After Liu Yimin led his wife and son back to the house, he settled his son to sleep, then brought a basin of water, washed the towel, wiped Tang Xingying's face, poured a cup of hot tea, and handed it to her.

Tang Xingying didn't say anything, at the mercy of Liu Yimin, and when he was done, he said: "It's night now, how do I feel like the sun is coming out of the west, when will you learn to serve people." Did it take just two days for Sister Yaoguang to educate you into a talent? ”

Liu Yimin took out his cigarette, took a few puffs with his head down, and saw Tang Xingying covering his nose with one hand and waving the smell of cigarettes with the other, so he opened the window, threw the cigarette butt out, turned to Tang Xingying and said, "Xingying, I know that I am wrong and hurt you this time." But you have to understand how much damage it will do to her if I turn my face and ignore Yaoguang after that kind of thing happens. You are a woman and you should know that. ”

Tang Xingying directly interrupted him and said, "Don't talk about Yaoguang, that matter has already passed." You said that after Ni Hua came back, how would you arrange our mother and son! ”

Liu Yimin didn't think about it, and said directly: "The decision is yours." Didn't I say it during the meal, you are the wife I am marrying, unless you don't want me, I will never want you. We are a family of flesh and blood, and no matter who we are, no matter who we are, no matter who we are, it is impossible to break us apart. ”

Seeing Tang Xingying's little face with a thin look of anger and not saying a word, Liu Yimin had no choice but to say: "Of course, Ni Hua is coming back, and she is coming back with me, because in her heart I am her man and husband, and it is impossible for me to refuse her if I am reasonable." You also know that when Ni Hua left, none of us thought that she would come back. In our minds, Ni Hua is far behind us, and she is a medical doctor, and it is very likely that she will start a new life after she arrives in the United States, and forget about me, the Red Army who drilled the ravine all day long. It's all this damn devil, if they hadn't blatantly launched a war of aggression, Ni Hua, who learned that we were married, would not have considered coming back. It was because of the invasion of the Japanese that Ni Hua's patriotic enthusiasm was aroused, and in the United States, he still resolutely made his identity public, held a press conference, exposed the crimes of the Japanese army, and raised funds for our army. You know, as a high-ranking party cadre, I have to consider the overall situation, and I have no right not to let her come back, nor do I have the right not to recognize her as my wife. ”

Tang Xingying snorted in his nose: "Now I remember that you are a senior cadre?" Know that you have to think about the big picture? Is it that for the sake of the overall situation, I will have to sacrifice my son and me? Are you going to divorce me? ”

Liu Yimin was a little helpless, this matter itself was a dead knot, and he couldn't pay attention to it, so he had to sigh and say: "I love you, we have a harmonious child, and you still have our unborn child in your belly." I never thought of abandoning my wife and son, and no one would force us to divorce. Now that you are also a high-ranking cadre, you must not always be like we were before we got married, and you should not only consider the moral aspect when considering problems, but also consider the tactics of fighting against the enemy. Since neither the Central Committee nor Lao Jiang has publicly questioned the relationship between me and you and Ni Hua, can we not get along with ourselves and deal with it vaguely, okay? ”

Tang Xingying's eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and she sobbed and said, "It's not good, you are my man, the father of my child, and I don't want to share my husband's love with anyone." Don't say it's Ni Hua, you can't change anyone. Besides, you can't be the master of this matter in the end, no one is forcing us to divorce now, and when the time comes, as long as someone says that the senior generals of the Eighth Route Army engage in polygamy, won't we still have to divorce? I feel like you're cheating on me. ”

Thinking of his identity and the discipline of the Eighth Route Army, Liu Yimin felt that his head was big. Now it's Tang Xingying who says this, and I'm afraid Ni Hua won't want to come back. They are all the best female surnames of this era, and what they pursue is marital autonomy, and no one will want to share a lover with others.

