Jiang Jun's figure disappeared in the alley of the family compound. When there was no more sound of bicycles, Chen Yuanwu turned and walked towards the gate.
Jin Bu, the sentry at the gate of the compound, was a comrade he met when he first joined the recruit company and had just been transferred here to perform duty.
Chen Yuanwu stopped, stood at attention and saluted the sentry, then greeted him with a smile: "Are you on guard tonight?"
"Gone?" Jin Bu stood motionless like a statue and whispered, "Your brother just rode his bike in."
Chen Yuanwu looked back. The courtyard was pitch black. Only one or two windows of the people living in the bungalows in the front row had light coming through.
The weather is too cold. At this time, most people eat at home with doors and windows closed. No one is walking around or chatting in the yard. Most of the children are kept at home by their parents.
"Which direction did he go?"
"Following this avenue leads back to your home."
Chen Yuefei appears in the compound so frequently that there is no soldier on duty in the compound who does not know Chen Yuefei.
It should be said that since the Chen family moved to Courtyard No. 1 a year ago, everyone in the compound knows Chen Yuefei.
After six o'clock in the evening, it is time for Chen Yuefei to go out and play.
Chen Yuanwu didn't know why his younger brother was so passionate and stayed out all day instead of coming home.
He couldn't understand why he couldn't get enough of playing the same game every day: either guerrilla warfare or various campaigns, all just chasing people around. There was no novelty, no intellectual challenge, just pure exhaustion!
Chen Yuefei told him that he should join the army when he reached the age.
However, being a soldier also requires using your brain, and it is not something you can just run around with a gun and show off.
People who don’t use their brains can’t do anything, right?
However, this is not his turn to say. Having a father who likes to fight and lead soldiers is enough for Chen Yuefei to admire him.
Chen Yuanwu thought about it, nodded to Jin Bu, and walked towards the hospital.
He is currently in hospital and cannot go home without permission. His movements are limited to the area between the hospital and the division headquarters. Otherwise, he will be considered deserting his post, and the punishment will be either solitary confinement or severe punishment.
Although he suspected that Chen Yuefei might go find Jiang Jun, what could he do if he did? He couldn't go and wait for him.
Besides, he still had a page of math formulas in his pocket that he hadn't memorized yet. He'd better make good use of the time to catch up and ask about them when he was on vacation.
Chen Yuanwu's suspicion was correct.
Chen Yuefei was outside the Jiang family's backyard, tapping on Jiang Yun's window.
For several days in a row, there was no light in Jiang Yun's small window.
At this moment, Chen Yuefei was also encountering something by chance. He unexpectedly found light coming through the window, so he quickly threw a small stone, which hit the window frame.
Jiang Jun had just walked in and hadn't even sat down when he heard a noise outside. Knowing it was Chen Yuefei, he hurriedly opened the window: "What's going on? Tell me, there's someone home."
Chen Yuefei felt regretful. He wished he had kept the novel in his arms. "Are you still reading novels? I found another one."
Jiang Jun waved his hand: "Okay, I'll meet you at the air-raid shelter at nine o'clock the day after tomorrow."
Seeing Chen Yuefei nod, Jiang Jun closed the window and drew the curtains. Jiang Lan knocked on her window in the inner room: "Sister, are you ready?"
"Okay, okay, it will be fine soon."
Jiang Yun used the excuse of washing up to bring half a basin of hot water into the house. He opened the window and spoke a few words, and then the water became cold.
She walked out of the house with the water, poured it in a corner of the yard, and walked into the kitchen.
Jiang Lan glared at her: "Sister, I think I heard some voices."
Jiang Jun lowered his head to get his toothpaste and toothbrush. "I'm memorizing the lesson. By the way, why are you home alone?"
"Our mother went to Aunt Liao's house and said there was a letter from my grandmother." Jiang Lan stared at Jiang Jun brushing her teeth and said, "Sister, are you still playing while brushing your teeth?"
When Jiang Yun brushes her teeth, she follows the dentist's method for tooth care and health, drawing small circles on the tooth enamel surface.
Jiang Lan watched with great interest, and kept asking questions: "Sister, whose cotton-padded jacket was that when you came back? It was so new! Did our dad buy it for you? Is it a military uniform? I think it's the same one the nurses at the clinic wear."
Jiang Jun finished brushing his teeth, picked up his toothbrush and towel, and walked to his room. "I borrowed this from someone. This dress is the perfect size for me, so I borrowed it as a sample and made one."
"Sister, who are you going to ask to do it for you? Can you do it yourself? Our mother doesn't care about you anymore."
"I'll ask my classmate's mother to help me." Jiang Jun took some time at noon to go to the military service center to check it out. Buying cotton and cloth to make a cotton-padded jacket is still much cheaper than buying ready-made products.
When she asked the salesperson how much cloth and cotton were needed to make a cotton-padded jacket, the salesperson kindly told her that someone would make the jacket for her and charge one yuan for the labor.
Jiang Yun thought that when she got enough money to buy cloth and cotton, she would go to He Xiangdong's mother to ask her how to make cotton clothes.
Jiang Lan waited for Jiang Jun to ask about the letter from her grandmother's family, but Jiang Jun kept talking about other things, so she had to speak up herself: "I heard that grandma is sick, and our mother wants to go back to see her."
Zhang Xiuying wants to go on a long journey?
Jiang Jun finally became interested: "What's wrong with grandma?"
Jiang Lan scratched her head: "I didn't hear it clearly either. I just heard our mother say that it takes a hundred days to break bones."
"It takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone, right?"
"Yes, that's right."
"Is it the arm or the leg?"
"I didn't ask. Anyway, as soon as my mother received the letter, she asked Aunt Tian to help read it. She heated up a steamed bun for me in the evening and then went to Aunt Liao's house."
Jiang Jun put away the toothbrush holder and hung up the towel, then took out the novel. "Come on, I'll read you four pages tonight."
Jiang Lan happily took off her shoes and went to bed: "Sit in bed and read. I want to lie down and listen. Is that okay?"
Jiang Jun couldn't help feeling happy when she thought about Zhang Xiuying going back to her parents' home. Zhang Xiuying's parents' home was in Laoyinggou Forest Farm in Tongcheng, Jilin Province. It would take seven or eight days to go back and forth from here. This meant that she could come and go freely at home, read novels and books openly, and bring her classmates to her home to play openly.
When he was happy, he promised to read two more pages of the book: "Lie down and listen? Just don't fall asleep. Otherwise, I'll just read one page."
Jiang Lan hadn't yet completed the task Zhang Xiuying had assigned her to find out her sister's whereabouts, so how could she dare to fall asleep? "I'll listen, I'll listen. I promise I won't fall asleep."
Even if he didn't fall asleep, Jiang Lan wouldn't be able to find out anything. Jiang Jun would change the subject from time to time, but the silly Jiang Lan would never notice and would answer every question, even if they weren't asked.
Jiang Jun had just finished reading a few sentences when Jiang Lan said excitedly, "Sister, actually, I really want to go back to my grandma's house with Mom. I miss my grandma and grandpa a little bit. Mom said that if we don't go back now, the mountains will be closed due to heavy snow in a few days, and it will be difficult to go."
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