Chapter 20

“As long as you’re willing to use your position as battalion Captain to help me find a way, I’ll pack my things and leave immediately. How about that?” Shen Youran crossed her arms.

Who gave him the confidence?

Although he was the male lead in the book she had read, now that she had made a contract with the ring, he no longer had his so-called cheat code.

How arrogant could he be?

“Shen Zhao Di, don’t be so rude!” Lu Yifan’s face was gloomy, as black as a March baby’s face, getting uglier and uglier.

Shen Youran heard this and didn’t want to pretend anymore. She crossed her arms and sneered, “I was blind before, that’s why I fell for you. Don’t be so confident, okay?”

After saying that, she turned her head away.

Lu Yifan looked at Shen Youran’s profile, momentarily stunned. Then, he remembered what she said and put on a stern face, “I know what you mean. Don’t think that this will make me like you. I will always love a woman like Xiaohui, who is gentle and kind. Your body has been defiled by another man. I could never like you. The fault of our marriage lies with you. Don’t cling to me anymore.”

Lu Yifan was no longer holding back. Shen Youran heard these words and stood up, laughing coldly, “I’m clinging to you? I just want to find a job and have a backup plan. Why do you care if I’m clinging to you? If I don’t have a backup plan, after the divorce, I’ll either sleep on the streets with my son or go back to my family who eats people. I have no way out, so I want to be a female soldier. It’s not for you, understand?”

“As for you saying that the fault of our marriage lies with me, that’s even funnier. Was I the one who wanted to be kidnapped? Did I beg someone to kidnap me? Did I beg someone to defile me? Why don’t you reflect on yourself? You’re a man, and you can’t even protect your own wife. You were a deputy battalion Captain, what good is a man who can’t even protect his own wife?”

“Also, I want to remind you of something. We got married, and before I was defiled, we had already been married for a year. During that year, we slept in separate rooms and never had any physical intimacy. You want to put all the blame for the divorce on me, then think about why you were like this for the whole year after we got married.”

“If it weren’t for my unreliable family, do you really think I would beg you not to divorce? I could marry any man and it would be better than you, a stupid man who’s already married but still thinking about other women!”

Shen Youran directly expressed the original owner’s grievances. She didn’t care about Lu Yifan’s black face and went straight back to her room, slamming the door shut.

Seeing her suddenly roar at him with such confidence and then directly go back to her room, slamming the door in front of him, Lu Yifan was furious.

His face was as black as soot.

He took deep breaths, thinking that this woman, Shen Zhao Di, was crazy. She was still clinging to him. If it weren’t for her spreading rumors that she saved him, carrying him on her back all the way, and having physical intimacy with him, ruining her reputation, would he have married her?

But the fact was, she was a thin and small person. How could she possibly carry a grown man like him on her back all the way?

She couldn’t prove it, and she made excuses, saying that her back was bad because of carrying him. It was all lies!

She probably asked someone to carry him away. It was Zhou Xiaohui, who hurriedly found villagers and searched for a long time before finding a doctor to treat him.

Zhou Xiaohui was his true savior!

Besides, Zhou Xiaohui was a college student. She had taken the college entrance exam right before it was canceled and successfully entered college. She was an intellectual, gentle and graceful, and her family conditions were good. Her parents were both intellectuals. This kind of person was worthy of him.

Not someone like Shen Zhao Di, who was born into a family that favored sons over daughters and had a bunch of bloodsuckers.

Entering the room, Shen Youran immediately put on a smiling face and went to hug Junjun, “Junjun, let’s go back to the space and play.”

The mother and son returned to the space. Since it was already late, Shen Youran took Junjun to take a bath.

Then, she hugged him and got into the big bed.

“Mom changed your pajamas. Let’s go to sleep.” Shen Youran found a set of cotton pajamas. As soon as she unbuttoned Junjun’s clothes, he looked up and asked, “Mom, why do you hate Dad so much?”

He remembered that his mother didn’t seem to hate Dad before. Sometimes, she would even neglect him to please Dad.

How come she suddenly became like this?

Hearing Junjun’s question, Shen Youran’s mind flashed back some memories of the original owner.

The original owner had a good impression of Lu Yifan. After all, he was very good in all aspects. Because she knew that Lu Yifan was bothered by Junjun’s existence, her attitude towards Junjun was cold, and sometimes she would try to please Lu Yifan.

