Inside the wooden shed.
Zhou Jiuzhen tucked Su Haiting's blanket in, glanced at the time on his wrist, and eagerly got up again, "It's too late, I have to go back..."
Su Haiting tried to pull him by the hem of his clothes but couldn't budge him. Just as he was about to push the door open and leave, Su Haiting was wondering how to stop him when Old Lady Su came in with two wooden boxes, stopping him in his tracks.
"Jiuzhen, Grandma has something to ask you. Could you stay and help Grandma take a look at what this is?"
Grandma Su opened the small wooden box inside and took out two pieces of cloth with maps drawn on them. She looked worried and said, "Can you help me figure out what these two maps are?"
Now she's just trying her best to keep Zhou Jiuzhen here and delay the time for him to go find Ling Huanwu.
She pieced the two pieces of cloth together and shakily handed them to Zhou Jiuzhen.
Zhou Jiuzhen's expression lit up, and he quickly took the two maps and examined them.
Last time Su Haiting showed him only one map, but it turns out there were actually two maps!
No wonder he couldn't understand the locations marked on it last time.
He immediately sat down under the kerosene lamp and, imitating Grandma Su, pieced the two maps together by swapping different corners.
Su Haiting glanced at Old Lady Su with a puzzled look, not understanding why she suddenly took out those two maps.
Grandma Su patted her hand to comfort her and whispered in her ear, "That man surnamed Ling seems to have had a miscarriage outside. If we can just keep him here, we'll be halfway there!"
Upon hearing this, Su Haiting's face lit up with joy, as if the gloom of the past few days had finally given way to a ray of light, and the corners of her lips unconsciously turned up.
Her biggest dream in life was to marry Zhou Jiuzhen, a promise she made to her brother.
My brother once said that Zhou Jiuzhen would be a very good husband, and he felt very reassured entrusting her to him!
She couldn't let her brother worry.
No matter the cost, she is determined to realize her childhood dream.
Just as Zhou Jiuzhen was concentrating on studying how to stitch the two maps together, there was another urgent knock on the door.
"Commander, come out quickly, my sister-in-law..."
Before the guard Wang at the door could finish shouting, Old Lady Su pushed open the door with her cane, interrupting what he was about to say.
"Xiao Wang, what are you yelling about? Your Battalion Commander Zhou is already asleep, so don't disturb them, understand? If you keep making noise, you'll wake up the people around here, and that won't be good..."
"Asleep? With Comrade Su?"
Guard Wang's eyes widened in disbelief.
He peeked inside, but was pushed out the door by Old Lady Su's cane. "What, do you want to make a scene? My granddaughter's reputation is already ruined. If you don't want your battalion commander's reputation to be ruined, then shout it out!"
Wang, the guard, ignored her with a stern face and started shouting at the top of his lungs, "Battalion Commander, come out quickly! Your wife is in trouble! She seems to be having a miscarriage!"
Inside the room, Zhou Jiuzhen was focused on piecing together a map and took out his notebook to draw patterns of different ways to piece the map together.
As I was drawing, I heard Xiao Wang calling from the doorway.
He stood up, wanting to go outside and hear what Guard Wang had to say, when he saw Su Haiting's hand tremble as she picked up the enamel cup from the table, and half a cup of water suddenly spilled onto the two maps.
Zhou Jiuzhen's pupils dilated, and he hurriedly held the two wet maps in front of him and carefully wiped them clean.
At that moment, his attention was entirely focused on the map, and he didn't hear a word Xiao Wang said at the door.
"Oh no, the picture is all blurry, it's all my fault."
Su Haiting's face was full of self-reproach as she said regretfully, "If it weren't for Guard Wang suddenly yelling at the door, I wouldn't have accidentally knocked over the water glass, boohoo..."
Zhou Jiuzhen was extremely annoyed and gently wiped the areas stained by the water.
Outside, Guard Wang was still calling persistently. Zhou Jiuzhen didn't want to be disturbed at such a crucial moment, so he immediately went out and looked at the red-faced Guard Wang, coldly scolding him, "Are you done yet? I have important business to attend to. Go back to sleep and don't come any more!"
After Zhou Jiuzhen finished speaking, he slammed the door shut and went back to studying the map under the kerosene lamp.
Wang, the guard outside the wooden shed, was completely stunned and speechless.
He couldn't imagine that Zhou Jiuzhen would not only be unmoved by the news of Ling Huanwu's miscarriage, but would also say that sleeping with outsiders was an important matter.
Yesterday, Zhou Jiuzhen was such a loving husband, even a good man who would die for his wife. How could he suddenly become like this?
When Guard Wang returned to the tent where the military doctor was located, he witnessed a scene that made his eyes widen in horror.
Ling Huanwu, who was in a state of emotional distress, was curled up in a ball on the bed, covering her head and trembling all over.
The military doctor stood by, his face pale, looking completely at a loss.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
Guard Wang rushed in, grabbed the medic by the collar, and looked like a menacing monster, ready to punch him. "You dare bully my sister-in-law? Don't you want to die?"
The silver needle in the medic's hand fell to the ground with a "clink," and he looked more wronged than Dou E. "Oh dear, I didn't do anything. I just saw that Comrade Ling was showing signs of threatened miscarriage, and since we didn't have any medicine in the army, I wanted to give her acupuncture to help her have the pregnancy. I didn't expect her to react so violently!"
Only then did Guard Wang notice the needles on the ground. Looking at Ling Huanwu, who was already out of control on the bed, he immediately understood and slapped the military doctor across the face. "Who told you to do acupuncture? Don't you know she's most afraid of people sticking needles into her body?"
The military doctor was spun around on the spot by the guard Wang, and he covered his face, looking at the inconspicuous guard in front of him in disbelief. How dare he hit him!
"What's wrong with you? How dare you hit me? Believe me or not, I'll tell your battalion commander and get you disciplined!"
Guard Wang gritted his teeth, his eyes reddening. His trembling hand, which had been striking, seemed to finally regain its composure as he stiffly uttered a few words, "I'm sorry, I... I just went to call the battalion commander, but he wouldn't come back, saying he wanted to sleep with Comrade Su! That's why I lost control for a moment..."
One sentence, like a heavy hammer blow, plunged Ling Huanwu, who had just recovered from the psychological trauma, back into boundless darkness.
She huddled in the corner, staring blankly ahead, like a puppet without a soul.
Scenes from her previous life flashed before her eyes.
Zhou Shuyao impatiently tossed out a "Stop messing around" and turned to leave.
One of the three children smashed the phone, another locked the door, and the third blocked the doctor, extinguishing her last hope of saving her child.
But what is she doing now?
She foolishly got pregnant with another man's child, hoping to win his ridiculous love and grow old with him.
She hadn't suffered enough in her previous life, and now she wanted to suffer again?
Tears streamed down her face like a burst dam, her heart felt as if it were being pierced by a thousand arrows, and the pain in her lower abdomen made her pale. She collapsed onto the bed, curled up in a ball.
Seeing Ling Huanwu's state, the military doctor, rubbing his disheveled hair, was on the verge of collapse. He glared at the outspoken guard Wang, so angry he almost jumped up and down, "Are you brainless? Couldn't you have secretly told me your battalion commander wasn't coming? Did you have to provoke her like that? When your battalion commander finds out what trouble you've caused, he'll skin you alive!"
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