Chapter 4 : I’m Blind

“You don’t know me, how dare you say you don’t know me?”

Zhu Haimei pointed at herself and felt very disappointed.

She pointed at Lu Fangfang on the bench unwillingly and shouted, “What about her? Do you know her?!”

Zhuang Mingcheng turned around and looked at the woman on the bench again.

He fished out a small package wrapped in a handkerchief from his jacket pocket, untied it with his uninjured hand, and then took out an old, yellowed photograph.

In the photo, the woman is sitting upright on a chair with a childish look on her face.

After taking a closer look at the young woman in the photo, he looked at the woman on the bench.

After a while, he nodded and said, “I know her.”

“you…”

Zhu Haimei gritted her teeth, her face turning pale with anger, “You recognize your childhood sweetheart, but you don’t recognize me, your fiancée…”

“Okay, okay, very good! I, Zhu Haimei, am blind!”

Seeing that the man had not acknowledged her, she felt ashamed and angry.

Zhu Haimei was, after all, a young lady from Shanghai, but she didn’t expect to be fooled by a soldier.

Walking to the bench, she picked up the large stack of letters and turned to hand them to Aiguo, “Political Commissar, I came all the way from Shanghai to our regiment, but I didn’t expect him to turn his back on me. You have to make the decision for me on this matter.”

Aiguo frowned, “Zhuang Mingcheng, do you know Comrade Zhu?”

“This is related to your work style. Give me a serious answer!”

Zhuang Mingcheng shook his head and said firmly “Political Commissar, I promise to the organization with my personality that I do not know Comrade Zhu Haimei, and she is not my fiancée!”

Aiguo looked at him deeply, then sat down and opened the letter on the table.

Now that things have come to this, there is no room for relaxation. He must get to the bottom of this matter!

“you…”

Next to her, Zhu Haimei’s face was full of hatred.

She had finally escaped from her home in Shanghai, but she didn’t expect this to be the result.

For a moment, the room was quiet, with only the sound of Aiguo searching for letters.

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Sitting on the bench, Lu Fangfang was stunned.

A female military doctor, a capitalist’s daughter, and her childhood sweetheart…

Oh! This is just like a competition for favor in the harem.

If she had known the result earlier, she would rather starve to death than come. What the hell is this?

After being stunned for a while, Lu Fangfang saw the man walking towards her.

When he arrived, the man didn’t hesitate and sat down on the bench.

‘Bah, you can’t judge a person by his appearance. I thought he was a cool and aloof person, but he turned out to be a scumbag!’

Lu Fangfang cursed inwardly and quickly moved her butt to the other side of the bench, away from the man.

“Huh?”

Beside him, Zhuang Mingcheng was stunned. He turned his head and looked straight at the woman.

‘What does this mean?’

After thinking for a while, he still couldn’t figure it out.

Shaking his head, he handed the photo in his hand to the woman, “Comrade, you are Lu Fangfang from the Red Star Brigade, right?”

“Right.”

As Lu Fangfang spoke, she took the photo.

Looking down, she realized it was a photo of herself.

Looking at the childish young woman in the photo, she felt a chill in her heart.

This should have been taken by “her” three years ago. I didn’t expect that the scumbag would carry it with him.

“Alas.”

Lu Fangfang took the photo and immediately put it in her pocket.

Looking up at Zhuang Mingcheng, she instinctively moved a little further away, leaving half of her body hanging off the edge.

Zhuang Mingcheng: “…”

A soft sound.

“Hungry?”

Lu Fangfang lowered her head, not wanting to speak.

The guesthouse in the county town didn’t provide meals, so she had been surviving on water for the past two days, and she was starving.

Turning to look at Political Commissar , she felt too embarrassed to ask him, and she wasn’t sure if the regiment provided food.

Just as Lu Fangfang was lost in thought, a tall, thin hand reached out and grabbed her arm.

“Come with me, I’ll take you to eat something first.”

“Why?”

Lu Fangfang was pulled up from the bench by him.

“Hey? What are you doing? Let go of me!”

Lu Fangfang was a bit panicked. She hated scumbags the most and didn’t want anything to do with this man named Zhuang Mingcheng.

Even if she starved to death, she didn’t want to eat food from a scumbag!

“Zhuang Mingcheng, what are you doing? Let Comrade Lu go immediately.”

Aiguo frowned and scolded, “The matter hasn’t been investigated fully yet. Stay here quietly.”

“Political Commissar, I really don’t know Comrade Zhu Haimei. You know what kind of person I am.”

Zhuang Mingcheng’s tone was sincere, but he still didn’t let go of Lu Fangfang.

“As for this comrade, I know her. We were childhood sweethearts. Political Commissar, Comrade Lu is here to see me. She’s hungry. I’ll take her to eat something. Look at her, she’s already so thin. What if she gets even hungrier?”

After saying that, he dragged Lu Fangfang and walked out directly.

“Hey? Hey? Let go of me, Political Commissar? Political Commissar…”

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“You…you…”

In the room, Zhu Haimei covered her mouth and pointed at the two leaving, feeling insulted.

This , he would rather choose Lu Fangfang, a cheap girl, than recognize her. How humiliating!

“Comrade, I want to report him. I want to report his work conduct. You must make the decision for me.”

Aiguo was also very angry. This Zhuang Mingcheng was truly a troublemaker.

He looked down at the envelope in his hand, about to speak, when he froze. “Comrade Zhu Haimei, are you sure you know the battalion commander?”

“Comrade, what do you mean? Are you trying to protect him?”

Zhu Haimei looked at Aiguo with an unfriendly expression.

After suffering such an injustice today, if this person dares to protect him, she’ll file a complaint with the military district.

She couldn’t believe no one would stand up for her!

Aiguo’s face became serious, “I won’t shield anyone, but I won’t wrongly accuse anyone either.”

“Comrade Zhu Haimei, please tell me the name of your fiancé!”

Zhu Haimei felt humiliated again. She gritted her teeth and said, “Li! Da! Jun! His name is Li Dajun!”

“Phew…”

Aiguo sighed in relief and completely relaxed.

He knew that Zhuang Mingcheng wasn’t the type to abandon someone after a one-night affair.

Smiling and shaking his head, he said helplessly, “Comrade Zhu Haimei, the man who just left is not named Li Dajun, his name is Zhuang Mingcheng, and his last name is Zhuang.”

“You must have heard it earlier. We all call him Captain Zhuang. Comrade Zhu Haimei, you must have recognized the wrong person.”

Zhu Haimei was stunned, then shook her head frantically, “Impossible, I can’t be wrong.”

She quickly took the photo from her pocket and handed it to Aiguo, “Comrade, look at the person in the photo. I can’t be wrong. He is Li Dajun. Li Dajun is him!”