Chapter 110

A short absence is better than a new marriage.

Xu Wen closed his eyes and raised his neck to meet Lu Yuanzheng's gaze.

As soon as their lips touched, Xu Wen uttered a cry, smiled and pushed Lu Yuanzheng away, "How many days have you not shaved?"

The stubble made her itchy.

Lu Yuanzheng groaned, touched his chin and laughed, "It seems like I haven't shaved since you left."

It's not that he's lazy.

They have very strict requirements on appearance.

The main reason is that he has been so busy these past two days that he hasn't even slept in bed, so why would he care whether he has shaved or not?

There are only two words for "rotation of defense", but it involves hundreds of people.

As old people leave and new people come, they have to decide how to arrange the companies, classes and posts.

Xu Wen was unhappy, "You just said you missed me! How can you have time to think about me when you are so busy? Liar!"

Lu Yuanzheng: "..."

A woman's face is more changeable than the weather in June.

He held Xu Wen's chin and rubbed it against her shoulder, which made her giggle.

"No matter how busy I am, I will still miss you." Lu Yuanzheng said.

Thinking about it carefully, he wondered why he had been so busy these past two days that he had no time to eat or sleep, yet he would think of Xu Wen from time to time.

Even when I am in a meeting, sometimes I just glance out the window and think of asking Xu if he has eaten.

Similar thoughts come to him at any time, but they do not interfere with his work or distract him.

After all, it was just a fleeting thought, but the thought flashed through his mind quite frequently. It flashed through his mind at least several hundred times during the four or five days that Xu Wen was away.

Xu Wen held up his chin with his hand: "Although I miss you too! But this is not a reason for you not to shave! If you don't shave, you can't let anyone touch you."

Lu Yuanzheng had no choice but to get up and shave in the dark, and he even shaved a small cut on himself.

I returned to the bedroom in the dark and found Xu Wen was already asleep!

She couldn't eat or sleep well outside and she missed him.

Before I met him, I was fine with the string tied to my neck, but after seeing him, the string loosened and I fell asleep.

Lu Yuanzheng: "..."

When I was in college, I had to move every time the freshman year started or the graduation season came.

Hundreds of people came in and out.

The corridors were in a mess, filled with all kinds of chaotic noises.

"Make way!"

"Where's my washbasin?"

"Who has seen my mirror?"

During the rotation of Rainbow Island, not only several hundred warriors left the island, but also several hundred warriors came to the island.

Nearly a thousand people were mixed up, but there was no chaos at all.

Their bedding and personal belongings were simply tied into backpacks and carried on their backs.

After the first group of people landed on the island, the first group of people on Rainbow Island boarded the ship and left the island.

Then the first batch and the third batch...

After the new people who arrived on the island gathered, they were first divided into companies and classes, and then all were disbanded and reorganized.

The same goes for the remaining veterans.

After the companies and squads were divided, everyone was taken back to their squads and had their luggage packed.

By the evening, everything was back to normal.

Apart from the people he knew, Xu Wen could no longer tell who were new arrivals and who were veterans who had already been on the island.

Xu Wen clicked his tongue and said, "Your execution is terrifying."

Thousands of people come and go on this island every day, but there is not the slightest sign of chaos.

The departure was clean and the return was smooth.

At the end of the day, Lu Yuanzheng didn't go home for dinner until almost nine o'clock in the evening.

"I finally understand how big the gap is between ordinary people and you!" Xu Wen sighed.

The seemingly useless training all day long can always bring surprises at the critical moment.

If she hadn't seen it all happen with her own eyes, she would have had no idea what went on on the island in a day.

Lu Yuanzheng half-closed his eyes and lay on a chair by the window. "We have only just changed a few hundred people. What else do you want? It is even more difficult during the war. Not only do you have to change but you also cannot be discovered by the enemy. To complete the handover under the searchlight is much more difficult than this."

Xu Wen sat on the bean bag with his knees hugged, listening to his voice becoming smaller and fainter, and turned his head to look at him.

Lu Yuanzheng had closed his eyes, and under the dim light, it was unclear whether the dark circles under his eyes were caused by the shadows under his eyelashes. However, it was obvious that he was tired.

