Chapter 29, Chapter 29, 029...

Chapter 29, Chapter 29, 029...

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Ye Anguo solved the lifelong problem that had been troubling the leaders for him with just one trip home. Thanks to Yao Jianwei's publicity, this matter is now common knowledge.

Yao Jianwei was also cunning. He was much faster than Ye Anguo. Both of them went home, but Ye Anguo came back alone, while Yao Jianwei and his wife came back together. The older single young men in the army were all stunned. One by one, they came to him to ask for his secret to finding a partner. When Yao Jianwei couldn't stand it anymore, he sold Ye Anguo out.

In Yao Jianwei's own words, "You've come to the wrong person. The real expert is the regimental commander. He has three adopted sons from the countryside, yet he managed to find a 20-year-old young and beautiful city girl with a decent job at the 'advanced age' of 28. That's a true master who doesn't show off."

Then Yao Jianwei went on to describe how beautiful Jiang Lai was, how good her personality was, how good she was to Ye Anguo, and most importantly, how good her cooking skills were. Yao Jianwei emphasized Jiang Lai's cooking skills, saying that when Ye Anguo served the food Jiang Lai had prepared for him on the train, the aroma was so exaggerated that everyone in the carriage couldn't stand it.

"Old Yao, you're exaggerating. The train carriages are so big, it's not like they're cooking right there on the train. How could the aroma possibly be that strong? Everyone knows that what's brought on the train is cold food." Someone couldn't imagine how delicious it must be and scoffed at him.

"That might be a bit of an exaggeration, but everyone knows that Commander Chen's wife is the best cook in our family compound, right? Every time it's mealtime at Commander Chen's house, the aroma of her stir-fries is absolutely irresistible. Even the cold food that Ye Anguo's girlfriend brings tastes that good on the train. What do you think of that level of skill?"

"That must be excellent." Everyone present who knew about Commander Chen's wife's culinary skills was swallowing hard as they spoke.

"When is the regimental commander getting married? When will his wife come to join him?" someone who was close to Ye Anguo asked.

"I don't know, why are you asking?" someone said, puzzled.

"Think about it," the man said shrewdly. "We have a tradition of treating our wives to a meal whenever one of them comes to the army. When she arrives, can't we subordinates go and freeload off her?"

"Why don't you ask your future sister-in-law if she has any sisters?"

Many people in the military region knew that Ye Anguo had a girlfriend, a young and beautiful city girl. Most congratulated Ye Anguo on settling down, but some were not so kind.

One of the men, who loved to see others make a fool of themselves, deliberately said to Ye Anguo's three adopted sons, "Wen Yu, I heard your father is going to get married soon. Aren't you afraid that you won't have a good life after having a stepmother?"

Actually, that's too mild a statement. Some people deliberately tell scary stories about stepmothers and stepfathers to frighten them, such as no food, no sleep, having to get up to work before dawn, not being allowed to sleep after dark, no good clothes or food, and only endless work, etc. They do whatever is frightening.

The two older girls, Ye Wenyu and Ye Lixin, were fine, as they were both 8 or 9 years old. However, the youngest, Ye Zhangpeng, was only 5 years old and was so frightened that he cried.

Ye Wenyu was the oldest, and both her parents had passed away. Her only relative, her grandfather, had been sent to the countryside. Having experienced a lot, she had a relatively calm personality. After comforting her younger brother, she still had the energy to retort: ​​"Auntie, my dad's wedding is such a wonderful thing. How did you turn it into a horror story? Are you using this to scare my brother because you don't want my dad to get married?"

The man said awkwardly, "Why are you taking it so seriously, kid? I was just joking with you. Why are you making such a big deal out of it?"

"Auntie, I'm nine years old and in third grade. I'm not a little kid anymore. Your words have scared my little brother. Do you want him to go back and oppose my dad's marriage?" Ye Wenyu retorted without any politeness. He had been smart since he was a child and hated being treated like a three-year-old.

"I already said it was a joke. How can you be so petty? How can you take a joke seriously?"

“But in fact, the younger brothers are still young and they took it seriously!” Ye Wenyu said, pointing to Ye Zhangpeng, who had just been frightened and cried.

That's why Ye Wenyu is so smart. Without saying anything else, he just pointed at Ye Zhangpeng, who was still crying, and explained the facts and reasoned with him. Under everyone's watchful eyes, the person who had deliberately made Ye Zhangpeng cry had no choice but to clean up the mess she had created.

"Pengpeng, don't be afraid. Auntie is just joking with you. There are bad stepmothers and there are good stepmothers. Your dad must have found you a good stepmother. From now on, you will be a child who is loved by a mother."

Well, after this battle, no one dares to deliberately say such things to scare the Ye Wenyu brothers anymore, not only because Ye Wenyu and his brothers are smart, but also because Ye Anguo is there.

Don't be fooled by Ye Anguo's seemingly honest and simple demeanor in front of Jiang Lai. In reality, his soldiers consider him a formidable figure. He can't do anything to the women who gossip, but those women also have husbands, and the men who gossip are also military personnel. Ye Anguo has ways to get revenge on them.

When Ye Anguo heard about several of their inappropriate remarks, the men returned home bruised and battered. It was incredibly easy to deal with the soldiers under his command. It didn't matter if they weren't from his regiment. During training, Ye Anguo would proactively suggest to the leadership that they conduct combat drills to improve the soldiers' military skills. After all, there's always a way.

Of course, Ye Anguo also explained Jiang Lai's situation to his three adopted sons. He believed that Jiang Lai was not the kind of person who abused or tormented children, which gave them a great sense of security.

On the other hand, Jiang Lai did a very good job. From the first letter Ye Anguo wrote to her, Jiang Lai also wrote to Ye Wenyu and the other two when she replied. She did not treat them perfunctorily, but seriously treated them as pen pals. It has to be said that doing so was like giving the three children a sense of reassurance.

