Chapter 72

"Captain Lu, is this your partner?"

The military wives beside him glanced at Jiang Nian, especially pausing for a long time on Jiang Nian's fair and beautiful face. They all knew that Captain Lu had applied for marriage as soon as he arrived, which made many military wives give up the idea of ​​introducing their sisters to Captain Lu. They were also curious about what Captain Lu's partner looked like.

At first glance, she was really beautiful.

Seeing Chen Ping didn't move, the military wife touched her arm: "What's wrong with you?"

Jiang Nian's heart skipped a beat, and she was a little panicked. Lu Yu held her hand tightly and looked at Chen Ping: "Sister-in-law Chen, this is my girlfriend, Jiang Nian."

His eyes were cold and his voice was deep and powerful, but it made Chen Ping's back feel cold. She came to her senses and looked back and forth between Jiang Nian and Lu Yu for several times. She tried not to let herself think that they were uncle and sister-in-law before. Her face was frozen for several seconds before she spoke: "Good girlfriend, good girlfriend."

Jiang Nian: ...

She didn't expect to meet Chen Ping so soon, and she didn't expect to be in the same building with Chen Ping. Although Lu Yu has been transferred here, she still doesn't want others to know about her previous relationship with Lu Yu, and doesn't want others to look at Lu Yu with strange eyes.

"Lu Yu."

Jiang Nian looked up at Lu Yu, wanting to say something, but opened her mouth, but didn't know how to say it.

Lu Yu said: "We are not uncle and sister-in-law, so it's okay even if our previous relationship gets out." He held Jiang Nian's hand tightly, and his dark eyes stared at Jiang Nian tightly: "I only care about your feelings. As long as you don't take these things to heart, I don't care."

Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and looked at the hand held by Lu Yu, and his eyelashes suddenly became hot.

She had been thinking about Lu Yu, but she didn't know that Lu Yu was also thinking about her feelings.

Jiang Nian pursed her lips, held Lu Yu's slender fingers tightly with her backhand, raised her head and smiled at him: "I'm not afraid of what others say."

The man's smile faded from his eyebrows: "Let's go eat." After separating from Captain Lu and the others, Chen Ping went to the fourth floor. The military wife who was with her saw that her face was not right: "What's wrong with you?"

