Chapter 73

Sun Ying's voice was loud, and the corridor was quiet. Almost everyone heard it. They opened their doors and looked outside. One was a pregnant woman from the textile factory, and the other was an embroiderer from the embroidery manor.

They all knew this embroiderer. This morning, her boyfriend drove to pick her up. The news spread throughout the dormitory, but no one expected that she and her boyfriend were actually uncle and sister-in-law.

Although she was a widow, she was with her brother-in-law. This matter...

Suddenly, everyone looked at Jiang Nian with a strange look in their eyes.

Su Na and Shu Xue were stunned for a long time before they reacted. Jia Yuan next door was also shocked, thinking of what Jiang Nian said today: The road I am walking on is not as easy as you think.

It turns out that she was married and her husband died.

Now she is with her brother-in-law. I guess she has been looked down upon by many people during this period?

Yu Xia frowned. It was a little unexpected that Jiang Nian was married and became a widow at such a young age. There are too many pains to be endured by a widow. Yu Xia felt the same way. It would be okay if she was older, but Jiang Nian was still young and had a long way to go. If she really married her brother-in-law, she would be talked about for the rest of her life. People

in the dormitory building had their own thoughts.

Jiang Nian pursed her lips. For the first time, she felt a lot of anger that she had nowhere to vent. When Sun Ying wanted to fight back, she took a step back and slapped her again without hesitation. This slap was extremely loud. Not only did her hand go numb, but Sun Ying's ears also made a buzzing sound.

Sun Ying was stunned for a long time before she reacted. Her cheeks were burning with pain. She rushed up to hit Jiang Nian like crazy. No one had ever hit her since she was a child. This was the first time she was slapped twice in public.

"Stop!"

Ge Mei's cold voice came from the stairs on the third floor. She glanced at Jiang Nian, who was standing against the railing with an unpleasant look on her face, and quickly walked down to pull her behind her. Looking at Sun Ying, who was almost a mad woman opposite her, she said coldly: "Comrade Sun, some things require evidence, not just empty talk to slander us, the people of Xiu Manor."

Sun Ying's eyes were bloodshot, and she stared at Jiang Nian and Ge Mei hatefully: "What did I say?" "You said something wrong to her?"

Ge Mei said, "Okay, if you insist that you didn't wrongly accuse Jiang Nian, then I, the director of the state-owned embroidery house, will refute your words in front of everyone in the dormitory today!"

Jiang Nian pursed her lips tightly and said nothing. Ge Mei tightened her fingers holding Jiang Nian's arm, then turned around and looked behind her. Outside each dormitory door, many heads popped out, all of them looking at the excitement.

The corridor was very quiet, and Ge Mei's voice was loud and clear.

"Comrade Sun Ying from the textile factory keeps saying that my embroidery lady Jiang Nian has an affair with her brother-in-law. She has no basis and is talking nonsense. Today, I will tell you the whole story and see if Comrade Sun Ying is slandering Comrade Jiang Nian!"

Sun Ying's face changed and she clenched her fingers that were grabbing the clothes.

Ge Mei said: "Jiang Nian's late husband's surname was Xu, and his name was Xu Cheng. He was a soldier. During a snowstorm rescue operation, he was crushed by a tree and broke his waist while trying to save villagers. From then on, he was paralyzed in bed for four years. Jiang Nian married into the Xu family in the year when Comrade Xu Cheng was paralyzed. She took care of her late husband for four years until her late husband passed away. There was no relative left in the family, so Comrade Jiang Nian was taken to the army by her nominal brother-in-law and placed in the family home for care."

Ge Mei emphasized the three words "nominal".

Seeing everyone's puzzled looks, Ge Mei continued, "Comrade Jiang Nian's 'nominally' uncle's surname is Lu. He was temporarily fostered by his mother in the Xu family and is being taken care of by the Xu family. Comrade Lu and Comrade Xu Cheng are comrades-in-arms. They are not blood brothers but are better than blood brothers. Comrade Lu is unmarried and Comrade Jiang Nian is also single now. What's wrong with them being together? They are in love with each other and have feelings for each other. It is completely different from what Comrade Sun Ying said. She deliberately distorted the truth and splashed dirty water on Comrade Jiang Nian!"

As soon as these words came out, a sigh came from the dormitory building.

Jia Yuan came back to her senses, and looked at Jiang Nian with a little more surprise. It turned out that her previous path was not much better than her own. Seeing Jiang Nian's slightly pale face, Jia Yuan walked out of the dormitory and looked at Sun Ying, and said loudly: "Comrade Sun Ying, the relationship and feelings between Jiang Nian and Comrade Lu are not what you said at all. You kept throwing dirty water on Jiang Nian. Do you think that we are easy to bully because we have fewer people in the embroidery village, right? Don't you?"

