Reborn on My Wedding Night: This Time, I Won't Fail My Soldier Husband
Huang Yue'e set the bowls and chopsticks and replied: "Your eldest brother went to the Jiang family to help them fix their house. He stayed at the Jiang family last night and should be back soon."
Mother Lu thought Dong Shuyao was waiting for everyone to be present and stuffed a meat bun into her hand: "No need to wait, just leave some food for him later."
Huang Yue'e also nodded: "I don't know what's wrong with that little girl from the Jiang family lately; she's been clamoring to take the college entrance exam and insists on building a small room to study in."
What else could be wrong?
Jiang Xiaochun was no longer the introverted and reserved little girl she used to be, but someone else who had swapped cores.
Although Dong Shuyao didn't know where Jiang Xiaochun came from, she was definitely not the little stutterer who used to follow behind her calling her sister.
A person couldn't change that much.
Just like herself now.
But in her previous life, Jiang Xiaochun's various behaviors didn't look like those of a reborn person, but more like someone strange who knew the future development in advance.
Regardless, in this life, Dong Shuyao would never fall for her tricks again.
After breakfast and drinking the brown sugar water, a properly dressed Dong Shuyao was led by Lu Yuzhou: "Let's go, wife, I'll take you to the store to pick up some daily necessities."
The Lu family lived in a military compound. As soon as Dong Shuyao came out of the room, she saw a semi-old bicycle parked in the middle of the courtyard.
Lu Yuzhou was wearing a white shirt, black trousers, and rubber shoes, standing coolly and coldly by the bicycle, whistling.
Dong Shuyao wore a yellow, knee-length floral dress, her long black hair fixed behind her ears with a headband, revealing a pure and pretty face.
She trotted a few steps: "Where did this bicycle come from?"
"Borrowed it from Master Chen."
Her approach made Lu Yuzhou, who was acting cool, instantly nervous. He scratched the back of his head and said: "Isn't Sister Sanfeng working at the state-run store? Once we buy a new one, we'll let Sister Sanfeng ride this old one home."
Chen Sanfeng was the youngest daughter of Master Chen, the barber.
"A-Zhou, sister-in-law, are you going out?"
Lu Yuzhou's eldest brother, Lu Yuhuai, walked into the compound limping, supported by Jiang Xiaochun, looking at Dong Shuyao with a kind expression.
This little girl used to play with his second brother when she was a child.
More accurately, his second brother used to follow the little girl around.
However, after about fifteen or sixteen, Lu Yuhuai hadn't seen much of Dong Shuyao.
Yesterday was his second brother's wedding, and he had originally intended to rush back for a drink, but he didn't know how he stepped into thin air and fell from the roof, injuring his waist. Little Sister Jiang had invited a doctor for him, but it delayed him, and he missed his brother's wedding banquet.
He wondered if his sister-in-law would be angry?
"Eldest brother, what happened to your waist?"
Dong Shuyao pretended not to see Jiang Xiaochun and looked at the eldest brother with concern: "Did you fall and get hurt?"
Jiang Xiaochun had a guilty expression: "Yaoyao, I'm sorry. If you want to blame someone, blame me! Eldest Brother Lu didn't intentionally miss your and Second Brother Lu's wedding."
The way she said that made it seem like Dong Shuyao was some unreasonable, shrewish woman.
Dong Shuyao stepped forward, wiggled her hips to push Jiang Xiaochun aside, and said to Lu Yuzhou: "Husband, why don't you hurry over and help the eldest brother inside to rest?"
The coquettish glance she gave made Lu Yuzhou lose his soul, and he hurried to obey, almost carrying his brother into the inner room.
"Eh?"
Jiang Xiaochun still wanted to take a few more looks at the male lead, who was devoted to his wife and heroic in the book!
Dong Shuyao had already stepped forward with a standard smile: "Xiaochun, thank you for bringing my eldest brother back. If there's nothing else, you should head back first!"
Her business-like attitude made Jiang Xiaochun suspicious: "What's the rush? Don't you want to know about Shen Zhinian anymore?"
"What happened to Zhinian?"
Dong Shuyao deliberately showed an anxious expression, and Jiang Xiaochun, looking as if she had expected it, said: "The Shen family pulled some strings and got Shen Zhinian into the state-run machinery factory as an engineer."
A mechanical engineer in the eighties was a hot commodity.
Because this time period was exactly when China began to introduce CNC machine tools, technical talents like Shen Zhinian were very scarce.
In her previous life, Dong Shuyao had no idea about this.
It seems her changes had made Jiang Xiaochun feel a sense of crisis.
"Really?"
Dong Shuyao's eyes lit up: "An engineer's monthly salary is at least sixty or seventy, and in a few years, he could surpass Lu Yuzhou."
The key was that Lu Yuzhou's missions in the military were life-threatening; who knew if he might die one day.
A life of insecurity, how could it be as comfortable as being an engineer's wife?
Lu Yuzhou's current salary was earned with his life; with all kinds of allowances and subsidies, it was seventy or eighty a month, at most a hundred.
Shen Zhinian could easily get that much money after just a few years of experience, and most importantly, his social status was high.
With a dozen years of seniority, anyone who saw him would have to call him Master Shen.
Don't look at the fact that Lu Yuzhou was already a deputy battalion commander at a young age; without his father's support, rising further would be as difficult as ascending to heaven.
Being told this by Dong Shuyao, Jiang Xiaochun thought of all this, and for a moment, she actually felt that Shen Zhinian was also a very good candidate for a husband.
Subsequently, she shook her head violently.
She was here for the male lead of the book, Lu Yuzhou; how could she be turned by Dong Shuyao's few words?
She held Dong Shuyao's hand: "You haven't forgotten what you promised him, right?"
Seeing the atmosphere between her and Lu Yuzhou was too harmonious just now, she had to play her trump card, Shen Zhinian.
"Of course I haven't forgotten."
Dong Shuyao rolled her eyes: "Lu Yuzhou only has a one-month wedding leave. In two days, you come here first and help me bring my luggage to the train station. I'll go to the train station to meet you guys a day later."
"Okay, it's a deal. I'm helping you this much, don't stand us up."
"Don't worry!"
After sending Jiang Xiaochun away, Lu Yuzhou came out of the inner courtyard: "You talked to her for so long, what were you chatting about?"
She left, and Lu Yuzhou came out right after; how could it be such a coincidence?
Unless he did it on purpose.
"You don't like Jiang Xiaochun?"
"Why?"
In her previous life, she only knew that Jiang Xiaochun had joined the military unit where Lu Yuzhou was stationed as a broadcaster through her parents' connections to pursue him.
She thought the two of them would end up together.
"Hmm!"
Who knew Lu Yuzhou would nod decisively: "I don't like her."
A soldier's intuition told him that the way Jiang Xiaochun looked at him was like looking at her possession, with a strong sense of possessiveness.
It made him feel offended.
There was one more thing, Lu Yuzhou complained: "Ever since she became friends with you, you started distancing yourself from me. Why would I like her?"
When Dong Shuyao was fifteen, she wouldn't let Lu Yuzhou follow her anymore, and Jiang Xiaochun had entered the book and become friends with Dong Shuyao at the age of fifteen.
Lu Yuzhou had no proof that Jiang Xiaochun was the one stirring things up in the middle, but that woman was not right.