Chapter 5
In the morning, Wu Tianliang walked out of the family area with the accompaniment of the military horn, and the family area was separated from the army office area by a wall, and there was a four-story building in the office area, where it was obvious that the leaders of the army were working. There was a flat area in the valley, and the barracks were on this flat land, and the surroundings were very quiet, and occasionally a word or two of the soldiers' drills came from the office area. There are more than a dozen houses like Li Ping living in the family area, each family is separated by a wall, although the yard is not big, but it is also a yard, three rooms are connected together, and there are kitchens and toilets in the courtyard, which is simply heaven and earth compared to Li Ping's home in Changchun.
Li Ping stood in the courtyard and looked at everything in front of her strangely and unfamiliarly, from yesterday to now, she completed the wedding, and completed the big step from the girl Li Ping to the woman Wu Tianliang, everything was so fast, so fast that she didn't have time to think about anything, she was already in the barracks. Before she came, even on the way here, she thought about the appearance of Wu Tianliang's troops hundreds of times, as well as weddings, etc., but she never thought that it would be like this. Li Ping is a person full of fantasy, if she doesn't fantasize, it is impossible for her to hand over her fate to a small cigarette box, and of course there will be no her at this moment. She was thinking about it miscellaneously, someone on the left pushed the door and walked out, poured a basin of water into the yard, Li Ping followed the prestige, and saw a woman who was not dressed up poking her head from the wall, the woman was in her forties, with a mouthful of yellow teeth, and said very friendly: It's the bride of Director Wu's family, right?
Li Ping smiled noncommittally at the woman.
The woman said, "She is worthy of being a woman in the city, so beautiful and so young."
When the two were talking, the doors of the neighbors were pushed open, and the women and children walked out, and some people came over with the child's hand in order to see Li Ping up close, pushed open the door of her house, stood in the yard, and looked at her up close.
They all praised her, and some of them even reached out and touched her clothes or hair, so that Li Ping didn't know what to do.
Here, she met the women of the political commissar's family, the women of the regiment leader's family, and the women of the deputy regiment commander and the deputy political commissar's family, etc., who smiled at her sincerely, praised her for being young and beautiful, and said that the women in the city were different.
Li Ping asked: You don't go to work?
The woman replied: We all came here with the army from the countryside, and there are no classes to go to this big ravine.
Li Ping was surprised, and only then did she realize that her future destiny would be the same as that of these women, becoming a housewife. I gave up my job to my sister and came to this ravine alone. At this time, she had a feeling of being deceived, and suddenly there were tears in her eyes, and she had to hide it in front of everyone.
After everyone commented on her, they all dispersed, some Zhang Luo washed clothes, and some Zhang Luo had lunch. Li Ping returned to the house, sat on the edge of the bed, and watched the fiery new mattress on the bed be stunned.
She never thought that she would end up like this, when she left the cigarette factory, how many women envied her, envied that she married the head of a military unit, and she could eat and drink spicy food in the future. She left the cigarette factory in the eyes of everyone's almost reverence, at that time, she was also a little proud, although Wu Tianliang was 40 years old and had a wife, but all this was covered by the halo of the chief, she only wanted to leave the monotonous cigarette factory as soon as possible, and leave the home that made her depressed, at that time she really didn't think much about it, and she didn't think about it carefully. In the end, she has the result now, except for the barracks in this mountain, there is nothing else, let alone going to work, even if it is not so convenient to buy something. She sat in the room and thought about it all morning. At noon, Wu Tianliang came back, and he brought back a pot of vegetables and a pot of rice from the cafeteria. Then he said: You don't cook for the next two days, you get familiar with it first, and then talk about it in two days.
She didn't say anything, finished her meal tastelessly, and washed the empty basins and dishes. When she came back, she saw that Wu Tianliang had already stripped herself naked and was lying on the bed. Seeing her puzzled look, he said: It's lunch break, you can lie down too, Bian won't go to work until two o'clock in the afternoon.
It is a very new thing for her to be able to sleep during the lunch break, during the working time of the cigarette factory, the lunch break is to eat, that is their own box lunch, as soon as they go to work in the morning, they are placed in the boiler room in order, someone heats them, and they take them out at noon, after eating, there is still a little time, the older ones play a game of chess, the women take the time to knit some woolen work, and the younger ones get together to talk and laugh for a while. I've never taken a nap, let alone blatantly closed the curtains and slept out.
She sat on the edge of the bed for a while, Wu Tianliang was very anxious, moved to pull her, and undressed her personally, she had to take off her coat and lay on his side reluctantly. Wu Tianliang stretched out his hand and took off her underwear again, and then did the matter between husband and wife. Her mind was very messy and completely passive, but fortunately, she had felt like this once last night, and what she thought in her heart was that since she married Wu Tianliang, everything was normal.