Chen Ping was about to smile: "Nothing, I just didn't eat enough this morning, so I'm so hungry now." Military wife:... I'm hungry, my face doesn't look right. Chen Ping had just returned home when her husband Ren Gang followed. There were two children in the family, a thirteen-year-old daughter and a twelve-year-old boy. When their son Ren Tong saw Ren Gang, he came out of the room and shouted happily, "Dad." Ren Gang said, "Where's your mother?" Ren Tong said, "She's cooking in the kitchen." Ren Gang took off his coat and hung it on a hook on the wall. He walked to the kitchen and saw his daughter picking vegetables. He asked her to go back inside. He walked to Chen Ping and said, "Captain Lu is bringing his target to the military region today. , I heard that he came to check on the family building, did you see him? " Speaking of this, Chen Ping paused while cutting vegetables: "Yes." Ren Gang talked to himself, and after a while he realized that his nagging daughter-in-law was particularly quiet today, which was a bit abnormal, so he asked: "You are not right today, did you quarrel with someone again?" Chen Ping: ... She put down the knife and closed the kitchen door, then whispered: "Do you know who Captain Lu is with?" Ren Gang laughed and said: "I don't know him, where can I go? "You know it." Thinking of his wife's abnormal behavior today, Ren Gang was stunned: "Why, you know it?" Chen Ping nodded: "Do you remember that I went to see my sister many years ago?" Ren Gang: "What does this have to do with your sister?" Chen Ping said: "I was helping my sister's brother-in-law move his family. His house is next to Captain Lu. Captain Lu's family has a sister-in-law who came out to see us. Xiaofang also introduced her to me and said that she was Captain Lu's sister-in-law. Her husband and father-in-law were both gone, so she went to live with her brother-in-law. " My daughter has joined the army. I also saw the oriole window curtains she embroidered for Tang Ze's wife. They are so beautiful." Ren Gang frowned and instantly grasped the key point: "You mean, Captain Lu's target is his sister-in-law?!" Chen Ping nodded: "Yes." Ren Gang: ... He was also a little confused. Thinking of Captain Lu, who was usually a poor and stern person, it was hard to see that he would actually have feelings for his sister-in-law. However, his sister-in-law is now a widow. Even if the two are together, others can't say anything. But if this matter gets out, it will inevitably be gossiped about. Ren Gang reminded Chen Ping: "You can't say this outside. I still have to stay under Commander Lu and get promoted. Don't do anything to me." Chen's family has two daughters. When Chen Ping married him, he was a platoon leader. He was promoted to the current battalion commander step by step. If he works hard for a few more years, he may be able to get promoted. Thinking that Chen Ping's husband is already a regiment leader, Ren Gang always feels relieved. Chen Ping heard this and glared at him: "Do you think I'm stupid? I have no reason to offend your leader?" After that, she continued to cut vegetables, but she couldn't help sighing in her heart. It was lunchtime and there were many people in the cafeteria, including many wives of soldiers who came with lunch boxes to get their meals. The news that Commander Lu of the Second Regiment was going to get married had spread throughout the entire military region, so when everyone saw a fair and pretty girl following Commander Lu, they all looked over with curiosity . Lu Yu took Jiang Nian to sit at an empty table. He took two aluminum lunch boxes to prepare lunch, then leaned over and asked Jiang Nian, "What do you want to eat?" Jiang Nian felt that she was being watched like a giant panda in the zoo, and was indeed a little uncomfortable: "Whatever." Lu Yu smiled and said, "I'll be there in a minute." "Is that Captain Lu's girlfriend?" "She's so beautiful." "No wonder Captain Lu is in a hurry to file the marriage application report. Such a beautiful wife must be brought home as soon as possible." People were talking all around, and Jiang Nian's face became redder and redder as he listened, feeling very uncomfortable. "Sister-in-law." Chen Yao and Gu Shizhou came over with aluminum lunch boxes and sat opposite Jiang Nian. With their presence, Jiang Nian felt much more at ease. Gu Shizhou said, "Sister-in-law." Jiang Nian smiled, then looked up at Lu Yu, and saw him coming over with two lunch boxes and sitting next to her. The meal he prepared for her was mostly meat, and the rice was piled high.

Jiang Nian: ...

How can we finish this? !

She was a little frightened, and Lu Yu said, "Give it to me if you can't finish it."

The tables around were full of people, basically all soldiers from the Third Regiment. The new Captain Lu was famous for his ruthless training, and his reputation spread in just one month. The soldiers from the Third Regiment knew that Captain Lu brought a target here today, and they were more excited than each other, and they all wanted to see if Captain Lu would be particularly strict with his target.

They looked at Jiang Nian's thin figure. She was small, and if Captain Lu fought with her, he could knock his target down with one hand.

While everyone was eating, their minds were basically on the middle table. They saw that the stern Colonel Lu seemed like a different person in front of his target. His previously sharp eyebrows were covered with a gentle smile. He picked up meat for his target and ate his target's leftovers. After eating, he even asked the target: "Are you full?" The soldiers:

...

As expected, no matter how tough a man is, he can put aside his coldness when he meets a girl he likes.

Some military wives also watched this scene. Some glared at their husbands and said, "Look how much they love their wives, and look at you!"

The man buried his head in his meal and said, "I just talked about my partner. We have been married for a long time. If you don't find it annoying, I will find it annoying."

During lunch time, the news that Commander Lu brought a partner to the army spread everywhere. Some military wives didn't want to give up the idea of ​​​​approaching Commander Lu and wanted to introduce their relatives' girls to Commander Lu. Today, when they saw Commander Lu's partner, they all gave up.

Jiang Nian left the army after lunch. Lu Yu drove her to see her off and took her to the department store for a tour. He let her pick out bedding and some small items that needed to be decorated at home. This home truly belongs to the two of them.

Not uncle and sister-in-law, but husband and wife.

Basically, Jiang Nian picked the things while Lu Yu took the things from behind. When the back seat was full, Jiang Nian finally realized that she had bought so many things. She looked at Lu Yu and said, "Is it too much?"

The man smiled and said, "Not much."

He then grabbed the back of Jiang Nian's head and kissed her lips heavily, "Think about what else you need?"

Jiang Nian blushed and she moved her eyes away. She opened her eyes and looked out the window, then shook her head: "Nothing else."

