"Even if he was arrested, you didn't get him out!" Mengmeng's mother glared at Xu Rushan, then turned to complain to Jiang Shiyue, "Let me tell you, men are really unreliable sometimes..."
Once, Mengmeng's mother and Wang Yingying had just set up their stall in an alley near the department store when they were rushed out and arrested by law enforcement officers who were lying in ambush nearby.
Apart from the glorious title of "military wives", they were just two ordinary women who had never seen the world. They were frightened and burst into tears on the spot. They borrowed a phone to call the compound.
Who knew that Xu Rushan and the second company commander would not come to rescue them for a long time.
Xu Rushan protested, "How could I have been so slow to come and rescue you? I had to go through the process to ask for leave. Besides, although setting up stalls is now tacitly allowed, there are no explicit regulations, right? They're not wrong to arrest people. You can't let me go to the police station to look for you in these clothes, right? This issue is not just about setting up a stall."
When it comes to negotiations between the military and local authorities, a small matter becomes a big one.
"Tsk! I wouldn't have come out if I hadn't counted on you." There was still some resentment in Mengmeng's mother's words.
Jiang Shiyue noticed some interest in what he said and asked, "What happened next? How did you get out?"
Mengmeng's mother picked up her cup and clinked it with Jiang Shiyue's, "Later, you were the one who saved us."
"Me?" Jiang Shiyue's eyes widened, and she pointed her index finger at herself with a look of disbelief on her face.
She didn't even know about this incident, how could she save people?
"This is what happened..." Mengmeng's mother recounted in detail what happened that day.
Those people sent them to the police station. They waited anxiously for a while, and then a middle-aged man who looked like Maitreya Buddha came and asked them with a smile where the clothes came from.
Mengmeng's mother and Wang Yingying were already scared out of their wits, and they didn't care whether the people who came to question them were police officers from the police station or not, and they told the whole story about the origin of the clothes.
Mengmeng's mother blushed with shame when she thought of her behavior in the police station. She and her sister-in-law Wang Yingying were really scared at that time.
At that time, Wang Yingying's sister-in-law cried and shouted, "Sister-in-law Jiang Shiyue has sold clothes in Yincheng so many times and has never been caught. How come she was caught after only two visits?!"
The Maitreya Buddha had turned around to leave, but when he heard Wang Yingying's words, he turned back, "Jiang Shiyue? Is that Jiang Shiyue, the military wife? Did she work for the garment factory to alter clothes before?"
Wang Yingying and the others answered every question, “Yes!”
Maitreya Buddha: “…”
"So the clothes you're selling were also given to you by her?"
Wang Yingying was about to speak when Mengmeng's mother pulled her clothes to stop her. "Why are you asking this? If we break the law, how we are punished is our business. It has nothing to do with others."
"Don't get me wrong, I'm the person in charge of our department store. My last name is Xu, and I'm also a friend of Comrade Jiang Shiyue. Since we're friends, this matter will be easy."
Mengmeng's mother said embarrassedly, "Then Director Xu said something to the police, and we were released. The clothes should have been confiscated, but they were returned to us. Not only that, Director Xu also gave us a counter in the department store and just asked us to pay a small monthly rent.
The department store! It's so crowded. The clothes you sent back are trendy, but the sizes aren't fixed, so they have to fit you perfectly. Even so, Wang Yingying and I each earned over 100 yuan last month. After rent this month, we'll each get about 200 yuan.
So, who else should I thank if not you? Oh, yes, we actually occupied half of the counter, and the other half was filled with work clothes and jeans, which were the clothes you asked us to dye before.
Jiang Shiyue: “…”
This development was unexpected.
However, she was not as naive as Mengmeng's mother, who thought that Director Xu was helping them out of kindness.
If her guess was correct, it was because Mengmeng's mother and Wang Yingying set up a stall near the department store, and their good business attracted Director Xu's attention.
Jiang Shiyue had dealt with Director Xu before and knew that this person had a very keen business sense. He must have discovered that the clothes sold by Mengmeng's mother and Wang Yingying were not available in the department store, so he reported Mengmeng's mother and Wang Yingying.
One was to scare them so that they would not set up stalls near the department store in the future, and the other was to report them and then bail them out, so as to take the opportunity to show goodwill and find out their supply channels.
I just didn't expect that the source of supply was her.
No matter what, she has to accept this favor.
Jiang Shiyue asked Mengmeng's mother: "Those work clothes and jeans haven't been sold yet?"
Mengmeng's mom nodded and then shook her head. "Workwear sales are low. Last month we sold two sets, a little more this month, so four or five so far, right?! The denim was long gone. All that's left is the long-sleeved shirt on the model and a few short-sleeved shirts under the counter. It's normal that short-sleeved shirts don't sell well in winter."
Jiang Shiyue nodded.
"Tell me, should I thank you?" Mengmeng's mother's face was full of gratitude.
Xu Rushan chimed in, "You don't know that as soon as you said winter break was about to start, Mengmeng's mom started pacing around the room, muttering all day about wanting to prepare a thank-you gift for you. But Chen Ying said you've already bought a house and a car, so you don't need anything else. But, you've been eating in the cafeteria or restaurants every day at Huacheng, and you haven't had a home-cooked meal in a while. Let us just make you a home-cooked meal."
Jiang Shiyue glanced sideways at Chen Shanhe and nodded, "Yeah! I either eat in the cafeteria or at a restaurant every day. It's been a long time since I've tasted the flavor of home! I should thank you!"
Mengmeng’s mother is a great cook and she makes authentic northern home-cooked dishes.
Cabbage and vermicelli stewed with tofu, pork ribs soup, shredded potatoes, etc.
The food in Huacheng is light, and Jiang Shiyue hadn't eaten such a delicious meal for a long time, so she ate an extra steamed bun.
After dinner, Xu Rushan arranged for someone to send them back to Chen Shanhe’s current unit.
Both of them were drunk and unfit to drive.
Yangyang and Mengmeng reunite after a long time and decide to stay in the compound to play.
Jiang Shiyue also left the gifts in the trunk to Mengmeng's mother and asked her to help deliver them to her other sisters-in-law.
Chen Shanhe’s new unit, or to be exact, his old unit, is four or five kilometers away from the compound where the repair camp is located, and it only takes about ten minutes to drive there.
The compound where my old unit is located is more remote, with few people and a large area.
After all, it is equivalent to building an airport in the yard. If it is too small, it will not be big enough for planes to take off.
The unit where the repair camp is located is a densely populated residence, and the old unit is a large courtyard within a small courtyard.
As soon as you enter the compound, you will see the family quarters near the main road. Next to the family quarters are the clinic and the office building.
Further in are the various squadrons.
The airport is still deep.
Chen Shanhe has to take a car to go from his residence to the training ground.
As expected of the unit known for its best treatment, there are two buildings in the family compound.
The building in front is a three-story old-style tube-shaped building, the kind with stairs in the middle of the building, balconies and corridors integrated into one, and the main door of every household is on the balcony.
The building at the back looks newer, six stories high, divided into three units, with a layout of three households per elevator.
Chen Shanhe informed his family members to come to the team in advance, and the room he wanted was on the east side of the third floor.
As soon as Jiang Shiyue entered the room, Chen Shanhe pushed her against the door panel.
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