Chapter 48

She quickly moved two steps to the side, not daring to look into Lu Yu's eyes, fearing that he would think she was doing it on purpose: "I'll go back to the house and drink some water."

Then she turned around and ran away.

Lu Yu looked at Jiang Nian's fleeing back, raised his hand and rubbed the place where Jiang Nian had just kissed, and gradually, a smile appeared in his eyes.

He saw the dishes on the chopping board, took the initiative to prepare lunch, then brought the meal to the table and walked to the outside of Jiang Nian's room: "Sister-in-law, it's time to eat."

There was no response from inside for a long time, and after a while he said: "You eat first, I'll sleep for a while."

Lu Yu knew that she was shy, so he didn't force her to come out: "Okay."

Jiang Nian hid in the room, still feeling her cheeks burning. She patted her face and listened carefully to the movements outside. After Lu Yu almost finished his meal and went to the team, Jiang Nian dared to come out of the room. She felt like a thief, like a thief.

Jiang Nian finished her meal quickly, washed the pots and dishes, and went back to the house to continue embroidering. The small embroidery was embroidered quickly, and it could be finished in about half a month. In the afternoon, Feng Mei came and sat in the yard with Jiang Nian to sew shoe soles. Feng Mei said, "Captain Liu is leaving today. Did you know?"

Jiang Nian nodded and said, "I know."

He came to look for her before leaving, but she was too lazy to pay attention to him.

Feng Mei moved forward a few steps along the bench and whispered to Jiang Nian, "I'm going to tell you something. You must not tell anyone else, or you'll feel bad about it."

It was the first time that Feng Mei said something so serious, and Jiang Nian became curious, "What's the matter?"

Feng Mei whispered, "I heard from Lao Song that Captain Liu was transferred out to train soldiers because someone anonymously applied for a transfer order. Originally, this transfer order was not accepted, but Captain Liu's family had a big incident a few years ago, so the application was immediately accepted. After sorting it out, Lao Song said that it was done by someone in our regiment, but no one knew who it was. Everyone was guessing whether Captain Lu hated Captain Liu and deliberately made trouble for him behind his back? After all, Captain Lu had been training soldiers outside for many years before. He performed well in recent years and was transferred back last year after submitting an application report to the higher-ups. "

Seeing that Jiang Nian was stunned and didn't say anything, Feng Mei reminded her: "You can't tell anyone about this, or you might push Captain Lu into the fire pit."

Jiang Nian: ...

She was definitely not going to tell anyone, for fear that Feng Mei would say something bald-mouthed one day.

Feng Mei sat until dusk and left. Jiang Nian put down the embroidery and went to the stove to prepare dinner.

When Lu Yu came back in the evening, he glanced at Jiang Nian, who was sitting in front of the stove with her head down and making a fire. He first fetched water to water the vegetable garden at the corner of the west wall. After watering, he walked into the stove room. Jiang Nian kept her head down and stuffed two pieces of firewood into the stove. The orange flame reflected on Jiang Nian's face. It was not known whether the blush on her face was caused by the fire or because of what happened at noon, which she had not yet recovered from.

Lu Yu was the first to break the silence: "Several of our groups will go out for a week of training next month, and we won't be back this week. Before we leave, I'll turn the land in our private plot over again, and you can plant some vegetables when I come back."

Jiang Nian nodded: "Okay."

She stood up and walked to the window to wash her hands. She didn't dare to look at Lu Yu: "You go out and wait first, the meal will be ready soon."

Lu Yu saw that Jiang Nian's head was almost buried to her neck, and smiled silently: "Okay."

After Lu Yu left, Jiang Nian felt more at ease. She pulled the belt noodles she made that night, and The two ends of the noodles were thrown on the chopping board and pulled, then put into the pot. When the rice was cooked and brought to the yard, Song Bai seemed to come here because of the smell. He glanced at the noodles and vegetables in Lu Yu's bowl and said, "Sister-in-law, I'm here to eat again."

Lu Yu: ...

The man frowned slightly, "Is there no rice at your sister-in-law's house?"

Song Bai was holding two pounds of meat in his hand and glanced at Lu Yu, "Yes, there is, but it's not as delicious as what Sister-in-law Jiang cooks."

