Chapter 49

Jiang Nian asked, "What can we do?"

Lu Yu said, "I will come back at night and pack up your bedding and move to the dormitory. You will have three meals at home and go back to the dormitory at night. This way, you can avoid these troubles and you can stay in the family compound and do your work."

After that, he put the dishes on the plate and walked out with the food.

Jiang Nian looked at Lu Yu's tall and slender back. When he said he would move to the dormitory, she didn't know whether she was happier to stay in the family compound or felt more guilty towards Lu Yu. She always felt that she was like a wicked woman who had taken over the nest and driven the owner out.

After dinner, neither of them spoke.

After dinner, Lu Yu went to the team. Jiang Nian returned to the house and continued embroidering. After a while, she lost interest in embroidery. She put down the embroidery, fell on the bed, looked at the dark beams, slapped her face, and tried not to think about Lu Yu.

Jiang Nian didn't put down her embroidery until it was almost dark and went to the kitchen to cook. She had just finished cutting the vegetables when Lu Yu came back, along with Song Bai. As soon as they entered the room, Song Bai called out, "Sister-in-law."

Jiang Nian walked out of the kitchen, turned on the light cord in the yard, smiled at Song Bai, and then looked at Lu Yu, "The meal will be ready soon."

Lu Yu nodded, "I'll move the things first, and come back for dinner after that."

Jiang Nian pursed her lips and said nothing. Before entering the house, Lu Yu glanced at Jiang Nian and said to Song Bai, "You? Help me carry the bedding first."

He walked towards Jiang Nian, lowered his eyes and looked at the two sisters who were so close, The woman with her head drooped resisted the urge to rub her head with her hand: "Song Bai and I live in the same dormitory. I pour the bath water for you every night and leave. I come back the next morning to pour out the bath water for you."

"I'm moving things."

Lu Yu turned and left.

Song Bai came out first with the bedding in his arms. When he saw Jiang Nian in the yard, his eyes were bright and beautiful, and his skin looked a little warm and white under the warm yellow light.

He smiled at Jiang Nian, "Sister-in-law, what are you going to cook later?"

Jiang Nian smiled and said, "I'll fry two more dishes and make some more scallion pancakes for you and Lu Yu to eat after you're done with your work."

Song Bai's handsome face was full of smiles, "Then I'll have a treat again tonight."

Lu Yu didn't have much stuff, so he and Song Bai moved everything in one trip. On the way, they met some military wives and comrades passing by. They asked Lu Yu and Song Bai what they were going to do with the stuff. Lu Yu said, "I'm moving to the dormitory."

Song Bai followed up with, "We'll live in one dormitory."

When Lu Yu suddenly proposed to move to the dormitory, Song Bai guessed the reason behind it, and thought that someone in the family compound was gossiping.

When they came back from the dormitory, Jiang Nian's pancakes were already baked, and a dish was also out of the pot. She fried a portion of pickled cabbage, a portion of hot and sour potato shreds, cold onions, and scallion pancakes. They were very delicious. She also made a portion of tofu soup.

As soon as Lu Yu and Song Bai entered the door, they smelled the fragrant smell of pancakes. They squatted by the well to wash their hands, went into the stove room to bring out the rice and put it on the table.

Jiang Nian ate a pancake, drank a bowl of soup, and ate a lot of dishes. When she was almost done, she looked up and saw that Lu Yu and Song Bai had already finished a bowl of soup and were about to finish the second bowl of soup. She baked twelve pancakes, and the two of them had almost finished them.

Lu Yu looked at Jiang Nian: "Aren't you going to eat anymore?"

Jiang Nian shook his head and said, "I'm full."

There was one cake left, so Lu Yu and Song Bai shared it, and they drank the third bowl of soup.

Song Bai put down his chopsticks and whispered: "Sister-in-law, the food you cook is really delicious. The food cooked in state-owned restaurants is not as delicious as the food you cook."

Lu Yu glanced at Song Bai and kicked him: "Clear the table."

The two of them got up and cleared the table. Lu Yu asked Song Bai to go back first, but Song Bai was not willing to leave. Finally, Lu Yu Ling Li said hello to Jiang Nian with his eyes and left. Lu Yu washed the pots and dishes, boiled hot water and brought it in for Jiang Nian. He looked at Jiang Nian who was sitting by the bed: "Lock the door tonight. If someone knocks on the door, don't open it without saying anything. If there is an emergency, call Captain Song next door. He will come to the dormitory to find me."

Jiang Nian nodded lightly: "Okay."

"And..." Lu Yu coughed lightly and glanced at Jiang Nian's bed: "Cover yourself with the quilt at night. It's not that cold now, but it's still a little chilly at night."

Jiang Nian's heart trembled. Looking at Lu Yu's cold and handsome face, she suddenly felt reluctant to leave.

She pursed her lips and smiled: "I will."

After Lu Yu left, Jiang Nian quickly took a shower and got into bed. I don't know if it was because she knew that Lu Yu would not be at home at night. Jiang Nian suffered from insomnia again. She always felt lonely at home. She didn't fall asleep until midnight. The next day, she was awakened by footsteps.

Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment, climbed up and opened the curtains, and saw Lu Yu fetching water in the yard, and the gate was open.

Needless to say, it was Lu Yu who climbed over the wall and opened the gate.

When Jiang Nian woke up, Lu Yu had already prepared the meal. She washed up and sat on the bench, deciding to get up early tomorrow morning.

After dinner, Lu Yu went to the regiment. Jiang Nian and Feng Mei carried a backpack to plant vegetables in their private plots. They hurried to prepare the meal when they came back at noon. However, Lu Yu had not returned yet, so they ran to the wall, stepped on a wooden block, and looked at Feng Mei's yard: "Sister Feng, has Captain Song returned?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Captain Song came out wearing a coat and holding a bowl. Seeing Jiang Nian leaning against the wall and sticking his head out, he said, "Why are you also learning to lean against the corner like Mei Zi?"

Jiang Nian: ...

Feng Mei poked her head out of the kitchen window and said, "Why are you nagging me? Just say whether you saw Deputy Captain Lu."

Captain Song said to Jiang Nian, "He went to the private plot as soon as he came out."

"Thank you, Captain Song."

Jiang Nian jumped off the wooden block, quickly put the lunch into the aluminum lunch box and walked towards the private plot. As a result, when passing the corner of the tree-lined path, he saw Tang Ze and Sun Ying walking towards this side.

The two did not know what to say. Tang Ze smiled, and Sun Ying pursed her lips and did not speak.

To be honest, Jiang Nian's mood is quite complicated when she sees Sun Ying now.

