Chapter 121

Lu Yuanzheng held Dongsheng, Xu Wen held Doudou and put them on the deck, and jumped on himself

Lu Yuanzheng waded in the sea and pushed the boat to a deeper place, took out his fishing rod and sat down to fish

As soon as Dongsheng boarded the boat, he led Doudou to explore the bamboo house

Xu Man brought out a plate of fruit, sat down next to Lu Yuanzheng, and fed him a piece of mango with his own fruit fork

Lu Yuanzheng opened his mouth and ate it

Only then did Xu Man speak, “What’s the situation? Suddenly unhappy? Don’t want me to leave?”

Lu Yuanzheng nodded and shook his head, “Xu Man, I realized that I can’t seem to leave you!”

“Huh?”

“I don’t know how to say it” Lu Yuan Zheng organized the language, “About now let me with the year before last when we just met like can not come back then, I will still go, but can not be so unattached! I will miss you!”

Xu Wen was stunned, “Why are you talking about this? Are you going on another mission?”

Lu Yuanzheng shook his head, “Not for now Just now, you said that you might be leaving the island next year, and I realized that I really don’t want you to leave”

Without waiting for Xu Man to speak, he added, “Don’t worry! I’m not going to tie you up to stay here, it’s just a bit of sentimentality You can do whatever you want to do!”

The motherland is beautiful, Xu Man has been to more distant places, he can’t be selfish because he can’t bear to keep her on the island with him

In fact, Lu Yuanzheng’s words were a bit incoherent, at least not like his usual style of speaking Anyone else wouldn’t be able to understand whether he wanted her to leave or not, and I’m afraid he’s not even sure now

But Xu Wen knew that his heart was in turmoil

After a year and a half of living with each other, and never having any of the drama between other sisters-in-law and their dates, Xu Man and Lu Yuanzheng only had a dull and cozy life day after day

However, she never thought that one day, mentioning the word “separation”, her heart panicked to the point of losing the whole world, and it felt like a piece of flesh was plucked out of her heart, which hurt her heart to the core

This is only if it is possible, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe not

Although she could understand Lu Yuanzheng’s confusion and panic at the moment, Xu Wen was still overjoyed, “Little brother, did you suddenly realize that I am so important to you? Can’t bear to part with me?”

Lu Yuanzheng didn’t say anything, and the answer was obvious

Xu Wen saw that he was truly sad before she spoke, “I just said that! I won’t necessarily go out either There are many ways to make money, but you know me, I’m lazy and don’t have any big ambitions Besides, I can’t bear to part with you! It’s not like I have to!”

Xu Wen felt that he did not have a high fighting spirit is the biggest reason, the last life of hard study for ten years, a cross is equal to zero, to hurt

Subconsciously about the fear: what if they are alone, struggling from zero to start from scratch, one day in case they become the richest woman, and then die young? Wouldn’t that be doing a favor for others?

Based on the principle that there is no second time to suffer, Xu Wen resolutely implemented the central idea of how to live comfortably

If she didn’t have to, she wouldn’t separate from Lu Yuanzheng

Like now, the sky is high, the sea is blue, the favorite man in the side of fishing, lying in his lap eating fruit blowing the sea breeze, listening to the children play around

Who would want to give up such beauty?

The island has an elementary school, many married soldiers wrote home

So another batch of sisters-in-law who don’t need to take care of the elderly for the time being and can bring their children away from home have landed on the island

What made Xu Man smack his lips was that this batch of sisters-in-law were quite numerous, even outnumbering the original sisters-in-law on the island by about seventy or so, so much so that the cabin area was mostly full, with fewer and fewer empty rooms

Taking advantage of the weekend break, Xu Wen returned Song Boying and Shi Lei’s favor and invited them to his home for dinner

Since the last time the two families had a dinner date that didn’t end happily because of Song Boying’s sudden outburst, everyone had been very busy, and it wasn’t until today that they had the time to get back together individually

The day was getting hotter and hotter, and Lu Yuanzheng couldn’t bear to see Xu Man suffer, so he cooked and fried a few dishes himself

“Come on, try our specialty there, the legendary Lu Cuisine!” Lu Yuanzheng poured a small half cup of wine for Shi Lei

“It’s my shift today” Shi Lei looked at Lu Yuanzheng grudgingly, “Can’t drink!”