He deliberately lowered his voice when he spoke, for fear that Feng Mei would hear it. With Feng Mei's temper, she would definitely lean over the wall and scold him.

Song Bai put the meat on the chopping board and looked at the bowl. There was still a small bowl of noodles. Without saying a word, he started to scoop up the noodles. Lu Yu came in from outside and tapped Song Bai's chopsticks with the other side of his chopsticks: "That's enough. Don't let my sister-in-law be hungry."

Song Bai: ...

He looked Lu Yu up and down and said, "Shut up, sister-in-law. She is still my half sister-in-law after all. I'm not that tactless. It's just that I ate too much of the rice cooked by my sister-in-law and my mouth is tasteless. Come and have a few bites of yours." To satisfy my hunger."

He stuck out his chin and said, "I don't eat for free, so I bought some meat specially."

He added, "I didn't let my sister-in-law see it, so she wouldn't nag me again."

Lu Yu: ...

Jiang Nian sat in the yard and ate quietly. She didn't know what Lu Yu and Song Bai were talking about in the kitchen. After finishing a bowl of noodles, she was almost full. She exhaled, got up and went into the kitchen with the bowl. She saw Song Bai sitting in front of the stove, eating noodles with a bowl in his hand, and Lu Yu standing by the window.

"Sister-in-law, the noodles you make are really delicious."

Song Bai raised his head and praised, then lowered his head to continue eating noodles.

Jiang Nian pursed her lips and smiled. Just as she put down the bowl, Lu Yu came over. The man's arm was against her shoulder, and he stood almost shoulder to shoulder with her. He spoke in a deep voice with a slight heat in her ear: "Eat more."

Jiang Nian's face turned red for some reason, and she shook her head quickly: "I'm full."

Seeing that Jiang Nian really couldn't eat anymore, Lu Yu didn't say anything else. Instead, Song Bai raised his head in surprise: "Sister-in-law, why do you eat so little like a chicken? For example, my sister-in-law can eat more than two bowls of this."

He could eat a lot too. Almost everyone in the group had a big appetite. Otherwise, with so much high-intensity training every day, he would get starved sooner or later if he only ate this little.

Jiang Nian: …

She eats more than a chicken anyway, turned around and walked out of the kitchen: “I’ll go back to the kitchen first, you two can eat first.”

Song Bai glanced at the small bowl on the chopping board, then at the big bowl in his hand.

Hiss, a stomach bigger than a chicken.

Lu

Yu and his team will go for training next month, and there are still ten days before the end of the month.

These two days, Lu Yu went to the private plot to turn the soil every day, and Jiang Nian would deliver the lunch to the private plot after it was ready at noon. Now that the weather is getting warmer, it’s just right to wear a thin coat inside and a thin coat outside. Jiang Nian walked into the private plot with an aluminum lunch box, and saw that the large private plot was empty, with only Lu Yu alone.

The man was wearing a white work vest and swung his hoe slightly. When Jiang Nian's eyes fell on the well-proportioned muscles of Lu Yu's arms, she remembered the abdominal muscles she saw accidentally that day, and then she thought of the awkwardness and discomfort she felt when she was with Lu Yu during this period.

She called out, "It's time to eat."

Lu Yu turned around and glanced at Jiang Nian standing under the tree. It was the same place, but the person in front of him had a completely different temperament from last year. He put down his hoe and said, "I'm here."

Jiang Nian took off the lid of the kettle and poured water for Lu Yu to wash his hands and face. After washing his face, Lu Yu habitually lifted up both sides of his vest to wipe off the water stains on his face, so his tight and well-proportioned abdominal muscles were so brightly exposed in front of Jiang Nian's eyes.

Caught off guard, Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment, and she didn't even hear what Lu Yu said.

"Sister-in-law?"

"Jiang Nian."

Jiang Nian suddenly came back to her senses: "Ah?"

Lu Yu lowered his eyes, and the smile in his eyes overflowed: "What did you cook?"

Jiang Nian finally reacted, and her face flushed from head to neck. She lowered her head, embarrassed and wanted to dig a hole in the ground to crawl into it. She hurriedly squatted down to open the aluminum lunch box, but her fingers didn't open after twisting for a long time, and she was still... The more she twisted it, the more slippery it became. Suddenly, she was so anxious that her forehead was sweating. Lu Yu held her wrist, and his fingertips brushed the small joints of her wrist without leaving a trace: "I'll twist it."

