Chapter 89

Lu Yu said: "Captain Tang said he knows, they will come the day after tomorrow."

Although Lu Yu did not say anything else, Jiang Nian could guess that Captain Tang and his men must have said something to him.

"Jiang Nian."

Lu Yu took Jiang Nian's hand and held it, pinching her fingers: "You don't have to think too much. When they come the day after tomorrow, we will treat them well. We will leave after we are done here."

Jiang Nian raised her little face and nodded: "Okay."

Zhu Jun cooked dinner in the evening. He fried two vegetables, hot corn cakes, and boiled porridge. It was the hottest time of the day. The three of them sat at the small square table under the tree to eat. Lu Yu and Zhu Jun had big appetites and ate a lot. Jiang Nian was not very hungry and was full after eating half a corn cake. She had just put down her chopsticks when she heard the sound of quarreling outside the wall of the next courtyard.

"You shameless little bastard, you eat and drink my son's food, and even want my son's money, how can you be so shameless!"

"If I had known your character, I would never let my son marry you."

"You scumbag, you killed my eldest son, why don't you go and die? Only when you die will my family have peace!"

"Zhang Dafu, do you care about your mother? Look how badly your mother scolds you? What does your brother's death have to do with me? Your mother keeps saying that I killed him, what does she mean?"

"That's enough for the two of you, stop arguing, and go back to your rooms!"

The angry voice of the deputy head of the group came from the wall of the next courtyard.

There were footsteps outside the door. Everyone was running to the next door to see what was going on. There was a small quarrel every three days and a big quarrel every five days. There were many people watching.

Xu Yan also ran out and walked to the door to call Jiang Nian who was in the yard, but she didn't dare to speak when she saw Lu Yu and Zhu Jun were there.

Lu Yu: ...

Zhu Jun: ...

Jiang Nian heard the quarrel next door, and the deputy commander's words were of no use. She asked Zhu Jun curiously, "What happened to the deputy commander's elder brother?"

Zhu Jun seemed to be accustomed to the quarrels next door. He was concentrating on eating. When he heard Jiang Nian's voice, he looked up and said, "I also heard it from the deputy commander. A few years ago, the deputy commander's wife went to the gathering with her mother-in-law and her eldest son. When they came back to catch up with the donkey cart, they passed a steep slope. I don't know what happened to his elder brother, but he fell down and hit the back of his head on a rock and died. Since then, the old lady has been scolding the deputy commander's wife."

Jiang Nian: ...

From this point of view, the deputy commander's wife was really wronged.

The quarrel lasted until Jiang Nian finished washing up. The old lady cursed particularly dirty, which made Jiang Nian frown. She lay on the bed. Not long after, Lu Yu came back. After washing up, he lifted the quilt and lay down. He stretched out his long arms and hugged Jiang Nian in his arms.

Jiang Nian stared at the dark beams, recalling every detail of her time living here, then turned around, raised her little face and looked at Lu Yu: "This was the first time we slept in the same room in this small courtyard."

Lu Yu smiled and said, "It's the first time."

After he finished speaking, the man said, "Do you remember that year when I massaged your feet in this room?"

Jiang Nian nodded lightly: "I remember."

Lu Yu's eyes were dark: "I was telling the truth that night."

"What, what?"

Jiang Nian blinked and looked at Lu Yu.

Lu Yu lowered his eyes and looked at Jiang Nian's bright and beautiful eyes: "Forget about big brother."

Jiang Nian looked at Lu Yu who was so close to her, blinked, and then remembered what happened that night. Lu Yu rubbed her feet, and halfway through the rubbing, he held her feet in his arms and told her to forget Xu Cheng.

She always knew that Lu Yu's thoughts were deep, but she didn't expect it to be so deep.

"Nian Nian"

Lu Yu called back Jiang Nian's thoughts, and his fingers passed through her fingers, interlocking theirs.

This small courtyard carries his thoughts for Jiang Nian, and also witnesses the journey from him and Jiang Nian to knowing each other and falling in love.

Lu Yu held Jiang Nian and put some more inside, then kissed her eyelashes and said, "Go to sleep."

Jiang Nian slept soundly, and she didn't even feel Lu Yu lying beside her. Lu Yu pulled Jiang Nian into his arms and gently pinched her earlobe. In the middle of the night, the woman in his arms hummed softly, "I want to drink some water."

Lu Yu said, "I'll go get some."

He wanted to get up, but Jiang Nian didn't let go of her while holding her. She rested her head on his shoulder and shouted, Thirst, Lu Yu laughed, picked up Jiang Nian and walked to the table, poured her some hot water and put it on her lips: "Drink some water."

Jiang Nian lazily opened her lips, drank some water and went back to sleep. She slept soundly this time and did not wake up until the horn sounded the next day. Zhu Jun went to the regiment, and Lu Yu made breakfast and kept the rice warm in the pot. The people from the second regiment knew that Lu Yu was back, so they all came to find him to go to the regiment. He probably had to stay in the regiment all day and could not come back.

