong one!"

Zhang Xiao told Jiang Nian, and Jiang Nian said: "Okay, I got it. I'll go to the market to exchange it tomorrow." She

chatted with Zhang Xiao for a few more sentences before hanging up the phone.

When Lu Yu came back at noon, Jiang Nian had finished cooking and sat on the bench. She glanced at Lu Yu who was eating, and said softly, "I'm going to the market tomorrow. Sister Zhai packed the embroidery in the wrong place, so I have to change it back. It's a good opportunity for me to go see Sister Ge and the others."

Lu Yu said, "There will be a bus going to the market to shop tomorrow. You can take the military bus."

Jiang Nian nodded and said, "Okay."

The military bus would be better if there was one, and she didn't want to squeeze into the bus.

The military procurement vehicle usually leaves at four in the morning. Jiang Nian was still half asleep at this time. Lu Yu knocked on the door: "Sister-in-law, it's time to get up."

Jiang Nian climbed up with difficulty, glanced at the still dark window, quickly got dressed and went out to wash up. After washing up, she followed Lu Yu to the troops. The military procurement vehicle was parked outside, and the light from the headlights was particularly bright in front.

A soldier got off the car: "Deputy Regiment Lu, sister-in-law."

Lu Yu nodded, and then said to Jiang Nian: "Get in the car."

The procurement car was a very high car, with a front and a rear. Jiang Nian grabbed the handle next to the door and climbed up. When she was about to exert force, a pair of hands grabbed her waist and instantly lifted her up and put her in the seat.

Jiang Nian shuddered, turned her head and looked at Lu Yu who had withdrawn his hand.

Lu Yu said, "If you get hungry on the way, just eat some steamed bread."

Jiang Nian lowered her head: "Okay."

Another soldier jumped into the car, patted the front of the car and said, "Let's go."

The soldier driving the car looked at Jiang Nian and felt that Deputy Regiment Commander Lu's sister-in-law was really as white and beautiful as everyone said: "Sister-in-law, it will take four hours to get to the city. If you are tired, take a nap first. I will call you when we get there."

Jiang Nian said, "Well, thank you."

The driver smiled embarrassedly.

The car drove all the way, and Jiang Nian also slept all the way. It was not until eight o'clock in the morning that they arrived in the city. The driver dropped Jiang Nian off at the gate of the state-owned embroidery manor according to Lu Yu's instructions, and said to her: "Sister-in-law, we will come to pick you up at four o'clock in the afternoon."

Jiang Nian waved her hand: "Okay."

"Jiang Jie!"

Zhang Xiao heard the sound of a car outside. He leaned on the window and saw that it was Jiang Nian. He ran out happily and held her hand: "I thought you would not come until twelve o'clock."

Jiang Nian smiled and said: "The military district has a procurement car, so I took a ride."

The two walked in laughing and chatting. Lu Xiaojing and Zhai Peipei also came out. They talked for a while. Zhai Peipei took out the embroidery cloth from the cabinet and said: "Look at my brain. I am old and my brain is not enough. I also took the wrong embroidery pattern."

Lu Xiaojing joked: "If Sister Zhai is a few years older, won't she be able to see even the needle?"

"Ptck, pck, pck."

Zhai Peipei smiled and hit Lu Xiaojing. The few of them talked in the embroidery shop for a while. Jiang Nian didn't see Ge Mei, so she asked, "Where's Sister Ge?"

Zhang Xiao said, "She was called away by the leader early in the morning, and I don't know when she will be back."

Zhai Peipei and Lu Xiaojing were embroidering inside, and Jiang Nian and Zhang Xiao also walked in. Jiang Nian taught Lu Xiaojing several needle techniques that would make the embroidery look better and more natural. Then Zhai Peipei said, "Jiang Nian, are you not going to come to the embroidery shop in the future?"

Jiang Nian thought of what happened in the city in the past two months, and knew that Lu Yu was worried about her: "Not necessarily."