Since returning from vacation, we have not had a rest during the long journey. First, the old soldiers were discharged, and then we had to go through the trouble of changing our guard.

He fell asleep while we were talking after dinner.

Xu Wen felt a little distressed, but it was useless to feel distressed.

She looked at the time, hesitated, and took a blanket to cover him from his knees to his waist.

Lu Yuanzheng can only sleep for half an hour, and it is his turn to be on duty tonight.

Normally, when I'm so sleepy, I can still ask Shi Lei to take my place. But now Shi Lei is not much better than Lu Yuanzheng.

Xu Wen looked at his watch and woke up Lu Yuanzheng when it was time.

Lu Yuanzheng was rarely in a bad mood when he woke up. He hugged her waist, rubbed his head against her belly, and muttered, "I don't want to get up."

This matter was not something Xu Wen could decide, so he could only pat him on the back twice and said, "It will be fine tomorrow!"

After changing the defense, it should be the same as last year, right?

Who knew Lu Yuanzheng shook his head and said, "Not tomorrow either. We still have to train for a while after the defense change."

We need to get used to each other and strengthen our training. We can't be as lax as last year.

Xu asked, "Then you can't take a rest in the short term?"

"It's not that we can't, but we may be a little busier than last year. Last year we were mainly busy with construction, which was physical work. This year there are more people on the island, so our mission has changed. Defense is the main thing, and construction is secondary."

There is no need for training for physical work. We are all young and strong laborers, so we just need to work hard.

This year is different. With the improvement of infrastructure, the overall defense of the Dela Islands can be guaranteed. We can defend against foreign enemies and protect our people.

In the past, there were only military dependents on the island, equivalent to half a military force. Fewer people made it easier to protect and retreat.

Now some are managing wind power generation and some are repairing the seaport.

They are all ordinary people, and the responsibility of protecting them is more important than doing the work themselves.

There are priorities for not being able to do it.

But I can’t tell Xu Wen about this.

Xu Wen guessed part of the answer, but without asking too much, he just frowned and asked, "Does that mean you can't help build the school?"

After a few words, Lu Yuanzheng sobered up a bit, patted his face, stood up and straightened his clothes, and exclaimed, "Is the school matter urgent? Now the first semester is almost halfway through. Can you guarantee that you can use the new school before the fall semester starts?"

"Of course not! How come the semester is already halfway over? It's been less than two months since the start of school. We don't have spring and autumn holidays here! We're planning to start school before the summer vacation!" Jian Lu Yuanzheng kept looking at his watch and waved his hands, "Forget it! You go first! We'll talk later."

But the journey is long and we don’t know where to return to.

As her bedmate, Xu Wen felt that the two of them were experiencing jet lag when living in the same house.

When she woke up, Lu Yuanzheng had already left, and when she fell asleep, Lu Yuanzheng had not returned yet.

Don't even think about expecting Lu Yuanzheng to come home to cook. Even if I cook now, eight out of ten times I won't be able to wait for him to come back to eat.

Song Baoying was extremely anxious, but it was no use as Shi Lei also said that it couldn't be done for the time being.

Song Baoying had no choice but to come to Xu for advice.

When she found Xu Wen, Xu Wen was shopping in the canteen. Hearing what she said, he sighed and said, "There's nothing I can do about this. We can teach, but unfortunately we can't build a school!"

No matter how powerful the magic mirror is, it is just like a web search engine, not an architect.

Mrs. Li comforted them, "Don't worry. It won't take more than one semester to get it done. Mrs. Song, you are a teacher. It should be no problem for you to give extra lessons to the girls. I will definitely cover it for them when they are free."

Song Baoying shook her head. "I'm not worried about Wenwen. Wenwen has a good foundation, and I'm keeping an eye on her studies, so she doesn't fall behind. Although it's not even April yet, it sounds like there's still half a year before the fall semester starts, but we have so much to prepare.

The campus is still a wasteland. We need to clear the weeds and tamp the land, right? We need to cut down trees and build timber, right? It will take time to build a school building, right? And we also need desks, chairs and benches. In addition, none of us have been teachers before, so we need to be trained for a few days first.

