After living a new life for my neighbor's grandmother, I traveled through the book again

After Tong Jia left Sister Zhao's office, she went straight back to the hotel.

She told Tao Junle exactly what she had said to Sister Zhao today.

When Tao Junle learned that he could no longer share a room with Tong Jia, he immediately hung his head.

But in fact, he also knew that it was only a matter of time before he and Tong Jia would sleep in separate rooms. No matter how reluctant he was, he could not refuse.

After all, everyone in the Soviet area knew Tong Jia's background and knew that the two of them had no blood relationship at all. If they continued to live there, others would gossip about Tong Jia and destroy Tong Jia's reputation.

Moreover, he thought of a more important point, that is, if he continued to live in the Soviet area for a long time, his physical problems would no longer be concealed.

It would definitely be a big trouble if other people knew my real age.

In this case, for Tong Jia's sake, he had to live separately from Tong Jia.

However, he didn't want to live with that Sister Zhao.

So, he took out a notebook and wrote on it: [Sister, I'm going to live with the male members of the Art and Literature Propaganda Team.]

"Why? There will be a lot of people living in the dormitory. They say that everyone is different. Although this is the Soviet area, we cannot guarantee that everyone will be kind to you. What if someone bullies you..." Having said that, Tong Jia felt that with Tao Junle's personality, he would definitely not be the kind of person who would endure being bullied and keep silent. He might even pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger and bully back, leaving the bully unable to speak out.

So, she changed the topic and continued, "What if someone snores, grinds their teeth, farts, or has other bad habits at night? Can you tolerate it?"

In her previous life, Tong Jia had only lived in a dormitory when she was in college. Because she was studying art, the tuition was high, and the dormitory environment was naturally good.

Her family has spoiled her since she was a child. If she had to choose the place with the worst accommodation conditions in her two lives combined, it would be the sleeper berth on a train.

Ever since she knew that she would be sleeping in a dormitory with the female members of the art and literature propaganda team, the problems she just mentioned have been her worries.

She had lived in a dormitory before, but the only person she shared the room with was Yuan Shengnan, and occasionally Gao Chong. Both of them had good living habits, and she didn't feel uncomfortable at all.

But she learned from Xiao Su that there were more than 30 people in the art and literature propaganda team. Although there were more men than women, there were still about ten girls. With so many people having to sleep in one bed, she was really a little worried about her future sleep quality.

After Tong Jia asked this question, she was immersed in her own worries. After a long time, Tao Junle patted Tong Jia's hand, comforted her, and held up the notebook to show her.

Only then did Tong Jia realize that while she was in a daze, Tao Junle had actually written a full page of paper.

Tao Junle wrote: "Sister, when I was begging, I would even lie down and sleep next to beggars in dilapidated temples who were covered with lice and fleas, just to have a place to sleep sheltered from the wind and rain. Why would I be afraid of anything else?

The situations you just mentioned are nothing to me.

I don't want to sleep with that Sister Zhao. Even though her niece did something wrong to you without knowing it, she still did wrong to you after all.

Then Sister Zhao owes you a favor. If I sleep with her, it means that I have repaid you the favor. I don't want her to repay the favor so easily.

Also, I want to be closer to my sister so that when she needs me, I can be there first.

After reading it, Tong Jia smiled and touched Tao Junle's head.

She said, "You have so much in your little head. I haven't even thought of these things."

Tao Junle smiled shyly, lowered his head and continued to write in the notebook: [Sister, when you go to report, please tell Sister Zhao that I have dwarfism.

However, I won’t tell the truth about my age. I don’t have to worry about anyone finding out my real age.

When I was born, my parents were both abroad and did not hold a wedding banquet at the Tao family.

Later, when I came back, they found that my body was different from other children. They took me to see doctors everywhere, but there was no chance to formally introduce me to everyone.

Therefore, people in the provincial capital only know that there is a person like me in the Tao family, but they don’t know my specific age.

Just tell them, I’m nine years old, or ten is fine too.

You can't talk about your age anymore, otherwise, we'll be staying in the same room at the hotel and people will gossip about you.

Tong Jia felt heartbroken after reading what Tao Junle wrote.

She said, "Le Le, these things are just for us to know, there's no need to tell anyone else."

Tao Junle shook his head and continued writing: [Sister, we are going to live here forever, right?

In fact, even if I don’t live here, I will live somewhere else.

I can't just move to a new place every two years just to hide my lack of height, right? That's unrealistic.

It’s better to just speak out directly. 】

Seeing that Tong Jia was still hesitant, he continued writing: [Sister, I will be living with the male members of the Art Propaganda Team in the future. We can’t rely on gestures to communicate, right?