She always wanted to go back in time, so she had been trying to match her with Lu Yu. She felt that Sun Ying was the heroine of this book, a woman who had all the highlights in one. No matter which aspect, she was the most perfect match with the hero Lu Yu. Even if she no longer thought about matching Lu Yu and the heroine in the end, she felt that a protagonist like Sun Ying would definitely have his or her most perfect life.

But after reading the sequel to the story in his dream that night, all of Jiang Nian's good feelings towards Sun Ying disappeared in an instant.

She had no right to judge Sun Ying, let alone others. She just felt that seeing Sun Ying again was not exciting at all, and thinking of the things about Lu Yu and Sun Ying in the book, she felt a little uncomfortable.

Jiang Nian originally just wanted to nod and say hello and leave, but unexpectedly Tang Ze called her: "Sister-in-law, is Deputy Commander Lu at home?"

Sun Ying was carrying a black shoulder bag, wearing a white shirt with black polka dots inside, a gardenia-colored jacket outside, and two braids with two small flowers tied on them. She drew her eyebrows and put on a little lipstick. It can be seen that she dressed up carefully today.

Sun Ying looked at Jiang Nian. The little red mole under the end of her right eye was charming and beautiful. Her voice was also very pleasant: "Hello, can you take me to see Deputy Colonel Lu? I have something to ask him."

In fact, she came several times, but was stopped outside by the police. Deputy Colonel Lu never saw her once. She returned disappointed every time she came. If she hadn't met this Battalion Commander Tang who signed for her, she would have gone back disappointed again. People have already come

in. If Jiang Nian said that she would not take her to see Lu Yu, and the military wives passing by heard it, it is possible that the whole family compound would spread it the next day that she, the sister-in-law, had ruined Deputy Colonel Lu's marriage and turned away all the female comrades who wanted to see Deputy Colonel Lu.

What Jiang Nian hated most was this kind of situation where she was put on a leash and had to agree.

She nodded

and said, "You guys come with me." Then she walked forward first.

Sun Ying saw the coldness hidden in Jiang Nian's eyes, pursed her lips and lowered her head, with unhappiness in her eyes. She followed Jiang Nian and Tang Ze with her hands holding the strap of her shoulder bag. She had always had complaints against Jiang Nian. She didn't have any complaints at first, but after being scolded by Deputy Colonel Lu for giving her an injection in the hospital, she had a grudge and complaint against Jiang Nian in her heart.

No one had ever said anything to her since she was a child, even her parents loved her very much.

This was the first time she fell in front of the two of them.

"Are you a nurse working in the county hospital?"

Tang Ze looked at Sun Ying from time to time. After thinking for a while, he finally remembered where he had seen her before. It was in November in winter. A soldier in the camp accidentally broke his head. When he took him to the county hospital, it was this female comrade who bandaged the soldier's wound.

Sun Ying didn't expect that the other party knew her job, and she didn't hide it: "Yeah."

The two chatted casually in the back, and soon they arrived at the private plot. There were a few people planting vegetables in the private plot. Jiang Nian saw Lu Yu who had already planted the seedlings. The man was wearing a work vest and a military jacket neatly stacked on the ground.

Tang Ze pointed to Sun Ying and said, "That's Deputy Commander Lu."

"Lu Yu."

Jiang Nian called out.

Sun Ying looked in the direction Tang Ze pointed and saw Lu Yu standing up in the distance. The man was tall and slender, standing straight, exactly the same as in her dream. She saw Lu Yu turn around and look at Jiang Nian, his handsome face full of smiles, that slightly doting smile she had never seen in her dreams.

Sun Ying subconsciously looked at Jiang Nian standing at the edge of the field, her face gradually tensed.

"It's time to eat." Jiang Nian carried the aluminum lunch box and looked at Lu Yu's forehead, which was covered with sweat. "I brought some water. You can wash your face and drink some water to quench your thirst."

"Okay."

Lu Yu bent his waist and arched his back. He washed his face with his hands and took a big sip of water from the thermos that Jiang Nian poured from the thermos.

Looking at the scene of the two of them getting along, Sun Ying felt that they were not like uncle and sister-in-law, but more like a loving couple.

Sun Ying's fingers clenched the strap of the satchel. In her dream, Lu Yu had never smiled so gently. She looked at Lu Yu, took a step forward, and whispered, "Deputy Commander Lu."

Lu Yu continued to wash his face, and his voice changed from gentle to cold, "I have no intersection with this female comrade." He stood up and wiped the water from his eyes with his arm, his eyes cold and ruthless, "So, please don't come to the army to find me again and again, otherwise I will go to the hospital to tell your leaders that I have been affected and troubled." He

was merciless when he spoke.

Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment, and looked at Lu Yu in surprise.

Sun Ying's beautiful eyes suddenly became wet, and her tears gathered pitifully in her eye sockets, and the tears were about to fall, making the small red mole under her right eye even more charming and attractive. The author almost concentrated all the beauty of women on the heroine, and the heroine Sun Ying brought it to the extreme.

In the past, when she showed this look, no one could bear to say a word to her, and they all wanted to hold her in their hands and hearts.

Jiang Nian: ...

Don't say it, it hurts her to see it.

Not only her, Tang Ze also frowned: "Deputy Colonel Lu, the female comrade just wants to see you for something, why are you so fierce?"

Lu Yu took the aluminum lunch box from Jiang Nian's hand and squatted under the tree without even looking at Sun Ying: "I have no intersection with her."

Jiang Nian walked to the opposite side of Lu Yu and squatted down. After hesitating for a while, she whispered: "Maybe she really wants to see you for something important?"

She remembered that Sun Ying came before the New Year, but Lu Yu never saw her.

She didn't know what could make Sun Ying find her before the New Year and after the New Year without giving up.

Lu Yu raised his gaze to look at Jiang Nian, and seeing curiosity in her eyes, he wrinkled his brows, then lowered his head and pushed open the lid. Sun Ying turned to look at Lu Yu under the tree, and her voice sounded very aggrieved: "I just want to ask you, did we know each other before?"

She reminded: "We met on the train, do you have any impression?"

Lu Yu's voice was as cold and ruthless as ever: "You remembered it wrong, I took the train with my sister-in-law, and I didn't know anyone else."

The other people included Sun Ying.

Sun Ying couldn't stop crying. She originally thought that since it was just her and Vice Captain Lu, she would ask everything one by one. However, there were many people here, and Vice Captain Lu provoked her so much that she lost her temper all of a sudden. She just told him about the scene she had dreamed of on the train, and the result was such an answer.

In fact, she should have understood long ago that this was just a ridiculous dream she had.

How did it get involved in reality?

Now that Vice Captain Lu coldly rejected her, Sun Ying not only gave up, but also felt particularly wronged, so she covered her mouth and ran back crying. Tang Ze pointed at Lu Yu and said, "Do you know how to be gentle with women?"

After saying that, he ran after Sun Ying.

