Chapter 007.

Zhen Zhen had hardly changed in these five years, and Servant Huai Ming recognized her the first time he saw her.

After greeting Zhen Zhen, he looked around again and asked out loud, “Where is Mother?”

Hearing these words, Zhen Zhen returned to her senses and reached into her pocket, fished out a letter written by Zhong Minfen and sent it to Shui Huaiming.

Servant Huai Ming took the paper and unfolded it, lowering his brows as he quickly read the contents of the letter.

He didn’t ask any more questions, put away the paper and said to Zhen Zhen, “Then let’s go.”

Zhen Zhen was still confused and did whatever Servant Huai Ming told her to do.

She carried the package on her back and followed behind Servant Huai Ming, her breathing still subconsciously suppressed.

This place was unfamiliar, and the man in front of her felt unfamiliar, so she was really nervous.

Cluelessly, she didn’t know how long Servant Huai Ming had been leading her.

When she stopped, she stood next to a green jeep.

Servant Huai Ming reached out to open the door and said to her, “Get in.”

Get on ……get on ……

She had only seen this kind of car in movies, and never in her life did she think she would ever see this kind of car and sit on it.

Zhen Zhen’s legs were a little soft, but still holding the package and holding her breath, she climbed up.

When she got up and sat down, Mr. Huai Ming closed the door for her.

Zhen Zhen sat on the seat and tensed her body.

She watched as Servant Huai Ming went around from the right side of the car to the left side, opened the left door and sat down next to her.

Her entire body was in a state of tautness, holding the package tightly.

Squire Huai Ming fastened his seatbelt to send the car on its way and said to Zhen Zhen, “Put your seatbelt on.”

Zhen Zhen suddenly turned her head to look at him, her speech stuttering, “An …… seat belt …… is what?”

Servant Huai Ming looked at Zhen Zhen, wanted to answer and then stopped.

He did not make another sound, unbuckled his own seatbelt, leaned directly over to Zhen Zhen’s side, and reached out to pull out her seatbelt.

When he leaned over to Zhen Zhen’s side, Zhen Zhen was so nervous that she shrunk her head directly.

Feeling his breath and smelling his scent, Zhen Zhen’s face immediately turned red.

Servant Huai Ming didn’t pay attention to this and pulled the seatbelt over and buckled it.

Retracting his hand and then fastening his own seatbelt, he let go of the handbrake and released the clutch and pressed on the gas to go.

He had to drive, so naturally he didn’t look at Zhen Zhen.

Zhen Zhen used the package to block half of her face and kept skimming her head to look out the window, in a state of bewilderment and nervousness.

Her whole body is dizzy, her mind is a large blank.

After getting onto the main road and driving steadily, Mr. Huai Ming talked to Zhen Zhen and asked her, “Nervous?”

Zhen Zhen heard the voice steeply turned back, think for a moment what he asked, busy voice out, “No …… not nervous.”

Servant Huai Ming did not continue to pursue more questions.

Asked her again, “Mother’s body is very bad now?”

Zhen Zhen pressed her breathing and said, “Usually it’s pretty tough, but lately it seems to be a bit bad.”

Servant Huai Ming looked ahead with his hands on the steering wheel, “I also want to go back, but it’s not currently my turn for family leave.”

In order to make him feel relieved, Zhen Zhen busily said, “Mother and big brother didn’t blame you, they all know, the army is not free inside, it’s not something you can do whatever you want.”

Servant Huai Ming: “Uh-huh.”

They had also said all these words in their letters.

After so many years of not seeing each other, words were spoken, after all, the two were considered family.

Servant Huai Ming asked Zhen Zhen, “How has everything been at home all these years?”

Zhen Zhen nodded and said: “All quite good, after the land reform, the land is returned to us farmers, big brother and sister-in-law every day to go to the production team and work with everyone, my mother and I at home to produce bean sprouts to sell fried food, earn a little money to subsidize the family. Lingling is now twelve years old, already half a big girl, Xingguo is nine years old, both siblings are very understanding and inviting ……”

Serving Huai Ming drove carefully while listening attentively to Zhen Zhen’s rambling.