"That's right!" Suna also ran out: "Don't think we are afraid of you just because you are pregnant. You need evidence when you speak and do things. You can't just confuse right and wrong."

Shu Xue also stood up: "We in Xiuzhuang are not easy to bully!"

Sun Ying looked at the few people with powerful momentum, leaned against the wall, her face pale, she looked at the row of dormitories again, everyone's eyes were moving back and forth between her and Jiang Nian, although it was dark, but she could still see from their eyes that these people believed what Ge Mei said.

Just when she was about to refute, Jiang Nian spoke: "Sun Ying, I have no grudge against you. You have been picking on me again and again. Back then, you married Captain Tang in the courtyard--"

"Ah! My stomach hurts!"

Sun Ying screamed miserably, sat on the ground holding her stomach, opened her mouth and tried to scream in pain, as if she was deliberately interrupting Jiang Nian. Wu Youshan went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy milk. As soon as he ran downstairs, he heard Sun Ying's scream. He was so scared that he rushed to the second floor, and fell because he ran too fast.

"Yingying, what's wrong with your stomach?!"

Wu Youshan ran over and hugged Sun Ying. He saw fingerprints on both sides of her cheeks. He looked at Jiang Nian and the people from Xiuzhuang standing opposite him, and immediately understood what was going on. He stared at Jiang Nian with red eyes: "I'm going to call the police! Find the police. If anything happens to Yingying and the child, I, Wu Youshan, will not let you go!"

After that, he picked up Sun Ying and ran to the hospital.

Jiang Nian watched them leave coldly. She knew that Sun Ying was pretending. Sun Ying was just afraid that she would tell the story of Tang Ze and Wu Youshan. If these things were not put on the table, these two people would never be able to hold their heads up in Yuan City for the rest of their lives.

Ge Mei looked at Jiang Nian and asked worriedly, "How are you?"

Jiang Nian shook her head, "Nothing."

Her palms were still numb, and it was obvious that she had slapped Sun Ying twice just now.

The people in the dormitory looked at Jiang Nian with awe and sympathy instead of watching the show just now. Her late husband was a martyr who was paralyzed because of the rescue. His family was all gone. In this world, leaving a lonely woman at home was no different from waiting to die. Comrade Lu took her to the army and placed her in the family compound to take care of her, which was not wrong

. Both of them were single now, so it was normal for them to be together because they were in love.

The bustling dormitory building soon returned to silence.

Yu Xia glanced at Jiang Nian who was taken back to the dormitory by Ge Mei, and thought of that day outside the embroidery manor, when several people came to pick up Jiang Nian, calling her sister-in-law and then sister-in-law. It turned out that the sister-in-law had another reason.

As a widow, Yu Xia felt that Jiang Nian's life was better than hers.

At least Jiang Nian had a "nominal" brother-in-law, but she was different. After her husband died, she came to the embroidery manor in Yuanshi all alone, and had to embroider to make money, and also to supplement the family income for her two sons to get married. All the burdens of the family fell on her, and in the end, she still couldn't do well with her second son.

The light bulbs were on in the dormitory.

Jiang Nian sat quietly beside the bed, and Ge Mei stayed with her for a while before leaving.

Jia Yuan stood by the cabinet, and seeing Jiang Nian with her head down, she said, "You said that the road you are walking on is not easy either. I didn't understand it at first, but now I understand it." Seeing Jiang Nian looking up at her, Jia Yuan smiled, "It's no big deal.

Look, I survived it, didn't I?" Shu Xue was a little confused by Jia Yuan's reaction.

After all, Jia Yuan had disliked Jiang Nian from the beginning, but she didn't expect that today she would help Jiang Nian and comfort her.

Jiang Nian smiled: "I'm fine."

Su Na said: "That's right, you and Captain Lu are not real uncle and sister-in-law, don't think too much, you are unmarried and single, why can't you be together?"

Shu Xue said: "I think it's okay even if they are real uncle and sister-in-law."

Jia Yuan and Su Na looked at her.

Shu Xue: ...

Is there anything wrong with what she said?

In fact, she didn't dare to say that her aunt was her aunt's sister-in-law, and a real sister-in-law, so when she heard what Sun Ying said just now, she was just stunned for a moment, and was not too surprised.

Jia Yuan stayed for a while and then left. After returning to the dormitory, Yu Xia asked, "How is Jiang Nian?"

