Wu Tianliang's sense of unreality and Li Ping's sense of unreality are diametrically opposed. The gap between Li Ping's imaginary army and real life is too big, she didn't expect that she would become a complete housewife, she is only 24 years old, and she is not willing to live like this.

After dinner one night, Wu Tianliang hiccuped and looked like he was full of wine and food. It was still early, and the surroundings were quiet, and there were occasionally one or two sounds of soldiers fighting in the direction of the army barracks. These days, the silence here makes Li Ping feel depressed, and she doesn't even have a companion when she wants to communicate with people. So she said to Wu Tianliang: I want to go to work.

Wu Tianliang was picking his teeth, and only after a while did he say: What class do you go to?

Li Ping said: I can't stand being a housewife, I want to find a job.

Wu Tianliang sat down and said to Li Ping: This is not as good as Changchun, there is no class to go to, you know that there is a mountain when you go out, and there is a village in the west, they all farm, do you want to go farming?

Li Ping had tears in her eyes, and she wanted to say something but couldn't say it.

Wu Tianliang knew that he couldn't stand Li Ping, so he sat down, put his hand on her shoulder, and said in a consultative tone: It's not good to let you stay at home every day? I earn more than 80 yuan a month, which is enough to feed our family of three, and you can do whatever you want during the day.

What else can Li Ping say?

During the day, Li Ping also tried to find something to do, the three houses were cleaned, and the yard was swept again, at this time the sun had not yet come out from behind the mountains in the east, and the rest of the time was in a daze. The women in the neighborhood are the same as her, send their husbands to work, and after the children go to school, they have nothing to do, and they have invited Li Ping to sit at home, which is completely between the old ladies, they have asked her about Changchun and asked about their feelings here, and the next three sentences will not leave the bed for that little thing.

The woman of the political commissar asked: Director Wu was injured once a few years ago, and the pipe was cut off when he heard it, is he still okay in bed?

Li Ping blushed, she had never heard such a thing.

The woman of the head of the regiment smiled and said: What a bride, I'm still embarrassed, ask your man if that thing is still in the middle?

She tried to run away, and they laughed together, and at last they diverted from the subject, telling fortunes with playing cards, which were spread out on the table, and then spread out one by one, when the sun rose from behind the mountain, and slanted westward little by little, and time passed little by little. Li Ping couldn't stay any longer, she left the political commissar's house as if she was running away, leaving these women, she was panicked in her heart, and she wanted to shout.

The women shouted behind her: Director Wu's house, stay a little longer, what are you busy with, it's still early to cook lunch.

The woman also said: This Director Wu's family is good-looking and has a big temper, so why don't you just leave.

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She is now known as Director Wu's family, she has a name and a surname, and she doesn't like it and is not suitable for this kind of title. The women here all refer to each other as family. The woman of the head of the regiment is called the family of the head of the regiment, and the woman of the commissar is called the family of the commissar. This is a group of women in their forties, most of them came here with the army from the countryside, they are willing to be housewives, from the countryside to the army, they don't have to do anything, take care of men and children, three meals a day, they are content. Li Ping can't get along with these housewives anyway, she's only 24 years old, and she has many dreams.

Since then, she has rarely visited the door. After she finished her housework, sometimes she stood in the yard and looked at the mountains around her, she thought of Changchun, of the cigarette factory and her relatives there, at that time she wanted to get out of there, go as far as possible, and now she began to miss everything there. At this time, everything in Changchun is so kind, so missable, and tears quietly flow out again at some point.

She started to feel homesick and miss everything in the house. She began to write letters, first to the workers of the cigarette factory, when she picked up the pen, her mood changed again, and after saying some words of longing, she talked about herself again, she said that she worked in a secret military factory, the address was not open to the public, if the letter was to let Wu Tianliang transfer it, and then left the address of a certain unit in a certain county in Hebei.

