Chapter 20: The obedient and soft little girl

“It was the person who helped send you to the hospital when you were sick that day… His surname is Yu.”

“Surname Yu?” Grandma was unconscious that day, so she really didn’t know who had helped. She asked anxiously, “And then?”

“And then…” Shen Rongrong’s eyes reddened again when she mentioned these things, “I accidentally fell unconscious while picking mountain goods in Wolong Mountain in the east, and he saved me…”

She told Grandma everything that happened on the mountain and what the nurses had said.

After finishing speaking, she almost broke down and complained while crying, “He saved me several times… but I don’t even know his full name. I want to carve a memorial tablet for him, but I can’t, boo…”

Even though she heard that it wasn’t her grandson who had died, Grandma frowned because of this incident, and suddenly understood why the well-behaved and soft little girl had suddenly changed her appearance.

“Good child,” Grandma instructed Shen Rongrong with a tone that had sunk several degrees, “Don’t cry, go, call your dad in.”

“Yes.”

Shen Rongrong sobbed and responded, pushed the door open and poked her head out. She saw her dad hugging his wife and kissing her face, coaxing her temper, and she was too embarrassed to speak.

After hesitating for a few seconds, she heard Grandma shout from behind, “Chen Guozhong!”

Chen Guozhong, who was hugging his wife and coaxing her, stood up straight immediately and answered in a loud voice, “Here!”

startling Shen Rongrong.

“What are you doing…” Guan Hanyu poked him with her elbow, her cheeks flushed, and followed him into the door.

“Mom, what’s wrong?”

“Guozhong. When you said you were going to the police station to help bail out that comrade-in-arms’ child last time, didn’t that girl say that she saw Chen Yu? Said that he was in a hurry to go to Dongshantou for a mission, so he handed the passbook to her?”

Chen Guozhong nodded repeatedly, “Yes.”

“He must be criticized when he comes back!” Grandma was so angry that she slapped her hand on the bed, “He can’t just tell others military secrets, he may have indirectly killed a comrade-in-arms, does he know that!”

Shen Rongrong was confused by what she heard, “No… Grandma, it wasn’t him.”

“It was him!” Grandma firmly confirmed the answer, “How could your sister know about military matters out of thin air? It was him who said it! Criticize him!”

“Yes! Criticize him!” Chen Guozhong didn’t know what had happened, and didn’t dare to ask more questions. He could only coax his wife and old mother, following the old lady’s words, “I’ll go ask him where he is now tonight! What exactly is going on! If there’s really such a thing! I’ll report it to the higher-ups! I’ll strip him of his position!!”

“Go now! Strip him of his position severely!!” Grandma chased her son away, turned to look at Shen Rongrong, and patted her chest, “Alright, since you’re now our Chen family’s daughter-in-law, and you said that you will be wholeheartedly devoted to our family in the future, Grandma will never let you suffer a bit!”

“Grandma…” Shen Rongrong was very moved, rushed over and hugged Grandma, crying with a wow, “It’s my sister who’s too bad! Boo! It wasn’t him!”

Grandma looked at the little girl, who had been holding her breath since she came back, unloading her grievances and turning back into her original appearance. She sighed with tears in her eyes, and gently comforted her, stroking her head.

“It seems that you were serious about your oath. You’re already starting to know how to protect your husband before you’re even married. But regardless of whether it was him or not, your dad has a reason to ask, and you can also get an answer. Just like you said… maybe you can carve a memorial tablet and leave a kindness, right?”

“Right.”

Shen Rongrong didn’t expect Grandma to understand her to this extent. She nodded, sniffling, and then was hugged into Grandma’s arms, patted gently.

Chen Yan saw that Grandma seemed to be persuaded by Shen Rongrong, and wanted to go over and say a few words with a very unhappy expression, but was pulled by Guan Hanyu.

“Alright, we’ll talk about it when your brother comes back. This is none of your business, go back to school.”

“But…”

“Go to school!”

