After four years of marriage, the military officer husband came back

"Wasn't this place once dedicated to the country?" Lu Jingzhe asked in a calm voice.

"Zeng Xianguo." The woman repeated the name, as if she was thinking, and after a moment she said as if she suddenly realized something:

"You are talking about Zeng Xiaodao." Then he raised his voice:

"He's dead. He died a long time ago. It's been several years."

Hearing her light words "he died a long time ago", Lu Jingzhe frowned and his face darkened.

The woman seemed to have no idea how to read his expression and continued to speak loudly:

"Oh, this house has been sold to my family for more than a year..."

After hearing this, Lu Jingzhe frowned even more deeply and asked:

"Where are his wife and children?"

"Look, go this way and the small mud house at the back is their home." The woman said, pointing to a small path beside her.

"Thank you." Lu Jingzhe said without further ado, and pushed the cart into the path.

Seeing Lu Jingzhe walking forward, Xia Qingning hurriedly followed him.

After listening to the conversation between the two, she quickly understood why Lu Jingzhe brought her along. As a grown man, he was bound to be gossiped about by others when he came to visit a widow. By bringing her along, he could avoid others criticizing his sister-in-law.

Lu Jingzhe and Xia Qingning both walked away. The woman from before was still standing at the intersection, stretching her neck to continue looking, her eyes seemed to be glued to Xia Qingning.

"Chunhua, what are you looking at?" At this time, a woman passing by carrying a hoe asked the woman who was leaning over to look around.

"Look, just now another soldier went to Ah Zhen's house." The woman named Chunhua smiled and said meaningfully.

"Ah, is it the same guy who said he wanted to marry her last time?" The woman looked curious and put down the hoe on her shoulder, ready to continue gossiping.

"They don't look like him. This one is taller and more handsome, and he brought a woman with him." Chunhua said, retracting her gaze.

"That should be someone her husband knew in the army. I think so too did Ah Zhen. It would have been great if she had gone with that soldier last year. Anyway, her parents-in-law are dead and there's no one to take care of them. I don't know what the widow and orphan are still doing here? They raised the child to be stupid. He seemed quite smart when he first came back." The woman with the hoe said regretfully.

Hearing the conversation between the two, an old woman who lived in the yard below came forward and said:

"Ah Zhen also had a miserable life. She was a nice city girl, but she fell in love with Zeng Xiaodao, that weird guy, and she was determined to marry him. Just when she saw that the man had finally changed his mind and had some success as a soldier, he suddenly passed away. She could have lived with her child in the military compound, but the two old people suddenly fell ill, so she had no choice but to bring the child back to take care of them. Later, her parents-in-law also died, and after being rejected by the soldier, they never came back. Now she is alone with such a tiny child. How are they going to live in the future as an orphan and a widow?"

"Some people are born to be mean. Haha, even when they have blessings in front of them, they don't know how to enjoy them..." The woman named Chunhua curled her lips with a look of sarcasm on her face.

"Chunhua, you can't say that. When people sold this big blue-tiled house to your family in order to raise money to save their lives, you pushed the price to such a low level!" The old man couldn't bear to listen anymore and spoke up.

"Not at all. I also think the feng shui of her land is bad. If I didn't pity them, an orphan and a widow, who are so small and sick, I wouldn't be willing to buy it!"

"I think you are just being ungrateful. You have lived here for several years, and your family is fine and everything is going well, right?"

While they were talking, Xia Qingning and Lu Jingzhe had already arrived in front of the mud house that the woman mentioned.

The house was in a very dilapidated state, with a broken eave, making it look shaky. The house was also small, and was completely blocked by the green-tiled house in front. No wonder I couldn't see anything from outside just now.

Looking at this house, Lu Jingzhe's eyes flashed with complicated emotions, and he shouted into the house in a deep voice:

"sister in law."

He called out once but no one answered. After a while, he called out again. Soon, he saw a woman in blue homespun clothes walking out quickly from the side door.

When the woman saw the tall army green figure, she was stunned for a moment, then immediately came forward happily and said:

"Oh, it's Captain Lu. Come in and sit down." The woman was a little excited and her speech was a little unclear. She warmly invited the two men into the house.

The woman looked less than 30 years old, with good facial features and a good figure. However, due to long-term labor, her skin was a little dark and rough. Although her clothes were patched, they were washed very clean. The only thing that was a bit discordant was that at the age of more than 20, she had a lot of white hair on her head.

Xia Qingning followed the woman into the house, only to see that the furniture in the house was very worn out, but tidily kept, and it was obvious that the hostess was a very hardworking person.

A moment later, Lu Jingzhe also walked in. He was nearly 1.9 meters tall, and when he entered the low house, the room immediately seemed cramped.

He put the things he bought on the table. When the woman found out that they were clothes for herself and her child, she kept thanking him and said it was a waste of money.

After they sat down, the woman quickly poured water for the two of them. When she handed the water to Xia Qingning, her eyes fell on her face. She had a beautiful face, a slender figure, and her every move was very elegant. She asked Lu Jingzhe uncertainly:

"Captain Lu, who is this?"