When Lu Nong walked out of the door, a pretty young woman, well-dressed, was standing at the door, looking inside.

This man looked to be about 27 or 28 years old, and was obviously older than Lu Nong, but he called Lu Nong "sister-in-law". Lu Nong could now understand how those military wives felt before. It was so embarrassing.

"Who are you?" Lu Nong asked.

The young woman tucked her hair under her temples with her hands and said with a smile, "Hello, sister-in-law. My name is Cheng Hua, and I am the daughter-in-law of the second regiment leader Zhang Dali. I heard that sister-in-law moved in today, so I came to ask if I can help you."

Lu Nong: "I don't deserve to be your sister-in-law. My name is Lu Nong. You can just call me Lu Nong or Comrade Lu Nong."

Cheng Hua smiled shyly, agreed with Lu Nong's suggestion, and said, "Okay, I will call you Comrade Lu Nong from now on. Comrade sounds more friendly. You can also call me Comrade Cheng Hua."

Cheng Hua's voice was clear, like the sound of water hitting rocks in a mountain stream, which won the favor of Lu Nong, who was very obsessed with voices. Moreover, she called "sister-in-law" very naturally, which made Lu Nong wonder if he was being too startled.

However, voice control is voice control, and Lu Nong still has his reason. Before he understands the situation clearly, he should refuse.

"Thank you, Comrade Cheng Hua. Old Pei has packed all the big things at home. There are still some luggage left. My mother and I can handle it. I won't bother you today. When there is something going on at home someday, I will definitely ask for your help."

Although it was a rejection, Lu Nong's attitude was friendly, without a trace of the aloofness and arrogance that Cheng Hua had imagined. Cheng Hua felt relieved after hearing this, and the smile on his face became more sincere.

"Okay, Comrade Lu Nong, don't worry, I will definitely come to help you when the time comes. Oh, by the way, these are homemade salted duck eggs. If you don't mind, take them home and try them."

Cheng Hua picked up the basket on the ground and put it into Lu Nong's hand.

"I am embarrassed to do this." Having already rejected Cheng Hua once, it would be bad to reject him again. Lu Nong had no choice but to say, "Then I will respectfully obey your order."

"Ah?" Cheng Hua thought Lu Nong refused, and hurriedly explained, "Sister-in-law, our duck eggs are delicious and juicy. I'm sure you'll want to eat more after you taste them."

Lu Nong was surprised, and then she realized that Cheng Hua didn't understand what she meant by "obedience is worse than respect". After Cheng Hua finished explaining, she said calmly, "You said it's so delicious, so I have to try it. Thank you, Comrade Cheng Hua, let's not stand at the door, let's go inside and talk."

Cheng Hua waved his hands, "No, no, I saw smoke coming out of the chimney of my sister-in-law's house. Are they having dinner at home? I won't disturb them any more. Sister-in-law, please go back quickly. I'm leaving now."

In the end, Cheng Hua started addressing Lu Nong as sister-in-law again.

Without waiting for Lu Nong to stop him, Cheng Hua jogged a few steps as if someone was chasing him. Then he turned around and saw Lu Nong still there. He stretched out his hand to signal Lu Nong to go home quickly.

After Cheng Hua walked away, Lu Nong turned around and went back to the house with the duck eggs.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with someone?" Mother Wu asked Lu Nong while feeding little Xia baby milk powder.

"It's okay. A military wife was worried that we didn't have enough staff when we first arrived, so she asked if I needed help at home. I refused, but she also gave me a basket of salted duck eggs." Lu Nong put the salted duck eggs on the ground and went back to the table to eat.

Mother Wu praised: "Oh, that's great, you know how to handle things."

Lu Nong didn't comment and continued eating.

After dinner, Mother Wu boiled some water and the two of them took a nice hot bath. The only inconvenience was that there was no shower at home, so they could only wash in a large wooden tub.

After a short nap at noon, Lu Nong and Wu's mother began to sort out the luggage piled on the floor, placing the various items brought from home in their proper places, and then the two of them counted what was missing.

Needless to say, the yard was just a bare expanse of reclaimed soil. Lu Nong was determined to build a "secret garden" there, but Mother Wu did not express her opinion.

The living room was too empty, with only a dining table. Lu Nong and Wu's mother decided they needed a sofa and coffee table set, as well as tall and low cabinets and a shoe cabinet.

There were definitely no ready-made sofas in this mountain nest, so they planned to make the sofa cushions and pillows themselves and let Pei Jinan make the furniture.

This requires the purchase of large quantities of cloth and cotton.

