Ling Huanwu dropped the scythe from her hand, her face drained of color in fright.
"What did you say? Who's in trouble?"
The person who came was a villager living near the military base. His face was covered in black grime and bloodstains, and he was running unsteadily.
Several villagers rushed forward to help him up, and Ling Huanwu also hurriedly came up from the field to pull the man away, anxiously asking, "You just said something happened?"
"I just saw Regiment Commander Zhou being carried out of the quartermaster's office, completely unconscious. The political commissar and the others are arranging boats to take him to the city hospital. They sent me back to tell the commander's wife to go there..."
Before he could finish speaking, Ling Huanwu's ears started ringing and her vision went black.
She couldn't hear anything, and wearing rubber shoes, she took off running towards the direction of the troops.
In such a hurry, he didn't even notice that he had lost a shoe.
Zhou Shuyao, carrying his rain boots, hurriedly chased after her, picking up her shoes that had fallen to the ground as he ran, shouting, "Wait, Huanwu, your foot..."
But the woman in front didn't hear her at all, ignoring the cuts on her feet, and continued running like a madwoman.
Qin Jinshen came up from the rice paddy, put away his umbrella, and looked at the woman's retreating figure with pain in his eyes.
The guard leaned close and whispered in his ear, "Things have gone a bit wrong. We were ordered by the master to blow his leg off, but one of his subordinates suddenly rushed in and blocked the explosion. I guess Zhou Jiuzhen only got a head injury!"
Qin Jin glared at him fiercely, dissatisfied with his incompetence.
Initially, he wanted to get rid of Zhou Jiuzhen.
But after realizing that Ling Huanwu seemed to have fallen for Zhou Jiu, he changed his mind.
He wanted to cripple Zhou Jiuzhen so she could never have sex again, to see if she would still be willing to stay with him for life.
When he leaves this island, he will not only have her body, but also her heart!
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Military dock.
When Ling Huanwu arrived, she saw a stretcher being pushed onto the boat, with a severed leg tied to it.
She rushed forward in three strides, grabbed the stretcher with both hands, and her whole body went limp as if all her strength had been released, tears streaming down her face.
"Nine tremors, nine tremors..."
A hoarse, mournful wail echoed throughout the entire dock.
The soldiers around him were all wiping away tears, deeply moved by the atmosphere.
Guard Wang rushed over from behind and tugged at Ling Huanwu, who was lying on the ground. "Commander's wife, the commander isn't here. Get up quickly, you're crying for the wrong man!"
Ling Huanwu raised her tear-streaked face, her expression full of confusion and bewilderment, "What do you mean? What do you mean by crying over the wrong man?"
The next second, Ling Huanwu saw Xu Amei from the same family compound walking over from not far away, crying and calling out her man's name.
Guard Wang pointed to another stretcher on the deck. Only then did Ling Huanwu realize that she had cried for the wrong person. She got up and apologized repeatedly to the man on the stretcher who was grimacing in pain. Then she immediately ran to Zhou Jiuzhen's stretcher on the deck.
At this moment, Zhou Jiuzhen was lying on a stretcher with his head wrapped in thick gauze, and blood had soaked the entire gauze on his forehead.
Ling Huanwu touched the leg beneath him.
Fortunately, both of his strong and powerful legs are still intact.
She lay on top of him, still trembling with fear, tears streaming down her face.
But when she arrived at the city hospital and saw the doctor holding a black X-ray with a solemn expression, Ling Huanwu's heart sank into an abyss.
When she returned to the ward, she saw her mother-in-law and Zhou Shuyao, who had arrived in the escort boat behind her.
At this moment, Zhou Jiuzhen had already woken up and was eating the apple that his mother-in-law had peeled for him.
Wang Guihua wiped away her tears while thanking God, and kept muttering, "You're finally awake. What happened? How could your quartermaster's office explode? You don't know how your wife rushed to find you as soon as she heard you were in trouble, she even lost her shoes in the process."
"When your wife comes back later, you silly boy, you'd better comfort her properly."
Zhou Shuyao sat to the side expressionlessly, holding his little red rain boots. He scoffed at his mother's words, "She's stupid too. Marrying my brother, she'll live in fear for the rest of her life!"
Wang Guihua was about to scold him for talking nonsense when she heard Zhou Jiuzhen speak quietly, his eyes filled with doubt, "Mother, what did you say? When did I get married? How come I didn't know?"
Ling Huanwu, who was about to go in, paused as she pushed the door open, feeling a pang of sadness in her heart.
The mother-in-law and Zhou Shuyao in the ward were even more shocked.
The next second.
Zhou Shuyao jumped up from beside the hospital bed, his eyes filled with excitement, "Really? Big brother, you really don't remember your sister-in-law?"
If it's true, then he can pursue Ling Huanwu without any scruples!
Zhou Jiuzhen glared at him, frowning as he said, "What nonsense are you spouting, you brat? What sister-in-law do you have? Your sister-in-law is our country, everything I have belongs to the country, I only love our country..."
He stopped abruptly when he saw Ling Huanwu, who was walking in with the doctor, through the door.
Zhou Jiuzhen stared blankly at Ling Huanwu as she entered, his mouth agape, the back of his ears turning slightly red.
As soon as the mother-in-law saw the doctor, she grabbed his hand as if he were her savior and begged for help, "Doctor, please save my son! It seems like his head has been blown up; he's completely forgotten about his wife!"
The doctor gestured for her to calm down, then turned to Zhou Jiuzhen and asked, "Comrade, what's your name? How old are you?"
Zhou Jiuzhen's gaze swept over Ling Huanwu without changing his expression, finally landing on the doctor. He said in a booming voice, "My name is Zhou Jiuzhen, I am eighteen years old, and I am a soldier in the 28th Regiment of the Independent Regiment!"
The entire audience was shocked!
The guard, disguised as a nurse and hiding by the door, was so shocked that his jaw dropped.
He hurriedly picked up the fake chin from the ground and rushed back to report, running so fast that one of the pieces of cured meat hidden under his clothes fell off.
Inside the ward, Zhou Jiuzhen had just finished introducing himself when his eyes darted furtively towards Ling Huanwu before quickly looking away.
The doctor put away the small flashlight he was about to turn on and scribbled on the medical record. "The patient's brain was injured in the explosion and his memory has returned to when he was 18 years old. It's not a big problem. It's possible that after ten or eight years, or not long after, the blood clot in his brain will be absorbed and he will naturally remember the past."
"Eighteen years old?"
Eighteen years old!
The mother-in-law and Zhou Shuyao exclaimed in surprise, and when they looked at Zhou Jiuzhen, their expressions were indescribable.
The doctor didn't understand why the two were reacting so strongly, so he gestured for them to talk outside the ward.
Ling Huanwu turned around and looked at Zhou Jiuzhen, who was sitting on the bed with his eyes darting around, just like Zhou Shuyao back then, with eyes that were clear yet foolish. She felt completely overwhelmed and found him utterly unfamiliar.
She and the two others followed the doctor in the corridor to discuss the patient's condition.
The doctor looked grave and instructed the group, "The patient has lost part of his memory and his emotions are prone to fluctuations. You must go along with him and not upset him."
The mother-in-law was taken aback. "Doctor, what are you saying? Does that mean if he forgets his wife, we should also become single men like him?"
"If that's the case, what will happen to my daughter-in-law?"
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