After Wu Tianliang finished his work, he lay down beside her and said comfortably: I didn't expect you to marry me, the difference between the two of us is 16 years old, others say that I am an old cow eating tender grass, and I am also a beautiful blessing.
After Wu Tianliang finished speaking, he hugged her young body tightly, and it seemed that she ran away by accident. After a while, Wu Tianliang fell asleep in this satisfaction, and snoring, the snoring was high and low, and it seemed to be staggered. She couldn't sleep at the sound of snoring, she didn't believe it was real. Everything in Changchun, and everything here now, rushed towards her in a mixed manner, and she couldn't tell her state of mind at this moment.
At 1:45 p.m., the army's wake-up call sounded again, Wu Tianliang's snoring stopped with the wake-up call, he began to get up and dress, he seemed to be very familiar with her, as if he didn't shy away from anything, he jumped from the bed to the ground naked, she inadvertently saw the scar on his body, there was a long knife edge from the lower body to the lower abdomen, lying there like a rope, it looked shocking.
He noticed her gaze, smiled lightly and said: This is an injury suffered by the construction of the army in the past, and now it is early, and the doctor said that he will not be able to have children in the future, and the vas deferens is broken.
She sat there in surprise, looking at him with her mouth half open.
He seemed to think that he should explain, and hurriedly said: The time we used to be in contact was too short, and I didn't have time to tell you. In fact, it's nothing, we all have children, it doesn't matter if we have another child or not, anyway, it won't affect our married life.
She heard him say child, and she looked at him even more puzzled. His face turned white, and he immediately said: We are both husband and wife, when we first met, you didn't ask me or say, three years ago, my ex-wife died in a car accident when she returned to her hometown, you know. At that time, my child was four years old, and I have been fostered at her grandmother's house for the past few years.
Li Ping sat there stiffly, she didn't expect so many things she hadn't expected, it was all like a dream. When the work horn sounded again, Wu Tianliang fastened the last button of his shirt, and he explained before going out: There is no need to cook dinner, I will call back from the cafeteria, you can go out in the afternoon to have a look and familiarize yourself with the environment here.
As soon as Wu Tianliang left, Li Ping collapsed on the bed all of a sudden, tears rolling down, she didn't know why she was crying, in short, Li Ping at this moment just wanted to cry. Since adolescence, she has imagined her future family countless times, and of course the man in her mind, and she has thought about it thousands of times, but she didn't think of Wu Tianliang's situation. She thought of that morning a few months ago, when she had miraculously put a small note in her cigarette case, and that her fate had changed since then. Since then, it has been destined that now, she is like a paper boat that has been folded by someone, put into a rushing river, and she can only go downstream.
This is life, this is life. A few days later, Li Ping almost got used to everything here, and in the morning she went to the military service club in the military barracks courtyard with the women in the family courtyard to buy vegetables, which were bought by the soldiers in the county seat, and a vegetable station was set up here for the convenience of the families of the troops. After buying vegetables, I began to prepare for lunch, after lunch, I accompanied Wu Tianliang to take a lunch break, and then got up in the afternoon to think about the evening's meal. Li Ping seems to be a family member of a military companion.
After a few more days, Wu Tianliang picked up his daughter from his grandmother's house. Before picking up her daughter back, Wu Tianliang discussed with her, she didn't say anything, what could she say, since she said goodbye to Changchun and came to the army, she could only bear all the consequences, no matter how far this result was from what she imagined. Wu Tianliang led his daughter back before dinner that day. The seven-year-old girl looked very sensible, with a pair of curious eyes, hiding behind Wu Tianliang and looking at her quietly.
Wu Tianliang pulled the child out from behind and said: Big girl, call Mom.
The girl called out, "Mom."
A girl of such a big age called her, and she had an indescribable feeling in her heart. She shouldn't, shouldn't be, she just reached out and touched the child's head. Since then, there has been an extra girl named Daya in the family out of thin air, called Wu Tianliang's father, and called her mother. The girl is in the first grade of primary school, and every day she and other children go to a primary school in a nearby village. Girls may have lost their mothers prematurely, and they are a little cowardly by nature and some mature beyond their years.
The eldest girl is very worry-free, she leaves after school, comes back after school, and locks herself in the house as soon as she comes back, as if there is no one at home. The child is not close to Wu Tianliang, Wu Tianliang will go to the eldest girl's room to stay for a while when he returns home at night, and more time, Wu Tianliang will stay by Li Ping's side, his sweetness, happiness and satisfaction are written on his face.
At night, he lay down beside Li Ping, hugged Li Ping's body tightly with both hands and said happily: I'm not dreaming, I'm marrying such a beautiful woman as you, it's so good, it's great. I can't believe it's all true.
Li Ping couldn't believe that all this was true.