Lu Yu had mentioned to her a few times when they were shopping just now. This time, they invited people from the group, and then Ge Mei and her friends. As for Captain Song and his friends, they would send a telegram to tell them that Lu Yu and she were getting married. It was estimated that Captain Song and Feng Mei would be shocked when they saw the telegram.

As for the family, there was no one at Lu Yu's place, and the Jiang family on her side had already cut off contact, so there was no need to notify them.

The wedding date was set for the sixth day of next month, and there was still half a month left, so Jiang Nian could finish the embroidery at this time.

Lu Yu sent Jiang Nian to the embroidery manor and drove back, preparing to go back and clean the room.

After all this trouble, it was already dark.

The people in the embroidery manor had just got off work, and Jiang Nian bumped into Suna and the others. Shu Xue saw Jiang Nian and smiled, "You are finally back."

Suna asked ambiguously, "What did you do today?"

Jiang Nian: ...

She took out four White Rabbit milk candies from her pocket and gave them to the two of them: "Have you set a date?"

Suna: "Wedding candy?"

Shu Xue: "Have you set a date?"

Jiang Nian smiled and said, "The sixth day of next month."

Ge Mei also knew about this, and was happy for Jiang Nian, congratulating her and Lu Yu for finally getting on the right track.

Jiang Nian and Su Na went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some candies to distribute to everyone. Regardless of whether Yu Xia and the others accepted the candies, she at least did all the necessary etiquette to avoid being criticized in the end.

As soon as the two of them walked into the supply and marketing cooperative, they saw two shadows separated in a flash. Jiang Nian took a look and saw that it was Tong Gang and the supply and marketing clerk. Their lips were red, and she knew at a glance that they had just done something shameful.

Su Na was an experienced person, and she knew at a glance that the two people were greedy. She pretended not to see it, and went to the supply and marketing clerk with Jiang Nian to weigh a pound of milk candy and fruit candy and left. After they left, the supply and marketing clerk looked at Tong Gang and asked: "They didn't see it, did they?"

Tong Gang shook his head: "Probably not."

It was dark outside. Jiang Nian and Su Na crossed the road and returned to the dormitory. The two tacitly did not speak all the way back to the dormitory. Su Na said to Shu Xue: "Tong Gang and Yang Li are going together. "

Shu Xue came back from cooking for them. When she heard the explosive news, she was stunned for a moment: "What did you just say?" "

Suna:...

She repeated it again in a low voice, and then said: "If you don't believe me, ask Jiang Nian."

Jiang Nian knew that the supply and marketing agent was Yang Li, and Suna's words also verified Jiang Nian's previous guess that Yang Li really relied on the relationship of the Tong family to enter the supply and marketing cooperative. If this is true, Tong Gang alone may not be able to do it. Tong Gang's mother also had a hand in this.

Jiang Nian felt extremely terrified when he thought about it carefully, and suddenly a bold guess came to his mind.

The Tong family always said that Jia Yuan's belly was not moving. Could it be that Tong Gang and his mother wanted to use Yang Li's belly to continue the Tong family?

But there is another possibility. If Yang Li is pregnant, will the Tong family ask Jia Yuan for a divorce?

She thinks both possibilities are possible.

After eating, Jiang Nian took a bag of candy and went to the next room. Yu Xia was a little surprised to see Jiang Nian coming. Dong Shu and Jia Yuan also looked at Jiang Nian without saying anything. Jiang Nian put a bag of candy on the table and said, "My wedding date has been set. This is the wedding candy."

She spoke in a gentle tone with a smile on her face. Dong Shu ignored Jiang Nian all the time, but Yu Xia opened her mouth and said, "Thank you."

Jiang Nian didn't stay for long. Before leaving, she glanced at Jia Yuan, who looked haggard. Jia Yuan seemed to feel something and turned around to meet Jiang Nian's complicated gaze. Her eyebrows wrinkled. She always felt that Jiang Nian's eyes were a little strange when he looked at her. Before she could take a closer look, Jiang Nian had already closed the door and left.

Jia Yuan almost didn't sleep all night tonight, and Jiang Nian was also thinking about something.

As a woman, regardless of what kind of person Jia Yuan is, the Tong family's treatment of Jia Yuan has already exceeded the moral bottom line in a family. She wanted to remind Jia Yuan, but she didn't want to get involved. She tossed and turned until midnight before she fell asleep. When she woke up the next day, she tore off a piece of paper, wrote two sentences on it, crumpled it into a small ball, and waited for Jia Yuan to come to the bathroom to wash up. When she bent down to wash her face, she put it in her pocket when she was not paying attention.