She was afraid that something might happen to Lu Yu.

Thinking of the dream that night, she kept thinking about Lu Yu's transfer. Captain Song was transferred the day after the Dragon Boat Festival, because the plot in the book wrote that Captain Song talked a lot with Lu Yu the day before he left.

The Dragon Boat Festival is in two months, I don't know if it will be this year or next year? But she thinks it won't be this year, after all, Lu Yu was just promoted to deputy captain, and if he wants to move up, he will have to wait two or three years.

Ge Mei came back at eleven o'clock. As soon as she saw Jiang Nian, she hugged her: "You know what, after you left, we all felt that Xiuzhuang was a lot quieter."

Zhang Xiao agreed and nodded: "Yes."

She whispered again: "I am not used to sleeping without holding you at night."

Jiang Nian couldn't help laughing: "It was the same when I went back that night. I was not used to not holding you."

The two laughed out loud.

Ge Mei said: "Jiang Nian, let's go for a walk?"

Jiang Nian immediately understood that Sister Ge had something to say to her. She said a few words to Zhang Xiao and the others and went out with Ge Mei. The two walked on the street. Ge Mei said: "The leader just talked to me."

Jiang Nian knew that Zhang Xiao had said it.

But she didn't know what the leader said to Ge Mei, so she asked, "Is it convenient for me to listen?"

Ge Mei smiled, put her hands in her coat pockets, and sighed again, "I'm very confused."

Jiang Nian didn't say anything else, waiting for Ge Mei's next words.

Ge Mei looked at the familiar streets: "The leaders want me to develop in Yuan City. Yuan City is much larger than our city. The state-owned embroidery house is also very large. It not only cooperates with Hong Kong City, but also embroiders overseas. If I go there, I will have better development. If I stay here, I will always be just the director of a small embroidery house."

Ge Mei glanced at Jiang Nian: "But my roots are here. My husband, my son and daughter-in-law are also here. If I leave, I can only see the children a few times a year. I will be busy running around every day, and I won’t have much time to accompany my family."

From the beginning of dealing with Ge Mei, Jiang Nian saw that Ge Mei was a strong woman at heart with ambitions in her heart. On the way back with Ge Mei that night, Ge Mei asked her about her future development, and she became more certain.

Maybe Ge Mei already had the answer in her heart, but she just couldn't bear to leave her family.

Jiang Nian said: "If you want to do it, do it to the end, do it to the best, at least don't leave yourself with regrets when you are old."

Ge Mei looked at Jiang Nian: "What about you?"

Seeing Jiang Nian turned to look at her, Ge Mei continued: "If I go to Yuan City, are you willing to go with me?"

Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment, and before she could reply, Ge Mei laughed: "I won't tease you, I won't leave for the time being. I have to wait for the new director to come and hand over to her. It will take about half a year."

Jiang Nian smiled.

After returning to the embroidery manor, Ge Mei went home to discuss the matter with her husband. Jiang Nian stayed in the embroidery manor and talked to Zhang Xiao. Suddenly, she heard someone outside shouting, "Stop! Stop!"

Jiang Nian walked to the window curiously and saw a couple running with their child. Several soldiers were chasing them from behind. They caught up with them in a short while. The man begged the soldiers to let the three of them go, but they were still taken away by the Red Soldiers. The woman cried hard while holding the child, and the soldiers yelled at her, "Don't make a fuss!" "Noisy, affecting the public security environment!"

Zhang Xiao sighed: "Another catching of blind migrants."

Jiang Nian frowned. She had never encountered such a thing in the two months she had been there. She asked Zhang Xiao: "Have many been caught in the past two days?"

Zhang Xiao nodded: "Seven or eight people have been caught on the street in the past two days. Now that the weather is warm, many people come to the city secretly, either to seek refuge with relatives, or to find someone, or to find a job in the city but have no introduction letter..."

