The Zhao family has many members. However, when the children grow up, those who go to work and those who serve in the army, rarely get together. This time because of Zhao Nan’s marriage, the whole family sat together.

Both Zhang Liyun and Zhao Daqiu usually work on the farm, and Zhao Daqiu also raises bees during the off-season. Honey is a rare thing. The Zhao family can have the current family situation, in addition to the struggle of Zhao Dong siblings who are fighting for their strength, it is inseparable from Zhao Daqiu’s ability.

The eldest son, Zhao Dong, inherited Zhao Daqiu’s craftsmanship. He is two years older than Zhao Nan. He has been married for six or seven years. His wife, Li Xiaoe, is from the brigade next door. The two have a five-year-old son, Zhao Xiaobo.

Zhao Nan is ranked second. He has a younger sister, Zhao Qianqian, who works in a silk reeling factory, and a younger brother, Zhao Bei, who works as an apprentice in a restaurant. They both live in public dormitories and only go home when they are resting. They should have come back from vacation after attending the wedding. After breakfast, they hurried out to work.

Zhao Daqiu and Zhao Dong got off the dinner table and went to the mountain to check the beehives. The family members were reduced by half.

Jiang Rui was about to clean up the table and wash the dishes. Li Xiaoe took her hand and joked, “Sit down and rest first. You cook breakfast, so it is my turn to wash the dishes. Otherwise, Mom will think I’m lazy.”

Zhang Liyun smiled and glared at her: “How dare I dislike you? Thank God for not driving my old woman out!”

“Don’t drive my grandma away!” Zhao Xiaobo hugged Zhang Liyun and yelled to his mother: “Mom is a villain!”

Li Xiaoe was so angry that she wanted to come over and pinch his ears, but Zhang Liyun smiled and hurriedly put her grandson in her arms to protect him. After a while, she persuaded Zhao Xiaobo to play.

Zhang Liyun turned her head and said to Jiang Rui: “Listen to your sister-in-law, just go back to the room and rest. You are too diligent and make others lazy.”

Jiang Rui nodded, remembering that there were still many items in the room that had not been sorted out, so she planned to go back and sort them out.

Zhao Nan was about to enter the room after her, but Zhang Liyun stopped him. Her amiable tone immediately changed: “Come here, I have something to ask you.”

Jiang Rui sat on the bedside and counted the clothes she had brought. She was about to finish folding before seeing Zhao Nan returning to the room.

After he came back, he sat quietly at the table chair, with a strange expression on his face.

Jiang Rui took the time to glance at him, “What’s the matter? Mom has something to do with you?”

Zhao Nan’s expression was even more weird, as if he wanted to say something, and he held it back. After several times, she heard him say to himself, “Am I stupid?”

Thinking of what his mother asked him just now, Zhao Nan felt that he had reason to suspect that his mother either regarded him as a child or a fool. The second possibility was even greater.

“What are you whispering about? Help me open the cabinet.” Jiang Rui picked up a stack of folded clothes and wanted to stuff them into the closet.

Zhao Nan followed suit and watched her from the sidelines when he was done.

Jiang Rui walked back and forth under his gaze. Her body was light and her movements were neat, just as usual.

Zhao Nan did not think there was anything wrong at first. As a soldier, he was used to high-intensity training and his physical fitness was better than ordinary people. No matter how tired he was the night before, he would recover after a night of sleep. He used himself to push others*. Seeing Jiang Rui’s relaxed appearance this morning, he thought it was quite normal.

*T/N: I think it means, he used his standard to see other people

As a result, after hearing what his mother said just now, he is a little self-doubting now. Could it be that he is not capable enough and did not do enough to make her look like a normal person?

“…Are there any discomforts on your body?” He finally could not help asking.

Jiang Rui was holding a bottle of plastic flowers, thinking about where to put them. Hearing his question, she did not look back: “It’s good.”

Zhao Nan was silent for a while, not giving up: “Aren’t your waist sore?”

“If you have time to worry about whether my waist is sore or not, why don’t you help me think about where to put these things.” Jiang Rui stuffed the vase into his hand, handed the problem to him, and went to deal with other items by herself.

Zhao Nan stared at the vase, found a place to put it down, and gathered around her again, “Is the leg soft? Shall I rub it for you?”

Jiang Rui finally put down the things in her hands and looked at him directly. People who usually can not hold back a few words when they meet are suddenly so long-winded, they must be abnormal.

She looked at Zhao Nan up and down, “What’s the matter with you? Tell me what you want to say.”

Zhao Nan started to look weird again and hesitated.

Jiang Rui took a step closer and drew circles on his chest with her fingertips, “Uncle has something to hide from me, huh~?”

Zhao Nan grabbed her naughty hand and held it back for a long time, still unable to ask, just said: “Don’t call it Uncle.”

“What if I want to call?” Jiang Rui pulled her hand back angrily. “I want to call, are you going to teach me?”

“… Then call it.” Zhao Nan looked at her eyes, his tone weakened unconsciously.

The expression on Jiang Rui’s face could not hold back anymore, dimples appeared at the corners of her mouth, and she poked his chest, “Why are you doing this? There is no principle at all.”