As for whether she could see it, it depended on her luck.

Jiang Nian didn't want to intervene.

A day had passed since the incident, and Jiang Nian didn't know if Jia Yuan had seen the note. However, when she went to the embroidery manor the next day, she heard from Su Na that Jia Yuan had asked Ge Mei for two days off and asked Ge Mei not to tell anyone about her leave. Su Na also asked if Jia Yuan knew about Tong Gang and Yang Li.

Jiang Nian guessed that Jia Yuan must have seen the note she left.

The embroidery manor was quiet for two days, and Jia Yuan didn't come to work until the third day. She looked no different from usual, except that she spoke less. She was sometimes distracted when Dong Shu talked to her and didn't even listen.

Jiang Nian thought that the matter had passed, until five days later, a piece of news broke out in the textile factory that the son of the deputy factory director had an affair with the supply and marketing clerk Yang Li, and even got her pregnant. This matter was reported to the factory director, and Jia Yuan made a big fuss. The factory director followed the clues and investigated, and the investigation was incredible.

This Yang Li was Tong Gang's fellow villager, or the deputy factory director used his connections to get her into the supply and marketing cooperative. After this incident, Jiang Nian's guess really came true.

Tong Gang's mother wanted to have a grandson, but Jia Yuan's belly was not good. The appearance of Yang Li made Tong Gang's mother think about it. When Jia Yuan moved to the dormitory, she took Yang Li home privately and told her that if she could get pregnant with Tong's child, Tong Gang would divorce Jia Yuan and let her marry Tong Gang.

Jia Yuan secretly followed Tong Gang during the two days of his leave and saw Tong Gang taking Yang Li home with his own eyes.

This matter was not a small matter, and it caused a serious bad atmosphere in the factory. Tong Gang's mother was the deputy director. The matter was finally reported to the superiors for handling. It took a day for the handling result to come out. The textile factory expelled Tong Gang, and the supply and marketing cooperative also expelled Yang Li. As for Tong Gang's mother, she was demoted from the deputy director to the most ordinary employee of the textile factory, and her salary was reduced to the lowest.

Jiang Nian still learned about these things from Suna.

Suna was in charge of the front counter every day, and was well-informed about the outside news. She heard almost all the news from the textile factory as soon as it came out.

That night, when Jiang Nian and her friends went to the cafeteria to eat, they heard people in the factory talking about this matter. They said that Jia Yuan wanted to get a divorce, and the leader had stamped the divorce application form at that time. What the Tong family did this time made everyone feel disgusted, especially the women who were more vocal about Jia Yuan's injustice.

Shu Xue took the last bite of rice and said with a sigh: "I thought Jia Yuan lived a good life in her husband's family, but I didn't expect she suffered such a great injustice."

Suna sneered: "She is just trying to save face in public. Only she knows whether she is living a good life or not."

The next day, Jia Yuan came to Xiuzhuang very late. The right side of her face was still a little red and swollen. It was estimated that she was beaten by Tong Gang or her mother-in-law. Dong Shu whispered: "How are you?"

Jia Yuan's spirit was better than the previous few days. The weather was much better. She didn't know if it was because she didn't have to pretend to be at home anymore, and her husband and mother-in-law were so nice to her. She felt more lively. She shook her head at Dong Shu and smiled, "It's okay."

When it was time for lunch, Jia Yuan suddenly stood up and walked to Jiang Nian, saying, "Want to go out for a walk?"

Jiang Nian's eyelids jumped, and she looked at Jia Yuan's still slightly swollen right face and nodded, "Okay."

She asked Su Na and Shu Xue to go to the cafeteria first, and she and Jia Yuan walked slowly on the side of the road.

Jia Yuan glanced at Jiang Nian who was walking with her head down. The scattered bangs floated on her cheeks, making her skin look white and delicate. She hesitated for a moment, took out a note from her pocket and handed it to Jiang Nian, and said straight to the point, "Is this written by you?"

Jiang Nian glanced at the content on the note.

——Pay attention to Tong Gang and the supply and marketing agent Yang Li.

——Speak with evidence.