In fact, when Sun Ying said "We met on the train", Jiang Nian was stunned.

The hero and heroine first met on the train!

Jiang Nian's heart skipped a beat, and she turned her head to look at the person who had already run away, and couldn't help but sigh: Could it be that Sun Ying has memories of her past life?

"Sister-in-law."

The person in front of her didn't respond.

Jiang Nian's mind was on Sun Ying, and she didn't hear Lu Yu calling her until a handsome face appeared in front of her. She came back to her senses and suddenly bumped into Lu Yu's dark eyes, and her reflection was reflected in his pupils.

"You..."

Jiang Nian wanted to ask, "Why are you so close to me?", but then she saw Lu Yu raised his hand and touched her forehead, "It's a bit dirty."

The other person's breath was faint in her nose, and the distance between them was so close that if they moved a little closer, they could kiss each other. Thinking of that day in the kitchen, her lips accidentally brushed against Lu Yu's cheek, Jiang Nian's face flushed again, and she realized that she had hit him. She responded by standing up and taking two steps back. She lowered her head and patted her forehead and said, "It should be the wind that blew when I came here just now."

Lu Yu lowered his head to eat, with a smile in his eyes, "Maybe."

After eating, Lu Yu went to the field. Seeing Jiang Nian rolling up her sleeves and trying to come in, he stopped her and said, "Don't come over. I'll be done planting soon. You go back and rest."

"It's okay."

Jiang Nian rolled up her sleeves: "Two people can work faster."

They finished planting the seedlings in a short while. Lu Yu washed his hands, picked up the military uniform, shook it, and put it on. Looking at Jiang Nian's sunburned face and the sweat on her head, he resisted the urge to wipe her sweat: "Go back."

Jiang Nian nodded: "Okay."

She carried the lunch box and walked to the corner with Lu Yu. The two walked in different ways and separated. When Jiang Nian passed the police station, Sun Ying was no longer there.

She went home, washed her face, took a nap, and got up to continue embroidering.

When Lu Yu came back at night, he carried water to water the land. When Jiang Nian finished cooking dinner, he was also busy.

Soon it was the beginning of the next month, and it was also the day when the first, second, and third regiments were going out for training. At night, Lu Yu returned home with his army green bag on his back. After explaining some things to Jiang Nian, he left with Song Bai. The news

that Lu Yu moved to the dormitory had basically spread throughout the family compound.

After breakfast the next morning, Feng Mei came to find Jiang Nian and told him everything that had been circulating in the family compound recently.

The small embroidery will be finished in a few days. Jiang Nian changed the thread and turned to look at Feng Mei: "Really?"

Feng Mei said: "Of course, everyone says that Deputy Commander Lu is an upright and sensible man. I heard that the wife of the deputy commander of the Third Regiment, Hou Lian, who we met the other day, you call her Sister-in-law Hou, came to me two days ago and wanted me to help introduce her sister Hou Meng to Deputy Commander Lu."

Jiang Nian paused with his hand holding the needle, waiting for Feng Mei's next words.

Feng Mei went on to say, "I asked Old Song about this, and he said that woman is not suitable for Vice Colonel Lu."

Jiang Nian became interested: "Why?"

Feng Mei said proudly: "My Old Song is very good at judging people. He has met Hou Meng twice and he said that Hou Meng is too superficial and not suitable for Vice Colonel Lu. Vice Colonel Lu will be the one who will do the work in the future, so he has to find a girl who is sensible and has a long-term vision."

After speaking, she bent her head and said "Hey", "Where can you find a girl who is sensible and has a long-term vision?"

Jiang Nian lowered his head and pursed his lips: " I don't know. "

Feng Mei said: "You are his sister-in-law, you should worry about his affairs when you have nothing to do. Aren't you embroidering for the embroidery house? When you are free, go to the embroidery house and ask if there is such a girl. I tell you, if you can help Deputy Tuan Lu get married, the couple will praise you even more in the future. "

Jiang Nian pursed her lips and smiled: "I will ask then."

After Feng Mei left, Jiang Nian stopped embroidering, turned around and turned to the house where Lu Yu lived before. Her heart was empty, as if she was lost in a lonely corner.

She shook her head, put aside her complicated thoughts, and continued to embroider.

Xu Yan sat with Jiang Nian for a while in the afternoon and then left.

In the blink of an eye, Lu Yu had been gone for six days. Jiang Nian got up early the next day and rushed out the embroidery. After finishing the last few stitches, she took the embroidery off the embroidery tent and put it in a small cloth bag. After breakfast, she planned to go to the market. As

soon as she finished breakfast, three people came to her house.

They were Chen Fang, Hou Lian and Hou Meng, whom she met at the market that day. Jiang Nian had guessed the purpose of their visit. Chen Fang was not polite. She sat on the bench and looked at Jiang Nian with a smile: "Are

you having dinner?" Jiang Nian nodded: "Have you eaten?"

"We ate here."

Chen Fang said.

Hou Meng sat under the tree, looking around the courtyard. Hou Lian smiled and said, "Xiao Nian, how old are you this year?"

Jiang Nian: ...

Mrs. Chen told me before at the market. Now she is asking even though she knows the answer. I don't need to think about their purpose.

She hid the impatience in her eyes and said calmly, "23."

Hou Meng smiled and said, "Three years older than our Hou Meng. How old is Deputy Tuan Tuan Lu?"

Jiang Nian: ...

Chen Fang smiled and said, "You? Ask me, I know. Deputy Tuan Tuan Lu is 26 this year, five years older than Hou Meng."

Hou Lian said, "That's not young anymore. It's time to get married."

Jiang Nian turned around again. They were talking around to propose marriage to Hou Meng.

She remembered what Feng Mei said yesterday. Captain Song has lived for so many years and was promoted to the position of captain step by step. He should be able to judge people and things based on the situation. He said that Hou Meng was superficial, but in fact, Jiang Nian could see a little bit at the market that day.

Jiang Nian thought for a moment, then smiled at Chen Fang and Hou Lian: "Yes, I also think Lu Yu is not young anymore, and it's time for him to get married."

Hou Lian and Chen Fang looked at Jiang Nian and thought she was quite knowledgeable. Hou Meng also showed her shyness like a little girl. Jiang Nian saw it all, sighed, and said: "As a sister-in-law, I have urged him as much as I should, thinking that he should get married as soon as possible and add more children to the Lu family. I said this two days ago, but I am just a sister-in-law after all, and people will get annoyed if

I say too much." Hou Lian wanted to say more, but Chen Fang blocked her mouth: "That's right, as a sister-in-law, it's a bit annoying to talk too much."