But her contrast was too great. No wonder Junjun had this question.

“Because his eyesight is not good, and also…” Shen Youran drew out the rest of her words but didn’t say more. Junjun wanted to ask again, but Shen Youran had already put on his pajamas.

She rubbed his hair, “Little kids shouldn’t think too much. Leave these things to Mom. If little kids think too much, they won’t grow tall or strong.”

“Go to sleep, okay?”

As soon as Shen Youran finished speaking, Junjun excitedly burrowed into the blanket and went to sleep.

After a minute, he stuck his head out, watching Shen Youran lie down beside him. He patted the blanket with satisfaction, “I’m going to sleep early. I want to grow tall. I want to protect Mom.”

Then, he closed his eyes.

Shen Youran looked at the little milk balls beside her and gently kissed his cheek. Then, she pulled the blanket and went to sleep.

That night, only Lu Yifan was sitting on the sofa, troubled. He would light a cigarette from time to time. Cigarette butts littered the floor. He was too anxious to sleep.

Shen Youran didn’t care about Lu Yifan. The next morning, she woke up and saw cigarette butts all over the floor. She didn’t bother to clean them up.

She took Junjun to work at the canteen.

Two days later, the cigarette butts were finally cleaned up. On that day, she received the enlistment notice that Mo Xiaoyun brought back.

Mo Xiaoyun excitedly held the notice and stood at the door.

As soon as Shen Youran opened the door, she excitedly handed it over, “Hard work pays off! Zhao Di, you can join the army. And you’ve been assigned to the Marine Corps.”

Hearing the word “Zhao Di,” Shen Youran still felt uncomfortable.

She simply explained, “Sister Yun, call me Youran from now on. I want to fulfill my dream. I don’t want to use the name my parents gave me anymore.”

She really was training hard, she really wanted to be a female soldier.

“To fulfill my dream of being a female soldier, I get up early every day to exercise!” Shen Youran grinned, “Now I can finally take the assessment, I’m going to give it my best shot.”

The female soldier nodded and praised her, “You’re really amazing!”

Shen Youran smiled but didn’t say anything. She went to another place to wait for the next assessment.

After completing all four or five assessments, Shen Youran’s results were the best among all the participants. The two male soldiers in charge of the assessment, looking at the outstanding scores, both felt a little embarrassed.

Sometimes they were in charge of female soldier assessments, sometimes male soldiers.

They had seen many people’s training results, but they had never seen anyone as good as Shen Youran.

Even if they had, it was rare.

“Assessment ends!”

Zhao Dazhuang gave the order, the assessment ended smoothly. Everyone collected the scores and they would be released to their hands in a week. Those who passed would then go through other family investigation reports, and they would be able to become female soldiers.

Shen Youran finished all the tests and went back to Mo Xiaoyun’s house to pick up Junjun.

“How did it go?”

Mo Xiaoyun was picking vegetables, Junjun was helping her. Shen Youran sat down and helped with the vegetables too, “I think it went well. The two soldiers in charge of the assessment said I should be able to enter the army smoothly.”

“Since they said so, it’s a done deal!”

Mo Xiaoyun was also genuinely happy for Shen Youran. Shen Youran helped finish the vegetables, “Then Sister Yun, we’ll go now, thank you for your help.”

“No!”

Mo Xiaoyun tightly held Shen Youran’s hand, “I always thought you were a strong-willed person, but we didn’t spend much time together. Now I really want to be friends with you. If you’re willing to be friends with me, stay for dinner, how about that?”

Mo Xiaoyun had a fiery personality. Since she decided to be friends with Shen Youran, she wouldn’t be shy about it anymore.

“Okay!”

Shen Youran stayed for dinner. In the evening, Zhao Dazhuang came back and they chatted briefly.

“Although your test scores are very good, you’ll definitely pass, but don’t spread the word yet. The real results will be released in a week, so be patient and wait.” Zhao Dazhuang gave her a few words of advice.

Shen Youran nodded.

This was the first time he had interacted with Mo Xiaoyun like this. After having dinner, he felt that she was a really nice person. He could try to get to know her better in the future.

Shen Youran didn’t have the idea of not making friends after coming to this world, as long as they clicked, she could make friends.

They played for a while, and Shen Youran suggested going home. Mo Xiaoyun personally saw them off.

