Chapter 5: Clear and orderly, step by step

In the room.

Jiang Rou and Zhou Chongshan sat facing each other.

At Zhou Chongshan's request, Jiang Rou recounted the story of the real and fake daughter in more detail.

Earlier in front of the training ground, Jiang Rou had already given a brief summary.

Zhou Chongshan extracted a lot of important information from her words and roughly understood what had happened.

But he couldn't believe it, as this was a big event, marriage, and it affected a person's entire life.

How can it be possible to just marry someone else?

Moreover, she was married off from a city with good food and clothing to a remote and impoverished island.

Or marry a complete stranger.

Jiang Rou is such a delicate girl, don't she have any resentment or reluctance at all?

So this time, when Jiang Rou was telling these things.

Zhou Chongshan has been observing silently.

The little girl in front of him had a calm expression and a calm tone. Even when she mentioned that her parents, with whom she had lived for more than ten years, were not her biological parents, she did not have the slightest regret or resentment.

Even when she mentioned the idea of ​​being married off, she would still look at him with sparkling eyes.

Zhou Chongshan, a thirty-year-old man, was inexplicably frightened by the look on his face.

“…That’s how it is.”

Jiang Rou finished her story.

Zhou Chongshan pondered with his eyes, and at the same time suppressed the strange feeling in his chest.

Pause.

He spoke.

"The person I was engaged to was Jiang Xiu'er, and the person who used the allowance I sent home was also Jiang Xiu'er. No matter what your relationship with Jiang Xiu'er is, you didn't do these things, and you don't have to take responsibility. You stay here tonight, and I will ask about the nearest boat and send you back to the city as soon as possible. And my engagement with Jiang Xiu'er is cancelled."

What?!

Jiang Rou was shocked after hearing what Zhou Chongshan said.

This man actually wanted to chase her away!

These are not mentioned at all in the original book.

Could it be that when the original owner first came to the island, he also knew that he had no home to return to, so he clung to Zhou Chongshan's thigh and refused to let go?

Or was it because of her time travel that caused the butterfly effect, causing Zhou Chongshan to change?

The plot deviation is too great.

More importantly, Jiang Rou didn't want to leave here at all!

"I won't leave. I'm here to be your wife. Now that I'm here, how can I just go back so easily?"

Jiang Rou refused flatly.

She wanted the tone of her voice to sound strong and firm.

But that delicate voice was still gentle and soft when she spoke these words.

It seems like she is acting coquettishly.

Zhou Chongshan's heart buzzed when he heard this.

The man looked at the pretty and fair girl in front of him, and then thought about her current situation: her adoptive parents didn't love her, and her biological parents were long gone.

Even if she goes back, the little girl will be alone.

Still so delicate and weak.

If she gets bullied, she doesn’t know if there is anyone to protect her.

She may even have nowhere to go, no home to return to.

Zhou Chongshan felt a pang in his heart for no reason.

After careful consideration, he finally spoke.

"Then you...stay for now..."

"Zhou Chongshan, if you let me stay, does that mean you are willing to marry me?"

Before Zhou Chongshan finished speaking, Jiang Rou, who had just heard that she could stay, immediately moved closer to him and asked with a sweet smile.

Zhou Chongshan was startled.

The body subconsciously raised its head back.

He frowned. "I'm thirty years old."

Jiang Rou smiled sweetly, "I know this."

"Although this is my first marriage, I have adopted two orphans of my comrades. I treat them as my own children and will not have my own children in the future. If you marry me, you will be the stepmother of these two children."

Zhou Chongshan’s words are concise and to the point.

The purpose of his saying this was to persuade Jiang Rou to retreat again.

However, he didn't know that the information he mentioned was already known by Jiang Rou.

Jiang Rou blinked her bright eyes and continued to stare at Zhou Chongshan.

"It's good that you don't want to have children even though you already have one."

The man frowned, "Where is good?"

Zhou Chongshan couldn't think of any good thing about a little girl of eighteen or nineteen becoming a stepmother of two children.

However, the little girl in front of him said something shocking and surprising.

"Because I don't want to have a baby. Giving birth is painful and dangerous, and it affects my figure. If I don't recover well, I will get a lot of gynecological diseases.

