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    Lu Nong walked out the door, a good-looking, well-dressed young woman stood in the doorway and looked in.

    This person was twenty-seven or eighteen years old and looked older than Lu Nong, but he called Lu Nong sister-in-law. Lu Nong could now realize how those military wives felt earlier, it was too embarrassing.

    “You are?” Lu Nu inquired.

    The young woman pinned her hair at her temples with her hand and said with a smile, “Hello, sister-in-law, my name is Cheng Hua, I’m the daughter-in-law of the second regiment’s commander, Zhang Dali, and I heard that sister-in-law is moving in today, so I came over to ask if there’s anything I can do to help.”

    Lu Nong: “Sister-in-law dare not be, my name is Lu Nong, you call me Lu Nong or Comrade Lu Nong will be fine.”

    Cheng Hua was embarrassed and smiled, agreeing with Lu Nong’s proposal, no longer squirming, “That’s fine, I’ll call you Comrade Lu Nong from now on, comrade sounds friendly, you can also call me Comrade Cheng Hua.”

    Cheng Hua’s voice is clear and crisp, like the sound of water in a mountain stream colliding with rocks, which has given Lu Nong a good impression of this voice-control control, and people shouted “sister-in-law” in a particularly natural way, making Lu Nong wonder if he was a bit fussed over.

    But voice control to voice control, Lu Nong reason still exists, in the absence of a clear understanding of the situation, the refusal or to refuse.

    “Thank you Comrade Cheng Hua, the big things at home Lao Pei are loaded, the remaining luggage is not organized, my mother and I two people do enough, today do not trouble you, when one day there is something in the family, then I will certainly ask you to help.”

    Although the words are refused, but Lu Nong attitude cordial, without a trace of Cheng Hua imagined detached condescending, Cheng Hua listened to the hanging heart down, the smile on the face more and more sincere.

    “Hey, good, don’t worry Comrade Lu Nong, I will definitely come to help when the time comes, oh yes, this is the home pickled salted duck eggs, sister-in-law if you don’t mind, take it home and taste it.”

    Cheng Hua picked up the basket on the ground and shoved it into Lu Nong’s hand.

    “How can this be a good idea,” having already refused Cheng Hua once, it would be bad to do so again, Lu Neng had to say, “Then I’ll respectfully follow your order.”

    “Ah?” Cheng Hua thought Lu Nong had refused and hurriedly explained, “Sister-in-law, our duck eggs taste delicious and oily, so you’ll want to eat them again after you’ve tasted them.”

    Lu Nong surprised, the next second to understand, Cheng Hua is not understand their just that “respect is not as good as obeyed” meaning, and so Cheng Hua explained, she said with a normal face: “Listen to you say so delicious, then I have to taste, thank you Comrade Cheng Hua, let’s not stand in the doorway, quickly into the house to talk. “

    Cheng Hua waved his hand, “No no no, I saw smoke coming out of the chimney at sister-in-law’s house, the family is eating, right? I won’t bother you much, sister-in-law you hurry back, I’m leaving.”

    By the end of the day Cheng Hua’s address to Lu Nong had changed again to sister-in-law.

    Without waiting for Lu Nong to stop him, Cheng Hua jogged a few steps like there was someone chasing after his ass, then turned his head to see Lu Nong still in the same place and reached out to signal Lu Nong to hurry home.

    When Cheng Hua walked away, Lu Nong turned around and went back to the house with the duck eggs.

    “What’s going on? Is someone something wrong?” Wu Ma asked Lu Nong as she fed the little summer cubs milk powder.

    “It’s okay, there is a military wife is afraid that we just came to the manpower shortage, asked if the family needs help, I gave a refusal, people also sent a basket of salted duck eggs.” Lu Neng put the salted duck eggs on the ground and returned to the table to eat.

    Wu Ma praised, “Aigoo, this is a good dare, it will come to things.”

    Lu Nu was noncommittal and continued to eat.

    After dinner, Wu Ma boiled water, the two painfully took a hot bath, the only inconvenience is that there is no shower at home, can only make do in a large wooden barrel.

    After a short nap at noon, Lu Neng and Wu Ma began to organize the luggage piled on the floor, placing the various objects brought from home where they should be, and then the two of them combined the things that were missing.

    The yard, needless to say, is a bare piece of renovated soil, Lu Nong is determined to build a “secret garden” out, Wu Ma does not express an opinion.

    The living room is too empty, there is only a table for eating, Lu Nong and Wu Ma two people discuss the need for a set of sofa and coffee table combination as well as high and low cabinets, shoe cabinets.

    This mountain nest must not have ready-made sofa, they plan to make their own sofa cushions and pillows by themselves, and let Pei Lien An hit furniture.

    This required the purchase of large quantities of cloth and cotton.

