Chapter 278: Makes people spit out rice

"What's the matter?" Lu Yizhou didn't understand.

The soldier who came to pass the message said: "Don't know. By the way, the Chief also said to call Comrade Su."

He shifted his gaze to Su Yuxian's gray and dirty face.

Su Yuxian noticed it, and her heart felt anxious.

She pulled the corners of her mouth, "Me? Why call me?"

"How would I know that? I'm just the messenger." The person who spoke had a cold and stern face, unmoved by anything.

Su Yuxian was secretly annoyed.

Lu Yizhou had a bad premonition in his heart and looked at Su Yuxian, "What did you do?"

"... I don't know," Su Yuxian was confused.

Her eyes were angry, "I just came back from my hometown, what could I have done."

"You didn't do anything, the Chief is calling you," Lu Yizhou asked back.

Su Yuxian was speechless, "..."

"I didn't do anything, believe it or not, it's up to you." After finishing her sentence, she handed the luggage to Old Lady Lu and walked forward.

Lu Yizhou pinched his brow, feeling tired in his heart.

Glancing impatiently at Su Yuxian's back, he looked at the old couple of the Lu family, "Mom, you take Dad and Baozhen home first, Su Yuxian and I will be back in a while."

Old Lady Lu asked with concern: "Nothing will happen, right?"

"Shouldn't," Lu Yizhou said uncertainly, suppressing the unease.

"I knew nothing would happen! My son is capable, what hurdle can't he pass?" Old Lady Lu was as proud as a rooster raised by a fellow villager, her neck held high.

"My son!" Lu Laotou had the same expression, "The old gentleman who tells fortunes said that my son is the Wenqu Star descended to earth..."

Hearing this, Old Lady Lu's heart thumped in fear; she reached out to cover the old man's mouth, vigilantly looking around.

Seeing no one, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Letting go, she hit the old man's mouth twice heavily.

"You're crazy!" she scolded in a suppressed voice, "Where is this? You old thing, how dare you say anything, do you want to harm our son!"

Old Lady Lu's old face was fierce, "I'm telling you, if you ruin my son's future, be careful I'll beat you!"

The force of this woman's hitting was neither light nor heavy, but it was embarrassing.

Lu Laotou's temper was bad, and seeing the old woman being so arrogant and not giving him, the head of the family, face, his white hair stood up.

Raising his arm to hit the woman, "You're looking for death!"

Lu Yizhou grabbed his father's hand and warned: "This is the military region, don't move your hands and feet."

Lu Laotou glared at the old woman, saying hatefully: "Looking at my son's face, if there's a next time, see if I dare to hit you."

"You hit me? You still want to hit me?" Old Lady Lu was furious.

The old thing cheated on her, and she hadn't sent him for reform; yet he was good, he even wanted to hit her. Fine, fine, this is picking the soft persimmon.

"You try hitting me? This is the military region, the Women's Director isn't just for show. If you dare hit me once, I'll go report you..."

Lu Laotou's temper was bad, and seeing the old woman being so rampant, he raised his right arm and swung at Old Lady Lu.

Lu Yizhou was just about to leave when he saw this scene and rushed up half a step, grabbing his father's elbow again.

"What are you doing? Keep making a scene and go back to the hometown!" he said angrily.

Lu Laotou froze in place, pointing at his son, and scolded loudly: "You want to drive me back to the hometown? You unfilial son!"

"You make it louder, it's best if it reaches the ears of the military region Chief, and then I'll retire and go home, and our whole family will go back to the hometown to farm!" Lu Yizhou said blandly.

Lu Laotou fell silent.

Glaring fiercely at the old woman, "Why don't you lead the way, what are you standing there for, standing until dark?"

Seeing that his son was truly angry, Lu Laotou's wife did not dare to make a scene again; she shot a glare at the old man and walked in front to lead the way.