Although a lot of the family’s situation he knew in the letter, but now listening to Zhen Zhen said, the heart’s sense of solidity is very real and clearer.

Zhen Zhen looked at the side of Shi Huai Ming’s face as she spoke, watching him drive, her heart couldn’t help but beat faster.

She thought in her heart: he really has become better and better, so good that she feels too high even to look up.

***

The car drove for an unknown amount of time.

As it drove into a gate, Jen heard Squire Huai Ming say, “Here it is.”

Zhen Zhen looks out and asks in a low voice, “Your troop?”

Servant Huai Ming: “It’s a military school.”

Zhen Zhen did not understand and turned her head to look at him.

Servant Huai Ming continued to explain, “After the army was integrated, I came here, belonging to the advanced literacy.”

Zhen Zhen understood that Servant Huai Ming was now studying and learning at the military school.

Regardless of whether it was military school or advanced literacy, both were too far away from Zhen Zhen.

The further the car went into the school, the more out of place she felt.

The car stopped.

Servant Huai Ming turned off the engine and unbuckled his seatbelt, helping Zhen Zhen unbuckle her seatbelt in the process, and then went to open the door for Zhen Zhen after he got out of the car.

When Zhen Zhen got out of the car, he closed the door and said, “Let’s go eat first.”

Zhen Zhen didn’t know where she was going to eat, so she just carried the package on her back and followed Shui Huaiming.

She was still in a daze, unable to think of anything in her head, and followed Shi Huai Ming by instinct.

On the way, she kept her head down, as if she was afraid of people looking at her.

But when she encountered Shi Huai Ming and his comrades greeting her, she would raise her head.

Even though she was nervous, she knew that she should be generous when she met people and not disgrace Shi Huaiming.

Shi Huai Ming took her all the way to the cafeteria.

When he entered the cafeteria, he let her sit down on the seat, and he went to get some food.

After the food was brought over and set down, he sent a pair of chopsticks to Zhen Zhen’s hand.

Zhen Zhen took the chopsticks.

In front of her, in addition to white rice, there are two dishes – braised pork and braised fish.

Looking at such a meal, it was surprising that she didn’t know how to lay her chopsticks.

Seeing that she was not moving, Servant Huai Ming asked her, “You don’t like it?”

Zhen Zhen hurriedly shook her head a little and explained, “This is too good to eat ……”

They were in the countryside and could only eat these things on New Year’s Day, and usually it was good enough to have a bowl of salted meat and vegetables with rice.

Serving Huai Ming: “There are a lot of dishes in the cafeteria, whatever you like to eat, come over and hit it yourself later.”

Zhen Zhen: “Oh.”

After the oh she froze again – later?

The cafeteria is crowded, Zhen Zhen did not think too much, lowered her head and hurried to eat.

After eating, Mr. Huai Ming got up and put away the dishes on the table.

Zhen Zhen was a little embarrassed, but she was really unfamiliar with the environment here, so she did not say anything.

After leaving the cafeteria, Zhen Zhen followed closely behind Shui Huaiming.

After following him to a row of houses, Mr. Huai Ming went to one of the houses and took out the key to open the door.

Zhen Zhen stood next to him and asked out loud, “Is this your house?”

Servant Huai Ming gave a hmmm and led Zhen Zhen into the house.

The kitchen, bedroom, and restroom in the house were all complete.

In order for Zhen Zhen and Zhong Minfen to come over to live here, Servant Huai Ming had prepared all the rooms and other things.

He showed Zhen Zhen the whole house and told her that this was the kitchen for cooking and this was the restroom for going to the toilet and washing up. Knowing that Zhen Zhen had never seen such a toilet before, he even taught Zhen Zhen how to flush and use it.

After looking at everything, he led Zhen Zhen to her room and said, “You can stay here for the time being.”

Jen nodded at him with no comment, “Okay.”

The beds in the room were all made up, and the bedding and pillows all looked new.

After explaining everything, Servant Huai Ming said to Zhen Zhen again, “You must be tired after traveling on the train for so long, you should rest at home for a while first, I have to go to class now, so let’s talk about what’s going on when I come back from class.”