“We’re friends now, if you don’t have time to take care of Junjun, send him to my place. I like this kid, he’s so well-behaved and adorable!” Mo Xiaoyun gave her a thousand and one instructions, Shen Youran waved goodbye with a smile.

Back in the house, Mo Xiaoyun talked about Shen Youran again.

“She’s strong-willed, she’s really a good person. It’s good that you two are friends!” Zhao Dazhuang never interfered with his wife. After they finished talking, they packed up their things and went back to the house to rest.

Shen Youran also took Junjun back home.

She hadn’t seen Lu Yifan in a while, and she hadn’t heard anything about the Shen family. Shen Youran lay on the big bed in the space, she felt that this life was simply too good.

“Mom, the saplings we planted are growing really fast, they’re so tall now!”

Shen Youran was lying in bed, Junjun ran in from outside, his face beaming with excitement.

“Then Mom will go with Junjun to take a look?” Shen Youran got out of bed, and the two of them went to the field hand in hand. Shen Youran saw that the fruit tree seeds they had planted had indeed grown to Junjun’s waist.

She knew that the space was amazing, but she didn’t expect that even fruit tree seeds could grow so well.

After all, it took several years to grow these trees in the fields outside.

“Mom, this fruit tree is growing so fast, will it bear fruit in a while?” Junjun squatted in front of the sapling, “It was only this tall the day before yesterday, today it’s already taller than my head, it’s growing so fast!”

Listening to Junjun’s muttering, Shen Youran touched his little head and explained, “If it were outside, it would probably take three to five years, or even longer, to grow a fruit tree like this.”

“But this is our secret space, the environment, sunlight, and sunshine here are different, so it grows faster. Junjun, you have to keep this secret, okay?”

“Okay Mom, I won’t tell anyone about the stories in our secret space.” Junjun said, holding Shen Youran’s hand, “Mom, can we plant a grapevine?”

Shen Youran would definitely fulfill Junjun’s request, but because the market day wasn’t here yet, they planned to go in a day or two.

Junjun heard that they were going to the market and excitedly danced with his hands, counting on his fingers, “I heard there are so many delicious things at the market, so many delicious things, there’s peanut brittle and little bread, I heard there’s also delicious mung bean cake…”

Junjun was immersed in happiness, halfway through his words, he suddenly remembered something, shook his head and said, “Mom, I just want a grapevine.”

Shen Youran looked at him and couldn’t help but laugh. She picked him up and said, “Mom will buy you anything you want, Junjun.”

Junjun immediately went to the happy place. Shen Youran looked at his smiling face and felt extremely satisfied.

Children are like that, they can be satisfied with very small things.

The two of them played in the space for a while. The next morning, Shen Youran took Junjun to the canteen to work.

Serving food was a very simple job. Shen Youran went there and helped put the things on the stove, then waited for the soldiers to come and eat.

“Zhao Di ah,” an old voice came from a distance. A woman in her fifties walked over with a smile, holding a bowl, “My grandson wants to eat steamed buns, so I made a few. Take two for Junjun.”

Shen Youran nodded, Mo Xiaoyun was stunned for a few seconds, then immediately clapped her hands in approval, “That’s what I was thinking too. Nowadays, people always name their kids Zhao Di, Pandi, etc., I think it’s so boring. I’ll call you Youran from now on.”

“How did you think of this name, it’s pretty good.”

Mo Xiaoyun and Shen Youran had become good friends, they had been meeting frequently lately, so they were more relaxed when they chatted.

Looking at the enlistment notice, Shen Youran was incredibly excited.

As long as she could join the army and be a female soldier, Lu Yifan would be nothing!

“Thank you, Sister Yun, for delivering the notice to me.” Shen Youran was very grateful for Mo Xiaoyun’s kindness, “I’ll treat Sister Yun to dinner when I get my allowance.”

“Haha, okay!”

The two of them chatted briefly. Shen Youran wanted to keep Mo Xiaoyun around for a while longer, but she had something to do, so she left first.

Shen Youran looked at the date on the notice, picked up Junjun and kissed him twice, “From now on, we’ll be able to live on our own, life won’t be bad. Junjun, you must grow up well.”

The mother and son happily danced around the house.

The next two days were Saturday and Sunday.

Monday was the official reporting date.

Since she had already confirmed that she could join the army, Shen Youran completely relaxed. She took Junjun to the market for a stroll, bought him some of his favorite snacks, and some fruit trees.

“Mom, won’t this be expensive?”

