Chapter 387: Shouldn't Have Had Expectations for This Face-Obsessed Person!

When Li Bao came out of the bath, he was wearing the sweater Lin Zhao knitted and the long pants she made, the same style as the twins, which made the little boy feel a bit less uncomfortable.

"Where's Third Aunt?"

Qiao Hui answered, "Went to pick up Qian Bao and Seeing Yaobao."

She greeted, "Come eat noodles first, while they're hot."

Li Bao sat at the dining table, and soon a bowl of hot noodle soup was placed in front of him, with a small dish of appetizing small pickles on the side.

"Where are Xiang Yubao and Gu Hangbao's?" He didn't rush to eat, but asked instead.

"You eat yours, we're waiting to eat," Xiang Yubao said, "This is to welcome you. Eat fast, eat fast. After eating, we'll take you to find Mao Dan'er to play."

Gu Hangbao also said, "I'll introduce you to new friends."

Li Bao ate hurriedly. Tasting the small pickles made by Third Aunt again, the child's eyes were brighter than Xia Xing's, "It's the small pickles Third Aunt made."

"Right, my mom made them," Gu Hangbao said proudly, "I have a mom who makes a lot, you can eat them every meal."

They ate them every day and never got tired of them.

"Okay," Li Bao said happily.

There was a fried egg on top of the noodle soup. He didn't eat it alone, insisting on sharing it with Xiang Yubao and Gu Hangbao.

The twins had no choice but to eat. When they ate, the corners of their mouths almost flew to the sky; obviously, being missed by their good brother made them very happy too.

As soon as Li Bao finished the soup, he was pulled out by the twins, introduced to the new friends they made in the military district one by one. Before long, a group of children were playing together.

When Lin Zhao got home, she didn't see the Fengshou Brigade's Three Musketeers. Before she could ask, Qiao Hui answered tacitly, "They all went out to play."

After the words fell, she bent down and continued scrubbing the clothes.

"Throw the clothes in the washing machine, don't waste your hands," Lin Zhao said.

"Just these two pieces, hand washing is fast," Qiao Hui felt the washing machine wasted electricity. Except for large items like bed sheets and quilt covers, the children's clothes were all hand-washed. She didn't feel it was a hassle either; receiving such a high salary, work that was too easy made her feel uncomfortable instead.

Lin Zhao shook her head and didn't speak again.

Respect it.

Afternoon.

Gu Chenghuai saw Li Bao at home.

"Third Uncle, I'm here," Li Bao stood up from the stool, revealing a simple, honest smile.

Gu Chenghuai patted his head, "Didn't run into any annoying things on the road, right?"

"No, it was very smooth," Li Bao's smile didn't fade. With Xiang Yubao and Gu Hangbao there, he was happy doing anything.

"As long as there weren't any. Since you're here, just stay well, eat when you should, play when you should, don't be restrained, just treat it like your own home," Gu Chenghuai said.

"Mm."

A few days later, the popular goods Gu Chenghuai entrusted someone to buy in the capital were mailed to the military district.

The man held them in front of Lin Zhao like offering a treasure.

"Wife, come see what I bought for you."

Lin Zhao lifted the door curtain and came out, "What is it?"

Her smiling eyes looked at Gu Chenghuai, "You can still remember me? Is it a doll with hair you bought for your daughter?"

She knew before that this person favored Seeing Yaobao, and only after bringing the children to join the army did she realize it even more. Gu Chenghuai truly wanted to give his daughter the stars and moon; he held her whenever he had time, gave her whatever she wanted... he wasn't afraid of spoiling her into a princess.

"How could I forget you," Gu Chenghuai said disapprovingly, "In my heart, you are always number one."

While speaking, he untied the knot on the cloth bag and took out the things inside.

"A rabbit doll?! It's so big, it must be half my size. Where did you get it? Aren't you afraid of being cuckolded?"

"Got it through proper channels, who dares to cuckold me," Gu Chenghuai said with the steadiness of someone in control of everything.

"I'll be on missions at any time, so I bought you a rabbit doll. When I'm not around, you can hug it, just like I'm by your side."

