"My eldest sister is getting a divorce."
After calling his father, Lou Lu met his good brother with a smile on his face on his way back to the threshing ground. When they walked side by side, he patted him on the shoulder and said these words.
Zhou Jianshe paused and was stunned for a while. After making sure that he had not heard wrong, he immediately took big strides to catch up.
He looked at his friend, his face unusually gloomy: "Why? What did that man do?"
These days, although he guessed that Sister Nan might not be very happy, he really didn't expect that it had come to the point of divorce.
The two of them arrived early, and there were still more than ten minutes before the shift change. Lou Luhui waved to the people waiting for their shift in the threshing ground, asking them to come over. After getting a response from them, he led them to a corner and gave a brief account of his eldest sister's marriage over the years.
The three of them grew up together, and the two families were old friends, so this matter could not be kept secret, and there was no need to hide it, so Lou Luhui had no concerns about letting the family disgrace be made public.
After listening to this, Zhou Jianshe felt very complicated. He was angry towards Shen Ziru, but more importantly, he felt distressed for Sister Nan.
If he had known that she was living this kind of life, he would
"The marriage is settled, but Big Sister will probably stay on the island for a few more days until the problems in Beijing are resolved. As you know, my Tiantian is still in confinement after giving birth. I may not be able to spare much time recently. If you have time, take Big Sister around to relax."
Zhou Jianshe restrained his expression and patted his brother on the shoulder: "Don't worry, Sister Nan is still my sister."
Hearing this, Lou Luhui gave him a meaningful look, until he made him feel a little uncomfortable, then he said, "You know what you think in your heart."
Having said this, without even looking at his brother's suddenly changed expression, he strode towards the threshing ground.
Zhou Jianshe was left alone, pondering for a long time.
On the other hand, after expressing the doubts and difficulties that had been suppressed in his heart for years and receiving her acknowledgement that she was not wrong, Lou Yanan's mood became visibly brighter.
When her brother went to the army, she took out her camera and took photos of her brother's wife and the babies. She also took several photos of the flower arrangements in the house, saying that she would show them to her parents: "I never thought that Huihui would know to pick flowers for you every day."
Tian Mi likes taking photos very much. Before there were electronic products, she had decided long ago that if conditions permitted, she would go to the town every year to take a few photos as souvenirs.
Look, she even changed into a nicer dress. She was puzzled when she heard this and asked, "I heard from Huihui that Dad often bought flowers for Mom in the early years. He was influenced by her. It's normal for him to be like this now, right?"
Lou Yannan shook his head, his lips curled up slightly, "That's not what I meant. It's just that many years ago, when he was still in junior high school, he often complained that my dad's behavior of sending flowers was unmanly, and my mom took advantage of him. She also said that he would never do that in the future, but look, he still sends flowers every day now."
I didn’t expect my husband to be so silly at times, but it seems like most people have that second-year age.
Tian Mi was quite interested in her husband's childhood, so she asked him a lot of questions. She was amused and planned to use them as topics to tease him in the future.
At the end, I also shared with my elder sister-in-law the funny thing about how my husband gave her ginseng flowers last year.
Time passed day by day in a warm and happy atmosphere.
Another week passed in the blink of an eye. At this time, little Pearl and little Beike were already half a month old.
Apart from a slight reaction to the outside world, there is basically no major change from before, and I still spend most of my time sleeping.
The only thing that has changed is that the little ones have names.
After half a month of work, comrade Lou Zhan finally decided on the names of the twins.
A total of three pairs of names were provided, and the final decision was made by Tian Mi.
The elder sister’s name is Lou Lan, a name specially chosen by the old man because he knew that his daughter-in-law liked water. The younger brother’s name is Lou Xi, which has a simple and clear meaning, representing brightness.
As a mother, Tian Mi didn't think too much about it. She just simply thought that the two words sounded nice, especially as her daughter's name, which made her subconsciously think of ancient ruins.
In addition to the children finally having official names, Sister Nan was also preparing to leave.
Although communication was inconvenient these days, we still received news from Beijing one after another.
Speaking of Shen Ziru, he is also a strange person in some aspects.
