Chapter 58: The Army Compound

Jiang Famliy was in the Army Compound. Sitting in the car, following Jiang Yunhan into the Army Compound, Wu Xiuxiu remembered an article she had accidentally seen about this compound in the modern era.

As the capital of the country, the Capital City [Sijiu City] housed many high-ranking officials, who mostly lived in compounds. Therefore, Sijiu City had various compounds, among which the most famous were the military compounds.

The largest and most famous of the military compounds was the Army Compound.

The article said that the Army Compound, surrounded by high walls, was like a self-contained mini-society, with a canteen, bathhouse, service center, kindergarten, elementary school, auditorium, playground, even a swimming pool, and a hospital, all included.

But at that time, the Army Compound, like other compounds, was off-limits to ordinary people outside. Seeing the imposing soldiers guarding the entrance of the compound with guns made people apprehensive, and they dared not approach or look around, completely unaware of what was inside. They were extremely curious about the inside, so the compound remained a mysterious existence in the eyes of the people outside.

When she read that article, she never dreamed that one day she would actually enter the Army Compound and see its true face.

She wondered if this Army Compound was like the article described, a self-contained mini-society, with a canteen, bathhouse, service center, kindergarten, elementary school, auditorium, playground, even a swimming pool, and a hospital, all included?

Wu Xiuxiu wanted to ask Jiang Yunhan beside her, but she was afraid that he had already talked so much about himself and his family that he was about to run out of breath, and if she asked him another question now and made him talk again, he would find it annoying.

Remembering what her husband had told her earlier, Wu Xiuxiu  felt a pang in her heart, a bit of sourness, and a surge of heartache.

Her husband’s parents had died when he was seven years old. He was raised by his grandfather. Although his grandfather was a high-ranking commander, he was busy with military affairs every day, and the two of them would only see each other every few days, sometimes even ten or half a month. But his grandfather loved him very much, and their grandfather-grandson relationship was very good.

One could imagine her husband’s childhood and adolescence, without parents, with his grandfather often away, how lonely and isolated he must have been.

Although her husband didn’t say a word, she could imagine it.

From now on, she would treat her husband well, and she would always be by his side, so that he would never feel lonely or isolated again.

She would also be filial to her husband’s grandfather, and she would try her best to make her husband’s grandfather like her.

She could tell from her husband’s previous description of his grandfather how much he valued and respected his only close relative, and how much he cared about this only close relative.

Although her husband had said that he had many relatives, relatives were not the same as close relatives…

“Xiuxiu, do you have something you want to say, something you want to ask me?”

Jiang Yunhan  looked straight ahead, but his eyes were always on his beloved little girl, so he noticed that she had something she wanted to ask.

Wu Xiuxiu looked at her husband in surprise. He had actually seen through her. He was really perceptive.

Should she ask?

Jiang Yunhan saw her hesitation and smiled, “Don’t be so polite with me. What’s there to hesitate about? If you have anything to say, anything to ask, just say it, ask it.”

Hearing this, the hesitation in Wu Xiuxiu ‘s heart quickly dissipated, and she asked what she wanted to ask.

“So you wanted to ask about this! I thought you wanted to ask something difficult, something that made you hesitate.” Jiang Yunhan chuckled.

“What’s there to be hesitant about, silly girl… Yes, all those things you mentioned, the canteen, bathhouse, service center, kindergarten, elementary school, auditorium, playground, even the swimming pool, and the hospital, the Army Compound has them all.

It’s just that the schools in the compound only have kindergartens and elementary schools, no middle schools, high schools, or universities.

And the schools and hospitals are not as good as the famous ones outside. Those who can afford it will send their children to the famous schools outside, and if someone is sick or injured, they will go to the famous hospitals outside.”

Hearing this, Wu Xiuxiu immediately understood why her husband had not been treated at the hospital in the compound when he was injured, but had gone to a hospital outside.