After walking a few steps, she turned her head and said to her son: "Yizhou, isn't that leader looking for you? You go, don't delay the time."

Lu Yizhou's mouth twitched, speechless to the point of wanting to laugh.

Now she remembers he has serious business.

After settling the family matter, he trotted toward the leader's office.

When he arrived, he saw a few unfamiliar faces in the room.

Meng Jiusi, a popular figure in the military hospital, had come not long ago and introduced two quite good medicines, receiving commendation from the leaders.

Why was he here?

Lu Yizhou was just about to ask—

"Knock knock knock!!"

The office door was knocked.

"Enter," the middle-aged man at the desk said blandly.

A young man with a cold temperament and a tall, straight figure walked in.

"Gu Chenghuai? What are you here for? Didn't call you!" the leader-looking man said unhappily.

The person who came was Gu Chenghuai.

He replied calmly: "Meng Doctor is my fourth brother-in-law, if I don't come, how can I explain to my wife?"

The leader who spoke: "..."

Ning Chief, sitting next to him, twitched.

Can he not say things that make people spit out rice while wearing that expressionless face?!

While complaining in his heart, he couldn't help but speak up for Gu Chenghuai.

"Let him stay, in the end, it really has something to do with him, or maybe he knows what the situation is."

The leader with a bad temper, who was speechless by Gu Chenghuai, said irritably: "If he wants to stay, let him stay, stand to the side, we didn't ask you, don't make a sound."

Gu Chenghuai gave his fourth brother-in-law a look and sat in the corner.

Zhaozhao would definitely ask when she came, so he had to watch carefully and couldn't miss a detail!

Seeing Gu Chenghuai, Lu Yizhou didn't even want to speak.

But he couldn't not speak.

His gaze glanced over Su Yuxian without a trace.

He finally asked: "Chief, what is going on?"

Hearing Lu Yizhou's straightforward question, Gu Chenghuai raised his eyebrows in surprise.

This guy can speak without beating around the bush.

He thought he couldn't!

The leader with a bad temper slapped a letter on the table.

His sharp, hawk-like black eyes stared at him.

"Look at this letter, are you familiar with the handwriting?" he said in a sonorous and powerful tone, very sternly.

Su Yuxian saw the letter, her pupils shrank, and her right foot stepped back half a step.

This letter...

Finally, she knew what that bad premonition was!

Lu Yizhou took the letter, and after seeing the handwriting, he subconsciously looked at Su Yuxian.

Soon he withdrew his gaze.

He read the letter word by word.

The more he read, the uglier his face became; by the end, his face was as cold as frost.

His hand clenched into a fist, crumpling the letter into a ball of waste paper.

Ning Chief stood up, grabbed Lu Yizhou's wrist with one hand, and pried open his fingers with the other, taking the letter, his tone stern.

"This is effective evidence of Comrade Su Yuxian maliciously targeting Comrade Meng Jiusi and intentionally destroying the unity of our army. Be careful not to damage it."

Su Yuxian secretly said "bad."

She shook her head and denied it, "Not malicious, I'm not familiar with Dr. Meng, why would I maliciously target him? The leaders misunderstood."

"Clack!"

The sound of an enamel mug being placed on the table.

The leader with a bad temper looked at her with a scrutinizing gaze, "Not malicious? Not really? The wording in your letter clearly shows malice."

"You knew clearly that Dr. Meng didn't want to have any connection with his previous unit, yet you specifically wrote such a letter exposing his address. If it's not intentional, what is it!?"

The leaders of the military region had all been on the battlefield, and with their faces stiff, their momentum was very frightening.

Su Yuxian shook with fear, her teeth clenched.

"... I really wasn't intentional," she knew that what she had done could be big or small; if not handled well, it would affect her own man, which was something she absolutely didn't want.

So she couldn't admit it.

No matter what, she couldn't admit it!

At the critical moment, Su Yuxian's brain turned quite fast.

