The next morning, Zhou Chuan had just finished breakfast when Old Man Yang came to find her. She looked at the old man and said, "I'm telling you, you're a division commander, how come you spend all day wiping your wife's butt? Don't you have any proper things to do?"

Old Yang was speechless, unable to hold back any longer: "Can't you just speak properly?"

Zhou Chuan tidied up his empty lunchbox before speaking to him: "Alright, Commander Yang, what brings you here?"

Old Yang coughed lightly: "Several regimental-level officers have recently gone on missions. The matter I told you about before can only be discussed in a meeting when they return."

Zhou Chuan was speechless: "Why didn't you just have your bodyguard tell me? Why did you have to come all the way here yourself?"

Old Yang pulled up a chair and sat down: "My wife, maybe...maybe she's just used to being frugal. She's not a bad person, just has some minor flaws. You, you shouldn't take it to heart."

Zhou Chuan exclaimed with great emotion, "Sister Tian is incredibly lucky to have met a man like you!"

He just got incredibly lucky! Other people who become successful change wives, but this old man hasn't changed wives who are dragging him down. He's still putting up with her, and not only that, he even has to clean up her messes. What a real man!

Old Yang coughed twice, feeling uncomfortable all over: "You, you should hold back and not talk about that matter to anyone else. I just had the guards send money to Xiao Ran. Let's leave it at that. Just consider it as giving me some face."

Zhou Chuan nodded: "Since you, as a division commander, have said so, and I haven't suffered any loss, it would be too much for me to be ungrateful. Fine, I won't say anything more. But I must have heard quite a bit yesterday. I can only guarantee that I won't say anything more, but I can't guarantee that others won't."

Once he got confirmation, Old Man Yang got up to leave, saying, "All of them combined don't have your eloquence." With that mouth of hers, even the dead would be so angry they'd flip their coffins.

Looking at Old Man Yang's back, Zhou Chuan realized that Old Man Yang was a division commander, after all. Who would be so stupid as to speak ill of his wife?

Yes, except for her, an outsider!

Zhou Chuan regretted agreeing too quickly. He should have at least received some hush money or something. Sigh!

Zhou Chuan sighed for a while before heading to the Xiao family's house. No one had brought the little guy food today, and she didn't know if he had eaten breakfast or not, so she had to go and check.

When they arrived at the Xiao family's house, Xiao Ran was eating crispy rice crusts.

Upon entering the living room, Zhou Chuan looked around and asked, "Did anyone come by just now?" Did they just give money without offering any apology or anything?

Xiao Ran took out ten yuan from his pocket and showed it to Zhou Chuan: "Just now, Uncle Zhang, oh, that is, Uncle Yang's bodyguard, came and gave me ten yuan. Look."

Zhou Chuan didn't answer, but she still ran back to the restaurant to check: "Did Uncle Zhang come empty-handed?"

Xiao Ran didn't know what Zhou Chuan was looking for, but when he heard Zhou Chuan's question, he nodded naturally: "He only gave me ten yuan."

Zhou Chuan cursed under her breath but didn't say anything more. Maybe the other person thought that ten yuan was already too much. She saw the rice crust that Xiao Ran was soaking and told him to finish it first. She would go and cook some more porridge for him. He hadn't eaten the small green vegetables that he had begged from next door yesterday.

While the porridge was cooking, she also helped clean up the house and washed the little guy's dirty clothes. She was always busy.

After Xiao Ran finished his hearty breakfast, Zhou Chuan sat down with him to discuss countermeasures.

"Now that no one is getting your food, do you know how to get food from the cafeteria yourself?"

Xiao Ran shook his head.

"Is it because you don't know how, or because you've never played before?"

"Never fought."

"Getting food is simple. Just take your lunchbox and money and go to the cafeteria to get your food. Do you even know where the cafeteria is?"

"know."

"That's good. If you don't know how, just ask someone. No one should dare to cheat you."

"Oh"

"Don't be stingy with your food. Just eat all meat and don't eat any vegetables. You're so thin, you should eat more meat."

"Auntie, let's eat together."

"I have a nurse to get my meals, so I won't eat with you. Just eat by yourself."

"Aunt..."

"Your aunt doesn't need your food, just take care of yourself."

After settling Xiao Ran in, Zhou Chuan left the Xiao family home. He had just reached the center of the courtyard when he was stopped by Li Dazui from next door.

"How's it going? Did they look for you?"

Zhou Chuan took a while to react before nodding: "They looked for you too?"

Li Dazui walked to the fence and leaned halfway over, saying in a strained voice, "Why didn't I look for her? That woman surnamed Tian came looking for me first thing this morning. Pshaw, as if I care about her. We all live in the same courtyard, everyone knows each other..."

Zhou Chuan also walked to the fence: "Could it be that she only looked for you? What about over there? I've been here for two days and haven't run into anyone there once. Is no one living there?" Li Dazui lived to the right of the Lin family's house, while Zhou Chuan was referring to the left of the Xiao family's house.

Li Dazui rolled his eyes upwards. "That's Commander Wen's house over there. His wife is a college graduate; she's not like us."

"A college student?" Zhou Chuan leaned closer to Li Dazui and lowered his voice. "Could it be someone you found later?"

Li Dazui shook his head resentfully: "I heard they grew up together, who knows?"

Zhou Chuan clicked his tongue: "So they're childhood sweethearts."

Li Dazui spat and said, "Give me a break. What horse or donkey? They don't talk to country bumpkins like us. They think we're stinky."

Seeing Li Dazui's expression, Zhou Chuan guessed that she must have been neglected by that Commander Wen's wife quite a bit. She comforted her for a couple of minutes, and then asked, "Does she have anyone in her family?"

Li Dazui glanced over there and said, "Why is no one here? I saw her leave for class this morning."

Zhou Chuan spoke a few more words with Li Dazui and then went back. These two neighbors of Commander Xiao's family are really something else: one is a big mouth, and the other is a silent type; one likes to spy on others, and the other likes to keep his distance.

These are two extremes, how interesting!

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