Zhao Nan could not help but hug her and whispered in her ear, “Let’s do it again.”

“What do you do again?”

“Last night……”

Jiang Rui looked at him in surprise, and then at the sky outside, “I said you were thick-skinned in the morning, did you really become thick-skinned? In broad daylight, Mom and sister-in-law are still outside, why are you so embarrassed?”

Zhao Nan’s ears turned red from what she said, and he said in a muffled voice: “You are not tired.”

Only then did Jiang Rui vaguely understand what was in his mind. Because seeing her not tired, he felt that he was not enough to show off his majesty, so want to make it up again?

She was a little funny. Hearing his dull voice, she found it more interesting. She curled up her lips and said, “You are really greedy. I’m afraid that even if I’m tired, you still don’t think it is enough. You want me to praise you for being awesome and amazing, right?”

“It’s nothing like that.” Zhao Nan said, his tone a little empty.

Jiang Rui laughed softly, raised her head and kissed him on the lips, and comforted him: “Okay, I’m not tired because I’m in good health. I ran all over the mountains and fields since I was a child. In fact, you were really good last night. Last night I kept begging for mercy from you. Do you remember? I cried and said no. But you are so cruel, you still keep pressing me, and you keep asking for…”

Zhao Nan covered her mouth with a red face and kissed her.

In the morning, the doors of their house were all closed. Zhang Liyun and Li Xiaoe ignored them, taking care of their own affairs. Zhao Xiaobo was going to play with his second uncle, but Li Xiaoe stopped him and told him not to disturb his second uncle’s sleep. Zhao Xiaobo mumbled that his second uncle was a slacker, and then ran out to find his little friend.

When it was almost noon, Zhang Liyun whispered in her heart: Could it be that her words in the morning made her son irritated, and the stinky kid went to toss his daughter-in-law and show off his prestige?

This is not okay. Her new daughter-in-law looks well-behaved, soft and weak. Her face is tender and shy. Every part of her body looks like a pile of white tofu. How could she stand up to the torture of her rough son? Don’t frighten people as soon as she enters the door. It seems that she has to talk to that stinky boy in the afternoon.

In fact, she wronged Zhao Nan again. Although he was really moved and wanted to do something, as Jiang Rui said, it was still broad daylight and the family was there. He could not pass the hurdle in his heart for the time being, maybe in the future.

The two of them were just sorting out the pile of bride price and dowry in the room. Occasionally, Zhao Nan would see Jiang Rui which raised his spirit again, so she would run over and kiss him on the mouth to wake him up.

When she was almost finished sorting out, Jiang Rui suddenly asked him: “When do you want to return to the army?”

“Twentieth of the first lunar month.” Zhao Nan stopped his movements.

Today is the thirteenth day of the first lunar month. There are still seven days before his departure.

Jiang Rui let out a cry.

Zhao Nan got up, walked to her and sat down next to her: “When I get to the army, I will report and apply for a family member to join the army.”

Jiang Rui glanced at him and deliberately snorted: “Take your time, don’t worry. I haven’t made up my mind yet whether I want to join the army with you or not.”

“You don’t want to?” Zhao Nan immediately held her hand, his eyebrows frowned into a word of Chuan1.

“I’m teasing you,” Jiang Rui yelled at him, “You can’t even hear it*. If I don’t want to, how can I agree to marry you?”

*T/N: I think she means Zhao Nan could not notice that Jiang Rui only teased him. So naughty… >.<

Zhao Nan was relieved, and Jiang Rui said again: “You tell me first what the army looks like, so that I can be mentally prepared.”

“The military area compound is divided into a camp area and family area…” Zhao Nan said slowly.

While listening, Jiang Rui kept working. She was holding the wool and needles she found from the dowry just now, planning to make a sweater for Zhao Nan for him to wear when he left.

After Zhao Nan finished speaking, he sat beside her and looked at it for a while. Then suddenly remembered something, he got up and took out an envelope from the bedside table and handed it to Jiang Rui.

“What is this?” Jiang Rui took it and squeezed it, it was a bit thick. When she opened it, there was actually a small stack of ten-yuan banknotes inside. She looked at Zhao Nan in surprise.

“You put it away and buy whatever you want.”

Jiang Rui asked him in a low voice, “Do your parents know about this money? Do you want to give it to them?”

“No, I’ve already given my parent’s share and I keep the rest. Mom knows.”

Jiang Rui nodded, took out the pile of money and counted it. After counting, her eyes were bright and she looked at him: “Uncle is really amazing. He can make so much money!”

In fact, money was meaningless to her in the past. But since she became Du Baoqin, she had to worry about every penny. Money is no longer just a few pieces of paper for her.

She found that the feeling of counting money was so refreshing!

Zhao Nan was a little flustered by her look, coughed and looked away. But he was thinking in his heart that he still had money in the army dormitory, and Zheng Bin seemed to owe him some. He had to get it back this time when he went back. He is now a family man and he has to make plans for his family.

His good mood has always been maintained. When he left the room, the corners of his mouth unconsciously curled up a little. It was seen by Zhang Liyun who confirmed the guess in her heart. This was terrible, so she took her son to question again.

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