"I didn't know Dr. Meng didn't want to contact people from before. I was also being kind. I accidentally found out that Dr. Meng's ex-wife had been looking for him and their two sons, but no matter how she looked, she couldn't find them, so I..."

She decisively bowed and apologized to Meng Jiusi.

"I'm truly sorry. Look at this... I really didn't know. You are a big person with a lot of tolerance, don't hold it against me, just treat it as me... being a busybody."

Bowing to Lin Zhao's own fourth brother, Su Yuxian felt annoyed in her heart, but in this environment, she couldn't get out unscathed without apologizing honestly.

Endure it.

Meng Jiusi stepped aside, "I don't accept it."

"You—!" Anger appeared in Su Yuxian's eyes.

"Clack clack clack!" The bad-tempered leader knocked on the table a few times.

Unhappy:

"People are the victims, it's normal not to accept your apology. What are you angry about? Where do you think this is? Truly spoiled!"

Su Yuxian lowered her head, not daring to make a sound.

She muttered in her heart that none of these men in the military region were normal, and none of them knew how to cherish the fair sex.

They deserve to be bachelors!

Several leaders in the office were very gentle toward Meng Jiusi, the victim.

"Comrade Meng, the matter has been investigated clearly. It was indeed the letter sent by Comrade Su Yuxian that caused the trouble. You can make any request..."

Lu Yizhou wished he could strangle this troublemaker Su Yuxian. Because of that room matter, the leaders' impression of him was already bad enough. He wished he could be transparent and just wait to perform a great merit and soar, but he didn't expect this woman to bring him such big trouble.

His straight shoulders collapsed.

He apologized for his wife, "It's my fault for not managing my wife well, sorry. Whatever compensation you want, Comrade Meng, just say it. As long as I can do it, I will fully satisfy it."

Su Yuxian was a military dependent, with no job and no status. She only wrote a letter and didn't cause any consequences, so the military region truly couldn't do anything to her.

Furthermore, looking at Lu Yizhou's noble and selfless profession, Meng Jiusi couldn't bear to make things difficult for him.

Not making things difficult was one thing, but this matter couldn't be taken lightly.

He said: "My peaceful life with my two sons has been broken, becoming a laughingstock in the family compound, and we've been laughed at for a full half month. You have to compensate us for mental damages."

Meng Jiusi had heard the concept of mental damages from Zhaozhao.

It was just right to use it here.

"... Mental, damages?" Lu Yizhou's eyes were blank.

"Right, Comrade Su's matter has caused huge trauma to our family's spirit, so you must compensate us for mental damages," Meng Jiusi said seriously.

"We'll compensate, we'll compensate," Lu Yizhou just wanted to end this matter as soon as possible.

"How much to compensate?" he asked.

Meng Jiusi said a number.

Hearing this, Su Yuxian shrieked, "Three hundred yuan?!! Are you poor crazy?!!!"

Lu Yizhou also felt three hundred was too much.

This was a lion's opening of the mouth.

Treating him like a sucker.

Meng Jiusi's expression didn't change, his eyes looking at Lu Yizhou blandly, revealing determination.

Not a cent less.

Lu Yizhou saw such determination from those ink-black eyes.

"What kind of mess is this, asking for three hundred yuan..." Su Yuxian was still roaring.

"Shut up," Lu Yizhou shouted at her with a red face and thick neck, his eyes very gloomy.

Su Yuxian fell silent.

Lu Yizhou looked at Meng Jiusi, almost gritting his teeth, "I'll compensate, I'll compensate you in a while."

After solving this matter, he dragged the wasteful woman and left quickly.

His face, his competitive spirit, his dignity... all were destroyed today.

It was all Su Yuxian's fault.

Gu Chenghuai must be laughing at him, right?

Damn it!

Thinking of this, the force of his hand gripping Su Yuxian's arm increased.

"Hiss, it hurts, be lighter," Su Yuxian couldn't help but say.

