military marriage

Chapter 17
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The eighth woman's mournful and wronged cries were heard from the house to the entrance of the village every day, and the villagers felt that her family had suddenly fallen into a disaster beyond redemption, and that bad luck had pushed the poor and honest family into the bottomless abyss.

At the beginning, the villagers were all sympathetic, and went to help Shenggen's family repair the tables, chairs and benches smashed by Manxiang's family, and paste a piece of wet mud on the hole in the dug earthen stove...

Sheng Gen kept telling the reason, trying to convince the villagers that Man Xiang was definitely at the train station in City A, and he lost it on purpose.He said that Man Xiang felt that life in the army was hard, and that there were no ghosts laying eggs there, and it was not a place for people to live.The more Chuanlong obeyed her, the more picky she was, and she would come back within 20 days of her stay, and Chuanlong wanted to give her 2000 yuan, saying that she would go back to Huaowan to set up a chicken farm. By the way, I would like to say something more, because I have been feeling unwell recently, and I am far away from each other. What if something goes wrong?So I asked Chuanlong to give me a thousand, and I was going to make a coffin in winter.Chuanlong is also good, he said that he is going to take off... no, no, it is a military training in the desert anyway, let us come back earlier to live a good life!He gave all the 3000 yuan to Man Xiang and told her to take good care of the house. Their political commissar, surnamed Song, liked me very much, Chuanlong, and sent a car to take us to the local long-distance bus station. The train took us for three days and two nights. ... After we got off the train at the train station in City B, I squeezed into a noodle shop and ordered two bowls of noodles. Then I turned around to look for Man Xiang, but she couldn't find her even if it was crazy.I also wondered if she was reluctant to leave Chuanlong again?The young couple quarreled at the end of the bed.I don't know how many people I asked, but I found a post office and hung up Chuanlong. He said it was impossible... Sheng Gen patted his thigh regretfully and twisted his old face. I wish I had known this was the case. , I don’t want to eat such a bowl of noodles, so as not to cause complications!I'm empty of money and people now, I'm dumb and eat coptis...

The eighth woman kept nodding her head and crying, and said to the villagers who came to help, thanks to you, it would be a loss to you, if it weren't for you to help us, our old lives would have been lost long ago!Listen, how can there be such a reason?We have lost all our personal and financial resources, and we still have to worry about being sued!She talked and cried, forgetting herself for a while, our old face will be better anyway, the key is not to delay Chuanlong's future.Alas, I blame his uncle for doing bad things with good intentions at the beginning. To tell me Chuanlong about such a black-hearted woman is really blind...

Jin Ju was holding a chair board with one hand and a broken chair leg with the other, gesticulating and installing it, when she heard this, she dropped the chair leg in her hand, and the three-legged chair immediately fell behind the wall.

"Don't donkeys don't like to complain about the crowbar! You pat your conscience and think about it, no matter how much we help you, whether it's big or small, family and farming? When you get benefits, you never mention it. When something goes wrong, you complain to others. It’s true that you eat meat with chopsticks and you don’t remember it. When you hit you with chopsticks, you keep thinking about other people’s evil!” Jin Ju pointed to the eighth woman’s forehead, “You were a person who died of convulsions at that time? Even if we were kind I said this matter out of good intentions, but I want you to agree and nod yourself. Has anyone ever forced you? If you didn’t come to my house all day to ask me to make decisions and ask me to come forward, I don’t know. One more thing is worse than one less thing?" Jinju opened the front of her chest angrily, "Also, maybe I, Manxiang, might not have been picked up by your family's eight-carried sedan chair, but she ran here by herself? Everyone's eyes are on me. Yes, don't talk about it..."

The eighth woman opened her mouth and blinked her mung bean-like terrified eyes, knowing that her wrong words had pierced the sky.

Sure enough, Sheng Gen stood up, kicked the eighth woman into the corner with a few kicks, and apologized to Jin Ju back and forth: "He is uncle, what are you doing when she is idle? You have not If you don’t know her, just treat her as a wall..." He stared at his wife trembling in the corner, as if he was staring at a fly, "What do you think you are doing alive? You can't even say a word , Coincidentally! It also turned you into a human being!"

