In the fifth row of the family quarters, there was a small commissary. The layout was much smaller than a standard courtyard house, and it didn't stock many items—just the commonly used oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar. At this moment, eight or nine women were sitting together in a circle, heads bowed, working on their chores.
"Oh my, did you hear?"
Liu Fu didn't pay attention to Shen Jiabao's words. After greeting her, he began to report on the state of the unit over the past half-month.
"Company Commander, the Deputy Commander has been running drills as you instructed. It's just that without you here, everyone feels a little unaccustomed."
Once the banquet was concluded, it was time to leave for the frontier.
Su Xingye had finished packing everything the day before. She didn't have much to take; mainly, the family was too poor, so what they could bring was scarce.
"I think what Kaiyue said is right. What, you've already gotten the certificate, and you can't even host a banquet?"
Su Xingye and Liu Suqin were sitting next to each other. Hearing Su Xiayang's words, Su Xingye was dissatisfied. "Brother, we are both remarrying; why be so ostentatious? He's bringing his children, so let's just have a meal as a family."
At the state-run restaurant (guoying fandian) in Qing Shui Town, Shen Kaiyue pulled open the door and let Su Xingye and the children enter.
Today, he was wearing a neat, crisp white shirt over a pair of straight military trousers.
At Su Xingye's house, she was talking to her two children about Shen Kaiyue. A meeting was definitely necessary, and before that, she wanted to give the children a preliminary impression.
Of course, the family conversation wasn't dry and formal.
Seeing Liu Suqin's uncompromising attitude, Su Xingye felt a pang of regret.
She really lacked experience interacting with close relatives. She had been so focused on distracting her sister-in-law from crying and thought mentioning Shen Kaiyue would shift her attention. She hadn't expected the news to stimulate her sister-in-law so much that she refused to listen to anything else.
Shen Kaiyue hadn't clearly heard the voice, only the knock on the door. He thought Matchmaker Zhao had returned and hurried to open it, but instead, a beautiful young woman was standing there.
This girl had a pale, clear face and a bright, cheerful smile. Although she wasn't short, she looked thin and frail, appearing to be under twenty years old. Shen Kaiyue was stunned for a moment. "I am Shen Kaiyue, comrade. And you are?"
In the early 1980s, the train station was far from the bustle of later eras, yet it was still crowded. Everywhere you looked, there were people with sorrowful faces seeing off their loved ones.
However, Su Xingye was not among them. She looked at the man in front of her, whose face was overflowing with seemingly genuine emotion, and only felt a deep sense of mockery.
will share and post here translations for those unfinished nu works that i really enjoyed reading. i dont know chinese and the few words i can barely managed to remember, i picked them up from reading fan works as well. these will be machine-translated with a little bit of editing.
In the fifth row of the family quarters, there was a small commissary . The layout was much smaller than a standard courtyard house, and it ...