She understood Jiang Nian's position. After all, she also had a brother-in-law who was a headache for her. Sometimes, no matter how much she cared about Tang Ze's marriage, the two brothers would scold her. Moreover, Jiang Nian was not the biological sister-in-law of Vice Colonel Lu. It would be annoying if she talked too much.

She looked at Chen Fang unwillingly and Jiang Nian unhappily. She felt that Jiang Nian looked down on her and deliberately made excuses to help Vice Colonel Lu reject the marriage.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that it was possible, so she began to look at Jiang Nian with some hostility.

Hou Lian understood what Chen Fang meant, and she did not continue to pester Jiang Nian. She got up and left Jiang Nian's house with Hou Meng.

While walking on the road, Hou Lian glanced at Hou Meng who looked listless, and said with a smile: "It's okay. If there is no hope with Deputy Regiment Lu, I will take you to your sister-in-law Feng's house some other day. Deputy Regiment Commander Song is not bad either."

Chen Fang said: "Yes, yes, yes, how could I forget Song Bai."

She looked at Hou Meng: "Deputy Regiment Commander Song of our Third Regiment, the cousin of Regiment Commander Song of the Second Regiment, you know him, right?"

Hou Meng remembered that he had met him once at Regiment Commander Tang's house before, so he smiled: "I know."

The

next morning, Jiang Nian got up early, took a small cloth bag and walked towards the county, preparing to go to the market to hand the small embroidery painting to Ge Mei, so that she could see as soon as possible if there was anything she was not satisfied with so that she could correct it as soon as possible.

She walked out of the troop, and the policeman saw her and smiled: "Sister-in-law, are you going out?"

Jiang Nian smiled and said: "Yes, I'm going to the state-owned embroidery farm."

When she walked to the county, she met Sun Ying and Wu Youshan who were also waiting for the bus on the side of the road. Sun Ying frowned when she saw Jiang Nian, and her face showed obvious displeasure.

Jiang Nian: ...

She was too lazy to pay attention to Sun Ying and Wu Youshan.

Wu Youshan said, "Yingying, today is your mother's birthday. What should we bring back?"

Sun Ying said, "Whatever."

Wu Youshan thought for a while and said, "When we get to the market at noon, I'll go to the department store and buy a scarf for Auntie."

Sun Ying: "Anything is fine."

Wu Youshan smiled and said, "Then buy a scarf."

Sun Ying: "Whatever you want."

Jiang Nian: ...

She almost laughed when she heard it. Wu Youshan is a dog licker. When he was in the book, he kept licking Sun Ying.

After the car came, Jiang Nian got on first. At this time, the car was full of people, and there was one seat left. Jiang Nian sat directly in the last seat, put the small cloth bag on his legs, and closed his eyes to rest.

Wu Youshan and Sun Ying walked to a position in front of her and stopped. Jiang Nian listened to Wu Youshan talking non-stop, and Sun Ying occasionally replied perfunctorily.

The car drove for four hours. After arriving at the station, Jiang Nian stood up and got off the car. Just after taking two steps, Sun Ying's voice came from behind: "Comrade Jiang."

Jiang Nian paused and turned around and said: "What's the matter?"

Sun Ying looked at her: "Are you and Deputy Colonel Lu really just an ordinary uncle and sister-in-law relationship?"

Jiang Nian sneered, but his face was calm: "What else?"

"What's wrong with your tone!" Wu Youshan glared at Jiang Nian unhappily: "Yingying just asked you a question, why are you so rude?"

He didn't know who this woman was until Sun Ying mentioned Deputy Colonel Lu. He knew that the female patient who had been hospitalized before had a brother-in-law who was the deputy colonel commander of the army. Why did Sun Ying think about that person every two or three days? She went to the army to find Deputy Colonel Lu several times, but was turned away every time.

He really couldn't understand why Sun Ying and Deputy Colonel Lu had never met before, so why was she so obsessed with that man?

Jiang Nian glanced at Wu Youshan and retorted: "What is your relationship? You seem to care about her so much, more than the revolutionary friendship between the male and female protagonists. Are you an item?"

As he said this, he looked at Sun Ying. Seeing Sun Ying's face suddenly change, Jiang Nian continued without any stage fright: "If you are not an item, then you are just playing with ambiguity?"

"Jiang Nian!"

"You slut!"

Sun Ying and Wu Youshan spoke at the same time, both of them looked ugly.

Jiang Nian said, "My time is precious. I don't have time to waste talking to you."

He turned around and left after saying this. Wu Youshan frowned tightly, "It's true that poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people. You see, she is just an uneducated woman. Yingying, don't bother with such a person. It's not worth getting angry."

Sun Ying waved Wu Youshan's hand away, turned around and glared at him, "Stay away from me in the future!" Jiang Nian went to the state-owned embroidery house

.

Ge Mei went out to discuss embroidery these two days and it is estimated that she will be back the day after tomorrow. There are only Zhang Xiao, Zhai Peipei and Lu Xiaojing in the embroidery house.

As soon as Zhang Xiao saw Jiang Nian, he went up to her and hugged her: "Jiang Jie, I missed you so much. You finally came."

Jiang Nian talked to her, and when it was time for lunch, they went back to the dormitory to cook. The one who cooked was Lu Xiaojing. After the meal was ready, the four of them ate at the small table in the dormitory. Jiang Nian asked about the cotton weaving factory, and Zhai Peipei said: "It hasn't started yet, but it will start soon. I saw someone in the big iron gate yesterday. Start cleaning. "

Zhang Xiao said: "Even if the canteen is open, I won't go there to eat. We can cook in the dormitory and eat more."

Lu Xiaojing asked: "Are you going back in the afternoon?"

Zhang Xiao hugged Jiang Nian's arm: "Jiang Jie, stay and sleep with me tonight, and wait for Ge Jie to come back tomorrow, okay?"

Jiang Nian thought that she would be alone if she went back, so she agreed.

In the afternoon, Jiang Nian stayed in the embroidery house and taught Lu Xiaojing the needlework of embroidery and how to embroider better. Zhai Peipei occasionally interrupted, and Zhang Xiao leaned against the door frame of the compartment, talking while laughing.

The sound of the door opening came from outside, and Zhang Xiao stood up straight: "You-"

The words stopped abruptly.

She subconsciously glanced at Jiang Nian and Lu Xiaojing. Lu Xiaojing frowned: "Her again?"

Jiang Nian asked in confusion: "Who is it?"

Lu Xiaojing snorted coldly: "Hu Zhongming's mother."

As she was talking, a middle-aged woman snorted coldly outside. Zhang Xiao pursed his lips and looked at Lu Xiaojing and Zhai Peipei. Zhai Peipei whispered: "Ignore her. Director Ge

will deal with her when he comes back." After that, she whispered to Jiang Nian: "You... Don't go out later. She's been looking for you."

Jiang Nian frowned slightly, feeling that she and Shi Li were incompatible, and something bad happened every time they came.

