Chapter 70

Jiang Nian looked up in confusion and met Lu Yuqing's cold and stern eyes. She was stunned for a moment and didn't understand: "What?"

Lu Yu: ...

The man's hand clasped Jiang Nian's hand and interlocked their fingers: "I'll take you home."

Jiang Nian: ???

Why did she feel that Lu Yu was a little weird?

Chen Yao was driving, and Lu Yu held Jiang Nian's hand and sat in the back seat. He sent her to the gate of Xiu Manor and took her out of the car: "I'll take a break in four days, and I'll come to see you then."

Jiang Nian nodded: "Okay."

Lu Yu turned around and sat in the passenger seat. Chen Yao lowered the window and said, "Sister-in-law, we're leaving."

Jiang Nian waved her hand: "Drive slower."

At this time, Yu Xia and the others had already arrived at Xiu Manor. Shu Xue turned her head and looked out the window. After Jiang Nian came in, she whispered: "Are you getting married?"

Jiang Nian was stunned: "Why do you say that?"

She didn't seem to have revealed the news that she was going to marry Lu Yu to anyone.

Shu Xue said, "That deputy regiment commander Song said that Commander Lu is applying for a family home, and you are about to move there. Aren't you going to get married?"

Jiang Nian then realized why Song Bai had just said that inexplicably.

Seeing that Shu Xue was still asking, Jiang Nian lowered her head and fiddled with her embroidery needle, nodded and said, "It should be soon."

Yu Xia turned her head to look at Jiang Nian, her eyebrows were tightly wrinkled.

Jiang Nian also noticed Yu Xia's gaze, pretending not to see it, and continued to embroider.

Fan Shan was sitting next to her, turning her head to look at Jiang Nian frequently, but she couldn't help but sigh, "If you get married in the future, won't you be the regiment commander's wife?"

She suddenly felt that Jiang Nian was really lucky.

Yu Xia and Jia Yuan said nothing this time. If they say anything now, they will be slapping themselves in the face.

At first, they thought Jiang Nian's boyfriend was just a soldier, but

it turned out that he was the head of a regiment. Later, they thought that the head of the regiment was very good in every way, and maybe he was just the right guy for Jiang Nian, but in the blink of an eye, he was about to get married, and everyone around the head of the regiment called her sister-in-law.

The whole afternoon was quiet in the embroidery shop. When it was time to get off work in the evening, Su Na came to find Jiang Nian: "Jiang Nian, come with me to the supply and marketing cooperative later. I've run out of soap."

Shu Xue said beside her: "I'll go with you two."

They didn't go to the cafeteria, but went to the supply and marketing cooperative first. On the way, Shu Xue said: "Jiang Nian, did you see the looks on Sister Yu and Sister Dong's faces this afternoon? They looked really ugly."

Su Na had been busy outside the cubicle and had never been in, so she asked curiously: "What's wrong with them?"

Shu Xue said: "What else can they do? They feel ashamed of themselves. Every time they mock Jiang Nian, they get slapped in the face by the words they said. I would feel ashamed if I were in their place."

Jiang Nian smiled and said nothing.

Shu Xue said again: "I think Jia Yuan seems to be acting strange these past two days. Do you think she really can't have children?"

Suna was an experienced person, and after thinking for a while she said: "Maybe. I don't know if she has gone to the hospital for a check-up."

Jiang Nian thought of the incident in the movie where Jia Yuan's husband cheated on her, and then thought about how Jia Yuan was trying hard to maintain the image of herself as living a good and happy life in her husband's family, and suddenly she felt a little sympathy for her.

The supply and marketing cooperative was very close to Xiuzhuang, just across the street. They walked into the cooperative, Suna bought soap, and Shuxue was looking at the newly arrived vanishing cream, hesitating whether to buy it. The vanishing cream was very expensive, and she was reluctant to spend the money. The supply clerk in front of the counter said to Shuxue: "This vanishing cream just arrived yesterday, and several bottles have been sold."

The supply clerk's voice sounded a little familiar. Jiang Nian looked up and his eyes suddenly paused.

Unexpectedly, it was the woman she met in the cinema before, the woman who was with Jia Yuan's husband Tong Gang. Jiang Nian thought she was a female worker in the textile factory. It turned out that she worked in the supply and marketing cooperative. In this era, to be a supply and marketing clerk in the supply and marketing cooperative, either Tong Gang's family had connections, or this woman got in through her own family connections.

But she was more inclined to the latter.