Liu Yimin couldn't answer Tang Xingying directly, but it didn't work if he didn't answer, so after thinking about it, he said: "We have been married for so long, we can be regarded as husband and wife, when have I ever deceived you?" You followed me to fight in the north and south, and I know all the hardships you have endured. Marriage is just a formality, as long as there is love, nothing else matters. Now that you think about it, you can choose to love me and not to love me. Whatever you choose, I respect your wishes. ”

Tang Xingying said: "Do I have the right to choose? What can you do if you choose to love you, and what can you do if you choose not to love you? ”

When Liu Yimin heard this, he felt that Tang Xingying began to think about the problem according to his own guidance, and hurriedly said: "If you choose to love me, Ni Hua will be easy to do when he comes back, it's a big deal that we will be separated for a while, you can go back to Xi'an first, study at the Central Party School, and after the child is born, you will work in the central organ or the Shaanxi Provincial Political Axe." In the future, the central government will definitely let Ni Hua go to Xi'an to study, and then you will come back to me to reunite. If you don't want to go back to Xi'an, it's easy to do. We must fight without stopping, and after a while the main forces may be concentrated and form a field corps to fight a war of annihilation. In the future, Shandong will form two parts, the inner line and the outer line, and I will lead the main force to fight on the outer line, and the work of the inner line base area will be mainly responsible for the Shandong Bureau, and you will stay in the rear with your children, and let Ni Hua act with the field hospital. Anyway, just don't let the two of you meet. Of course, the premise of this treatment is that you and Ni Hua both love me and can accept each other, anyway, now the central government also recognizes Ni Hua's identity, if no one investigates it, we will deal with it vaguely for the time being. If you despise me in your heart, don't want to live any longer, choose not to love me, I don't force it, and I don't blame you, no one can do anything when fate is over, we just divorce. ”

When Tang Xingying heard this, her tears flowed even more: "Speaking of which, you are bullying me." Won't you tell Ni Hua that we are very happy and let her die that heart? I tell you, I have never thought about divorce since I married you, if you dare to break your conscience and don't want me and my son, I will die for you immediately, and you will feel guilty for the rest of your life! ”

Liu Yimin was anxious, the war was imminent, how many things were waiting to be dealt with, how could he be entangled in these family trivialities! said angrily: "If Ni Hua comes back like you, entangles with me like this, and makes me unable to work and rest, then I don't want either of you, just live alone." There are so many devils, they are killing people and setting fires every day. I am the supreme commander of the Eighth Route Army's troops in Shandong, and my task is to lead the troops to eliminate the devils and drive away the invaders, instead of being trapped in the personal affairs of my children and unable to extricate myself, and entangled in the question of living with you or with Ni Hua. Besides, it's a war year, bullets don't have long eyes, so many martyrs have died, and I can't always be so lucky. The last time Yaoguang sacrificed, she crawled beside me, if it was daytime, the army saw such a beautiful female warrior, and soon knew that she was the family of a senior leader, I am afraid that the shells and bullets would come at once, maybe I would have died at that time. Judging from this situation, I am not an immortal, and I may be sacrificed at any time, and it is difficult to say whether I will survive the next battle. Maybe it won't be long before you hear the news of my death! ”

When Tang Xingying heard this, she couldn't care about being angry with Liu Yimin anymore, so she jumped up and hugged Liu Yimin, crying and shouting, "I don't allow you to talk nonsense, I don't allow you to talk nonsense!" ”

Liu Yimin saw that the rain had finally passed, so he struck while the iron was hot, carefully carried his wife to bed, lay down next to her, and the two of them held hands and talked. In the end, Tang Xingying finally made up her mind, after Ni Hua came back, she went back to Xi'an to study, and after the child was born, she worked in Xi'an, and when the child was older, she would come back to reunite with Liu Yimin.

Untied Tang Xingying's heart knot, Liu Yimin finally let go of his heart and slept well.

After getting up in the morning, Liu Yimin consciously planned in his heart, and when the time was ripe, he would give the army a serial set, so he led a squad of guard soldiers up the mountain to hunt with great interest. As luck would have it, I had five wild boars and a bunch of rabbits and pheasants. After coming back to wash and peel it, he asked Li Xiaoshuai to lead the soldiers to pick some wild vegetables such as mountain leeks, small garlic and yellow yellow seedlings, and distributed the game to the various troops for tooth sacrifices, took a rabbit and a pheasant, asked for flour and a pot from the cooking class, made the noodles into a stewed noodle embryo, boiled a pot of fragrant chicken soup with pheasants, skewered the rabbits with bamboo skewers, smeared them with oil and seasonings, and set up a shelf in the yard of his residence and barbecued them.

Tang Xingying went home at noon, smelled the fragrance from afar, and as soon as she entered the yard, she saw Liu Yimin's face smoked one by one, turning the rabbit on the barbecue grill. Chen Meisheng and her son followed behind Liu Yimin's buttocks, the corners of his son's mouth drooling, and he was staring at the rabbit in his father's hand.

