Chapter 181: Honored

As soon as she stepped outside, she saw several cadres standing at her doorstep.

Li Xinyue hadn’t been there long, and she didn’t recognize any of these cadres. She immediately stepped forward and said, “Hello…”

Tian Youlin, seeing her, spoke up, “You are Comrade Li Xinyue, the family member of Captain Chen, right? I am Tian Youlin, the head of the Cadre Department!”

Li Xinyue nodded, “Hello, hello, Head Tian, I am Li Xinyue.”

Tian Youlin nodded at her, then his gaze fell on another cadre, “Comrade Li Xinyue, this is Comrade Wang Jianqun, our Deputy Director of the Political Department!”

Deputy Director of the Political Department?

He seemed like a big shot. What was he doing here?

Although her heart was a little uneasy, Li Xinyue still politely extended her hand, “Hello, Director Wang!”

Wang Jianqun hadn’t met Li Xinyue, but he had heard her name countless times.

He immediately shook her hand, smiling, “Comrade Li Xinyue, I am here today on behalf of the Division leadership to visit you!”

“And on behalf of all the officers and soldiers of the Division, I would like to express my gratitude to you!”

“Thank you for your bravery in saving the children of our soldiers. You are an outstanding military wife, worthy of emulation by all of us!”

So, they were here to commend her for saving the children?

Li Xinyue’s heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally settled: as long as it wasn’t news about Chen Mingchuan, everything was fine!

“Director Wang, the leaders really think too highly of me!”

“It was a small matter, anyone would have done the same.”

“You are giving me too much credit!”

Wang Jianqun had already heard about the reports against Li Xinyue.

At the time, he was curious about what kind of person Li Xinyue was, as the Division Commander and Political Commissar had both praised her.

Now, he nodded silently to himself: there weren’t many rural military wives with such awareness!

As Deputy Director of the Political Department, he didn’t interact with military wives very often, but he wasn’t completely ignorant of them.

There were many rural military wives in the army, almost two-thirds of them came from rural areas.

But this kind of humble and generous rural military wife, Director Wang had never seen before.

“Comrade Li Xinyue, you were not afraid of danger and jumped into the pond to save people. You are a brave comrade.”

“After hearing about your deeds, the Division leadership asked us to have the Cadre Department quickly investigate the situation that day.”

“You not only jumped into the water without hesitation to save the children, but you also used first aid methods to save them. This is a remarkable feat!”

“The leadership specially convened a meeting of our Political Department and decided to award you the honorary title of Outstanding Military Wife!”

“Today, we are here on behalf of the Division leadership to present you with a certificate and a medal.”

Li Xinyue: “…”

Outstanding Military Wife… This is a bit embarrassing, I don’t deserve it!

Seeing Li Xinyue in a daze, Qian Sanni excitedly pushed her, “Xinyue, take it!”

“Oh, oh, thank you! Thank you, leaders, thank you Director Wang, thank you comrades from the Cadre Department, you’ve worked hard!”

“Serving the people!”

The army’s rewards were really quite a lot.

A bright red certificate, a medal engraved with the four large characters “Outstanding Military Wife” and the five small characters “Serving the people” below.

Two white enamel washbasins.

Two brand-new thermoses.

Two white enamel mugs with the image of the great man printed on them.

Four white towels.

Every item was printed with the four bright red characters “Outstanding Military Wife”!

It wasn’t about the value, but the meaning was profound!

The Cadre Department’s activities were a bit loud today, and there were still many military wives in the family compound who didn’t have jobs. Such a lively scene immediately attracted many people to watch.

This honor, no other military wife had ever received.

Immediately, someone envied her extremely: “Now she’s probably famous throughout the entire division!”

“Yeah, at the beginning of next year, the army will arrange work for family members, and she’s probably going to be first in line!”

“This person is so lucky.”

Yeah, all these years, no child has ever fallen into the pond, but she came here for ten days, and the child had an accident.

And she was the first one on the scene!

What else could it be if not luck?

Li Xinyue didn’t know what others were thinking.

After seeing off the leaders, she nodded to everyone with her belongings and went into the house.

“Xinyue, you’re famous now! They were so envious just now!”

Qian Sanni followed in, her face full of excitement.

Li Xinyue looked like a crow: “People are afraid of fame, pigs are afraid of being strong! Sanni, what’s so good about being famous?”

Qian Sanni’s mouth twitched: “Who says it’s useless?”

“Every year at the beginning of the year, the division’s cadre department will arrange vacant positions for army wives who have accompanied the army for the first year.”

“Don’t underestimate this arrangement, it has a lot of meaning behind it!”

“Those who have jobs back home, generally have a position to be transferred, and those who accompany the army will be arranged.”

“But we who didn’t have jobs originally are different, when arranging jobs, it’s based on points.”

“There are three aspects to the score: one is the husband’s position, two is the length of time accompanying the army, and three is contribution!”

“Others don’t have contribution points, but you have them now!”

So it’s about job arrangement?

No wonder those army wives looked at her strangely!

“The jobs we can be arranged for are only two places, does it make a difference if we are ranked first or last?”

Qian Sanni glared: “Of course it does, who doesn’t want to work in the kindergarten?”

“Although the work there is not easy, the salary is not a worry.”

“The cardboard factory is self-sufficient, the business hasn’t been so good in the past two years, sometimes the salary will be delayed.”

So it’s really different?

Li Xinyue didn’t think about getting a job arranged by the division, so she didn’t care about the extra points.

It’s just that Chen Mingchuan hasn’t come back yet, and she’s getting more and more uneasy.

In the afternoon, she took some yellow ginseng and sand ginseng to the division commander’s house.

“Aunt Ma, where did Yier’s dad go? Do you know?”

“Why has he been gone for so long, not even a phone call?”

Ma Suying couldn’t say much, she pointed to the north: “He went there, on an urgent mission.”

“Not only him, Xiao Nan went too, no news at all.”

“My old man over there can’t find out any information either.”

“But don’t worry, Xiao Li, no news is good news.”

The old man refers to Division Commander Xiao’s father.

Xiao’s brothers and sisters have a total of five, Division Commander Xiao is the fourth, he has two older brothers, one older sister, and a younger sister.

Xiao Nan’s father is the second, he and Division Commander Xiao are both in G City.

One in politics, one in the army.

Xiao Nan’s uncle is in politics, but his aunt and uncle are both in the army.

If they can’t find out any information, then no one can find out any information, right?

There’s only one place where you can’t get information, that is… you went to that place…

Right!

No news is good news.

Li Xinyue bit her lip: October 8th… there should be news, right?

t’s not that she misses him, he’s the child’s father, Yier keeps asking where he went!

Back home, Li Xinyue, who never believed in ghosts and gods, clasped her hands and activated her thoughts…

Bless them, bless all the soldiers who are on special missions this time, safe and sound!