Jia Yuan said, "Nothing."

Dong Shu lay on the bed without saying anything. The lights in the dormitory were off. She stared at the dark beams and couldn't sleep. At first, she thought Jiang Nian was a girl from the city, and she was related to Director Ge, and she and Captain Lu were introduced by a matchmaker. Unexpectedly, after many twists and turns, the truth was such.

If it weren't for what happened tonight, they really couldn't tell that Jiang Nian was a widow.

How could she look like she was married?

The dormitory building was once again plunged into darkness, but in the calm night, Wu Youshan brought several police comrades to take Jiang Nian to the Public Security Bureau for questioning, leaving two police comrades to question the people in the dormitory building, and gained a deep understanding of the conflict between Jiang Nian and Sun Ying.

Their confessions were almost the same, that it was Comrade Sun Ying who insulted Comrade Jiang Nian first, and Comrade Jiang Nian accidentally hit Comrade Sun Ying in anger.

In the cold interrogation room, Jiang Nian sat on the cold bench and answered all the questions of the police officer, which was consistent with the explanation of the people in the dormitory building. The female police officer looked at Jiang Nian and said, "It is true that Comrade Sun Ying was wrong first, but you made a big mistake by hitting her first. Comrade Sun Ying is now lying in the hospital, saying that she has a headache and stomachache. She has a child in her belly. If something happens again, you will be held responsible again."

Jiang Nian lowered her head and twisted her fingers tightly together.

She was so angry at the time that she did not think about the consequences.

In fact, she had guessed it when Wu Youshan said to call the police. Wu Youshan was a doctor and Sun Ying was a nurse. They both knew about medicine. It was easy for the two to be sentenced if they wanted to harm her.

Not long after, someone outside said that the director of Xiuzhuang wanted to meet Jiang Nian.

Across the table, Ge Mei looked at Jiang Nian's slightly pale face, and reached out to hold Jiang Nian's hand across the table: "Sun Ying is also the one who made mistakes in this matter. I will ask a doctor to check her again to see if she is really sick or faking it. I have also contacted the director of the textile factory and asked her to go to the hospital to find Sun Ying to talk again."

Jiang Nian smiled: "Thank you, Sister Ge."

Ge Mei held her hand tightly: "Jiang Nian, I told Lu Yu about this, and he is on his way."

Jiang Nian's eyelashes trembled, and he looked at Ge Mei for a long time without saying anything.

Then he slowly lowered his head, and suddenly realized in his heart that the only person she could rely on seemed to be Lu Yu.

Ge Mei went to the public security comrades to discuss taking Jiang Nian back to the embroidery manor first. She was willing to use her identity as the director of the embroidery manor to guarantee that she would keep an eye on her and would not let her run away before these things were resolved. However, Jiang Nian's case involved a life in the belly of a pregnant woman, which was a bit difficult to handle. Just when Ge Mei was having a headache, a man came in from outside. She had

seen that man before, but he was just the secretary beside Secretary Zhu.

Ge Mei was stunned for a moment. She didn't know what the secretary had said to the public security comrades. The other party finally gave in: "Okay, we will continue to look for Comrade Jiang Nian if we have any follow-up matters." Wang

Wei said, "We will cooperate."

Jiang Nian was taken out of the Public Security Bureau by Wang Wei. The cold wind blew on her face, making her face feel a little cold. She looked at Wang Wei in a daze. Before she could say anything, Wang Wei said first: "Comrade Jiang, I will send you and Director Ge back to Xiuzhuang first, and then go to the hospital to find out the situation there."

Wang Wei drove here, and he drove an old car.

He opened the car door and let Jiang Nian and Ge Mei sit in the back, and sent them back to Xiuzhuang. When Wang Wei left, Jiang Nian walked to the car door and whispered to Wang Wei, "Thank you."

She knew that it was Secretary Zhu's idea for Wang Wei to come over.

Wang Wei nodded and smiled at Jiang Nian, then drove away.

It was late at night, and the dormitory building was dark. Ge Mei and Jiang Nian walked side by side. When Secretary Zhu said "not bad" to Jiang Nian at Xiuzhuang, she knew that Secretary Zhu and Jiang Nian might know each other.

Ge Mei did not ask, but said: "You don't have to think about anything now, go to my room first, maybe Lu Yu will come to you soon."

Jiang Nian has been silent since she was taken to the Public Security Bureau. She nodded: "Okay."