Shu Xue saw that Jiang Nian was stunned and motionless, as if he had been looking at the supply and marketing clerk, so she pulled her sleeve: "What are you looking at?"

The supply and marketing clerk looked at Jiang Nian, frowned and didn't say anything.

Jiang Nian came back to his senses and smiled, "I was just thinking whether I should buy more vanishing cream, but I still have some left, so I won't buy it for now."

After buying the soap, Su Na went to the cafeteria with Jiang Nian and the others. There were not so many people in the cafeteria at this time. After they got their meals, they went to the water room to wash the dishes and returned to the dormitory. However, as soon as they walked outside the dormitory building, they heard someone yelling and arguing.

Jiang Nian turned his head and looked. One of the people was Yu Xia. Yu Xia was holding her neck stiff, looking embarrassed and ugly, and pulling a young woman out. There was also a man behind her, who looked a bit like Yu Xia.

It was probably her son.

At this time, there were people walking back and forth downstairs of the dormitory. Yu Xia saw Jiang Nian and the others, her face changed, she lowered her head and dragged the grumbling woman away quickly, and said to the man behind her as she ran: "Follow closely, don't embarrass me here."

Jiang Nian pursed her lips and said nothing.

She just guessed in her heart, could that woman be her daughter-in-law?

Sure enough, Suna's next words confirmed that Jiang Nian's guess was correct. She said: "Sister Yu's youngest son and his family came to ask for money again."

Shu Xue had not been in the embroidery manor as long as Suna, and had only been here for two years. Before Jiang Nian came, she was alone, embroidering silently, and never talked much to anyone, so she didn't know about these things.

She asked, "I don't think I've seen them."

Suna said, "That's because they didn't go into the embroidery manor. Every time they came, they were outside the manor. I saw them and went in to call Sister Yu. They come every three months, just like bandits sweeping the place. They don't let Sister Yu bleed a lot of money, and then they start making trouble, so that Sister Yu can't stay in the embroidery manor."

Jiang Nian suddenly wanted to watch the show: "Does Sister Yu's man care?"

Suna shook her head and said, "Sister Yu's husband is gone. She has two sons and a daughter. The two sons are all in the countryside. The eldest son is more honest and seldom comes to see Sister Yu. The younger son and his wife are not so good. They always give Sister Yu a hard time every time they come. Sister Yu's daughter is also pitiful. She finally married a city guy, but her husband's family was found to have bad practices, and the whole family was exiled to the countryside."

Suna knew this so clearly because she heard it from the conversation between Sister Yu and her young daughter-in-law.

Every time the couple came to see Sister Yu, they would quarrel outside. After a long time, she knew everything, so she said, "Sister Yu often mails things to her daughter and dares not let her daughter-in-law know. I guess the daughter-in-law must have known about it this time. Sister Yu must have a headache this time."

Shu Xue sighed, "It seems that Sister Yu has a hard time."

Jiang Nian looked back outside the dormitory building, but Sister Yu was no longer there. She saw the shadow of Sister Zhai in Sister Yu. Sister Zhai's daughter also married a city man, but ended up like that. However, compared to Sister Yu, Sister Zhai was luckier. At least Sister Zhai's husband took care of everything at home.

As for Sister Yu, as a widow, it was indeed a headache to take care of two sons, one family and one daughter.

Back in the dormitory, they took the enamel basin to the bathroom to wash up. Jiang Nian came back first after washing, while Suna and Shu Xue were washing clothes in the bathroom. As soon as she walked into the dormitory, someone knocked on the door. Jiang Nian

turned around and took a look. Sun Ying was standing at the door with her belly in her hand. Although her figure was bloated, her face was still pretty. The red mole under the corner of her right eye had some charm of a mature woman, but the jealousy in her eyes destroyed that beauty.

"Is there something?"

Jiang Nian put the enamel basin under the bed, his voice cold and distant.

Sun Ying held her belly with her fingers curled up, looking at Jiang Nian's slender waist and white face, and a strong jealousy continued to grow in her heart. Obviously, she was like this before, and even better than Jiang Nian, but now she has fallen to the level of a shrew. She

could have lived a better life, could be close to Lu Yu, could have been loved by Tang Ze, and could continue to be a nurse in the hospital.

But all this was ruined by Jiang Nian!

If she hadn't brought Tang Ze to find Sun Yuan that day, the subsequent events would not have happened, and she would not have been sent here by her father like a rat crossing the street, living a life of hiding and fearing that people would stab her in the back.

The more Sun Ying thought about it, the more she wanted to strangle Jiang Nian in front of her with her own hands.