Lin Zhao remembered the words she said unconsciously, never expecting this person to keep them in his heart and come up with such a... way to coax her.

It really was... really made her not know what to say.

"The children are all here. When you're on missions, I'll sleep in the same room with them."

Gu Chenghuai: "They have bad sleeping postures, what if they kick you? You don't like sleeping with others, don't force yourself."

Lin Zhao patted his hard arm with a smile, "What 'others,' those are your sons and daughter. How can you be so disgusted?"

"Not disgusted," Gu Chenghuai denied, his pitch-black eyes carrying a look of seriousness, "Those are the treasures you gave birth to for me, how could I be disgusted? I just... don't want them to disturb your rest."

Lin Zhao knew his sincerity, the corners of her mouth lifting slightly.

She hugged the rabbit doll with long ears, her mood pleasant, "I like the gift very much. I want to put it at the head of the bed, you have to wash it for me first."

"I'll wash it for you in a bit," Gu Chenghuai agreed immediately, happy that his wife liked the gift he sent.

He took out a fluffy scarf.

"Wife, didn't you lack a scarf like this? I entrusted a comrade to buy it."

Lin Zhao said she wanted a fluffy scarf to match her clothes last New Year. Gu Chenghuai kept it in his heart, specifically remitting money and mailing tickets to a comrade, letting the other party help keep an eye out.

The weather had just turned cold, so his wife could wear it.

"Where did you get the money and tickets?" Lin Zhao was puzzled.

"I don't smoke or drink, can't the pocket money you give me be used? I saved up and had enough," Gu Chenghuai said matter-of-factly.

Sun Yeli:... He really made me cry.

Just say he always says his pockets are empty. If you're not empty, who is?

Lin Zhao's moving was deeper than anyone's.

"Big fool," she said.

Gu Chenghuai: "??"

"How did I become a big fool?" He was between laughter and tears.

"For me, buying things for my wife and children is more satisfying than buying for myself."

"I like seeing you happy when you receive gifts; you're happy, I'm happy too."

It's a pity that this place isn't as prosperous as the big cities; many trendy things aren't available. If he were in the capital or Haicheng, he could buy, buy, buy for his wife and children every few days!

Although Deputy Regiment Commander Gu didn't speak much, he knew how to create romantic surprises, which was a shining bonus point on him.

"You're quite good at it," Lin Zhao put the rabbit doll aside and watched Gu Chenghuai tidy up the other things.

"Good at what?" Gu Chenghuai looked up, his expression puzzled.

He was always steady, with an ease and calmness about him. Looking over in rare confusion, he had a kind of contrasting cuteness.

Realizing what she was thinking, Lin Zhao's mouth curled up, "Good at preparing surprises."

"Whatever you like, I can do," Gu Chenghuai said calmly.

If he couldn't, he would learn.

Lin Zhao's cold fingers touched her hot cheeks. These words were too rule-breaking.

"What else?" she changed the subject.

"Some things for you to apply on your face, soaps with different scents, things for washing hair... and some things Xiang Yubao and the others want to eat..." Gu Chenghuai looked through the things mailed by his old comrade and said to Lin Zhao.

The doll with hair that the apple of his eye wanted was also there.

"You used up all the money you saved, right?" Lin Zhao said.

Gu Chenghuai hadn't answered yet, and she pondered, "Should I add some pocket money for you?"

"No need, it's enough."

Lin Zhao: "Then I won't add it?"

Gu Chenghuai lowered his head, meeting his wife's clear eyes. His figure was reflected in those autumn-water-bright eyes, and that cold, heavy heart softened suddenly.

He lowered his head, his thin lips lightly touching Lin Zhao's soft, fragrant red lips.

"Wife, coming to join the army... are you happy living here?" he asked suddenly.

"Happy, I can see you every day, how could I not be happy," Lin Zhao said without thinking.

Gu Chenghuai's eyes lifted with a shallow smile, "As long as you're happy."

"Why ask this suddenly? Did something happen?" Lin Zhao's face showed suspicion.

The man was silent for a moment, and in the end, couldn't hold back, a look of melancholy flashing in his dark eyes.

"A family in the neighboring regiment broke apart..."