Zhen Zhen still obediently nodded her head, “Uh, okay, you go.”

After Servant Huai Ming left, Zhen Zhen was left alone in the house.

Being alone was a good way to relax, and after watching Servant Huai Ming leave the house, Zhen Zhen let out a long breath.

Slightly loosening her nerves, Zhen Zhen put down her packages in her room and came out again to take a look around.

The houses in the city are just different, look at everywhere, she didn’t even dare to touch it.

When she came in just now, she was even afraid to step on the floor and dirty it.

Seeing the room next to it, Zhen Zhen gently opened the door, only to see that there is also a bed inside, a closet, a writing table and a lamp.

Standing in the doorway for a moment, Zhen Zhen quickly reacted – this is Shui Huai Ming’s room.

Frozen for a moment, Zhen Zhen took a deep breath and closed the door.

She had been mentally prepared for this, it was nothing.

Zhen Zhen went back to her room and sat down on the wooden chair in front of the writing desk.

After tossing and turning since yesterday morning, not having slept much on the train last night, and not having slept well at home the night before, her whole body was now sleepy and tired, so she flopped limply onto the desk, blinking only her eyes.

Almost falling asleep, she sat up again with a jolt.

Thinking that there was nothing else to do if she didn’t sleep, and that she was really, really tired.

So after a short hesitation, she carried the hot water bottle into the bathroom and went to wash up.

After washing up and coming back, she took off her cotton shirt and pants and got into bed, pulling up the covers to sleep.

The quilt and mattress were both fragrant and soft, completely different from the quilts covered at home, and Zhen Zhen fell asleep as soon as she closed her eyes.

The house was quiet.

Only the sound of her shallow breathing as she slept.

***

“Okay, that’s all for this lesson.”

The old gentleman giving the lecture stood on the podium and closed his book, turning to exit the classroom.

Those sitting in the classroom were not young students, there were not a few childish looking faces, all wearing military uniforms.

The man with a scholarly air in his martial arts took out a few textbooks from the belly of his desk and put them on Servant Huai Ming’s desk.

He patted the textbooks and said, “Here, the elementary school textbooks you asked for.”

The one who brought the textbooks to Shui Huaiming was his comrade He Shuo.

He Shuo was a local whose home was in Xicheng, so Servant Huai Ming asked him to borrow the elementary school textbooks.

Servant Huai Ming accepted the textbook and said, “Thank you.”

He Shuo stared at Servant Huai Ming for a while, “I’m still curious, why did you borrow this set? Although you don’t have a serious degree from school, with your level of education, you don’t need to review elementary school knowledge, right? High school is more than enough.”

Servant Huai Ming was also honest, “My daughter-in-law is coming over, so I’ll let her learn.”

Speaking of this, He Shuo let out an “oh”, very interested, “I heard, your daughter-in-law is quite pretty.”

Shi Huai Ming looked at him, “Who did you hear that from?”

He Shuo: “Old Zhou, you took your daughter-in-law to the cafeteria to eat, didn’t you greet him?”

He Shuo: “You took your daughter-in-law to the cafeteria to eat, didn’t you greet him?

I didn’t realize that Old Zhou was still a broken man.

***

Never having slept in such a fluffy bed, Zhen Zhen slept soundly this sleep.

Also because the past two days were really tossing and turning, this sleep was extraordinarily long.

She slept drowsily and was woken up by a knock on the door.

After slightly waking up, in addition to hearing the knock on the door, there was also Servant Huai Ming’s voice: “Zhen Zhen?”

Squire Huai Ming …… military school ……

These two words popped up in her head, and Zhen Zhen immediately sat up.

She answered with a nasal voice and hurriedly dressed and got up, “I’ll be right there.”

Zhen Zhen dressed and fixed her hair and came out of her room, Squire Huai Ming had already set the meal on the table.

He turned to the kitchen to get chopsticks and said to Zhen Zhen, “Wash your hands and come eat.”

“Oh.” Zhen Zhen answered and went to the restroom to wash her face and hands.