Later, in the second letter, Jiang Lai sent three sets of clothes along with the letter. They were all handmade by Jiang Lai, modified from the children's clothes she remembered. They were good-looking and fashionable. After wearing the new clothes, the three brothers became the most handsome boys in the compound.

After that, everything started to go in a positive direction. Jiang Lai suddenly had four pen pals, and they wrote to each other about once a week. As they got to know each other better, their feelings for each other deepened day by day.

Besides clothes, Jiang Lai also frequently sends them homemade food, such as pumpkin sauce, dried eggplant, roasted melon seeds, and winter cured meats. All of Jiang Lai's ingredients come from her space, which has made the three little ones eager to see her now.

At first, some people in the military family compound said that Ye Anguo's girlfriend was only 20 years old and that she must have married Ye Anguo, who had three children, for his money and status. But these rumors gradually disappeared. Everything the three children said about Jiang Lai and the expectation in their eyes silenced those people.

However, there was an interesting incident. In December, Jiang Lai sent a letter with the wrong postal code, which was sent to another province. Ye Anguo and the others waited for a long time but did not receive the letter. Ye Wenyu and the other two mistakenly thought that Ye Anguo and Jiang Lai had quarreled, and even wrote a letter to try to reconcile them.

In his previous letter, Ye Anguo said he would return home in the twelfth month of the lunar calendar and set the wedding date for the end of the year, asking Jiang Lai if that was okay. As a result, a misunderstanding occurred, and Ye Wenyu and the others thought that Jiang Lai was unwilling to marry him, which made them extremely anxious.

Each of them displayed their unique talents like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea. Ye Wenyu said: Ye Anguo is handsome, and many young women and wives in the village like him. Jiang Lai won't suffer if she marries Yi Anguo.

Ye Lixin said: Ye Anguo. He doesn't smoke, drink, or look at pretty girls, and he's very obedient. If Jiang Lai tells him to go east, he would never dare to go west, and he would never dare to hide any money, because the three of them would help keep an eye on him.

The third brother, Ye Zhangpeng, said: "Aunt Jiang, why don't you marry Uncle Ye? Although he has become the regimental commander, he is getting old and no one will want him except you. If you don't get married soon, he will become an old bachelor."

Well, anyway, they really amused Jiang Lai. She never expected these kids to have such vivid imaginations. They made Jiang Lai so happy that she made them several more outfits.

Speaking of which, Jiang Lai is now quite wealthy. By selling her job to Meng Wenying's younger brother, Jiang Lai not only gained the gratitude of Meng Wenying's family but also a large sum of money, which Liu Aihua gave to Jiang Lai without taking a single penny.

Furthermore, Jiang Lai is someone with a cheat code after all. Relying on the secret space, Jiang Lai runs a black market business with no capital, selling the items in the space and accumulating a lot of money. So, not to mention the previous few sets of autumn clothes, this time Jiang Lai bought all the winter clothes for the three brothers from head to toe, inside and out. When he sent them to the army, there were several huge packages because the cotton-padded trousers and jackets covered too much space.

Moreover, Jiang Lai sent more than just clothes. Her previous plan still held true: to apply the training grounds of the secret realm to the Chinese army.

The reason why there was no progress in Jiang Lai's case for the past few months was because Jiang Lai had not been able to come up with a good solution.

From the beginning, Jiang Lai's plan was that although she would make use of the secret realm space, she would not show herself.

To release the secret space, Jiang Lai would have to go there herself, but she had no reason to go. Although she was dating Ye Anguo, in this era, it took three or four days to travel by train, and it seemed inappropriate for a girl to take the initiative to visit her family after being separated for less than two months. Another issue was that if she got pregnant as soon as she went, wouldn't others find out about her? So, the matter was put on hold.

Fortunately, Jiang Lai eventually came up with a solution, which was inspired by Jin Nian. Jiang Lai suddenly remembered that Jin Nian, who had transformed from the ten-thousand-year-old jade marrow, was able to freely appear and disappear after returning to the secret realm. Therefore, Jiang Lai felt justified in enslaving him.

Jiang Lai made clothes for Ye Anguo and his three sons: thermal underwear that could be worn as outerwear or innerwear, sweaters and trousers that were even more beautiful than machine-knitted ones, down jackets and trousers made from the down collected from countless ducks in the secret realm, and fashionable cotton-padded coats made from thick cotton.

The outfit made for Ye Anguo was naturally a bit special. The buttons on the cotton-padded jacket looked like ordinary buttons, but they were actually made by Jiang Lai from a piece of obsidian in the secret space. The first button at the collar was different; it was a piece of black jade disguised as obsidian.

Why is the button made of obsidian? First, if people knew it was made of black jade, they would definitely suspect that Ye Anguo had made some mistake. Second, it is to allow Jin Nian to possess the black jade button, because Jin Nian's true form is black jade, and this black jade disguised as obsidian was taken from Jin Nian's true form.

Jiang Lai's idea was to create another personal space, similar to the one that already belonged to Shi Cheng, so that Jin Nian could possess it and be transported to Ye Anguo's army by train. Then, Jiang Lai would come here through Jin Nian.

The reason for choosing Moyu was that Jiang Lai could use Moyu to come to Ye Anguo's troops, which would make it convenient for Jiang Lai to travel back and forth temporarily.

Next, Jiang Lai can come and find a time and place that she feels is suitable to do everything she wants to do.

As it turned out, Jiang Lai's method worked. On the very night that Ye Anguo received the large package sent by Jiang Lai, Jiang Lai came over via Jin Nian.

She almost gave herself away as soon as she came over. Jiang Lai looked out from Mo Yu and met a pair of eyes.