Tang Xingying was in a trance in her heart, this man can do anything, everything is good, it's not good at all, it's too lovely. If only not so many girls liked him!

Seeing Tang Xingying coming back, Liu Yimin said with a smile: "Wife, the barbecue will be good right away." I've got all the chopsticks ready, you go and take out the pheasant in the pot, and I'm going to make you braised noodles with chicken soup right away, so I guarantee that you can eat fragrant braised noodles. ”

Tang Xingying was tired all morning and hungry, so she directly took out the pheasant meat from the bowl, and led Chen Meisheng and her son to eat it.

It was not a long time, Liu Yimin roasted the rabbit, cut it with a knife, brought it to Tang Xingying, bent down and made a gesture of please, and said "Wife, please taste", which made Tang Xingying smile, said poorly, and picked a piece of mountain chicken and stuffed it into Liu Yimin's mouth.

Liu Yimin tasted it, his mouth was full of fragrance, and he said with a smile: "My craftsmanship is not bad, and it is no problem to open a restaurant in Jinan City." After saying that, I hurriedly made the braised noodles.

When the stewed noodles were served, Tang Xingying led Chen Meisheng and his son to eat all the chicken and rabbit meat, and Xiao Zhenghe kept shouting "Daddy wants".

Tang Xingying was a little embarrassed and said, it was so delicious, but she finished eating it all at once, and even the one left for Liu Yimin was finished.

Liu Yimin said that he didn't blame his wife and son for being greedy, mainly because it was too little. When I have time to turn around, I will bake more, so that the comrades can also enjoy it. Now I don't say anything, hurry up and eat the braised noodles, it won't taste good when it's cold.

As soon as Tang Xingying looked at the stewed noodles made by Liu Yimin, she saw that there were tender green mountain leeks, small garlic and wild vegetables floating in the bowl, the soup oil was baked, and when she stirred it with chopsticks, there were fresh mushrooms and vermicelli, kelp, and snow-white noodles with the surname of Snow White, which were simply good in color and flavor, and she felt that her appetite was opened. After taking a sip of the soup, the mellow fragrance of wild vegetables was revealed, and he said with a smile: "If I can continue to live like this, then I am really a happy woman." ”

When Liu Yimin heard this, he was afraid that the old words would be brought up again, so he hurriedly said: "As long as I am free, I will think of improving your life." Hurry up and eat, I'm hungry too. ”

This meal was full of fragrant food, Liu Yimin ate two large bowls by himself, and even Tang Xingying's forehead was covered with small beads of sweat.

After dinner, Tang Xingying went to busy running her training class for women cadres again, and Liu Yimin also returned to the division headquarters and sent a telegram to the chairman, asking if there was any news about Ni Hua, and also reported that after Ni Hua returned, Tang Xingying would be arranged to return to Xi'an to study and wait for childbirth.

It didn't take long for Qian Zhuangfei to send a call back from the chairman. The telegram said that Ni Hua had arrived in Hong Kong, and the previous paragraph was indeed entangled by the people of the Kuomintang who were in Hong Kong, and wanted Ni Hua to go directly to Wuhan to meet Song Meiling. Ni Hua resolutely refused to go because he considered that the materials escorted must be safely delivered to our army, and as a result, he temporarily lost his freedom. This morning, Ni Hua has regained his freedom, and he called to ask for a speedy boat north. However, the coastal areas were all controlled by the Chinese army, and merchant ships could dock at the ports of Tanggu or Qingdao in Tianjin, which were controlled by the Japanese army, and could only unload their cargo after being inspected by the Japanese army. The chairman asked Liu Yimin to make sure that he tried to let the merchant ships dock to ensure the safety of goods and personnel. As for the question of whether Comrade Tang Xingying will return to Xi'an to study after Ni Hua returns, the chairman said very tactfully, and the problems of the past should be viewed objectively, Tang Xingying and Ni Hua are both good sons and daughters of China, and they are very valuable female cadres of our party and our army, and they have both made great contributions to the revolution, and we cannot favor one over the other. If Comrade Tang Xingying resolutely asks to return to Xi'an, the central authorities can transfer her back to Xi'an to work. However, now that the army has blocked Shanxi's main transportation routes, Xuzhou may be lost immediately, and it is not feasible to take a train from Lunan to Xuzhou. Comrade Tang Xingying will inevitably take the child with him, and in case of an accident, he can't afford to lose. Comrade Tang Xingying's post itself is teaching a tutor, in the Shandong Bureau, and by Comrade Liu Yimin's side. It is recommended that it is best not to consider returning to Xi'an in the near future, and that the small things in life should be handled properly, and there is no need to do meaningless deliberate skimming. Even if Liu and Tang divorced, Comrade Tang Xingying was pregnant and had to take care of the child, so it was safer to stay in the main force and stay with Comrade Liu Yimin.