In these two short sentences, Jiang Nian initially thought that Jia Yuan had not seen the note, or if she had seen it, she might have been blinded by anger and made a scene without caring about anything. She did not expect that she would calmly find evidence of Tong Gang and Yang Li's affair in the past few days, not only making the Tong family pay the price, but also leaving herself out.

Jiang Nian smiled: "I don't understand what you are talking about."

Jia Yuan is not a stupid person, she just cares too much about face, so after marrying Tong Gang, she has always maintained her happy personality. She remembered how much grievance she had suffered at home over the years. The matter between Tong Gang and Yang Li became a fuse for her to explode, causing her to burst out all the grievances of these years at once.

Jia Yuan smiled, tore up the note and put it in his pocket: "I know it's you even if you don't say it."

Jiang Nian said nothing.

Jia Yuan continued: "You know, I actually dislike you. Before you came, I was at least the envy of everyone in the textile factory and embroidery shop. I married well, my mother-in-law is the deputy director, my husband is the workshop team leader, and I am still an embroiderer. Who wouldn't envy me? But since you came, I gradually feel like a joke."

At the end, Jia Yuan sneered self-deprecatingly: "I didn't expect that the person who pulled me out of the fire pit was the person I hated the most."

Jiang Nian: ...

Jia Yuan's words really deserve a beating.

"But." Jia Yuan looked at Jiang Nian: "Thank you."

Jiang Nian paused, turned her head to meet Jia Yuan's gaze, and then took out a White Rabbit candy from her pocket, peeled off the candy wrapper and put it in her mouth in front of Jiang Nian, saying: "Your wedding candy is very sweet."

"Also, Jiang Nian, you are really lucky, sometimes I really envy you."

Jia Yuan sipped the candy and looked back at the road ahead.

Jiang Nian said: "Don't envy me, the road I'm walking is not as easy as you see."

Jia Yuan actually heard some indescribable sadness in her tone, she frowned and glanced at Jiang Nian, whose face was thin.

The two of them went to the cafeteria slowly, and there were fewer people in the cafeteria at this time.

Jiang Nian found a place to sit, and after dinner, he and Jia Yuan went back to Xiuzhuang. They didn't return to the dormitory until it was dark in the evening. After washing up, Su Na returned to the room, walked to Jiang Nian's bed and sat down, whispering: "What did Jia Yuan talk to you about at noon? Did he make things difficult for you?"

"No."

Seeing Su Na's face full of disbelief, Jiang Nian pursed his lips and told her about the note. A flash of surprise flashed across Su Na's face, and then she exclaimed: "I was wondering how she suddenly knew about Tong Gang and her mind suddenly became clear. It turns out you were helping her behind the scenes."

Jiang Nian smiled and said, "It's not really helping, I just can't stand this kind of disgusting behavior of men."

There was a knock on the dormitory door from outside. Su Na got up and opened the door. Seeing that it was Sun Ying from next door, she asked in confusion: "What's the matter with you?"

Sun Ying glanced into the dormitory: "I want to talk to Jiang Nian."

Jiang Nian:...

This man is really haunting us.

She stood up, put on her shoes and walked out. The two of them walked to the stairs. It was dark now and there were not many people coming and going. The whole corridor was quiet. Jiang Nian looked outside the dormitory building and said coldly, "What do you want to say now?"

Sun Ying held her belly and looked at Jiang Nian with red eyes, "Are you and Lu Yu going to get married?"

She always thought that Jiang Nian and Lu Yu were just dating, but she didn't expect that they were already going to get married!

Jiang Nian was stunned, turned to look at Sun Ying, not understanding how she knew. Sun Ying saw her confusion and sneered, "I heard what the people from Xiu Manor said when they were washing up in the bathroom just now."

Jiang Nian just said, "So what? Even if I marry Lu Yu, what does it have to do with you?" Sun

Ying's shoulders trembled with anger at Jiang Nian's words, and she immediately became furious: "It has nothing to do with me, but I think it's disgusting and shameful to live in the same dormitory with you! You are a widow whose husband has died, and you are shameless to hook up with your brother-in-law and marry him. Are you worthy of your father-in-law's family? Are you worthy of your husband? You are just a shameless widow, where do you get the face...ah!"

"You dare to hit me?!"

Sun Ying covered her face and looked at Jiang Nian in shock.

Jiang Nian had a cold face. She slapped him so hard that her palm was numb.