Except for being caught off guard and panicking by Lou Zhan at the time, he quickly calmed down. While notifying his parents, he tried hard to restore his image in the hospital.
I have to say that the nice guy he has been playing over the years is still useful. He doesn't say ambiguous words to everyone he meets. At least in Shen Ziru's heart, those women who are not pretty enough are not qualified, so in front of these people, his image has always been positive.
In addition, he was kicked. People tend to sympathize with the weak. After they had lost their awe of the commander, some people with bad eyes secretly stood on Shen Ziru's side.
In Shen Ziru's opinion, as long as he is still a military doctor and keeps his position as deputy director, even if he really fails to win back Yan Nan, with his abilities, it would be easy for him to coax another woman with good conditions.
Therefore, when he led his parents and couldn't even step into the gate of the military compound, he didn't insist anymore. After thinking about it for a few days, he nodded and agreed to the Lou family's request for divorce.
During this period, he tried to express his opinion to Xiao Li, the security guard who had been responsible for communicating with him, and agreed to the divorce as long as they did not cause trouble for him in the future.
Of course, this was just a test from him, a test he knew was impossible, so in the end, he was beaten by Xiao Li again.
He didn't get a good result from the Lou family, but when he went to the hospital with injuries, although he still didn't say anything bad about the Lou family, he still acted pitifully in front of his colleagues.
Lou Zhan saw it all, but remained unmoved.
He already had evidence in his hands that could kill that clown, so he was very safe.
The most important thing at the moment is that my daughter successfully divorces.
We are about to part.
After spending nearly ten days together, Tian Mi felt reluctant to leave her considerate elder sister-in-law.
So after getting up this morning, even though her elder sister-in-law didn't let her do anything, she sat aside and watched people packing up the packages for tomorrow's trip: "Sister Nan, when can you come back after you go back this time?"
Hearing this, Lou Yannan paused while folding clothes, and soon smiled again: "Aren't you going to take the children back to Beijing for the New Year next year? Time flies."
Tian Mi scratched his itchy head and laughed, "That's right, but by the time of the New Year next year, the two little guys should be able to walk, right?"
"Well, by then they will be sixteen months old, so it should be ok, but there are also children who walk and talk late."
Just as the aunt and sister-in-law were chattering about when the baby could eat complementary food, Aunt Gu, who was listening to the tape recorder in the living room during her rare free time, heard someone calling her outside.
She walked to the door and answered, then went back into the house to turn off the recorder, picked up the vegetable basket, and hurried out.
Seeing this, Tian Mi's eyes lit up: "Sister Nan, Aunt Gu has gone to the kitchen to get food. I want to wash my hair. Can you help me look after the children?"
The sky was still a little cloudy this morning, but now the sun is trying hard to chase the dark clouds, and the temperature has risen suddenly. Tian Mi, who hasn't been able to wash her hair for half a month, has to seize the opportunity.
Lou Yannan is a doctor. She is not as strict as her elders about washing hair during the confinement period. In her opinion, as long as the temperature is suitable, there is no wind, and the hair is dried in time, it is okay to wash your hair.
In addition, she had checked her sister-in-law's body every day in the past few days and knew that she was recovering well, so she did not say anything against it. Instead, she put down the clothes she was folding, got up and followed her to the bathroom.
When she met Tiantian's puzzled look, she said, "I'll help you. It'll be faster this way. I'm also keeping an eye on the children."
Tian Mi thought so too and didn't bother to be polite with her elder sister-in-law.
Because they were worried that Aunt Gu would complain when she came back, the aunt and sister-in-law moved very quickly, like thieves.
When Tian Mi rushed into the bedroom with her head wrapped in a dry towel, Lou Yanan quickly cleaned up the scene.
After making sure that there was nothing wrong in the bathroom, she went to her sister-in-law's room.
Seeing Tiantian drying her hair, she took another dry towel and went over to help her.
Tian Mi blinked, and then blinked again, then suddenly curved her eyebrows and acted coquettishly: "Sister Nan, you are so nice."
Lou Yannan laughed: "Is it okay for me to just wipe your hair?"