Jiang Nian stayed at Xu Yan's house all day today. In the afternoon, Chen Fang came over with her little daughter. Her eldest son is called Tang Yong, who is eleven years old this year and went to school early in the morning. Now following her is her little girl Tang Fen, who is seven years old this year and will be able to go to school in the second half of the year.

Chen Fang led the children directly to Xu Yan's house. When she saw Jiang Nian sitting in the yard, she paused and the smile on her face froze. Jiang Nian saw it, but she remained calm and greeted her as usual: "Sister-in-law Chen."

She stood up and smiled, and continued: "Did Lu Yu give you the things that Sister-in-law Ping asked me to bring you?"

Chen Ping said: "He gave it to me last night. Thank you."

Jiang Nian could see that Chen Ping was unnatural, but he didn't see any contempt or ridicule in her eyes. Chen Ping seemed to be looking for a topic, and took Tang Fen's hand and asked: "Are you and Zhu Jun going to hold a banquet at Zhu Jun's house tomorrow at noon?"

Jiang Nian nodded: "Yes."

Chen Ping said: "Then I will come to help you tomorrow."

"Thank you, Sister-in-law Chen."

"Why thank you? We lived in the same compound after all. My sister said you took good care of her there. It's reasonable for me to come over. By the way, how are you doing there? Are you doing well?"

Chen Ping said a lot more, and Xu Yan was confused.

Jiang Nian smiled and said, "Everything is fine."

Actually, Chen Ping came here today mostly for the sake of her sister and brother-in-law. After all, her brother-in-law is now working for Captain Lu, and sometimes you can't tear your face off. Yesterday, after Lu Yu came home and told her and Old Tang about his marriage to Jiang Nian, she and Old Tang were stunned for a long time, and couldn't figure out why the two of them were together.

A brother-in-law and a sister-in-law, if this gets out, people will poke holes in their backs.

But then she thought, these two people are not uncle and sister-in-law, and Captain Lu and Captain Xu are not brothers. Jiang Nian married Lu Yu. Others can only talk about it behind her back, but nothing can be said. After Lu Yu left last night, Chen Ping thought of the last time she and Old Tang went to Lu Yu's house to match Jiang Nian, Lu Yu was angry . Could it be that the two of them had already had a quarrel at that time

? After Lu Yu told several old comrades that he and Jiang Nian would hold a banquet at Zhu Jun's house tomorrow, the couples of these families talked for a long time in the evening.

Chen Ping came here mainly to talk to Jiang Nian and communicate. She didn't have any opinion on her marriage with Captain Lu.

Before, she wanted to match Jiang Nian and Tang Ze together, but later Tang Ze married Sun Ying, and that woman made a mess of the Tang family. Sun Ying later did something to let Tang Ze down, and she was not pregnant with a child from the Tang family. Because of this, her mother-in-law came all the way from her hometown and made a

scene in Sun Ying's compound. If Tang Ze hadn't taken his mother away, the news would have spread to the army. A few days before Tang Ze went to the border, he came to her house with valuables to apologize to her. There was nothing wrong between them, and it was Sun Ying who started it. Without that woman, Chen Ping also made peace with Tang Ze and still treated him as her own brother.

The day Tang Ze left, Chen Ping cried bitterly.

Later, on her way back, she met Sun Ying, who was with a man and holding a baby in his arms. He looked a bit like the man next to her.

Chen Fang remembered that the man seemed to be called Wu Youshan. When Sun Ying married Tang Ze, she saw this man coming to the outside of the army several times to entangle Sun Ying. She didn't forget it at the time, but she didn't expect Sun Ying to do such a thing with this man.

Tang Ze was living well here, but now he has gone to the border. It takes four days to get there by train, and it is not easy to go home. When my mother-in-law knew about this, she almost cried and passed out. Old Tang was angry with Tang Ze for several days because of this.

She still remembers that the day Tang Ze got on the bus and left, he said to her, "Sister-in-law, I was wrong about what happened before, please don't take it to heart. I will need you to take care of my mother in the future, and I will send more allowance every month."

Chen Fang smiled and said, "My sister's two children are doing well, right?"

Jiang Nian nodded and said, "The two children are both in school now, and they are doing well. When you came here, Sister Ping said you wanted to go back to your parents' home for a visit."

Once the topic was changed, Chen Fang felt more at ease and said, "My mother is old, and the children are about to have a long vacation. I'll take the two children back to see them and bring them some things."

Jiang Nian knew that after Chen Fang got married, she had been helping her parents' home. Because of this, her mother-in-law often talked about her and had complaints about her.

Chen Ping sat for a while and then left. Liu Jianwu was playing outside. Only Xu Yan and Jiang Nian were left in the yard

. Without waiting for Xu Yan to ask, Jiang Nian spoke first: "I married Lu Yu." Xu Yan was struck by lightning, and the whole body was shocked on the spot, and she was stunned and didn't come back to her senses.