So don't worry, I am not only willing to marry you, but also willing to treat those two children as my own and take good care of them, just like you do."

Jiang Rou doesn't want to have children, and there are other reasons besides those mentioned in the conversation.

But she couldn't tell Zhou Chongshan for the time being. It would not be too late to be open and honest with him after they became husband and wife.

She was not only clear and organized, but also very aggressive.

A pair of bright eyes, sparkling with expectation.

"So, when are we going to file the marriage report?

But Zhou Chongshan...

A man who had never retreated a single step in the face of war and gunfire now seemed completely at a loss.

He had just taken a cold shower, but now hot sweat was breaking out on his forehead again.

The man looked into Jiang Rou's bright eyes.

He swallowed with a dry throat.

I don't know why, but I just can't say no.

"You can live here for now, and we can talk about marriage later."

As soon as the words fell.

Zhou Chongshan stood up immediately.

The tall man actually looked as if he was about to flee.

Just.

Zhou Chongshan had just turned around when Jiang Rou grabbed the corner of his clothes again.

Those white and slender fingers tightly grasped his military uniform.

The fingertips turned a light pink due to the force applied.

Zhou Chongshan took a leisurely glance.

"Zhou Chongshan, wait a moment."

After Jiang Rou called Zhou Chongshan, she immediately turned around and opened the handbag she brought.

From the compartment of the handbag, a personal information belonging to the original owner was taken out.

"This is my household registration information and personal data. Take it. It will be useful when you file your marriage report."

Two thin pieces of paper were stuffed into Zhou Chongshan's hands.

Jiang Rou's fingers touched the man's rough palm and slid across it quickly.

It left a scalding mark.

…

Zhou Chongshan left with Jiang Rou's personal information.

Jiang Rou was the only one left in the room.

Not long ago, she was knocked unconscious by Jiang Xiu'er, and then put on a donkey cart and moved to the bed. Her body was dirty and her skirt was stained.

After waking up today, I was exposed to the sun for so long that I was sweating all over and felt sticky and uncomfortable.

What Jiang Rou wants to do most now is to take a good bath.

She naturally thought of the washroom!

I took a change of clothes from my handbag and found new towels and soap in the closet.

Jiang Rou hummed a song as she walked past the yard where Zhou Chongshan had previously taken a bath and happily walked into the bathroom.

In the bathroom.

There is a simple shower.

Jiang Rou turned on the water and tried it, and it turned out to be hot water.

In that era, there were no high-end high-tech products such as electric water heaters. If every household wanted to take a hot bath, they either had to boil water or go to a bathhouse.

And there is hot water in this simple bathroom, all thanks to Zhou Chongshan.

Jiang Rou remembered that the original text mentioned that Zhou Chongshan was not only a talent on the battlefield, but also extremely smart in his daily life.

During the initial construction of the island.

He installed a large bucket that could be filled with water on the roof of the water room.

The thing that the island has the most is sunshine.

As long as the sunlight shines like this, the temperature of the water in the bucket will rise.

Then connect the other end of the bucket to the shower in the bathroom, and you can take a comfortable hot bath.

It seems simple, but the drainage and installation of water pipes are technical jobs.

They were all made by Zhou Chongshan alone.

His design was originally intended to make things convenient for the two children, but now it benefits Jiang Rou.

Jiang Rou used soap to make bubbles and washed her hair and took a bath at the same time.

In this way.

Gradually it was evening.

When Jiang Rou was still in the bathroom, enjoying a hot shower, she heard a rapid knock on the door and a sharp female voice coming from the yard.

“Boom boom boom!”

"Why is the door locked in broad daylight?"

"Brother Zhou, Brother Zhou! Are you home?"

"Who is in Brother Zhou's house? Why don't you come over and open the door?"

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(As for the original novel that Jiang Rou has read, it is just the basic storyline. If she does not read it carefully, she will also have corresponding changes.

As for the reason for the change, on the one hand, the original description in the novel was one-sided, and the "real" characters that Jiang Rou met after traveling through time were more vivid and comprehensive.

The reasons for these two aspects will be mentioned in the second half of the novel, so I won’t spoil them here.)

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