“Mom…” Chen Yan couldn’t hold it back, panting, and finally cried, wiping her tears while picking up her small bag, “It’s so late… Where am I going to school… Boo…”

“Go to school wherever you want to go to school.” Guan Hanyu silently took out her pocket, leaving two hundred yuan and stuffing the other odds and ends to Chen Yan, “Is that enough to pay for tuition?”

Chen Yan looked at the money in her hand, smiling through her tears, “It would be even better if you could give me some pocket money.”

Guan Hanyu pretended to hit her, and Chen Yan quickly left the ward.

She knew very well what the outcome of this marriage would be when her son came back, so Guan Hanyu didn’t stop this cheap daughter-in-law who also came from the Shen family, but she didn’t take the initiative either.

“Alright, you stay and take care of Grandma. I have something to go out for, I’ll come back at night.”

“Stop pretending! Just stop pretending!” The old lady sat on the bed, ruthlessly exposing her, “You’re just anxious to go out and find Guozhong! Leaving me, an old lady, alone.”

“It’s not just one person.” Guan Hanyu snorted softly, pursing her lips and smiling, and pressed the remaining two hundred yuan under the boxed lunch on the table, “Don’t you like this granddaughter-in-law? Then let her serve you.”

After saying that, she also quickly picked up her bag and left.

“See?” Grandma pointed to the figure in the corridor, “That’s what it’s like when your husband is a soldier, you can’t see him a few times a year, and you’re not tired of it even when you’re forty or fifty years old.”

“It’s very good.” Shen Rongrong also liked this family’s straightforwardness when she was reading the book, repeating Guan Hanyu’s words from the original book, “If you save it, it will still be new for a lifetime.”

“Oh, shameless.” The old lady actually understood, waving her hand in front of her, “I’m not going to talk to you, you girl…”

Shen Rongrong realized that these words had other meanings after seeing Grandma lying down. She touched her ears, which were instantly hot, and silently went to clean up the leftover boxed lunch on the table.

When she came back, she saw that Grandma had already fallen asleep with the quilt covered, so she lightened her steps, carefully entered the door, and also lay down to rest on the empty bed next door.

Later, in the middle of the night, Grandma turned over.

Shen Rongrong was just about to get up and take a look when she heard a low voice. She listened carefully and found that Grandma was speaking softly under the quilt.

“Old Chen, you might not believe it if I told you, but we and Old Shen’s granddaughter’s marriage, the matchmaker didn’t ask clearly how many daughters they had, and it was set as the eldest. As a result, whoever is destined to be with us is destined to be with us, the eldest daughter doesn’t care about our family, and the second daughter was exchanged. Here, I forgot to show you before, take a look this time…”

As she said that, the quilt was lifted a little bit, and an old photo poked out and ‘looked’ in Shen Rongrong’s direction.

Soon, the photo went back, and Grandma’s laughter came from under the quilt, “Fair and clean, like a lucky doll, isn’t she? …She speaks softly and slowly, your great-grandson is lucky…”

Shen Rongrong wiped her face.

She felt that she should say hello to Grandpa, but she really… couldn’t say it.

Before long, Grandma started snoring.

The sleep of the elderly is relatively fragmented, and it is normal to sleep for a while and not sleep for a while.

But when Shen Rongrong went over to tuck in the quilt for Grandma, she saw the old photo that she had repaired with snail essence last time in her hand.

Looking at Grandpa in the photo… Shen Rongrong suddenly felt that…

Chen Grandpa’s temperament was also very similar to Mr. Fish.

So ‘militarized management, unified form and spirit’… would all the soldiers in the world gradually grow to look almost the same?

After scratching her head, Shen Rongrong lay down in confusion and continued to sleep.

Then all night long, she dreamed of Grandpa, Dad, and Mr. Fish turning around and around in her dream.

Until the next morning, after serving Grandma breakfast, Chen’s father came back, bringing back the news that Grandma had asked him to investigate.