Xu Rongrong was a little anxious when he couldn't wait for someone to come back. With so many people waiting at home, where do you think this child An Nuan went?
Xu Rongrong actually wanted to go out and see Zhan Yiyang, but Zhan Yiyang was surrounded by a group of people talking. After finally coming back, he always had a lot to say.
Zhan Yiyang himself doesn't talk much, and it's only when he's here that he talks more.
Seeing that Zhan Yiyang was busy, Xu Rongrong went outside to find Ah Nuan by himself.
Didn't Wu Junjie go out early in the morning? Xu Rongrong went to see if he was still not back. Was he lost?
When Xu Rongrong came out, he saw two people hugging each other at the door. Xu Rongrong didn't dare to say anything, turned around and went back directly.
There were many people in the yard, so Xu Rongrong found a quieter place and occasionally talked to people. After all, he hadn't been back for a long time.
But her mind was always on the other side of the door. Of course Xu Rongrong was happy that her two children were well, but seeing Ah Nuan crying so heartily, Xu Rongrong still felt a little worried.
Ah Nuan and Wu Junjie came back not long after, Xu Rongrong felt relieved, got up and walked over to ask Ah Nuan and Wu Junjie.
"What time will I be back? I'm waiting for you to have dinner." Xu Rongrong looked at the neighbors behind him, and then A Nuan said that he was going to the entrance of the village.
Little girl Zhan came out: "Sister and I were playing at the entrance of the village, and there was brother."
Little girl Zhan seemed to be worried that her mother would blame her sister, so she was busy helping to explain.
Xu Rongrong lowered his head and glanced at her. He was a kid but a little kid, and he had a lot of thoughts.
"Let's eat. Go wash your hands and you'll be ready to eat soon." Xu Rongrong turned around and went back to discuss the matter of eating. A Nuan and Wu Junjie then went over to meet and get acquainted.
Everyone thought Bai Yi was back, and Wu Junjie didn't talk much, so no one noticed anything. However, some people said that Bai Yi had grown stronger after not seeing him for several years.
Ah Nuan looked up at Wu Junjie while eating: "Eat more."
Wu Junjie likes to eat some meat. He is the kind of person who prefers meat. He is very different from Bai Yi in this aspect.
Bai Yi likes to eat light food, and he doesn't eat meat, but he eats less, similar to An Nuan.
An Nuan also discovered this after eating several times. Seeing that Wu Junjie kept his head down while eating and didn't take a bite of the food, An Nuan put some meat for him and put it in the bowl.
Wu Junjie looked up at Ah Nuan and gave Ah Nuan a little.
The meal becomes lively when there are many people, but everyone talks too much, and no one knows what they said specifically.
The kind that can't be understood clearly, let alone Wu Junjie, who is unfamiliar with the place, even A Nuan can't understand it.
A Nuan often came to the countryside before, but she didn't know why. She couldn't understand what the people here said. Sometimes what she heard was confused, and she could only smile.
After dinner, Xu Rongrong asked the neighbors to take back some of the gifts he had brought. He was embarrassed at first, but later he accepted them.
Xu Rongrong and Zhan Yiyang were not here, thanks to others. Otherwise, she would be embarrassed to ask others to help take care of the yard.
After everyone left, Xu Rongrong had to clean up in the yard. Ah Nuan got up and went to help. Zhan Yiyang took the two children in to rest, and Wu Junjie wandered around in the yard.
To Wu Junjie, Zhan Yiyang feels like a very mysterious and magical person.
Both of them were soldiers. To be honest, in front of Zhan Yiyang, needless to say, Wu Junjie himself felt lackluster.
In fact, Wu Junjie is not a vain person, but being compared to Zhan Yiyang and being inferior to everything else still doesn't feel good.
After Ah Nuan finished her work, she went to find Wu Junjie, who was looking at a large wine vat in a daze.
"You haven't seen so many big wine tanks, have you?" A Nuan walked behind Wu Junjie. Wu Junjie looked at her for a while, "I have seen them before, but not this big. There are still many. I have been in the army for a year.
I went to the station and saw it there, but they didn’t make wine, they just made sauce vats.”
"Soy sauce jar?" An Nuan has never seen it.
“It’s almost the same as this one, but it’s not as short as the one here. Where we used to stay, we could smell the fragrant sauce from a distance. I couldn’t walk without eating for a few days. I smelled the sauce.
The smell is as if there is a piece of fragrant meat waiting for us in front."
Wu Junjie said and turned around and walked outside. In fact, he still missed the life in the army, but people with poor congenital conditions like him only caused trouble to the army in the army, so he came back, remembering that he had to leave in the first place.
What the old commander of the army said that day made Wu Junjie's eyes dim.
You are a soldier. Remember your duty and never forget it. You are a member of the country.
He never forgot these words, but——
"You miss the army very much." An Nuan could see that Wu Junjie is a person who misses the army very much, and this memory is undoubtedly the army.
"When I didn't go, I was worried about whether I could make it. When I went in, I gritted my teeth and had to push through. When I first went in, I always felt that my three-year military career was far away. I was no better than a pig or a dog living every day. I had no trace of a human anymore.