    By the way, no matter the bedroom or the living room, the front of the window is bare, from outside the courtyard lying on the window sill you can see what the people inside are doing, for Lu Nu, a person who pays close attention to privacy, it is simply suffocating, the curtains she brought with her are only enough for three bedrooms, and the living room window is large, so she still needs to re-buy the cloth.

    The kitchen was by far the most well-stocked, but there were still quite a few things missing, and when it came to Wu Ma’s main battlefield, she broke off a long list of things to add.

    First of all there was not enough firewood, and the kitchen had only a small stack of haystacks, just enough for another meal.

    Wu Ma suggests building a hut without a door outside the kitchen, specifically for straw firewood, so that it can store firewood and not be afraid of rain.

    Secondly, there is a shortage of all kinds of food seasoning, came in a hurry Wu Ma did not buy, the stock is urgent.

    The toilet is a dry toilet, this is Lu Nong the most uncomfortable place, tonight when Pei Silk An comes back, no matter what, ask Pei Silk An to solve the problem of the toilet.

    Three bedrooms on the first and second floors, Wu’s mom’s bedroom only has a queen-size bed and a suitcase, not even enough room for clothes, need to add a closet and a bedside table.

    The second floor is first of all that empty bedroom, empty bedroom is obviously reserved for Pei Zheng, after a while Pei Zheng will come, then temporarily make a bed is always troublesome, might as well take this opportunity to make one together, and in the meantime, set up his room.

    This room has a lot of space, Lu Nong thought it would be better to play two slightly shorter bed under the table, exactly the same cabinets, desks and things placed symmetrically, so that when Gu Xiaohuai grows up a little bit more, he can sleep in a room with Pei Zheng brothers.

    Attic there, Lu Nong intends to change into a study, she and Pei Silk An moved with the most is the book, half the house books are piled up in the living room, there is no study room is not convenient, but unfortunately the attic area is small, change into a two-person study room is unlikely.

    Lu Nong specially drew a design sketch for this, she wanted to nail the attic several walls with wooden shelves, books spread along the wall, place a desk at the center skylight, and then use hollow shelves to partition and put a small couch, which can be used as a temporary guest room.

    Finally left their own bedroom, closet, dresser, bedside table have, although not exactly, but almost according to the placement of the capital city home one to one restoration, even the bedside of the rattan chair are restored.

    Lu Nu has nothing to be dissatisfied with, hang up the pure white curtains brought from home, push open the window and probe to look out the window, take a deep breath of fresh air sent by the mountain breeze.

    The breeze gently flicked the curtains, her white dress was hidden between the curtains, her black hair was scattered, and her face was white and greasy to the point of glowing, she stood by the window and looked at the scenery, and the watchers outside the door were all lost in thought.

    “What the hell, is this the daughter of a fairy?” A thin military wife gawked, and exited with a big sandy voice to match the vernacular.

    The fat, dark-faced army wife beside her said, “You’re too handsome, aren’t you? I can’t call you my sister-in-law, I’m not as brazen as Cheng Dahua.”

    “What are you talking about?” Hu Mei, the only military wife with short floppy hair among the three who had returned to normal, cornered the fat military wife, “Don’t be mouthy.”

    “I’m not wrong,” said Liu Erniu, the daughter-in-law of the fat army wife, who is also the daughter-in-law of a regimental commander, “Look at the new deputy division commander’s wife, how old she is, Cheng Dahua is at least seven or eight years older than her, and she calls her sister-in-law without stumbling, so we can’t compete with her.”

    Mentioning Cheng Dahua, Liu Erniu was full of dissatisfaction, “She’s the only one who’s active, the deputy division commander’s wife has just arrived, and she’s rushing to be attentive to us, comparing us to her, full of heart, what kind of thing did she do? If I hadn’t seen her, what would we have become?”

    “Nim talk less.” The skinny Wang Xiuzhi frowned.

    Liu Erniu is still not relieved, “I don’t want to talk about it, what is she, Cheng Dahua? She looks down on this and that every day, and she really thinks she’s an educated person just because Ms. Sun changed her name to Cheng Hua? I pooh, is not the same as my mother can not read a word, her pig nose into the big onion, pretend to pretend to my mother I came to the front, and so on one day I have to peel this layer of her skin can not be.”

    “You, sooner or later you’ll be ruined on this mouth of yours,” Hu Mei nudged Liu Erniu in the air, “Other than not interacting with us, Cheng Hua didn’t mess with you, but you’re the one who’s trying to get along with her, and you don’t see her as a good person.”

    Liu Erniu is not convinced, but also know that Hu Mei is right, see the good to accept, said: “Okay, do not talk about her, bad luck, I have to greet ‘sister-in-law’, you do not talk.”

    Hu Mei/Wang Xiuzhi: “……”

    I said that people Cheng Hua thick skin, you also did not (four sound) better ah, this voice sister-in-law called too smooth.