She probably guessed the purpose of Hu Zhongming's mother looking for her, fearing that she wanted revenge again.

Lu Xiaojing's next words confirmed Jiang Nian's guess. She sat next to Jiang Nian and whispered in her ear: "Hu Zhongming is the only son in his family. The things he did were reported to his parents' factory. His parents' factory fired both him and his wife. Their only son is in jail, and the couple are unemployed, so they hate our state-owned embroidery shop very much. The couple probably went to the prison to see Hu Zhongming, and learned from him that it was Deputy Colonel Lu who sent them to prison, so they have been looking for trouble with you. The couple said that they have no jobs and no money now, and their son is gone, so their lives are nothing."

Jiang Nian felt that the Hu family was crooked from the root.

Instead of educating their son when he made a serious mistake, they blame others for sending their child to prison.

Lu Xiaojing continued, "The couple came to make trouble two days after the last factory disturbance. Sister Ge called the police, and the police came and scolded them, but they didn't do anything illegal and they couldn't be arrested, so they let it go."

"After two days of peace, Hu Zhongming's mother came to make trouble again. One time the disturbance was serious, and she was arrested by the police and detained for ten days. His mother was arrested before her, and his father also came to make trouble. His father probably learned from his wife's experience, and he only left when the disturbance was almost over. As a result, there was no business in the embroidery shop. Hu Zhongming's mother was just released the day before yesterday, and she came once yesterday and came again today."

Jiang Nian: ...

Sometimes there is really no good way to deal with such scoundrels.

Zhai Peipei also sat over and whispered, "They kept saying they wanted to talk to you, but Sister Ge ignored them. You just sit here. Hu Zhongming's mother has never seen you. Even if we go out after work, he doesn't know who you are."

Jiang Nian nodded, but she felt bad. If

this kind of scoundrel continues like this, the business of the state-owned embroidery shop will become worse and worse. Moreover, they have not done anything against the law or against the heavens. Even if the Revolutionary Committee and the public security comrades come over, they can only give them a scolding.

Hu Zhongming's mother was sitting outside making a fuss, but she would stop after a few minutes, then go out for a walk, and finally squat at the door and kick it. When Zhang Xiao opened the door and went out, she was sitting at the window again, hitting the glass with the back of her head.

After a while, Hu Zhongming's mother came in again. Zhang Xiao said with a cold face: "We are going to get off work."

Mother Hu snorted coldly: "You get off work at seven o'clock, and it's only six o'clock now. I am a guest when I come here. I want to see the embroidery."

After that, she sat down on the bench. Seeing that Zhang Xiao did not move, Mother Hu glared at him: "Is this the attitude of your state-owned embroidery house towards guests? I will complain to you! Let your leader fire you! "

Zhang Xiao did not dare to give her the embroidery, for fear that she would touch the embroidery. If the embroidery was damaged, she could not afford to pay for it.

Seeing that Zhang Xiao didn't move, Hu Ma slammed the table and glared at Zhang Xiao fiercely: "Do you want to take it or not? Believe it or not, I will go and complain to you now!"

"Zhang Xiao."

Jiang Nian's voice came from the compartment.

Zhang Xiao glanced at Hu Ma, turned around and walked into the compartment. Jiang Nian took out the embroidery from her cloth bag and handed it to her: "Show it to her."

Zhai Peipei and Lu Xiaojing heard this and hurriedly stopped her. Zhang Xiao also shook her head and said: "Sister Jiang, this won't work. Not to mention that this embroidery is expensive, the silk thread is not cheap either. Moreover, you embroidered it stitch by stitch, and it was the batch of goods from the boss in Gangcheng. It will be troublesome if there is a problem."

"Even you think this embroidery is very precious and dare not damage it?"

Jiang Nian asked with a smile.

Zhang Xiao nodded: "Yes, if it is damaged, we have to buy embroidery cloth and silk thread, and we have to re-embroider it. If the boss from Gangcheng comes to pick up the goods and finds that we can't deliver the goods, we will have to compensate her."

Jiang Nian pursed her lips and smiled: "That's no problem, take it to her."

Zhang Xiao didn't quite understand what she meant, but Zhai Peipei reacted. After all, she was an old employee of the state-owned embroidery shop. She had been there for seven or eight years, so she knew a little about the twists and turns.

Seeing that Zhang Xiao was still a little hesitant, Zhai Peipei said, "Listen to her and take it out to show the woman."

Zhang Xiao pursed his lips and hesitated before taking out the embroidery. As soon as he walked over, Mother Hu snatched the embroidery from Zhang Xiao's hand. Zhang Xiao said angrily, "Be gentle!" Mother Hu

sneered, "What's so valuable about a piece of rag

?" To be honest, Mother Hu didn't know anything about embroidery. In her eyes, all the cloth in the embroidery shop was the same. She used to work in a food factory and was the manager of the food factory. Her husband was the team leader of a machinery factory. Both of their parents were from the city. Later, their parents got old and retired. Before retiring, she paved the way for the couple.

And they only have one son, Hu Zhongming. She didn't like the wife Hu Zhongming married before, who was just a hen that didn't lay eggs. Hu Zhongming was the only son in the Hu family, so they definitely couldn't let him die with her, so they let Hu Zhongming divorce his wife. Later, they wanted to introduce another woman to Hu Zhongming, but Hu Zhongming didn't want to. After

the couple discussed it, they spent money to buy Hu Zhongming a job as a team leader in a cotton textile factory. As a result, something happened after just over half a year. Now Hu Zhongming is in prison, and the couple has lost their jobs. In the end, it was all caused by that woman named Jiang Nian!

If it wasn't for her husband's comrade-in-arms, how could her son be in prison? !

The old couple made trouble at the state-owned embroidery house every day. First, they didn't want to make the people there happy, and second, they wanted to force them to bring Jiang Nian here. They wanted to see what tricks that bitch could play!

Anyway, their lives were over, and their son was in prison, so they had no hope.

Mother Hu flipped the embroidery back and forth, touching and looking at it with her fingers. Zhang Xiao was terrified: "Have you finished reading it? Give it to me when you're done." Mother Hu raised her

head and glared at Zhang Xiao: "What's your attitude? You're urging me to look at an embroidery? Do you look down on me? Do you think I can't afford it?"

Zhang Xiao: ...

Lu Xiaojing was listening inside and said to Jiang Nian: "I was really blind before. I pestered Hu Zhongming to take me to meet his mother. Fortunately, I didn't go to see him. Look at his mother's character, a shrew and a rogue." Jiang Nian nodded

in agreement, but his mind was outside the cubicle.

Soon, Zhang Xiao's voice came from outside: "I told you that the embroidery is very precious. Now let's see what you can do!"