Zhang Xiao said a lot.

Jiang Nian knew that it was a turbulent period, and only half of the past ten years had passed.

When she read the period articles before, she only saw the cold words and did not feel much deeply. Now these scenes are happening in front of her eyes. Jiang Nian feels uncomfortable and complicated, and she feels very uncomfortable.

She sat on a bench in a bad mood. At noon, she went to the cotton textile factory with Zhang Xiao and others to get food. Before they entered the canteen, they heard noisy noises coming from inside, as if many people were arguing. A female worker ran out of the canteen. Lu Xiaojing grabbed her and asked, "What happened in there?"

The female worker was a little breathless: "A fight broke out. The workers smashed the canteen!"

The female worker broke free from Lu Xiaojing's hand. The door of the canteen was kicked down by several male workers, and the noise inside became louder.

"Your canteen steals our meals every day, and we all bought them with ration coupons!"

"We've seen many times that people from your canteen go home at night with their cloth bags stuffed with vegetables and noodles!"

"We all earn money, why should we pay for our meals while you don't? Give us some justice!"

"Smash it for me! Smash the canteen as hard as you can!" The canteen

was in chaos and became a pot of porridge. Jiang Nian saw someone running out with a few steamed buns in his hands, and someone else running out with a bag of cornmeal. The canteen was in chaos, with the sound of breaking glass and women screaming. Several wooden benches were suddenly thrown out of the canteen and almost hit Jiang Nian and the others.

Zhai Peipei reacted first and quickly pulled Jiang Nian and Zhang Xiao: "Come on, come on, go back to Xiuzhuang, this is a big deal!"

Jiang Nian was once again shocked by the turmoil in front of her.

She was pulled all the way back to Xiuzhuang by Zhai Peipei, and she suddenly began to be grateful for the decision Lu Yu made for her. She felt that it was really not possible for her to live alone in this era.

After experiencing the horrible things today and seeing the cafeteria being smashed with her own eyes, everyone seemed to be crazy, venting all the resentment in their hearts at this moment. Jiang Nian thought of the shaking hands of the cafeteria lady when she served the food, and vaguely guessed that someone would resist.

But she didn't expect how fierce the resistance would be.

Zhai Peipei saw Jiang Nian leaning against the door in a daze, and touched Jiang Nian's cold hand: "The child is scared."

Zhang Xiao's voice was trembling: "Sister Zhai, they fought so fiercely."

Zhai Peipei said: "This happened once every five years. At that time, all the canteens in the surrounding factories were smashed, and people were killed in the canteen. The factory stopped working for a month. I didn't expect that five years later, it would happen again."

Zhai Peipei is old, and she has truly walked through that era step by step.

Lu Xiaojing asked: "Sister Zhai, is it the same in the surrounding factories now?"

Zhai Peipei shook her head: "I don't know."

She couldn't say, but if she guessed correctly, this was another premeditated collective resistance. They ate in the canteen every day, and the food coupons they were given were different from the amount of rice they got. And the porridge, whether it was rice or millet, was always watery and there was not even a grain of rice in it.

The canteen was severely smashed five years ago, and five years later, these people still didn't learn their lesson.

They went back to the dormitory for lunch in the afternoon. When they went out in the afternoon and passed by the cotton mill, it was quiet again. Most people had left, leaving only a few injured people.

On their way back to the embroidery village, they saw workers from several other factories, all talking about what happened in their factories today. This time, workers from several factories rebelled and smashed the canteens of each factory.

Zhang Xiao said, "Sister Zhai, if the factory stops working, where will we eat in the future?"

Zhai Peipei patted her hands and said, "At most, we can set up a stove under the dormitory and cook our own meals."

Lu Xiaojing agreed, "Yes, our food is cheap and affordable, much better than eating in the cafeteria."