By the way, no matter in the bedroom or the living room, the windows are all bare. You can see what people are doing inside by lying on the windowsill from outside the yard. For Lu Nong, who attaches great importance to privacy, it is simply suffocating. The curtains she brought are only enough for three bedrooms. The windows in the living room are big, so she still needs to buy new curtains.

The kitchen is the place with the most complete supplies at the moment, but there are still many omissions. When it came to Mother Wu's main battlefield, she counted on her fingers and listed a lot of things that needed to be supplemented.

Firstly there was not enough firewood, and there was only a small pile of hay in the kitchen, enough for just one more meal.

Mother Wu suggested building a small doorless hut outside the kitchen to store straw firewood. This way, the firewood can be stored without being afraid of rain.

Secondly, we were short of various food seasonings. As we arrived in a hurry, Mrs. Wu didn’t buy any, so the stock was running out.

The toilet is a dry toilet, which is the place Lu Nong is most uncomfortable with. He will wait for Pei Jinan to come back tonight and ask him to solve the toilet problem no matter what.

There are three bedrooms on the first and second floors. Mother Wu’s bedroom only has a large bed and a box. There is not enough space for clothes, so she needs to add a wardrobe and a bedside table.

The first thing on the second floor is the empty bedroom, which is obviously reserved for Pei Zheng. Pei Zheng will be here in a while, and it will be troublesome to make a temporary bed at that time. It is better to take this opportunity to make one and decorate his room at the same time.

This room is spacious, and Lu Nong thought it would be better to put up two shorter beds with desks underneath, and place identical cabinets and desks symmetrically. When Gu Xiaohuai grows up a little, he can sleep in the same room with Pei Zheng and his brother.

Lu Nong planned to turn the attic into a study. The things she and Pei Ji'an took the most with them when they moved were books. Half of the room was filled with books in the living room, and it would be inconvenient without a study. Unfortunately, the attic was small, so it was not possible to turn it into a study for two people.

Lu Nong specially drew a design sketch for this purpose. She wanted to nail wooden shelves on several walls of the attic, cover the walls with books, place a desk under the skylight in the middle, and then use hollow shelves to separate it and put a small couch in it to make it a temporary guest room.

Finally, the only thing left was her own bedroom, which had a wardrobe, dressing table, and bedside table. Although not exactly the same, it was almost a one-to-one replica of the one in Jingshi's home, even the rattan chair beside the bed was restored.

Lu Nong had no complaints. He hung up the pure white curtains he brought from home, opened the window, looked out, and took a deep breath of the fresh air brought by the mountain breeze.

The breeze gently blew the window curtains, and she was faintly visible through the curtains in a white dress. Her dark hair was scattered, and her face was so white that it glowed. She stood by the window looking at the scenery, and the onlookers outside the door were all stunned.

"Oh my god, is this a fairy?" A petite military wife was dumbfounded and spoke in a hoarse voice with a local dialect.

The fat, dark-faced military wife next to her said, "She's too pretty, isn't she? I can't call her sister-in-law because I'm not as shameless as Cheng Dahua."

"What are you talking about?" Hu Mei, the only short-haired military wife who had returned to normal among the three, nudged the fat military wife and said, "Don't be so careless with your words."

"I'm not wrong," said Liu Erniu, the fat military wife who was also the wife of the regiment commander, with a pout. "Look at how old the new deputy division commander's wife is. Cheng Dahua is at least seven or eight years older than her, and she calls me sister-in-law without any hesitation. We can't compare with her."

Speaking of Cheng Dahua, Liu Erniu was full of dissatisfaction, "She is so positive. As soon as the deputy division commander's wife arrived, she rushed to show her courtesy, which made us look inferior. She is full of ulterior motives. Tell me what she did? If I hadn't seen it, what would we have become?"

"Just say a few less words." The thin Wang Xiuzhi frowned.

Liu Erniu was still not satisfied. "I can't help but say it. Who is Cheng Dahua? She looks down on this and that every day. Teacher Sun changed her name to Cheng Hua, so she really thinks she is a cultured person? Bah, she is just as illiterate as me. She puts on a green onion in her pig's nose and pretends to be something in front of me. One day I will skin her alive."

"You will be ruined by your mouth sooner or later," Hu Mei tapped Liu Erniu from a distance, "Cheng Hua didn't bother you except to stop associating with us. It's just you who is so stubborn that you can't stand her and don't like her."

Liu Erniu was not convinced, but she also knew that Hu Mei was right, so she said, "Okay, let's not talk about her. It's bad luck. I'm going to call my 'sister-in-law' now. You guys stop talking."

Hu Mei/Wang Xiuzhi: “…”

People say Cheng Hua is thick-skinned, but you are not much better. Calling her sister-in-law is too smooth.