My brother on the upper bunk cried loudly at night, which made people panic, as if we were not going to the army, but to hell.
But when we get used to the life of the army, the army becomes a family. The more hardship we have endured and the more offenses we have suffered, the more we cannot live without the army.
When it was time to leave, we all became taciturn.
That kind of terrible atmosphere will never be forgotten for the rest of my life."
"You have always been reluctant to leave, why are you coming back? Are you really retired?" The Zhan family comes from a military-honored family, so A Nuan also knows that not everyone can retire. Veterans, like conscripts, have a certain number of years.
In other words, those who can stay in the army have special talents. Unless there are special reasons, they will not be discharged.
Wu Junjie looked at Ah Nuan for a while. People from military families are different. He even knew this.
Ah Nuan didn't take it seriously and turned around and walked towards the house where she lived. It was getting late and it was time to go back and rest.
"My conditions are not good, and staying in the army is a drag."
"That's why the army recommends you to go to the Medical University, hoping that you will learn something and become a member of the army." Ah Nuan felt this way, and Wu Junjie hesitated for a moment.
"It can be said that military doctors are not needed anytime and anywhere, and whether I go to the battlefield or station, they are a drag."
"Then your job as a military doctor ended up being nothing?"
"So to speak."
The two of them returned to the room where they were staying and hadn't finished talking yet. Because A-Nuan was familiar with it, A-Nuan started to tidy up the bedding when they entered the room. After laying it out, she even gave Wu Junjie a basin of water to wash his feet.
Wu Junjie had already sat down. Ah Nuan came in with water and Wu Junjie asked: "Have you ever given Bai Yi water to wash his feet before?"
Wu Junjie knew he shouldn't ask this question, but he still didn't stop.
The words are like water being thrown out as soon as they are spoken. Even children understand that it is difficult to recover when water is poured out, let alone him.
"I didn't mean to bring it up, it's just——"
Wu Junjie didn't know what to say for the rest of the words, but A Nuan took over the words.
"It's your first time here. You don't understand many things. Bai Yi and I don't live together. He lives in the room next to me. I live here. I almost never go into the other person's room before going to bed at night. And that
I was still young at that time, at an ignorant age, I had very little knowledge of emotions, and I didn’t understand anything.”
Ah Nuan put down the basin, and the basin was filled with hot steam.
Wu Junjie didn't know what he was thinking. He sat there for a long time without moving. Seeing that he didn't move, Nuan said, "If you don't wash it, you'll be cold in a while."
"You wash it for me." Wu Junjie said suddenly. A Nuan was also surprised. She washed it?
Ah Nuan had never washed anyone's feet before, so she was a little at a loss.
Wu Junjie stared at An Nuan with his eyes, as if An Nuan had committed a big crime if he didn't wash his feet. He was very sorry to Wu Junjie.
After holding it in for a long time, An Nuan asked: "Have other women washed you?"
"My mother should have washed it for me, and my sister should have washed it for me, but I don't even remember it." Wu Junjie thought for a while and said.
It took Ah Nuan a long time to respond, but no one had washed her.
A-Nuan stood up. Wu Junjie thought A-Nuan was going to wash his feet and almost retracted his feet, but A-Nuan bent down and took the water away.
Wu Junjie cursed himself in his heart, his brain was flooded, and he let the door close.
Ah Nuan took the water outside and went outside. Wu Junjie thought of admitting his mistake and sat there without moving. His mind was spinning a thousand times and he didn't move for a long time.
Ah Nuan came back not long after, still holding water in his hand. Wu Junjie thought that Ah Nuan wanted to wash his feet, so he didn't say anything. He wanted Ah Nuan to wash his feet. It was wrong in itself, and he didn't have the shame to say anything. He sat down
It didn't move.
Ah Nuan walked in, glanced at him, frowned, then took the water and put it at Wu Junjie's feet.
Wu Junjie was still a little unable to react.
"you--"
"Do you have foot odor?" Ah Nuan asked while squatting on the ground. Wu Junjie's reaction was a little abnormal. It took him a long time to answer: "No... no."
Ah Nuan didn't say anything. She first took off Wu Junjie's socks, then went outside to get a short stool and sat down facing Wu Junjie.
At this time, Ah Nuan had already taken off a pair of socks from Wu Junjie's feet. Wu Junjie's feet were hanging in front of Ah Nuan, and he could reach the water if he stretched them down a little.
And now Wu Junjie's feet are filled with heat, and he can already feel that his feet are wet.
"Try it." Ah Nuan held Wu Junjie's foot with her little hand and pulled it to the horizontal surface. Wu Junjie shrank at first, but quickly stretched his foot in again.
In fact, the water was a little hot, but Wu Junjie couldn't remember that it was hot at all, and his heart fell on A Nuan's somewhat rosy face.
"A Nuan, I——"
Wu Junjie wanted to say something, and Ah Nuan hummed, then took off his socks and put her feet into the water.
Maybe it was because Wu Junjie's feet were in the water. Ah Nuan didn't feel how hot the water was, but her face still turned red.
Wu Junjie stretched out his hand and gently rubbed Ah Nuan's face: "You wash it for me today, and I will wash it for you from now on, for the rest of my life."