Jiang Nian was very sensitive now, and she almost slipped out of Lu Yu's palm in an instant. She coughed twice and said, "You eat first, I'll come over to get the lunch box later."

After that, she ran away without looking back.

She looked like she was blocked by a dog.

Jiang Nian ran all the way home, and just as she arrived at the door, she ran into Feng Mei who was chatting with someone outside. Feng Mei looked at Jiang Nian's face and said, "Why is your face so red? Do you have a fever?"

Jiang Nian shook her head and said, "I have a fever from running."

After saying that, she rushed into the house without looking back and washed her face with well water until her face was numb from the cold.

After Jiang Nian finished her meal, she waited for Captain Song to go to the group. She thought Lu Yu was almost gone, so she ran to her private plot to bring back the lunch box, washed it, and then went back to the house to continue embroidering.

When Lu Yu came back in the evening, he went to the well to wash his hands, looked at Jiang Nian who was sitting on a bench with the food, and said, "The soil is almost turned over. We can plant vegetables after two more days of sun exposure." Jiang

Nian's head was almost buried in the bowl, wishing she could be invisible, and nodded repeatedly, "Okay."

After dinner, she almost ran back to the house with her head down.

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's almost the end of the month, and the next village will also welcome the market tomorrow.

Jiang Nian learned from the last lesson and got up before dawn. When she went to the well to wash her face, she glanced at Lu Yu's room. It was still dark inside, and he might not have gotten up yet. She went to the kitchen to make breakfast and ate a little. Just as she walked out of the kitchen door, the horn sounded.

So he looked at the next room, and heard two light coughs from inside.

Jiang Nian knew that Lu Yu had woken up, and quickly said, "Breakfast is in the pot. I'm going to the market first, and I may not be back in time for lunch. You can eat in the cafeteria first."

"Okay."

The voice in the room seemed to have been up for a long time, without any sleepiness.

When Jiang Nian ran to the next room to call Feng Mei to go to the market, Lu Yu opened the door and walked out. His military green uniform was clean and tidy, and it was obvious that he had put it on early. In fact, Lu Yu woke up the moment Jiang Nian opened the door.

Considering that she was shy, he waited for her to calm down before talking.

"Deputy Regiment Commander Lu."

Captain Lu walked to the gate of the courtyard and looked inside. Lu Yu had just washed his face: "What's wrong?"

Captain Lu said: "Regarding our regiment's training, I want to ask Captain Liu what about that battalion? Battalion Commander Liu has been transferred out to train soldiers, and the transfer order for the new battalion commander has not come down yet. I just went to find Captain Song, and Captain Song and the political commissar went out for something, so I wanted to ask you."

Lu Yu said: "Let the deputy battalion commander of their battalion lead the team first, and then plan the rest after the transfer order comes down from above."

Captain Lu said: "Okay."

"How is Zhijun's leg?"

Lu Yu asked.

Captain Lu smiled and said, "It's much better now. He can jump and run, but that leg still can't be put too much pressure on it. It needs to be taken good care of."

Ever since Zheng Hong left, his mother has been helping him to take care of Zhijun in the family compound. Not only has she corrected some of Zhijun's bad habits, but she has also taught the child not to talk back to others. His personality is different from the one Zheng Hong brought him up with.

Although the change is not particularly big, it can still be clearly seen in the small details of life.

When Lu Guosheng thought of his ex-wife Zheng Hong, he felt too much pain and fatigue in his heart.

They are now divorced, and it has nothing to do with him what path Zheng Hong takes in the future.