Comrade Chen Yun also sent a telegram informing him of his contact information with Ni Hua.

After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin began to feel that the chairman was a little inexplicable, was this not clear to let himself make mistakes? Ni Hua is back, Tang Xingying is not allowed to go back to Xi'an, now it's okay, the two women met together, and they were put on the firewood rack, and they had to be barbecued! Besides, let the comrades and the outside world know that they have two wives at the same time, then how can they be? The chairman said lightly, even if he divorced, he would not let Tang Xingying leave him, which one is this singing?

After thinking about it for a while, I was relieved. The chairman is a compromise policy, and some comrades may not want to let Ni Hua, who has a complicated background, be with him, lest problems arise after a long time, and there is no way to stop Ni Hua, who is bent on rushing back from the United States, so he has no choice but to prevent Tang Xingying from returning to Xi'an, in order to reduce Ni Hua's influence on himself. It seems that it will take time for Ni Hua to truly win the trust of the leaders and comrades.

Thinking about it again, Chen Yaoguang's matter caused the chairman and the boss to be furious, and they all criticized themselves harshly on the telegram, why was it different when they met Tang Xingying and Ni Hua? Instead of being angry, the chairman struggled to find reasons to persuade himself. The reason is self-evident, Tang Xingying is a long-tested veteran Red Army soldier, and the organization can trust her. And Ni Hua, although she has a complicated background, she herself has nothing to do with the Kuomintang, she is an innocent intellectual, plus she saved her life and made great contributions in the United States, if time comes, the comrades will still really accept her, which is very different from Chen Yaoguang's background when he was persecuted by Dai Li. However, in this way, I am afraid that Ni Hua and Tang Xingying will feel aggrieved and have their own discomfort behind!

When he took the telegram to Luo Ronghuan, he saw that Luo Ronghuan was also depressed, and when he asked, he learned that the chairman had sent a telegram to Luo Ronghuan alone, asking him to assist Liu Yimin in doing a good job of Comrade Tang Xingying's work, handle the matter correctly, and ensure that his work would not be affected by trivial family matters.

Luo Ronghuan looked at Liu Yimin and shook his head, which made Liu Yimin's face hot, and hurriedly said: "I don't blame me, I definitely don't blame me, don't look at me like this, as if I made a big mistake Yes." ”

Luo Ronghuan rolled his eyes: "Don't blame you, do you still blame me?" ”

Liu Yimin smiled bitterly, he didn't want to entangle with Luo Ronghuan, and after listening to his lesson, he wanted to turn around and leave.

Luo Ronghuan stopped him and said, "Ni Hua's performance is very good, he has made great contributions, and he has won the trust of the organization. Her return, and my comrades and I welcomed her. However, since Comrade Tang Xingying joined the army, he has also been born and died, and has made many military exploits, and your husband and wife have a good relationship and have children. This matter is difficult to do, not to mention whether you want to divorce or not, Tang Xingying is different now from when you had an awkward relationship before you got married, I'm afraid I won't agree to divorce if you die. The original method of going to Xi'an to study was also an expedient measure, but now the central government does not agree with this method, and I thought about it for a long time and felt that it was difficult to do. Do you have any good ideas? ”

Liu Yimin knows that Luo Ronghuan is a good person and a gentleman, and a gentleman can deceive him. said to Luo Ronghuan: "You are the political commissar, the chairman has given you the task, you can watch it." I'd rather be a bachelor than get in trouble anymore. ”

Luo Ronghuan chuckled: "If you had that backbone, it wouldn't be today's situation." Forget it, I won't tell you, let's talk about it when Ni Hua comes back! ”

In the evening, Liu Yiming held a liaison meeting between the Shandong Bureau and the Shandong Military Region to listen to a report on the construction of the base area.

(To be continued)