Jiang Nian pursed her lips and continued: "We got married in February. This time I came back mainly to tell Lu Yu's comrades." After saying that, he took Xu Yan's rough and dry hand. Looking at Xu Yan's thin back of the hand, Jiang Nian held her hand with heartache: "I just thought of telling you today."

Xu Yan came back to her senses, and held Jiang Nian's hand with her backhand. She seemed to be still in shock. After a while, she said: "When did you get together?"

She and Jiang Nian had been neighbors for two years, but she didn't notice it at all.

Jiang Nian followed what Lu Yu said to Feng Mei last time and said to Xu Yan, "Lu Yu came back from a mission a few years ago. We were together when I went to take care of him in the hospital."

Xu Yan paused for a moment before smiling. There was not a trace of sarcasm in the smile on her face. She was really happy for Jiang Nian, "Captain Lu is a good guy. He is handsome, responsible and capable. Besides, you two are not uncle and sister-in-law, so no one can say anything if you are together."

Xu Yan held Jiang Nian's hand tightly, her dry eyes She felt a little hot, she lowered her head, not wanting Jiang Nian to see the tears in her eyes, pursed her lips for a while, and said word by word: "As long as Captain Lu treats you well, as long as he puts you first, no matter what others say, you should live a good life with him. It's not easy for us women to meet a good man in our lives, so cherish him when you meet one."

This is Xu Yan's idea. Jiang Nian knows that Xu Yan is not living well, especially Liu Qiang feels guilty about Xu Yan, turning a woman who loves to laugh and is lively into what she is now.

In Xu Yan's eyes, as long as the other party treats her sincerely, he is a good husband and a good man.

Xu Yan kept her head down. Jiang Nian didn't break through her last strong disguise. He held her hand very hard, so hard that her fingers were shaking. Liu Jianwu ran in from the yard and called her mother. Xu Yan breathed a sigh of relief, looked up at the sky, and then turned to Liu Jianwu and said, "Go wash your hands. Look, your hands are all muddy."

Jiang Nian lowered her eyes and felt sorry for Xu Yan, but she had done everything she could. Just like Lu Yu said, maybe she is living a much better life now than before.

Thinking of the ending of Xu Yan marrying an old bachelor in the novel, Jiang Nian felt that at least Xu Yan is free now.

Lu Yu came back in the evening with a sweat on his body. It can be seen that he practiced very hard in the group today.

Fortunately, they both brought some clothes to change. Lu Yu took a cool bath and changed into clean clothes. He washed the clothes and hung them in the yard. After dinner with Zhu Jun, he went back to the house. Jiang Nian was half asleep and noticed someone lying next to her. She rolled over and rolled into his arms.

Lu Yu hugged her angrily, bit her smooth shoulder, and laughed softly, "How can you be sure it's me?"

Jiang Nian muttered, "You smell different from others."

Lu Yu sniffed himself and didn't smell anything.

Jiang Nian slept until she woke up naturally the next day. Lu Yu was supposed to stay with Jiang Nian to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things today. Xu Yan happened to come over and said to Lu Yu, "I'll go with her."

Seeing this, Lu Yu knew that Jiang Nian had told Xu Yan everything she needed to say, so he nodded, "Then thank you."

Xu Yan smiled and said, "Why are you thanking me?"

Today, Liu Jianye and Lu Zhijun were at home after school, playing with Liu Jianwu. Captain Lu's mother also came, holding a basket in her hand, and smiled and said, "I'm going to the supply and marketing cooperative too, let's go together."

Xu Yan said, "Okay."

Jiang Nian glanced at the old lady, and when she went back to the house to get something, she whispered to Lu Yu: "Does the old lady know about us?"

Lu Yu nodded: "I know, when I went to see Captain Lu the night before, the old lady was there."

He reached out and tucked the broken hair behind Jiang Nian's ears: "Don't worry about others, just do what you need to do, I'm here for everything."

These words made Jiang Nian feel safe.

She stood on tiptoe but still couldn't kiss Lu Yu, so she pulled his collar, made him lower his head and quickly kissed him on the lips before running away. Because she ran too fast, she almost fell to the ground. Lu Yu's voice came from behind: "Run slower."

Jiang Nian: ...

I almost embarrassed myself.

On the way to the supply and marketing cooperative, she, Xu Yan and the old lady met the sisters Kang Xiu and Kang Nan. Kang Nan was pregnant and Kang Xiu was carrying a basket with some vegetables on her back. They looked like they had just returned from their own plot. Their eyes were fixed on Jiang Nian, with contempt and ridicule in their eyes. Kang Nan was particularly excessive. When she passed by Jiang Nian and the others, she said, "You bitch who seduced your brother-in-law, I don't know how you can have the face to come back."