He turned and walked out, and saw Xu Yan who had just walked out from next door. Xu Yan was stunned for a moment and ignored him. Lu

Guosheng nodded to Xu Yan and left. When Jiang Nian and Feng Mei rushed to the market, there were not many people. They came early this time and there were many seedlings, so the two of them picked and chose many kinds of seedlings and put them in the basket on their backs. Feng Mei glanced at the group of chickens over there and asked Jiang Nian, "Do you raise chickens?" Jiang Nian shook his head and said, "No." So Feng Mei bought some vegetable seedlings and three hens. On the way back, she met Chen Fang and two strange women. They also came to the market. Jiang Nian called her Sister-in-law Chen. Sister-in-law Chen introduced her to Jiang Nian, "This is the wife of Deputy Headmaster You of our Third Regiment. You can just call her Sister-in-law Hou. She is your Sister-in-law Hou's biological sister. She is three years younger than you." She turned around and said, Hou Meng said, "This is the sister-in-law of Deputy Head of the Second Regiment, Lu. You can call her sister or sister-in-law." Hou Meng glanced at Jiang Nian and called out, "Sister-in- law." She was wearing a floral shirt with a khaki jacket on the outside, two braids tied with a red rope, and a light layer of lipstick on her mouth. She looked very similar to her sister Hou Lian, both with single eyelids and thin eyebrows. She should be working in the fields for many years, so her skin is a little dark from the sun, but her facial features are still pretty good. Jiang Nian thought she would be better looking if she was a little whiter. So she smiled at Hou Meng and said, "Yeah."

Feng Mei, Chen Fang and Hou Lian chatted for a while. Hou Meng observed Jiang Nian intentionally or unintentionally. The smile on Jiang Nian's face gradually faded, and a cold and distant feeling appeared in his eyes. Hou Meng noticed it, and embarrassedly withdrew his gaze and looked at the bustling crowd in the market.

Chen Fang suddenly looked at Jiang Nian: "Xiao Nian, I heard that you made a lot of money embroidering recently, right?"

Jiang Nian had never told anyone about embroidery, and she immediately thought of Feng Mei next to her. Sure enough, Feng Mei seemed to open up again: "That's right, let me tell you, Jiang Nian is very capable, and her embroidery is very beautiful. She lived in a state-owned embroidery house for two months some time ago, and she made a lot of money. Our troupe has a female comrade like Jiang Nian, which is a great honor for us women and holds up half the sky."

Jiang Nian: ...

Hou Lian smiled and said: "Oh, whoever marries Jiang Nian in the future will be blessed."

"By the way, Xiao Nian, what are your plans for the future?"

Chen Fang continued to ask Jiang Nian: "You are not going to live with Deputy Colonel Lu forever, are you? Although there is nothing wrong with you two being uncle and sister-in-law, but if a single man and a single woman live under the same roof for a long time, something will inevitably spread. You always say that you don't want to remarry, but this will have a bad impact on you and Deputy Colonel Lu. When someone wants to introduce a partner to Deputy Colonel Lu, what if the partner is averse to him living with his sister-in-law? Wouldn't this delay Deputy Colonel Lu?"

Jiang Nian pursed her lips and said nothing.

She couldn't tell what she was thinking and feeling now. It seemed that she had entered a closed loop with Lu Yu during this period of time. Lu Yu no longer felt distant and reserved towards her like before. However, what Chen Fang said took root in Jiang Nian's heart, and also gave her a strange feeling of suffocation. Hou Lian also said

, "That's right, Jiang Nian. You look fair and beautiful, and you have embroidery skills. Let Deputy Regiment Lu find a good one for you in the army. I tell you, our army lacks everything, but not men."

After saying that, he laughed out loud.

Jiang Nian: ...

Feng Mei glared at Hou Meng and said, "If Jiang Nian wants to remarry, then she can remarry. If she doesn't want to remarry, then she can stay. Why are you always urging her? If your husband dies, and I urge you to remarry, are you willing?"

Feng Mei said a lot of things in a row, leaving Hou Lian and Chen Fang speechless.

In fact, Feng Mei had already figured it out after hearing what Jiang Nian said last time, so she used Jiang Nian's words to shut them up, and said, "Jiang Nian is not unaware. If Deputy Regiment Commander Lu's partner didn't like her, Jiang Nian wouldn't stay in the family courtyard. She has skills and abilities, and the state-owned embroidery house will definitely keep her well. Why do you need to worry about it?"

Chen Fang and Hou Lian waved their hands and said, "Okay, okay, you are good at talking, we can't beat you."

Feng Mei smiled and said, "Just know it."

In fact, she still had some selfish motives when she said that.