“It’s okay, it’s only noon, just a little bit, go back and take a nap, it won’t affect your duty at night”

Shi Lei didn’t respond and looked at Song Boying first

“What are you looking at me for? As if I’m in charge of not letting you drink!” Song Boying rolled his eyes, “You guys, this person is getting more and more hypocritical! When he used to be in charge, he always turned a deaf ear to my words, but now that he doesn’t care about him, he’s putting on an act!”

Xu Wen and Lu Yuanzheng both laughed

Shi Lei cried out, “I’m not afraid you’ll get angry!”

Song Baoying snorted lightly, “I don’t have time to get angry with you”

Shi Lei: “”

He raised his cup and lightly clinked it with Lu Yuanzheng, “This woman! When she’s around us all day long, we don’t have the pleasure of enjoying her, and we think she’s a headache! When they get busy and don’t care about the family, it’s even more of a headache!”

Song Baoying is a person with cleanliness fetish, home is always cleaned spotlessly, that is, at any time with white gloves can be touched around without staining the kind of dust But, she had another problem, her cleanliness didn’t disturb others Meaning, the place where she often moves around must be kept absolutely clean, but if the place where she doesn’t often live is dirty, she can turn a blind eye to it

Shi Lei swept his gaze grudgingly over Song Boying: ”You guys are unaware that the floor of her office now can be drunk directly if water is splashed on it! The books on the desk are arranged so neatly that they look like they have been measured with a ruler But what about our house? We have and only have bedrooms in our house that still maintain this kind of cleanliness”

Song Bo Ying rolled her eyes, “Then you still have the face to say that? What’s the matter? You’re not part of the family? You can’t clean? It’s not like you don’t know how to clean, I see that your office is also shiny, why do you go home and become a tazza?”

“I worked hard and tired all day ”

Without waiting for Shi Lei to finish, Song Baoying interjected, “Who doesn’t work hard and tired all day? I’m idle?”

Shi Lei admitted defeat: “I’m wrong! I’ll clean and cook from tomorrow!”

“That’s more like it!”

Xu Wen and Lu Yuanzheng both quietly listened to the two of them bicker

Compared to the respect they had shown each other when they first met, Shi Lei and Song Baoying were like a normal couple

Irrelevant bickering only increased their feelings for each other

Halfway through the meal, Song Baoying raised her glass towards Xu Wen, “Sister-in-law, I’ll toast to you! Thank you for persuading me to stay in the first place!”

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have known what a real marriage, a small family, should be like!

Xu Wen accepted her thanks openly, clinking glasses with her and only modestly saying, “It was selfish to persuade you to stay! It’s not just Instructor Shi who will benefit from you staying, but also the other children on the island, including our Dongsheng! I also thank you on behalf of the children”

Shi Lei rubbed his forehead, “Speaking of staying! I want to persuade you to go back home now!”

“Why?” Song Boying wondered

“Three women are a drama! Thirty women are a drama! Then over a hundred women could play a series of TV serials! We’re a garrison! There are so many sisters-in-law ,” Shi Lei spread his hands with a bitter face, “I can’t afford to be the women’s director!”

He is good at doing the ideological education work of soldiers, but it’s too difficult to deal with the relationship between the sisters-in-law

Especially, nine out of ten sisters-in-law have grievances against their men

Once you open your mouth, you have to prepare a handkerchief to listen to your sisters-in-law pour out their grievances, but you can’t say anything, after all, they are really aggrieved So what can be done? His soldiers also did not do anything wrong is the duty

So often, the instructor can not deal with reported to him, he can not deal with him can only deal with

According to normal he can’t deal with is can then report, but special affairs, he reported inconvenient, such as non-essential can only be digested on their own

More than a hundred sisters-in-law, more than a hundred families, any family conflict can find him here, he really can not afford

A poorly handled, the island would have chickens flying

Song Baoying snorted coldly: ”You are really hard to serve! Without your sister-in-law on the island, you are worried! You’re still worried when you have more sisters-in-law on the island!”