She looked into Jiang Nian's bright eyes, trying hard to suppress the jealousy in them, and said, "Can you come out and talk?"

Jiang Nian pursed her lips, feeling that there seemed to be nothing to talk about between her and Sun Ying.

Sun Ying seemed to see her hesitation and continued, "Just a few words."

Jiang Nian: "Yeah."

It was cold at night, so she wrapped a scarf around her and went with Sun Ying to the locust tree at the corner of the dormitory building. There was a vent here, and the wind was howling. Jiang Nian was so cold that he hid his face in his scarf: "What do you want to say?"

Sun Ying also shivered with cold. She stood in the corner of the wall, avoiding the vent, looked at Jiang Nian who was hidden in the night, and said, "I hope you won't tell anyone about what happened between Wu Youshan and me."

Jiang Nian:...

So that's it?

She didn't care about the matter between Sun Ying and Wu Youshan at all, and she would not go around spreading their affairs. She didn't want to make Sun Ying, a pregnant woman, angry again. But thinking of how Tang Ze looked more haggard today, Jiang Nian asked on behalf of Tang Ze: "Do you think you have done justice to Tang Ze?"

Sun Ying's face changed, as if someone had touched her scalp, and her voice became higher: "That's my business, it's not your turn to ask!"

Jiang Nian:...

Although Sun Ying didn't say it, she felt that Sun Ying probably regretted it.

Sun Ying said, "You haven't answered what I said just now. I hope you won't say anything nonsense about me and Wu Youshan."

After that, she looked around. The locust tree was far from the stairs, so they couldn't hear their conversation. She looked at Jiang Nian again, waiting for her to personally guarantee it, but Jiang Nian replied, "That depends on my mood."

Sun Ying's eyebrows were tightly furrowed, almost gritting her teeth, "What do you mean? Threaten me?"

Jiang Nian smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes, "I can only say that if you don't provoke me, I won't take the initiative to cause trouble for you."

After that, he turned and left.

Sun Ying looked at Jiang Nian's back and stomped her feet in anger.

If she knew Jiang Nian would come to Yuanshi, she would not have let her father arrange her to stay in the textile factory in Yuanshi. At the same time, she was also a little curious. Lu Yu was staying there, so why did Jiang Nian come here?

When Jiang Nian returned to the dormitory, Suna and the others were ready to go to bed.

Suna asked curiously: "Where did you go just now?"

Jiang Nian took off her scarf and hung it on the hook at the head of the bed: "I went outside to get some fresh air."

She took off her clothes and got into the quilt, and heard Suna say: "I heard from Sister Ge today that the city secretary will be here the day after tomorrow, and I guess we will be busy tomorrow."

Shu Xue said: "It's mainly to inspect the textile factory. There are not many people in our embroidery factory, and there is nothing to see."

After talking for a while, the few people went to bed.

The lights in the dormitory were turned off. Jiang Nian stared at the dark beams, thinking about what she had just said to Sun Ying. In fact, she had no intention of threatening Sun Ying at first, but suddenly remembered her and Lu Yu.

In addition to Ge Mei, who knew that she and Lu Yu were uncle and sister-in-law, there were Sun Ying and Wu Youshan, so she turned the phone over to leave a way out for herself to avoid more trouble later. In

this way, Sun Ying and Wu Youshan would also be taken into consideration and would not say anything nonsense.

After all, she and Lu Yu are not uncle and sister-in-law. No matter how much this matter spreads, at most people will gossip about it behind their backs. If the matter of Sun Ying and Wu Youshan is spread out, they will be drowned in spit.

Jiang Nian rolled out of bed again in the middle of the night. This time, his head hit the ground and it hurt a little.

The bed in the dormitory is a single bed, unlike the one in the family compound, which is a big bed. Jiang Nian rubbed his head, climbed up and got into the quilt again. He just fell asleep when he heard Yu Xia's voice coming from outside the door.

"Dong Shu, open the door for me."

After a few seconds, the sound of dragging shoes came from next door. Dong Shu was half asleep. Looking at Yu Xia shivering from the cold outside the door, she was stunned for a moment: "I thought you were staying in a guesthouse tonight."

Yu Xia snorted coldly, "I don't have the extra money to stay in a guesthouse, but the couple live much more comfortably than me."

Thinking of her son and his wife, Yu Xia was furious, but she couldn't say anything.

Her own child could only suffer by himself, and now she hoped that the two of them would go back early tomorrow morning and stop bothering her.