Mother Hu scolded: "What's the point of making a fuss about a torn embroidery!"

Jiang Nian raised her eyebrows and almost got up and went outside with Zhai Peipei. Mother Hu had never seen her before, so she was not afraid that Mother Hu would make trouble with her here. When Jiang Nian walked out of the compartment, she saw Zhang Xiao holding an embroidery in her hand. Several threads on the embroidery were pulled out. Zhai Peipei walked over angrily and took the embroidery and put it on the table, pointing at the embroidery and said to Mother Hu: "Do you know how expensive this embroidery is?!"

Mother Hu was stunned for a moment and felt a little guilty, but she glanced at the small embroidery on the table and said disdainfully: "How much can a small piece of rag be worth? Besides, who of you saw me touching the embroidery?" She pointed at Zhang Xiao: "She said that she got the embroidery pregnant, so it's true? I said she was talking nonsense!"

Zhang Xiao said angrily: "It was obviously you who broke the silk thread! I couldn't stop you!"

Hu Ma sneered: "You people in the embroidery shop are in collusion with each other, and whatever you say is the truth, and you will always accuse people."

Zhang Xiao was once again angered by Hu Ma's naughty nature. Zhai Peipei put the embroidery on the table and said to Zhang Xiao: "Let's call the police and let the public security comrades come to solve this matter."

Jiang Nian was sitting at the counter, looking at Hu Ma coldly, and his eyes swept over the embroidery again.

After all, Mother Hu had been detained for ten days and didn't want to go in again. She stood up and was about to leave. Jiang Nian walked to the door and blocked her way. Mother Hu had never seen Jiang Nian before, and she glared at him immediately: "What do you want to do? Want to imprison people? You are breaking the law, do you know?"

Jiang Nian said: "You destroyed the embroidery paintings of the embroidery house and refused to admit it. We have no choice but to call the police. You can't leave before the public security comrades come, otherwise we will sue you for destroying the property of the state-owned embroidery house, refusing to admit it, and fleeing the scene for fear of crime."

Jiang Nian emphasized the word "state-owned".

Mother Hu began to panic: "Who are you? What right do you have to stop me? And even threaten me?" As

she was saying this, she was about to push Jiang Nian. Seeing that Zhai Peipei and Zhang Xiao were trying to stop her, Jiang Nian winked at Zhai Peipei, asking her to hold Zhang Xiao and move away. Mother Hu grabbed Jiang Nian's shoulders and tried to push her aside. Jiang Nian fell towards the counter under her force, his head hitting the counter. His arm scraped against the corner of the counter, leaving a trail of blood, and then he fell to the ground unconscious.

Mother Hu was startled: "I, I, she is teasing me, I didn't use much force!"

She opened the door and was about to run, but was caught by Lu Xiaojing and Zhai Peipei who rushed out of the cubicle. Zhang Xiao hurried over to see what was happening to Jiang Nianqing, but was stopped by Zhai Peipei, who shouted, "What are you looking at? Go call the police!"

Zhang Xiao panicked and ran over to make a phone call.

Jiang Nian lay on the ground, motionless. To deal with such a rogue, she had to use rogue methods, otherwise the state-owned embroidery house would continue to be affected, and the one who would be most affected would be Ge Mei. Ge Mei would go to Yuan City to develop in a few months. If she made trouble at this juncture, not only would Ge Mei be disqualified from going to Yuan City, but she might even be squeezed out of the position of director of the embroidery house by someone else.

Ge Mei helped her a lot, and this incident was still caused by her. Hu Zhongming's parents came to the embroidery house so many times to make trouble, but Ge Mei never mentioned it to her on the phone, which showed that she didn't want her to be involved.

Ge Mei could be so sincere to her, how could she shrink back and be a turtle?

Mother Hu was grabbed by Lu Xiaojing and Zhai Peipei on both sides, and she couldn't get free no matter how hard she struggled. Jiang Nian was lying on the ground on his side with a scratch on his sleeve, and no one knew what happened to his arm. Lu Xiaojing didn't know what was going on, so she scolded Mother Hu whenever she caught her.

Zhai Peipei also said: "Let's see what you will do this time. Not only did you damage the embroidery of the state-owned embroidery house, but you also beat someone unconscious!"

Mother Hu didn't feel much about the embroidery being damaged, but she was really scared when she thought about hurting someone. Her husband had told her before that she could make trouble in the embroidery house and torment them, but she couldn't use her hands, couldn't hit anyone, couldn't make trouble, or she would annoy them to death.

Last time, she was detained for ten days because she beat Zhang Xiao.

Now she directly beat someone unconscious, and she didn't know how many days she would be detained this time.

When the police came, Jiang Nian was still not awake. They had all seen Jiang Nian before and knew that she was the biggest victim in the last incident involving Hu Zhongming. They were also troubled by Hu Zhongming's parents' troubles in the embroidery shop, but they did not do anything out of line and were only reprimanded. They did not expect that this time Hu Zhongming's mother would beat Jiang Nian unconscious.

Not only that, but she also damaged the embroidery paintings of the state-owned embroidery shop.

Mother Hu kept saying that she did not damage the embroidery, and that they had teamed up to bully her and deceive the police. However, the damaged embroidery was placed on the table. Zhai Peipei snorted coldly, "What reason do we have to damage the embroidery? This is the property of the state-owned embroidery shop. We embroidered it with great effort. We rely on embroidery to make money to support ourselves. Do we want to ruin our jobs by damaging the embroidery? Both the embroidery cloth and the silk thread are valuable. Is it the most valuable? We work hard on embroidery, and waste time, so why waste it?"

Lu Xiaojing also echoed and said a lot. Several people spoke in unison, pointing out that it was Mother Hu who destroyed the embroidery. When Jiang Nian was sent to the city hospital, Zhang Xiao told the police in detail what happened after Mother Hu came into the embroidery house. The police took notes and investigated, and finally took Mother Hu to the Public Security Bureau. After Comrade Jiang Nian woke up, they continued to investigate and take notes.

Zhang Xiao also quickly contacted Ge Mei who was out of town. The guesthouse where Ge Mei was staying, on the day she arrived at the guesthouse, she called the state-owned embroidery house and told them to call her if there was anything urgent. After Ge Mei learned about the embroidery house, she immediately went to the train station to buy a ticket and rushed back. This

time, the incident was quite a big deal. Mother Hu was temporarily detained, and the embroidery was taken back by the public security comrades for temporary storage. This embroidery was embroidered by Jiang Nian, and she would ask about the incident again when she woke up.

Jiang Nian stayed in the hospital until the evening. When they came to check her, they couldn't find anything wrong with her. Finally, they suspected that she had a concussion. Jiang Nian woke up around 9 o'clock in the evening. She pretended to sleep for the whole afternoon and couldn't bear it any longer. The police and doctors were there. Jiang Nian started vomiting as soon as she woke up. She said she felt dizzy and her arms hurt.