"Of course it's more than that." She was not blind. Since Sister Nan came, she had been treated almost the same as the two babies.
Especially knowing that she had to avoid certain foods during the confinement period, I tried to make delicious food for her. Although most of the food is still light, it is good to have a change of taste.
In the end, the fact that the two of them washed their hair secretly could not be concealed.
After all, the texture and volume of hair that has not been washed for more than ten days is completely different from that of hair that has been washed on the same day.
As a result, the two of them were inevitably scolded by Aunt Gu who came back from shopping, and she also complained to her eldest sister Tian Yu and her husband.
Knowing that Aunt Gu was doing this for her sister's good, Tian Yumian, who was also secretly washing her hair during the confinement period, pretended to scold her sister.
As for Lou Luhui, who came back for dinner, after listening to Aunt Gu's muttering, he didn't dare to say a word when he met his young wife's dangerous eyes.
It’s not that he doesn’t care about his wife’s health, but when his wife complained about the itchiness on her head, he had already asked about the process. What’s more, his eldest sister is also a doctor, and she will definitely not let Tiantian do anything that will harm her body.
This year is a year of bumper harvest, although it is exhausting.
But as long as they think about not having to go hungry next year, everyone has a happy smile on their face no matter how tired they are.
Fortunately, no matter how hard it is, there is hope, and this wheat harvest has finally entered the final stage.
Now, except for a small team of people left to guard the food at night, the rest of the people have basically resumed their normal routines.
It was the turn of the soldiers from the regiment to keep watch that day. After Lou Luhui finished his dinner, he came over to check on them out of concern.
Zhou Jianshe also came out with him.
Lou Luhui didn't say much, and Zhou Jianshe, the talkative man, was thoughtful, so along the way, except for the flashlights in their hands that made the conversation lively, the two of them were silent.
It was only when passing by the dormitory building that Zhou Jianshe stopped first, looked at the back of his old friend who was still walking forward, and finally called out, "Lao Lou."
Hearing the voice, Lou Lu turned around to look at him.
Zhou Jianshe took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth but did not light it. Since his old friend started to quit smoking, he followed suit.
The two were three or four meters apart. It was already dark. Lou Luhui couldn't see Lao Zhou's expression clearly, but he could guess roughly what he was thinking.
So he said nothing and walked towards the dormitory building in silence.
Although Zhou Jianshe was at the deputy regimental level, he was not married yet, so he lived in a single dormitory.
After entering the house, he closed the doors and windows and made sure no mosquitoes flew in before he started to make small talk: "Would you like some water?"
Lou Luhui pinched his brows helplessly and said directly: "Are you going to talk about my sister?"
Zhou Jianshe was silent for a moment, then he sat sideways on the table and looked at his friend who occupied his only stool: "You know?"
Lou Luhui sneered: "I'm not blind."
After hearing this, Zhou Jianshe wiped his face and asked, "When did you know?"
This made Lou Lu pause and think: "Probably. When we were in the first year of high school?"
Zhou Jianshe. So, his friends knew about it the year he fell in love with Sister Nan? He thought he had concealed it well. He was a little embarrassed to ask, "Is it very obvious?"
"That's not the case. At least, apart from me, no one else in our two families should have discovered it. We have known each other since childhood and hang out together every day, so I am more familiar with your mood swings."
"Then why didn't you ever ask me?"
Hearing this, Lou Lu's face darkened: "What are you asking? My good brother, how can I be happy about you wanting to be my brother-in-law? I was already giving you face by not beating you up. Who knew you would be so hesitant and didn't even tell my sister after graduating from college."
Speaking of this, Lou Luhui is speechless. Looking back now, if he had added fuel to the fire back then, maybe his elder sister would not have encountered such a scumbag.
Zhou Jianshe didn't know what his friend was thinking, but when he heard that he had graduated from university and didn't say this, he couldn't help but fall into memories.
The friendship between the Zhou and Lou families can be traced back to the great-grandfather’s generation.
From generation to generation, the relationship between the two families has always been very good. By the generation of Lou's father and Zhou's father, the two had grown up together and were friends.
