Wu Tianliang really did what he said, and as soon as he returned to the army, he sent a letter to Li Ping to the cigarette factory, which was a procedure that the active soldiers of the army must perform when choosing a mate, and it is still followed to this day.

People's speculations have finally come to light and there is a result. After Wu Tianliang left, Li Ping's heart was immediately steady, she decided that she was already Wu Tianliang's person, and she would marry Wu Tianliang in the near future, and then go to the army, that is, she was an officer's wife. In those days, Li Ping was working in the packaging workshop with a farewell mood, and everything around her felt worthy of nostalgia and cuteness. On this day, the secretary personally came to the workshop to find her, led her to a corner, and took out the letter of transfer from the army from his pocket.

The secretary smiled and said: Have you and Wu Tianliang confirmed their love relationship?

When she saw the transfer letter, she realized something, her heart suddenly jumped quickly, and then she nodded at the secretary with a red face.

The secretary asked again: Are you going to marry Wu Tianliang?

She didn't nod her head this time, the word marriage came out of the secretary's mouth, she felt both familiar and strange, and she didn't know how to answer the secretary.

The secretary also said: Li Ping, you give me a happy word, but people are transferred before marriage, you don't have a happy word, I can't reply to other troops.

Li Ping nodded as if she had made a final decision, and ran to her work. The secretary nodded at her back, shook his head again, and left. Li Ping seemed to cry out for a moment, and the excitement finally made her unable to control her tears, and she worked while shedding tears.

In the afternoon, the news spread. People probed and spread with novelty and jealousy.

People said: Li Ping is going to marry the head of the army.

People also said: The chief Li Ping wants to marry is bigger than the factory director and the secretary's official.

People also said: This chief is almost as old as Li Ping's father.

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There are various theories, but the message is clear, that is, Li Ping is going to get married, to marry a unit leader. The women gathered together and chattered, and the men looked at her cautiously with a sense of loss. After all, Li Ping is a flower in the cigarette factory, and they didn't pick this flower themselves, so they let others pick it, and their mood can be imagined.

After receiving the transfer letter, Li Ping soon received a letter from Wu Tianliang, in which Wu Tianliang urged her to go through the formalities quickly and go to the army to complete the marriage, and then Li Ping knew that Wu Tianliang's garrison was located in a county in Hebei. It's nothing, the place where she wants to marry is the army and not a certain county. She carried Wu Tianliang's letter in her arms, and returned home with fluctuating moods, she had no good impression of home since she could remember, except that her parents kept quarreling except for poverty, as if they lived together to quarrel. But now the mood is different, she is about to leave this home, and she is about to say goodbye to the place where she was born and raised, and there are a few more delicate things in her heart, and the softest place fluctuates. She returned home so softly, my sister came back at some point, the family didn't smile, the meal was not cooked, and the eldest brother and sister-in-law who came back one step earlier were all sitting gloomily in the dark. Obviously, there had just been another quarrel at home, and Li Ping's mood seemed to be infected as soon as she entered the door, and her good mood during the day suddenly disappeared.

It turned out that my sister came back this time to tell her parents a news, that is, she never wanted to go back to the countryside again, and she was going to be a deserter. The consequences are conceivable, that is to say, my sister will not want to get a household registration from the countryside in this life, and she will not be assigned a job in the city, so she will stay at home for the rest of her life. If she persists in the countryside, there is a possibility of returning to the city, then the result is different, the reason why my sister does not return to the countryside is that the son of the secretary of the rural brigade who she joined the queue has taken a fancy to her and has to marry her. The family persuaded her to endure it, but her sister didn't want to endure it, so the family quarreled.

When Li Ping got the news, her heart calmed down suddenly. She turned on the light, sat in the most prominent position in the family, and then said in shock: Let my sister take over my shift, I will leave soon.

Next, Li Ping said his decision to marry Wu Tianliang, the head of the army. The family's eyes widened and they looked at Li Ping in surprise, they almost couldn't believe Li Ping's words. After being sure that Li Ping's words were true, her mother came over to ask long and short questions, and Li Ping only had one sentence: Don't worry, I have agreed.

Li Ping originally wanted to prepare at home and go to the army again, but her sister's sudden return completely ruined her good mood during the time she was going to get married, and she decided to leave this home as quickly as possible and marry herself.