After this happened, as time went by, the Ba Po's crying could no longer attract the sympathy of the villagers. First, every household had its own affairs and was busy with its own affairs; , and blamed the source of this incident on Jin Ju.The villagers weighed in, they didn't want to offend Jin Ju, and they didn't want to cause Jin Ju's misunderstanding, so they said that it was difficult for an upright official to break up housework, and they avoided her one after another.The coldness of the world, people's behavior of looking down on others and adding insult to injury, aroused new resentment from the eighth wife. She often sat at the gate and cried, "Wow, my son!"If you are not a soldier, if you are at home, who would dare to bully your honest mother?Who dares to keep your honest mother out of the corner of his eyes?my son...

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Was it a car accident on Manxiang Fuqian Road, or did she not get along well with Chuanlong and hid back to her natal family, but she was afraid that Chuanlong would bring people from the army to catch her and throw her into prison, so Hexifan's natal family came to see her? One strikes first to cover up others?Did Chuanlong foolishly attack Man Xiang, or did Man Xiang become so eccentric that he got in touch with Little Six again in City A?Oh, what a mess!Oh, how pitiful and disgusting!Alas, it's really a poop that doesn't stink and stirs up stink!Alas, this family is really facing a catastrophe and flying separately!Alas, alas, alas...

The villagers sighed innocuously while busy with their farm work.

What should come will always come. All the misfortunes, conflicts and contradictions of the Hu family in the past seem to be caused by Yu Suo alone, but it is not!Yusuo was full of mixed feelings amidst all the rumors.The mountains of resentment against the Hu family in his heart were replaced by a kind of worry that weakened these injustices, just like the sun melted the glaciers in the sea.Compared with the vigor and vigor on the surface, the various criticisms she had suffered in the past turned out to be safer.

At noon that day, the postman delivered a thick express delivery to Yusuo. The villagers had only seen the letter, not the express delivery, so they gathered around him.Their faces were full of interest and curiosity, and the itchy jealousy turned into sour suspicion. They said it was so thick, could there be money in it?Whose?Shouldn't Chuanlong's old love be unforgettable?He is really daring, let the people of Hexi Farm know about it, he can pierce the sky, you are small and weak, don't hit the muzzle of this gun...

Yu Suo looked at the cover and address of the courier, and his signing hands trembled a little.She thought besides Chuanlong, who would write such a thick letter to her?After Yu Suo signed, she hugged the courier to avoid everyone's questioning, but was stopped by Jin Ju enthusiastically. She held Yu Suo's child in one hand, and handed Yu Suo a glass of water with the other: "Drink quickly, drink quickly, my hands are full!" I'm so sour! I'm hugging you, hurry up and miss it!" Jinju passionately pecked the child's face and body with her mouth: "My little boy, it's so precious... "

"His name is Hu Yuanyuan!" Yu Suo corrected Jin Ju, secretly changed the subject, looking for a reason to refuse. "Uncle, thank you, I'd better take him back to the house and go to sleep!"

Jin Ju evaded: "Hu Yuanyuan, Fu Yuanyuan! After all, the person who drank more ink for a few years gave Xiya different names!" Jin Ju raised her chin to the teary-eyed Bapo Qiu, and said to Yu Suo, "Don't worry about it, read it quickly! My eighth mother-in-law's eyeballs are about to fall out!"

Everyone urged, read quickly, how is Chuanlong doing?We can't help, so we will do our best to care about it.

Yu Suo opened the letter helplessly, read only two lines, then turned the letter to the last page, pointed to the signed name and said: "It's not Chuanlong's letter—how could he write to me? You see, this is Lu , Da, Yong—do you believe me now? Matters that have nothing to do with Hu Chuanlong are my personal affairs, and you can’t inquire about them, otherwise it’s still a violation of the law?”

Amid everyone's astonishment, Yusuo trotted all the way to Hu Shanling.She was eager to know the ins and outs of the matter, and she was eager to know what happened to that army in that desert after she left.A casual word, a wink, or a dewdrop-like misfortune in the mountain village may be brewed into a turbulent storm, but Lu Dayong's letter described to her another broad and simple heroic lifestyle, Compared with the depressive life in the mountain village, Yusuo is more willing to explore the stories of another way of life alone.