It's just that Zhou's father was not in good health, so when Lou Zhan went to the army, he concentrated on studying. Later, he became the director of a textile factory. He looked pretty good, but in Beijing where there were officials everywhere, he was not that conspicuous.
On the other hand, Lou Zhan has been promoted over the years, and the distance between the two families has become increasingly larger.
However, this does not affect the friendship between the two families. Even now, when Lou's father and Zhou's father are resting, they will make plans to go fishing and play chess together.
It was normal for Zhou Jianshe, who was just beginning to fall in love, to fall in love with Lou Yannan, a girl in the compound who was as outstanding as a princess.
But he was already in high school at that time and already understood the gap between the two families, so he never dared to speak when he had nothing.
In order to be worthy of the girl he loved, he forced himself to go to military school from a naughty boy who felt sleepy when he saw books, and worked hard to catch up with her.
Just when he was about to graduate from military school and join the army, and thought he had finally grown up and could be closer to her, he saw her telling him with a happy face that she was getting married.
That year, Zhou Jianshe was 23 years old. He had liked Lou Yannan for 6 years and had been fighting for her for 6 years.
Until now, he still couldn't remember what expression he had when he blessed her, but he probably didn't give it away, otherwise she wouldn't have smiled so brightly.
Later, I attended her wedding, bid farewell to the love that ended before it even began, and came to the northernmost part of the motherland to hone my skills.
Time is a magical thing. About three or four years later, he no longer frequently thought of the princess who was once the most important person in his life and who made him smile whenever he thought of her. He thought he had let it go, so at the urging of his parents, he gladly accepted the blind date arrangement.
Maybe it was not fate. After going on blind dates with several people, he always felt that something was missing.
The result is predictable. Zhou Jianshe does not think that he is a lovesick man. He just hasn't met the person who makes his heart beat fast, so he doesn't want to settle.
After all, a marriage that is based on compromise is also harmful to the other party.
Later, his father seemed to notice what he was thinking. He sighed regretfully a few times and stopped urging him. He just said, "You have chosen a path and you must continue on it even if you have to kneel down."
Later on, actually his life didn't change much, and he still didn't miss Lou Yannan, who had driven him crazy for six years.
He lived in the army all year round, and in addition to working hard to complete various organizational tasks, he also jokingly rejected one colleague after another who were eager to introduce him to a date.
To this day.
He is thirty years old.
At this age when few people introduce him to a partner, the princess he thought he had forgotten appeared before him again.
The moment he saw her getting off the train at Hongchun Station, Zhou Jianshe had to compromise. Even though seven years had passed, the person who made his heart beat fast remained unchanged.
It turns out that he could really like someone for 13 years. It's incredible.
It was so incredible that even he himself didn't believe it.
Zhou Jianshe never thought about doing anything. After all, no matter how much he liked someone, the other person would never belong to him. But hiding his emotions was something he was best at.
But he never expected that the princess he had always wanted was treated as a worn-out shoe by another man.
At one point, Zhou Jianshe admitted that he wanted to go to Beijing to tear that man apart, and he wanted to beat himself up even more.
Because he couldn't help but think, if his pitiful self-esteem wasn't so strong back then, if he had been reckless when he found out he liked Sister Nan, would things be different between him and her
"Hey! Lao Zhou? What are you thinking about? Did you hear me talking to you?" Seeing that the other party didn't respond at all when he spoke, he looked over and realized that the person had become dazed for some time, so Lou Luhui kicked him directly.
"Hiss!" Zhou Jianshe gasped and cursed: "Why the hell did you kick me?"
Lou Lu Huiliang looked at him: "Whose father? My father? Or... my sister's father?"
Hearing this, Zhou Jianshe choked, and immediately straightened his posture and said what he had been thinking about for a day: "Lao Lou, the army is not busy recently. I want to take a vacation and send Sister Nan back to Beijing."
Of course, now he just wanted to send the person back safely and beat that bastard up by the way. As for other thoughts, he would not have them and could not have them. At least before Sister Nan got divorced, he would not add any burden to her.
"Have you thought about it?"