The two returned to the dormitory. Ge Mei poured a cup of hot water for Jiang Nian and handed it to her. Jiang Nian took the enamel cup and held it in her hand. The hot temperature spread from her palm to her blood. She sniffed and lowered her head to drink a sip of water.

If she asked herself whether she regretted beating Sun Ying tonight, Jiang Nian felt that she might not regret it.

If she were to go back there at that time, she might slap Sun Ying a few more times.

Jiang Nian closed his eyes and just took a breath when he heard hurried footsteps outside. Before Ge Mei could open the door, he heard Lu Yu's voice downstairs: "Jiang Nian——"

"She's here with me."

Ge Mei quickly opened the door and shouted downstairs, fearing that he would wake others up.

Almost as soon as Ge Mei finished her words, the sound of hurried footsteps rushed up. Jiang Nian just stood up and saw Lu Yu standing outside the door. The man was wearing a military uniform, his eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and there was a little sweat on his forehead. The moment he saw Jiang Nian, he strode over and hugged her in his arms, and his heavy, panting breath sounded in her ears: "Are you okay?"

It was obviously a cold day, but Jiang Nian was startled by the heat coming from Lu Yu's body.

She pursed her lips and wanted to say that she was fine, but when the words came to her lips, she choked and sobbed.

Jiang Nian didn't cry when she was taken away from the dormitory by the police, nor did she cry when she was interrogated repeatedly. She was calm even when she was sitting here alone. But now that Lu Yu held her in his arms, Jiang Nian suddenly felt extremely wronged.

It was like a wronged child finally found someone to support her.

"You guys chat, I'm going to the bathroom to wash my face."

Ge Mei closed the door and left.

There were only the two of them left in the room.

Jiang Nian buried her head in Lu Yu's shaking and powerful chest, tears welling up in her eyes: "I hit Sun Ying."

Lu Yu kissed her on the head and soothed her along her back with his palm: "It's okay, leave it to me."

Jiang Nian's heart trembled, and her free hand tightly hugged the man's thin waist, and a faint sob came out. Lu Yu raised his hand and clasped the back of Jiang Nian's neck, pinched her slender neck, and soothed her again and again.

"Sister Ge has already told me the whole story. Leave the rest to me. You should have a good sleep tonight."

"Yeah."

Jiang Nian's voice was a little nasal and soft, which made Lu Yu's heart soften.

The man held her face and kissed her red nose. Looking at Jiang Nian's moist and red eyes, Lu Yu leaned down and kissed her lips. With soothing, he stopped the crying that was overflowing from her lips little by little. He didn't let her go until he heard Jiang Nian's soft humming.

The air suddenly filled her lungs. Jiang Nian took a few breaths, and her face was redder than before.

Lu Yu rubbed her head: "You sleep at Sister Ge's place tonight. I'll go over first."

When Lu Yu walked to the door, Jiang Nian called him: "Lu Yu."

The man held the door with one hand, turned to look at her, his cold eyes filled with smiles: "What's wrong?"

Jiang Nian pursed his lips: "Do you need me to go over? After all, I'm the person involved."

Lu Yu said: "No, you should have a good rest."

Ge Mei didn't come back until Lu Yu left. Jiang Nian put the cup of water on the table. Ge Mei said: "Go to bed first. Things will take a turn for the better tomorrow."

Jiang Nian tossed and turned all night, and there was no movement from Lu Yu until dawn the next day.

She got up and went to the bathroom with Ge Mei to wash up. Ge Mei asked her to stay in the dormitory. She brought breakfast to Jiang Nian. After a while, Suna and Shu Xue came to see Jiang Nian and asked her about the situation there. Jiang Nian kept silent about anything and only said that they were still investigating. After

breakfast, Jiang Nian and Suna went to the embroidery manor. The embroidery manor today was unexpectedly beyond Jiang Nian's expectations. In addition to Shu Xue talking to them for a few words, Jia Yuan and Yu Xia also smiled and chatted with her.

Jiang Nian smiled and chatted with them for a few words.

Ge Mei asked Jiang Nian to stay in the embroidery manor and not go anywhere. She went to the hospital to check on the situation. When it was almost noon, Suna ran in from outside the cubicle: "Jiang Nian, Sun Ying and Wu Youshan are back, and several other people went into the textile factory with them. I saw Sun Ying, but she was fine."

Suna had just finished speaking when a familiar voice suddenly came from outside.

"Jiang Nian, please come with me to the textile factory."

After opening the compartment door, the person who walked in was Sun Yuan. She looked at Jiang Nian with a smile on her face: "My sister is ignorant and makes mistakes again and again. It's time for her to apologize to you."