She really imitated the appearance of a concussion perfectly.

After all, she had the experience of hitting the wall twice, and knew how the body would react after hitting the head. As soon as Tang Jiang Nian lay down, he turned over her eyelids and performed various examinations on her. He asked her if her head had been injured before, and asked her where else she felt uncomfortable. Jiang Nian told him everything, and then continued: "The county hospital has a record of my hospitalization. The public security comrades can check it."

The public security comrades and the doctor learned that Comrade Jiang Nian was a soldier's family member, and her husband was also disabled for life because of a rescue. After her husband died, she was disheartened and hit the wall to commit suicide to follow her husband. She was found by her family and sent to the hospital in time.

The doctor immediately felt that Jiang Nian was both affectionate and pitiful, and even Zhai Peipei, Lu Xiaojing, and Zhang Xiao had tears in their eyes.

There were other patients in the ward, and almost all night long, everyone on this floor knew that the woman in ward 304 was a sentimental young wife, and they only blamed God for being unfair, separating this loving couple.

The doctor told her to stay in the hospital for two more days for observation, saying that she had injured her head before, and they were worried that this time she had injured her head again, which would cause complications.

After the public security comrades left, Lu Xiaojing sat at the end of the bed and pushed Jiang Nian's legs, her eyes a little red: "Are you telling the truth?"

Jiang Nian: ...

"Really."

She lowered her eyes, her curled eyelashes covering the guilt in her eyes.

These things really happened, but only she knew that she hit the wall to commit suicide to see if she could wear it back, but the rumor in the family compound was that Zheng Hong bullied her, she felt wronged and uncomfortable, and because she missed her husband, she hit the wall to commit suicide.

Zhai Peipei reached out and patted Jiang Nian's hand on the back: "You silly child, you have to look forward when you are alive."

Zhang Xiao's eyes were red: "Sister Jiang."

She didn't know what to say, but she felt sorry for Sister Jiang.

Jiang Nian smiled and said, "I'm fine. Why are you all crying like they're dead?"

"Pah, pah, pah."

Zhai Peipei patted the back of her hand, "Don't say such unlucky things."

It was already past ten o'clock, and the patients in the other two beds in the ward were asleep. Zhai Peipei got up and sat next to Jiang Nian, whispering, "Today in Xiuzhuang, did you plan that Hu Zhongming's mother would push you, so you didn't let Zhang Xiao and I go?"

Jiang Nian smiled, the answer was self-evident.

Zhai Peipei understood and sighed: "You, this kid..."

Jiang Nian smiled and said: "I call it giving someone a taste of their own medicine. To deal with scoundrels like Hu Zhongming's parents, you have to use scoundrel methods."

Zhai Peipei smiled, Lu Xiaojing and Zhang Xiao sat over and asked: "What did you two say?"

Zhai Peipei said: "Nothing, just asking Jiang Nian if he was still dizzy."

They both knew this tacitly.

Jiang Nian didn't tell them because she took into account Zhang Xiao's simple personality and sometimes she was afraid that she would not be able to hide her words, and Lu Xiaojing sometimes said things without thinking and was afraid of letting them slip, and Sister Zhai was older and saw more people and things than the two of them.

Ge Mei rushed back in the middle of the night and first went to the municipal hospital to see Jiang Nian. After learning the whole story from Zhai Peipei, she sat in front of the bed and looked at Jiang Nian with a smile: "I don't know what to say to you, but I really have to thank you this time. If it weren't for you, I don't know when this matter with Hu Zhongming's parents would have ended."

Because of the trouble caused by Hu Zhongming's parents, the leaders above also had some opinions about her.

She had been thinking about going back to talk to Hu Zhongming's parents. Now that Jiang Nian had helped her solve these problems, Ge Mei said, "Are you really okay?"

Jiang Nian shook his head gently and said, "I'm very careful about my life now. I'm sensible. I'm absolutely fine."

Ge Mei saw that Jiang Nian's arm was wrapped in gauze, and frowned and said, "What's wrong with your arm?"

Zhai Peipei yawned and said, "I rubbed it against the cabinet and broke some skin."

Seeing that Ge Mei's brows were getting more and more wrinkled, Jiang Nian joked, "The injury is not serious at all. If you had come to the hospital a little later, the wound would have scabbed over." As soon as

these words came out, both Ge Mei and Zhai Peipei laughed.

Ge Mei and Zhai Peipei went back to the embroidery shop together. Zhang Xiao stayed to accompany Jiang Nian. At about eight o'clock the next morning, Ge Mei bought breakfast for Jiang Nian and Zhang Xiao, and said to Jiang Nian: "I'm going to the Public Security Bureau now to complete the subsequent procedures. I have already calculated the price of the damaged silk thread and embroidery cloth, as well as the penalty for the delayed delivery date with the boss of Gangcheng. In addition, you have wasted time and energy on embroidery these days. This time, Hu Zhongming's mother is responsible for a lot."

Zhai Peipei snorted: "Let's see if they are still arrogant!"

"By the way, there is one more thing." Ge Mei looked at Jiang Nian: "Deputy Regiment Lu called this morning and asked if you were in the embroidery shop. I said you were here."

Jiang Nian's heart skipped a beat. She had forgotten that Lu Yu had returned to the army after training today.

She was afraid that Ge Mei would tell Lu Yu, and Lu Yu would ask for leave from the army because he was concerned about her. She felt really bad: "Sister Ge, you didn't tell him that I was here, did you?"

Ge Mei said: "I was afraid that he would worry about you here, so I didn't tell him that I kept you for two days to teach Lu Xiaojing needlework and embroidery."

Jiang Nian breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."

After Ge Mei left, Zhang Xiao stayed with her in the ward. At noon, Lu Xiaojing brought her lunch. She opened the aluminum lunch box and handed it to Jiang Nian. Jiang Nian smelled chicken soup, looked down, and smiled: "Oh, it's chicken soup."

Lu Xiaojing smiled and said: "You have to take good care of yourself, you can't get this injury in vain."

Jiang Nian lowered her head a little guilty and drank a sip of soup. Now only she, Sister Zhai and Sister Ge knew that she was fake injured. She felt a little uncomfortable drinking this chicken soup. Lu Xiaojing said to Zhang Xiao: "You go back and eat, I'll watch here."

Jiang Nian shook her head quickly and said: "I can be discharged from the hospital today, you two don't have to accompany me. "

Zhang smiled and said, "The doctor said that you must stay in the hospital for two days of observation. Today is only the first day, and you cannot be discharged yet."

Lu Xiaojing echoed, "Yes, we still listen to the doctor."

Jiang Nian: ...