Although Sister Xiao Su said that there are teachers who know sign language in the Soviet area and I can learn sign language from them, even if I learn it, I need others to know it too, otherwise the sign language will be of no use to me.

Communicating with pen and paper is still the most common and convenient way.

Only if I explain my physical condition clearly, everyone will be more sympathetic and patient with me, right? 】

"Okay, since you've already thought about it, let's do as you think.

But, Lele, if anyone discriminates against you because of your condition, you must tell me and I'll seek justice for you." Tong Jia didn't quite understand the connection between Tao Junle's ability to write and his dwarfism, but the fact that he couldn't speak and had a physical condition did indeed evoke more sympathy from others.

But she was more worried that someone would discriminate against Tao Junle because of this, so she gave Tao Junle this special reminder.

In fact, Tao Junle had another real purpose in asking Tong Jia to tell him. That was that after explaining his physical condition, Tong Jia would not let him live with Sister Zhao. It was not an insult to her, but was for her consideration.

This invisibly won Tong Jia a lot of favor from Sister Zhao.

Just like that, half a month after arriving in the Soviet area, Tong Jia officially joined the Soviet area's art and propaganda team, serving as a cultural specialist in the team. He was mainly responsible for the makeup work of the actors in the Yudu detachment, assisting the screenwriter in completing the script of the multi-act drama, and doing a good job of scheduling each actor in the performance.

At the beginning, everyone was quite dissatisfied with the fact that Tong Jiacai was able to take on such an important position as soon as he joined.

But after the first performance, everyone was impressed by Tong Jia's makeup skills.

Xiao Dong, a girl who shared a bed with Tong Jia, turned out to be an actress at the Shanghai Star Film Company. She came from a poor family and didn't want to be subject to unspoken rules, so she followed others to the Soviet area.

Before Tong Jia came, she was the best makeup artist in the art and literature propaganda team, and everyone in the team was very flattering to her.

Therefore, she had a lot of opinions about Tong Jia, but after seeing the makeup Tong Jia did for the team members and the script that Tong Jia participated in writing, she deeply realized her own shortcomings.

Even when Tong Jia pretended to teach Tao Junle how to read and write, he would sit aside and listen carefully.

Gradually, Tong Jia's teaching object changed from Tao Junle to Xiao Dong.

Tao Junle also found his master in the male team members' dormitory.

Lin Qian, a middle-aged cadre who can write scripts and play the harmonica.

The entire dormitory was filled with young people around twenty years old, and they were the only two who were different, so they naturally became close.

It’s not that others are excluding them, but that these two people may be able to understand and appreciate each other better.

Lin Qian had a wife and children before, but because of the war, he was separated from his family.

Every time he plays the harmonica, he misses his family, hopes they are safe, and hopes the family can be reunited soon.

Tao Junle is about the same age as his daughter and has physical defects, so he will unconsciously take more care of the child.

To communicate with Tao Junle, one either needs to use paper and pen or learn sign language. Everyone else in the dormitory needs to practice martial arts and rehearse, and few people can spare the time to learn anything other than work.

It can be said that in addition to Tong Jia and Tao Junle who took the initiative to learn sign language, Xiao Dong and Lin Qian also learned a lot of sign language gestures imperceptibly while interacting with the two people.

A year later, Xiao Dong had fully mastered her skills, which meant it was time for her and Tong Jia to part ways.

After Xiao Dong received the transfer order to go to the base in Guangdong Province, he hugged Tong Jia and cried.

But the transfer order had already been issued, and no matter how reluctant she was to leave her teacher Tong Jia, she had to go.

After Xiao Dong left, Tong Jia suddenly realized a very serious problem.

That means there are still more than two years before the long-distance march and battle. If I keep asking questions in the propaganda team, I will not be able to express any opinions on those decision-making issues.

So, after Lin Qian also received the transfer order to the island, Tong Jia went to find Sister Zhao. She wanted to go to the base in the northwest.

However, Sister Zhao, who was always easy-going, rejected her application.

He also told her very seriously: "Everyone's allocation is planned in a unified way by the organization. The overall situation cannot be changed because of the selfish desires of any one person."

Tong Jia was very confused about Sister Zhao's attitude and had no choice but to return to the dormitory.

It was only after she came back that she found out why Sister Zhao didn't want her to go to the Northwest Base.

As soon as Tong Jia entered the room, the round-faced Xiao Zhang gave her two pieces of maltose. Tong Jia was very surprised and asked, "This is a rare thing. Where did you get it?"