Ge Mei came in the afternoon. She also knew about the situation of each factory. She came back and told Zhai Peipei and others that the factory might have to stop working for a month. Maybe it won't take that long. After all, many people still rely on their monthly wages to support their families.

It's just that this time the incident was a bit big, just like the turmoil five years ago.

Ge Mei said, "I'll apply this afternoon and install a stove under the dormitory. You can eat there first."

The military car arrived at the gate of the state-owned embroidery house at 4 pm. Jiang Nian packed her cloth bag, said goodbye to a few people, and got on the car back to the army. She looked out the window. The street that was still bustling in the morning was now deserted. When she passed the cotton mill, the gate of the cotton mill was already locked. The security guard stood in front of the gate and sighed frequently.

It was already evening when she returned to the army.

Jiang Nian jumped out of the car and turned around to see Lu Yu standing outside the army. The man was wearing a military green uniform, standing straight, tall and slender. A light bulb was installed on the brick pillar with a cover on it. The bright light focused on Lu Yu, making the man's cold and handsome face look deep and sharp.

"Why are you here?"

Jiang Nian walked over holding a small cloth bag.

Lu Yu glanced at Jiang Nian's face and saw that it looked a little bad: "I just came here too."

When the two walked back, Jiang Nian lowered his head and remained silent. Lu Yu looked at the shadow extending on the ground: "What happened?"

Jiang Nian pursed his lips and told Lu Yu everything that happened in the city today.

The man was silent for a moment, then reached out and held Jiang Nian's wrist. Jiang Nian's eyelashes fluttered, and her eyes were fixed on Lu Yu's hand. She pursed her lips for a long time before looking up at Lu Yu. Lu Yu's fingers tightened for a moment and then loosened, saying, "It's all over. It's okay."

"Oh."

The place where Lu Yu had held her felt a little warm.

The two returned to the family courtyard. Jiang Nian put the embroidery in the cupboard and went to the stove to prepare dinner. Lu Yu sat in front of the stove and lit the fire, while Jiang Nian cut vegetables in front of the chopping board. After dinner was ready, the two ate and Lu Yu went to wash the dishes.

Jiang Nian went back to the room and lay on the bed, thinking about what happened today, and he couldn't sleep again.

She found that her heart had never been at peace since Lu Yu said that to her last night. No matter what she did, her mind was filled with his words - what if I wanted you to want to get married?

Ten days later, Liu Qiang's transfer order came down.

Jiang Nian had just planted the seedlings in the yard and was squatting by the well to wash her hands when she saw Liu Qiang passing through the gate with a bag on his back. When she lowered her head, she heard footsteps again, so she turned around and saw Liu Qiang walking in with a bag on his back.

Jiang Nian stood up and looked at Liu Qiang coldly.

She hated Liu Qiang. He could not fulfill his responsibilities as a good husband to Xu Yan, and as a father, he turned Liu Jianye into an inferior, sensitive and gloomy little boy.

Liu Qiang lowered his eyes and said, "After I leave, please help me take care of Xu Yan and the children."

Jiang Nian said, "No need. I will do it if you tell me."

Liu Qiang looked at Jiang Nian with some surprise. They had lived next to each other for more than half a year. This was the second time he talked to Jiang Nian alone, but he could see that Jiang Nian didn't like him. Liu Qiang didn't bother to think about what Jiang Nian thought of him. After saying thank you, he turned around and left.

Jiang Nian washed her hands and went to the kitchen to cook. Just as she finished cutting the vegetables, she heard footsteps behind her.

She knew it was Lu Yu who came back, but she didn't turn around, instead she put the dishes into the enamel bowl: "The meal will be ready soon..."

"What kind of meal did sister-in-law cook?"

Lu Yu's voice suddenly rang in her ears, Jiang Nian turned her head subconsciously, her lips brushed against Lu Yu's side face, she didn't expect Lu Yu to suddenly come close to her and talk to her with his head down, the warmth of his skin on her lips, Jiang Nian panicked.