Chapter 16

“My back injury is acting up and it’s so painful I can’t sleep. Please help me look at the gauze.”

“Didn’t you just tell me to leave it alone?”

“…”

Lu Zhanye deeply regretted his previous arrogance.

The medicine box is on the bedside table in the inner room.

Shen Nanxing took it out in the dark and opened it. The smell of alcohol cotton mixed with jasmine.

It’s that smell again…

She remembered that the original book said that the last time Lu Zhanye saw her before the execution, she also had this feeling.

When they returned, Lu Zhanye was already lying on the small bed, with the bandage on his lower back turning yellow: an old wound had opened again.

“That clothesline incident during the day…”

She suddenly remembered the force with which he pulled off her white coat. It was obvious that he was deliberately using pain to cover up something.

“Did you already know that Li Shufen was talking behind my back?”

Lu Zhanye said nothing, the muscles in his back tensed and relaxed.

Shen Nanxing removed the bandage and saw that the area around the old wound was severely red and swollen.

The wound was actually mixed with the frostbite cream I applied in the afternoon.

This is really outrageous. Is he deliberately not wanting to recover?

“Why me? Why are you so nice to me?”

While asking the question, Shen Nanxing held the alcohol cotton swab in his fingertips and hung it in the air.

“In the original novel, you clearly…”

“Original? What original?”

Lu Zhanye sensitively captured some information.

He looked up suddenly and the crib shook and creaked.

“What on earth are you talking about?”

Shen Nanxing’s hand shook and the alcohol cotton fell to the ground.

Staring at Lu Zhanye’s puzzled eyes, he suddenly realized that he had let the cat out of the bag.

After entering the book, Lu Zhan Ye in front of him probably has no idea what will happen in the future.

“nothing.”

She lowered her head and took out another piece of cotton pad, her voice trembling a little.

“I mean, you don’t have to pretend to be a good husband all the time. After the contract expires…”

“Pretending?” Lu Zhanye interrupted her, propped up his upper body, and a stinging pain flashed in his eyes.

“Shen Nanxing, are you blind? Who do you think arranged all the things in this room?

I saved up food coupons and cloth coupons for three years, and I bought the movie tickets after your brother was hospitalized, thinking I would wait until you were free…”

He suddenly stopped talking and turned away.

“Forget it, go to bed now.”

Shen Nanxing watched Lu Zhanye lie down again and wrap himself tightly with a military blanket.

The cicadas outside the window suddenly started chirping and the whistle in the boiler room sounded.

Only then did Shen Nanxing realize that this leader, who was always decisive and ruthless in his daily life, was now lying on a narrow sofa, and had to endure the pain even to turn over, but when she entered the room, he gave her the only double bed.

“Lu Zhanye.”

Shen Nanxing called Lu Zhanye’s name softly instead of calling him “Captain Lu”.

In the darkness, I saw Lu Zhanye’s eyelashes move, but he didn’t respond to me.

“Tomorrow, I will treat your back injury. Remember to come back on time.”

He didn’t answer, but his breathing gradually became steady.

Shen Nanxing got up and went back to the inner room, touching the Seagull radio on the bedside table. The rubber band on the knob was still fixed in that position.

The slogan “Prepare for war and famine” outside the window is particularly eye-catching in the moonlight.

Early in the morning, when the first ray of sunlight shines through the window.

Shen Nanxing was awakened by the sound of porcelain bowls colliding in the kitchen.

She rubbed her eyes and walked out of the bedroom, and saw Lu Zhanye pouring porridge into an aluminum lunch box.

There were still traces of alcohol on the back of his neck that hadn’t been wiped off last night.

“Awake?” Lu Zhanye didn’t turn around.

“I brought it for you in the lunch box. I asked the kitchen staff to add brown sugar.”

Shen Nanxing looked at his stiff back.

Last night, she dreamed of Lu Zhanye.

In the dream, he actually went crazy and destroyed the execution site after his death.

What kind of person is he?

Clumsily taking care of my daily life…

Shen Nanxing thought about this and clenched his sleeves.

“Captain Lu, you’re still cooking with a back injury like this?”

“I can’t die.”

Lu Zhanye closed the lunch box, and when he turned around, he groaned as the wound was pulled, but he still forced himself to stuff the lunch box into her hand.

“I’ll pick you up from the hospital at three in the afternoon. Also, remember to eat on time.”

Shen Nanxing did not forget that he should treat Lu Zhanye’s back injury today.

The light bulb in the bathroom was covered with scale.

Shen Nanxing grabbed the latch of the ventilation window and went to the hospital bathhouse.

She shouldn’t have been here, except that the infirmary had run out of disinfectant alcohol.

Li Shufen said there was still half a bottle in the bathhouse locker.

Steam filled the small locker room, and Shen Nanxing squatted in front of the metal cabinet looking for a bottle of alcohol.

Lu ZhanyeThe back of the man suddenly came into view.

The scar across his shoulder blade was as hideous as a centipede.

The wound on the waist is even more red and swollen…

“Why are you here?”

If Shen Nanxing remembered correctly, the time they had agreed upon had not yet arrived.

“I came to see you. Didn’t we make an appointment?”