I heard that many sisters-in-law are leaving because their children are old enough to go to school. If the school doesn't do well, they will definitely leave.

Besides, if my sister-in-law who has a teenager wants to go to the island, should she come first to let the child adapt to our teaching materials and teaching? We can't just go into the classroom and start teaching at the beginning of the school year, right?

If the school is not completed until the next semester, there is no guarantee that it can open smoothly. They are so busy now that they may not have time in a few months. "

Mrs. Li sighed as she sorted the shelves: "Who said no? Our son Gensheng is also old enough to go to school. I worry about this every day. I'm thinking if it doesn't work out, I'll get up early and go to the central island every day to send him. I'm quite happy that you guys are going to build a school. It saves me a big trouble."

Mrs. Li has now completely settled down on the island. Although she does not make any profit from the small shop, she is paid a high salary and receives a pension from Lao Lu. She and Gensheng also eat in the cafeteria and do not spend much money, which she saves for marrying Gensheng in the future.

I originally wanted to buy a boat to take the children from Rainbow Island to the Central Island to go to school.

Now Xu Wen and Song Baoying are busy setting up a school, so she doesn't have to worry about it.

Mrs. Li thought for a moment and said, "How about we invite a few people from the Central Island to come over and help? You can pay them and I'll pay for it!"

Xu Wen shook his head. "This is a military stronghold. You know, Mrs. Li, we won't let outsiders into the island easily, for fear that someone who shouldn't be here will sneak in. It's a change of guard right now, and we have to be more careful during the adjustment period. Besides, hiring people is illegal! We don't have that right. The government can do it, but we can't."

"Yes! Alas! I was just talking nonsense because I was anxious! Don't take it seriously." Mrs. Li was an old military wife. She knew the rules better than Xu Wen and the others. She was just talking nonsense because she was anxious.

Song Baoying was also anxious and complained: "I can never count on them for anything related to me!"

Xu Wen shook his head.

If she were to say hello to Lu Yuanzheng, he would definitely cooperate in filing a report to invite the people of the Central Island to come to the island to help build the school.

But she didn't want to bother him.

Lu Yuanzheng is really too busy now to take care of this. If any link is not taken care of and someone sneaks in to do something, we will be doomed.

Their island can be considered an isolated island, and as Lian Zhenxing said, the risk factor is too high.

Song Baoying sighed with a sad face. Anyway, she had no good ideas.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to come to Xu Wen to discuss it.

Xu Wen asked what he could do. After a long while, he just said, "I'll think about it."

But what can she do?

Her magic mirror is just a mouth cannon that she doesn't use her hands to do.

Ask it how to build a house and it might give you a detailed tutorial.

If you let it build a house, it will probably shut itself off and pretend to be dead.

After Xu Wen settled the bill, he left the canteen with Song Baoying. Before leaving, he promised, "I will definitely come up with a solution within three days."

That being said, Xu Wen was really unsure in his heart.

Xu Wen was so worried that he didn't eat much at noon.

But you can skip meals and just sleep.

She lay on the bamboo chair and fell asleep while thinking.

In a daze, she heard someone calling her.

"sister in law!"

"Ask sister-in-law, are you home?"

Xu Wen initially thought she was dreaming, but as she listened she felt something was wrong, as someone really was calling her.

He hurriedly got up and opened the door.

Wang Lingling and the sisters-in-law who were with her when she sent the veterans off last time were all at the gate of her house.

No wonder I heard several people calling her.

Xu Wen took a few quick steps and opened the yard door for them.

The yard door is not even as high as a person's waist and can be opened with a simple push.

This is because Wang Lingling has never been here and is very reserved. Sister Li and the others probably went directly to the living room to call for help.

"Sister-in-law, why are you here? Come on! Go sit inside first, it's too hot outside."

Wang Lingling waved her hands and pointed at her shoes, "Our feet are not clean, don't let us step on them and make them dirty."

Xu Wen pulled her inside and said, "The ground is meant to be stepped on. What else should we step on? We all live on the island, and no one is any cleaner than anyone else."