“Who says otherwise!” Shi Lei sighed, “It would be nice if all the sisters-in-law were on the island and had something to do like you guys!”

“Can you be any more greedy?” Lu Yuanzheng squeezed Shi Lei

“Of course I can!” Shi Lei said with a straight face, “If it’s possible, I would have thought that many unmarried girls would come to our island! That way our unmarried warriors would have a chance to solve their personal problems!”

Xu Man wondered, “Why do we still have to worry about personal problems? Didn’t they say they could rotate every year? And twice a year, you can also take leave to go home for a blind date”

Without waiting for Shi Lei to open his mouth, Song Boying grabbed the opportunity to say, “Do you really think they’re meat and potatoes? Can they find a date if they want to? It takes courage to be a military wife Ask Shi Lei, how many times has he been on a blind date before he met me?”

Xu Wen also didn’t say anything looking at Shi Lei

Shi Lei pretended not to hear and lowered his head to pick up his meal

Lu Yuanzheng saw Xu Man was curious, immediately sold him out, “According to his own words, before he met his sister-in-law, vacation in addition to the road ten days, at home can stay for twenty days or so, every day a blind date, rain or shine!”

Xu asked: “”

Just kinda surprised

Song Baoying raised his eyebrows, “Good old Shi! Didn’t you say just three blind dates?”

“I said just three have seen one or two more after the blind date” Shi Lei finished without waiting for Song Baoying to question him and directed his fire towards Lu Yuanzheng, “You still have the nerve to talk about me? You don’t even dare to go back to your hometown in order to avoid a blind date! But can you avoid it? Not to mention the leaders who have been arranging blind dates for you, even your sister-in-law in the family building hasn’t introduced you to many people, right? I only go back to see 20 people a year Can you stop seeing 20 people a year?”

Lu Yuanzheng: “”

His first reaction was to look at Xu Wen

Xu Wen didn’t say anything and looked at him with a smile on his face

Lu Yuanzheng chopsticks vainly pointing at Shi Lei, “All comrades are brothers, why are they too anxious for each other?”

Shi Lei snorted coldly, “You shot at me first!”

Lu Yuanzheng didn’t say anything back, but only said to Xu Wen, “Daughter-in-law, I think your idea of running an elementary school is particularly good! Why don’t you consider getting a middle school? That way, the needs of all the island’s married warriors will be met, and more sisters-in-law will be able to go to the island by then!”

Shi Lei gritted his teeth and scolded Lu Yuanzheng, “You’re really not being a man!”

This was a bare-bones threat!

Although Lu Yuanzheng was his equal, the two had different divisions of labor Lu Yuanzheng’s focus was on training the officers and soldiers and improving the island’s combat power, while Shi Lei was a bit more civilian-oriented

So the series of problems with the fires in the warriors’ backyard, the one who had the most headaches was Shi Lei and not Lu Yuanzheng

Lu Yuanzheng: “Each other!”

Shi Lei conceded defeat and took the initiative to explain towards Xu asked, “Although the leaders and sisters-in-law have introduced objects to Lu Ying, he actually seldom goes Even if he does go, he doesn’t do a good job of meeting people, either by taking Dongsheng with him or by showing his scarred side face to others This person is especially not something, blind date to meet people the first sentence is not to introduce themselves but to introduce Dongsheng ‘This is my son Dongsheng, Dongsheng called auntie! Just like this sentence, with him on a blind date with the girl basically on the spot all black face”

Since ancient times, how many women are willing to be a stepmother?

After all the fuss, Shi Lei finally begged Xu Wen again, “Sister-in-law, think of a way to see if you can keep your sisters-in-law busy again Don’t be too busy, just about the same”

Lu Yuanzheng squinted at him, “If you don’t become the women’s director, you’ll let my daughter-in-law do it?”