Dong Shu said, "How much money did the couple ask you for?"

Yu Xia sat on the bed angrily, "I mailed a piece of cloth to my daughter last month and asked her to make two clothes for the children. My daughter-in-law found out about it and now she's here to make trouble with me, asking me to give her a hundred yuan. I really owed her money in my last life, and she's torturing me like this in this life."

Yu Xia started to cry, "It's not easy for me to make money by embroidering. I have to save a little every month to make money." All the money was spent at home, and there was not much left in my hand. Where did I get a hundred yuan to give her? Even if I did, what could I give her? Didn't she just give birth to two sons for our family? What's so great about that? My eldest daughter-in-law gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl. "

Dong Shu sighed, "What should we do now?"

She looked at the tears in Yu Xia's eyes and said, "If you don't give her money, will she come to bother you every day?"

Yu Xia had a headache when she heard this.

She didn't know what to do. The second son's family was like blood-sucking worms, wishing to squeeze all her money.

Dong Shu and Yu Xia talked for a long time. Jiang Nian fell asleep while listening. The next day, she was woken up by Suna. Suna smiled and said, "Did you fall off the bed again last night?"

Jiang Nian: ...

She smiled embarrassedly, got up, put on her clothes, went to the bathroom to wash up, and went to the embroidery house with Suna and the others after breakfast. When she walked into the cubicle, she saw that Yu Xia's eyes were a little red and swollen, probably because she cried for half a night.

Yu Xia also glanced at Jiang Nian, but didn't say anything and lowered her head to continue embroidering.

Because the city secretary will come to inspect tomorrow, Ge Mei has been in the embroidery manor all day. Just this morning, Yu Xia's youngest son and his wife came to the embroidery manor again. Suna stopped them and let them in. She went into the compartment and called Yu Xia out. Ge Mei knew about Yu Xia's family affairs, frowned, and reminded her: "The city secretary will come to inspect tomorrow. You should deal with your family affairs quickly and don't let it affect our embroidery manor."

Yu Xia said: "Got it."

Jiang Nian turned his head and looked out the window. Yu Xia was standing under the power pole. An old lady over fifty years old was a little hunched over. A young couple was talking to each other. At the end, Yu Xia's daughter-in-law suddenly raised her hand and pushed Yu Xia. Seeing that Yu Xia and her daughter-in-law were about to fight, her son started to persuade them to stop fighting.

Jiang Nian pursed his lips and stopped watching.

Yuxia came back at almost noon, her face was full of irritability and fatigue, and her face looked much more haggard. She heard Dong Shu whispered: "Did you give them money?"

Yuxia shook her head: "No."

Dong Shu frowned, hesitated for a while and said: "How about I lend you some money, you can collect the money and give it to them, and send them away quickly. If the city secretary comes to inspect tomorrow and sees this, you may be criticized and punished."

Yuxia's eyes turned red, her back slumped, and her back looked a little more hunched than before.

At lunchtime, Yuxia did not go to the canteen, and Dong Shu brought her food back.

Jiang Nian came back from lunch and saw Yu Xia lying on the embroidery frame, her face buried in her arms, with a lot of white hair on her head. Yu Xia heard footsteps, looked up, and saw that it was Jiang Nian, so she sat down and continued to embroider. She

never paid any attention to Jiang Nian from beginning to end.

Jiang Nian pursed her lips and said, "They are a bottomless pit. Once you give in to them, they will want more in the future."

She didn't want to be a "bad guy", but she felt a little pitiful when she saw Yu Xia, an old lady

. Especially the white hair on her head, the same as Sister Zhai.

Maybe because Yu Xia and Sister Zhai are of similar age, Jiang Nian wanted to remind her a few more words.

Yu Xia was stunned for a moment, then raised her head to look at Jiang Nian. She thought Jiang Nian would laugh at her and say sarcastic words to her if he knew all this, but she didn't expect that he was kindly reminding her. Yu Xia didn't know what to say. The sarcastic words got stuck in her throat and she couldn't say them, and she couldn't say the kind words either.

In the end, she lowered her head and pretended that she didn't hear anything.

Jiang Nian: …

She walked past Yuxia to the embroidery frame, sat down, and when she picked up the embroidery needle, she couldn’t help but say something again: “You should have a scale in your heart to judge which of your two sons treats you well, and you should know who is reliable and who is not. Your second son and his wife are not registered in the city, and they probably didn’t have any introduction letters when they came to the city. If the Red Guards and soldiers knew about it, they would be sent back to their hometown today.”