When she was at home, her parents' quarrels, as well as the two small rooms, made her often feel unlucky, and the work of her brothers and sisters, which gave her a headache, she missed them, she hoped that they could all come back from the countryside, find a job, and then start a family, and she didn't want to tell them the truth, as usual, she would write that she worked and lived very well, there were buildings here, the road was wider than Changchun's, and she earned more than when she was in the cigarette factory. When she writes letters, she often sees in front of her eyes the envious expressions of those workers and relatives when they hear that she is going to marry the head of the People's Liberation Army. She was lucky in their eyes, and she couldn't let them see the misfortune. Letters were sent away one after another, and it didn't take long for the reply to come back to another envelope, with the envelope saying that Wu Tianliang had handed it over to Li Ping because she had told them that her workplace was confidential.

In addition to expressing their thoughts about her, the workers expressed their words of envy in the letter, and a little sister begged her to introduce an officer in the letter, saying that it was okay not to be a regimental leader, but a platoon commander and deputy company commander.

In the letter, her father first wished her a smooth work and a happy life, and also told her that her sister had already taken her shift to work in a cigarette factory, and that her second brother might also return to the city...... She read the letter from home, and her heart was even more empty, that is, she had uprooted herself from Changchun, she had no hukou job, and she was now just a family member of the army, living in a ravine where there was no light on all sides.

In those days, she was depressed and depressed. Wu Tianliang also knew that she was unhappy, so he accompanied her carefully. At night, when the two of them were lying in bed, she found the letters and read them, and tears flowed from her eyes as she read them.

Wu Tianliang said: Homesick, why don't you go home?

She didn't speak, letting her tears flow.

Wu Tianliang sighed: I know that if you came here from Changchun, you lost even a job, and I wronged you.

She listened to him and tears flowed even more.

He also said: It is possible for me to be transferred to the garrison in the city, and our military headquarters is in Shijiazhuang, and if I am transferred to the Shijiazhuang military headquarters, I will immediately contact you for work.

She hurriedly asked: When?

He was suddenly silent, and only after a while did he say: Anyway, there is a chance.

She was deflated again, and the soldiers here hoped that she would be promoted, because then they would be able to enter the city. Wu Tianliang has been working in this unit since he joined the army, and he has long looked forward to his transfer.

Wu Tianliang saw that she didn't speak, so he persuaded her with good words: If you marry me, you are at a loss, I am so old, you are so beautiful and young, and I still drag a child, it is really difficult for you. If I can't transfer to another job, I will propose to change jobs, and then we will go back to Changchun together.

She seemed to see hope in his words again, since this is already the case, the days will have to go on.

Sometimes she couldn't stand it anymore, so she went out of the house, bypassed the troops, and walked down the only gravel road, from which she came, and there were very few inhabitants in the mountains, and there was hardly a car or a pedestrian on the road, and occasionally she would see a herding of cattle or sheep, driving a herd of sheep or a few cows, and walking leisurely along the road, and she could not see the end of her walking for a long time. The day she remembered, the jeep bumped on this road for dozens of minutes, and the county seat was too far away from her.

She had also been to the village where there was a primary school, and the children of the eldest girl and the rest of the army were all in this village, and she heard that there was a longer way to go to the middle school, and she had to climb a mountain, and then walk five or six miles before there was a commune, and there was a middle school in the commune. The village is not large, there is a clearing at the east end of the village, and a row of houses have been built on the vacant land, which is the school here, and when she came, there were a few chickens and a few pigs sleeping in the open space in front of the school, and they looked lazy, and the expressions of the people here were no different. She saw a few villagers sitting lazily napping under a tree in the middle of the village, and a woman, with her arms open, revealing her two tits breasts breastfeeding. Everything here is like a dream. Only the sound of the students calling her to reality, listening to the sound of the students reading, reminded her of the time when she went to school, as if it was yesterday. She stood there for a while, and then stood again for a while, and then walked back in a lonely way.

She returned to the family courtyard of the army and stood in her own small courtyard, as if her soul had still not returned, and she was stunned, not knowing what she was going to do.

Wu Tianliang saw her so unhappy, so he could only accompany him to be careful. One day, he said to her: It's strange and lonely for you to stay alone, why don't you let Wang Xiaomao accompany you, he is a high school graduate, my orderly.

Li Ping rolled her eyelids and looked at him.

Wu Tianliang said again: Don't you like to read novels, there are books in the reading room of the army, and I asked Wang Xiaomao to find them for you.

She doesn't know who Wang Xiaomao is, but she likes to read, and when she goes to school, all other homework is average, that is, she is good at Chinese classes and good at writing.