Chapter 189: That Woman Doesn't Look Like a Good Person

No one knows a son better than his father; Father Jiang keenly sensed his youngest son's mischievous intentions.

He immediately summoned his paternal authority, "If your mother finds out, I'll tell Yanyan about you talking to your ex-girlfriend at the front door last time."

Jiang Yu:...!!!

"It was just a polite greeting! A greeting!"

Father Jiang smiled slightly, "I don't care. Anyway, if your mother comes back to beat me, I'll make sure Yanyan beats you!"

Jiang Yu:...

He took a few quick steps, got into the car, and drove off.

In a rush to play chess? Walk back slowly!

But he was, after all, a high-EQ County Magistrate, so he still rolled down the car window to leave his father with a parting remark, "Walk more, exercise more, and lose some weight!"

Jiang Aiguo:...

Three days later, Si Rong and Hu Qian, daughter-in-law and mother-in-law, stood holding the children on Wushan Island, which looked like an endless, desolate island, unable to articulate what kind of mood they were in.

"Mom, we will definitely be able to adapt to this place, right?" Si Rong tried to give herself some confidence through words.

Hu Qian, "Right, right?"

Wushan Island was not large; sea breezes blew toward their family, lifting the hem of Jiang Cheng's shirt and also lifting little Orange's skirt.

At this moment, Si Rong felt that her decision to wear long pants on the day they landed on the island was truly a wise one.

Soon, a Guard in military uniform came over to welcome them, looking very excited, "Army Commander, you've arrived! Thank you for your hard work on the journey! My name is Zhang Jian; you can just call me Xiao Zhang."

After the transfer order came down, Jiang Cheng came to Wushan and was directly promoted to Army Commander.

Jiang Cheng shook his hand, "Working for the revolution is not hard work. Please, Comrade Xiao Zhang, take my family to where they will be settled first!"

"Yes, Comrade Army Commander, please follow me!"

Comrade Xiao Zhang was a very enthusiastic young comrade, and he introduced things to them along the way.

"This will be the medical room for our Wushan Island in the future; this is the school, and the direction you are looking at, Auntie, should be the military training grounds."

Si Rong looked in the direction he was pointing, but apart from a stretch of desolation, there was nothing else.

For a moment, she suspected that perhaps she had been on the train for too long and her eyesight was failing, as there was clearly nothing there.

Xiao Zhang seemed to see her confusion, gave a bashful smile, and explained to her, "Army Commander's wife, the things I introduced haven't been built yet!"

Si Rong:...

Even the medical room hadn't been built yet; at this moment, she was very glad she had brought some daily household medicines.

Currently, apart from some offices for military affairs, only two rows of dormitories had been built on the island.

Red brick houses; from the outside, one could see there were several rooms inside.

One family had already started building their courtyard wall.

Si Rong saw a familiar person—Shen Qinghe.

An old neighbor, at that.

In reality, Si Rong was a person with a very peaceful temperament most of the time; for example, although Shen Qinghe had told her before that Shen Qingyu was not a kind person, as long as she didn't provoke her, she could just slowly distance herself.

But now, she saw that the courtyard wall Shen Qingyu was building slanted into the house they had just been assigned.

Si Rong's first thought was that Shen Qingyu was better than her; both were daughters of capitalists in the past, yet Shen Qingyu actually knew how to build a wall!

Her second thought was that she had to tear down the slanted wall Shen Qingyu had built; the wall slanted into their assigned house by at least fifty centimeters.

"It really is you!" Shen Qingyu smiled and walked up to greet them, "That's great, I finally have acquaintances on this island!"

"Who's to say? Building a wall, are we?" Si Rong faked a smile just as enthusiastically as her.

"Yes, we arrived the day before yesterday. Old Tao went to work, and as a woman, I can only build the wall myself. This is my first time doing this kind of work; please don't laugh at me if I didn't build it well!" Shen Qingyu's little scheme was well-calculated; she would be enthusiastic and humble, hoping to laugh off the wall's slant.

Come to think of it, it was only a distance of one step, but once the courtyard wall was built, their yard would be quite a bit larger.

"I knew you wouldn't know how to build a wall!" Si Rong jabbed back with a soft nail, pointing at the wall and saying loudly, "Look, didn't you build it crooked? Someone who didn't know better might think you did it on purpose!"

Shen Qingyu's face turned blue and red at once; she hadn't expected Si Rong to point out her little scheme so bluntly.

She stammered, "How could it be on purpose? I really don't know how to build a wall. Back at my maiden home, I couldn't even tell lime from cement. How about this, Si Rong, if you're unhappy, I'll just tear the wall down and rebuild it."

She had already built it over two meters high; surely Si Rong wouldn't really make her tear it down?

"Tear it down and rebuild it. If your wall-building technique isn't good, you just need to practice more."

She, at any rate, could not let herself be taken advantage of.

Si Rong knew that being neighbors with someone like Shen Qingyu meant that if you tolerated her once, you would likely have to tolerate her countless times in the future.

This wall was Shen Qingyu's way of asserting dominance, relying on the fact that she had arrived two days earlier.

After saying this, she ignored Shen Qingyu's ugly expression and entered the house with her son and mother-in-law.

The house was not bad, with five or six rooms of varying sizes.

And it looked quite clean; someone must have cleaned it in advance.

Si Rong thanked Xiao Zhang a few times.

Xiao Zhang was immediately a bit flattered; cleaning the officers' dormitories was their duty, and Mrs. Jiang was the first to thank them like this.

He had heard before that the Army Commander's wife was a capitalist's daughter, but now she seemed much kinder than the capitalist's daughter that Political Commissar Tao had married.

"That woman doesn't look like a good person!" After Xiao Zhang and Jiang Cheng had both gone to the troops, Hu Qian said to Si Rong.

"She never was," Si Rong looked at their pile of luggage, feeling a bit of a headache, "Mom, don't worry about her; let's just have less to do with her in the future."

Hu Qian nodded, first finding a flat spot to take out the two little ones' folding stroller and putting them inside to sleep.

Si Jia Lao Er was a smart, good child; the stroller he sent was very practical, otherwise, she wouldn't know where to put her grandson and granddaughter right now.

Looking at the simple things within sight in the room, Hu Qian thought to herself that it was fortunate she had come, otherwise, what would her daughter-in-law have done bringing two children all by herself?

She had to help her daughter-in-law get the house settled quickly.

"I'll take this room!"

Hu Qian carried her own luggage and chose the smaller south-facing room, leaving the other, larger south-facing room for her son and daughter-in-law.

After they had put away their respective belongings, the door was knocked upon.

"You finally arrived!" Fang Ting was carrying a large iron pot, and Jiang Dacheng followed behind holding a lump of yellow mud mixed with wheat straw. "I helped you collect the large iron pot; let Dacheng plaster the rim of the pot for you!"

The couple coming over at this moment was truly like sending charcoal in snowy weather.

Si Rong was so grateful she wanted to cry; it was already afternoon, they hadn't eaten yet, and there was nothing in the kitchen except for the stove.

There was also no toilet.

Jiang Dacheng plastered the stove while Fang Ting helped Si Rong organize her things, finally asking in confusion, "You didn't bring mahjong?"

Si Rong:...

"Can you play mahjong here?"

She had assumed the military district had strict discipline and that playing things like mahjong was not allowed.