Lu Yizhou stopped and looked at her gloomily, "You have to pay back the money compensated, and if you can't pay it back, don't eat in the future!"

After leaving the harsh words, he turned indifferently and disappeared quickly.

Su Yuxian's face was pale, regretting being a busybody.

"Where can I pay back the money? I couldn't pay it back even if I sold myself."

She walked very slowly, a bit afraid to go home. If her parents-in-law knew she had caused the family to compensate three hundred yuan, they would definitely beat her to death!

With her mood in a mess, Su Yuxian began to complain about Meng Jiusi and the military region leaders, feeling that these people were not good things, cheating her family's money.

The people left in the office didn't know that Su Yuxian had imagined them as big villains, casting all sorts of spells in her heart and cursing them.

Meng Jiusi didn't lack money, nor did he want to take the Lu family's money.

After Lu Yizhou and Su Yuxian left, he said to the chiefs: "The so-called compensation... I want to donate it, hoping it will be used for the life and study subsidies of the orphans of martyrs."

Three hundred yuan was truly not a small amount.

The pension for sacrificed soldiers was only that much.

Two of the leaders originally felt that Meng Jiusi had asked for too much, but hearing that he was willing to donate the compensation, they felt it wasn't too much.

This was a good comrade with affection, righteousness, and great love.

Several leaders stood up and saluted him.

This salute was for those orphans of comrades.

"Thank you!" Ning Chief said, "Don't worry, every cent of this money will be spent on those children."

Meng Jiusi returned the salute and smiled: "I believe it."

Lin Zhao didn't know that the restless Su Yuxian had pitted her little brother.

The military dependent in the same carriage with her was also going to follow the army, and she was with her sister-in-law and seven-year-old son.

Coincidentally, their destination was the same.

The two families were very happy because they could help each other on the road.

To give the simplest example, there was someone to watch the children when going to the bathroom, so there was no need to worry about the children and not dare to squat for too long.

"Yu Bao, Gu Hangbao, I'm going to see if there are any box lunches, you two stay obediently, don't leave the carriage, hear me?"

Having eaten dry rations for several meals in a row, the two cubs were wilted, and Lin Zhao planned to change the taste for the children.

Gu Hangbao sat up straight, "Is there meat?"

"How would I know? Wait, if there is, I'll buy it for you," Lin Zhao said.

She looked at the military dependent traveling with them, "Sister Tong, I'm going to buy food, help me watch these two."

Sister Tong was also a rural military dependent, with a very straightforward personality, and agreed immediately, "Go ahead, I'm watching, I guarantee they'll be fine."

Lin Zhao thanked her and left the carriage.

Passing through one person after another, she followed the sound toward the train attendant.

"Box lunch, box lunch, those who need it, come here to buy." The female train attendant used a large basket to hold the box lunches and shouted loudly in the carriage.

"Comrade, what do you have?" Lin Zhao asked.

People in this era were very frugal, and not many people bought box lunches. Seeing someone wanting to buy, the attendant was more than happy.

"There's potato braised meat, meat slices stir-fried with green peppers, stir-fried cabbage, which one do you want, Comrade?" she asked enthusiastically.

"I want one potato braised meat, one meat slice stir-fried with green peppers," Lin Zhao said casually.

The passengers in the carriage looked at her in shock.

Where did this big spender come from?! Buying two meat dishes at once.

Lin Zhao just pretended not to see the gazes of the people around her.

Giving the money and tickets, she got the meal and walked toward the sleeper.

Going back was another test, having to turn sideways from time to time to walk through the cracks of people.

Lin Zhao was walking back with difficulty when she suddenly saw a very distinctive face.

A mole on the brow, medium build, skin fairer than ordinary people, looking ordinary and inconspicuous, but looking closely, those eyes had a bit of charm.

This was—the human trafficker called Sister Xia, the superior of Diao Tuozi. ===== CHAPTER 279 =====