Jiang Nian didn’t say anything more. If Yuxia was a smart person, she should know what to do.

Yuxia didn’t say anything in the end, and sat in front of the embroidery frame for a long time.

The others came to the embroidery shop, and Ge Mei came after a while. Yu Xia suddenly stood up. Dong Shu beside her was stunned for a moment and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong with you?"

Yu Xia said: "I'm going out for a while."

She walked to the curtain, turned her head and looked at Jiang Nian who was embroidering with her head down, then opened the curtain and walked out, and said to Ge Mei: "I want to take an afternoon off."

Ge Mei knew what happened at her home and nodded: "Yes."

Shu Xue whispered to Jiang Nian: "I guess Sister Yu went to give money to her daughter-in-law."

Jiang Nian embroidered a needle, turned his head and looked out the window, and Yu Xia's figure gradually walked away outside the window.

Yu Xia didn't come back all afternoon, and when she got off work in the evening, Jiang Nian received a call from Lu Yu.

She held the receiver, listening to the noisy sound over there, and asked curiously: "Why is it so noisy over there?"

Lu Yu said: "The regiment is training outside today, and everyone is walking through the police station now, so the noise is a bit noisy."

"Oh."

Jiang Nian bit her lip lightly.

The two were silent for a while, and Lu Yu's low voice came from the receiver again: "The family courtyard is about to be settled. This is a building, not the independent courtyard before. There is a stove in the building, so there is no need to burn wood."

The man's voice was very nice, with a little smile, which made Jiang Nian's ears numb.

She pursed her lips and smiled: "Okay."

"Lu Yu, it's time to go."

Gu Shizhou's tough voice came from the other end. Lu Yu said, "I'll be busy now."

Jiang Nian said, "Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Nian took her lunch box and went to the cafeteria with Su Na and the others. In the cafeteria, she happened to sit next to Jia Yuan and Tong Gang.

Jia Yuan saw Jiang Nian and frowned.

Jiang Nian: ...

If there was no seat in the cafeteria, she would not want to sit next to the couple.

Tong Gang didn't see Jiang Nian and the others. He buried his head in his meal and said, "Don't take my mother's words to heart. She just wanted to hold her grandson. Your belly hasn't moved, so she scolded you in anger."

"Okay!"

Jia Yuan quickly stopped Tong Gang and put a piece of tofu from his bowl: "Eat."

Tong Gang looked at the tofu in the bowl, frowned, and looked up at Jia Yuan: "I don't like tofu, why did you give it to me?"

Jia Yuan:...

"If you don't want to eat it, give it to me."

Jia Yuan looked a little embarrassed and took the tofu from Tong Gang's bowl again.

Jiang Nian left after eating half of her meal. She couldn't sit still any longer. She felt that Jia Yuan's husband was extremely mean. He had a mistress outside and acted as if nothing had happened at home. When she left the cafeteria, she glanced at Jia Yuan. It was unknown what Jia Yuan said, but Tong Gang frowned impatiently, stood up and left with the bowl of rice.

Jia Yuan sniffed, wiped the tears from his eyes, and finished the rice in the bowl before leaving.

Jiang Nian left early, so she went back to the dormitory first. When she passed the first dormitory at the entrance of the stairs, she bumped into Wu Youshan again.

Wu Youshan walked past them with a cold face. Sun Ying in the room saw Jiang Nian and her face suddenly turned ugly. She walked over with her big belly and slammed the door.

Jiang Nian: ...

Jiang Nian slept well tonight.

When they got up the next day, Suna had already left. Shu Xue said, "The city secretary and the director are coming to inspect today. Suna will go there in advance to clean the embroidery house again and try to avoid any mistakes so that the leaders can't find any problems."

This situation made Jiang Nian a little nervous. After washing up and having breakfast with Shu Xue, she went to the embroidery house. As soon as she entered, she saw that Suna had cleaned the embroidery house spotlessly. Even though it was a cold day, she had a layer of sweat on her forehead.

Shu Xue handed her the lunch box: "I've prepared food for you, eat quickly."

Suna smiled and said, "Thank you."

Soon everyone in the embroidery manor arrived. Yu Xia was the last one to arrive. When she came in, she glanced at Jiang Nian who was sitting by the window. Seeing Jiang Nian looking down at the embroidery, she didn't say anything. She turned around and sat on the bench. Dong Shu next to her asked in a low voice: "What's wrong?"

Yu Xia came back very late last night. As soon as she came back, she crawled into the quilt and cried. She fell asleep while crying. She didn't know what happened.