    “Sister-in-law.” Liu Erniu stood at the door and shouted loudly, attracting the attention of Lu Nong at the second floor window, seeing Lu Nong looking over, Liu Erniu and Hu Mei and Wang Xiuzi waved their hands in unison.

    Lu Nu: “Wait, I’ll be right down.”

    After a few moments, Wu Ma walked out and opened the door for the three of them, “Come on in, Thickness is in the back, let me come out and open the door first.”

    “Aigoo, are you from Vice Division Commander Pei?” Liu Erniu asked.

    The family discussed this question before they came, and Wu’s mom smiled and said, “I’m his mother-in-law, and my last name is Wu.”

    Liu Erniu and the three of them followed Wu Ma into the door and busily said, “Hello Auntie Wu, the three of us are here to ask if there’s anything we need help with, you can just say it, we’ll contribute what we can and give what we have.”

    “Then thank you so much,” Wu Ma responded with a smile and brought the three into the house, “We just moved to a humble home, so please apologize for the poor hospitality.”

    Liu Erniu froze, did not expect Wu Ma, a little old lady, to be able to say such literal words, did not react for a moment, and Hu Mei and Wang Xiuzhi looked at each other.

    Lu Nong walked down from upstairs, the three once again dumbfounded, or Hu Mei reacted quickly, “Little sister-in-law can be really handsome, the three of us are looking dumbfounded two times.”

    Through the process of Hua, Lu Nong was already familiar with this play, and calmly said, “But don’t call me sister-in-law, I’m younger than the three sisters-in-law, call me Lu Nong or Comrade Lu Nong.”

    Seeing that Lu Nong didn’t speak like a polite person, the three of them were immediately relieved, if Lu Nong really put on a show and had to be called her sister-in-law, it wasn’t that they couldn’t call her out, but it was always awkward, and now that Lu Nong took the initiative to say that she didn’t need to be called her sister-in-law, it wouldn’t be awkward for all of us anymore.

    Liu Erniu readily agreed, “Comrade Lu Nong, my name is Liu Erniu, you can call me Erniu or Comrade Erniu.”

    Then she introduced Lu Nong to Hu Mei and Wang Xiuzhi beside her, “This is Comrade Hu Mei, and Comrade Wang Xiuzhi.”

    After exchanging greetings, the three said a set of words similar to Cheng Hua’s, and after being politely rejected by Lu Nong, they stayed for a short time before saying goodbye and leaving.

    In the evening, the sun sets in the west, the mountains do not have electricity, the family lit up oil lamps, while the sky is still bright, Wu Ma made dinner and waited for Pei Silk An to come home.

    After waiting for nearly two hours, Pei Shenan returned home with the last touch of daylight, Lu Nong dozed off with her hand propped up on the table, “You’re back?”

    The little summer pups, along with Huai and the little white dog, had long since gone to bed after dinner.

    “Quickly eat, tired all day, after eating go back to your room and sleep.” Wu Ma re-served the dishes that had been warmed up once, Pei Jingan saw this and served the dishes together with Wu Ma.

    “There is no need to wait for me in the future, I came back early today, but I’m afraid I won’t in the future.” Pei Silian said.

    The family ate their meal in peace and quiet, and after washing up, Pei Jingan and Lu Nong returned to the bedroom to rest.

    When she got into bed, Lu Nong recoiled and came to her senses, handing Pei Jingan the home remodeling list that she had recorded during the day.

    “What is this?” Pei Jingan flipped through Lu Nong’s manuscript page by page, and at the top was the restroom, which was listed on a separate page, with a design drawing and textual explanations, including the necessity and importance.

    Being able to do this, Pei Jingan was quite impressed with Lu Nong.

    “Take a good look, these are all the things you must have at home, especially the flushing toilet, top priority, without it I would really thank you.” Lu Nu folded his hands and sincerely requested.

    “Thanks?” Pei Jingan raised an eyebrow.

    “Yes,” Lu Nong nodded emphatically, “and shed like a flower.”

    Pei Jingan but smiled without saying anything.

    Lu Nong blinked, sat in Pei Silk An’s arms, wrapped her hands around his neck, kissed him with a “chirp” and then leaned close to Pei Silk An’s ear and said, “Brother, please.”

    Pei Jingan’s body hardened, his eyes low and dark, his voice hoarse, his hand passed through Lu Neng’s waist and hugged her tightly, “Kissing the wrong place.”

    With that said, Pei Jingan leaned down low and pressed Lu Nong onto the bed.

    A long time, a slender as jade hand hanging down the side of the bed, the old moonlight did not give up to leave, secretly kissed the hand hanging down, but unfortunately the man on the bed overbearing, actually do not want to let the moonlight look at the love of the love of love look.

    The next moment they reached out to hold the slender hand, two hands with the same ring interlocked together, entangled gently caressing, and then retracted together.

    The moon is just right, the night is thick, a room of spring can not be hidden, the day is still early.

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