"You always say that Yusuo is not good enough for your son, and your son wants to find the chief's daughter! Now you say that the dragon has no wealth, but the son of the chief has taken a fancy to Yusuo!" Chuntu Niang said, "This land There are only bachelors, and there has never been a woman who cannot be married! They have all chased us to our village, and maybe one day they will bring gold guns and silver guns, and carry eight people in a sedan chair to pick up Yusuo. Alas, people She's so popular, who told her to be so good-looking?"

The eighth woman blinked her eyes, trying to finish the next sentence, moved her mouth, but couldn't make a sound.

Jinju hugged Yuanyuan, sitting on the ancient roots of the maple tree, thoughtful and lost.

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The illusory desert is as frank as the vast night or shadow, and the living universe uses it as a support point to cover itself, just waiting for the footsteps of soldiers to express their heroism and splendor.

The foreign training convoy started to drive towards the training area at midnight.

The wind is rustling and the cars are rumbling.The car, cannon and tank squirmed into the depths of the desolate sand sea, slowly crawling like a tiny green snake in the wide sand table, winding into a long dragon array of dozens of kilometers.

In the vast desert, it is impossible to tell the difference between the south, the east and the north, and the car behind can't keep up a little bit. The wind and sand will drown the traces of the car in front, and you will get lost.

The driver, Xiao Hai, was afraid of being left behind, and stared at the rear of the car in front of him with rounded eyes, not daring to get tired at all, but the long suffering made him so sleepy that he couldn't hold on, and his eyes closed involuntarily.

Xiao Hai suddenly felt a spicy taste in his mouth, and sneezed violently. When he looked up, Chuanlong was crawling behind him with a chili pepper.Chuanlong's face was thin and sallow, but he looked at Xiaohai energetically.

Xiao Hai looked at Chuanlong, took a bite of the raw pepper, grinned and shook his cheeks so hot that tears flowed down his face.

"Thank you, Deputy Company Commander!"

Chuanlong patted him on the shoulder: "Persevere and persist!"

Xiao Hai nodded, sat upright, full of energy.

The convoy traveled non-stop through the vast sandy sea and the ancient wasteland, from the dangerous night to the dawn, from the bitterly cold dawn that made people's teeth chatter, and the breath turned into ice, to the noon.

The scorching sun shone directly down, making the desert scorching hot, and the cannon was roasted like a piece of molten iron. The carriage turned into a big steamer. A bad smell.

Lu Dayong led the communication line soldiers, one by one, dragging the spools like monkeys, running back and forth on the hot sand, their sweat dripped down their thighs into the sand.

Sweat is quickly absorbed and evaporated by the hot sand.

"No, no, no! The temperature is too high, and the protective insulation layer has been softened and scorched by the sun. It is stuck together and cannot be pulled apart, and the whole line is short-circuited!" Lu Dayong scratched his ears and was stunned. The liberation shoes under his feet were deformed by the heat. There is a burnt smell, and the pain causes the feet to bounce around on the sand from time to time. It is also a different kind of happiness to leave the sand for a few seconds.

Hu Chuanlong led the gunners to dig fortifications shirtless, and put the stopwatch aside to time.After the camouflage of the vehicles and guns was completed, before the officers and soldiers had time to wipe off the beads of sweat rolling on their faces, the political commissar Song Daming immediately issued an order to cut off water and food for three days and two nights. Under the astonished eyes of the officers and soldiers, Song Daming said: "The cruelty of future wars It requires the participants to have extraordinary adaptability. If we don’t teach the soldiers how many more hurdles to overcome and take more risks, it will be difficult for us to overcome more hurdles in wartime. It is for this purpose that every year In summer, our troops have to come to Teng desert for armed training under the scorching sun."

The troops were deployed concealedly, and thousands of people lined up, only to see the endless surging sand dunes, hiding the traces of all the officers and soldiers.

The soldiers were so thirsty that they couldn't even open their mouths to smile. They kept licking their lips with the tip of their tongues one by one, moistening their chapped, chapped and painful lips with phlegm.

"Your daughter-in-law disappeared, did she run around again? Where are you?"

(End of this chapter)