Xiao Zhang said, "Xiao Su and I asked for it. She said that Sister Zhao's niece was transferred to the Northwest Base Area and, under the auspices of a senior leader, she held a wedding with her lover, from whom she had been separated.

This is wedding candy, let's have some to sweeten our mouths and share in the joy."

Isn't Sister Zhao's niece Yuan Shengnan? The lover who is separated from her should be Yang Jixia.

The time when he proposed to be transferred to the Northwest Base was so coincidental that not only Sister Zhao but even she herself would start to doubt whether he wanted to go to the Northwest Base to cause trouble for those two people.

Tong Jia had told Sister Zhao many times before that she and Yang Jixia had signed the divorce papers a long time ago and there was no relationship between them anymore, but Sister Zhao never believed it.

Now, the timing of my request for transfer is so coincidental, I guess I will be even less likely to believe it in the future.

She originally wanted to go to the Northwest Base Area by herself, where she could contact people in the core circle and gradually infiltrate the knowledge in her memory into them, providing them with an analytical approach to see if she could change the outcome which still required long-distance marches and battles.

It’s a pity that Sister Zhao wouldn’t let her go, so she couldn’t go.

Since the transfer failed, looking at it from another angle, the route of the long-distance march and battle is from the Soviet area to the northwest.

It's also good to stay in the Soviet area. I have people to follow me, and I can regularly replenish food and drink in the RV, which can reduce some unnecessary non-combatant losses.

She now hated that she only remembered a general idea of many historical knowledge. The specific time of the incident and the trigger of the incident were not so clear in her mind. Even if she wanted to write a letter to remind Yuan Shengnan or Yang Jixia, she had no idea where to start.

Tong Jia took the candy, thanked Xiao Zhang, and went out with the candy.

Xiao Zhang asked, "Teacher Tong, where are you going?"

Tong Jia, who had already left, didn't hear it.

Xiao Han, who was putting on makeup in front of the mirror, said as she drew her eyebrows, "Whenever Teacher Tong got something good, she always gave it to her brother first.

Do you even need to ask this? Hey, Lele is really lucky to have met Teacher Tong, a sister who treats him so well.

But then again, his life was really hard.

At a young age, he was poisoned by his own relatives. Not only did he become mute, but he also couldn't grow tall.

I don't even know how long I can live in this life, it's really pitiful!"

Tong Jia didn't hear what other people in the dormitory said about her and Tao Junle. At this time, she was indeed waiting for Tao Junle to come in a cave.

The food in the Soviet area canteen was just enough to keep Tao Junle fed. Tong Jia was worried that Tao Junle was not getting enough nutrition, so shortly after she started working, she found a cave near the dormitory and would give Tao Junle a snack here every evening.

Tong Jia came early today. When Tao Junle arrived, she was already lost in her own thoughts and didn't notice anyone coming in at all.

Seeing that Tong Jia was unaware of his coming in, Tao Junle frowned, thinking that Tong Jia was a little unvigilant.

He couldn't guess why Tong Jia was so upset, but he walked up to Tong Jia with some worry, raised his right hand and waved it in front of Tong Jia.

Only then did Tong Jia realize that Tao Junle had arrived.

She immediately took out some delicious food from the RV, thinking it was enough for Tao Junle to eat. She hesitated for a moment and took out the two candies that Xiao Zhang had given her.

Tao Junle used sign language and asked, "Isn't this the candy from the RV? The candies inside are packaged more exquisitely than this."

Tong Jia nodded and said, "This is what Xiao Zhang gave me. He said it's... the wedding candy for Sister Zhao's niece."

Tao Junle was stunned, and when he thought about who Sister Zhao's niece was, his face looked a little unhappy.

He asked in sign language: "Sister, do you regret divorcing the second young master of the Yang family?"

With a crisp "pop" sound, Tao Junle's head was hit crooked by Tong Jia.

Tong Jia said, "Why do you have the same idea as Sister Zhao? If I still had feelings for Yang Jixia, would I have needed to ask for a divorce certificate?

It's not that I regret it, it's just that I applied for the transfer at the wrong time, just when they were getting married, and Sister Zhao refused to approve my transfer application to the Northwest Base Area."

When Tao Junle heard this, his expression became serious.

He had read about long-distance marches and battles in some books in the RV, and knew the difficulties of crossing snow-capped mountains and grasslands.

He himself is not afraid of hardship, but he is worried that Tong Jia will not be able to bear it.

For a moment, Tao Junle couldn't eat the delicious food that Tong Jia had put out.