Zhou Jianshe had a rough look, tall and strong, but he was usually playful and smiling, so he didn't look fierce. He smiled and said, "Well, I've been thinking about this for 13 years, and it's clear to me. I have to give it a try. I'll submit the transfer application to Brigade Wang later."
This surprised Lou Luhui: "Even if the final result is not what you want, you won't regret it?"
"No regrets!"
"But you are two years younger than my sister, and she has always treated you as her younger brother."
Since he was ready to fight, Zhou Jianshe, who had trained for so many years and had a thicker skin than a city wall, was naturally not afraid of this blow: "My sister-in-law said that my younger brother is more fragrant."
Hearing this, for some reason, Lou Luhui suddenly became unhappy with him again, so he didn't even tell him that his elder sister would not stay in Beijing for the next few years.
"You really didn't tell him? What if he was transferred back with great difficulty and Sister Nan was transferred away? No matter how close they are, it wouldn't be good to apply for transfer again at the same time, right? Aren't you cheating me?" Tian Mi was soaking her feet with her husband. She listened to Zhou Jianshe's secret love for her over the years with a rich expression. She was now full of admiration and sympathy for him. How could she accept someone else breaking up a couple, even if it was her husband? At the end of her speech, she pinched the man hard.
Lou Luhui gasped in pain. He really didn't expect that a joke would make his wife angry. He held her hand and apologized repeatedly before explaining, "Don't worry. I know you think highly of Zhou Jianshe. I think so too. Otherwise, I wouldn't have given him opportunities so often. I just can't stand his cocky look. After he submitted his application to Wang Lu just now, I asked Wang Lu to hold back on the application. At least, I have to wait until I know where my sister will be transferred to before telling him."
At the end, the man's tone was filled with childish anger.
Hearing this, Tian Mi stepped on the man's foot again, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and asked, "How did I offend you?"
Lou Luhui took his wife's white and tender feet back and used his own feet to wash them: "I just don't like him. He has wanted to be my brother-in-law since he was a teenager. What's wrong with me playing a trick on him?"
Tian Mi rolled her eyes. In her opinion, Zhou Jianshe was so good. He was devoted, looked very manly, had a good future, and the two families were old friends. Most importantly, he was shameless enough to make Nanjie happy! He was a younger brother!
Sister Nan's temper has been suppressed too much over the years. It would be great to have someone like this who can make her happy.
But whether the two will succeed in the end is still an unknown. After all, it can be considered that they are in love only if Sister Nan also likes Zhou Jianshe. Otherwise, it would be useless for them to support them.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh: "What if Sister Nan just doesn't like Zhou Jianshe?"
Of course, before Tian Mi finished her sigh, she was interrupted by the man who was not aware of the situation: "How can you not like it? Didn't you say that younger brothers smell the best?"
There was a hint of sarcasm in these words. Tian Mi pretended not to hear them, took his feet out of the wooden barrel, silently pulled the towel from the back of the chair next to him and began to wipe his feet.
Seeing that she had given in, Lou Luhui picked up the towel she had used with an expression of both anger and amusement, rubbed it on his feet a few times, then put on his shoes, picked up the foot washing water and went out.
When he came back, he didn't rush to bed. Instead, he walked to the crib and looked at the child first.
When I sat on the bed again, I felt something foreign under my butt. I reached out and pulled it out, and found it was my wife's socks.
Lou Luhui frowned and lifted a corner of the quilt. Sure enough, the exposed fair little feet were not wearing socks.
The man said helplessly: "You don't wear socks and don't listen to the old people. Be careful, if the back of your feet really cracks, it will hurt you." As he spoke, he was already sitting at the end of the bed, skillfully putting socks on her feet.
Tian Mi was a little ticklish. His palms had thick calluses, which made her laugh. But after one of her feet was put on a sock, she seemed to remember something. She looked at the man and asked hesitantly, "You didn't take clean socks?"
Lou Lu replied: Yes, every time my wife soaks her feet, she likes to press the socks she takes off under her buttocks or thighs.
So. These are dirty socks
"It's not dirty, is it? You didn't even go out."
".How about you smell it?"
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(End of this chapter)