"Sister-in-law." Liu Erniu shouted loudly at the door, attracting the attention of Lu Nong who was standing by the window on the second floor. Seeing Lu Nong looking over, Liu Erniu, Hu Mei and Wang Xiuzhi waved in unison.

Lu Nong: "Wait, I'll be down right away."

After a while, Aunt Wu came out and opened the door for the three of them. "Come in quickly. Nong Nong is behind. Let me go out and open the door first."

"Oh, are you Deputy Commander Pei's?" Liu Erniu asked.

The family had discussed this issue before it came up. Mother Wu smiled and said, "I'm his mother-in-law, and my last name is Wu."

Liu Erniu and the other two followed Aunt Wu into the house and said hurriedly, "Hello, Aunt Wu, we three are here to ask if there is anything we can help you with. Please just tell us what you can do and we will help you if we have something to offer."

"Thank you very much," Wu's mother replied with a smile, and led the three people into the house. "We just moved in, and our home is very simple. Please forgive me for the poor hospitality."

Liu Erniu was stunned. She didn't expect that this little old lady, Mother Wu, could speak so rudely. She didn't react for a moment and looked at Hu Mei and Wang Xiuzhi.

Lu Nong came down from the upstairs, and the three of them were dumbfounded again. It was Hu Mei who reacted quickly, "The little sister-in-law is so pretty. The three of us were dumbfounded twice."

After Cheng Hua, Lu Nong was already familiar with this scene, and said calmly: "Don't call me sister-in-law, I am younger than the three sisters-in-law. You can call me Lu Nong or Comrade Lu Nong."

Seeing that Lu Nong didn't sound polite, the three of them immediately breathed a sigh of relief. If Lu Nong really acted pretentiously and insisted that people call her sister-in-law, they would have called her that, but it would have been awkward. Now that Lu Nong took the initiative to say that they didn't have to call her sister-in-law, everyone was no longer embarrassed.

Liu Erniu readily agreed, "Comrade Lu Nong, my name is Liu Erniu, you can call me Erniu or Comrade Erniu."

Then she introduced Hu Mei and Wang Xiuzhi to Lu Nong, "This is Comrade Hu Mei, and Comrade Wang Xiuzhi."

After greeting each other, the three said something similar to Cheng Hua. After being politely rejected by Lu Nong, they left after staying for a short while.

In the evening, the sun set. There was no electricity in the mountains, so the family lit oil lamps. While it was still light, Mother Wu prepared dinner and waited for Pei Jinan to come home.

After waiting for nearly two hours, Pei Jinan returned home at the last ray of daylight. Lu Nong dozed off with his hands on the table. "You're back?"

Xiao Xiazi, Xiao Huai and the little white dog went to bed early after dinner.

"Eat quickly. You're tired after a long day. Go back to your room and sleep after dinner." Mother Wu brought the reheated dishes back. Pei Jinan saw this and served the dishes together with Mother Wu.

"You don't have to wait for me in the future. I came back early today, but I'm afraid you won't do that in the future." Pei Ji'an said.

The family finished their meal quietly. After washing up, Pei Jinan and Lu Nong returned to the bedroom to rest.

After going to bed, Lu Nong came to his senses and handed Pei Jinan the list of home renovations he had recorded during the day.

"What is this?" Pei Jinan flipped through Lu Nong's manuscript page by page. The top one was the toilet, which was listed on a separate page with a design drawing and text explanations, including its necessity and importance.

Pei Jinan admired Lu Nong for being able to achieve this.

"Take a good look at these. These are all must-haves in a home, especially the flush toilet, which is of utmost importance. I would really be disappointed without it." Lu Nong clasped his hands together and pleaded sincerely.

"Thank you?" Pei Jinan raised his eyebrows.

"Yes," Lu Nong nodded heavily, "Thank you like the flowers."

Pei Jinan just smiled and said nothing.

Lu Nong blinked, sat in Pei Ji'an's arms, put his arms around his neck, kissed him with a "chi" sound, and then leaned close to Pei Ji'an's ear and said, "Brother, please."

Pei Jinan's body stiffened, his eyes darkened, his voice hoarse, his hand passed through Lu Nong's waist, hugged her tightly, "You kissed the wrong place."

As he spoke, Pei Jian lowered his head and leaned over to push Lu Nong down on the bed.

After a while, a hand as slender as jade fell on the side of the bed. The moonlight of the past was reluctant to leave, so it secretly kissed the falling hand. Unfortunately, the man on the bed was too domineering and didn't want the moonlight to see his lover's aroused look.

The next moment, he stretched out his big hand and held the slender small hand. The two hands with the same ring on them were clasped together, caressed tenderly, and then withdrawn together.

The moonlight is just right, the night is dark, the room is filled with the scent of spring, and it is still early.