Ge Mei came to the hospital in the afternoon, and the public security comrades also came and took another statement. After the public security comrades left, Zhai Peipei asked, "Director Ge, how did you sentence Hu Zhongming's mother?"

Ge Mei smiled, and her face finally relaxed a little: "Hu Zhongming's mother deliberately destroyed the embroidery of the state-owned embroidery house, As a result, the embroidery was damaged and the delivery date with the boss in Gangcheng was delayed. The superiors went to the Public Security Bureau with me today. The loss of the embroidery, the labor costs and the breach of contract compensation for the delayed delivery date totaled seven hundred and eighty-two yuan, fifty-three cents. In addition, she was temporarily detained for intentional injury and is awaiting the result of the trial. "

Zhai Peipei was a little worried: "Now Hu Zhongming's mother is in prison, but there is still his troublesome father."

After saying this, she sighed with a sad face.

Ge Mei smiled and said, "I'm afraid Hu Zhongming's father will be driven back to the countryside?"

Jiang Nian looked up at Ge Mei, and Zhai Peipei asked, "Why?"

Ge Mei said, "Because of Hu Zhongming's matter, the Hu couple was fired from the factory. They spent a lot of money to buy Hu Zhongming a cotton weaving factory team leader before, and they didn't save much. Now they don't even have enough money to pay half of our embroidery house. In the end, they mortgaged the Hu family's house to the state-owned embroidery house. Hu Zhongming's father has no house in the city, and even his city household registration has been lost. It is estimated that he will be arrested by the police in the next two days."

Zhai Peipei heard that the stone in her heart finally fell to the ground.

She patted Jiang Nian's hand and said, "You are really the lucky star of our embroidery house."

Jiang Nian couldn't help laughing.

The Hu family's problem was solved. Jiang Nian really didn't want to stay in the hospital. Ge Mei helped her with the discharge procedures. The three of them returned to Xiuzhuang. Lu Xiaojing cooked in the dormitory. Ge Mei bought pork specially and fried three dishes of mustard greens and one dish of vegetarian dishes.

Jiang Nian, Ge Mei and Zhai Peipei were talking in the embroidery house. When they talked about the embroidery, Jiang Nian said, "Sister Ge, I can modify that embroidery. I can just fix the few threads that Hu Zhongming's mother pulled out. There won't be any flaws."

Ge Mei smiled and said, "I knew you had a backup plan."

The phone rang. Ge Mei didn't get up, but said to Jiang Nian, "It should be Deputy Commander Lu who called. He asked me to tell you to call him back when you're done. I forgot about this matter." Jiang

Nian got up and walked over to answer the phone. Lu Yu's deep and magnetic voice came from the other end of the phone: "When you're done, "Are you back?"

Jiang Nian hadn't heard Lu Yu's voice for seven or eight days. When she heard it suddenly, she felt her heartbeat speed up. She said calmly, "I just finished my work. I am teaching Lu Xiaojing acupuncture today." The man

on the other end was silent for a long time, and then whispered, "Sister-in-law, when will you be back?"

The man deliberately lowered his voice. His magnetic tone was like a dense spider web that drilled into Jiang Nian's ear. Jiang Nian felt her heartbeat speed up inexplicably. She swallowed and looked at the embroidery on the wall: "The day after tomorrow."

Lu Yu said, "Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Ge Mei continued to talk about the boss of Gangcheng.

The breach of contract fee is true, and the delivery date with the boss of Gangcheng is also true, but if Jiang Nian can restore the embroidery to its original state before delivery, not only can the cooperative relationship between the state-owned embroidery house and the boss of Gangcheng be preserved, but Ge Mei's footsteps in the embroidery house can also be stabilized.

Ge Mei bought a chicken and a fish, as well as some cakes in the afternoon. Zhang Xiao and Zhai Peipei returned to the dormitory to help Lu Xiaojing cook.

Dusk fell, and the lights were on in the state-owned embroidery house.

After talking about the boss of Gangcheng and Xiu Tu, Ge Mei thought about Jiang Nian and Deputy Tuan Lu. She saw the little girl look on Jiang Nian's face when she made the phone call just now, so she asked with a smile: "How are you and Deputy Tuan Lu now?"

Jiang Nian nodded lightly: "Very good."

Ge Mei raised her eyebrows: "You and Deputy Tuan Lu, are you still uncle and sister-in-law now?"

Jiang Nian was slightly stunned: "We have always been uncle and sister-in-law."

But since she moved back from Xiu Zhuang, the uncle-sister-in-law relationship with Lu Yu seemed to have deteriorated.

Seeing her like this, Ge Mei knew that Deputy Tuan Lu had not yet made it clear to Jiang Nian, or Jiang Nian herself had not yet realized her love for Deputy Tuan Lu. Jiang Nian herself could not see it, but she, an outsider, could see it clearly.

After the matter of the embroidery house is resolved, she will probably leave in a few months. She will have a chance to meet Jiang Nian in the future. Jiang Nian is a good girl, and Vice Colonel Lu is also a good person. If they can succeed, it will be a good thing for Jiang Nian.

Since Vice Colonel Lu has not made it clear, she will say a few more words.

Ge Mei stood up and added some water to Jiang Nian's cup. Seeing Jiang Nian holding the cup to drink water, she said, "What do you think of Vice Colonel Lu?"

"Ahem..."

Jiang Nian choked on the water that went down her throat, and her eyes were a little wet. She looked at the water in the cup, pursed her lips and said, "Why do you ask this?"

Ge Mei looked at Jiang Nian's fingers stroking the enamel cup, and she understood everything in her heart. Considering her shyness, she changed the subject and said, "I don't know how you feel about Deputy Commander Lu, but I know Deputy Commander Lu's attitude towards you."

Jiang Nian subconsciously raised her head and looked at Ge Mei. Ge Mei said, "I can see that Deputy Commander Lu is interested in you..."

Seeing that Jiang Nian wanted to speak, Ge Mei stopped her from talking. "Ask yourself, is there any uncle and sister-in-law like you two? Which uncle takes leave every now and then to come to the city to see his sister-in-law, takes her to the movies, buys her breakfast, and secretly escorts his sister-in-law? Do you really think that the army is free to take leave every other day?"

Jiang Nian seemed to be hit on the head by someone. She just felt that Lu Yu was not quite right with her during this period, too close and caring, which exceeded the sense of propriety between uncle and sister-in-law. She also doubted Lu Yu's feelings for her, but every time she thought of this, she would automatically block this thought.

In her eyes, she always thought that Lu Yu was a man who had everything, good looks, status, and strategy, and he would not have any thoughts about her, a widow. But Ge Mei's words today were like a knife that cut open the barrier in Jiang Nian's heart, forcing her to really think about every little bit of her time with Lu Yu.