Yu Xia's eyes were still a little red. Seeing that she didn't say anything, Dong Shu reminded her again: "The municipal secretary and leaders are coming to inspect today. Don't let them run into your daughter-in-law and her family."

Yu Xia then spoke: "They've already left."

Dong Shu was stunned: "Did you give them money?"

Yu Xia shook her head and turned to look at Dong Shu: "I reported my younger son and his family to the Red Guards. They were taken away by the Red Guards last night. The two of them They cursed me when they left."

At this point, Yu Xia cried again with red eyes, and her voice was very low: "They cursed me for being a widow who killed men, and they will not let me go home or support me in my old age."

Dong Shu was so angry that she snorted coldly: "These two people are beasts!"

She paused and asked, "What are you going to do in the future?"

People always say that fallen leaves return to their roots. No matter what, you still have to go back to where you belong when you are old.

Yu Xia said, "I will leave more money for the eldest son in the future. The eldest son and his wife are doing well."

In fact, Yu Xia felt relieved to be able to sever ties with the second son's family. It was as if a huge rock pressing on her heart finally fell to the ground. She no longer had to worry about the second daughter-in-law's family coming to her every once in a while to ask for money, and their words and deeds were threatening her not to support them in their old age.

Jiang Nian was right yesterday. She should have known who was reliable and who was not.

At first, she just thought that she was a widow, a lonely person, and in the end she would rely on her two sons to support her in her old age, so she was more tolerant of the second son's family. Unexpectedly, she ended up feeding their appetite.

Around ten o'clock, the city secretary and several leaders came over. Jiang Nian didn't expect that Gu Shizhou would come with them.

He was wearing a military green uniform, with short hair and a handsome face that was cold, hard and serious. When his dark eyes looked at Jiang Nian, the coldness of his brows melted a little, and he nodded slightly to her as a greeting.

Jiang Nian smiled.

The city secretary looked about the same age as Ge Mei, with white hair on both sides of his temples and fine lines at the corners of his eyes that had been weathered. He didn't look old and kind, but rather had a stern look that made him look intimidating without even getting angry. Ge Mei also tensed up, which was rare. Following behind her were several city leaders, who were asking about the profit and scale of Xiuzhuang this year.

The leader next to him said, "Secretary Zhu, have some water."

Secretary Zhu waved his hand and said, "No thanks."

At this time, everyone was standing outside the cubicle. Dong Shu and the others also saw Gu Shizhou. They remembered that he and Jiang Nian's partner were together. They didn't expect that he would follow the city secretary now, so they all looked at Jiang Nian.

Jiang Nian: ???

She was stunned for a moment, and for a moment she didn't understand what Dong Shu and the others were looking at?

Ge Mei briefly explained the profit scale of the six months since she took over the embroidery mansion, and also talked about some matters of cooperation with overseas companies. Secretary Zhu said, "Not bad."

There was an official tone in her tone, and it sounded very formal.

Secretary Zhu stood up, and several leaders followed him. They thought the leaders were finally leaving, but Secretary Zhu suddenly walked towards Xiu Niang, then walked in front of Jiang Nian and asked, "Are you the new Comrade Jiang?" Jiang

Nian was stunned, raised his head and looked at the old man opposite: "Yes."

Everyone saw Secretary Zhu's serious face suddenly showed a very faint smile, and said something confusing: "Not bad."

Then he left.

Jiang Nian: ???

She subconsciously looked at Gu Shizhou, who just nodded at her and left.

Jiang Nian was confused.

Not only Jiang Nian was confused, Ge Mei was also confused. She went out to see the leader off. Shu Xue and Suna came over and asked in surprise, "Jiang Nian, do you know the secretary? Are you relatives?"

Jiang Nian: ...

She quickly shook her head: "No, I don't know him." She

was afraid that if she said it a step too late, the rumor would spread.

Fan Shan said, "I think you must know each other. The political commissar Gu and the secretary who were with your partner earlier are together. I don't believe it if you don't know each other."

Jiang Nian: ...

After the secretary's inspection today, Jiang Nian found that the eyes of other people in Xiuzhuang this morning were different from before, especially Jia Yuan. Before, when he looked at her, there was more or less hostility in his eyes, but now even that little bit of hostility has disappeared.

Jia Yuan naturally didn't dare to find fault with Jiang Nian now.

At first, she relied on her marriage to a good in-law family and showed off outside every day. Since Jiang Nian came, she found that her capital for showing off was nothing compared to Jiang Nian.