After washing her hands and coming back to the table to sit down, she picked up her chopsticks and ate with Shi Huai Ming.

When Servant Huai Ming didn’t say anything, she also remained silent.

She didn’t know what she could say, fearing that he wouldn’t like to hear her speak, and also fearing that saying the wrong thing would make him laugh.

After eating half a steamed bun, Servant Huai Ming opened his mouth and said, “I’ll tell you something after eating.”

Hearing these words, listening to Servant Huai Ming’s tone, Zhen Zhen suddenly tensed her nerves and lowered her head to freeze slightly.

This tone of his voice, what matter is he talking about, about divorcing her?

Zhen Zhen stabilized her mind and nodded, “Uh-huh.”

She had always been prepared.

After eating, it was even a thick protective mat in her heart.

If he mentioned divorce to her, she would smile and say yes, then go home and live her own little life.

After cleaning up the dishes, Zhen Zhen sat down at the table and waited for Shi Huai Ming to come over to talk to her about things.

Hearing the sound of Squire Huai Ming’s footsteps as he walked over, she summoned up the courage to raise her head and look at him.

Servant Huai Ming sat down across from her, then put down a pile of books on the table.

He still had that same expressionless, serious sounding cold look as he looked at Zhen Zhen and said, “Now that it’s cleared up, I borrowed a set of elementary school textbooks from my classmates, so starting tomorrow, I’ll teach you to read and write.”

“?”

Zhen Zhen leered, “Huh?”

Servant Huai Ming looked at her puzzled eyes, “What’s wrong?”

Zhen Zhen hesitated for a moment, but still mustered the courage to ask, “Are you …… not divorcing me?”

“Divorce?” Servant Huai Ming looked at her, “When did I say I want a divorce?”

It’s true that he didn’t say it.

Zhen Zhen slightly bit her lip and didn’t speak.

Servant Huai Ming surmised her mind, “You want to divorce me?”

Her?

Zhen Zhen froze for a moment and hastily shook her head, “No …… don’t want to ……”

Serving Huai Ming looked at her again for a moment, thinking for a moment, “Since I agreed to marry you, I will not casually divorce you, how to write the word responsibility I still know. Sleeping separately with you is also responsible for you, I don’t want to do …… when I don’t have feelings.”

Servant Huai Ming stopped.

Zhen Zhen suddenly turned red.

Servant Huai Ming looked calm, and continued, “There will be more time in the future, let’s get along first, feelings this kind of thing, there will always be one in every place, what do you think?”

What does she think?

Zhen Zhen directly nodded her head and whispered, “I think you’re right.”

Servant Huai Ming continued to explain his intentions, “Letting you read and write is on one hand to let you progress, and on the other hand, it is also to cultivate feelings between us. It’s not that I dislike you for not being able to read and write, I just think that reading and learning to read and write would be better, don’t you think so?”

For her part, Zhen Zhen continued to nod her head, “I think everything you said is right.”

Then that’s how it was said.

Servant Huai Ming pushed all the textbooks in front of Zhen Zhen, “Today you rest first, tomorrow we will start again.”

Zhen Zhen nodded again and hugged all the textbooks into her arms.

After the words were said and done, she hugged the books and prepared to go back to her room.

Suddenly remembering something, she took a few steps and turned back, looking at Servant Huai Ming, she said, “Mother said that she wanted me to write a letter back to my family when I arrive here, to report peace to my family.”

Servant Huai Ming stood up from the table, “Well, I’ve already mailed it.”

Well, well, well, there really is nothing this time.

Zhen Zhen carried the book back to her room, went inside, put the book on the writing table, and came over to close the door again.

After closing the door, she bit her lip and sat down at the writing table.

Biting her lips is useless, the joy can not be suppressed, a moment she raised her hand directly cover her face, cover the face full of hidden smile.

Since Squire Huai Ming will not divorce her, then she will definitely be riveted to work hard.

Since he was willing to spend time to teach her, then she would work hard to learn knowledge and culture, work hard to become better, and work hard to be worthy of him.

She would make progress with him, together.