Lin Zhao: "What's the situation? Divorced?"

"Right," Gu Chenghuai frowned, "The child is already seven or eight years old. They said their steps weren't consistent and wanted to separate. The political commissar tried to persuade them again and again, but couldn't persuade them..."

What he didn't say was that the woman moved away, not even wanting the child.

He wouldn't say this, afraid that person would teach his wife bad things.

"So you associated it with yourself and got scared?" Lin Zhao walked forward a few steps, approaching Gu Chenghuai, only two centimeters away from him. The man had broad shoulders and a thin waist, a typical inverted-triangle physique. After she approached a few steps, she seemed to nestle into his arms, their figures seeming to melt together.

She looked at him, her eyes warm.

Gu Chenghuai's face burned from being looked at by his wife, his clear Adam's apple rolling a few times, and he looked away.

Being watched by Zhao Zhao's pair of beautiful eyes, his hands and feet were numb.

His current appearance must be incredibly stupid.

"I was a bit scared, afraid you'd feel that the days of joining the army weren't what you imagined, afraid you'd feel I was boring and want to change to a different way of living." Gu Chenghuai only thought about it and his heart felt like it was pierced by a blunt object. It hurt.

"You think too much..." Lin Zhao was stunned.

If she had to say it, she really felt Gu Chenghuai was a bit of a love-brain. No, not a bit, he was.

And he loved to let his imagination run wild.

He could associate everything with himself.

"I don't think you're boring." She pampered her own man, took the man's hand, and said seriously, "I haven't lived enough of the good days, why would I want to change to a different way of living? I have no interest in other ways of living, I just want to guard our home well, guard you."

Gu Chenghuai lacked a sense of security, and she would give him enough sense of security.

Hearing Lin Zhao's words, Gu Chenghuai's bloodshot eyes showed light, "Wife."

"I'm here," Lin Zhao responded.

"Wife..." Gu Chenghuai moved his lips, "You're really good."

Lin Zhao: "..."

At critical moments, this person could only say this one sentence.

"Since you know I'm good, hurry up and wash my rabbit."

Gu Chenghuai tidied up the messy room in two or three moves, picked up the rabbit doll with one hand, and went to the courtyard to wash it. Knowing his wife liked the scent of gardenia, he specifically used soap with that scent, rubbing and scrubbing the rabbit doll very seriously.

Qiao Hui didn't say she would help; it was intimacy between the couple, and if she went up, it would seem she wasn't very sensible.

When Seeing Yaobao came back and saw the rabbit doll hanging in the courtyard to dry, her eyes were bright. She ran toward the doll, sensibly not touching it with her hands.

"The rabbit doll is your mother's, your gift is the doll with hair," Gu Chenghuai was afraid she would make a fuss, took out the new doll his daughter wanted, and shook his wrist while holding it up.

Upon hearing it was Mom's, Seeing Yaobao didn't make a fuss about wanting it, walked toward her father, and took the new doll.

"Thank you, Dad, I like this doll," she said in her milky voice.

"As long as you like it," Gu Chenghuai accompanied his daughter to play, taking time to look at the three sons, "Your gifts are in the room, ask your mother for them."

"Okay!" The three turned and returned to the room.

"Wow, it's chocolate, there's so much!"

"It's the storybook I wanted."

The cheerful voices of several little teenagers rang out.

They were grown up after all, not chattering a bunch of words like when they were little; they talked much less.

After Li Bao came to the military district, Xiang Yubao and Gu Hangbao came home later every day. A group of children played until they forgot to return. The children in the military district couldn't wait to take their newly met little partners to explore every corner of the military district.

Taking Li Bao fishing.

Taking Li Bao to watch the soldier uncles stand guard.

Taking Li Bao to the army's supply and marketing cooperative and guesthouse...

After it snowed, they took Li Bao skiing.

Just as the first snow fell, the art troupe that came to the military district to perform arrived.

Many young and beautiful girls came to the military district. Those young men who had a strong desire to form a family became restless, going to the guesthouse building every day, trying to encounter their true love by chance.

These beautiful girls from the art troupe weren't here for the first time; this was their fifth time here.