The next day, she was going to go to the First Department Store to buy herself some clothes, and on the third day she would leave. My sister went with her, but there was no way, so she had to let my sister accompany her. She was no longer in the mood to buy clothes, so she randomly chose two pieces and came back, and on the way back, my sister cried for some reason. She didn't look back and said: I am willing, I am happy, what are you crying about?

Sister said behind her: Sister didn't mean to drive you away.

Li Ping only smiled coldly. It turned out that Li Ping still wanted to keep her job, go to the army to take a look, if the conditions there are good, then transfer herself, if not, then she will come back to work, first live separately for a while, and wait for the opportunity for Wu Tianliang to change jobs. Now the situation is completely different, she must go and go through all the formalities, only in this way can my sister stay in the city. In doing so, she has some elements of sacrifice, and she is invisibly a little more tragic.

When Li Ping left Changchun, Wu Tianliang's comrades-in-arms sent a jeep to take her to the station, Wu Tianliang had already explained it in the letter, and asked her to tell his comrades-in-arms before leaving, and the comrades-in-arms called to tell Li Ping the train number, so that he could go to the station to pick up Li Ping.

When Li Ping left, the family went downstairs to see Li Ping, the moment she got in the car, her mother cried, her sister also cried, only her father didn't cry, and her father looked at somewhere in the distance with his hands behind his back. The moment the car started, Li Ping let out a long breath. Her heart relaxed. She looked out the car window at the northeastern wilderness, and her mood improved. She will be the chief's wife, married to the army, far away from home, far away from Changchun, at this time, she has a sense of freedom, a sense of flying. On the train for most of the day and night, Li Ping's eyes didn't close, she was looking forward to her future happiness.

Wu Tianliang really picked her up at the station. As soon as she got out of the car, Wu Tianliang kept holding her hand, as if he was afraid that she would run away. Wu Tianliang didn't know whether he was excited or hot, the bridge of his nose and head were shiny sweat, and he said over and over again: I didn't expect you to come so quickly, really fast.

Until sitting in the jeep, Wu Tianliang still held her hand, and then said: Let's hold a wedding tonight, everything is ready, ah-

The train stopped in the county seat, and the jeep drove out of the county seat in three turns, and got into a ravine, the road was a gravel road, the kind that was very bumpy, Li Ping opened her eyes in surprise and asked: Where are we going?

Wu Tianliang said: Go to the army and go back to our home.

After the jeep jolted for dozens of minutes, a barracks of troops appeared in front of him, with buildings and bungalows, right in the middle of two mountains. Li Ping felt a little relieved when she saw the troops. There was a slogan at the gate of the troops: "Heighten vigilance and defend the Motherland!" The sentry at the door saluted, and it was only then that Li Ping returned to reality.

As soon as Li Ping got out of the car, Wu Tianliang led her to their new house. The three bungalows are connected together, there is a small courtyard, the kitchen and toilet are also in the courtyard, and the gate outside the courtyard is pasted with the word "Xi", and the wall and window of the house are also pasted with the word "Xi". Li Ping stood there, I don't know what mood to use, the army was too strange to her before, and in front of her was the specific army and home, during this period of time, she imagined Wu Tianliang's troops countless times, and what the home Wu Tianliang brought her was like, and she thought about it thousands of times, but she didn't expect it to be like now. She couldn't tell how she was feeling at the moment. The beds were all made. Red quilts, red pillows, and a jubilant look everywhere.

In the evening, I had a meal in the cafeteria, and the cafeteria was also pasted with the big red word "Xi", there were political commissars, regiment commanders, and many officers, and they drank a meal lively, even if they got married. After eating, she followed Wu Tianliang back to her home in a daze, she hadn't rested well in the past few days, she was really tired, she didn't hesitate, and quickly got to bed. As soon as she got into bed, Wu Tianliang turned off the lights and lay down beside her with heavy breathing. She was not used to having a strange man lying beside her, she wanted to turn sideways, but was hugged by Wu Tianliang, and then his body pressed over. After the newlywed was finished, she was sober in her mind for a moment, she thought: This is her marriage, Wu Tianliang, who was lying next to her, was called the chief, with a salary of more than 80 yuan per month, and then she fell asleep.