Chapter 99: Hi, Military Wives

Soon, the family entered the house.

Xiao Nan helped carry the two large bundles from the car and placed them at the door.

“I’ll be going now.”

“Okay. I won’t keep you tonight, come over for drinks sometime.”

“Alright!”

The man was concise in his words, not at all chatty, and soon Xiao Nan drove away.

As soon as the car left, a few military wives gathered together…

“Did Captain Chen actually get married already?”

A military wife with short hair named Liu Ying, the wife of the Engineer Battalion Commander Xu Shan, looked incredulous.

“Yeah, I was planning to introduce my cousin to him, but I didn’t expect his son to be so grown up!”

Wang Lijuan was the wife of Wu Liang, the assistant coordinator of the logistics department.

She had mentioned her cousin to her aunt when she went back to her hometown recently.

As soon as she said this, Qian Sanni, the wife of Wang Jianqiang, the deputy battalion-level staff officer of the training department, immediately scoffed.

“I’m telling you, Lijuan, forget about your cousin.”

“Aside from anything else, is her appearance even worthy of Chief Chen?”

“Didn’t you see how Chief Chen’s wife looks?”

Wang Lijuan and Qian Sanni were from the same county, and she knew Qian Sanni’s cousin very well!

Hearing this, Wang Lijuan was unhappy: “Is appearance that important?”

“My cousin may not be that pretty, but she’s not ugly either.”

“I’m telling you, my cousin went to junior college, and now she’s an elementary school teacher.”

“Can appearance be used to buy food? Or clothes?”

“An elementary school teacher’s salary isn’t low, and my aunt’s family is well-off!”

“If he marries my cousin, Chief Chen’s life will definitely be twenty years less of struggle!”

Can appearance be used to buy food?

Qian Sanni didn’t even want to say anything!

The person who introduced her to Wu Liang back then wasn’t Wang Lijuan, but her older sister Jiang Liting, Qian Sanni’s junior high school classmate!

Hearing this, Qian Sanni looked down with contempt.

Your older sister is a postal worker, but you’re just a worker in a match factory.

Isn’t it because you look good that Wu Liang chose you?

Don’t even look at Chief Chen’s wife, her figure, her looks, her temperament, which one can your cousin compare to?

“Oh, in your mind, Captain Chen is a man who eats soft rice?”

Wang Lijuan’s face darkened: “Qian Sanni, I never said that, don’t make things up!”

“Did I? Did I make things up? Sisters, didn’t she just say that if Captain Chen married her cousin, he’d have twenty years less of struggle?”

These two were naturally incompatible.

Xu Hongqin didn’t join their argument.

Instead, she sighed sincerely: “Chief Chen’s wife is really beautiful, she doesn’t look like a country girl at all.”

“If I didn’t know she said she was from the countryside myself, I wouldn’t believe it.”

As soon as she finished speaking, the plump Sun Auntie came out from the house.

She snorted: “What’s the use of being pretty? So thin, she’s not necessarily a lucky person.”

“Didn’t you hear the old saying? Whether your life is prosperous or not depends on whether your wife is fat or not.”

“A woman needs to be a bit plump, that’s what brings good fortune to her husband!”

As soon as she said this, a flock of crows flew over everyone’s heads…

Auntie, you are plump, but your husband who died early didn’t seem to have much good fortune…

Only Wang Lijuan covered her mouth and chuckled: “Auntie’s words make sense, women should be a bit plump.”

“If they’re too thin, their bones are sharp!”

Once again, everyone was speechless…

Okay, you’re fat, you have good fortune.

I just wonder how much good fortune you have!

In this era, it’s hard to even eat enough, let alone nutrition, but thankfully the army doesn’t let people starve.

But to eat until you’re plump and rosy?

That’s hard!

Wang Lijuan gained weight after giving birth. Luckily, she has good skin, proving the saying: plump and rosy…

Li Xinyue had no idea that she became a topic of conversation among the military wives as soon as she arrived.

She held onto Chen Yiheng’s hand and followed Chen Mingchuan into the house.

The first thing you saw was the living room. It wasn’t small, probably around twenty square meters.

In the middle of the room, there was a square table and a few wooden benches.

Walking further in, there was a bedroom on one side and a corridor leading to the kitchen on the other.

The bedroom was also quite large, about twenty square meters.

However, apart from a 1.2-meter wooden bed, there was only a set of military bedding.

A red desk was placed by the window, with a red wooden bench that had lost its paint.

This… this is too empty, isn’t it?

Seeing Li Xinyue standing at the door, looking around the room, Chen Mingchuan felt a little embarrassed.

“I’ve been training the special forces unit for three years. I only spend a few days a month in the camp. I only officially came back last month.”

“I haven’t lived here before. This was arranged by Xiao Nan. It’s a bit simple.”

Three years ago, Chen Mingchuan was still a deputy battalion commander, in charge of training.

Later, the battalion commander of his battalion was transferred due to some matters, and he was promoted to battalion commander.

Because of his special mission, he continued to stay in the special forces unit, returning only a few days every month.

He usually lived in the camp, and he had never stayed in this dormitory before.

Li Xinyue didn’t say anything, and Chen Mingchuan added, “I’ll apply for a new dormitory after a while.”

Cadre dormitories are assigned based on rank.

But now, the old cadres haven’t moved out, and new cadres are constantly being promoted. Chen Mingchuan’s family didn’t join the military, so he didn’t have a dormitory originally.

The reason he had this dormitory was because of his special mission three years ago.

Having a place like this was something many people envied.

Those battalion-level cadres in the camp couldn’t even get a room.

Whenever their families came to visit, they could only stay in a single room in the small guesthouse, and they were only allowed to stay for a month.

The conditions in the army were tough because the country wasn’t wealthy enough yet.

Li Xinyue knew that in her time, the country treated soldiers completely differently.

The income of soldiers and the treatment of their families had taken a huge leap forward.

The country would never forget anyone who contributed to the country.

Although the house was small, it was at least made of concrete and whitewashed walls, which was much better than the firewood shed at Chen’s house.

Actually, Li Xinyue didn’t have high requirements for living, she just wanted it to be clean and tidy.

Besides, she didn’t plan to stay here for long!

However, she still asked, “How long will we be here?”

How long?

Chen Mingchuan thought, probably until the end of the year or early next year?

This time, the people they trained participated in the competition and won first place in the whole army.

Especially him, his performance was unique.

The division commander told him that day that the military leaders said that cadres like him should be promoted.

From the division commander’s words, it seemed like he would be promoted again next year.

Chen Mingchuan had been in the army for thirteen years, and he had been on major and special missions many times since his third year of service.

He had also survived many life-or-death situations and achieved great merit.

He had received three first-class merits alone, not to mention the second-class and third-class merits.

Therefore, his promotions were fast.

There were only two battalion-level cadres under thirty in the whole division, and he was one of them.

“I’m not sure yet. We’ll have to wait until there’s a vacant house over there.”