Lu Zhanye pulled down the dripping military pants from the clothesline, and water droplets splashed on the back of her hand.

“Captain Lu must be mistaken. The time is not right yet. And the place is wrong too.”

Shen Nanxing clenched the alcohol bottle and prepared to stand up.

Lu Zhanye put on his vest and said, “I’m here to take you home and cooperate with the treatment.”

Lu Zhanye suddenly approached Shen Nanxing, and his moist body temperature immediately enveloped her.

“Wife, do you want to change the clause in the contract that says ‘fulfill marital duties when necessary’?”

“Captain Lu, stop pretending. You’re not like this in the original novel.”

Shen Nanxing was pressed step by step by Lu Zhanye, and knocked over the soap rack beside him, and the Shanghai brand sulfur soap rolled into the gutter.

First, Shen Nanxing’s back was resting on the cold tiles.

“Original? What kind of bullshit original is this? What am I like?

But you, you secretly switched the medicine I was taking, do you hate me so much?”

Shen Nanxing saw that his little trick had been discovered.

Suddenly, he reached into Lu Zhanye’s trouser pocket and pulled out a medicine bottle. Only the words “aphrodisiac” were left on the broken label.

“Why did you take this medicine? Didn’t I promise to treat your back injury?”

Lu Zhanye snatched the medicine bottle and smashed it into the pool.

It turns out that this little woman is just like this.

“If I don’t drink this, how will I withstand your frequent acupuncture treatments?”

Lu Zhanye exposed his shoulder blades.

That was the place where Shen Nanxing gave him acupuncture last time.

“You hit me without mercy, and the sting was more painful than a bullet.”

“If it hurts, just terminate the contract.”

This sentence seemed to anger Lu Zhanye.

Lu Zhanye grabbed her wrist and pressed it against her head.

“Terminate the contract? Your brother’s imported streptomycin for next month…”

He gently rubbed the marks on Shen Nanxing’s wrist with his fingertips. Those were the red marks left by moving the medicine box this morning.

This woman was still fighting so hard, so hard that Lu Zhanye didn’t dare to take another step forward.

Shen Nanxing suddenly raised his knee and hit his injured waist.

Lu Zhanye groaned and let go of his hand, and his lower back hit the hot water valve heavily.

The scalding water gushed out, instantly soaking her thin nurse uniform, and the outline of her light blue underwear was faintly visible.

“You always force me with medicine. If you want my life, just take it. Why go to so much trouble?”

Shen Nanxing wiped the water droplets off his face.

Before she finished her words, Lu Zhanye had already pulled the military uniform over her wet body.

Just then, the bathroom door opened.

“Captain Lu, you’re here as expected. The Third Battalion’s party…”

It’s Xu Manli from the art troupe.

She liked Lu Zhanye, but Lu Zhanye had never looked at her straight in the eye.

Later, driven by Director Wang’s offensive and interests, she became his mistress.

Ever since she heard that Lu Zhanye had filed a marriage report, she has been full of hostility towards Shen Nanxing.

Just because of the last car crash.

In Xu Manli’s impression, Shen Nanxing was still a dirty and smelly “barefoot doctor”.

“Get out!” Lu Zhanye picked up the soap box and threw it at Xu Manli.

Her high heels slipped on the wet floor and she almost fell.

The next second, she hurried out of the bathroom.

Shen Nanxing took the opportunity to struggle, but couldn’t break free.

“Be good, if you want to act, you have to act the whole way. You don’t want to go out like this, do you?”

Lu Zhanye said to Shen Nanxing in his arms:

“Today, all the people outside are from my Third Battalion.”

Shen Nanxing wouldn’t listen at all. She opened her mouth and bit Lu Zhanye’s arm hard.

The smell of blood spread between lips and teeth.

“You, bite someone again?”

Lu Zhanye pinched her neck and kissed Shen Nanxing on the lips.

He ignored Shen Nanxing’s pulling and waited until she reached out and ripped the bandage from his waist…

“Well…you’re cruel.”

He gasped and let go of Shen Nanxing. The faint trace of blood at the corner of his mouth showed that he had been “bitten” again.

“Just wait for me. The next treatment time must be doubled.”

Just as Shen Nanxing was about to escape, she saw the condom in Lu Zhanye’s pocket fall to her feet. The red stamp “Specially provided by the Family Planning Office” on the package was particularly eye-catching.

“Director Xu forced it on me, saying it’s the kind of awareness a model couple should have.”

Lu Zhanye picked up one of the coins on the ground and handed it to Shen Nanxing.

Shen Nanxing snatched the condom and stuffed it back into Lu Zhanye’s pocket:

“Save it for your confidante. We’re not suitable.”

“Wife, please think carefully, are we really not suitable for each other?”

Just as Shen Nanxing was about to turn around and leave, a bunch of keys appeared in Lu Zhanye’s hand.

If she remembered correctly, it was the key to the freezer containing streptomycin.

“I want special approval from Political Commissar Zhou. If you want, let me sleep in the master bedroom with you tonight.”

“Captain Lu, aren’t you afraid that I’ll kill you with just one shot?”

At this time, Zhao Chunmei’s voice came from outside the window:

“Xiao Shen! The donkey hide glue you requested is ready!”