At this moment, in a room in the guesthouse, two high-spirited girls were lying on the bed whispering.

"Bai Wei, we're here again. This time you must seize the opportunity to confess to the officer you like. I support you."

Xie Baiwei bit her lip, a blush appearing on her fair face, "Jingqiu! What confessing or not, it's too embarrassing. People... people might not even know who I am, stop talking nonsense."

Su Jingqiu: "I agree with Uncle, but there's nothing wrong with pursuing your own happiness. You're so beautiful, you're the pillar of our art troupe, no one doesn't know you. Be confident."

She placed her hand on Xie Baiwei's shoulder, her eyes firm, giving her friend encouragement, "Give yourself a chance, it's fine if you fail, I'm here with you. If—I mean if—that comrade already has a partner, don't be too sad, you can borrow my shoulder."

Xie Baiwei pursed her lips, "Let me think about it."

"Sure, you think about it."

Su Jingqiu knew Bai Wei had always been thinking about the comrade she fell for at first sight, so she secretly inquired about that person's situation for her friend.

After inquiring clearly, her heart sank, her face full of heaviness.

Unfortunately, the soldier brother Bai Wei had a crush on didn't have a partner, but he had a lover, and the children were already several years old.

Sigh, there was one more person in this world sad because of a failed crush.

Su Jingqiu sighed, her footsteps heavy as she found her friend.

She told her friend everything she had inquired about.

Upon hearing this, Xie Baiwei's face turned pale.

"Married... already," her eyes were so sore. She had been so happy on the way here, and now she was just as uncomfortable.

"Jingqiu, I..." Xie Baiwei's tears rolled down drop by drop, wanting to force a smile but failing, "I want to cry a little."

Su Jingqiu hugged her, pressing her friend's head onto her shoulder.

"Cry, borrow my shoulder," she said, "After crying, forget that person. You are so excellent, you must cherish your feathers. Since he's married, it means he's not your destined match; you'll meet someone better and more suitable for you in the future."

Xie Baiwei lay on her friend's shoulder, her shoulders constantly heaving as she cried.

"Jingqiu, if I had had more courage a few years ago, would..."

"Xie Baiwei," Su Jingqiu's tone was stained with a trace of severity, "There is no such assumption. What you should do now is tidy up your mood and welcome the upcoming performance. No one is worth you slacking off on your career."

Xie Baiwei stopped speaking, tears continuing to gush out.

Accompanied by her friend, it took her three days to walk out of it.

This day, Xie Baiwei, with her red, swollen eyes, begged Su Jingqiu for one thing: she wanted to take one more look at that person... and his lover and children, just to draw a period for her many years of secret love.

Su Jingqiu looked at the pleading in her eyes and couldn't bear to refuse.

"Fine, but you have to control your emotions."

Xie Baiwei was silent for a moment, her voice slightly hoarse, "You underestimate me too much. I am a person who has received higher education and won't do things that destroy other people's families."

Su Jingqiu hugged her friend's shoulder, "Of course I know Bai Wei is self-respecting, self-strengthening, and self-loving, a good treasure. I'm just... afraid you'll act impulsively and do things you'll regret later. Bai Wei, forgive my thoughtless words, I didn't look down on you, I was just worried about you."

"I know, didn't think much of it," Xie Baiwei smiled at her.

The two left the guesthouse and walked toward the family building area.

Not far from the Gu family, they saw the happy family of four.

Lin Zhao felt the gaze falling on her, followed the gaze, and saw two beautiful female comrades.

Fair skin, bright and spirited eyes, wearing form-fitting military uniforms, short braided pigtails resting on their shoulders, the most eye-catching thing was that artistic temperament.

She was startled, returning a kind smile.

Xie Baiwei didn't even see the person she had a crush on, just staring blankly at Lin Zhao.

"She's really beautiful..."

Su Jingqiu: "..."

She was speechless; she didn't know what to say.

"Her body proportions are really good, suitable for joining our art troupe. It'

"Her skin is so good, I wonder what brand of vanishing cream she uses..."

Su Jingqiu: "..."

I shouldn't have any expectations for this person who only cares about looks!!