Thinking about the last time Jiang Nian said he would report her to the leader for causing trouble, she was still thinking about what Jiang Nian could be capable of. Now she saw that he was very capable. Maybe he could directly bypass a few directors and report her to the city secretary. By then, not to mention her, even the Dong family would suffer. In this way, she would become the sinner of the Dong family. The more

Jia Yuan thought about it, the more scared she became. She was glad that she didn't continue to confront Jiang Nian last time.

It was lunchtime, and Jiang Nian was preparing to go to the cafeteria with her lunch box. As soon as she walked out of the door of Xiu Zhuang, she met Gu Shizhou who was walking from the opposite side. The man was tall and had long legs. He walked up to her in a few steps. His tall figure was a head taller than her. He was a few steps away from her. When he lowered his eyes to look at her, the seriousness in his eyes faded a little: "Is it convenient to go to the Red Star Hotel?"

Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment, and a hint of joy appeared in her eyes, reflecting her eyes as bright as stars: "Is Lu Yu here?"

Gu Shizhou said: "No, he is busy these days."

Jiang Nian said "Oh" while holding the lunch box. Gu Shizhou looked at her, the joy in his eyes faded instantly, and said: "Someone wants to see you."

Jiang Nian immediately thought of Secretary Zhu.

She said to Shu Xue and Suna, "I'm going to go out for a while. You two can go to the cafeteria first."

After that, she put her lunch box in the embroidery mansion and followed Gu Shizhou. When they arrived at the Red Star Hotel, as Jiang Nian expected, the person who wanted to see her was indeed Secretary Zhu. They chose a compartment seat, where Secretary Zhu and his secretary sat. Gu Shizhou pulled out a bench and let Jiang Nian sit inside.

Jiang Nian pursed her lips and sat by the window. Gu Shizhou sat next to her. She could faintly sense a clear breath coming from the man.

"Comrade Jiang."

Secretary Zhu smiled like an old fox. At this moment, he was no longer as serious as he was in the embroidery mansion: "Where are you from?"

Jiang Nian: ...

Checking the household registration right away?

Seeing that Jiang Nian didn't say anything, Gu Shizhou comforted her, "Just tell Secretary Zhu, it's okay."

Jiang Nian subconsciously glanced at Gu Shizhou, and met the man's black eyes. He nodded and smiled, "Secretary Zhu, you don't mean anything else."

The secretary at the side stood up at the right time: "Secretary Zhu, I'll go to the kitchen to urge the dishes."

Secretary Zhu nodded: "Okay."

After the secretary left, Secretary Zhu started talking again. She began to smile: "If you don't want to say it, then I'll say it for you. Are you from Honggou Village, the Second Commune, Feng County, Yun City?"

Jiang Nian's eyelids jumped, and her heart skipped a beat. She looked at the smile on Secretary Zhu's face and nodded: "Yes."

Secretary Zhu smiled and said: "Come, I, an old man, will offer you a glass of tea instead of wine."

After saying that, he raised his cup, and even Gu Shizhou next to him raised his cup to her.

Jiang Nian: ???

What's going on here?

She hesitated for a moment, held the cup, and asked: "Secretary Zhu, can you tell me why you want to see me?"

This time he smiled at her, invited her to dinner, and offered tea instead of wine. It was hard for her not to panic.

Secretary Zhu smiled and said, "I won't say much else. This meal is mainly to thank you for taking care of an old friend for me."

He clinked his cup with Jiang Nian's and drank a glass of water. Seeing this, Gu Shizhou also clinked his cup with Jiang Nian's and drank a glass of water. Jiang Nian finally came to his senses and drank a glass of water with doubts in his mind. Then he put down the cup and asked in a low voice, "Secretary Zhu, can you explain what you mean?" Secretary Zhu

smiled, but before he could say anything, Gu Shizhou next to him said, "I am Professor Ling's student."

This sentence made Jiang Nian's thoughts clear instantly.

She looked at Gu Shizhou in surprise, then looked at Secretary Zhu, and Secretary Zhu smiled at her.

Jiang Nian pursed her lips. She didn't know how terrible this era was. The old professor was sent to the countryside to live in a cowshed. Anyone who had close contact with him would be checked one by one. At this critical juncture, everyone would of course stay as far away as possible, but Secretary Zhu and Gu Shizhou obviously didn't.

Jiang Nian also suddenly recalled that the old professor and Lu Yu mentioned Gu Shizhou's name in the cowshed.

