Chapter 185: Caught by the Sisters-in-law Again

Li Xinyue didn’t know what happened later. She took her basket and small iron pickaxe and went out.

The herbs on the two mountains to the east, both front and back, were almost completely dug up.

There were also many herbs on the western mountain, and she planned to go west today.

“Xiao Li, Xiao Li! Wait!”

As she stepped out of the division headquarters, someone called her.

Soon, a jeep stopped in front of Li Xinyue. Ma Suying was sitting inside.

She immediately took a few steps forward: “Aunt Ma, where are you going?”

Ma Suying immediately said: “I’m going to the city. I have a day off today, and I have some things to do.”

“Xiao Li, I want to ask you, do you still have that hair dye?”

“If you do, can you sell me a bottle?”

Li Xinyue smiled awkwardly: “Aunt Ma, I’m really sorry, I haven’t been making it lately.”

“I’m going out to dig herbs today. I’ll dig some back later, and I’ll give you one tomorrow, okay?”

“Okay, okay! Be careful then.”

Ma Suying laughed happily. A friend of hers had seen her hair suddenly turn black and had been pestering her for the hair dye.

Li Xinyue nodded: “Okay, Aunt Ma, have a safe trip!”

“Okay, I’ll go now.”

The car started, and there was another person inside, the wife of the deputy political commissar, Wang Yanmei.

“This family member of Chief Chen really doesn’t seem like she knows how to make medicine!”

Ma Suying laughed: “Don’t underestimate her, her massage skills are really something.”

“You know my neck, it’s been hurting so bad lately, I can’t even sleep well.”

“She gave me acupuncture and massage a few times, and also applied some plasters, and now it doesn’t hurt at all.”

Wang Yanmei didn’t think a country doctor was very skilled. She thought Ma Suying was deliberately praising Li Xinyue.

At that time, she had her eyes on Chen Mingchuan and wanted to marry her niece to him.

But he went back to his hometown to visit his family without a word, and when he came back, he was already married.

Over the years, Chen Mingchuan had become more and more outstanding, and Wang Yanmei felt increasingly uncomfortable.

Rural girls wanted to eat grain rations, and marrying an officer was a shortcut.

But he actually got married secretly…

This matter had been stuck in Wang Yanmei’s heart for all these years.

Because she didn’t like Chen Mingchuan, she also disliked Li Xinyue, with whom she had no interaction.

“In my opinion, you should go to a big hospital in the city. After all, she hasn’t even studied medicine formally.”

Wang Yanmei and Ma Suying had been neighbors for over ten years.

Ma Suying was a good person, so the two of them had gotten along well over the years.

Moreover, Ma Suying’s husband was Wang Yanmei’s husband’s superior, and the latter had always flattered her.

It’s just that Ma Suying had complete trust in Li Xinyue.

“I’ve been to several hospitals and taken a lot of medicine, but it hasn’t been as effective.”

“Let’s try it again. The ointment she made feels hot when you apply it, it’s really good.”

Wang Yanmei stopped persuading her when she saw that she wouldn’t listen.

The car drove towards the city, and Li Xinyue walked into the mountains.

National Day was only two days away, but the people of the whole country were not in the mood to celebrate.

The grass on both sides of the mountain road began to turn yellow.

She walked and searched, finding many herbs used to make hair dye along the way.

Moreover, she saw a large clump of fish vine wood.

Good things, naturally couldn’t be missed.

After returning home, she called Liu Qiang and asked him to bring two people to help after school.

But Liu Qiang couldn’t wait, he put down the phone and came with Squad LeaderZhu from the cooking class.

“Sister-in-law, do you have something to do?”

Li Xinyue pointed to the large pile of fish vine wood: “Want to eat fish? This thing, hammer it into juice and pour it into the pond, the fish will get drunk.”

“Huh?”

Liu Qiang’s eyes lit up: “Sister-in-law, you want to make spicy fish?”

Li Xinyue nodded happily: “Yes, I’ll make some spicy fish for you guys, it’s good for breakfast.”

This was great.

The spicy fish that Sister-in-law made could make you lick your lips!

These days, the entire division wasn’t selling meat, it was a regulation from above.

Having fish was good too.

Said and done.

The two young men were strong, and within half an hour, they had produced two large buckets of fish vine juice.

“Sister-in-law, shall we go now?”

Li Xinyue wasn’t sure: “Can we? You guys haven’t finished class yet, how about after 4:30?”

Liu Qiang was too excited.

“No, no, we start working on the vegetable patch at 3 o’clock today, I’ll go tell Platoon Leader  Zhu.”

There were two platoon leaders in the camp, taking turns on duty.

It seemed that Platoon Leader Zhu was on duty today.

“Alright, if you say so, then let’s go now.” .org

“By the way, do you have a fish net?”

“Yes!”

There was a large pond behind the division, where they had put a lot of fish fry, and they would go fishing every season.

This year’s National Day, they wouldn’t be fishing.

Liu Qiang and Xiao Zhu ran back, and soon came back with a fish net and buckets, followed by two others.

“Sister-in-law, I’m a fishing expert, I used to fish at home all the time.”

Platoon Leader Sun was smiling, following behind Zhu platoon leader.

“Alright, let’s go together!”

These days, either Liu Qiang or Platoon Leader Sun would come over, and they had become familiar with each other.

Not knowing when she would be back, Li Xinyue told Qian Sanni to help her pick up the kids, and then she went out with the four of them.

“Sister-in-law, I know where there are fish.”

As soon as they went out, platoon leader Zhu Gang volunteered to lead the way.

Li Xinyue nodded: “Okay, you lead the way.”

“Yes ma’am.”

Zhu Gang didn’t take them towards the mountains, but towards the town.

After passing the fork in the road, he didn’t continue towards the town, but went down the river embankment.

At this time, a military truck passed by, and Qi Yan and Wu Xiuzhi were sitting in the car.

“Sister-in-law, look.”

Wu Xiuzhi took a look, and her eyes narrowed immediately: It was indeed Li Xinyue!

“Xiao Wu, which camp is that officer from?”

The soldier driving the car was called Wu Rong, and he glanced at the riverbank: “Sister-in-law, that’s Platoon Leader Sunfrom the artillery camp.”

Platoon leader?

This Li Xinyue actually married a cadre?

Wow!

Qi Yan and Wu Xiuzhi exchanged glances: “Do you know Platoon Leader Sun?”

Wu Rong nodded: “I do, Platoon Leader Sun is my fellow villager, he was promoted two years ago.”

“He was selected for the division’s excellent soldier training team, he went on several major missions and made meritorious service, so he was promoted.”

So he was a promoted cadre?

It was true, who would marry a rural woman with only a junior high school education after graduating from military school?

Wu Xiuzhi deliberately asked: “How are Platoon Leader Sun’s family conditions?”

Wu Rong was from the same commune as Sun Hong, and he knew a lot about Sun’s family.

“Platoon Leader Sun’s parents are both gone, he and his sister grew up with their grandparents, and they live with his uncle and aunt.”

“His uncle has two sons and two daughters, a big family.”

“These past few years, his grandparents have been sick a lot, and their life has not been easy.”

So that’s it.

She also thought, who would marry Li Xinyue, a rural woman.

It turned out to be a poor guy who couldn’t find a wife!

Qi Yan’s eyes sparkled, full of disdain.

But she said with a sigh: “That’s for sure, with so many mouths to feed, how can he support them with his meager salary?”

“I’m afraid the Sun family is not just having a hard time, but a very difficult time, do they even have enough to eat?”