Although Wang Lingling was very strong, she didn't dare to struggle too hard for fear of shaking Xu Wen, so she had to follow Xu Wen into the house.

Xu Wen poured a cup of milk tea for each of them, but put the ice cubes in a separate bowl. "Sisters-in-law, if any of you like it cool, add some ice cubes yourself! It will taste better!"

The sisters-in-law, led by Wang Lingling, were all very reserved and couldn't let go.

They quickly looked around the room and lowered their heads, feeling a little restless. No one was willing to pick up the enamelware pot.

Xu Wen saw that there was another sister-in-law, and after looking at the house, she quietly raised her feet.

Xu asked: "..."

Sitting in a chair with your feet off the ground is actually a very tiring posture.

She was a little amused and spoke again: "Sisters-in-law, don't be polite. Just treat this place as your own. I don't have a cleanliness freak... I mean I'm not that picky, you really don't have to be so polite. You've all seen my son Dongsheng, he runs around and plays like crazy outside all day, and every time he comes back he's covered in sand or mud, but he still comes into the house.

So don't be so reserved, otherwise you will feel uncomfortable and I will feel uncomfortable too."

The sister-in-law glanced at Xu Wen, and seeing that Xu Wen's eyes were sincere, she quietly put her feet back on the ground.

Xu Wen simply stood up and put a cup of tea from the enamel mug on the coffee table into their hands.

She finally realized that these sisters-in-law were too honest and too reserved, and it was unrealistic to expect them to serve milk tea themselves.

"We're not thirsty." Wang Lingling still didn't feel comfortable answering the call.

"Sister-in-law, if you don't drink it, the other sisters-in-law will be embarrassed to drink it. It's just a glass of water. You can't come to my place in such a hot day and not even drink a glass of water, right?"

Wang Lingling then took it, took a sip, and praised: "What kind of drink is this? It's really delicious! It has the aroma of milk and tea."

"This is called milk tea. I make it myself with milk and black tea. I add some sugar."

"Oh! That must be so expensive!" Wang Lingling exclaimed, but she was too embarrassed to put it back since she had already drunk it, so she could only hold the bottle and drink it in small sips, as if it were some rare treasure.

The other sisters-in-law were all similar, except the one with the floating feet who didn't move.

Xu Wen had an idea but didn't say much and didn't try to persuade him any further.

In her experience, the more she persuaded them in such situations, the more uncomfortable they became.

I can also understand Wang Lingling.

Xu Wen was a so-called rich girl in her previous life, but in this life she is a real country boy.

In Wei Zhuang Commune, there are sisters-in-law like Wang Lingling everywhere.

It’s too difficult to make money, so I can only save.

Especially for a woman like Zhu Meizhen, who has only a little money at home, she has to consider the family's food and drink expenses.

Usually, she is hard on herself when it comes to saving money, but she is relatively generous to men and children.

If Zhu Meizhen were to drink milk tea, she would probably scold Xu Wen for squandering the money and would rather take it to Sixth Street to exchange for money.

How could a person who has just solved the problem of food and clothing have the mind to live such a "luxurious" life?

Xu Wen asked Wang Lingling and the others again: "Sisters-in-law, what is the matter with you coming to see me?"

Wang Lingling slapped her forehead and said, "Look at me! I'm just drinking this milk tea and I haven't talked to you about business. Sister-in-law, we heard that you and Sister-in-law Song are going to build a school, right?"

Xu Wen nodded, "I do have this idea. But there are some problems at the moment. The soldiers on the island are very busy and can't spare the time to help us build a school building. So, I'm afraid it won't be completed in a short time."

She glanced at Wang Lingling and the other sisters-in-law in confusion, "Why? Do you have students of school age in your families? If so, please be patient and wait a little longer.

The school will definitely be built, and we are also working hard to coordinate this matter. If you are in a hurry, you can bring your children to the island first. "

Wang Lingling and the other sisters-in-law exchanged glances, and it was she who spoke. She waved her hands, her face slightly reddened, "We are not here to urge you to build a school. We came here today just to discuss with you. Do you think it is okay for us to help build the school building?"