Gu Shizhou took the risk to write letters and send things to the old professor, and Secretary Zhu also took the risk of being checked at any time by mentioning the old professor to her. It can be seen that the two of them have different feelings for the old professor.

Jiang Nian didn't expect that the old professor was from Yuan City and had such a strong background.

Seeing the smile on Secretary Zhu's face, Jiang Nian still felt a little guilty: "I didn't help him in any way."

Gu Shizhou said: "He said in the letter that he was sent to the countryside and lived in a cowshed. Everyone avoided him. Only you ran to him secretly in the middle of the night with a Wowo head and gave it to him. He mentioned in the letter how you and Lu Yu cared for him in the past two years." After

that, Gu Shizhou poured another glass of water: "I have work to do and it is not convenient for me to drink. I will use water instead of wine. I will toast you another glass to thank you for taking care of him." After that

, he drank the whole glass of water.

Jiang Nian still felt guilty.

It was the original owner, not her, who secretly sent the nest to Professor Ling in the middle of the night.

There were only three of them for this meal. Secretary Zhu's secretary never came in from beginning to end. The secretary came in after lunch. Secretary Zhu said, "If you have anything in the future, you can find Wang Wei. If an old man like me can really help, I would be happy."

Jiang Nian smiled, said a few words to Secretary Zhu, and left. Gu Shizhou sent her back to Xiuzhuang.

In the afternoon at Xiuzhuang, Shu Xue asked a few questions out of curiosity, but she always made excuses to get by. She never mentioned the meeting with Secretary Zhu. The fewer people who knew about this, the better. She didn't want to be the focus of Xiuzhuang.

On the day when Lu Yu was resting, he came early in the morning.

It was Suna who saw him when she went out. She came back and called Jiang Nian who was still getting dressed: "Your date is here, outside the dormitory building."

Jiang Nian dressed quickly. She ran out with the enamel basin and saw Lu Yu standing outside the building. She waved to him and said: "Wait for me." Then she rushed into the bathroom.

The door was open, and Suna's words were also heard by Sun Ying.

Sun Ying was stunned for a moment, and wanted to see who Jiang Nian's date was, so she walked out with her big belly, and saw Lu Yu standing outside the dormitory building at a glance. After not seeing him for half a year, he was still as handsome as ever, but the cold and fierce look between his eyebrows was covered by tenderness.

This tenderness will never belong to her.

Seeing Lu Yu looking at her, Sun Ying clenched her fingers all of a sudden, but the man's eyes swept over her lightly without staying for even a second. Sun Ying's face turned pale, and she saw Jiang Nian running out of the bathroom, handing the basin to Suna, and trotting down the stairs.

She just watched Jiang Nian run to Lu Yu, and the two of them left the dormitory building hand in hand.

Sun Ying's knuckles turned white. Since the first time she went to the army to find Lu Yu, she felt that Lu Yu's eyes when looking at Jiang Nian were not right, and she felt that they did not look like uncle and sister-in-law. Sure enough, it was the same as her guess!

Why do all these people like Jiang Nian?

She is just a widow, how can she compare to her?

Jiang Nian had clearly died after hitting her head against the wall in the dream. The dream was so real, so real that she doubted that it was real, and everything in front of her was fake.

Wu Youshan came back from the cafeteria and saw that Sun Ying didn't look well. Thinking that she had a stomachache, he quickly stepped forward to support her: "It's cold outside, come in and sit down, I bought you some meat."

Sun Ying pursed her lips, shook off Wu Youshan's hand and walked into the dormitory.

Jiang Nian and Lu Yu had breakfast outside. She told Lu Yu about Secretary Zhu's visit. Lu Yu said, "Gu Shizhou told me. You don't have to worry about it. Just do it." Jiang Nian

smiled and said, "Okay."

After breakfast, she went to Xiuzhuang. Lu Yu stayed in the city and accompanied her for lunch and dinner. Lu Yu sent Jiang Nian to the dormitory building and pinched her soft fingers: "I asked yesterday. The marriage report will be down soon."

Speaking of this, the man smiled.

The two hugged for a while outside the dormitory before Jiang Nian ran back.

She thought that the marriage report that Lu Yu said would be released soon, and it would be released in half a month. Unexpectedly, Lu Yu called her three days later. It was just getting dark, and Jiang Nian was about to get off work and have dinner with Suna. She heard the ringing of the phone. Suna said, "Jiang Nian, it's for you." Jiang Nian

ran over and answered the phone. Before she could say anything, she heard Lu Yu say, "The marriage report is released, Jiang Nian, let's get married."