No matter how many men there are in the army, how many of them can easily become deputy regiment commanders at that age? Counting on her fingers, the youngest ones are still Deputy Colonel Lu and her brother-in-law Song Bai. In her heart, she still wants Jiang Nian to be with Song Bai.

When they separated, Chen Fang said to Jiang Nian: "If you want to get married, you should consider our Tang Ze first."

Chen Fang had a plan in her mind. Deputy Colonel Lu still has a long way to go. Who knows what high position he will be promoted to in the future. Jiang Nian is his sister-in-law. If Tang Ze marries Jiang Nian, he will have Deputy Colonel Lu to take care of him on the one hand, and Jiang Nian's embroidery on the other hand, and he can make a lot of money. At that time, their Tang family will also benefit from it.

"Go, go, hurry to your party."

Feng Mei pulled Jiang Nian away and said, "Don't listen to Chen Fang. She just wanted you to meet Tang Ze."

Jiang Nian said to Feng Mei, "Sister Feng, thank you just now."

Feng Mei smiled and said, "What's the matter, I'm telling the truth."

Jiang Nian came here and met two women who helped her a lot. Both of them had "Mei" in their names, but their personalities and identities were completely different. She knew what Feng Mei would look like in the future, so she wanted to help Feng Mei's family avoid that disaster in the future.

But she didn't know Ge Mei. The heroine Sun Ying in the book was a nurse, and she didn't involve embroidery, so there was never any scene of the state-owned embroidery house.

It was noon when she got back to the family compound, and she unexpectedly caught up with lunch.

Before leaving, Jiang Nian told Lu Yu to eat in the cafeteria at noon, as he probably wouldn't be back at noon. Jiang Nian planned to have a quick bite at noon, and then go to her private plot to plant the vegetables, and let Lu Yu go to water them later in the day.

The sun was a little hot at noon, and Jiang Nian was sweating a little on her head as she carried a heavy backpack.

As soon as she reached the door of her house, she saw that the gate was half open, so she pushed it open and saw Lu Yu cutting vegetables with his back to the stove door.

Why did he come back?

Jiang Nian put down the backpack and went to the well to wash his hands, then ran into the stove to light the fire: "Why did you come back?"

Lu Yu glanced at Jiang Nian, her face was a little red from the sun, and there were some fine beads of sweat on her forehead: "You can make it to lunch in the time it takes to go from the army to the market and back. I guessed that you can come back around this time."

Jiang Nian: ...

She found that Lu Yu was really right every time he guessed.

He might as well stop calling Lu Yu and call the fortune teller.

Lu Yu cooked lunch, and Jiang Nian was in charge of lighting the fire. She added two pieces of firewood to the stove, and thought of what Chen Fang said, so she looked up and looked at Lu Yu who was cooking. She wanted to say it, but she didn't know how to start.

Lu Yu saw the hesitant look on Jiang Nian's face. The man was stir-frying the dishes: "Do you have anything to say?"

Jiang Nian nodded gently, holding the fire hook and lighting a match: "Lu Yu, I want to move to the state-owned embroidery mansion."

Lu Yu suddenly stopped cooking and looked down at Jiang Nian who was sitting in front of the stove: "Why do you want to move back to the embroidery mansion again?"

"Did someone gossip in front of you again?"

Jiang Nian pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded gently: "Yeah."

She raised her head and looked at Lu Yu: "But I think she is right. We live under the same roof. After a long time, it is inevitable that someone will spread gossip. Living with you will also affect you. You have a better future. You have done enough for the Xu family and taken good care of me. I am now able to be self-reliant. You don't have to worry about me."

In fact, she also wanted to return to Xiuzhuang to calm her heart.

She felt that her relationship with Lu Yu during this period exceeded the boundaries and limits that should exist between uncle and sister-in-law.

Lu Yu's eyes were dark without any light. He looked into Jiang Nian's eyes and said, "Sister-in-law, do you want to move out?"

"I..."

Jiang Nian wanted to say, but when she looked into Lu Yu's eyes, she couldn't say "I want to go back". Her hesitation and indecision were all seen by Lu Yu. The man withdrew his gaze and said, "In addition to sister-in-law moving out, there is another way."