The Pretty Military Wife

"Look, is there anything else you need to buy? We'll buy everything here today and take it back with us. Although there is a supply and marketing cooperative in the army, it's far away. Also, it may take us ten days to get back to the army. If you need anything, you can buy it now."

Zhou Guoliang was thinking about the next journey.

Their conscription work in Dayang County might be completed in three days, and then they would take the new recruits back to the army, traveling by car and then by train, which might take four or five days.

Liang Xinyue wanted to buy something, she really wanted to buy a pair of underwear.

The underwear in the original body's memory was sewn by his own family with floral cloth, but after a few years, it had already been washed to pieces.

In the Zhou family, she was not qualified to have new cloth. Therefore, she was now in a vacant position, which made her, a soul from the modern era, feel very uncomfortable.

But...it seems a bit embarrassing to buy underwear in front of Zhou Guoliang.

Liang Xinyue raised her head and said uncomfortably:

"Can I…can I choose for myself?"

Zhou Guoliang seemed to understand something, stepped back and said:

"I think I lost a pen in the reservoir the other day, and I need to buy another one. You choose first, and I'll go pick a pen."

Zhou Guoliang took out a wad of money from his trouser pocket and handed it to Liang Xinyue:

"You choose. This is for you, with the cloth coupon in the middle."

Liang Xinyue was very surprised by Zhou Guoliang's actions.

This... is a lot of trust. It's comparable to the good boyfriend character in the previous life.

And then look down at the money in your hand.

The largest one is the ten-yuan one, from the outside to the inside, the five-yuan one, the two-yuan one, the one-yuan one, the fifty-yuan one, the twenty-yuan one, the ten-yuan one, and then the cloth coupons.

Then I thought about the stack of money he gave to his father-in-law today, which was also neatly arranged.

Liang Xinyue suddenly found it funny.

When the salesperson over there saw that Liang Xinyue really had money to buy things, her expression became even more enthusiastic.

Liang Xinyue took a look at the underwear that was taken out. To be honest, it was not the pure cotton one she wanted. It was a pair of floral boxer briefs that must have been starched and washed, and were stiff.

There is also a kind of briefs, but I really don’t know how to describe the fabric. It will generate static electricity if you twist it lightly. It is made entirely of chemical fiber.

But it's better to have it than not to have it. Liang Xinyue thought about it and decided to buy two square ones to make do with it first. Fortunately, she liked making fabric art in her previous life, so she could make some for herself later.

Thinking of making it myself, I actually picked out a kind of fine cotton cloth with small flowers. When I asked the price, I was told that it was six cents per foot, which was considered expensive cloth at that time.

Liang Xinyue picked out the cloth and found that this was the softest among all the cloth sold here. After some calculation, Liang Xinyue bought two meters of cloth.

She even did some calculation in her mind. One meter is three feet, two meters is six feet, and one foot is sixty cents, which is only a little over three yuan, not much.

But unexpectedly, the salesperson looked at her again.

Liang Xinyue started to imagine again:...This look seems to indicate that he thinks I'm wasting money.

After taking a look, Liang Xinyue thought about following Zhou Guoliang to the army, so she bought another toothbrush, toothpaste and a comb.

At this time, Zhou Guoliang came over with a smile, pointed at a small mirror and said:

"Would you like to buy one of these?"

Liang Xinyue immediately shook her head.

She didn't dare say that when she was washing her face this morning, she saw her skinny face in the basin and she really couldn't bear to look at it and didn't want to look at it.

The most important thing is that I don’t look like myself in my previous life. If I look in the mirror, I will remind myself from time to time that I am not Liang Xinyue.

Let's get used to it for a while.

The things she bought seemed to be daily necessities. But she didn't expect that after counting the money Zhou Guoliang gave her, she only had more than four yuan left.

Liang Xinyue, who didn't have a full understanding of the prices of this era, looked at the little money in her hand. In her previous life, it was not even enough for a cup of milk tea.

She turned to look at Zhou Guoliang a little helplessly, and said apologetically:

"I...I don't want to buy it..."

Looking down, I found that everything I wanted to buy was urgently needed, and it seemed that there was nothing I could not do without. I felt that I could not return any of them.

The only thing I don’t have to buy is the cloth, but the cloth has been cut to size. Can I return it?

After Zhou Guoliang came back, he gave money to his family and to his parents. There was also some change in the money he had just given himself, which was all the money he had left.

And I almost ran out of it in a short time.

Zhou Guoliang took the money from her with a smile and paid directly:

"Take them all. They're all useful. Don't worry, you won't starve when you get back. It's almost time, Li Wu may be here soon, let's go to the commune and take a look."

The salesperson wrapped all the messy items in the cloth, and then tied them up with the string on a spool above his head so that he could carry them away.

As he turned to leave, Zhou Guoliang thought of something and went back to weigh two kinds of fruit and grains, one half a pound. After weighing them, he gave two to each of the salespersons:

"We are getting married today, please have some wedding candy."

As they came out of the supply and marketing cooperative, they heard a humming sound, and an old-fashioned military vehicle, the kind they had only seen on TV, appeared at the gate of the commune and stopped.

Three people came down, all in military uniforms.

Zhou Guoliang immediately ran over and looked at one of the gray-haired men with one arm missing. He stood at attention and saluted:

"Comrade Li Wu, I am Zhou Guoliang."

"Hahahaha, it's you, my little comrade. You've grown up. I heard that you were back and came to see you, but you came back quietly without even saying hello. That's a bit mean of you."

Zhou Guoliang stood at attention again:

"Comrade Li Wu, this is my first time back and I only got one day off. I was recruiting soldiers in Dayang County and I thought I would see you."

"I'm not in charge of the conscription business anymore. I'm going to retire, kid, not bad!"

Li Wu raised his left hand and punched Zhou Guoliang. Then he smiled and said:

"I know you're pressed for time and have a heavy mission, so I came to take a look. The boy who was not afraid of death back then finally came back alive. Did he make a contribution?"

Zhou Guoliang nodded and said:

"Yes, I have won two second-class merits and four third-class merits. I didn't know that I was recruiting soldiers here before I came back this time, so I didn't bring any back for you to see. I will definitely bring them back for you to see next time."

"Good boy! I didn't misjudge you. You don't need to show it to me, it's all your credit. Back then, you refused to admit defeat and wanted to compete with me in accuracy, so I was optimistic about you. By the way, you came back to get married, where's your lover?"

Zhou Guoliang looked back at Liang Xinyue, who was standing aside with her things and didn't dare to come over. He smiled and greeted her:

"Xinyue, come here. This is Comrade Li Wu. Back then, I...I was chosen by him to join the army."

Liang Xinyue still walked over somewhat reservedly, and said with a somewhat stiff smile:

"Hello, Chief."

"Haha, good, this kid is not bad, you have good taste. There is one thing I want to correct. Back then, I didn't choose him to join the army. He lost to me, so he accepted his fate and joined the army."

Li Wu had a square face and looked mighty and majestic. Just because he was missing a hand, Liang Xinyue guessed that he must be a heroic figure.

As they were talking, Secretary Fu, who had received the news, came out from the commune with Xu Wenshu:

"Comrade Li Wu is welcome to come and guide our work."