Shi Lei bowed, “I owe you a favor!”

Xu Wen didn’t respond, “It’s not that I don’t want to help, but mainly, I can’t help if there are too many people”

The island is just this big, and at the moment, the battalion can be self-sufficient without the help of the sisters-in-law in farming or anything else

For the time being, trading is also not allowed

The self-reserved land was only so big in total, and could be tended to in half an hour a day

All in all, the situation on the island can basically be considered a surplus of labor

Both Shi Lei and Lu Yuanzheng also realized this problem before worrying

As Song Baoying said, when no one came to the island, they were worried If there are people on the island, they are still worried

Where there are people, there is demand, and where there is demand, there is productivity and progress

In fact, there is no work, but there is also work The degree of development of this island is less than ten percent, the amount of open space construction work waiting for people to do

But Lu Yuanzheng and Shi Lei can’t do anything that would make their sisters-in-law do hard labor on the island

To build a small school, all the sisters-in-law on the island, except Xu Wen, have darkened at least eight degrees and lost two circles of weight

Adults at least know to wear a cool hat and long sleeves, small children do not like to bondage, the sun is more serious, are almost changing skin color, and then black say yellow people will not believe

But, sooner or later, this island is going to develop into an island city, someone has to take the most difficult first step

Lu Yuanzheng suggested, “Call on your sisters-in-law to plant coral! Plant it along the edge of the island towards the open sea”

The coral he was talking about planting was not just any coral, it had to require reef-building coral

For Lu Yuanzheng, the greatest significance of coral reefs is that besides increasing the area of Rainbow Island, the more important thing is to extend our coastline by expanding the area of our country without end

Under natural bad conditions, the growth rate of coral reefs can not keep up with their needs, only two and a half centimeters a year Far from enough

It’s actually a bit costly to farm coral artificially to create coral reefs

But there was no better way now

Xu Man and Shi Lei both understood Lu Yuanzheng’s meaning in seconds

Only Song Boying looked confused, “What’s the point of planting that thing? It can’t be eaten or drunk”

“They might not be useful in other places, but here, they’re very useful!”

Song Boying couldn’t understand and wasn’t too interested, she was busy right now anyway

Xu Wen pondered, she remembered that there were artificial coral reefs, but she was limited to hearing about them, not knowing exactly what they meant, wait until she had time to turn around and study and research them properly with Magic Mirror

After dinner, Shi Lei and his wife left, Lu Yuanzheng was responsible for washing the dishes, and Xu Man was responsible for clearing the table

When Lu Yuanzheng came back, Xu Wen had already returned to the bedroom, writing and drawing on the table

Lu Yuanzheng was familiar with her posture and asked her, “What do you want to study again?”

“Artificial coral reefs”

“Not just planting coral? What’s there to study” Although planting coral also requires technology

“It’s not the kind of artificial coral reef you’re talking about What you’re talking about is artificial coral is sinking large pieces of scrap iron into the sea, such as a car or ship, and planting coral in the gaps That’s a bit too slow and costly!”

Lu Yuanzheng nodded and walked over to her, looking down at her notebook, a bunch of formulas, a bit unintelligible, “What do you mean by artificial coral reefs?”

“It’s about mass production I can’t tell you in a sentence, I don’t have a clue exactly If I can pound it out, that would be great!”

Lu Yuanzheng pulled out a pen and paper from Xu Man’s hand, “Don’t be too tired! Sleep first This matter is not urgent”

Xu Man didn’t grab it, and obediently opened his arms, pampering him, “Hug me!”

“Are you sure?” Lu Yuanzheng bent down, his thin lips pressed against her earlobe, his hot breath spraying on her ear, “You can’t hug me for nothing, I have to ask for benefits!”

A hot current surged to her belly, a layer of fine goosebumps rose on her body, the whole person instantly lost her strength, letting him do whatever he wanted!

This man, can really know what she is afraid of!