Junjun was still holding a candied hawthorn, he took a bite, it was sweet and sour. He raised his hand and handed it to Shen Youran’s mouth, “Mom, try one, it tastes really good.”

Shen Youran took a bite and touched Junjun’s head, “Buy whatever you like, Mom has plenty of money, Mom can support you.”

She took over three hundred yuan from Liu Chunhua, which was basically the money the original owner had given her over the years. Of course, she would spend it.

She had originally thought about leaving the compound and going out to work with the three hundred yuan, but considering the background of this era, she felt it wasn’t suitable.

First, she couldn’t do business yet. If she really wanted to do it, she would have to go to the black market, which was full of shady characters, and she could be caught at any moment. It was too unstable.

Second, Liu Chunhua had already suspected that she stole the money at home. If she suddenly got divorced and rented a house outside, Liu Chunhua would suspect her even more.

It was okay to buy some food and daily necessities, it wouldn’t arouse suspicion. But renting a house and living with her son, that would be a different story.

Unless she could cheat Lu Yifan out of a sum of money during the divorce.

But judging from Lu Yifan’s current financial situation, he didn’t have much savings.

His position was quite high, but in this era, most of the allowances given to soldiers were a combination of money and various tickets.

Moreover, Lu Yifan often gave some money to his parents and sister’s family. He actually didn’t save much money.

Shen Youran liked to spend money on Junjun.

Besides these snacks and toys, Shen Youran also bought him a lot of new clothes, and even a small backpack.

The child was overjoyed.

Monday.

Shen Youran officially went to the army to report, filled out all the information, and successfully arrived at the Army Corps.

When she finished all the information and arrived here, someone greeted her.

“Just call me Sergeant Dahei.” The sergeant was a thin, dark-skinned man, “Because there are very few female soldiers, we don’t have a separate training ground for them, they train with the male soldiers.”

“There are twelve people in the female soldier class.”

Shen Youran listened to Sergeant Dahei’s introduction and successfully arrived at the female soldier class.

“Sergeant Qiao, I’ve brought you another one!”

Dahei shouted to someone in the distance. A female soldier with short hair and an imposing bearing quickly ran over. When she saw Shen Youran, she reached out and shook her hand, “I’m the leader of the female soldier class, Qiao Yu.”

“Report, Sergeant, I’m Shen Zhao Di.”

Shen Youran really didn’t want to say this name, but it was everywhere, she had to think of a way to change it.

It was really too ugly!

“I’ve heard of you,” Qiao Yu’s face showed a look of joy, “I heard that your score was the best among all the female soldiers in this new recruit selection.”

Shen Youran smiled shyly.

Qiao Yu didn’t care about that, “Welcome to our female soldier class. There are only twelve people in our class, and we’re all new recruits.”

“Are you ready for the training ahead?”

Qiao Yu really admired Shen Youran, she hoped to train her to be even better.

“Always ready!” As soon as Shen Youran finished speaking, Qiao Yu smiled at Dahei, “Then you can go ahead, I’ll take my people. I’m going to give them a round of devil training today!”

Devil training?

Shen Youran followed Qiao Yu towards the female soldier class.

Shen Youran greeted everyone, and Qiao Yu took out her whistle and blew it.

“Today is our first day of training, everyone get ready!”

As the whistle blew, today’s training officially began.

Although she knew that being a female soldier was hard, Shen Youran really didn’t know it was this hard. Even with the spirit spring water enhancing her physique, she was still as tired as a dog after the first day of training.

Day after day of training, the others were complaining and crying. Shen Youran didn’t cry out loud, but she was also panting from exhaustion.

She went back to Mo Xiaoyun’s house to pick up her child.

“Want to play for a while?” Mo Xiaoyun called out. Shen Youran shook her head, holding her child’s hand, “No, no, the first day of training was really too intense. I need to go home and rest. I’ll come and play with Sister Yun another day!”

Then she took Junjun back home.

Because the training time was about the same, as soon as she picked up her child and went back, Lu Yifan also came home.

He saw her holding Junjun’s hand with one hand and supporting her waist with the other, her face flushed from exhaustion, her hair stuck to her head. Lu Yifan shook his head, “Don’t waste your effort. To make yourself fall in love with me over time, you’re making such a big sacrifice, this is…”

“Don’t flatter yourself!”

“Do you live by the sea? Why are you so nosy?”